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The third day of the WPT Championship event kicks off at midday here (8pm UK time)...

Chip counts for remaining players up before that time.

Looking forward to some more excellent updates and perhaps just the hint of norkage. Suggestion to either Jen or Snoops to get a view of table 55 could be a bit of verbal there from a couple of golfers lol.

First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Roland Dewolfe 535,000 62 6
2 Phil Hellmuth 528,100 46 9
3 Sorel Mizzi 499,300 61 7
4 Steve Wong 476,300 60 4
5 Paul Wasicka 430,200 52 9
6 Patrik Antonious 408,300 64 2
7 Stan Fulton 397,100 59 9
8 Jake Minter 396,500 59 8
9 Can Hua 384,800 53 3
10 Paul Lee 382,700 41 2
11 Lee Markholt 349,700 56 2
12 Anna Wroblewski 346,600 53 7
13 Dan Lowe 327,500 63 8
14 Benjamin Johnson 326,000 46 5
15 Loi Phan 320,200 50 2
16 Marcello Del Grosso 319,500 45 2
17 Franco Brunetti 319,400 60 5
18 Isaac Haxton 318,700 50 5
19 Mike Wattel 313,100 41 4
20 Steve Mandelbaum 312,300 51 9
21 Kevin O'Connell 308,000 58 6
22 Tom Dobrilovic 306,800 51 6
23 Doron Malinasky 304,400 41 7
24 Gavin Griffin 291,400 49 2
25 David Baker 288,300 50 4
26 Marc Goodwin 287,800 49 7
27 Peter Rho 280,800 43 5
28 Raymond Davis 278,600 54 6
29 Kirk Morrison 271,800 64 6
30 Justin Young 269,300 55 5
31 Jeppe Mikkelsen 267,000 59 3
32 Alvin Zeidenfeld 264,700 64 3
33 Sam Farha 253,300 47 4
34 David Oppenheim 253,000 49 1
35 Pramesh Bansi 250,600 47 3
36 Philip Tom 248,300 63 9
37 Elia Ahmadian 240,000 50 6
38 Danny Alaei 237,300 43 4
39 Grant Lang 237,000 44 9
40 Eric Hershler 236,500 59 2
41 Shawn Buchann 236,400 57 9
42 Freddie Deeb 235,600 44 7
43 Ram Vaswani 234,900 55 9
44 David Levi 233,700 64 7
45 Richard Anthony 230,800 45 7
46 Matt Brady 230,100 43 1
47 James Worth 228,200 55 8
48 Thomas Schreiber 226,900 58 1
49 Henry Michael Thuritz 223,700 42 1
50 Barney Boatman 223,500 53 9
51 Carlos Zambrano 221,000 51 1
52 Carlos Mortensen 220,900 48 7
53 Amir Vahedi 218,500 42 7
54 Bryan Devonshire 217,800 48 3
55 Todd Rebello 206,000 52 1
56 Eric Kesselman 204,500 49 9
57 Robert Nehrayan 199,600 57 3
58 David Daneshgar 194,500 55 7
59 Justin Bonomo 193,300 62 2
60 George Marlow 190,900 64 8
61 Jesse Martin 186,800 61 5
62 Jason Fretag 185,800 56 9
63 Antonio Salorio 178,500 41 6
64 Daniel Shak 178,000 60 7
65 Simon Moussa 175,000 64 9
66 Adeeb Harb 174,900 60 1
67 Scott Clements 171,400 45 4
68 Chip Reese 171,100 43 6
69 Michael Xu 168,200 52 3
70 John Spadavecchia 167,700 41 5
71 Robert Mizrachi 163,300 51 8
72 Martin Deknijff 160,500 48 4
73 Nek-Pal Singh 160,200 59 5
74 Ronald Haeri 160,000 45 5
75 John Nathan 157,600 46 2
76 Eric Deregt 154,800 48 1
77 Christian Kruel 154,300 57 8
78 Joe Tehan 153,400 58 8
79 Tom Lee 150,800 56 7
80 Tom Pniak 150,000 41 8
81 Hoyt Corkins 148,600 63 4
82 Bill Ferrand 148,100 56 4
83 Abraham Mosseri 147,900 47 9
84 Lonnie Heimowitz 147,600 57 4
85 John Pires 147,100 47 2
86 Quinn Do 145,000 60 8
87 Phil Ivey 143,400 55 3
88 Todd Keikoan 143,200 41 3
89 Kyle Carlston 142,800 42 6
90 Dustin Woolf 140,700 47 6
91 Joseph Grebanier 138,600 52 8
92 Shawn Chaconas 137,800 51 4
93 Timothy McCarthy 130,100 56 8
94 Jordan Siegal 129,500 46 1
95 Vinny Vinh 129,300 64 5
96 Gregg Merkow 128,100 42 3
97 Rob Hollink 128,000 42 4
98 Jack Karban 126,200 57 6
99 Tommy Vu 125,800 49 3
100 John Harris 123,500 52 5
101 Jason Eakes 122,700 64 4
102 Amnon Filippi 122,200 58 3
103 Jonathan Little 121,300 50 9
104 Ben Sabrin 120,600 60 9
105 Flaminio Malaguti 120,000 52 7
106 Ted Kearly 118,800 44 1
107 Bill Gazes 117,600 45 8
108 Bruce Yamron 116,600 63 3
109 Thomas Schneider 116,500 43 3
110 Jim Mc Crink 115,500 61 8
111 Tom Werthmann 113,900 44 3
112 Derek Harrington 112,300 49 4
113 Mark Stubbs 112,300 49 5
114 Sam Grizzle 112,000 42 5
115 Paul Testud 111,700 45 3
116 Rehne Pedersen 111,100 60 3
117 David Stroj 111,000 54 3
118 Jennifer Harman 110,600 61 2
119 Billy Baxter 109,500 63 2
120 Johan Storakers 109,300 45 9
121 Erica Schoenburg 107,200 56 6
122 Noah Jefferson 106,800 63 7
123 Thien Phan 106,700 49 6
124 Lamar Wilkinson 103,900 56 3
125 Richard Harroch 103,700 42 8
126 Daniel Elizondo 102,300 55 4
127 Rocco Bucci 101,700 58 9
128 Scott Fischman 101,500 63 1
129 Erik Friberg 101,400 61 1
130 Gevork Kasabyan 100,800 54 8
131 Fred David 98,500 50 1
132 Guy Laliberte 98,400 44 2
133 Robert Goldfarb 95,500 58 4
134 Kevin Keller 95,500 43 9
135 Tom Koral 93,800 41 1
136 Wayne Boich 93,700 59 4
137 Jani Sointula 91,500 48 9
138 Franklin Caldwell 91,200 45 6
139 Jamie Gold 91,000 44 6
140 Robeert Wazelle 89,400 61 6
141 David Solomon 88,000 53 8
142 Atsushi Osawa 84,200 53 2
143 Mark Gregorich 84,100 61 4
144 James Patton 83,200 48 2
145 John Myung 83,100 43 8
146 David Dicken 83,000 56 5
147 Ian Johns 82,600 43 7
148 Jaime Ligator 81,600 46 4
149 Ross Boatman 81,100 44 4
150 Lyle Berman 80,500 62 8
151 Jimmy Ngoc Tran 80,200 50 8
152 Ed Teems 79,900 56 1
153 Isabelle Mercier 79,600 47 8
154 Hollis Stabler 79,600 57 7
155 Neil Chriss 79,000 51 7
156 Daniel Smith 77,700 52 2
157 Gary Haubelt 77,600 42 2
158 James Van Alstyne 77,300 52 4
159 Jared Hamby 76,800 53 4
160 Liz Lieu 76,500 58 7
161 Jeff Littlefield 74,600 57 1
162 Begir Salihu 74,100 62 9
163 Joe Sebok 73,900 49 8
164 David Singer 73,200 54 4
165 James Lee 71,600 46 6
166 Bradley Helm 70,500 59 1
167 Ben Roberts 70,500 57 5
168 Cliff Josephy 70,200 46 8
169 Stephen Hooper 69,000 54 7
170 Rick Barstow 66,700 47 5
171 Melissa Hayden 66,400 48 5
172 Scott Mayfield 65,000 62 4
173 Thomas Wahlroos 64,100 47 7
174 Greg Mueller 62,200 63 6
175 Bob Stupak 61,200 55 2
176 Peter Haslam 60,800 46 3
177 Alan Sass 60,400 53 6
178 Abel Meijberg 60,200 50 3
179 Berry Johnston 58,400 54 2
180 Wei Kai Chang 57,500 59 7
181 Louis Werman 57,400 62 7
182 Bob Feduniak 55,100 58 2
183 Allen Kessler 52,400 48 8
184 Alan Fixel 52,300 47 1
185 Sean McCabe 52,200 44 5
186 Andrew Micali 51,900 59 6
187 Bruce Corman 51,700 52 6
188 Shannon Shorr 51,500 46 7
189 Philip Matthews 50,100 54 5
190 Jorge Arias 49,500 58 5
191 Andrew Black 48,800 45 1
192 Mike Landers 48,800 61 9
193 Tony Cousineau 47,700 53 5
194 Chris Martin 45,600 55 6
195 Humberto Brenes 44,300 62 5
196 Don Webb 42,100 54 9
197 Steve Simmons 41,900 44 8
198 Matt Leftowitz 41,600 62 3
199 Matt Keikoan 41,300 62 1
200 Hertzel Zalewski 40,100 57 2
201 Paul Snead 40,000 48 6
202 Tim Hazlitt 39,700 54 1
203 Mickey Appleman 35,200 60 2
204 J C Tran 33,700 51 5
205 Ronnie Hofman 31,600 63 5
206 Chris McCormack 30,000 53 1
207 Deepak Bhatti 27,400 61 3
208 Peter Feldman 26,400 51 2
209 Patrick Poels 25,400 50 7
210 Kevin Saul 23,900 43 2
211 Jan Sjavik 23,800 64 1
212 Emeline Boich 23,300 60 6
213 Lenny Martin 22,100 55 1
214 James Dawick 15,400 51 3

would be great to see roland go real deep again as he is a streak player and this streak seems to be going on for a long while lol. I also think isa and sam farha will be movers on day 3

Keep building Praz - make that trip across the pond worthwhile.
Would like to hear about the structure of the super satellite too - amyone know how these are formatted? I think Praz qualified the day before for $2500.

