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More seriously, it was Big O (we are playing a "Mix" of Big O, PLO8 & O8) and in Big O - which is 5 card High Low - it really is a bish bash boff action game, & some hands just kick off.
In this case, I never had the greatest hand, far from it, & I never had "nut" at either end. But I'd been watching this kid closely, & I could see he had no idea how Big O worked or what the correct range of playable hands were. So I just went with my "feel" & as it turned out, I was correct for once. I had nothing even remotely resembling nut at either end, but it was enough to SCOOPIO.
I was wayyyy above average for 5 or 6 levels, & then the wheels came off big time. If the day had ended after 6 Levels I'd have been double average.
As it turns out, I return with 8,450, which is about one third average. I'll need to get lucky in the first pot I play, that's for sure.
224 of 688 remain, with 103 paid.
This is the third consecutive event I've made Day Two, but I've yet to cash for a single cent....
What about one third average? That any good?
Still, I'd not have swapped the experience for the world, a full day playing a WSOP event is, without a shadow of doubt, THE best thing in poker & I loved every minute.
I had a chap named Allen Kessler to my immediate right, he is known as "Chainsaw" on 2+2, & he has quite a poker CV. (See THM). To his right was Mike Leah, another guy with a tremendous "Live" Poker CV. So my seat was quite tough, though at least I was the right side of them both.
They both hit a LOT of nice starting hands & flops, & then Allen bust Mike. By close of play, only Allen & I had survived the day on that table.
I felt I run red hot in the first 4 levels, but ice cold in the last 6 levels.
Anyway, I'll need some run-good today, for sure.
Event 30
15 was the magic number as we have that number of players moving through to Day 3. Some guy named Daniel Negreanu is the chip leader with Jason Mercier who won this event 12 months ago among those chasing Daniel down.
Event 32
It's all about the guy in 191st place overnight. No, not Marcel Luske, look one place further down. Our very own Tony Kendall has made Day 2 and although he has a short stack, he's only one double up Scoopio away from moving up 50 places.
Daniel Zack is the chip leader ahead of Igor Sharaskin who has made 2 Omaha FTs already and Tikay's Day 1 tablemate, Allan Kessler.
Several other Brits still in - Howard Smith, Usman Siddique, Mikko Hirvonen, Robert Price (another Cornish representative), Benny Glaser and Stuart Rutter but it's all about Tikay.
His Day 2 table
Seat 1 Chris Ruby (USA) 19775 chips
Seat 2 Jarred Graham (AUS) 48275 chips
Seat 3 Binh Nguyen (USA) 37000 chips
Seat 4 Tony Kendall (GBR) 8450 chips
Seat 5 Andrey Zaichenko (RUS) 10600 chips
Seat 6 Jeremy Harkin (USA) 19925 chips
Seat 7 Minh Zhu (USA) 22400 chips
Event 19 Day 1B
Day 1B saw 1230 entrants of whom 106 remain, led by Valentin Vornicu (23rd in last years ME), Viktor Lavi and previous bracelet winner Eric Baldwin.
I can't see any British players in the list of qualifiers
Edit - and just a few minutes later, the man from Birmingham is busto.
oh!
Really looking forward to meeting you in 3 weeks.
There's not been too many tournaments that have needed an extra day this time around, but this one falls into that bracket.
James Calvo (9.6m chips) and Guarav Raina (4m chips) will come back to finish the tournament, both looking for their first bracelets (both have two previous WSOP cashes each worth a total of $27K between them). The winner of this will dwarf that with a payday of $456K.
It took 66 hands to get rid of the rest of the FT, but Calvo and Raina have been going at it for over 80 hands already before a halt was called to proceedings in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Asi Moshe from Israel was third $199K, Eddy Sabat fourth for $143K and the only British player at the FT, Scott Margereson busted in 9th when his pocket Queens entered into a "classic race" with Eric Cloutier's AK, but the race was over fairly quickly when not one but two Aces appeared on the flop.
Event 30 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 2 of 3, 150 entrants
It's a third bracelet for David Bach (and a little matter of $392K in hard cash). He had a 8-year wait for his second bracelet, but needed less than a fortnight between Event 11 and this.
He beat Eric Rodawig heads-up and Don Zewin in 3rd.
Daniel Negreanu was hoping for a 7th bracelet, but it was not to be as he was eliminated in 6th, and only one place better was reigning Champion of the (Wonder) HORSE, Jason Mercier.
Event 31 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 2 of 3, 5389 entries
Day 2 is over and there is just 67 players left, including 2014 event winner Dan Heimiller who holds the Day 2 chip lead
None of the bigger names in the event made it through to Day 3, so it is a host of unfamiliar names who are chasing Heimiller - Eluterio Rodriquez and Paul Spitzberg being the closest to him.
No Brits through, but one Irish player, Sean Byrne who has made the Top 67 or better in each of the last four years.
Oh, and there's another of those South Georgia "penguins" - Manuel Camalero who has a decent stack. Hopefully the WSOP will change his designation to Spain if he goes much deeper.
