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1B is ongoing, they've just entered Level 5 and I think late reg is open to the end of this level. Total so far is at least 7781 (including re-entries from 1A to 1B) meaning it only trails the 2006 ME as the live poker tournament with the most entries ever.
I was going to say this bodes well for the main event but will it? hell of a difference from 1.5k to 10k entry.
WSOP4 - $1,000 NLH - 2224 entrants
The bracelet and $360K has gone to Kyle Cartwright who was the overnight chip leader and held on to defeat Jason Paster heads-up. Ylon Schwartz came 3rd in a final table exclusively made up of American players.
WSOP5 - $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball - 120 entrants
The first of the $10K bracelets has gone to Tuan Le (picking up less than 5% less than Cartwright (above) despite the field only being about 5% of the size.
Le took his first bracelet after beating a big-name packed final table with Justin Bonomo the unlucky 2nd placed finisher, Eli Elezra 3rd and Nick Schulman 4th.
The WSOP cannot make up its mind about Alexandre Luneau - first he was British, then French and now he's got a Union Jack against him again. For the record he finished 8th
WSOP6 - $1,500 NLH Shootout - 948 entrants
Day 2 is in the books and the 12 table winners move on to Day 3 where the tournament reverts to being a standard MTT. Among the lucky dozen are Josh Arieh, David Trager, Maxx Coleman & Jared Jaffee, plus the sole non-American left, Dimitar Danchev of Bulgaria.
The three British players who won their Day 1 tables made no futher progress - Jamie Roberts was first out in 107th, David Vamplew (who I somehow missed yesterday) followed in 75th and the last Brit standing, Louis Salter, was eliminated in 43rd. All three pick up $4411
WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz - 352 entrants
There's bound to be a lot of interest around this final table as it features in 2nd place Phil Hellmuth, chasing his 14th bracelet.
Greg Pappas holds the only larger stack, with David Bach (2009 Poker Players Champion), Brandon Cantu (2 bracelets), Ted Forrest (5 bracelets) & Brock Parker (2 bracelets) also in close contention
Among those who cashed but are not part of the final table - Huck Seed (12th), Berry Johnston (39th) & Phil Laak (40th)
My man from Kangaroo Point failed to cash though.
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker
Still going, playing the final level of the day. Update to come at the end of play. Looks like this made a few dozen short of 8000 entries. Phenomenal!
To Start Today
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
The second biggest live poker tournament in history, with less than 2 dozen short of 8000 entries across the two flights (including a number of players having to use two bullets) means the guaranteed 1st place prize money of a million dollars was met and exceeded easily, with the winner now going to pick up over $1.3m
Andrew Seidman was one of those who busted flight 1A, late registered into the second flight and began to struggle early before turning it around "big time", running well and playing well too.
As expected a host of big names accompany him through, as well as a number of UK players - from Flight 1A Scott O'Reilly (inside the Top 15 in chips), Kevin Allen, Andrew Teng, Charles Chattha, Steven Watts, Ben Warrington, James Atkin, Daniel Furnival, Adam Panlatimer & Lee Davy; and from Flight 1B Andrew Hills, Richard Pearce, Gary Hurst, Rhys Jones, Jake Cody & Sebastian Saffari, plus Chris Lythgoe who should be shown from "Grt Manchester, GB" but is mangled into "Crt Manchester, GA"! Messrs Chidwick & Ulliot's demise was specifically noted in dispatches
Too many players survive to pick out many names (1466 return) but one interesting player that the PokerNews reporting team were regularly mentioning was 69-year old Wendeen Eolis. Who? I hear you ask. Well she was the first woman to ever cash in the WSOP Main Event back in 1986 and has gone on to the be the Chief Executive of a number of companies and a special adviser to ex-Mayor of New York City Rudy Guiliani. Eolis returns for Day 2 but only with a few chips.
Only 1,466 return from 8,000?
Wowzer!
Love the story of Wendeen Eolis.
WSOP6 - $1,500 NLH Shootout - 948 entrants
The 12 players who won their Day 2 tables came back and effectively played the final stages of a regular tournament.
Josh Arieh went on a roll, knocking out players left right and centre bust lost a huge pot with Alex Bolotin when Bolotin hit a two-outer, and Arieh departed shortly after.
