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I returned for Day 2 above average, with 29 Bigs, 50 left, 27 paid. I would say it was almost impossible for me not to cash from that spot, given my style of play. I finished 38th.......
It was just one of those days really, I did all the right things at the right times, which turned out to be the wrong things at the wrong times.
Only minutes after we started, I held nut nut on the turn & was all-in for a full 2XUp, to make me more than double average, but my man rivered the high, so it was chop chop.
It was all downhill after that.
Eventually I found a lovely balanced hand, A-K-3-5, clubs & diamonds, & potted it, committing myself. I wanted either a re-raiser to isolate, or folds all round. I picked up two callers, nightmare city.
The flop came 2 clubs (I had 2nd nut club draw) & I got the rest in. I needed a club (or so I thought), or a Jack to scoop, &/or running low cards to scoop or chop. A chap looked me up, & I nearly fainted when I saw his hand, he had me completely dominated at both ends - nut clubs v my 2nd nut clubs, A-2 v my A-3, & he has 2 Jacks in his hand, leaving me just one Jack for my Broadway out. (Jack of clubs no good). I could not possibly have been in worse shape.
I would not play a single hand any differently if I could wind the clock back. Very disappointing, but it's tournament poker, & these things happen.
If I min-cash that, I'm guaranteed to be in profit for the trip, even though I have several more events still to play.
The fickle poker Gods then made up for it last night, when I made a seriously "creative call" in a Big O cash game for $690 in a 4 way coup, & scooped the lot for a $2,300 pot, my biggest cash pot of the trip. Nobody said "well played" as they all, one after the other, stared at my hand & cards started cascading into the muck from all directions.
"How could you call?" seemed to be the theme.......
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Loving the Updates, great work, I tip my hat to you.
When they say "how could you call?" it's always a good sign.
Failing that, see the Wikipedia articles "Draw poker" "Stud poker" and "Community card poker"
We have the first female bracelet winner of the 2016 Series. Kristen Bicknell from Canada added her first "open" bracelet to the 2013 Ladies Event title.
On the eve of Canada Day, she beat Norbert Szesci heads-up after previous seeing the departure of John Myung in third.
The "Bounty" concept saw players bust fast early, but that meant stacks were consolidated and play slowed down to the extent that a fourth day was necessary.
Unlike on Sky Poker, the bounties were not progressive but a set $500 per player eliminated; this meant Bicknell's 18 bounties earned her an extra $9000 on top of her $290K first prize.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 331 entrants
Shaun Deeb positively rattled through the final table after winning hand after hand.
He won his second bracelet in a stacked final table - bracelet winners 2nd (Adam Friedman), 3rd (Max Pescatori), 5th (Eugene Katchalov), 7th (John Monnette) and 8th (Cory Ziedman)
In amongst them all, in 4th, was Katharine Flack who by contrast was making her first ever WSOP cash.
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1050 entrants
The number of British players through to Day 2 meant we had a good chance of getting representatives through to Day 3 and so it has proved.
Three UK players made it - Niall Farrell, Daniel McAulay and Daniel Tang. The twelve survivors will play from 2 6-handed players down to a winner on Day 3.
One other name among the 12 stands out, one Vanessa Selbst.
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants
Just 28 players have made Day 3 from the 159 who started, and they are lead by PLO specalist Tommy Le (7 of his 9 WSOP cashes are in PLO events)
Brandon Shack-Harris and James Obst were chip leaders most of the day, but ended it in second and third.
Max Silver and Pratik Ghatge are through, and with recent bracelet winner Loren Klein, Scott Siever and Peter Eichhardt but we lost Jason Mercier late on.
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1125 entrants
287 through and a couple of interesting names near the top - Sky's own Michael Kane is in 5th spot, serial angle-shooter (and EPT winner) Ivan Freitez is 9th and ME runner-up Jay Farber is 15th.
Kane is not the only Brit through - Robert Tinnion also has a large stack, Paul Vas Nunes, Craig McCorkell, Stephen Chidwick, Alex Ward, James Akenhead, Christian Christner and Chun Law are all inside the top 100, with Liv Boeree, Simon Deadman, Mohammed Ladek, Alex Goulder, David Vamplew, Daniel Rudd, Luke Bindon, Talal Shakerchi and another Sky player, James Rann also still with some chips.
