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Morning Cornwall.
Loved the Egg Harbor story!
Also....
"....GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads -...... Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail)....."
Robert is indeed from Cornwall, & what a character he is. I see him almost every day here, as he just plays PLO8 & PLO, so we play all the same Tourneys. Except he plays better poker (VERY aggro), & so plays bigger events which I tend to swerve. Look him up, his Database is almost solely results from the 4 card variants.
He is an Online Pro, & has been for years. He generally gets freebie trips to Vegas comped by a particular site.
He'll almost certainly be wearing his England football shirt today.
Next time I see him, I'll ask him exactly where in Cornwall he resides.
Thanks for the Reports, love them, & I hope you don't mind me adding bits & bobs.
Not so sure about a Cornwall person wearing an England shirt though. We're a recognised minority at the same level as the Welsh, Scottish & Irish now you know!
Another of the quieter days in the Series, no final tables and only three tournaments in play
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Seventeen players have made Day 3 of the $5K 6-max, with 2010 November Niner & 2011 bracelet winner Matt Jarvis in the lead. When I saw the Pokernews headline "Jarvis has a massive chip lead" I immediately thought it would be Ross, but alas no.
Jarvis has about 50% more chips than then second placed player and over double the stack of the 3rd man.
The only British connection cash was Sergi Reixach who I believe is Spanish but UK resident, who also cashed at the recent EPT Grand Final. He finished 50th for $9509.
Other players still in include two more Canadians (besides Jarvis), serial WSOP casher Griffin Benger plus short stack Jay Dragland; Kory Kilpatrick (winner of Event 20 a few days ago) and 2012 ME winner Greg Merson
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
139 players returned for Day 2 and 18 survived the ten levels of play with veteran Erik Seidel who holds the chip lead. Mike Leah is in second but just behind in third is John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire. He is the only GB player left in, with David Tarbet the other player from these islands to cash,
Still in - Tom Schneider, Robert Mizrachi (brother of...), Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (the Shulmans haven't been as omnipresent as they were last year) and Konstantin Puchkov.
Mike Matusow was the last player out on Day 2 after throwing a typical wobbly after being given a penalty for excessive celebrating when knocking out Day 1 leader Cameron Tahmasebi
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
Day 1 has been completed with 178 players bagging up chips at the end of the night. Mark Dube had the honour of needing the biggest bag, his 160K chips 20K clear of his nearest challenger, Christopher Symesko who is from a town called Red Deer, Alberta.
Plenty of Brits in good shape with 4 in the Top 50 overnight - Tom Alner (getting a first mention I think) is 13th, Max Silver (who had a decent cash a couple of days ago) 18th, Adam Wilkinson 32nd & Mike Ellis (who won a similar event in 2010) 42nd. Lower down we also have Karim Jomeen, Matthew Davenport & Steven Watts.
Other well-known competitors still looking to win this event include Martin Finger, Soi Nguyen, Brandon Cantu, Nick Schulman, Jude Ainsworth. Oh, and one Phil Hellmuth Jr.
171 will make money so 7 players will return on Day 2 but depart empty handed
To start today
Jun 12th
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Four players remain, with fairly even stacks - Kevin Eyster, Bryn Kenney, Andrew Lichtenberger & Belgian Pierre Neuville.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
This is the one where it gets really interesting. We're down to 3 players, and the big chip leader is... John Kabbaj He has 2.3million chips, with Thomas Keller 2nd with 760K and Chris McHugh bringing up the rear with 425K.
John has one bracelet already to his name from 2009 and lost a heads-up for a bracelet as long ago as 2004 (when Ram Vaswani was 3rd in the same event). He doesn't seem to play as many tournaments as used to (he has loads of cashes from places like the Aviation Club in Paris) but did play the UKPC in February coming 15th in the Main Event.
Updates may be a little out of sync today as I've got to go for a physio session on my shoulder at 10:00 but I'll type things up and post as soon as I can.
Edit: Kabbaj & Keller now heads-up.
John Kabbaj takes it down - full report later..
Really nice to see another stalwart of British poker bag a bracelet as well, not as popular as the Barney Boatman success last year I'd guess, but very well deserved for someone that has certainly put the hours in over the years to warrant these sort of rewards.
Making no apologies for taking events out of order today!
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
The first British bracelet of the series as John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire won his second bracelet and over $267K. Tikay suggested he was a good tip to win from the 17 players who came back for Day 3 in his phone call to the live show last night, and for once he was right!
Several bracelet winners departed the scene in the first few levels of the day (Konstantin Puchkov, Owais Ahmed, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman & Robert Mizrachi). The final table quickly got down to three handed (Erik Seidel falling in 6th), but then slowed down with Kabbaj, Chris McHugh & Thomas Keller going back and forth.
Once McHugh was out in third, Kabbaj had a decent chip lead and quickly used his stack to push Keller around and, within a few hands, out
Kabbaj won his second bracelet (previously he had won the $10K Pot Limit Hold'em in 2009) and his winnings move him to 15th in the English all-time money list.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
After 10 levels of play on Day 3, we're still heads-up in Event 24. Kevin Eyster from the US holds a 5.5m to 2.6m lead over Pierre Neuville who is attempting to be the second Belgian to win a bracelet this Series. Eyster wanted to play on but Neuville declined (as was his right) so they'll come back on Friday to finish the job off.
