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And as I type that a bigger stack has busted so nice ladder for Stu to a gtd $48,807 with just 6 left! still under 10bb tho
Big hand not long after with Rawtani making a 3 bet pre then shipping it when Vessier had donk led a Kh 8h 4s flop. Vessier tanks for a while but makes the call with KsQd and he only has to fade 4 obvious outs as Rawtani was getting funky with the 5d6s pre and shipping with just a gutshot!
That made Vessier the chip leader and Rawtani with less than a mill, the 2 collided again a few hands later blind on blind setup with Vessier getting the best of 1010 vs 88 and holding up. Rawtani out in 6th and Stu the very short stack has laddered again
5 handed now so gtd $67,248
4th gets $91,991
3rd nets $127,549
2nd settles for $184,481
winner takes the bracelet plus a tidy $298,290
However he is still the shorty with around 800k which is just 10bb, well this is a turbo after all :P
No sorry scratch that, with a nice raise and c bet with the A3os VS 66 on 910Q flop he gets to 15bb and 3rd place
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Sorry to have to report Stu is out in 5th in cruel fashion, he made the correct and somewhat easy call with A9os in the bb when the sb had shoved with Q7os, but the villain with the super hero villain name of Luther hit his queen on the flop and left Stu crippled with antes, he managed to double up a few times to 3bb but goes out shoving K9 into A3 - going ahead on flop, but behind on turn, then out for a very nice 5th place, well played Stu you were very unlucky.
We're down to heads up in both bracelet FTs and still have a potential story in both
In the Turbo, John Gale is up against Gary Luther and the man from Hertfordshire (Despite the graphics showing the Canadian Flag against his name) could be about to become a member of the exclusive 2-bracelet British club. Gale's first bracelet came way back in 2006.
Over on the Razz FT, Phil Hellmuth is playing Mike Gorodinsky and has a very small chip lead in the quest for his 14th bracelet.
John Gale eliminated Gary Luther when his pocket 2s (I refuse to call them deuces) held up. He takes his second bracelet and $298K. As Janana said, Stu Rutter finished 5th for $67K
Hellmuth is closing in on the 14th bracelet, he has been coming out on top on most of the close hands and has a 4:1 chip lead.
17 left in the Millionaire Maker, with Niall Farrell still fighting on.
Delighted to see Hellmuth win another bracelet. Each time he takes another one down those people who maintain their stance that he's awful look even more ridiculous than they did before. It's a bit like trying to convince people that Rory McIlroy plays golf badly, or that Ronnie O'Sullivan plays terrible snooker.
WSOP16 - $1500 NLH Millionaire Maker, 7725 entries, Day 3 of 4
Seventeen players remain in contention for the Million Dollar first prize (in fact a little over 1.27 million)
Randy Preifer (who made the FT of Event 14) is the chip leader, but there are still several renowned names in - Mike Sexton, Andrew Lichtenberger & Olivier Busquet amongst them.
For those of you who don't know, Sexton is/was the lead TV host and commentator of the WPT, and is also a member of the Poker Hall Of Fame.
One UK presence remains, Niall Farrell from Scotland.
Edit - before I get the chance to post this, play has started on Day 4 and Lichtenberger has already bust.
I thought this was showing before as a 5-day event but it must be taking Days 1A & 1B as two separate days as they are intending to play to a winner today.
WSOP17 - $10K Razz Championship, 103 entrants, Day 3 of 3
What can you say about Phil Hellmuth? You've got to admire his record, and you've got to disrespect his table behaviour, even finding it necessary to have a go at the dealer when heads up here.
His 14th bracelet comes with $271K of prize money and is his second in Razz.
He beat Mike Gordinsky heads-up for the title, with two British players (in fact two players from less than 20 miles apart in Kent) on the FT - Adam Owen in 3rd ($104K) and Stephen Chidwick in 7th ($38K)
WSOP18 - $1000 Turbo NLH, 1791 entrants, Day 2 of 2
After a few near misses, the British players are finally on the board at this summer's WSOP.
Veteran player John Gale from Hertfordshire collected his second bracelet, 9 years after his first and also picked up $298K. He beat Gary Luther, who had never before cashed at a WSOP event heads up when his pocket 2s held up against Luther's A3.
