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She is such a lovely lady, too, with exemplary manners & table demeaneur. Comes from good stock I imagine, as she is very well spoken, & always dresses impeccably, her trademark being fashionable silk scarves.
She has a quite remarkable record in Las Vegas, with no less than 43 Tournament Cashes there, including SEVEN Tournament victories to her credit, of which, & this must be almost unprecendented for a Brit, SIX wins @ Wynn.
She finished 11th in last year's WSOP Ladies Event for $9,805, & chopped the Seniors @ Golden Nugget last year for just north of $12,000. Amazingly, her partner, James Browning, was recorded as finishing 3rd in the same event.
Lynne has plenty of UK cashes, too, & in aggregate, her lifetime Live cashes are just shy of $500,000 now.
A quite remarkable record.
Here is his Wiki page.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Orenstein
I hope you don't mind, but I "stole" your comments & Posted them on another Forum, (with acknowledgement to you) on the Diary of a very close friend of mine, who is a genuine Romany Gypsy. You probably know that millions of Romany Gypsies were sent to the gas chambers & were victims of the Holocaust, so I knew the story would fascinate him.
Amongst the replies, this one from Tom, my Gypsy friend....
".....Fascinating!
At $17, his book is the most expensive I've seen on Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/Shall-Live-Surviving-Holocaust-Against-ebook/dp/B0048EKO0U ....."
Also, another close friend of mine, Ralph, who is Jewish, wrote this lovely anecdote in reply.....
"....I'm sure that I played some PLO with him at The Venetian a few years ago.
We were sat next to each other, I spotted the camp tattoo on his forearm and discretely (I thought), having introduced myself and been in friendly conversation for a while, tried to ask him a few questions about it but he said that he didn't like to talk about The Holocaust at the poker table.
Lovely man, and what a life he's led. I hope he wins....."
Here is the great man.
He's still in as I type, on the bubble of the 10K Stud, as is Richard Ashby, Phil Hellmuth and another player who life hasn't always dealt the nuts to, Shirley Rosario.
Edit - and with Vladimir Schmelev going out in 17th place, Henry and the other 15 players are in the money.
Who said old blokes can't play poker? Terms & Conditions apply, of course......
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants
Jared Jaffee has a WPT crown and a number of WSOP cashes, but takes home his first WSOP bracelet by winning Event 58.
He dispatched Joseph Allen in double-quick time in the semi-final, and then after a more protracted affair got the better of Mike Watson by going runner-runner on the turn & river to complete a straight. Watson had earlier beat Mark Herm in his semi.
Tikay won't like Jaffee (who also collected $405K), he wears a backwards baseball cap.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants
Phillip Hui replicated what his girlfriend Loni Harwood did almost a year to the day by taking down his first bracelet, and depositing $286K to the joint account.
Hui came back from a 6-1 chip deficit heads up against Zack Milchman to win the tournament, with Michael Bess the third placed player.
Of the players mentioned yesterday, David Williams couldn't hold on to the chip lead and exited in 6th, Matt Glantz 7th and Melissa Burr in 13th.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
Two-time bracelet winner Steve Sung almost multipled his start-of-day stack by 20 to end Day 2 as the big chip leader of the 24 remaining players.
Sung leads a very Euro-heavy leaderboard, with Erwann Pechaux from France in 2nd, Thomas Dietl from Germany 3rd and players from Denmark & Italy 4th & 5th.
Martin Malone was top Brit going into Day 2 and ended the event as best Brit, departing in 51st for almost $10K, Tom Middleton maintained station just behind Malone, while Barny Boatman, Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Roberto Romanello & James Earl all had smaller scores.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants
The Henry Orenstein story I mentioned yesterday seems to have attracted some interest, and I'm glad to say the story still has legs.
Henry lies 8th of the 9 players going into the final day of the table, with Todd Brunson lying atop the standings and Phil Hellmuth looking to make yet another final table.