Well known on-line pro Andrew Lichtenberger was knocked out in 3rd, French pair David Borrat & Fabrice Touil 6th & 8th and previous Main Event winner Greg Merson in 13th.
Sergi Reixach (see yesterday's report) finished in 50th for $9509.
15th placed finisher Mark Darner is from a city called "Winter Park" - an alpine or cross country ski resort? a bobsleigh run? even a ski-jump? No, a city of 30,000 people next to Orlando in Florida where their winters still daily temperatures average 22 degrees C even in January.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
Despite having 6 Brits through to Day 2, with most of them in a decent position, none of them remain amongst the 12 players who will enter Day 3.
Ryan Welch (who won a bracelet four years ago) has an impressive chip lead overnight ahdead of Dan Smith in 2nd, with Reed Goodmiller (who sounds like an anagram to me) in third.
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants
The mixed-game tournaments are proving popular and over 700 players ponied-up for the entry-level HORSE (sorry, lapsed back into the horsey puns there for a moment).
144 remain, with two local Las Vegans top of the shop. One, chip leader Jason Riesenberg, isn't a big name but the other is. Huck Seed, 1996 Main Event Champion, lies second and in an excellent position to challenge for the bracelet and $230K first prize.
Adam Owen is top Brit in 24th with Richard Ashby in 60th the only other remaining.
Also in are the likes of John Monnette, Dutch Boyd, David ODB Baker and another former ME winner, fossilman Greg Raymer.
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Last year the biggest Pot Limit Hold'em was a $5K affair that attracted 195 entries, so the 160 @ 10K was a good result in that respect.
Tony Ruberto is the chip leader but as you would expect in a $10K event, most of the field and most of the 60 remaining players are among the big names - Juanda, Esfandiari, Rheem, Matusow, Seidel, Ivey etc.
2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman is the highest placed UK player, with Oliver Price & Senh Ung (winner of the Asian Championship in Macau last November) the only other Union Flags on the result list.
To start today
Jun 13th
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
BOOM!
I chatted at length with John last night after his victory, fair to say, I've rarely seen a man so chuffed to bits.
And this time, unlike last time, when they disrespectfully played the *ex Pistols "God Save the Queen", he'll get a proper rendition of the National Anthem.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
The bracelet and $408K first prize has gone to Andrew Rennack, after he got the better of Michael Katz heads-up.
They came back for Day 3 with 12 players and quickly moved down to a final table which eventually lasted nearly 200 hands.
The other 8 players will have uttered a sigh of relief as Dan Smith was first man out of the FT, and after that it was Eric Rappaport & Geremy Eiland out in quick succession.
After a lenghty spell of 6-handed play ended with the departure of Heinz Kamutzki, Reed Goodmiller came 5th, Ryan Welsh 4th & Tony Gargano went out 3rd to leave the heads up match
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants
Fifteen mixed-game specialists qualified for Day 3, with unfortunately neither of the British players who made Day 2 amongst them.
Neither are either of the Day 1 chip leaders, Jason Riesenberg or Huck Seed. The Day 2 chip leader is Floridian Kristian Lord in an almost exclusively American field (only Italian Michele Limongi represents the Rest of The World)
Of the 15 players, two relatively well known players remain Dutch Boyd (7th), David ODB Baker (11th)
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Could we be getting ready to go Barny barmy again? 2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman has made the unofficial FT of the $10K Pot Limit event (albeit with the second shortest stack).
Matthew O'Donnell has followed up his Final Table in Event 4 by running deep here, and goes into Day 3 as the chip leader, with bracelet holders and final table participants all around.
Chino Reem is 2nd, Dan Shak 5th and Todd Brunson lies in 8th.
They were due to play down to a proper 9 handed final table but as they got down to 10 with 20 minutes left to play it was agreed to stop there and come back for Day 3 with 10 players.
A hatful of well-known players bust in the last couple of levels - John Juanda went out 15th, Humberto Brenes 14th, Scott Siever 12th & Erik Seidel 11th.
I think I will be watching this on the stream tonight rather than the England v Italy game.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants
1165 is a big drop from last year's equivalent field of 1736, but statistics can mean what you want them to mean - last year's event was right before the Main Event when a lot more of the ME players were in town.
209 players have made it through 10 levels of minefields, and another Floridian, Barry Hutter leads the way.
He leads from Grayson Ramage and Justin Oliver with Welshmen Ben Warrington and Roberto Romanello inside the Top 25. Daniel Laming (though being shown as from Switzerland), Sunny Chattha & Ian Woodley are also still in with a shout for the bracelet and $536K first prize, as are Event 21 final tabler Thayer Rasmussen, Will Failla, Josh Arieh, Matt Affleck, former November Niner David Benefield, Scotty Nguyen etc.
And a question for you - who/what is Phil Campbell? A member of Motörhead, a noted PhD in physics, an American author? Well, yes all of those but also a small town in Alabama (population just over 1000 that is the home town of 11th placed player Jonathan Taylor)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants
The 588 players have contributed to make a total prize pool of just under $800K, with the winner taking home just over $190K.
109 of the 588 will come back to the Rio for Day 2, and just under half (64 to be exact) will get paid.
