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I have to say this thread is making me so jealous im not going this year,I wish all sky players all the poker luck in the world and please keep the updates coming its fantastic reading,Roll on 2014 when i will be there competing in 4 events.
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The sleight of hand as to prizes, & the novelty cheque, is a matter you'll need to raise with the Organisers, it was because ISPT were making a TV programme I believe. It never affected the play, or anyone's money, so no improper deception took place, "artistic licence", but a few people who were railing for free seemed to get a bit excited about. Everybody was paid exactly what they were entitled to be paid, not even 56p short.
Good morning.
Event #9, the Shootout, had a Final Table comprising of 1 x Bulgarian, (Simeon Naydenov, 10th) 1 x Italian (Alessandro Longobardi) & 8 American chaps. David Bakes Baker was the only known notable, he finished 6th.
Event # 10, the LIMIT Hold Em is currently heads up.
72 players were paid, of which exactly two were European, being 1 x Ukranian, & 1 x Italian, everyone else who cashed was from the USA, with the exception of two Canadian chappies.
Limit poker, see?
In Event #12, the $2,600 Six Max where we may have expected the Brits to do well, 23 remain, with only one Brit amongst them, Gary Pearce, & he has a bowl, around 20 Bigs.
As far as I can see, Gary has exactly ONE Live cash of note, & that was a min-cash 5 years ago in a WSOP-E Sidey. Must be quite a thrill for him. He is guaranteed at least $14,000. Go Gary!
The Dane we mentioned yesterday, Mickey Petersen, is still in, as is one of my favourite players, Jeff Lisandro, who claims to be an Italian. There is also a Hungarian, an Isreali, & one from Brazil of all places. Nuts player imo.
The rest are all from the US of A.
Event # 12 was a $1,500 affair, so you'd expect a monster field, but it only got 523 runners.
Why so?
Pot limit.
For reasons which escape me, Pot Limit is not at all popular these days, which is a great shame, as it is a game of great skill where brain beats brawn more often than not. IMO, of course.
Plenty of Brits played, & historically, we are very good at PLO, & we win more than our share of Pot Limit WSOP Bracelets, but we did not do so good this time. Not a good year so far for the Brit contingent.
Amongst those who had a deep run but failed to cash were.....
Neil Channing
Miss Boeree
David Vamplew
Flushy
Rupert Elder
John Eames
Brits still in with a chance are....
Peter Gould
Chris Brammer
Of those remaining, (65 as of now, 54 paid) Jason Mercier looks well placed to go very deep.
Finally, today, Event # 13 was the $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, an absolutely lovely Event to play I would imagine even though it is played as LIMIT. Only 210 runners though, of which 168 remain.
Stu Rutter is hanging in, with around 15 x Bigs, though in Limit Hi-Low, 15 bigs is plenty, even half that & you are not in terribad shape.
The name that caught my eye is Norman Chad, it'd be absolutely wonderful if he had a deep run. He made the Final Table of this event in both 2009 & 2011, & in 2012, he finished 6th in the Hi-Lo Stud/Omaha, so he clearly revels in the 4 card & non-flop split pot games.
Norman does a weekly column called "Couch Slouch" & it includes an "Ask the Slouch" section, & if your question gets answered, the person who sent it in gets a prize of a whole $1.25. Maybe we should try that here. We could go as high as £2.20.
Norman's Twitter feed is an absolute delight to follow.
A few days ago he Tweeted.....
"....WSOP update: Out in 61st. I objected, but dealer insisted I could not continue without chips. Fine. I'll just take my business elsewhere....."
Today's gems from Norman include.....
"....WSOP 5k stud/8 event, thru 4 levels: Started w/ 15,000 chips, now have 14,200. I am treading water in a bathtub that has no drain stopper....."
You can follow Norman on @NormanChad
WSPO9 $3000 NLH Shootout - 477 entrants
Won by American Cliff Josephy for a few bucks shy of $300,000, winning his second bracelet (he won a 7-card stud in 2005)
WSOP10 $1500 Limit Holdem - 645 entrants
Won by American Brent Wheeler who took down his first bracelet and a top prize of $191,000
Events ongoing
WSOP11 $2500 6 Max NLH - 924 entrants
After day 2 of 3, 14 remain chasing the top prize of $473,000. Levi Burger has a decent chip stack, but there is one Brit still chasing the glory, a Gary Pearce who lies in 12th spot overnight. Chris Boorman busted in 25th, just before the somewhat controversial Jeff Lisandro who departed in 17th.
WSOP12 $1500 Pot limit Holdem, 535 entrants
Only 62 remain so they will play down to a final table today. As well as Jason Mercier (see Tikay's post above), Allen Cunningham (Carlo's favourite) has a decent stack, while 2011 ME runner-up Martin Stasko has below average to come back to today
WSOP13 $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 210 entrants
A niche game to be fair, but a very interesting one, equally as good in my opinion as Omaha Hi-Low. over two-thirds of the field made Day 2. Most of the big names are still in (e.g. Negreanu, Matusow, T Brunson, Elezra, Katchalov, Scotty baby, Hellmuth as well as the old-timers mentioned by our very own old timer.
