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Event 68
Still in play at about 1:45am with Ryan van Sanford just having been eliminated in third place, leaving Chance Kornuth & Harrison Gimbel to fight it out heads-up, with the former having a significant chip lead.
Scott Margereson finished 31st for $15806 while Simon Appleby lasted 7 players longer and collected $19287
Event 69
With the first four players being eliminated fairly quickly, a very interesting FT ensured. Phil Hellmuth clocked up yet another FT to add to his collection, but he was knocked out in 6th, with the last British player, Benny Glaser finishing 5th ($27K)
Wendy Freedman had her best ever WSOP run to come fourth, and Brad Ruben followed in third.
This left David "ODB" Baker and Jason Gola, and the heads up match went on and on. For over 6 hours, and at times Gola was down to one Big Bet. Eventually Gola outlasted Baker and won the bracelet and $132K.
Event 70
Deborah Worley-Roberts entered Day 2 lying second in chips, and she has ended the day in exactly the same position. The big difference of course is that there are considerably fewer players left, just the five in fact.
Tasmanian Heidi May has 4 cashes already this series (and cashed last year's Main) and she is in pole position to win here as she is the chip leader with over Worley-Roberts' stack.
The other two British players were eliminated during Day 2, Gina Rossi in 70th for $1845 and Sonia Padovani 55th for $2040. $2040 was also the payout for 3-times bracelet holder Vannesa Selbst.
Event 72
In 2000 (yes 17 years ago), Chris Ferguson won a WSOP braclet in Stud with Perry Friedman 3rd. Fast forward to 2017, and with 7 left Perry Friedman leads the $10K Stud with Chris Ferguson second.
Others till in the mix include Shaun Deeb and player of the year contender John Monnette.
With only 14 players in the cash, no Brits made that stage.
Event 73
The biggest Day 1A field since 2013 (795) players took to the felt all with a dream of still being there in a fortnight's time holding a bracelet and sitting next to a huge pile of cash.
About 3/4 of the players have made Day 2A, but there isn't a full report on the WSOP site yet, so things are still a little provisional but it is Dane Morten Mortensen who vaulted to the top of the listings very late on.
Sam Grafton is one of the top few stacks (over 4 times the starting stack) and Barny Boatman rumbled along nicely after some early chipping up (although the 212K chip stack reported early in level 2 proved to be bogus).
Hopefully we will get a complete report so I can pick out any other British survivors.
Three former champions played Day 1A, reigning champ Qui Nguyen and Martin Jacobson moved on (although the Swede did drop down to 2000 or so chips at one point before recovering to 36800), unfortunately for Jerry Yang he did not.
Sam Grafton 232K
Sergi Reixach 160K
Barny Boatman 150K
Sebastian Saffari 115K
Patrick Leonard 103K
Raul Martinez 95K
Matthew Ashton 93K
Simon Appleby 92K
Daniel Barriocanal 84K
Nabil Mohamed 74K
Mitchell Johnson 71K
Tim Hickling 59K
Philip Long 58K
Steven Warburton 56K (he was the man who bust Jerry Yang)
Conor Beresford 55K
Alistair Hill 37K
Jason Gray 37K
James Akenhead 37K
Oysein Kristoffersen 32K
Anthony Forrest-Forsyth 31K
James Barron 27K
Tobias Hariefeld 25K
Jamie Brown 22K
Andreas Olympios 15K
Klas Lofberg 8K
576 players made Day 2.
Event 68 has also just ended
Harrison Gimbel scored a huge heads-up double-up with AQ against Chance Kornuth's AJ to more or less even up the stacks, and four hands later a cooler saw the tournament end in Gimble's favour as his pocket Queens were up against pocket 10s and the face cards held up.
Gimbel collects $645K and a bracelet, Kornuth a smidgen under $400K.
I believe this makes Gimbel a member of the poker Triple Crown club.
If anyone recognized this name from Barny's list;
Anthony Forrest-Forsyth 31K
He was the +1 of, I think, PokerBCity back in about 2008 or 2008.
Got a really lairy game, move moves than Pickfords.