Erhan Iscan, a virtual WSOP rookie, is the chip leader ahead of Oliver Bosch and Keith Lehr and while 8 ME winners took part, only Joe Cada & Greg Merson move on to Day 2
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 1 of 3, 668 entrants
Two hundred and seven players worked out the combination of the three Omaha Hi/Lo variants to move forward to Day 2.
John Monnette has the lead after having an excellent last level, ahead of Yuval Bronstein and David Bach.
Jason Mercier's attempts to play 2 tournaments simultaneously worked out badly - he bust in both, but some names through are Michael Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu and yesterday's bracelet winner Steven Wolansky.
Five players from this country are through - Warren Colman, Paul Johnson, Jonathan Wong, Usman Siddique and Simon Trumper.
To start today
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
Happy that Deeb got one in the bag as it gets me off the mark in the fantasy league
Thanks for the updates!
Just one day after Kristen Bicknell won the first bracelet of the summer for the female contingent, Safiya Umerova followed that up by taking the $1500 shootout
Umerova was making only her second ever WSOP cash (after making her first one on a couple of days ago in Event 47) and beat the massively more experienced Scot Niall Farrell heads-up
The key hand was half-way through a quite lengthy heads-up match when Umerova flopped quad queens when all in to get a big double up.
Vanessa Selbst went out in 10th, with the other two British players on the final table, Daniels Tang and McAulay following in 9th and 8th respectively.
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 3 of 3, 400 entrants
The decision was taken to stop the FT at 6 players and come back for a Day 4.
Brandon Shack-Harris has the lead ahead of Matthew Parry and event 45 winner Loren Klein, with all 6 left guaranteed a 6-figure score and the winner close to $900K.
Max Silver left in 12th spot ($44911) and Pratik Ghatge 20th ($24921) to end the British challenge.
Marky's pick Jesper Hougaard is also out, he was eliminated in 14th.
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1125 entrants
31 through to the third day including four British players - James Akenhead, Simon Deadman, Daniel Rudd, and Sky cash regular Michael Kane.
They're all chasing chip leader Tony Roberto who has the lead over former ME runner-up Jay Farber and Chilean Nick Yunis.
Belgian veteran and last year's November Niner Pierre Neuville is also among the final 32 as re John Hennigan, John Racener and Andrew Lichtenberger.
The British challenge was even stronger mid-way through the evening, 4 of the last 20 players busted were from here - Christian Christner, Paul Vas Nunes, Alex Goulder & Alex Ward.
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 2 of 3, 668 entrants
Twenty seven remain with mixed-game specialist John Monnette holding the lead for most of Day 2 but waas overtaken late on by Allen Le
One British hope remains, Usman Siddique who lies comfortably in mid-pack. Others left in include Kate Hoang who appears to be the last female player left, Gavin Smith, David Bach, Yuhal Bronstein and short-stacked Jason Somerville.
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 1 of 4,
Two flights of Day 1s took place on Friday with another 2 happning on Saturday so the total field size is still to be determined.
Daniel Fried led Flight 1A with 366K chips of the 36 survivors including Briton Luke Marsh while 50 survived Flight 1B, the only player to bag a bigger stack than Fried was Andy Spears and again only 1 Brit made it through - Andrew Teng.
To start today
WSOP55 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, 5 Day Event
plus Day 1B of the Crazy Eights.
After that, it's just a week to the Main Event.
First we lost Simon Deadman in 26th, then Daniel Rudd exited in 23th and then unfortunately we lost Style (Michael Kane) in 21st when he tried shoving his short stack (14BB) with Q9 suited but came up against pocket Kings of Zingling Leng and when a third King came on the flop, that was that. He collected $16536 for his efforts.
Popped out for a curry when there were 18 left and when I got back I saw poor old James Akenhead was 18th and had gone out the second I left the door running AK into AA.
