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Yes I had been wondering what Praz has been up lately, I guessed it would be towards not playing much these days rather than not final tabling everything as per normal. The guy, in fact the whole lot of them, are just too good at the game. To quote a man of action next door, one day Praz will be sat with everyone else's money in front of him, with his little hat on.
I mentioned this morning that Praz Banzi rarely plays these days.
In fact I now note he is deep in that Wembley thing, & incredibly, sharing a table with another man I mentioned in the same post - James Akenhead.
I also see that "runitsrann" is deep in the same event - good luck James!
Good morning.
The WSOP rolls on......
In the $1,500 Six Max NLHE, there were 1,069 runners, & the last I heard, there were just 2 left, being John Beauprez & a German chap, Manig Loeser.
Those who cashed included Joe Cada, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, & Humberto Brenes.
Humberto certainly has the ability to irritate when he so desires, but is a much better player than he is given credit for, he is one of those players who attracts endless "lolpro" comments from a certain section of the poker poulation.
I think this was about his 70th WSOP cash, which may not be a record, but it cannot be far off. That does not prove he is a great player, of course, but clearly he has at least a modicum of ability.
In that $1,500 Six Max, there was a handful of cashes for the Europeans, including some Brits.
Craig McCorkell caught the eye, (59th, $4,000).
He cashed 4 times in last year's WSOP, including binking a bracelet in the $3,000 NLHE Shootout, & 172nd in the Main for around $45,000.
Craig is what is known these days as a "sicko". Not because he is ill, but he crushes online MTT's.
I think he lives down near Brighton.
It was Craig that was, sort of, responsible for the rather loud Brit Rail last year, with the shoe bombs & all that stuff, because it was when he won his Bracelet that it all kicked off.
Martin Malone also cashed for the Brits, as did Scott O'Reilly. Sadan Turker, & Niall Farrell.
Another European casher in that same event was an old friend of mine, Andreas Hoivold.
OFFICIAL CORRECTION
My apologies, that was the wrong photo for Andreas.
That Event has now concluded, ended, finished, terminalised, & the winner ($325,000) was John Beauprez, an American chap, wth the German guy, Manig Loeser, coming 2nd for $201,000.
Manig's home town on the WSOP records is indicated as Bad Homburg.
I had assumed "Bad Homburg" was some sort of in joke, but in fact Bad Homburg is a real place, in Germany, reputed to have more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in Germany.
So there.
Event # 5 was the $2,500 LIMIT Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better.
374 began, just 2 remain, both being American, Messrs Tong & Gorodinsky.
Other cashess included Mike Matusow & Daniel Negranau.
The mad (nice mad, not mad mad) bandino-wearing Italian, Max Pescatori cashed, too.
A near miss for Matthew Ashton from Liverpool, who finished 3rd. Oooh! Zimnan Zayird was the other Brit casher.
One of the poker players I have most respect for cashed, the London-based Swede, Chris Bjorin, Mr Get It Quietly. It was his 67th WSOP cash. Now THAT is a proper player.
The big news from the whopping 6,300 runner "Millioinaire Maker" ($1.2 MILLION to the winner) is that with around 200 players remaining, John Eames is over double average.
Few players in the world can live with John when he has his A-Game on, & he could well go very deep in this.
Neil Channing was 275th, for a respectable $5,300.
Thanks James.
Go on, book a flight, you know you want to.
A fairly quiet day in Las Vegas for the Brits yesterday, so not much to report, but we'll do a brief update.
If time permits, I'll also try & catch up on questions which I have this far dodged.
May even upload the first Vegas 2013 Blog.....
In Event #5, the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better, there was a fine performance by Matthew Ashton of Liverpool, who ended up 3rd, for $86,000.
Little Danny was 12th, & Mike Matusow 14th.
Also in the money was our friend Zimnan Ziyard, who we followed extensively last year. He is the chap who used to room share with MariusZ, who won one of our SPT's in Nottingham.
Allyn Shulman min-cashed, as did the delightfully named Ronald Winkelvoss.
In the 6,343 runner (!) "Millionaire Maker", they are down to 12, with no remaining Brit interest.
John Eames was amongst a handful of Brits who cashed.
In Event # 7, $1,000 NLH, they are down to 2 Tables, with no Brit interest.
In fact, amongst the 198 who got paid, I only spotted two Brits, being Andrew Teng & Jack Salter.
Move on, nothing to see here.
In Event # 8, the Eight Game mix, just 26 of 388 remain.
Our aforementioned friend Zinman Ziyard is amongst those 26, so he must have been Live Multii-Tabling I guess.
Event # 9 is a $3,000 Shootout, & with 60 left, & being a Shootout, it is hard to make sense of who is leading, because it sort of works by tables, but I think young Mr Cody is still in.
Event # 10 was Limit Hold Em, & 645 hardy souls entered this.
"Limit" Poker is still very popular in the United States, but not so much here, & we can't expect many Brits to cash, or even enter, this one.
He played 21 WSOP Events last year, & failed to make Day Two in any of the first 20. Imagine what that does to the head, the confidence the ego, & the mindset?
The Final Table you mention was his 21st, & he finished 5th for $200,00, which just about got him - & his lucky stakers - out of it. 2 months later, he also ran 5th in the WSOP-E in France, for just over €200,000.
Chris served his poker aprenticeship on the south coast, Southampton or somesuch, & his original running mate was another lad who has done OK for himself - Toby Lewis. I'm, not sure if it is still the case, but Toby dates (or dated) one of Ian Frazer's daughters, & Ian & Toby get along like best buds.
If the line were set at 2, I'd be a seller.
I hope I'm wrong. I usually am.
I also do not much like the line that Sky Poker took with VLV, but I was close to the action from the start, & I know we exhausted every possible avenue.
One of those things, we'll be OK, & fingers crossed, it'ss resume next year, In fact I'd say it is 98% certain to be resumed next year, & I'm meeting some WSOP peeps in two weeks time to, I hope, resolve those technical issues which caused the problem this year.
You & Adam going this year?
The photo you uploaded there can ONLY be one man - Dan Oyston, who, amongst other things, in an APAT stalwart. And Welsh.
Bit of a character, is Dan......
By coincidence, he was down to a bowl in the Wembley thing, & in shove mode all day, but I think he ended up around average, with 24 left. Other players beware.....
....and, right on cue, I've uploaded the first Vegas 2013 Blog, this one penned by Scotty77.
Disclaimer - Some of the content may or may not happen.
Scotty's blog is HERE