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2011 World Series of Poker Schedule

Event    Date, Time    Tournament    Buy-in    
1    May 31, noon    Casino Employees Event no-limit hold 'em (two-day event)    $500    
2    May 31, 5 p.m.    Heads-up no-limit hold 'em championship (four-day event)    $25,000    
3    June 1, noon    Omaha high-low split eight-or-better (three-day event)    $1,500    
4    June 2, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $5,000    
5    June 2, 5 p.m.    Seven card stud (three-day event)    $1,500    
6    June 3, noon    Limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
7    June 3, 5 p.m.    Pot-limit hold 'em championship (three-day event)    $10,000
8    June 4, noon    No-limit hold 'em (two starting days, five-day event)    $1,000    
9    June 4, 5 p.m.    2-7 draw lowball no-limit (three-day event)    $1,500    
10    June 6, noon    Six-handed no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
11    June 6, 5 p.m.    Omaha high-low split eight-or-better championship (three-day event)    $10,000
12    June 7, noon.    Triple chance no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
13    June 8, noon    No-limit hold 'em shootout (three-day event)    $1,500    
14    June 8, 5 p.m.    Limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $3,000    
15    June 9, noon    Pot-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
16    June 9, 5 p.m.    2-7 draw lowball championship (three-day event)    $10,000    
17    June 10, noon    HORSE (three-day event)    $1,500    
18    June 11, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
19    June 11, 5 p.m.    Six-handed limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $2,500    
20    June 12, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,000    
21    June 12, 5 p.m.    Seven card stud championship (three-day event)    $10,000
22    June 13, noon    Pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)    $1,500    
23    June 13, 5 p.m.    Eight-game mix (limit hold 'em, Omaha high-low split, razz, seven card stud, seven card stud high-low, no-limit hold 'em, pot-limit Omaha, 2-7 triple draw; three-day event)    $2,500    
24    June 14, noon    No-limit hold 'em shootout (three-day event)    $5,000
25    June 14, 5 p.m.    Seven card stud high-low (three-day event)    $1,500    
26    June 15, noon    Six-handed no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $2,500    
27    June 15, 5 p.m.    Limit hold 'em championship (three-day event)    $10,000    
28    June 16, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
29    June 16, 5 p.m.    10-game mix (no-limit hold 'em, razz, limit hold 'em, Badugi, seven card stud, 2-7 draw lowball, Omaha high-low split, pot-limit Omaha, 2-7 triple draw lowball and seven card stud high-low split eight-or-better; three-day event)    $2,500    
30    June 17, noon    Seniors no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,000    
31    June 17, 5 p.m.    Pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)    $3,000    
32    June 18, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
33    June 18, 5 p.m.    Seven card stud high-low split eight-or-better championship (three-day event)    $10,000    
34    June 19, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,000    
35    June 20, noon    Six-handed pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)    $5,000
36    June 21, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $2,500    
37    June 21, 5 p.m.    HORSE championship (three-day event)    $10,000    
38    June 22, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
39    June 22, 5 p.m.    Pot-limit hold 'em/pot-limit Omaha (three-day event)    $2,500
40    June 23, noon    Six-handed no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $5,000    
41    June 24, noon    Limit hold 'em shootout (three-day event)    $1,500
42    June 24, 5 p.m.    Pot-limit Omaha championship (three-day event)    $10,000    
43    June 25, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
44    June 25, 5 p.m.    Razz (three-day event)    $2,500    
45    June 26, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,000
46    June 27, noon    Six-handed no-limit hold 'em championship (three-day event)    $10,000
47    June 27, 5 p.m.    Omaha/Seven card stud high-low eight-or-better (four-day event)    $2,500    
48    June 28, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
49    June 28, 5 p.m.    2-7 triple draw lowball (limit; three-day event)    $2,500
50    June 29, noon    Triple Chance no-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $5,000    
51    June 30, noon    Pot-limit Omaha high-low split eight-or-better (three-day event)    $1,500    
52    June 30, 5 p.m.    Mixed hold 'em (three-day event)    $2,000    
53    July 1, noon    Ladies no-limit hold 'em championship (three-day event)    $1,000    
54    July 2, noon    No-limit hold 'em (two starting days, five-day event)    $1,000    
55    July 2, 5 p.m.    The Poker Players' Championship (five-day event)    $50,000
56    July 2, noon    No-limit hold 'em (three-day event)    $1,500    
57    July 5, 5 p.m.    Pot-limit Omaha high-low split eight-or-better    $5,000    
58    July 7 - July 19    No-limit hold 'em main event    $10,000    

In 2010, the 41st annual World Series of Poker attracted a record field to the 57 events, including a near-record 7,319 players – the second largest ever Main Event field.

In total, the prize pool for the series as a whole was $187,109,580; a new record that amounted to half of the total prize pool of the 1st to 36th WSOP series. At the beginning of this year you would have been hard-pressed to find a poker insider who didn’t expect big things from the 2011 WSOP.

Then the US Department of Justice and the online poker indictments of Black Friday have shut out PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker from the US market which will do some bad things to the field sizes of the tournaments at the World Series of Poker. Since Chris Moneymaker’s 2003 win the large majority of the burgeoning field sizes at the World Series of Poker have been online qualifiers.

Despite this, it seems to be business as usual – at least on paper. This year there will be 58 events including a new $25,000 Heads-Up High Roller Championship. In addition, ESPN will be streaming all 55 final tables live on ESPN3 as well as showing live coverage of the Main Event on an hour delay.
When federal regulation of online poker kicks in (my guess: late 2012/early 2013) who is going to be the major site? Not PokerStars or Full Tilt, that’s for sure. Step up WSOP.com. It seems inevitable that a well-known brick ‘n’ mortar poker establishment will become the dominant US online poker room and everyone knows the WSOP. If they don’t, they certainly will after the 2011 coverage.

Caesars aren’t thinking of the 2011 or 2012 WSOP, which will certainly be below the numbers we’re used to (the Main Event, anyway ). They want a good 2013 – 2020 WSOP and it’s one they will certainly get if WSOP.com becomes the US players’ go-to site for online poker. Imagine the field size at the 2014 Main Event if US regulation kicks in the year previous. We saw in France that as soon as regulation kicked in, sites could advertise everywhere and the traffic notably spiked. If WSOP.com is the US player’s online home AND they’re running the qualifiers to the WSOP then we could see a post-regulation Main Event field of over 10,000 quite conceivably.

Of course, for now we need to take a decline. The line everyone seems to be taking on the Main Event field size is roughly 4,000 to 5,000 with Daniel Negreanu predicting a 2,500 strong 2004-esque field.

What about the preliminary events? Well, the events such as the $25,000 Heads-Up and the $10,000 Championship events are a mixed bag. The former will definitely attract less of a field than it would have done last year, largely dependent if the high-stakes heads-up specialists still have dollars tied up on Full Tilt by the end of the month. The $10,000 events may be smaller but many of them are fixed limit or mixed events;

As for the $1,000 to $5,000 events? If anything I think they will increase. Imagine being a US mid-stakes grinder right now – you’re gagging for a poker fix and if you have to fly to Vegas to get it you will. Your average $2/$4 player will have a bankroll of around $20k that they have hopefully got back from PokerStars or will be getting from Full Tilt. Many of them might decide to take $10k of it to the live tables and enter a few satellite events and smaller tournaments.


source: Bluff.com, mostly

Last year of course was a spectacular year for the British

James Dempsey
Steve Jelinek
Richard Ashby
Mike Ellis
Praz Banzi

all won bracelets and the likes of Sam Trickett came close too

Expectations are higher this time. Then again the number of Brits across there will be higher too including the now eligible Toby Lewis

What price more than five bracelets this year?

This thread will detail news and updates from each event, followed by final results as well as the official stats that outgeek almost all of us.

Feel free to post snippets where and when you see them, credited

In 2010 there were some memorable "Funk" threads too, here's to many more

Events 1 and 2 start tomorrow

this thread for news, chip counts, results and if you are there reports please!

It's going to be incred :D

GL the Brits!

If anyone comes back with any $$$$ I will need some around that time  :)

Only Tighty is allowed to start the funk threads

Good luck all

www.wsop.com and www.pokernews.com are the sources through this thread

Casino Employees Get to the Money as Day 1 Concludes
 

Jordan Dhooghe

We had to wait an extra 30 minutes for Event 1 of the 2011 World Series of Poker to start, but the wait was well worth it. 850 casino employees started the day and after ten levels just 77 players still have chips. Jordon Dhooghe leads the field with 129,800, followed by Thanh Ngo with 101,400.

Both players have been leading the pack for the last couple of levels of the day, each attacking the bubble effectively. Alex Alashkar and Robert Gullickson are within striking distance though and there will likely be a lot of chips moving to start day 2 as players mix it up having already made the money.

While there are not any household names left in the field, there were a few notables who entered. Jean-Robert Bellande entered late but exited early when he flopped top two pair against a strait. Defending champion Hoai Pham looked poised to repeat but was unable to gain any momentum after the dinner break. Matt Savage, Ty Stewart and Jack McClelland all survived through a few levels but none made it to the money.

Event #2: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship (256 Max)

32 of 128 remain

16 are paid

    * 1st
    * $851,192
    * 2nd
    * $525,980
    * 3rd-4th
    * $283,966
    * 5th-8th
    * $138,852
    * 9th-16th
    * $67,436



Day 1 Out in Two Rounds
 
The first-ever $25,000 Heads-Up Championship is two rounds old, and we've reduced our 128 starting players down to just 32. As you'd expect with an event with this kind of price tag, the field was small and elite and mostly made up of familiar faces. David Williams, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Jason Mercier, and Michael Mizrachi all fell to their first round opponents. Dan Cates, Erick Lindgren, Scott Seiver, David Baker, Vanessa Rousso, Jonathan Duhamel, Shaun Deeb, and Scott Clements advanced through one round before succumbing in the second round of the night.

That's a pretty solid crew of already-eliminated players, but we're still flush with talent in this thinning field. John Duthie finished second in the $10,000 Heads-Up event here in 2009, and he's still alive with a shot at Carlos Mortensen in Round 3. In the European version of the event, Gus Hansen took home a bracelet for shipping the £10,000 Heads-Up event at the WSOP-E last fall, and he'll face off against Daniel Alaei in tomorrow's first battle. We've also got Chris Moorman, Olivier Busquet, John Juanda, David Benyamine, Andrew Robl, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and the Tom Dwan. Told you it was a stacked field.

Here's how the rest of the bracket draws out for tomorrow's money round:

David Benyamine vs. Anthony Guetti
Chris Moorman vs. Richard Lyndaker
Dani Stern vs. Jake Cody
Isaac Haxton vs. Jonathan Jaffe

Ashton Griffin vs. Tom Dwan
Daniel Alaei vs. Gus Hansen
Steve Blilirakis vs. Trevor Pope
Matt Marafioti vs. Maxim Lykov

Eric Froehlich vs. Steve Zolotow
John Duthie vs. Carlos Mortenson
Jason Smirnov vs. Darren Elias
Erik Cajelais vs. Nikolay Evdakov

Yevgeniy Timshenko vs. Amritraj Singh
Oliver Busquet vs. Andrew Robl
Kunimaro Kojo vs. Nick Shulman
David Paredes vs. John Juanda

Jake in last 8 of HU

Far less impressive i am through to day 2 of the 1500 o/8

Event 2 $25k HU

Day 2 Finds the Elite Eight
 

Hansen had to defeat Dwan to make it to Day 3.

With two rounds of action the field of 32 remaining players was trimmed down to the final eight. Players that won their first round matchups found themselves in the money. The loaded field made for some incredible matchups worthy of the $25,000 buy in.

David Benyamine, Daniel Aleai, John Juanda and Nick Schulman all found the door early after losing their first round, while Eric Froehlich, Matt Marafioti, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and Gus Hansen all survived the day.

Nikolay Evdakov had the quickest and most decisive second round win having never cashed in either of his rebuy chips. Evdakov was the first to advance to Day 3 after knocking out fellow Russian Mikhail Smirnov. Eric Froehlich used his two rebuys relatively early in the match but managed to outlast the runner up in the 2009 Heads Up Championship John Duthie.

Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen had difficult paths to play each other in the second round of the night, defeating Ashton Griffin and Daniel Aleai respectively. When Dwan used his first rebuy early in the action all signs pointed to a quick match. However, Hansen and Dwan battled back and forth, exchanging the chip lead multiple times. When the smoke was cleared Hansen was left standing.

Join us tomorrow at 3 p.m. to follow all the action on Day 3 as the final eight play down to four. The bracket is as follows:

Anthony Guetti vs. Jake Cody

Gus Hansen vs. Matt Marafioti

Eric Froehlich vs. Nikolay Endakov

Yevgeniy Timoshenko vs. David Paredes

Cashers from the round of 16

    * [United States] Tom Dwan
    * [United States] Steve Billirakis
    * [United Kingdom] John Duthie
    * [United States] Olivier Busquet
    * [United States] Richard Lyndaker
    * [Japan] Kunimaro Kojo
    * [Serbia] Mikhail Smirnov
    * [United States] Jonathan Jaffe

All won $67k


Money for the top 8

PAYOUT STRUCTURE

    1 $851,192
    2 $525,980
    3-4 $283,966
    5-8 $138,852

Event #3: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better $1500.

210 of 925 remain

Event #3: End of Day 1
 
Today saw records broken as WSOP Event #3 began with 925 players, seven more players than the same event back in 2009 and 107 more than last year. For people who could not afford the $25,000 HU event, this was the real start of the WSOP and the event was filled with more stars than was probably expected.

Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Michael Mizrachi - all got quickly involved but were early casualties as were Eugene Katchalov, Jeff Madsen, Daniel Negreanu amongst others.

At the end of the day, Canadian Guillaume Rivet appears to be chip leader with 71,200 ahead of Andy Seth (61,700) with about 210 players remaining. Other players still involved include Barry Greenstein (46,900) James Dempsey (38,900) while TJ Cloutier, John Phan, Jean-Robert Bellande, Lex Veldhuis and Erik Seidel are all still in with a shout.

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO Jake Cody; in my team

Ladbrokes open a book on main event runners

Ladbrokes has today opened a book on the size of the 2011 World Series on Poker (WSOP) field.  The betting firm believes that following April 15th, poker’s Black Friday (when the FBI effectively barred online poker to US citizens), there will be fewer qualifiers for the 2011 event than last year’s event. 

 

Ladbrokes, one of the world’s biggest and oldest bookmakers who have been in operation since 1886, believe that the fallout from ‘Black Friday’ will have an effect on this year’s WSOP.   So much so, that the firm is offering odds of 7/2 that there will be less than 4,249 runners – 3,000 less than last year.

 

The firm is also offering 15/8 that there will be 5,000 to 5,749 runners, the same bracket as the 2005 event six years ago. It is also 15/8 that there will be between 4,250 and 4,999.

Last year there were over 7,000 runners, the second highest is the tournaments history, but this year Ladbrokes believe this will be much lower and is offering odds on 5/1 that there will be more than 6,500 runners.

 

In other markets Ladbrokes is offering 50/1 that a woman wins the main event.  However, only one woman player has ever made the final table of the WSOP main event, Barbara Enright in 1995.  Ladbrokes price the chances of that feat being repeated at 9/4.

 

The age of the ultimate winner is a lot more open market with 27 years and younger a marginal favourite at 4/5 ahead of 28+ priced at 10/11.

extract from the seat draw of day 2 of event 3

Samuel Ngai   23,500   Amazon / 372 / 1
Roland Israelashvili   23,000   Amazon / 372 / 2
David Sklansky   4,200   Amazon / 372 / 3
James Dempsey   58,900   Amazon / 372 / 4
Brian Saltus   12,900   Amazon / 372 / 5
Daniel Klein   33,600   Amazon / 372 / 7
Cameron Mckinley   13,100   Amazon / 372 / 8
Kirk Loberman   13,300   Amazon / 372 / 9

50/1 on a woman winning? Wouldn't back that at 500/1.

Hmm think I would have a pound or two at 500's.

SenseiChanning Neil Channing

Realised ages ago that the $5k nlh is worst value of series. Finally using my brain. Nice rest day before $10k plh tomorrow.

tighty Rich Prew

@SenseiChanning why poor value? everyone good, whereas relatively poor at PLHE?


SenseiChanning Neil Channing

@tighty full of pros. The 5ks are 10x harder than the 1500s. Plh is tough nlh field playing a game many adapt to poorly.

I actually think that 50-1 is a fair value bet.  From what I can see women normally represent about 3% of the field and I would imagine that there aren't as many women playing tha are totally without a chance as there are men due to the fact men have bigger ego's etc.  All things being equal I would say it is probably a 33-1 shot.  Anyone care to lay the 50's as I have been persona non grata with Ladbrokes for years.....

last 8 of event 2 and they're starting with 30bb each. kinda ridic for a 25k buyin event

I take it there is nowhere online doing live feeds?

Robert Price aka Animal still going in this with about 22k i think

Anyone fancy the $1mill buy in event next year?

http://loadtest.story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_sp_ot/wsop_high_roller_tournament

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/

Eh ? They started at 2500/5000 and had starting stack of 400k or even 1.2 million if they took there extra bullets.

pokernews website had blinds listed at 20k/40k with 1.2million stacks

Not what I'm reading on pokernews reporting, currently level 4 playing 6/12k.

Defs started low because cody 4bet one hand to like 92k

think it must've just been filler text earlier, corrected when they turned up to report, though why they couldn't just use the right numbers god only knows

THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER ANNOUNCES A $1 MILLION BUY-IN TOURNAMENT and ONE OF THE most significant charity initiativeS in poker history,
to benefit ONE DROP


Las Vegas, June 2, 2011 – The World Series of Poker® (WSOP) announced today that it is adding a new $1 million buy-in poker tournament as part of the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker on July 1, 2012 to benefit ONE DROP, a non-governmental organization aiming to fight poverty worldwide by supporting access to water and raising each and every one’s awareness of water-related issues.

 

The BIG ONE for ONE DROPTM tournament is expected to generate one of the largest prize-pools in tournament poker outside the WSOP Main Event and award the winner millions of dollars and a specially-designed WSOP platinum bracelet.

 

ONE DROP has received commitments from 15 participants thus far. They are: Guy Laliberté, Chair of ONE DROP and Founder of Cirque du Soleil; Bobby Baldwin, four-time WSOP gold bracelet winner and President & CEO City Center Group; Phil Ruffin, Owner, Treasure Island Resort, Las Vegas; poker professionals Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan, Tom Dwan and Tony Guoga.  Quebec’s Casinos and a European group intends to offer satellites as well, plus a prominent businessmen will also join, in addition to Andy Beal.

 

Caesars also intends to offer two additional entries. One will go to the winner of a Mega Satellite, while the other will come from a yet to be determined promotion.

 

"We are proud to align the planet's premiere poker event with the foundation created by one of our generation's most creative entrepreneurs, Guy Laliberté, to help make the world a healthier place," said Gary Loveman, Caesars Entertainment Corporation's chairman, president and chief executive officer.

 

“We agree with ONE DROP that water is one of the most important issues of this century and this tournament was created to take advantage of our infrastructure and resources to help ONE DROP fulfill its important mandate,” said Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars Interactive Entertainment. “With The BIG ONE for ONE DROP, we hope to attract public figures and recognized business community leaders, who will join our efforts and participate in a historic event while supporting ONE DROP’s activities.”


“Since giving back to the community is a key part of Quebec’s Casinos’ philosophy of social commitment, we couldn’t miss out on the opportunity of partnering with ONE DROP for this grand charity event. We often organize benefit tournaments, but this tournament definitely stands out. Our team is ‘all in’, without hesitation,” said Claude Poisson, President of Quebec’s Casinos.

“I'm very happy to participate in this event. As a partner and friend to Guy, I have always admired his commitment to ONE DROP,” said Phil Ruffin, Owner, Treasure Island Resort, Las Vegas.

 

“A million dollar buy-in seems crazy, and well, it is, but when you factor in a great cause like ONE DROP getting a percentage of the prize pool, all of a sudden it seems like a fantastic idea, and a great way to raise money for charity,” said Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu. “Count me in.”




“I'm very excited to play this tournament because I think ONE DROP is a great charity organization and this will be the biggest tournament with part of the prize pool used for a good purpose,” added professional poker player Patrik Antonius. “It will be a lot of fun!”

 

“ONE DROP is an extremely intelligent, important charity organization and I'm honored to play a part in giving back,” said businessman and poker pro Tony Guoga. “This is a perfect partnership for the WSOP and for poker in general.




“I am buying in,” exclaimed young poker professional Tom Dwan. “$1 million has a nice ring to it. It’s so sick, and for such a good cause, now I just gotta win.”


