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Best final table of the WSOP so far imo. Of course, we can only post once an hour, but I'm told that we're also allowed to report any bust-outs if and when they occur. They're playing in the ESPN stage area so close-up photos will be virtually impossible.

Seat 1: Doyle Brunson -- 510,000
Seat 2: Patrik Antonius -- 650,000
Seat 3: Marco Traniello -- 420,000
Seat 4: Rene Mouritsen -- 775,000
Seat 5: Tommy Ly -- 1,895,000
Seat 6: Jonas Flug-Entin -- 445,000
Seat 7: Steve Sung -- 175,000
Seat 8: Stephen Ladowski -- 360,000
Seat 9: Robert Mizrachi -- 1,090,000

Who do you think will win this?

And we are already down to 8.

Steve Sung raises to 105k (Blinds 15k/30k), Marco Traniello calls in the big blind.

Flop:

Qc Ts 9s

Marco puts Steve in for his last 70k. Steve calls.

Marco:

Qh Qs 7d 4d

Steve:

Ac Ad Ks 9d

Turn:

6d

River:

7h

Steve Sung is OUT in 9th place winning $50,177

Robert Mizrachi, Doyle Brunson and Patrick Antonius all limp in. Jonas Flug-Entin checks his option in the big blind.

Flop:

8h Th 8s

Jonas bets 135k, Robert makes it 270k and Doyle and Patrick fold. Jonas makes the call for the rest of his chips.

Jonas:

Kc 8c 7c 4s

Robert:

Ad Qc 8d 7s

Turn:

9d

River:

2d

Jonas Flug-Entin is our 8th place finisher winning $69,363

A little summary from the first hour.

Jonas (before his exit) raised pot to 105k, Doyle called in the big blind.

Flop:

Ks 7h Tc

Both check.

Turn:

3d

Doyle bets 225k and takes it down

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Robert Mizrachi limps on the button for 30k. Doyle makes up. Patrick raises to 120k. Robert calls. Doyle re-raises full pot and both other players fold and there's applause from the crowd.

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Robert raises to 95k and takes blinds

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Four-way limped pot between Marco, Rene, Tommy and Patrick. They all check the Jd 6d Ks flop before Tommy bets 100k on the 7d turn, only Patrick calls. Both check the 4h river where Patrick's 7-7-x-x beats Tommy's A-Q-J-7

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Doyle limps and Tommy checks the big blind

They check the 5d 3c 4c 5s 4d to the river where Doyle's J-J-7-7 beats Tommy's K-8-8-6

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Stephen Ladowski doubles through Robert Mizrachi all-in preflop with Kc Kh 9h 4h vs Ks Jd 7d 4s on a Kd Jh 9h Aspades 4c board.

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Marco calls a 50k bet on a Ac Kd Td board from Patrick, they then check the Ks turn and Ad river where Marco's Q-J-x-x is still good.

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Robert raises to 95k, Rene calls in the big blind.

Flop:

8c 3s 5s

Rene checks, Robert bets 160k, Rene raises to 525k, Robert folds.

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Blinds are 20k/40k

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Stephen limps into a pot with Robert and Doyle

Flop:

Ad 7h 2d

Robert bets 80k, Doyle folds, Stephen calls. The Kd turn and 9d are checked down and Robert's A-2-x-x wins.

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Stephen, Robert, Doyle and Patrick see a flop:

6h Ts 3s

Doyle and Patrick check, Stephen bets 140k with not too much more behind. Robert calls. Doyle and Patrick fold

Turn:

Ts

Stephen checks, Robert bets 100k and Stephen quickly folds.

Stephen Ladowski is OUT in 7th place winning $92,975

Robert Mizrachi limped UTG, Tommy Ly made up the small blind and Stephen checked the big blind.

Flop:

9d 4d 2c

Tommy and Stephen both check, Robert bets 90k. Tommy folds and Stephen dwells before saying, "Ok, let's go." Robert calls the all-in for very little more.

Robert:

Td Ts 8c 7h

Stephen:

9h 5h 3d 3s

Turn:

3h

"Only a ten now," says Mr Cool, commentating on the live feed.

River:

Th

Down to six.

 :hello: Jen, Floppy and Sloppy from a wild wet and wooly UK

I'm all ears and eyes  ;nanana;

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yeah great read, keep em coming.

Patrik Antonius, c'est l'homme.

I'm just starting to play d/c cash and these updates are great for starting hands info.

You're doing a great job - even if you can only manage it once an hour.... ;D

Keep up the good work, listening here...

Surely a girl gets fed up of saying that after a while Tracey?

You tell me Andrew....

I'm asleep way before then.

We are now on a short 15 minute break.

Patrick Antonius had been all-in with Aspades Qs 9h 3c on a 9c 6h 5d board after Doyle had set him in with Jc 7d 6h 5h. Antonius hit the Qd and his two pair stayed good despite Doyle hitting a 3rd pair with 7h on the river.

Doyle raised to 120k in the small blind and Patrick called in the big blind.

