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2 players out 1st hand of the day, NOT Skalie, 34 left

33 Left:

Skalie loses 650,000 in a pot

32 left

What's his stack?

31 Left:

Skalie is on featured table, i am guessing his stack is around 2 million, no other details

Do you know how many they play down to? I'm sure it'll go down to the final table.

They play down to the final 9 tonight, then the final starts on Tuesday.

Latest update

Name Chips

Sun Jul 15 20:48:02 UTC+0100 2007

 David Tran 10,280,000
 Philip Hilm 9,950,000
 Ray Henson 8,250,000
 Hevad "Rain" Khan 7,950,000
 Kevin Farry 7,400,000
 Scott Freeman 7,360,000
 Lee Childs 6,520,000
 Jerry Yang 5,090,000
 Kenny Tran 4,955,000
 William Spadea 4,575,000
 Tuan Lam 3,600,000
 Lee Watkinson 3,500,000
 Stefan Mattsson 3,260,000
 Raymond Rahme 3,100,000
 Roy Winston 2,950,000
 Ron Kluber 2,675,000
 Jon Kalmar 2,665,000
 John Armbrust 2,600,000
 Steven Garfinkle 2,350,000
 Bill Edler 2,300,000
 Paulo Loureiro 2,200,000
 Bob Slezak 2,115,000
 Jason Welch 2,115,000
 Jeff Bryan 2,100,000
 Peter Darvill 2,050,000
 Daniel Alaei 1,995,800
 Scotty Nguyen 1,960,000
 Mikkel Madsen 1,850,000
 Ryan Elson 1,785,000
 Alex Kravchenko 1,555,000
 Jason Koshi 1,175,000
 Kevin Kim 0
 Christian Togsverd 0
 Hoa Nguyen 0
 Robin Bergren 0
 Allan W. King 0

Regards

M

In 35 minutes they've managed to play 6 hands on the feature table. They might get 24 hands in a 2 hour level if they're lucky. Meanwhile on the other 3 tables play continues 'as normal'. Unless of course there's an all-in and a call in which case it'll take 10 minutes to get the board cards dealt.

It's a disgrace that they let the TV people dictate the pace of play to the detriment of the tournament in general and the players in particular.

Just something to dream about

Place Prize
1st $8,250,000
2nd $4,840,981
3rd $3,048,025
4th $1,852,721
5th $1,255,069
6th $956,243
7th $705,229
8th $585,699
9th $525,934
10th-12th $476,926
13th-15th $429,114
16th-18th $381,302
19th-27th $333,490
28th-36th $285,678


Regards

M

Lol what happened to Minieri? He had a ton of chips the other day. Did he get thrown out for only being 12 yrs old?

For once I doubt the tv people are to blame.

Even when I first went to the WSOP before tv cameras were around, play slowed to a funerial pace at the last couple of tables.

Although I guess it's understandable, for a fairly quick player it must be infuriating in the extreme.

Jon Kalmar wearing a Stiff Little Fingers T-Shirt is world class IMHO!!!!!

I understand people take a bit longer to make decisions when they're under pressure.

Apparently one of the reasons play is so slow is that all the chips are very similar colours.

I'd be spitting feathers.

Scotty Nguyen Color Blind?
Scotty Nguyen had a problem with putting the wrong color chip out for his big blind. There are three denominations of chips and they're all a variation of orange. The 5,000 chips are orange or tangerine as one staff member called it. The 25,000 chips are peach-colored. The 50,000 are salmon-colored. Depending on the lighting in the Amazon Ballroom and underneath the lights of the ESPN feature table, both players and dealers are having a difficult time figuring out what chips are in play. As one player said, he had to physically look at the numbers on the chips to determine what he's betting. Since all the chips are very similar to each other, action has slowed down while players make extra precautions before betting. Dealers are also having a tougher time counting down stacks and bets.

Unreal  3 chips at this stage close to the same colour

How ludicrous is that?  It's meant to be THE poker event of the year.  Did they not think about this (obviously not)?

29 Left:

Skalie doubles up with KK to 3.4 mill...........

