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On Saturday afternoon two days ago, Matt Perrins sat down at 5pm and played his first ever hand of Deuce to Seven No Limit having watched roughly half an hour's worth of YouTube videos on the game. Two days later he has now been crowned a WSOP bracelet winner, beating a field of 275 to join his best friend Jake Cody as the second UK player to win a WSOP bracelet this year.
from Pokernews.
Incredible - utterly amazing.
Well done Matt.
Who will be next? These kids are really walking the walk.
"Deuce to Seven" is, traditionally, an old school game, & now along comes Pez & binks the bangle.
Our friend, Barry Carter, over at Pokernews, wrote.....
Matt Perrins takes down Brit bracelet number 2 in Event # 9, $1,500 2-7 draw lowball. It is hard to say just what is the most captivating part of this story. Is it the fact that, once again, young British players are dominating world poker for a third year in a row? Is it the fact that he is Jake Cody's best friend from school, winning WSOP gold just 3 days after his mate? Or perhaps it is the fact that this was the first time Perrins has played 2-7 lowball ever!
Clearly he is a quick learner and has already indicated he will be playing the $10,000 event in this discipline. He certainly has the roll for it now if he didn’t before, taking down $102,105 after beating mixed games specialist Chris Bjorin heads-up for the bracelet.
Once again, a packed Brit rail was in attendance cheering their man on and making a name for themselves out in Vegas. Perrins has now really made a name for himself, and can consider himself a WSOP champion alongside an already very impressive resume that includes an Italian Poker Tour title and over $600,000 in career winnings.
John Eames doing allright in event 8..was in the top 10 when i last checked.
this is the event reds was in, i assume his stayed anonymous and is actually chip leader ;-)
I love the whole buzz about WSOP when older defo something i wanna do
As I type day 3 of event #8 $1,000 NLHE has just finished with Sadan Turker of West Kensington holding the chip lead 3-handed. This event started with a huge field of 4,178 runners.
End of Day 3 chip counts;
Sadan Turker UK 7,910,000
Sean Getzwiller USA 3,000,000
Jon Turner USA 1,680,000
Sadan Turker's Twitter feed; http://twitter.com/the_snail03
Recent Guest on Channel 865, Richard "chufty" Ashby is going along nicely, too......he won a bangle last year, can he do the double?
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
202 began, 23 left, here's the Top 10.....
1 Guillaume Rivet 780,000
2 Jason Steinberg 570,000
3 Michael Chow 400,000
4 Richard Ashby 380,000
5 Mikael Thuritz 300,000
6 Viacheslav Zhukov 300,000
7 Eric Buchman 290,000
8 Kirill Gerasimov 285,000
9 Alessio Isaia 270,000
10 Steve Billirakis 240,000
Another Brit going along nicely is Rick Trigg, aka "action man" & "the claimer". Rick has been around donkey's years, & recently scooped about $130k in an Online Biggie.
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Peter Hernandez Is Our Chip Leader After Day 1
Day 1 of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Chance tournament is in the books and the starting field of 1,340 players has been whittled down to 165. The action on the felt was fast and furious right from the start, as many of today’s participants opted to utilize their two $1,500 chip “rebuy lammers” right from the start to bully opponents into submission.
Peter Hernandez is our chip leader with 124,700. Hernandez used a combination of great calls and good luck to climb to the top of the leaderboard. J.C. Tran has amassed a stack of over 110,000 and will be looking to capture his third WSOP bracelet when play resumes. Englishman Steve Watts, playing in the WSOP on the advice of his friend Sam Trickett, has also made the most of his three chances by building his stack to 99,500.
Former WSOP Main Event winners were spotted all across the Pavilion Room early in the day, as Jaime Gold, Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Cada, Greg Raymer, Scotty Nguyen each attempted to run the gauntlet and add more hardware to their collections. Unfortunately for the aforementioned group, glory was not in the cards today as the former champions fell one by one.
Carlos Mortensen (57,100) is the last Main Event champ left standing after ten levels of play today and will look to make his move during tomorrow’s Day 2 action.
Other notable names to bust during Day 1 of the WSOP’s 12th bracelet event include Tom Dwan, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Annette Obrestad, Gavin Griffin, Jason Mericer, TJ Cloutier, and Chad Brown.
Notable big stacks to keep an eye on tomorrow include Ted Forrest (54,500), Issac Haxton (47,200) and Bruce Chen (40,900).
Top Chip Counts
1 Peter Hernandez 124,700
2 Jonathan Karamalikis 122,700
3 J.C. Tran 117,000
4 Brad McFarland 101,300
5 Steve Watts 99,500
6 Richard Trigg 95,700
7 Ben Tollerene 95,300
8 Andy Black 85,300
9 Lakhitov Mikhail 84,100
10 Arthur Lim 76,700
Martins Adeniya and Sam Trickett still in according to the chip counts
144 are paid, $352,000 up top
The info I post in this thread comes with thanks to, variously, WSOP, our friend Barry Carter at PokerNews, & Tighty, over at blonde.
Many thanks to them.
Richard Ashby Deep in WSOP Event 11
Oh my, Richard Ashby, aka "chufty", is nearly home & hosed!
Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Top Chip Counts
1 Richard Ashby 1,650,000
2 Viacheslav Zhukov 1,350,000
3 George Lind 1,200,000
4 Mack Lee 1,005,000
5 Steve Billirakis 665,000
How much up top? Just $465,216....
