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WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 2 of 4
Eliminations happened thick and fast on Day 2 to the extent where we are down to 272 players with a Russian player on the top, Milos Skrbic. The player in second place is from the aptly named Battle Ground, Washington (Wayne Keller) with French-Canadian Gylbert Drolet in the third spot.
The British contingent has of course also been thinned out, Andrew Teng is best in 46th, Chun Law & James Rann (yay!) in the top half, Neil Sillick, Simon Deadman & Jonathan McCann in midfield, and Ivan Ermin, Darshan Sami & Ben Rolle needing a double-up fairly quickly.
Sky player Michael Kane dropped out in 318th for just over $5K, one of a dozen or so British cashers. Unfortunately Adam Bromley was unable to join them, busting out not long before the bubble.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Is 77 the smallest normal (i.e. excluding One Drop) bracelet field for years? I can't remember one that low.
Six left - Dan Smith, Nick Schulman, Jon Turner, Eric Seidel, Phil Galfond & Eli Elezra. Schulman may well be the story here, he has won this particular bracelet twice already.
Adam Owen made the final table but busted 7th ($24457)
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 1 of 3
235 have made it though, so we're about 20 spots off the money overnight. Two American players lie atop the chip listings, Chris Hinchcliffe & DJ Mackinnon, with Azeri Ilkin Amarov tucked in behind.
Christoforos Diakoulakis is the best positioned GB name, in 74th, with the far better known (and far easier to spell) Chris Moorman almost smack bang halfway in the field. Some other well known UK players still in too - David Vamplew, the Mad Turk, Simon Hawksworth, Craig McCorkell and Mark Longhurst.
Shaun Deen, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Cantu, Shannon Storr etc. mean there is still a lot of US pros still standing too.
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 480 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Jeff Madsen took the Day 1 honours after a late surge in his stack saw him end with 231K with another season pro, Doug Polk, next best on 208K.
No surprise to see Stuart Rutter making another Day 2, with Joel Eteddgi & Richard Ashby also still having chips (although not many in Ashby's case).
Numerous big names failed to make it through the day though, the biggest of them all being Tony Kendall, who was shown as having precisely zero chips by halfway through the day.
To start today
WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)
A pal of mine, "animalpoker" (well-named, he has animal like aggression) was drawn to my immediate left. animal - real name Robert Price - is from Cornwall. Two to my right was......Stu Rutter.
As it happened, I never tangled with either of them all day. I did tangle with a lot of river cards though, & I think I upset Lady Variance, who was in a foul mood.
Stu's table presence, demeanour & general play was amazing, & he was 100% Table Captain from the get go. It's only a matter of time before he wins a Bracelet. He's UK player of the Series so far, in my book anyway.
Event 28 - Monster Stack is down to 145, in the $8155 payout range. Looks like Simon Deadman has had a good start to the day and has chipped up, James Rann is still showing as with his starting stack so no news really but at least he is still in.
Edit - commentator's curse or something like that, Simon Deadman busto.
Event 29 has resumed the FT, and after about half an hour there has been no eliminations and we still have 6 left.
Event 30 is now IN THE MONEY, we've already lost McCorkell & Vamplew for min-cashes, and it looks like The Mad Turk never even made it that far.
Event 31, another one about half an hour in, nothing significant so far.
Event 32 has just got underway, but recent bracelet winner Brian Hastings has bust already. GB names shown in the chip listings include Liv Boeree & and Messrs Chidwck, Cody & Farrell
Event 33 doesn't start until midnight our time.
Not quite sure when I'm going to be able to post tomorrow, I was intending an early one but with the site down tomorrow morning and only having a 30 minute lunch tomorrow, it's probably not going to be until I get home although if I get time I will post a snippet or two here or there.
No GB news in the Omaha Hi-Low, assuming Rutter, Ettedgi & Ashby still in but that's all it is, an assumption.