“Supporting Chris Ferguson’s charity I spent 4 weeks in Africa last year, and I came to realize what a precious resource water is—therefore it is a pleasure to enter the biggest poker tournament ever and at the same time support the ONE DROP organization,” said recent WSOP gold bracelet winner Gus Hansen.

 

The tournament is expected to take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on July 1, 2012 and intends to be structured as a three-day tournament. The event intends to take a maximum of 48 players.  Final funds are expected to be due 14 days prior to the event commencing. Subject to the rules of the tournament, anyone age 21 or older is eligible as long as they have the $1 million entry fee.  11.1% of the tournament buy-in intends to be donated to ONE DROP, with $889,889 going towards the prize pool.

 

“Since its creation, ONE DROP has reached out to millions of people to support access to water and raise each and every one’s awareness of water-related issues. And today, knowing that one person dies from a water-borne disease every 20 seconds, I urge everyone to do even more,” said Guy Laliberté. “We are looking forward to The BIG ONE for ONE DROP as a creative and innovative solution to fund ONE DROP projects that help fight poverty by supporting access to water worldwide.”

 

U.S. television network ESPN intends to televise this event as part of its coverage of the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker in 2012. A specially-designed WSOP platinum bracelet will be awarded to the winner, as long as at least 22 participants are entered in the event.  (Doyle Brunson defeated a field of 22 players for his first of back-to-back WSOP Main Event titles in 1976).

The tournament is expected to pay out a record 20% of the field—double the typical poker tournament payout structure. For example, if 20 players enter, four will cash. If 30 players enter, six will cash, etc.

 

The tournament will bring together individuals in an unusual way for the cause of water for all. It is the belief of the organizers that this event will attract high-net-worth individuals from all over the globe and across a wide range of businesses and occupations.

 

The BIG ONE for ONE DROP is an unprecedented effort to raise awareness of water-related issues amongst the poker community and to raise funds to allow ONE DROP to continue to deliver on its important mandate. Funds will be directed to ONE DROP projects around the world, where the team is hard at work dealing with the local water crisis.

 

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About ONE DROP

ONE DROP—an initiative of Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil—is a non-governmental organization established in Montreal, Canada and active worldwide. ONE DROP’s mission is to fight poverty by supporting access to water and raising each and every one’s awareness of water-related issues through its distinctive approach based on social arts and popular education. In the U.S., ONE DROP is a public charity that undertakes innovative activities in which water plays a central role as a creative force to generate positive, sustainable change worldwide. ONE DROP continues to reach out to the world to realize its dream of safe water for all, today and tomorrow. To learn more about ONE DROP, visit ONEDROP.org.

 

About the World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event in the world awarding millions of dollars in prize money and the prestigious gold bracelet, globally recognized as the sport’s top prize. Featuring a comprehensive slate of tournaments in every major poker variation, the WSOP is poker’s longest running tournament in the world, dating back to 1970. In 2010, the event attracted 72,966 entrants from 117 different countries to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and awarded over $187 million in prize money.  The WSOP, in December 2008, was named the seventh most admired sports brand in North America by the Turnkey Sports Survey, trailing only the older and more established NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and PGA Tour among sports properties. In addition, the WSOP has experienced groundbreaking alliances in broadcasting, digital media and corporate sponsorships, while successfully expanding the brand internationally with the advent in 2007 of the World Series of Poker EuropeSM. To learn more about the World Series of Poker, visit WSOP.com.

Congratulations to Sean Drake, Event #1 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em Champion ($82,292)!

A field of 850 kicked off the 2011 World Series of Poker on Tuesday as Event #1, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament, started the summer festivities. After 10 levels on Day 1, 77 were fortunate enough to return on Day 2. Another 10 levels were played and even though the tournament was scheduled for two days, a third would be needed as four players were still in the running to capture the coveted WSOP gold bracelet. In the end, only one would be able to claim the title and earn the title of champion. That man was Sean Drake, a part-time poker dealer from Folsom, California.

After one round of play today, the $25k Heads-Up World Championship whittled its field from eight to four players in relatively short order.

The first player to advance to the semifinal round was Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who dispatched David Paredes with a combination of strong holdings and excellent reads. The Ukrainian's cool demeanor and steady play helped him overcome an early chip disadvantage and Timoshenko rebounded to earn the win.

Eric "E-Fro" Froehlich was the next competitor to move on, after he emerged victorious from one of the day's more entertaining contests. Both Froehlich and Nikolay Evdakov showed no hesitation in pushing their 1.2-million chip stacks around the table, and after a series of massive pots and repeated double-ups it was Froehlich who stamped his ticket to the Final Four.

On the feature table, the action was slightly more subdued as Jake Cody and Anthony Guetti slowly tried to wear one another down. Eventually, it took a cooler to decide the match as both players found pocket pairs and pushed their chips into the middle. Cody's tens held up over Guetti's sevens and the British phenom who has dominated European fields for the last few years is now poised to make a splash in his first American WSOP.

In the match that most of the railbirds came to see, Gus Hansen used a methodical and calculating game to defeat Matt Marafioti. While his opponent required 1.2 million chips in the double add-on format, Hansen needed only one bullet to move closer to an impressive follow-up to his 1st place finish in the £10,000 buy-in WSOP-E Heads-up Championship held in 2010.

Tomorrow's semifinal round pits Gus Hansen against Jake Cody and Eric Froehlich against Yevgeniy Timoshenko, with the winners facing off in a best of three heads-up duel.

Event 3 PLO8 $1500

A few minutes ago


In about 4 hands, 2010 WSOPE Main Event Champion James Bord went from mis-reading his hand for a flush (and giving away half his stack), doubling up James Dempsey, and the very next hand busting through Dempsey.

We caught the whole hand where Bord doubled up Dempsey.

Dempsey got it all in preflop for 23,000 and Bord made the call.

Bord had {A-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} and Dempsey had {6-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{A-Diamonds}{3-Spades}

The flop came {6-Hearts}{10-Spades}{6-Spades} giving Dempsey trips and Bord a pair of tens to go with the sixes on the board. The turn came {J-Spades} to give Bord a better two pair, but the {8-Spades} on the river didn't improve Bord and he shipped the big pot to Dempsey.

He was left with 23,000 and Dempsey chipped up to 55,000. We didn't catch the next hand, but Bord busted through Dempsey who now is left with around 85,000.

At the very least, Bord can be happy that he donated his chips to his buddy and fellow Brit.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-3-omaha-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

Players Left     38
Entries   925
Prize Pool $1,248,750

Top Chip Counts
1    Bradley Helm    225,000
2    Francesco Barbaro    191,500
3    Ben Landowski    190,000
4    David Harper    186,000
5    Travis Pearson    167,000
6    Kostas Kalathakis    160,000
7    Cameron Mckinley    160,000
8    Andreas Krause    153,000


38th guarantees $5,744 and I will put up end of day news when it comes, good luck to James
9    Matthew Waxman    145,000
10    Richard Monroe    135,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em

is in the last level of the day and 333 of 865 remain

chip leaders

Top Chip Counts
1    Steven Merrifield    165,000
2    Brian Lemke    156,000
3    Kevin Saul    115,000
4    David Sands    110,000
5    Joe Tehan    98,000
6    Jason Potter    94,000
7    Shane Schleger    92,000
8    Brandon Cantu    92,000
9    David Williams    83,000
10    Gavin Griffin    83,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud


began with 357 runners and 264 remain, so early days

Flushy out 35th in the O8

James Dempsey was all in blind preflop against Jimmy Fricke and Cameron Mckinley. We missed the flop action but Mckinley led out on the {K-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} board and Fricke called. The same betting occurred when the {3-Diamonds} hit the river. Mckinley showed {A-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{3-Hearts} for the nut flush. Fricke had {A-Clubs}{2-Spades}{3-Spades}{K-Spades} for the nut low. Dempsey would have to hold the same nut low in his hand in order to win a quarter of the main pot. Unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be as he turned over a measly {Q-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}. Good show old chap.

Nothing like a bit of British stereotyping from a Yank updater... :)

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I'll be putting up a staking request nearer the time

At a 5 p.m. press conference on Thursday, Caesars and Guy Laliberte of the One Drop charity foundation announced that there will be a $1 million buy-in event at the 2012 World Series of Poker. $111,111 of each seven-figure entry fee will go to helping provide safe water to people around the world.
 
One Drop, an initiative started by Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque Du Soleil, focuses on supporting access to clean water worldwide. One Drop uses a distinctive approach based on social arts and popular education to raise awareness of water issues.
 
The event will take place July 1-3, 2012, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and if at least 22 players register, the event will be an official bracelet event of the 2012 WSOP, and the winner will be awarded the first-ever platinum WSOP bracelet.
 
This huge event will have a 48-player cap, and already 15 players have confirmed that they will participate - in addition to Laliberte, players like Phil Ruffin, Bobby Baldwin, Antanas Guoga, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Daniel Negreanu, Johnny Chan, and Andy Beal have pledged to play.
 
If the 48 player cap will be reached, the prize pool would be over $40 million, and first place would take home a whopping $17 million. The tournament is scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN

Lol. Any satelites to this?

Put me down as a maybe

thought the 250k event was silly

but this is redic

Off to start staking thread....  ;shame;

i'll take 0.01% please

looking to find 9995 to stake $100. $500 FO FTW  ;sexybanana;

Odds on Jake or Toby playing this plz ?   ::)

Rest.

s essential in order for the body and brain to function optimally

Hope it's another big WSOP for the Brits. Especially Samual Trickettay after coming so close last year...

Hope there are some epic rails to be had this year as the brits crush!!

Was com watching the UK takeover the area whenever a UK player made a final :D

No point playing, Trickett wll win. Tony Bloom confirmed 3rd.

Seidel?

To win imo

Is there anyway of getting the ESPN3 feed in the UK. The WSOP feed is a tad boring!

yeah id like to be able to watch live streaming tonight as well, if anyone knows a way cheers guys.

GL to JC/Royal Flush/All brits playing

http://atdhenet.tv/27621/watch-world-series-of-poker-25-000-heads-up

love robert williamson commentating. he sounds like kevin from the office

brilliant. they've played 20 minutes too long at 6k/12k so are now gonna skip a level. you'd think they could afford to have a clock

Put some gel or something in your hair Timoshenko!

soo tilting

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #2: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship


Jake Cody Wins


Well, this just in: Jake Cody is a sicko. Less than 15 months removed from his first major tournament victory, Jake Cody has completed his climb to the top of poker's highest mountain. At the tender age of 22, Cody has joined just two other men in achieving poker's Triple Crown. His EPT victory came in Deuville, France in January of last year, and he followed that up with another major title at WPT London just a few months later, Now today, in just his second WSOP event, he's added that elusive (or not so elusive, in Cody's case) bracelet to his trophy case. It's hard to overstate how impressive of an accomplishment it is.

Perhaps it's his soft-spoken tone or his haphazardly spiked hair. Something about Jake Cody indicates he's not much of a threat. But that's not exactly the case. Spurred on by an astoundingly loud cheering section of his countrymen, Cody blasted through his matches today. He used up only one of his three bullets to take all 4.8 million of Yevgeniy Timoshenko's chips, locking up the gold bracelet and sending his throng of supporters into a frenzy. It really was an impressive lesson in heads-up poker from a man who has a strange propensity for being underestimated.

Cody's path to this final was no cakewalk either. He knocked off Brandon Adams in the first round, then bested 2010 Player of the Year Frank Kassela to punch his ticket to to Day 2. Dani Stern was no match for him in their Round 3 contest, and Cody advanced through Jonathan Jaffe in the fourth round to move into the money. He had just one match to play on Day 3, but he admitted in his interviews that Anthony Guetti was his toughest challenge to that point. Cody was dangerously short-stacked for a good while during that match, but he stood his ground and battled back valiantly to take all the chips and earn his spot among today's final four.

Cody's semifinal match was one for the ages. If anyone has so thoroughly beaten Gus Hansen, we can't remember when it happened. Just like the final, Cody needed just one bullet to dispense with Hansen in a lopsided battle that went the opposite way many would have guessed. In the final, Yevgeniy Timoshenko put up a good battle, but Cody was just too much. In what had to be his toughest two tests, he didn't need any of his add-on buttons. Not even one.

So then, the second gold bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker goes to the young Brit, Jake Cody. With it comes the Triple Crown, and a good bit of exposure on national television, and more than $850,000 in U.S. dollars. Out of those, we're guessing the Triple Crown means most to the young Brit, and we at PokerNews send our congrats out to Cody and his countrymen for a truly impressive showing here this week!

Two events in, it's already shaping up to be the Year of the Brits in Las Vegas

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #3: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better

Francesco Barbaro Wins


The biggest field in Limit Omaha Hi-Low history finished early this morning with victory for the overnight chip leader Francesco Barbaro, defeating a field of 925 players to claim his first ever WSOP bracelet.

Barbaro began today as the chip leader just ahead of Matthew Waxman and although he was to relinquish the chip lead to Waxman as they reached the final table, Barbero regained the momentum at a crucial point with around five left and completely dominated once we got four handed.

The day began extremely quickly as we lost 11 players inside the first hour including Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis and double Omaha bracelet winner Scott Clements. Jimmy Fricke was another casualty, suffering a very swingy day while Day 1 chip leader Guillaume Rivet just failed to make the final table. As the event reached the final table, it was Barbaro, Waxman and Kostas Kalathakis who emerged as the three big stacks while the other players' chips began to dwindle and indeed they were the last three left standing.

After winning these two crucial hands, it always looked likely that Barbero would be the first person to take down a non Hold'em event. Those hands put him over the 3 million mark and knocked Kostas Kalathakis and Waxman down to about 500,000 each and from then on it seemed academic that Barbaro would claim the bracelet.

With Waxman finished off when Barbaro flopped a straight, it was left to Kalathakis to try and stop the bulldozer-like momentum of the chip leader. Although the short stack doubled up, it wasn't too last long and after only five minutes of heads up play, it was all over and bracelet was Barbaro's.

Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 Concludes with 2009 Champion Lemke on Top


What a day it has been. With the completion of Day 2 in Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em here at the 2011 World Series of Poker, another great day of poker is in the history books. At the start of the day, 246 players returned from the starting field of 865. At the end of the day, the field was whittled down to 42 with Brain Lemke leading the way. He holds 960,000 in chips.

With the money set at 81 places, anyone with the slightest hint of math in their repertoire can figure out that the money bubble burst today. That means not everyone returning got a piece of the $4,065,500 prize pool. Some of those who were eliminated on the day, but failed to make the money included Randy Lew, Justin Young, Joe Cassidy, Adam Geyer, Sam Stein and Nick Schulman. The worst finish of the day went to Jacqueline Hughes, who found herself as the tournament bubble girl finishing in 82nd place.

Down to her last ante on the button, Hughes posted and was all in. JC Tran limped in and then Seth Berger raised all in from the cutoff seat for 48,000. Action folded back to Tran and he gave it up. First, Berger was pushed the small blind, big blind and Tran's limp before action was held up while the other tables finished. After all the other tables had completed their hands, the cards were turned over to determine Hughes' fate. She held the {9-Hearts}{6-Hearts} and Berger the {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts}. The flop came down {Q-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{10-Hearts} and Berger stayed in front. Hughes chanted for a six, but the {K-Clubs} on the turn left her drawing dead. She got her wish on the river with the {6-Diamonds}, but it was too late as she was drawing dead. Berger won the pot and eliminated Hughes, sending the remaining 81 players into the money.

We've noted some of the eliminated players, but there's still plenty of firepower left in this field. Returning for Day 3 will be Allen Bari, Matt Glantz, Kyle Bowker, Bernard Lee and Carlos Mortensen. The chip leader Lemke won this event back in 2009 and will be taking the pole position into Day 3.

Lemke had himself a solid day on the felt. One of the largest pots he took down came during an all-in confrontation with Justin Gardenhire. Lemke and Gardenhire got all of the money in preflop after some raising back and forth. Lemke held the {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} and Gardenhire the {J-Hearts}{J-Clubs}. The board ran out {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds} to give Lemke the win and send his stack across the 500,000-chip mark.

It's also of note that Maria Ho still remains as well. She's fought her way to Day 3 in a field surrounded by men as the only woman left. Ho has eight WSOP cashes on record, making this her ninth. The largest of those came in 2007 when she took 38th place in the WSOP Main Event for $237,865.

Event #4 will continue on Saturday at 2:30 PM PT


Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Lemke    960,000
2    Allen Bari    680,000
3    Ricky Fohrenbach    642,000
4    Steven Levy    565,000
5    Simon Charette    470,000
6    Sergey Rybachenko    430,000
7    Matt Glantz    410,000
8    Gavin Cochrane    400,000
9    JC Tran    400,000
10    Markus Gonsalves    395,000

Event 5 2011 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

13 left

1               122,909
2          75,911
3          48,961
4          35,476
5          26,083
6          19,456
7          14,723
8          11,301
9          8,800
10          8,800
11          6,949
12          6,949
13          5,561

Top Chip Counts
1    Alessio Isaia    175,000
2    Kai Landry    165,000
3    Eric Buchman    160,000
4    Dennis Parker    150,000
5    Jeremy Ausmus    133,000
6    Ylon Schwartz    130,000
7    Eugene Katchalov    116,000
8    Thomas Servais    112,000
9    Jonathan Spinks    100,000
10    Arash Ghaneian    98,000

Event #6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

We've officially closed the books on the first day of the $1,500 Limit Hold'em event! Today's field began with 675 players and we played down to the final 135 today. At the end of ten levels of play, Chris Tryba emerged as our Day One chip leader, finishing the day with 67,300 in chips. Close behind are Jason Kim with 59,900 and Sean Nguyen with 55,500.

Today's field started out slow in terms of big name professional players, but by the day's end we ended up with a field packed full of notables. Some thrived and some faltered in the face of this $1,500 Limit Hold'em event. Among those that fell out of the running today include Daniel Negreanu, Jean-Robert Bellande, Allen Cunningham, Joe Sebok, Steve Billirakis, and Phil Gordon.

However, while many big names were eliminated from the field, there still remained players who rose to the top and survived on to compete in Day 2. Among those moving on are Barry Shulman, Tom Schneider, Matt Matros, Chino Rheem, and the femme fatales Jennifer Harman and J.J. Liu. Each of these players has a shot of grabbing the event's top prize of $205,065 and it will be interesting to see who rises to the top during day two play.

Top Chip Counts
1    Chris Tryba    67,300
2    Jason Kim    59,900
3    Sean Nguyen    55,500
4    Damien Leforbes    55,300
5    Bryan Pimlott    55,000
6    Chris Overgard    51,300
7    Matt Dames    49,600
8    Paul Schulmer    49,100
9    Brian Feder    47,600
10    Jon Aguiar    46,100

 Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

Day 1 completed
PLH Championship Day 1: 120 Players Hit the Rail; Levi Chip Leader with 137,000


The $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship kicked off Day 1 with eight levels of action-packed play as 249 players entered for their shot at the first $10K championship of the year. While that number was down slightly from last year’s 268 entrants, the quality of the field was not diminished in the least. In fact, many of the event’s former champs were in attendance including Nenad Medic (2008- $794,112), Allen Cunningham (2007- $487,287), and last year’s winner, Hungarian Valdemar Kwaysser (2010- $617,214). When the sun set on Day 1 approximately 137 players remained.

As many know, Pot-Limit Hold’em is extremely popular with the European contingent of players. That fact was evidenced by the players who had traveled from around the world to enter the event. Among them were PokerStars Team Pro UK members JP Kelly, James Akenhead, and Liv Boeree; and European superstars Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Vladimir Schemelev, Maxim Lykov, and Praz Bansi. Although, about half of those players would be eliminated during the day.

Obviously Europeans weren’t the only players in action. Some big names who played and even survived the day include Erik Seidel, David “Bakes” Baker, Dwyte Pilgrim, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Hoyt Corkins, and Pat Pezzin. Even more impressive, former champs Cunningham, Medic, and Kwaysser all survived to Day 2.

However, all of those players are trailing those at the top of the chip counts: Nicholas Levi (137,000), John Dwyer (130,000), McLean Karr (125,500), Darren Kramer (125,100), Martins Adeniya (124,800), Brandon Adams (114,000), Josh Arieh (113,000), Steve O'Dwyer (112,200) Sam Stein (111,000), Matt Marafioti (110,700), and Justin Bonomo (109,800).

Not all the big-name pros were as lucky as Levi. Huck Seed, David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Tom Marchese, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Alaei, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Frank Kassela, Scott Seiver, John Racener, and Michael Mizrachi were among those eliminated as the day wore on. In addition, PokerStars Team Pro members Vanessa Selbst, Alexandre Gomes, Jonathan Duhamel, Ville Wahlbeck, Vanessa Rousso, Lex Veldhuis, and Leo Fernandez all failed to make it through to Day 2.