Jimmy Fricke seems to have been around the WSOP for years, and he will go into Day 2 with a lead from Calvin Anderson & David Brooker.
Not one of the best events for British players - only Sebastian Saffari has made Day 2, and he will return a stack only about a third of the average.
It's been carnage for recent bracelet winners - 2014 WSOP champs Vanessa Selbst, Brandon Shack-Harris, George Danzer & Dan Heimiller were all knokced out on Day 1 with a host of other big names (Ivey, Hellmuth, Negreanu etc.) but still in are Andreas Hoivold, Ylon Schwartz, Matt Glantz, Hoyt Corkins & Ted Forrest
To start today
Jun 14th
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Unfortunately it wasn't to be Deja Vu for Barny Boatman as he was unable to follow up last year's bracelet with another one in this event.
He made the official final table but after tangling with Chino Rheem he ended up with a short stack coming in to the 9-handed play and exited the tournament in 9th place.
Russian pro Alex Bilokur was the eventual winner, earning his first bracelet and nearly $400K to add to his already large career earnings. Bilokur entered the heads-up play with a huge chip deficit, but chipped away at Matt O'Donnell's lead by limping into him on his buttons and forcing the American to make mistakes.
Of the well-known players who made Day 3, Dan Shak went out in 10th, Todd Brunson in 6th and Chino Rheem in 4th
Ultimately disappointing for Barny, but still better watching the live stream than watching the football.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants
A round twenty players progress from Day 2 to Day 3, with California's Jamie Armstrong now leading with previous chip leader Barry Hutton still there or there abouts in second.
Danny Laming (still being shown as from Switzerland) is the only British player in, with former November Niner David Benefield and 2010 PCA winner William Reynolds still in contention too.
Other GB cashers - Ben Warrington (28th, $13K), William Chattaway (showing as from Gabon in the listings which is how I missed him yesterday, 29th $13K) * Roberto Romanello (57th, $8K)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants
We're down to a dozen in the Stud-8, and it's a complete lockout from the American players. Eric Kurtsman in the chip leader from Calvin Anderson who has been up there among the chip leaders from the start.
Melissa Burr represents the ladies in 5th, with Day 1 leader Jimmy Fricke 6th and recent bracelet winner Ted Forrest one place further back
No British cashers to report (in fact only 2 from the entire continent of Europe) in what must be one of Europe's weakest showings so far.
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH - 1631 entrants
Updates have been slow coming through on this event, but we have 187 players coming back on Sunday for Day 2.
Australian players have been relatively quiet so far, but we have one in pole position here - Jason Pritchard. Quite a wide international showing, with players in the top 13 from France, Norway, Germany & the Czech Republic as well as the UK - Peter Gould lies 8th overnight.
Najib Kamand (from "Surrey London" apparently) is in 37th, Benjamin Dobson (from Poole, Dorset which isn't in Canada even if the WSOP thinks it is) 101st, Adam Owen 103rd, Iqbal Ahmed 120th, Jonas Lauck 135th
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed - 264 entrants
Just under a hundred players will return for the 6-Max "Championship" and we have two Brits still amongst the chips.
Max Silver lies 27th with an above average stack and Chris Moorman (recently arrived in Vegas) is below average in 57th.
Russian Leonid Markin is top of the pile after calling a huge bluff from Jonathan Jaffe with pocket aces ahead of Ashton Griffin & Scott Clements.
Former WSOP ME winner Joe Cada is safely ensconced within the Top 10 and lying ominously in 12th place is German High-Roller specialist Philipp Gruissem.
Galen Hall, Josh Arieh, John Racener, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, George Danzer, Brandon Cantu, Brock Parker, JC Tran, Greg Merson & Doug Polk are amongst the other big names in a stacked field.
To start today
WSOP33 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Know it's been said before, & many times, but the effort you put into this thread is really appreciated by many of us.
Well done Cornwall Bloke.
....and talking of Cornwall, we were discussing Robert Price from Cornwall the other day, & I promised to find out where exactly in Cornwall he comes from.
I bumped into him yesterday, & he is from Bude.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants
After a lengthy Day 3, we have a first bracelet for France this year with Pierre Milan taking it down for $536K in addition to the braclet.
2013 bracelet winner Justin Oliver was the defeated heads-up player with Matt Salsberg third.
The WSOP have finally sorted out Danny Laming's nationality and he now has a Union Flag next to his name as it appears in 8th place in the final results listing, his prize being nearly $49K.
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants
Calvin Anderson, who has spent a fair bit of time as the "Pocket Fives" number one online player in the world, has transferred that success to the live arena as he won Event 30 for $190K and the bracelet.
As mentioned yesterday it was an wholly-American afair, with Joe Tehan 2nd & Eric Kurtzman 3rd. Earlier bracelet winner Ted Forrest's bid to be the first 2-time winner this year failed as he was the final-table bubble boy in 9th. (Stud events have an 8-person final table)
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH - 1631 entrants
The best chance of a British bracelet tomorrow? A toss up between this and Event 32. Peter Gould is "our man" in this tournament, lying in 5th place with 15 players returning for Day 3.
Matt Stout picked up the chip lead on the last hand of the night, his pocket 5s being good against Italian Alessandro Bardaro's Jacks with the money going in after the 5-4-2 flop.