This left it three handed, Bolotin, Jon Lane and 2013 PCA winner Dimitar Danchev. Three handed play went on for ages, Lane's Aces eventually being cracked by Danchev flopping a set of 2s, and heads-up wasn't a quick affair either with it taking over 80 hands for Bolotin to take down the event, his first bracelet and over a quarter of a million dollars.
WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz - 352 entrants
A final table full of bracelets - 23 among the final 8 tables and of course the tantalising prospect of Phil Hellmuth extending his record total of 13 WSOP bracelets. A number of them had Razz WSOP history as well - Hellmuth of course won this two years ago with Brandon Cantu in 3rd, David Bach was the losing heads-up player 12 months ago while Ted Forrest won a razz bracelet as far ago as 1993. In fact Forrest has 5 wins, but none of them have been since the move to the Rio (3 in 1993 and 2 in 2004 all back in the Binions era)
I watched the live stream until the first break, and had to agree with the commentators that it seemed a lot more relaxed and friendly than any Hold'em final table.
Kevin Iacofano went out early, Yuebin Guo never got going to finish 7th and Cantu (who seemed like he wanted to play every hand against Hellmuth) drifted away not long after.
Brock Parker was very quiet and eventually fot it all in against Ted Forrest but couldn't complete his draw to a 7-low, David Bach got low but held on for 45 minutes with a very small stack before losing a close one to Hellmuth.
Three handed play saw Hellmuth & Greg Pappas with big stacks and Forrest a small one, but he won a big won against Pappas, shortly after Hellmuth did the same and the veteran Pappas departed the scene a few hands later.
This left Hellmuth & Forrest to play the heads-up match with the most bracelets between them in WSOP history. Heads-up started with Hellmuth having a 2-1 chip lead, and three hours later play is still going on with the stacks switched around so Forrest is in the lead.
Hellmuth has 101 cashes, 49 final tables, 23 heads-up appearances and 13 bracelets so far.
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries
After (as Tikay noted above) the fast and furious rate of eliminations on Day 1 (less than 1500 returned for Day 2) would the rate of play slow down? Not to start with anyway, another 300 went bust in the first hour or so.
Things did settle down after that, and we're well in the money with less than 400 left as they start Level 16 after the dinner break.
Colby Burleson, Matt Newcombe & Joseph Salvaggi appear to have 3 of the biggest stacks, but it's difficult to follow all the chip counts with this many players still left in.
What we can say is that the following players have gone out today - Andy Bloch, Matt Glantz, Jonathan Tamayo, James Atkin, Scotty Nguyen, Kyle Julius, Layne Flack etc.
They're playing to the end of Level 18 tonight (so 3 more hours)
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries
A title prize pool of $1.75 million and a first prize of $323K, update to come later
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - Late Reg still open
Full update to come later
To Start Today
Jun 2nd
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed
WSOP7 - $1,500 Razz - 352 entrants
This who wanted Phil Hellmuth to claim his 14th bracelet will have to wait a little longer as he was out-lasted by Ted Forrest who duly collected his 6th WSOP bracelet.
After he took the lead, Forrest slowly strangled Hellmuth by getting more value when he had decent hands than Hellmuth did, and delivered the fatal blow when he made a 9 low to beat Hellmuth's 10 low
Plenty of stereotypical chuntering from the Poker Brat but no major blow ups thankfully, and he was for once a gracious loser.
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries
They're definitely not going to finish this off on day 3 as planned; play slowed up in the evening and they'll come back for Day 3 with 178 players.
Andrew Teng is the leading Brit in 20th place, Scott O'Reilly is 59th and Rhys Jones 94th. Sean Prendiville represents Ireland and he's inside the top 10 but the chip leaders are Bulgarian Yuliyan Kolev & American Jonathan Dimmig. Kolev is an occasional live casher (10 Hendon Mob "Flags") and 2 small WSOP cashes while Dimmig only has a few cashes to his record, totalling $34K.
Not too many well known players remain in contention for the $1.3m, but the likes of Dwyte Pilgrim, John Racener, Chris Klodnicki & last year November Niner Amir Lehavot still harbour a dream.