Tomorrow, the remaining 137 players will return to compete for their share of a $2,340,600 prizepool, which will be distributed among the top 27 players with first place receiving $573,456. Here is a look at the payouts:

1st- $573,456
2nd- $354,460
3rd- $264,651
4th- $198,927
5th- $150,453
6th- $114,525
7th- $87,702
8th- $67,596
9th- $52,406
10th thru 12th- $40,890
13th thru 15th- $31,183
16th thru 18th- $25,348
19th thru 27th- $20,129


Top Chip Counts
1    Nicholas Levi    137,000
2    John Dwyer    130,000
3    McLean Karr    125,500
4    Darren Kramer    125,100
5    Martins Adeniya    124,800
6    Brandon Adams    114,000
7    Josh Arieh    113,000
8    Steve O'Dwyer    112,200
9    Sam Stein    111,000
10    Matt Marafioti    110,700

id say trickett is the most likely....

Hilarious table draw day 2 of 10k

Annette, Mercier, Moorman, Paul Geeeeees, Arieh, Sam Stein and myself, should be fun

just got a text from moorman with his table draw in the 10k plh

Annette, Mercier, Moorman, Paul Geeeeees, Arieh, Sam Stein and some monkey from brighton

sick brag

3 brits in top 10 of the 10k pot limit event 7....incuding james dempsey and sunny chattha..........what a start the brits are having


1   Martins Adeniya   200,000
2   Sunny Chattha   186,000
3   Binh Nguyen   159,000
4   Christopher Oliver   153,000
5   McLean Karr   150,000
6   Justin Bonomo   143,000
7   Dan Fleyshman   135,000
8   James Dempsey   132,300
9   Robert Mizrachi   130,000
10   Men Nguyen   129,900


courtesy geordieneil

31 left i n $10k PLH. Might need another funk thread?

Top Chip Counts
1    McLean Karr    543,000
2    Chris Moorman    490,000
3    Christopher Oliver    430,000
4    Stephen Chidwick    400,000
5    Owen Crowe    385,000
6    Jason Somerville    375,000
7    Jarred Solomon    370,000
8    Jonathan Jaffe    355,000
9    Jason DeWitt    350,000
10    Toby Lewis    300,000

Bubble of $10k plh, Moorman/Lewis got chips.

Go on moormani

He had 2k at 200-400 spin ftw!

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

Champion Eugene Katchalov

Just five months after winning the $100,000 Super High Roller down at the PCA in the Bahamas, Eugene Katchalov has shipped his first World Series of Poker bracelet in Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud.

Katchalov entered heads-up played against Alessio Isaia as a massive underdog, with just 250,000 chips to Isaia's 1.35 million. The native Ukrainian came roaring back however, snatching the chip lead in under an hour and never looked back from there. Katchalov's good fortune was highlighted perfectly during the final hand, where he caught consecutive cards on sixth and seventh street to make a better two-pair than Isaia. For his incredible comeback he takes home $122,909 and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

Isaia's play cannot be overlooked for the past three days. He entered today as the chip leader, and was among the leaders until the final table was set. There he fell in the ranks, but quickly turned it around and regained the chip lead. Unfortunately he couldn't close the deal against Katchalov heads up, and will have to settle with $75,911 for second place.

Other players who deserve praise include Eric Buchman and Jonathan Spinks. Spinks was severely card-dead throughout the day, but grinded all the way to 4th place, earning $35,476. Buchman was in cruise control at the final table, accumulating chips left and right until he began to slip. He failed to execute a handful of bluffs, and was crippled when Isaia made a wheel on sixth against his trip-queens. Buchman unhappily exited in third place, receiving $48,961 for his play.

Three days ago, 357 players enter the Rio to compete for a WSOP gold bracelet. Some of poker's greats including Tom Dwan, Jason Mercier, David Bach, Daniel Negreanu, Sorel Mizzi, Shaun Deeb and Frank Kassela all came out to compete, but in the end only one player could be crowned champion. Congratulations to Eugene Katchalov for winning his first WSOP gold bracelet

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em


17 of 675  left


Top chip counts

1      William Davis     416,000
2    Timothy Chauser    371,000
3    Sean Nguyen    327,000
4    Scott Clements    259,000
5    Thomas Jamieson    221,000
6    Bryan Pimlott    208,000
7    John Myung    205,000
8    Chris Overgard    186,000
9    Mitch Schock    171,000
10    Jeff Williams    158,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship


27 of 249 remain near the end

Top Chip Counts
1    Amir Lehavot    635,000
2    McLean Karr    600,000
3    Stephen Chidwick    510,000
4    Jonathan Jaffe    510,000
5    Chris Moorman    490,000
6    Jarred Solomon    400,000
7    Jason DeWitt    360,000
8    Tommy Vinas    360,000
9    Jason Somerville    355,000
10    Robert Mizrachi    310,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

Here is a look at the table redraw:
Table 292

Seat   Player
1   Mike “The Mouth” Matusow
2   Jason Somerville
3   Thorsten Schafer
4   Jennifer Tilly
5   Binh Nguyen
6   Nicolas Levi
7   Gary Rabin
8   Chris Moorman
9   Robert Mizrachi
Table 286

Seat   Player
1   Jason DeWitt
2   Tommy Vinas
3   Noah Schwartz
4   Jonathan Jaffe
5   Marco Traniello
6   Stephen Chidwick
7   McLean Karr
8   Toby Lewis
9   Darren Kramer
Table 280

Seat   Player
1   Nenad Medic
2   Takashi Ogura
3   Michael Benvenuti
4   Owen Crowe
5   Amir Lehavot
6   Sam Stein
7   Steve Gross
8   Jarred Solomon
9   Eric Cloutier

Negraneau bubbled the $10k

When it comes to Daniel Negreanu, there is no doubt the man plays for first. This was just evidenced on the money bubble of the $10K PLH Championship as Negreanu was eliminated as the bubble boy.

It happened in a blind versus blind confrontation with Jason DeWitt. Negreanu was in the big blind and called DeWitt's raise to 20,000 to see the flop come down {3-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{4-Spades}. DeWitt continuation bet 20,000, Negreanu raised to 60,000, and DeWitt made the call. When the {9-Hearts} hit the turn, DeWitt led out with a big bet and Negreanu called off for 74,000.

Negreanu: {K-Spades}{3-Spades}
DeWitt: {A-Clubs}{4-Clubs}

Negreanu had flopped big with bottom pair and a flush draw, but he was still behind DeWitt's pair of fours. Unfortunately for Negreanu fans, the {9-Diamonds} river blanked and he was eliminated in 28th place. The good news, at least for the remaining players, is that they're now in the money.

Event 8 $1,000 NLHE

Day 1a has officially come to an end. This is the first event this year with multiple starting days, and registration numbers are likely beat the total of players who entered this event last year (4,345).

Play was suspended with 312 players remaining. A total number of 2,116 players took to the felt today and as of this post over 1,200 have already pre-registered for day 1b tomorrow bringing the total number of players registered to more than 3,300.

Albert Kim appears to be our current chipleader with 74,675. Kim is no stranger to the WSOP as he finished in 19th place in the Main Event in 2008.

Other notable big stacks include last year's Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel with 45,525, Ana Marquez with around 60,000, Shane Schleger with 41,000, Dan Shak with 39,125, and David "The Maven" Chicotsky with 38,725..

Still hanging on are some other well known players including Eric Mizrachi (21,550), Chad Brown (14,275), and Vitali Lunkin (13,125).

Tomorrow Day 1b will commence at noon and the remaining players from days 1a and 1b will converge at 2:30pm on Monday for day two.


Top Chip Counts
1    Albert Kim    74,675
2    Ana Marquez    60,000
3    Kenny Nguyen    50,000
4    Jonathan Duhamel    45,525
5    Shane Schleger    41,300
6    Dan Shak    39,125
7    David Chicotsky    38,725
8    Bryn Kenney    35,000
9    Christopher Perez    34,000
10    Steven van Zadelhoff    33,000

312 of 2116 remain

Event #9: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
Day 1 completed
No Limit Deuce to Seven Day 1 Completed

After eight levels of No Limit Deuce to Seven Single Draw we've eliminated nearly 75% of the field. And what a star-studded field it was. We saw the likes of Barry Greenstein, Phill Hellmuth, David Williams, Greg Raymer, David Singer, Doyle Brunson, Erik Seidel, Michael Mizrachi and Jean-Robert Bellande among others, all find their place on the rail.

But even more important is the amount of notable pros that will be in action tomorrow. Among the 73 players left are Phil Laak, Jason Mercier, Shaun Deeb, Eli Elezra, Justin Bonomo, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, Galen Hall and five-time Deuce to Seven bracelet winner, Billy Baxter.

For most of the day Travis Pearson led our field, fresh off of his $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better final table. At one point he had almost 45,000 when nobody else had crossed the 30,000 chip mark. But some setbacks towards the end of the day left him bagging up just 33,600, still one of our top five stacks. Our current chip leader is George Lind III with an astounding 52,200. Lind III made his move in the very last level to put himself in excellent position heading into day 2.

You will definitely want to check back in tomorrow as this is sure to have a fantastic list of names that make the money and you never know what is going to happen in a no-limit game. The action has been fierce already but can only get hotter on moving day. We'll see you all back tomorrow at 3pm local time when action commences in the Amazon Room.


op Chip Counts
1    George Lind III    52,200
2    Travis Pearson    33,600
3    Eli Elezra    24,000
4    Berry Johnston    22,000
5    Jason Mercier    21,250
6    Matt Affleck    21,000
7    Stuart Rutter    21,000
8    Greg Mueller    21,000
9    Jimmy Fricke    20,000
10    Bernard Lee    20,000

 Moorman1  Chris Moorman

9/27 going into day 3 of the $10k PLH, lets bring Pot Limit home tomorrow, 573 bean ftw

even if you are copying and pasteing this stuff, you graft like fuck tighty. i for one dont realise how hard you work

yeah all information courtesy of www.wsop.com, with permission

updates at www.pokernews.com including NoFlopsHomer for some Brit balance to legions of US bloggers...

Come on stu Rutter! Get there!

When people are playing 2-7 are you supposed to hope they run like death? ;0)

Event #4 Bracelet So Close; Allen Bari Holding Mega Lead
 
Expecting to crown another bracelet winner today at the 2011 World Series of Poker saw those ambitions fall just a few places shy in Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em as just four players remain.

Starting the day with 42 players all eyeing a piece of the $4,065,500 prizepool, many people wanted to see a fairytale story of Brian Lemke capturing his second gold bracelet in the same event after he collected the top prize in 2009. Action early saw players fly out the door as Bernard Lee (42nd), Matt Glantz (38th), Kyle Bowker, (37th), Tim West (35th), JC Tran (29th), Konstantin Bucherl (20th) and Carlos Mortensen (17th) all find themselves on the wrong side of the rail as players jostled for position as they made a run at the final table.

Unfortunately for Lemke, his roller coaster of a day that saw his chip stack soar up and down would eventually end in 14th place when his was no match for Allen Bari's when a king dropped on the board. With Lemke's chips in his possession, it would be Bari that would steamroll the field as he accumulated chips like Phil Ivey gets ZOMG's from poker noobs as he arrived at the final table sharing the chip lead with Thomas Ross.

Arriving at the final table wouldn't come without its dilemmas either as players were outraged at the fact that they had to continue playing instead of pausing for the night. Coming off two $5,000 buy-in-plus second-place finishes within the past month, Farzad Bonyadi would be unable to improve on that as he was bundled out in ninth before Mikhail Lakhitov had his kings cracked to fall in eighth. As Bari increased his lead to one-third of the chips in play, that would soon soar out to half and then two-thirds of the chips in play as Jesse Chinni and Ricky Fohrenbach fell in seventh and sixth respectively.

Although the voices on the rail picked up, the action came to a complete stall in the final hour - apart from a quickfire last few hands - as eventually play was ceased for the night with four players remaining. As was the flavor for the final table Allen Bari will hold the chip lead heading into tomorrow with an amassed 9,125,000 in chips, but with Nicholas Blumenthal, Sean LeFort and Maria Ho still fighting for survival, it won't be too easy for Bari.

27 left in the $10k PLHE

Nenad Medic   73000   Amazon / 279 / 1
Takashi Ogura   93000   Amazon / 279 / 2
Michael Benvenuti   209000   Amazon / 279 / 3
Owen Crowe   143000   Amazon / 279 / 4
Amir Lehavot   628000   Amazon / 279 / 5
Samuel Stein   378000   Amazon / 279 / 6
Steven Gross   60000   Amazon / 279 / 7
Jarred Solomon   447000   Amazon / 279 / 8
Eric Cloutier   173000   Amazon / 279 / 9
Jason DeWitt   447000   Amazon  / 285 / 1
Tommy Vinas   385000   Amazon  / 285 / 2
Noah Schwartz   154000   Amazon  / 285 / 3
Jonathan Jaffe   296000   Amazon  / 285 / 4
Marco Traniello   87000   Amazon  / 285 / 5
Stephen Chidwick   697000   Amazon / 285 / 6
McLean Karr   593000   Amazon  / 285 / 7
Toby Lewis   284000   Amazon / 285 / 8
Darren Kramer   97000   Amazon / 285 / 9
Mike Matusow   89000   Amazon  / 291 / 1
Jason Somerville   301000   Amazon / 291 / 2
Thorsten Schafer   252000   Amazon / 291 / 3
Jennifer Tilly   186000   Amazon / 291 / 4
Binh Nguyen   106000   Amazon / 291 / 5
Nicolas Levi   392000   Amazon / 291 / 6
Gary Rabin   116000   Amazon / 291 / 7
Chris Moorman   382000   Amazon / 291 / 8
Robert Mizrachi   426000   Amazon / 291 / 9

moorman 18th
lewis 11th

chidwick still in FT on wsop just now


espn's coverage is only on the following


Thursday, June 2    5 p.m.-4 a.m.    WSOP Grudge Matches    ESPN3.com    No
Friday, June 3    5 p.m.-4 a.m.    $25,000 Heads-Up    ESPN3.com    No
Wednesday, July 6    6 p.m.-5 a.m.    $50,000 Poker Players Championship    ESPN3.com    No
Thursday, July 14    3 p.m.-7 p.m.    WSOP Day 3    ESPN3.com    No
Thursday, July 14    7 p.m.-9 p.m.    WSOP Day 3    ESPN3.com    Yes
Thursday, July 14    11 p.m.-2:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 3    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Friday, July 15    3 p.m.-7 p.m.    WSOP Day 4    ESPN3.com    No
Friday, July 15    7 p.m.-9 p.m.    WSOP Day 4    ESPN3.com    Yes
Friday, July 15    11 p.m.-2:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 4    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Saturday, July 16    3:30 p.m.-10 p.m.    WSOP Day 5 Part 1    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Saturday, July 16    Midnight-2:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 5 Part 2    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Sunday, July 17    3 p.m.-8 p.m.    WSOP Day 6    ESPN3.com    No
Sunday, July 17    10 p.m.-2:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 6    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Monday, July 18    3 p.m.-7 p.m.    WSOP Day 7    ESPN3.com    No
Monday, July 18    7 p.m.-10 p.m.    WSOP Day 7    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Monday, July 18    Midnight-2:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 7    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes
Tuesday, July 19    3 p.m.-8 p.m.    WSOP Day 8    ESPN3.com    No
Tuesday, July 19    8 p.m.-10 p.m.    WSOP Day 8    ESPN/ESPN3.com    Yes
Tuesday, July 19    Midnight-4:30 a.m.    WSOP Day 8    ESPN2/ESPN3.com    Yes

is that UK's Matt Perrins chip leader of the 2-7 with 8 left?

One and the same - another rowdy rail tomorrow.

Not bad for someone who has never played a hand before in this variant.

Congratulations to Allen Bari, Winner of Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($874,116)!

Originally scheduled as a three-day event, Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2011 World Series of Poker was stretched to four days. That doesn't mean a damn thing for Allen Bari though as he happily returned on the fourth day of play with a massive chip lead and rode it out to victory.

Bari walked in the final day topping the final four with over 90 of the 130 big blinds in play. Although things started off somewhat rough for him, he was able to battle through the obstacles presented and walk away with nearly $875,000 in first-place prize money. Not only that, Bari earned himself the most coveted prize in poker -- a WSOP gold bracelet!

After Nicholas Blumenthal fell in fourth place, Sean LeFort went out in second. Maria Ho started the day as the shortest stack in the room, but was able to battle her way to heads-up play versus Bari, albeit at a massive chip disadvantage. When the two got down to heads-up play, Bari held 85.5% of the chips in play. Ho had some work to do, but never seemed to get anything going. Bari kept constant pressure on her and her short stack before the final blow came.

On the final hand, Ho moved all in from the button and Bari called with pocket eights. Ho held {A-Spades}{4-Spades} and was looking for some help. The {K-Diamonds}{K-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} board failed to give her the improvement she needed to stave elimination and it was all over. Bari was instantly met with congratulations from his friends, which included Brent Hanks, Derek Raymond, Dan O'Brien, Chris Klodnicki and the late-running-in Jason Mercier. All of them embraced Bari with smiles, hugs and plenty of congratulations.

Although Bari has talked in the past a bit about not playing much poker in the future, he did comment, "I was expecting one bracelet. Seriously, I thought that if I didn't win a bracelet it would be a joke." Well Allen, you got your bracelet and $874,116 in cash.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Allen Bari   $874,116
2   Maria Ho   $540,020
3   Sean LeFort   $348,128
4   Nicholas Blumenthal   $255,028
5   Thomas Ross   $189,574
6   Ricky Fohrenbach   $142,821
7   Jesse Chinni   $108,914
8   Mikhail Lakhitov   $84,033
9   Farzad Bonyadi   $65,535


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-4-no-limit-hold-em/

congratulations to Amir Lehavot, Winner of Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship ($573,456)

Day 3 of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship began with 27 hopefuls looking to capture a coveted World Series of Poker bracelet and the $573,456 first-place prize. The eliminations came at a rapid pace, the field reducing itself from 27 to the final table in just five hours. After another five hours, it was Amir Lehavot who emerged victorious to capture the prize and his first WSOP bracelet.

Lehavot’s path to victory did not come easy as a number of notables stood in his way at the beginning of the day. Nenad Medic (25th- $20,129), Jennifer Tilly (21st- $20,129), Mike Matusow (20th- $20,129), Owen Crowe (15th- 32,183), Robert Mizrachi (12th- $40,890), and Toby Lewis (11th- $40,890) were just a few of the big names that were eliminated in the early stages of Day 3.

When the field was reduced to the final nine, the players relocated to the ESPN feature table:
Seat   Player   Chip Count
1   Amir Lehavot   1,268,000
2   Sam Stein   599,000
3   Jarred Solomon   1,427,000
4   Stephen Chidwick   772,000
5   Nicolas Levi   579,000
6   Michael Benvenuti   670,000
7   Eric Cloutier   457,000
8   Tommy Vinas   1,409,000
9   McLean Karr   290,000

The final table action was no less rapid than the preceding exploits. Michael Benvenuti was the first to go after his {A-Hearts}{K-Clubs} failed to improve against Stephen “Stevie444” Chidwick’s {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} on a board reading {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{7-Clubs}. A short time later, both McLean Karr and Eric Cloutier hit the rails in the eighth and seventh-place spots respectively. Nicolas Levi was the next out the door in sixth place after his {7-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} failed to hold against the {A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds} of Lehavot as the board ran out {A-Clubs}{5-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{4-Spades}.

It was during five-handed play that one of the more brutal hands of the day developed. It began when Jarred Solomon raised to 70,000 under the gun and Tommy Vinas decided to look him up from the button. Solomon led right out with a 75,000 bet on the {9-Spades}{Q-Spades}{7-Spades} flop, which Vinas raised to 275,000. Solomon thought for a moment before announcing, "Pot." The three-bet was for a whopping 735,000!

Vinas didn't take long before moving all in for a couple hundred thousand more and Solomon made the call.

Solomon: {9-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}
Vinas: {7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}

It was a brutal set-over-set flop that saw Vinas on the bad end of things. "Spade, spade," Vinas pleaded as he looked to his rail in resignation. The {8-Hearts} turn ensured that there would be no chop. It was down to the river for Vinas, who needed the case seven to stay alive. The {8-Clubs} was close, but not quite what he needed. Vinas was eliminated in fifth place and will take home $150,453 for his efforts.