Jonas Lauck finished 24th, Iqbal Ahmed 77th, Najib Kamand 104th , Adam Owen 145th
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed - 264 entrants
Thirteen players still in, and the British player in contention is Max Silver. Not only "in contention" but the chip leader!
He has a decent lead (1.27m to 1.05m) from Hiren Patel with a field of big names still there battling on. Former ME champ Joe Cada lies 3rd, ex-November Niners Jeremy Ausmus & JC Tran 5th & 7th, and George Danzer trying to win his second bracelet of the series in 9th.
Add in Layne Flack, Erick Lindgren & Lee Markholt and you can see the extent of the challenge facing Silver.
Chris Moorman busted short of the money.
WSOP33 - $1,000 NLH - 1688 entrants
The midway point of the 65-tournament series has now been reached.
Fast and furious play through eleven levels have seen us well into the money (already on to the third cash level) inside a single day.
Brazilian player Gualter Salles has the chip lead, with Frenchman Sebastien Comel in second. No UK players among the bigger stacks, but Eilor Sion and Niall Farrell are still holding on but will need a double-up fairly quickly as they come back to around 20BB stacks.
Two Brits have already been to the payout cage - James Sudworth (142nd, $2187) and Andrew Bradshaw (160th, $2005)
Of those who have been knocked out, Phil Ivey was busted on the very first hand he played after late registering, our own Ross Jarvis got to about Level 5 without really getting going and then running Jacks into both Kings and Aces to depart the scene.
Another star name, but from another sphere, Borussia Mönchengladbach striker Max Kruse failed to gain selection for the German World Cup team so he popped over to Vegas to play in the WSOP. Unfortunately, he busted during Day 1.
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud - 345 entrants
Probably the WSOP event I'd most like to play.
Stephen Chidwick has been absent from these updates for too long (several days at least!) but he's back as one of 60 survivors who return for Day 2.
He has about an average stack, with the chip leader, Steve Sung on more than double that number.
"Name pros" Brian Hastings, John D'Agostino, Cyndy Viollete, Marcel Luske, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak & Barry Greenstein are still involved, as is British player Andrew Lam and Aussie-resident-in-London Mel Judah.
One more player to mention, just inside the top ten, is Carolyn Gardner, who I exepct will be a new name for many of you, but she won the WSOP Ladies event all the way back in 1983 when that was a stud tournament.
To start today
WSOP35 - $5,000 NLH 8-handed
WSOP36 - $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Another two fantastic deep runs by British players, but unfortunately they both came up a little short in regards to wining the bracelets.
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH - 1631 entrants
The day began with Peter Gould in 5th place of the 15 returning players, and he eventually improved on that by one spot as he was knocked out in 4th place, collecting over $122K to bring his lifetime total cashes to close to a million dollars.
It was Brett Shaffer who would go on to win the event (following up a win in a similar event last year), beating RJ Sullivan heads-up and collecting $418K and of course the gold bracelet.
Day 2 chip leader Matt Stout went out in third.
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed - 264 entrants
Joe Cada has finally got his hands on his second bracelet. After making it heads-up in an event in 2012 and losing, and two top 4 finishes last year, he took down Event 32 and the $670K first prize. Very few WSOP ME winners go on to win a bracelet after their big win.
Jeremy Ausmus was also looking to join the 2-bracelet club (he won the PLO at the 2013 WSOP Europe and made the ME final table in 2012) but after 35 hands of to-ing and fro-ing heads up, but Cada won a huge flip for 93% of the chips in play and despite Ausmus doubling up once it was not enough as Cada finished the job a few hands later.
Overnight chip leader, Britain's Max Silver has had a good last week (three cashes) and the former EPT London winner finished third and boosted his earnings by over $273K.
WSOP33 - $1,000 NLH - 1688 entrants
Ten players will come back for Day 3 to battle for the bracelet, the honour of being a WSOP champion and over $288K.
They will be headed by Will Givens, one of 9 Americans in the final 10 (only Frenchman Gabriel Nassif breaks the US dominance).
Dutch Boyd is the biggest name player still left (in 3rd), perfect for a bit of self-promotion with a new book coming out shortly.
Elior Sion ended up as Best Of The Brits in 91st place ($2628), beating Niall Farrell (114th, $2369)
Of those who went out, day 1 chip leader Gualter Salles (who I've since discovered was a pretty good racing driver) ended up 31st, while Martin Finger departed in 17th despite having both a Royal Flush and a Straight Flush during the day.
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud - 345 entrants
Two Russians take on four Americans at the final table of the Stud. Alekdsandr Denisov (1st) & Alex Kravchenko (5th) from Russia come up against William Thompson, Bryn Kenney, Eric Buchman & Nabih Helmi (2nd/3rd/4th/6th respectively) from the host nation
That means two November Niners (Kravchenko, 2007 & Buchman 2009) are still alive.
Daniel Negreanu is having a consistent but not spectacular (by his standards) and finished 10th; Carolyn Gardner (see yesterday's post) 15th & Phil Laak 19th.
Andrew Lam was the only genuine British casher, in 21st ($3586) while Aussie-in-London Mel Judah finished 26th for a shade over $3K
WSOP35 - $5,000 NLH 8-handed - 550 entrants
Scheduled to be one of the few 4-day events, the 550 entrants was an increase of 69 on last year's tally so the winner will collect over $633K.