Flop:

Qc Ahrt Jd

check check.

Turn:

7h

Doyle bets 130k, Patrick dwells for ages before calling.

River:

9c

Doyle moves in and Patrick passes.

The next hand, Robert, Marco limp, Rene makes up and Tommy checks.

Flop:

Jc 5c 4s

Rene checks, Tommy bets 160k, Robert calls and Marco folds.

Turn:

3s

Tommy bets 480k and Robert calls.

River:

4d

Tommy checks and Robert bets 500k. Tommy passes a 7-6 face up and Robert shows 8-6-5-4 suited in spades and clubs.

Just spoke to Marc Goodwin, he says Robert Mizrachi is playing the best, though in the above hand, he could've have put Tommy all-in on the turn with his two pair, gutshot draw and double flush draw. He thinks Patrick is playing too weak and his call on the turn of the Qc Ahrt Jd 7h board with a drawing hand was really bad. As I finished speaking to him, Patrick was coming down the hallway and Mark dashed off to give him a pep talk.

Come on Doyle - lets keep Phil honest.

Doyle Brunson is OUT in 6th place winning $123,967

Blinds had gone up to 30k/60k.

Doyle was crippled in a raised pot against Patrick. Patrick had raised utg with Jc 9c 7s 6d and Doyle had called in the big blind with Ahrt Qd Js 9s

Doyle put Antonius in on the 5c 2c 9h flop and was quickly called, with the Tc coming on the turn left no outs for Doyle on the river which was simply the Qh.

Doyle pushed the next hand in the small blind, Patrick called.

Doyle:

8s 8c 4s 9d

Patrick:

Qc 7s 6s 3s

Board:

7h 3d Ac Ts 5c

Five now left.

Yay Mr Brunson with his most excellent hat.

Marco Traniello is OUT in 5th place winnning $156,435

Marco and Rene checked a Td 2c Ad and Robert bet the pot. Marco called and Rene folded.

The Turn was the Kc and Marco ended up all-in against Robert.

Robert:

Aspades Qs Js 7s

Marco

Qh 9c 2d 2h

River:

4h

Mark Goodwin was quite critical of Marco's choice of checking his set and letting Robert hit his middle pin straight. 4 are left and there have been some major chip changes, which I'll let you know about in my next hourly post in 10 minutes or so.

The biggest chip change was down to a monster pot between Rene and Robert in an Aces vs Ace confrontation

Rene:

Ad Aspades Kd Qc

Robert:

Ahrt Ac 8h 5d


Board:

Jh 9h Td 8c 2d

A passionate yell of delight from the Dane as his nut straight holds vs the nut flush draw. Mizrachi is short stacked.

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Before he went out, Marco had another hand where he was all-in, this time against Rene.

With the board reading Jc Jd 5s, he pushed for his last chips with Qs Qd Jh Td against the Ks Kh Qc Ts of Rene.

The turn was the excellent looking 9d to give him a straight flush draw as well as his trips but the 8h meant it was chop chop time.

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Robert Mizrachi doubled up his short stack, check/raising all-in against Patrick Antonius who had bet a Kh 7h 8h board. Mizrachi moved in with Qh Jh 8c 7c leaving Antonius needing runner runner for his Aspades Ks Qc Td but Mizrachi was home and dry when the turn came a 6s.

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Mizrachi took more chips off Antonius with 8d 5h x-x against the 7-6 of Antonius on a 5d 8h 4d 5s 8c board.

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Patrick takes a pot down with a 350k bet on the river of a 8s 9c Jc Kd 8h against Tommy and Robert.

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Rene raises to 180k in the small blind, Tommy calls in the big blind but folds to a pot bet on the Jc Qc 3d board.

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Blinds are now 40k/80k.

I was about to do the chip counts but they err...just changed

On a Ks Js Ts Jd 9c board, Patrick moves all-in and Mizrachi calls.

Patrick turns over Aspades Qs Jc 5c for the flopped Royal Flush. Mizrachi has Tens full of Jacks. Patrick doubles up.

Martin Wendt standing next to me. "What a luckbox."

Tommy Ly is OUT in 4th place winning $209,564

He pushed his short stack in with Ad Kc Ts 2s against the Aspades Qs Qd 2d of Rene.

Board:

8h 7d 3c 4d 8s

Chip Counts courtesy of the WSOP site:

Robert Mizrachi -- 2.3 million
Patrick Antonius -- 2.28 million
Rene Mouritsen -- 1.78 million

That flopped Royal Flush for Mr A is the kind of luck I want to see next week. Goodnight flopmeister - need some sleep. Good posts as always. Ciao!

ps a few people will now be happy that Patrick is now on the score sheet.

This is NOT an update.  Just to say good job Homer holding the fort while some of us with weaker constitutions lay in bed for two days having been poisioned by a chicken salad. 

That's an incredibly rubbish thing to poison yourself with. Salad, dude...

Incidentally I got you a wonderful thing from Israeli duty free that you probably don't want to hear about now with your stomach turning on you but you'll love it when you get back...