The next to go was Chidwick in fourth place followed out the door just a few hands later by Sam Stein in third place, leaving Lehavot (5,415,000) to do heads-up battle against Solomon (2,160,000). It was a back and forth affair as Solomon did his best to put himself back in contention; however, Lehavot proved too much to overcome. In the final hand, Solomon's {a-Hearts}{J-Spades} could not pull ahead of Lehavot's {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts} and he finished as our runner-up.
Final Table Payouts

Place   Player   Prize
1   Amir Lehavot   $573,456
2   Jarred Solomon   $354,460
3   Sam Stein   $264,651
4   Stephen Chidwick   $198,927
5   Tommy Vinas   $150,453
6   Nicolas Levi   $114,525
7   Eric Cloutier   $87,702
8   McLean Karr   $67,596
9   Michael Benvenuti   $52,406
Former $5,000-$10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Champions

Year   Event   Player   Prize   Entrants
2005   Event #20 ($5,000)   Brian Wilson   $370,685   239
2006   Event #32 ($5,000)   Jason Lester   $550,764   378
2007   Event #13 ($5,000)   Allen Cunningham   $487,287   398
2008   Event #1 ($10,000)   Nenad Medic   $794,112   352
2009   Event #45 ($10,000)   John Kabbaj   $633,335   275
2010   Event #38 ($10,000)   Valdemar Kwaysser   $617,214   268
2011   Event #7 ($10,000)   Amir Lehavot   $573,456   249

Congratulations to Amir Lehavot on taking down the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship. Not a bad showing for the man who won $421,680 for a fourth-place finish back in March at the World Poker Tour’s L.A. Poker Classic

Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b completed

It was another exciting day here in the Pavillion. 2,062 players started day 1b with dreams of a WSOP bracelet and in a bit of deja vu from yesterday we were left with only 312 at the end of the night. They will join the 312 survivors of day 1a tomorrow afternoon meaning we will start day 2 with a total of 624 players

Total registration for the event was 4,178, which is 167 players less than the number of participants this event got last year.

After spending most of the day flying under our radar, Jon Turner is our current chip leader with 99,200. Yesterday's chip leader, Albert Kim, had only 74,675.

Some big stacks at the end of 1b included Jason Koon with 73,075 and Eugene Kim 57,225.

Other notable players still in the field include:

Phil Collins - 45,875
Annette Obrestad - 38,100
Gavin Griffin - 38,050
Layne Flack - 37,575
Kathy Liebert - 26,550

Only 423 of the 624 remaining players will make the money.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #9: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball

Final Chip Counts (full)

Chip Counts
1    Matt Perrins       293,000    
2    Bernard Lee       265,000    
3    Chris Bjorin       197,500    
4    Thomas Fuller       168,000    
5    Josh Brikis       119,000    
6    Robin Rightmire       107,000    
7    Jason Mercier    PokerStars Team Pro (USA)    89,000    


1          102,105
2          63,112
3          41,643
4          28,422
5          19,906
6          14,296
7          10,524

Do I sense a funk for?

John Eames currently 5th in event 8 $1000 nlhe

Dave "leKnave" Jones just tweeted he has 234k - which puts him top 20!

Get it done!

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #9: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball

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Matt Perrins Wins Event #9: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball! ($102,105)

On Saturday afternoon two days ago, Matt Perrins sat down at 5pm and played his first ever hand of Deuce to Seven No Limit having watched roughly half an hour's worth of YouTube videos on the game. Two days later he has now been crowned a WSOP bracelet winner, beating a field of 275 to join his best friend Jake Cody as the second UK player to win a WSOP bracelet this year.

Perrins admitted after that he hadn't been initially sure of what he was doing in the early levels but gradually picked up the game and its similarities to Hold'em. He also said he knew that everyone else was much more experienced than him and he attempted to make it up by consistent aggression to build his stack. He also stated his intent to now play the $10,000 2-7 NL later on the series, something he said he would only have done if he cashed for $10,000 or more.

Buoyed on by another rail of around 20-30 of his friends, Perrins' chip lead never looked in doubt as he managed to whittle down veteran Chris Bjorin's stack to a small amount before finally finishing off the Swede to win the first prize of over $100,000

Congratulations to Matt Perrins, winner of Event #9 at his very first WSOP and look out tonight Las Vegas. The Brits will be out to celebrate this one!

Event #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day 1 completed
Spinella Builds Massive Stack to Lead as Money Bubble Looms


Day 1 of Event #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed is in the books after another massive turnout of players came out to action at the Rio. Last year's field was a whopping 1,663 entrants, but this year destroyed that with 1,920 players registering for this event. A larger field size means more money and this year the winner of this event will take home a whopping $544,388 along with the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

When play began at noon, players were spread out across tables all over the Rio Convention Center. There were tables in all sections of the Rio Pavilion, taking over both the cash game and satellite sections for the time being. The Amazon Room also had a section that contained a couple hundred players in this event. Needless to say, it was jam packed with poker from wall to wall as far as the eye could see.

Some of the notables we were able to spot throughout the day included Angel Guillen, Liv Boeree, Vanessa Selbst, David Williams, Lex Veldhuis and Richard Toth -- all of Team PokerStars Pro. Unfortunately for the squad, that crew of players didn't make it too far in this event and hit the rail. John Racener, Shawn Buchanan, Andy Black, Lauren Kling, Faraz Jaka, Chino Rheem, Galen Hall, Greg Raymer, Tom Dwan, Antonio Esfandiari and Andrew Lichtenberger were some of the pros who joined them on the rail.


Top Chip Counts
1    Anthony Spinella    223,000
2    Ryan Welch    156,300
3    Bryan Colin    128,100
4    Anders Taylor    117,000
5    Zachary Clark    105,100
6    Amit Makhija    103,800
7    Kovalchuck Oleksii    92,100
8    Alex Wice    87,200
9    Tom Macey    85,500
10    Dennis Benes    80,400


Sida Yuen is the only Brit I can see listed in the counts

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day 1 completed
Chasing Eric Buchman

If not for the endless string of split pots, this $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship might be our very favorite event of the year to cover. Nowadays, only the big-buyin events feature intimate, highly skilled fields from top to near-bottom like this one.

Today's field was a strong one with 202 players -- nearly all of them faces you'd be familiar with -- turning up to the Rio with the buyin burning a hole in their pockets. Many of them torched through stacks in the early event in order to give this evening show their full attention. Like Tom Dwan, for example, who busted the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event just a few minutes before registration closed for this Championship. Dwan had a short and productive four levels over here on our side of the room, working his 30,000-chip stack to 61,000 by night's end.

Also in the mix were the likes of John Racener, Will Failla, Justin Smith, Ted Forrest, and Michael Mizrachi, but they were all cursed with a very short day and run out of the room within the first few levels. Also falling by the wayside was Francesco Barbero, one of the still-growing 2011 class of bracelet winners. Barbaro could easily justify the investment after taking down this event's little brother, the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event of a few days ago. He had a miserable day, though, and his last big bet went into his final pot during the closing level of the night.

Barbaro wasn't the only 2011 bracelet winner in the room, either. Allen Bari won Event #4 yesterday, and Eugene Katchalov took down Event #5, too; both men survived the day with chips to spare. Bari, in particular, had a good day, finishing up with 70,700 tucked safely inside his chip bag for the overnight soak. Also in the mix was Event #6's champion, Harrison Wilder who finished the day even better with 75,300 chips.

Joining those survivors in tomorrow's Day 2 will be a significant crowd of familiar faces. Erik Seidel, Dwan, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein and a pair of Deebs (Shaun and Freddy) will headline the restart at 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday. That's today, if you're scoring at home. A few of those guys have chips with which to do some damage, too. Negreanu was one of the last to register, but he managed to stack up 51,800 by the time the clock wound down, and Freddy Deeb is very near the top with 82,800 chips.

From the looks of it, though, everyone's chasing Eric Buchman right now. He had a quiet day as far as table talk went, electing instead to let his chips do the talking. Buchman had a taller stack every time we walked past his table, and his finishing count of 105,500 will set the pace for Day 2.


Top Chip Counts
1    Eric Buchman    105,500
2    Freddy Deeb    82,800
3    Alessio Isaia    77,000
4    Harrison Wilder    75,300
5    Allen Bari    70,700
6    Eugene Katchalov    64,000
7    Tom Dwan    61,000
8    Shaun Deeb    57,000
9    John Hennigan    55,000
10    Todd Brunson    55,000


James Dempsey showing 51,000 on the last chip updates

Think Karl is still going in the 6 max according to his Tweeter

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em


Has 68 left and is in the last few hands of the day, News to follow

John Eames showing up nicely in the chip counts

LeKnave Dave Jones

Ended day 1, 210k coming back to 4k/8k. Tough last level. 60 left

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Jon "PearlJammer" Turner Tops Day 2 Field!

After another full day slogging it on the felt, Day 2 of Event #4: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em has come to an end with players so close to the eighth gold bracelet of the 2011 World Series of Poker.

623 players began the day spread over three sections of the Amazon Room, and once play kicked off, the action was fast and furious as bustouts occurred at a phenomenal rate with the bubble bursting just after the commencement of the third full level of the day. Unfortunately for Nick Gibson, all the stalling and time-wasting wouldn't help him as he became the bubble boy putting 423 players into the money.

Like most small buy-in tournaments at the World Series, once in the money, play always speeds up as players look to jostle for position high up on the leaderboard or to end the day early with a min-cash. Valdemar Kwaysser (420th), Jason Koon (412th), Dan Heimiller (392nd), Kyle Bowker (389th), Sam Barnhart (385th), Michael Pesek (294th), Bryn Kenney (280th), Marc Karam (270th), Allie Prescott (221st), Gavin Griffin (215th), Kathy Liebert (204th), Alexander Kravchenko (177th), Ylon Schwartz (174th), Layne Flack (95th) and Darryll Fish (93rd) were just a handful of the highly talented players that exited with some extra moolah in their back pockets.

With the board saying 60 players remaining, it is Jon "PearlJammer" Turner leading the field with an amassed 749,000 in chips. Snapping at his heels include Kyle Speake (573,000) and Hunter Frey (535,000) alongside notable players Young Phan (268,000), Jonathan Duhamel (250,000), Albert Kim (246,000), John Eames (233,000) and Jordan Young (221,000) as well as females Valerie Cross (297,000) and Ana Marquez (197,000).

Top Chip Counts
1    Jon Turner    749,000
2    Kyle Speake    573,000
3    Hunter Frey    535,000
4    Sadan Turker    487,000
5    Brandon Shane    482,000
6    Christopher Goggin    464,000
7    Young Ji    425,000
8    Daniel Haglund    301,000
9    Valerie Cross    297,000
10    Min Ku    275,000

In the $1k?

yeh, that was his tweet about 15 mins ago

flushy ended day on 29800 post on twitter/fb he played 8 hours to lose 200 chips

1k seat draw Day 3

Young Phan   268000   Amazon / 335 / 1
Michael Trujillo   177000   Amazon / 335 / 2
David Peters   92000   Amazon / 335 / 3
Jon Turner   749000   Amazon / 335 / 4
Ana Marquez Esteban   197000   Amazon / 335 / 5
Sean Getzwiller   165000   Amazon / 335 / 6
Ricky Fohrenbach   174000   Amazon / 335 / 7
Jonathan Duhamel   250000   Amazon / 335 / 8
Jeremiah Vinsant   94000   Amazon / 335 / 9

Peter Gelencser   171000   Amazon / 336 / 1
Tyler Patterson   114000   Amazon / 336 / 2
Sadan Turker   487000   Amazon / 336 / 3
Marcus Mizzi   189000   Amazon / 336 / 4
Jonathan Gamerov   117000   Amazon / 336 / 5
Brian Schmidt   248000   Amazon / 336 / 6
Eric Mizrachi   51000   Amazon / 336 / 7
Christopher Goggin   464000   Amazon / 336 / 9

Gabriel Rouleau   142000   Amazon / 337 / 1
Young Ji   425000   Amazon / 337 / 2
Kyle Speake   573000   Amazon / 337 / 4
Michael Merichko   219000   Amazon / 337 / 5
Ken Kao   152000   Amazon / 337 / 6
Jeffery Warren   105000   Amazon / 337 / 7
Nicholas Kamen   173000   Amazon / 337 / 8
Kevin Mount   116000   Amazon / 337 / 9

Daniel Haglund   301000   Amazon / 338 / 1
WeiKai Chang   136000   Amazon / 338 / 2
John Esposito   168000   Amazon / 338 / 3
Todd Breyfogle   110000   Amazon / 338 / 4
Alati Richard   111000   Amazon / 338 / 5
Hunter Frey   535000   Amazon / 338 / 6
Gary Goad   242000   Amazon / 338 / 7
Max Weinberg   178000   Amazon / 338 / 8
Samantha Cohen   253000   Amazon / 338 / 9

Brandon Shane   482000   Amazon / 341 / 1
John Gordon   152000   Amazon / 341 / 3
Conrad Monica   118000   Amazon / 341 / 4
Randall Brueckner   277000   Amazon / 341 / 5
Jonathan Neckar   135000   Amazon / 341 / 6
Michael Eckstut   36000   Amazon / 341 / 7
Justin Truesdell   88000   Amazon / 341 / 8
Jonathan Driscoll   139000   Amazon / 341 / 9

John Eames   233000   Amazon / 342 / 1
Min Ku   113000   Amazon / 342 / 2
Noah Bronstein   70000   Amazon / 342 / 3
Andrew Brongo   169000   Amazon / 342 / 4
Scott Dorin   138000   Amazon / 342 / 5
David Jones   210000   Amazon / 342 / 6
Valerie Cross   297000   Amazon / 342 / 7
Stefan Raffay   218000   Amazon / 342 / 8

Albert Kim   246000   Amazon / 343 / 1
Franco Cupello   177500   Amazon / 343 / 2
Jason Cooper   118000   Amazon / 343 / 3
Joshua Bylund   221000   Amazon / 343 / 4
Chase Olsen   144000   Amazon / 343 / 5
Odette Tremblay   149000   Amazon / 343 / 6
Lawrence Riley   73000   Amazon / 343 / 7
Stuart Krasney   385000   Amazon / 343 / 8
Kim Frederiksen   206000   Amazon / 343 / 9

Blondes very own LeKnave AKA Dave Jones, John Eames and Sadan Turker...........3 brits in the final 39 of event 8 $1000 nlhe.

all 3 have $12k locked, with $611,185 up top

Tighty get your funk for magic ready

gl guys

all 3 gaining momentum    Turker 5th, Eames 6th LeKnave 16th with 31 left

c'mon boys.....cash for gold needs more bracelets in the UK ;)

Tweets..

johneamespoker John Eames
686k on break. 26 left. Next level 8-16k-2k


LeKnave Dave Jones
375k at break, back at 8k/16k. 26 left.

Come on Jonesssssssssssss

gl Eames too

22 left.

Down to the last 2 tables, eames and jones are short but still in, Sadan Turker is 2nd just behind Jon "pearljammer" Turner


gl the brits

q2wretyuiuyhgtrdewsedrfgt

Jones out 17th, reshoved ATo after button opens. Button has 77 and holds

ffffffffs.

Come on Eames. Imagine those 3 with braclets

Event 8 $1,000 NLHE


Currently 5 left headed by Pearljammer Turner

15    John Eames       29,743
17    David Jones       23,426

for the two Brits


full result when the event concludes

Event #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Has 16 left including two Brits

Alexander Wice       1,075,000
Jeffrey Papola       875,000    
Ryan Welch       700,000    
Joshua Mullen       539,000    
George Jalkotzy       530,000    
Eddie Blumenthal       515,000    
Ravi Raghavan       425,000
David Vamplew       347,000
Geffrey Klein       331,000    
Sean Grover       292,000    
Efren Garcia       226,000
Anthony Spinella       225,000    
Sida Yuen       224,500
Bryan Colin       204,000    
Darren Wong       130,000
Michael Hauptman       119,000    


All guaranteed $19,800

Mike Ellis finished 53rd, Karl Moansandlols 171st in the cash

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship


currently 23 of 202 left and look who is up there for the Brits

1    Guillaume Rivet    780,000
2    Jason Steinberg    570,000
3    Michael Chow    400,000
4    Richard Ashby    380,000
5    Mikael Thuritz    300,000
6    Viacheslav Zhukov    300,000
7    Eric Buchman    290,000
8    Kirill Gerasimov    285,000
9    Alessio Isaia    270,000
10    Steve Billirakis    240,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em


Peter Hernandez Is Our Chip Leader After Day 1


Day 1 of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Chance tournament is in the books and the starting field of 1,340 players has been whittled down to 165. The action on the felt was fast and furious right from the start, as many of today’s participants opted to utilize their two $1,500 chip “rebuy lammers” right from the start to bully opponents into submission.

Peter Hernandez is our chip leader with 124,700. Hernandez used a combination of great calls and good luck to climb to the top of the leaderboard. J.C. Tran has amassed a stack of over 110,000 and will be looking to capture his third WSOP bracelet when play resumes. Englishman Steve Watts, playing in the WSOP on the advice of his friend Sam Trickett, has also made the most of his three chances by building his stack to 99,500.

Former WSOP Main Event winners were spotted all across the Pavilion Room early in the day, as Jaime Gold, Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Cada, Greg Raymer, Scotty Nguyen each attempted to run the gauntlet and add more hardware to their collections. Unfortunately for the aforementioned group, glory was not in the cards today as the former champions fell one by one.

Carlos Mortensen (57,100) is the last Main Event champ left standing after ten levels of play today and will look to make his move during tomorrow’s Day 2 action.

Other notable names to bust during Day 1 of the WSOP’s 12th bracelet event include Tom Dwan, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Annette Obrestad, Gavin Griffin, Jason Mericer, TJ Cloutier, and Chad Brown.

Notable big stacks to keep an eye on tomorrow include Ted Forrest (54,500), Issac Haxton (47,200) and Bruce Chen (40,900).

Top Chip Counts
1    Peter Hernandez    124,700
2    Jonathan Karamalikis    122,700
3    J.C. Tran    117,000
4    Brad McFarland    101,300
5    Steve Watts    99,500
6    Richard Trigg    95,700
7    Ben Tollerene    95,300
8    Andy Black    85,300
9    Lakhitov Mikhail    84,100
10    Arthur Lim    76,700

Martins Adeniya and Sam Trickett still in according to the chip counts

144 are paid, $352,000 up top

go on trigg bracelet has your name on it

two of our heroes who got frighteningly close (from Poker News)

Dave LeKnave Jones & John Eddie Eames - sterling effort  boys

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/leknave.jpg)


(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/eames.jpg)

Jones obv spent too much time tweaking his nipples to concentrate on shipping the bracelet.

whoever wins is gonna be furious when they see that

no trigg wont

From: http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?rr=5&grid=821&tid=11447&dayof=1898

Seat   Player   Country   Chip Count
2   Sean Getzwiller   UK   3,000,000
6   Sadan Turker   UK   7,910,000
7   Jon Turner   USA   1,680,000

Sadan Turker is the over-whelming chip leader with two-thirds of the chips in play, but with the talented Sean Getzwiller and Jon Turner still in contention, this tournament is nowhere near over!

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be back at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino from 4:00 pm PDT to provide all the continued live action from the final table as we play down until an Event #8 Champion is crowned!

Not sure if Sean Getzwiller is a Brit or its a typo. Sadan Turker def is, online SN on stars and FTP is thesnail_03.

could this be our 3rd Bracelet of the Series already?

Anyone know Sadan Turker?

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=138208

good luck to him later on

Getzwiller is American, tis a typo

You probably already have this Tighty but just in case @WSOPTD = Jack Effel

Anyone got any cliffs on Martins Adeniya, see his name alottttt on the circuit ?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/18/city-trader-bet-i-ll-cash-in-at-poker-115875-21368204/

does anyone know the female who shouts all the time in the uk rail on final tables

Danni cook from hull. Mum and dad are regs in naps . Now seeing mr cody

i see just keep hearing her when jake and pez won her braclets

Danni was the young lady who worked as the intern at DTD for a while a few months back, you may have seen her then. She blogged a GP for DTD.

isn't he an american living in wales?

not sure it is a typo. yes he's american but he's listed as being from cardiff

actually maybe not. there's a cardiff in california apparently

sadan and sean now hu

triple chance

1. sam tricket
2. rick trigg

oioiiiiiiiiiiiiii

do ittttttttttttttttttttttttt

from pn

Trickett is stepping up and stealing the show. At one point, he was down to under ten big blinds but recently found a nice rush and now sits atop our leaderboard with 169,000

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-12-triple-chance-no-limit-hold-em/

3rd steve watts, english guy too?