Table 55 is the place to be today, we all knew it would happen right?


Lenny Martin 22,100 55 1
Bob Stupak 61,200 55 2
Phil Ivey 143,400 55 3
Daniel Elizondo 102,300 55 4
Justin Young 269,300 55 5
Chris Martin 45,600 55 6
David Daneshgar 194,500 55 7
James Worth 228,200 55 8
Ram Vaswani 234,900 55 9


 ;D

  ;gobsmacked; , wow , and if any of them say anything Bob Stupak will probably think their talking to him.

lets hope the railers can behave......mmm not sure they will

Praz with Farha on his left!!!   ;boltpp;  Love to watch this one.   

Jen/Snoops,  interested to see how Praz got on with Gold yesterday.  Did he manage to give him some much deserved verbals??

He just keeps on doing it !!   Unbelievable Roland and good luck today sir !!

Snoops excellent reporting on the Sorel Mitzi hand top stuff.

Thx for the chip count karl

i hope yr on a % of praz


he is in a great position

jim

Please keep glued to table 55 - I can't wait!

Anyone got the pay structure?

my 3 picks are:

Danny Alaei
Patrick Antonius - obv
Isaac Haxton

Pool: $15,495,750
Entries: 639

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
*Includes $25,500 seat in WPT Championship Event at Bellagio on April 19, 2008.

Cheers Karl   

How was yesterday's buffet?  ;popcorn;

There are still 4 Dutchies in the tournament! Hollink at table 42, Meijberg (not Meijer, Snoop ;)) at 50 and Steve "S18" Wong at the strong table 60 (he has got position on both Appleman and Pedersen). Shortstacked Ronnie Hofman can be found at table 63. Is it possible for you guys to take some pictures of them? Steve is fifth in chips if I'm not mistaken so an update on him from time to time would be sweet :)

Have fun today!

No problem mate

(http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/images/granite.jpg)

Hope your getting well paid for this Karl

Best of luck to Praz and Roland- Both absolute class

Salutations Jen and Sloppy  ;hattip;

Keep up the good work and don't be late for BB4  ;djinn; ;snoopy'sguns;

Morning!  It's a bright sunshiny day outside the Bellagio, and inside, well, 214 players are about to sit down, ignore the weather and concentrate on getting through to the prize money, and thence the final table... Not many competitions where the money both starts at 100th place and pays nearly $50k.

Extraordinary seat draw, eh?  We'll be keeping an eye on table Golf as well as table Praz/Farha, plus the Dutch ones plus any others you care to mention along the way.

Sorry Mr. Karabiner, when BB4 is on we'll be somewhere over the Atlantic :(

"Welcome back, players," comes the voice of the TD.  "Come on in, start taking your seats, opening your bags.  The dealers all have scissors, except for the ones we don't trust."

Play recommences in 9 minutes...

Cooeee sports fans, the athletes are just unbagging and will be ready for kick-of in around 5 to 10 minutes.

Well, that's my prediction anyway...

(http://www.didtheydie.com/morgue/images/mystic_meg.jpg)

I thought that yesterday, but when the clock ran down, it just stopped and everyone ignored it as the announcer still had a few things to say and not too many players were seated.

Are these the correct tables? I thought Wong was seated at Pedersen's and Appleman...

Apart from the pitch n putt table ........table 64 looks like a table of death

The likeness is uncanny...

(http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/10/1546/monkey_banana.jpg)

looks like chip leaders are all together :dontask:

Sry, I'm an Excel novice, try again...

Jan   Sjavik   64   1
Patrik   Antonious   64   2
Alvin   Zeidenfeld   64   3
Jason   Eakes   64   4
Vinny   Vinh   64   5
Kirk   Morrison   64   6
David   Levi   64   7
George   Marlow   64   8
Simon   Moussa   64   9
Scott   Fischman   63   1
Billy   Baxter   63   2
Bruce   Yamron   63   3
Hoyt   Corkins   63   4
Ronnie   Hofman   63   5
Greg    Mueller   63   6
Noah   Jefferson   63   7
Dan   Lowe   63   8
Philip   Tom   63   9
Matt   Keikoan   62   1
Justin   Bonomo   62   2
Matt   Leftowitz   62   3
Scott   Mayfield   62   4
Humberto   Brenes   62   5
Roland   Dewolfe   62   6
Louis   Werman   62   7
Lyle   Berman   62   8
Begir   Salihu   62   9
Erik   Friberg   61   1
Jennifer   Harman   61   2
Deepak   Bhatti   61   3
Mark   Gregorich   61   4
Jesse   Martin   61   5
Robeert   Wazelle   61   6
Sorel   Mizzi   61   7
Jim   Mc Crink   61   8
Mike   Landers   61   9
Adeeb   Harb   60   1
Mickey   Appleman   60   2
Rehne   Pedersen   60   3
Steve   Wong   60   4
Franco   Brunetti   60   5
Emeline   Boich   60   6
Daniel   Shak   60   7
Quinn   Do   60   8
Ben   Sabrin   60   9
Bradley   Helm   59   1
Eric   Hershler   59   2
Jeppe   Mikkelsen   59   3
Wayne   Boich   59   4
Nek-Pal   Singh   59   5
Andrew   Micali   59   6
Wei Kai   Chang   59   7
Jake   Minter   59   8
Stan   Fulton   59   9
Thomas   Schreiber   58   1
Bob   Feduniak   58   2
Amnon   Filippi   58   3
Robert   Goldfarb   58   4
Jorge   Arias   58   5
Kevin   O'Connell   58   6
Liz   Lieu   58   7
Joe   Tehan   58   8
Rocco   Bucci   58   9
Jeff   Littlefield   57   1
Hertzel   Zalewski   57   2
Robert   Nehrayan   57   3
Lonnie   Heimowitz   57   4
Ben   Roberts   57   5
Jack   Karban   57   6
Hollis   Stabler   57   7
Christian   Kruel   57   8
Shawn   Buchann   57   9
Ed   Teems   56   1
Lee   Markholt   56   2
Lamar   Wilkinson   56   3
Bill   Ferrand   56   4
David   Dicken   56   5
Erica   Schoenburg   56   6
Tom   Lee   56   7
Timothy   McCarthy   56   8
Jason   Fretag   56   9
Lenny   Martin   55   1
Bob   Stupak   55   2
Phil   Ivey   55   3
Daniel   Elizondo   55   4
Justin   Young   55   5
Chris   Martin   55   6
David   Daneshgar   55   7
James   Worth   55   8
Ram   Vaswani   55   9
Tim   Hazlitt   54   1
Berry   Johnston   54   2
David   Stroj   54   3
David   Singer   54   4
Philip   Matthews   54   5
Raymond   Davis   54   6
Stephen   Hooper   54   7
Gevork   Kasabyan   54   8
Don   Webb   54   9
Chris   McCormack   53   1
Atsushi   Osawa   53   2
Can   Hua   53   3
Jared   Hamby   53   4
Tony   Cousineau   53   5
Alan   Sass   53   6
Anna   Wroblewski   53   7
David   Solomon   53   8
Barney   Boatman   53   9
Todd   Rebello   52   1
Daniel   Smith   52   2
Michael   Xu   52   3
James   Van Alstyne   52   4
John   Harris   52   5
Bruce   Corman   52   6
Flaminio   Malaguti   52   7
Joseph   Grebanier   52   8
Paul   Wasicka   52   9
Carlos   Zambrano   51   1
Peter   Feldman   51   2
James   Dawick   51   3
Shawn   Chaconas   51   4
J C   Tran   51   5
Tom   Dobrilovic   51   6
Neil   Chriss   51   7
Robert   Mizrachi   51   8
Steve   Mandelbaum   51   9
Fred   David   50   1
Loi   Phan   50   2
Abel   Meijberg   50   3
David   Baker   50   4
Isaac   Haxton   50   5
Elia   Ahmadian   50   6
Patrick   Poels   50   7
Jimmy Ngoc   Tran   50   8
Jonathan   Little   50   9
David   Oppenheim   49   1
Gavin   Griffin   49   2
Tommy   Vu   49   3
Derek   Harrington   49   4
Mark   Stubbs   49   5
Thien   Phan   49   6
Marc   Goodwin   49   7
Joe   Sebok   49   8
Eric   Kesselman   49   9
Eric   Deregt   48   1
James   Patton   48   2
Bryan   Devonshire   48   3
Martin   Deknijff   48   4
Melissa   Hayden   48   5
Paul   Snead   48   6
Carlos   Mortensen   48   7
Allen   Kessler   48   8
Jani   Sointula   48   9
Alan   Fixel   47   1
John   Pires   47   2
Pramesh   Bansi   47   3
Sam   Farha   47   4
Rick   Barstow   47   5
Dustin   Woolf   47   6
Thomas   Wahlroos   47   7
Isabelle   Mercier   47   8
Abraham   Mosseri   47   9
Jordan   Siegal   46   1
John   Nathan   46   2
Peter   Haslam   46   3
Jaime   Ligator   46   4
Benjamin   Johnson   46   5
James   Lee   46   6
Shannon   Shorr   46   7
Cliff   Josephy   46   8
Phil   Hellmuth   46   9
Andrew   Black   45   1
Marcello   Del Grosso   45   2
Paul   Testud   45   3
Scott   Clements   45   4
Ronald   Haeri   45   5
Franklin   Caldwell   45   6
Richard   Anthony   45   7
Bill   Gazes   45   8
Johan   Storakers   45   9
Ted   Kearly   44   1
Guy   Laliberte   44   2
Tom   Werthmann   44   3
Ross   Boatman   44   4
Sean   McCabe   44   5
Jamie   Gold   44   6
Freddie   Deeb   44   7
Steve   Simmons   44   8
Grant   Lang   44   9
Matt   Brady   43   1
Kevin   Saul   43   2
Thomas   Schneider   43   3
Danny   Alaei   43   4
Peter   Rho   43   5
Chip   Reese   43   6
Ian   Johns   43   7
John   Myung   43   8
Kevin   Keller   43   9
Henry Michael   Thuritz   42   1
Gary   Haubelt   42   2
Gregg   Merkow   42   3
Rob   Hollink   42   4
Sam   Grizzle   42   5
Kyle   Carlston   42   6
Amir   Vahedi   42   7
Richard   Harroch   42   8
Tom   Koral   41   1
Paul   Lee   41   2
Todd   Keikoan   41   3
Mike   Wattel   41   4
John   Spadavecchia   41   5
Antonio   Salorio   41   6
Doron   Malinasky   41   7
Tom   Pniak   41   8

