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WSOP49 - $5,000 NLH - 696 entrants
204 of the 696 players return for Day 2 of the $5K but we are still a long way off the money, as only 72 will get paid.
Ken Einiger leads the way, and he is already a World Series Champion, but not of poker as he won the World Series of Blackjack!
Seasoned pro Josh Arieh is in 2nd and who's that lurking on the fringes of the Top 10? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Tikay? No, it is Vanessa Selbst
Several other female players are quite high in chips too - Lauren Kling, Melanie Wiesner, Cindy Martineau are all well positioned.
Brits that have made Day 2 - Francis Ford-Brown is highest in 46th, Oliver Price 54th, Alberto Gomez 60th, Niall Farrell 65th, Matt Davenport 74th, Timur Margolin 96th, Dimitri Holdeew 140th, Salman Bahbehani 142nd, David Vamplew 144th, Pablo Campo 150th, Craig McCorkel 201st, and keeping up the theme of the ladies, Liv Boree in 187th.
WSOP50 - $1,500 Eight-game mix - 486 entrants
Again, still well away from the money as 49 will receive a payment from the 106 players still standing.
Eric Crain, just like he did last year, is Day 1 chip leader (he went on to finish 4th last time around)
Some well-known players who were able to bag chips at the end of the night include Brandon Cantu, Martin Staszko, Phil Ivey, Justin Bonomo, Joe Hachem & Calvin Anderson.
The designation "GB" doesn't appear until the very last dozen of the chip counts - Howard Smith & Stephen Chidwick both have about 8000 chips and Frenchman-in-London Alex Luneau has only 6225 which is not very much at all.
To Start Today
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH
WSOP52 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em
Jun 26th
WSOP46 - $50,000 Poker Player's Championship - 102 entrants
George Danzer's place as the only double bracelet winner of 2014 is safe for now as Brandon Shack-Harris had to settle for runner-up in the PPC, being defeated Heads-Up by John Hennigan.
It is Hennigan's third consecutive cash in this elite event and second final table after finishing third last year.
Melissa Burr completed the best ever female finish in this tournament by making the official final table and coming seventh.
WSOP48 - $1,500 PLO High-Low - 991 entrants
Tyler Patterson has a host of WSOP cashes, and prior to today had been on 3 final tables without bringing home the bracelet, but all that has changed now has he defeated Scott Clements for the title and the $271K first prize.
Cody Crawford and Jeff Madsen busted in third and fourth places, with 4-bracelet holder Tom Schneider in 6th
WSOP49 - $5,000 NLH - 696 entrants
Despite a host of big names coming back for Day 2, it is a comparitive unknown, Margareta Morris who has the biggest of the 23 stacks left overnight.
Former November Niner John Dolan is the nearest to Morris in chips, with British player Timur Margolin in third.
Oliver Price also upholds British honour inside the Top 10, with Alberto Gomez just outside but still with a decent stack.
Other than the above, I can't see any UK cashers, but someone who did add yet another cash to his CV was Phil Hellmuth, who exited with a typical Hellmuthian tirade when a player dared to shove with AJ and hit an Ace to defeat the mouthy one's pocket Jacks.
WSOP50 - $1,500 Eight-game mix - 486 entrants
Fourteen will come back for Day 3 and a very interesting batch they are.
Dan Heimiller has the chip lead, Aaron Steury is 2nd and Phil Ivey (yes, Phil Ivey) in 3rd
Stephen Chidwick upholds British honours in 8th, and add the likes of Yuebin Guo, Daniel Negreanu & Amnon Filippi and there aren't many easy spots left to find.
This must represent the best bet yet for Ivey & Negreanu to come out on top of their even-money "will either one win a bracelet" bets for which they allegedly hold a 6-figure liability.
Howard Smith was the only other UK casher, busting in 18th for $5721.
I will return later with updates from 51 (The MONSTER stack) & 52.