Shocking clothes sense though, turned up in a dayglow pink t shirt, shorts and a bandana. Embarrassing really.
Event 70 - Deborah Worley-Roberts has already climbed one rung on the ladder with the elimination of Katie Ansorge, meaning she has now locked up at least $40K.
Event 72 is about to re-start, with Shaun Deeb coming back with just 1 Big Bet it's likely he will be the first elimination and leave us with six.
Event 19 - The Giant. Looks like i missed Day 2 of this yesterday! Whoops! Anyway it should finish today with just 27 players left. John Hutchinson, Hrair Yapoudjian & Ravi Raghavan are the top three stacks, with the best known players among the 27 are Eric Baldwin and the short stacked Ben Volpe. All this waffling is partly to gloss over the fact there is no British players among the 27, Andrew Christoforou the best of them back in 43rd for $6715.
She has 3.59, Day 2 chip leader Heidi May has under a million and Jana de la Carra just over half a million.
Julie Dang's dismissal in 4th has meant they all have now guaranteed at least a $57K payday, but DW-R must be in with a great chance of taking the bracelet and over $135K.
They're currently on a break.
Event 72 - As I predicted, Shaun Deeb's 1 Big Bet didn't last long so they're down to 6.
In Event 72, Bryce Yockey finished 6th for a little over $40K. leaving those two old Stud foes, Chris Ferguson and Perry Friedman as the top two stacks.
Event 19
Dieter Dechant is a local and has been dreaming of a bracelet for 25 years. A distant dream you may think, as a few weeks ago his total WSOP cashes totalled less than a grand.
Since then, he finished third in Event 31, the Seniors Event for $281K and has now exceeded that by collecting $291K by winning the Giant, the event that had 5 separate Day 1s on Friday nights throughout the series.
He beat the unpronouncable Canadian Hrair Yapoudjian (who played the FT draped in the Maple Leaf flag) heads-up with over 200 million in chips on the table.
Vera Kuhl from Germany was the third placed finisher.
Event 72
This is still ongoing with a long heads-up match between Chris Ferguson and Mike Wattel in progress, and stacks not far from even.
Ferguson hasn't won a bracelet since 2003 (of course he was absent from the WSOP for a number of years after his involvement in a certain poker site that collapsed), Wattel won his only bracelet back in the last millennium.
4262 of them came in on Day 1C and of those, 3300 moved on to Day 2C
Jerome Brion has bagged the biggest stack of the day, nearly 5 times the starting stack with Rudoplh Sawa (second in Event 49) and Carl Carodenuto in the 230-240K range.
Loads of Brits of course, so deep breath here they come
Jeff Kimber 143K
Robert Heidorn 132K
Joel Ettedgi 129K
Waikiat Lee 126K
George McDonald 122K
Jake Quinesee 120K
Nicholas Zambas 119K
Alberto Morales 114K
Robert Cowen 113K
Paul McTaggart 112K
Adrian Allain 112K
Artan Dedusha 110K
Jason McConnon 109K
Mark Hamilton 108K
Rupom Pal 107K
Talal Shakerchi 103K
Martin Nielsen 90K
Mark Caffrey 88K
Andrew Hills 87K
Xizhe Yuan 87K
Stafford Hamilton 87K
Max Silver 85K
Tamer Kamel 85K
Kevin Williams 82K
Andrew Fleming 81K
Atish Mistry 81K
Matthew Moss 80K
Benjamin Phillips 79K
JP Kelly 77K
Daniel O'Callaghan 76K
Fraser MacIntyre 74K
Lam Trinh 73K
David Maudlin 73K (I think he's a Sky Poker player?)