Humberto Brenes made his fourth cash of the series already by making 316th place.
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries
In the cash by the end of Day 1, with 161 players making Day 2, led by Texan Adam Geyer with almost twice as many chips as his nearest challenger, local Ryan Jaconetti. Najib Kamand leads the GB challenge in 31st while Idris Drief will return with a short stack.
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 178 entrants
The "Big boys" version of the Omaha Hi-Low bracelet, unfortunately played as a "limit game" rather than "pot limit".
Anyway it has attracted the sort of field you would expect for a $10K event, whatever the varient of poker being played.
111 of the 178 players will come back for Day 2, with Dan Kelly top of the chip counts overnight. He bagged up 146K, just 2K ahead of second placed Jeff Williams.
Lots of big names in contention - Elezra, Negreanu, Selbst etc. with 3 Brits, agian the sort of names you would expect really - Richard Ashby, Stephen Chidwick & Matthew Ashton.
Those who no longer have any chips include Mike Matusow, Phul Ivey, Chris Tryba & David Benyamine as well as James Dempsey who if he isn't careful will have to another interview with Tikay in much the same mood as last year.
To Start Today
Jun 2nd
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries
The end of Day 3 and we have a final table, and we have a British player on it! Andrew Teng has made his 2nd career WSOP FT and lies 3rd in chips. Teng, who won a recent GUKPT in Edinburgh has 4m chips (someway behind the leader Stephen Graner's 12m) and has already guaranteed $128K, the biggest of his 3 6-figure dollar paydays so far. Only 7th placed American Maurice Hawkins has more lifetime live earnings, headed up by the over $180K he won in a WSOP circuit event back in February.
Play will resume at 1:00pm Vegas time and it will have to be channel 861 on the TV and the WSOP live stream on the laptop to see if Teng can bring home the bracelet and over $1.3m first prize
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries
Already in the money at the start of Day 2, the 10 levels have reduced the field from 161 to 12 who will come back for Day 3. Frank Patti has come from being a short stack to the chip leader in a very short time at the end of the evening, winning two huge pots and he goes in the final day with a stack of 1.2m with only Jorge Vergara anywhere close (1.1m with the next stack on 687K).
No "big names" remain in the running, and no UK players either unfortunately as both Idris Kaeef & Najib Kamand departed early for scores in the $2K-$3K range.
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 178 entrants
No big names in Event 9 but plenty in Event 10 as this one also reaches the end of Day 2 with this time 18 players still involved.
Russian Viatcheslav Ortynskiy is the man with the most chips but 3 of the Top 5 are bracelet winners - Eli Elezra (2nd), Dan Kelly (5th) and pleasingly Richard Ashby (4th). Perry Friedman (another former bracelet winner), Jeff Lisandro (multiple bracelet winner) and Brock Parker (final table in the Event 7, the Razz) are among the short stacks.
We also have two female players still in contention - Shirley Rosario & Melissa Burr.
The min cash (that all 18 players have locked up) is $23,742 while the first prize is just over $443K
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
The only event to start today was a $1500 6-max, which attracted 1587 entrants of which (as near as makes no difference) 8.5% have retained an interest in the event for Day 2 and the near $450K first prize (and of course the bracelet).
No full end-of-day chip counts available yet, so there will need to be an update later but the latest data I can see indicates that at least two British players, Rhys Jones & Niall Farrell still have chips.
The field for this one was up nearly 50% on the corresponding event last year which is a very good sign.
To Start Today
Jun 3rd
WSOP12 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Anyway, it looks like I was right about Rhys Jones having chips (he lies in 33rd position) but incorrect about Niall Farrell who doesn't appear on the Day2 startlist. Circuit grinder Stephen Hensley has the most chips with Nicholas Immekus (who had a decent run in last years ME) in second. Others in contention include Noah Schwartz, Olivier Busquet, Will Failla, Jeff Madsen & former November niner Russell Thomas.
Richard Ashby finished as runner-up in the $10K Limit Omaha High/Low and
Andrew Teng had to settle for 4th in the Millionaire Maker
Full reports to follow when all the events are done for the day
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries
The Millionaire Maker ended with 31 year old Jonathan Dimmig emerging victorious from the final table after going in as one of the short stacks. His heads-up opponent, Jeffery Coburn was also in the bottom half of the field at the start of the day while huge chip leader Stephen Graner lost a big pot in the 4th hand of the day and never really recovered and finished 6th.