One of Gale's victims on the FT was Sky favourite Stuart Rutter. Stu finished in 5th place for a nice payday of over $67K
That's last year's tally of GB bracelets equalled, let's hope we can go one or two better.
WSOP19 - $3000 Limit Hold'em 6 Max, 319 entrants, Day 2 of 3
I was somewhat overlooking this event as the play progressed in the above 3 events, (well it is Limit Hold'em so it is easily overlooked), but 22 will come back for Day 3.
Kevin Stammen has built a chip lead, due in part to turning a Straight Flush for a huge pot, with two more Americans in second and third places, Joseph Thomas & Andrew Brussard
Still in also are Brian Hastings, David Chiu & Ronnie Bardah, with last year's November Niner Jorryt van Hoof one of the small stacks.
WSOP20 - $1500 NLH, 1844 entrants, Day 1 of 3
272 of 1844 qualify for Day 2 with Valentin Vornicu top of the pile overnight ahead of Natasha Barbour and Selim Oulmekki.
Brits doing well include Christopher Sly (6th) & Oluwashola Akindele (14th), plus we also have Toby Lewis, Jake Cody, Leon Louis, Paul Ephremesen, Ben Dobson (fresh from his epic perforamce the other day) & The Mad Turk still with chips too
Akindele won a huge pot, in a 4-way all in. She hit a one-outer on the turn (She had Jacks, other players had 8s, Queens & AJ and there was an 8 on the flop)
Last year's ME winner Martin Jacobson continues to be involved, as do Greg Mueller, Eric Baldwin, "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier & Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
198 will get paid so the bubble will burst early in today's play
WSOP21 - $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better Championship, 157 entrants, Day 1 of 3
157 started, 101 finished Day 1 of the $10K Omaha Hi-Low with Scott Tuttle leading ahead of Tom Schneider and Gregory Jamison. Shaun Deeb has won one 10K and been the final table bubble boy of the next one, so it's no surprise to see him in contention for this one too.
Two Brits fresh off final tables earlier in the day, Messrs Chidwick & Rutter are still in, as are 10K regular Philip Long plus Eilor Sion (mentioned for the first time this year I think).
Loads of other big names still in too, too many to mention in fact.
To start today
WSOP22 - $1000 NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)
11 left including all the big names mentioned above, with Farrell in 9th (2.7m chips at 80K/160K with 20K ante)
One more out before they go to the unofficial FT, where I assume streaming will start (with of course the 30 minute delay)
Four previous bracelet winners entered the final table, and by the time we were down to 5 players, all four were gone.
Mike Sexton busted first (his 61st WSOP cash overall), followed by Justin Pechie, Erick Lindgren and finally 2014 bracelet winner David Miscikowski.
That left Oliver Busquet as the favourite, but he went out in third, and we were left with a heads-up between Javier Zarco & Adrian Buckley.
Eventually, Zarco's quest to be only the third ever Spanish bracelet winner was in vain, and Electrican Engineer Buckley from Colorado won over one and a quarter million dollars for his first ever WSOP cash. He will be sticking around for the Main Event now.
WSOP19 - $3000 Limit Hold'em 6 Max, 319 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Matt Elsby is the new bracelet holder for Event 19, as the 38 year old pro from Chandler, Arizona took the title. It is only his 3rd ever WSOP cash, but his 2nd FT.
In a repeat of the Millionaire Maker, he beat a European player in the heads up match, 31 year old French pro Gabriel Nassif losing out.
The only previous braclet holder on the FT, Brian Hastings, was first man out in 7th (they are crediting 7 players for the FT, not saying it was the unofficial FT for now)
WSOP20 - $1500 NLH, 1844 entrants, Day 1 of 3
To events still in play, and 35 with Garrett Beckman the chip leader. Fellow American Caufman Talley is the only player with over a million chips, but the good news is that we stil have 2 Brits left in, and both in decent position.
Paul Ephremesen from Berkhamsted lies 4th (640K chips) and Oluwashola Akindele has carried her good fortune of Day 1 forward, lying 9th with 548K chips. Both have guaranteed themselves a least a $11K payday.
