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Seat 1 David LEVI (USA) 70K chips
Seat 2 Lawrence BERG (USA) 24K chips
Seat 3 Timothy BURT (USA) 58K
Seat 4 Tony KENDALL (GBR) 27K
Seat 5 Jonathan OLSZEWSKI (USA) 16k
Seat 6 Cole JACKSON (USA) 14K
Seat 7 Matt GLANTZ (USA) 23K
Seat 8 Binh NGUYEN (USA) 41K
Seat 9 Charles COULTAS (USA) 50K
No one in the Top 25, and a few shorties that will be looking for a quick double up.
Levi has made a few WSOP FTs dating back over a decade, and most recently 3rd in the $1500 HORSE last year. Four small cashes this year including the $1500 Omaha Hi Lo
Berg won Event 5, the $1500 Dealers Choice what seems like ages ago yet was only four weeks or so. One other small cash since.
Burt - 7 cashes so far this series, including $17K for 8th in the mixed omaha/stud hi-lo event.
Not much out there about Olszewski, $15K total earnings, no lifetime WSOP cashes. Has picked up a few bucks in other events in Vegas throughout June.
Jackson's only recorded cashes are at the WSOP suggesting he doesn't play much live outside the Series. Three small scores so far this year, did far better last year including coming 2nd in a $1000 NLH event for nearly two hundred grand.
Glantz is the class of the table, over $6m in earnings and known as one of the best players without a bracelet. Came close in the $10K version of this, finishing 3rd. He won the high roller at EPT London back in 2009.
Binh Nguyen - which one? There are several, the most successful being a guy who second in a WPT in 2009 for nearly a million. One cash this series, 162nd in the Crazy Eights for $4K odd.
Coultas had a very deep run in the Main in 2012 (finished 34th for $236K) and final tabled the $565 PLO a month ago for over $40K.
1. Jason Mercier's dog is called Marshmallow.
Things we really couldn't give a monkey's about
1. Jason Mercier's dog.
Things we want to happen on Friday
1. Tikay to cash and then go on a really deep run
2. Team Polk/Fee to win the tag team event to give me one point in the Fantasy table.
3. Someone with very deep pockets to go out in the first level of the $111,111 One Drop
Things that may have taken people by surprise on Friday
1. Jason Mercier proposing to Natasha Barbour after she was knocked out in third place in Event 59. Barbour was picking up that pesky dog after being busted, then Mercier ops over the hoardings, does the whole getting down on one knee job, and she says "Yes".
Event 59 is now down to heads up with Yue Du having about a 4-1 chip lead over young Canadian pro Michael Gentile.
Event 61, the tag team event is down to 4 teams. The Littles have gone in 9th, and we've just lost John Gale and his partner TJ Shulman in 6th, and the combination that included Benny Glaser & Adam in 5th. That leaves just the Dempsey-Godfrey combo representing the UK although they are short stacked.
tikay's event 64 has only just got started for Day 2, likewise the 25K PLO with Cary Katz gone in the opening exchanges to leave a field of 19.
WSOP59 - $5K NLH, Day 4 of 4, 863 entrants
After 4 hard days of poker, Event 59 has been won by Chinese player Yue Du (also known as Alan Du). He is a Chinese businessman who spends a lot of his time in Northern California and plays regular high stakes cash games there, but definitely isn't a professional.
He positively ran over the final table, always holding a big chip lead. Canadian Micheal Gentili was second (Gentili not to be confused with Jen Tilly!) and the newly-engaged Natasha Barbour was third.
WSOP61 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 3 of 3, 836 teams entered
The first team poker event in over 30 years at the WSOP has been won by the combination of Doug Polk and Ryan Fee.
Polk did most of the work and played the early stages of the FT before going off to play the One Drop High Roller and left Fee to finish the job. It's Polk's second bracelt and Fee (who is a cash game player and plays very few tournaments) was collecting his first. They teamed up to promote the training site they run together.
The second and third teams were also all pros - Gabriel Paul/Niel Mitelman & Adam Greenberg came second and the American/German combination of Moshin Chanaria and Marvin Rettenmaier 3rd.
Best of the Brits was James Dempsey, playing with Chris Godfrey in 4th, narrowly beating John Gale in 5th with TJ Shulman and the team that included both Adam Owen and Benny Glaser went out in 6th.