Jonathan McCann 72K
Mian Wei 71K
Steven Watts 71K
Daniel James 70K
Craig McCorkell 69K
Jonathan Weekes 68K
Sadan Turker 67K
Katie Swift 65K
Mark Gardner 64K
Jack Sandford 64K
Paul Kerr 62K
Juan Riera 61K
I'll take a little break there (at about halfway in the field and put those with shorter stacks in another post)
Daniel Tang 61K
Adam Monaghan 59K
Guy Taylor 57K
Charles Clark 56K
Brett Angell 56K
Jake Cody 56K
John Bonadies 55K
Francisco Cabllo 54K
Hemal Mehta 53K
Thomas Hall 52K
Martynas Vitkauskas 51K
Mitchell Johnson 50K
Pratik Ghatge 49K
Will Kassouf 48K
Steven Wilkie 47K
Lee Taylor 47K
Thomas Ward 45K
Christopher Walker 45K
Yudhishter Jaswal 45K
Alex Jennings 44K
Tonino Montesanti 44K
Oliver Price 42K
Chris Moorman 41K
Arron Fletcher 40K
Neil Barron 36K
Darren Hill 36K
Jonathan Clark 36K
Neil Box 36K
Marius Jilaveanu 35K
Adrian Gray 34K
Gabriel Blehaut 33K
Damien Le Goff 32K
Nikesh Parmar 32K
Oleksandr Malakhov 31K
Adrien Delmas 31K
Paul Otto 30K
Luke Brereton 29K
Henry Fewster 29K
Daniel Laming 29K
Steffen Sontheimer 28K
Ho Lee 27K
Mohammed Suhail 26K
David Sandford 26K
Giulio Mascolo 24K
Andrew Hedley 24K
Philip Brockwell 23K
Roberto Romanello 22K
Colin Lovelock 21K
Eli Heath 20K
Daniel Merrilees 20K
Benamin Bashfort 18K
Iaron Lightbourne 17K
Thomas Waters 16K
Charlotte Godwin 16K
Matas Cimbolas 15K
Neil Channing 15K
Tomas MacNamrara 13K
Jan Collado 11K
Andrew Christoforou 6K
Andrew Hawkin 2K
It doesn't look like we lost any previous winners on Day 1C, so 15 former ME Champions will re-appear for their day 2s.
What's on today? Day 2A/B of the main, and Day 1A of the Little One For One Drop.
Barny,
One to add to the Brits list plying today.
1397 Gareth Smith London, , IR 51,600 Amazon / 149 / 2
"London IR"?
Don't think London is in Iran.
It's GSmith13, of course.
"Jonathan Prested 121K"
That's Sky Poker regular "The_Raven".
Two of the top three are British - Lawrence Bayley in 1st and Richard Gryko, with Mikey Craft splitting thin second.
Three former champions went out yesterday, two of them to Brits - Qui Nguyen went out to James Akenhead and Martin Jacobson to Matt Ashton (the other one, Richard Varkonyi lost to November Niner Kenny Halleart)
Hallaert is through, as is Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer, Mike Matusow, Chris Vitch and Scott Siever.
As you would expect, a significant number of UK names are through, including Sky Player David Boggon.
Lawrence Bayley 618K
Richard Gryko 565K
Jonathan Prince 417K
Sergi Reixach 398K
Alex Goulder 344K
Charlie Carrel 343K
Sam Grafton 315K
Louis Salter 272K
Paul vas Nunes 256K
Jack Sinclair 243K
Peter Akery 346K
Niall Farrell 230K
Barny Boatman 225K
Adam Bonham 224K
James Dempsey 188K
Vera Kelleher 179K
Raul Martinez Requena 173K
Yiannis Liperis 168K
Tom Middleton 167K
Jost Beifhus 165K
Luke Marsh 162K
Matthew Frankland 155K
Chi Zhang 152K
Ben Heath 144K
Ben Farrell 132K
Daniel Rudd 122K
Ben Fitzgerald 95K
Jules Dickerson 90K
Nabil Mohamed 89K
James Barron 86K
Matthew Ashton 84K
Alistair Hill 81K
Jack Ellwood 78K
Matt Davenport 76K
James Akenhead 74K
Liv Boeree 72K
Philip Rigby 67K
Chiraag Thanki 61K
Tim Hickling 57K
Erik Vandenberg 51K
Tobias Harefield 50K
Usman Siddique 49K
Natalia Breviglieri 47K
David Boggon 38K
Marc Convey 38K
Daiva Byrne 31K
Looking at Boggo's Day 3 table, it's only half filled at the moment with qualifiers from Day 2C to be slotted in to the vacant seats
Table Amazon 87
2 Ben Nicolas (FRA) 94K
4 Ryan Johnson (USA) 52K
5 David Boggon (GBR) 38K
6 Chris Savage (USA) 116K
No point doing a full-scale analysis until the structure of the table is complete
Event 74 The Little One For One Drop, $1000+$111 NLH, Day 1A
Only 687 players suited up for Day 1A, with 117 of them making Day 2. A lot of them will have been players who bust early from the Main Event.