Good luck Praz, DSFFS

A lot of top players with big stacks will definetely make for an interesting day today.................Good luck to all Brits and Blondes today.

Hertzel Zalewski has eliminated Hollis Stabler, Queens v A-6, no help for the cowboy hatted Stabler who said "Nice hand, sir" as he departed.

Go on wtf does DSFFS mean ?????

At a guess its Do Something FFS LOL

what he said,picks are

pras
patrick antonious
jennifer harman(need to stick a female in)

Steve Simmons is eliminated by Grant Lang, shouts of "Seat open, 57.2!" etc. are starting to pepper the otherwise subdued morning chip clicking.  Today will definitely see some quick dropping in numbers, and we'd better go have a look at the tables which are breaking first.  Here's Table Praz:

Alan Fixel
John Pires
Praz Bansi
Sam Farha
Rick Barstow
Dustin Woolf
Thomas Wahlroos
Isabelle Mercier
Abraham Mosseri

Snoop, can you make a photo of Ronnie Hofman? (table 60 I believe) and ask him if he's a member of PokerInfo? Thanks!

I think it's Very Lazy Speak for Do Something, FFS.

Steve Simmons is OUT, moved all-in under the gun with A-T but ran into the big blind (Grant Lang) and his dominating Big Slick.

And so are Peter Feldman and Robert Mizrachi, both of whom have left vacant seats.

Chris McCormak is a gonna, unlucky to run A-Q from late position into Pocket Queens. No Ace hit.

Tom Koral exits stage left at the hands of table neighbour Paul Lee.

wow, they will lose 200 today at this rate

lol yep

Huge hand on Table Meijberg, yep, that's him in the foreground between the laid back, nonchalant David Baker (also pictured) and Loi Phan (Incredibly Phan, not Pham).

With the board reading Jc 5d Qs 9h and already 200k in the pot, David checks only for Loi to announce all-in. David asks for a count, and Pham, in a rather casual very chatty manner, comes up with the figure 180k.

After a long pause (this is a huge decision), David opts for the fold and sees a decent chunk go sailing over to his opponent.

it means Djinn Snoopy Feeling Frisky Stayaway

Johan Storakers has doubled up on the table in front of me.

There was a bit of confusion actually, as when I joined the table, Franklin Caldwell had his hand, A-Qs turned over, so I expect he accidentally revealed them thinking that we were at a showdown or the hand had finished already.

Either way, the Flop was 3c 9s 5s, and Johan announced all-in only for Franklin to respond with, "Well, I guess I gotta call," which he did indeed do.

However, Johan had Jacks which held up.

"You're probably best checking there and seeing a Turn card." commented Guy Laliberte, "He's going to call you whatever."

Also OUT:

Deepak Bhatti
Jim McCrink
Mickey Appleman

Yes, double table break already, the players are really going for it, and you're not going to be hearing that "All in stays in!" from any potential commentary...
The only one I've seen survive so far is Franklin Caldwell who, having just lost two thirds of his stack, moved in with Ahrt 4s preflop (32.4k his stack).  Johan Storakers went for it with his Aspades 6s (the blinds are now 1,500/3,000 ante 400 to put this in perspective).  The board A-5-J-Q-Q

;kc;

Cliff Josephy is OUT.

Unfortunate set over set encounter with Jaime Ligator, the reptile sounding veteran holding Jack's verus Josephy's Eights on a 8-4-J Flop.

"Amazingly, they didn't get it in until the river," reports table onlooker Bullit Pete. "They played it quite slowly in the end."

Dutchwatch for Vinniebin!

Top:  Steve Wong, looking like someone out of the Matrix

Bottom:  Ronnie Hofman.  I didn't ask him a question, because for some reason everyone at the table was staring at me as I took a photo and I just scurried off.  He only has about 30k so I'd better go do it soon...

James Patton and Jani Sointula have both exited Table 48.

Meanwhile, Philip Matthews has been eliminated from table 54, moving his shortstack in from the button with Qc Jc, but being picked off by Gevork Kasabyan in the big blind (Oh I wish he was in the 'Cut Off') and his accompanying Aspades Jc.

Board = Ah Js 2d 5s 5c

A dejected Matthews rose from his seat pessimistically as soon as the Flop was dealt.

Ty ty ty :D

Ty and th to Chilli too

GUDBTY

Are you sure that last photos not from the worzels/star-trek confrence? ;D

Hi snoops

Is Bullit Pete still going?

Exchange between Brit Andy Black and the Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth somehow resulted in Phil confessing to being on drugs, but by the look of this photo, I think that claim should go to Andy who looks, well, pumped up shall we say.

And before you say, "Hold on, Andy's not British", I just asked him and he said, "I don't give a shit what you call me, put Hispanic if you want."

Anyway, Hispanic Andy has around 75k.

Arriba!!! Ariba!!!

(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9c/200px-Speedy.jpg)

still going where?

to the strip club later?...

Vinny Vinh is up on the stage bit, sharing a table with chipped-up Patrik Antonius and chipped-down Jan Sjåvik.  He's pictured here right after taking a pot from neighbour Jason Eakes, betting 25k on a 4d Jh 8s flop.  There was some dwelling and a pass'n'show, which I think, from what Vinny was saying, was an A-K.  Anyway, I find him almost hypnotic to listen to, and even though he doesn't have a Devilfish on there to wind up, he's still going to be talking it up with a peculiar intensity.  I finally pinpointed who he reminded me of - Fenster from the Usual Suspects...

GUDBTY?   Hmmm

General Union of Docile Buggers To Yield?

I see my old mate and golfing partner Justin Young is still in. Could you go over and wish him the all the best from me and ask him what handicap he's playing off at the moment. Think he's on table 55.

ha ha.. very good snoops.

i just been given word he's on 60k and on the same table as Phil Ivey and Ram ... any chance of a pic... give you a tenner if you can get ivey and ram to smile in the same picture :)

Jamie Gold is OUT -

Lucky he was on the table next to us, although you can hear his exiting cries all the way across the room, in all probability...

He made his move with 4h 6h, all in preflop, called by Grant Lang - "No pair," Gold half asks, half insists.  It turns out to be Aspades Kd against him.  The board brings no surprises for the Ace-high, which remains good.  "F**k!"  Shouts Gold, in quite an amicable way, actually.
Then, standing back from the table, "You going to give me a penalty?"
He might as well have said "Nah nah nahnah nah" as he went on his way.

Praz was a late arrival today and did 10k in blinds and antes.

"Roland rang me up at 7.30am this morning and I couldn't get back to sleep," he moaned.

great updates as ever guys

 ;smackedbottom; ;smackedbottom; ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; ;smackedbottom; ;smackedbottom;

I will bet u 100 to 1 that wont happen, min bet is $10K, I wont be payin if I lose ;scarymoment;, but I am disclosing that upfront

Remember this guy, David Singer? He finalled in the 50k H.O.R.S.E event last year and is one of those silent but deadly kind of players.

He's not doing great here today, but he's surviving, pictured here collecting the pot after his pre-flop all-in for 70k went uncontested.

Daniel Elizonda is OUT.

What about the Ana chick, what kind of table does she have today???

Chaz will be proud

Haha
Very probably !!!

Okay, okay, I guess the table you're all interested in is this one (by the way, Bullit Pete isn't on it, he's with Hellmuth).

Not too much conversation between Phil Ivey and Ram Vaswani (are either ever chatty at the table??), but they're playing plenty of hands to compensate.

Whilst Ram's on 275k, Phil is struggling with around 70-80k, but he did just take a smallish pot off the chap in the small blind (is that Justin Young by any chance, Jim?).

Phil raised it up from the button to 7k and the small blind called. Js Jd 3h Flop, check, 12k bet from Ivey, fold.