Both Eli Elezra & Jon Turner have gone from the 2-7 final table, leaving 4 with Nick Schulman doing most of the damage.
Play was called for the day with 29 players left, and Sky player James Rann well and truly amongst them. Despite not being mentioned at all in the updates, he managed to navigate his way through to the end of Level 31 in 26th place and with come back at 11am LV time on Tuesday with a 15 BB stack.
He's not the only Brit there either; Jonathan McCann from Cumbria is in a very impressive 3rd place, training only Kevin King and chip leader, 2 time Bracelet winner, Hoyt Corkins. The current pay point is $36700, but last two more elimanations and that jumps to $45633.
Andrew Teng was knocked out in 36th, Chun Law 44th, Darsham Sami 83rd, Kevin Frame 124th, Simon Deadman 139th, David Polop 154th, Neil Sillick 177th, Ben Rolle 189th and Niall Farrell 279th.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 3 of 3
The honour of winning Event 29 fell to Phil Galfond, beating Nick Schulman heads up. Galfond, who finished 4th in this event last year, was collecting his second overall bracelet and also picked up $224K. Schulman was denied in his quest to win this tournament for a third time, but will have a $138K sized consolation.
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 2 of 3
As with Event 28, the field is down to a manageable size (21 in this case) and also like Event 28 we have a Brit near the top of the standings.
Sky Poker guest Chris Moorman was due a deep run, and he is getting it here, with only Kai Yang and Artur Rudziankov ahead of him overnight.
Also still in, inaugural One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari and triple crown winner Bertrand Grospellier.
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 480 entrants, Day 2 of 3
17 left in the PLO8, but no Brits this time. There is one Irish representative though, John O'Shea (not the footballer) in third behind Mike Gracz and Richard Tucker. Plenty of decent "names" still in too - Robert Mizrachi, Jeff Madsen, David "ODB" Baker, and two other Omaha bracelet holders, Rami Boukai & Josh Poll ack. The filter is getting really out of hand if I have to space that last gentleman's name.
The only GB cash was for the omnipresent Stu Rutter, 48th for a little over $5K.
WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH, 550 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Brits in 3rd place overnight? Pah! How about a UK chip leader?
Simon Deadman, needing to emulate his "other half's" FT earlier in the series is the man, leading the 190 qualifiers on to Day 2. He leads Albert Fonsaca & Tuan Le in to the next phase, with Jennifer Tilly doing well inside the Top 5.
Mike Gorodinsky is having another good run in 12th, and also still involved - Adam Bilzerian, Sorel Mizzi, JC Tran, Kyle Julius, Phil Hellmuth, Joe Cada, Eugene Katchalov, Russell Thomas, Jason Mercier, George Danzer plus from these shores Paul Ephremsen, Pablo Fernandez, Matas Cimbolas, Daniel McAulay, John Gale, Martins Adeniya (first mention this year?), Thomas MacDonald, Aurelius Guiglini, David Vamplew, Charles Carel, Ben Rolle & Trevor Reardon.
WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, 388 entrants, Day 1 of 3
WSOP legend Greg Raymer has the lead in the last of the lowball events. The 2004 ME winner leads 120 other players into Day 2, but with the bubble being set at 42nd there's a long way to go until the money is made.
"Fossilman" is followed in the chip standings by Russian player Sergey Rybachenko and Russian-sounding Yegor Tsurikov who is actually from Walnut Creek, California.
Brits going strong in this one - three. Familiar names by now Adam Owen & Stephen Chidwick, and the less familiar Haresh Thaker, plus Benny Glaser who is still showing as being from Gabon but is definitely from Eastleigh in Hampshire.
Also still involved - Allen Cunningham, Matt Glantz, Huck Seed, Dutch Boyd, Chino Reem, last years November Niner William Pappaconstantinou, David "Bakes" Baker, Michael Mizrachi, Vanessa Selbst and player of the year contender Paul Volpe. Phil Galfond jumped in late after picking up his 2nd bracelet earlier in the day, and he too lives to fight another day in this one.