Richard Ashby was the last player busted on Day 2, and will pick up $26299 for his efforts
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH
Day 1a of the Little One for One Drop and the WSOP are showing that there were 2181 entries.
This will include numerous re-entries, JC Tran had to rebuy 5 times in addition to his original stake and still isn't on the Day 2 listing so he'll be able to try again on Day 1b
Cuong Van Nguyen has the biggest stack at the end of 1a from Jason Wheeler & Preston Harwell, with Joe Laming lying as top UK player in 36th. Too many other Brits to mention them all at this stage, but Chris Moorman & Sunny Chattha.
Players who have chips at the end of 1a are not permitted to buy back in on 1b, meaning a few pros with very short stacks made what would look like reckless shoves late on as they thought to come back tomorrow with a new entry and a new stack was better for them than trying to grind up a chip and a chair.
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed - 485 entrants
The final mixed event of the series has seen a field of 485 dwindled down to 86 after the 10 levels of play.
Bryn Kenny has the lead but it is a fragil eone with players like Scott Clements and Justin Bonomo close behind.
Stuart Rutter appears to be the only GB player left in the event, but Mel Judah, who Tikay pointed out last year is an Aussie resident in London, also still has chips.
In the Player of the Year race, Brandon Shack-Harris made day 2 (in decent shape) but George Danzer didn't.
Also through - Victor Ramdin, Allen Cunningham, Daniel Negreanu, Jeremy Ausmus, Marcel Luske (haven't heard that name much this series), Chris Moneymaker, Bruno Fitoussi, Berry Johnston and with the smallest stack of all, Martin Stazsko.
To Start Today
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO
The penultimate event, the big one starts on Saturday...
Thanks to FCHD and all the other contributors for building easily the best read currently on the forums!
"...Marcel Luske (haven't heard that name much this series),...."
I actually saw, & chatted to, Marcel most days whilst in Vegas, & he's been playing most of the cheaper WSOP Events.
He even came across one day to play a $240 jobbie @ Golden Nugget, with his daughter, who is, I must say, extremely pretty. Or it may have been his girlfriend, one does not like to ask.
Well I had to go and search for that thread, and a delighted to see at the very bottom of the thread a fantastic picture of a Cornish Chough (the red beak is the giveaway) and also a sideways, probably unintentional, mention of my favourite band!
Brief note from Day 1b of Event 62 - The Little One for One Drop
Laura Cornelius is playing ("bought in" sneered jealous Anna!), she doubled up early with a set of Kings, has lost a few since but at last count had 6500, up from her stack of 4000 chips
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants
Henry Orenstein couldn't do it for the older generation, Phil Hellmuth couldn't do it for the middle aged generation, instead it was Matt Grapenthien who won the bracelet and the $268K first prize.
Grapentheien beat Todd Brunson heads-up to triple his total previous recorded live cashes, and in a final table that seemed to run through quite quickly, Aussie James Obst took third.
Hellmuth, aiming for his 14th WSOP bracelet, went out in 6th after falling to Brunson's full house, while the 90-year old Orenstein made the official final table by outlasting Jesse Martin on Day 3 but went out in 8th place.
Also a note that event 63, the 6-max 10 game is down to 17 players and amongst them is Stuart Rutter
Further updates as and when available
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH - 4496 entries
The two Day 1s of the Little One are now in the books and we have a new leader, Franck Yenigotchian from Germany (no offence Franck, but I don't want to have to type that again!) bagged up 93775 to lead the Day 1 leader Cuong Van Nguyen by nearly 3000 chips.
The field of 4496 entries (including re-entries) is down a little on last year, but the player contributions will still mean almost half a million to go to One Drop
The picture is still a little confused, but it looks like 880 players will come back for the combined Day 2 on Friday.
Joe Laming sits inside the top 100, with Kyriacos Dionysiou (what is it with the names in this event?), Geilich Lvdovic (see?) and Adam Gotch inside the Top 200. Other GB "names" still involved - Chris Moorman, Stephen Chidwick, Jamie Burland, Sunny Chattha, Alex Goulder. Unfortunately it looks like Laura Cornelius busted late on.
