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Event 50
A fourth day will be needed with five players still battling on - in chip order Bryan Emory, James Gilbert, Chris Bolek, Zhaoxing Wa ng and Tobias Peters.
Event 51
The bracelet has been won by Bryce Yockey, who added the $511K here to the $317K he made when FT'ing the Millionaire Maker a short time ago.
Jeremy Joseph was the runner-up, Josh Arieh 3rd and Chris Ferguson 4th.
Event 52
With the elimination of Pellegrino Marotta and Richard Seymour in the last level of the night, we're left with 23 players going through to Day 3.
The 3 GB players all survived (Elias 6th, Allen 8th and Kempe 17th) as did Jason Mercier and Phil Collins.
It's Sam Phillips who they're all chasing though with Canadian James Florence only 5000 chips behind.
Event 53
Late night action reduced the field to 7, just shy of getting to a FT and Max Silver is still in pole position.
Silver is the only player with over a million chips, Ayman Qutami has 792K and third placed player Guowei Zhang has 510K.
David Bach (event 11 winner) went out in 11th place.
Event 54
For once the WSOP's preliminary number of 186 qualifiers was correct.
Sorin Drajneanu, Andjelko Andrejevic held the top two stacks as shown above, but a third player with a long unpronouncable name ended up third, Arvi Vainionkulma from Finland.
Two Swansea players, Robert Cowen and Roberto Romanello head up the GB challenge with Usman Siddique, Sam Trickett, Stephen Chidwick and Toby Lewis through too.
Event 55
68 through after day one with the leader Bryan Slick who is shown as from Foxdale which I believe is on the Isle of Man although I believe he is American and a senior employee with the world's largest poker site based on the island.
Jeff Duvall and Adam Owen are genuine Brits and they both lie inside the top 20
Other big stacks belong to Jonathan Ulrich and John Bunch with Marcel Luske, Chris Vitch and Andre Akkari among the other players through.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 4 of 3, 1927 entrants
After an unscheduled fourth day's play, the cards have come down in the favour of Ecuadorian-born American Chris Bolek.
He steam rollered through Day 4 after coming back with just 14BB. Bryan Emory was second, James Gilbert third.
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1580 entrants
Still in play and really at the business end as Andy Frankenberger's best barnacle act has just come to an end with him finishing 4th.
That means it's left to Mohsin Charania, Cary Katz and Brandon Ageloff to fight it out for the win.
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 256 entrants
British Bracelet Alert and in a Limit event! A fourth bracelet of the 2017 series, and it has gone to Max Silver.
He was up among the chip leaders all the way through the event and dominated the FT to win his first bracelet and over $172. Max isn't a limit player by any means but he knew enough to win Event 53. He is leaving Vegas today to fly to New York, where is 6-months pregnant wife is flying in from the UK, so they're meeting up to celebrate halfway.
Three handed play with Silver, Geowei Zhang and Mickey Craft was very tentative as Silver had up to two thirds of the chips and the other two were looking at the huge pay jumps, but in a 3-way all-in Craft went out. Zhang held on for 30 more hands but in the end Silver's huge chip advantage (and of course his ability and the cards) told and we have another British WSOP winner.
Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 428 entrants
In play with 48 left
Toby Lewis $14930 and Stephen Chidwick $15934 have both been eliminated since the bubble, but it looks like Robert Cowen is still in. No news yet on the other GB players
Updates on the above and events 55-7 later.
Event 52
We have a new Triple Crown holder as Mohsin Charania added a WSOP Bracelet to his WPT & EPT titles, and he of course added the small matter of $364K to his bank balance
He finished off Cary Katz quite quickly heads up after the final table went on to way past midnight, and Brandon Ageloff finished third.
Event 54
Play ended for the day with 39 players left, headed by Omaha expert Scott Clements with Michael Karapanos and 2011 Player of the Year and November Niner Ben Lamb in third.
There is still one British player left (Robert Cowen) but no less than 4 representing Ireland, headed by Eoghan O'Dea in 26th spot.
Event 55
Day 2 ended with just 7 players in contention for the bracelet and just under $97K (the smallest open prize of the year?)
He leads Yueqi Zhu and Cheryl Denzik into the final day.
Adam Owen went out in 38th, Jeff Duvall in 36th and Bryan Slick 31st.
Event 56
Attracting 623 players, including many well known names, the winner of this will take home over $618K.
Day 1 chip leader is Nacho Barbero from Argentina, with David Coleman (no not that one) and Carlos Chang third.
Conor Beresford leads a host of GB names in 19th spot ahead of Ben Heath, Chun Yam, Barny Boatman, Henry Fewster, Craig McCorkell, Peter Robinson, Raul Martinez, Sam Grafton, Alfie Adam, Adrien Delmas, Pablo Fernandez & Joel Ettedgi
Event 57
"Event #57: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Mix" is a bit of a mouthful, I think I'll just stick to Event 57.
