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FCHD

With now only two weeks to the start of the 2014 WSOP in the Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, it's time to start discussing the various events etc. The timetable is (If I've got it right)

May 27th
WSOP1 - $500 Casino Employees NLH
WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU
May 28th
WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO
May 29th
WSOP4 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP5 - $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
May 30th
WSOP6 - $1,500 NLH Shootout
WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz
May 31st
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker
Jun 1st
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
Jun 2nd
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed
Jun 3rd
WSOP12 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Jun 4th
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
Jun 5th
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Jun 6th
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz
Jun 7th
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout
Jun 8th
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE
Jun 9th
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH
Jun 10th
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
Jun 11th
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH
Jun 12th
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
Jun 13th
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
Jun 14th
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed
Jun 15th
WSOP33 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Jun 16th
WSOP35 - $5,000 NLH 8-handed
WSOP36 - $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Jun 17th
WSOP37 - $1,500 PLO
WSOP38 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
Jun 18th
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH
Jun 19th
WSOP40 - $10,000 NLH Heads Up
WSOP41 - $1,500 Dealer's Choice 6 handed
Jun 20th
WSOP42 - $5,000 PLO 6 handed
WSOP43 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Jun 21st
WSOP44 - $1,500 NLH
Jun 22nd
WSOP45 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP46 - $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
Jun 23rd
WSOP47 - $1,500 Ante-only NLH
Jun 24th
WSOP48 - $1,500 PLO High-Low
Jun 25th
WSOP49 - $5,000 NLH
WSOP50 - $1,500 Eight-game mix
Jun 26th
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH
WSOP52 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em
Jun 27th
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low
Jun 28th
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH
Jun 29th
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH
Jun 30th
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU
WSOP59 - Limit Omaha High-Low
Jul 1st
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud
Jul 2nd
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed
Jul 3rd
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO
Jul 5th
WSOP65 - $10,000 NLH Main Event


Most events are 3-day events, but a few such as the Players Championship are 4-days, and of course the main event is 7 days in July and then the final 9 come back for 2 more days in November.

I'm going to try and to a daily report as I did last year, noting all the bracelet winners, performances by the big names and follow the fortunes of the British players. Let's hope we have as good of a Series as last year, although 3 bracelets may be a bit hard to repeat.

FCHD

So the waiting is over, Tikay is safely asleep in his suite at the Rio and the WSOP 2014 commences today.

Two bracelet events start on Tuesday, the $500 Casino Employees' Hold'em at noon (Vegas time) with a $25K Mixed-Max event getting underway four hours later.

"Casino Employees" seems to be a rather vague term, last year the event was won by one of the Pokernews bloggers/updaters, deemed a casino employee becaue they were under contract to Caesars Entertainment to provide updates from the WSOP. Anyway, expect this one to be won by someone we've all never heard of, but the other event of the day is a whole different kettle of fish. One of the bigger buy-ins of the whole series getting the big named and big rolled players into the swing of the series straight away.

Day one of the mixed-max plays 9 handed, Day 2 6 handed, Day 3 4 handed and the final day is heads up. Expect a field of high-profile sponsored pros, and the very best of the online players. There was no comparable event last year so who knows how many players will eventually sign up.

Events Starting Today
WSOP1 - $500 Casino Employees NLH
WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU

aussie09

good stuff fchd.  like previous events your updates will be invaluable.  i look forward to reading this each day.

yoyo

thanks in advance sir!

Sky_Dave

In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions:

good stuff fchd.  like previous events your updates will be invaluable.  i look forward to reading this each day.
Posted by aussie09

+1. These are always well appreciated.

a00rock

Will follow with interest mate. Wow $25k to kick off proceedings just out of my bank roll reach lol but will be good to see how many enter and if there are any Brits we can cheer on.

Tikay10

Morning all.

This should be a great thread, many thanks to Cornwall Bloke.

I arrived yesterday, & went down to the WSOP area - access barred, it was not yet open. 

I gather from Seth Palansky that it opens @ 9am this morning, so I'll go down in a bit (it is 5.45 am right now) & see if I can get some "before it all starts" photos.

I'll be doing some blogs, too, so hopefully we can have some fun.   