Far be it for me to suggest the WSOP have bitten off slightly more than they can chew with this event, but the evidence is out there. Flight 1 sold out the night before (fair enough), they dropped the dinner break to get through it quickly and they still couldn't start Flight 2 which was due to be at 5pm until about 8pm, with some players not getting seated until several hours after that - Greg Raymer tweeted he finally got to his table at 11:30pm
Anyway the total number of 7862 players all through on a single day is huuuuge and must have been a logistical nightmare.
3826 players have made Day 2 and right up there with the biggest stacks is Tim Davie who I believe is IH8PALACE on here (can someone confirm/refute please?)
Loads of other Brits, too many to list them all but some who might be of interest - Martins Adeniya, Ryan Spittles, Simon Trumper, Liv Boeree, Eli Heath (who I also believe is a Sky regular), David Ulliott, Jake Cody and the likes of Max Silver, Richard Gryko, Alex Zeligman & Dan Laming who've all had a good last week.
Chip leader is French player Pierre Calamusa
I'm sure this event has a future, but I'd bet on next year having two different Day 1's rather than trying to squeeze both flights into a single day.
WSOP52 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em - 122 entrants
A more relaxed type of tournament for the big boys with them only losing 50 players on Day 1.
18 will get paid eventually and it is Samuel Golbuff who has the most chips overnight, ahead of Kenny Shei & Jeff Thompson (presumably not the 1970s Australian fast bowler).
David Chiu is 4th and just behind in 6th is the inaugural One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari.
This being limit hold'em there's not a greaat British presence, in fact in can only see Talal Shakerchi who lies in 19th overnight.
Others still in include Jeff Lisandro, Juha Helppi (first mention this year I think), George Danzer, Scott Siever, Melissa Burr, JC Tran, John Hennigan (who entered this after winning his bracelet earlier in the day), Shaun Deeb & Vitaly Lunkin
To Start Today
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low
The Black chips are 100, red are 500, Yellow are 1,000, & the Orange/Salmon ones are 5,000.
...and here is another Man of the Moment, just after Day 2 commenced......
IVEY WINS 10TH BRACELET
Phil Ivey has just moved into joint 2nd place on the all-time bracelet list by picking up his 10th bracelet in the 8-game mixed tournament
WSOP49 - $5,000 NLH - 696 entrants
A halt has been called with two players in the midst of a lengthy heads up match.
David Miscikowski & Norbert Szecsi are almost even and will come back for a Day 4 to fight for a bracelet and $719K in cash.
Oliver Price finished in 5th place with Timur Margolin in 10th and Alberto Gomez in 14th.
WSOP50 - $1,500 Eight-game mix - 486 entrants
Phil Ivey has collected his 10th bracelet moving to equal 2nd on the all-time list (tied with legends Doyle Brunson & Johnny Chan)
He beat long time friend Bruce Yamron heads-up to win the jewellery, the $167K and probably a similar amount in side-bets
Stephen Chidwick clocked up another final table, finishing in 5th with Daniel Negreanu departing in 9th.
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH - 7862 entrants
The day was curtailed early as the last level of the day was postponed leaving 577 players bagging chips ready to return for Day 3.
Full listings not yet available, but it looks like Salvatore Bianco is the big stack. Martins Adeniya also lies in a decent position, with full details to follow when the full report is avaialble.
Ryan Spittles made the cash but busted shortly thereafter, in 700th place to add another $3077 to his live cash tally, while other GB players who finished in the money but are now out include Gary Fisher, Daniel Bland, Anthony Hamilton, Danny Blair and a couple of players who are shown as from Gabon but that is likely to be a WSOP error, Jareth East & Ajay Bhadresa
I will do an update on the end of day chip positions later.
WSOP52 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em - 122 entrants
We're left with a Top Ten in the Limit Championship event and we have a Canadian on the top of the pile.
Greg Debora has the lead, ahead of three Aemericans Brian Tate, Samuel Golbuff & Paul Mannoni.
Perhaps the names to watch out for are 5th & 6th. Jan Sjavik from Norway has several Limit Hold'em final tables to his name, while Bill Chen is a double bracelet holder in 6th.