Oh so close to having a third double-bracelet winner as Loren Klein was denied heads-up by Brandon Shack-Harris.
Shack-Harris, who had a stellar 2014 series with 4 top-3 finishes including winning a PLO event held the lead entering the heads-up and Klein could never quite catch up.
Tommy Le finished third in his second FT of the series
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1125 entrants
The early Brit carnage on Day 3 of Event 52 I mentioned above followed through to it's inevitable conclusion not long after my previous post as James Akenhead was the very next man to bust in 18th ($20382)
In the end, a heads-up match between Andrew Lichtenberger and Aussie Craig Blight was reached, and both players then decided to call it a night rather than play an extra level to try and determine a winner, preferring to come back on Sunday fresh. The American has 79BB, Blight 25BB
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 3 of 3, 668 entrants
The FT was halted for the night with 5 players left with Canadian Gavin Smith currently the leader, with three Americans (Allan Le, Cody Crouch and Keith Ferrera) and one German (Philipp Eiriscsh) still left in.
The last Brtish player departed in 11th - Usman Siddique will pick up over $14K.
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 1C/D of 4
58 make it through from Flight C with Vlad Darie with the Romanian bagging 454K chips. One British player is listed as making it through this flight - double bracelet winner John Gale.
An odd feature was that the WSOP missed the cash bubble, the counted the players and found the number left matched the number of payouts.
One big name to qualify was 2004 ME winner, Greg "Fossilman" Rayner.
Flight D ended several hours later with 62 qualifying this time around. Steven Tabb has a stack only marginally smaller than Darie with 446K, but we have three Brits through in this flight - Michael Halking, Waikiat Lee and Alex Lindop.
Not many names to pick out - one Matthew Smith is listed, I assume this isn't the Matthew Smith who created the Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy computer games back in the early 80s
WSOP55 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 1 of 5
87 players are in this so far (If you've got a spare $50K lying around you can even late reg at the start of Day 2) and 84 of them are still in.
The first elimination unfortunately was Stephen Chidwick, Keith Gipson followed shortly after and Abe Mosseri also busted very late in the day.
Six Brits already outlasting Chidwick are Benny Glaser, Talal Shakerchi, Tony Bloom, Elior Sion, Adam Owen and Matthew Ashton (with the latter already having come back from a precariously short stack to just a small-ish stack).
Who else is in, well just about any big named poker pro from the USA, but the Germans and Scandinavians seem to be virtually absent.
Scott Siever holds the chip lead from Russian Timofey Kuznetsov and Robert Mizrachi
To start today
WSOP56 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP57 - $1500 PLO Hi-LO Split 8 or better, 3 Day Event
Forty hands of Day 4 play were needed to find a winner, and in the end the cards fell to Andrew Lichtenberger.
It was Lichtenberger's first bracelet and he added a WSOP title to his WPT win from 18 months ago.
Aussie Craig Blight was the runner-up, he took home just over $350K with the winner getting $569K
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 4 of 3, 668 entrants
Allan Le's brother Tommy has made two FTs over the last few days, but it was Allen who collected the family's first bracelet by winning Event 53.
He beat German Phillip Elrisch (wearing a German Euro 2016 football shirt) in a rather short heads-up match.
In fact, the recovened FT as done and dusted in an hour as Keith Ferrara busted 5th, Gavin Smith 4th and Cody Crouch 3rd
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 4, 6761 entrants
Hung Le is not Allan & Tommy's brother, but he is obviously an equally good poker player as he leads the remaining 17 in the Crazy 8's with play continuing.
No British players, in fact there hasn't been any left for several hours now with Alex Lindop the last standing and he went out in 82nd for $5076.
Luke Marsh collected the same payday for his 85th, and so did John Gale, Andrew Teng and Waikiat Lee
WSOP55 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 2 of 5, 91 entrants
The pace has picked up on Day 2 and at the end of the day, 42 progress through to Day 3.
Justin Bonomo holds the lead ahead of Michael Mizrachi and Todd Brunson.
As well as Mizrachi, two more former Players Champions survive - Brian Rast & Mike Gorodinsky along with Negreanu, Mercier, Hellmuth and Robert Mizrachi.
