You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
Comments
The Main is just ending a 15 minute break, before they play 90 minutes of Level 16.
Still 1,015 left, so the bubble will burst well before the end of play. Probably.
In fact the bubble didn't even need hand for hand play as the 1012th player to drop out (Adam Furgatch) was busted as the preprations for the start of hand-for-hand was being made. As has become the custom, he was rewarded with a free seat in next year's Main, and everyone else was $15K richer.
After that play speeded up and a couple of hundred other players were knocked out by close of play and only 798 players will come back for Day 4.
Kenny Hallaert has the chip lead for Belgium with two Americans JAred Bleznick and Duy Ho second and third. Antonio Esfandiari is the first of the big names, he's had a decent stack most of the way and has bagged up almost 1.4m inside the top 10.
Adam Reynolds is top Brit, ahead of another Adam, Adam Franks, Tom Middleton (who was maybe chip leader at one point), Max Silver, Guilio Mascolo, Jason McConnon, Wakiat Lee, Simon Deadman all inside the top 100.
Lower down we have Hector Alvarez, Pratik Ghatge, Fraser McIntyre, David Lhonor, Sergi Reixach, David Nicholson, Thomas Macdonald, Iaron Lightbourne, Andrew Christforou, Matthew Moss, Elliot Peterman, Mauro Suriano, David Vamplew, Ben Vinson, Liv Boeree, Will Kassouf, Edmond Yeung, Ben Middleton, Scott Margeson, Robert Cowen, Harry Lodge, Ben Farrell, Alex Goulder, Rupom Pal, Jamie Brown, Robert Heidorn, Matt Ashton, Tomas High and Stafford Hamilton, and that's only to mention those in the top half.
Four main event winners still survive (see earlier post) and a host of former November Niners are also looking for a repeat performance.
We've lost a few of the short-stacked Brits so far, Paul Newey, Edmund Yeung, Conor Beresford, Matt Davenport, Jamie Brown and Waikiat Lee.
Other departures include David Benefield and Andoni Larrabe, recent bracelet winner Peter Eichhardt, Perry Friedman and Maxx Coleman.
Kenny Hallaert is still the chip leader, and Duy Ho has moved into second. Tom Middleton has shed a few but still has a decent enough stack while Max Silver and Simon Deadman have chipped up.
About 33 GB players still in, including the 10 Sky players in Tikay's thread plus Mr Ambo, Roberto Romanello, Paul vas Nunes, James Dempsey and Benny Glaser.
No, he departed several days ago, well before the money bubble.
I was unsure if you meant him or another Sky Poker regular, who is still in the Main, but never qualified via Sky Poker. I don't have permission to link his alias to his real name, but if I see him, & he agrees, I will update his progress.
The new trend seems to be multiple question marks. I expect it has some specific meaning according to the rules of English grammar, but I've no idea what. I often wonder how multiple exclamation marks or question marks are expressed in spoken English.
Personally, I'm a big fan of unemphasised understatement, love a bit of subtlety, me.
From my observations in various Starbucks queues & listening to players chatting at the table, it averages being repeated something like 7 times per sentence.
"So I'm like, what you on bro, like, & he like says, like, wtf?, & I'm like, well whatever, like"
A decade or two ago that would have been "you know", or "y'know", listen to any radio or tv interview by a footballer or pop star, & it was all "you know".
I'm not entirely sure what I prefer, or more correctly, dislike most.
I do find how we use (or abuse) the English language to be utterly fascinating. Like, y'know.....
Back to business.
In the Main, I left it last night with 636 left. Since then, we've lost the following British players
634 Jamie Whyte $18714
610 Chris O'Donnell $18714
597 George McDonald $20499
552 Thomas Hall $20499
547 Simon Deadman $20499
542 Scott Margerson $20499
541 Ben Vinson $20449 - bit of a bad few minutes for the UK players there
528 Liv Boeree $22468 - sounds like she enjoyed herself, she even did a little dance after winning one pot
511 Ben Farrell $22468
508 Adam Franks $22468
457 Harry Lodge $25235
406 Matt Ashton $28356
345 Robert Cowen $32130
337 Pratik Ghatge $32130
333 Adam Reynolds $32130
301 Fraser MacIntyre $32130
292 Thomas High $32130
275 Mauro Suriano $36708
Currently 260 remain. We've also just lost recent winner Ryan Reiss and Novemnber Niner Eoghan O'Day, and earlier the likes of Steve Bilirakis, Jason Somerville, Ray Dehkarghani, Cord Garcia, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, William Tonking, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Shulman, Andrew Lichtenberger and Gavin Griffin.