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH - 793 entrants
Looks like the $9000 differential between the price ladies and men pay for this event as for the second year in a row it looks like an all-female field.
We're 20 from the money overnight, with 101 players sticking around with Las Vegas local Patty Landis bagging up an event-leading 71200 chips, ahead of Gwendoline Laurent & Janis Numan.
A lot of the better-known players (e.g. Kathy Liebert, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, Liv Boeree, Gaelle Baumann, Jackie Glazier, Natalie Bromley) have departed but Melanie Wiesner sits in 14th.
I can only see 1 British player on the listing - Lisa Arisaman in 79th spot.
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low - 474 entrants
152 of the 474 managed to navigate through Day 2 and we have a Sky Poker analysts double - Stu Rutter is in 16th place with 53700 chips while Tikay is, let's say, a little lower down in 142nd and needing a quick double-up on Day 2.
Other British players are headed by Richard Gryko who is in a very handy 3rd place, recent bracelet winner John Kabbaj is 21st, Adam Panlatimer 60th, Hoi Lee 85th, Jeff Kimber 105th, Magnus Martin 110th and Glen Altham 135th
From "the rest of the world", Brett Shaffer is the chip leader with Austrian Florian Langmann close behind.
Two more 2014 bracelet winners are inside the top 10 - double man George Danzer (whose Player of the Year lead was massively cut yesterday) and Robert Mizrachi.
To Start Today
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH
Only 10 more events after this one!
1. Salvatore Bianco (ITA) 847K
2. Michael Richardson (GBR) 758K
3. Gabriel Paul (USA) 753K
4. Daniel Hirleman (USA) 745K
5. Vladimir Bozinovic (RUS) 729K
Othe British players
7. Tom Alner 657K
12. Martins Adeniya 577K
59. Richard Kellett 391K
92. David Ulliott 334K
95. David Crane 333K
123. Matthew Frankenland 294K
130. Michelle Bennett 285K
242. Philippe Souki 195K
264. Steven Warburton 182K
307. Tim Davie 160K
339. William Jones 144K
438. Simon Trumper 98K
560. Lynne Beaumont 39K
All have locked up at least $3502.
Table draw for Event 54
Table 416 (all USA except stated)
1 Kyle Miaso 14000
2 Antony Lellouche 25800
3 Nessum Hadiji 27500
4 Mikal Blomlie (NOR) 15500
5 Kia Hooshmand 16100
6 Bryan Andrews 41200
7 Anthony Kendall (still shown as Canada!) 7800
8 - vacant
9 Zachary Freeman 26600
Table 418
1 Carson Calhoun 9300
2 Benjamin Wilkins 53700
3 Stuart Rutter (GBR) 53700
4 Joseph Mitchell 20000
5 Benjamin Miner 60000
6 Dylan Linde 22900
7 Morten Eriksen (NOR) 14700
8 Tony Merksick 13800
9 Ryan Paluf 19000
152 remain, 54 places paid. Looks like blinds will be 400-800 on the return
good luck canada
Only 62 of the 7862 entrants are still alive. Tim already has $21.5K locked-up, there are huge prizes at the top including $1.3m to the winner.
Good luck!
WSOP49 - $5,000 NLH - 696 entrants
After an unscheduled Day 4, David Miscikowshi has collected his first bracelet and over $719K, outlasting Norbert Szecsi heads-up
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH - 7862 entrants
Exactly 7800 players have been eliminated over the course of three days of poker so we are left with just 62 survivors.
Those players are all guaranteed over $21K, with Sean Drake & Austin Bursavich almost neck-at-neck at the top of the chip listing.
Just behind them in 3rd is Lynne Beaumont, from Swindon but a regular visitor to Las Vegas. She lies in 3rd place overall overnight.
A few other Brits remain in the event - Tom Alner (26th) & Matt Frankland (34th), David Crane (58th) and Sky Poker player Tim Davie in 45th.