Ken Aldridge from Plesaant Garden is the chip leader, just preventing us from having double-Lawrence as Lawrence Engerman fills in second spot and Mark Jun is third.
Top Brit is Dominic Cullen in 15th ahead of Adam Owen in 21st and these appear to be the only two.
Jason Mercier, David "ODB" Bakera, Brian Hastings and Mike Leah are the biggest names still in. Mercier, Baker and Leah are playing Day 2C of the main tonight, so if they make Day 4 they will have to multi-table.
Event 72, the Main Event, Day 2C
The Day 2C field shrunk by about half to leave 1549 players to join those who progressed from the Day 2 A/B play the day before. In a remarkable double, we have a British player with the biggest chip stack on each of the two days. Joining Lawrence Bayley is Artan Dudusha, who bagged an even bigger stack than Bayley.
The name Grafton appears in second place but it's not Sam of that ilk, it's the hometown of Michael Krasienko with another American, Marcin Chmielewski third.
Natasha Mercier in inside the top 10, with her husband Jason considerbly further down the listings. We've lost former ME winners Reiss, Hellmuth, McKeehen and Ferguson, but Nguyen, Chan, Cada & Mortensen are all still involved.
Full list of Brits
Artan Dedusha 680K
Paul McTaggart 391K
Kevin William 311K
Matthew Moss 300K
Paul Otto 295K
John Bonadies 291K
Robert Cowen 284K
Sadan Turker 271K
Fraser MacIntyre 255K
Aaron Fletcher 251K
Daniel James 240K
Thoma Hall 221K
Lam Trinh 215K
Yudhishter Jaswal 192K
Jake Quinesee 185K
Robert Heidorn 167K
Lee Taylor 157K
Jack Sandford 156K
Waikiat Lee 156K
Tamer Kamel 154K
Daniel Tang 153K
Joel Ettedgi 150K
Guy Taylor 149K
Martin Nielsen 131K
Sergio Aspina 129K
George MacDonald 128K
Rupom Pal 126K
Thomas Waters 119K
Adam Monagha 118K
Steven Watts 112K
Craig McCorkell 110K
Jeff Kimber 110K
Mark Gardner 109K
Jake Cody 108K
Katie Swift 102K
Andrew Hills 101K
Talal Shakerchi 87K
Charles Clark 86K
Thomas Ward 79K
Steffen Sontheimer 76K
Frank William 72K
Luke Brereton 71K
Max Silver 69K
Christopher Walker 66K
Mark Hamilton 63K
Nicholas Zambas 61K
Xizhe Yuan 57K
Jason Berry 55K
Alberto Morales 35K
Hemal Mehta 34K
Gabriel Blehaut 25K
Damien le Goff 23K
Brett Angell 22K
Guilio Mascolo 22K
Day 1B of the Little One for One Drop to follow...
Little One For One Drop, Day 1B
It's players of far-eastern descent at the top with Neng Lee, Tai Nguyen and Chunlei Yuan the only players over 200K in chips.
Three players who already have 2017 bracelets, Upeshka Da Silva, Ben Yu and David Bach (who of course hs two) are also through, as are British players Paul Ephremesen (119K), Roberto Romanello (110K), Tin Lee (38K) and Matthew Copley (19K).
Copley is showing as from Guatemala, but the last time I visited York (FA Cup fourth road 2001-02) it was definitely in the UK.
With both Day 1A & 1B having high attrition rates, the bubble looks like it is going to come very early on Day 2, possibly even in the first level.