FCHD

Well cards were in the air (and a cannon-burst of $1 bills!) and, as they say, Day 1 of the 2014 series is "in the books"


May 27th

WSOP1 - $500 Casino Employees NLH - 876 entrants

Marginally down on last year's field, as expected a host of players I (and most likely) you have never heard of remain as 51 players will return for Day 2 to fight for the first bracelet of the 2014 series.

Preliminary reports indicate that Corey Emery has the chip lead, ahead of Jay Graunstadt & Aaron Henderson. No Brits are in (if any started), in fact 48 of the 51 are American, with single representatives from Austria, Canada & Italy completeing the field.

Of those I have heard of, reigning champ Chad Holloway, WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart, and Bernard Lee (13th in the 2005 WSOP ME) are among those eliminated.

WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 131 entrants

The field has been more than halved (60 players come back for 6-handed play) with a familiar name topping the chip counts - one Vanessa Selbst. She was helped to her 562K stack when flopping quads in the last level of the day to eliminate Jake Schindler. Brian Rast lies second with Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi in 3rd.

Three British players come back, all with healthy stacks - Stephen Chidwick (260K,9th), David Vamplew (225K, 11th) & Sam Tricket (160K,23rd). Talal Shakerchi, who entertained us on a feature table of the EPT San Remo recently, was doing well early on but has been busted along with Mad Marvin Rettenmaier, Chino Reem, Joe Cada and Greg Merson.
Big names still in - Daniel Cates, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Joseph Cheong, Daniel Negreanu, Farez Jaka, Eugene Katchalov, etc.

Despite having exactly 60 players which you would have thought made 10 6-handed tables quite nicely, the seat draw for Day 2 gives 11 tables most of which have of course one vacant seat. Some interesting combinations include table 361 - Ivey & Dan Jungleman Cates, 359 Trickett with Jason Mericer & Justin Bonomo and 354 with Hellmuth & Selbst two seats apart.

16 will get paid, and it is my guess that they will play down to that number on Wednesday to give 4 4-handed tables for Thursday.


Events Starting Today
WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO - expeciting to report on Mr T Kendall being the overnight leader this time tomorrow.

hhyftrftdr

Chidwick could smash the WSOP this year.

Tikay10

"...Events Starting Today
WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO - expeciting to report on Mr T Kendall being the overnight leader this time tomorrow......"


That's a little optimistic, but I am currently joint leader, though fair to say it has not started yet.

 

FCHD

I read somewhere earlier today that they're hoping to have the largest field ever for a non-Hold'em event for Event 3

pompeynic

Wasnt Bernard Lee the actor who played M in the early bond movies?

FCHD

May 28th
WSOP1 - $500 Casino Employees NLH - 876 entrants

Before we start, apologies for missing the first British cash of the series yesterday - Lee Davy picked up $886 as a min-cash for placing 86th.

As I write, 4 players remain - Olivier Doremus, Corey Emery, Charles Nguyen & Roland Reparejo, I will post a brief update later when this is over.



WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 131 entrants

As predicted, they've called it a day with 16 players left to go into 4-handed play for Day 3
With such a large buy-in, the field is stacked full of big name and sponsored players, but the overnight chip leader is neither - Al Decarolis has precisely no live cashes to his name, yet he's now guarateed nearly $60K here. Vanessa Selbst has been near the top of the standings all day, and lies third, behind November niner JC Tran.
Others still in include Mat Giannetti, Nick Schulman, Calvin Anderson & Noah Schwartz, but John Juanda proved to be the bubble boy when his Q6 proved to be dominated by Ryan Tepper's AQ and did not improve.

All the British players (in fact all the Non-American players) were busted before the cash along with Phil Ivey, Justin Bonomo, Brian Rast, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Cates (who apparently did not behave in a very sporting manner when eliminated by Selbst)



WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO - 1128 entrants
The biggest ever WSOP non Hold-em tournament, including our very own Tikay

Making the money just before the end of the day, 106 players will return for Day 2 led by Loren Klein (who I thought was a lady until I saw a picture) who has 10 WSOP cashes including a runner-up spot in a PLO event in 2010. Unfortunately our hero is not amongst them - doubtless more on that later. Must be a mistake.