GB cashes other than those mentioned yesterday - Martins Adeniya, Philippe Souki, Michelle Bennett, Michael Richardson, Jonathan Gray, David Ulliott, Simon Trumper, Stanislav Petriv, William Jones & Steven Warburton
WSOP52 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em - 122 entrants
David Olson from Dalls took down event 52 and the $303K first prize after a more than two hour-long heads-up match with Mikail Tulchinsky.
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH - 793 entrants
Bubbling up nicely with a final table of 9 decided.
Lisa Arisaman from Birmingham was the only UK casher, picking up $2348 for her 59th place, nearly twice here previous recorded total of cashes.
It is an all-American line-up, with Mikiyo Aoki from Montana the chip leader, Meikat Siu 2nd and Haixia Zhang 3rd. With over $11K to each of the 9 remaining players guarateed, Aoki will also smash her previous career total cashes.
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low - 474 entrants
After a shortened Day 1 we at least managed a full day's play in Day 2 which has thinned the field to twenty.
Jonathan Depa fom Illinois is the chip leader, with two more Americans filling 2nd & 3rd spots - Shiva Dudani & Gary Bolden.
Fabrice Soulier is the first of the better known players in 4th, and we also have Lee Markholt, Antony Lellouhce & Eoghan O'Dea still standing.
You might notice that there are no British players amongst that list, the highest finishing UK entrant was our very own Stuart Rutter who exited in 37th for $6107.
Tikay was of course still in at the end of Day 1, but was unable to make the required early double-up and departed within the first level.
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH - 2396 entrants
With 243 to get paid, and the number of overnight survivors being 268, the bubble will burst early on Day 2 of the penultimate NLH event of the series.
Michael Malm holds the chip lead from Zo Karim and Erkut Yilmaz, with Jack Salter top UK man in 5th. Salter was the runner-up in the recent EPT Grand Final and is the 2nd highest rated British player in the Global Poker Index (behind Stephen Chidwick)
Ryan Spittles is still going in this one, just outside the Top 100 overnight, with Jareth East, Scott O'Reilly, Mark Segal, Patryk Slusarek, Jack Ellwood, Matthew Hopkins, Barny Boatman & John Eames also fly the Union Flag going into Day 2.
The "big name" quotient is not as high as in some similar events earlier in the month, with no-one wanting to play through the first Day of this and then have to sit out to play the One Drop.
To Start Today
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH
There was also a $25300 rebuy satellite for the One Drop yesterday, with 2 seats eventually up for grabs taken by Erick Lindgren & Conni Drinan. One interesting player taking part was Ole Schemion, who had said that he was only in Vegas to party this year and not play any WSOP events, so we'll wait and see if he does play either the One Drop or the Main Event.
Great thread. Hope IH8PALCE lands a monster score. GL to him.
Yes, vbol to I8Palace, who has a cracking game & won't be phased by the money.
Lynne Beaumont is James Browning's young lady, & she has tremendous game, heart & spirit.
Special best wishes today to Ryan Spittles, who is in great shape in the $1,500. He has one $40,000+ score already this trip, & might just get another.
Great work with the Updates, Cornwall, have thoroughly enjoyed them, & the lovely little comments & phrasing you have used to brighten them up.
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH - 7862 entrants
10 players left, with Lynne Beaumont still hanging on in there for the UK, she is 8th of the 10 as they are on a break.
Tim Davie (IH8PALACE) busted in 28th place for just over $40K.
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH - 793 entrants
The three American players with Asian names who entered the final table as the three big stacks finished it as the top three finishers, but not in the same order.
Haixia Zhang was the eventual winner, Mikiyo Aoki 2nd and Meikat Siu 3rd.
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low - 474 entrants
It's down to heads-up with Florian Langmann holding a 3-1 chip advantage as they start two handed play
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH - 2396 entrants
Less than three full tables remain with David Jackson having a pretty decent chip lead. No Brits still in, but one interesting man still playing is last year's November Niner, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin from Canada
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants
Still relatively early days in this one, a full report at the end of play
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants
I think the WSOP will be disappointed with the total of 42, as they had extended the cap from 48 to 56 and allegedly had 41 firm commitments over a fortnight ago.
