The WSOP 2017 Thread

FCHD

It's time to start the 2017 thread, with the schedule now set in stone and 5 more events than last year. Two tag team events, 3 online events, and a tournament called the Giant that has weekly Day 1s with Day 2 coming on the first day of the Main.

31/05/17 Event  1 - $565 Casino Employees NLH, 2 Day Event, single re-entry
31/05/17 Event  2 - $10K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event
01/06/17 Event  3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event
01/06/17 Event  4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event
02/06/17 Event  5 - $565 Colossus III NLH, 5 Day Event, including 6 starting flights over 3 days
02/06/17 Event  6 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event
03/06/17 Event  7 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), 3 Day Event
03/06/17 Event  8 - $333 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event ($333,333 guarantee)
04/06/17 Event  9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, 3 Day Event
05/06/17 Event 10 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event
05/06/17 Event 11 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Handed, 3 Day Event
06/06/17 Event 12 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
06/06/17 Event 13 - $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball No Limit, 3 Day Event, single re-entry
07/06/17 Event 14 - $1500 HORSE, 3 Day Event
07/06/17 Event 15 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, 3 Day Event
08/06/17 Event 16 - $1500 NLH 6-max, 3 Day Event
08/06/17 Event 17 - $10K Dealers Choice 6-Max Championship, 3 Day Event
09/06/17 Event 18 - $565 PLO, 3 Day Event, unlimited re-entry (2 starting flights)
09/06/17 Event 19 - $365 The Giant NLH, unlimited re-entry, first of weekly Day 1s, restart on 8th July. Other Day 1s, 16th/23rd/30th June/7th July
10/06/17 Event 20 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
10/06/17 Event 21 - $1500 Eight Game Mix 6-Max, 3 Day Event
11/06/17 Event 22 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, 3 Day Event, single re-entry
12/06/17 Event 23 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), 5 Day Event
12/06/17 Event 24 - $1500 Limit Hold'em,  Day Event
13/06/17 Event 25 - $1K PLO, 3 Day Event
13/06/17 Event 26 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event
14/06/17 Event 27 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event
14/06/17 Event 28 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), 3 Day Event
15/06/17 Event 29 - $2500 NLH, 3 Day Event
15/06/17 Event 30 - $10K HORSE Championship, 3 Day Event
16/06/17 Event 31 - $1K Seniors NLH, 3 Day Event
16/06/17 Event 32 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, 3 Day Event
17/06/17 Event 33 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
17/06/17 Event 34 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 3 Day Event
18/06/17 Event 35 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, 3 Day Event
18/06/17 Event 36 - $5K 6-Max NLH, 3 Day Event
19/06/17 Event 37 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event
19/06/17 Event 38 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event
20/06/17 Event 39 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event
20/06/17 Event 40 - $1500 7 Card Stud, 3 Day Event
21/06/17 Event 41 - $1500 PLO, 3 Day Event
21/06/17 Event 42 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, 3 Day Event
22/06/17 Event 43 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event
22/06/17 Event 44 - $3K HORSE, 3 Day Event
23/06/17 Event 45 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, 3 Day Event
23/06/17 Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event
24/06/17 Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
24/06/17 Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
25/06/17 Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, 3 Day Event
26/06/17 Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event
26/06/17 Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
27/06/17 Event 52 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
27/06/17 Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, 3 Day Event
28/06/17 Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
28/06/17 Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 3 Day Event
29/06/17 Event 56 - $5K NLH, 4 Day Event
29/06/17 Event 57 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 3 Day Event
30/06/17 Event 58 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
30/06/17 Event 59 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, 3 Day Event
01/07/17 Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
01/07/17 Event 61 - $3333 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event
02/07/17 Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, 5 Day Event
03/07/17 Event 63 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event
03/07/17 Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO 3 Day Event
04/07/17 Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, 2 Day Event
05/07/17 Event 66 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
05/07/17 Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, 4 Day Event
06/07/17 Event 68 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
06/07/17 Event 69 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
07/07/17 Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
07/07/17 Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event
07/07/17 Event 72 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, 3 Day Event
08/07/17 Event 73 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
08/07/17 Event 74 - $1111 Little One for One Drop NLH, unlimited re-entry, 5 day Event including 3 Day 1s


I think I've typed up all that lot OK, but please let me know of any mistakes.

scouse_red

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM IMHO WSOP 2016 was probably one of the threads of the year so really can't wait to read this one

Thanks for all the effort you put into FCHD

unknown_username

im glad your doing this again Barney top thread last year *thunderous applause* wp m8

TimmyRaRa

Cant wait for this thread and hopefully i mite go over there and play a few small events.