To Start Today
WSOP14 $1500 NLH - 3 Day tournament
Maxally - the two events Mercier is still in will be starting at 1pm & 2pm Vegas time today, so he may well be running between the two (but I guess concentrating on event 12 as that is a faster moving event and he can afford to miss quite a bit of the Stud Hi-Lo
He wrote a brief piece elsewhere about his Tourney, & the exit hand, & I'm sure he won't mind me reproducing it as follows....
"....Reached a peak of 52,000 (from 15k start), but busted on a unavoidable spiral of not winning a pot.
There was a frustrating moment, where I tried to rep the better low on 6th in a three way pot, where Matesow had a better low, showing (Xx)2238 against my (23)3864 board. I checked 6th, the obvious high bet, Matesow called, and I came in with a check-raise, only for the whole table to then realise that the dealer had got the order of action wrong, as there was an all-in player who should have acted first.
Cue pandemonium, Matesow inevitably getting really tilted at the floor, and claiming my raise should not stand, and the floor eventually ruling in my favour. However, I had a feeling that enough had happened to lose me the pot, as Matesow was now over the edge, and not going to pass on 7th, where a calm Matesow might well have done. I was going to give up on the bluff, but actually backed into trip threes, which now looked good for the high half. I bet, the high hand called, and Matesow snapped in the kind of frustrated call of a man who knew he was beat, but couldn't make himself pass.
The high hand had rivered a flush, Matesow was surprised that his 84 low was good, and it was pretty crushing to feel that the decision, albeit going in my favour, may have changed a lot. I am pretty good at taking any beats in live poker, but I found that spot really tough, where another event inadvertedly loses you the pot- or at least possibly so......."
I will be unable to do the usual Updates this morning, as I will be Offline by the time play in Vegas finishes for the day, & am on the road all day today from around 9am.
It is unlikely I will be able to do them tomorrow, either, as I will be at SPT Brimingham all day.
Back Sunday, I hope.
I hope so. He's a very good explainer of things.
Also, one more question: Is 'explainer' a word? I have my doubts.
We remain on excellent terms with Stu, both the business, & myself, & hopefully he will return at some stage in the future.
Agree 100%, he explains poker exceedingly well.
Quite an interesting story, but one for another day.
Completed events
WSOP10 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em 645 entrants
Brent Wheeler took down the $191,000 first prize, denying Canadian Mark Mierkalns. Malissia Zapata finished 3rd for the best female finish so far this year.
WSOP11 - $2,500 6Max NLH, 924 entrants
Levi Berger knocked out all of his final table opponents single handed to take his first bracelet and $473,000
Events in progress
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem, 535 entrants
Down to a final table, with Eric Crain the chip leader. Crain has already had a deep run in WSOP8 - the 8-game mix, but lying second in chips is the dangerous Allen Cunningham. The 2-tabling Jason Mercier ended up 27th, while Martin Stazsko earned a min-cash
WSOP13 - $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better, 201 entrants
Day 2 is still in play with 22 players remaining, so they're at least in the money.
Eli Elezra, Mike Matusow & Euegene Katchalov are hangnig on with small stacks, with the chip leader
being Israeli Yuval Bronshtein. Sad to report the likes of Mike Sexton, Norman Chad and Stuart Rutter have
been eliminated
WSOP14, $1500 NLH - 1819 entrants
Day 1 is about to draw to a close, with the money bubble approaching. Sam Trickett is still in (albeit with a
small stack, Neil Channing & David Vamplew with a slightly bigger stack. Chip leader is Zal Arani, with double 2010 bracelet winner Frank Kassela close behind. Barry Shulman (these Shulmans get everywhere) is still there
along with at least 1 Mizrachi brother, Phil Ivey, Joe Cada & Carlos Mortensen
Starting today
WSOP15 - $1500 Horse
WSOP16 - $10000 NLH Heads Up
Fantastic thread btw, but can I request FCHD to up the font size slightly? I'm an oldgit with failing eyesight!
If I remember, I'll try and increase it for tomorrow's update and see how it looks, but I expect then we'll get some people saying it's too large!!!!
WSOP13 has ended Day 2 with 20 left, Yuval Bronshtein leads with 433K, Eric Rodawig (who won the 10K bracelet in this game in 2011 lies 2nd with 323K and then no one else has over 230K. Those in contention include David "bakes" Baker, Gavin Smith & Mike Matusow, all in the top half of those left.
WSOP14 has also bagged up for the night with 204 of the />1800 original entrants making Day 2. Grant Curnow now has the chip lead, with Frank Kassela still second and Erick Lindgren now appearing in the picture along with Paul Wasicka who was ME runner-up and the chief victim of Jamie Gold's run as the "luckiest poker player on the planet" - WSOP's words not mine!
Great report FCHD, thank you.