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70 Michael Stembera
69 Chanracy Khun
68 Tony Ruberto
67 Steven Bennett
66 Chad Eveslage
65 Daniel Wilson - last Irishman departs
64 Brian Hastings
This means the payouts now leap to $124K.
Still not a single mention of a Rutter hand on the text updates, nor from Iaron Lightbourne. Paul Senter has only been mentioned as folding to a 3-bet but at least Craig McCorkelll has featured a couple of times - 1 good and 1 bad.
63 Jeffrey Loiacono
62 Zachary Hirst
61 Pfizer Jordan
60 Nathan Goldstein
Hopefully we'll get a full chip count listing during the 20 minute break
Stuart is down to 240K, exactly 4BB
WP STU
59 Stuart Rutter
Chris Odle raised in the hijack with AK suited, Stu shoved for his last fea chips from the Big Blind but only had Q9 suited.
The flop of 45K meant the writing was on the wall and two more fives followed on the turn and river to eliminate our man.
Still, it has been a fantastic run and hope you've all had a good time railing him from the UK through this thread. I'm sure Stuart will have some fantastic memories to share with us the next time he is on Channel 861.
I'm calling it a day for tonight (if that makes any sense), will pick it up in the morning to see if any of the other British players can make the last 27 and Day 7.
Well, we're down to 2 now as Paul Senter has gone in 39th place for a payday of over $186K.
Craig McCorkell is thriving, he is currently in the top 5 in chips, while the other UK player left, Iaron Lightbourne sits about in the middle of the pack.
Bustouts since Stuart
58 William Cole
57 Vitaly Lunkin
56 Clayton Hamm
55 Alexios Zervos
54 Kyung Cha
53 Trevor Martin
52 Isaac Baron
51 Jason Johnon
50 David Yingling
49 Chris Odle
48 Ryan Fair
47 Jason Weber
46 Vladimir Bozinovic
45 Matt Waxman
44 Clayton Maguire
43 David Tuthill
42 Michael Finstein
41 Adam Lamphere
40 Michael Kamran
39 Paul Senter
38 Shahen Martirosian
37 Gal Erlichman
36 remain, they are intending to play down to 27 players to finish Day 6. The current payout level is a little over $230K
Anyway, moving on as we must
Final set of eliminations on Day 6
36 Aaron Kaiser (who had employed some unpopular stalling tactics when 37 were left in to get to the next pay jump, and then was knocked out when his set of Aces lost to runner-runner broadway of Dan Smith, ironically the very player he was stalling against)
35 Peter Placey
34 Luis Asuncao
33 Robert Park
32 Garrett Greer - shame. His getting to the final table would have been an amazing story that ESPN would have really gone to town on
31 Chris Johnson
29 Do ng Guo & 30 Robert Campbell - knocked out in he same hand by William Pappaconstantinou
28 Matthew Haugen (who had been down to a chip and a chair at one point earlier in the day)
So we're down to 3 tables, with 2 GB players and they have both drawn the same table.
1 Yorane Kerignard (FRA) 2.885m
2 Anroni Larrabe (ESP) 15.280m
3 Leif Force (USA) 4.035m
4 Christopher Greaves (USA) 3.935m
5 Oscar Kemps (NED) 3.910m
6 CRAIG MCCORKELL 8.765m
7 Thomas Sarra Jr (USA) 6.510m
8 Dan Sindelar (USA) 16.345m
9 IARON LIGHTBOURNE 3.875m
Ultra-consistent Swede Martin Jacobsen is chip leader (23m) with previous double bracelet winner Luis Velador next with 16m. Three other bracelet winners are left, McCorkell, Shaun Dempsey & Leif Force (who's also gone close to final tabling the Main Event), while Mark Newhouse's bid for back-to-back November Nines is still alive, sitting somewhere in the middle of the pack.
One more day, and the WSOP goes on hold for months, and I'll have a lot more time to myself!
Well for 4 months anyway. Play is underway in the last push to the November Nine, can we get a Brit to the final table? Can we be greedy and ask for two?
All will be revealed over the next few hours as Craig McCorkell & Iaron Lightbourne quest with 25 others to make the November Nine.
In fact it's already 24 others as we've lost
27 Sean Dempsey
The current payout level is over $286K, more than the winners of a number of bracelet winners collected.
Updates will follow until about midnight, so fingers crossed....
26 Brian Roberts
Martin Jacobsen remains chip leader, with over 20 million chips. However, remember what happened last year while Anton Morgenstern was chip leader early on Day 7 but got nowhere near the final table.
The table draws have changed from what was originally posted, so McCorkell and Lightbourne are now on different tables. McCorkell is on the feature table and has chipped up by about a million so far, Lightbourne is on Table 3 and he's also headed in the right direction so far, up about 700K.
The big story though would still be Mark Newhouse if he can make his second straight November Nine, and he's another player that has added to his stack already on Day 7.