Brian Piccioli is currently the chip leader with French player Pierre Merlin working his magic in second and another American Farhad Jamasi in third. Well known Aussie James Obst is 4th and earlier chip leader Valentin Vornicu 7th, 2014 One Drop million dollar winner Dan Colman 8th and the first British player Tom Middleton 9th.
Will Kassouf is also sitting with a decent stack, and Andrew Christoforou, Rupom Pal, Max Silver and Alex Goulder must also be above average.
Yes, Alex Goulder, no stranger to Sky Poker, currently has 1,999,997.
A smashing kid, really lovely.
Bryan Piccioli held on to the chip lead but now has the ominous presence of Dan Colman in 2nd with Thomas Miller making it into third.
Tom Middleton is still top Brit in 10th overall, with Will Kassouf 16th, Jason McConnon 22nd and David Lhonore 26th, Alex Goulder, Max Silver & Andrew Christoforou, Rupom Pal and Alex Lindop are all inside the Top 100, with Sergi Reixach, Elliot Peterman, Matthew Moss, Thomas MacDonald, Guilio Mascolo, Robert Heidorn, Stafford Hamilton, Ben Middleton, David Nicholson and Iaron Ligtbourne in the 101-250 range.
That means we lost David Vamplew in very late action in 258th place.
The legendary Johnny Chan is going for a third WSOP ME, and one more previous winner is still active, Greg Raymer who spent most of the day sitting next to another former winner Ryan Reiss who busted after the dinner break. Chan's progress almost came to a thuddering halt when he went all in with pocket 7s and came up against eights, but rivered a flush to stay alive in dramatic fashion.
Some excellent performances by Sky Poker players as detailed elsewhere, but we close Day 2 with none of the team among the 104 who move on to Day 3.
The Top 5 is full of unfamiliar (to me at least) names, Frenchman Guillame Diaz, three Americans Samer Al-Shureiki. Mike Sowers and Thai Tran and Israeli Ilan Boujenah. First of the better known players is Ryan D'Angelo in 9th with Calvin Anderson in 11th.
I think there are just two Brits left in the field - Daniel Harwood in 44th and Lucas Blanco in 49th but there is also, lurking in 97th Vinod Megalmani from Bangalore, Great Britiain ?
I can't link them to Sky Aliases but I can do a list of GB cashes so far
For $3437
111 Alex Bounsall
For $2998
175 Ian Simpson
190 Jagjit Singh
For $2640
249 Paul Ephremesen
264 Paul vas Nunes
For $2346
295 Michael Kane (whose Sky Alias is of course very well known)
304 James Long
321 Imraan Ladak
324 Nabil Mohammed
For $2105
362 Jonathon Linton
365 Andriy Lyubovetskiy
381 Darren Hill
387 Matthew Copley
397 Robert Bickley
409 Martynas Vitkauskas
For $1743
485 Jason Layland
509 Christopher Cunliffe
512 Jake Cody
513 James Dempsey
For $1609
562 Daniel Tang
597 Steve Rosen
599 Benedict Cullen
600 Benny Glaser
For $1501 - a min cash
608 Akshay Reddy
615 Peter Charalambous
631 Marius Lietuvinikas
636 Martin Hanham
644 Alexander Spencer
652 Timothy Rowland
Well done one and all
The early skirmishes have seen the field reduced to 211 (They will play down to about 70 or 80 I guess) and there has been a couple of big name casualties already, 2016 Bracelet winner Shaun Deeb has gone, and Maria Ho won't be the last woman standing for the third time.
Dan Colman moved in to the chip lead for a while, but that mantle has now been taken by Michael Nivinsky, and he is followed by someone who loves a "Chop Pot" even more than James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton, Dmitry Chop of Ukraine, and "one of ours", the one and only (some people will be grateful for that) Will Kassouf.