It's a familiar name to us at the top, the former Sky Poker UKPC ambassador Sam Trickett has $172K with nearest challenger Josh Arieh on $151K.
Matthew Davenport also sits inside the top 10 with a six-figure stack, while there are several other UK players also still in - in chip order, Stephen Chidwick, Craig McCorkell, Steven Watts, Senh Ung, Ben Warrington, Michael Hill, Mark Teltscher & Charles Chatta.
Other "name" players who will still be trying to topple Tricket include Jeff Madsen, Chris Tryba, John Juanda, Jason Somerville, Sylvain Loosli, Eric Baldwin, Mike McDonald, Jonathan Duhamel & Vanessa Selbst.
This one looks like it is going to be a cracker.
WSOP36 - $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 241 entrants
By contrast, the lower buy-in deuce-seven game has only attracted 241 entrants with 38 moving forward to Day 2
Still we have two well-known players in the top two places - Brian Rast & Joseph Cheong with Phil Hellmuth (after busting the 8-max earlier) in 11th, along with Eli Elezra, John Racener, Chino Rheem, Chris Klodnicki etc. still having chips.
That list includes a grand total of zero British players.
Ten more eliminations on Day 2 will mean the remaining 28 will be in the money with Hellmuth looking to add to his record tally of over 100 WSOP money finishes.
To start today
WSOP37 - $1,500 PLO
WSOP38 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
Morning all.
Not exactly "WSOP" news, but as most of you know, during the WSOP, there are "Daily Deepstacks" in The Rio, the biggie being the daily 2pm, which costs $235 to enter.
Yesterday's renewal attracted 902 entries, & I spotted this Gent @ midnight with a huge stack when there were only 50 left. Think he had double or treble average @ the time.
It is, as most of you know, Ian Senior, aka "macmonster" who only arrived yesteday, I think.
No idea how he got on, but I very much hope he got a top 3 finish.
Cheers
Never one to be far away from the spotlight, the controversial character that is Dutch Boyd picked up his third bracelet in the $1K Hold'em Event 33.
It took 154 hands to from an unofficual 10-handed final table through the official FT, and the heads-up for Boyd to beat comparitive newcomer Steven Norden.
Pok Kim held up the honours for the ladies coming 5th, while the only non-American at the final table, Frenchman Gabriel Nassif went out in cruel fashion losing full-house over full-house.
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud - 345 entrants
I mentioned yesterday that two former November niners were still alive, and they ended up fighting it out for the bracelet.
Eric Buchman (2009 November Nine) got the better of Alex Kravchenko (2007 November Nine). Buchman collected his second WSOP bracelet, and comes one day after fellow 2009 November Niner (and eventual champ) Joe Cada took his second bracelet.
Buchman wins $118K for his first place, with Kravchenko taking $73K for second and fellow-Russuian Aleksandr Denisov $47K for third.
WSOP35 - $5,000 NLH 8-handed - 550 entrants
Sam Tricket entered the day as chip leader, and while he didn't maintain that lofty position, he is still there-or-there-abouts at the end of Day 2.
Jeff Madsen is the new leader, with Jay Conley & Brian Yoon in close contention.
Matt Davenport was the only other one of the British contingent to surive (in fact he now has more chips than Trickett) so not all the UK eggs are in the Trickett basket.
Twenty three remain, inclduding Josh Arieh, Sylvain Loosli, Tony Cousineau, Dan Smith & Olivier Busquet.
WSOP36 - $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 241 entrants
The Briitsh contingent had departed this event before the end of Day 1, so Day 2 wasn't going to have so much interest from over here as some other events.
The 38 players played down to 6, 3 American players and 3 Europeans. Steven Wolansky from Florida leads, but lying in wait in 3rd is Joseph Cheong
Cheong finished 3rd in the 2010 WSOP ME, has two other second places in bracelet events and already in 2014 has come first twice and second twice in huge events at the Bellagio.
Even Cheong may not generate the most interest at the final table, as in 5th place lies German international striker Max Kruse who was a surprise omission from the German World Cup Squad. Instead of going to Brazil, the Borussia Mönchengladbach player has gone to Vegas and has made a Final Table for his very first live cash (according to Hendon Mob at least!)
Phil Hellmuth did add to his record total of WSOP cashes, finishing 18th for $3471
WSOP37 - $1,500 PLO - 967 entrants
The 967 have become 113 as they made the cash just before the end of the day, with Jeremy Ausmus and Robert Williamson III among the 4 players who have already picked up their prizes from Event 37
Brandon Paster lies in the lead overnight, ahead of Fabrice Soulier & Michael W**g (I can't type his full name, the profanity filter in the forum software won't let me, but to give you a clue it is the same surname as that of Jerry who won the ME a few years ago) in the chase for the bracelet and $264K first prize.
Derek Miller from Accrington is "best Brit" at this point, lying in an impressive 7th place. Other UK players on the overnight chip listing - Martins Adeniya (19th), Jerome Bradpiece (28th), Peter Charalambous (50th), Robert Price (74th), Scott O'Reilly (76th) & George Hassabis (86th). It's noticeable that a different batch of Brits has now arrived in Vegas as the list of UK players who make Day 2s is different from that of the first 10 days or so.
