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This thread has been stunningly good, all the facts, a dash of humour, plus some added punnage, & all of us who followed it every day are indebted to FCHD for his hard work & dedication.
Barny certainly does not do it for financial reward or gain - if he did, Sky Poker could not afford the cost - but he will be offered a free tournament entry of his choice by way of a token "thank you" on behalf of all of us, & I'll send a note to Barny this morning with the details.
As you know, we don't generally allow spammy stuff, but in this case we can make an exception.
Those of you with an interest in football may not be aware that FCHD in fact stands for "Football Club History Database", which is a site run by our hero.
It's pretty geeky stuff, & well worth a look - the site address is http://fchd.info/
Cracking bloke and so many learned so much from his videos. Hope he takes this down.
Brilliant updates FCHD, thanks.
Great dedication by FCHD on this. It's not easy. Good job sir.
Qui Nguyen and Cliff Josephy swapped the chip lead amongst themselves early on, and it took an hour for the first bustout. Short stack Fernando Pons went all in for just over 4m chips with A6 and was called by Josephy who had KJ. A King on the flop and another one on the river saw the end of the Spaniard who ends up in 9th place.
That was hand 16. The next big pot was hand 24 when Vojtech Ruzicka took a chunk of Josephy's chips when pocket jacks held up against A8 and an eight on the turn.
Jerry Wong (wearing a Kristaps Porzingis New York Knicks jersey) was by this time the short stack. He shoved once and got no action and then did it again a few hands later pushing his last 10BB or so with A3 coming over the top of a Kenny Hallaert button raise. The Belgian called with K10, the board ran out double-paired so Wong's Ace played and earned him a double up.
Not long later, Wong was at it again raising all-in a flop-bet from Griffin Benger forcing a fold and making Benger the new short stack.
After a period of cagey play, very few flops let alone hands getting to showdown, Benger eventually shoved on Hand 59. All other players folded but the blinds and antes meant he had increased his stack enough to merit a small celebration.
On the very next hand, there was more cause for celebration for Benger and all the other players as Wong's luck ran out. Ruzicka raised from early position, Gordon Vayo 3-bet from the button and it came to Wong in the BB who 4-bet shoved. Ruzicka 5-bet and that left an easy fold for Vayo. Wong turned over pocket Jacks but unfortunately for him Ruzicka had pocket Queens. An all-low flop and turn left Wong with just one card to save his dream but it wasn't a Jack but another Queen and Wong was gone.
They needed to lose one more player on Day 1. Ruzicka had taken the chip lead at some point, but lost it in a 31m chip pot with Gordon Vayo, giving Ngyuen back the lead. He had over 100BB at this stage with Ruzicka, Josephy and Vayo all over 70BB and neither of the other two (Kenny Hallaert and Michael Ruane) desperately short either.
Just as level 38 started (500K/1m with a 150K ante), the final confrontation of the day came. Hallaert raised to 2.3x from under the gun, Nguyen 3-betting to 5.7m. Hallaert shoved for 35m, and was insta-called by Nguyen. Well you would if you had the aces. Hallert turned over AQ (at least it was suited) and after a typical WSOP drawn-out, building up the suspense run out, Hallaert saw a Queen on the flop, but nothing flushing or straightening and he was knocked out in 6th place.
Play will resume tonight with 5 players playing down to 3 and the winner being decided on Tuesday night.
1. Qui Nguyen 128.625m
2. Cliff Josephy 63.85m
3. Vojtech Ruzicka 62.25m
4. Gordon Vayo 58.2m
5. Michael Ruane 23.7m
I guess I will still go for Josephy, he has experience of closing out bracelet events before which may prove invaluable short handed.
In other WSOP news
the 2016 WSOP Poker Hall of Fame class was announced a few days ago - Todd Brunson and Carlos Mortensen. Mortensen is, incredibly, the first European member of the Hall while the Brunsons will become the first father/son members. All they have to do next year is induct Eli Elezra and that's about all the old Late Night Poker mob in then, and they can cast their net a bit wider.
A guy Tikay mentioned in relation to Punta Cana last week, Humberto Brenes was one of the finalists who missed out, along with Devilfish
And, the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe has been announced, in .... wait for it.... Rozvadov. No great surprise really as the Czech venue is already a WSOP Circuit stop and is alleged to be the biggest card room in Europe. To bring it back to the November 9, The King's Casino is the home venue of one of those players still in Vojtech Ruzicka.