126 of 405 survive with Larry Tull the overnight leader from David Matsumoto and Igor Sharaskin who's had a good couple of weeks.
Despite most of the bigger names playing Event 56, there's still some notables here including Frank Kassela, Shaun Deeb, Jeff Lisandro, Justin Bonomo and Phil Hellmuth, plus the British contingent of David Tarbet, Jeffrey Duvall, Stephen Chidwick, Richard Ashby, Jack Sinclair and he short-stacked Benny Glaser.
Scott Clements ended Day 2 in front, and he has ended Day 3 in front too. This event has been extended to a fourth day so that the FT could be live streamed.
Tommy Le is second (much easier than those long names I had to type a couple of days ago) is second and in third is 2011 November Niner Eoghan O'Dea. The 6th place he got then is still his best WSOP finish, so he is still one bracelet behind his father.
Five other players remain including players from Cyprus and Germany.
Robert Cowen was the last British player left, busting in 20th spot for $26K.
Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, Day 3 of 3, 298 entrants
Short names thankfully to the fore here too, with the bracelet going to Tom Koral. Koral had 53 cashes and 5 FTs to his credit before today, now he can add a bracelet to his CV and $96907 to his bank account.
It is the second bracelet for Chicago in successive days after Mohsin Charania won his yesterday.
Tsong Lin was second and Yueqi Zhu third.
Event 56 - $5K NLH, Day 2 of 4, 623 entrants
It's a Euro 1-2-3 overnight, with Marton Czuczor (Hungary) leading Norberto Korn (Germany) and Donis Agnelli (Italy) at the halfway stage.
32 players are through all told (and only 13 of them American) with the only Brit the one and only Barny Boatman sitting nicely in midfield.
Barny may be in his early 60s but he's a youngster compared to Pierre Neuville, the 2015 November Niner who is now 74.
Two other GB players cashed - Jack Salter (37th for $12147) and Ben Heath (43rd for the same prize)
Event 57 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 405 entrants
Stll in play with 21 left, no British representation (not even among those who cashed)
Smith Sirisakorn is the chip leader with half a million ahead of Larry Tull and Jared Bleznick, but Barry Greenstein has clocked up another deep run and sits behind one of the top half-dozen stacks at this point.
Event 58 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1763 entrants
Play has just ended for the day and we have 265 players moving on to Day 2.
Two Europeans top the table in this one - Artur Rudziankov & Andreas Christoforou with Denis Timofeev top American in third.
Top UK? Daniel Rudd in 22nd. Roberto Romanello has picked up several nice runs here (but only 1 cash so far) and is in 45th, with Thomas Ward, Louis Salter (after his brother cashed earlier today in Event 56), Paul Jenkinson, Alfie Adam and Luke Bindon are also through.
Event 59 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 1 of 3, 197 entrants
What's this you ask? It's a mixed game of Big O, NLH, NL 2-7 Lowball draw, PLO8, NL 5 card draw, PLO & PL 2-7 triple draw, with 6 hands of each being played in succession.
Less than 200 entrants doesn't augur well for this to come back next year. 30 will be paid and at this moment, play is ongoing with double that still active.
Daniel Negreanu has one of the bigger stacks in play, as does Adam Owen, but from a British standpoint we've definitely lost Stu Rutter & Usman Siddique.
Day 1D of the Giant
Remember Event 19? Well it's back again with the fourth of the five starting days.
They're on the bubble right now, but we've just had one humdinger of a hand. Benjamin Reinhart had A9, his unnamed opponent had pocket 10s. All the chips went in pre-flop with the board coming out A-10-A-10-A, meaning quads over quads. Live poker must be fixed.
To start today
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
Event 61 - $3333 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event
huge highs, huge lows.
keep up the fine work fchd
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Event 57
Fourteen eventually bagged chips at the end of Day 2 with a big three-way pot at the very end of the night going the way of Alex Luneau, catapaulting him into the chip lead.
Jared Bleznick has moved into second and Smith Siriakorn (that would sound so much better the other way around) in third.
Event 59
Daniel Negreanu looked like was going to go to bed with the chip lead, but it is a player still looking for his WSOP cash who does hold the overnight honours, Iraj Parvizi from Birchington in Kent. Last seen holding a big stack early on Day 1 of Event 9, I said then he had a "colourful" past and I think I'll leave it there.
Several other big names through - David "ODB" Baker, Jason Mercier and Mike Matusow among them
Phil Hellmuth registered fashionably late, and was busto within half an hour.
Another represenative of Kent, Adam Owen is also through as is Jeff Duvall and Benny Glaser.
Event 19 Day 1D, 1581 entries today
Still no full result listing but the WSOP are saying 3 Americans have the top spots - Thomas Zanot, Andrew Crookston and Thomas Taylor.
One interesting name shown as having chips late on is Audley Harrison. Yes that Audley Harrison.