Other players who bagged up at the end of the night - Erick Lindgren, Taylor Paur, Adam Bilzerian, Layne Flack, Bryan Micon & Humberto Brenes (his 8th cash finish already!).
What - no Tikay I hear you say? Unfortunately our hero was eliminated comparitively early for him (his WSOP cashes to entries ratio taking a hit!)
WSOP38 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low- 134 entrants
Only 134 entrants, but 75 top class poker players have made Day 2 in the "Stud Eight" Championship Event.
We haven't had a double bracelet winner, but George Danzer has one already and is the Player of the Year Leader, and the fact that he has a chip lead, with more than double the third placed player, may begin to look ominous.
The only player with more than half Danzer's stack is Richard Sklar, with Roland Isrealashvili in third position.
Three Brits remain - perennial casher Stephen Chidwick, perennial final tabler Richard Ashby and recent bracelet winner John Kabbaj.
Others still in, well it reads like a "who's who" but some names I've picked out - Justin Bonomo, Cal Anderson, Huck Seed, Mike Matusow, John Juanda, Ted Forrest, Phil Laak, Jonathan Duhamel, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and a pair of US TV commentators who've both made Day 2 - Mike Sexton & Norman Chad. Perhaps they can teach Tikay a lesson!
To start today
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH
Grat guy good luck Ian
WSOP35 - $5,000 NLH 8-handed - 550 entrants
Originally scheduled to be a 4-day event, only 3 were needed and Brian Yoon is the recipient of the gold bracelet and $633K.
Yoon, winner of last year's Little One for One Drop, defeated Josh Arieh in 19-hand heads up battle after flopping a flush with his opponent holding the nut flush draw. No further diamonds came and Yoon walked away victorious.
Both British players failed to make the final table - Matt Davenport went out early on on Day 3 in 18 place (for $19K) while Sam Trickett held on for quite a while but busted in 11th for $33K.
WSOP36 - $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 241 entrants
The two stories before the final table were Joseph Cheong and Max Kruse.
Cheong started off like a house on fire, eliminating the first 4 players to arrive at the heads up match with Steven Wolansky that stated off with fairly even stacks, but Wolansky got on a roll and won 11 hands in a row to come out on top and take the $88K prize (the lowest of the series?) and the bracelet.
Max Kruse (the German footballer) finished in third place for what is probably less than a week's wages for him ($36K). Coming here for his first WSOP and final tabling this rather niche event might make you think he is a specialist in this discipline, but no - he only learned it in a 30-minute session with George Danzer before the event!
WSOP37 - $1,500 PLO - 967 entrants
102 of the 113 returning players were eliminated on Day 2, and after the dust had settled it is Dutchman Marcel Vonk who tops the table ahead of Day 1 leader Brandon Paster and Galen Hall.
Some decent British runs - Martins Adeniya took 16th, Derek Miller 25th, Robert Price 50th, Jerome Bradpiece 55th, Scott O'Reilly 60th, George Hassabis 71st & Peter Charalambous 106th.
WSOP38 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low- 134 entrants
George Danzer ends Day 2 just where he started it, in the number one position on the chip list. The young German, gunning for his second bracelet of the series has a substantial chip lead over 2nd placed Jeff Lisandro with Brian Hastings third.
Other 2014 bracelet winners aiming like Danzer to be the first double-winner this year, Ted Forrest & Calvin Anderson lie 4th & 5th, but I'm sure a lot of people are behind the player in 11th.
That player is WSOP co-commentator Norman Chad who is a specialist in this game and is now aiming for just his 2nd WSOP Final Table.
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH - 992 entrants
Nearly a thousand players mean a total prize pool of just over $2.7 million with the winner taking home $548K and change.
Approximately 20% have made Day 2, with 3 Las Vegans in the top 4 - Daniel Makowsky (1st), James Mackey (2nd) and Gino Levrini (4th). Only Canadian Matthew Lapossie in 3rd resides outside Clark County from the Top 4.
Richard Kellett is in a promising 7th place overnight, with Barny Boatman poised for another deep run in 14th. Other British players (or at least players listed as such) still in are both Chattha brothers (Sunny & Charles), Elior Sion, Michael Hill, Ben Jackson, Chris Moorman, William Chataway, Liv Boeree (getting a first mention) and Iwan Jones. James Dempsey is still in (in 11th place), but they've put Newark in Delaware not Derbyshire so he's showing as a US player!
117 players will cash.
To Start Today
WSOP40 - $10,000 NLH Heads Up
WSOP41 - $1,500 Dealer's Choice 6 handed - Chaos will ensue as there are 16 games to choose from, and I bet virtually no-one, including the dealers, will be au fait with all 16. Anyone wanting to guess under/over on how many times the floor will be called?
WSOP37 - $1,500 PLO - 967 entrants
It's almost unheard of to lead a tournament from start to finish, and while Brandon Paster didn't quite manage that, it was near enough. He was chip leader after Day 1, 2nd after Day 2 and finished the job on Day 3.
He won the bracelet and over $264K by beating Martin Vonk heads-up after just 3 hands.