Good luck to Richard, from all at Sky Poker, & I'm pretty sure he'll be making another appearance on Ch 865 soon as Guest Analyst.
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Congratulations to Sean Getzwiller, Winner of Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Holdem ($611,185)!
After four days of battle over five calender days, the 2011 World Series of Poker now has an Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Holdem Champion with Sean Getzwiller victorious!
Kicking off over the weekend with two day one starting flights, 4,178 players took to the felt to form a prizepool of $3,760,200 which saw 423 players head home with their wallets or purses a little heavier in cash. Although branded by players and poker media as the donkament that features amateurs with only a few hours on the felt along with seasoned veterans and online professionals who have logged millions of hours - it still takes some skill and combined run good to make it deep.
Players such as Valdemar Kwaysser (420th), Jason Oon (412th), Dan Heimiller (392nd), Kyle Bowker (389th), Sam Barnhart (385th), Bryn Kenney (280th), Marc Karam (270th), Allie Prescott (221st), Gavin Griffin (215th), Kathy Liebert (204th), Alexander Kravchenko (177th), Ylon Schwartz (174th), Layne Flack (95th), Jonathan Duhamel (54th), Young Phan (52nd), Eric Mizrachi (50th), Ana Marquez (32nd), Albert Kim (31st), David Peters (29th) and Jordan “Jymaster11” Young (19th) all managed to turn on their run-good switch at the right time, but it still didn't secure them a place on our final table.
Those fortunate nine would all be moved to the bright lights of the Thunder-Dome where they would battle back-and-forth trading blows as one-by-one they fell to the rail until just six remained and the now well-known card controversy was uncovered. With a manufacturing fault on some of the cards, but on all the {4-Spades}, the final six were moved to an outer table where the muck wasn't visible due to the lack of bright lights.
From their play stalled until the final few hands where play was reduced to three-handed play, and action was paused for the night. Returning today saw Jon "PearlJammer" Turner chasing vindication as long-time professional, but his run would end early when his pocket eights were cracked.
With Sean Getzwiller and Sadan Turker virtually even in chips, the two would fight one of the most brutal heads-up battles that would last nearly six hours! A never-ending run of lead changes mixed with double-after-double saw the two players look physically distraught at every bad beat and lucky card their opponent caught. Eventually it would be Las Vegas-based professional Getzwiller who would get the better of Turker as he denied the British a third bracelet within just a few days.
Place Prize
1st Sean Getzwiller
2nd Sadan Turker
3rd Jon Turner
4th Max Weinberg
5th Stefan Raffay
6th Lawrence Riley
7th Hunter Frey
8th Daniel Haglund
9th Odette Tremblay
Meanwhile, another British "Richard" (no, not Orford) is heading for a whopper payday & maybe a Bracelet, & I wrote about him in this thread yesterday, Rick Trigg.....
Uber-geek SPT-Rich (aka Tighty), informs us that Brit Steve Watts is an ex-footballer chappie. See...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Watts
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
14 left
Top Chip Counts
1 Nicholas Rampone 760,000
2 Andrea Dato 740,000
3 Richard Trigg 620,000
4 Bill Chen 497,000
5 Steve Watts 360,000
6 Bradley Mcfarland 330,000
7 Daniel Smith 290,000
8 David Diaz 250,000
9 Denis Gnidash 200,000
10 Anthony Fung 185,000
1 352,808
2 218,183
3 138,044
4 100,200
5 73,915
6 55,355
7 42,059
8 32,381
9 25,253
10 19,953
11 19,953
12 19,953
13 15,973
14 15,973
It would appear I bokked Richard Ashby, whoops.
...but NOT Rick Trigg, who is now in the FINAL!
Chip counts, & seat draw, below.....
1. Nicholas Rampone - 1,500,000
2. David Diaz - 324,000
3. Justin Sternberg - 737,000
4. Matthew Henson - 101,000
5. Andrea Dato - 613,000
6. Steven Watts - 439,000
7. Anders Meli - 658,000
8. Bill Chen - 610,000
9. Corey Hastings - 546,000
10. Richard Trigg - 454,000
Anders Meli...
'Ands are smelly...
No? OK, I'll get my coat.
1 Richard Ashby 700,000
2 Joe Cassidy 540,000
3 David Bakes Baker 492,000
4 Steve Sung 441,000
5 Hasan Habib 437,000
6 Greg Raymer 355,000
7 Phil Hellmuth 339,000
8 Nick Schulman 306,000
9 John Juanda 171,00
G-Luton regular, & previous Guest on Channel 865, Alex Martin is in 2nd place in the $1k WSOP jobbie.
Fat end of half a mill up top!
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Players Left
39
Entries
3175
Top Chip Counts
1 Tim West 550,000
2 Alexander Martin 500,000
3 Yashar Darian 480,000
4 Thomas Conway 410,000
5 Dejuante Alexander 400,000
6 James Schaaf 380,000
7 Maximilian Lehmanski 380,000
8 Sybe Smit 370,000
9 Brett Shaffer 350,000
10 Jason Hallee 310,000
1 493,091
2 305,009
3 215,855
4 156,248
5 114,414
6 84,753
7 63,493
8 48,091
9 36,833
Unbelievably, this is an interview Alex Martin did for Sky Poker at last year's WSOP.
Viewers of a nervous disposition should not view this video, it's just so wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPITbeQfow&playnext=1&list=PL19B330B1982EB3AA