The extended 4th day was good to Tommy Le as he moved from second placed overnight to first at the right time and take his first bracelet plus over $938K.
Chris Lee and and Hani Mio finished second and third with two-time bracelet winners Scott Clements and Jason DeWitt second and third.
Event 56 - $5K NLH, Day 3 of 4, 623 entrants
Norberto Korn has been shown against the flag of Antigua & Barbuda on the early chip listings, but that has now been corrected to show his native flag, the blue/white/yellow of Argentina.
Behind him, Thomas Boivin and Martin Czuczor from Belgium & Hungary respectively fill second and third spots with players from the US, Taiwan and Spain also still involved on the FT.
The legend that is Barny Boatman had his run ended in 22nd with Pierre Neuville outlasting him by 7 places.
One hand that was reported saw Korn double up through Yaron Zeev Malki after a 5-bet shove was called, with Korn having Kings and Malki Jacks, with after the hand Boatman saying he folded tens, Neuville queens and Simon Lam Ace-King.
Event 57 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 405 entrants
This one ended in favour of Smith Sirisakorn, who had only live MTT cash before, and even that was outside the range of Hendon Mob tracking.
The cash game Hi-Lo (both Omaha & Stud) specialist at home in LA still classes himself as a recreational player, won $215K ahead of Jameson Painter and Jared Bleznick.
The last female player standing was Bonnie Rossi who finished 8th, while in 7th was Barry Greenstein which is his 10th cash of the series and moves him to 6th spot in the Player of the Year rankings.
Event 58 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1763 entrants
Day 2 has ended with 28 players left from the 269 who returned. With the bubble bursting very early on, almost everyone was in the cash and we saw a host of GB players departing their tables and heading to the payout window throughout the day.
Luke Bindon was first to go for a min cash of $2249, Alfie Adam picked up another $90, Thomas Ward $2604, Paul Jenkinson $2811 and Roberto Romanello $3075.
Then we moved in to the last 100 players with Louis Salter hanging on until 66th for a little over $5K with Daniel Rudd getting double hat for 34th place.
Unfortunately that's your lot as we have no players left to play for the win. Peter Coloumbe is the chip leader, having 50% more chips than Taylor Paur with Asi Moshe third.
After the sad loss of former Soundgarden & Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell a few weeks ago, it is nice to see the poker player of the same name among the survivors.
Event 59 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 2 of 3, 197 entrants
We're down to a FT and to be honest, it's not what you would call star-studded, with Negreanu, Mercier & Matusow all making the final 20 but busting short of the top 10, and David "ODB" Baker and Ismael Bojang just missing the FT
That leaves us with Jens Lakemeier, Jerry Wong, Jason Stockfish, Ashton Griffin, Andrew Kelsall and Kenneth Fitzgerald, with the leader from Austria and all the others being American.
Adam Owen and Benny Glaser cashed for $3750 each, Jeff Duvall $4553 and Iraj Parvizi $5567.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
With 2 flights in the books, 3170 entries have been recorded so far with 58 from Flight A and 85 from Flight B so far guaranteeing a place in Day 2.
We've got some UK players through - Peter Akery, Paul vas Nunes, Charalampos Lappas, Roberto Romanello, Ho Lee and Sadan Turker all progressing.
Top stack so far (with two more flights today) is held by Seville Hale ahead of Steve Rosen and Marius Pertea.
Event 61 - $3333 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event, 424 entries
"FLOATZ" beat "BeatrixKiddo" and "HLEDERERER" to win the online high roller, which I exepct means as little to you as it does to me.
The only thing I can add is that the third placed player is not Howard Lederer, and is shown as British in the reports so add $136K to the UK tally.
I guess the real name of the winner will become evident for the bracelet presentation.
To start today
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, 5 Day Event
Less than a week now until the start of the Main Event!
Event 56 - $5K NLH, Day 4 of 4, 623 entrants
Not only was Andres Korn shown with the wrong flag with the first 3 days of this tournament, his first name has now also been changed from Norberto to Andres but he probably doesn't care as he took down Event 56 to become only the second Argentinian to collect a WSOP bracelet.
With the Crazy Eights event taking place in another part of the Rio, Korn had eights to thank repeatedly as he twice made a set of eights to eliminate players on the FT, and an eight on the flop of the final hand was the key card in beating his heads-up opponent Pete Chen.
With Chen coming from Taiwan, third placed Thomas Boivin being a Belgian and 4th manM Marton Czuczor from Hungary, the US was completely frozen out of the top positions.
Event 58 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1763 entrants
In play with 4 left, Mario Pra ts (name changed because his real name is censored by the forum software) from Spain and Artur Rudziankov from the Czech Republic (where of course the WSOP Europe will be later in the year) being the top two stacks.
Day 2 chip leader Peter Coloumbe went out in 19th spot and Taylor Paur only outlasted him by 3 spots
Event 59 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 3 of 3, 197 entrants
Austria are on the board as Jens Lakemeier took down Event 59 for the sum of $112K.