The British representative, Andrew Teng, grinded a short/medium stack for hours but was knocked out in 4th for over $465K, by far his biggest live score.
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries
With the Millionaire Maker and the 10K Omaha both going on at the same time, this one sort of got lost in the mix, but will be fondly remembered by Jeff Smith who got the better of Danny Nguyen heads-up.
It took 138 hands to go from nine players to two, but 164 more (and three hours) for the heads-up match.
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 178 entrants
As I wrote earlier, so close and yet so far. Richard "Chufty" Ashby already has one bracelet from years past, and had an excellent chance to make it two but couldn't quiet get the job done as Brock Parker ran well when he needed to and took his 3rd bracelet and over $443K. Parker had already final tabled the 10K Razz a couple of days ago and now takes the very early lead in the Player of The Year competition. Ashby takes $274K for his efforts.
Two female players made the final table - Melissa Burr (8th) & Shirley Rosario (4th)
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
The plan was to get down to a 6-handed final table, but a very slow last level where no eliminations at all took place means that instead 10 players will come back for Day 3.
8 Americans, led by Mike Sowers (1.4m), Justin Bonomo (1.2m) and Taylor Paur (1.1m) are still in, along with 2 Germans (Sebasatian Pauli & Frank Debus) who both have short stacks. Basic maths will tell you that this means there are no UK survivors. Neil Busher was the best of the bunch (42nd, $7498) while Chun Law & Rhys Jones finished 92nd & 93rd for $3492 each.
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
Not No Limit as I implied yesterday, and you can tell by the number of entrants - way down on what it would have been for a No Limit $1500 event.
Sixty nine move through to Day 2, with two players over the 100K chip mark, Americans David Martirosyan & Matthew Damadeo with no-one else over 80K.
Joseph Cheong is close enough in 5th with another former November Niner Phil Collins inside the top thirty. Phil Ivey (again of course an ex-November Niner), Ryan Riess (not just a November Niner, but last years ME champion), Tony Gregg (last years One Drop winner) and Marvin Rettenmaier are also still involved, along with three British players - Dominic Rossookh, Kevin Allen and the venerable Barny Boatman.
63 will get paid so the bubble will burst very early on Day 2.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
The latest of the "Championship" events saw the smallest field yet, a mere 87 players of whom 36 remain (14 will get paid).
As a result, a lot of familiar names lie high up on the chip counts, with Jennifer Harman currently in the lead from John Juanda & Shawn Sheikhan. The likes of Rast, Negreanu, Ballade, Lisandro, Deeb, Mercier, Mizrachi, Hellmuth, Greenstein, Porter & Schulman remain, along with Adam Owen who the WSOP says is from Folkestone, but Folkestone in Estonia (!?!). The only Adam Owen in the Hendon Mob Database is from England but only has live cashes for a grand total of less than $6K so if it is the same guy this he is holding his own in a level far above what he has on his live record so far.
To Start Today
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
A comparitively quiet day with just 1 final table scheduled and only 4 events in play
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
After a slow last level on Day, action ensued thick and fast on Day 3. We lost Frank Debus on the very first hand of the day and three more quick eliminations gave us a final table.
61 hands was all it took to get from 6 players to 2, but the heads-up match lasted exactly 100 hands, and at the end of the day it was Justin Bonomo who emerged victorious. Bonomo claimed his first bracelet and the $449K prize a few days after he had got to the heads up in the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw.
Overnight chip leader Mike Sowers ended up in 2nd, with Daniel Strelitz in 3rd
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
The final table commenced early as 90 minutes of nine-handed play occured late on Day 2, and we're down to 8 for Day 3 as Phil Collins went out when his Queens ran into Gregory Kolo's Kings and he hit the rail like all the other former November Niners mentioned yesterday.
Kolo now has the chip lead ahead of Kazuhito Oshima and Daniel Goldman.