Frenchman Gabriel Nassif took the bronze medal position (well he would have if such medals were awarded in poker), with the biggest name among the final dozen, Galen Hall, eliminated in 9th.
WSOP38 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low- 134 entrants
After the intro I wrote above to Event 37, you wouldn't expect that to bettered in the very next event on the schedule, but it was.
George Danzer took his second bracelet of the summer, leading at the end of all three days of play. It earns the young German $352K, the gold bracelet and further extends his lead in the WSOP player of the year race.
A Day 3 full of well-known names saw Todd Brunson depart 13th, Ted Forrest 11th, Norman Chad 10th, John Monnette 8th, stud specialist Jeffrey Lisandro 5th, Calvin Anderson 3rd with John Racener being the runner-up
No British players were among the cashers.
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH - 992 entrants
Twenty six players come back for Day 3, led by Jacob Schindler ahead of Ryan Olisar & Ryan Jaconetti.
One British player remains in contention, Elior Sion who lies just inside the Top 10 overnight.
Layne Flack, Bernard Lee & Matt Affleck are also among the names still in, although the likes of
Jesse Sylvia, Gualter Salles, Tony Cousineau, Alex Kravchenko, Jason Somerville & Blair Hinkle were all knocked out on Day 2, along with a host of GB Players - Sunny Chattha (30th), James Dempsey (44th), Barny Boatmman (75th), Michael Hill (92nd) and Geilich Lvdovic (94th)
WSOP40 - $10,000 NLH Heads Up - 136 entrants
Four rounds (including a small first round) have taken place so we're down to a Sweet Sixteen who move on to Day 2.
Max Silver (who's had a really good week or so) remains for the UK
Draw for last 16
Erik Seidel v Scott Baumstein
Max Silver v Sam Stein
Jason K o o n v Dee Tiller
Alberto Gomez v Scott Davies
Tommy Chen v Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Colman v Taylor Paur
Davide Suriano v Serkan Kurnaz
John Smith v Ankush Mandavia
The whole "bracket" has been pre-drawn so the winner of the Seidel/Baumstein match will play Silver or Stein and so on.
WSOP41 - $1,500 Dealer's Choice 6 handed - 419 entrants
Not as much chaos as predicted (by me anyway) before the event, in the end the dealers managed the games well (in some cases with help from the players) and the players for the most part played the event in good spirits.
One notable exception was a confrontation between Brandon Cantu (surprise) and Jesse Martin that took two floor managers plus WSOP big cheese Jack Effel to sort out, and which cost Cantu 3 orbits in penalty.
Larry Tull stuffed the most chips in his overnight bag, with Melissa Burr (looking for her third FT of the series) close behind and Jimmy Fricke in close proximity too.
Jennifer Harman had her best day in ages, and other familiar names such as Frank Cassela, Todd Brunson, Gavin Smith, two Mizrachis (Robert & Michael) and Brian Rast also return for Day 2, along with just one British player - Sky analyst Stuart Rutter who navigated through the day to lie in 35th place of the 96 survivors.
The 419 entrants have contributed to an overall prize pool of $565K with the winner collecting $147K as his/her share and 42 players will get paid.
To start today
WSOP42 - $5,000 PLO 6 handed
WSOP43 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH - 992 entrants
This event has over-run into a 4th day as three players were still in at the end of the regulation 10 levels (if they had been heads-up they could have played on)
Jacob Schindler (3.8m), Ryan Jaconetti (3.4m) & Sean Dempsey (1.6m) are the three men in question, the chip leader from Philadephia and the other two from Las Vegas.
Four more American players filled the next 4 places (including Layne Flack in 7th) before the first overseas representative - Takashi Yagura who, with a name like that, you won't be surprised is from Japan.
The last Brit standing, Elior Sion, departed in 11th for a cash of nearly $31K.
WSOP40 - $10,000 NLH Heads Up - 136 entrants
Three more rounds played on Friday, so we're down to a grand final which will be betwen Davide Suriano and Sam Stein. Stein won a PLO bracelet in 2011 and has a million dollar score on his resume from the 2011 PCA where he finished 4th. His Italian rival has a more modest poker CV, although he did win the Heads-Up event at the 2013 EPT/UKIPT London
Stein did all the damage from the British perspective, eliminating Sam Trickett in the last 32 and Max Silver a round later.
WSOP41 - $1,500 Dealer's Choice 6 handed - 419 entrants
A ten player field will come back for Day 3 in an event that I'm sure we will see again in next year's Series.
Robert Mizrachi doesn't quite have the reputation of his brother "The Grinder" but he does have a WSOP bracelet and nearly $5million in live cashes, and he's chasing the win as the chip leader overnight.
Five of the other nine remaining players are bracelet holders - Daniel Idema, Bill Chen, Fran Kassela, Marco Johnson & Jen Harman.
Melissa Burr is a 2nd female rep on the final table (albeit with the short stack), aiming tho make her third final of the current series.
Unfortunately no British players cashed.
A lot of the significant hands seem to have been from either the Badacey or Badeucy variants
WSOP42 - $5,000 PLO 6 handed - 452 entrants
After George Danzer was the first to win 2 events this year, could Davidi Kitai be the next?
