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 three ahead of him are Vornicu, Wong and Michael Ruane who moved up after Kenny Hallaert took a hit.
All Americans, all earn $116K
63. Tyler Hancock
62. Caufman Talley
61. Cole Jackson
60. Brian Yoon
59. Robert Park
58. Jasthi Kumar
We've lost one of the British contingent, Tom Middleton who ended up as the 56th placed finisher. He got his chips in good with Jacks against the pocket 10s of Mike Shin, but three spades on the flop and another on the turn gave the American a flush and just like that, Middleton's main event run was over
57. Gorki Oliviera (BRA)
56. Tom Middleton (GBR)
55. Dietrich Fast (AUT)
54. Adi Abugazal (USA) - first player at the next payout level of $142K
Jerry Wong has moved in to the chip lead, with Shin using Middy's chips to show in second and Matthew Moss continuing to climb in 3rd. Will Kassouf has been quiet (in more ways than one so far today but has moved back into the Top 5 with Messrs Peterman, L'Honore (apostrophe back!) and Christoforou clusted just inside the top 20. Max Silver is treading water and Sergi Reixach is now short stacked but has doubled up once through Chris Klodnicki.
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/update/1VD4/carl-martel-eliminated-in-10th-place-after-three-way-all-in-35269/
Guy with the aces is extremely good, defo one of the best around. He had position on me last years day1 of the main event. Never felt so uncomfortable at a poker table. Lovely guy, just far too good for me!
10-10 v J-J v A-A, Jack on flop for a set, Ace on Turn for a set, Jack on river for quads.
We should bookmark that link, the next time someone comes on here & says online poker is rigged to produce "action hands".
I've seen some astonishing hands since I've been here. We even saw a fella folded quads two or three days ago.
Poker does not need to be rigged, or software tweaked to provide "action hands", it manages quite nicely without all that.
However, when we get to the last 100 or so in the WSOP Main, I actually do think it's different - most of these guys are pros or semi pros, & are playing to the very limit of the rules to give themselves an edge.
I also remain very strongly of the view that we MUST protect the integrity of the game, & when the TD gives a ruling, we obey it. If I were a TD & a player defied my ruling 3 times, I would - most definitely - disqualify him or her. That may seem harsh, but they'd never defy me again. Luckily for all concerned, my chances of becoming the WSOP TD are even less than my chances of winning a WSOP Bracelet.
Very interesting debate, this.
PS - have replied to your PM.
53. Pavil Karakikov
52. Farhad Jamasi
51. Jesse Cohen
50. Tony Gregg
49. Jan Suchanek
48, Andrei Konopelko
47. Matthew Reed
46. Sergi Reixach. The long-time UK resident from Spain got it in dominated (AJ to Cliff Joseph's AQ) and the flop rubbed it in when a Queen appeared.
Ladder to $17K
45. Chris Klodnicki (no bracelets but over $8 million in live earnings)
44. Chang Luo
43. Paul Hoefer (2015 bracelet winner)
42. Mitchell Watson
41. Ronald Giles
40. Jason Les (9th cash of the series)
That took the players up to the dinner break. I'm going to take a small break of my own and the happenings from 39 to 27 will follow shortly.
39. Daniel Retallick in a dramatic hand with Michael Ruane. Ruane had Queens, Retallick had KJ which vaulted to the top after two kings appeared on the flop. His moment of enjoyment was short lived however after the Queen of Hearts broke Retallick's heart by appearing on the turn.
38. Tony Bracy - fairly straightforward and, his A10 couldn't catch up Mike Shin's AJ when the money went in on an Ace high flop
37. Jonas Lauck. Lauck got his seat to the Main Event this year for free. How come? He was the bubble boy in last year's ME and as mentioned three days ago or so, the custom is to award the bubble boy a free seat as a consolation. He certainly took advantage to the tune of $172K. His exit hand was a short stacked hand with KJ on a Ace high flop, shame for him that Michael Nivinski had flopped top two pairs.
There was then a ladder to $216K
36. Carlton Tartar. He was in for a triple up when short stacked with 7s, but Joshua Weiss's eights held up and it was ta-ta to Tartar.
35. Alex Keating. All in with AJ, he couldn't win a flip against David L'Honore's pocket nines. Watch out on the ESPN footage when it airs for "beard cam" - Keating has a very bushy beard and the network installed a tiny camera in the beard during one of the breaks to get some unusual angles.
34. Hari Bercovici. Another player who got short stacked, found a pocket pair (eights) and shoved. He was looked up by Vojtech Ruzicka with K2 and of course a King came on the flop.
33. Max Silver. Sorry for whoever it was who had a bet on Max making the FT, he came up just a few players short. The important hand wasn't the exit hand (Q8 against John Cynn's KJs, Max went ahead when an Eight came on the flop but Cynn's back door flush draw got there), but a hand a few minutes earlier when he called a Dan Colman shove with nines but unfortunately for him the American had tens and neither improved. This was Silver's 10th cash of the year, but his elimination as removed him from the Player of the Year race.
32. Lance Keating. A textbook cooler - his Kings came up against Joshua Weiss's Aces and of course all the money went in. Weiss covered Keating by just 100K chips. An Ace on the flop sealed the deal.
31. Dan Colman. After eliminating Silver, Colman lost a few hands in quick succession the last of which came on a turn shove with top pair, but Fernando Pons also had top pair but with an Ace Kicker. The 2014 Big One for One Drop winner was busted, and at least it spared us all for the awkward moment if he won it and Kara Scott appeared to ask him for an interview.