Dominic Rossookh finished in 19th for just over $5k while Kevin Allen min-cashed in 62nd for $2443
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
The field has been reduced to 7 for the final table. Six of the seven are bracelet holders, yet it is the only non-bracelet holder Paul Volpe who has the advantage heading into Day 3.
Volpe has 783K chips ahead of Jason Mercier's 469K, with the rest of the FT being made up of (in chip order) Daniel Negreanu, Brian Rast, Larry Wright, John Monnette & Abe Mosseri
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
The only event to start today and we have what might be the biggest field for Omaha Hi/Low in WSOP history. (Last years field was 1014).
220 come back for day 2 headed by Kai Raichura ahead of Konstantin Puchkov with among those still in contention Eric Baldwin, brothers Robert & Michael Mizrachi, George Danzer, Phill Ivey, Frank Kassela, Erik Seidel, Perry Green, John Racener, Kelly Kim, Dan Kelly, Marcel Luske, John Cernuto and last year's winner Calen McNeil.
British players remaining - Matthew Ashton, Stephen Chidwick, John Kabbaj, Stuart Rutter, Seb Saffari
To start today
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Just a quick question you may know the answer to
I am going to Vegas on 8th June and wonder if you are allowed to rail any other events at the Rio.
I'll take the liberty of replying on FCHD's behalf.
Yes, you can rail any & all events at The Rio, though you are, literaly, "railing", as you have to stand behind a barrier.
However, all spectators are obliged to leave the Arenas (there are 3, Amazon, Brasilia, & Palma) 10 minutes before each break, & not allowed allowed to return until play resumes.
I shall try to get over there just to see what its like
Goodluck ev1 playing there at the minute
Pat
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
Gregory Kolo came in to the final table as the chip leader, and that's the way it stayed for most of the day.
After taking 38 hands for the first of the 8 remaining players to be eliminated, but only 36 for the rest of the tournament to play out as the speed of play speeded up with what looked like some very questionable calls pre-flop (but this is a Limit event so ranges will be a little bit different to a No Limit event)
Kolo won $169K to go with his first bracelet, Kazu Oshima took home $104K for second and Dean Bui $74K for third.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
What do you expect to happen when 6 of the 7 players on a final table are already bracelet holders? Yep, the other player is the one who takes it down.
Paul Volpe collected all the chips to win Event 13 and over a quarter of a million dollars beating Daniel Negreanu heads-up, denying Kid Poker what would have been his 7th bracelet.
Jason Mercier finished 3rd, Brian Rast 4th and Larry Wright (who has now cashed in this elite event 3 years in a row) was 5th.
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
Down from 220 to 26 on Day 2 and unfortunately the nearest thing to a British player is that Frenchman-in-London who seems to be having a really good series, Alexandre Luneau. He sits third in a field headed by Daniel Hirleman from James Bucci in 2nd.
Defending champion Calen McNeil is still in the race for the $ first prize, along with former ME winner Greg Raymer.
At least we have some GB cashes to report - Stuart Rutter was eliminated in 39th for $6K, the ominpresent Stephen Chidwick was 72nd for $3.9K and John Kabbaj and Matthew Ashton also finished in the money.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
With the large increases in player numbers among the "smaller" events, the field sizes in the medium events are pretty much on a par with last year (this one showing a 3 player increase). What implications this has for the ME field we don't know yet.
Brandon Cantu has already been fairly visible this series, and he ends Day 1 of Event 15 with the chip lead, and a decent lead at that with 40% more chips than his nearest opponent Barry Hutter.
Norwegian pro Andreas Hoivold who I'm sure a lot of you will have seen on various TV cash games is third, with Michael Mizrachi, Will Failla, Phil Hellmuth, Jesse Sylvia and Eric Baldwin among the top half of the gross of players who will return for Day 2.
Brits still in - Seb Saffari, Paul Newey (recently of the Sky Poker cash game) and Artem Kobylynskyi (thanks to whoever invented cut & paste for that one).
I don't normally try and lift too much direct from the PokerNews feeds, but have to mention the story of Chris Molica who departed on the very first hand (getting it all in pre-flop with AQ!) and "spent more time walking to the exit than he did in the tournament".
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
After 10 levels 348 have become 54 with Canadian Mike Leah top of the shop just ahead of Brian Tate and "Captain" Tom Franklin.
