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Play for Day 2 commences at 12pm (8pm UK time).

As of writing (3am), there are no sign of any chip counts, but I'll hopefully have them before the start of play.

Until then, take a look at this, isn't it weird?

(http://www.dailybubble.com/archives/disturbing-faces-illusion-thumb.jpg)

First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Anna Wroblewski 211,325 45 8
2 Sam Farha 210,700 42 5
3 Dan Lowe 198,050 60 9
4 Danny Alaei 187,050 6 6
5 Marc Goodwin 177,225 22 10
6 John Racener 175,925 12 10
7 Jack Karban 173,850 40 10
8 Alan Schein 171,575 46 9
9 Thien Phan 167,300 25 1
10 Kirk Morrison 167,075 42 6
11 Ronald Haeri 164,150 58 10
12 Mike Matusow 162,575 40 3
13 Shawn Buchann 155,625 19 8
14 Keith Gipson 151,775 50 7
15 Chris Gentile 151,750 49 6
16 Paul Begum 151,650 58 6
17 Shannon Shorr 151,575 7 4
18 David Baker 150,225 24 9
19 Steve Wong 147,175 58 8
20 Lyle Berman 142,475 7 2
21 Jim Hanna 142,375 2 6
22 Raymond Davis 141,950 56 9
23 Paul Lee 140,950 50 2
24 Gevork Kasabyan 138,725 61 2
25 Hoyt Corkins 137,775 48 8
26 David Benyamine 135,900 28 1
27 Jason Fretag 135,525 61 5
28 Ben Sabrin 135,350 47 5
29 David Rheem 134,625 62 9
30 Peter Muller 132,550 45 4
31 Neil Chriss 132,250 17 4
32 David Singer 132,250 49 8
33 Isaac Haxton 131,700 39 3
34 Justin Young 131,475 58 3
35 Eric Hershler 131,325 62 2
36 Grant Lang 128,400 64 9
37 Pramesh Bansi 127,000 56 7
38 Alvin Zeidenfeld 126,525 37 6
39 Quirt Davis 124,875 42 10
40 Gavin Simms 123,550 62 8
41 James Lee 121,000 43 10
42 Bruce Yamron 120,300 3 9
43 Tom Werthmann 120,275 44 3
44 Patrik Antonious 119,600 41 10
45 Casper Dahl Hansen 118,900 57 9
46 Kevin Keller 117,675 27 3
47 Henry Michael Thuritz 117,625 51 4
48 Paul Wasicka 116,725 11 8
49 Steven Mclaughlin 115,275 27 9
50 Freddie Deeb 115,250 42 1
51 Carlos Mortensen 115,125 19 10
52 Matt Keikoan 114,350 2 8
53 Lee Markholt 114,050 38 4
54 Matt Brady 113,875 21 4
55 Jared Hamby 112,575 46 7
56 Bill Blanda 112,400 25 9
57 Deepak Bhatti 112,050 56 2
58 Marcel Luske 112,050 21 7
59 Suk Min Sung 112,025 45 2
60 Lars Bonding 111,775 9 10
61 Chris Kennedy 111,650 24 5
62 Elia Ahmadian 111,250 63 3
63 Christian Kruel 110,625 38 9
64 Isabelle Mercier 110,500 38 8
65 Carl Wong 110,300 40 9
66 Jay Heimowitz 109,450 37 3
67 Juan Carlos Alvarado 109,275 11 5
68 George Marlow 107,500 38 5
69 Mohamad Kowssarie 106,675 11 9
70 John Bonetti 105,575 52 8
71 Robert Mizrachi 105,500 60 6
72 Joe Sebok 104,125 8 2
73 James Worth 103,525 63 6
74 Gavin Griffin 102,900 12 8
75 Jake Minter 102,750 19 6
76 Carlos Zambrano 102,750 21 1
77 Dennis Almasy 102,250 42 9
78 Raul Oliveira 102,000 8 8
79 Jason Eakes 101,700 2 3
80 Billy Pilossoph 101,700 59 5
81 John Phan 101,675 12 7
82 David Grey 101,550 16 2
83 Kathy Liebert 100,325 19 3
84 Jamie Gold 100,025 24 6
85 Harry Kazazian 100,025 28 10
86 Kevin Song 99,575 41 9
87 Mark Stubbs 98,500 30 5
88 Hollis Stabler 96,975 49 3
89 Richard Harroch 96,625 9 6
90 Peter Gould 96,575 37 4
91 Hassan Habib 96,325 53 1
92 Billy Baxter 95,925 60 7
93 Jim Mc Crink 95,800 52 10
94 John Spadavecchia 95,700 56 1
95 Johnny Chan 95,600 57 2
96 Todd Rebello 94,750 46 10
97 Phil Hellmuth 93,800 37 7
98 Dustin Woolf 93,675 52 6
99 Rick Barstow 93,575 64 6
100 Josh Arieh 93,325 43 6
101 Joe Cassidy 93,200 49 10
102 Matthew Glantz 93,125 49 1
103 Nek-Pal Singh 92,500 51 7
104 Sorel Mizzi 92,025 7 7
105 Daniel Elizondo 91,800 44 4
106 Ed Teems 91,425 42 4
107 Justin Pechie 91,400 39 6
108 Paul Snead 90,925 21 5
109 Jani Vilmunen 90,775 59 1
110 Jani Sointula 90,675 62 3
111 Vinny Vinh 90,675 37 8
112 Franco Brunetti 90,550 39 8
113 Jim Parker 90,400 64 3
114 David Oppenheim 90,100 58 7
115 Vanessa Rousso 90,025 55 5
116 Eric Kesselman 90,000 37 1
117 Robert Nehrayan 89,975 22 3
118 Jaime Ligator 89,000 64 10
119 James Mackey 88,875 50 8
120 Johnny Lodden 88,825 47 9
121 Erica Schoenburg 88,725 11 3
122 John Cernuto 88,700 41 7
123 Joseph Pulliam 88,650 40 5
124 Joe Bartholdi 88,475 7 8
125 David Uliott 88,400 3 4
126 Andros Ioakimides 88,000 21 6
127 Sean McCabe 87,750 6 4
128 Peter Feldman 87,725 46 5
129 Jeff Cabanillas 87,450 58 5
130 John Pires 86,775 9 7
131 John Shipley 86,025 54 10
132 Daniel Shiff 85,875 40 8
133 Alan Engel 85,475 16 5
134 Michael Sukonik 85,300 28 4
135 John Barch 85,275 41 6
136 Chip Reese 85,225 16 7
137 Thang Pham 85,000 51 1
138 Herb Montalbano 84,300 54 1
139 Mark Gregorich 84,200 7 3
140 Ryan Gafford 83,925 51 9
141 Ross Boatman 83,375 17 6
142 Ron Linden 82,625 64 4
143 Antonio Salorio 82,525 7 5
144 Loi Phan 82,500 18 6
145 Richard Anthony 81,900 27 4
146 Luigi Esposito 81,525 59 6
147 Scott Mayfield 81,525 39 7
148 Per Ummer 81,475 17 9
149 Barney Boatman 80,850 20 7
150 Mike Gracz 80,250 43 7
151 Bill Ferrand 80,075 56 8
152 John Myung 80,075 60 10
153 Shawn Chaconas 79,675 2 5
154 Amir Nasseri 79,525 55 10
155 Mark Newhouse 79,450 18 7
156 Allen Cunningham 79,075 46 8
157 Doyle Brunson 79,050 6 7
158 Danny Fuhs 78,625 54 6
159 Ari Goott 78,475 50 10
160 Jeremy Joseph 78,275 3 3
161 Thomas Wahlroos 78,100 54 9
162 Gregg Merkow 77,175 50 1
163 Thomas Schreiber 77,050 56 6
164 Hertzel Zalewski 77,000 54 8
165 Don Webb 76,825 42 7
166 Juha Helppi 76,575 6 8
167 Christian Grundtvig 76,275 38 1
168 Danny Wong 76,100 19 4
169 David Solomon 75,850 12 5
170 Bruce Corman 75,825 37 5
171 Kyle Carlston 75,800 46 3
172 Jennifer Harman 75,600 17 10
173 Tom Franklin 75,500 48 1
174 Robert Slezak 74,325 41 3
175 Daniel Shak 74,150 12 9
176 Fred David 73,775 6 5
177 Padre Parkinson 73,600 39 10
178 Jan Sjavik 73,400 9 5
179 Surinder Sunar 73,325 53 6
180 Lamar Wilkinson 73,175 45 5
181 Steve Mandelbaum 72,975 22 8
182 Greg Mueller 72,675 18 3
183 Doron Malinasky 72,550 25 7
184 Thomas Schneider 72,300 28 9
185 James Dawick 71,245 30 9
186 Paul Testud 71,100 7 6
187 Noah Jefferson 70,900 39 4
188 Roland Gentner 70,875 53 7
189 Nick Binger 70,650 55 8
190 Tony Cousineau 70,325 48 6
191 Jacob Fernandez 70,225 51 6
192 Roland Dewolfe 70,100 52 7
193 Jimmy D' Ambrosio 70,025 38 10
194 Fred Goldberg 69,925 28 8
195 Ted Kearly 69,750 51 5
196 Ben Doud 69,675 41 2
197 Bill Gazes 69,400 9 3
198 Joe Chang 69,300 20 3
199 Franklin Caldwell 68,450 27 5
200 Jesse Jones 67,400 18 2
201 Martin Deknijff 67,275 37 9
202 Stephen Hooper 67,250 18 4
203 Gavin Smith 67,225 27 8
204 Tomas Umali 67,150 11 1
205 John Harris 67,050 24 10
206 Mark Rose 66,925 44 2
207 Can Hua 66,525 12 1
208 Gregory Alston 66,475 9 2
209 Danilo Sahione 66,225 38 7
210 Johan Storakers 66,150 27 6
211 Cornal Andrew Cimpan 65,925 37 2
212 Kian Kiarash 65,875 44 8
213 Rich Salomon 65,525 55 1
214 Phil Ivey 65,400 11 10
215 Eric Koskas 65,375 6 2
216 Marcello Del Grosso 65,350 28 2
217 Henry Rondon 65,225 56 10
218 Narendra Banwari 65,100 30 7
219 Rock Cloutier 65,000 21 10
220 Flaminio Malaguti 65,000 20 6
221 James Patton 64,950 48 3
222 Philip Tom 64,650 39 9
223 Daniel Harrington 64,625 46 4
224 Rob Hollink 64,500 53 2
225 Hoang Ho 63,700 8 3
226 Alan Sass 63,650 8 5
227 Philip Matthews 63,400 21 9
228 Patrick Poels 63,300 60 8
229 Alejandro Tort 62,600 11 6
230 Daniel Negreanu 62,400 53 8
231 Bjorn Lindblom 62,275 42 8
232 Scott Nguyen 62,200 25 3
233 Eric Deregt 62,125 19 9