To start today
WSOP34 $1500 Split Format Hold'em, (4 Day Event) - the halfway point in the 68 Event Series.
WSOP35 $3k HORSE (3 Day Event)
Down to 26, so we're up to the $45633 payout level, but we've lost Jonathan McCann, from third in chips to third man out within two hands. First he was crippled when moving all in with 7s but came up against Aces, then he put his last 7BB in with AQ but came up against pocket 10s and was unable to improve.
James Rann's table
Seat 1 - Hoyt Corkins
Seat 2 - Fernando Konishi
Seat 3 - Petr Vejmelka
Seat 4 - Federico Butteroni
Seat 5 - Asi Moshe
Seat 6 - Lavann Williams
Seat 7 - Dean Baranowski
Seat 8 - James Rann
Seat 9 - Jake Bazeley
"....Jonathan McCann from Cumbria is in a very impressive 3rd place,....."
Unforch, I gather Jonathan is OUT.
Boo.
3 bet shoving with ACES getting called by KQ and hitting your set on the flop is the way to double, that was to 3 million chips which puts him around 15th with 25 remaining!
This is epic stuff there were over 7000 entrants to this monster stack, lets hope this is the start of another great run like his UKOPS run!
Heres the prizepool, James has locked up a tidy profit from his $1500 buyin but if he can make the FT is megabucks!
1st $1,286,9422nd $796,8343rd $594,3974th $445,1665th $335,9386th $255,3517th $195,5438th $150,7839th $117,09210th-12th $91,55713th-15th $72,13916th-18th $57,18719th-27th $45,633
The 9s flopped a set and took the main pot, the aces hold for the side pot and the other two go to the cashier.
23 left.
Rolls off the poker table just as well to leave 19 left.
Getting there involved some stalling by James at one point!
Draw for final 2 tables
Table 446 Seat 1 - Asi Moshe - 16,800,000
Seat 2 - Perry Shiao - 7,500,000
Seat 3 - Petr Bargatov - 2,800,000
Seat 4 - Kevin Kung - 12,500,000
Seat 5 - Jeff Kaplan - 2,300,000
Seat 6 - Eric Place - 13,600,000
Seat 7 - James Rann - 1,500,000
Seat 8 - Donald Otto - 1,700,000
Seat 9 - Richard Alati - 1,450,000 Table 447 Seat 1 - Dean Baranowski - 3,200,000
Seat 2 - Caio Toledoq - 4,500,000
Seat 3 - Lavann Williams - 6,500,000
Seat 4 - Cary Moomjian - 1,200,000
Seat 5 - Jeremy Halaska - 3,600,000
Seat 6 - Joshua Wallace - 5,300,000
Seat 7 - Hoyt Corkins - 4,300,000
Seat 8 - Fernando Konishi - 6,100,000
Seat 9 - Christian Rodriguez - 9,800,000 Blinds will be 120K/240K with a 40K ante, so James is one of 5 players with less than 10BB
James out in 18th for a fabulous $57K, shoving with KJ and getting called by AJ. No kings on the board (in fact to add insult to injury the river was an Ace) mean Runitstann's adventure is over.
WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 4 of 4
As we were following here, a superb run from James Rann came to an end with just 18 players from the 7192 remaining.
He went to the cage to collect $57K for his efforts. Fellow Brit, Jonathan McCann, went from contender to busto in double quick time and finished 27th for $45633.
We are probably going to have a raucous FT rail on the unscheduled Day 5, with not one but two Brazilian players on it. Fernando Konishi is the chip leader with Caio Toledoq in 8th. Add two Canadians and an Israeli and we only have 4 USA players, a record low this year I believe.
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Another one going forward into an unexpected extra day, with Argentinian pro Ivan Luca having about a 8m-3m chip lead over the Czech Artur Rudziankov.
