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The TV Producers & Schedulers really don't get it, do they?
The mainstream recreational audience would LOVE to see the bubble. I've seen it 8 or 10 times "live" & it still gives me a buzz.
Excellent work Boggo and GL!
Around 1998 remaining with 1084 to be paid.
Sam & Mark have arrived, & are trying to get the remaining 10 or 12 players organised & paid in to Day 1C of the Little One Drop. (Most of them registered earlier this week). Everyone is here except Alvez. I understand he may be a little tired after last night's Top Golf carnage. Sam looks to be in pretty bad shape, too.
Play in the LOD (Little One Drop) starts at 3pm.
For now, we'll prioritise Boggo in the Main, then we'll gradually pick up on the Little One Drop Updates later, on a separate thread.
The 2nd level of the day (they are 2 hour levels) is almost complete, just minutes remaining.
The plasma screens - which are usually a bit behind - suggests we are down to 1,800 players.
Boggo came into the Media Centre during the break - he has 75,000.
Blinds will go 1,500-3,000/500 upon resumption, so every orbit of the table will cost each player 9,000 chips.
Boggo is fine for now, but he'll need to chip up at some stage.
Kit Kat?
For reasons which are unclear, the break has been extended by 10 minutes. This may be connected to colouring up.
Boggo News
Down to 45,000 (1,500-3,000/500) our man finds 5-5 & gets accommodated by A-Q.
Board ran out;
J-Q-3-9-J
So that's that I'm afraid.
Tremendous effort by Boggo, & a top bloke. He'll be at Manchester SPT.
McBok Strikes again
McBok said to me "that's strange, I only just went to see how he was getting on".
Well fancy that.
GG Boggo, brilliant effort!
Hopefully see you at one of the upcoming SPT events.
Will be under 1500 players left soon in the Main Event, currently 1503. Given the delay we are probably under 1500 already.
Will be interesting to see how long it takes to get down to 1,084 players and into the money.
Play is currently in Level 15 and the bubble is sloooooooowly approaching. The last WSOP update said 1233 were left so we need to lose another 150 or so. This will take a while. The first million chip stacks have now been collected, two of them in the hands of British players Artan Dedusha and Matthew Moss.
2004 ME winner Greg Raymer has recently been sent to the rail, joining other former champions Johnny Chan and Joe Hachem who bust earlier on Day 3, That leaves just Tom McEvoy, Joe Cada, Scotty Nguyen and Carlos Mortensen going for the rather unlikely double victory.
"When players returned from dinner break, one player's seat was empty, and the roughly 630,000 in chips he previously had in front of him were gone, as well. It turns out that this player had been banned from all Caesars properties and thus barred from entering World Series of Poker tournaments.
The player had knowingly bypassed security, going to great lengths to hide his real identity when registering for this tournament. When tournament organizers found out, his stack was terminated, and the chips were removed from the tournament. He left the premises without incident. His tournament buy-in remains in the prize pool, so the payout is not affected by this incident."
The matter was discussed on Twitter, & it seems the guy had been banned from all Caesars properties for card-counting at blackjack.
It seems he wangled his Main Event registration by regging with just his first middle name. In doing so, Harrahs were able to claim wilful deception.
Incred really - he had nearly 700,000 chips.
To those puzzled by the reference to Darren the Magician, he is a poker playing friend of Sam & or Mark who has been with us all trip. Not only great fun, but far & away the best magician I have ever seen.
He showed me one particular card trick & it keeps me awake at night, wondering how on earth he managed it.
Allen Cunningham is still there among those chasing the cash
Most WSOP ME cashes (according to Hendon Mob)
10 Berry Johnson
9 Bobby Baldwin, Humberto Brenes, Doyle Brunson
8 Chris Bjorin, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth
7 Allen Cunningham, John Esposito, Jay Heimowitz, Jason Lester, Donnacha O'Dea, Mike Sexton, Justin Cuong Van Tran
of those on 6, Aditya Agarwal may still be in.
Edited to correct a couple of spellings in players' names.
^^^^
The plasmas currently indicate 1,138 left.
Berry Johnson (most WSOP ME cashes). He sits in the $1 $2 $5 Big O cash game here at The Rio most nights. Can't recall him ever having a losing night. He must be in his eighties now, but he's as sharp as a tack.
Players are on a 20 minute break (as is normal at the end of every level in the Main) and will then reconvene to play until the bubble breaks. Could still be some time.
Doug Polk among those who have busted recently.
PS - So how did you do that trick?
Level 15 has ended with 1104 left, so 20 off the money
Posted by FCHD
Now corrected to 1103 left. The break has come at an opportune time for the WSOP as it gives them the chance to re-check their figures before hand-for-hand play is necessary. Too late to find you've miscounted by one somewhere after the bubble
Edit - another tweet from WSOP now says the number is 1102. Keep re-counting and at this rate we won't need a bubble at all.
They're also using the break to colour off the 500 chips, hopefully they will do this in front of the players this time as there appears to have been a bit of a controversy when the 100 chips were raced off, with the players not present and one table was 25K chips shorter than when the break started.