234 Chuck Pacheco 62,125 9 1
235 Amir Vahedi 61,725 2 1
236 Paul Alterman 60,750 8 4
237 Tom Dobrilovic 60,750 30 4
238 Mats Rahmn 60,600 48 7
239 David Stroj 60,000 64 2
240 Daniel Quach 59,750 9 4
241 Jean Robert Bellande 59,625 21 8
242 Chris Bjorin 59,075 18 8
243 Tad Jurgens 59,050 7 9
244 Connie Kim 58,825 60 2
245 David Wells 58,575 7 10
246 Dan Alspach 58,500 61 7
247 Cliff Josephy 58,475 63 8
248 Lance Allred 58,450 51 2
249 Joseph Beevers 57,900 46 1
250 Brett Richey 57,900 41 4
251 Ronnie Hofman 57,425 59 2
252 Jesse Martin 57,375 54 7
253 Eric Mizrachi 57,300 18 5
254 Dewey Tomko 57,200 41 8
255 Tom Koral 57,050 6 10
256 Tom Barkas 56,750 57 3
257 Eric Beller 56,675 19 2
258 Paul Beresford 56,600 48 9
259 James Shaw 56,300 63 4
260 Abel Meijberg 56,250 43 5
261 Andrew Micali 56,250 40 2
262 Joseph Grebanier 56,025 21 3
263 John Nathan 55,575 27 7
264 Adeeb Harb 54,925 3 7
265 Jason Lester 54,550 52 3
266 Erick Lindgren 54,375 44 1
267 Berry Johnston 53,900 46 2
268 Tom Lee 53,850 63 9
269 William Chen 53,800 9 8
270 Lonnie Heimowitz 53,800 57 4
271 Scott Clements 53,775 57 7
272 Michael Xu 53,600 40 7
273 Quinn Do 53,525 45 3
274 Zvi Shiff 53,475 11 2
275 J C Tran 53,475 8 10
276 Humberto Brenes 53,425 47 4
277 Don Zewin 53,100 24 7
278 Joseph Graziano 52,500 61 1
279 Lawrence Tovar 52,400 53 3
280 Tor Gammelgard 52,325 20 8
281 John Esposito 52,200 63 10
282 Bradley Helm 52,175 28 6
283 Tom West 52,025 30 2
284 Jim Mcmanus 51,925 37 10
285 Alan Cutler 51,875 57 6
286 Moto Yuki Mabuchi 51,850 63 2
287 Michael Greco 51,750 57 1
288 Rhynie Campbell 51,675 53 4
289 Jonathan Little 51,675 55 6
290 Ben Roberts 51,600 55 9
291 Jordan Siegal 51,075 11 7
292 Edward Gross 50,950 47 6
293 Martin Wendt 50,925 22 7
294 Robert Goldfarb 50,800 20 2
295 Mark Seif 50,625 30 1
296 William Klein 50,350 17 5
297 Joe Hachem 50,275 58 4
298 Peter Neff 50,075 6 3
299 Aaron Scott 50,075 48 5
300 Chris McCormack 50,000 18 1
301 Eli Eslami 49,725 62 7
302 Greg Baird 49,425 38 6
303 Jeffrey Blenkarn 49,400 12 2
304 David Peat 48,000 24 3
305 Ram Vaswani 47,850 3 8
306 Stuart Fox 47,800 43 2
307 Thomas Gosnell 47,750 16 6
308 Joe Tehan 47,575 59 4
309 Nick Cassavetes 47,525 47 8
310 Atsushi Osawa 47,225 53 5
311 Maureen Feduniak 47,200 27 1
312 David Lambard 47,175 11 4
313 Steve Dunning 46,625 43 1
314 Noah Boeken 46,450 17 1
315 Todd Keikoan 46,150 19 1
316 Jinhing Chin 46,000 19 5
317 Vincent Procopio 45,925 50 5
318 Rene Angelil 45,650 45 10
319 Ron Faltinsky 45,650 3 10
320 Russell Rosenblum 45,550 61 9
321 Jonathan Westra 45,525 22 4
322 Thor Hansen 45,500 51 10
323 Arnold Compolongo 45,350 52 4
324 Victor Campana 45,250 62 1
325 Jim Bechtel 45,100 55 7
326 Tom Mc Evoy 44,975 46 6
327 David Plastik 44,950 56 4
328 Huck Seed 44,950 38 3
329 Matthew Wolf 44,950 52 2
330 Gary Haubelt 44,850 25 5
331 Bob Stupak 44,425 45 9
332 Stuart Paterson 44,275 12 4
333 Kevin O'Connell 44,000 54 3
334 Alex Bolotin 43,975 47 2
335 Steve Zolotow 43,975 20 1
336 Lenny Martin 43,600 62 4
337 Gustav Hansen 43,575 60 4
338 Sirous Baghchehsaraie 43,550 59 7
339 Jason Hardage 43,475 43 8
340 Chris Santora 43,325 48 4
341 David Daneshgar 43,275 3 1
342 Steve Lott 42,800 52 5
343 Edward Hansen 42,750 20 4
344 Liz Lieu 42,725 2 4
345 Abraham Mosseri 42,675 57 8
346 Binh Quoc Nguyen 42,650 41 1
347 Agis Leontakianakos 42,600 12 3
348 Timothy Anders 42,550 22 5
349 Peter Haslam 42,225 2 9
350 Danny Hall 41,800 53 10
351 Timothy McCarthy 41,675 56 5
352 Ian Johns 41,550 16 1
353 Chris Martin 41,500 38 2
354 Nathan Doudney 41,475 7 1
355 Ted Lawson 41,000 6 9
356 Matt Leftowitz 41,000 16 3
357 Tom Pniak 40,475 21 2
358 Bryan Devonshire 40,400 48 10
359 Robert Barnes 40,275 54 5
360 Kirby Rogers 40,100 64 7
361 Jeff Littlefield 39,875 2 10
362 Bob Feduniak 39,825 60 3
363 David Dicken 39,775 64 8
364 Steve Simmons 39,550 44 7
365 Jeff Shulman 39,300 20 10
366 Jason Strochak 39,150 52 1
367 Barry Greenstein 39,100 63 7
368 Daniel Smith 39,100 16 4
369 Robeert Wazelle 38,825 40 4
370 Louis Werman 38,750 16 10
371 Mike Landers 38,700 24 8
372 Derek Harrington 38,275 47 10
373 Veronica Dunn 37,525 54 4
374 Harold Kirkpatrick 37,000 19 7
375 Tim Hazlitt 36,975 6 1
376 Simon Moussa 36,250 44 10
377 Steven Zoine 36,250 22 2
378 Kristy Gazes 36,175 8 1
379 Jeppe Mikkelsen 36,150 47 7
380 David Williams 36,025 47 1
381 Steve Rash 35,775 16 8
382 Cory Carroll 35,575 17 2
383 Chris Mc Adams 35,250 30 3
384 Mads Andersen 35,150 64 1
385 Tommy Vu 35,025 40 1
386 Gina Fiore 35,000 18 9
387 Amnon Filippi 34,975 41 5
388 David Sklansky 34,975 44 9
389 Jimmy Ngoc Tran 34,575 61 8
390 Allen Kessler 34,550 3 2
391 Mickey Appleman 34,425 8 6
392 Tommy Hang 34,125 20 9
393 Jorge Arias 33,675 8 7
394 Ricky Cummings 33,625 24 2
395 Emeline Boich 33,450 61 10
396 Kenny Tran 33,275 45 1
397 Di Dang 32,825 55 4
398 Steve Brecher 32,600 44 6
399 Steve Crockett 31,850 42 2
400 Peter Rho 31,550 49 7
401 Guy Laliberte 31,375 17 7
402 Wayne Boich 31,350 27 10
403 Harry Demitriou 30,975 60 5
404 Eugene Katchalov 30,650 49 5
405 Rocco Bucci 30,525 63 5
406 Louis Asmo 30,100 62 10
407 Lee Watkinson 30,050 25 10
408 Chau Giang 29,975 39 2
409 Rodney Hurlbut 29,925 47 3
410 Justin Bonomo 29,575 16 9
411 Benjamin Johnson 29,175 25 6
412 Brian Potashnik 28,500 50 6
413 Wei Kai Chang 28,175 43 9
414 Ryan Daut 27,725 51 3
415 Alan Fixel 27,400 24 1
416 Burt Boutin 27,350 53 9
417 Mike Wattel 26,925 59 3
418 Valentino Valentino 26,675 22 9
419 Joe Aval 26,600 40 6
420 Toto Leonidas 26,600 25 4
421 Young Phan 26,575 58 1
422 Omar Saeed 26,175 49 9
423 Danny Rakovsky 26,150 63 1
424 Manousos Vourkoutiotis 26,100 59 10
425 Cory Zeidman 26,100 50 4
426 Kevin O'Donnell 26,050 58 9
427 James Pieczynski 25,500 56 3
428 Nestor Ygborn 25,325 49 4
429 David Levi 25,225 55 3
430 Haralabos Voulgaris 25,225 52 9
431 Jack Schanbacher 24,775 61 6
432 Begir Salihu 23,750 44 5
433 Cary Katz 23,725 42 3
434 John Sherrill 23,325 30 6
435 Tai Nguyen 22,475 50 3
436 Andrew Black 22,325 62 6
437 Scott Lundberg 22,000 60 1
438 James Holmes 21,725 30 8
439 Gary Margadonna 21,675 39 5
440 Stan Fulton 21,650 49 2
441 Stan Weiss 21,275 25 2
442 Doa Kim Bac 20,675 22 6
443 Douglas Mackinnon 20,475 62 5
444 Todd Brunson 20,425 57 10
445 Paul Kraus 20,300 8 9
446 Kevin Saul 19,725 61 4
447 Erik Friberg 19,550 2 2
448 Robert Williamson III 19,400 57 5
449 J J Liu 19,150 59 9
450 Terricita Evanowski 18,750 9 9
451 Vadin Trincher 18,475 25 8
452 Chris Moore 18,375 55 2
453 Melissa Hayden 18,000 59 8
454 John D'agostino 17,600 64 5
455 Mike Sica 17,325 17 3
456 William Thorson 17,100 3 5
457 Eli Elezra 17,000 43 4
458 Philippe Rouas 16,900 17 8
459 Mimi Tran 16,900 24 4
460 Amir Shayesteh 16,250 45 6
461 Daniel Heimiller 15,250 58 2
462 Eric Weiner 15,075 3 6
463 Michael Binger 15,000 54 2
464 Rodeen Talebi 15,000 2 7
465 Bruno Fitoussi 14,725 51 8
466 Rehne Pedersen 14,675 48 2
467 Joseph Rafferty 14,300 28 7
468 John Shaak 13,700 12 6
469 Sam Grizzle 13,650 50 9
470 James Van Alstyne 13,200 61 3
471 John Duthie 11,475 39 1
472 Pierre Garand 10,925 22 1
473 Ralph Perry 9,775 28 3
474 Annand Ramdin 9,175 28 5
475 Edvin Davoudi 9,000 27 2
476 Ghislain Couture 8,750 45 7
477 Ron Brown 8,475 18 10
478 Scott Fischman 8,075 43 3
479 Kristian Kjondal 7,575 20 5