After Kenneth Fitzgerald was the first to go from the FT, it took four hours of five handed play before Lakemeier was able to take control spiking a 4-outer on the river to eliminate 2 players simultneously and then within 20 hands having the bracelet in front of him.
Jason Stockfish finished second and Andrew Kelsall third.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, 5242 entries (with one flight total to come)
Day 1C saw 2072 entries and like the two flights the previous day action was fast and furious and only a double-figure tally of players made Day 2.
93 in fact, with Danny Alvarez having the most chips, a lot of which came from a huge hand late when he got the better of former November Niner Pierre Neuville.
Joao Vieira and Bill Germanis are his nearest challengers with a sprinkling of UK names moving on - Richard Gryko, Stefan Fabian, Niall Farrell and Matthew Moss.
Day 1D is still in action, with Chris Moorman and Will Kassouf among those recently reported as having chips.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 1 of 5, TBA entrants
The Big One for those of a healthy financial disposition is in the very early stages (still only in Level 5) but some UK names shown on the chip counts include a couple of whom I haven't seen much mention yet this year - Matthew Ashton and Eilor Sion.
To start today
Event 63 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO 3 Day Event
Event 58
Has ran over in to a 4th day. Mario Pra ts and Artur Rudziankov decided to call it a night with the Czech holding just over a 2:1 advantage. He may well know Pra ts from local play, the Spaniard is based in the Czech capital.
The winner will take home $395K and the loser $244 so it's over $150K on the heads-up match, plus of course the glory and the bracelet.
Event 60
With Day 1D added to the tally, a total of 8120 entries were made leaving a prizepool of almost $6.5m, and of course keeping in line with the title of the event is $888,888 to the winner.
Alexandru Papazian from Romania is the chip leader, followed by an American with a very Chinese name Qiao Chi and a player from Tracy Island, no sorry Tracy, California - Ubaid Habib.
136 survived, with Conor Beresford, Will Kassouf, Tim Hickling, Yiannis Liperis, Richard Howe, Lee Taylor, Harry Lodge, Shola Akindele, Andrew Hills and Rajiv Sakaria comprise a meaty British contingent.
All in all, 372 players will come back for Day 2.
Event 62
With late reg open until the start of Day 2, the final prizepool is not yet known but we've already exceeded last year's field of 91. OK, it's only by 2 so far but it is an increase.
2013 winner Matt Ashton has been MIA from most of the WSOP so far, but he's here now and in style as he holds the chip lead of the 87 who held on until the end of the day.
The 6 who didn't include Iraj Parvizi who is now showing as from the UAE, Ben Sulsky, Dan Shak and David Benyamine.
Who else is in? Almost anyone of any note who you care to mention.
The winner was former November Niner Thomas Cannuli and the third placed British player going under the pseudonym HLEDERERER was Adam Owen.
There was also no need for heads-up play as Cannuli bust both Owen and Tara "BeatrixKiddo" Cain simultaneously.
The top three prizes amounted to $322K, $201K & $136K respectively.
Two players came back for an unscheduled Day 4, and after 32 hands Artur Rudziankov claimed the bracelet for the Czech Republic, only the second for that country.
He entered the day with a chip lead over Mario Pra ts, and never let that lead go. He takes $395K, of which he will spend $10K on the Main Event in a few days time.
There's a British element to his success, as his poker coach is Sam Grafton, and his primary backer deserves a mention too - Vojtěch Růžička, not least for the number of accents in his name.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 2 of 4, 8120 entries
Still in play during the penultimate level of the night, with 35 players left. The number of players on the chip count page doesn't match the numbers eliminated so I'll leave this for now, except to say we've lost Roberto Romanello ad Paul vas Nunes both in the 80s for $5637.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 2 of 5, 100 entrants
An even hundred eventually ponied up the $50K to play for what is, among the pros, the most prestigious bracelet of them all.
Again, a level and a half to play and we still over half the field left in, both Matt Ashton & Elior Sion seem to have very healthy stack but Benny Glaser has been knocked out.
Event 63 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1750 entrants
In contrast with the slow structure of Event 62, this is more of a biff-bang-bash affair, and Day 1 has ended with 182 players making Day 2.
Michael Telker is the chip leader, with Spain's Marcos Fernandez and the Netherlands' Koen Breed his nearest challenger.
Daniel Rudd is the best placed British player, just inside the top 10, while Stephen Woodhead, James Akenhead, Marc Convey, Conor Beresford, Peter Akery, Adrien Delmas and Anthony Forsyth-Forrest complete the British challenge
131st placed player Jayaram Kovoorchathoth is from the town of Nope, Florida. Wonder if there's a town just up the road called Yep.
Former ME winner Joe McKeehen is among the Day 1 survivors, as is Marvin Rettenmaier, John Monnette and Jackie Glazier.