Tikay10

My favourite thread of the year, every year.

Thanks Barny, can't wait.

Glenelg

Another "Can't wait" 

 Always enjoy this thread.

SoLack

Yay, No1 bestest threads ever.

FCHD

With the first events now just two days away, time to bring this thread back up to the top.

Of course the big WSOP news in recent times is that the November Nine concept has been dropped, and that the final table with be played out three days after the Final Table is reached.

Anyone got any last minute predictions?

Tikay10

Yay, off we go.

weecheez1

Brilliant something to read with my morning coffee 

markycash

Always a great thread.

Hope the Sky qualifiers do well!

Brrrrrrr

Can't believe it is that time again already.

Will read with interest - thanks for putting it all together.

SoLack

So, the main ft will be around 16-18 July?

Bromley023

Yes!!!

The start of this thread always gets me excited for the summer.

Let's go....

markycash

In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread:

So, the main ft will be around 16-18 July?
Posted by SoLack

The start the Main Event FT is on the 20th of July and they play down to 6 players. The 6 remaining players battle down to 3 on the 21st of July before the final 3 return to finish things off on the 22nd of July.

FCHD

Starting today:

Event  1 - $565 Casino Employees NLH, 2 Day Event, single re-entry
Event  2 - $10K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event

FCHD

Cards are in the air! Or so I assume as the WSOP Updates page hasn't actually said so yet. The Casino Employees event 1 started at 11:00 Vegas time, 7:00pm here with the $10K Tag Team Event 2 set to follow four hours later. One nme who is expected to be playing in Event 2 is 23-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps, who has a bit of poker pedigree in his team - Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Gross and Brian Rast.

A word about how I intend to update the thread this year, it's sort of in three parts.

1) Evening updates - anything interesting that happens while I'm up and about in our evenings

2) Morning updates - overnight action. results etc, whatever is available before I go to work, and if any events are still in progress at that point...

3) Lunchime updates - close of play updates, depending on whether I can get wifi wherever I am stationed at the appropriate time.


Anything anyone else sees that they think is of interest during the WSOP, please add here to increase the general enjoyment of everyone.



Update - in the time it took to write this post, it has been confirmed that Jack Effel has done the "shuffle up and deal" speech and there is just one player listed on the chip stack page - Brandon Miller who had one cash for just over $3000 in last years Event 23. Hope he isn't feeling too lonely....

SoLack

In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread:

In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread : The start the Main Event FT is on the 20th of July and they play down to 6 players. The 6 remaining players battle down to 3 on the 21st of July before the final 3 return to finish things off on the 22nd of July.
Posted by markycash

Thanks man.

spinace

Great thread FCHD will read with interest thanks for your efforts.

FCHD

Event 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 651 entrants
As usual, the employees' event gets us underway, with a disappointing 5% drop in entrants.

Twenty levels of harem scarem hold'em on Day 1, and at the end of level 17 (so at the last break of the day), we're already down to 21 players.

No news of any UK cashes so far, or in fact anyone many people would have heard of as the likes of last year's November Niner Kenny Hallert, former bracelet winner Dana Castaneda, broadcasater David Tuchman, Erica Lindgren and Molly Mossey all went out before the bubble.

The winner will collect $68817.


Event 2 - $10K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 1 of 3, 100 team entered so far
Late reg is still open on Event 2, so the 100 teams may well be exceeded when the time comes and the final field is declared.

Most of the really big WSOP names seem to be present, as we have team such as "Team Hellmuth", "Team Negreanu" and "Team Mercier" and several other ME winners have been mentioned in passing such as Martin Jacobson & Ryan Reiss.

There is a "Team UK" consisting of Niall Farrell, Chris Moorman & Craig McCorkell, and Stephen Chidwick and Liv Boreee have also been mentioned as playing in other teams.

10 60-minute levels to get through today and we're only midway through Level 7 so still lot of play on Day 1.


To Start Today
Event  3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event
Event  4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event

FCHD

Event 1 goes forward to Day 2 with just 11 players, none of whom have ever won a bracelet before. The last previous bracelet winner, Brandon Barnette who won this in 2015, exited in 20th (making it the third straight year in which he has cashed in the Employees' Event)

Event 2 managed to attract 102 teams by close of registration and exactly half have made Day 2. It is a familiar look to the top of the board even though this is a brand new event as Doug Polk and Ryan Fee are in the top team and they won the smaller Tag Team event last year. This time aroud they are joined by Jason Mo & Michael Finstein to make a foursome.

