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Surely this one must be the fastest paced out of all the events.
So close and yet so far for the Hippodrome's Kerryane Craigie as she finished runner-up in the first bracelet event of the 2016 WSOP.
Christopher "CJ" Sand held a 3-1 chip lead entering heads-up play and managed to convert that advantage within 20 hands to take his first bracelet and the $75K first prize.
Craigie wins $46420, far and away her biggest ever win (previously $10K at last year's Colossus event) and becomes the first Brit final table-ist of hopefully many.
WSOP 2 - $565 Colossus II NLH, Day 1A/B of 4, total entries TBD
The first of 6 starting flights saw 3249 players enter and after 20 levels, 121 have survived so the attrition rate isn't quite as bad as had been thought.
In what we hope can become a trend, there are plenty of "GB" designations among the qualifiers, including at the very top where David Polop is 1st, Hector Rodriguez 2nd and Max Silver 5th. Also still in Gary Cartlidge, Richard Codd, Luke Brereton and Nicholas Brown.
The bubble burst several levels before the end of the day with 367 players cashing out for various sums from $833 up to $1522. Each starting flight will have the day 1 payouts calculated independently and then when the survivors from Day 2 combine, the payouts for then on will be recalculated with the stipulation that no-one knocked out on Day 2 will take less than anyone knocked out on any one of the Day 1s.
Flight B saw fewer entries, "only" 2153 so the 15% payout rule sees 323 players paid with those min-cashing doing a dollar better than those from flight A. This flight is still in progress (they're playing level 12 of 20 and the bubble has just burst) so there will be an update later
To start today
None, flights C & D of the Colossus will take up all the table space/dealers etc.
Thought she played very well last year although maybe got a little bit too 'cally' at the end, although she did run into a few bad spots.
Flight B is now done and dusted and only 69 of the 2153 will need to unbag chips on Sunday. Jason James is top of that particular pile at the moment, but there is a familiar face in second in Tom Middleton. "Middy" won the 2013 EPT Grand Final, and another former EPT winner, Harrison Gimbel also has a meaty stack to take forward to Day 2. Gimbel also has a WPT Title to his name, so he is bidding to become a member of the exclusive "Triple Crown" club (alongside Gavin Griffin, Roland de Wolfe, Jake Cody, Elky & Davidi Kitai)
The only other player listed as British among the 69 is Oksana Mashyna in 29th place, and other names to progress include Kelly Minkin (see Markycash's post), former November Niner Amir Lehavot, Sofia Lovgren & Matt Stout.
I managed to fluke a win in last weeks half time tourney so just managed to scrape in under the wire to join you.
My question to the more experienced huge field players should I be concerned about the fact its a rebuy and do not have the pockets to have multiple stabs at it.
My instinct is to try and play tight unless convinced I have the best hand until the rebuy period closes and hope that the average stack is not way above me? All on the big assumption I make it that far.....
My biggest live tourney to date was a £100 freeze out over 2 days that somehow I managed to get 3rd by a 4500 field is pretty daunting and 60 min binds!!!
Any advice will be much appreciated and am really looking forward to meeting you all. Truth is I'm a pretty awful player who loves the game and occasionally manages to play sensibly.
That was what I was counting on, the huge field is daunting but i'm hoping that its the same game whatever the cost. Well that's what I'm telling myself.
Kelly Minkin has improved a bit since last I noticed, finishing her starting day over 150k.
The 3770 players in Flight C bring the number up to 9172 with 3 flights still to come, and of those 3770, 139 will have a day off to reflect on their chances of collecting the million dollar top prize and come back for Day 2.
Ben Lindemulder leads those 139 with some British names involved - Ben Dobson and Louis Salter sit 5th and 6th respectively, Ketan Patel is just inside the top 20 and Chris DaSilva has just squeaked through in 136th spot with less than 4 Big Blinds.
A dangerous name floating about in 9th place overnight is Marvin Rettenmaier, while 5-time bracelet winner Allen Cunningham and 2008 November Niner Ylon Schwartz also survived Flight 1C.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 1 Flight D, 3009 entrants
A little over 3000 in the 4th flight, with 105 making it through.
It is a bracelet holder who leads this group - 2013 $2500 6-max winner Marco Johnson. One of our own British bracelet winners, 2012 $3K shootout winner Craig McCorkell lies inside the Top 10, but he appears to be the only British player through today.
Another qualifier is former ME winner Scotty Nguyen, and the likes of Michael Mizrachi, David "ODB" Baker and Doug Lee will also be fancying their chances.
To Start Today
Flights E & F of the Colossus
WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship (3 Day Event), the first of the big buyin events.
Evening (Morning?) all.
Colossus Flight E is well under way, & after 90 minutes play, it has 4,745 entrants so far.
