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It's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find players here, the tables are spread around some 9 different areas, including the Poker Kitchen.
I managed to find no less than THREE former WSOP Main Event winners playing Colossus last night.
The sheer weight of numbers means the wifi has virtually collapsed, it's taking 20 minutes to load a page.
All jolly exciting though, & I'm so pleased the WSOP has catered for a lower buy-in, & been rewarded with a monster field. Good for the game? Just a bit.
The final table of the Shootout will be live-streamed, from about 10:30pm if I've got my timings right and that should be a good one.
Play was called off for the night during heads-up play between Robert Mizrachi (brother of...) and Jacob Dahl. They had already played one extra level to try and finish the event on Day 3, but even that was not enough to split them so they will come back on Sunday to finish the job and play for the bracelet and the $251K first prize (second will take $155K). Dahl has a 5.1m to 1.8m chip lead at the overnight point. No British players cashed in this event.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 3 of 3, 308 entrants
Nick Petrangelo has won Event 4 after a 199-hand final table where he beat Jason Les heads up
Petrangelo may not be one of the best known names on the major circuit, but he was already 40th in the Global Poker Index and had 4 6-figure wins already in 2015.
He adds $201,812 to his previous live total earnings of $1.3m.
Loni Harwood busted first on the final table, losing most of her chips when trying a bluff, but bluffing with air into a Full House is usually not a good idea, and so it proved here.
Actor James Woods finished 7th, well known Norwegian Andreas Hoivold 6th and Derek Bowers, who was about 45 minutes late (!) arriving for the FT went out in 5th.
WSOP5 - $565 Colossus NLH - Day 1C & 1D
The final wave of the Colossus has sat down, meaning we should soon be able to get final totals of players.
Flight C ended with Steven Giralis from California as the biggest stack, but pleased to say , right behind him in second, is Simon Deadman.
Adam Owen is in 4th, with the Mad Turk, Yucel Eminoglu, in 14th.
Other players marked with "GB" through to Day 2 from this group - Ben Warrington, Steven Wilkie, Peter Gould, Lee Taylor, Ricky Pegley, John Baron, Chris Bjorin & Timothy Priest
Playing 1D, Ryan Spittles is shown as having a decent chip stack on the WSOP updates, but these chip counts are notoriously poor in updating so we'll have to wait to the end of play (or he posts an update on Twitter I suppose) to see if he is still involved).
To start today
WSOP6 - $1K Hyper Hold'em (2 Day Event)
WSOP7 - $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (3 Day Event)
5/31/2015 1:42:52 AM PST (about 26 minutes ago)
Ryan Spittles Wins Prop Bet
Ryan Spittles is 62nd of the Flight D qualifiers, with 62K chips. Other GB qualifiers - Chun Law, Laura Cerisola, Lee Davy, Gary Banks, Mohammed Suhail, Seb Saffari & Kevin O'Leary. Nearly 1000 players have made it through from the last Flight, with 3340 or so players in total making Day 2.
Still no news on the total number of entries used or the number to be paid.
Table 394
1 Jeffrey COBURN (USA) 33700
2 Adrian DIAZ (USA) 26400
3 Chun LAW (GBR) 53700
4 Ibrahim NAIM (USA) 41100
5 Israel TZIVIN (USA) 93200
6 Jared INGLES (USA) 23200
7 Nicholas HARVALIS (USA) 37600
8 Mats ULSHAGEN (NOR) 29800
9 Ryan SPITTLES (GBR) 62100
10 Steve GEE (USA) 7000
Robert Mizrachi claimed his 3rd career bracelet after coming from a large chip deficit to beat Jacob Dahl heads-up. That comeback also gains Mizrachi nearly $100k with the winner taking $251K and the runner-up $155K
WSOP 5 - $565 Colossus NLH, Day 2 of 5, 22374 entries
From the chaos of over 22000 entries over the Day 1 sessions, just over 500 have navigated through to Day 3, with Valentin Vornicu the only player with more than a million in chips. He leads an all-American top ten, with no familiar names amongst them.