Max Silver has chipped up to become prominent in the chip listings, as is Sky Poker UKPC regular and former November Niner Antoine Saout who is now showing as from Paris, France rather than Londres, UK.
The female interest has also been reduced by one as Jennifer Shahade went out 5 spots after Hamilton. There are still at least 3 females left in - Melanie Wiesner, Gaelle Baumann and Louise Franceour plus there may be one or two more where the gender is not immediately obvious from the name alone.
Plus there are still two of my fantasy team picks among the last 200 - Mukul Puhuka and Mike Gorodinsky. I don't think I have anyone left in the Droplet so I can't catch the leaders but if I could get one of te November Nine I'd be pleased.
Looks like Iaron Lightbourne has just bitten the dust too, but awaiting confirmation
All down to the Fossilman if we're going to have a previous winner running deep.
Top 3 are all names that have been there and there abouts all day - Michael Nivinski, Dan Colman and Antoine Saout but we have a new top Brit - David L'Honore (who also seems to have gained an apostrophe.
Let's get the eliminations out of the way first
180 Iaron Lightbourne - as I thought in my last post last night, Iaron went out at the $42285 payout level.
David Nicholson went out in 172nd but he's been corrected to be an American now after confusing him with the David Nicholson who was the first Sky player in this year's Main
Sorel Mizzi and Todd Brunson were two biggish name casualties in the 150s
151 Alex Goulder - former Sky poker guest Alex went out with a $49108 payday
145. Robert Heidorn and 144. Guilio Mascolo also collected $49108 after busting in quick succession
Louise Francoeur went out in 141st, Mukul Puhuja 138th and then Melanie Wiesner in 127th. Wiesner's elimination meaning Frenchwoman Gaelle Baumann was the only female player left
The last former champion still in the event was Greg Raymer, he held on until 122nd position when he departed
121 Thomas MacDonald was next out
111. Alex Lindop was another British exit, still at the $49k level
Belgian multi-bracelet holder finished 107th
Gaelle Baumann was knocked out in 102nd, the last woman standing for the second time (also in 2012)
98. Rupom Pal was the only Brit casualty who collected $57494, eliminated by Will Kassouf
89. Ben Middleton likewise for $67855
Mike Gorodinsky was the last of my fantasy team to be eliminated in 85th spot when AQ ran into Aces and the case Ace on the flop sealed the deal.
So, on to those still left.
Nine tables of nine, and the chip leader is Jerry Wong from Brooklyn who has 11.3m chips, a million and a half more than Aussie Jan Suchanek with Griffin Ben der in third.
First Brit is 4th, Will Kassouf with David L'Honore also inside the top ten. Max Silver is 16th, Sergi Reixach 25th, Andrew Christoforou 32nd (his home town is shown as Pottrt whatever that means). Elliot Peterman 43rd, Jason McConnon 56th, Matthew Moss 59th and Tom Middleton has dropped to 64th, so still a very decent GB contingent in with a chance of the October/November Nine.
Other well known players still in - Kenny Hallaert, Tom Marchese, Paul Volpe, Dan Colman, Antoine Saout (who I think is the only former November Niner still around), Chris Klodnicki, and Tony Gregg.
Stop press - Vladimir Geshkenbein has just gone in 81st place, beaten by one of two Keating's left - Alex. As far as I know Alex and Lance Keating are not related, but I could be wrong.
About 18 different nationalities are still represented,
The end of day report states that two players can still catch Jason Mercier for the Player of the Year - if Max Silver goes on to win the Main, or Paul Volpe finishes in the top 3, they will win the award.
Meanwhile, almost unnoticed, the Droplet is contunuing and is down to 13 players. Perhaps we shouldn't overlook it as there is a player with the Union Jack beside his name still in, Lucas Blanco although his Hendon Mob profile indicates he is actually Spanish. The last 100% Brit, Daniel Harwood from Cheltenham, went out in 36th place for a little over $14K.
Calvin Anderson who won a bracelet in 2014 is chip leader ahead of Thai Tran and Ryan D'Angelo ( 7 cashes this Series including winning Event 7)