The team of poker pro Jonathan Little and his parents made the Final Table and busted 9th.
One more player to mention is Ryan Laplante who finished 22nd in combination with Leo Wolpert, notable for the fact that it is Laplante's 12th cash this year, a new record.
Oh, and one more thing, who had Doug Polk in their Fantasy team?
WSOP62 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 184 entrants
A halt was called to proceedings with 3 players still in the event, Jens Kyllonen from Finland and two Americans Dan Smith and Tommy Le. Le has now FT'ed all the PLO events this series - the $1500, the $10K and now the $25K.
Ludovic Geilich had a very deep run which ended in 7th while the omnipresent Mizrachi brothers bowed out in 12th (Michael) and 9th (Robert)
WSOP63 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2452 entrants
25 players have made it to Day 3 and we have 4 British playes among them. Matas Cimbolas lies 3rd, Pratik Ghatge 7th and Matthew Moss 8th. Shola Akindele is shown as bottom but with 416 chips so there must be an error there as that is an impossible chip stack.
Italian Rafaelle Castro leads all players ahead of Ryan Drossel, with the biggest names left probably Tony Dunst, Faraz Jaka & Sebastian Pauli
WSOP64 - $3K PLO Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 473 entrants
Message to the Sky Poker TV producers, Tikay is going to need a personal parking space as due recognition of his achievements.
He cashed again, after nursing a potentially precarious stack throughout Day 2, eventually departing in 56th for a cash of $4873.
There were apparently some other players playing this as well and someone holds a chip lead over someone else but it doesn't really matter anymore.
If you insist, there are still 21 left - 18 Americans, Timothy Vukson for Canada, Jarred Graham for Australia and Richard Ashby for the UK in a really good second spot.
British cashers - Adam Owen (23rd, $6800), Soner Osman (39th, $5942) and Tony Kendall (as above),
WSOP65 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 819 entrants
The bubble burst in the last level of the day so all the 112 remaining players will return for Day 2 in the money.
Annetta Holley is the chop leader, ahead of Karen Xiu and Barbara Johnson - Americans all.
Vanessa Selbst is usually regarded as the best female player in the game, and she has bagged a very respectable 80800 chips to lie 9th and Elisabeth Hille who had a very deep run in the Main a couple of years ago is in 15th.
I can't see much in the way of British players, the only "GB" in the listing is attaced to Daiva Barauskaite who I believe was the Lithuanian player who appeared on the Sky Poker TV show a while back.
WSOP66 - $1K WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, Day 1 of 2, 1247 entries
They've just reached the FT of this, where the players will reconvene and play the FT in the Rio in a couple of days time.
Players are only known by their aliasaes at this point, and I believe they are FeelGoodInc, SLARKDUCK, Sparrow, mariovideo, harveyjmpr7 and jidolz
I guess more will become known when they appear live.
WSOP67 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, Day 1 of 3, 171 entrants so far
Day 1 has come to a close with 88 high rollers (all contributing a decent amount to the OneDrop charity) still in the tournament. Registration is still open so if you're in Vegas and have a spare $111K, you know what to do.
It's a Central European 1-2 overnight, with Koray Aldemir bursting through late on to take the chip lead and Fedor Holz second.
As you would expect it's big names sprinkled everywhere on the chip listings - two Mizracihs, Dominik Nitsche, Adrian Matéos, Kyle Julius and Joe McKeehan all in the top 11.
Behind that it's the British group - Niall Farrell 12th, Jack Salter 14th, Stephen Chidwick 15th.
Max Silver, Craig McCorkell, Tony Bloom, Paul Newey & Christian Christner are also still there for the UK.
To start today - THE BIG ONE
WSOP68 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
Still to come
WSOP69 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s
1 Clayton Maguire,(SLARKDUCK) 7,157,023
2. Simeon Naydenov (FeelGoodInc) - 6,203,740
3. Marc-Oliver Carpentier-Perrault (mariovideo) - 2,520,809
4. Park Yu Cheung (Sparrow) - 1,118,4085. Spencer Taylr (TheGoat21) - 943,029
6. Richard Tuhrim (jklolz) - 761,991
They will meet on the Final Table on Monday.
Well done Tikay.
Looking forward to following the main event and plan to pop over and take in a few days of the action when I am not playing.
Do we have the real names of the Sky players so we know who to look out for?