David Vamplew currently chip leader in the 6max with 8 left

yeh i'm right, it's English guy reg in London. Can be hilarious and also tilting, gogogoooooooooo

scored 2 in 2 while on loan at wellling utd from orient therefore = legend

lawl

gogogoooooo

Is that Welling up the road from Bexleyheath?

yep

Just a idea or it may already be getting done, but is there a diary or summat for Brit's cashing or making 2nd last day etc in all events (wsop) or is that just wishful thinking....lol

My uncle ran the Lord Kitchener for a good few years, I lived with him for a while before I joined the navy back in 98/99 and never knew Welling had a footy team :D

so presumable you used to play at spiders by bexleyheath station

Yeah if that's the one you had to go up a rattly old fire escape to get in I did occasionally with a lad called Paul Rook who came in the pub.

Used to normally go to the 24hr Snooker club in Northumberland Heath after Zens in Dartford because the old boy there used to let everyone do what they wanted :D


Sorry for the derail....

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11449 (http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11449)

Vamplew 1/7 on the FT of the NLHE 6 max

This is a bit nuts.  77 left in the $1,500 Triple Chance NLHE and Brits placed as 1, 2, 3 & 6!!! gogogogogo

Poker is fuuuuuuuuuuun

Gwan!!!

Tighty your slacking on the funk threads. Ashby 3/10 in PLO/08.

go trigg

With David Vamplew getting a 4th in the 6 max(really unlucky top set vs small flush dra and small pair) after being chip leader for majority of last 13-14, the Brit's are doing it again now Richard "chufty" Ashby is down to the final 6 and chip leader in the omaha hi-lo split 8 or better, he is playing well in what seems to be his best game,

Live coverage still ongoing.....

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11450

See http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=53454.0 for WSOP news, anything you are aware of, be good to Post it on there.

There are several, but for ease of use, we are trying to keep most of it here.....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=53454.0

cheers muchly :-)

With David Vamplew getting a 4th in the 6 max(really unlucky top set vs small flush dra and small pair) after being chip leader for majority of last 13-14, the Brit's are doing it again now Richard "chufty" Ashby is down to the final 6 and chip leader in the omaha hi-lo split 8 or better, he is playing well in what seems to be his best game,

Live coverage still ongoing.....

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11450

Trigg 2/22, gogogogogo.

come on son!

COME ON TRIGGGGGGGAR MY SANNNNN

Gl Trigg, TID with the MOF

Event 10 $1,500 6 Max


Currently heads Up between Geffrey Klein and Eddie Blumenthal


David Vamplew the EPT Winner from Scotland was 4th

3    Jeffrey Papola       214,410
4    David Vamplew       141,030
5    Bryan Colin       95,333
6    Anthony Spinella    66,199
7    George Jalkotzy       47,174
8    Ravi Raghavan       47,174
9    Alexander Wice       34,473

it will be a big diary!!!!...2 bracelets already and Sam Trickett hasn't woken up yet, he's bound to win about 4 on his own lol.....GO BRITS!!!!!!

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Top Chip Counts
1    Richard Ashby    1,650,000
2    Viacheslav Zhukov 1,350,000
3    George Lind    1,200,000
4    Mack Lee    1,005,000
5    Steve Billirakis    665,000

1          465,216
2          287,554
3          214,697
4          161,379
5          122,054

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em


14 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Nicholas Rampone    760,000
2    Andrea Dato    740,000
3    Richard Trigg    620,000
4    Bill Chen    497,000
5    Steve Watts    360,000
6    Bradley Mcfarland    330,000
7    Daniel Smith    290,000
8    David Diaz    250,000
9    Denis Gnidash    200,000
10    Anthony Fung    185,000

1          352,808
2          218,183
3          138,044
4          100,200
5          73,915
6          55,355
7          42,059
8          32,381
9          25,253
10          19,953
11          19,953
12          19,953
13          15,973
14          15,973

Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 1 completed

On most Day 1’s at the WSOP, the goal is to survive the first day in hopes that you will either limp your way into the money on Day 2 or build up a giant chip stack and go for the bracelet. But today, the goal was to simply beat everyone at your table, as 1440 players were all spread out at 9 person tables essentially playing a sit-n-go. For the 160 players that remain, they have all guaranteed themselves a payday of $4,998, but all of them have their eyes on that first place prize of $369,371.

Some of the players that were knocked out early in the day were Greg Mueller, Tom Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Justin Bonomo, David Williams, defending champion Steven Kelly, and Eli Elezra, amongst several others. Some players who made it to their heads up battle but fell short included Humberto Brenes, Matt Jarvis, Daniel Alaei, Erick Lindgren, Allen Cunningham, David Benyamine, and Sam Simon, who lost in the second to last match of the night.

Despite all of those big names dropping out, we still have a ton of top pros who managed to win their tabled. Daniel Negreanu heads the list, but he will be joined by an impressive list of players, including Nam Le, Lex Veldhuis, Josh Brikis, Victor Ramdin, Frank Kassela, Scott Seiver, Eric Baldwin, Greg Raymer, Filippo Candio, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, and several more.

It sure looks like we will have an exciting day tomorrow. There will be 16 ten-handed tables, with 2nd-10th place at every table getting $4,998. The 16 winners will be guaranteed a payday of $13,238, and will come back on day 3 and play down to a winner.


Jack Ellwood and Jon Spinks are still running in this

Event #14: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

338 began and 198 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Marco Traniello    52,500
2    Shawn Buchanan    43,000
3    Casey McCarrel    42,000
4    Victor Ramdin    34,000
5    Jeff Shulman    30,000
6    Matt Glantz    29,000
7    Justin Bonomo    28,000
8    Shaun Deeb    26,000
9    Dwyte Pilgrim    25,000
10    Jason Mercier    22,000

im sure its on its way - but trigg funk ldo

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em


Congratulations to Sean Getzwiller, Winner of Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Holdem ($611,185)!

After four days of battle over five calender days, the 2011 World Series of Poker now has an Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Holdem Champion with Sean Getzwiller victorious!

Kicking off over the weekend with two day one starting flights, 4,178 players took to the felt to form a prizepool of $3,760,200 which saw 423 players head home with their wallets or purses a little heavier in cash. Although branded by players and poker media as the donkament that features amateurs with only a few hours on the felt along with seasoned veterans and online professionals who have logged millions of hours - it still takes some skill and combined run good to make it deep.

Players such as Valdemar Kwaysser (420th), Jason Koon (412th), Dan Heimiller (392nd), Kyle Bowker (389th), Sam Barnhart (385th), Bryn Kenney (280th), Marc Karam (270th), Allie Prescott (221st), Gavin Griffin (215th), Kathy Liebert (204th), Alexander Kravchenko (177th), Ylon Schwartz (174th), Layne Flack (95th), Jonathan Duhamel (54th), Young Phan (52nd), Eric Mizrachi (50th), Ana Marquez (32nd), Albert Kim (31st), David Peters (29th) and Jordan “Jymaster11” Young (19th) all managed to turn on their run-good switch at the right time, but it still didn't secure them a place on our final table.

Those fortunate nine would all be moved to the bright lights of the Thunder-Dome where they would battle back-and-forth trading blows as one-by-one they fell to the rail until just six remained and the now well-known card controversy was uncovered. With a manufacturing fault on some of the cards, but on all the {4-Spades}, the final six were moved to an outer table where the muck wasn't visible due to the lack of bright lights.

From their play stalled until the final few hands where play was reduced to three-handed play, and action was paused for the night. Returning today saw Jon "PearlJammer" Turner chasing vindication as long-time professional, but his run would end early when his pocket eights were cracked.

With Sean Getzwiller and Sadan Turker virtually even in chips, the two would fight one of the most brutal heads-up battles that would last nearly six hours! A never-ending run of lead changes mixed with double-after-double saw the two players look physically distraught at every bad beat and lucky card their opponent caught. Eventually it would be Las Vegas-based professional Getzwiller who would get the better of Turker as he denied the British a third bracelet within just a few days.

Place   Prize
1st   Sean Getzwiller
2nd   Sadan Turker
3rd   Jon Turner
4th   Max Weinberg
5th   Stefan Raffay
6th   Lawrence Riley
7th   Hunter Frey
8th   Daniel Haglund
9th   Odette Tremblay

For Getzwiller, this marks his ninth WSOP cash and now has a hundred-percent strike-rate from final tables after dispatching opponent-after-opponent on his way to standing atop the 4,178-player field. Getzwiller not only showed bouts of aggression, but also key timing in important pots as well as combining that with huge and gutsy calls.

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day 3 completed

George Lind leads the final three

Day 3 of the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship has run up against the hard-stop time, and play has been suspended until Thursday afternoon.

From a starting field of 202 players, just 22 returned to the felt today for the push to the finish. Or as close to a finish as ten levels would allow. Fabrizio Gonzalez and Eric Buchman were 1/2 in chips after Day 1, and they finally fell today in 19th and 21st places, respectively. Buchman was particularly short on chips at the dawn of Day 2, and Mikael Thuritz took the rest of his chips during the course of his march to the final table. Freddy Deeb fell in the middle of those two in 20th place, and Shaun Deeb (18th place), Mike Sexton (15th), Alessio Isaia (12th), and Kirill Gerasimov (11th) all joined them on the rail in short order.

With nine players left, the table was moved over to the primary featured table to play it out under the bright lights of the UFO-esque stage. Josh Arieh was one of the favorites to go deep in this event, but his volatile day came to an end in ninth place. Thuritz bowed out in eighth, and Jason Steinberg fell shortly thereafter in seventh. Sixth place went to Guillaume Rivet, the start-of-day chip leader riding his stack all the way to the bank for a paycheck of more than $92,000. Mack Lee dropped off the table in fifth place a good while later, and the final four battled it out in a series of huge pots as the blinds and limits grew prohibitive. Richard Ashby had been the commanding chip leader not too long prior, and he continued to massage that lead as the night wore on. Eventually, though, the tides turned, and in an impressively short period of time, he was whittled out of all those chips and down to the felt in fourth place.

That left George Lind, Viacheslav Zhukov, and Steve Billirakis in a three-way for the title, and they got about 45 minutes of poker in before play was called for the night. With eyes tired from the endless string of split pots, the three gentlemen seemed relieved to be heading off to catch a few winks.

So that's all for tonight. Our final three players will return to the stage at 3:00 P.M. tomorrow, and Viacheslav Zhukov will have some work to do to chase down the two frontrunners. We're just two knockouts away from handing out another bracelet, but that will have to wait for another day. Or, later today, in actuality.


Chip Counts
George Lind       2,860,000    
Steve Billirakis       2,465,000    
Viacheslav Zhukov       740,000

Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Day 2 Closes With Ten to Play Day 3

Day 2 of the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Triple Chance ended with ten players moving on to Day 3 from 156 that started the day. Nicholas Rampone leads the way with 1.5 million, followed by Anders Meli and Bill Chen.

Moving on to Day 3 are Andrea Dato, David Diaz and Steve Watts. Players were busting quickly near the end of play making it possible to begin Day 3 close to the final table. When there were two levels left in the night the field still had 27 players.

Not surviving the day were J.C. Tran, Cliff Josephy, Andy Black, Carlos Mortensen, Ted Forrest and Andy Frankenberger.

Jerry Wong busted on the bubble in a particularly brutal fashion. He picked up pocket aces and ran into Justin Chan’s {K-Hearts} {Q-Spades}. Chan caught a king on the flop and paired his queen on the turn sending Chan home.

Play resumes at 2:30 p.m. PST

Final Table Seat Draw and Chip Counts
1. Nicholas Rampone - 1,500,000
2. David Diaz - 324,000
3. Justin Sternberg - 737,000
4. Matthew Henson - 101,000
5. Andrea Dato - 613,000
6. Steven Watts - 439,000
7. Anders Meli - 658,000
8. Bill Chen - 610,000
9. Corey Hastings - 546,000
10. Richard Trigg - 454,000


Blinds
    5,000 / 10,000

Ante
    1,000

1          352,808
2          218,183
3          138,044
4          100,200
5          73,915
6          55,355
7          42,059
8          32,381
9          25,253
10          19,953

9 seater FT?

Elwood and Spinks' table draws.
(http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq267/ppokerfan/elwood.jpg)  (http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq267/ppokerfan/spinks.jpg)

jack elwood currently running his table over in the shoot out, winner of each table makes the last 16


from pokernews.com

Jack Ellwood is now the clear chip leader on his table after winning a sizeable pot against Blair Hinkle.

Hinkle had raised to 2,100 and then called Ellwood's three bet to 10,200 before both players checked the {Q-Spades}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs} flop. Hinkle then check-raised Ellwood's 12,000 turn bet on the {10-Hearts} to 27,000 which Ellwood wordlessly called. The {3-Spades} river saw Hinkle shutdown and check again and Ellwood bet 18,000 this time.

"Nice hand," sighed Hinkle, mucking.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-13-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Bas is HU in his match with 350k, think that means opponent has 100k

Event #11: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
Day 4 completed

Viacheslav Zhukov captures the bracelet in Omaha.

"I'm exhausted."

Those were the first words we've heard Viacheslav Zhukov speak in English all day, and they came just moments after he pulled the gold bracelet out of its box and hoisted it into the air. Photographers were clamoring for their shots, and Zhukov could barely muster a smile. Perhaps it'll be a bit later on tonight or tomorrow before the news that he's just won WSOP gold and $465,216 dollars sinks in.

This fourth day (of the three-day event) began with our final three players battling it out for the bracelet. Steve Billirakis began the day on the short stack with just more than three big bets, and it wasn't but a few hands before he was escorted to the cashier's table in third place. The board ran out {8-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} {J-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} with George Lind and Viacheslav Zhukov checking it down the whole way. Zhukov bet the river finally, and Lind laid it down. Billirakis could only show {A-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} for two pair, and it would get him nothing. Zhukov tabled {K-Spades} {K-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {4-Clubs}, and his trip kings brought the match to heads-up.

After such a short journey to two-handed today, one could be forgiven for expecting a quick resolution. The orbits came and went, though, with pots growing ever-larger to keep pace with the escalating betting limits. Many times over the course of the three-hour duel it looked as if the momentum had finally swung for good. Every time, though, the other player struck right back to square the match. Every pot, it seemed, had half the chips in play up for grabs. Finally, during the 32nd level of the event, when there were just 12 big bets in play, things finally unraveled all the way for Lind.

It seems likely from his reactions that he was rivered in a big pot on a board that came {5-Spades} {K-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}. Lind check-called a flop bet, then led the turn and river. Zhukov popped it up to 1 million straight after the final bet, and Lind was forced to fold, leaving himself with just 1.4 million of the 6 million in play. On the final hand of the match, Lind got his money in ahead with just a pair of fours, but Zhukov's {A-Clubs} {J-Clubs} {7-Hearts} {3-Spades} ran down the wheel on the {4-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {5-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} board. It was the last hand of the day, and it was the one that gave the title to Zhukov.

Zhukov now has two career cashes on his poker tournament stat sheet. The first was a win in an EPT side event, and the second is another title here today, a World Series of Poker title. He's the first Russian to win gold in 2011, and he seems a bit too tired to enjoy it fully right now. Perhaps in the morning. "I'm exhausted," he says.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em

Congratulations to David Diaz, Winner of Event #12: $1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em ($352,808)!

It took nearly 28 hours of play to eliminate 1,339 players but for David Diaz, it was well worth the wait. With just four tables left, this tournament still had the likes of Sam Trickett, Cliff Josephy, Bill Chen, Andy Black, J.C. Tran, Getty Mattingsly and Dan Smith. But Diaz was able to overcome them all, including a head up match with the talented Anders Meli. He will be taking home his very first WSOP gold bracelet and $352,808 for his skill and patience.

We started the final day with ten players and Diaz entered just 9th in chips. He stayed out of the heavy action early, finding spots to add chips when he could including a bluff with Ten-Three. It wasn’t until he got it all in with our Day 2 chip leader Nicholas Rampone that he took the chip lead for the first time. His {A-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs} got there on the turn against the {6-Diamonds}{6-Clubs} of Rampone. However, it wasn’t long before he got short again and in back to back hands had to come from behind in an all in preflop situation to chop both of the pots. But then it happened. Shortly after doubling up and reaching a million chips, Diaz flopped the nut flush against the second nut flush draw of Bill Chen. The two got it in and Diaz took a chip lead that he refused to relinquish.

With play three handed, Diaz continued to put pressure on the two shorter stacks, Andrea Dato and Anders Meli. Dato tried to fight back but the aggressiveness of Diaz caught up with him. Anders Meli was able to gain a little momentum before Dato’s bust but when the battle turned heads up, it was all downhill from there. Diaz poured on the aggression, forcing Meli to chip down further and further as the match progressed. On the final hand, Meli’s {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds} couldn’t hold against the {A-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} holding of Diaz and we had a champion.

When asked if he had expected to win a bracelet his year at the World Series, Diaz responded, “Actually, I expected to win two. I don’t know why but I just did.” Well, David Diaz, you are half way there.

Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 2 completed


And with that, we're finished for the day and it's a great line up for tomorrow including David Pham who has two bracelets, one in a $2,000 version of this very event. Also among the field are former bracelet winners Dan Kelly, Erik Cajelais, Frank Kassela and Vitaly Lunkin.

Tomorrow the format will be of a two table sit 'n' go with eight players at each table, all starting with 450,000 chips. With payout increases on each spot from now on, we're expecting tomorrow to be a very late day before we manage to find a winner.

The final day will start tomorrow at 2.30pm - We'll see you there!


Vitaly Lunkin       450,000
Robbie Verspui       450,000    
Lars Bonding       450,000    
Robert Smith       450,000    
Daniel Makowsky       450,000    
David Pham       450,000    
Jonathan Spinks       450,000
Joseph Webber       450,000
Andrew Pantling       450,000    
Andrew Badecker       450,000    
Frank Kassela       450,000    
Erik Cajelais       450,000    
Daniel Fischer       450,000    
Eric Yates       450,000    
David Robinson       450,000    
Dan Kelly       450,000    

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #14: $3,000 Limit Hold'em


22 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Victor Ramdin    380,000
2    Tyler Bonkowski    360,000
3    Dmitry Gromov    330,000
4    Shawn Keller    300,000
5    Casey McCarrel    190,000
6    Andrew Prock    166,000
7    Matthew Suelflow    102,000
8    Mitch Shock    100,000
9    Brent Roberts    100,000
10    Shawn Buchanan    95,000

Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Chip Leader Ronald Lee- 122,700

We've officially wrapped up the first ten levels of play in today's $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event. When the day began we had 765 entrants. Now, after ten strenuous hours of play, we're down to the final 88 . Ronald Lee, 3rd place finisher in the 2010 WSOPE Main Event, finished today as our chip leader with 122,700 in chips. Trying to stay on the heels of Lee is James Carroll with 92,300.

We saw several big names enter the tournament, only to hit the rail before play ended for the day. Notable eliminations from today's field include Layne Flack, David Sklansky, Paul Magriel, Antonio Esfandiari, Humberto Brenes, and Liv Boeree. That being said, there are still some big names still alive in the field including this event's defending champion James Dempsey with over 50,000. While his stack is not the biggest in the room, he has navigated the waters of this tournament before and it will be interesting to see how he fairs against the field in day two. Other notables still alive include Joe Sebok, Ali Eslami, John Racener, John Dolan, and Alessio Isaia.


    Players Left
        88

    Entries
        765

Top Chip Counts
1    Balazs Botond    90,000
2    Christian Harder    55,100
3    John Racener    50,000
4    Andrew Cohen    48,000
5    John Dolan    46,000
6    Davidi Kitai    45,000
7    Ali Eslami    44,500
8    Jason Newburger    44,500
9    Alessio Isaia    43,900
10    Ronald Lee    42,400


James Dempsey quoted as in with 40,000 on the last chip counts

Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit)

Day 1 completed

Vince Musso Leads the Pack


After eight hours of play, Vince Musso is the chip leader of Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship with 106,200. Biting at his heels are a few very strong players though - Shaun Deeb (104,000), Nick Schulman (87,000), and Joe Cassidy (85,000) all had solid days.

After four hours of late registration, the final number of entrants for Event #16 was 126 - which is 25 more players than last year. The field attracted some of the biggest names in poker, including the three double-digit WSOP bracelet winners Phil Hellmuth (68,200), Doyle Brunson, and Johnny Chan, last year's winner of this event David Baker (68,200), and a plethora of other established pro's.

Unfortunately, Brunson didn't make it through the day, and neither did Eric Cloutier - the runner-up from last year. Chris Oliver, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Jean-Robert Bellande, Phil Laak, Justin Smith and Justin Bonomo also failed to advance to Day 2.

Some notables who did advance include David "Devilfish" Ulliot (56,500), Greg Raymer (22,300), Eugene Katchalov (40,900), and Joseph Cheung (31,600).