Remember yesterday when I spoke about position raising pre-flop and continuation betting from Ivey, well I guess that's another example.

Andy Black is OUT.

All-in pre-flop.

Black = Ac Js

Franklin Caldwell = Jc Tc

Board = Kh 9s 5d 7h Qh

Black didn't look best pleased as he swiftly left the cardroom.

Peter Haslam with his 63k stack and a rather foreboding sight across the other side of the table.

Kind of like David and the Goliaths.

Judging by the picture though, I don't think the Haslaminator is too bothered.

Praz takes a big hit at the hands of Abraham Mosseri (pictured top - N.B. Guests - you must be signed in to view the pictures!).
Flop:  9c Jh Qc, apparently, but I caught the action on the 5s turn... Praz was thinking, called a bet of 25k or so.
River:  5d  Now Abraham bet out 70k, quickly.  Slightly less quickly, Praz called, and was shown Td Kd for only-the-nuts.  It looks like Mosseri's bluffy reputation might have encouraged this payoff - don't know what Praz had in this hand, but it could have been not-much.  Praz down to 112,000...


*Caveat - can't always tell the order in which the cards have come down; this story would be very, very different if the river had been the Queen... thought it best not to disturb Praz while he struggles with sleep deprivation and a dented stack.

Flop = 7h Th 9c

60k pot.

David Baker (cut-off) moves all-in for 70k.

Decision on Isaac Haxton who has 110k.

Full clock used, countdown reaches 3.

"I fold."

Baker takes the pot.

"Go on, show a bluff, it'll make you feel good."

Baker shows Kc Jh

Haxton goes ape, bangs the table with both fists, stack bounces up in the air.

"I knew I should have called!" he screams.

"What did you have," asked another member of the table.

"K-Q, Queen of hearts," he replies.

Three neighbours - Freddy Deeb, Humberto Brenes and Roland de Wolfe.  Wouldn't want to be moved over there.  What you can't see because of Lyle Berman's head in the foreground is the 600k+ in Roland's stack.  Again.

David Singer is OUT, didn't quite get to the table in time to see the board, but I did spot a T-9 in from of Singer and a host of chips before Raymond Davis.

Putting 2 and 2 together, I'd say that Singer just lost all his chips to Davis with T-9.

Yes, I know, I'm a genius.  ;topofclass;

Bad news for any Hendon Mobbers watching  ;whistle;, as a reliable source has informed me that former London's Burning actor Ross Boatman is now OUT of this year's WPT final, snipered down by Day 1 chip leader and constant natterer Anna Wroblewski, her Q-J cruelly outdrawing Ross' superior A-T all-in pre-flop.

Will confirm this when they return from the break and hopefully ask him what 'Got Tit?' means.

Chipcounts on the Dutchies please? Do you also know how many players are still in?
Thanks guys :)

159 left, currently on a break.

Seems to be a slow day for Mr. Cool, any updates???

Here's your start of Day 3 chip leader Roland de Wolfe, startled by my shirt apparently.  :dontask:

Chip Count for DTD's Kev O'Connell Please      starting table 58   Thanks

Is Sjavik still in? Was shortstacked

Long running ad poster and TV campaign for milk over here, I believe (example below).  That writing on black background iconic...if you're American....

Unlucky Andy. No wonder he did not look best pleased.
Great updates Jen and Snoopy. Will hopefully see you guys tomorrow or next day.
Wish Kevin O'Connell all the best for me in the meantime.

Yes - he's sat next to Patrik Antonius but is still there - 40,000.  Took this photo earlier in case one of his many followers inevitably needed to be informed of his double-up/demise, neither of which has happened...

Picked him Day One along with Roland, Praz, Tim Phan... they're still in too.  Going to need a succession of double ups soon to catch de Wolfe, or even get to average chips, which must be around 180k at this point.

They are racing off the 100s....

Thanks, Jen!

Latest chip count for Praz - read somewhere he was back up to 200k?

Caught up with a friendly as ever Ben Roberts during the break, he's on 100k at the moment, but very much aware of the structure and the amount of play he has left.

;iagree; :goodpost:

Great updates guys. Wish i was there.

Sammy Farha is still caked up, but he's now sitting next to a pumped up Praz Bansi, ready to take down some High Stakes Poker ass!  ;snoopy'sguns;

Yes, that's spot on, he went down to 100k at one point, but yoyo-ed back up almost immediately.

"I've gotta slow down," he said during the break.

GO JEN & GO JAN THE BALROG! If not i hope Antonius can make it happend

During the break, my attention wandered, as it so often does, to the semicircle of flatscreen TVs around the room.  Half of them are telling the players that the blinds are about to go up to 2k/4k ante 500, and the others are tuned to some kind of TV channel.  I expected this to be showing basketball, baseball, some kind of ball or sport, but no, it was something called 'Ambush Makeover.'  "Use a natural-hair brush to retain shine and keep in the hair's natural oils."  I find it hard to see how even these people can have bets on this...

Thomas Wahlroos may look happy (well, relatively) in this photo, but that smile has now turned to a 'bulldog chewing a wasp' frown after dropping down to just 35k.

The Eggman made it 12k pre-flop, Mateyboy moved all-in for 65k and Thomas called.

A-Q vs. K-J, two Jacks hit the board.

Walroos always seems to go deep in these big tourneys!!

How many left?

Snoopy im not sure if u posted it but did u find out if Sorel Mizzel was bluffing yesterday against lindgren i think it was?

Marc Goodwin -- 182,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 322,000

Yes, but I'm afraid I can't reveal until the end of the tournament.

For those of you that didn't catch it, the hand below was one of the biggest of the tournaments so far and I was dying to know if Sorel was bluffing or not...

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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.

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154

Blinds = 2k/4k (500)

ty

Liz Lieu is walking around, phone in hand, handbag over her shoulder. Pretty sure she's a gonna.

After Wahlroos took that dent, he was all in soon thereafter, pushing on the small blind following two limps preflop.  One of them was Praz, who debated calling the 25k more.  "Spread the pot," he requests of the dealer, deciding eventually to give it up along with limper one.  This sets of a triangle of chat - Praz, Sam Farha and Abraham Mosseri.
Mosseri to Praz, "You a mathematician?"
Mosseri to Farha, "Spread the pot...mathematician, we just play the game."
Praz to Mosseri, "You a comedian?"
Mosseri to Praz, "No."
Praz to Mosseri, "You are quite funny though."
Farha to Praz, "You think so?"
Mosseri to whoever, "That's it, angry.."
Farha to Mosseri, "Hey, I'm on your side."

On his side or not, the very next hand saw Sam Farha raise preflop and Abraham Mosseri quickly plonk in a chunk of blue 10k chips, enough of a raise to set Farha all-in for 198k.  He went for it, in a split second the cards were on their backs:
Farha:  Qh Qd
Mosseri:  Ad Qc   and although three diamonds on the flop probably weren't what Sam wanted to see, he ended up victorious, and with a 400k stack to boot.

A few counts from Table Lairy:
Praz Bansi     190k
Sam Farha     400k
Thomas Wahlroos  42k
Isabelle Mercier   85k
Abraham Mosseri   115k

Great updates!  Any news about Martin "Kniven"(The Knife) de Knijff?

Mike

Thanks Snoops

Abraham Mosseri -- 93,500
Thomas Wahlroos -- 39,500
David Baker -- 157,500
Isaac Haxton -- 131,500
Paul Testud -- 141,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 445,000
Eric Deregt -- 181,500
Amir Vahedi -- 208,500
Marc Goodwin -- 189,500
Gavin Griffin -- 259,000
Tim Pham -- 192,000

So he was bluffing then lol... Make sure and post after the tourney

As long as they haven't changed this table around, I believe Don Webb has just had his Aces cracked. The enigmatic Raymond Davis was the assassin, shouting "Justice" as his A-Q hit trips.

"That's justice!" he shouted, "He called me all-in earlier with A-3, Ace Three..."

I think he got knocked out by PokerPages blogger Bryan Devonshire.

Any news on the Dutchies?
Thanks!  :)up

Paul Wasicka has knocked out Seat 1 with A-J vs. Q-Q on a T-3-K-Q-8 board, all-in on the Turn.

"It's a tough game," comments Sensei Grizzle.

These updates are so good, whatsits fail me!

"Did I really see what I just thought I saw," inquires a bewildered Hellmuth, and in this case, he wasn't the only one staring at the board with raised eyebrows, as one veteran player has just been eliminated after re-raising a 50k bet all-in for a total of 200k. The board read T-9-A-6 rainbow and his opponent called instantly. The pusher showed 8-7 for the made straight whilst the caller had a mere Q-J. However, the inevitable King hit the River leaving not only the departing player in a state of shock, but the rest of the table too.

"He insta-called," emphasised. Hellmuth to a neighbour returning to the table.

Well, that'll teach me to listen to other bloggers about various exits, as Ross Boatman is STILL IN and is currently seated on the raised stage area (just the one table up there) with 70,000.

"Hey, you told me Ross was out," I said to my neighbouring blogger (not Jen).

"He IS gone."

Pointing to Ross, "No he's not, there he is."

"Oooooooh, THAT'S Ross."

OH FFS, I despair.  ;djinn;

The most ironic thing, however, is that we were speaking to Joe Beevers last night about when CardPlayer said he was out of a WSOP comp when he was still in. My response was that any errors on blonde are normally when we have received the information from a secondary source, as we did in this case.

Choose your sources carefully is the lesson in this case.