Elior Sion appears to be the only Brit left as some late evening carnage saw the ehend of Benny Glaser, Tony Bloom and Matt Ashton who had been nursing a small stack all day.
WSOP56 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1860 entrants
304 are through with 279 to be paid so we're very close to the bubble.
Zu Zhou is the chip leader, and returning to a theme of a couple of weeks ago, more alliterative names are to be found near the top - Jared Jaffee, Thomas Taylor and Nathan Navarre all lie inside the Top 6.
David Longmate is top Brit in 25th (Chris Bjorin is ahead of him but he doesn't really count). Yiannis Liperis, Henry Fewster, Steve Warburton, Chun Law, Jeff Kimber, Andrew Hulme, Gary Fisher, Daniel Tang, Thomas Hall, Roberto Romanello, Andreas Olympios, Jiushang Wa ng, Chris Brammer and Paul vas Nunes are also through to Day 2.
WSOP57 - $1500 PLO Hi-LO Split 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 732 entrants
Sorry Tikay for the jinx!
Allan Le must have had the best poker playing day of his life, as after clinching Event 53 he hopped in to this and bagged the Day 1 chip lead.
He's ahead of two players from Washington State (Scott Clements & Jesse Hampton) with 126 players moving on to Day 2.
There's still several GB players to root for, including a certain Stu Rutter, plus James Dempsey, Adam Owen, Francis Lincoln & Andrew Andreou
To start today
WSOP58 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, 2 Day Event
Impeccable timing, just busted in a horrible 3 way coup, was scooping with a card to come, needing any high card or a pair up, but a pesky 5 rivered & both my opponents hit the wheel.
The flop was a clue, they both had A-3 v my A-2, so I fancied my chances, but the door card was the worst card in the deck for my hand - a deuce.
Think I exited around 250th of 732.
Boo.
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 4, 6761 entrants
Hung Le is the Crazy Eights champion after 4 days of play whittled the field down from 6761 players to just him.
He beat Michael Lech heads-up with Bulgarian Dimitar Danchev in third.
In line with the theme of this event, Le's first prize was $888888, and all the payouts of the final table ended in 888. Hmmm, I wonder what online poker site is a WSOP partner this year?
WSOP55 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 3 of 5, 91 entrants
The field has been reduced to just 13 players for Day 4, and Justin Bonomo (who has been near the top of the chip listings throughout) is the chip leader.
Lamar Wilkinson is second, and Razz Championship winner Ray Dehkarghani third.
Elior Sion is still there for the UK, but as you would expect the field is stacked with former winners Brian Rast & Mike Gorodinsky, dual winner Michael Mizrachi, Rep Porter, Paul Volpe and Daniel Negreanu just to mention a few.
Jason Mercier won't be adding to his tally in this event, he went out just before the bubble.
WSOP56 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1860 entrants
28 players are still in contention for the 56th gold bracelet of the 2016 series, and it is Matt Affleck who goes into what should be the final day on top.
Austrian Kilian Kramer is next and Jason Seitz third.
I was a little premature in implying no Brits remained in the preliminary version of this post, Chun Law was hiding out of sight of the live updaters and he bagged the 9th biggest stack at the end of the night.
Ireland still have two men with chips - Dara O'Kearney and Cathal Shine.
Other than Law, I believe Matthew Brooks was last Brit standing (55th, $6075) but then he is shown as being from Pembroke, Belguim and the only other two to make the top 100 were Andrew Hulme in 70th for $5180 and Henry Fewster (94th, $3451)
WSOP57 - $1500 PLO Hi-LO Split 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 732 entrants
Sixteen left in this one, no Brits now after the departure of Francis Lincoln in xx. He now has 5 career WSOP cashes, all also in Omaha Hi/Lo events.
David Nowakowski from Voorhees, New Jersey is the chip leader overtaking Canadian Timothy Vukson late on with James Alexander from Edinburg (not the late great James Alexander Gordon from Edinburgh) in third.
Former ME runner-up Martin Staszko is the biggest career winner still active, but the only bracelet winner active is Marco Johnson who won the $3k HORSE a couple of weeks ago.