30. David L'Honore. Preflop play was straightforward but the flop was an action one. The Brit had the nut flush draw and a gutshot, Vojtech Ruzicka had a set of nines. L'Honore missed all his outs on both the turn and the river and he was gone, with Ruzicka adding to his stack which then exceeded 100BB.
29. Almost simultaneously - Paul Volpe. Again a cooler which he couldn't get off - Queens against Aces. Volpe's four bet shove was snap-called by Thomas Miller. The board ran out K9669 and Volpe was gone. The departure of the winner of Event 15 (over a month ago now) meant that no-one left could now catch Jason Mercier and he was confirmed as 2016 WSOP Player of the year.
28. Elliot Peterman. After a lull, the last 3 bustouts of the night happened within about 10 minutes. Hertfordshire's Peterman became another victim of Ruzicka when the Czech's AK outflopped Peterman's Pocket Queens by hitting not just one of his two overcards but both of them. No queen, flush or straight appeared to aid Peterman and his ME was over and we were down to the last 3 tables.
Vojtech Ruzicka busted two Brits late on and has stacked their chips to the point where he enters Day 7 as the chip leader.
Michael Ruane is second, and in third is two-time bracelet winner Cliff Josephy. James Obst was the runner up in a $10K event earlier in the series and is poised in 4th ahead of Myung Mike Shin.
Valentin Vornicu, Kenny Hallaert and Tom Marchese are renowned players but don't have a bracelet between them yet, but are all inside the top 10 here ahead of the top Briton
Matthew Moss sits in 11th place, the Londoner having 15m chips with the other two Brits having about the same amount combined - Andrew Christofou 9m and Will Kassouf 6m.
Antoine Saout is the only player left who has ever been this close to the ME title before, finishing 3rd the year Joe Cada won the title (also FT'ing the WSOPE the same year)
Griffin Benger has a top 100 in this before (the next best after Saout)
Play will resume at 8pm our time with 1hour 24min left of Level 31 (100K/200K, 30K ante) with all the remaining players guaranteed at least $269K
It went to Swedish player Michael Turniec who overcame a huge chip advantage and also a huge experience gap to beat bracelet winners Calvin Anderson and Ryan D'Angelo into second and third.
As Sergi Reixach in the main, there was a deep run by a Spaniard resident over here, Lucas Blanco who collected a 6-figure payout for his sixth place.
I take your point. It's strange because I think and feel it is very important to welcome recreational players to the game, and to be friendly polite and pleasant towards them. I do not like it when players intimidate recreational or new players. I am a big advocate of helping and supporting new/less experienced players as you know. Incidentally if I do ever attempt to intimidate anyone it's usually the guys that are themselves being aggressive or egotistical.
I do think there is a big difference between the late stages of the WSOP main event and one's local casino. Will Kassouf was trying to get a skill edge through his speech play and this is OK imo as it was heads up.
At this stage of the WSOP M/E it's psychological warfare and these aspects should be known and expected by seasoned pro's playing at this level. I have always been in favour of welcoming new players and I hope you don't think that I am advocating or condoning agressive behaviour towards recreational or inexperienced players, because I am not. I am very much against this.
Hope this helps to clarify.
Cheers,
Graham
P.S. I have replied to your PM.
27. Christopher Kusha. He played 4 of the first 6 hands with the only one he won being a raise pre-flop to which everyone else folded. Hand 6 was a big loss when he doubled up Jared Leznick. By Hand 7 he was left with less than 1BB but at least he did pick up AK suited, the run out proved cruel however as Will Kassouf's pocket fours made a full house
26. Philip Postma. He was the short stack coming in and after passing a few hands, he found Pocket Queens and of course went all in UTG+1. He wasn't to know that James Obst in the small blind had aces. Obst unnecessarily improved to the as the board ran out and Postma's first class run ended in a trip to the cage to pick up $269430.
We've had three leaders so far, Vojtech Ruzicka started the day as top man on the totem, Cliff Josephy vaulted to top, but then he lost a huge pot to Michael Ruane leaving Ruane with a large chip lead, with Kenny Hallaert second and Josephy third.
Andrew Christoforou and Matthew Moss like next to each other in 15th & 16th with just over 10m each (Ruane has 39m) while Will Kassouf is still among the lower stacks (22nd place with 6.1m)
The new level will be 120K/240K with a 40K ante.
Anyway, we're two closer in one fell swoop
25. Antoine Saout
24. Adam Krach
A double elimination at the hands of Hong Kong's Kakwan Lau. The three players all had pocket pairs, Lau the aces, Saout sevens and Krach Queens. The flop came 988, with Saout making a full house on the turn when an eight came, but a few seconds later an ace on the river saw Lau scoop the lot. Saout's run at being the second person to make the November Nine twice came to an end.
Will Kassouf has leapt to be top Brit after a hand where he had the clock called on him
Yes, sorry it was a 7 on the turn. An Ace would still have given Lau a better house on the river.
22. Valentin Vornicu. He 3-bet all in for 4m chips with A9 but was looked up by Jared Bleznick with A10. The board came out JJ48 to give Vornicu a flush draw but a brick 7 on the river saw the end of Vornicu.
The trend for the Brits has been the same as the last hour or so, Kassouf chipping up, Matthew Moss losing a few and Andrew Christoforou treading water, he's barely been mentioned so far.
2. It was not a "seasoned pro"-apart from 1 big score (in 2005!) she was a novice-$2,500 in the last 6 years.
3. He made a woman cry, by tactics that shame every decent civilised human being
4. Just like people copy bad behaviour they see in televised football, people will be more likely to continue to ruin the live game by trash talking endlessly
I'm not saying I'm right. I am saying I couldn't live with myself if I had acted like that