Gooooooooooooooo Skalieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Skalie ALL IN, doubles up to about 3.4 million

Featured Table - Jon Kalmar Doubles Through Daniel Alaei
On the Featured Table, Jon Kalmar says "Raise" from middle position, but throws in more than half a raise but less than a full raise -- regardless of his originally intent, he is required to make the minimum raise to 120,000. Daniel Alaei reraises from the button to 540,000, and Kenny Tran thinks things over for a minute in the big blind before he folds. The action is back to Kalmar, he moves all in for 1.69 million, and Alaei calls with . Kalmar shows , and as the shorter stack, he'll need them to hold up to stay alive. (Tran says that he folded pocket jacks.) The flop comes , and Kalmar flops a set of kings for a dominating lead. Alaei needs something runner-runner to win the hand. The turn card is the , the river card is the , and Jon Kalmar wins the pot with his three kings, doubling up to about 3.4 million in chips

Courtesy of WorldSeriesofPoker.com

come on johnny boy i hope u make the final all he needs is a few more of thos situations

28 left, break time

Ayarrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! when's the next payrise and how much ? anyone? tyty

The payouts are on page one of this thread...

Courtesy of M.

Place Prize
1st $8,250,000
2nd $4,840,981
3rd $3,048,025
4th $1,852,721
5th $1,255,069
6th $956,243
7th $705,229
8th $585,699
9th $525,934
10th-12th $476,926
13th-15th $429,114
16th-18th $381,302
19th-27th $333,490
28th-36th $285,678

And page 2..........

..and page 3 if you ask nicely.

;D

 ;D ;tightend; ;tightend;

About to resume.

Blinds 40K 80K with a 10K Ante.

Skalie 3.25 million

Please remember everyone if you are taking hand details, chip counts verbatim from other sites, please say where the information is coming from

Thanks


Go Skalie!!

Sorry - the chips counts on page 2 were taken from page 1.

 ;D

go put the kettle on

Could someone pm me a decent link to updates please :-)

www.whatdoeswsopstandfor.com

dont click just follow the not so crypic clue and you will find

www.worldseriesofpoker.com

Kinboshi.......... :redcard:

I've been and looked and i can't find fa... sigh i'm a mug...please help

27 left so up another pay level, an extra $48K not to be sneezed at.

Just spoken to Skalie - he's on top of the world at the mo, and having a ball. His missus has just turned up, too, so he's doubly happy!
He was on the TV table, but they are now redrawing with 27 left.

http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updates_pn.asp?tourneyID=3482&groupID=309&dispType=2

Ty guys! cheers pat- Thats more like it. Thanks rich :-)

Did you want a chip count or the payout structure?

you were too quick, i was gonna set you up for the chip count post, edition 3!

Every 9th post please...

Extracted from WSOP live update

7 minutes ago
Bill Edler: "The Stunning One"
Throughout this whole tournament, one player has truly stood out as a first-class act. His name is Bill Edler. You might remember Edler winning $904,000 for first place in Event #45 ($5,000 6-handed NLHE) where he took home his first WSOP bracelet. Bill is not only a great poker player, but is modest, gracious, and has a very polite demeanor. He graduated from UC-Berkeley with a law degree, but has never practiced, instead electing to play poker. He started out as a cash-game player and has transitioned into the tournament world over the last two years. His best friends are Gavin Smith and Erick Lindgren. Smith even gave him his poker nickname-- "The Stunning One." Edler has placed sixth, seventh and 13th in various World Poker Tour events, making the final table at Bay 101 in March 2007. He recently won the $10,000 NLHE Heads-Up Championships at Crystal Park Casino in Southern California where he defeated Daniel Negreanu in his first match and Barry Greenstein in the finals. Make no mistake about Bill Edler-- he's a poker tournament machine. With 27 players left, he has 4.8 million chips and is in position to perhaps go all the way. Edler feels that in tournaments, if he finds himself in a coinflip situation, he has failed. According to him, there is an art to building a stack without too many coinflips where you're risking your tournament life. Given the manner in which Bill handles himself with people, what a great ambassador for poker he could be as a WSOP Main Event Champion. Best of luck, Bill!

My sort of player, my pick for second place, one behind Skalie of course!

26 left

They're Fuchsia!!!

there are quite a few pros in this still u have skallie, phillip hilm, scotty nguyen,lee watkinson,bill edler,daniel alaie

surley one of these will win it this year will make a change from the unknown.  all of those playes are of high quality come on the pros

skallie first cmon boyo

Faster tables now

Speedier Action at the ESPN Featured Table
With the redraw for the final three tables, the players now at ESPN's Featured Table are acting on their hands much more quickly than the earlier Featured Table, and they are playing more hands (12 so far) as a result.