WSOP58 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, 2 Day Event, 1397 entrants
1396 were whittled down to just 28 after 20 level of Turbo action and after the dust has settled it is Enrico Rudelitz who is the chip leader.
Two Russians Mikhail Petrov and Nikolay Mantsurov and Canadian WIlliam Laing are close behind but two names lower down stand out
Former ME winner Ryan Riess is mid-table in stacks, but former Olympic hockey gold medallist Fatima Moreira de Melo lies just inside the Top 10.
Again, it's not been a stellar day for those from the UK as there are none left (Luke Davies and David Vamplew both finished in the 80s but better than that was Ben Vinson who was knocked out in 50th)
Irish players by comparison are having a decent day with both Patrick Clarke and Marc MacDonnell still in the top half of the field.
To start today
WSOP59 - $5K NLH, 4 Day Event
WSOP60 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 3 Day Event
WSOP55 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 4 of 5, 91 entrants
Could "The Grinder" do it again? With just six players left Michael Mizrachi is still in contention for his third win in the prestigious Poker Players' Championship.
He's not the only previous winner either, Brian Rast won it back in 2011 and would love to join Mizrachi as a two-time winner of the Chip Reese trophy.
Justin Bonomo retains the lead ahead of, in order, Mizrachi, Eric Wasserson, Rast, Lamar Wilkinson and Ray Dehkarghani
That means the last British contender, Elior Sion is out - he busted in 9th for a payday of $111,571
WSOP56 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1860 entrants
We have a winner in Event 56, and it is David Peters from Toledo, Ohio. He has come close before, second in an event in 2010 and third in one last year, but this time he went all the way denying Irishman Cathal Shine. Peters also pockets the not insignificant sum of $412K.
Matt Affleck finished third, second Irishman Dara O'Kearney 13th and last British player Chun Law 21st (nearly $13K)
WSOP57 - $1500 PLO Hi-LO Split 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 732 entrants
This one too is complete and the 1-2 from Day 2 ended up as the 1-2 after Day 3.
David Nowakowski is apparently one of the top online PLO players (moving to Panama to play after Black Friday) and now he has got a gold bracelet.
The end of the event was something of a rush, from 4-handed to the end took only about 15 minutes as Nowkowski busted Event 18 winner Marco Johnson in 3rd and Timothy Vukson in 2nd.
The 2011 Main Event runner-up, Martin Staszko finished 8th.
WSOP58 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 1397 entrants
With none of the FT having previously won a bracelet, there was going to be a new member of the "club" and that happens to be 27-player from Winter Park, Florida - Corey Thompson.
Despite the turbo nature of the event, the heads-up match with German Enrico Rudelitz took over an hour.
Third went to first-time casher William Liang.
Of those mentioned in yesterday's report, the Irish duo of Patrick Clarke and Marc MacDonnell ended up 13th and 24th, former ME winner Ryan Reiss 23rd and hockey superstar Fatima Moreira de Melo 14th.
WSOP59 - $5K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 863 entrants
The WSOP will be ecstatic with the field size of this one - more than double last year's 422.
359 survive, including 4 ME winners Martin Jacobson, Ryan Reiss, Chris Ferguson and Joe Cada, but they all trail Jason Helder who is the chip leader.
Chris Park and Jayakrishnan Nair are is nearest challengers with a couple of recent November Niners not far behind - Pierre Neuville and Zvi Stern.
Liv Boeree hasn't done great this series but she is doing OK here lying 15th overnight, and is accompanied to Day 2 by Iaron Lightbourne, David Vamplew, Chun Law, Ben Heath, James Akenhead, Toby Lewis, Jonathan Somekh, Kuljinder Sidhu, Tom Middleton, Matthew Moss, Robert Cowen, Alfie Adam, Steven Warburton, Jack Salter, Ben Dobson, Max Silver, Darren Hill, Craig McCorkell, Pratik Ghatge, Daniel McAulay, Oliver Price, Steve Watts, Daniel Rudd, Paul Vas Nunes, and Phillip McAllister so a very healthy GB contingent there.