I like the bubble sentiment...I have had enough of them damn terrorists always knocking me out on the bubble.

Does anyone know the chip colors and values?

my 3 to watch are anna (dont forget to ask her about bB4) harry d and john shipley

My 3 to follow are Hellmuth, Mike the Mouth and Mortensen.

I myself loyally believe that DTD players Michael Greco and Kevin O'Connell still have some moves in them to make a dent in the tournament.

soxy's 4 to follow...

Stuart Fox...

Pete 'the late starter' Haslam

Praz Bansi

Mark Goodwin

Good Luck Guys..!!!

 Please have an eye on, Lodden, Thor Hansen and Jan Sjåvik.

I'm interested to see how Jaime Gold fares. Most people claimed he was a luckbox to win the Main Event but personally having watched it I think he actually played a good deep stack game. He's managed to more than double his 50k starting stack in this and he is 2nd chip leader at his table tonight. The 2 previous World Champs in Hachem and Raymer have many times since winning the Main Event proved very adept at playing deep stack tournies and I've just got a sneaky feeling that Jaime could go a long way in this tourney. That doesnt mean I like his table manner, far from it, I'm just interested to see if my inkling is right and that he actually is a good deep stack tournament player.

My senses tell me you are wrong, we can but see.

I hope your wrong... the guy's a tool..!!

I hope your wrong... the guy's a tool..!!

lol  You are so sure of his toolness, you said it twice!!

We have blue - 10,000
brown - 1,000
red/orange - 500
black - 100
green - 25

That's it, I think.  I am sure there will be higher denomination chips at some point, or we will have total mountain syndrome last seen at the WSOP...

opps yeh..i also said it for everyone that was thinking it...and me thinks there might be a couple of those :)

Keep an eye on Duthie. but if he asks you to get him a coffee, DON'T. he played that trick on me at WSOP last year. He BEGGED me to go to starbucks (which was at least 15 miles away) and by the time i got back he was OUT.

With 479 players starting day two at the same time, we've got the Tournament Area Split again - probably just over half here in the Fontana Bar, and the other half must surely have now taken over every inch of the 'regular' cash game room.  If you haven't already done so, please let us know if there are any people you want especially followed, so we can divide the sprawl of tables into coverable chunks.  I hope.

Seeing as there's still a quarter of an hour til kickoff, here's a picture of Snoopy eating breakfast:

Well, we're here, some of the media members (including Jen) have been struggling with the wireless, so fingers crossed that we're rocking and rolling soon. It's sure going to be a tough one, 479 starters today spread across two rooms (the second room is across the other side of the casino and quite a trek), so it's going to be hectic, but we'll do our very best to keep you up to date on the goings on of Day 2 of this $25,000 WPT Championship Final.

The Bellagio itself is a splendid casino and it's not surprising that it attracts all the top players, whether the comp's being staged here or not. The grandeur is really a sight to behold and if you are ever fortunate enough to pay Vegas and the Bellagio a visit, be sure to wander into the garden where you'll see the following sights...

Michael Greco's response to learning that he was sandwiched in between Johnny Chan and Todd Brunson?

"Piece of piss."  :D

It shouldn't take you to long to work out which effort is Jen's...