Chris Moorman fell one short of the official FT ($20K), with Bertand Grospellier exiting one position earlier and both Jason Ko on & Antonio Esfandiari earning $12893.
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 480 entrants, Day 3 of 3
We have a PLO8 champ in Event 31, and it's not ajmilton!
It is in fact Jeff Madsen. Madsen, who celebated his 30th birthday 10 days ago, collected his 4th bracelet and a little over $300K after getting the better of French amateur Jean-Marc Thomas heads-up with Rami Boujai ending up in third. Irish player John O'Shea finished 5th.
Only Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham & Stu Unger won their 4th bracelets at a younger age than Madsen.
WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH, 550 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Aussie Aussie Aussie! James Obst is the Day 2 chip leader of the $5k 6-max, but our Day 1 leader Simon Deadman is still right up there in third place, with Nacho Barbera completing a good day for Argentina by slipping in between in second place. Pablo Fernandez is also retaining an interest, sitting 7th overnight.
Following the examples of the last 24-48 hours despite there only being 20 players left, there are representatives from Australia, Argentina, GB, USA, France, Croatia, Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Ukraine & Italy still involved.
The American contingent is very pro-loaded, Mike Gorodinsky, Tuan Le, Jason Mercier & Jennifer Tilly included, while the Dutch rep is Jorryt van Hoof.
Martins Adeniya was the last player busted at the end of the night and collected $20059, while John Gale & Ben Rolle both picked up nearly $14K and Daniel McAulay nearly $10K.
WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, 388 entrants, Day 2 of 3
A sweet 16 remain, including Benny Glaser representing the UK (and now showing with the Union Flag against his name too, but having moved in the interim a few miles from Eastleigh to Southampton), plus Brock Parker, Steve Bilirakis, Noah Bronstein etc. but the chip leader is Toby Muller.
Lowball specialist Jon Turner (FT of the 10K Triple Draw) is also still involved.
WSOP34 $1500 Split Format Hold'em, 873 entrants, Day 1 of 4 - the halfway point in the 68 Event Series.
Playing 9-handed on Day 1 (with 6 Max on Day 2, Heads Up on Day 3 and a 8-player FT), more eliminations than expected were effected so we only have 159 players moving forward to the 6-max portion.
British interest is headed by Eilor Sion, with compatriots David Lohnore, Toby Lewis, Gordon Huntly, David Vamplew, Chris Moorman, Samad (Sam) Razavi, Innes Young, & Eric Theissen having chips to bag at the end of Day 1.
They will play down to 32 today, so I see a compartively short day's play
WSOP35 $3k HORSE, 376 entrants, Day 1 of 3
376 have become 224 at the end of the second Horsey tournament of the series. Eli Elezra is the pacemaker with John Monnette & David Benyamine in the leading pack.
Brits? You've got to look all the way down to 117th for Stephen Chidwick, with only Howard Smith and Ben Dobson joining him in Day 2.
Plenty of other big names jockeying for position - Barry Greenstein, Taylor Paur, Tom Schnider, Mike Matusow, Maria Ho and making a run on the rails, Phil Hellmuth.
To start today
WSOP36 $1500 PLO (3 Day Event)
WSOP37 $10K 6 max NLH Championship (3 Day Event)
Perry Shiao from Pembroke Pines, Florida is the man who ended up with all the chips on the extra day of the Millionaire Maker
He took a first prize of $1286942 making his total WSOP lifetime cashes $1286942. Yes, it was his first ever WSOP cash.
Eric Place from Canada ended up second and Israeli Ari Moshe (who's now made FTs in each of the last 3 years) was third.
One of the two Brazilian players at the FT, Ciao Taledog, proposed to his girlfriend on the rail after being eliminated. She said "Yes".
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 3 of 3
After another 50 hands of heads-up play on the extra day, 23 year old Franko Ivan Luca became the first Argentinian player to win a WSOP bracelet.