130 will get paid (a min cash is $7496) with the winner due to pick up just over $800K.
WSOP60 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 1 of 3, 521 entrants
A few less than originally stated have made Day 2, 124 of the 521.
Only 2 of the are British - Soner Osman in 37th and Jeffrey Duval in 82nd.
Top dog overnight is Jesse Hampton ahead of Jimmy Fricke and Yen Wu
A few notables also survive including Daniel Negreanu, Allen Cunningham, Barry Greenstein and reigning ME campion Joe McKeehan
To start today
WSOP61 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event
WSOP62 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, 4 Day Event
The 4 Mizrachi brothers form one team (Michael has other things on his mind at this moment, he is on the FT of the 50K Poker Player's Championship)
Both Simon Deaman and Chris Moorman are playing with their wives
One all star team is Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Selbst, Maria Ho and David Williams
Former WPT winner Jonathan Little has teamed up with his parents
Former ME winner Jamie Gold has paired up with TV personality Montell Williams.
Benny Glaser and Adam Owen are in a quartet with Bart Lybeart & Owais Ahmed
David "ODB" Baker, Marco Johnson and Ray Henson is another group full of well known pros
Brian Rast got the better of Justin Bonomo to join Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi as a two-time winner of the Poker Players' Championsip
The lilac-haired Bonomo held a 2:1 chip lead during the heads-up match but the blinds and big bets were so high at the end that almost any hand could have seen an "all in" and a call.
Ray Dehkhargani went out very quickly on the FT in 6th, then it took a while before Lamar "Wil" Wilkinson went out in 5th, Michael Mizrachi in 4th and Eric Wasserson in 3rd.
WSOP59 - $5K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 863 entrants
47 players are still involved and, as I suspected, Marius Gierse from Germany is the boss man at the end of Day 2 with Canadian Jordan Knackstedt and Chinese Yue Du second and third.
Top UK player is Daniel Rudd in 16th with Jonathan Somekh in 28th.
Two more big name Germans (Dominik Nitsche and Fedor Holz) are still there as is Austrian Ismael Bojang and Americans Natasha Barbour, Upeskha De Silva and Byron Kaverman.
WSOP60 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 2 of 3, 521 entrants
Fourteen left and we have a huge chip leader in the shape of David Prociak. Some distance behind is John Monnette (3 FTs already this year) and Al Barbieri is in third.
It is 12 Americans in the last 14 (including Calvin Anderson, Brandon Shack-Harris and Bryan Devonshire) with a solitary Russian (Alexsandr Vinskiii) and a lonely Canadian (Alex Livingston)
Both Brits busted in the 60s (Jeff Duvall 63rd and Soner Osman 60th for $2K-odd each)
WSOP61 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 1 of 3, 836 teams entered
A new format for the WSOP and the bubble was burst very late on Day 1
The team format added a new dynamic to the bubble as players at the table didn't want to bust leaving their teammates out of the money - Jonathan Little's tweet (he was playing with his parents) "In the money in the $1000 tag team #wsop event with 42,000. I could have made a big bluff push but didn't want to bubble mom and dad"
Plenty of GB names showing on the chip listings, but it is listing only one player from each team (presumably the player who was at the table at the end of the day and the one who bagged the chips).
Anyway, Vladimir Geshkenbein's team look like they are the chip leaders ahead of Nick Yunis' team and Mike Leah's team.
The "reports" function never showed the full teams at the end of the day, but it did show the nationality of the players who bagged, so we can say that Harry Lodge, Adam Owen, Peter Charalambous, Waikiat Lee, John Gale, Ivan Stokes, Daniel O'Callaghan, Andrew Teng, James Dempsey, Peter Costa, Roberto Romanello and Nabil Mohammed are still in, and probably many more too.
One more team I would like to mention is the husband and wife team of Jeff Albert & Alison Pendergast from Pennsylvania who are fulfilling a dream of playing in the WSOP to mark their wedding anniversary, and at the end of the night Alison bagged 14700 chips to guarantee the pair a WSOP cash.