Brits still involved - Laura Cerisola (the only one inside the Top 100), KerryJane Craigie, Mohammed Suhail, Simon Deadman, Chun Law & Kevin O'Leary.
Top Brit casher so far (I believe) was Gregory Moore who departed in 547th for an even $5000 (he is shown as London, Guatemala but I think that is an error). Andrew Hawksby also picked up the $5K, Armin Ghojevand $4474, Steven Wilkie, Ryan Spittles & Igor Khvorov $3300, Ricky Pegley & Niall Farrell $2740 each, Oluwashola Akindele $2517, Adam Owen $2315, Lee Barrett $2125, Chas Chatta & Ben Warrington $1957, Suryakant Patel, Neville Darrell, Andrew Hills (Sky player as mentioned above), Lee Davy, Gary Hurst $1801, Darren Mapley $1655, Gary Bertam & Patrick Wiper $1521, Louis Salter ,Matas Cimbolas $1398 and finally Swede-resident-in-London Chrs Björin $1185
WSOP6 - $1000 Hyper NLH, Day 1 of 2, 1436 entrants
1436 have become 9 as the first ever Hyper Hold'em lived up to its name. Harrison Beach (no, that's his name, that's not where he comes from) has the biggest stack (2.28m) with nearest challenger Ryan Julius a distance behind with 930k. Ryan's brother Kyle came close to a bracelet three years ago (finishing runner-up in a $5000 NLH event), maybe he will go one better.
Marc MacDonnell will represent Ireland on the final table, but the British challenge petered out with David Vamplew exiting in 17th for $9253.
Roberto Romanello & Jonathon Wong took $6319 as the only other GB cashers.
WSOP7 - $10K Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Championship, Day 1 of 3, 109 entrants
56 of 109 go forward to Day 2, and as you expect in a 10K event in a niche format of the game, it's full of familiar names bracelet hunting. Craig Hartman has the top stack at the end of Day 1, with the likes of Rep Porter, Layne Flack & Phil Galfond inside the Top 10. Robert Mizrachi, fresh off his earlier bracelet is 15th and also still involved Scott Siever, Bruno Fitoussi, John Monette, Dan Shak, John Hennigan, Billy Baxter, Justin Bonomo, and scraping in with the 56th of 56 stacks, Phil Hellmuth
Philip Long is the only UK player left.
To Start Today
WSOP8 - $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em (3 Day Event)
WSOP9 - $1500 Razz (3 Day Event)
The field in the Colossus has now been narrowed down to less than 40 players, and we lost the last 2 UK based players near the end of the day, Laura Cerisola & KerryJane Craigie. Craigie has a few small cashes over the last few years (her biggest being 1480 Euros in a UKIPT in Dublin about 18 months ago), the only Hendon Mob result Cerisola has (listing her as a Spanish player) is 580 Euros in an event in Marbella back in 2012.
Of the 39 players coming back, Ray Henson holds the chip lead. He has experience of going really deep in huge fields as he was 12th in the 2007 ME. Adi Prasetyo & David Farber (no relation to 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber I believe) fill 2nd and 3rd positions. There is one previous bracelet winner (Mike Leah) and I believe one female player (Thuy Kawang) still in.
WSOP 6 - $1k Hyper Hold'em, 1436 entrants, Day 2 of 2
This one is done and dusted and 26-year-old Minnesota poker pro John Reading has the bracelet and over a quarter of a million dollars.
Irishman Marc MacDonnell was the heads-up loser, which makes that the highest non-American result so far this year.
As befits a hyper, the final table lasted just an hour and three quarters
WSOP7 - $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, 109 entrants
Just 7 players come back on Tuesday for the final of the Triple Draw Championship with Tuan Le in pole position. All of the other players are either really well known or reasonably well known players - Calvin Anderson, Max Casal, Ismael Bojang, Phil Galfond, Rep Porter & James Obst
The British challenge ended when Philip Long went out in 34th.