As has been made clear elsewhere, the Main Event is in the money at the end of Day 3. Detail of the hand-for-hand and the bustouts on the bubble are discussed in the dedicated Main Event Day 3 thread.
Anyway, 1084 players have chips and dreams, some of them having considerably more of the former than some other players.
Patrick Lavecchia had the chip lead on and off throughout the second half of Day 3, and in the end it was "on" as he bagged 1552K chips, just 6K ahead of Pawel Brzeski and former November Niner and UK regular Antoine Saout.
Artan Dedusha had a big stack at the end of his Day 2, and maintained that status throughout Day 3 and bagged the 9th biggest stack.
Other Brits, in descending chip order
Paul vas Nunes 1073K
Charlie Carrel 964K
Matthew Moss 872K
Joel Ettedgi 833K
Adam Bonham 827K
Alistair Hill 823K
Richard Gryko 819K
Robert Cowen 758K
Sergi Reixach 654K
John Hesp 613K
Max Silver 606K
Nial Farrell 575K
Jonathan Prince 563K
Tobias Harifield 477K
Jack Sinclair 463K
George McDonald 441K
Lawrence Bayley 422K
Peter Akery 415K
Liv Boeree 384K
Daniel Rudd 381K
Xizhe Yuan 354K
Tom Middleton 345K
Paul Otto 293K
Andrew Hills 260K
Lee Taylor 245K
Luke Brereton 239K
Sadan Turker 225K
John Bonadies 222K
Charlotte Godwin 209K
Thomas Ward 191K
Adam Monaghan 173K
Barny Boatman 158K
Yiannis Liperis 156K
Andrew King 152K
Charles Clark 148K
Guy Taylor 139K
Waikiat Lee 130K
James Dempsey 114K
Chi Zhang 112K
Kevin Williams 97K
Jules Dickerson 81K
Daiva Byrne 73K
Jose Beifhus 65K
Luke Marsh 60K
Others through from other nations include Davidi Kitai, Dominik Nitsche, Allen Cunningham, Sofia Lovgren, Marvin Rettenmaier, Kenny Hellaert, Ben Lamb etc.
Tom McEvoy's elimination means we have just 3 former champions in the field, Scotty Nguyen (1998), Carlos Mortensen (2001) & Joe Cada (2009).
Event 74 - Little One For One Drop
2484 played the final Day 1 of the entire series, and 470 of them made it through.
Daniel Negreanu managed to bag chips despite playing his first six hands all in blind, in contrast frllow Player of the Year contender Chris Ferguson grinded all day to bag a decent stack.
Guiseppe Pantaleo bagged 335K to end the day as the chip leader with Laurent Manderlier second and Alex Foxen third.
Raul Martinez is the first GB name we encounter down in 32nd spot, while other qualifiers are Nicholas Death, Sebastian Saffari, Farhan Ahmed, Craig McDowell, Daniel Tang, Guilio Mascolo, Andrew Hedley, Timothy Rowland, Matas Cimbolas, Simon Deadman, Domenico Micillo and Niall Murray. Hopefully there are some Sky Qualifiers in there to join Mattprawn from Day 1B (did RektSai make it too?)
749 players are through when you combine the 3 Day 1s, and with 659 to be paid, the bubble will burst early on Day 2. The min cash is $1500, with the winner taking a very nice $528K.
John Hesp 613K
By chance, I met this chap this morning, introduced myself, & we had a good chat.
He comes from Bridlington, & has never played the WSOP Main before, he plays smallball stuff at Naps in Hull.
His bucket list included playing the Main Event, & cashing in it - both boxes now ticked.
I first spoke with him as I was so immensely impressed with his attire.
Here's John - how cool is that jacket?
CLICK TO ENLARGE PHOTO
Even better, how good do I look in that jacket?
I WANT THAT JACKET
Joe Cada and Scott Siever also among the casualties.
Some folks may remember him from the 2015 main event when he lost a horrible pot for a 25 million chip pot with just 12 players left.
And he is a fellow Scot, lets do this George!
His 2015 bustout
TY, TY.
Class get up, that.