It's a bracelet for Finland as Jens Kyllonen becomes the third Finnish player to win a WSOP bracelet (after Jani Vilmunen and Ville Wahlbeck) in his first WSOP event of the year.
He is one of the biggest online cash players with swings of over a million dollars a day both up and down not unknown, but this is his first 7-figure payday live - the prize is $1127035.
With the 4 players coming back to play Day 4 with pretty even stacks it was never going to be a quick process to determine the winner, and it took four hours for Ryan D'Angelo to bust 4th, Dan Smith 3rd and Tommy Le 2nd
WSOP63 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2452 entrants
One of the smartest players (usually wearing a suit and tie), Tony Dunst is now a WSOP bracelet holder as won Event 63 (also collecting $209K).
Jason Rivkin (2nd) and Joshua Field (3rd) made up an All-American top 3, with the best of the 4 British players who made Day 3 being Matas Cimbolas who made the FT finishing 5th ($83K)
Pratik Ghatge and Matthew Moss departed straight after each other in 10th and 11th (both nearly $22K) while Shola Akindele went out in 19th for $10979.
WSOP64 - $3K PLO Hi-Lo Split 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 473 entrants
Without Tikay making Day 3 this was a bit of anti-climax but at least we did have one Brit making the FT, with Richard Ashby coming 4th for over $86K.
The winner was Kyle Bowker who denied Kate Hoang a second bracelet for the ladies by beating her heads-up.
Jarred Graham was the third placed finisher.
WSOP65 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 819 entrants
Play has been stopped for the evening with the Final Table of 9 established.
Wendy Freedman has the chip lead - she may not be a huge name but she has cashed in no fewer than 36 tournaments across the US since the start of 2015.
Regular ladies event casher Amanda Baker is 2nd while in 3rd is Courtney Kennedy, for whom I cannot find a single cash recorded on the Hendon Mob database.
Natalia Brevligieri is in 7th place and is showing as from the UK and has cashes in half a dozen different countries since her last cash at DTD back in 2013.
Day 1 chip leader Anetta Holley went out in 13th, Vanessa Selbst 23rd, Elisabeth Hille 57th and Daiva Barauskaite 11th.
Alison Pendergast, who I mentioned came to play in the tag team event with her husband to celebrate their anniversary and made the money there, is now 2 for 2 in WSOP cashes by having a deep run here and ending up 26th for $4160.
WSOP66 - $1K WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1247 entries
On hiatus until Monday
WSOP67 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, Day 2 of 3, 183 entries
After busting the 25K PLO in third, it's just normal to late reg the $111K One Drop, isn't it? Dan Smith thought so and he stormed through the field and takes the chip lead into Day 3.
He leads 12 other players who are already quaranteed at least a quarter of a million dollars but will all have their eyes on the first prize of nearly 5 million.
Brian Green lies second with the first of two British players still in contention, Jack Silver, in third. (Niall Farrell is there in 7th). Loads of big names still there, last year's ME winner Joe McKeehan is 4th, Koray Aldemir 5th, Fedor Holz 6th and then there's still David Steicke, Adrian Matéos, Scott Siever Nick Petrangelo and Brandon Steven as well.
And the 13th player? None other than the 3rd on the all-time money list, Antonio Esfandiari.
WSOP68 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s, 764 entrants on Day 1
Day 1A has come to a close with a small increase on last year's Day 1 figure.
No fewer than 546 of the 764 have progressed to Day 2, no doubt a function of the bigger starting stack.
The top 3 are are all-Americans - Gary Sewell, Alvaro Lopez and Scott Neuman with the best Brit being a very familiar name, Matt Ashton who has chipped up despite having an absolutely stacked opening table.
Other players through marked as "GB"
Giulio Mascolo
Daniel Bland
Anthony Forsyth-Forrest
Tom Middleton
John Eames
Oysein Kristoffersen
Edward Roger
Paul Alterman
Jamie Brown
Adam OMahoney
Iwan Jones
Martin Wilson
Henry Fewster
Adrian Grey
Chris Brammer
Michael Kane
Frank Williams (no not that one, I think he'll be busy at Silverstone this weekend)
So that list doesn't include our Sky Qualifier Dave Nicholson who unfortunately lost all his chips.