WSOP 8, $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em, 639 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Just over 100 players left to shout "Pot" a lot during the later stages of Event 8 but the good news is that 5 British marked players are among them - Oleksii Khoroshenin (who appears actually to be Ukrainian, and has no UK cashes whatsoever), William Mitchell, Andrew Teng, Chris Moorman and Aaron Virchis. Michael Rocco has the chip lead, but others still in contention include Antonio Esfandiari, Jonathan Duhamel, Eric Baldwin, Jesse Sylvia, Felix Stephensen, Josh Arieh, Kathy Liebert & Hoyt Corkins, plus the annoying Humberto Brenes.
WSOP9 - $1500 Razz, 462 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Being a limit game, pace is quite slow in the Razz event with 169 players making Day 2. Some big names near the top, with Andre Akkari 3rd and David "ODB" Baker 4th, but top of the tree for the moment is Russian player Alex Kuzmin.
As far as I can see, this is the first event to have significantly increased numbers on last year's total (last year was 352). Loads of "names" still in heading to Day 2 - Eli Elezra, James Woods (who seems to be everywhere so far), Shaun Deeb, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Victor Ramdin, Dutch Boyd, Barry Greenstein, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
British interest centres around two players in the bottom 15 stacks - Richard Ashby & Adam Owen.
To start today
WSOP10 - $10K Heads Up NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP11 - $1500 Limit Hold'Em (3 Day Event)
Jake Abdalla vs. Ronald Minnis
Brandon Adams vs. Alexander Venovski
Isaac Baron vs. Russell Rosenblum
Adam Bilzerian vs. Thomas Muehloecker
Valeriu Coca vs. Matt Marafioti
Connor Drinan vs. Jason Les
Markus Gonsalves vs. Erik Seidel
Jeff Gross vs. Jonathan Jaffe
Jonathan Hanner vs. David Peters (CA)
Doug Polk vs. Andrew Lichtenberger
Branden Hampton vs. Dee Tiller
Yoshihisa Kanzaki vs. Oliver Price
Ankush Mandavia vs. Chung-Wei Wu
Brandon Steven vs. Kevin Song
David Peters (MI) vs. Matthew Hyman
After these 15 matches have been played, these winners plus the 113 players with first round byes will be drawn into a "Bracket" so who plays who will then be fixed for the remaining rounds.
Polk v Lichtenberger seems to be the stand-out first round match.
Loving the posts as usual, the effort you put in every year is much appreciated.
We have a final table in the Colossus, and the final 9 are headed by Aditya Prasetyo from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has over 30% of the chips in play, and more than double that of his nearest challenger, Belgian Kenny Hellaert.
The Final Table bubble hand was a textbook cooler, Prasetyo's AK of clubs beating Bradley Burns' AK of spaces when the flop came all clubs to leave Burns drawing dead.
WSOP7 - $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, 109 entrants
To win 2 WSOP bracelets is impressive, to do it in the mega-pro infested 10K events even more so. But to win the same 10K Championshp event two years running?
Well that's what Tuan Le achieved. He beat three other bracelet holders (Calvin Anderson, Phil Galfond & Rep Porter) among others to take down the event and pick up $322K. Second place went to Max Casal, who is a regular opponent of Le in the high-stakes cash games at the Commerce Casino in LA, while in third was Ismael Bojang who I hadn't noticed last year set a WSOP record with 13 cashes in a single year.
WSOP 8, $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em, 639 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Fifteen go forward to Day 3 headed by David Eldridge who ascended to the top of the pile with a late knock-out. Two Euros (France's Michel Leibgorin and Germany's Paul Michaelis) fill the next two places. Veteran Tom Marchese is probably the biggest name left, but for us the most important name is that at the very bottom, William Mitchell of Oxford who has guaranteed himself just over $9K.