He also collected $353391, and like Shiao, it was his first ever WSOP cash. He beat Czech player Artur Radziankov to become Event 30 Champion
WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH, 550 entrants, Day 3 of 3
This event finished after Event 33, so we were sweating on it with the possibility of two British bracelets in a day, I don't know if that's ever happened before. Anyway, it didn't happen here as Simon Deadman, who had a rather widespread but unfair reputation of finishing second in lots of events, finished second here to Jason Mercier who collected his 3rd bracelet.
A fantastic run by Deadman nonetheless, and it included putting one huge bad beat on third placed finisher Mike Gorodinsky when Simon's J10 was up against Mike's KJ. A further Jack on the flop changed nothing, but the 10 on the river did and was enough to eliminate Gorodinsky.
WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, 388 entrants, Day 3 of 3
We have our second British bracelet of the summer, and it has gone to a player who is not a big name or has a big live pedigree
Benny Glaser, from Eastleigh in Hampshire with a previous best cash recorded on the Hendon Mob of just under $6K in the Millonaire Maker earlier this week. He's now added over $133K to that!
He beat 3-time bracelet winner Brock Parker heads up, overcoming a 4:1 chip lead at the start of heads up play.
Edit - confirmed. Parker second, Glaser 1st with a pile of money coming to $136215 plus a rather coveted piece of jewellery.
WSOP34 $1500 Split Format Hold'em, 873 entrants, Day 1 of 4
As expected, they made the Final 32 pretty sharpish. Jonas Christensen from Denmark is the overnight leader, with Toby Lewis in second.
Also qualified for the seeded heads-up round David Vamplew & Innes Young.
If I've got this right, the matches should include
Jonas Christensen (DEN) (1) v Innes Young (GBR) (32)
Toby Lewis (GBR) (2) v Bryce Landier (USA) (31)
Chris Bolek (USA) (14) v David Vamplew (GBR) (19)
WSOP35 - $3k HORSE, 376 entrants, Day 2 of 3
No horse-y puns today, just the facts.
29 players lasted throughout Day 2 to make the denoument, with Joshua Turner leading the way ahead of Andrew Barber & Taylor Paur.
Also in - John Racener, Joe Hachem, Mike Leah, Allen Kessler and Ted Forrest, but no British players. They were all free to join Deadman's rail even before the bubble burst.
WSOP36 - $1500 PLO, 978 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The smallest buy-in PLO event of the series saw close to 1000 players putting up the required fee and 140 of them will come back on Thursday for Day 2.
The leader goes by the name of Greg Genge (take the G's and the E's away and he would just be rn). Joshua Beckley is 2nd and the highest placed GB name is 3rd, Pratik Ghate.
Matthew Perry (no, not that one), Andrii Nadieliaiev, Andrew Purser, Kevin Allen and Martins Adeniya are also shown in the chp listings with "GB" against their names. Ludovic Geilich, who was shown as "GB" earlier in the series, is now shown as "Germany".
WSOP37 - $10K 6-max NLH, 259 entrants, Day 1 of 3.
This event went without Jason Mercier, as he was still playing the 5K when Late Reg closed. Even without him, the field that made Day 2 includes such luminaries as Eric Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, Doug Polk, Greg Merson, Phil Galfond etc.
As you would expect given the success in the last few days, we have some Union Flags showing near the top of the listings with Max Silver in 2nd and Jake Cody 4th at the end of Day 1. Six other GB names appear in the total of 102 who will come back for Day 2.
To start today
WSOP38 - $3K NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP39 - $1500 Ten Game Mix (3 Day Event)
Benny Glaser, from Eastleigh in Hampshire with a previous best cash recorded on the Hendon Mob of just under $6K in the Millonaire Maker earlier this week.
A couple of minutes ago he had a 13:1 chip lead over Brock Parker, and now the WSOP are showing Zero players left in so I think Benny has completed the job.
Edit - confirmed. Parker second, Glaser 1st with a pile of money coming to $136215 plus a rather coveted piece of jewellery.