Martin Wilson was the last Brit standing, getting just over $4K for 120th with Gary Fisher, Shukri Mushawar and Barny Boatman all in the money.
Event 32 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 2 of 3, 688 entries
So I don't have to prepare a piece on Tikay winning his first bracelet, but still well done to that man in making Day 2.
29 players come back, and the good news is that a British player is shown as being on top of the chip listings - Howard Smith from Salford who has a very small lead over nearest challenger Erle Mankin and Chinese player Yueqi Zhu.
Igor Sharashkin has only listed cash between June 2012 and the start of this series, but he's made two final tables already and is in 4th place in this so will be looking for another extremely deep run.
Usman Siddique makes it two UK players in the Day 3 field, and a few "names" in include Allyn Shulman, John Racener and Tikay's earlier tablemate Allen Kessler.
Event 33 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1698 entrants
Early on Saturday morning, Valetin Vornicu ended Day 1B of the Giant as chip leader. 24 hours later, he's done the same again in Day 1 of this event.
His 198K chips outranks Paul Awodey's 169K and Belgian Jonathan Abdellatif's 168K.
Patrick Uzan from London is top UK player in 5th, with Thomas Hall next in 43rd and Niall Farrell 99th.
Non-brits include Jason Les, Joseph Cheong, Max Pescatori, Allen Cunningham, Brandon Cantu, Griffin Benger, and today's name of the day, German Sebastian Supper
Event 34 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 1 of 3, 80 entries
A miserable sized field for a bracelet event in my opinion, but the WSOP do insist on having $10K events of all the major varities and I can't see them dropping any anytime soon.
Of the 80, 26 remain, and while we haven't quite got an appropriate A to Z, we do have B to Z with Georgii Belianin and Anthony Zinno both inside the Top 10.
And for the second event in this update, we have a Brit on top of the stacks. Adam Owen is the leader, with 336K ahead of Robert Campbell's 291K.
No other Brits through but we do have likes of recent bracelet winner James Obst, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Shaun Deeb, David Benyamine, Todd Brunson and with the smallest stack former November Niner JC Tran.
To start today
Event 35 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 36 - $5K 6-Max NLH, 3 Day Event
It took another 70 hands of heads-up action before Guarav Raina could come from behind to take the bracelet (his first) and over $456K. His defeated rival, James Calvo, has the siginificant compensation of $282K
Event 31 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 3 of 3, 5389 entries
The increased field (down in part to re-entries of course) has led to this one also needing a Day 4.
Dan Heimiller is still in the hunt for his second Seniors bracelet (after 2014) and he lies 7th overnight on a final table made of all Americans. Mark Lillge, Frank Maggio and William Murray holding the biggest stacks.
Sean Byrne's run ended in 19th, which is the best of his amazing 4-year streak in this event.
Event 32 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 3 of 3, 688 entries
So close to a British bracelet. With five players left, it was between Russia (3 players) and GB (2) for the silverware, the best American down in 7th (Erle Markin). I wonder if there's ever been a bracelet event with no Americans in the top 6?)
Usman Siddique went out in 5th ($39K) leaving Howard Smith to battle three Russians. Igor Sharaskin went out in 4th, Nikolai Yakovenko 3rd leaving Howard up against Vladimir Shchemelev for the bracelet.
Unfortunately it went the Russian's way as he collected his second bracelet and $193K leaving Howard with a pile of cash that amounted to over $119K.
Event 33 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1698 entrants
Valentin Vornicu's heater ended on Day 2 as he disappeared from the event, with 22 players moving on to Day 3.
He was replaced on top by Ryan Leng, with Ron Rosenborg and Christopher Frank close behind.
We still have a British interest, as Tom Hall is among the 22, and he'll return with a very healthy 55BB for Day 3
Event 34 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 2 of 3, 80 entries
Shawn Deeb is looking for his third bracelet, and will be favourite heading into Day 3 as he holds a significant chip lead over the other five.
None of the others can be disregarded though, Nick Schulman, Mike Watson, Ben Yu, Shawn Buchanan and Mike Matusow would all be worthy winners.
Day 1 chip leader Adam Owen went out in 12th for $15584.
Event 35 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1720 entrants
You have to be over 64 to be classed as a Super Senior
This is the third time this event has been run, and both previous winners, Jon Andlovec and James Moore have both made it through, but quite some distance behind the runaway chip leader Johnny Landreth.
Just two British players among the x qualifiers. One, Jeffrey Duvall is a well known player, coming 2nd in a WSOP event last year and I believe has even been known to dabble on Sky Poker. The other, Susan Smith is less well-known, hs he majority of her recorded cashes in Sunday afternoon tournaments in Reading but did cash in the Seniors event a few days ago. Good luck to them both.
Event 36 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 1 of 3, 574 entrants
I can't quite believe that 531 of 574 have made day 2, but that's what the reports say.