Brits represented include the teams of Stephen Chidwick, Jack Salter & Liv Boeree.

FCHD

Event 1 is now down to the final table, and I missed one important fact from the Day 1 review, we have a British player in the mix. Vincent Russell from Bagshot in Surrey is one of the short stacks among the 8 remaining players and has already shoved a couple of times in an amount to get a double up but has got no takers. He is currently guaranteed nearly $6K, a step up on his previous best cash (if I've got the right Hendon Mob page) of a little over a thousand pounds for winning a GUKPT side event last Sunday. A good time to run into form I'd say.

FCHD

Event 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 2 of 2, 651 entrants
Bryan Hollis is the first bracelet winner of the 2017 series. Primarily a limit hold'em player back at home in Maryland, he bust this event in just seven hands last year.

Very much the short stack 3-handed, he then got hot, eliminating first Josh Clanton and then after 25 hands of heads up play, Chris Solomon. Hollis takes home $68K, Solomon $42K and Clandon $29K.

We have the first GB cash of the series as Vincent Russell made the final table and ended up in 8th spot for almost $6K.



Event 2 - $10K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 2 of 3, 102 teams entered
They've just reached the Final Table, after Daniel Negreanu but a horrible beat on Paul Snead, the Canadian's Kings making a set on the turn to upset Snead's pocket Aces.

Liv Boeree is still involved, but her partner Igor Kurganov is currently at the felt, defending their chip lead ahead of the Negreanu-Wasserman-Benyamine-Gregorich combination.

Former ME winner Martin Jacobson's pair still has chips, as does the quartet including double bracelet winner and 2013 November Niner JC Tran.

Steffen Sontheimer is the only other British player shown as cashing, but I believe he is merely resident in this country (Brighton) and is in fact German.

Play is currently in level 19, the original plan was to play to halfway through level 21 on Day 2 but I don't know how far they will go now that they're already at the FT.



Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 1 of 3, 369 entrants
In comparison, this one is already done for the day. 50 table winners have made it through Day 1 and will reconvene tomorrow after veteran Barry Greenstein took the last spot.

Three Union Jacks shown in the chip listings, Jan Scwippert (I think this is actually another German playing out of Sussex, Jan Schwippert), Waikiat Lee (Lee Wai Kiat, Malaysian living in Salford) and Markus Kuhnen (another German).

Simon Deadman should have been there as a genuine British player, but he let a large heads-up chip lead go against James Dambrosio

Others through include Taylor Paur (after battling past Kenny Hallaert), Jean Robert Ballande, Matt Glantz, Dominik Nitsche, Andre Akkari and Olivier Busquet.



Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 905 entrants
The first non-hold'em event of the Series, late reg has just closed and it has been revealed that the winner will take home $238K

Full update to follow later, but it looks like about half the field has been knocked out already. Benny Glaser is among those shown as still having chips, but I'd take those chips with a pinch of salt as early updates to the chip count pages can be a long way behind the actual current state of play.


To Start Today
Event  5 - $565 Colossus III NLH, 5 Day Event, including 6 starting flights over 3 days
Event  6 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event

FCHD

Well that didn't last long, no wifi available at lunchtime means I'm already behind!

Event 2 - the 10K Tag team played down to 6 teams with Team Negreanu holding a decent chip lead overnight. the Anthony Ajlouny - David Fong - Mike McClain combination is second, and Team Boeree is third, with a decent enough 46BB to play with on the final day. Former ME winner Martin Jacobson's team in 5th place. Play resumes at 10pm our time tonight.

Event 4 sees 254 Omaha Hi-Lo players move on to Day 2, with Rex Clinkscales turning on the afterburners late on to end the day with the chip lead. Not the most star-studded of fields to be honest, but those through do include last year's champion Benny Glaser along with a couple of other Brits - Bradley Viner & Vincent Hughes (both from the London Area). 136 will get paid

FCHD

Event 2 - $10K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 3 of 3, 102 teams entered
British bracelet alert. Liv Boeree seems to have been one of the most renowned UK players for a long time, winning an EPT as long ago as 2010, and she has now added a coveted WSOP bracelet to her palmares alongside her partner, Russian Igor Kurganov.