No sign of Mr Deferreira on the reports yet, but JP Kelly has had a good start and also listed among the chip counts are Barny Boatman and David Vamplew (who are both having multiple shots at this one) and Kerryjane Craigie, using some of her winnings from Event 1. Also noted is last year's November Niner, veteran Pierre Neuville and the blind player who featured heavily on the ESPN coverage of the ME a few years ago, Hal Lubarsky.
The largest flight so far, and of course the most qualifiers for Day 2 so far with 219 advancing.
Hai Nguyen has almost 400K chips and leads at the moment, with David Vamplew on what may well be his 5th bullet finally getting a big stack together and bagging 325K at the end of Level 18.
Ben Heath, LeeJames Wightwick and JP Kelly are also shown as "GB" on the final report, and a former November Niner is there too. Remember Billy Pappas, the foosball champ, well he's back and into Day 2 of the Colossus.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 1 Flight F, 4487 entrants
With the 4487 from Flight F, the total number of entries for the Colossus is 21613, 761 down on last year which
I'm sure isn't what the WSOP were expecting when they created two extra starting flights. Still it is a huge number, creating a prize pool of over $10million and the guaranteed first prize of $1m.
192 made it through, giving a total of 846 players going forward to Day 2, when the structure slows to a more sensible 60 minute levels, they have all locked up $2155 so far.
Full chip report not yet available but looks like Norman Michalek has most chips from this flight, 531K, which by my reckoning is the most of any of the 6 flights.
I've noticed one of my "bracelet picks" Loni Harewood through, plus one of Tikay's (Taylor Paur) plus one British player, Jack Salter. If there is anything else significant to report, I'll do a supplementary post later.
WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, Day 1 of 3, 87 entrants
The first of the big buy-in tournaments and most of the big names are here, especially those of the "older" variety. Hellmuth, Mericer, Danzer, Somerville, Forrest, Ballande, Lisandro etc. are all through but the chip leader is Steve Weiss who I know relatively little about (Hendon Mob give him only 3 previous WSOP cashes, all of which are for less than the buyin for this one)
Brits? Stephen Chidwick and Adam Owen made it through, and so almost did our own Stu Rutter but he got short stacked towards the end of the day and was knocked out on the very last hand. Matthew Ashton was another (earlier) casualty.
Other names who have been eliminated include Mike Gorodinsky, Daniel Negreanu & Dzmitry Urbanovich (I've got his name ready to cut and paste as I expect to be using it a lot during this series.
Last year's winner Brian Hastings elected not to defend his title, but there was a surprise appearance from Chris Ferguson, his first appearance at the WSOP since 2010 and of course his first appearance almost anywhere since the Full Tilt scandal.
To Start Today
WSOP 4 - $1000 Top Up Turbo NLH, 2 Day Event (I mistakenly had this down as a 1 Day Event on an earlier posting)
Standard stack is 5000, but you can qualify for 5000 extra chips through some WSOP promotions or buy 5000 more for another $1000
20 minute levels, so probably not even one rotation per level.
WSOP 5 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6-Max, 3 Day Event
Morning (?) Barny,
Not sure if you get the official Media Releases from WSOP, so I've sent you an e-Mail with the latest WSOP Press Release attached.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 2 of 4, 21613 entrants
21000+ have become 77 after Day 2 of the Colossus concluded, with Day 1C chip leader Ben Lindenmulder bagging the most once again.
Notable names through include Amir Lehavot, Marco Johnson, Ylon Schwartz and David "ODB" Baker (bracelet winners all) and one British player, Ben Heath.
Day 2 British cashers included Louis Salter, Tom Middleton, Leejames Whitewick, Ben Dobson, David Vamplew, Ketan patel, and Gary Cartlidge.
WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 87 entrants
There are only 6 players let chasing the first Championship bracelet of the summer. 5 of the 6 have a combined 14 bracelets between them with Steve Weiss the odd one out.
He sits third but a long way behind chip leader Robert Mizrachi, with Matt Grapethein the only one who has much more than half Mizrachi's stack.
The other three players are Ted Forrest, David Benyanmine and George Danzer. Go George.
Men of Kent Stephen Chidwick & Adam Owen cashed in 11th & 12th respectively
WSOP 4 - $1000 Top Up Turbo NLH, 2 Day Event, 667 entrants
Also at the FT of this one, of the 9 players 7 are American inlcuding Ben Yu, Vinny Pahuja & Kyle Julius, plus Bart Lybaert from Belgium and Christian Blech from Germany
This one will re-start tomorrow.
WSOP 5 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Max, 389 entrants
2008 Ladies event winner Svetlana Gromenkova is the one to catch here of the 85 players progressing to Day 2. The overall field is up by 30-odd players on last year so that is a good sign, and means that 59 will get paid.
A familiar name lies second, that of Richard "Chufty" Ashby, and Stephen Chidwick hopped in to this after being knocked out of the Stud and has made Day 2 but with a short stack.
