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...and swimming around near the back of the field....Michael Phelps - 8,825
Excellent. Now we are cooking.
I won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet today, which also came with $84,915!
Credit where it's due this is a great thread, and the effort put in by Tikay is commendable to say the least.
I know for one, I'll be thoroughly enjoying it. Great work Mr. Kendall.
If you sell at face value, you would sell 1% for £10 and for that £10 the staker would be paid 1% of any winnings.
Selling at 1.8 means 1% will cost £10 x 1.8 = £18 and for that £18 the staker would be paid 1% of any winnings.
Tikay told me that Dylan offers to sell at 0.25 and still no takers
Can we get Tikay to do a show bomb this year? Substitute the alcoholo for a latte of course...
Good morning.
Before I reply to the various Posts & questions - do keep them coming please, the Thread is warming up nicely - we have some wonderful news from Vegas.......
Brit Final Table Alert!
David Vamplew, who we have followed since the start of this Tourney, is on the Final Table of the $5k Eight-Handed thing.
$48,000 locked up, $553,000 to the winner.
Unless I am mis-reading something, the chips are spread around in an almost birarrely lopsided manner. The Chip Leader has almost half the chips in play, 3,420,000, & the other 7 all have between 430,000 & 630,000 each. Blinds are 12,000/24,000/4,000.
I anticipate some laddering games.
The Final Table will begin at 2pm (Vegas time) tomorrow, Sunday.
Meanwhile, the $1,000 Re-Entry NLH affair attracted a whopping field of 3,164, of which just 55 remain, & the winner can look forward to a half million dollar payday, which is quite an ROI.
I cannot see any Brits still in this, but there may be one or two.
Currently 6th in chips is one Kenny Nguyen. ("Nguyen" is pronounced "Win").
I've never heard of this particular Nguyen, but the most famous Nguyen is of course Scotty - you call me baby & it's all over - but do you realise how many Nguyens there are playing poker in the USA? The question is rhetorical, of course, because you neither know, nor care, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
697. SIX HUNDRED & NINETY SEVEN! (Source, THM Database).
I assume they were originally from South East Asia, where, one assumes, the Nguyen surname is like Smith in England, Jones in Scotland, Patel in India, or Murphy in Ireland.
Fascinating, eh? Perhaps not.....
Anyway, here's an interview I did with the great Scotty Nguyen back in 2009. "Great"? Well if Celeb status counts for anything, yup, - the man is incredibly popular over there, as you can see from all the autograph hunters on his case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_1BA1qFSrE
The other Event in progess today is one (apart from being LIMIT) which I would die to play, the snappily-titled $1,500 Limit Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi Low Eight or better.
Ooh, I SO want to play Events like that.
And guess who is leading?
None other than Allyn Shulman.
Allyn is the wife of Barry Shulman, who is the CEO of Cardplayer. One of their two sons, Jeff, was a November Niner a few years back, too. Quite a poker playing family, them. Breakfast in the Shulman household must be quite an event.
So I 4 bet him, & guess what he called with?
Yikes.
Allyn gets a bad press on 2+2 & the like, but she is MUCH better than you may think from all that dreadful toxic hate stuff by anon forum trolls. She won last years Seniors Event to the astonishment of all & sundry, & I can hear everyone saying, "ahh, but a Seniors Event is easy". Maybe, but she had to beat over 4,000 runners (well more zimmer frames than runners) to win it. You try beating a field of 4,000 runners of ANY ability. Not as easy as you may think.
Hubbie Barry won a WSOP-E a few years ago, & was third in the PCA for a 7 figure bink, & the Son made a November Nine. That's quite a family affair.
I have some private issues with Barry over some unpaid invoices for articles I used to contribute to Cardplayer every month, & he can be a little surly (not as surly & grumpy as me, to be fair), & Allyn is, at times, not the most warm & outgoing young lady you'll ever meet, as she sits there with her diamond encrusted smartphone.
But we should not begrudge either Barry or Allyn credit where credit is due for their poker abilities, & it is a shame the kids diss them so terribly, & it is no credit to poker.
Anyway, here is Allyn in one of her better moods. I genuinely hopes she wins this Event.
I have often mentioned that when playing the weird 4 card variants, PLO8 & the like, you meet a different type of player, & that Event Allyn is leading is no exception.
I spotted Norman Chad's name there, jeez, I so want to be him!
Max Pescatori, Jeff Lissandro, Eli Elezra, Todd brunson. Todd could not be more unlike his dad, Doyle, who is a perfect Gent.
Brian Hastings, Matusow, Nick Shulman (no relative to the other Shulmans, as far as I know), David Sklansky, & the wonderfully named Brett Jungblut.
Every table must be a fun table.
Oh, & two more Nguyens - Scotty, & Men, aka "Men the Master".