Top Chip Counts
1    Vince Musso    106,200
2    Shaun Deeb    104,000
3    Nick Schulman    87,000
4    Joe Cassidy    85,000
5    Jennifer Harman    83,700
6    Nikolay Evdakov    80,000
7    Vladimir Shchemelev    70,000
8    Ray Dehkharghani    70,000
9    David Baker    68,200
10    Phil Hellmuth    68,200


Sam Trickett, Stuart Rutter, Matt Perrins and James Bord all in according to latest counts

James Dempsey

Lol had 10k with 10 minutes to go then K7dd>TT TT>AK and KK>66 means I end on 54k :) day 2 woohoooo

I've not seen Sammy Farha mentioned at all yet this year, is he unwell?

Morning Ralph.

I've no idea, but the piece below was dated June 3rd, 2011.

http://risepoker.com/2011/poker-tournaments/chris-moneymaker-defeats-sam-farha-in-wsop-grudge-match/

He hasn't played a single event from what I've seen.

Btw, the Brits could potentially do even better than last year. Already 2 Bracelets, one 2nd, several 4th's (Spinks, Vamplew, Ashby and Chidwick) plus Trigger with a 6th and Watts in 10th. Nine finals from eleven events is an insane showing.

At one point a couple of nights ago, Turker, Ashby and Vamplew were all leading their final tables - potentially the Brits could've had five bracelets already out of twelve events. Spinks is in with a shout tonight in the shootout but it's a very tough looking field.

http://www.pokernews.com/video/wsop-2011-james-dempsey-985737282001.htm

great interview with Flushy - looking trim too!

GL in the PLHE dude!

Cool dealer @ 1:25 lol.

GL...

Haha I had to watch it twice, forgot to look first time through.

1/2 with Kimberlake!!

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp


gl jaffa and flushy

flushy bubbled the plhe! sigh

kimber is 2nd thou

gogooggogogogo

tighty forgot to start a funk thread for spinks who has made his 2nd FT  of the series

with 35 players left in teh 2-7 lowball 10k event 3 brits are still in including stu rutter and richard ashbey

but the shock of the event is hellmutt chip leader can he win his first non holdem bracelet

playing the 1500 horse event.  survived to day 2   199 players left    playing way over my amateur paygrade.   roll on day 2

nice one dunc lets hope we are reading a funk for the dunc thread tomorrow

Steve Sung      526,000
Richard Ashby      419,500
Nick Schulman      413,500
David Bakes Baker      349,500
Hasan Habib      323,000
Joe Cassidy      306,000
Bertrand Grospellier       285,000
Benjamin Parker      280,000
John Juanda      221,000
Greg Raymer      203,000
Johnny Chan      139,000
Phil Hellmuth      122,000
Brandon Cantu      120,000
Chino Rheem      47,000


Pretty sick final 14 in the 2-7, could have 3 world champs (and Ashby most notably of course) at the final table. Should be a lot of fantasy team points in this un

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Andrew Badecker Wins $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

What started with 1440 people and 160 tables is now just 1 person left with a bracelet. Andrew Badecker had to win a nine-handed table, a ten-handed table and a 16 person sit 'n' go that included the likes of Frank Kassela, David Pham, Dan Kelly, Erik Cajelais, Lars Bonding, and Vitaly Lunkin.

Badecker entered the official final table of nine the chip leader and essentially dominated the whole way. There were a couple points where he lost the chip lead, but he quickly got it back and took down his last table in style, including this hand he played against fellow chip leader Daniel Makowsky when they were all three handed.

Preflop, Badecker raised from the small blind to 75,000 and Makowsky re-raised in the big blind to 175,000.

The flop came {3-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{5-Clubs} and Badecker led out with a check. Makowsky bet 200,000 and Badecker check-raised to 450,000. Makowski called.

The turn came {K-Diamonds} and Badecker bet out for 380,000. Makowsky then announced all in (for a total of 1,600,000) and Badecker quickly called.

Badecker flipped over {Q-Clubs}{J-Clubs} for a flopped flush and Makowsky showed {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds}. Once Makowsky called, it was over as he was drawing dead.

At that point, Badecker took a three to one chip lead over Robbie Verspui going into heads-up play and never looked back.

Although Badecker is our 12th straight first time bracelet winner, it is rare to see such a stacked field in the final 16 of a No-Limit event at the World Series, so we know Badecker can play and that we will see him around again for sure. Congratulations Andrew Badecker, you are a World Series of Poker Champion!

1     Andrew Badecker          369,371
2    Robbie Verspui       228,334
3    Daniel Makowsky       151,379
4    Jonathan Spinks       108,358
5    Erik Cajelais       79,315
6    Dan Kelly       58,903
7    Vitaly Lunkin       44,362
8    Joseph Webber       33,864
9    David Pham       26,185

Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em


12 left

1      Brian Rast     960,000
2    Allen Kessler    525,000
3    John Gordon    265,000
4    Mika Paasonen    245,000
5    Elias Brussianos    220,000
6    Jeremy Vaughn    215,000
7    Andrew Cohen    210,000
8    Ronald Lee    195,000
9    Dajuan Whorley    145,000
10    Daisuke Endo    130,000


Andrew Teng and Jeff Kimber cashed

Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit)

12 left

1      Nick Schulman     515,000
2    David Bakes Baker    440,000
3    Joe Cassidy    430,000
4    Steve Sung    420,000
5    Richard Ashby    370,000
6    Hasan Habib    315,000
7    Bertrand Grospellier    240,000
8    Greg Raymer    240,000
9    John Juanda    225,000
10    Phil Hellmuth    210,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #17: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Day 1 of Event #17: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. is in the books. A field of 963 runners came out for competition in this 2011 World Series of Poker gold bracelet event and at the end of the day, under 200 players remained. Topping them all was Eli Elezra with a field-leading 92,100 in chips.

Plenty of big names came out for this event as it was the only event that kicked off today. Some of those included in the field throughout the day were Bill Chen, Tom Dwan, Jerry Buss, Ville Wahlbeck, Noah Boeken, Jeff Madsen, John Racener, Gavin Smith, Jean-Robert Bellande and David Benyamine. Unfortunately for those players, they failed to make it through the day.

Some of the players who did well on the day were Nick Kost (73,600), Renard Julien (67,600), Svetlana Gromenkova (56,800), Victor Ramdin (52,100), Antoine Amourette (51,500), Josh Schlein (50,800), Alexander Kostritsyn (49,900), Andre Akkari (42,000), Andrew Barber (40,100) and Pat Pezzin (38,500).


Top Chip Counts
1    Eli Elezra    92,100
2    Nick Kost    73,600
3    Julien Renard    67,600
4    Svetlana Gromenkova    56,800
5    Alexander Kostritsyn    53,000
6    Victor Ramdin    52,100
7    Antoine Amourette    51,500
8    Lyle Berman    50,500
9    Daniel Colpoys    46,000
10    Compagno Paolo    45,200

Duncan Hodgkins made it through to Day 2 too

Spinks is on a rampage

Ashby Leads a Stacked Final Nine

Well, what a showcase of poker this $10,000 2-7 Draw Championship turned out to be!

Our starting field of 126 was reduced by a third after one day of play, and the survivors returned to the felt today for a brisk day of lowball action. From top to bottom, the field was stacked thicker than any event we've seen yet at this Series. Steve Zolotow, Dan Smith, Ville Wahlbeck, Steve Billirakis, Michael Mizrachi, Bill Chen, Erik Seidel, Joseph Cheong -- those were just the players eliminated in the first couple levels of this star-studded Day 2. Also falling by the wayside were the likes of Eli Elezra, Daniel Alaei, Shaun Deeb, Barry Greenstein, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, and 2011 bracelet winners Matt Perrins and Eugene Katchalov. Jason Mercier, David Williams, and Huck Seed also went out today, those three all missing the money by just a couple spots.

When the field combined to two tables of seven, everyone was guaranteed a paycheck. The layout of the field was ridiculous -- more fitting adjectives escape us at this twilight hour. The final 14 players had a combined 33 bracelets spread among them, and they included three former WSOP Main Event Champions (Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer), a WSOP-E Main Event Champion (John Juanda), and the last two winners of this event (Nick Schulman, David Baker).

Even after Chino Rheem and Brandon Cantu hit the rail, that bracelet count was still strong at 31, but the next elimination dashed that number to bits. Johnny Chan was riding the short stack when his {9-}{7-}{4-}{3-} paired on the draw to fall to Baker's queen-low. The end of Chan's bid to tie Hellmuth with eleven bracelets reduced the field to eleven players, but only nine of them hung on for the rest of the level. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Benjamin Parker were cut down in the final few hands, and the Day 3 field is locked with nine players set to return.

Richard Ashby will take the big stack of 700,000 into the final day, and he'll be looking for his second final table of this young 2011 WSOP. Everyone in the field is well accustomed to WSOP final tables, though, and there's really no clear betting favorite. Baker and Schulman are still alive in their bids to win a second bracelet in the same event, and a victory from either of those men would make for fantastic headlines. Perhaps no headline would be bigger than Phil Hellmuth snagging bracelet number twelve, though.

This 2011 WSOP badly needs a big story to rush to the presses, and they may well get one here tomorrow. There are a total of 21 bracelets between the final nine, and of the group, only Joe Cassidy has yet to add his name to the list of WSOP champions.

Day 3 commences at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, and we won't stop until we hand out the bracelet. Until tomorrow, all that's left is goodnight!


1   Richard Ashby   700,000
2   Joe Cassidy   540,000
3   David Bakes Baker   492,000
4   Steve Sung   441,000
5   Hasan Habib   437,000
6   Greg Raymer   355,000
7   Phil Hellmuth   339,000
8   Nick Schulman   306,000
9   John Juanda   171,000

Uber impressive FT. After Ashby, I really would like to see one of the world champs win - Raymer as he is a nice guy and better player than many think (and in my wsop team) and Hellmuth because it would be funny.

ABH for me after ashby!

Infact, bakes works, pretty sure he is in my fantasy team

Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 completed
Ten Remain in Event #15; Brian Rast On Top


Another day has been lodged at the 2011 World Series of Poker, and as the railbirds and players exit the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, just ten players remain in Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Holdem.

Kicking off after lunch, 88 players returned to battle it out on day two, and after a quick flurry of eliminations, we were soon in the money when reigning champion James "Flushy" Dempsey was outed to the rail on the bubble when his {A-Diamonds}{k-Hearts} for top pair was out-drawn on both the turn and river when his opponent made both a straight and then a flush.

With players celebrating at their new-found inheritance of WSOP gold, elimination after elimination would see players head to the cashier as John Dolan (71st), Davidi Kitai (64th), Matthew Hawrilenko (62nd), Joe Sebok (60th), Michael Leah (58th), Alessio Isaia (51st), Hoyt Corkins (49th), John Racener (39th), Mickey Petersen (26th), Christopher DeMaci (25th), Randall Flowers (19th) and Christian Harder (17th) all were bounced to the rail.

Eventually play would be halted for the night with a unofficial final table of ten remaining as Brian "tsarrast" Rast amassing a 1,081,000-chip stack to hold the mantle of overnight chip leader. With Allen Kessler, Ali Eslami, Ronald Lee and Ted Lawson all in contention for the $227,232 first prize, here is how they will stack up tomorrow.

1   Dajuan Whorley   USA   85,000
2   Daisuke Endo   Japan   174,000   
3   Ted Lawson   USA   140,000   
4   Allen Kessler   USA   618,000
5   Andrew Cohen   USA   190,000   
6   John Gordon   USA   380,000   
7   Ronald Lee   USA   198,000   
8   Ali Eslami   USA   402,000   
9   Mika Paasonen   Finland   187,000
10   Brian Rast   USA   1,081,000   

and the final result was

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #15: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em


Place    Winner    Prize (USD)
1    Brian Rast       227,232
2    Allen Kessler    140,309
3    Dajuan Whorley    91,212
4    Daisuke Endo    66,994
5    Mika Paasonen    49,902
6    Ali Eslami       37,654
7    John Gordon    28,741
8    Ted Lawson    22,183
9    Ronald Lee    17,298

john Juanda Spoils the Party, Wins Event #16: $10,000 2-7 No-Limit Draw ($367,170)

Event #16 is over here just shortly after the midnight hour in Las Vegas. John Juanda has just been handed a WSOP gold bracelet for the fifth time in his career, overcoming a big heads-up chip disadvantage to claim the title in what is arguably the most entertaining event of the Series.

Some would say it was meant to be Phil Hellmuth's 12th bracelet party today, four years to the day after he snagged number eleven. Doubters flocked to the rail from the start of play, but Hellmuth stood tall as seven players fell by the wayside. His play was mostly stellar through the first half of the day, and he amassed a huge chip lead as the players dropped one by one. Among them were the 2009 and 2010 champions of this event, Nick Schulman and David Baker, exiting in fifth and sixth places, respectively. The 2004 champion of the whole darn WSOP, Greg Raymer made it to this final day too, but he would fall in ninth place even before the last eight were relocated to the main stage.

Today's story truly was a memorable one, and you'd do well to read back through the blog if you missed any of the action. At the dinner break, Hellmuth had more than 2.6 million of the 3.8 in play with three players left. Juanda knocked Richard Ashby out in third place shortly after they returned, though, and he had his sights fixed firmly on Hellmuth's stack.

When heads-up play began, Hellmuth still had about a 3:1 chip lead, but Juanda's edge in skill soon began to show through. He picked away at Hellmuth's stack with methodical precision, and the two locked horns in an hours-long tug of war. Many in the poker world consider Juanda to be one of the best 2-7 no-limit players in the world, and he proved that reasoning valid tonight, pressing Hellmuth into a corner as the levels wore on.

It was more than three hours of heads-up play before the final series of hands began to unravel. Hellmuth was showing signs of increasing frustration over the last hour or so, and Juanda thrived on the opportunity to quietly get under his opponent's skin. After fighting with such a strong pose for so long, Hellmuth began to look a bit downtrodden and unpleasant, sinking in his chair and mumbling under his breath. In the final hand, he got his money in pat with a queen, and Juanda drew live to his jack to lock up the bracelet. Hellmuth was sincere in his congratulations, it appeared, admitting he was scared of Juanda's heads-up game.

John Juanda finished in fourth place the last two years in this event, and he began this final day dangerously short on chips at the bottom of the heap. Apparently the third time's the charm. Nine hours later, he sits alone at the table with all 3.78 million chips in play. And a shiny new bracelet. It's number five in his career, and it comes with the extra bragging rights of denying number twelve for Mr. Hellmuth.


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Final Positions

1 John Juanda         
2 Phil Hellmuth          
3 Richard Ashby          
4 Nick Schulman           
5 Steve Sung          
6 David Baker
7 Hasan Habib

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #17: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

18 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Michael Chow    400,000
2    David Bach    340,000
3    Scott Lake    315,000
4    David Baker    310,000
5    David Arsht    310,000
6    Paolo Compagno    250,000
7    Nicholas Kost    240,000
8    Jonathan Tamayo    220,000
9    Josh Schlein    210,000
10    Victor Ramdin    200,000

Event #18: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed
Kenny Nguyen is Day 1 Chipleader in Record Field


Day 1 of Event 18, $1,500 No Limit Hold’em, set the WSOP record for the single largest field ever in a $1,500 event, breaking the record set in 2007 by six players. Kenny Nguyen is your Day 1 chipleader with 110,600, followed by Jon Lane, Stewart Stone and David Briedes - all breaking the 100,000 mark.

Surviving the day was an accomplishment itself; the field averaged five bustouts every minute. The 490 remaining players will make the push for the money bubble, which is set at 324 players. First place is worth $735,400 alone and just making the final table is a guaranteed $54,936.

Notable players moving on to Day 2 include Erick Lindgren, Erica Schoenberg, Scotty Nguyen, Jean Robert Bellande, Frank Kassela, Christian Harder, Dwyte Pilgrim, Humberto Brenes and Jon Turner.

Plenty of notable players failed to last the day including Tom Dwan, David Benyamine, Michael Mizrachi, Joe Cada, Jason Mercier, the NBA’s Paul Pierce, Alexander Kravchenko, Andrew Lichtenberger and Eric Baldwin.

    Players Left
        490

    Entries
        3157

Top Chip Counts
1    Kenny Nguyen    110,600
2    Jon Lane    108,400
3    Stewart Stone    101,900
4    David Briedis    100,700
5    David Bremmer    89,000
6    Tony Brenner    89,000
7    Alan Sass    79,000
8    Adam Bage    79,000
9    John Hewitt    75,900
10    Alan Le    75,500

Event #19: $2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Day 1 of Event #19 is in the books, and after eight levels of play, Shannon Shorr is our unofficial chip leader with 47,000 chips.

The field drew 354 runners - 30 less than last year - and attracted a long list of notables including Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Sebok, Maria Ho, David Williams and many more. Those names all failed to reach Day 2 however.

There are a handful of players still in contention for the $213,431 first-place prize however. 2009 WSOP Limit Hold'em World Champion Greg Mueller survived the day with 41,700 chips, his good friend and fellow countryman Shawn Buchanan (45,200) also made Day 2, and so too did Michael "Squeakzilla" Winnett (38,000), Isaac Haxton (39,000), and David Benyamine (28,400).


130 of 354 left

1     Shannon Shorr     47,000
2    Shawn Buchanan    45,200
3    Greg Mueller    41,700
4    Isaac Haxton    39,000
5    Michael Winnett    38,000
6    Matt Schreiber    30,500
7    David Benyamine    28,400
8    David Chiu    27,700
9    Daniel Alaei    25,000
10    Marco Traniello    22,000

  Moorman1  Chris Moorman
Through to day 2 of the $1500 Wsop Event with 53,400 at 500/1k blinds, 3157 players begun but now about 460 left with 324 getting paid,

Jon Spinks has 29.2k in this after day 1 - think 6max limit will really suit his game

finished 120th in the 1500
horse  25 places from the money.     

ul dunc, nice run though

spinks is gonna sponk

1 Matt Matros 83,000
2 Ryan D'Angelo 68,000
3 Samuel Golbuff 59,000
4 Justin Bonomo 50,000
5 Clayton Newman 47,000
6 Brent Wheeler 46,000
7 Jim Collopy 46,000
8 Greg Mueller 42,000
9 Jonathan Spinks 42,000
10 Vladimir Shchemelev 41,000

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-19-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Limit yuk! Nice kid that spunks is I won't be stopping up till stupid o'clock to watch any Brit in this event. Having seen the lowballs were n/l I got my hopes up, gl jonboy all the same

Aaron Steury Wins $1,500 H.O.R.S.E Championship ($289,283)

After three days of grueling completion which saw 963 runners attempt to navigate the mine field that is mixed game play, we have crowned a new $1,500 H.O.R.S.E champion at the 2011 World Series of Poker. Aaron Steury has captured his first gold bracelet, along with a prize of $289,283 for his triumph, and while every WSOP championship is well deserved, this one holds a special meaning for the victor simply because of the sheer difficulty of claiming the title. The 24-year old Steury, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, defeated 35-year old Honolulu native Michael Chow in a spirited heads-up duel to earn the crowning achievement of every poker player’s career.

With decorated professional players sprinkled throughout every table, each proficient in the five poker disciplines which comprise this event, Steury had to prove his mettle time and time again against the best in the business. World class players like Eli Elezra, Layne Flack, David Bach and Victor Ramdin all made deep runs but eventually fell short in their quest for gold and glory. Ramdin reached our final table but was eliminated in ninth place.

Steury bested eight other competitors during the mentally demanding final table marathon which lasted for more than five hours. To achieve this feat, Steury had to exhibit a mastery of Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo Split Eight or Better, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Stud Eight or Better during three intense days of poker action. He will take home $289,283 for the win and his name will forever be etched in poker's stored history books.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #18: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em


50 left, of 3157

chip leaders are

Top Chip Counts
1    John Hewitt    730,000
2    Dylan Thomassie    700,000
3    Simon Lam    607,000
4    Foster Hays    505,000
5    Tom Carman    420,000
6    Bryan Barrile    380,000
7    Allan Le    360,000
8    Robert Lipkin    350,000
9    Isaac Kirchner    338,000
10    Andrea Vezzani    300,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #19: $2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


16 of 354 left

Darren Woods is 16th of 16 currently

Top Chip Counts
1    Alexander Kuzmin    272,000
2    Richard Lyndaker    243,000
3    William Kakon    230,000
4    Gabriel Nassif    230,000
5    Jay Pinkussohn    205,000
6    Andrey Zaichenko    193,000
7    Samuel Golbuff    190,000
8    Matt Matros    175,000
9    Scott Stanko    160,000
10    Massimiliano Martinez    151,000

Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed
Doug Lang Is Chip Leader At End Of Day 1


The Rio was filled to the brim with players for today's Day 1 of the most recent $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. What started with 3,175 is now only 342 and at the end of Day 1 we are only 20 players from the money. Our chip leader (and as far as we can tell the only player over 100,000 chips) is Doug Lang with 119,700. Justin Sloan also came close to the 100,000 mark with 99,400. The story of the day however has to be PokerStars Team Pro Lex Veldhuis who was down to only 800 chips early on but ended Day 1 with 73,000 and near the top of our counts.