Ben Dobson busted in 41st for $9111, Leon Louis 118th for $3385, Chris Sly 148th for $3061 and Yucel Eminogul min-cashed for $2813.
Both Toby Lewis & Jake Cody were knocked out before the cash
WSOP21 - $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better Championship, 157 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Eighteen players move forward to the final day of the PLO8, and that man Rutter is making another deep run. He is short stacked but he is still in, and that can't be said for any other British player.
The enigmatic "Prince of Docness", otherwise known as Doc Kagal, is the chip leader, from Kyle Miaso and Daniel Alaei, with Eric Seidel, Jeremy Ausmus & Eli Elezra also still involved (albeit the latter two with even shorter stacks than Stu)
The next three players out will be the first three to cash, all picking up $20941.
WSOP22 - $1000 NLH, 1951 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Nearly 2000 players stumped up $1000 to pay Event 22, and at the end of 11 levels, 207 still have chips and have made Day 2.
Kyle White has the lead ahead of two better known players, Nacho Barbera & Jason Wheeler.
With most of the big name players playing other events, this isn't a really star-studded last 200, but it does include Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Shulman, David ODB Baker & Jesse Sylvia plus British players Mark Longhurst, Stephen Chidwick, Andrew Teng, David Tompkins & Duncan Cadman
Recent British bracelet winner John Gale was an early casualty.
Lying in 125th place is a certain "Mohammad Farah". I'm pretty sure it's not THAT Mo Farah!
WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, 219 entrants, Day 1 of 3
40 of the 219 names are in the End of Day Chip listing, with Christian Pham needing the biggest bag for his chips, over half as much again as his nearest challenger Nicholas Kerkaik.
Adam Owen is at it again, lying in the top half of the survivors and he appears to be the only genuine GB player there, although last year's November Niner Jorryt van Hoof is showing as "London, GB" in the end of day listing but is correctly shown with a Dutch flag in the updates as his nationality properly trumps his residence.
To start today
WSOP24 - $1500 HORSE (3 Day Event)
WSOP25 - $5000 NLH 8 Max (4 Day Event)
A little piece here about the extraordinary performance of John Gale.
http://bit.ly/1JJRwV1
Event 20 - both Ephremesen and Akidele are still in, Paul has had a good start to the day and now lies second, Shola has taken a couple of hits to her stack but she is still battling on with 22 left
Event 21 - Stu has fallen I'm afraid, in 13th place getting himself in a 3-way hand with Prince of Docness & Anthony Zinno when short stacked, and seeing the other two players chop the pot knocking our man out.
Event 22 - In the money after an hour-long bubble. Duncan Cadman was knocked out early on today, but all the other GB players mentioned ae carrying on.
Event 23 - Adam Owen's gone from this one, but I've noticed Benny Glaser is still in, I didn't spot him yesterday as he was incorrectly shown as being from Gabon. van Hoof is now also showing as GB everywhere but he's still Dutch.
Play continues late into the night 5-handed, with Paul Ephremesen still amongst the final 5, in fact he is the chip leader.
The other 4 players are all American, Benjamin Zamani, Kevin MacPhee, Natasha Barbour and Jin Wenlong. Barbour has been short stacked for a while now, and is doing her best "Barnacle" act by making last gasp double-ups often enough to keep her head above water.
Shola Akindele was busted in 8th for a very nice payday of $43K.
Edit - they didn't play more than a few more hands after I posted that, byt enough for Barbour to double up again. Zamani is now big stack, with Barbour second and Ephremesen now third.
WSOP21 - $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better Championship, 157 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Daniel Alaei won his fifth WSOP bracelet (plus the small matter of $390K. He had the chip lead over heads-up opponent Kyle Miaso for ages but was unable to bust him for hours
WSOP22 - $1000 NLH, 1951 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Twenty two players left in Event 22 after Day 2, each guarteeing themselves not $22222 unfortunately but $9306. Jay Dragland is one of three Canadians left and he is the big stack ahead of James Dorrance and Sean Rice. We have one British player remaining, Stephen Chidwick who has already made one FT but he is the shortest of the shorties about a dozen Big Blinds in his stack as they return for Day 3.