Brits moving on - Peter Charalambous, Stephen Chidwick & Karim Jomeen, along with the likes of Humberto Brenes, Hoyt Corkins, Perry Green (3 bracelets back in the 1970s and ME runner-up 1982), Maria Ho, Phil Laak & Jason Somerville. Another "old timer", Huck Seed, min-cashed.


Events starting today
WSOP4 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP5 - $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

FCHD

Update for Event 1, the Casino Employee's Event

This has over-run into a third day, play being stopped at the end of Level 22 with play being heads-up between Roland Reparejo and Corey Emery with the former holding about a 2-and-a-half to one chip lead. Emery finished 33rd in the Main Event in 2010, while Reparejo has only one cash listed on the Hendon Mob database, just over $3K in the WSOP Seniors Event last year.

FCHD

Unfortunately, the chip listing for Day 2 of the PLO not including Tikay was not a mistake (!) he busted about 2/3 of the way through the day, for full details see his new blog post.

Better luck next time Mr K.

TENTENTEN

wd ty keep it coming looking forward to reading on a regular basis

FCHD

May 29th

WSOP1 - $500 Casino Employees NLH - 876 entrants
We have our first bracelet winner of 2014 - Roland Reparajo of Cathedral City, California (is that where the cheese comes from?). Reperajo won all but one hand of the six needed to beat heads-up opponent Corey Emery after the event was controversially halted the night before an extended into an unscheduled Day 3.

WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 131 entrants
The original plan was to play down to 4 players at the end of Day 3 and play the semi-finals and final on Day 4 but as the semi-finals are already underway it's obviously been changed.

Eliminations came thick and fast in the 4-handed, with Noah Schwartz & Barry Hutter eliminated in the first 15 minutes and 3 more falling within the first hour.

By the re-draw for 2 tables, Al Decarolis had a large chip lead from Vanessa Selbst. Selbst, JC Tran & Jason Mo all then eliminated a player climbing closer to the chip lead with Matt Giannetti & Robert Tepper as the short stacks. Tran knocked out Tepper, and the 5 formed temporarily a 5-handed table. A slow down ensued, with Selbst looking to take on Decarolis wherever she could, with mixed results, and it took 78 hands to eliminate 2011 November Niner Matt Gianetti in 5th.

The Semi-Finals were seeded Decarolis v Selbst (Selbst had got dangerously short by now, Decarolis went in 3.4m to .5m ahead) and Tran v Mo (3.3m to 2.5m)

The Tran v Mo match finished first, after 30 hands, Tran's pocket tens lost a flip to Mo's AK when a King fell on the flop leaving him down to fumes and he went out six hands later.

Decarolis v Selbst went on for much longer, Selbst first regaining a decent stack, then the match swinging both ways but it took over 100 hands for Selbst to take the chip lead but then within 20 minutes she had pressed home her advantage and will play Jason Mo on Day 4 for the bracelet. Tran & Decarolis will both pick up $290K for their efforts, while the winner will take home $871K. Mo enteres the final with a 5.8m to 3.9m chip lead.


WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO - 1128 entrants
If Tikay can't win it, who can?

Not Jeff Shulman, Huck Seed or Humberto Brenes as they were all early Day 2 casualties.

Not Karim Jomeen either, as the Londoner picked up nearly $3K for finishing 68th.

As the day went on and the tables broke, two other Brits sailed serenely on. Both Peter Charalambous & Stephen Chidwick were still alive in the event as players departed, and the guaranteed money now into 5 figures.

Other middle of the day eliminations include Perry Green, Hoyt Corkins, Maria Ho & Phil Laak one after each other from 42nd to 39th, the wonderfully named Belgian Yves Kupfermunz in 17th and 2012 ME winner Greg Merson in 14th.

It really looked like there was going to be some representative from "over here" on the FT, but then
Irishman John O'Shea finished 12th, Peter Charalambous went out 11th and Stephen Chidwick 10th, leaving a final table bereft of British Isles players.

The chip leader overnight is two-time bracelet winner Steve Billirakis (at the time when Billirakis won his first jewellry in 2007 he was the youngest bracelet winner in history, winning the event just 11 days after his 21st birthday), with Brandon Shack-Harris in 2nd and the vowel-heavy Iori Yogo in 3rd.