WSOP9 - $1500 Razz, 462 entrants, Day 2 of 3
N-n-n-nineteen razzers are still involved in Event 9 in the chase for the bracelet and the $155K first prize. The 19 have already ensured they will collect $4540 so trebling their money.
Chris George has the biggest stack, with fellow Americans Matthew Smith & Jason Schwartz close behind. Eli Elezra, Cyndy Violette & Max Pescatori are also still there with decent stacks, but no British players unfortunately, in fact we didn't even manage a min-cash.
WSOP10 - $10K Heads Up NLH (Day 1 of 2), 143 entrants
After four rounds of heads-up play, the final 16 is set. No chip leader of course, all 16 will enter Day 2 with the same number of chips.
Max Silver is the only UK player left in, along with the likes of George Danzer, JC Tran, Olivier Busquet & Paul Volpe
The draw is
Andy Philachack v Matthew Cooper
Timothy Adams v Simon Lam
Paul Volpe v Barry Hutter
Isidro Sifuentes v George Danzer
Jake Schindler v Keith Lehr
Byron Kaverman v Valeriu Coca
Olivier Busquet v JC Tran
Max Silver v Dee Tiller
Losers in this round take home $26490.
WSOP11 - $1500 Limit Hold'Em (Day 1 of 3), 660 entrants
225 have qualified for Day 2, with a lot of the big name pros amongst those who fell on their swords - the WSOP report notes that all of Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Huck Seed, Todd Brunson, Jonathan Little, Joseph Cheong, Michael Mizrachi, and Jonathan Duhamel are casualties. However, Brunson and Greenstein also appear on the list of qualifiers for Day 2 so I'll take some of the reporting with a pinch of salt.
Of those who had happier days, Belarusian Vasili Firsau and and Canadian Francois Vigeant are the top two stacks, ahead of highest placed American, Tynan Sammatarohutchins (who I cut and pasted just to be on the safe side). Established "names" Chris Tryba and Brock Parker return with a decent stack, while Barry Greenstin & Jeff Lisandro have smaller stacks. As for the Brits, well we tend not to do much in the limit hold'em and today followed ths pattern, no GB players made Day 2.
To start today
WSOP12 - $1500 NLH 6-max
WSOP13 - $2500 Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better
Vegas is treating me wonderfully. Not much poker so far, my first 10 days is mainly a non-poker holiday, punctuated by 2 or 3 Tourneys.
Yesterday & Monday I had THE most wonderful time, best time I've ever had here. I wrote a brief update about it on Tomgoodun's Diary, here
The system for uploading Blogs has changed, & for "LATEST NEWS" I can't Upload them myself, I have to send them up to the Office, whereas on the old system, for the "Official Sky Poker Blog", I could update them myself. The thing is, the Office have been very busy on " Latest News", what with the new Rewards Scheme, & Sky Poker UKPC etc, so they are probably a bit too busy. A couple of my Blogs are already "in the queue" so to speak, so no point sending more until they go up. Have to remember, that the Rewards Scheme & UKPC are genuine "news", whereas my waffle is just a bit of fun.
If all else fails, I'll Upload them myself onto the Blog Page, though they get much less traffic there, & there is no SEO, whereas Latest News has good SEO.
Once my little holiday ends, & I start playing daily, there'll be Blogs every day. I've kept notes of all sorts already, just whimsical USA type stuff, which readers often enjoy.
PS - Am off to Golden Nugget shortly, for a $220 PLO which starts at 11am. How "Vegas" is that, starting at 11am? Yikes, I'm so excited I'm nearly wetting myself.
Enjoy the rest of your trip and I hope it is a profitable one on the tables too, starting off by showing the Golden Nugget what you're made of!
All the best.
William Mitchell has made the final table of Event 8, streaming I believe to start fairly soon
Max Silver has been knocked out of the Heads Up at the last 16 stage
The Colossus is over and the winner of the largest live poker tournament in history is 25 year old pro from Houston, Cord Garcia. His first WSOP cash was for $638,880 beating online player Brad McFaland heads-up.