Jason Mercier (fresh from his earlier final table in Event 13) is in the top 10 with Layne Flack, Todd Brunson, Joe Cheong, Dan Kelly and one of the David Bakers still playing along with the sole British representative, Stephen Chidwick (I told you he was omnipresent)
To start today
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
Event 14 is done and dusted and the winner is Nick Kost. He came in with a little over $15K in live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob, but increased that tally by over $283K with this win. He beat Day 1 big stack Kal Raichura heads-up, with defending champion Calen McNeil making a valiant effort to repeat, but he departed in 4th. Another notable name on the final table was former ME champion Greg "Fossilman" Raymer who was knocked out in seventh.
As mentioned yesterday, the best British performance was that of 861 analyst Stuart Rutter in 39th.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
15 players have made Day 3 of the 6-max. Five European nations ares still represented but unfortunately the UK is not amongst them. Heinz Kamutzki of Austria leads from Davidi Kitai of Belgium, with players from Russia (Vladimir Geshkenbein), Ukraine and Bosnia still in contention for the bracelet and $x first prize.
Nine of the other 10 players come from the US, with the other one being Phil Hellmuth who appears to be from a planet of his own somewhere out there in the galaxy. Hellmuth made this event his 102nd WSOP cash extending his already large lead in that category.
Only one of three British players who made Day 2 ended up "in the money", Sebastian Saffari who finished 35th for a little over $10K.
Other cashers included the last woman standing in last year's Main Event, Jackie Glazier, Brandon Cantu (who got the worst of confrontations with Hellmuth for the second time in a few days), Matt Jarvis, recent bracelet winner Paul Volpe, Andreas Hoivold, Michael Mizrachi and Jesse Sylvia
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
We're down to a final table of 8 and it's Captain Tom Franklin who holds a small lead over nearest challenger David Bell. Franklin won his only bracelet as far back as 1999.
Stephen Chidwick (it wouldn't be an FCHD WSOP update without at least one Chidwick mention) was best of the UK players in 24th, the only one to cash. Othe cashers included Todd Brunson, Layne Flack and Dan Kelly.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
A huge field as expected, last years record entry of 4406 was beaten by 19 players to set a new high mark.
468 will get paid, and we're almost there with 486 and some familiar UK names amongst them - Barny Boatman, Peter Costa and Philip Ford. Simon Trumper is still in but shown as from "Nottinguam, Georgia"
Ronald Broadway is the chip leader with among those in close contention is TV cash game veteran Sammy Farha, and Marcee Topp who had a deep run in the ME a few years ago after getting in for very cheap and had the time of her life on the feature table with November niners Sam Holden & Rob Salaburu.
Nice to see that there are plenty of other female players in contention too
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants
This is apparently the first time there's been a $10K Razz event on the WSOP schedule and the 112 players who coughed up the entry fee is up on what the powers that be anticipated.
Ten levels of play have only reduced the field from 112 to 76 with up-and-coming German player Thomas Butzhammer king of the castle after Day 1 with only Todd Dakake close in chips.
Still in with a decent stack - Brian Hastings, Dan Shak, Brandon Cantu, Brandon Shack-Harris, Matt Glantz, Daniel Negreanu, Justin Bonomo and someone whose name I've forgotten. Oh yes, it's Stephen Chidwick.
Medium sized stacks - Jason Mericer, Stuart Rutter, Paul Volpe, Barry Greenstien, Matthew Ashton, Hoyt Corkins, Ted Forrest, Doyle Brunson etc.
Need a raipd double up - Brock Parker, Chris Klodnicki, Brian Townsend, Tom Schneider & Scott Siever.
To start today
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout
Loving your work on this thread, Cornwall Bloke, thank you very much.
What a player Mr Chidwick must be, eh?
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
Two players, Davidi Kitai and Gordon Vayo will have to return for an unscheduled Day 4 after both players agreed to call it a day at 2:10am having fairly even chip stacks.
They are already guaranteed $314K and evidently decided that to play for the $204K prize jump and the gold bracelet that they would rather do it refreshed than carry on through the small hours.
Phil Hellmuth busted in 8th so was just unable to add to his Final Tables tally.