Other notables making it to Day 2 are Amnon Filippi (65,400), Yuval Bronshtein (52,400), John Phan (42,700), Jason Somerville (36,500), Scott Montgomery (32,500), Tim West (26,000), Taylor Paur (25,000), Shaun Deeb (24,000) and Gavin Smith (9,000).

Notables who didn't make it to Day 2 include, Matt Jarvis, Randall Flowers, Galen Hall, Joe Cada, Faraz Jaka, Jeff Sarwer, Antonio Esfandiari, Josh Brikis, Scotty Nguyen, Justin Young, Jeff Madsen, Liv Boeree, Eric Baldwin and many others.

Like we said, we are only 20 players from the money, so we can assume it will be an intense start to Day 2.

Top Chip Counts
1    Doug Lang    119,700
2    Justin Sloan    99,400
3    Lex Veldhuis    73,000
4    Brett Shaffer    72,500
5    Amnon Filippi    65,400
6    Austin Held    65,100
7    Yuval Bronshtein    52,400
8    Cherish Andrews    50,200
9    John Phan    42,700
10    Chris Dombrowski    40,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship


end of day 1 93 of 126 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Sebastien Sabic    129,900
2    Alexander Kostritsyn    105,600
3    Joe Cassidy    92,900
4    Chris Tryba    90,400
5    Mike Sexton    85,000
6    Scott Clements    80,300
7    Chris Amaral    79,700
8    Erick Lindgren    74,000
9    Jennifer Harman    69,600
10    Steve Zolotow    66,000

A third of the way through the series

The Brits so far

Two Bracelets: Jake Cody and Matt Perrins

Eight finals Richard Ashby x 2, Jon Spinks x 2, Sadan Turker, Rick Trigg, David Vamplew, Stephen Chidwick

Six non final >$10k cashes John Duthie, Toby Lewis, Chris Moorman, David Jones, John Eames, Steve Watts


A spectacular start, and with some big guns yet to fire too

Which big guns are firing blanks?

No big cashes yet from the likes of Praz, Romanello, Trickett, Jeff Kimber, JP Kelly, Channing, Keys and Rupert etc

Darren Woods, is the last Brit standing in Event #19: Limit Hold'em / Six Handed at the WSOP 2011. Darren, who went early to the WSOP this year with fellow Team 888poker member and new WSOP bracelet winner Tyler Bonkowski, is in the last 12 of a field of 354 entrants. Going into day 3, Darren has a stack of 178,500 good for 8th (chip leader has 412,500), and an eye on his first WSOP bracelet.

With 6 WSOP cashes to his name, including a 35th place finish WSOPE last September, Darren is no stranger to the pressures of running deep. And being an advisor to a WSOP 2011 bracelet holder will definitely give him the determination necessary to take this one down. Although he is slightly below the chip average 221,250 (blinds 2,500/5,000), expectations are riding high on Darren making the 2nd Final table for a Team 888poker member in these WSOP tournaments.

Word reaches me that Alex Martin is in the remaining two dozen runners in the $1k jobbie.

His Tourney report will make interesting reading.....

Good luck Mr Martin.

GOGOGOGO Alex.

Woods HU 

goooo alex martin
goooo mr woods

do a win please

christ watching limit HU is awful

go alex

Could you imagine the mess Vegas would be in if Alex won half a mill and a bracelet?

Gogogogo.

Goooo martin

according to the updates

bad news, still 39 left rather than 2 dozen

good news, alex in 2nd spot

Is it too early to funk?

mbn...

from pokernews.com

Whoops...

Posted 30 minutes ago by BenLudlow

A player under-the-gun raised it up preflop to 16,000. Alex Martin in late position re-raised to 37,500. After a bit of tanking, the under-the-gun player re-raised all in and got insta-called by Martin for his last 151,000 with KK. The under the gun player was obviously trying to make a move as he showed {10-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}.

The board ran out {9-Clubs}{9-Spades}{10-Spades}{Q-Hearts}{Q-Spades} to give Martin the double up. He is now at around 315,000.

updates are a bit slow, apparantly he is 2nd with half a miwwwion chips

Kim Nguyen - 2nd Place

Kim Nguyen raised with the button, Darren Woods re-raised, Nguyen got the rest of her stack in the middle, and Woods called.

Nguyen: {k-Clubs}{2-Clubs}
Woods: {4-Hearts}{2-Hearts}

Nguyen was in great shape to double, and the {k-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{6-Spades} flop kept her in the lead. The {j-Spades} on the turn was clean, and all signs pointed towards a double-up until the {4-Clubs} slammed on the river to give Woods trips.

All Nguyen could do was laugh - and she has good reason to smile. She bested 352 runners, and earns $131,900 for her second place finish. Nguyen was the third woman to make a final table at the 2011 World Series of Poker, but after falling short this is officially the 179th straight open event won by a male player.

However, with the recent success of female players, that number is surely in danger.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-19-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

lucky fish haha

another British winner wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

funk for everyones favourite spewtard?

Hey guys just to let you know - Alex Martin is currently 1st in chips with 30 to go his stack is 500k avg is around 240 - TID DOWN SON!!!

Event 18 $1500 NLHE

Players Info

    Players Left
        7

    Entries
        3157

Next Pay Out
    Place 7, $94,700

Top Chip Counts
1    Casey Kelton    2,500,000
2    Stanley Tavanese    2,325,000
3    Robert Koss    2,300,000
4    Jeffrey Lavelle    1,800,000
5    Tristan Wade    1,410,000
6    Foster Hays    1,270,000
7    Allan Le    1,175,000

A third British Bracelet

Event #19: $2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Congratulations to Darren Woods, Winner of Event #19: $2,500 Limit Hold'em/Six Handed ($213,431)


Two days ago, 354 players registered for Event #19: $2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed. Today, the final twelve players of that field returned to battle for a World Series of Poker bracelet. It was a back-and-forth day, but in the end it was British-player Darren Woods who emerged victorious to claim the $213,431 first-place prize.

Day 3 saw an eclectic mix of players return for their shot at WSOP glory. Among them was the only bracelet winner left in the field, Matt Matros; online superstar Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker; and last year’s 107th-place Main Event finished, Matthew Schreiber. Unfortunately, those players were among first half of the day’s eliminations, and ultimately missed out on the final table.
First Six Eliminations

Place   Player   Earnings
7th   Richard Lyndaker   $20,053
8th   Scott Stanko   $20,053
9th   Jay Pinkussohn   $14,866
10th   Joe Gualtieri   $14,866
11th   Matt Schreiber   $11,291
12th   Matt Matros   $11,291

By the time we reached the final table, six players remained including Kim Nguyen, only the third woman to make a final table here at the 2011 WSOP. She was joined by a very familiar face in Russian pro Alexander Kuzmin, who took down the World Poker Tour Southern Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi back in January for $575,969. Rounding out the final table was Woods, Gabriel Nassif, Andrey Zaichenko, and Samuel Golbuff.

It didn’t take long before we had our first final-table elimination when Nassif’s {A-Hearts}{9-Spades} failed to improve against the {A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds} of Golbuff as the board ran out {j-Hearts}{a-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{a-Clubs}{2-Clubs}. The Parisian pro finished in sixth place, and received $27,720 for his efforts.

It took a long time before the next elimination, but it was bound to happen as the blinds just got higher and higher. With the blinds at 8,000/15,000, a short-stacked Zaichenko got the remainder of his chips in the middle preflop with {k-Diamonds}{9-Spades} against Woods' {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades}. The board ran {j-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{7-Spades}{k-Clubs}, and Zaichenko was eliminated from the tournament in fifth place, taking home $39,317.

The next player to go was Kuzmin in fourth place ($57,236), whose stack slowly dwindled and was eventually gobbled up by both Woods and Nguyen, who ended up chopping Kuzmin’s final hand. Following the Russian out the door was Golbuff, who also grew shortstacked. He was eliminated in third place for $85,616, leaving Nguyen (1.5 million) to do battle against Woods (1.15 million) in heads-up play.

The Amazon Room was abuzz with excitement as the possibility of a woman taking down a WSOP Event was essentially a 50/50 proposition. Not since Vanessa Selbst took down the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament at the 2008 WSOP has a woman won an open event. Ironically, that event was number #19, the same event number assigned to this Event #19 $2,500 Limit Hold’em/Six-Handed.

Woods started the heads-up match with a bang, seizing momentum early and vaulting into the chip lead. From there, he never looked back as he patiently picked his spots and collected pot after pot. After about an hour and a half of heads-up play, the final hand developed when Nguyen raised on the button, Woods re-raised, Nguyen got the rest of her short stack in the middle, and Woods made the call.

Nguyen: {k-Clubs}{2-Clubs}
Woods: {4-Hearts}{2-Hearts}

Nguyen was in great shape to double, and the {k-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{6-Spades} flop kept her in the lead. The {j-Spades} on the turn was clean, and all signs pointed towards a double-up until the {4-Clubs} spiked on the river. Just like that, Nguyen was eliminated as the runner up, an accomplishment worth $131,900.
$2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed Final Table Results

Place   Player   Earnings
1st   Darren Woods   $213,431
2nd   Kim Nguyen   $131,900
3rd   Samuel Golbuff   $85,616
4th   Alexander Kuzmin   $57,236
5th   Andrey Zaichenko   $39,317
6th   Gabriel Nassif   $27,720

Congratulations to Darren Woods on becoming the latest WSOP Champion and third Brit to win a bracelet in 2011.


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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

    Players Left
        39

    Entries
        3175


Top Chip Counts
1    Tim West    550,000
2    Alexander Martin    500,000
3    Yashar Darian    480,000
4    Thomas Conway    410,000
5    Dejuante Alexander    400,000
6    James Schaaf    380,000
7    Maximilian Lehmanski    380,000
8    Sybe Smit    370,000
9    Brett Shaffer    350,000
10    Jason Hallee    310,000

1          493,091
2          305,009
3          215,855
4          156,248
5          114,414
6          84,753
7          63,493
8          48,091
9          36,833

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship

    Players Left
        16

    Entries
        126

Top Chip Counts
1    Alexander Kostritsyn    440,000
2    John Hennigan    388,000
3    Kevin Tang    360,000
4    Chad Brown    340,000
5    Men Nguyen    298,000
6    Chris Tryba    290,000
7    Bertrand Grospellier    275,000
8    Maxwell Troy    241,000
9    Ville Wahlbeck    210,000
10    Steve Landfish    200,000

Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 completed

The first ten levels of Event #22- Pot-Limit Omaha are officially in the books! It’s been quite an exciting day of play today. We started with 1071 players today and somehow cut through the field rather quickly, managing to pop the money bubble right at the end of the night. That means 117 people will be returning tomorrow to vie for the gold WSOP bracelet and the $292,825.Towering above the rest of the field today is Cody Munger with 128,100 in chips. Other big stacks include Nick Binger (121,600) and Jeff Sarwer (90,900).

Today saw many players take their shot at the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha gold bracelet, only to fall short. Among today’s notable eliminations are Annette Obrestad, Shannon Shorr, Phil Hellmuth, Liv Boeree, Eric Froehlich, Jason Mercier, and last year’s champion of this event, Tex Barch.

That being said, many notables were also able to wade through the field today and progress on to Day 2 play. Among the notables that survived are Nick Binger, Ari Engel, Michael Binger, David Chiu, and Jeff Sarwer.

Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix

Day 1 In the Books


After eight levels of playing eight different games, we are through with Day 1 of Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix. 489 players entered this tournament, and of that, 248 will be returning tomorrow. 48 of those players will make the money, but all of them have one thing on their minds: the first place prize of $278,144 and that shiny gold bracelet.

The overnight chip leader is Abraham Mourshaki. He will be bagging 64,850 chips, and held the chip lead for the latter half of the day today. Right on his heels in second Nikolay Evdakov , who has 57,725. Other big names that are still in the hunt are Marco Traniello, Greg Mueller, Victor Ramdin, Noah Boeken, Eugene Katchalov, and fresh off their epic heads up battle just a few nights ago, both John Juanda and Phil Hellmuth.

Also in contention is defending champion Sigurd Eskeland, who bagged 18,150 chips tonight. Some of those players who weren’t fortunate enough to survive the day were Daniel Negreanu, David Williams, Mike Matusow, Todd Brunson, and Pokernews’s own Remko Rinkema.

Just seen a tweet from "kevmath" suggesting that the overnight's in Alex Martin's jobbie are as below......

"...Day 2 of the $1500 PLO resumes at 2:30 with 117 remaining - http://bit.ly/j7CK3Y ....."

I don't seem to be able to C & P the spreadsheet, though.

you having a funny turn?

ctrl c @ Tikay

Jeffrey Norman   369000   Amazon / 280 / 1                                                   
Brett Shaffer   646000   Amazon / 280 / 2                                                   
Tim West   677000   Amazon / 280 / 3                                                   
Michael Blocksidge   145000   Amazon / 280 / 4                                                   
Diana Allen   312000   Amazon / 280 / 5                                                   
Maximilian Lehmanski   367000   Amazon / 280 / 7                                                   
Jason Hallee   294000   Amazon / 280 / 8                                                   
Dejuante Alexander   464000   Amazon / 280 / 9                                                   
Jason Somerville   749000   Amazon / 286 / 1                                                   
Shane Rose   547000   Amazon / 286 / 2                                                   
Joshua Smith   250000   Amazon / 286 / 3                                                   
Richard Fridvalszki   240000   Amazon / 286 / 4                                                   
James Oh   140000   Amazon / 286 / 5                                                   
Chancellor Strickland   258000   Amazon / 286 / 6                                                   
Travis Atkins   285000   Amazon / 286 / 7                                                   
Yashar Darian   604000   Amazon / 286 / 8                                                   
Stephen Kats   121000   Amazon / 286 / 9                                                   
James Schaaf   625000   Amazon / 292 / 1                                                   
Sybe Smit   305000   Amazon / 292 / 2                                                   
Valdemar Kwaysser   352000   Amazon / 292 / 3                                                   
Alexander Martin   295000   Amazon / 292 / 4                                                   
Steven Miller   417000   Amazon / 292 / 5                                                   
Zachary Urton   281000   Amazon / 292 / 6                                                   
Thomas Conway   311000   Amazon / 292 / 7                                                   
Lex Veldhuis   230000   Amazon / 292 / 8                                                   
Michael Clark   99000   Amazon / 292 / 9                                                   
                                                         

Flushy, Toby Lewis, James Akenhead and JP all won their first tables in the $5k shootout!!

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Jason Somerville Wins $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($493,091)

What started with 3,175 players is now just one. Jason Somerville was our Day 2 chip leader and he waded through a crazy day of play to take down the bracelet in fine fashion. We started today with 27 players and within 40 minutes we had already set a final two tables. Within three hours we were down to an action final table that saw a multitude of chip leaders, double-up after double-up, and eventually just Somerville with the bracelet. He won a few key hands late to regain the chip lead and ride it to victory, including this giant all in flip against Yashar Darian when they were playing four handed.

Richard Fridvalszki raised to 140,000 under-the-gun, Yashar Darian re-raised it to 500,000 on the button and Jason Somerville re-raised all in for 2,500,000. Yashar called with {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds} and Somerville showed {9-Clubs}{9-Hearts}.

The flop came {J-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} to give Somerville a full house. The turn was the {Q-Clubs} and Darian was still drawing to an ace or a king. The river was the {5-Clubs} and Somerville doubled up to 5,100,000 and had over half the chips in play. Darian fell to only 1,500,000 after the hand

Somerville has previously finished fifth, fourth, third, and second in WSOP events, but finally completed the wheel with a win today (maybe it was because his good friend Daniel Negreanu was on the rail the whole time).

1    Jason Somerville       493,091
2    Yashar Darian       305,009
3    Travis Atkins       215,855
4    Richard Fridvalszki       156,248
5    Alex Martin       114,414
6    Gian Carlos Oliveri       84,753
7    Diana Allen       63,493
8    Shane Rose       48,091
9    James Schaaf       36,833
10    Brett Shaffer       28,517
11    Lex Veldhuis    PokerStars Team Pro (Netherlands)    28,517
12    Thomas Conway       28,517

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship


is currently heads up between Elky and Steve Landfish

1          331,639
2          204,924
3    Maxwell Troy       128,341
4    John Hennigan       92,928
5    Alexander Kostritsyn       72,627
6    Chad Brown    PokerStars Team Pro (USA)    57,917
7    Kevin Tang       47,032
8    Chris Tryba       38,812
9    Nick Schulman       32,488
10    Men Nguyen       32,488
11    Sorel Mizzi       27,643
12    Christopher George       27,643
13    Ville Wahlbeck    PokerStars Team Pro (Finland)    24,043
14    Jason Mercier    PokerStars Team Pro (USA)    24,043
15    Matt Glantz       20,916
16    Matt Hawrilenko       20,916

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha


Has hit the following final table

1    Juha Vilkki    1,235,000
2    Rafe Kibrit    667,000
3    Cody Munger    652,000
4    Elie Payan    545,000
5    Stephen Wolfe    523,000
6    Jeff Sarwer    480,000
7    Benjamin Palmer    320,000
8    Roland Israelashvili    310,000
9    David Sands    250,000
10    Emil Patel    147,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix


30 of 489 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Ben Yu    241,000
2    Adam Geyer    240,000
3    Adam Kornuth    220,000
4    Mikko Pispala    196,000
5    John Racener    185,000
6    Ylon Schwartz    175,000
7    Sirous Baghchehsaraie    161,000
8    Eric Buchman    155,000
9    Michele Limongi    135,000
10    John Monnette    127,000

John Juanda still in going for a second bracelet

Event #24: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Day One Bagged; 40 Players Remain


Another day inside the halls of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino has been wrapped up with Day 1 of Event #24: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout of the 2011 World Series of Poker coming to a conclusion.

387 players were spread over forty tables today which bested last year's number of 358 as everyone eyed the $436,568 first prize - which surprisingly sat a few thousand short of the amount Joshua Tieman collected when he snagged his first bracelet.

Unfortunately for Tieman, there would be no back-to-back run as he was bundled out late in the day. However it wasn't just because it wasn't Tieman's day, but his starting table - along with every other one - was littered with notable poker professionals, online giants and tournament veterans, making this one of the toughest fields assembled so far this World Series.

Only forty players managed to best their table to ensure not only a $13,368 payday but also a chance of collecting a WSOP final table appearance and a potential six-figure payday and gold coveted bracelet. Waving the flag for USA includes Erik Seidel, Gavin Smith, Tommy Vedes, Dan Smith, Jordan "Jymaster11" Young, Justin Bonomo, Tom Marchese and recent bracelet winner Sean Getzwiller. However the Brits are still putting on a strong showing here as James Akenhead, JP Kelly, James Dempsey and Tony Lewis are still about as well as other internationals Maxim Lykov and Darren Kramer.

Tomorrow will see the remaining players play down to a final table of ten,

Event #25: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better

That's a Wrap - Violette & Novick Share the Honors!

Lock this one away, ladies and gents – Day 1 of WSOP Event #25 is in the books!

It was a step back in time for many of the 606 players who ponied up the $1,500 for today’s event, with plenty of WSOP bracelet winners, including Men Nguyen, Mike Sexton, Scotty Nguyen, Mel Judah, David Slansky and Tom Schneider.

However, there were just as many from the online generation to have taken their seats today, including reigning WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel, Jon Turner and Sean Nguyen. The old school did manage to teach the young’uns a thing or two and at the end of the night, we've got ourselves a two-way tie for the chip lead, with Cyndy Violette and Hevan Novick each holding 43,400! They're followed closely by Michael Sigel (41,500), Tom Dwan (35,500), Norman Chad (35,400), 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela (32,100) and Mike Sexton (27,100).