It is also the first bracelet for Kurganov, the all-time cash leader among Russian players. The couple will share almost $274K, and have announced that they will be donating half of that to the Raising for Effective Giving charity.

They started the heads up play against Ankush Mandavia & Joe Kuether with a 2:1 chip lead but as you would expect over 89 hands of heads up fortunes waxed and wained but on the 268th hand of he FT, Kurganov's A-10 on a board of Q-9-8-J-K was the nuts (in fact a seven card straight - beats even an Orford straight!) and Mandavia's Q-10 meant he held only the second nuts and it was curtains.

Daniel Negreanu's team started Day 3 with the chip lead, but went out in 3rd and Martin Jacobson's combination went out in 6th.



Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 2 of 3, 369 entrants
The FT has been determined after the 50 players were split into 10 tables of 5 with the players having to win that 5-player group to make Day 3.

One table was determined in rapid fashion, Jean Gaspard did his business before any of the other 9 tables lost even a single player

Gaspard won a bracelet last year, and is accompanied at the FT by two other bracelet holders - Taylor Paur & Upeshka Da Silva. Olivier Busquet and Jan Schwippert are also through, Schwippert now having the "h" re-instated in his surname and is shown without nationality and home town after being shown as British yesterday.



Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 905 entrants
Still in play with 57 players active, although we've just lost Day 1 chip leader Rex Clinkscales.

The comparison between the chip counts page, the results page and the updates page on the WSOP site is a little confusing but it looks like annoying (but very successful) Costa Rican Humberto Brenes added to his over 80 WSOP cashes and another well known veteran Bruno Fitoussi are still involved

Benny Glaser won't be going "back-to-back" but he did cash, ending up 120th for $2315.


Event  5 - $565 Colossus III NLH, Day 1 of many
Day 1A is in the books while Day 1B is still ongoing.

From the former, Mark Peters bagged the biggest stack, ahead of Jack Blair who is stated to be from "Onl Signup-No City". Sounds like a great place to live.

Mo Farah is fourth, but I don't think it's THAT Mo Farah, as he doesn't "do" fourths. 90 players are through, including GB players Luke Brereton and Guy Taylor

The best known player to qualify is former November Niner and UKPC entrant Antoine Saout from France.

Day 1B round up later.


Event  6 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, single re-entry, Day 1 of 3
This fooled me, since producing the original schedule, Events 6 & 72 have been swapped so we have the One Drop coming very early in proceedings with the $10K Stud now right at the end.

Play is still ongoing, in fact registration is still ongoing (I believe it closes at the start of Day 2), so it's very early days. Doug Polk is the current chip leader, but a lot of the names you'd expect to play this are there - Hellmuth, Esfandiari, Colman, Negreanu, Seidel, Mercier etc.

Igor Kurganov has jumped into this after co-winning Event 2, as has one of his defeated heads-up rivals Ankush Mandavia

Brits represented include Jack Salter & Niall Farrell but we've lost Stephen Chidwick.


To Start Today
Event  7 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), 3 Day Event
Event  8 - $333 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event ($333,333 guarantee, starts at 3:33pm) More threes than in a Golden State Warriors basketball game.

plus flights 1C & 1D of the Colossus.

weecheez1

Keep up the good work sir your thread is excellent 

SR23

In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread:

Keep up the good work sir your thread is excellent 
Posted by weecheez1

Agreed. The level of detail and work that goes into this (as well as being a joy to read) is quite something. 

CraigSG1

Seriously, give this guy a job! Its not just the content but the way you put it together along with the humour makes this 'The' must read of the WSOP.

Thank you.

FCHD

Updates

Event 4 $1500 Omaha Hi-Low
29 survive from the 254 who started Day 2 (136 made the money). Christopher Logue leads a very US-heavy cast of survivors (28 out of the 29 are from the USA).
Logue has 42 BB for when they resume, with Jim Collopy having 36 and Kevin Gerhart 33. Sole Euro Viktor Celikovsky (Czech Rep) is somewhere in the middle of the pack and has plenty of work to do.

As mentioned above, Benny Glaser was the only UK player to cash.


Event 5 The Colossus
Only 64 made it through from Day 1B, Hunter Fray, Ryan Buckholtz and Scott Bohlman completing the top three.

I can't see any GB players hrough, but one famous name in the list is that of veteran TV poker commentator (and member of the Poker Hall of Fame) Mike Sexton.