Event 63 update
Down to 13 players, Stu Rutter still in but looking like a very short stack. Haresh Thakar is also still alive for the UK as they're only one elimination away from making the final 2 tables.
For tomorrow's Update, it may help if you use the nickname I gave him over 12 years ago - Greek Jack. He comes from Grantham, obviously, & owns a bunch of property & a chain of fish & chip shops.
He got me a 1 orbit penalty @ Caesars Palace a year or two ago.
We were on the same table, & happened to get heads up in a hand. We are good mates, & both love a bit of banter, so when he 3 bet me, I said "behave yourself Jack, I know 100% you are bluffing" & I promptly set him all-in. He had the Aces, & I lost, obv, which left me with ONE Big Blind, and if that was not bad enough, the Dealer called the TD, who gave me one orbit penalty for "discussing the hand whilst in play".
Marv.
Here he is, God Bless Jack.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
Three and a half hours of heads-up play hasn't been enough to separate Brandon Hall & Salman Jaddi who will come back for an extra day with Jaddi having a 6.8m to 4.2m chip advantage
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed - 485 entrants
A gallant effort by Stu Rutter to make the final table but in the end he fall 4 places short as the last person eliminated on Day 2. He will pick up just over $10K for his 10th place.
Jan Suchanek from New Zealand leads overnight from Bryn Kenney & Andrey Zaichenko, with Haresh Thaker still there for GB (although the WSOP are showing Gabon) battling for the bracelet and $155K first prize.
Brandon Shack-Harris has eked out a small lead in the Player of the Year race from George Danzer, and that minute edge will be stretched due to his 21st placed finish, while other cashers included Justin Bonomo, Victor Ramdin, Mel Judah, Marcel Luske & Allen Cunningham.
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO - 418 entrants
Last year this was a "triple chance" event with 386 players, this time around it is a straight freezeout with 32 more so make of that what you will.
The penultimate event of the series has a previous PLO bracelet leader as the top dog after day 1, Chance Kornuth has a fractional lead over Ruslan Dykshteyn with Tom Marchese in third.
Sam Trickett may well be running into form at just the right time (or alternatively he's just got the habit of running well on Day 1s) as he lies 9th, with Javed Abrahams & Trevor Reardon in the 20s, Peter Linton almost exactly in the middle of the pack, and Robert Cowen, Richard Gryko & Timothy Flanders managing to make Day 2 with a below-average stack.
Other big names who will come back - David Williams, JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, both Donnacha & Eoghan O'Dea, Jeff Lisandro, Scotty Nguyen & Martin Finger.
To start today
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WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
After three and a half hours of heads-up play on Thursday wasn't enough to separate Brandon Hall & Salman Jaddi, another 90 minutes play on Friday did eventually get us a winner, and that winner was Salman Jaddi. He has won his first bracelet and over $614K. Not bad for a $1500 buyin.
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH - 4496 entries
A smidgin over 100 players come back for the Day 3 of the Little One headed by Charbel Azzi. The New Englander (two Z's) leads Alexander Ziskin (One X, One Z) and Vitaly Kovyazin (Two Vs, One K, One Z) also inside the top 5.
It looks like just one British player has progressed - Akshay Reddy from London in 86th place. All players still have locked up $3560 with the winner making over $630K.
British cashers include Rodger Reynolds, Darren Judges, Joe Laming, Ludovic Geilich, Graeme Ladd, Adam Gotch, Alastair McCarroll, Liam Hooks, Jamie Burland & Joseph Lovelady
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed - 485 entrants
Bryn Kenny was chip leader after Day 1, second after Day 2 and finished the job by being first at the conclusion of Day 3.
He beat Jan Suchaenk denying him what would have been a rare bracelet for New Zealand.
Haresh Thaker, the last Brit standing, fell just short of the final table ending up in 8th position for $13576 almost tripling his previous best live cash.