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 1 of 3, 1058 entrants
Just started Level 10, the last of the Day, with Ismael Bojang still have chips, albeit a small-ish stack. Why do I mention him? Because he spent the day multi-tabling this and Event 63 where he managed to make it through Day 1.
Chris Moorman was also noted as having a big stack quite recently.
To start today
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, 4 Day Event
Less than 10 events to go now.
Event 60
Only 28 moved on to Day 3, with Ian O'Hara, Alexandru Papazian and Eric Baldwin as the top three stacks.
Just the one GB name, Harry Lodge from 'Aywards 'Eath.
Millionaire Maker winner Pablo Mariz won that from a field of 7761 entries and he's already outlasted more players here and has a chance of what would be a incredible double huge-field triumph.
Event 62
Forty four players move on and we have Aaron Katz in the lead, and a British player in second - Talal Shakerchi.
Chasing his third PPC, Michael Mizrachi is third and another GB player in fourth - Eilio Sion.
And as they come in two-by-two, we have another Brit in 6th, Matthew Ashton. We can't keep that pattern going forever as the only other GB player is Stephen Chidwick near the bottom of the pile in 39th.
Other names still in - Isaac Haxton, Phil Galfond, Daniel Negreau (down to a bowl at one time, then doubled up, tripled up and doubled up again), Mike Matusow, Jason Mercier, James Obst, Scott Siever etc.
Event 64
Ryan Laplante won a PLO braclet lat year, Chris Moorman won a NLH event this time, and with this event mashing up those two formats, they lie 1st and 2nd of 158 survivors.
The bubble burst at the very end of the night, and we see reigining champion Loren Klein, former ME winner Carlos Mortensen, Tom Marchese, Juha Helppi and Jared Jaffee all among the 158.
After Moorman, it's quite a drop to the next Brit, Guy Bowles who is probably quite glad to be away from home for a few days as he lives in Wimbledon. Alfie Adam & Barny Boatman share aliterative names and almost share a position (126th & 127th) and the last UK name is Andrew Teng in 148th.
Correction to the "To start today" section:
Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, 2 Day Event
Not events 66 & 67.
11 cashes in Vegas last year (not all WSOP) & 5 already this year.
Quite the talent.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 4, 8120 entries
With the demise of Sussex's Harry Lodge in third, the tournament is heads-up between Alexandru Papazian and Killian Kramer
The last 8 players came from 7 different countries. Guess which country had two? You're probably wrong because it was Romania, with Papazian and 6th placed finisher Vlad Darie.
Lodge (or was it Rupert Grint?) picked up $344888 for third, with the two remaining players coming back from 9pm tonight our time to play the heads-up match. Papazian has 50m chips, Kramer 14m
Lodge does seem to thrive in these named "showcase" WSOP events - this year he's now cashed in the Millionaire Maker, the Marathon, the Monster Stack and the Crazy Eights.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 3 of 5, 100 entrants
Still in play with 19 left, 3 of them coming from the UK. Elior Sion currently holds the chip lead, with Matt Ashton 5th and Talal Shakerchi 13th or so.
With only 15 to get paid (a very nice min cash of $77K), it's unlikely the bubble will burst tonight (they're in the last level).
Other names still in include Isaac Haxton, Scott Siever, Shaun Deeb, James Obst, Mike Matusow, Michael Mizrachi and Daniel Negreanu
Event 63 - $1K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1750 entrants
Done for the day with 20 to come back for the final day, a trio of Americans heading the chip counts - Patrick Truong, Michael Amato and two-time braclet winner Ryan Hughes.
No British players left, Peter Akery's 30th place the best of the bunch ($6642) with Daniel Rudd picking up the same payout for 36th.
Stephen Woodhead, Marc Convey and Anthony Forsyth-Forrest also made the Top 100.
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1058 entrants
Also still in play with 22 players remaining with one British player, but if you were going to have one Brit to take on 21 others, Chris Moorman would probably be near the top of your wishlist.
He's got an average sort of stack with no one player really dominating at the moment, and has locked up $8137 at this point.
Alfie Adam went out in 35th for $5628, Guy Bowles 66th ($3222) and Barny Boatman 99th for $2501.
Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 1 of 2, 1413 entrants
The exploits of Sky Poker player rspca12 are catalogued elsewhere but he failed to cash in this very fast moving event.
1413 have become 27 with the leader coming from Hungary, Istvan Toro. Asi Moshe from Israel sits second with Dylan Linde third.
Yiannis Liperis is in mid-table, showing as from GB but Hendon Mob gives "Birmingham, Cyprus" as his origin. Let's include him for now anyway as most of his cashes are in the UK. No such queries over Andrew Teng, but he'll wish he had a bigger stack as he will come back to Day 2 with just 8BB. Each player left has earned a payday of at least $6725 with $223K up top.
To start today
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, 4 Day Event
Less than 10 events to go now.
Event 62
Four late eliminations made my prediction of the bubble not bursting on Day 3 wrong, as the final 15 who return on Day 4 are all in the money.
