I can’t find this anywhere—do you by chance know what the average number of poker hands dealt in Las Vegas on any given day is?

So difficult to find!

Yeesh, I’m not even sure where to begin. 50 poker rooms in Vegas (not counting the Amazon or Brasilia) … 365 days in a year …

I’m gonna say definitely more than 10,000 and less than 500 billion. We should be able to narrow that window of possibility down a little bit, I’d think.

UPDATE: Lisa gives us more info to work with, some of which comes from Harrah’s, even though their main event numbers seem to be slightly off … and we may or may not gotta presume by Amazon they mean Rio, with Brasilia, Miranda, Buzio’s, etc. factored in:

I do know that the number of hands dealt in this year’s WSOP Amazon room (Main Event only) was approximately 722,000 hands. That’s to get from 6,494 players to 9.

I also found another stat from UNLV Research Center: 10.9M is the max no. of hands that can be dealt in Nevada in a single day = 457,500 x 24 (not all tables are open that long)
(assuming all tables are working at full tilt 24 hours)

The $2,500 Razz event came to an abrupt halt today when Miami John Cernuto collapsed at the table. Apparently action was on him, at first people thought he was asleep, and then someone said I don’t think he’s breathing … at which point they kinda poked him, and he fell to the ground felt.

Tournament officials stopped the clock and cleared the area while paramedics rushed to attend to him. No official medical report yet, but it appeared to be a heart attack. However, in the end, about 40 minutes later, he appeared to be OK. Like an injured athlete being carried off the field of play, Cernuto waved to the crowd and received an ovation as he left the Brasilia room and was calling someone on his cell phone en route to the hospital.

Pokerati was there to try to show how a major tournament handles such incidents — and though we know this matter isn’t about “us”, we apologize for the unclear photographs snapped before being expelled from the premises for trying to bring you the story:

Also apologies to those — all of you, as far as I can tell — who think publishing something like this is “inappropriate”. I respectfully disagree and welcome the debate on how much “reality” poker people should see.

Cernuto’s stack remains in play — about 14,000, making him one of the shortest stacks with 49 players remaining (out of 315) and 32 getting paid.

UPDATE: Word from Miami John on his health situation and recovery. (It wasn’t a heart attack.)

The 40th Annual $40,000 NL Hold’em event returns for day 3 action today at 2pm with 23 players playing down to Sunday’s ESPN final table. Justin Bonomo will start action as the chip leader with 2,678,000 in chips, Ted Forrest in 2nd with 2,586,000, and David “WhoooKidd” Baker in 3rd with 2,367,000. Greg Raymer is the last remaining World Champion in the field, in 4th place with 2,287,000. Other notable names include Alec Torelli, Dani Stern, Matt Glantz, Isaac Haxton, David Chiu, Neil Channing, Andy Black, and Andrew Robl.

The $1,500 Omaha Eight or Better also comes back at 2pm today with 197 players remaining from their record field of 918. 2008 winner Thang Luu appears to have returned to his winning form, as he’ll start play today as the chip leader with 73,600 in chips. Other notable names remaining in the field include Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Todd Brunson, and Brandon Cantu. Their final table is also scheduled for Sunday, although with much less exposure than what will be a mix of live and online stars of the 40k event or the WSOP Champions Invitational event, which also starts on Sunday. More to come today, with an update soon (?) if the Stimulus Special has sold out.

8am Update: Under 80 seats left for Sunday.
10:30am Update: 5,839 registered from Da Commish’s Twitter

Number of entrants: 20,141
Bracelets awarded: 20
Most cashes: Nikolay Evdakov – 5
Most final tables: Theo Tran, Erick Lindgren – 2
Current ESPN POY: Erick Lindgren 175 points
Leading money earner: Grant Hinkle – $831,462

A review of the week 2 action at the World Series of Poker:

Week 2 of the WSOP started on Friday with another NL Holdem shootout, this time with a $5,000 buyin. Phil Tom (father of infamous Absolute Poker founder Scott Tom) would beat 359 other entrants for the title as FTP pro Greg “FBT” Mueller would finish runnerup. The $1,500 Limit Holdem event was won by Jimmy Schultz, who donated 25% of his win to the Charleston, SC Fire Department (which had lost 9 firefighters almost a year ago). Finishing up the events that concluded Friday, the $10,000 Mixed Event concluded with 22-year old cash game pro Anthony Rivera taking down the title. The $1,500 NL Shootout winner would be Rep Porter (not to be confused with an actual reporter).

Saturday was the start of the $2,500 NL Holdem event, that winner was former bouncer Duncan “Pumper” Bell. The $10,000 7-card Stud World Champion was won by Eric Brooks, who would donate all of his winnings, over $400,000, to the Decision Education Foundation.

Sunday’s tournaments were the $1,000 Ladies NL World Championship, was won by professional Svetlana Gromenkova. The $2,000 Omaha 8 or Better winner was Andrew Brown, who bested multiple bracelet winner Ted Forrest.

Monday started the $1,500 NL Holdem Shootout, with Jason Young taking the bracelet, while Mike Matusow was the first this year to have previously won a bracelet when he took down the $5,000 2-7 NL KC Lowball event over Jeff Lisandro, Barry Greenstein, and other well known stars.

Tuesday, the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha winner would be Vanessa Selbst, the first female winner of an open event this year. Daniel Negreanu would win the $2,000 Limit Holdem title for his 4th career WSOP bracelet.

Wednesday, the $3,000 HORSE event would be down to 16 at the end of play Friday morning, while the $5,000 NL Holdem event would also play down to their winner Friday afternoon.

Thursday, the $2,000 NL event got underway while the $2,500 PL Holdem/PL Omaha event got underway in the newly opened Brasilia room. This room will surely get used to capacity for Saturday’s $1,500 event, but that will get covered in next week’s review.

Today the good doctor and yours true venture into the new 65-table Brasilia Room … and contemplate what a $2,500 PL Hold’em/Omaha tourney in this new locale may or may not mean for the WSOP, and what it says about the state of the greater Las Vegas economy. Yo … heavy.

Episode 7: Brasilia Time