Two controversial figures, Chris Ferguson and Mike Matusow are in similar boats with Paul Volpe, Vladimir Schmelev, Sorel Mizzi, Eli Elezra & David Sklansky in better shape
To start today
WSOP 6 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day event
WSOP 7 - $1500 2-7 Lowball Draw (No Limit), 3 Day event with a single re-entry
Ben Yu (last years $10K Limit bracelet winner) is the short stack with 625K, Karl Held (only 2nd WSOP cash) is 3rd with 1.4m, second is Kyle Julius (runner-up in both the 2012 PCA and a $5K bracelet event the same year) with 1.75m, marginally behind Belgian Bart Lybaert (regular MTT casher with 12 flags on his Hendon Mob page).
It's still anyone's, to be honest.
On return from the dinner break, we're down to 16 in the Colossus with play expected to continue until a final table is reached.
Of the 16, the chip leader is Jiri Horak, one of two Czech players still in, together with 1 Canadian and 13 Americans.
By process of deduction therefore there is no player from these islands in the Sweet 16, Ben Heath busting early on Day 3 in 77th spot for a little under $12K.
Edit - update - both Czechs have made the final table, Horvak leading the way with compatriot Marek Ohnisko in 5th. All the other 7 are American players, none of whom appear to have a star-studded resume, but someone from this group of 9 will be a million dollars richer in a few hours time.
WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, Day 3 of 3, 87 entrants
Robert Mizrachi won his 4th bracelet in the 10K stud, dominating Matt Grapenthein heads-up, to move one bracelet ahead of his arguably more famous brother Michael.
Robert also joined Michael in an elite club of players to win a bracelet three years running, with the only other members being Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss, Allen Cunningham & Matt Matros. Doyle in fact won one in 5 consecutive years.
George Danzer went out third, and stud specialist Ted Forrest fourth.
WSOP 4 - $1000 Top Up Turbo NLH, Day 2 of 2, 667 entrants
This one is done and dusted and the honours have gone to Kyle Julius. The 29-year old took his first bracelet and $142,972, a sum only a third of that he picked up when bring a runner-up in a WSOP event back in 2012 and only a tenth of his earnings when also finishing runner-up at the PCA the same year.
Belgian player Bart Lybaert came second (heads-up play was over within one hand) with pre-FT favourite Ben Yu and Karl Held third and fourth.
WSOP 5 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Max, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants
Three bracelet holders remain among the 18 players who will come back for Day 3 - Paul Volpe, Andrew Brown & Randy Ohel, but it is Lawrence Berg they all have to beat as he has a nice chip lead after eliminating Alan Myerson in 10th while playing No Limit Hold'em. Volpe saved the organisers a potentially awkward situation when knocking out Chris Ferguson in 15th.
No Brits left here either, Richard Ashby crept into the money (finishing 58th of 59 players getting paid).
WSOP 6 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1073 entrants
The first of the "regular" NLH events saw a four-figure field, with a Dusty Bin (that's showing my age) 321 moving forward to Day 2.
The wonderfully named Roman Rogovskyi (anyone with the intiials RR is alright by me) is the chip leader after knocking out the perenially moaning Phil Hellmuth late on.
We are 18 knockouts away from the money, so most of the other well-known names - including Upeshka Da Silva, Antonia Esfandiari, Jonathan Tamaiyo, Anthony Zinno and actor James Woods should at least min-cash.
Rogovskyi is shown with a Union Jack in the chip listing, but he is a Ukrainian living here. Jack O'Neill appears to be top of the "real" Brits (lying 30th overnight) and he is accomapnied by Darren Judges, David Vamplew, Andrew Fleming, Joe Laming, Louis Salter, Ross Boatman, and for all those who like to follow those who play here on Sky, James Rann.
One last mention, Kyle Julius - see event 4 above, is also still in chasing his second bracelet in a few days.
WSOP 7 - $1500 2-7 Lowball Draw (No Limit), Day 1 of 3, 279 entries
Single draw lowball may be a niche game, but it attracted nearly 300 players (including re-entries). 42 will get paid and the top prize is $92338.
Adam Owen was chip leader at one point but he dropped down to 34th overnight leaving last years bracelet winner Benny Glaser as top Brit, with Niall Farrell also still there for the UK.
Top man overall at the moment is Konstantin Maslak ahead of Yuval Bronstein. Maslak won a bracelet last year, and apparently is also a Chess Grand Master. Some of the more well known names to progress include Eli Elezra, Jen Harman, Huck Seed, David Benyamine, Barry Greenstein and Todd Brunson who all used to be on "High Stakes Poker" plus current young gun Dzimitry Urbanovich who according to the chip counts is now from Burundi, which I believe to be wrong! One of Tikay's bracelet picks, Taylor Paur, is also through but he has a Tikay-sized stack and will need to get busy early on Day 2.