According to Beppe, Todd asked him to sign a copy.  :dontask:

looking forward to this one..have fun yourself guys...and Jen, that's some impressive eatin'

The players are filtering in now, and they're immediately racing off the greens, as the blinds must be going up to 400/800 ante 100...?  That's my guess.  The screens are currently displaying just the number of runners and the seconds until kick-off.

What we do have (although I'll say it's provisional as there's an asterisk on the top prize) is the Prize Structure:

1st   $3,970,415*
2nd  $2,011,135
3rd   $1,082,920
4th    $696,220
5th    $464,110
6th    $309,405
7th    $278,465
8th    $247,525
9th    $216,585
10th   $185,645
11th-15th   $154,705
16th-20th   $123,760
21st-30th    $92,820
31st-40th    $77,350
41st-50th    $61,880
51st-100th  $46,410

Here is your start of the day chip leader, Anna Wroblewski with 211,325.

black = 100
orange = 500
brown = 1,000
blue = 10,000

Thats Ironside sorted for norkage.............now what about the rest of us mere immortals please

You'd think they'd round it up to 4.  ;carlocitrone;

Play about to start here, so brace yourselves.

I posted the Michael Greco one for you earlier m8.  ;)

Yeah and now the missus has gone to dig out some old eastenders tapes........at least I can play online in peace now & possibly sneak some norkage in if Snoops obliges..........where is Dana when we need her lol

Unlike most Day 2's, bedlam has yet to be witnessed, but we have lost David Williams.

Loving your work guys.  Is this the subject matter for today's caption competition?

ah..Jen and a Footlong..the stuff dreams are made off. ;)

Also out is Chris Moore, his shortstacked all-in move with 6s 6h running into the American Airlines of big blind Di Dang.

Th Jh 9c 2s 4h, was of no help, Chris seemingly giving up by the Flop.

Loads of updates on Pete Haslam and Stu Fox please !!

Wish em luck from me

Regular Bansi updates please...

Okay, okay, I concede, will Vanessa Rousso do?

She just folded to a 31k all-in re-raise (Rousso had bet 20k) from Amir Nasseri (remember him from High Stakes Poker) with the board reading Js 5d 6d 4h.

As you'd expect, she gave it the full dwell up (this seems to be a habit of hers) before making the pass.

"Tell me you had a set, please, tell me you had a set," she pleads.

"Aah, she probably had Ace King or something," comments Benjo.

Not much action from Praz as of yet, but I have noticed that he is a lot less hyper today and back to his usual laid back self. Also, he's in the same room as me today, which is handy.

is andy black still in? started the day as a shortstack so either he has doubled up or busted by now, any updates on him are appreciated.

fantastic job you're doing once again

Robert Williamson III (not sure where the other two are) is OUT.

As reported by former table mate Michael Greco, Robert made an all-in move with 7s 4s after Alan Cutler had raised under-the-gun and Lonnie Heimowitz had smooth called from the small blind.

Surprisingly, it was Heimowitz who took out the pro with A-K.

Yes, Andy Black is still in, we still within the first 30 minutes of today's play.

The breaking news, however, is that Andy has finally change his Eminem shirt that he wore both earlier this week, in Dublin AND in Monte Carlo. Mucky pup.

 :o are you sure its Andy and not an imposter?

Looked like a nutritious breakfast guys! Could you please make some pictures of Steve Wong and Abel? Please tell them that everyone at PI is rooting for them! Have fun today guys :D

Several empty seats appear to be signaling that Nestor Ygborn, Ryan Daut, Bruno Fitoussi, John Esposito and Harry Demetriou have all be forced to take early baths.

Some lineups in the Second Chamber:

David Danesghar
Allen Kessler
Jeremy Joseph
Devilfish
William Thorson 
Eric Weiner
Adeeb Harb
Ram Vaswani
Bruce Yamron
Ron Faltinsky


Neighbours Thorson and Ulliott pictured as Devilfish's big blind preflop raise of 5k got rid of utg Thorson, mid position Ram and the small blind.  Not without plenty of thinking, however.  You can practically hear the cogs whirring through the picture...

Todd Brunson is OUT.

His button raise with Queens was smooth called by the small blind who had Aces. A check-raise and call later and Comic Book Guy was sent back to the store.

The assassin?

Here's a clue...

Duff duff duff duff duff.

Another table looks like this:

Tim Hazlitt (black hat cowboy, picture one)
Eric Koskas
Peter Neff
Sean McCabe
Fred David
Daniel Alaei
Doyle Brunson (white hat cowboy, picture one)
Juha Helppi (looking about as impressed by sitting next to Brunson Sr. as he looks at most things, pic. 2)
Ted Lawson
Tom Koral

Scouring the room, it looks like Stuart Fox's table is today's Table of Certain Deaaaaaaath' with two dogged neighbours in Scott Fischman and Eli Elezra.

And if you think that's enough, then the next three seats are this motley crew: Abel Meijberg, Josh Arieh and Mike Graz.

Piece of cake!

Dan Harrington is down to 27k after folding to a bluff (Qd Jd) from Todd Rebello on a board of 8d Tc 4d 5s 9h

Here's veteran Scandie Thor Hansen, looking rather meek in these early stages, and not surprising either as he's only got 11,500 with the blinds at 400 and 800.

Could you please report on how the two norwegians Johnny Lodden(table 47) and Kristian Kjondal(table 20) is doing?

Great job again!

/Betsson-Jannicke

Martin Wendt eliminates Doa Kim Bac and takes a little chunk from Steve Zoine after some fairly heavy preflop action...wish I could say who raised and who re-raised, but that would be pure guesswork as it was only when I saw Martin chuck in three blue 10k chips on the flop that I started paying attention...

With the blinds 400/800 there was around 50k in the pot as three players looked at the 6h 5h 2s flop.  Steve Zoine and Doa Kim Bac were both shorter stacks than Wendt, who proceeded to bet out 30k from the small blind, which put the call-all-in decision on his opponents.  A heavy consider from the former short stack, before a pass, while Bac looked so short he now had little choice but to call and fllip Ks Qs.
Martin Wendt showed Jh Jc
The turn and river:  5c 8s  and he wins a tidy pot while Zoine breathes a sigh of relief that his laydown was, apparently, correct.

Here's the LittleMissC stalked Gus Hansen seated next to the since departed Harry Dermetriou.

The Great Dane has 88,500 in chips.

Johnny Lodden just took a small pot to increase his stack to 88,500.

Hello!  Thought you guys might be here - there's still space in the press three square feet if you sit under the table...

Anyway, here's a pic of Kjondal next to Flaminio Malaguti and then Barney Boatman.  As you can see he's still pretty short after starting the day at the very bottom of the chip rankings.  About to go back to rescout Room #2 - I would guess you should be expecting an empty chair or a doubled-up stack...

Jan Sjavik takes a pot off Lars Bonding, raising his bet out of 4,600 on a Ad 9h 7d flop to 11,500.  Pictured here inscrutably contemplating the chips he's just about to push his opponent off with...

Pictures from Table Alterman:

JC Tran

Hoang Ho
Paul Alterman
Alan Sass

Is Joe Rafferty still in he was very shortstacked coming back today

Just a quick note - we're in horrible indecision over the internet, which is intermittent at best, but much faster, when working, than our cards.  We have one frustrated beagle, and next door a depressed Frenchman, while I am just focusing on the break in 10 minutes when I will be heading to the ice-cream/patisserie stand.  Please bear with us regarding requests, as the ability to post our recently-discovered facts is touch-and-go. 

On a happier note: I don't think I've posted the picture of the chocolate fountain yet today:

Rumor has it that Luske busted... Any info on that?

Edit: just read your post Jen... Breathe in... Breathe out :)

We are moments away from the end of the level and the start of the first 15 minute break of the day.

Down to 420 players according to the board.

No sign of Joe Rafferty I'm afraid, although it's hard to confirm with so many tables. Signs don't look good though I'm araid as I've ventured into both rooms and haven't caught sight of him once.

Marcel Luske flopped the stone cold nuts with T-9 on a J-8-7 Flop.

Unfortunately his opponents Turn a flush and sent the Dutchman packing.

Just keep on posting the picture of the chocolate fountain and all will be well with the world.  ;kev;

Huck Seed, one of several former World Champions starting Day 2.

Can anyone name the others?

There's a big sloppy kiss from Jen in it for you if you can.