WSOP62 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, 163 entrants so far
With late reg open until the start of Day 2, the final total of players will be slightly above the number stated.
Michael Huntress is the chip leader with Ludovic Geilich (who seemed to be playing without a flag earlier on but now safely has the Union Jack beside his name) not far behind.
95 players played through the 10 levels including 4 other players marked as "GB" - Max Silver, James Park, Adam Franks, Jan Collado and Stephen Chidwick.
To start today
WSOP63 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP64 - $3K PLO Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, 3 Day Event
Still to come
WSOP65 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
WSOP66 - $1K WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event
WSOP67 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, 3 Day Event
WSOP68 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
WSOP69 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s
The players have just reached the official FT of 6 and are bagging and tagging to reconvene tomorrow.
Yue Do has a big chip lead ahead of one of two Germans at the FT, Dominik Nitsche. Natasha Barbour is third and the only American at the FT - the other players are Ismael Bojang, Michael Gentili and Marius Gierse
The last two Brits went out during the day, Jonathan Somekh busted in 35th and Daniel Rudd 15th ($18K and $38K respectively)
WSOP60 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 3 of 3, 521 entrants
The 60th Bracelet of the summer has gone to WSOP first timer David Prociak. The business owner only started playing the game seriously last October and now has a gold bracelet and over $156K.
Brandon Shack-Harris (playing in a polar bear costume) was aiming to be yet another 2016 double bracelet winner but had to be content with second as he had no answer to Prociak.
John Monnette nursed a small stack for what seemed like ages and laddered up to 3rd.
WSOP61 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 2 of 3, 836 teams entered
The FT of the inaugural Tag Team event is set and it is a real mixture of players.
The big chip leaders are the pair of Doug Polk & Ryan Fee. Polk now has a dilemma - he is going to play the $111,111 One Drop tomorrow so probably will barely be seen at the FT leaving Fee to do the business.
No such worries for John Gale as he attempts to pick up his third bracelet, his team are in second overnight. James Dempsey is still playing too, in the 5th place team and the half-British foursome that includes Benny Glaser and Adam Owen is in 7th place. Owen is concentrating on Event 64 where he has a large stack so it has been Belgian Bart Lybeart who has been doing most of the work for this team.
Finally, the team of Little-Little-Little, poker pro Jonathan Little and his parents, have also made the FT
Somehow, I think this event will be back next year.
WSOP62 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 184 entrants
More possibility of British success as a house-over-house hand propelled Scots player Ludovic Geilich to the top of the chip counts at the end of Day 2.
He can't be too comfortable if he looks over his shoulder though, as he would see not one Mizrachi but two. Michael is second and Robert third. Another 2016 bracelet winner Ryan LaPlante is 4th.
WSOP63 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event, 2452 entrants
After the money bubble burst late on, 269 players are coming back for day 2.
Frederick Goff has the biggest stack with fellow-American Daniel Weinmann and Italian Raffale Castro lying second and third.
The first Brit isn't showing as a Brit - Imraan Ladak lies 10th from the mysterious new town that is Milton Keynes, Guatemala. Plenty of Brits showing as "GB" though, Paul Jenkinson, Pratik Ghatge, Shola Akindele, Alex Goulder And Anthony Forsyth-Forrest to name just five.
WSOP64 - $3K PLO Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 473 entrants
With Tikay's progress mentioned on later posts, we'll take a moment to look at the top end of the board.
Well known online player Jon Turner is the chip leader, Allen Le is on for another deep run in second and Tark Abboud third. Leif Force is fifth after batting his way on Tikay's table, Joe Hachem is 10th and Ari Engel 15th.
Tikay isn't alone in flying the Union Flag - Richard Ashby is on the fringes of the top 20, Soner Osman, Adam Owen & Peter Charalambous are all in the top half of the field while Barny Boatman & Darren Barraclough are still there with shorter stacks.
But it's all about Tikay really, isn't it?
To start today
WSOP65 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
WSOP66 - $1K WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event
WSOP67 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, 3 Day Event
Still to come
WSOP68 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
WSOP69 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s
good going, good luck, good god.
Well done that man.