I bet it's some kind of desiccated meat snack!  Anyway, I know that's lame, so lame, when I could  be ill because of drinking Witch Doctors (served in goldfish-bowl sized glasses which foam smoke out in bubbles due to dry ice apparently being an ingredient)!  Maybe on my birthday... ;)

Well, I have been watching for the last hour, and I managed to catch one interesting pot (while listening to the Guest Commentator Marc Goodwin, no less)...

Patrik Antonius has been getting a lot of credit for being the most aggressive of the final three, with Robert Mizrachi second-most-aggressive while Rene Morrison is third and getting fewer walks than the other two (although their chip stacks look fairly even).  With the blinds having just been 40k/80k it looks like pretty soon the playing of small pots will be hard.

Antonius seems to limp on the button quite a bit, and just now he got involved in a threeway pot seeing a 7-J-5 all-heart flop.  It checked round - so who was going to bet the Ts turn?  Robert Mizrachi, getting a call from Patrik only.  On the 3d river, Robert bet out 350k.  The commentators couldn't decide whether this looked like a value bet or not.  Patrik Antonius thought for a while before deciding that his J-T flush was worth a call.  "Good call," admitted Mizrachi, giving the pot to the popular European.

ahh the vodoo lounge ... the witch doctor is great I broke a record i think 16 of them in one night.. got told of for throwing the dry ice at people.

Kd 2c 4s board, Rene calls a 125k bet from Patrick. Patrick then bets 300k on the Aspades turn, Rene raises pot and Patrick folds instantly.

On a Aspades 6c 9d, all three players check. Robert Mizrachi bets 200k on the turn, Patrick folds, Rene Mouritsen raises pot, 640k more and Robert folds.

Patrick and Rene see a Kd 5h Qd flop and both check. Patrick bets 350k on the turn to take it down.

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60k/120k blinds

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Patrick limps, Rene folds and Robert raises to 420k. Patrick calls.

Flop:

4d 6d 4c

Robert bets 500k and Patrick passes.

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A bit of a walkathon but then this VERY interesting hand comes along. I'd love to see what some of you PLO pros think of this.

Robert limps and Patrick checks.

Flop:

Td 7d Kd

Robert checks, Patrick bets 150k, Robert calls.

Turn:

Jh

Robert checks, Patrick bets 400k, Robert calls.

River:

Jc

Now Robert bets 1.3 million, the majority of his stack and I think probably all of Patrick's stack. Patrick dwells for a while, disgruntled by that river. He passes and exposes Ad Qd. Mizrachi shows 9-8-5-2 with two diamonds. Patrick taps the table and says, "well played."

A short-stacked Patrick next gets it all-in with Ts 9d 7h 2h against the Ad 6d 7c 3c of Mouritsen.

Board:

Ahrt 9h 6c 8d Kd


Patrick raises the small blind most times against Rene after this, finally the Dane decides to re-raise him and before you know it, all the chips are in the middle.

Patrick:

Ahrt Kh Jd 2h

Rene:

Ac Ks Th 4h

Board:

5c Qc Ts Js 9d

;kc;

Elimination!

Patrik Antonius finishes in 3rd place winning $311,394

Short, with 415k, he moved in preflop on the button holding Ad Ks 8h 2s, but it wasn't great timing, as Robert Mizrachi called in the big blind with his Aspades Ac 5c 2s.  The board came Qc 5d 7c 3h Jc, and we are now heads up.  Of the two remaining, it's Rene Mouritsen who seems to be the most, er, animated of the two - I think he may have been doing the "Westside!" hand gesture or something similar at his railers as Antonius did the Slow Walk, and I could barely believe it when he stood up and, Michael Jackson-like, crotch-grabbed after making an (admittedly) great call with one pair on the river the hand previously.  Lord only knows what he'll do if he wins it...

Not possible. He's a God. God's don't get eliminated.

And it's all over  -

After no fewer than three short-stack double-ups by Rene Mouritsen, who was mercilessly raised and loosely called by the chip leading Robert Mizrachi, they got it all-in on a Qd 9c 3d flop, with Robert having flopped a set of Nines, while Rene's 6d 7d Aspades Qc had outs... they all missed, though, and a crowd mobbed Mizrachi as he took down the table he'd played so well on.  Commentators Marc Goodwin and Robert Williamson clearly rated him highest on the final, and he certainly played well from the couple of hours I made it here for... ::)

So Rene Mouritsen takes second and $484,877

While the bracelet winner, taking $768,889 is Robert Mizrachi

Top job. Jen was ill today, but battled on.

Well done to Robert Mizrachi too, he seems handy. Guess the Mizrachi's are taking over the world now.

great posts all keep it up.

 ;hattip; much appreciated morning reading.  :)up

 ;applause;  Thanks for great updates as usual.

Good job done there guys, thank you, & wsh Jen a speedy recovery.

xx

Have enjoyed reading all the udates from Vegas , you do a top job jen , Snoops and Floppy


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Also love reading your blog Snoopy  :)

So you're the one!  :D

Fraid so  ;D