Chip counts from the tables closest to where I'm sitting:

Michael Greco    77,000
Praz Bansi        130,000
Anna Wroblewski  138,000
Dan Harrington   30,200
Pete Haslam       52,000
Stuart Fox         53,500
Scott Fischman   49,000
Abel Meijberg     38,700
Mike Matusow    95,000
Mike Grazs         77,100

Although Peter Haslam was up to 73k at one point, he dropped back down to 54 after his Ac Jc on a Qc Jd 4c failed to complete a flush, the Ace Turn bringing Pete top two pair but his opponent a straight with K-T, with Pete, understandably, paying off an 8k River bet.

Sitting across the table from Pete is a familiar face in Amir Vahedi (pictured below).

 :hello: Jen and Sloppy.

Please pass on Bazza's best wishes (and latest news) to Vinni Vinh  ::)

WSOP 2006 runner-upper, Paul Wasicka, is one of your chip leaders with 262,000.

Meanwhile, Ivey is still plugging away with 87,500, although he did just lose a pot to David Lambard, his 6.5k bet on a 3h 3s Kd 6s board called by the hooded youngster, before they both checked down the 6s Turn and Tc River. Ivey folded insantly without even waiting to see his opponent's hand.

Who's Vinny Vinh?  ;)

John Duthie is OUT.

Mateyboy raised it up pre-flop to 2k with T-9, John made it 8k with A-Ks and MB called.

Ten high Flop, John pushed and failed to improve.

Plenty of action at Jamie Gold's table, the most recent hand seeing the reigning WSOP champ's 7.5k bet on a 4d 5d Jc Flop raised to 22.5k by David Baker (pictured) and then again all-in from Chris Kennedy. Both players folded, leaving Jamie with 141,500 and Baker with 234,500. Both still running well.

Daniel Negreanu is OUT.

Stuart Fox is down to circa 30k after doubling up Jason Hardage with A-Q vs. J-J, nasty K-Q-9-T-2.

Meanwhile, a shortstacked Eli Elezra has since departed from that very table.

John Cernuto -- 117,500
Tex Barch -- 58,000
David Sklansky -- 26,500
Erick Lindgren -- 10,000
Abel Meijer -- 54,000
Josh Arieh -- 58,000
Mike Gracz -- 78,500
Stuart Fox -- 27,500
Mike Matusow -- 110,500
Scott Fischman -- 46,000
Freddie Deeb -- 67,500
Sam Farha -- 285,000
Dewey Tomko -- 58,000
Patrik Antonius -- 106,000

great stuff as always guys. any news of marc goowin?

goodwin whoops

Cheers snoopy

Mark Newhouse -- 150,500
Sam Grizzle -- 47,500
Hoyt Corkins -- 221,500
Rehne Pedersen -- 20,000
Eric Freiberg -- 45,500
Tom Franklin -- 31,000
Joe Cassidy -- 41,000
Jesse Jones -- 51,500
Bryan Singer-- 222,000
Isaac Haxton -- 155,000
Jeff Shulman -- 24,500
Johnny Lodden -- 43,500
Umberto Brenes -- 39,000
Anna Wroblewski -- 144,500
Bob Stupak -- 48,500
Rene Angelil -- 87,000
David Danshegar -- 90,000
Peter Haslam -- 47,000
Tom McEvoy -- 101,000
Dan HArrington -- 20,500
Todd Rebello -- 155,500
Alan Schein -- 67,500

Allen Cunningham has doubled up to 52,500, his Aces all-in on a 4d Kd Jc Flop being called by Pocket Sixes. Fives on the Turn and River.

Any news on Steve "S18" Wong?

He has a bet going on with a guy named Dylan. When Steve makes a cool million in tournament finishes, Dylan will swim in one of Amsterdam's canals. And trust me, that ain't gonna be a pretty sight!

any updates on the Black stack? is he still hanging on?

Roland de Wolfe -- 48,000
Henry Michael Thuritz -- 169,000
Ram Vaswani -- 157,500
Surinder Sunar -- 60,000
Amir Nasseri -- 32,000
Michael Greco -- 84,000
Michael Binger -- 23,000
David Gordan -- 45,000
Johnny Chan -- 89,000
John Shipley -- 84,500
Kevin O'Connell -- 127,000
Praz Bansi -- 160,000
Deepak Bhatti -- 121,000
Ben Roberts -- 86,000
David Levi -- 76,000
Vanessa Rousso -- 66,000
Thomas Schreiber -- 108,000

390 players remaining.

Blinds currently at 500 and 1,000.

Jen has returned to inform me that last year champ Joe Bartholdi is OUT and his seat since refilled.

This him?

Steve Wong -- 212,000

Yup! Go Steve!

Yep, still hanging in with 51k.

Unusually quiet today, unlike the shirt?

Homer Simpson?

Counts from Room WPT Overflow:

Tim Hazlitt    76,500
Eric Koskas    21,000
Peter Neff     40,300
Sean McCabe   179,000
Fred David     49,000
Daniel Alaei  189,000
Doyle Brunson  30,000
Juha Helppi    91,500
Tom Koral      35,000
Shannon Shorr  100,600
Antonio Salorio  30,000
Paul Testud    110,000
Sorel Mizzi    157,000
Tad Jurgens    113,000
David Wells     58,400
Kristy Gazes    31,300
Joe Sebok       51,500
Hoang Ho        43,000
Paul Alterman   86,500
Alan Sass      143,000
Mickey Appleman  30,000
Jorge Arias     30,600
Raul Oliveira   61,500
Allen Kessler   40,600
JC Tran        112,000
Chuck Pacheco   78,000
Gregory Alston  53,800
Bill Gazes      61,000
Daniel Quach    44,200
Jan Sjavik      84,500
Richard Harroch  62,000
John Pires     145,300
Liz Lieu        87,000
Terricita Evanowski  30,500
Lars Bonding   110,000
Barney Boatman  81,000
William Thorson  28,000
Marc Goodwin    140,000
Johan Storakers  65,300
Martin Wendt     13,600
Kathy Liebert    32,100
Carlos Mortensen  136,000
Tim Phan        241,000
Scotty Nguyen    44,000
Phil Ivey        67,000
Erica Schoenberg  89,000
Gavin Griffin    137,000

And sharing the same table:

Jennifer Harman   56,000
Per Ummer        100,000
Padraig Parkinson  12,400
Noah Boeken       54,000
Amir Vahedi       94,500
Ross Boatman      68,200

Is there a forfeit for Steve if he doesn't win the bet?

Among the counts just listed:  here he is in full  boy-band outfit... compare his striking logo to our media rules:  No logos at all, even small ones, even ones like 'M&S'.  They get covered up with tape immediately, while the players are free to cover themselves with whatever branding they wish.  Strange rules - I can't see why anyone would take a picture of the media guys and gals, but the US is different that way.

Breaking News

Johnny Chan is wearing no socks. Loafers and no socks, it's as if he went to Harrow with Flushy.

Not sure... Probably ;)

Barry Greenstein is OUT.

A-7 v Eights

No help.

No dinner at the orphanage now because of Barry, how does he sleep at night?

And this diminutive yet slightly scary lady is Liz Lieu.  She has nearly 100k now, blue streaks in her hair, and the ability to balance on shoes which make my ankles hurt just to look at. 

Josh Arieh is also OUT.

Top pair versus flush draw, flush hit.

better than his usual brummie pimp outfit. :}

Erick Lindgren -- 15,500

Last hand before the break, Allen Cunningham moves all-in (4.5k with an extra 24.4k) on a 9s5c-2s-3h board. Opponent folds and Cunningham survives.

These guys:  Jim Hanna (left) and Rodeen Talebi.  I couldn't resist getting a close-up of Talebi admiring his own, admittedly excellent example of a hoxton fin.

Break Over:

New level - 600/1,200 blinds, ante 200.
362 players remaining.

"It's turning into a crapshoot," deadpans Benjo.

Peter Haslam has doubled up to over 100k, calling a pre-flop raise with 9d 6d, hitting a nice Td 7d 2c Flop, and pushing all-in after a pre-flop caller raised and the initial raiser re-raised.

The first guy folded, whilst the second chap called with Aces.

Diamond on the River gives Bullit Pete a great chance of progressing to Day 3.

"Yeah, I got lucky and hit my card, but when I pushed it was easily enough to get them to fold."

JP here updates on Bullit and Foxy pls.

WSOP finalist Michael Binger (20k) and Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell (111k).

"I've just taken a 100k pot off Johnny Chan," reports Michael Greco. "I raised it up with Kings, Chan called. 4-J-5 Flop, I checked, he bet, I called. Five Turn, both check. 4 River, I bet 20k, he calls and mucks."

Well played in my humble opinion.

