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24 year-old part time pro, part time student, German Paul Hofer is the "droplet" winner, outlasting 4554 other players to claim the bracelet and $645K prize money.
After four days of play, the heads-up match lasted exactly one hand, as Hofer bust Argentinian Mario Lopez the hand after he knocked out Senovio Ramirez.
John Reading, who had already won one bracelet this summer, was the 4th placed finishe.
The chip leader is Jason Caulk, with Paul Hofer & Chris Hunichen completing the Top 3 places.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 3 of 3
12 hours of Day 3 play were not enough to bring this one to a conclusion, so it joins the seemingly never ending list of events going to an unscheduled 4th day.
The two players left are the two players who led going into Day 3, but the order has been reversed as Jack Doung has a massive chip lead over his Czech opponent, Vojtech Ruzicka.
Last Brit standing Andrew Hulme was beaten in 26th place ($9534) while Irishman Peter Murphy made the FT before walking away 9th for $24511
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 3 of 3
Andrew Barber is the $10K Horse Champion, clamining over half a million dollars in the process and of course the gold bracelet.
Russian Viacheslev Zhukov was the runner-up, with Don Zewin in third. Joe Hachem went out in 5th, Frank Kassela 6th, Scotty Nguyen 7th & Eli Elezra 8th.
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 1 of 2
Play will re-start on Saturday.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Seventeen are still standing, searching for supremacy in stud.
Veteran John Esposito has the lead overnight, ahead of GB player Gerard Ringe.
Adam Owen is also still going having another very deep run, and other names still in the field are Daniel Idema, Vladimir Schmelev & Todd Brunson
Stu Rutter was among the early casualties on Day 2.
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 3 or 4 day event depending on whether you believe the WSOP on their sheet for Flight A or Flight B
Play is still going on Flight B, full update to follow when the combined results are avialble.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 109 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The last of the preliminary events, and Day 1 play is still onging.
Matthew Ashton could well be the chip leader at this point, and both Stephen Chidwick & Stu Rutter are shown with a decent amount of chips, although the timeliness of this information is questionable at best.
Anthony Zinno's magic failed to appear in this one, as he has busto.
To start today
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Very well done grintler, now do the same again today. Run deep, & you'll avoid all the horrendous July 4th parties.
I'll be patrolling the tables this afternoon, so I might see you.
Think I have found you on the chip counts, here is your table for today. Hopefully, some of the regulars here may be able to give you some pointers. Apologies if this is not you.
The only name I recognize is Eli Heath, also a Brit, who, by a remarkable coincidence, is a very big cash game player on Sky Poker. What are the chances of that? I know him quite well, cracking lad, but fearless, & a quality player with some great results on his CV.
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=137987
Good luck today.
I have not researched the table, I just happen to know Eli quite well.
I will try & stop by this afternoon. Tonight is the Sky Poker July 4th party, (3 line whip), so I won't be able to follow you, but if you get a chance in the breaks, post some updates.
I'll deffo rail you tomorrow, though.
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 4422 entries, Day 1 of 43
We're about 150 from the money at the end of Day 1 after two starting flights, with the biggest stack being held by Sean Munjal who heads a trio of Americans in the top three places, with the alliterative duo of Marcus Mack & Bobby Bresner in 2nd & 3rd.
As you know from the above posts, we have two Sky players still involved, James Grimes (Grintler) and Eli Heath (whose alias I do know but am not posting without knowing it's OK to do so, but you will have seen on Top Of The Pots regularly).
Other GB players through, Lee Taylor, Barry Donovan, Peter Akery, Akshay Reddy, Seb Saffari, Kevin Williams, Stephen Rawle, Chihao Tsang, Iain Paterson, Andrew Teng, Fahir Han & Pramesh Bansi plus anyone else they may have listed from Gabon, Guatemala or Estonia.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 108 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Three Brits in the Top 10, former Poker Players Champion Matthew Ashton leading the way with Stephen Chidwick (4th) & Stuart Rutter (10th) among the 61 who have made Day 2.
