The 2014 WSOP Thread. tikay wins a bracelet, the rest is secondary

[Doobs]

Just played and busted the Casino Employees event 144/876 with 90 paid.

Structure was terrible. 3k starting stack and hour levels starting at 25/50 then 100/200, 100/200/25a, 150/300/25a, 200/400/50a, 300/600/50a, 400/800/75a and not sure after that because I busted! Good fun though and proof that poker isn't anywhere near dead, especially tournament poker.

Err, 25/50 to 100/200? Really?

50/100 according to his friends at PokerNews.  Fella will never get a job as a reporter.  Structure a breath of fresh air after SCOOP.  Maybe a 25/25 level would have been good?

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In event 1 the $500 Casino Employees event

Last year 898 runners

This year 876

64 currently remain

Lee Davy, the CalvinAyre reporter, secured the first UK cash of the series with a min cash

$82,000 up top

Nice to see a player going to an effort for the bloggers. DTD regs, take note

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Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em

131 entries and its early days with 90 left

the Brit Stephen Chidwick is currently going well near the top of the chip counts

1    Brian Rast    491,000
2    Fabrice Touil    316,000
3    Jason Mo    272,000
4    Stephen Chidwick    270,000
5    Aaron Jones    255,000
6    David Benefield    235,000
7    Mike Brady    211,000
8    Al Decarolis    205,000
9    Phil Ivey    192,000
10    Matt Marafioti    190,000

the event is a fantasy league who's who

still in we have, amongst others.....

Phil Ivey             
JC Tran             
Mickey Petersen             
Phil Laak       
Michael Mizrachi             
John Juanda             
Calvin Anderson             
Sam Trickett             
Talal Shakerchi             
Phil Galfond             
Noah Schwartz             
Daniel Negreanu          
Dan Cates             
Justin Bonomo             
Dan Shak             
Faraz Jaka                
Darren Elias          
Yevgeniy Timoshenko             
David Vamplew             
Phil Hellmuth          
Jason Mercier             
Scott Seiver             
Eugene Katchalov       

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Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha is upcoming, where we are all wondering who will finish runner up to tikay

WSOP expectations are high for this one

"WSOP executive director Ty Stewart made two pretty bold statements during the annual WSOP conference call a few weeks back. First he predicted that the $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event on Day 2 of the WSOP could be the biggest non-hold 'em field in WSOP history. "

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I will be getting my info primarily from http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/

Man its good to look at and use. (updater nerd porn)

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Day 1 of the WSOP $25K Mix Max ended w/ 65 players remaining .No surprise to see Vanessa Selbst leading the pack going into the 6 Max round

1    Vanessa Selbst    562,800
2    Brian Rast    557,400
3    Michael Mizrachi    399,300
4    Jason Mo    380,000
5    Fabrice Touil    327,600
6    Dan Cates    317,500
7    JC Tran    290,000
8    Ravi Raghavan    275,000
9    Stephen Chidwick    270,600
10    John Juanda    264,800

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-2/

[claypole]

Jungleman in "first live strop of series" shocker....can't say I'm Selbst biggest fan but this is funny...

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-2/chips.84676.htm

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event 1 the casino employees $500 is down to four players as follows at 12-24k

4   Olivier Doremus   460,000
5   Charles Nguyen   482,000
7   Roland Reparejo   1,157,000
9   Corey Emery   460,000

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Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em finished day 2 with 16 players left

347   1   Ryan Fee   656,000
347   2   Matt Giannetti   676,000
347   3   Barry Hutter   524,000
347   4   Al Decarolis   1,261,000
            
348   1   Brian Green   145,000
348   2   Nick Schulman   207,000
348   3   Kevin Song   198,000
348   4   Aaron Jones   306,000
            
353   1   Darren Elias   506,000
353   2   Jason Mo   1,214,000
353   3   Calvin Anderson   812,000
353   4   Richard Lyndaker   213,000
            
354   1   JC Tran   1,251,000
354   2   Vanessa Selbst   1,224,000
354   3   Noah Schwartz   193,000
354   4   Robert Tepper   490,000

$871,000 for 1st

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Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Before this event, The biggest non-holdem field at the WSOP was the $1,500 PLO in 2011 with 1,071 players.

1,128 entires for this event and the new record

117 remain at the end of day 1, having just hit the cash


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Loren Klein    133,900
2    John O'Shea    89,000
3    Allan Le    88,200
4    Iori Yogo    79,900
5    Steve Billirakis    73,800
6    John Gordon    73,100
7    Mark Thoennes    67,000
8    Phil Laak    65,700
9    Philip Siegel    58,500
10    Leif Force    58,100

will try and put a list up of Brits left when the day 2 seat draw comes out

[MereNovice]

I believe that the remaining GB&I players in event #3 are:

2   John   O'Shea   CHURCHTOWN,   ,   IE   89000   Amazon   /   435   /   6
28   Peter   Charalambous   SUFFOLK,   ,   GB   40500   Amazon   /   438   /   6
63   Stephen   Chidwick   DEAL,   ,   GB   21700   Amazon   /   444   /   8
94   Karim   Jomeen   LONDON,   GB   10600   Amazon   /   440   /   7   

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Event 3

chip counts by seat draw for day 2

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13603/EV3-Day-2-Counts-by-Seat.pdf

good luck to Peter charra lying 42 of 103, one of four GB and I cashers in the event

[tikay]

SPAM ALERT

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Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em



After defeating JC Tran and Al Decarolis respectively in the heads-up semifinals of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em, Jason Mo and Vanessa Selbst are set to face off for $871,148 and the coveted gold bracelet on Friday. Mo will enter the Thunderdome with a near two million-chip advantage, with 5.86 million to Selbst's 3.96 million.

1             871,148
2             538,308
3    Al Decarolis US       290,622
4    JC Tran    US       290,622
5    Matt Giannetti    US    171,461
6    Robert Tepper    US    171,461
7    Ryan Fee    US       112,752
8    Aaron Jones    US    112,752
9    Darren Elias    US    85,342
10    Brian Green    US    85,342
11    Richard Lyndaker    US    72,617
12    Kevin Song    US    72,617
13    Nick Schulman    US    63,158
14    Calvin Anderson    US    63,158
15    Barry Hutter    US    54,945
16    Noah Schwartz    US    54,945

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Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

UK and I Cashers

10    Stephen Chidwick GB       11,593
11    Peter Charalambous GB    11,593
12    John O'Shea    IE       11,593
68    Karim Jomeen           2,842

7 remain chasing the $205,000 first prize

Steve Billirakis          770,000    
Brandon Shack-Harris       740,000    
Iori Yogo             500,000    
Robert Paddock          305,000    
Matthew Ryan          265,000    
Morgan Popham          250,000
Patrick Arena          215,000