Still to come
WSOP69 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s
Recreational player and part-time poker dealer in Detroit, Courtney Kennedy is the 2016 Ladies Champion
In her 6th attempt in the event, this was her first time to even cash but this time she went all the way. As I mentioned yesterday, this is her first recorded cash on Hendon Mob anywhere, ever. What a way to get off the mark.
Amanda Baker was the runner-up taking $92K to Kennedy's $149K, Michelle Deng 3rd and Lincolnshire's Natalia Breviglieri (or as Tikay christened her, "Bovril") was 4th.
WSOP66 - $1K WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1247 entries
On hiatus until Monday
WSOP67 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, Day 3 of 3, 183 entries
Astonishingly, this is Fedor Holz's first bracelet. One of the best players in the world for a couple of years now, the German came out on top of the high rollers by beating Dan Smith heads-up.
He adds almost $5 million to his already considerable career earnings, and this is is fourth 7-figure payday in the last 8 months.
It puts him to no. 17 in the all-time money list and number one in the Global Poker Index rankings.
Don't feel too sorry for Smith, just two days after finishing second in the $25K PLO he now added over $3m to his pocket.
Austrian Koray Aldemir finished 3rd and London's Jack Salter fourth with Niall Farrell also having a deep run in 8th. Salter's $1.5m is his biggest cash ever while Farrell only bettered the $486K he picked up here when winning the EPT in Malta last Autumn.
Time to update the Fantasy League table, markycash?
WSOP68 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s, 764 entrants on Day 1
I'm a little confused, the WSOP are saying 1733 entries, but not sure if that is 1B only or 1A/B combined. I'd hope it is the former as that would be a slight rise on last year's 1716 otherwise the overall numbers are going to be way down.
We're close to the end of Day 1B play with the (incomplete) chip counts showing Russian Andrey Zaichenko chip leader ahead of Belgian Kenny Hallaert.
Hallaert is well known in Vegas poker circles as he creates a spreadsheet each year combing all the poker schedules of the various casinos over the WSOP period.
Among those shown with chips at present are David Vamplew, Stephen Chidwick and Benny Glaser, and of course let's hope we have two Sky qualifiers moving forward to Day 2.
Edit - just seen Tikay's man overboard posts. Let's hope the remaining qualifier can do us proud on Day 1C.
Still to come
WSOP69 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s
It was 1733 on Day 1B alone, so as Day 1A, marginally up on last year.
Russian player Andrey Zaichenko is the chip leader, albeit with a smaller stack than the top 2 from Day 1A. Kenny Hallaert held on to second and Kenny Powell lies third.
Plenty of GB players made it through (in order of stack size)
Ben Farrell
David Vamplew
Paul Linton
Timothy Dearing
Patrick Leonard
Matt Davenport
Arkadi Kilman
Gordon Huntly
Rhys Jones
Robin Fisher
Nabil Mohamed
Benny Glaser
William Johnstone
Adam Owen
Ben Middleton
Harry Lodge
Gary Fisher
Stephen Chidwick
JP Kelly
Lee Taylor
Darren Anslow
Richard Norman
Peter Price
Garry Woods
Stephen Rawle
Richard Gray
Alex Ward
Stuart Rutter
Paul Byrne
Bryan Coyne
Barny Boatman
but unfortunately none of the Sky Poker qualifiers
It turned out to be 5 former winners playing 1B, 4 of them made it through (Chan, Ferguson, McEvoy & Raymer) while the only victim of the day's play was 2002 winner Robert Varkonyi.
Plenty of former November Niners played, with the likes of Antoine Saout, Jesse Sylvia, Jason Senti & Matt Jarvis are through, as are Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Selbst, Gavin Griffin and Maria Ho, looking to be the Last Lady Standing for the third time.
The second "Online" bracelet has gone to Clayton Maguire, originally from Colorado but now resident in Vegas. He beat Bulgarian Simeon Naydenov heads-up in a match full of swings that had both players down to very small stacks at different times.
Maguire's best previous WSOP run had been 44th in the 2014 ME, while Naydenov is one of only two Bulgarians to have won a bracelet (2013 $1500 Shootout).
Third went to Canadian Marc-Olivier Carpenter-Perrault, fourth for Spencer Taylor, fifth for Richard Tuhrim while the first player out on the FT was Park-Yu Cheung making his sixth cash of the Series.
Update on the Main Event to follow later, don't quite know when but I'll do it when I can.
