The first day of play at the 2015 WSOP Main Event is in the books and Joe ‘dude904’ McKeehen continues to lead. While his chip count – over 90,000,000 – is the probably the most important number heading into Monday night’s action, there are a number of other stats from Day 1 that are worth taking a deeper look at.
The hottest topic of conversation on Sunday night was the seemingly slow pace of play. Most people were focusing on just how much time Zvi Stern seemed to be taking with every decision. Here’s how the numbers look for the hands played on Sunday night.

• Total Hands Played: 72
• Total Time Played: 4:10:10
• Average Time/Hand: 3:28

Not surprisingly, the majority of the hands were decided pre-flop. Here is how hands were won on Sunday night:

• Hands won preflop: 45 (62.5%)
• Hands won on flop: 10 (13.9%)
• Hands won on turn: 3 (4.2%)
• Hands won on river: 3 (4.2%)
• Hands won at showdown: 11 (15.3%)

Joe McKeehen

To the surprise of nobody, the chip leader of the WSOP Main Event with six players remaining had himself a very good first day back at the tables. McKeehen, who came into the final table with the biggest chip lead in November Nine history, never once got close to losing the lead and added nearly 50% to his stack in just over four hours.

Zvi Stern

The man who seems to have developed a strong dislike among the home viewers and on social media still managed to win the second most hands on Sunday night (13) but didn’t add too much to his stack. Most of Stern’s work came in pots he took down before even seeing a flop.

Neil Blumenfield

At 61 years old it’s safe to assume that a number of people never even considered Blumenfield, an amateur, to be any sort of threat. The self-described “hipster uncle” put that to rest early though and outside of McKeehen, he easily had the best night out of any of the remaining six players and now finds himself with a much bigger stack as a result.

Max Steinberg

There were a number of people who expected Steinberg to vastly improve his position on Sunday night. Having been in the ESPN spotlight before, being the only WSOP bracelet winner amongst the November Nine and being the only Las Vegas resident, many though Steinberg would position himself as a threat to McKeehen. That’s not quite what happened though as Steinberg won just seven hands on Sunday night.

Josh Beckley

Beckley was the third shortest stack when play resumed and while Chan and Butteroni, the only two players who started with less than him, both busted, Beckley managed to hang around and at the very least, moved himself up one pay spot with the elimination of Neuville in seventh. Beckley won more hands than Steinberg, but still wasn’t able to keep his stack above what he started the day with.

Thomas Cannuli

Cannuli might have won himself some fans during the Sunday night broadcast with this ESPN interview where the 23-year-old spoke about being able to live out a dream of his by being at the final table but if he wants that to come true, he’s going to have to get to work. Cannuli dropped almost 15% of his stack and won the least number of hands (six) on Sunday night.

*denotes chopped pot.