WSOP4 - $1,000 NLH - 2224 entrants

The first of the "budget" hold'em events drew a predictably large field

One quote from the PokerNews live reporting that I hope they don't mind me lifting, when talking about some of the players playing :"Love him or hate him, the Devilfish is truly a poker legend"!

Anyway, back to the poker. At the last break of the day, 2224 have become less than 500 with Jeff Fross leading the way. Others with decent stacks include Scot Niall Farrell, Greg Mueller, Olivier Busquet, Allen Kessler & Eric Baldwin. Those with more modest piles of chips - Jennifer Tilly, Ylon Schwartz, Joseph Cheong, Humberto Brenes, Phil Collins & Marvin Rettenmaier while James Atkin, Jake Cody & Sam Trickett need to pick up chips fast.

Those who are busto - Carlos Mortensen, Erik Seidel, Sorel Mizzi, Dwyte Pilgrim and the aforementioned Devilfish.



WSOP5 - $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball - 120 entrants
Only 120 entrants but a class-filled field with almost every big name you can think of, including the biggest name of them all Doyle Brunson. The winner (of 18 who will cash) will take home just shy of $300K.

Early bust-outs include Phil Laak, Allen Kessler, Daniel Negreanu & Frank Kassela.

Brits I've seen so far noticed in dispatches - Matthew Ashton & Richard Ashby. Tikay implied that Stuart Rutter was playing this event in his phone call to the show last night but I've not seen evidence either way so far.

The structure sheet for this had them playing 10 levels on Day 1 but as they're only now reaching the end of Level 4 I begin to doubt that.


Events starting today
WSOP6 - $1,500 NLH Shootout
WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz


Further post with an update on events 4 & 5 later (maybe lunchtime)

FCHD

Updates on Events 4 & 5

Event 4
Fast and furious play has left 186 players going forward to Day 2 with Canadian Miguel Prioulx top of the pile overnight. Despite their being several Brits in the game in my previous update, only Niall Farrell remains. The Scot lies in 12th position. I can't see any of the real big names left in, but the likes of Jimmy Fricke, Phil Collins and Andrew Lichtenberger are decent players and could well have  a very deep run. Previous Ch 861 guest James Atkin did manage a $1801 min cash.

Event 5
And it's good news from this one; I mentioned above that Stuart Rutter was thought to be playing and Tikay was right, he is. He takes forward a decent stack to Day 2, in the top 20 of the 52 players coming back to chase the $355K first prize and the bracelet. Overall, 12 will get paid a minimum of $24K.

Mike Peltecki is the chip leader, ahead of Sergey Rybachekno with multiple bracelet winner Tom Schneider in 3rd and the likes of Huck Seed, Eli Eleztra, John Hennigan & Barry Greenstein in or around the top 10.  Matt Ashton is still alive and kicking for GB, while Alexandre Luneau is shown as from London but is French.

Both Brunsons (Doyle & Todd) are also still in, along wth Jason Mercier, Phil Galfond, Chris Klodnicki (one of the best players without a bracelet?) and David Benyamine.

Stuart's table for the start of Day 2:
Seat 1 Todd Brunson (22K)
Seat 2 Stuart Rutter (77K)
Seat 3 Jim McCrink (41K)
Seat 4 Don Nguyen (40K)
Seat 5 Scott Abrams (108K)
Seat 6 Barry Greenstein (104K

Play restarts at 10pm tonight our time, I can't tally the levels as shown in the on-line reporting with those in the structure sheet, but it looks like the limits are 600/1200 or so when they come back.


Question in relation to event 3 - is the Peter Charalambous who finished 11th the same as the racehorse trainer with a runner in the 5:35 at Newmarket today?

waller02

Loving this thread, just as i was last year. Keep up the good work it is much appreciated.

Best of luck to Stu in Event 5!

Bromley023

Excellent

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this last year.

Thank you v much Sir.

B

TENTENTEN

wd looking forward to future updates

omm

Great thread, well done.