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO - 418 entrants
A stacked field off 23 come back to finish the last of the preliminary events with German pro Max Neumann at the head of the standings
We have two Brits among the 23 - one very well known, Sam Trickett, the other not so well known Javed Abrahams but he sits in 4th place overnight, 4 ahead of Trickett.
Other players in include Isaac Baron, David Williams, Tom Marchese, JC Tran, Matt Stout, Leif Force etc.
Two other GB players ended up in the money - Trevor Reardon (27th, $28K) and Richard Gryko (37th, $18K)
To Start Today
Do I really need to tell you which event starts today?
British players already noted as playing today include David Vamplew, Barny Boatman, Albert Sapiano, Duncan McLellan, Seb Saffari, Pete Linton, Ben Jackson, Matt Ashton, Jack Ellwood, Kevin Allen & Tom Middleton.
If I'm reading the updates right, the last two winners are sharing a table (the feature table of course) with Ryan Riess & Greg Merson seated together.
At least two other former champions are in action today, Johnny Chan & Tom McEvoy.
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH - 4496 entries
A final table of 9 has been reached in the Little One and it is Jackduyph Duong who has a small chip lead ahead of Eric Baldwin overnight.
Vimu Ha lies in third, with the top non-American, Shai Zurr of Israel in 4th.
Only one British player was active on Day 3, Akshay Reddy who was knocked out in 79th for $5907.
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO - 418 entrants
Again so close to a 2nd British bracelet of the year, but after a lengthy heads-up (in Omaha terms) of 62 hands, Pat Walsh got the better of Javed Abrahams to pick up the bracelet and over $923K
Abrahams, from Northwood (on the Metropolitan Line) almost matched his previous total lifetime cashes with a score of $570K.
Cypriot Miltiadis Kyriakides ended up 3rd with Isaac Baron out in 4th.
Sam Trickett had another deep run and will collect $35K for his 18th placed finish.
WSOP65 - $10,000 Main Event - 771 Day 1A entrants
A disappointing drop in entries compared to last year's corresponding Day 1A (last time around the opening day had over 900 players).
An interesting feature table saw both last year's winner Ryan Riess & the 2012 winner Greg Merson sitting on the same table all day. Reiss got the better of that one as he finished with over 70K, Merson having a little over 10% of that.
Chris Moneymaker hasn't played much this year, but he's still sticking around, as are other former ME winners Johnny Chan & Tom McEvoy.
Several British players had a good day - Paul Vas Nunes appears to have the biggest stack of them, other survivors include Duncan McLellan, Tom Middleton, Jamie Roberts, David Vamplew, Chiraag Thanki, Matthew Ashton, Barny Boatman, Daniel Bland, Andrew Teng, Trevor Reardon, Ben Jackson (after getting very short at one stage), Joe Lovelady, James Morris, Sarne Lughtman, Tore Lukashaugen, Philip Long, Sean Smith, Barkatul Mohammed, John Conroy, William Jones, Eli Heath, Jack Ellwood & Alistair Hill
As well as Riess, several of last year's November Nine played 1A - runner-up Jay Farber made it through but Marc-Etienne McLaughlin & David Benefield did not.
Also making it through 1A - Antonio Esfandiari, Annete Obrestad, Mike Matusow, Ole Schemion (listed as Ole Scheinaub), Hoyt Corkins, Chun Lei Zhou & John Monnette
Just over 500 of the 771 have made it through to Day 2A.
Thread just gets better & better.
Abrahams, from Northwood (on the Metropolitan Line)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_line
Large swathes of sub-urban London exist only because of the Metropolitan Line, those who built it made fortunes from building houses near the stations, or selling land adjacent the track.
EDIT - Had to insert hyphen in "sub-urban" as the profanity filter banned the word!
The last of the "preliminary" events has ended with the bracelet and over $637K going to Ukrainian Igor Dubinskyy who beat Ted Driscoll heads-up.
Brandon Eisen took third place with previous bracelet winner Eric Baldwin in 5th.