Matthew Ashton (been there, done that back in 2013) is in second place overnight and one of three Britons who are still in with a shout of the huge first prize. Elior Sion in 6th and Talal Shakerchi in 13th being the other two.
Isaac Haxton is the chip leader with a small lead over Ashton, with Shaun Deeb, Paul Volpe and Daniel Negreanu making up the top 5.
Event 64
The British challenge in this ended with a bit of a damp squib as Chris Moorman went from a middle of the table sort of stack to having zero chips inside half an hour. In his final hand he got it in good with pocket nines against Ryan Laplante's sixes but a six on the flop sealed Moorman's demise.
Laplante thus catapaulted to the chip lead, with Esther Taylor the only other player with over a million chips and Khorchidian Nichan from Lebanon third.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 4 of 4, 8120 entries
Two players came back on Day 4, and played thirty hands of heads-up before Alexandru Papazian beat Killian Kramer to claim his first braclet.
The Romanian held a significant chip lead starting the day, and he never let that slip, the German eventually shoving his last 13BB with 9-6 but unfortunately for him his opponent had him dominated with K-9. A flop of 9-K-2 pushed Kramer to the brink and he was drawing dead after an ace on the turn.
The $888,888 moves Papazian to the top of the all-time Romanian money list.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 4 of 5, 100 entrants
The PPC has reached a FT with a very familiar name holding the most chips. Daniel Negreanu, for it is him, has 5.9m with Isaac Haxton his closest challenger on 5.2m.
In third place, and the sole British survivor is Elior Sion with 4.7, and he is joined in the fight for the almost $1.4m prize and the Chip Reese Trophy by Paul Volpe, Ivo Donev and Johannes Becker.
Matt Ashton's bid for a second PPC ended in 8th, losing a large chunk of his stack in two 2-7 Triple Draw hands and being finished off by Haxton in NLH.
Talal Shakerchi had earlier been knocked out in 13th for a min cash of $77K, Ashton collects $164K, everyone left has a minimum of $220K.
Event 63 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1750 entrants
Just finished, with Rulah Divine getting the better of Patrick Truong heads-up
The winner, a LV local, collect $262K, Truong $162K for second and Michael Amato who finished third picking up $116K.
No British players made the final day.
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 1058 entrants
Sebastian Langrock is the bracelet winner, collecting his second bracelet beating Ryan Laplante heads-up.
Laplante had the chip lead at the start of the day, and he and Langrock swapped that between themselves most of the day but when Langrock eliminated Victor Choupeaux in 3rd, the German (resident in Austria) took control and snuffed Laplante out inside 25 hands.
Esther Taylor had one of the best female results this series finishing 4th for $85K.
Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 1413 entrants
And another bracelet was confirmed here as Shai Zurr collected a second Israeli bracelet of the series in the Turbo.
It's Zurr's first, and he collected $223K which will convert into an awful lot of Shekels in a country where poker is still considered a game of chance and is illegal.
The runner-up was Serbian Ognjen Sekularac who led most of the way through the FT but came up one place short of the win. He collects $137K, and third was Alex Foxen for $98K.
I've got a little bit of an apology to make, I missed out Jonathan McCann from yesterday's report, a skim through the reports looking for GB names was obviously not good enough. McCann finished a fine 4th after being short stacked through the FT but laddered himself up to $71K.
Yiannis Liperis eventually ended up in 12th spot for $13K. and Andrew Teng 18th for $8K
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1956 entrants
The last of the $1500 NLH's has ended Day 1 with about 300 survivors.
Does anyone here watch "Britain's Got Talent"? I never thought I'd be asking that on a WSOP thread (or anywhere else to be honest). Anyway, in 2015, the act that finished 4th in the final was a group of "Dad dancers" called Old Men Grooving. One of them and their choreographer (according to Wikipedia) was David Welch. Well he's at the WSOP and shortly before the end of play was noted as having 42K chips.
There isn't a full end of day report yet but I hope he's got through (he's been on a table with two 3-time bracelet holders, Frank Kassela and Dutch Boyd)
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, TBA entrants
The only event I believe still in progress, on the final break with 2 levels left to play. Max Silver and Sam Trickett are among those who appear to have a decent stack.
The boards ae showing 187 entries so far, already a step up on last year's 184 with late reg sure to add a few more yet.
To start today
Event 68 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
Event 66
308 was the final figure of players through Day 1 with Tommy Tran holding the chip lead from the wonderfully named Akin Tuna in second, and he first of a large number of Brits in third, Luke Marsh from Scunthorpe.
Waikiat Lee, Jack Ellwood, Jack Sambrook, Andrew Fleming, Tom Hall and Philip Rigby are all inside the top 100, with David Welch (as mentioned above) successfully navigating the latter levels to make it through.