Ivey has gone apparantly...(A9 v 66)

More counts:

Jan Sjåvik           36k
Patrik Antonius  478k
Alvin Zeidenfeld  258k
Jason Eakes        33k
Kirk Morrison      465k
David Levi         235k
George Marlow   92k
Kevin O'Connell  360k
Vinny Vinh         OUT
Simon Moussa    OUT
Justin Bonomo   350k
Freddy Deeb     190k
Humberto Brenes  128k
Scott Mayfield    OUT
Matt Leftowitz   OUT
Louis Werman     58k
Lyle Berman       80k
Erik Friberg        OUT
Jennifer Harman  110k
Mark Gregorich    145k
Jesse Martin       335k
Robert Wazelle   126k
Rob Hollink          110k
Ben Roberts        OUT  (A-K vs A-4, 4 on flop - thanks for that, Dr. Pauly...)
Phil Ivey             OUT  (A-9 vs 6-6)
Adeeb Harb        445k
Rehne Pedersen   73k
Steve Wong        590k
Franco Brunetti    270k
Quinn Do            125k

Leaders look like Sorel Mizzi and Roland de Wolfe, who both have horrific stacks to count but must be both nearing 700,000...

Yes, that's correct, just gone. Back to the golf course courtesy of James 'Krazy Kanuck' Worth.

any update on Goodwin, any guess as to how many still in??

I'd guess at 138.

Is Meijberg still in? Rumor has it that he has been sent to the rail...

There's a bit of an unscheduled break going on here... "A discrepancy we need to check out," is the only response from the TD as everybody gets up and starts milling around while the clock is frozen on 47:09.  Intriguing...

any news on Mikael thuritz....it said on Carplayer he had 550k

how is the "Haslaminator" doing, is he still in?

I'll have a check, they're on a break due to a chip discrepancy.

Will just have a look for him now.

Is this him?

(http://www.goal.com/resultsimg/921.jpg)

 rotflmfao @ random Google search (I assume:))

Info on Sjåvik  and Antonius please..

Other Boatman brother = 193,000

Would LOVE to see Barny take this one down, he's due some good fortune.

Absolutely - I made a mistake in getting chilli tomato sauce once, it was a disaster!

Snoops, any news on Pete Haslam, is he on his way to Spearmint Rhinos yet?

Apparantly due to "a dispute at table 60 as to the amount paid to a player in an all in hand.  Security is reviewing the tape, a ruling will be made and play will resume."

Mikael Thuritz (known as Henry Michael Thuritz on the official player list) has a rather uncountable stack of chips, so I simply asked him how many he thought he had to which he replied, "Around 650 or 640k."

My professional opinion is that's rather a lot.

Yes, but short - just all in uncalled on the small blind for less than 40k..eek. 

Jared Hamby just raised his big blind to 11k (blinds 2k/4k) and he called along with the small blind.  The 7c Jd Js flop was checked round, and the 3h turn, but on the 6s river the small blind bet out 14k, got a quick raise from Hamby to 30k and folded swiftly.  Although that wasn't the biggest hand of the tournament, getting involved was pricey for Pete - he may be moving in again at some point soon. 

What table you hiding under?

You mean you haven't spotted me yet? tsk tsk

Ty Snoops, see you in a few

No sign of Abel Meijberg I'm afraid. Unless he's in the loo, he's out.

Meanwhile, I did spot Marc Goodwin, he's still hovering around that 170-190k mark. He's dressed like a right player today, just needs the stick, hat and a whore on each arm and he'd be the Brummie Pimp.

Finally, for any Scandinavian fans watching, Rehne Pedersen is still in, but only just, with 61,500.

Goodwin, PIMP rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

Thomas Wahlroos now has 108,500.

Nice comeback!

Info on Sjåvik and Antonius please..

You're going to have to get past David Benyamine if you want to get your grubby mitts on this lass.

Erica Schoenberg -- 79,500

And he's gone - one Pete Haslam, not in seat (honestly, you turn your back for one minute...) Sorry to disappoint, but to distract you from his exit, here are some pictures of the surviving denizens of his table, featuring:

Isabelle Mercier
Jared Hamby (on one of the rare occasions you can see even one eye)
Anna Wroblewski  (looking like she might have just come from a wedding, or Windsor garden party)
Johan Storakers and Barny Boatman

Timothy McCarthy, trying to do that whistling noise with his hands, 173,500.

Tom Werthmann -- 132,500

Eric Deregt -- 79,500

And now for one of my favourite ever photos...

Mark Teltscher getting the drinks from the rail.

Floppy, AlrightJack, Benjo and Flushy in particular will appreciate this one.

For those of you not in the know, Mark snapped his fingers once and summoned me over.

When I reached his table, I waited with baited breath, notepad in hand, for the big news he had to share with me.

Mark then said, "Will you get me a coke?"

Hope you told him where to go

Phil Hellmuth (760k), currently chatting away with neighbour, pink haired and recent EPT Grand Final winner, Gavin Griffin.

Any update on the dane Jan Sjavic? Thanks

Update on Praz?

OUT, I'm afraid - having lasted an unexpectedly long time with around 40k, I saw him heading for the door early last level, and that seat next to Antonius is now empty...

Update on the norwegian Jan Sjåvik please.

Bob Stupak -- 179,500

Info on Roland de Wolfe and Phil Hellmuth please.

Players are currently on a short 15 minute break.

'The Snapper' got a new job? :D

Roland de Wolfe is the only man to have won an EPT and a WPT event.

Phil Hellmuth is a ten-time WSOP bracelet winner.

;djinn;

lol, chipcounts please.

The player in seat 1 raises to $13,000 and the Thomas Wahlroos re-raises to $42,000. The player in seat 1 re-raises $70,000, putting Wahlroos all in. Wahlroos makes the call and shows AQ. The player in seat 1 is holding 1010. The board comes 942Q5 and Thomas Wahlroos doubles up to $230,000. 

Go Finland...

The players are just returning from a break.

Phil Hellmuth has 760k as I counted them just before he left.

Praz has 160k, Kevin O'Connell 288.5k, Roland de Wolfe 700k and Jan Sjåvik is out as reported earlier.

that wolfe is a top player


sry i didnt reply to your email mate been busy .

don't tell me he's actually tightened up for a while?

Could you check for a pulse when u next walk past

thanks

Phil Hellmuth raises it up to 40 pre-flop from utg+1.

The big blind calls.

Flop = 8h 2d 8c

BB bets 40k, Hellmuth calls.

"I think it's close, Tens or something," says Hellmuth.

Turn = 7s

BB checks, Hellmuth bets 40k, BB calls.

"I think you've got those tens," he repeats.

River = 6d

BB checks, Hellmuth bets 120k, BB calls after a brief dwell.

"Kings," says Hellmuth quickly.

BB mucks.

"Beautifully played," adds Benjo.

I would agree.

No worries, good to hear your'e well. Love the van, awesome!  :respect:

Phil Hellmuth = 1M
Phil Hellmuth passed the 1M mark. He's also the new chipleader.

The blinds are still 3k/6k, right?

Paul Sneed calls a short-stacked all-in with Ahrt Qs.

The all-iner has Jd 7d, which fails to improve on the 2c 9c Ks Th 4s board.

"Did I win?" asks Paul returning to the table. "I just can't watch anymore."

I nodded hesitantly, although I wasn't 100& sure and had to double check the board just in case.

Luckily, he had indeed won, but I doubt he'd been happy with my nod if the other guy had hit on the River.

Yes, with a running ante of 500.

116 left.

Remember folks, no copying and pasting from other sites or you'll get us into trouble.

Cheers ;snoopy;

According to Praz, he's on 150k but card-dead with everyone raising in front of him.

Thomas Wahlroos, meanwhile, is looking very confident, recently replenished back up to 254,500. A big threat now.

David Oppenheim -- 309,500

sorry i am late

my 3 to follow today are

Anna
Isabelle
Jennifer

can you please remember to ask Anna about bB4 i am sure she will want to come

Button raises to 20k, Gavin Griffin calls.

Flop = Js Jh 8s

Both check

Turn = Kh

Gavin checks the 30k bet to 110k to take the pot.

Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell has taken two hits to drop him down to 240k, one of which involved him re-raising pre-flop with Queens, pushing on a 7-8-2 Flop but being outdrawn by Sixes, a cruel River card giving his opponent an undeserved set.

eh?

that is a bad beat, enough to send a man to drink

The fantastically named Marcello Del Gross has just doubled up against Sam Grizzle with Ks Kh vs. Aspades Ts on a 2d 8s Qs 9d Tc board, all-in on the flop.

For a moment there, I think Marcello's heart stopped beating.

A few counts before the stacks get unwieldy (but look so damn good on TV)...

Paul Testud   90k  (The lasted-longer of five French entrants)
Mikael Thuritz  560k
Sam Farha      300k
Abraham Mosseri  230k
Jared Hamby    294k
Anna Wroblewski  560k
Johan Storakers   220k
Barny Boatman    250k
Mark Gregorich    300k
Jesse Martin       240k
Robert Wazelle   235k
Sorel Mizzi          700k+
Tim Phan          200k
Praz Bansi          165k  (Whispering to me the two least favourite words of the card player after 'bad beat' - 'card dead')
Humberto Brenes  56k
Roland de Wolfe   730k
Scott Fischman    625k
Steve Wong       710k  (pictured)

You know those Hellmuthisms you see on TV and all that ranting, raving and general poker Bratiness he's famous for. Well, it's not just for the cameras, as I just witnessed first hand.