The biggest total for 5 years and a huge prizepool of over $63 million with just over 1000 players to get paid a minimum of $15000
With 3252 players through, not time for much more than just listing the Brits who have progressed (or at least those shown as "GB" in the counts)
Both Sergi Reixach and Ben Vinson lie inside the Top 5 with Rui Cao no far behind in 13th.
Inside the Top 100 - Kuljinder Sidhu, Alfie Adam, Christopher O'Donnell, Daniel Tang and Daniel Rudd.
The next group - in the top 250 include Simon Deadman, Mitchell Johnson, Mark Banin, Michael Howard (the former Conservative Leader? Poker players do have "something of the night" about them), Liv Boeree, Waikat Lee, Chris Sly, Senh Ung, and Joseph Lovelady
Chris Moorman is 255th, ahead of Iaron Lightbourne, Luke Marsh, Toby Lewis, Max Silver, Chris Gordon, Jordan Westmorland, Robert Cowen, Alex Lindop, Niall Farrell, Juiushang Wa ng, David Lhonore, Darren Judges, Steffen Sontheimer and Ho Lee.
In the 500-100 range we have Mark McGovern, Adam Reynolds, Jeff Duvall, Mauro Sariano, Pratik Ghatge, Thomas MacDonald, Chi Zhang, Christopher Scholes, Jamie O'Connor, Luke Brereton, Elliott Peterman, Ben Fitzgerald, Marc Kennedy, KerryJane Craigie, Ben Heath, Jason McConnon, Paul Otto, David Nicholson, Oleh Tolstenko, Roland De Wolfe and the one and only Teddy Sheringham.
We still haven't reached halfway yet, so as not to make this post too boring I'm starting to get a little selective.
In the 1001-2000 range the likes of Fraser MacIntyre, Jon Kalmar, early leader Tim Hickling, Neil Channing (Yay - 70400 chips, way above my rather pessimistic guess), Mattas Cimbolas, Kevin Allen, Jack Salter, Jeff Kimber, Daniel Laming, bracelet winner Philip McAllister, Simon Trumper, Peter Costa, Ludovic Geilich and Ryan Spittles (yay)
Finally those outside the top 2000 - Martins Adeniya, Paul Newey, Jake Cody, Daiva Barauskaite, Usman Siddique, Shola Akindele, Will Kassouf, Tony Bloom, Roberto Romanello, Alex Goulder, Steven Watts and Peter Charalambous
Jason Mercier won't be adding the Main to his other bracelets, he busted midway through the day. Phil Ivey thought he'd gone too until the dealer starting pushing him chips when a full house came on the board and the players chopped the pot.
Three more ME winners were knocked out on day 1C - Huck Seed (twenty years after his triumph), Jamie Gold (also celebrating an anniversary, 10 years on from 2006) and Jonathan Duhamel (2010). That leaves 13 left by my reckoning.
The players from Day 1A and Day 1B play their day 2s today (separately) with Day 2C tomorrow, and then everyone left joins together from Day 3.
To start today
The Droplet. Good luck to the myriad Sky qualfiers, and to Tikay's legs chasing around three huge rooms trying to keep track of them all.
The formula for this seems completely arbitrary and indecipherable, but here is the current standings
1. Jason Mercier 2121.69
2. Paul Volpe 1566.04
3. Justin Bonomo 1515.94
4. John Monnette 1461.13
5. Michael Mizrachi 1414.77
6. Martin Kozlov 1410.84
7. Brandon Shack-Harris 1390.81
8. Ismael Bojang 1372.06
9. BENNY GLASER 1352.30
10. Robert Mizrachi 1351.13
11. MAX SILVER
17. NIALL FARRELL
20. STEPHEN CHIDWICK
54. ADAM OWEN
85. JACK SALTER
98. SIMON DEADMAN
1396. TONY KENDALL
Tony Kendall 1396 and 3/4... (have you noticed that no-one over 8 or under 70 ever uses fractions for their age?)
Thanks for updates-superb
Ha.
Now that did make me laugh.
From what I can see at the moment, Matthew Ashton has been doing what Matthew Ashton does, chip up quietly and steadily. Matt Davenport, David Vamplew and Jamie Brown also have decent stacks showing against the Union Jack.
