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Jun 7th
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
At least Davidi Kitai and Gordon Vayo made it worthwhile coming back for a Day 4, it taking 63 more heads-up hands before Davidi Kitai claimed his third braclet and the $508K first prize
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
One of the more experienced players (seems daft to say that in a Seniors event), Dan Heimiller collected his second bracelet and took his lifetime earnings towards 5 million dollars.
Donald Mass was the losing heads-up player, with former November Niner Dennis Phillips having to settle for fifth.
Peter Costa was the first player eliminated on Day 3, finishing 32nd place and collecting $15730
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants
So close and so far for Brandon Shack-Harris and his quest to claim a second bracelet within a fortnight, he made it through to the Heads-up match with German George Danzer, but it was the latter who prevailed and collected his first bracelet and nearly $295K.
Daniel Negreanu battled long and hard but was knocked out in 10th, with Razz regular David Bach following Negreanu to the rail two places later.
No British players cashed in ths event, the largest buy-in Razz event in WSOP history.
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH - 2086 entrants
We did get some British cashers in this event however, with Max Silver lasting the longest (he was the last elimination of Day 2 finishing in 13th place and earning a payday of $23K. Others in the cash list with a Union Flag next to their name - Ka Kwan Lau (92nd), Ian Woodley (106th), Darren Judges (135th), Adrian McGreevy (140th), Artem Kobylynskyi (156th) and a batch of min-cashers (Carlo Citrone, David Tighe, Joe Laming & Gareth Teatum)
12 players are still in with Hiren Patel top of the chips overnight ahead of Mustapha Kanit and Ted Gillis.
The best known player still in contention is John Hennigan who has won 2 Bracelets plus a non-bracelet charity event at the 2008 WSOP.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
It looked for half the day that we might get either Jake Cody or Tamer Kamel through to Day 3, but they went out one after the other in 23rd and 24th spots both unable to win their 4-handed Day 2 table
The ten players who did win their tables will reconvene for Day 3 and play for the bracelet and top prize of over a quarter of a million dollars with two bracelet holders still in contention - Phil Galfond & Taylor Paur.
Neither Mizzi brother made it, nor did Humberto Brenes, Erik Seidel or Sylvain Loosli.
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH - 2043 entrants
The regular weekend $1K Hold'em event this time saw 2043 players put up the cash and enter the tournament with the same dream.
The money bubble was burst early on in the last level with 216 players originally supposed to cash but this was increased to 217 when two players shared the bubble boy spot and splitting 216th placed money.
David D'Alessandro has a fairly decent overnight chip lead but inside the top 20 are players of the calibre of Soi Nguyen, Erik Seidel, Dominik Nitsche & last years November Niner JC Tran.
For the British contingent, David Burt lies 23rd, Sunny Chattha 30th, Charles Denton 66th, Mike Ellis 126th, David Tarbet 129th and John Murray 155th.
Derek Miller & Paul Newey have already stood in the cash-out line to collect their min-cashes of $1875
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE - 200 entrants
Exactly 200 players attempted to win the mixed variant event 22, for the first time a number I think the WSOP found a little disappointing.
Plenty of bracelet winners among them as you would expect, including several of this years winners. Three (Tuan Lee, Brock Parker & Dan Heimiller who only won his earlier in the day) are still in the mix, along with players like Jeff Madsen (who is overnight chip leader), Greg Mueller, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey & Daniel Negreanu.
Full chip counts not available yet, but I have noticed a couple of UK players apparently still going strong - Richard Ashby & mentioned-on-last-nights-show-on-861 Zimnan Ziyard.
Not so lucky - Vanessa Selbst, Scott Siever, defending HORSE champion Tom Schneider and Stephen Chidwick (no Chidwick reports yesterday, and only the last player mentioned today. What's going wrong?)
To start today
Jun 9th
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH
Have to commend you on this thread.
Without doubt the most professionally written thread on the forum.
Informative, easy to read and written in a lovely natural style.
Look forward to it everyday.
Jun 9th
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH - 2086 entrants
No UK players in the final 12, and it was a relative underdog, Ted Gillis who won the first prize of $514K and the gold bracelet. That puts his previous lifetime earnings of a little over $10K into perspective.