Raising it up to 15k pre-flop, young gun Shawn Bucahanon, who is currently chuckling away to himself, made it 51k and Phil called.

Flop = Td 2c 6d

Phil check and Shawn bet 120k, Phil called.

Turn = 7h

Check, check

River = 8s

Check, check

Hellmuth shows A-6 whilst Shawn takes down the pot with K-7.

This is where Hellmuth explodes, challenging the pre-flop re-raise, sarcastically calling his opponent a genius for betting the worst and checking the best before annoucing that this player won't make the end of the day.

Great entertainment for all involved.  :)up

Also (pictured) on Big Stack Watch, Patrik Antonius, Sorel Mizzi and Scott Fischman, who has the best stacks, eye-watering to count though they may be.  He started on 100k today, but his Climber of the Last Two Days title comes from his returning from the start of the second day with just 8,000... Impressive though Thomas Wahlroos' 250k is, Scott takes the trophy.

Bonus points, which GUKPT winner has the same shirt (do they know something about this talismanic symbol from our collective childhood I don't know?)?

My apologies, let me say it again...

Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell has taken two hits to drop him down to 240k, one of which involved him re-raising pre-flop with Queens, pushing on a 7-8-2 Flop but being outdrawn by Sixes, a cruel River card giving his opponent an undeserved set.

"You want to bluff off 200,000 of your chips to the best in the world?  You want to take on the best in the world with K-7?  You can't even spell poker..."

I am so heading for that table now...

I must have sex, sorry, I mean six on my mind.

Jerome

How many left guys?

111

Not this time - 109 - there is currently a redraw!  They are going to hand out all new cards and then they musical chair it all at the same time...I'm getting the hell out of the way.

Have you soaked that tick in uranium or something? It looks dangerous.

109 players left.

Blinds still at 3,000 and 6,000 with a running ante of 500.

I think it's a DX tick.

TY TY & TY

goodwin, goodwin, goodwin, anybody


thanks

Just don't look directly at it... or use the sunglasses provided.  Hi there!  You want to know what's really dangerous (what a segue)?  What's being shown on the Weirdest TV Channel in the World - we've moved on from that Makeover show to something involving bad animals - I think you can make out the crocodile-head-grab in the second one...  Just killing some time until the players reseat, you understand...

Want to see what 109 players taking thousands of chips a few feet left or right to sit next to new players looks like?  This:

Awesome. Is like kitty when she knows it's squishy food feeding time.

Board = 2s 4c 8d 5s

Abraham Mosseri bets 50k and Mateyboy (who I believe may be Paul Lee) calls.

River = Kc

Both players check.

Mateyboy shows Kh Js, Abraham looks disgusted.

"I'd like to see his hand," requests Mateyboy.

Abraham holds onto his cards, seemingly bamboozled by the call on the Turn.

The dealer then takes the cards and turns over Th 8h.

"Why have you turned over my cards," asks Abraham.

"Because he requested it," replies the dealer.

"He can't ask to see my hand."

"If he calls in a live pot he can."

"But it was checked."

"Same applies, he made the last check."

The Boatmen - Barny (top) who this level "had to make a nasty laydown - Queens preflop.  He showed kings, but I lost a few chips..."
"Better than losing all of them?" I offer.  He tacitly agrees.

And Ross (bottom) who has been a short stack for a good half of today (pictured with 80k), but is still, emphatically, not out.

With 105 players left, the relaxed atmosphere belies the fact that we're almost at the bubble...

A reminder of the prizes:

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

Praz Bansi -- 210,000
Patrik Antonius -- 520,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 289,000
Marc Goodwin -- 212,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 218,000
Steve Wong -- 522,000
Barny Boatman -- 261,000
Ram Vaswani (pictured) -- 315,000

Anyone know how many chips are in play?

There are currently 105 players. We're five players from the money bubble bursting but all the attention in the Fontana Room  at the Bellagio is focused on Phil Hellmuth. Forty minutes after his bad beat, the Poker Brat is still fuming.

"I'm playing for $4 million and history," he screamed at Shawn Bucahanon. "This motherfuckin' kid just bluffed off 200K to the best player in the world! Nice play, genius! There's no way you are going to last the day."

That was some of the nicer things that Hellmuth said to the chap. At one point Hellmuth pointed to me and said, "Make sure you post that hand on the internet."

The always gracious Phil Hellmuth took his beat like a real man.

Humberto responds to the recent Phil Hellmuth streaking incident that occurred an hour or two back.

around 33.5million

edit: 31,950,000

I am not sure we envy DrPauly's front row seat at le Spectacle de Hellmuth (he's rubber band flicking distance from the Great Man...) - we can hear a lot of the ranting from our safe spot.  Hellmuth wants it reported, he gets it reported...

Mid 15-min break.  When they get back we've got some bubble-hovering to do.  It's about 100 times easier here since there's a kind of bottleneck into the Fontana bar and the idle curious are kept outside it.  While I am all for allowing spectators in, they do tend to crowd four deep around any table with action on it like in Dortmund, making it impossible to see what's going on.

Let's get a better idea who's been redrawn with whom...

Has he climbed across tables asking people not to call, like he did against you in the media event? :D

They're racing off the orange 500 chips, leaving just the 10k and 1k ones behind. 

Blinds 4k/8k ante 1k

any idea of how many entered, and the average stack?

Any Irish left?  (double check Alan Smurfits birthcert if he is nearby!)


Thanks for the updates.

636 entrants; using the figure of 31,950,000 in play, I calculate the average stack at 304,285.714285recurring.  Or roughly 300k

No Irish, I am afraid.

Hand for hand...

only to 5 decimal points Jen? You're slipping....


Thanks!

Anna Wroblewski -- 485,000
Johan Storakers-- 250,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 135,000
Phil Tom -- 150,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 645,000
Barny Boatman -- 235,000
Scott Fischman -- 670,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 1,040,000
Jared Hamby -- 225,000
Lyle Berman -- 210,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 465,000
Bill Gazes -- 335,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 215,000
Marcello Del Grosso -- 175,000
Humberto Brenes -- 512,000
Raymond Davis -- 590,000
Steve Wong -- 700,000
Tim Pham -- 185,000
David Danshegar -- 185,000
Patrik Antonius -- 605,000
Bryon Devonshire -- 412,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 880,000
Mikael Thuritz -- 680,000
Praz Bansi -- 160,000
Bob Stupak -- 185,000
Gevork Kasabyan -- 65,000
David Levi -- 435,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 975,000
Daniel Aliea -- 285,000
Sam Grizzle -- 149,000
Paul Wasicka -- 595,000
Jeff Littlefield -- 66,000
Shawn Buchannan -- 490,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 244,000
Sammy Farha -- 220,000
David Baker -- 135,000
Marc Goodwin -- 210,000

You know what time it is....................                                                     STOP!













BUBBLE TIME
;mc;

Progress is very slow because it's hand to hand with so many tables, but word is that on the last hand we lost two players from separate tables.

They're are currently undertaking a head count.

And the reason they are doing so is that there was a double all-in last hand!  After an abysmally long time while the clock was ominously not stopped the tension felt by Robert Mizrachi, all in with his 9d 9c must have been unbearable.  He was up against 4s 6s, but all in for what looked to be about 40k.
Flop:  8s 7d Kc
Turn:  Ks
River:  2s  (You knew it was a spade from the intake of breath from all the other players at the table, and that resigned and heavy look on Mizrachi's face...)

He makes the minimum of fuss, while news of the double knockout spreads with a kind of guilty cheer through the room.  "Yay!" go a lot of the others who are guaranteed their 100th-51st £46,410, but you have to feel for the Double Bubble.

Humberto, who scraped into the money with just 10,000 (4/8k blinds remember), has just doubled up with Jd Tc vs. 8h 3d.

Board = 4c Kd Qc Js 2d

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuumbertoooooooooooooooo

Marc Goodwin's claim to fame is that he knocked out Mr 100, Queens v Deuces, and is now up to 300k.

Go the Brummie Pimp!!!  ;cheerleader;

Okay, looking back through the start of day table list, here are a few names that slipped under the radar:

Isabelle Mercier
Martin De Kjniff
Eric Friberg
Freddie Deeb
Amir Vahedi
Chip Reese

All out.

Incredibly, Humberto Brenes has gone from 10k to 90k.

"It's easy, I told you," he says delighted.

LOL, we need an Humberto smilie because the enigmatic Costa Rican is now on a quite remarkable 200k after doubling through with Ad Ks vs. Ac Qs, the board coming a harmless 9h 2h Ts 8h 4c.

Sorel Mizzi makes it 23k from early position and receives two callers in Mikael Thuritz and Praz Bansi.

Flop = 4s 9d 2c

Praz checks, Sorel bets 51k, Mikael calls, Praz moves all-in, Sorel and Mikael both fold, although the latter spent a long session in the tank before mucking.

allll the wayyy! goo hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbertooooooo!!!

I want to meet him :-)

Go on Praz!!!! STFL!!!!!!

Robert Wazalle, pictured below might be worth a watch.

Spoke to this unique guy in the queue for the buffet last night. Apparently, he only works four months a year doing medieval recreations and the rest of the time he lives up in the mountains in Ohio (I believe he said was the location).

Not sure if he's got a lappie up there, but either way, he qualified for this comp for just $175.

Nice guy, good to see him cash.

Excellent updates as usual Jen and Snoops. For any Roland fans, a quick perusal of the pokerwire site informs me that he's on pokerwire radio tonight, for those that don't know it's the radio show done by Scott Huff/Joe Stapleton, Gavin Smith and Joe Sebok and always a good listen (they used to do Cardplayer's 'The Circuit' when it was good)

p,s. say hi to Court from pocket fives from me if you get the chance.