The Belgian enters Day 2 as the biggest stack of the 96 players, chasing the first prize of $451K
Brandon Crawford & Kory Kilpatrick (also going for his 2nd of the year) are the nearest players to Kitai
Four GB players are still active - Philip Long, Demis Hassabis, Richard Ashby & Senh Ung.
WSOP43 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em - 657 entrants
A better-than-expected number of entrants (a dozen up on last year) meant that play on Day 1 continued late in to the night, in fact early in the morning as they had their last break at about 1am and then went on to play two more levels!
72 will get paid, and we still have 118 players alive so still quite a long way from the bubble.
Paul Mannoni is the big cheese overnight, Corsican Paul Tedeschi 2nd and Cheshire man Matt Davenport close behind in third.
Other players left in include Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (see Tikay's latest blog), 1986 ME winner Berry Johnston, Todd Witteles, Jeff Lisandro, Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari and one other GB man - Timothy Flanders from Preston.
Phil Ivey (who has only one cash so far) came in late and departed fairly swiftly, with other players now on the sidelines and looking to tomorrow's tournament include Barry Greenstein, Marcel Luske, Stephen Chidwick & Humbeto Brenes.
To start today
WSOP44 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP39 - $3,000 NLH - 992 entrants
Belatedly we have a winner, and that winner is Sean Dempsey (unfortunately no relation to James).
He went into Day 3 as the short stack but he saw Ryan Jaconetti eliminate Jacob Schindler after nearly 50 hands, and another 75 hands later Dempsey's pocket jacks held up against Jaconetti's Queen-10 to earn him the bracelet and $548K prize money.
WSOP40 - $10,000 NLH Heads Up - 136 entrants
Only the 7th bracelet ever for Italy as Davide Suriano won the heads-up match against Sam Stein in a little over an hour.
I mentioned yesterday how Stein had eliminated the Best of British, among Suriano's victims were Scott Siever & Dan Cate and two well-known heads-up specialists Ankush Mandavia & Dan Colman
WSOP41 - $1,500 Dealer's Choice 6 handed - 419 entrants
In the Mizrachi family, the score is Michael 3 bracelets, Robert 2 as the older brother won his second in the Dealers Choice
Both remaining woman players (Jen Harman & Melissa Burr) went out early on Day 3, 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kasela was the first victim on the Final Table coming 6th, and then Aaron Schaff took out two players in one hand of PLO.
Shane Abbot went out third playing his own choice (NLH) and so the heads up match was set with Schaff holding the chip lead.
He continued to choose mainly PLO (despite Mizrachi's previous bracelet being in that discipline) while Mizrachi varied the games he chose more and this proved to be a good decision as he ground (rather like his brother) any edges home and eventually won the bracelet and $147K on a hand of A-5 Triple Draw
WSOP42 - $5,000 PLO 6 handed - 452 entrants
So to events that are still in play and we have a familiar name at the top of the chip listings in Event 42.
The "Unabomber" himself, Phil Laak is the only player over a million chips as 13 men move forward to Day 3.
Two GB players are still in with a shout too, Richard Ashby 8th and Demis Hassabis one place higher up.
Also hanging around - Sorel Mizzi, Kory Kilpatrick & David "Bakes" Baker
First prize is $541K, hopefully by the time we wake up tomorrow morning a Brit is still in play.
WSOP43 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em - 657 entrants
We're down to a FT in Event 43 and Dan Kelly has a large lead over his 8 opponents. His 734K chips dwarf 2nd placed David Chiu's stack of $473K with Sean Berrios in 3rd.
Brandon Shack-Harris already has a Omaha bracelet and a Razz runner-up spot and he's still in contention for a third huge score in a third different game, with Jeffrey Lisandro trying for his first bracelet in something that isn't a variant of Stud is still alive and kicking too.
Two GB cashers - 31st placed Timothy Flanders ($5K) and 57th Matthew Davenport (just under $3K)
WSOP44 - $1,500 NLH - 1914 entrants
1914 players paying $1,500 each has meant a prize pool of nearly $2.6 with the top spot paying $478K and of course a certain piece of jewellry to go along with the cash.
212 will come back for Day 2, and with 198 to be paid, we're not yet in the money but painfully close to it so the bubble will burst within the first level of Day 2.
Jason Johnson earlier made it to the Final Table of the Millionaire Maker and he's poised to make another deep run as the ginger bearded player has a large lead overnight.
Other players who will come back for Day 2 include Victor Ramdin, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erick Lindgren, two ladies who have had deep ME runs (Loni Harwood & Jackie Glazier) and, from over here, David Burns, Alex Goulder, Andrew Hills, Alexander Zeligman, Roberto Romanello, Pablo Campo, Ryan Spittles (Yay!), Adrian Passfield, Ellie Biessek, Seb Saffari and Max Silver
A lot of the really big hitters appeared to have swerved this event to give themselves a day off before the Poker Players' Championship.
To start today
WSOP45 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP46 - $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
Anyway, he finished in 89th place for a cash of $4392.
However, Ryan is still in and on the final 2 tables so he is in the last 18.
In fact they've just lost a player so they're down to 17 with Scotty77 guaranteed at least $17K.
(Two other British players also still in, Alex Zeligman who is clocking up his first cash outside the UK & Ireland, and Roberto Romanello who has more flags than you see at a game in the World Cup.)
15 left, all will take at least $21,575
All 3 UK guys still standing