End-of-night Main Event information is still trickling through and a follow-up post will flesh out the usual details, but a couple of things first
After a disappointing Day 1a turnout, Day 1b was significantly up on last year and the two-day total also shows a year-on-year increase with Day 1c as usual promising to be massive.
Tim Davie ("IH8PALACE") has made Day 2 with approximately 20K chips, he has been sharing a table with Taylor Paur & ex-Liverpool & Fulham footballer John Arne Riise
After what I termed a disappointing turnout for Day 1A, the same can't be said for Day 1B with 2144 players, meaning the 2-day total is 30 up on last year.
John Luxemburger III is Day 1B chip leader with a slightly lower total than his Day 1 counterpart, with Russian Sargis Hakobian 2nd and Ryan Buckholtz third.
Top British player is Iqbal Ahmed, while other GB players still in are (deep breath) Ben Warrington, Steven Watts, Jon Spinks, Trevor Whiteway, Lee Taylor, Rickie Vedhara, John Wheeler, Oliver Price, Alex Jennings, Charalampos Lappas, John Eames, Teymour Sabet, Michael Hill, Patryk Slusarek, Alberto Gomez, John Kabbaj, Robin Fisher, Gareth Teatum, David Stonehouse, Peter Charalambous, Michelle Bennett, Charles Coombes, Simon Trumper, Katja Svendsen, Joe Laming, Tim Flanders, Marc Daubach, Christopher O'Donnell, Dan Laming, Baard Dahl, Liv Boeree, Chris Brammer, Ben Dobson, Philippe Souki, Iam Simpson, Klas Lofberg, Tim Davie, David Maudlin, Vijay Ramanand & Dean Clay, plus possibly one or two more I've missed.
For the second day in a row, the WSOP managed to get two former winners (in successive years) on the same table for the Feature Table - this time Huck Seed & Dan Harrington, who were both among 1420-odd players who made Day 2B.
Last year's November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis survived, as did former final tablers Kevin Schaffel & Antoine Saout, and the likes of Erik Seidel, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Somerville, Matt Affleck, Melissa Burr, American actors Ray Ramano & Kevin Pollok and Norwegian footballer John Arne Riise
Day 1C has already apparently outsold Days 1A & B put together, so expect congestion and chaos, two more WSOP ME winners on the same table, a dramatic entrance from Phil Hellmuth, and appearances from the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson & Ryan Spittles.
WSOP65 - $10,000 Main Event - 6683 entrants
A third Day 1 has seen the Rio bursting at the seams with overflow areas needed for the massive influx of players which has meant the overall total is 300 up on last year and the 5th largest ME field ever.
Eric Tracy (not Tracy Eric) is the Day 1C (and overall) chip leader with a stack of just over $206K.
A former November niner is in 2nd place, but not any normal November niner - it is Phil Ivey who has chipped up (after a poor start) to have just over 6 times the original starting stack.
Two former Main Event champs were knocked out (Greg Raymer & Jerry Yang) along with a trio of well known brits - Trickett, Ulliott & Chidwick,
Those who did get through include Daniel Negreanu, McLean Karr, Gus Hansen, former winners Robert Varkonyi, Carlos Mortensen, Joe Hachem, Jonathan Duhamel, Berry Johnson & Phil Hellmuth, David Tuchman, Scotty Nguyen and last years November niner Amir Lehavot
From the UK, those qualified include (there's just way too many to list them all today unfortunately) Jonathan McCann inside the Top 20, Jake Cody, Talal Shakerchi, John Shipley, Greek Jack, Sunny Chattha, Jack Salter, Simon Deadman, James Bord, Javed Abrahams, Paul Newey, Nick Wealthall, and from Channel 861 the triumverate of Redmond Lee, Ryan Spittles and Stuart Rutter
It looks like Doyle Brunson gave the main event a miss this time around.