Praz Bansi made a big lay down, raising it up to A-K, the bracelet winner received two callers before they all checked down a Kc 7c 3s Flop.

After one caller had checked the rag Turn, Praz Bansi 8k bet was called behind him only for the checker to make it 20k. Praz called before folding to the 50k bet on the 5 blank River.

"I thought my call on the Turn looked strong and he'd have to check the River unless he had a set, which is why I folded. Plus 50k is a big chunk of my stack too, but I reckon I was behind."

Great updates so far. Is Don O Dea still in?

Quick UK Mini-Update:

Kevin O'Connell   127k
Surinder Sunar     47.5k
Ram Vaswani      149k
Roland de Wolfe  44k
Stuart Fox          27k

Roland says, "Can I ask you a question?"  I expect, "Have you got a Nokia limited edition phone charger?" or, "How is Thomas Wahlroos doing?" or something, but no, it's "Which player who started today's name would score the most in Scrabble?"   I think his attention span might be being tested today...

Sharing a table...

Rob Hollink -- 199,000
Ram Vaswani -- 151,000
Suriner Sunar -- 49,500

I canrt believe people misplay this hand so much, where is Brian when we need him??

While talking to Praz, a hand developed on his table.  Henry Rondon, who, according to Praz, hadn't played a hand all day up until this point, decided that now was the time, all in with A-9 vs the A-7 of Bill Ferrand...
The board 5-6-8.....Q-9 and a clearly disappointed 354th place finisher exited the room muttering, "Suckout" under his breath, while the biologist-amateur couldn't help one of those "Yess"s as the river straightened his raggy Ace.

The Eggman's far from cooked with 127,00

I reckon Anna Wroblewski is doing well on the scrabble front, but Jacob Fernandez probably takes it.

sorry i am too drunk to read all the posts, but how is anna doing today compared to the 1st day? cheers

Rams double up to 150k was courtesy of a Kings v Queens confrontation. We believe it was all-in pre-flop, but either way, the Flop brought both players sets.

Lars Bonding raises to 4,100 pre-flop, Mateyboy calls in the cut-off and Jan Sjavik makes it 20k from the big blind. Both players pass. Sjavik up to 123,500.

Well done for being too drunk to read, at least you admit it -

Anna (pictured here next to Daniel Alaei, I think) has about 145k.  She got off to such a flying start yesterday that the average chips have taken more than a day to even look like they're catching up to her.  She's still in good shape although looks to be down about 50k on the start of the day.  The climbers of today include Ram Vaswani, who's tripled his stack since this morning.

Hi Snoopy and Jen,

Any news on Barny, Ross or Ram please?

Just to let you know I'm out. I got it on on a 929 flop against a pre flop raiser and the sb who had called. I had 89 and the SB woke up with 22. My 10/3 shot never got there and now I'm doing what all sick people do in Vegas (playing online in my hotel room :-) )

Cheers,

Joe

Mickey Appleman, who could pass for a 70's Swedish Tennis player, has 61,000.

Barny has just over 80,000, Joe, whilst Ram has around 150k after doubling up with Kings v Queens earlier on. Will have to double check on Ross, but he's definitely still in.

Bill Gazes -- 22,500

former champs....jamie gold, johnny chan, phil hellmuth, doyle brunson, berry johnston, joe hachem, tom mcevoy...although i couldnt find harringont even if someone mentioned him....what do i win again ( assuming thats right )? :)
oh and tell roland...Hertzel Zalewski i think must be the guy who scores the most in scrabble!...i have wayyyyy to much time on my hands today....

Phil Ivey has just under 100,000 after re-raising Paul Wasicka's 1.2k under the gun pre-flop raise to 4k and forcing him off the Qh 8c 5d Flop with a 7k bet.

After the hand, Ivey got up, high fived the crowd, whooped and hollered and jumped in Wasicka's face saying "How'd you like that, baby?! I had rags, n your face!!"

Okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration and he did in fact sit there motionless with a slight gormless look on his face, mouth slightly ajar.

Andy Black doubles up to 70k in a very odd hand: 

Starting the day comparatively short with 22k, Mr. Black had about 34k when this happened:  Jani Sointula limps under the gun, Andy limps, four more players limp for the 1,200 and small blind Phil Hellmuth makes it up.  Eric Hershler in the big blind then throws in 20,000.  Fair enough.  Jani's not interested, but the Black stack is over the line faster than you can say, "All in."  It passes round, and with only another 12k to go he gets a think for far far longer than anyone would have thought necessary seeing as the big blind's hand was Ac Ks...
Andy Black shows Th Ts
Flop:  3c Qc 7c
Turn:  3s  ("Red!" urges Andy even though some red cards are Aces/Kings - but the multitude of limpers suggest a couple might have gone)
River:  5s

Andy semi-rubs-down his slow caller: "You were thinking just to get me excited.  I'm thinking I made a great play and then all of a sudden I haven't...")  But it worked out fine for the short stack Irish chip-twiddler with the repetitious shirt collection.  He's now definitely a nuisance to the bigger stacks on his, admittedly tricky, table.

Kathy Liebert -- 63,000

Padraig Parkinson is down to the felt after running bottom 2 pair in a higher two pair.

Currently sharing a table with Jennifer Harman who had 46,000.

You get a night with tikay for 1 million bucks, like in Indecent proposal, except without Demi Moore there.

Anna Wroblewski has shot over the 150k mark by taking a sizable pot off Seat 1 with Th 8h vs. Ks Js and a board reading Ts 8d 4s 6d 7h.

maybe he is ashamed and didnt want to draw attention to himself.........

Funny man, Snoopy, you're a funny man...

Ivey's been moved about six feet away from us, which gives us a great view of said expressionless staring.  "He's got very neat hair," says Snoops, "Like someone's used a ruler."
'

great updates jen and snoppy, kutgw

Padraig Parinson has now bitten the dust, as has Rene Angelil who was seated in the table right in front of us. Joining that table in Seat 4 is Mr Phil Ivey.

Is Praz still on the table in front of you? If so what's the latest and does he have any interesting table mates?

What did you eat in the buffet Snoops?

who is paying the million bucks for who? and is robert redford still involved? this isnt quite the same result as the origonal post would have led me to believe!

Here's Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, dressing like my little brother's friends (OK they don't have gold knuckledusters, but still) and talking in that peculiar drawl which is audible above the general murmur and which could take on a Texan one in a fight.  He has 92,000.

A few more counts: 

Phil Hellmuth   164,000
Jani Sointula     49,000
Gavin Simms    108,000
Martin de Knijff  83,000
Patrik Antonius  256,000

I had one plate of sushi and various other fish.

Then seconds was vegetables, noodles and rice.

Then I finished on a salad and a slice of carrot cake.

Praz is on 145k and has been pretty quiet of late. Gold hasn't though, recently doubling up Timothy McCarthy by moving in over the top on the Turn with a flush and straight draw. McCarthy called with Pocket Cowboys which held up come the harmless River.

Has he said, "You're swimming with the Fish now bebe..." yet?

what a waste man, only three courses!!!!

 ;popcorn;

Scratch that then, you get a free cinema ticket for a new film called Sunshine.

A couple of times today, I think, but that's because he's off the table of unrelenting talker Vinny Vinh who totally beat him in the Talking side event yesterday (running simultaneously.  Other front runners: Hellmuth, Matusow).

Here he is!  Happy Praz...

Separated at birth, Snoops and Guy Pearce of Memento fame?

Observing Phil Ivey from the rails, it's clear that he doesn't do anything out of position and is relentless in every pot he enters. If he re-raises you pre-flop which he often does in these deep stack events, he'll undoubedtly bet that Flop. I caught an example of this just moments ago, Phil re-raising an opponent from the cut-off from 4k to 15k before betting 15k on the 6h 5s Ts Flop. Mateyboy folded and Phil added a few more chips to his stack. Ivey is currently on aorund 150k and starting to look very dangerous indeed.

Boy that was a heavy night of boozing, that tattoo still hasn't come off.

The players are currently enjoying a brisk 15 minute break.

It takes Phil Ivey 20 minutes to get to the loo though with all the autographs he has to sign.

awesome!!! i cant wait to see it....hey wait a second....

Gus Hansen is OUT.

Eliminated by John Myung, who won the Poker at the Sands a few years back.

Threes v A-Q off suit, no help for Hansen.

Info on Lodden and Sjåvik please. Are Thor hansen and kristian kjøndal still in it?

Board = Ks Qc Qs Kc Td

Ram bets 20k on the River into a 30k pot, opponent calls, Ram shows K-5o.

