Gentlemen and of course ladies, start your $25,000 engines for the largest prize pool outside of the World Series of Poker main event. The center of the tournament poker universe can be found on the Las Vegas strip as the WPT Season Five Championship has begun at the beautiful bellagio hotel and Casino.

Of course, with big tourneys like this one the best reporting crew on the internet has been assembled to bring all of the action at the tables as well as any hijinks away from them. Pokernews.com has a solid team of bloggers making the trip to bring those of us who couldn't skip from the nine to five grind, the exciting action of this high stakes tourney.

Dr. Pauly, Amy Calistri, BJ Nemeth, and a fair warning to those players wearing off the Target clearence rack threads... Change100 will be there to point your cheap ten dollar outfit towards the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace.

Here's small slice of the live reporting pie from the first day:

The Champ Talks On
The board is 2 6 Q 3 Tand WSOP Champ Jamie Gold pushes in for his final 42,100. Pramesh Bansi goes into the tank and Jamie says: "If I flopped a pair am I good? You aren't going to call me with Ace King are you?"

Then: "I will show you either way."

Finally Pramesh makes the call and Jamie shows TT for the rivered set.
Pramesh mucks his AQd.

Jamie is back up to 110K.