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
This one has ended on time, and it's Todd Bui who came in to the final table as one of the short stacks but grinded throughout the day and eventually collected the first prize of $124K and of course the bracelet. "Captain" Tom Franklin was runner-up with another former bracelet winner Aaron Steury 5th.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester who returns with a relatively small stack but at least he has chips, unlike Barny Boatman and Simon Trumper who unfortunately departed during Day 2, each collecting $3504 for their efforts. Richard Hodgkins and John Murray collected just under $3K, Derek Miller $2270 and Philip Ford $1991. There must have been more British players than I reported yesterday lurking in the end of Day 1 chip counts.
One other name I see in the cashers list is Barbara Enright, still the only female player to make the ME final table and now co-holder of the record number of bracelets won by a woman (3).
Enough of those who are out, Kevin DeTienne from the state capital of Montana (Helena to stop you having to look it up) has the chip lead, and a decent lead it is. Michael Wilson and Mitchell Lehman are 2nd and 3rd overnight with former November Niner Dennis Phillips lurking inside the top 10.
It looks like there is just one lady left - 17th placed Deborah Phillips, don't know if she is any relation to Dennis
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants
Exactly five score (as Tikay may say) have been knocked out of the $10K Razz leaving a round dozen to progress to Day 3.
Former HORSE winner David Bach leads with Daniel Negreanu (who has made an excellent start in his bid to retain the Player of the Year epithet) in third. However, if the player in 2nd overnight wins it everyone else will have a huge wall to climb if they want to be Player of the Year as it is Brandon Shack-Harris, already winner of a bracelet in Event 3.
Dan O'Brien lies 4th with vocal German George Danzer in 6th. Event 13 winner Paul Volpe was the last player eliminated on Day finishing 13th.
First prize for this event will be almost $295K
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH - 2086 entrants
The seat draw for Day 2 shows 233 players who have battled through 10 levels of fast and furious play on Day 1 meaning we are 17 off the money.
Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!
Players marked as British still in contention - Artem Kobylynskyi, Ian Woodley, Gareth Teatum, Adrian McGreevy, Max Silver, Daniel Tighe, Darren Judges, ex-Sky analys Carlo Citrone and Joe Laming making this one of the best GB showings (in depth at least) so far this Series.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
One of the tables is still in action so an update on this one will have to wait a little while.
To start today
Jun 8th
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE
And yes, I know I've failed. Not a single Stephen Chidwick mention anywhere :-(
thanks for all your efforts again this year, fchd.
ps. let's hope that there are no "interfering neighbours" this year who seek to diminish the worth of your contribution.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
Update now that Day 1 is complete:
Forty players have won their day 1 tables and will come back for a short shift on Day 2 as it is comprised of 10 4-handed tables where the winner of each table will make the 10-handed unofficial final table at the start of Day 3.
Two Brits qualified - Jake Cody & Tamer Kamel, along with Ireland's Nicholas Abourisk and a sprinkling of well-known players - Faraz Jaka, Noah Bronstein, Phil Galfond, Jonathan Jaffee, Erik Seidel, Humberton Brenes and last year's Main Event 4th placed finisher Sylvain Loosli. A pair of brothers also are still in contention - well known Canadian pro Sorel Mizzi and his less-well known brother Marcus. Daniel Alaei won the 40th and final table to finish at about half past four in the morning. Each remaining player has locked up $7815, to ladder up they'll have to win their table when they'll the guaranteed over $16K
Loving your style, Cornwall.
"....Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!....."
"....WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester...."
Peter lives in Las Vegas these days, after marrying a local girl a few years back, but originally, as you note, from Leicester.
If you look him up on THM, you'll see that "back in the day", from around 2001 to 2004, he almost owned Live Poker, with a string of very impressive results in Las Vegas, Australia & Europe.
Many of the SPT regulars will have met Maria "Chili" Demetriou, she is Peter's neice.
Peter used to play with Thewy, Maria & myself @ Gala Notts, & he used to do this amazing trick of playing poker "no-look". He would not look at his cards during a hand, but could still outplay most players. He could also name, with great accuracy, his opponents cards, which he did repeatedly.
Here's Peter, in a photo I took yersterday.
Good luck today, Pete.
Couple more photos from yesterday.