Andrew Teng, David Tompkins & Mark Longhurst all picked up $2119 for just-over-min-cashes
One player picked out by the WSOP of those still left in is Angel Farrington. She is in Vegas to celebrate her 23rd wedding anniversary. Her best live cash recorded on the Hendon Mob database is $3 less than the buy-in for this event, so she's already almost got 10 times that figure locked up.
WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, 219 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Down to 3 handed play already, with Day chip leader Christian Pham still in that position and looking to take the bracelet and first prize of $81,314. Allegedly he registered this tournament by mistake when really intending to enter a $1500 NLH event. He is joined on the FT by Colombian Daniel Ospina and American Matthew Smith (not the Matthew Smith who designed the Manic Miner computer games for the Sinclair Spectrum back in the day!)
Huck Seed had a deep run, but was eventually bust in 5th.
No Brits in the cash though, Benny Glaser's 32nd and just out of the money appearing to be the best.
WSOP24 - $1500 HORSE, 772 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Day 1 of the HORSE is done and dusted. I normally avoid the term "runners" when referring to numbers of people playing poker tournaments, preferring "Entrants" (or "Entries" in rebuys) but perhaps it's appropropriate in a HORSE tournament
Either way, the tournament attracted 772 players with 300 moving on to Day 2, with Chris Boedeker the top Horse with 67800, ahead of David Williams and Maria Ho
Other big names still in? Plenty, such as Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Calvin Henderson, Daniel Negreanu, plus several November Niners (Schwartz, Pappaconstantinou, Racener)
Stu Rutter leads the GB challenge, in about midfield with David Tarbet, Ben Dobson & Philip Casey all within 900 chips of each other. Chris Bjorin (Swede resident in the UK) is a little further down.
WSOP25 - $5000 NLH 8 Max, 493 entrants, Day 1 of 4
After sorting their numbers out, we have 198 of the coming back for more on Thursday, with last year's 20th place finisher in the ME, Dan Smith, sitting pretty on the biggest stack. Shaun Deeb is on a roll at the moment and he lies 6th, with Seb Saffari best of the Brits in 8th.
56 will be paid, so we're a long way off the money at this point but we also have UK representation from Sergi Reixach and Oysein Kristofferson (who may both just be resident in the UK), Sky Poker TV guest Alex Goulder, Mike Lilienthal, Rhys Jones, Craig McCorkell, Alberto Gomez, Toby Lewis, Pablo Fernandez Campo, Niall Farrell & Oliver Price.
Also still in are Colossus winner Cord Garcia and former ME Champion Greg Merson
To start today
WSOP26 - $1000 PLO (3 Day Event)
WSOP27 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship (3 Day Event)
Hellmuth is the man, that's all there is too it, but a guy like Daniel Alaei can catch him up! Just 30 years old and with a 5th bracelet win in said PLO8 event
Both Jin and MacPhee were eliminated within the first 4 hands today, leaving 3 players.
Since then, in 35 hands, we've had 4 all-in and a call and all 4 times the short stack has doubled up. Ephremsen has done it 3 times and Zamani once.
15 women have won "open" bracelets, and after last night that's how it stays as Natasha Barbour was beaten heads-up by Ben Zamani as the final 5 players came back to play an unscheduled fourth day.
Zamani himself had previously suffered the heartbreak of losing heads-up for a bracelet a few days ago in the Shootout event.
Luton player Paul Ephremsen battled long and hard but eventually bowed out in third.
WSOP22 - $1000 NLH, 1951 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Despite having 100 more entrants, the $1000 NLH was able to be done and dusted within the regulation three days, and we have a bracelet for Canada. Sam Greenwood being the man of the moment.
The comparitive brevity of the event was due partly to the smaller starting stacks, and partly due to the breakneck pace the final table was played at, taking only an hour and three quarters to play out.
Cole Jackson was third and Ken Weinstein third. Angel Farrington whose story I mentioned yesterday survived all the way to 11th, while Stephen Chidwick went out three places before Angel.
WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, 219 entrants, Day 2 of 3
The 1-2-3 at the start of the final day was the 1-2-3 as Christian Pham led virtually from start to finish.
The pro, born in South Vietnam back in the days when there was such a thing as South Vietnam, was a complete novice at the game having given the cashiers the wrong event number when trying to sign up for a $1500 NLH event.