Humberto had 10k like 20 mins ago and now he has 200k??? Incredible!! Must have got the shark out

Go Praz my son. STFL. Whole Hitsquad behind you. Oh and Chaz says he's thirsty, whatever that's meant to mean....

Someone known merely as 'Inside Sweaterman' to all the players and bloggers has just exited at the hands of James Worth with 8h 6h vs. Ad 8d, 9-9-A-A-Q rainbow board.

We did indeed catch a glimpse of the shark. It now has a little red light in his mouth when his mouth opens.

Good news for Pimp fans, Marc Goodwin is up to 500k after catching Sixes vs. James Worth's Fours on a 6-5-4 Flop.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a double up, because after James flat called a 36k bet from Marc on the Flop, the Turn brought a Three, which slowed them both down, although James did later say that he was looking for a check raise.

On the River, however, came an action packed Five. James bet 20k, Marc made it 90k and James called.

"I would have called an all-in," said James, whilst Marc added, "I would have bet more but I thought he had the straight and wanted a call."

We're down to 85. The first five went as follows:

100th = Bradley Helm
99th = Steven Mandelbaum
98th = Todd Keikoan
97th = Mark Stubbs
96th = Kevin Keller
95th = Robert Nehorayan

Near unbelievably, Humberto has a new message for you, "Now you can post Humberto has 300!"  Yes he has taken Climber of the Day to a different level - 10k to 300k in less than half an hour.

His most recent 100k or so came about like this:  He saw a flop heads up, out of position, with Raymond Davis - Qh 4d 9s.  Humberto bet out 40k.  Davis calmly doubled the bet.  80k might not be that much to one of the chip forerunners, but it put Humberto on a tough decision.  He took his time, about five minutes passing before he shoved all-in, about 70k on top of Davis' raise.  He must have liked the split-second fold of his opponent, even to that size of raise, must have been pure nothing in the button-possessor's hand.

"Not Humberto no good!" Shouted Humberto, whatever that means.

Marc Goodwin isn't a happy bunny. He just re-raised pre-flop only to see Bob Stupak to go over the top for a 200k pot.

"Do you want some chips or to go home?" asks Mark.

"Give me some chips,' responds Bob.

And with that, Marc folded his A-Q, as most people would against the rockiest player in the room.

What did Bob reveal? A-J. Gutted.

"If I'd have know he was a millionaire I would have called," cried Marc when I informed him of who Stupak was.

Man, this is soooooooo exciting!!  I might be too easily pleased though....

Can we get a picture of the shark???? and Praz

Is Glenn with you or something?  ;ashamed;

I take it Praz isn't the shark then?...

Don't be silly - it's Tikay  :D

No, just me and the fruit bowl..... ;ashamed;

Johan Storakers is OUT.

or 'Strokes' as Bullit Pete called him.

As they break yet another table (I take back all those gloomy predictions of a 15-hour Day Four) Patrik Antonius is moved to Thomas Wahlroos' table.  "The two remaining Finns at the same table..." Thomas muses, before getting involved in this hand:

Thomas raises on the button quickly when it passes to him (I am sure this is not a rare occurrence) to 14k total.  Small blind Tim Phan gets out of the way, but big blind Lyle Berman pushes all in over the top.  Thomas calls instantly, and you get the feeling that was not the idea - Lyle's Ad Th is against Finn #1's Ahrt Ks.
Flop:  2d 4s 9h
Turn:  5h
River:  3c

And as the split card comes down on the river giving them both the wheel, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Thomas had lost that hand, and that Lyle might have kicked him in the shins and slashed the tyres on his car:  "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"
"It's not sick, it's justice..." replies Lyle.
"Will this never end?!" He shakes his metaphorical fist at the cruel gods of fate, then turns and starts chatting to Patrik Antonius in what must be Finnish.  He probably said something like, "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"

I daren't ask how you'd entertain yourself in that manner with a fruitbowl....... ;ashamed;

LOL  ;D

 ;flushy;

You do know that fruit bowls have fruit in them, right?

"Wha'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"

Oi Dell!!!!    :redcard: :redcard:

The other red card for Snoops, fruit is for eating silly!!!!

Anna Wroblewski just took a pot off the guy pictured below, betting 100k on the Aspades River after her 60k bet on a 7d 3h 8c 9c board was swiftly called.

Kevin O'Connell is still in, and cheerfully re-raising Phil Hellmuth's preflop raise as I walked past.  Phil passed, showing Kh Tc and saying, "I give it up to you.  That's the last one, you've had your allowance...I had a bad feeling about that hand.  That's the worst I raise with."  Etc. ad infinitum.  Lose the small raise quietly... ;)

Or...

Interestingly it said on another site that Kevin O'Connell was out.  Just goes to show you can only trust Blonde  ;)

 rotflmfao rotflmfao Jen.  I've heard of fruit to help a hangover, but thats gotta hurt!!

Phil Tom -- 765,000
Anna Wroblewski -- 585,000
Patrik Antonius -- 355,000
Richard Anthony -- 565,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 310,000

Oh, I thought you meant something dreadful involving bananas...

Well, if they did, they bokked him I'm afraid...

Pooo

Actually, he's just this second come over here, and is OUT!  He apparently lost the biggest chunk of a medium stack raising with Ac Kc, and finding a small stack pushing in.  Call - he was up against Qd Ts.  The Queen-high all-in was walking away from the table, but spiked a Queen and a Ten to drop him down to 30k.  That went in pretty sharpish with Ad Qd, but he ran smack into Kings.  "I didn't know it was possible to win fifty grand and be so annoyed."

Well two hands you can do nothing about, its such a cruel game.  But hey, I'd be proud..........eventually!

the hellmuth....also ttreaking comment was genius! i just woke up so im catching up on the action...............also fischman and jermone stole the thundercats shirt from me god dammit!

WE HAVE ACTION!!!

;as;

Incredible hand involving Jaime Ligator, Jared Hamby and Tim Phan.

Phan raises it up, Jaime calls, Jared pushes for 160k, Phan announces all-in and Jaime calls.

Tim Phan = 6s 6d

Jared Hamby = Jc Js

Jaime Ligator = Ac Ad

Flop = Kh 2s 5d

Turn = 6h

A railer celebrates on Phan's behalf and shakes his chair.

River = Jd

Jared punches the air and puts his finger to his mouth like Cantona celebrating a goal.

New chip counts:

Jaime Ligator -- 30,000
Tim Phan -- 125,000
Jared Hamby -- 365,000

I'm picturing Barny Boatman brandishing that banana again...and that's just wrong

Jaime Ligator is now OUT.

Moved his 30k in with Ks 8c, Jared called and Abraham Mosseri moved all-in with Aspades Ac

Board = Qd Ts 4h 7c 4c

I believe this is Loi Phan, who quietly stole the chip lead in the last level, passing the million mark while others were making much more of a fuss about it...

So did Barny, he brought his own.

The players are currently on a 15 minute break.

Kevin O'Connell, who's in the middle of a no-drinking till the World Series bet (10k), said that if he'd won this he would have told Roland to sod his bet and go back on the booze.  ;D

You should have seen the look I got when I asked if was planning to continue drinking after the bet had finished...

80th = Melissa Hayden

81st = James Van Alstyne

82nd = Marcello Del Grosso

83rd = Sam Farha

84th = Lamar Wilkinson

85th = Johan Storakers

86th = David Daneshgar

87th = Kevin O'Connell

88th = John Harris

89th = Peter Rho

90th = Jason Freetag

91st = John Nathan

92nd = Robert Goldfarb

93rd = Alvin Zeidenfeld

94th = Thomas Werthmann

95th = Robert Nehorayan

96th = Kevin Keller

97th = Mark Stubbs

98th = Todd Keikoan

99th = Steven Mandelbaum

100th = Bradley Helm

And the next lot of OUTs -

73rd  Stan Fulton
74th  Bryan Devonshire
75th  Gary Haubelt
76th  Jordan Siegel
77th  Jamie Ligator
78th  Sam Grizzle
79th  Nek-Pal Singh

Thomas Wahlroos has more than doubled up to 800k.

All-in pre-flop.

Mateyboy (only for 80k) = 6s 6h

Mark Gregovic = Kc Kh

Thomas Wahlroos = Ks Kd

Flop = Th 6d 2d

Turn = Jd

River = Ad

Need I say more?...

According to Claus Nielsen, Ram Vaswani was the Mateyboy with the Sixes.

When I got there, the cards were already dealt and there was an empty seat, so I assume Ram made a very sharp exit indeed - who wouldn't after that flop!

Marc Goodwin is back down to 300-350k after doubling up a shortstack with A-K vs. 9-9, 8-Q-8-3-T rainbow board.

ye, he's certainly running bad. must be awful to run so bad that u outdraw the same hand as you and a flopped set.

Picture = jammy dodger biscuit = lucky git  ;D

Ross Boatman has doubled up to just over 300k.

All-in on a Flop of 6s 4d 5c with Kd Kc versus. Ahrt 6h

Turn = Jd

River = Jh

Eric Kesselman is OUT.

All-in pre-flop with Aspades Qs, Eric was looked up by Raymond Davis' Pocket Sevens.

Emphatic 7 on the Flop.

Board = 9d 6h Js Qd 7s

Update on Bansi pls guys..

OK moving on - new hand involving players to whom I am hesitant to assign names - the redraw at 109 players messed up my carefull constructed seating identification plan.  So please refer to photos...