Anyway, it is the Sam Trickett show so far as he has been busting players left right & centre, including the 3rd placed finisher from the last Big One for One Drop David Einhorn within Level 1, and then Vanessa Selbst a bit later.
My favourite for the event Philipp Gruissem has also gone, and we're down to 34 players left as I type this (others out so far - Jason Mercier, Brian Rast, Max Altergott, Igor Kurganov & Stanley Choi
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH - 7862 entrants
Play has ceased for the day with the offical final table, and we still have some British representation.
Lynne Beaumont is still hanging on in there for the UK, she is the smallest stack, but has locked up at least $127K.
Hugo Pingray from Switzerland is the chip leader, just ahead of Sean Drake who held the lead for most of the day. The impact of the "Monster Stack" can be seen by the fact that Pingray has nearly 23 million in chips.
Tim Davie (IH8PALACE) busted in 28th place for just over $40K.
WSOP53 - $10,000 Ladies NLH - 793 entrants
The three American players with Asian names who entered the final table as the three big stacks finished it as the top three finishers, but not in the same order.
Haixia Zhang was the eventual winner, Mikiyo Aoki 2nd and Meikat Siu 3rd.
WSOP54 - $3,000 PLO High-Low - 474 entrants
It's been a good series for the Germans, and now Florian Langmann has added to that success as he won Event 54.
The heads-up portion of the tournament was over in a flash, it only took Langmann a couple of hands to bust Zach Freeman.
Langmann won nearly $300K as well as the bracelet.
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH - 2396 entrants
Seventeen players will come back for Day 3, led by David Jackson but with 5 Canadian players among the 17, this looks the best opportunity yet for those who come under the Maple Leaf to win in what has been a disappointing series for them, especially compared to last year.
The best known player of that group is last year's November Niner Marc-Etienne McLaughlin who lies in the middle of the pack.
No British players remain, those who cashed were led by Barny Boatman who took home $9283, Ariel Shefer ($4981), Matthew Hopkins & Jareth East ($3493 each) with Jack Salter, Scott O'Reilly, Jack Ellwood, Ryan Spittles, Dominic Mahoney, John Eames & Christopher Sly also cashing.
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants
With a lot of the brouhaha at the Rio centered on the One Drop, it was a pleasant surprise to see the increase in the field of the last $1000 tournament of the year, up from 1837 to 2525.
This means the eventual winner will pocket over $400K, a very nice return on investment.
Raymond Chen leads the survivors of the Day 1 minefield, a fraction ahead Neo Hoang with a bigger gap back to 3rd placed player Brian Altman.
Two hundred and six players come back for Day 2, so we're well inside the money so British players Richard Milne, Sunny Chattha, Graeme Ladd, Keith Littlewood, Louis Salter
I haven't picked out anyone from an unusually-named town for a day or two so here are a few that I've found in today's listing - Vinny Pahuja is from Hicksville, Robbie Betancourt is from Humble and Sean Hegarty is from West Barnstable. Is that near Luton too, Natalie?
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants
They've coined a new word at the One Drop tables. "I want a Trickett" said Gabe Kaplan, referring to the run good that the man from Retford has had all day in the opening salvos of the million pound entry Big One for One Drop
Tricket busted David Einhorn within the first level, Igor Kurganov midway through the day and then Vanessa Selbst later on to end the day with 13.4million, over 4 times his starting stack.
Fellow Brit, Tom Hall, now playing out of Hong Kong sits second, with 9m & Phil Ivey lies 3rd with 7.6m
Other GB players among the 31 survivors are Paul Newey & Talal Shakerchi meaning the UK had a 100% survival rate.
Those who didn't survive include three highly fancied Germans (Philipp Gruissem, Niklas Heinecker & Max Altergott), Brian Rast, Dan Smith, Jason Mercier, Rono Lo, Stanley Choi and the 3 already mentioned that have been Tricketted.