Double bracelet holder John Hennigan was the runner-up for $319,993 (couldn't they just have added the $7?) with Dejan Divkovic in 3rd.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
With the 10 players on the FT all having virtually identical stacks, it was likely that it would take some time to eliminate the first few players but I didn't think it would be quite as long as it was. When I went to bed it was still 10-handed, when I got up they had only busted one player to make it a 9-man table.
Luckily things sped up a little after that, and in the end Kory Kilpatrick was the winner and took home the jewellry and over $254K.
Eric Wasseron was the second placed finisher after getting lucky several times (at least the hands that the WSOP live stream was working properly for) and Noah Bronstein 3rd.
Previous WSOP bracelet winners Chris Bell, Phil Galfond & Taylor Paur went out 5th, 6th & 7th.
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH - 2043 entrants
Sixteen players have made Day 3 and it is a former November Niner Bob Bounahra who holds the chip lead. Bounahra, who finished 7th in the 2011 ME leads several accomplished players in the race for the bracelet and more than $300K first prize.
Thayer Rasmussen & Dominik Nitsche are 2nd and 3rd and others in contention include Jeff Gross, Mickey Peterson & David D'Alessandro, making this Day 3 a little more stacked than the average WSOP $1000 event.
The field still includes one Brit, David Burt from Boston who lies 10th with a just-over-half-average stack.
Other GB cashers who busted on Day 2 - Mike Ellis (55th, $4670), John Murray (61st, also $4670), Sunny Chattha (68th, $3962) and David Tarbet & Charles Denton (116th and 132rd, $2289 each)
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE - 200 entrants
The Horse event galloped on with the field reduced to 21 players overnight.
Tommy Hang is at the head of the field with the biggest stack, with Watford-native Richard Ashby (who is having a very succesful series so far) a couple of lengths back in third.
Plenty of other bracelet winners cantering through to Day 3 including Justin Bonomo (who only won his a few days ago), Daniel Negreanu, triple-crown winner Bertand Grospellier and Nick Schulman, plus Randy Ohel who is the player separating Hang and Ashby at the top.
Jeff Lisandro and Jeff Madsen both fell at the biggest fence on the course, the money bubble and other fallers before the cash include Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Zimnan Ziyard
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH - 1473 entrants
And when the WSOP say Turbo they mean Turbo!
1464 of the players said goodbye to their chances inside Day 1, leaving a final table of 9 to progress to Day 2.
Well known on-line player Doug Polk who already has 3 6-figure scores in 2014 has the chip lead, ahead of Andy Philachack who also has over a million in lifetime earnings, three quarters of which is made up of 2nd & 3rd places finishes in previous World Series.
Next on the list is Liam Alcock, who according to the WSOP is from Rotherham, and according to Hendon Mob has a grand total of $0 in lifetime earnings, just a couple of mentions of finishing positions in events at a Festival Of Pub Poker. If this is the same guy it is a major step up as he is now guaranteed a minimum of $17K. It's not been easy to track him as PokerNews' updates are calling him Liam Allock, presumably to get around their ultra-sensitive profanity filter.
Rhys Jones & Louis Salter also had deep runs, while Seb Saffari & Jamie Roberts also cashed, along with with the first player I've seen in WSOP reports from Liechtenstein, Michael Allgauer
To start today
Jun 10th
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
Another great update by Cornwall Bloke.
1473 runners, doen to 9, inside ONE DAY? Wowzer!
I'll try & get a photo of Liam Alcock when play resumes, what an achievement by him.
Murray,
Do we know how Liam came to be playing this? Did he win a Satellite or something?
Quite unusual for a "pub poker player" with no reported Live Cashes to be in a $1,000 Event in Vegas.
Be the greatest thing ever if he won it.
Ahh, thanks Murray. I am going to copy that info to another site, (with acknowledgements to you) who are following him with interest.
Just bumped into an acquaintance, who has fiilled me in about Liam & Dave, then I had a chat with Liam.
Incredibly, with Dave in the last 16 of the other event, & Liam in the Turbo Final, the 2 of them are sharing the same room. What a trip for them both.
Liam paid himself in, after winning the "flight & hotel" package in the Pub League Final.
Liam has won a good few bob Online, he tells me, but nothing Live that qualifies or a Database entry.
He is an Accounts Clerk for a frozen food distribution company in Sheffield, apparently.
Best of luck to the pair of them.