Going the other way, we've definitely lost Adam Owen, Barny Boatman, John Eames & Patrick Leonard. Also out - former ME winner Chris Ferguson, Justin Bonomo, Steve Gee, Neil Bluemfield, Phil Galfond, Dewey Tomko, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ferguson's mate Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and two former Players of the Year, Frank Kassela and Jeff Lisandro.
The droplet is going to finish early, players have been departing faster than expected and now they won't play the full 10 levels but stop at 121 players remaining. Sounds like Jason Mercier really really wants that third bracelet and the $2 Million side bet, he has busted 4 times from this already and will doubtless re-enter again on subsequent days.
1. Neil Channing (GBR) 70400
2. Clayton Hamm (USA) 94200
3. Paul Volpe (USA) 133300
4. Ryan Lenaghan (USA) 97100
5. Daniel Tang (GBR) 150300
6. Mayumi Kaneke (JPN) 95900
7. Dan Wach (USA) 71400
8. Rene van Krevelen (NED) 13100
9. Andrew Stern (USA) 32200
1. Takuya Yamashita (JPN) 34200
2. Danny Lusher (USA) 174400
3. James Cavanaugh (USA) 84600
4. Ryan Spittles (GBR) 50900
5. Branton Caputo (USA) 23100
6. Kristijonas Andrulis (LTU) 48900
7. Tom Dobrilovic (USA) 65200
8. Thomas High (GBR) 61800
9. Bob Janssens (NED) 51000
Tom "Middy" Middleton is the top GB player, in 13th overall and also through are Guilio Mascolo, Matt Ashton, Matt Davenport, Ben Farrell, Harry Lodge, Ben Middleton (don't know if he is any relation), David Vamplew, Benny Glaser, Jamie Brown, Paul Alterman, Rhys Jones, Robin Fisher, Robert Buky, Daniel Bland, Oystein Kristoffersen, Timothy Dearing, Stephen Chidwick and Anthony Forsyth-Forrest.
Antoine Saout is also showing as "GB" but the fact that that is preceded by "Londres" indicates the true origin of the former November Niner.
Some other well known players to qualify include Vanessa Selbst, three former winners (Johnny Chan, Tom McEvoy & Greg Raymer), Bertrand Grospellier, Matt Glantz and Antonio Esfandiari.
With a flurry of re-entries, over $83 has already been generated for the One Drop charity.
Play was deliberatly stopped 15 minutes early as they didn't want to reach the bubble on the first flight and risk it not being reached on other flights, so about 16% remain, 120 players in total
It's an international look to the top of the leader board with 4 different countries represented in the top 4 positions, in order Israel (Yaron Zeev Malki), USA (Barry Hutter), Czech Republic (Jiri Horak) and Argentina (Fabian Ortiz)
Just two Brits through - James Long & Chun Law, and some other names to make it include Kelly Minkin, Max Pescatori and John Racener.
Those who didn't can stump up another $1111 (or multiples thereof) and have another go today and/or tomorrow.
Phil Ivey couldn't get anything going and after nursing a smallish stack for most of the day bowed out in the middle of the day. Same story for Fedor Holz, never really got above average. Daniel Negreanu as busted too, so no repeat of a very deep run for Daniel.
Main event champions have also been bowing out with regularity - Day 2C has seen the demise of Scotty Nguyen, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Joe Cada and Martin Jacobson, although two recent winners Ryan Riess and Joe McKeehan have both been chipping up nicely.
Some British players have also bid farewell to the Main Event, including Simon Trumper, Mark Hammond, Ben Heath, Bhavin Khatri & Jack Salter.
Ben Vinson, Max Silver and Liv Boeree are still there showing with decent stacks, while of course Ambo Channing is also still active with a reasonable stack.
Talking of Mr Silver, you've heard of him and Jamie Gold, well now there's a third member of the periodic table represented - Anna Antimony from New Jersey is among the 3000 or so players still in contention, with a stack of over 200K.
Two Brazilian players are in the top 3 of the Day 2C chip counts - Gustavo Lopes and Rafael Mores, sandwiching Italian Rafaelle Castro in 2nd.
Michael Mizrachi is setting himself up for another long grind, lying in 5th position and the top Brit is Ben Vinson in 8th. No one came close to the />800K stack that Valentin Vornicu bagged up at the end of Day 2AB
Other Brits I can see - Fraser MacIntyre & Hector Alvarez are side by side in 24th and 25th, Kuljinder Sidhu, Liv Boeree, Max Silver, Sergi Reixach, Jason McConnon, Luke Brereton, Scot Margerrson and Patrick Ghatge are all inside the top 100.