(www.worldseriesofpoker.com)

sheer class lol

Jon Kalmer Takes A Pot From Daniel Alaei
From under the gun Alaei raised to 250K and Kalmer called. The flop came  and Alaei led out for 320,000. Kalmer raised to 720K in total and that was the right amount to get Alaei out of the hand. Kalmer showed 6c 6d  before scooping up the pot.

from wsop.com 6c

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

If you Google "Rain Khan" you'll read his amazing story of playing up to 43 single-table sit-and-goes at once and getting banned by Poker Stars as a "bot." He decided to make a film documenting him playing 28 games at one and sent it to Poker Stars. The film convinced Poker Stars he was for real and his ban was subsequently lifted.

Throwing this term around quite a lot recently but legend!

25 left skalie took alia out
 
go on son.

Daniel Alaei Is Eliminated in 25th Place ($333,490)
Alaei moved all-in from late position and when the action was folded around to the button Jon Kalmar immediately announced "All-In". Alaei's  was dominated by Kalmar's , and when the board ran out  Daniel Alaei's Main Event run was at an end.

from wsop.com

what were the cards?

AK V AQ I believe

Ryan Elson Is Eliminated in 24th Place ($333,490)
Elson and Jon Kalmar checked a flop of , and when the  hit on the turn Kalmar check-called a 200K bet from Elsonr. The  fell on the river and when Elson checked, Kalmar bet 400,000.

Elson asked, "You hit that Ace?"

Kalmar replied, "You missed your flush?"

Elson announced he was all-in and Kalmar instacalled. Elson held  for trip Eights but Kalmar had a straight with , and that was enough to knock out Elson.

if your going to copy and paste please credit the site you are pasting from and also copy the freaking cards

Ryan Elson Is Eliminated in 24th Place ($333,490)
Elson and Jon Kalmar checked a flop of Qd 8c Jd , and when the  Ac  hit on the turn Kalmar check-called a 200K bet from Elsonr. The  8h fell on the river and when Elson checked, Kalmar bet 400,000.

Elson asked, "You hit that Ace?"

Kalmar replied, "You missed your flush?"

Elson announced he was all-in and Kalmar instacalled. Elson held  8d 9c  for trip Eights but Kalmar had a straight with  Ks Td, and that was enough to knock out Elson.


Des i'm getting fed  up with this u need to put in the cards. Send half a man to do a job........courtesy of WSOP and me

Guys, please post where you're getting your info from. It's not fair to the other sites.

aaayyyyyyyyrrrrrrrrrr, huge pot there. cmon'

19 left money bubble time and kals on 7 million. After next player goes its last 2 table time.

down to 18 now and re-drawing seats!

I am sooo going to feel rough at work tomorrow

redraw for last 2 tables now.

kals still in and looking good with a just shy of 7 at last count

money now- next 3 out get 380, then 3 at 430 finally 3 at 480 then its come back tuesday for the real money ;)

Ring in sick, they're all guilty anyway...

Self employed, so can't really do that.

and I am shocked, all mine are innocent, I know because they told me.

ok ok so skalie can play poker and he has a chance to win the wsop main event

but where did he come in the bB4 quiz?












now get it won

kal up to 10 million- as usual no updates on hand from our american cousins

A valid question - I suggest you put that to him next time you see him - bring him down a peg or two   ;D

They need to take updating lessons from our star blonde updaters.

correction 9.5 million but still nice enough. Ave stack for final table is 14 millionish and there are loads of shorter stacks. anyone on here think he will take his foot off the gas?

too right i will

Lee Watkinson bet 400,000 and Will Spadea raised to 800,000. Watkinson moved all in for 6.5 million and Spadea quickly called.

Watkinson: ak
Spadea: 99


anyone calling here??



from pokernews.

no way

not if with more than 2 million back

It's soooo slow - I need to go to bed - goodnight boys - hope the news is good when I get up later.

me neither, he seems to have been in a lot of pots so why at best flip it at that stage for that amount when he likes to take flops?

g night Tracey

I'll be up in a bit with the cocoa.

cheers Robert, and can you stir it with something else tonight........meanwhile Jon just lost a big pot when hiis oppo held the 2nd nut flush on a paired board. Not sure how much he has now bu the pot was 10 mill in the end

Still here - just waiting to see if the Brief/Bobby romance blossoms...