IH8PALACE's day 2 table
1 Rafeal Pardo (CUB) 64K
2 Salvatore Bianco (ITA) 37K
3 DID NOT REPORT 37K
4 Bob Miller (USA) 67K
5 Richard Moon (USA) 146K
6 Matt Woodward (USA) 19K
7 John Luxemburger III (USA) 193K
8 Tim Davie (GBR) 20K
9 Robert Koerber (USA) 51K
So he's drawn the Day 1B chip leader and one of the other big stacks of the entire field.
Ryan Spittles' day 2 table
1 Yammine Bachir (QAT) 96K
2 W ang Lee (USA) 50K
3 Benjamin Horgan (USA) 43K
4 Ryan Spittles (GBR) 47K
5 Alemu Makonen (CAN) 24K
6 Stephen Lataeno (USA) 64K
7 Steve Constantino (USA) 122K
8 Alexander Barlow (USA) 36K
9 Michael Accardo (AUT) 21K
Stuart Rutter's Day 2 table
1 Timothy Sullivan (USA) 25K
2 Stuart Rutter (GBR) 22K
3 Bruno Portaro (AUT) 67K
4 Christopher Miller (USA) 26K
5 Andres Jeckeln (ARG) 100K
6 Marcis Corpuz (USA) 41K
7 Justin Swilling (USA) 149K
8 Reji Kakkassery (USA) 34K
9 DID NOT REPORT 23K
Redmond Lee's Day 2 table
1 Andrew Clinton (USA) 7K
2 Mark Ivan (USA) 52K
3 Andrea Belleli (ITA) 17K
4 Monte Hoover (USA) 13K
5 Redmond Lee (GBR) 99K
6 Michael Kuryllo (USA) 37K
7 Joshua Jimmerson (USA) 31K
8 Tao Cao (USA) 39K
9 Anh Van Nguyen (CAN) 44K
Lovejunky's (Steven George) Day 2 table
1 Steven George (GBR) 67K
2 Thomas Roupe (USA) 71K
3 Anthony Lazar (USA) 67K
4 Randy Obel (USA) 70K
5 Thien Wu (USA) 43K
6 Matthew Wiener (USA) 49K
7 Jeff Garza (USA) 80K
8 Neil Webber (USA) 42K
9 Sanyo Moura (BRA) 53K
All stacks rounded to the nearest 1000 chips
Both players marked as from Austria may be from somewhere else as I'm not convinced their "AT" markings are correct
Any information on any of these players is appreciated
Joe Kuether, who has had 5 cashes at each of the last 3 Series and won side events at EPTs & PCA is the chip leader with over 400K, Day 1A chip leader Martin Jacobsen has over 300K.
With still limited info at this point, Tom Middleton appears to be top Brit at the moment, with Matt Ashton & John Kabbaj among those in the 100-200K range, as are last year's winner & runner-up Ryan Riess and Jay Farber, Ole Schemion, and my favourite name of the day, another German, Tino Pfutzenreuter.
Busted today - both Player of the year candidates (Brandon Shack-Harris & George Danzer), Annette Obrestad, Liv Boeree, Jason Somerville, Elizabeth Hille, Michiel Brummelhuis, Mike Matusow, Mike Sexton and on the very first hand, Macao big shot Chun Lei Zhou
Have sent you a stat-attack e-Mail, which may or may not be useful.
Tim (IH8PALACE) has qualified for Day 3 with a stack of 69K
So far on his Day 3 table we know he's drawn Americans Thomas Maguire with a short stack (11K) and Anders Burke with a bigger one (162K) from the "B" days and Michael Fitzgerald from the "A"'s who has about 35K. The rest of the seats will be from players who will play Day 2C tonight.
Unfortunately I can see no sign of lovejunky in the chip listings, although I'd love to be proved wrong
But I am pretty sure anybody who has played MTTs on SKY for a while would not be supporting IH8PALACE in any way.
In the 5 or so years of playing on here he has to be the worst "pro" for berating players and just generally being rude in chat with "tard" seeming to be his favourite put down.
I'm sorry if you feel this is derailing a great thread but I believe it needed to be said.