25 Bryan Devonshire - couldn't quite match is 12th place from 2011
24 Kyle Keranan - beats his previous best of 38th from 2012
23 Yorane Kerignard - first WSOP ME cash, $286K is his 2nd biggest win (won $341K coming 4th in EPT Deauville in January 2012.
Not a good hour for the two Brits - McCorkell down to 6m and Lightbourne was down to fumes after he shoved from the SB on Kerignard with 42off and got called with AK which held.
In fact, in stop press news
22 Iaron Lightbourne. Shoved his last 1.3m with QQ into new chip leader Dan Sindelar who snap-called with AQ and an ace came down on the flop.
Dan Sindelar has the chip lead, ahead of Bruno Politano & Martin Jacobsen, with McCorkell in 14th spot at this point.
Of the 18 players, 9 are American, while 2 are from the Netherlands, and one each from Russia, UK, Spain, Brazil, Norway Austria & Sweden. It's a very long shot, but we could have an all-American final table, or a final table that has no Americans on it at all. How low would ESPN's ratings in the States be for that?
Mark Newhouse is lying 8th, one place behind the man who is doubtless driving the ESPN on-screen graphics guys crazy, William Pappaconstantinou.
For the record
21 Leif Force (11th 2006 Main Event, won a bracelet in 2012)
20 Dan Smith (winner of $2million in a tournament a fortnight ago)
19 Scott Palmer (big on-line guy)
I'll pick this up in the morning, hope Craig is still there when I wake up!
18 Scott Mahin
17 Andrey Zaichenko
16 Eddy Sabat
15 Thomas Serra. Jr
14 Oscar Kemps
13 CRAIG McCORKELL
12 Christopher Greaves
11 Maxiillian Senft
Then after combining for an unofficial FT,
10 Luis Vellador
That leaves us with an official final table, and Newhouse is therfore on consecutive November Nines. That must be one of the biggest achievements in modern live poker.
A fuller update later
thank you, fchd
There is one more post to come later tonight, a brief who's who of the final table.
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And thanks for all the work putting this thread together, it's been a fantastic read. Cheers!
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Nine players that most people in the UK won't know an awful lot about (with the possible exception of Mark Newhouse). One point to make is that it is a remarkably balanced final table with no runaway chip leader and no really short stack
Chip leader is Jorryt van Hoof, the second year in a row a Dutch player has made the November Nine. van Hoof, who is a major online cash winner, made a decision at almost the last minute to travel to Vegas to play the Main Event. He plays just under the levels tracked by high stakes databases so he perhaps isn't as well known as he should be.
Felix Stephensen is 2nd, a 23 year old Norwegian pro (right in the age range of the last 5 or 6 Main Event winner). He is an on-line high stakes PLO player but doesn't have much live tournament experience
Third is Mark Newhouse, making him the first player to make back-to-back Final Tables since Dan Harrington a decade earlier. He finished 9th last year, and of course is hoping to do a lot better this November. He also has a WPT title to his name.
Spaniard Andoni Larrabe is the baby of the bunch, but has been online since he was 18 and has 2 SCOOP titles and also won a PCA event in 2013.
Middle of the pack is the only Las Vegas player, Dan Sindelar. He was the chip leader for parts of Day 7 and will doubtless have lots of the local pros railing him come November. He has lots of WSOP cashes but this is his first in the Main Event
William Pappaconstantinou as I may have mentioned earlier must have got the ESPN caption designers working overtime as to how to fit his name into the graphics. He has been a world foosball champion and is the only proper amateur at the final table.
Will Tonking was around the lower end of the chip counts all day, and was the shorty on the Final Table bubble but managed a double up and then held on with a playable stack. Went up several levels in my book by likening his situation to that in the movie "Hoosiers"
Eighth is the Swedish representative Martin Jacobson. He has been up among the top ten or so most of the way and probably has as much live experience (alongside Newhouse) as anyone at the FT, with over $5 million of recorded live cashes
And the short stack - Bruno Politano. In the absence of a British rail, the vocals in the Penn & Teller theater will be a Brazilian rail. He is the first player from Brazil to make the Final Table and has already hugely exceeded his previous lifetime cash total.
Seat draw & Chip stacks
1 William Pappaconstantinou USA 17,500,000
2 Felix Stephensen Norway 32,775,000
3 Jorryt van Hoof Netherlands 38,375,000
4 Mark Newhouse USA 26,000,000
5 Andoni Larrabe Spain 22,550,000
6 William Tonking USA 15,050,000
7 Dan Sindelar USA 21,200,000
8 Martin Jacobson Sweden 14,900,000
9 Bruno Politano Brazil 12,125,000
Payouts
1. $10,000,000
2. $5,145,968
3. $3,806,402
4. $2,848,833
5. $2,143,174
6. $1,622,080
7. $1,235,862
8. $947,077
9. $730,725
Right, that's me done until November. See you then!