Some well known pros through with Daniel Eichhorn (there's that double h again) the best of them in 9th
Event 67
103 players passed through Day of the High Roller PLO with Iraj Parvizi holding the lead for the UK. Max Silver in 7th, James Park in 29th, Sam Trickett in 54th and Richad Gryko in 92nd complete the UK contingent, and picking out a few more names Josh Beckley, James Obst, Brian Rast, Sylvain Loosli, Tom Cannuli & Juha Helppi all bagged chips.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 5 of 5, 100 entrants
We're down to heads-up in the PPC and a very swingy heads-up match it has proven to be so far.
Paul Volpe's short stack didn't last long, and he was followed out in turn by Daniel Negreanu, Ivo Donev & Isaac Haxton.
That leaves Germany's Johannes Becker, and the UK's Elior Sion with the lead changing hands repeatedly.
There may even be an ex-Sky Poker TV analyst on the rail, as the shout "Welcome to Value Town" has been heard.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1956 entrants
With Sam Grafton's recent departure in 29th spot ($10893) it looks like the GB challenge in this one is down to just Ben Fitzgerald. Tom Hall was 45th for $8970, Luke Marsh picked up $7473 in 49th and Colin Lovelock was 67th collecting $5573.
"Britain's Got Talent" performer David Welch made the money and took home $2352 for 245th place.
26 are left as I type this.
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 205 entrants
The High Roller PLO is on the last break of Day 2, and we still haven't burst the bubble. 32 remain and 31 will get paid.
Three Brits survive, all near the top of the standings - Max Silver, Iraj Parvizi and James Park.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1349 entrants
Very close to the end of Day 1 with 400-odd still standing.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 419 entrants
Two levels to play, with 160 or so still active. Nowhere close to the bubble yet of course. Adam Owen looks to have one of the biggest stacks at this point, and Benny Glaser has been mentioned in dispatches too.
To start today
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event
plus the last Day 1 of Event 19 (The Giant)
and you know what's next.....
Event 62
Guess what, it's another British Bracelet Alert. Elior Sion was up and then he was down in the heads-up match against Johannes Becker, but importantly he ended up, and won probably the most prestigious bracelet of the whole series.
The winner of a High Roller event at the August 2014 Sky Poker UKPC, he doesn't play much live at all and by the sounds of it doesn't intend that to change and will invest a proportion of his $1.4m or so in a business venture.
That's five British bracelets this year. Has that ever been achieved before?
Event 66
23 remain, and we have last year's November Niner Kenny Hallaert in the lead, ahead of Schulyer Thornton and Dylan Hortin.
I mentioned a couple of years ago about a player being from Chad, and Tikay re-used it in one of his video blogs, well we alledgedly have another one here - Wa ng Yiefi, but as he's from Shanghai it's the other Ch... country, China that should be showing.
The presence of Ben Fitzgerald in the latter stages has proved to be bogus and there is no British players left.
Event 67
In contrast, we do have 2 British players among the 20 remaining players in the High Roller PLO - Iraj Parvizi in the chip lead and James Park in 4th.
Max Silver's great week ended late in the evening with him busted in 22nd spo for $42393 and Jason Grey was 27th for $37776
Event 68
348 remain after Day 1 with the bubble set at 203 with a min-cash being worth $4496.
Chance Kornuth won't be thinking about a min-cash as he is the overnight chip leader but there is plenty of GB challengers not far behind - Charlie Carrel is 4th, Sergi Reixach 8th and Simon Appleby 9th.
Plenty of other Brits will be playing Day 2, including Seb Saffari who is getting his first mention this time around.
Event 69
Top Razzer so far is Matt Grapenthien, with a player who couldn't come from anywhere than Poland really with the name of Grzegorz Wyraz. Unfortunately the WSOP have placed his home town, Sosnowiec, in Portugal. Football fans will recognise Sosnowiec as the home town of four times Polish Cup winners Zaglebie Sosnowiec. Okay you have to be quite old and quite a football nerd to remember that name, but the fact is true regardless.
Benny Glaser sits inside the top 10 of the 102 remainers with some names very familiar to those who've been reading this thread through, Adam Owen & Jeff Duvall also still in.
Some other names who progressed include Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, James Obst, Mike Matusow and actor James Woods.
Heads up between Chris Klodnicki and Emile Schiff, they've just started a 15 minute break with Schiff holding about a 5:2 chip lead, aiming to get what I think would be the first ever bracelet for Jamaica
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 205 entrants
With only 3 players left, this may well finish a day early.
Russian Alexey Rubin has the lead ahead of James Calderaro and Esther Taylor (who seems to have dropped the -Brady bit of her name)
It's Taylor's fourth top ten finish of the Series, but she's yet to win a bracelet (or any another tournament recorded on the Hendon Mob database)
Iraz Parvizi went out in 15th ($48K) while James Park was last Brit standingn in 11th for $70K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1349 entrants
Play still in progress with 42 left and despite the recent exits of Seb Seffari and John Conroy in 46th & 47th for $11K each, we still have two UK players in the hunt.