A fourth Brit, Talal Shakerchi is also still in, but he has the smallest stack of all going forward and be looking for at least one early double up to try and work towards making another cash.
Plenty of bracelet holders still standing, including from this series alone Shaun Deeb, Robert Mizrachi, Mike Gorodinsky, Daniel Alaei, Phil Hellmuth & Max Pescatori, together with Ted Forrest, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Tikay's new love child, "Hold Me Closer" Georgie Danzer.
Jack Duong took 16 hands today to finish off the last few chips that Viteslav Pesta had to take down Event 62
The live FT of the Online bracelet zipped through and was won by Anthony Spinella who got to the FT of a WSOP 6 max back in 2011.
The Stud Hi-Low is down to 12 with Gerard Ringe & Adam Owen in 5th & 11th in chips respectively.
The Lucky 7s has burst the bubble, no news yet if either or both the Sky players survived to that point. 429 cashed, Iain Paterson clocked up a min cash to add to the ever increasing GB tally.
Finally, in the Dealers Choice we now have exactly half the 108 starting field left in contention, Talal Shakerchi has bit the dust, but Ashton, Chidwick & Rutter all still have top 10 stacks. Only 12 will get paid, so a long way to go yet.
Stick it in when it feels right, no regrets and very best of luck!!
Spin spin spin!!!
Stuart Rutter is still in the Dealers Choice, but he is pretty short stacked now as 15th out of 17 with 12 to get paid.
Gerald Ringe is going well at the FT of the Stud Hi-Lo, currently being live streamed but without hole cards and commentary. There are 4 left and he has just taken the chip lead after busting John Esposito.
Good updates by the way.
As mentioned earlier, this was taken down by Jack Duong
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 2 of 2
Probably the most experienced of the 6 finalists, Anthony Spinella cleared out the FT in pretty quick time to win his first bracelet
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Don't suppose the WSOP mind this one going to a 4th day as there is going to be very little else for them to stream early on Sunday. Three are left and the good news is that Gerald Ringe is still standing.
Californian Chris Webb is chip leader (1.9m), Ringe has 1.6m and the short stack is Canadian Daniel Idema with about half a million.
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 4422 entries, Day 2 of 4
61 move forward to Day 3, and there are 3 British players amongst them. Andrew Teng is just better than midfield, but Peter Avery & Akshay Reddy are in the bottom third.
Rocco Palumbo from Italy is the boss at the moment, with Americans filling the next ten places (Robert Toye & Bao Nguyen lie second and third)
There was a hand very late on that made everyone chuckle and cheer, a player was all in and called, and when the hands were turned over, both players had a pair of sevens. No four-card flush came and the pot was chopped up. Lucky Sevens indeed.
Well done to the Sky players who cashed and their exploits are detailed above.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 108 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Play had to be extended for a little while on Day 2 as they didn't want to end "on the bubble". and 20 minutes later Alexander Denisov departed. He had been the chip leader for long portions of the day but his stack faded away and lost his last few chips paying Omaha Hi-Low.
Enough about him, how about Stuart Rutter. The mixed game specialist has done it again, making his 7th cash of the Series and is guaranteed to pick up at least $21K and should push him into the top 1000 all time tournament winners.
Rep Porter is the chip leader, earlier bracelet winner Jeff Madsen is second and Finn Jussi Nevanlinna is third.
To Start Today
Just a little tournament known as the "Main Event". Good luck to any Sky Qualifiers playing this, the first of 3 day 1s.
Great work Grintler, that's a fine, fine, performance.
No, not the controversial cyclist, or a floating barrier used to control an oil slick, or even the first word of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's last Top 40 hit.
It's the sound of a 4th British bracelet this year, as Gerald Ringe has won Event 65, the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo.
He needed just about half an hour of Day 4 play to knock out first Daniel Idema then Chris Vitch.
Well done that man.
Not so good news from the Dealer's Choice, it's down to 8 but that 8 does not include Birmingham's finest Stu Rutter as he was first man out today in 12th place.
I was walking the Tables in Brasilia, & happened across Redmond Lee opening to 400.