Ram now up to circa 200k.

Kristian Kjondal exited very early on in the day. Will have to double check on the others. Lodden and Hansen seem to have disappeared, so I think Sjavik is the only one left in of that batch.

How is it going with Johnny Lodden and Kristian Kjøndal? Is there any pictures out there? Thanks in advance

Edit: sorry, when i posted i got a message "there's been new posts, do you still want to post" or something and i was thinking no waay somebody asked the very same question the same minute.. :)

John Shipley -- 73,000
Michael Binger -- 21,500
Henry Michael Thuritz -- 221,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 85,000
Ram Vaswani -- 198,000
Rob Hollink -- 154,500
Surinder Sunar -- 65,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 52,500
Kevin O'Connell -- 180,000
Bruce Yamron -- 142,500
Gavin Simms -- 53,000
Joe Hachem -- 65,500
Steve Wong -- 143,000
Jeff Cabanillas -- 53,000
Devilfish -- 88,500
Paul Testud -- 130,500
Jani Vilmunen -- 136,000
Cliff Josephy -- 23,500
John Myung -- 53,500
Isabelle Mercier -- 88,000
Gus Hansen -- 57,000 to out
Dan Alspach -- 76,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 242,500
Jani Sointula -- 22,000
Andy Black -- 84,500

Tip off from Mr. Wahlroos, Tim Phan and Kevin O'Connell going to war...

Preflop Kevin raised to 7k, Tim made it 17k, Kevin repopped it to 34k at which point he was just called.  Big pot already, when I got there and saw Kevin going all in on the 2d 8d 7d flop.  Think, and eventual call for what must have been 100k+.
Kevin O'Connell's hand:  Ad Ac
in almost ideal shape against Tim Phan's Qc Qd. 
Turn and river the completely-irrelevant-since-not-a-Queen Tc 7s and a big double up for the Dusk Till Dawn player, while Tim's back on 50k, what seemed like a lot of chips two days ago, but probably looks disappointing to him now (see photos).

And if not your current chip leader, then one of them at least, Mr. Sam Farha, on 345k.  Has he been in Peter Gould's closet?

Chip counts for BullitPete and Foxy pls.

Allen Cunningham is OUT. A-T vs. A-6 on a K-K-Q-4-T board, Jared Hamby with the A-T.

"I guess he thought he was splitting," said Hamby afterwards.

If you want to turn the warnings off, go to Profile, then 'Look and Layout preferences' and tick "Don't show warning to new replies made while posting" or something like that... but you're the first person to admit they thought someone else had asked the same question and we were censoring you for repetition :)

Sorry, as Snoopy said, think your guys no longer in...but still 285 players so one might possibly have become lost in the crowd. 

Jamie Gold has doubled up off Praz Bansi, Praz calling a pre-flop raise with A-Q, betting the Flop and Turn on the Queen high board before calling an all-in on the Ten River.

Jamie showed Tens for the Rivered set, Praz was gutted.

"I had to call the all-in on the River, there were too many draws out there."

just got home, how is Mr Cool doing today????

Dan Harrington -- 30,000
David Danshegar -- 199,000
Praz Bansi -- 149,500
Michael Greco -- 84,000
Peter Gould -- 109,000
Johnny Chan -- 109,500
Daniel Alaei -- 293,000
Phil Ivey -- 143,500
Peter Haslam -- 63,000
Tom McEvoy -- 70,000
Jared Hamby -- 66,500
Allen Cunningham -- out
Vanessa Rousso -- 119,000
David Levi -- 166,500
David Baker -- 261,000
Ben Roberts -- 25,000
Christian Grundvig -- 13,500
Jamie Gold -- 106,000
Huck Seed -- 58,000
Deepak Bhatti -- 114,000
Umberto Brenes -- 44,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 97,000
Hoyt Corkins -- 164,500
Eric Friberg -- 130,000
Bruce Corman -- 28,000
Rehne Pedersen -- 99,000

Dave 'Devilfish' Uliott is OUT.

Pocket Tens v Pocket Jacks means that he is no longer "rocking and rolling....... bebe."

Also notable in his absence is the legendary Doyle Brunson, who joins his son Todd on the rails after failing to make any real impact in this year's event.

Latest on Jan Sjåvik please.

Great update's as usual guys.


Get in there Kevin & stay off the sauce!.

This is Jared Hamby, has been causing a stir recently by winning to big Bellagio tournaments, hence those two bracelet on his wrist.

He got it wrong on the last hand though, and has dropped down to 60k as a result.

Didn't quite catch the board, by I saw Hamby stick in a bet on the River only to muck instantly when he was called.

His opponent initially tired to fold without showing the winning hand, but he was made to reveal his A-Q for a mere Ace High.

Then ensued the oh so familiar "I've just been called with Ace High" dialogue exchange.

"Nice hand."

"Thanks"

"I knew you had nothing"

"Yep, but my nothing was bigger than your nothing."

"I had a strong hand on the Turn."

Chip count for Praz when you get a chance please

Is Jamie giving it all the speech play he did in the wsop? Unlucky on Praz, that Gold has always been a lucky so and so. What's praz down to?

 ;grr; ;grr;  I see Gold still hasnt used up the luck he got in exchange for his soul last year then!!

I think Jen is in the other room now and will be returning shortly.

Praz is on 149,500.

A constantly shortstacked Erick Lindgren is now officially a gonna.

Praz Bansi has jumped to over 200k Aces.

He'd limped in early position and seen a raggy flop with Gold and Huck Seed.

Praz bet the Flop and Turn before calling a 30k bet on the River from Gold (Seed escaped on the Flop).

"You're good (hand wise)," announced Gold as Praz revealed his bullets.

Bad news - as soon as I get there, they break another of the last remaining tables in the Other Room, leaving just two of them floating amongst the cash games, and neither of them has him on it.

Good news - Jan Sjåvik has been moved right by the entrance to the Main Area - found him on the way back in.  85,000 his count.

A big round of applause to Jen for copy and pasting the funny Norwegian 'a' in Sjavik. That's commitment.

goodwin, goodin, goodwin, anybody???

Avvv Ittttt!

Jared Hamby = TheWacoKidd online.

great updates as usual

great updates guys. need my bed now so catch up tomorrow

there speaks a sensible irishman,
a great read,
i'll catch you tomorrow guys...

Very well, in fact.  After a disappointing drop to what sounded like 'Ninety thousand' after losing a QQ vs. AK race early on as well as another hand, he's done nothing but climb to a comfortable (to say the least) 250k or so.  "I don't know exactly how much..." anyway, his garish blue shirt is a lovechild of the Mansion logo and the Tottenham Hotspur away shirt.  Apparently he's been hanging out with the owner of Spurs and is quite proud of this creation.  Well, he stands out from the rest of the cash room crowd, I'll tell you that...

Whilst Ross Boatman is truggling with just 33,500, fellow Hendon Mobber Ram Vaswani is riding high with 310,000.

has anyone not given ram or marc the chips in the pot chips because they had been bluffed? .....oooh how edgy!

Sam Grizzle -- 75,000

"Get them while they're hot," he says to me.

No idea what he's on about, he's a little cuckoo.

I am obsessive about spelling in English, try to keep up with the funny vowels elsewhere.  P.S. Does someone know the key combination for that?  And the 0 with a line through it?  That would make the whole thing easier...

This chap is David Levi, I don't know too much about it him except that he ran well in last year's WSOP H.O.R.S.E event (may even have cashed) and has a sizable 294,000 in this one.

Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell is one of the WPT Final's chip leaders with 371,000 after finding Aces and being paid off in full by Queens.

Scotty Nguyen is OUT - a short stack, he got to the flop:  5d 7d Qd and checked when his preflop caller checked to him.
Turn:  4c  It was checked again, Scotty pushed in for what looked like less than 15k, and received a reluctant call.
Matey: 8c 8h
Scotty:  Couldn't see, but it was one of Qc Ks, Qh Qc, Ks Kc etc. - paints, at least a pair (bigger than Eights, necessarily), no diamond.
River:  6d   Oh how cruel.  Baby.  A gracious Scotty exits the tournament area.

Picture:  One I took earlier.

thanks ,   for the remainder of the day it will be "Mr Baby Blue" updates

Sorry slip of the finger there, Ram's got 210k. Caught up with him during the break to find out how he jumped from 150 to 210, but he basically said that it was a number of pots rather than just the 1. "Made some moves," he said.

Johnny Chan is OUT.