It has to be mentioned that a field of 42 is down on what was expected, especially seeing the WSOP were saying they had 41 commitments a fortnight ago, and Jessica Wellman was implying there were several names not on that public list that were also definites.
To Start Today
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low
WSOP51 - $1,500 Monster Stack NLH - 7862 entrants
Swiss-resident Frenchman Hugo Pingray was the last man standing of the 7862 players in the monster stack, and duly collected the monster first prize of $1.32million. He had never previously recorded a single live cash outside France & Switzerland.
Joseph McKeehan was the "unlucky" player who had to settle for 2nd after a 80-hand heads-up battle full of, in Tikay's phrase, "swings and swongs".
Lynne Beaumont put up a superb performance over the five days, until her AK couldn't improve against pocket queens in a "classic race situation" and she exited in 6th place for over a quarter of a million dollars, more than a number of bracelet winners have collected this series.
WSOP55 - $1,500 NLH - 2396 entrants
It's a bracelet for Israel as Asi Moshe took down event 55 for the bracelet and $582K, denying Michael Ferrer from Canada and Aaron Massey from the US.
November Niner Marc Etienne McLaughlin finished one place lower than he did in last year's Main Event, being knocked out in 7th for his first cash of the series.
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants
206 have become 16 for the third and final day of the 1K event, and we have a British player in decent shape, Richard Milne from Glasgow lies in a close 3rd position behind Henson and Steve Gross.
Sunny Chattha bust in 42nd for $7681, Louis Salter 170th for $2272 while Keith Littlewood and Graeme Ladd (first player to bust on Day 2) each collected $2045.
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants
After running about as well as Usain Bolt and Mo Farah combined on Day 1, Sam Trickett hit a brick wall on Day 2. First his nemesis Antonio Esfandiari flopped a straight against Sam to take a load of his chips then Daniel Negreanu deliver the coup de grace when rivered trips were too good for Trickett's pocket Aces.
Talal Shakerchi departed early, first of the British contingent to go, and we also lost Guy Laliberté and Greg Merson in the first half of the day.
After Trickett's departure in 15th, Phil Ivey bust, so did Phil Galfond and High Stakes Poker commentator Gabe Kaplan grinded his way into 12th spot.
Brandon Steven went out 11th after a huge pot with Christoph Vogelsang where the German doubled up and crippled Steven, and the last to depart on Day 2 was reigning champion Antonio Esfandiari.
With a single table of nine, and 8 players due to be paid, we were on the bubble with about an hour left to play with Sky Poker Cash Game player Paul Newey the short stack. He managed a double up with pocket aces against Tobias Reinkemeier's queens, then Scott Siever doubled up through Negreanu, so when play ended for the day Newey was back as the short stack. Television considerations meant that despite the players wanting to play on, a halt was called for the day with 9 players to come back for Day 3.
After a bad day 1 for the German contingent, Day 2 was better as they managed to get 2 representatives on the final table, while the UK has Paul Newey and Tom Hall was British-born but now resides in Hong Kong.
Full chip totals (rounded to nearest Million)
Rick Salomon 24m
Tobias Reinkemeier 23m
Daniel Colman 23m
Daniel Negreanu 21m
Cary Katz 9m
Scott Siever 8m
Tom Hall 8m
Christoph Vogelsang 7m
Paul Newey 4m
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants
10 levels of 9-max has seen the field reduced from 1475 to 181 so the field is 19 off the money.
Indian player Shashank Jain has the chip lead, ahead of Brandon Cantu who seems to have been everywhere (both good and bad) this series.
There are still a whole lot of GB players in contention - I've spotted Tom Middleton, Alex Goulder, Tim Davie (again!), Ivan Ermin, Trevor Reardon, John Shipley, Barkatul Mohammed, Ashley Locker, Mark Teltscher, Liv Boeree and William Jones but there might be others there also.