FCHD

Not good news so far, Stuart has lost about half of his stack in the first level of the day

FCHD

After events stoppd coming through for several hours, I've finally caugt up with what happened on Friday at the Rio

May 30th

WSOP2 - $25,000 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 131 entrants
The Heads-Up Final between Jason Mo and Vanessa Selbst took 72 hands to play itself out, and when all the chips had been piled up it was Vanessa Selbst who claimed her third bracelet.

Mo entered the final with a 5.8m to 3.9m chip lead, Selbst got it almost back to even after 24 hands but then Mo went on a roll, and by a break after 52 hands he led 8.1m to 1.6m. After that, little went right for Mo - one wide push with 6-3suited got called, and then a huge hand (hand 63) saw his AQ suited lose to Vanessa's pocket Queens on a Queen high board. Ten hands later it was all over.

WSOP3 - $1,000 PLO - 1128 entrants
The bracelet for "Tikay's event" has gone to Brandon Shack-Harris, outlasting Morgan Popham heads-up to take the bracelet and $205K first prize to more than double his lifetime live earnings.

Overnight chip leader Steve Billirakis went out in 4th with the Japanese Iori Yogo coming third

WSOP4 - $1,000 NLH - 2224 entrants
We're down to 12, and WSOP Circuit regular Kyle Cartwright has the chip lead overnight. He has 973K, ahead of Daniel Dizenzo in 2nd and 2010 ME 4th place finisher Ylon Schwartz in 3rd.

Niall Farrell was the only UK player to return for Day 2, and he battled through most of the day but was knocked-out in 23rd for a cash of just over $10K.

WSOP5 - $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball - 120 entrants
First the bad news - Stuart Rutter won't be picking up his first bracelet in this event, falling mid-way through the day in 40th.

Matthew Ashton came very close to making the money, with 12 paid he was knocked out in 16th after losing most of his chips to Phil Galfond when Galfond held the nuts.

Building on that, Galfond leads the final 12 overnight ahead of Jason Mercier and Alexandre Luneau, who now has (correctly) the French tricolour alongside his name rather than a Union Flag.

Others still in include Nick Schulman, Justin Bonomo, David Benyamine and Eli Elezra

WSOP6 - $1,500 NLH Shootout - 948 entrants
After a bit of controversy earlier when dealers on different tables were dealing with taking blinds from stacks where players hadn't bought in yet differently, the 948 players on 120 tables fought out their STTs to provide one player per table to go forward to Day 2.

Among those who got through - Eugene Katchalov, Mike Matusow, Josh Arieh, Joseph Cheong, Greg Merson, Humberto Brenes, Kyle Julius & Chris Tryba.

Merson is an interesting case, last year the 2012 ME winner only played 7 WSOP events (preferring the cash games in Macao), but this year he has committed to playing virtually a full schedule.

Louis Salter & Jamie Roberts are upholding British honour as the only players from the UK to make Day 2.

WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz - 352 entrants
Razz, being a limit game, plays a lot slower than NLH and so we're still well away from the cash at the end of Day 1 as 75 remain.

Defending Razz champion Bryan Campanello returns with a short stack, but among those with more chips - one Phil Hellmuth (looking for his 101st WSOP cash at least), Huck Seed, Berry Johnson, Phil Laak (who knocked out Phil Ivey along the way) and Brandon Cantu, but they all trail Floridian Fabio De Francesco who is the overnight chip leader.

I can't see any British players among the survivors, but I'm supprting 60th placed Gary Benson, because he comes from the wonderfully named Kangaroo Point in Australia.

Brandon Shack-Harris entered this as soon as he won his earlier bracelet, but it wasn't to be a repeat performance as he went bust fairly quickly.


To Start Today
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker

unknown_username

Many thx for your efforts sir and tell Tikay to keep the pics coming.........

FCHD

Event 8 - the "Millionaire Maker" is having two starting "flights", a and b. Flight A has just set the record for the biggest single-seating field ever in a live tournament.

Total number of entries is now showing as 5369 but I believe this includes those who have registered for Flight B already

Glenelg

Thanks for your posts FCHD!  Really enjoying reading them.

Tikay10

These photos of the WSOP plasma for the "Millionaire Maker" were taken at 7.15pm....

Tikay10

The numbers continue to rise, 20 minutes later the number stood @ 7,662.

Tikay10

8pm - 7,704.

FINS

Great thread this..