Sevens v Q-T of clubs on a Flop of T-6-8 (one club), Mateyboy checked, Chan bet 5k and MB called. Turn brought the 4 of clubs, Mateyboy bet 15k, Chan pushed for 40k and MB called. No help on the River meant that the Tens held up.

"I thought it was rubbish play," commented Michael Greco who witnessed the action unfold. "He must have won those bracelets when there were only three entries."

Meanwhile, Barney Boatman is pretty chirpy, with his 200k... apparently the big boost to his chips came via this odd hand:  He'd limped, so had one other guy, and the button raised.  He called with 7c 8c.
Flop:  T-8-4 He check-called.
Turn:  5  Double check.
River:  Q  And now his opponent bet 40,000 - which he called with his pair of Eights, at which he recieved one of those oh-so-gratifying instant mucks and a nice chunk of chips.

I hope this is very much tongue in cheek?

Humberto Brenes has 48,000.

When questioned about the absence of his infamous toy shark, he responded in true Humberto style.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah, he only TV star, for the caaaaaaaameraaaaaaaaaas."

Mad as a box of monkeys.

Very Short Stack William Thorson triples up:

He moved in for 16,400 preflop, and found a caller in Barny Boatman, who then had to wait while the player (in the top picture) in the big blind dwelled before re-raising a further 22,000.  This wasn't all that much, actually, and that got Barny worried.  After torturing himself for the minimum time, he passed (A-K) and the big blind's Qc Qd got to play against Thorson's all-in Aspades 8d.
Flop:  9c 2h Kh  (a bit of a frustrated table-slap from Barny)
Turn:  Ac
River:  6h

And somehow Thorson (in snow-white hoody) survived that whole thing to be back in it with nearly 50k.

Kido Pham (Mrs Pham has a lot answer for) is OUT.

All-in pre-flop with Pocket Threes versus. Eric Deregt's Knaves. No help.

æææææøøøøøøåååååå   Can you give me an update on Jan Sjåvik please??

Looks like we have a new chip leader in online superstar Sorel Mizzi who has made his way up to around 450k, most recently locking horns with Scott Fischman in what is perhaps one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far.

With the board reading 4h 3d Tc Ac, I joined the action with Sorel making a bet of 32k.

Fischman called, albeit hesitantly, only for Sorel to ask that sometimes overused question, "How much do you have left?" come the Jh River.

"About 105k," answered the double bracelet winner, to which Sorel replied, "Okay, I'm all-in."

After a brief sigh, Fischman then asked the same question, albeit with slightly less confidence than his younger opponent.

Acting rather nervously (acting, perhaps?), Sorel didn't really answer Fischman, at first merely implying that he had him covered.

"I know you have me covered," continued Fischman, "but I want to know how many you have."

Still not answering fully, Sorel pushed out a pile of blues and said, "Well, that's 100k there."

Fidgeting somewhat, Sorel continued to look uncomfortable, but Fischman didn't seem to be paying too much attention to any potential tells or reverse tells, seemingly more focused on trying to work out the pattern of the hands and the series of events that had preceded the final all-in.

After a while, he either decided that he was definitely behind, or simply didn't fancy sticking in his remaining 100+k without being sure, and so opted for a fold, exhaling, "Okay, it's yours" in the progress.

A quick flick of the cards across the line (only just though), and we had what I believe to be our latest chip leader, but I was left wondering desperately what the prodigal Mizzi held.

Scott Fischman -- 105,000
Abel Meijer -- 123,000
Tom Werthmann -- 172,000
Paul Wasicka -- 204,500
Shannon Shorr -- 47,000
Freddie Deeb -- 239,000
Jennifer Harman -- 116,500
Sammy Farha -- 371,500
Tex Barch -- 65,500
Patrik Antonius -- 417,000
Bill Gazes -- 86,500
Sorel Mizzi -- 450,000
Jeff Shulman -- out

What time u due to finish guys?

Bed time, excellent updates snops and jen, catch up tomorrow. Good luck to foxy, praz, marc and all other brits

OK OK... something has happened to a lot of his chips, he's now down to 34,800 after this hand against Erica Schoenberg, who raised 3,200 which he called in the big blind.  Flop:  Ad Jh Qh  Jan bet out 5,000, and got a pretty fast call.  It all slowed down thereafter, with a check-check on both the 8s turn and the 4c river.
"A very small pair," announces your man, getting ready to muck his cards, and sure enough, she shows a winning Jd Kc.

He sits in exactly the same position a lot of the time.  I actually accused Snoopy earlier of copying and pasting one of my photos, but he didn't.  If anyone gets posture reads, they don't get them off this guy.


P.S.  Yes, that's very clever you can type those letters - what I was asking was the key combination on a regular PC laptop to shortcut it ;)

In 40 mins... that's 4:50am UK time and 8:50pm over here (otherwise known as Buffet O'Clock).

Praz is on 210,000.

"They're all-in almost every hand," he complains. "Last time I raised, I made it 7k and the guy next to me pushed for 150k. I can't call. I show an Ace and he flips over 9-5. Why would he go all-in for 150k with that?"

After that hand Snoopy just reported - here's Sorel Mizzi's new improved stack:

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i dont see any better "shortcut" for it on a laptop although you dont have numpad..

Praz Bansi -- 210,000
Peter Haslam -- 42,500
Humberto Brenes -- 44,000
Johan Storakers -- 121,000
Jan Sjåvik -- 33,000
Erica Schoenberg -- 128,500
Allen Kessler -- 68,500
Henry Michael Thuritz -- 206,500
Eric Deregt -- 164,500
Isaac Haxton -- 219,500
Jesse Jones -- 115,000
Bryan Singer -- 103,000
Rehne Pedersen -- 107,500
Hoyt Corkins -- 128,500
Eric Friberg -- 93,500
Tom McEvoy -- 54,500
Jared Hamby -- 91,500
David Danshegar -- 144,000
Chip Resse -- 210,000
Bruce Corman -- 24,000

DTD's Michael Greco is OUT.

There was a raise to 7k, a call, an all-in for 125k from Beppe, but then a dreaded call from the small blind.

Yep, Beppe had run Queens into Aces and was swiftly sent to the rail with a duff duff duff.

224 players left, blinds 1k 2k with a 300 ante.

Just 25 minutes left on the clock, but they draw for the last hands at 15 mins.

Update on Jamie Gold please..

After busting JC Alvarado, Roland de Wolfe is the new chipleader with over 505K. He's also the first player past the 500K mark.

Here's The Eggman pushing all-in for 43,300. The decision was up to Kevin O'Connell and there was already 35k in the pot, but Kevin opted to fold.

As a result, my GCSE Maths inform me that Thomas is now on 78,300.

This was a fascinating hand and one that has shot Sorel Mizzi into a really strong position. He's even promised to tell me what he was holding, so I'll do my best to share that info with you tomorrow. To be honest, I don't care what his cards were, I just want to know if he was bluffing or not.

58,000

Plenty of blacks, unfortunately they're only worth 100.

They're just about to announce how many hands left. The land two days the number three were drawn, so let's see what happens today.

Either way, we're going to dash off pretty soon just before the final hand so we can miss the rush and get into the buffet without having to wait behind 200 or so players.

3 again!

Fix!!!

Unbelievable.  On the final count, of the night, who should I find threatening to "Take out Patrik Antonius..." who has over 400k himself than Mr. Roland de Wolfe.  Incredibly, he's worked his way up from being all in with top pair against a five high flush draw on the flop (that was that hand against Alvarado) to over 500,000 in chips.  I don't know, so I'll call him the Leader until I know better.

Players approaching the half million mark themselves:  Phil Hellmuth, Patrik Antonius, Sorel Mizzi....

Final counts before the rush for the queue-jump:

Alan Kessler    55k
Pete Haslam   76.5k
Humberto Brenes  53.5k
JC Tran          32k
Vinny Vinh      110k
Jamie Gold      80k
Alan Sass        60k
Marc Goodwin   280k
Andy Black     48k
Isabelle Mercier  85k

I am afraid we're fresh out of time, back tomorrow at 12pm...(8pm UK)

;stickaforkinme;

Right, last three hands means it's time to pack up and rush to the buffet.

As usual, we're back at 12pm (8pm UK) again tomorrow for Day 3 and we'll do whatever we can do get those end of day chip counts up as soon as we receive them.

It's getting exciting now with plenty of big names, not to mention a few Brits (Roland de Wolfe falls into both categories), so make sure you join us.

Until then, toodle pip peeps!

 ;stickaforkinme;

Great updates as always.   Aspades Ahrt :)