It was crap reporting...

Not skalie that lost the pot :)

They should leave the updating to the capable hands of snoops, jen and floppy.

I thought it was wrong because I read it a second time and it had changed which was very confusing.

cheers Keith, that is great news.

meanwhile while watchon pokernews i click on a link for hand of the day

it was from day 1b

first off hoyt cokin was utg sat next to mark goodwin sat next to john duthie

for a first day i would be looking for a refund

then mark raises john goes all in the guy to his left pushes all in the bb pushes all in what the heck mark pushes all in

AA v AA v KK v TT

guess who won?

i will go for a split pot.

you could be wrong

He might be right...

i will go for a 3 4 5 6 7 board.

gooone skalie get it won mate.,.,

he might be

ok i missed it first time out

gl skalie


get it done


im off to work now and expect the best of news when i get home

jon upto 9.6 million at the break

gl to Jon, lets hope for great news in the morning.

you going to bed?

I can't turn off the lights until he does......

dont tease

Dinner Break:

Skalie 9,680,000 currently 5/18

hum guess you read the thread then

Skalie CHIP LEADER 17 million

 *g

15 Players left

he still cant answer simple quiz questions



ayyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Scotty Nguyen For The Win!

Dats right babeee!

 ;tracet;

pay day is now guaranteed $429,114

the reporting is terrible

the hand that skalie won a massive pot with the nut flush it reports there is a dead button

no idea why as they didnt report anyone out for awhile

then they said tran called skalies all in but didnt say what he called it with

think pokernews should hire the est updating team out there

for the final table

jen snoopy and floppy aint going to cost the earth and the reports would be 1000x more informing

14 left

Tran probably just mucked when he saw the nuts.........

glglglglgl Skalie, amazing work ;hattip;

3 gone in 30 mins. What did they have for dinner?

see snoopy would of told us that

I hope they've made a mistake with the chip counts...

I think there's a zero missing.

showing 17.5 mill down 910k on my screen

Seat # Name Chips
Mon Jul 16 07:12:07 UTC+0100 2007
 Lee Childs 17,750,000
 Jon Kalmar 16,700,000
 Tuan Lam 15,300,000
 Raymond Rahme 11,895,000
 Lee Watkinson 10,350,000
 Hevad "Rain" Khan 8,650,000
 Scotty Nguyen 7,200,000
 Ray Henson 6,750,000
 Alex Kravchenko 5,700,000
 Jerry Yang 4,050,000


Good Luck

Regards

M

 07.30am

1. Jon Kalmar $22,800,000
 
2. Tuan Lam $20,190,000
 
3. Lee Childs $17,585,000
 
4. Hevad "Rain" Khan $12,740,000
 
5. Raymond Rahme $11,225,000
 
6. Lee Watkinson $9,845,000
 
7. Ray Henson $7,620,000
 
8. Scotty Nguyen $7,495,000
 
9. Alex Kravchenko $5,500,000
 
10. Philip Hilm $5,140,000
 
11. Steven Garfinkle $3,125,000
 
12. Jerry Yang $1,700,000

please guys if your going to cut and paste stuff please give credit to where  you got it from we don't want legal re-precutions

11 left now, they play down to 9.

Skalie STILL c/l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 Left - Chip counts roughly (in millions)

23   …..   Jon Kalmar (ENG)
20   …..   Tuan Lam
17   …..   Lee Childs
15   …..   Scotty Nguyen
12   …..   Hevad "Rain" Khan
11   …..   Raymond Rahume
09   …..   Lee Watkinson
05   …..   Alex Kravchenko
04   …..   Philip Hilm
03   …..   Steven Garfinkle
02   …..   Jerry Yang

source - Waitress i met in Disney a few years back :)

Wow, went to bed and he was 9th, can't believe he's now chipleader with only 11 left.
Bring it home....

light weight

Am i right in saying that you can watch the final table live on the ESPN website?

i think you can watch it on worldseriesofpoker.com but it cost 49.99$ for the year

well worth it i reckon

Just checked ESPN  $20

http://broadband.espn.go.com/ppv/poker

i am hoping skalie wins this but its hard to see past scotty he has been playing a great game today without putting a foot wrong or putting alot of chips at risk

you grab a couple of hours and wake to find one of your muckers chip daddy last 11 of wsop. Its a great game we all play


