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WSOP-E news....
Thought you may be interested to know that James Dempsey, aka "Flushy", who battled so entertainingly in the recently televised "Sky Poker Cash Game", is deep in the €5,300 Mix-Max event at the low-key WSOP-E currently taking place.
Just 16 players remain to battle for the near €200,000 up top, & Flushy sits 4th going into today. They play "4-Max" today.
Phil Ivey is still in, as are two "Schwartz's", Noah (1st) & Jake (12th), but I could not see any other Schwartz's when I luked.
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.... but I could not see any other Schwartz's when I luked.
Posted by Tikay10
Event 1 - Ladies NLH Event, €1100 - 65 entries
Jackie Glazier, who was the last woman standing in the WSOP Main Event, won her first bracelet getting the better of Maryline Valente heads up and also takes home €13,500. French women filled five of the seven paid places, with Gaelle Baumann who almost final tabled last years WSOP ME, finishing 7th. No British cashes
Event 2 - NLH €1100 Re-Entry, 659 entries
A bracelet for Sweden as Henrik Johansson raced through the final table and collected nearly 130,000 Euro. A few UK cashes in this one, led by Euan Cameron in 20th, with Sam Holden 38th, and Matthew Ashton in 63rd (also picking up a couple of valuable WSOP player of the year points)
Event 3 - €5300 Mixed-Max Hold'em, 140 entries
As Tikay mentioned, 16 remain so all the players are now on a min-cash. Noah Schwartz leads, with Shannon Storr (who went deep in the EPT London last week) 2nd and James Dempsey 4th. November niner Marc Newhouse is still standing, as is the one and only Phil Ivey
Event 4 - €1650 PLO, 184 entries
29 come back for day 2 with 21 to be paid. Ryan Chapman is the chip leader, with Fabrice Soulier some distance behind in 2nd. Others still in with a shout include Jason Mercier, Jeremy Ausmus, Michael Schwartz (yesterday must have been a good day for most of the Schwartzes), Dan Kelly, Juha Helppi and Max Pescatori.
A different company are doing the updates than did them for the main WSOP, and they're not quite so helpful in creating PDFs and listing nationalites of players with chips so it's not so easy to pick out the Brits.
Yes, this event is being covered by Poker Listings, not Poker News, & there is a marked difference in quality.
Matthew Ashton? I'm not sure it has been officially announced, so I might get in trouble with Sid Suit here, but I've seen it on Twitter & the like, so I can confirm that Matthew Ashton played on the latest version of the Sky Poker Cash Game, which we recorded about a month ago, & which is currently in Edit. I think it airs around Christmas time, on Sky Sports, Sky Poker, & maybe Challenge, too.
Matthew won nearly $2 miillion when he wonm the $50,000 WSOP Players Championship, & had several other WSOP cashes this year. He told me that he really wants to win the WSOP Player of the Year thing, & so needs to run good at the WSOP-E.
We spent several days with him in the Studio, & I ran him back to his Hotel a couple of nights, & I gotta tell you, he is THE most lovely chap, very bright, full of humility, & he knows he is living the dream. He lives in Toronto at the moment, as many of the big Pros currently do, it enables them to play the big games on you-know who.com in a decent time-zone.
He's a top top lad, & I hope he wins the WSOP Player of the Year, I think he'll be a great ambassador for poker. And poker needs good ambassadors, imo.
He promised me that if he is in the UK, & we are running an SPT, he'd come along. Fingers crossed.
PS - Oh yeah - he can't 'arf play a great cash game. Promise you, he is different gravy.
Looks like they are switching to Heads-up at 8 players left.
...and that's all she wrote, boom to bust, hero to zero, in the blink of an eyelid.
Brutal game this poker, huh?
Dan Obrien – 1,412,000 v Jason Mann – 182,000
Darko Stojanovic – 318,000 v Noah Schwartz – 189,000
In the PLO, 9 players remain - Juha Helppi has the lead with Jason Mercier 4th & Jeremy Ausmus 5th.
Event 5, a €2,200 NLH has started today.. Late reg is still open but so far 300 odd have entered, with the likes of Ivey & Esfandiari already out. This is one of the events that Daniel Negreanu has earmarked to try and earn Player of the Year points and overtake Matthew Ashton, as far as I can tell they are both still in with similar stacks.
In the Mix-Max Dan O'Brient lost a heads-up match for a bracelet for a second successive year. Last year he lost the final of the Shootout to Giovani Rosadonl, this time he came up short against Darko Stojanovic who claimed the bracelet for France despite O'Brient entering the final with about a 3-1 chip lead.
Three remain in the PLO as I type this. Juha Helppi has a decent lead over Jan Peter Jachtmann, with Jeremy Ausmus hanging on as a short stack. Jason Mercier finished 4th which won him a nice prize, but cost him big as he had a 130k Euro bet with Ivey that he would win the event (in comparison, first prize was 70K)
Three tables remain at the dinner breaak in the 9-man NLH, the big story here so far being that Phil Hellmuth has made his 100th lifetime WSOP cash. Not that it appears to have improved his demeanour. Others still in include Eric Seidel & Jonathan Duhamel with the lead currently held by Laurent Polito. James Dempsey picked up a min-cash, he was busted holding pocket 10s against an opponent's 9-6 which riivered a pair and turned a second pair. The event eventually drew 337 entries.
A Mixed-Max PLO has started today with late reg still open (buy in was €3,250). Early eliminations include November Niner David Benefield, Chino Reem & Devilfish, soon followed by Daniel Negreanu which must have been music to Matthew Ashton's ears (I believe Ashton is still in)
2012 November Niner Jeremy Ausmus took down the PLO event beating Juha Helppi & PLO specialist Jan-Peter Jachtmann into 2nd & 3rd respectively. 3-handed, Ausmus was far the short stack but a series of double-ups and some good play saw the 2012 Main Event 5th placed finisher claim the bracelet and just over €70K.
In the 9-man NLH, 7 returned this morning and they are now down to 4, with 9-time bracelet winner Eric Seidel having the chip lead. As mentioned above the big story here was Phil Hellmuth claiming his 100th career WSOP cash and proceeding to tell all and sundry all about it. Endlessly.
The other event in progress is the Mix-Max PLO. 127 ponied up the €3,250 entry fee with 16 to get paid (it was going to be 15 but as the event splits to 4 man-tables by then all agreed that 16 made more sense). 28 came back this morning with 19 still standing as I type. One of those is Matthew Ashton, who will increase his Player of the Year lead if he min-cashes (If I understand the poiunt scoring system correctly). Stephen Chidwick is also still in for the UK (having just eliminated Barry Greenstein), while among the other 17 are Phil Laak, Noah Schwatz Padraig Parkinson & Vitaliy Lunkin. There was also a change to the original structure that started that Heads-Up play would start at the Quarter Finals, but this was allegedly a "typo" and that heads-up should always have started with only four players left, seeded biggest chip stack against smallest with the two middle stacks against each other.
While keeping an eye on that event, I somewhat overlooked the Hold'em event - Eric Siedel is heads-up with Roger Hairabedian for the bracelet. The French-Moroccan player has a 7-3 chip advantage at this stage
PLO down to 10 as Padraig Parkinson has been knocked-out.