Matey1 (Franklin Caldwell) gets it all in preflop, called in two spots.  Mateys two and three look at the Js 3s 6d flop while as is traditional the all-in player stands up and can only watch with a sinking heart as Matey2 bets 60k into the dry side pot.  Call by Matey3.
Turn:  Qh  Matey3 checks, Matey2 bets 130k.  Call again.
River:  Tc  Whatever happened here happened very fast and while a tall person stepped in front of me, so I'll say it went check-check.  Yes, that must be the case, as Matey2 showed his 6s 6h for the flopped set, while Matey3's guardian angel must have brought his Th Ts the two outer on the river to take the whole pot, getting a bit of an earful, however, about calling so much when the side pot was empty...

Just to familiarise you with some of the less recognisable names..

(1) Raymond Davis
(2) Bill Ferrand
(3) Shawn Buchanan

Praz gives the glass-half-empty thumbs down sign, but we both gave him the half-full thumbs up as he put his 300k or so chips to use... He called Loi Phan's preflop raise to 30k from the big blind, and checked the 3s 8s 8h flop.  Phan bet 50k and Praz min-check-raised him, eventually winning a few more.  It might have been a slow day for him, but he's clearly, somehow, got the stamina for it despite having had no sleep since, presumably, pre-Manchester.

Pictured tipping his hat to himself, for being exceptionally sick.

Humberto Brenes is OUT.  :'(

Didn't catch the hand, but I hear he got rivered.

Roland de Wolfe has just eliminated WPT winner Joe Tehan...

Roland = Qc Qh

Joe = Kh 6h

Board = 2c 3h 6s 9h 5c

Ross Boatman is back down to 225k. after calling a 70k bet on a board of Kh 6d Kc 7c 9s.

Opponent showed Kd Qd, Ross nodded his head in disappointment.

Timothy McCarthy: Stoic short stack.  Pictured here when all in... I thought the Irish could adopt him as, despite clearly being American, he's got "Irish 1" on his bright green shirt.  Could keep you interested...?

AIP, AQ vs 1010, hit a queen on flop, then a 10 on river, would have been a great comeback from 10k to 550k+

How many left please, whats the average and what time we done???  Cheers muchly

Roland de Wolfe raised it preflop to 34k, was called by neighbour Carlos Mortensen.  It passed round to small blind Jared Hamby who re-raised a further 65k.  A half hearted, "How much you playing...roughly," from Roland later and he let that one go, as did Carlos.  Here they are pictured pretending that didn't happen, and Jared is the one getting the sidelong superstare from Irish1 McCarthy...

57 left; they redraw again at 54 for no apparent reason.

Done in half an hour.

How is it going with high stakes player Daniel Alaei?

Beautiful, ty

Barny Boatman is OUT.

He raised it up with Qs Ts, but found a raise and a re-raise behind him.

With 90k in front of him and a 350k pot on offer, Barny decided to gamble.

As he expected, his cards were live as the re-re-raiser had A-K, which ultimately stood up, even though Barny flopped a cheeky flush draw.

He looked genuinely gutted, but he had a good run this year and he'll be back. Only a matter of time before he cracks a big comp.

57 left, 26 mins left on the clock, they don't disiplay the average.

nice little comp, but luton on saturday............ mmmmm

average 560K then

Some chippy counts for you to feast your eyes on:

Jared Hamby -- 475,000
Daniel Alaei -- 160,000
Loi Phan -- 1,275,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 495,000
Lyle Berman -- 365,000
Praz Bansi -- 315,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 925,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 1,105,000
Paul Wasicka -- 655,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 275,000
Richard Anthony -- 705,000
David Levi -- 310,000
Bill Ferrand -- 690,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 1,175,000
Todd Rozelle -- 365,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 845,000
Marc Goodwin -- 265,000
Tim Phan -- 405,000
Shawn Buchanan -- 145,000
James Worth -- 205,000

Chipcount on Phil Hellmuth please.

This gent is still in, name:  Robert Wazelle - Snoopy got talking to him in the buffet queue last night, and it turns out he's not a pro player, he qualified for a couple of hundred bucks, and his profession is being in Medieval recreations for four months a year (the WPT Championship is taking a bite out of the season, but I'm sure he won't mind now).  The rest of the time he lives in a cabin in the woods.  Snoopy asked him, "So, do you have running water," to which he replied, "I built a well.."

Genuinely hope he makes it further on, hearing his bio read out on TV would make a fascinating change. 

You how all the girl swoon at the feet of Patrik Antonius? Well, they might have second thoughts now because he currently has the expression of a bulldog chewing on a wasp AND a stinging nettle after his 9h 9d was outdrawn by Ben Johnson's Kc Tc on a 3h Aspades 9c 6c board, 7c hitting the River.

Antonius down to just 42k, tournament director has requested a drug test on Johnson.

Mikael Thuritz is getting involved in quite a few hands, it looks like (he's Claus Nielsen's tip, in general)... First of all he lost a couple to Loi Phan who called his utg 30k from the big blind and called his 40k bet on the Aspades 3h 4c flop.  The Qs came on the turn, Mikael bet out 70k, but passed fairly quickly after he got check-raised a further 70k.

Then he won a few from Sorel Mizzi, who raised on the button to 26k, Michael calling in the bb.  Flop:  7h 7d 5s  Check to Sorel who bet 40k; call.
Turn:  6s  check-check
River:  2s  Mikael Thuritz bet 150k, a kind of "that's about half my stack, I am probably not folding" kind of bet, which worked, in the end.

Pictured here drinking cup-a-soup.  No, really.

Why do girls do that?  I just dont get it!   :dontask:

Drug test?  HAha, still going strong Snoops!

Very difficult to count Phil Hellmuth's chips accurately due to the bizarre way he stacks them, but he's still got the cake, especially after the last hand which resulted in the Poker Brat jumping out of his seat, clapping his hands in ecstasy and exclaiming to the rest of the room, "Yeah, baby! Now that's poker!"

The hand?

Flop = 5c 9d 3d

Phil checks, Grant Lang bets 120k and Phil calls.

Turn = 2c

Phil bets 90k, Grant calls.

River = Td

Phil checks, Lang bets 200k, Phil calls.

Phil shows 6d 6s, Grant mucks.

I bet he does a good pirate voice....

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr

End of day chip counts:

Fred David -- 243,000
David Oppenheim -- 424,000
Noah Jefferson -- 170,500
Mark Gregorich -- 197,000
Ben Johnson -- 626,000
Patrik Antonius -- 38,000
Guy Laliberte -- 729,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 703,000
Adeeb Harb -- 424,000
Loi Pham -- 1,401,900
Mikael Thuritz -- 333,000
Jake Minter -- 535,000
Praz Bansi -- 219,000
Kirk Morrison -- 1,312,000
Lyle Berman -- 501,000
David Baker -- 499,000
Daniel Alaei -- 278,000
Jared Hamby -- 494,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 334,000
Paul Wasicka -- 558,000
Roland de Wolfe  -- 1,287,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 939,000
Ian Johns -- 862,000
Robert Wazelle -- 815,000
Ted Kearly -- 313,000
Eric Hershler -- 651,000
Thomas Schreiber -- 453,000
Can Hua -- 1,041,000
Tim Phan -- 646,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 646,000
Doron Malinasky -- 301,000
Grant Lang -- 623,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 1,827,000
Paul J. Lee -- 540,000
Scott Fischman -- 617,000
Tom Pniak -- 778,000
Jimmy Ngoc Tran -- 550,000
Raymond Davis -- 1,704,000
Justin Bonomo -- 625,000
Antonio Salorio -- 372,000
Tommy Vu -- 333,000
Phil Tom -- 252,000
Joe Grebanier -- 88,000
Tom Lee -- 251,000
Mike Wattel -- 935,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 1,189,000
Justin Young -- 196,000
David Levi -- 360,000
Bill Gazes -- 510,000
Marc Goodwin -- 427,000
Elia Ahmadian -- 195,000
Bill Ferran -- 633,000
James Worth -- 230,000

Two words for you young lady... Gus Hansen  ;)

 rotflmfao rotflmfao  Over It!!!

Although they put bits of tape over Snoopy's little blondepoker logo, apparently my shirt is allowed!

GO PIRATES

Plus, if you were wondering at the wincing earlier, here's the Snoopy outfit for the day, with which lovely image it seems wholly appropriate to leave you...


;stickaforkinme;

;grr;

;stickaforkinme;

You can never get enough of some blanket norkage

 ;stickaforkinme;

Fantastic Job the pair of you x

One word, midget.

That's awesome! lol

I'm going to order pirate tshirts.

GO TEAM!

Excellent updates guys!  Never had time to trawl through interactive thread folks but caught up on all action on the othere thread.  Two of my original picks still going strong.  Best of luck to the Roland and Marc.

keep going Praz - 1 or 2 double ups and you are back in the hunt.
What a great event tons of chips, plenty of play , strong field and of course Snoops and Jen.

Super Snooper Jentastic updates guys.

 :respect:  I think u two are taking these updates to a higher level really
great stuff.

              Many thanks
                       Neves.

Top updates guys!!. Can't wait to read today's tommorow.

It seems like Mr. Goodwin has a knack for doing well in the $25k buyin comps, good luck Mr. Cool :respect:

what happened to anna? and is did anyone find out if she is coming to the bash?

She is only coming to the chinese on Friday night, so you are gonna miss her :D

ibugger thats a shame then cause i aint going to chinesse even if karen bagoley was there offering free lapdances