Several other big names are still in the running, Jared Jaffee, Allen Cunningham, Dan Kelly, JJ Liu, Gavin Smith & Erick Lidgren, etc.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants
A prize pool of $1.25million for the 54 who will eventually visit the cashier, with over $286 "up top".
Marvin Rosen is the top dog overnight, but a host of big names are lying in wait just behind with Brian Rast in 2nd, George Danzer 5th, David Williams 6th & Vanessa Selbst in 8th.
Alex Luneau who the WSOP are still showing as "GB" but who we've established a while ago is French but living in London is also inside the top 10, with Richard Ashby in 38th plus Stephen Chidwick, Matt Ashton, Paul Jackson & Stuart Rutter all appear on the overnight chip counts so still have an opportunity to work their way through Day 2
Danzer's main rival for the Player of the Year, Brandon Shack-Harris has also bagged up in good shape, as has Jennifer Tilly, and lower down 2008 November Niner Kelly Kim who has been based in Cyprus since Black Friday.
To Start Today
Jul 1st
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud
Loving these Updates, thank you.
I gather from his Staking thread elsewhere that Stu Rutter exited the Limit O8 subsequent to your report.
Also, Alex Goulder keeps a Diary on another Forum, & he wrote this 2 or 3 hours ago.....
"....Really brutal day - started off great, turning 75k into 105k in the first half hour. Average was around 35k at this point, then lost a 155k pot with 88 vs JJ on KJ85r, he bets flop 5100, I and one other call, turn he bets 28k with 35k back or something. So cold, can never fold, and it's to have over 4x average itm of a bracelet event with 150 left.
Felt like a real punch to the stomach, then grinded 20-30bbs for an hour or two, laddered some spots then reshoved AQ into AK, gg.
Did some therapy shopping for a couple hours after and now getting ready to go out for a nice meal with everyone then maybe a show....."
Have to say, the performance by Lynne Beaumont was outstanding. And if she wins that "race", she could well have gone Top 3, or even won it.
Tremendous stuff from, essentially, a recreational player, & her man, James Browning, must be chuffed to bits.
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants
Event 56 and it's $403K first prize has gone to Mike Kachan who outlasted 2524 other players.
He beat Jeff Blenkarn heads-up at the end of a final table that lasted a longer than most would have thought due to the general short-naturedness of the stacks when a lot of all-ins resulted in double-ups rather than knockouts.
Richard Milne was the only British player to make the later stages, busting in 8th place but picking up a very nice $39K.
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants
With all the huge names from the world of poker still sitting on the final table, it was someone who wasn't really known on the live scene 3 months ago, Daniel Colman who won the huge $15million first prize and the platinum bracelet.
Colman, from Massachusetts, is a heads-up specialist and when he got to the final two against Daniel Negreanu, Colman gradually squeezed his advantage home over 46 hands and took the title when he called the Canadian's shove (with A4) holding KQ. An A-J-4 gave Negreanu two pair on the flop, Colman hitting his gutshot with a 10 on the turn and the river failing to give Negreanu his full house.
Colman sprang onto the live scene winning the Super High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final, reached the semi-finals of the 10K heads up here, and has now leapt all the way to 6th in the all-time money standings
This was Negreanu's 2nd runner-up spot this series, and the $8million he won has lifted him to the top of the all-time tournament winnings list.
Tom Hall was the bubble boy busting on the very first hand of Day 3, but Paul Newey used his short stack to ladder up to 7th place and collect $1.4million
All time money-list according to Hendon Mob
1. Negreanu $29.8m
2. Esfandiari $26.2m
3. Ivey $21.4m
4. Seidel $20.4m
5. Trickett $20.0m
6. Colman $18.2m
7. Hellmuth $18.1m
8. Juanda $16.0m
9. M Mizrachi $14.6m
10. Siever $12.6m
I think I'd recognise 9 of the 10 if I saw them in the street, but not Colman!
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants
Ten players will come back for the end of the 4-handed section of the event where they will play down to 4 players and then it becomes a heads-up knockout.