With it being comparitively early days, I won't go into too much detail, but Faraz Jaka is the chip leader and we have three Brits in good shape - Steven Warburton, Sam Grafton and Niall Farrell are all inside the top dozen stacks.
To start today
Event 37 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event - Halfway through the series!
Event 38 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event
Dan Heimiller's attempt to win a second Seniors bracelet lasted all of one hand on the extended Day 4 when his 4-bet shove with pocket Jacks ran into Wiliam Murray's Kings.
Murray was a major factor throughout the table and it came down to a heads-up battle with Frank Maggio with stacks pretty even. The mano-a-mano didn't last long, 8 hands (including 2 walks) before Maggio got the cards he needed to take the title and $617K.
Murray takes $381K and third placed finisher Dieter Dechant $281K
Event 33 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1698 entrants
Chris Frank took this one down for Germany (although he currently lives in Austria) after going on a heater throughout the second half of the final table. It was the first German bracelet of the summer, making them the 9th country to collect some silverware this year.
The 22-year old beat Ryan Leng in a speedy heads-up match to collect his first bracelet and first prize money of $384K.
Leng had been the player to watch during the early stages of the FT, knocking out the first four players (including Max Pescatori) but then the cards started to fall in Frank's favour and he took full advantage.
Shropshire's Thomas Hall made the final day, with him getting knocked out in 13th for $18K.
Event 34 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 80 entries
While both Maggio and Frank were winning their first bracelet, for Event 34 winner Ben Yu it was his second after previously winning the $10K Limit Hold'em two years ago.
He beat Day 2 chip leader Shaun Deeb in the heads-up battle and Nick Shulman finished third after exhibiting brilliant barnacle characteristics surviving all-ins several times during three-handed play.
Mike Matusow was the first player out on the FT after trying some mis-timed bluffs.
Event 35 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1720 entrants
Very close to end of play on Day 2 with 22 left, and not a Union Flag to be seen on the chip listings page as Jeff Duval went out in 220th ($1550) and Susan Smith followed him to the rail in 172nd ($1723)
Previous winner James Moore is among the survivors.
Event 36 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 2 of 3, 574 entrants
The 531 qualifiers for Day 2 was, as I suspected, wrong as only 191 players emerged for the re-start with 82 places to be paid.
As I write this, 35 or so remain with Kenny Hallaert just moving to the top of the chip listings after a huge hand which busted Moritz Dietrich.
Three British players appear to be still in - Sam Grafton, Damien Le Goff & Niall Farrell, but the last hour has seen the back of Conor Beresford and Adam Owen, and Steve Warburton went out in 53rd spot.
Event 37 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2020 entrants
Very close to the end of play, with the bubble having recently burst. Update to follow.
Event 38 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 1 of 3, TBA entrants
Not that close to the end of Day 1 in this one, still a couple of levels to play and late reg to close.
Some names shown as having chips include two ME winners (Joe McKeehan and Jonathan Duhamel) plus Daniel Negreanu, JC Tran, Benny Glaser, Stephen Chidwick, and getting over his earlier FT elimination, Mike Matusow.
To start today
Event 39 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event
Event 40 - $1500 7 Card Stud, 3 Day Event
Event 35
Not much more to add, just to give the top 3 players a name check - Kerry Goldberg, Earl Hirakawa and Darrell Ticehurst. Household names in their own household. Moving on...
Event 36
Three table left, and that means 18 players. 2016 November Niner and Vegas tournament spreadsheet compiler Kenny Hallaert moved in to the lead late on with Chris Hunichen 2nd and Nadar Kakhmazov 3rd.
Previous leader Faraz Jaka is fourth, and other survivors include James Obst, Jonathan Jaffe and Mike Leah.
Damien Le Goff was top Brit in 26th for $15868 while Sam Grafton, Niall Farrell, Conor Beresford and Adam Owen all collected between $11187 and $13159.
Event 37
238 players move on to Day 2 and we have a Brit in a very decent position - Louis Salter sits second overnight, trailing only Chad Eveslage.
The winner of this equivalent event last year, Chase Bianchi is also through, as is former ME winner Martin Jacobson, Barry Greenstein and Loni Harwood, and, from the UK Sadam Turker, Katie Swift, Stephen Woodhead, Yann Del Rey, Fraser McIntyre & Innes Young.
Mike Leah appears to have made two concurrent Day 2s as he is in this one as well as Event 36.
Event 38
The eventual player list stretched to 120 players and we have some familiar names near the top.
Chip leader is recent bracelet winner Ben Yu, second is last year's winner Ian Johns, and third is the seemingly omnipresent Daniel Negreanu.
Throw in Phil Hellmuth (actually throw him wherever you like), Joe McKeehen, JC Tran, Jeff Lisandro, Sorel Mizzi and another recent bracelet winner Shaun Deeb and you have a star-studded Top 20.
What you can't throw in is any British presence among the 41 playes still active - well it is Limit Hold'em after all.
He has a similar stature & height to Matt Bates, except he's not as rotund.