He bet, & was called, every street on this board, including a hefty river bet which was called very quickly.
6-7-8-K-6
Redmond tabled 4-5, Villain mucked his hand in obvious disgust.
Stu Rutters 12th place was good for almost 22k so he more than doubled his money and cashed for the umpteenth time this series.... and I like it!
As already mentioned, this was a glorious 4th UK bracelet, Gerald Ringe knocking out both of his final table mates inside 45 minutes to claim his first WSOP title and $180K
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 4422 entries, Day 3 of 4
Two levels left to play tonight, with 10 still standing. Those left at the end of those 2 hours will come back tomorrow for a FT. Play is very cautious 10 handed and not much has happened in the last hour or so.
We had 3 Brits come back for Day 3, we lost Peter Akery in 48th for $8048, and after a nice payjump the very next player out was Akshay Reddy but his slip showed a payout of over $9800. Finally, Andrew Teng went out not long after, also during the $9800 payout level.
David Yu is the chip leader, others still include Matt Matros & Faraz Jaka.
Edit: they decided on an early night and did not play the 2 levels suggested above, so the 10 players will all come back for Day 4.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 108 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Quinn Do is the Dealers Choice Champion after the 39-year old Vietnamese born player overcame a stacked final table to collect his 2nd bracelet.
Rep Porter (2 bracelets) was 2nd and Jeff Madsen (4 bracelets) was 3rd.The players in 5th, 7th & 8th were also former bracelet winners.
UK Interest ended early on day 3 as Stuart Rutter was the first player busted. It is his 7th cash of a very impressive summer
WSOP68 - $10K NLH Main Event, Day 1A
Looks like a small reduction (of 30) on last years Day 1A field with 741 entries acccording to the WSOP site.
Play concluded after the standard (for the Main) 5 2-hr levels and at the end of the day there are about 470 players ready to come back on Wednesday for Day 2AB
The biggest chip stack was held by Floridian William Kakon followed by the virtually impossible to spell without cutting & pasting Gjergj Sinishaj and the far easier Alex Tran.
Only one former ME winner played today, Jonathan Duhamel but he made it through with a nice stack, plenty of other November Niners in evidence though including two from last year, Jorryt van Hoof and Andoni Larrabe who were on virtually neighboruing tables at one point, and Kevin Schaffel who was chip leader as the first person to break 100K at one point.
British names through, in descending chip order, take a deep breath
Chun Law
Talal Shakerchi
David Gent
Daniel Bland
Matthew Pettit
Ben Heath
Michael Greco
Charles Carrel
Sebastian Saffari
Rodger Reynolds
Marc Foggin
Robert Tinnion
Mats Rosen
Chris Brammer
Christopher Gordon
Kenneth Hill
Arkadi Kilman
Sergi Reixach
Keith Johnson
Paul Newey
Senh Ung
Hector Rodriquez
Redmond Lee (yay!)
Barkatul Mohammed
Alistair Hill
Alberto Gomez
Jamie Chang
Reigning WSOP ME Champion Martin Jacobson was unwell and unable to do the traditional "Shuffle Up and Deal" that the reigning champion traditionally performs at the start of Day 1A, so they asked Irish legend Donnacha O'Dea to do the honours. Donnacha twice made the ME FT, and his son Eoghan was a 2011 November Niner. What is less known about Donnacha is that he also represented Ireland in swimming at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Anyway he also played 1A and has made it through, albeit with one of the shortest stacks.
Barny Boatman was a very early chip leader after making the very first elimination of the ME but he later disappeared, and other GB names defintely out are John Gale & Patrick Leonard.
He said this (copied from WSOP.com), though George being a bright bloke would have known that no exclamation mark was needed, but WSOP thought otherwise. Shame on the WSOP.
"Keep your calm. Respect the players. Respect the dealers and staff because we are going to make a lot of mistakes. Have fun, and shuffle up and deal!"
It was not me, either - I put my back out yesterday, so I can barely walk a yard, never mind a mile in blistering heat.