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Any of the Blonde Poker community know how I can get in touch with James through email? Wanted to send a personal thanks as I backed him for $200 at 751-1 to win the ME and he's locked in a very nice profit once I sort out a hedging plan on the Nov9 lines. Thought it'd be the gentlemanly thing to send him my appreciation.

[ ] shrewd punting sir

I think Phil Iveys the only person id back in a 7k runner tourny @ 751/1.

Possibly Tom Dwan too.

and Moorman ofc.

I backed 20 players - 10 at 751-1 and 10 at 1000, basically for some degen action during the ME - turned out pretty well! Because of the field size u could get some great players - also backed Saul, Baron, Fricke etc... Saul and Jordan Rich also went deep for me, but Akenhead's run was awesome to follow. Was on hol with my kids being on school hols and a long way from a PC, so was getting text updates from mates - was crushed when he lost the huge coin flip then well pumped when he cracked rockets...
   

u cant lay him now tho - if its just some fun and some degenerancy your after just let it ride, much bigger sweat and think of the mid dimez coming your way when he ships......

While I'd love to, the opportunity to hedge a really good profit is too much to pass up.

lol Fricke, next time you want a bet i will lay it!

ok so u have +150200 on akenhead , -200 on the rest (also -3800 on losing bets)

akenhead is 18 approx to win , for a level win ud get $8000 approx , half of that pays for losing bets , overall even money for picking a wsop finalist.


 ;booder;

I want to assume he meant to make the final table.

Not even The Sicilian should be 750-1 in a field of over 6,000. Shocking value. Nice result though.

gonna be pretty tough for you to make a decent profit at the moment. If betfair are gonna do a market in running, just hope jame gets a double or two and gets 4/5 handed. Your best be it prolly laying him at 50/1 to a few of us.

Is he really bad? I heard him on pokerroad saying he was gonna play 42 events at this years wsop he only cashed in one for $18k not a great return for his backers. Well i think hes a staked player but not sure.

i second that

Betfair do have a market in play for this at the moment, Akenhead is current available to lay at 20. There should be enough liquidity to lay him off before November, the problem with this is you aren't locking up much profit at all, relatively to scooping the lot.

I make it you can guarentee to see yourself about 6k profit on James, which given you have already done 3.8k on the rest isn't really the biggest result in the world. Also you are going have to get 70k sterling approx on betfair to do this, lol.

Just let it ride imo, you have had a fun punt which might win you a lot of money.

I was looking about before the main event for the odds. I couldnt find any that gave odds for the winner, all i could find was November 9 odds. Ladbrokes had Ivey at 60/1 to make FT, players like Lederer, A.Black, De Wolf, Dwan, Hansen all around 70-90/1. Most others were around 150-300/1 for final table with any other unnamed player at 1000/1 just for final table.

Good on you making a good profit off this is he pulls it off but i really can't believe you put this kind of money on these odds

yeah he probs just wants to try and nip him up

Are u sure? 1000/1 on any unamed player would make it almost worth having a tenner on everyone!

do you know everyone's name who played?

both prices quoted seem like BS to me, people quote prices that don't exist as well as oddschecker

Er no.

Lol

I was just making the same point that it sounds like crap.

If i was to have attempted it my betting slip would have said

WSOP 2009
£10 to final
Players 1 through 7000
Non runners = void bet
Total Stake £70,000

Cheers for the feedback ....

Spent some time last night going thru hedging options and as mentioned, not as lucrative as first hoped - thanks to those who proposed a few various options, do have some time to work through these and decide what I'm going to do...

btw, here's the original wagers...

To win ME

Kevin Saul 751 (.2)
Shane Schleger 751 (.2)
James Akenhead 751 (.2)
Rob Hollink 751 (.2)
Daniel Alaei 751 (.2)
Alexander Kostritsin 751 (.2)
Isaac Baron 751 (.2)
Andrew Robl 751 (.2)
Jimmy Fricke 751 (.2)
Soren Kongsgaard 751 (.2)

Jeff Lissandro 1001 (.2)
Alex Jacob 1001 (.2)
Jordan Rich 1001 (.2)
Nam Le 1001 (.2)
Cliff Josephy 1001 (.2)
Chris Bell 1001 (.2)
Trond Eidsvig 1002 (.2)
Nikolay Edvakov 1001 (.2)
Mark Vos 1001 (.2)
Kirill Gerasimov 1001 (.2)

btw, if anyone does know how to drop James a line, would be appreciated ....

LOL Nikolay Edvakov

You've obviously never played with him.

If he ever wins the main event I'll give up poker. He makes Flushy look like a half decent player.

Scary.

Dry'em and KarlM looking at this thread at the same time.

The Two Holzy's.

Multiaccounting obv

I will show James this once I get a chance (I'm sure he will see the comment left on the blog). No doubt he will be very grateful for the support

Karl

Cheers Karl, much appreciated - I probably enjoyed his progress almost as much as the Hit Squad did! May end up letting it ride and see how things develop initially when the Nov9 start playing ...
Skinny D

What tournament  has he ever won?  Has he even ever went deep in a big tournament?

Made the final table of some WPT event, i think.

2 WPT finals and 2 WSOP finals, not bad considering he doesn't play that many.