Jared Jaffee leads a strong 10-player line-up with Mark Herm & Brandon Cantu close behind, and the likes of Xiao Peng, Jeff Gross & Mike Watson still involved.
No UK players remain, with IH8PALACE Tim Davie having his second deep run of the series, collecting nearly $10K for 27th, finishing spot ahead of Daniel McAulay.
Other GB cashers - Trevor Reardon, Alex Goulder, Ashley Locker, Tom Middleton, Barkatul Mohammed, John Shipley, William Jones, Liv Boeree & Mark Teltscher.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants
Twenty come back for Day 3, the last dedicated High-Low day of the series, and it's David Williams who holds the overnight lead. He has a 20% chip lead over next placed Joe Mitchell, with Matt Glantz in third.
Scott Abrans, Brett Richey, John D'Agostino and Justin Bonomo are still active, as is Melissa Burr who has four top 10 finishes (including 3 final tables) already.
As with event 58, no GB players to fight it out for the bracelet, in fact only Stephen Chidwick made the cash, and that was a min-cash of $4828 in 52nd place.
Player of the Year news is that George Danzer busted before the cash but Brandon Shack-Harris ended up in 34th. If you've a degree in maths and can understand the POY formula, I'm sure you could work out whether that is enough to move him ahead of Danzer atop the standings.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
Another event showing an increase in numbers against last year's equivalent event, but only a small increase of less than 1%. Still, an increase is an increase.
Chris Kolla is the chip leader after eliminating Chris Moorman on the very last hand of the night when the German's pocket 7's held up against the Brit's A6.
Israel, USA, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Sweden & Romania are all represented inside the Top 10 but you have to look down to 24th to see the top British player - Martin Malone.
Tom Middleton is only 300 chips behind Malone in 26th and Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Barny Boatman, Joshua Green, Vasileios Korkas, Robert McAdam, Roberto Romanello, David Stonehouse, Peter Akery & Simon Taylor all having chips to take forward to Day 2.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants
Still in play as I type, with 57 of 102 left. Full update to follow later.
To Start Today
Jul 2nd
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed
Difficult to compare but the last time a 10K stud event was held was in 2011 (so before Black Friday) there was 126 entrants.
Ben Yu is a great person for reports like this as he takes very little typing, and it is him who is the overnight leader, with James Obst (not too long) and Nikolay Losev (getting longer) in second and third.
The "usual" suspects from these shores for the 10K events, Richard Ashby, Stephen Chidwick & Matthew Ashton are all present and correct, as are Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Fabrice Soulier, 2011 winner Bertrand Grospellier, another former winner John Monnete, Daniel Negreanu & Gabe Kaplan.
And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day.
58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid.
I posted a message in the show thread on Sunday about how the WSOP had honoured Chad Brown with an honorary bracelet.
Chad never managed to win a bracelet proper, he finished 2nd twice and 3rd once, but was regarded as one of the best players without a bracelet and was regularly tipped as the most likely player without one to burst through. He was one of those players who no one seemed to have a bad word to say about. He was so good that he was awarded the Bluff Magazine "player of the year" in 2006. He was married to fellow poker pro Vanessa Rousso from 2009-2012.
He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2011, and has recently been in a Hospice, very ill indeed. Far too ill to attend the WSOP's touching ceremony last Saturday, but he did receive the bracelet and friends were able to put it on his wrist.
Chad Brown died today, aged 52.
. And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day. 58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid.
Posted by FCHD
It wasn't until Tikay said her partners name above that I realised who she is....I had her on my direct right in an Aria tournament back in May. Got chatting to her during our hour or so together. I think I'm right in saying she lives in the Swindon area, and her and her partner host the occasional high stakes home game.
When the topic of online poker arose, I said I played on Sky and she reeled off various names including Tikay (of course), Carlo and Coxylboro amongst others that she knew.
Very nice lady, and I was very surprised when she said she was playing the senior event in this series, as she didn't look anywhere near 'senior' enough. Unlike others Tony