All 9 players on the FT recorded their biggest ever live cash.
WSOP 8, $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em, 639 entrants, Day 3 of 3
This one is over too, and we have the first European bracelet of the summer as German-born Austrian player Paul Michaelis (who had previously min-cashed the Colossus) outlasted Tom Marchese to take home nearly $190K and the bracelet. Between them, Michaelis and Marchese eliminated all the other Final Table opponents. Michaelis won the final hand when his Pocket 9s came from behind against Marchese's Queens when a 9 hit the turn.
William Mitchell's FT experience didn't last too long, he busted in 9th but still had a payday of nearly 10 times his buyin.
WSOP9 - $1500 Razz, 462 entrants, Day 3 of 3
And after one Euro bracelet, we have a second in quick succession as Max Pescatori claimed his third and a top prize of $156K. He beat Ryan Miller heads-up, with Eli Elezra bowing out in 5th and Cyndy Violette 9th.
WSOP10 - $10K Heads Up NLH, 143 entrants Day 2 of 3
With Max Silver being eliminated at the last 16 stage, no British interest in the later stages. George Danzer and Olivier Busquet also went out in the last 16, with JC Tran following them in the Quarter Finals. The semi-finals saw the exit of Silver's conqueror Dee Tiller and Matthew Cooper, to leave Keith Lehr & Paul Volpe to come back on Thursday to play for the title and the bracelet and just over a third of a million dollars.
WSOP11 - $1500 Limit Hold'Em, 660 entrants, Day 2 of 3
28 will come back for the final day to play for the bracelet and $196K, led by Kevin Song who already has a bracelet in Limit Hold'em but that came way back 18 years ago. The upper echelons of the field are filled with players with Asian names, apart from Song we have Daniel Joo, Wook Kim and David Chiu (also a bracelet holder) all inside the Top 6. No UK names, but Nicholas Abourisk from Ireland lies in 7th
We also have two players from the small-ish city of Beaverton, Oregon fighting on, and in adjacent positions on the chip tally. Tynan Sammatarohutchins (who I mentioned yesterday) plus another of those Asians, Binh Nguyen, sit 15th & 16th respectively.
WSOP12 - $1500 NLH 6-max, 1651 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The money-bubble will be reached early in Day 2 as only 206 made the second day, 26 eliminations away from the bubble. Previous bracelet winner Bryan Campanello has the biggest of the big stacks (see the picture on the WSOP site, it is an impressive lot of chips) ahead of Idan Raviv & David Nowling. For a nice change in this year's series, we have a British player in the Top 10, Craig McCorkell being the player in question.
Iaron Lightbourne isn't far away either (lying 16th), and there are a number of other GB names dotted around the chip count - Patrick Leonard, Steffen Sontheimer, Ben Warrington, Andrew Hawkins & John Gale.
From a wider international perspective, we can also see the names of Antonio Esfandiari, Scott Seiver, Olivier Busquet, and David Benyamine among the 206 survivors, with the min-cash being $2563 but the eventual winner collecting a little over $454K
WSOP13 - $2500 Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 474 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Over half of the field made day 2, as is often the case in split plot games. Layne Flack is the chip leader, aiming to add a 7th bracelet to his collection. Hani Awad & John Hoang are second and third, and I must admit I can't recall anything about of them.
Philp Long has got through a few Day 1s this Series already without hitting big money, and he is the top British player overnight. Ben Dobson and Robert Price (who they're still annoying listing as from "Cornwell" rather than "Cornwall") are still in, as are the likes of Eli Elezra (having a good series), Scotty Nguyen, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed, George Danzer and David Sklansky. Sitting midfield is ESPN WSOP co-commentator Norman Chad, a regular in Stud-type events (what does he do between WSOPs?) and the player in 19th tickled me, he is shown as being called "Prince of Docness".
To start today
WSOP14 - $1500 NLH Shootout (3 day event)
WSOP15 - $10K Pot Limit Hold'em Championship (3 day event)