Jordan Westmorland, Elliot Peterman, Waikiat Lee, David Lhonore, David Nicholson, Daniel O'Callaghan, Adam Franks, Mitchell Johnson, William Chattaway, Oleh Tolstenko, Robert Cowen, Thomas High, Yiannis Liperis all bagged up over 200K chips so have plenty of material to work with on Day 3.
Those in the 100-200K range are headed by Toby Lewis along with Thomas MacDonald, Robert Heidorn, Iaron Lightbourne, Alex Lindop, Ho Lee, Andoni Larrabe, Chris O'Donnell, Edward Young, Rupom Pal, Juishang Wa ng, Matthew Moss, Robert Tinnion, Kevin Allen, Alex Goulder, Matas Cimbolas, Alfie Adam, Julian Gardner, Tim Hickling, Darren Judges, Christopher Gordon, Roberto Romanello, Christopher Scholes, Andrew Christoforou, Jeff Duvall, George MacDonald, KerryJane Craigie and almost but not quite Neil Channing.
Several other British players inhabit the lower ranges of the counts, just to mention a few Simon Deadman, Will Kassouf, Teddy Sheringham, Paul Newey and Jake Cody.
Overall, two thirds of the field are now busted and 2176 players are shown as still in. Approximately half of those will go home empty handed today (Thursday) with the bubble probably being reached early on Friday.
1. Gleidibe Goncalves (BRA) 40000
2. McLean Karr (USA) 62300
3. Joshua Pener (USA) 125700
4. Kishor Sharma (USA) 327400
5. Michael Noor (CAN) 20800
6. Craig Fruit (USA) 108900
7. NEIL CHANNING (USA) 98100
8. Stephen Chidwick (GBR) 63100
9. Gleb Tremzin (RUS) 227700
They will start Day 3 with the second hour of Level 11, 1000/2000 with a 300 ante.
Morning Barny,
Pretty sure the WSOP have got Neil's count incorrect - he has 68,100, not 98,100. Looks like they misread the little slip they fill in when they "bag up".
224 players made it through from Day 1B of the Droplet, headed by local player Jerry Dabaneh ahead of two more Americans James Armstrong and Johnny Ngo.
I know there's one or to of the Sky Qualifiers through, I don't know their names and don't have permission to link aliases to names anyway, but here is the list of GB Players who made it through
Alex Bounsall 100700
Paul Ephremesen 83600
Martynas Vitskauskas 53900
Christopher Cunliffe 48500
Ian Simpson 48000
Alexander Spencer 46000 showing as Doncaster, Gabon!
Akshay Reddy 42700
Benedict Cullen 32800
Marius Lietuvinkas 28900
Paul vas Nunas 28000
Kevin Pope 15400
Jason Mercier also made it through today with 30-odd thousand, don't know how many times he bought in today.
Two former ME winners are through after busting out of this year's main - Martin Jacobson and Chris Ferguson, both around about the 40K mark, and another 2016 bracelet winner, Ben Keeline (who won an event right back at the start of the series) bagged about 34K.
Thanks Barny.
The alias thing is very awkward, so thank you for treading with some delicacy, but we can confirm that three of those players are ours. And it's pretty easy to work out who they are.
The DPA is SUCH a clumsily worded & drafted piece of legislation, but it is what it is, & we have to follow the rules.
We've lost two former ME winners today, Phil Hellmuth and quite recently Joe McKeehan, leaving just Tom McEvoy, Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer and Ryan Riess in the battle for a second (or in Chan's case third) ME title.
Several Brits are showing well in the chip counts - Adam Reynolds, Max Silver, Tom Middleton, Pratik Ghatge and Liv Boeree all have large-ish stacks with Ben Vinson and Simon Deadman not far behind.
I've been waiting for several days to use the phrase "Anna Khait is flying" but never had the right moment and now it appears I never will as she has recently busted. Still there's several names I could work on some puns - Greg Moore, Dietrich Fast, Chip Jett and Anton Wigg to name a few.
Still in - commentator David Tuchman, former Sky Poker guest McLean Karr, and both father & son ME final tablers Donnach & Eoghan O'Dea.