David Burt has made the unofficial FT of Event 21 for a minimum of $19K
Also on the table is last year's One Drop winner Tony Gregg. I didn't spot him yesterday as he was listed as Anthony Gregg.
5 left in the Turbo now, including Liam.
And, as FCHD notes, his room-mate is now on the Final Table of the other Event.
Liam now cashing for at least $54K
Can't get an uglier exit than that.
Watch & weep.
Tuchman had been bigging him up on the stream, not knowing the story and assuming that any British player who came all the way to Vegas to play in the WSOP was a decent player who had a good bankroll to be able to do this, and only got a tweet telling him the details before the exit hand.
He only had 3 Queens to hit, too, as there were 3 hearts out, & Liam had the J of hearts.
My bad, need to get my eyes tested.
Richard Ashby only British bracelet hope for today now.
Three Brits made separate final tables, and while none of them were able to win their events, two of them at least will have a fantastic story to tell when they get back home.
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH - 2043 entrants
David Burt, a recreational player from Lincolnshire had a superb run in Event 21 which finished with him making the Final Table. He eventually bust in 9th place, but the $24K prize money will dwarf his previous live cashes (a total of less than $200) and had the experience of a lifetime.
German Dominik Nitsche was the eventual winner taking his 3rd bracelet and over a third of a million dollaars with David D'Alesandro second and former November Niner Bob Bounahra from Belize third.
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE - 200 entrants
No more horse puns, but it was Christopher Wallace from Minnesota who won Event 22, the bracelet and over $507K. Las Vegas locals Randy Ohel and Richard Sklar came 2nd & 3rd with Britain's very own Richard Ashby in 4th. This was Ashby's second final table of the Series and has pushed his lifetime earnings close to $2 million.
Ben Yu was knocked-out in 20th, Daniel Negreanu on 19th, Elky 18th and current Player of the Year leader Justin Bonomo in 15th.
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH - 1473 entrants
You probably know the Liam Alcock story by now. If not, a little recap. Recreational/pub poker player, wins a trip to Vegas, buys in to Event 21, busts and then buys in to Event 23. Without a single live cash to his name on the Hendon Mob database, he goes and makes the final table.
Not only that, he sits still for 20 hands or so and he ladders up four places and only goes out when he gets his chips in good against Doug Polk and loses to a gutshot made on the river. All in all he collects over $54K. As he is rooming with Burt (see above) there must have been some party in that room last night.
Doug Polk put Alcock's chips to good use and won his first WSOP bracelet. One of the highest regarded on-line and live cash game players, Polk took home over a quarter of a million dollars beating Andy Philachack heads-up. It is the third time Philachack has made the last 3 of a bracelet event without winning it.
Last year's One Drop winner Tony Gregg went out in 6th.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Chris Hunichen, who made the FT of Event 9, leads 129 survivors into Day 2. The field of 541 is a 25 player increase on last years field, and the winner will collect a first prize of nearly $623K.
60 players will cash, so they're nowhere near the bubble yet but notables still in contention include Freddy Deeb, Calvin Anderson, Greg Merson, Tom Marchese, Scott Siever, Michael Mizrachi, Sylvain Loosli, JC Tran, Joe Cada, Josh Arieh & Brandon Cantu.
Two (at least) UK players survive - Zimnan Ziyard (with a small stack) and Sunday's Channel 861 guest Martins Adeniya (with a decent stack). He must have picked up a few tips.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
Another event with numbers up on last year. Cameron Tahmasebi, who I can't find on Hendon Mob at all, is the Day 1 chip leader but 138 other players remain in the hunt
GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads - David Tarbet, John Kabbaj, Iaren Lightbourne and Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail).
Others from places other than these shores include Tom Schneider, Matt Glantz, recent bracelet winner George Danzer, John Racener, Humberto Brenes, Mike Matusow, another recent bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst and Erik Seidel
Also still there, in 6th place, is John D'Agostino. He has nearly $2million in lifetime cashes, including WSOP & WPT final tables, but I picked him out because his hometown is listed as "Egg Harbor" which I just had to look up to see how it got it's name. According to Wiki (so take it with a pinch of salt), when the inlet was discovered by a Dutch explorer in 1614, the surrouding meadows were covered with shorebird and waterfowl eggs.
To start today
Jun 11th
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH