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I just saw how the bubble burst, there were 1,002 left, with 1,000 paid, but 1001st always gets a seat into next years main.
A kid got it all-in with 5-5 v 7-5, but the board double paired high cards, so the 7-5 man won with his 7 kicker. An awesome way to bubble.
As luck would have it, two players exited on the same hand, & so they had to draw a card (highest wins) to see who got the Seat next year, & 5-5 man won that, so not so bad in the end.
The doubly unlucky player who got knocked out and lost the draw the next year's seat was Jonas Lauck who has over $1m in Hendon Mob recorded cashes, including a FT in Event 57 for over $92K, while Roy Douad has no Hendon Mob page at all but least he's got a 10K seat for next year's ME.
Fifteen minutes to "shuffle up and deal" for Day 4...
Just a short speech by him - "I did not come here to lose, that's all I have to say"
604 Seb Saffari
602 Luke Marsh
598 Philip Carey
plus resident Brit Chris Bjorin in 605th. All pick up $17282.
That has seen the exit of Former winner Jonathan Duhamel (565th), Australian cricket legend Shane Warne (597th) plus two more GB names
544 Stuart Rutter
531 Sebastian Ruthenburg
both pick up $19500.
He's admitted multi-accounting on 'Stars, using Irish gambler Noel Hayes' account. He used that account to play a lot of high-stakes mixed-games action, for which Hastings is not normally known. He took some players for large sums of money who were under the belief that they were playing Noel Hayes, not Brian Hastings.
He then had several bracelet prop bets (allegedly worth more than the first bracelet he won this year) against people who did not know he had been playing these mixed games under a different account.
Part of his defence is that everyone does it and it seems to have split the Vegas poker playing community in two.
With the legalisation and regulation of online poker in the US still under review and discussion, the promotion of someone who is a self-admitted rule breaker as the "World Champion" of the game isn't going to get any lawmakers on side.
If you want any more information and a whole lot of allegations, denials, counter allegations, moaning and downright stirring, there is a 146-page thread on 2+2.
Jim Bechtel & Vitali Lunkin are each making their 6th cash in a WSOP ME
Lunkin and Aditya Agrawal are the only two playes left who cashed in both 2014 & 2013
Jake Cody is the only one of the 6 Brits still to have previously cashed (2013 & 2011)
Bechtel made the Top 100 all 5 times he previously cashed (most of which were in a lot smaller fields of course), Farzad Bonyadi, Christian Harder, Lunkin & Men Nguyen have all made the Top 100 twice before.
225 left, so we're on a payjump to $40,433.
Chas Chatta has lost about 15% of his stack but still sits with plenty, McDonald, Cody & Lewis have also lost a couple of hundred thousand so far, but Philip McAllister who needed an upturn most has had a small one, and has increased his stack by 50% but he's still not too comfortable.
Interestingly, Hendon Mob don't have a single cash recorded for him in the UK.
183 left.
We have lost one of the last three previous November Niners (Jim Bechtel's FTs pre-date November 9 by a long way). Ukrainian Anton Makiievksyi has been knocked out when his AK couldn't hold up against Andrew Moreno's dominated A3.
Another lady has gone too, Susie Zhao, so we're down to 3 in that category.
Jake Cody knocked out someone to boost his stack.
168 left and we're approaching another pay jump already
Antonio Esfandiari has been hanging around with a short stack all day, and thought his time had come when he had a bet and a raise in front of him with Pocket Kings, unfortunately for him, one of the previous bettors had pocket aces and the Magician was unable to conjure up a third king.
John Racener was the runner-up to Jonathan Duhamel in 2010, but he'll have to settle for 162nd and the first player out at the new payout level of $46890.
George McDonald has had a timely double up, as has one of the last 3 ladies standing Diana Svensk
We're down to 4 Brits though, on a technicality, as Chun Law is now being shown as from Cordova, Tennesse rather than London. I did mention after Day 1C that there were two Chun Law's through both showing from London, so perhaps only one of them was British after all and it looks like it was the wrong one.
159 left.
No casualties on any of my watch list in the last half hour or so, Toby Lewis has lost a few though and is now down to about 3/4 of a million. We have a new chip leader for the first time today as Bruce Peery has overtaken Joseph McKeehen, with Brian Hastings 4th & Justin Bonomo 6th.
Three players are over 5 million in chips - Max Steinberg, David Peters & Belgian Pierre Neuville. Steinberg is one of 10 former bracelet winners left, but none of them have Main Event bracelets as Jim Bechtel's run ended busting in 121st place.
We've also lost Georges Georgiou (another who has been British in some updates, and non British in some others) in 107th and Jake Cody in 113th, and the third-last female player Lily Newhouse in 138th.
Others to go include Matt Glantz (147th), Jared Jaffee (137th), Will Molson (134th), Kenny Hallaert (123rd), Vitaly Lunkin (119th), Farzad Bonyadi (114th) and Irishman Declan Connolly (103th).
So, to those still in. Three Brits - George McDonald has chipped his way up to 6th (4.3m), Toby Lewis was the winner of a 3-way coup (3.6m) and Chas Chattha (2.9m)
Two ladies - Swede Diana Svensk (1.9m) and American Kelly Minkin (short stacked with just under 400K).
There are still 5 Germans in including Anton Morgenstern & Fedor Holz. Brian Hastings is now middle of the pack but still very much in contention, as is Daniel Negreanu and fellow Canadian Matt Jarvis, the only former November Niner still looking for a return trip to the Penn & Teller Theater.
The final Irish player standing is Nicholas Abourisk, and there are also players from Israel, Brazil, Portugal, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, India, Ukraine & Italy still active.
Picking up where we left off, we are now in the last level of Day 5 and we are down to double figures, 93 players.
Three players are over 5 million in chips - Max Steinberg, David Peters & Belgian Pierre Neuville. Steinberg is one of 10 former bracelet winners left, but none of them have Main Event bracelets as Jim Bechtel's run ended busting in 121st place.
We've also lost Georges Georgiou (another who has been British in some updates, and non British in some others) in 107th and Jake Cody in 113th, and the third-last female player Lily Newhouse in 138th.
Others to go include Matt Glantz (147th), Jared Jaffee (137th), Will Molson (134th), Kenny Hallaert (123rd), Vitaly Lunkin (119th), Farzad Bonyadi (114th) and Irishman Declan Connolly (103th).
So, to those still in. Three Brits - George McDonald has chipped his way up to 6th (4.3m), Toby Lewis was the winner of a 3-way coup (3.6m) and Chas Chattha (2.9m)
Two ladies - Swede Diana Svensk (1.9m) and American Kelly Minkin (short stacked with just under 400K).
There are still 5 Germans in including Anton Morgenstern & Fedor Holz. Brian Hastings is now middle of the pack but still very much in contention, as is Daniel Negreanu and fellow Canadian Matt Jarvis, the only former November Niner still looking for a return trip to the Penn & Teller Theater.
The final Irish player standing is Nicholas Abourisk, and there are also players from Israel, Brazil, Portugal, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, India, Ukraine & Italy still active.
Everyone still going has locked up at least $68K, with pay jumps every 9 places from here.
Apart from Toby Lewis losing a big one and winning almost a big of one in quick succession, the Brits are rolling along with seemingly few dramas.
We have lost the 2nd last lady though, Diana Svensk bust (perhaps that's not the best term to use when talking about a female player) in 83rd place, leaving Kelly Minkin as the last woman in the Main Event.
Another former bracelet winner has bit the dust too, Matt Waxman departs the scene in 75th, followed by the last Austrian player, Manuel Blashke in 74th, and a man after my own heart, Stephen Lichtenberger (brother of well known pro Andrew) has been nursing a very small stack all day (down to 2BB or so on at least 2 occasions) has finally just gone in 73rd
And finally, Chun Law is back showing as British. I wish they'd make their minds up.
Belgian veteran Pierre Neuville is the chip leader, the 72 year old the only player with a stack greater than 7 million chips. His nearest challengers are David Stefanski & Thomas Paul. In 4th is David Peters, but not the David Peters who is currently inside the Top 20 of the Global Poker Index rankings, this one is from California. This could get as confusing as the David Bakers and the Chun Laws.
Talking of Chun Law, if the Chun Law that is still in is the British one, we have 4 UK players remaining. George MacDonald from Glasgow is sitting nicely inside the Top 10, Toby Lewis and Chun Law are about in the middle of the pack but Chas Chattha has dropped back a bit and is relatively short stacked (24BB)
One November Niner remains, 2010 8th placed finisher Matt Jarvis. Jarvis is also one of 8 former bracelet winners inside the final 69, fellow Canadian Daniel Negreanu (6), Brian Hastings (3), Justin Bonomo, Upeshka De Silva, Max Greenwood, Sam Gross & Max Steinberg (1 each). Hastings won 2 of his 3 this year, De Silva also has a 2015 bracelet already in his possession.
Congratulations to Kelly Minkin from Tuscon who is the last lady standing. She was very short towards the end of the day, but a nice double up within the last few hands saw her vault up the chip standings.
Play will resume at 8pm our time, with the schedule to play down to 27 players.