GOOOOOOOOOOO SKALIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

another light weight

bet its been a long time since you've been called that ;D

Is the final table tonight, or is it a day off?

day off

Thanks, looks like i'll be sleeping all day tomorrow then for a long night Tuesday.  ;D

lightwieght

i think i might do the same myself

The american reporting is soooooooooo biased.....................just get it done...........Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SKALIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 ;first; ;first; ;first; ;first; ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;kneelsucker; ;kneelsucker; ;kneelsucker;

Scotty Nguyen out in 11th place

1 more to go

Cmon Skalie

nice jinx ironside ;-)


BUBBBBBBBBBLE TIME

who you want me to jinx next?

watkinson is playing a very good game too havent seen him all in too often

Rough Stacks as they sit down 10 handed

20 ….. Jon Kalmar (ENG)
20 ….. Tuan Lam
19 ….. Philip Hilm
18 ….. Lee Childs
13 ….. Raymond Rahume
12 ….. Lee Watkinson
11 ….. Hevad "Rain" Khan
06 ….. Jerry Yang
05 ….. Steven Garfinkle
03 ….. Alex Kravchenko

Is this going to become a crapshoot..........blinds shortly to go up to 100k/200k with a 30k running ante meaning each orbit is going to cost 600k.........maybe they will look at putting the blinds back a level or 2 before they start the real FT on tuesday.

10 way split 2,249,682.70 anybody interested?

Only Top 3 will win more.

LMAO

pokernews have just posted the same as my last post.

They DIDNT  credit me as their source of info, most disappointed  ;)

Obviously we hope Jon going to win but if they done a split and an american won. He would get
a) Bracelet
b) $2,250,582.70
c) A tax invoice for $3 million

Tuan Lam 21,660,000   1,170,000
 
 Jon Kalmar 20,690,000   30,000
 
 Philip Hilm 18,630,000   30,000
 
 Lee Childs 17,690,000   230,000
 
 Raymond Rahme 12,455,000   30,000
 
 Hevad "Rain" Khan 11,275,000   30,000

 Lee Watkinson 11,145,000   30,000
 
 Jerry Yang 5,970,000   30,000
 
 Steven Garfinkle 4,085,000   630,000
 
 Alex Kravchenko 3,550,000

Courtesy of www.worldseriesofPoker.com

Philip Hilm  uth

if this guy wins it im sure phil helmuth will have something to say.,.,.,like.,.,
yes it was me i shortend my name so no one would recognise me.,.,.,.,.,.,.

Who are the rowdy pissheads then?

they was with him on the craps the other day only about 21 /22 years old .

i had a word with them then .

never mind them ,come on skalie.

is anyone out there even pretending to get any work done at the moment ?

A Concerned Wife
''  Jon Kalmar's wife called her husband over. She said something to the effect that his drunken friends were making him look bad. Over the last hour, they have been screaming, yelling, and even cursing while hands are in progress. They have not be escorted from the area, but Kalmar had to tell them to chill out a couple of times. Aside from Kalmar's rowdy and drunken railbirds, it's been relatively quiet.  ''
from WSOP UPDATES.

Typical english drunks, can't take them anywhere.    ;scarymoment;

THEY JUST THREW SOMEONE OUT

Please put the site where you found this information  :D

wsop.com


why m8?

skalie makes final 9


from wsop.com

 From wsop official site, some unofficial numbers

Philip Hilm 23,070,000   
 
 Tuan Lam 20,290,000   
 
 Jon Kalmar 20,220,000   
 
 Raymond Rahme 16,000,000   
 
 Lee Childs 13,320,000   
 
 Lee Watkinson 9,975,000   
 
 Hevad "Rain" Khan 9,205,000   
 
 Jerry Yang 8,500,000   
 
 Alex Kravchenko 6,570,000 




Now that is some final table.

 

64 minutes ago
Hand #25 - Philip Hilm
Hand #25 - Jon Kalmar has the button in seat 9, Philip Hilm raises from the cutoff to 600,000, Hevad 'Rain' Khan reraises from the small blind to 2.2 million, and Hilm thinks for more than a minute before he moves all in for 15.9 million. Khan goes into the tank for about two minutes before he folds. Philip Hilm takes the pot. (Side note: A drunken railbird was escorted out of the Milwaukee's Best No-Limit Lounge shortly before Hilm moved all in.)


http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updates_pn.asp?tourneyID=3482&groupID=309&dispType=2