WSOP 2015: every event, every stat.

[dino1980]

The guy who every year puts together the Vegas spreadsheet of tournaments (SpaceyFCB aka Kenny Hallaert) is second in chips going to the final table of The Colossus.

[RED-DOG]

Can't see where it tells you how many sticky buns and lattes tikay has had.

[TightEnd]

Colossus

Inside the numbers

This year’s WSOP Event #5, the $565 ‘Colossus’ event, took an extra day to reach its winner because the field size was so large, and it took us a little longer to crunch the numbers associated with this event as well.  But you’ll find some interesting stuff in the attached.
Including some record-setters.  Like 98 different countries having a participant in this event. A new record.  Or 14,284 unique entries – or 63% higher than our previous record from the 2006 Main Event.  We even welcomed 5,664 first-time players to the WSOP for this event…a remarkable figure.

Please review the attached and let us know if there are any questions we can answer.  Hope it helps you write your final stories on this amazing event.  Thank you.

 

2015 WORLD SERIES OF POKER


Inside the Numbers – Event #5 - $565 Buy-in ‘Colossus’ No-Limit Hold’em

Total # of Entries:                              22,374

Total Prize Pool:                                 $11,187,000

Total Places Paid:                                2,241

1st Place Prize:                                     $638,880 (1,130 times the buy-in)

2241st Place:                                        $1,096

Total # of Unique Entries:                  14,284 (64% of entries) (New WSOP record)

(Bests 2006 WSOP Main Event - 8,773 – by a whopping 63%)

Total # of Players Re-Entering:          6,641 (46.5% of uniques)

# of Players Re-Entering Once:          4,885 (thus 1,756 players re-entered more than once)

# of First-Time WSOP Players:          5,664 (Making their WSOP debut) – 39.6% of all unique players

# of Male Entrants:                             20,958 (93.7%)

# of Female Entrants:                         1,416 (6.3%)

# of Unique Males:                             13,316

# of Unique Females:                          968

Average Age of Entrants:                    41.95

Avg. Age of Male Players:                   41.73

Avg. Age of Female Players:               45.25

Oldest Entrant:                                   91 years old, two months, Norman Spivock (Santa Rosa, California)

Youngest Entrant:                               21 years old, 1 day (Born May 28)   

david Barclay (Phoenix, AZ) & Noah Goldman (Rye Brook, NY)

# of Countries w/Participants:                       98 (A new WSOP record for a single-event)

Top 10 Countries w/participants:

1.        United States (19,877)

2.         Canada (938)

3.         United Kingdom (269)

4.         Germany (156)

5.         Brazil (142)

6.         France (107)

7.         Australia (87)

8.         Italy (64)

9.         Russia (61)

10.       Mexico (50)

 
# of U.S. Players:                                19,877

# of International Players:                  2,497

Top 10 States w/participants:

1.  California (4,624)

2.  Nevada (2,460)

3.  Texas (1,538)

4.  Florida (1,335)

5.  Arizona (787)

6.  New York (761)

7.  Illinois (633)

8.  Washington (632)

9.  Colorado (619)

10. Michigan (396)


Entries by Day:                               
1A:      5,173
1B:       5,029
1C:       6,283
1D:      5,889

Total Day 2 Players:                            3,448 (804 (A) + 710 (B) + 970 (C) + 964 (D)

Total Day 3 Players:                            506

Total Day 4 Players:                            39

Total Day 5 Players:                            9


Total Survivors By Day/Flight:

Day 1A:                                               804 (15.5% of field) (Played 11 40-minute levels)
Day 1B:                                               710 (14.1% of field) (Played 11 40-minute levels)
Day 1C:                                               970 (15.4% of field) (Played 11 40-minute levels)
Day 1D:                                               964 (16.4% of field) (Played 11 40-minute levels)