Nevertheless, he must be a fast learner and used his skills and intuition to claim the bracelet and the $81K first prize. He's having a good month as he finished in the top 60 of the Colossus and 215th in the Millionaire Maker.
WSOP24 - $1500 HORSE, 772 entrants, Day 2 of 3
31 left in, with Mike Watson the chip leader but a lot of the attention will focus on one of the shortstacks, Phil Hellmuth, going for his 15th bracelet and second within a week.
Enough about him, how about Stuart Rutter? Another deep run, in 7th place and with a decent stack. Perhaps tomorrow will finally be the day?
There is another British player still involved, David Tarbet, plus a sprinkling of well known names such as Brandon Cantu & Ted Forrest.
WSOP25 - $5000 NLH 8 Max, 493 entrants, Day 1 of 4
A halt was called with 23 players left, playing for a first prize of $x. The chip leader is Tyler Cornell who busted Colosus Winner Cord Garcia in a huge pot midway through the day.
They will play down to a final table of 8 today, the only British player left is Sergi Reixach. Alex Goulder bust late in the day to finish in 29th for $13578.
Other players left in include Joseph Cheong, Jonathan Jaffe and one of the players of the month so far, Shaun Deeb. All 23 left will collect a minimum of $16K
WSOP26 - $1000 PLO, 1293 entrants, Day 1 of 3
10% of the field have made it through to Day 2, and no matter how many times I look through the overnight chip totals, I can't see Tikay's name there. Must be some mistake, surely? Perhaps he is using an alias, like the Prince of Docness from earlier in the Series, but I can't see Prince of Nitness aywhere there either.
The only British name that I see there at all in fact is Sebastian Saffari, who has had several good Day 1s so far this series but hasn't converted any of them into really deep runs.
With most of the big names with big bankrolls and likely big backers playing Event 27, the biggest names still in here include John Racener, Allen Kessler, Eoghan O'Dea, Jeremy Ausmus, Greg Merson & Andy Bloch
WSOP27 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, 91 entrants, Day 1 of 3
After a late night finish, 51 of the 91 stud players have made Day 2 with Bryn Kenny bagging the most chips ahead of Brazilian Andre Akkari & Brian Hastings. Daniel Negreanu is tucked in just behind as are Mike Gorodinsky (runner-up to Hellmuth a couple of days ago), Frank Kassela & Bertrand Grospellier.
We also have a husband and wife duo still in, and in adjacent chip postitions too, and they have quite a story. Harry Thomas finished second in a WSOP bracelet event way back in 1984, and went on to win one a year later. His wife Jerri finished second in the ladies event in 1998, and she was comparitively slacking as it took her two years to go on and win her bracelet, a $1500 (open) stud event.
They're one of only two married couples to win open bracelets, and I had no idea. When finding the other couple, I find I had no real recollection of who they were either! Starter for 10 - who where this other couple?
(Note it's not the Shulmans, Allyn's win was in the Seniors event, nor is the Stupaks as Sandy Stupak's win was in a restricted Casino Operator's event with only 14 players)
To Start Today
WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, first of 2 Day 1s
The 1-2-3 at the start of the final day was the 1-2-3 as Christian Pham led virtually from start to finish.
The pro, born in South Vietnam back in the days when there was such a thing as South Vietnam, was a complete novice at the game having given the cashiers the wrong event number when trying to sign up for a $1500 NLH event.
Nevertheless, he must be a fast learner and used his skills and intuition to claim the bracelet and the $81K first prize. He's having a good month as he finished in the top 60 of the Colossus and 215th in the Millionaire Maker.
10% of the field have made it through to Day 2, and no matter how many times I look through the overnight chip totals, I can't see Tikay's name there. Must be some mistake, surely?
Seriously though, is there just a much higher luck requirement in the non-NLHE variants? Can't imagine reading stories of a complete novice rocking up and taking a NLHE bracelet!
I've just found the answer, thanks to much detective work by "Kevmath", the 2+2 Moderator, who is a good mate of mine.
I won't give the answer away, don't want to spoil it for others.
But.......do you know the story behind that? I nearly fainted when I just read the whole story. Wow oh wow.
I'm tempted to pen a Blog about it now. Good Lord, what a great story.