Men Nguyen is quite a guy. It is rumoured that he coaches/mentors a lot of players, or used to, the Binion family once claimed more Tournament winners were coached by Men Nguyen than anyone else. Instead of charging a fee, he takes a cut of every Tournament they win. If only I could do that, I'd be in the poor house by now.
He also funded an orphanage in Vietnam, & supports many Vietnsamese charities. His name was mired in an alleged cheating scandal a while back, but I don't think it was ever proven.
Some right characters in Live Poker, eh?
great stuff tikay .... have you got links for the wsop livestreams
[QUOTE].......are you playing the Seniors Event this year Tikay?....or is there an 'age limit' and you have sadly missed it by 10 or 20 years.
Posted by MAXALLY
Nah, WAY too young, me.
As it happens, I HAD intended to play it actually.
I was booked to fly out on the 11th of June, & play the WSOP Seniors Event on Friday 14th. But then 861 asked me to do the "Royal Ascot Preview" Show on Thursday 13th, so now I don't travel out until Friday 14th.
If the Seniors thing started at Noon, as most do, I'd just about get there in time to Late Reg if the flight was not delayed (it gets into Vegas at about 1.30pm), but it is a 10am start for some weird reason. Perhaps they think old peeps can't do late nights? Not wrong either, imo.
Anyway, I've missed it again, so thats that. Luckily, there is a $600 PLO8 starting at 4pm that day at The Venetian. Oooohhh, deal me in.......
I'm not sure I'm allowed to post links to it, but I'll ask upstairs, & see what they say. If not, google is your friend.
Oooh!
David Vamplew ended up finishing 2nd in Event #2, for a very pleasing $342,450.
No bracelet, but a third of a million dollars is some consolation.
Very well done David.
He's more of a cash game player than a tournament player, he's recently got into the big cash games in Macau for instance. There was an extended interview with him on one of the recent ESPN "Poker Edge" podcasts
Ignoring regular Texas Hold Em & Omaha (high, & hi-low) there are Bracelet Events for......
Eight Game Mix. (No Limit Hold Em, Limit Hold Em, 7 card Razz, 7 card stud, 7 card Stud Hi-Lo, PLO, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball)
7 Card Stud
7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better
HORSE (Limit Hold Em, PLO8, 7 Card Stud, 7 card Razz, 7 crd Stud Hi-lo 8 or better).
7 card Razz
10 Game Mix 6 handed (as per Eight Game Mix plus Limit Badugi & 2-7 TD Limit Lowball)
2-7 Triple Draw Limit Lowball
Poker Players Championship, $50,000 Entry (all variants)
Open Face Chinese (this is NOT a bracelet Event).
In addition, there are.....
Full ring,
8 handed
6 handed
4 handed
Heads Up
Shootouts
Ante Only
Mixed Max (NLH, but Day One plays 9 handed, Day Two 6 handed, Day Three Heads Up).
And there are still folks complaining that there is not enough variety! Poker players, eh?
In that $1,000 Re-Entry thing, there were a few minor cashes for the Brits, including.....
30 Sunny Chatta $11,361
141 Samad Razavi $2,961
Sunny was one of the founders of the original poker collective called "Hit Squad"( NOT the Sky Poker one!, this was before Sky Poker began), which included Sunny & his brother, James Akenhead, Praz Bansi & Karl Mahrenholz.
They are all superb players, & they started out playing tenner rebuys at the old Gutshot Club, back in the day when one of the dealers at the Gutshot was.....Jen Mason.
Praz does not play much these days, he does a lot of sports betting, & is football mad. James still plays, but only big stuff, he travels a lot. When James Final Tabled the WSOP Main, Neil Channing had purchased a big lump of his action, 25% or 50% I seem to recall, oat dinner the previous night. Marv....
Sunny has sold a chunk of his action in this years WSOP, including Bellagio Events, WSOP regular Events, & the WSOP main, so his investors are off to a nice start.
Sam has sold a chunk of WSOP action, too.
Karl Mahrenholz now helps run an Online Poker skin on i-Poker, & he works vey hard at it. His girlfriend is Amy Trodd, & she is pretty handy at the poker, too, she used to work for Ladbrokes, but I think that arrangement ended.
My earliest memory of James Akenhead was when we used to play the big Live Events, & he had a quite extraordinary ability to play down the streets.
In the early levels, at 25-50, he would open EVERY pot to 125, even from UTG, & you know how it is in early levels, folks like to splash around, nobody folds, everyone peels, so he'd be out of position to 6 callers & yet, somehow, he still crushed. You try doing that, it is some neat trick.
Praz? He was just awesome.
You don't EVER want to share tables with James or Praz. Ever.
The $1,500 "Millionaire Maker" is underway.
The name derives from the Guaranteed top prize of at least $1,000,000.
An astonishing 6,343 players entered over two opening days. Can you even BEGIN to imagine the logistics of organising over 3,000 players per flight & over 6,000 in total?
6,343 players. Wow, just wow.
The winner will actually receive just shy of $1,200,000. Not bad for $1,500.