Simon Appleby from Darlington has a very decent stack while Scott Margereson (who has locked up his 5th cash of the WSOP) has a considerably shorter one.
Daniel Negreanu has put himself over the parapet again over the last couple of days, moaning about the Player of the Year points distribution (basically he says they don't award enough points to the events he plays in) but he's got another 62.1 points at least to add to his tally here which will move him up inside the Top 5.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 419 entrants
British interest remains in this one too, as with the field down to two tables of 7, Benny Glaser still has chips. He's on the same table as Phil Hellmuth, still chasing that 15th bracelet.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 718 entrants
Play has just concluded with the bubble having been burst about half an hour before the end of play.
Several well known names have perished - Annette Obrestad, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Melanie Weisner, Barbara Enright and Liv Boeree amongst them, but it looks like Vanessa Selbst is rolling along quite nicely.
No full results yet but if the reported chip counts can be believed (and it's not always that they can) Sonia Padovani and Katie Swift may well be among the 85 or so players making Day 2.
Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1312 entries
23 left partway through Level 27. I have no idea who any of the screen names are so I will return to this at the end.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event
Late reg is still open so not a whole lot to report here just yet, we've just seen Ryan Hughes enter, and he's the man Daniel Negreanu is so eager to catch at the top of the Player of the Year standings, with the man in third-place in that race, John Monnette, already seated with a big stack in front of him.
Event 19 (The Giant), Day 1E
The last chance to enter the $365 NLH behemoth, with no less than 6 levels still to play today (but they are only 20 minute levels)
Not too much worth mentioning yet, except that another Player of the Year candidate, Chris Ferguson has just busted as has Will Kassouf.
Top Brit at the moment appears to be Ilana Belsky, who cashed a couple of times at Sky Poker UKPC events a couple of years ago.
To start today
Event 73 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
Event 66
They called it a night with the heads-up match still unfinished. Emile Schiff has about a 2:1 chip lead over Chris Klodnicki.
Event 67
The PLO High Roller is done and dusted within 3 days; James Calderaro took his first bracelet. He has a WPT title and a deep run in the ME to his credit (13th in 2009) but this is his biggest tournament win.
Alexey Rybin from Russia was 2nd and Esther Taylor 3rd. The top three prizes were $1.28m, $796K and $543K.
Event 68
37 eventually managed to made it through, with Chance Kornuth (looking for his second career bracelet) having the chip lead at the end of Day 2
He leads Germany's Konstantinos Nanos and another American James Gilbert in 3rd.
Simon Appleby is leading Brit in 9th, but Scott Margereson had a bit of a late surge and now lies 10th.
Daniel Negreanu's chase for his 7th bracelet and those all-important (to him at least) player of the year points comes back with the 28th biggest stack.
Event 69
Only 10 razzers remain, with David "ODB" Baker leading from Wendy Freedman and Brad Ruben.
In fourth place is the sole remaining British player, Benny Glaser, with 14-time bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth being Sonny Shortstack with less than 5 Big Bets.
Event 70
In my report above I listed two Brits that may have made Day 2, well Katie Swift fell just short but Sonia Padovani did make Day 2, in 28th place of the 85 survivors.
Even better, Deborah Worley-Roberts sits in second place overnight, and a third Brit has made it too - Gina Rossi in 70th spot.
Probably the biggest female name in poker, Vanessa Selbst is in a good position overnight but they're all chasing Parm Mehmi (who FT'ed this two years ago) who holds the chip lead at the end of the opening day.
Event 71
It's been undoubtedly a good year for India at the WSOP and Nipun Java has been at the forefront. He was part of the all-Indian tag team bracelet winners early on in the series, and now he's won the $1000 online bracelet under his alias "Javatinii"
Second went to Canadian Jason James with the best of the home players being Richard Tuhrin in 3rd.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day A of 3, 1956 entrants
All over, after about 60 hands of the unscheduled 4th day. Chris Klodnicki is the bracelet winner, a rivered nut flush getting him a full double up to take the lead which he never relinquished.
He takes home over $428K, Emile Schiff will have to be satisfied with $264K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1349 entrants
On the first break of Day 3, and we've lost Daniel Negreanu among 6 eliminations leaving 31 players still involved.
Both Simon Appleby and Scott Margereson are still there, but have dropped down the leader board a bit, but Chance Kornuth still holds the lead, with almost double the stack of his nearest challenger.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 3 of 3, 419 entrants
Hasn't started yet, but at least the WSOP are now allocating to Wyraz to Poland rather than Portugal.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 718 entrants
We've lost a dozen or so players so far today, and the good news is that the Brits all survive here too. There has been a small ladder so the current paypoint is $1845.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 88 entrants
Still to resume with just under half of the 29 remaining players making the money. First prize is a mouth-watering $245K
Event 73 - Main Event, see other thread for the time being.
To start today
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