To start today
WSOP 8 - $1500 HORSE, 3 Day Event
WSOP 9 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, 3 Day Event
You are in great form Barny, & you get better every year, these Updates are fantastic, & it's clear you put a lot of work into them.
Most of us read but don't bother to comment, because that's how the internet works these days, but I'd like you to know that we all appreciate your wonderful work.
Not entirely sure I appreciated this, mind.....
".....One of Tikay's bracelet picks, Taylor Paur, is also through but he has a Tikay-sized stack and will need to get busy early on Day 2......"
An outrageous slur on my abilities. I've played two events since I got here, & was actually above starting stack in one of them. Once. After the first hand.
Heads up for the bracelet between Day 3 chip leader Jiri Horak and Ben Keeline. They've been at it for nearly 100 hands already, and the chip stacks are just about even so this could take some time.
Edit - by the time I finished typing, Ben Keeline has taken it down. He wins the bracelet and round million dollars, Horak will have to settle for the small matter of $618K.
WSOP 5 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Max, Day 3 of 3, 389 entrants
Local player Lawrence Berg took the Dealers Choice event when beating Zhu Yueqi heads up when scooping a hand of Omaha Hi-Low. This is Berg's first bracelet and the $125K first prize far exceeds his previous biggest live cash.
Former bracelet winners Andrew Brown and Paul Volpe ended up in third and fourth place respectively.
As mentioned yesterday, the only GB casher was Richard Ashby down in 58th
WSOP 6 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1073 entrants
36 players are still in the hunt for the bracelet but disappointingly we've just lost David Vamplew and Joe Laming in quick succession near the end of the day to end of British challenge as we lost James Rann (collecting $3266), Jack O'Neill, Andrew Fleming, Ross Boatman, Darren Judges and Louis Salter all at regular intervals post bubble.
One Irish player has made it, Tim Farrelly who sits second overnight behind Justin Young.
No really huge names left (Antonio Esfandiari was the bubble boy but hey he can afford it), but some reasonably well known players through include John Racener, Anthony Zinno plus Day 1 chip leader Roman Rogovskyi
WSOP 7 - $1500 2-7 Lowball Draw (No Limit), Day 2 of 3, 279 entrants
We've reached the unofficial Final table with 8 players left and again we lost the last GB player in the later levels as 2015 bracelet winner Benny Glaser departed in 12th for $4562. Adam Owen went out earlier (22nd, $3056) and Niall Farrell just before him (29th, $2597)
Of the eight remaining, it is "Captain" Tom Franklin, who won his only bracelet back in the last millennium (and made the FT of the Main 21 years ago) who is the most interesting player and was chip leader for quite a while but dropped to third at the end behind Ryan D'Angelo and John Monnette.
WSOP 8 - $1500 HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 778 entrants
OK, so I've promised myself no Horse-y puns this year. Let's see if I can stick to it...
After some of the tournaments above, at last I an report some Brits through to Day 2, Stu Rutter, Richard Ashby & Usman Siddique. Top of the stacks overnight is Japanese 2012 bracelet winner Naoya Kihara ahead of Danny Wong and Ron Ware.
Event 4 runner-up Bart Lybaert is still in alongside Scotty Nguyen, Brian Hastings (playing his first event of the Series), Greg Raymer and two TV poker broadcasting legends.
No, not Tikay unfortunately, but Mike Sexton from the WPT and the WSOP's own Norman Chad.
WSOP 9 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, Day 1 of 3, 153 entrants
An increase of 10 players on last year, with the winner due to receive over $320K and the last 16 getting paid a minimum of $24596.
Three rounds of heads-up play have reduced the field to 32 so everyone has to win one more battle before being in the money.
As noted in other posts, Sky Poker player Michael Kane was the last player knocked-out on Tuesday, but three other Brits move forward - Paul Newey, Max Silver & Daniel McAulay.
The full draw for the last 32 is:
Jared Jaffee v Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth v Olivier Busquet
Federico Petruzzelli v Jason Les
Daniel McAulay v Orlando Romero
Matthew Parry v Konstantin Ramazanov
Alan Wehbi v Alan Percal
Tanner Millen v Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey v Sam Soverel
Igor Yaroshevskyy v John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari v Bryn Kenney
Ankush Mandavia v Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis v Ali Davoudi
Sam Stein v Max Silver
Matthew Diehl v Adrien Allain
Adrian Mateos v Max Altergott
Alex Luneau v Bobby Oboodi
One twist that I was previously not aware is that those players who had to play in the first round received a 50% refund on their buy-in, only those who received a bye to Round 2 are in for the full 10 large.
To start today
WSOP10 - $1500 NLH 6-max, 3 Day Event
WSOP11 - $10K Dealers Choice 6 Max Championship, 3 Day Event