Event 6 Little One for One Drop
Day 1 ended with 119 entrants, apparently late reg is even open for a couple of hours on Day 2.
2014 ME winner Martin Jacobson holds the overnight lead as top of 79 players through from Day 1.

Former "Big One for One Drop" winners Antonio Esfandiari and Dan Colman both made it through as did Daniel Negreanu, Doug Polk, Ryan Reiss, Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier and three GB players, Charlie Carrel, Jack Salter & Niall Farell.

FCHD

Live Poker must be fix!

From the WSOP site re Day 1C of the Colossus


"All in! I'm all in!" we heard someone say with a loud voice over on table 36 in the Amazon Room. We rushed over to see what was going on. The flop was out, it read something like A-7-3, and the button was making sure the entire table and dealer knew he was all in. But... the player on the button didn't have any cards. In fact, no one at the table had cards. The dealer had skipped the preflop action and had just gotten busy burning and dealing a flop. These 10 a.m. starts are early for everyone. Verbal was, in this case, not binding. The dealer removed the flop, started a new shuffle, and this time dealt the players their cards.  If this had been on SkyPoker, there would have been ructions... I don't like copying stuff verbatim off the official site, but occasionally there's something I can't resist picking up. 

FCHD

Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 3 of 3, 369 entrants
It's a second bracelet for Upeshka Da Silva (previously the winner of a $1500 NLH event in 2015).

Da Silva got it in good on the final hand, his AJ dominating Louis Helm's A8 and the stronger hand held up.

Linglin Zeng from China finished third and Jan Schwippert (see previous reports) ended up in fourth.

The other two previous bracelet winners departed the FT early - Taylor Paur busted in 10th and Jean Gaspard shortly after in 9th.


Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 905 entrants
I held back on doing this update so I could get the Event 4 winner in without having to do a later update, and that winner is also now a two-time winner, Benjamin Zamani.

Like Da Silva, Zamani also won his first bracelet in a $1500 NLH event in 2015 - spooky! Neither the $460K he got them, nor the $238K he picked up today is even his biggest live cash, that came as long ago as 2010 when he won a cool million dollars at the PCA.

Jared Hemingway was the runner-up (I was just trying to come up with some Hemingway puns before he bust) and Alex Ferrari was third (again a pun-friendly name)

The only non-American player in Day 3 action, Czech Viktor Celikovsky, went out early in 25th place.


Event  5 - $565 Colossus III NLH, Day 1 C/D
Two more flights of the Colossus played out on Saturday, well one flight has played out and one is still ongoing so I'll restrict myself to Day 1C for the moment.

109 players have joined the qualifiers from flights A & B with a tie at the top between German Tonio Roder and American Alexander Borteh.

The controversial Chris "Jesus" Ferguson sits with a nice stack in 6th place, while from the UK Thomas Hall is just outside the Top 10, Matt Davenport is inside the top 50 and Gary Pra tt moves on with one of the shortest stacks.

Day 1D round up later.


Event  6 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop NLH, Day 2 of 3, 130 entries
After late reg closed, the 130 entries produced a prizepool that means $3.6m for first, $2.2m for second and even fourth place gets a seven figure payday.

Twenty three move on to Day 3, with Bertand "Elky" Grospellier holding the ovenight lead from Italian Dario Sammartino and American Scott Siever.

The two former Big One Drop winners Antonio Esfandiari and Dan Colman both survived, as did tag team co-winner Igor Kurganov, former ME winners Phil Hellmuth & Martin Jacobson and one Brit, high roller specialist Charlie Carrel who already has one million-dollar cash this year.



Event  7 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), 3 Day Event, 225 entrants
225 have become 57 after Day 1, and for a Limit event it is a little surprising to see so many non-Americans in the Top 10.

Finn Samp Ryynanen holds the over night lead, Japanese player Youske Sekiya is in 8th, and in 10th is former November Niner Martin Staszko (Czech Rep).

No Brits, but some other names through include Brandon Shack-Harris, James Obst, Chris Bjorin, Jason Mercier, David "ODB" Baker, Maria Ho and Barry Greenstein.


Event  8 - $333 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event ($333,333 guarantee, starts at 3:33pm)
This is currently heads up between Joseph "ul_gg" Mitchell and Mark "PLODonkey17" Scacewater. I've not been following this one too closely I admit, I haven't even seen a final number of entries, but I'll do some more work on it when it has finished.



To Start Today
04/06/17 Event  9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, 3 Day Event

plus flights 1E & 1F of the Colossus.