Day 1 Total Survivors:                                    3,448 (15.4%)
Day 2:                                                  506 (14.7%) (Played 8 60-minute levels)
Day 3:                                                  39 (7.7%) (Played 10 60-minute levels)
Day 4:                                                  9 (23%) (Played 7 60-minute levels, plus 11 minutes of Level 37)

# of starting chips per player:              5,000
# of chips needed to win event:          111,870,000
# of physical poker chips used:           362,425
# of Dealers Required:                         982
# of Decks of Cards Used:                  4,480

 

[TightEnd]

Congratulations to Paul Michaelis for winning Event #8 - $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em. He earns $189,818 for first place

http://www.wsop.com/news/2015/Jun/6268/PAUL-MICHAELIS-WINS-GOLD-IN-POT-LIMIT-HOLDEM.html

[TightEnd]

Keith Lehr faces Paul Volpe in the final round of the $10k Heads Up Championship tomorrow at 1 p.m.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?grid=1136&tid=14210

Max Silver lost in the round of 16

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CORD GARCIA WINS BIGGEST POKER TOURNAMENT EVER

 Here are the final table results from the Colossus:

1. Cord Garcia - $638,880

2. Brad McFarland - $386,253
3. Ray Henson - $308,761
4. Paul Lentz- $234,927
5. Kenny Hallaert - $182,348
6. Adi Prasetyo - $140,956
7. Garry Simms - $109,632
8. David Farber - $87,817
9. Anthony Blanda - $67,681

 Name: Cord Garcia
Age: 25
Current Residence: Houston
Marital Status: Single
Children: 0
Profession: Poker Pro
Number of WSOP Cashes: 1 (today)
Number of WSOP Final Table Appearances: 1 (today)
Number of WSOP Gold Bracelet Victories (with this tournament): 1
Best Previous WSOP Finish: N/A
Total WSOP Earnings: $638,880

Cord Garcia won the latest event at the 2015 World Series of Poker, and it was one for the record books. The Houston native had a career day, earning $638,880 dollars in the biggest live tournament of all time. Remarkably, this is the first WSOP cash of Garcia's career, and he sure made it one to remember for the family and friends that lined the gallery around the final table.

Garcia has come a long way in his relatively short career. He started playing in underground games in the Houston area before he was old enough to play legally, then starting grinding the mid-stakes tournament circuit when he turned 21. Now, as a 25-year old, he's won a record-setting tournament, and one event he more than doubled his career tournament earnings.

"Definitely" Garcia said when asked if this is breakthrough moment. "It feels like it is my breakthrough, but at the same time, I feel like I am capable of doing bigger things."

[TightEnd]

Max Pescatori Wins Event #9 $1,500 Razz for $155,947

His third WSOP bracelet

result at http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=1136&tid=14209

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Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

276 of 1651 remain

chip counts are showing the london player Iaran Lightbourne in second but we'll have more idea at the close of play

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=1136&tid=14212

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Event #13: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

268 entries

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp

updated figures when the end of day sheets come through

[GreekStein]

Some pretty strange accusations of cheating in the $10k HU.

[dino1980]

Some pretty strange accusations of cheating in the $10k HU.

Any links to twitter etc about this or is it all just word or mouth rumours at the moment?

[strak33]

https://twitter.com/connordrinan/status/605997285437112320

Couple of other bits floating around.

I read the suspect is also banned from all casinos in Czech Republic.

[GreekStein]

Also Jason mo's twitter

[dino1980]

https://twitter.com/connordrinan/status/605997285437112320

Couple of other bits floating around.

I read the suspect is also banned from all casinos in Czech Republic.

Thanks

[pleno1]

Hey 2+2, it's Connor. We (the players that were beaten by this Valeriu Coca guy in the $10k HU) were trying to keep things quiet until we gave the WSOP adequate time to investigate the situation and come up with a solution, but since there are a lot of rumors circulating and a lot of people know bits and pieces already, I might as well clear things up.

Pratyush Buddiga was the first to lose to him. He is my good friend but seemed pretty tilted so I didn't ask details until I found out he was my next opponent. I asked for reads and whatnot and he basically told me he was really slow and passive in the beginning and then picked up the pace as the match went on as far as speed of play and aggression. He thought he was stalling in the beginning to give himself a better shot to win at a higher blind level. He said he would stall by rechecking his cards at a bunch of different angles when it was clear he made up his mind to fold already.

He did the same thing in my match. For the first 10 hands or so, he folded to most of my button opens and either limped or folded the button (doing the same obnoxious card checking tactics). I was thinking "man this guy is going to be a breeze." From that point on I won very few pots the rest of the match. Every time I had a good starting hand he folded. If I had a bad one he raised or re-raised. If I whiffed a flop he attacked my c-bets. If I whiffed and went for a delayed cbet, he blasted turn into me every time. If I hit and bet, he folded. Hit and checked, he checked ect ect ect.

It was probably the most frustrating match of my life and I've played a ton of HU. He grinded me down to 80k at bb4k from 240k starting. At this point I was playing super passive as his aggression was out of control. I made my first button raise in a while which was a shove with 33 and he snapped me with k5o for 20bb. I held and won my only significant pot of the match but he went back to work grinding me down to 60k and then won a flip to end the match.

I remember him folding 4 times total preflop once blinds got big. 1) He walked me when I had AA. 2) he folded to my min when I had AJs. 3) I capped my cards and waited for him to look at his cards first for the first time in the match as I was starting to get really skeptical. He acted surprised and flustered and walked me before I uncovered my hand. 4) After checking my hole cards (J9o i think) I looked behind me to see if there was a chance he had a friend on the rail who could see my cards but there was no way. He seemed very weirded out that I did that and again walked me.

I stormed out of the rio as tilted as I've ever been after busting a tournament and immediately messaged prat saying I felt like something major was off with the match. It didn't make sense that a guy grinding 300 euro mtts in eastern europe who has never played WSOP before would come here for the $10k HU and be such a beast. I ranted to Prat all the things that were weird, both mannerisms and plays he made vs me. Prat said he felt the exact same about his match but didn't say anything at first because he figured he was just being a sore loser and got owned. I then messaged the other 2 players he beat, Matt Marafioti and Aaron Mermelstein and they both had similar "yeah i felt totally owned, couldn't win a pot, thing he was doing with his cards was really weird, ect" type responses.

I called my other good friend Byron Kaverman and warned him about everything as they were scheduled to play in the round of 16 the next morning. We figured we should also tell Jack Effel so they could be on the lookout. Byron said he knew Jack well so he would talk to him. I went to bed questioning myself and wondering if I was just being a sore loser.

I then woke up this morning to a message on facebook from a czech friend of mine that read "Hey man just woke up and found out u were in HU with a guy who made a lot of money in cash games in Prague. He has ban in czech poker casinos for cheating. Guy was marking cards. We can talk in person little bit later when Im on sngs in Rio and u can forward it to floors players etc so they can do smtng about it I guess"

I instantly passed this along to Byron and he said that Jack was on it and they were monitoring him via cameras and also switching up the decks frequently. My friend also sent me this article which you have to translate to english with your broswer: http://www.pokerzive.cz/zpravodajstv...azskych-kasin/

I spoke with Byron after his match and he said he was 100% sure the guy was trying to cheat and was watching the cards very closely as the dealer dealt off the deck but that he did a pretty good job covering his cards and the decks were being switched up so it was hard for Coca to work his magic. Unfortunately he couldn't fade an 80/20 and the guy advanced. His next opponent, Keith Lehr, was also warned about Coca. At this point, Coca probably knew that he had been exposed based on the attention his matches were receiving from the floor, the way Byron and Keith were protecting their hands so well, ect ect. He finally lost to Keith in 5th place.

Our speculation is that he was using some sort of invisible ink in combination with special sunglasses. We haven't heard much from WSOP since the match, but what little I have heard I would rather keep to myself for now and allow WSOP time to finish the investigation and make their own statement.
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