In all, 172 players will be returning tomorrow, but those who won’t be joining us include Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Chad Brown, as well as David Benyamine, Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler, Todd Brunson, Ted Forrest, Bill Chen and Huck Seed.

and fresh from Nolan Dalla pimping Poker Tracker 4 as a WSOP Press release yesterday, which must be one of the odded press releases I have received, comes this

NEW YORK, NY (June 14 , 2011) – SheetsTM Energy Strips, “the new way to do energy,” co-founded by basketball star LeBron James, and top brand executives Warren Struhl, Jesse Itzler and Maverick Carter today announced they will serve as an Official Sponsor for the 2011 World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. As a formal sponsor of the most prestigious card tournament in the world, SheetsTM Energy Strips will provide players the energy necessary to try and claim the most coveted prize in poker, a World Series of Poker Championship gold bracelet. 

As part of the sponsorship agreement, the SheetsTM Energy Strips logo will be featured on the inner rung of the main television tables during all events at the tournament.  In addition, product will be available from all servers who will be wearing SheetsTM branded uniforms. 

SheetsTM paper-thin, individually wrapped, dissolvable strips are placed on your tongue, begin to dissolve instantly and are easily swallowed and digested delivering hours of energy. With multiple flavors and a great taste, SheetsTM won't spill or melt, have no calories, no carbohydrates, no sugar and require no water. SheetsTM uses proprietary technology that provides a breakthrough delivery system enabling consumers to get fast-acting energy - anytime, anywhere. No bottles. No cans. Simple.

“We’re thrilled to be an Official Sponsor of the 2011 World Series of Poker and provide energy to the top poker players in the world,” said SheetsTM Energy Strips CEO Warren Struhl. “Poker is a game that requires you to be sharp and attentive every single hand, and SheetsTM will help players do that. We look forward to working with the World Series of Poker.”

The SheetsTM Energy Strips brand was launched in May 2011 and is available nationwide. Supported by a marketing campaign featuring Co-founder LeBron James along with partners Amar’e Stoudemire, Pitbull, Drake, Ray Rice and others, SheetsTM is quickly becoming, “the new way to do energy.” As multi-platinum recording artist Drake said, “Why drink your energy when you can take a sheet!”

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship


Elky, Bertrand Grospellier, wins the bracelet just now

Table Draw for the $5k Shootout. Table 289 might get interesting.

All Tables are 4 handed.


RANK PLAYER CITY / STATE / COUNTRY CHIP COUNT ROOM / TABLE / SEAT
1 Gareth Teatum DONCASTER, , GB 150,000 Amazon / 275 / 1
2 Nicolas Fierrogottner CL 150,000 Amazon / 275 / 2
3 Justin Bonomo LAS VEGAS, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 275 / 3
4 Thorsten Schafer HEIDELBERG, , DE 150,000 Amazon / 275 / 4
5 Matthew Berkey LAS VEGAS, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 276 / 1
6 Ben Tollerene FORT WORTH, TX, US 150,000 Amazon / 276 / 2
7 Sean Getzwiller LAS VEGAS, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 276 / 3
8 Darren Kramer CAPE TOWN, , ZA 150,000 Amazon / 276 / 4
9 Orson Young OCEANPORT, NJ, US 150,000 Amazon / 277 / 1
10 Nikita Lebedev RU 150,000 Amazon / 277 / 2
11 Erik Seidel HENDERSON, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 277 / 3
12 Kyle Frey Saint Thomas, PA, US 150,000 Amazon / 277 / 4
13 James Dempsey BRIGHTON, , GB 150,000 Amazon / 281 / 1
14 Yasuhiro Waki Tokyo, , JP 150,000 Amazon / 281 / 2
15 Mark Radoja GUELPH, ON, CA 150,000 Amazon / 281 / 3
16 Marc Inizan London, , GB 150,000 Amazon / 281 / 4
17 Adam Junglen STOW, OH, US 150,000 Amazon / 282 / 1
18 Alan Goehring HENDERSON, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 282 / 2
19 Maxim Lykov MOSCOW, , RU 150,000 Amazon / 282 / 3
20 Christopher DeMaci STANTON, CA, US 150,000 Amazon / 282 / 4
21 Joseph Elpayaa FOREST PARK, IL, US 150,000 Amazon / 283 / 1
22 Jeanfrancois Talbot Beaconsfield, QC, CA 150,000 Amazon / 283 / 2
23 Gavin Smith GUELPH, ON, CA 150,000 Amazon / 283 / 3
24 Daniel Smith MANALAPAN, NJ, US 150,000 Amazon / 283 / 4
25 Gilbert Diaz NESTOR, , FR 150,000 Amazon / 287 / 1
26 Scott Baumstein NEW YORK, NY, US 150,000 Amazon / 287 / 2
27 Tommy Vedes FORT MOHAVE, AZ, US 150,000 Amazon / 287 / 3
28 Nicholas Mitchell WEBSTER, NY, US 150,000 Amazon / 287 / 4
29 Tom Marchese BOONTON, NJ, US 150,000 Amazon / 288 / 1
30 Chris Klodnicki PHILADELPHIA, PA, US 150,000 Amazon / 288 / 2
31 JP Kelly AYLESBURY, , GB 150,000 Amazon / 288 / 3
32 Jeff Williams ATLANTA, GA, US 150,000 Amazon / 288 / 4
33 James Akenhead LONDON, , GB 150,000 Amazon / 289 / 1
34 Toby Lewis LONDON, GB 150,000 Amazon / 289 / 2
35 Jeffrey Gross ANN ARBOR, MI, US 150,000 Amazon / 289 / 3
36 Jason Young SUFFERN, NY, US 150,000 Amazon / 289 / 4
37 Luke Staudenmaier IMPERIAL, PA, US 150,000 Amazon / 294 / 1
38 Dan O'Brien LAS VEGAS, NV, US 150,000 Amazon / 294 / 2
39 Todd Terry HOBOKEN, NJ, US 150,000 Amazon / 294 / 3
40 Jordan Young TWIN LAKE, MI, US 150,000 Amazon / 294 / 4

I have a suspicion that in the UK that puff wouldn't get past the ASA...

Eric Haber should have trademarked his nickname,in fact I'm surprised PokerXFactor didn't.

Wsop poy standings,  http://www.wsop.com/players/2011.asp

Jake Cody is amongst the leaders in event 26, the $2,500 6 max....

ok, do another win, but please give other people a chance to win just the occasional tourney you enter :D

your a sick man......... ;envious;

glglgl, win em all jake    ;)

Congratulations to Elie Payan, Winner of Event #22 ($292,825)!

Elie Payan from France has earned himself victory in Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha and a whopping $292,825 in cash. Not only that, Payan now has a World Series of Poker gold bracelet wrapped around his wrist -- the most coveted prize in poker!

When the day began, Payan was right in the middle of the pack, but he was a little late to the party. Payan missed the entire first orbit of play before he showed up to the final table and played his first hand. That didn't matter though, as he was the last man standing on the felt with all the chips in front of him.

Payan defeated Rafe Kibrit heads up, but it wasn't easy. The two battled back and forth, swapping the lead a couple times. At first, Payan held the chip lead heading into heads-up play, but then Kibrit fought back to take pole position in the match. Payan never gave up though and fought his way back in front and then steadily applied the necessary pressure in order to finish off his opponent.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Players   Prize
1   Elie Payan   $292,825
2   Rafe Kibrit   $181,222
3   David Sands   $113,383
4   Juha Vilkki   $82,297
5   Stephen Wolfe   $60,754
6   Emil Patel   $45,554
7   Cody Munger   $34,642
8   Jeff Sarwer   $26,704
9   Roland Israelashvili   $20,863

Congratulations to Elie Payan, the latest gold bracelet winner at the 2011 WSOP

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #23: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix

is currently 3 handed

1    John Monnette    2,450,000
2    Michele Limongi    800,000
3    Eric Buchman    325,000


5    Desmond Portano       57,692
6    John Juanda       42,897
7    Adam Kornuth       32,373
8    John Racener       24,797
9    Adam Geyer       19,268
10    Rami Boukai       19,268

Shootout Final Table Set; USA Dominating

The penultimate day of Event #24: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout has wrapped up here at the 2011 World Series of Poker and the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino!

The 387-player field was whittled down to just forty yesterday, and on return to the felt today, those forty players were split amongst ten tables of four-handed play. A win on your table not only meant a guaranteed payday of $28,447, but also a spot on an elusive WSOP final table.

Four-handed play is often accustomed with fast action, and today was no disappointment as chips flew around the tables. Unfortunately there would always be players that suffered as a result, and James Dempsey (39th), Maxim Lykov (38th), Tommy Vedes (37th), Jeff Williams (32nd), Dan O'Brien (29th), Jason Young (28th), Toby Lewis (23rd), Justin Bonomo (21st), JP Kelly (18th), Erik Seidel (17th), Gavin Smith (16th), James Akenhead (15th) and Jordan Young (14th) all fell short of the final table as the following players managed to best their table.

Player   Country   Chip Count
Sean Getzwiller   USA   600,000
Nicolas Fierrogottner   Chile   600,000
Adam Junglen   USA   600,000
Tom Marchese   USA   600,000
Jeffrey Gross   USA   600,000
Dan Smith   USA   600,000
Todd Terry   USA   600,000
Scott Baumstein   USA   600,000
Nikita Lebedev   Russia   600,000
Mark Radoja   Canada   600,000

Sean Getzwiller has made his second final table of the series after winning a bracelet in the Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, and is in great form to have a crack at another one following his demolition of his table over the past two days. Online phenoms Adam Junglen, Tom Marchese, Dan Smith and Todd Terry are in the mix while Mark Radoja will be riding a high wave of confidence after an epic heads-up match.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better


32 of 606 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Hieu Ngoc Ma    170,000
2    Filippos Stavrakis    170,000
3    John Pappas    160,000
4    Kirill Gerasimov    98,000
5    Cyndy Violette    94,000
6    Gerard Rechnitzer    90,000
7    Karina Jett    87,000
8    David Warga    86,000
9    Marc Fluss    85,000
10    Hernan Salazar    80,000

Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day 1 completed
Tyler Cornell Leads $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed At End Of Day 1

Day 1 and our first ten levels of the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed are officially in the books. After starting the day with 1,278 players we are down to just 189 players vying for the bracelet and enormous $689,739 first prize. Of those 189, Tyler Cornell leads the way with 172,600 and is followed closely by Jean-Robert Bellande with 144,700. With 126 getting paid, it won't take too long for the money bubble to burst tomorrow and the real chip leaders to set themselves apart from the field.

With these large No Limit Hold'em tournaments it's seldom to have lots of big names at the top, especially at the end of Day 1, but we have plenty of them going through to Day 2. Of those include Jean-Robert Bellande (144,700) who is second in chips, Tuan Le (126,000), Mohsin Charnia (126,000), Olivier Busquet (109,100) Chris Moorman (90,000) Dan O'Brien (87,200), Ayaz Mahmood (86,000), Lex Veldhuis (82,300), Melanie Weisner (80,000), David Baker (80,000), and Jake Cody (70,000)

We also plenty of big names who didn't make it to Day 2 including Jennifer Tilly, Cody Slaughbaugh, Tom Dwan, Vanessa Selbst, David Williams, Faraz Jaka, Liv Boeree, Phil Laak, Tony Dunst, Gavin Griffin, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Vanessa Rousso, Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown, Sam Stein, Greg Raymer, Phil Hellmuth, Shannon Shorr, Andrew Lichtenberger, Joseph Cheong,, Jeffery Papola, Dwyte Pilgrim, Dan Kelly, Lauren Kling and more.

Our chip leaders to end the day are Tyler Cornell (172,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (144,700), Victor Shuchleib (137,900), Steve Barshak (132,700), and Alexander Fitzgerald (132,600)


1    Tyler Cornell    172,600
2    Jean-Robert Bellande    144,700
3    Victor Shuchleib    137,900
4    Steve Barshak    132,700
5    Alexander Fitzgerald    132,600
6    Tuan Le    126,000
7    Mohsin Charania    126,000
8    Vladimir Mefodichev    124,000
9    Christian Jeppsson    114,100
10    Nicholas Griopo    112,700

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship


111 of 152 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Daniel Negreanu    118,800
2    Shawn Buchanan    102,500
3    Josh Arieh    77,500
4    Barry Greenstein    74,000
5    Alessio Isaia    70,000
6    Ari Engel    63,600
7    Maria Ho    62,000
8    Dan Kelly    60,000
9    Greg Debora    60,000
10    Chau Giang    60,000

plenty brits left in event #26 2500 nlhe

rupert elder with 110k

Norman Chad deep in stud8, would be a popular winner. GOGOGO Normmmm!!

jake cody up to 110k tonight gettin em in with AK V KQ

Moorman1 Chris Moorman
307k on the bubble going into 800/1600 on the right side of a cooler with as v kk versus ricky frochenbach... Prob cl on the money bubble


Jake Cody
wsop 6max, just lost a 65k pot with top pair vs a set and a 120k pot JJ vs AA.. Left with 14bb.. On the bubble, uh oh!

ruperte Rupert Elder
129k 3 away from money

Moorman/Dan Morgan 2 and 4 in the 6 max w/100 left. Goooooo!

GOGOGO

The chip leader must of robbed a few trains to get that stack

Jesse James      315,000   274,900 pos
Chris Moorman      310,000   -10,000 neg
Gregory Merson      242,000   127,000 pos
Daniel Morgan      240,000   204,200 pos
Eric Hettinga      200,000   90,000 pos
Alex Fitzgerald      198,000   -27,000 neg
Anthony Ruberto      185,000   89,800 pos
John Hoang      176,000   85,600 pos


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-26-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/chips.htm

1 Daniel Morgan 455,000 2 Jesse James 315,000 3 Chris Moorman 310,000 4 Gregory Merson 242,000 5 Eric Hettinga 200,000

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-26-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/chips.htm

GOGO Dan mfkin Morgan! Took out Mizzi and JR Bellande

I know this isn't quite WSOP but i think this tweet from Ben Dobson who is from Poole and has gone over to las vegas playing loads of live events is worth a mention.

 "Wahooo! Got the majority chop heads up or $25,500 :D biggest score I've ever had! Buzzing :D"

Got it in the deepstack at the venetian tonight, he's in for the main and a few other wsop events too. Gl to him and i hope he makes even more scores.

You guys may have heard of him plays as F3nix35 on most sites. Hope he continues to pwn haaaaarrrrrdd.

Darren Woods in the (very tough) final 24 of the limit championship http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-27-limit-hold-em-championship/chips.htm

Anyone heard of this fella?

Chris Moorman from the UK is up to a million in the 2.5k, ruperte on 300k, don't know what happened to Dan Morgan.

I need to learn how to press read full it seems.  Dan Morgan appeared to be still in with 150K an hour ago.  Anybody know if he is on twitter?

Anway forgot to metntion that Mooman was leading the 2.5k with 30 left. 

wowowoow.

go on heroes!

rupert/dan morgan ftmfw!

GOGOGO Rupert/Dan/Moorman.

Moorman1 Chris Moorman
Bust mcnallyville ak v 99 qjx flop king on the river! 1.28 mill at 4/8 20 min left for the day 24 players remain

Event #24: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

currently heads up

Top Chip Counts
1    Mark Radoja    10,300,000
2    Jeffrey Gross    4,700,000

1          436,568
2          269,742
3    Nicolas Fierrogottner       198,096
4    Scott Baumstein       146,639
5    Adam Junglen       109,406
6    Nikita Lebedev       82,287
7    Todd Terry       62,370
8    Tom Marchese       47,636
9    Sean Getzwiller       36,669
10    Daniel Smith       28,447

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #25: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better

currently heads up

Top Chip Counts
1    Mike Sexton    1,655,000
2    Chris Viox    1,075,000


1          200,459
2          123,925
3    Gerard Rechnitzer       77,097
4    Hakon Lundberg       55,917
5    Tyson Marks       40,782
6    Cory Zeidman       30,228
7    Sean Urban       22,767
8    Hernan Salazar       17,417
9    David Warga       13,531
10    Tony Ma       13,531
11    Christopher Mchugh       10,676
12    Norman Chad       10,676

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


24 of 1378 remain towards the close of play

Top Chip Counts

1    Anthony Ruberto    1,450,000
2    Chris Moorman    1,035,000
3    Anthony Lellouche    550,000
4    Dan O'Brien    490,000
5    Jesse James    460,000
6    Tyler Cornell    440,000
7    Christian Stricker Kohl    410,000
8    Jesse Cohen    395,000



Rupert Elder shown as 185,000 Dan Morgan 85,000


Jonathan Prested and Jake Cody also cashed

1          689,739
2          428,140
3          271,800
4          179,162
5          121,416
6          84,549
7          60,473
8          60,473
9          44,390
10          44,390
11          33,418
12          33,418
13          25,769
14          25,769
15          25,769
16          25,769
17          25,769
18          25,769
19          20,377
20          20,377
21          20,377
22          20,377
23          20,377
24          20,377

Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship

16 left

Darren Woods going for a double

Top Chip Counts
1    Daniel Idema    550,000
2    Marwan Abdelal    500,000
3    Matthew Gallin    470,000
4    Darren Woods    380,000
5    Steve Landfish    345,000
6    Tam Hang    325,000
7    Isaac Haxton    280,000
8    Nick Schulman    220,000
9    Richard Brodie    220,000
10    Justin Smith    200,000

1          378,642
2          233,944
3          169,512
4          125,120
5          94,029
6          71,897
7          55,908
8          44,207
9          35,519
10          28,990
11          28,990
12          28,990
13          24,060
14          24,060
15          24,060
16          20,274

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 of Event #28 is in the Books

Another overwhelmingly large group of poker players gathered in the Rio this afternoon to kick off our second standard format $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. There were 2,500 registrants and after 10 levels of play, we are down to just 349.

As usual, we had no shortage of poker talent on Day 1. Liv Boeree, Galen Hall, Michael Mizrachi, Justin Young, Tony Dunst, Jonathan Duhamel, Freddy Deeb, Phil Laak, and Eric Baldwin were just some of the players that entered the event unable to see action on Day 2. Even Bruce Buffer, the well-known UFC announcer, held a chip lead for the first few hours before slowly losing it to his opponents throughout the course of the day.

Not all of our notable pro's fell through though. Among those left are Amnon Filippi, Drazen Ilich, Andy Frakenberger, Matt Affleck, David Pham, and Peter Feldman. All of them have plenty of experience battling their way through "moving day" and the action should be furious as they try to set themselves up for glory on Day 3.

However, all of them will be chasing our front-runner, Rick Romine. About halfway through the day, whispers of an enormous stack were being heard throughout the room. When our highest notable player in our chip counts had just 40,000, Romine had already crossed the 100,000 mark... easily. And he didn't stop there. Hand after hand he continued his rush and ended the day with a whopping 176,100 in chips. For most people, Day 2 is will be stressful as the money bubble comes and goes and people start playing for the cash. But with Romine's amazing Day 1, the first few hours will be all about maintaining his stack.

1    Rick Romine    143,000
2    James English    88,000
3    Georg Jalkotzy    82,000
4    Martin Kabrhel    78,000
5    Ty Reiman    76,000
6    Kyle Carlston    75,000
7    Michael Katz    68,000
8    Matt Graham    67,000
9    Jia Liu    64,000
10    Brent Hanks    60,000

Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed
Day 1 completed

Greg Raymer finds himself near the top after Day 1

The inaugural ten-game event at the WSOP is one day old, and it's already proven to be quite the success. An impressive 431 players turned up, making this -- we're assuming but fairly confident here -- the largest ten-game tournament in the world with a prize pool just shy of $1 million.

Spread the games the fish like to play and you're sure to attract the sharks, and we had no shortage of sharp-toothed poker players here today. World Champs? Had those. Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, and John Juanda all played and survived, while Scotty Nguyen came and went rather quickly this afternoon. Math whizzes? How about Bill Chen and David Sklansky at the same table to start the day. Bracelet winners? By the bunches. Just to name a few, Steve Billirakis, John Kabbaj, Jeff Lisandro, Greg Mueller, Dutch Boyd, Erick Lindgren, Jason Mercier, and Frank Kassela all played. A few 2011 bracelet winners like Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Eugene Katchalov were here, too. John Monnette, who won his first bracelet about fifteen hours prior to the start of this event, was also in the field, but his day was a short one. Even a few of the old guard like Sam Grizzle and Mickey Appleman showed up to play this new event.

When the chip bags came out after eight levels, there was a clog at the top of the chip counts. For now, it looks like Rob Hollink's 49,100 chips are good enough to give him the overnight lead, though a few tables were playing big pots right as the night ended. Also in the mix of leaders are Brandon Adams (39,975), Grizzle (40,100), Jordan Morgan (39,000), and Jean-Robert Bellande (38,475).

Only about 168 players survived this brisk opening day

Top Chip Counts
1    Rob Hollink    49,100
2    Brandon Adams    47,325
3    Sam Grizzle    40,100
4    Greg Raymer    40,000
5    Jordan Morgan    39,000
6    Stuart Rutter    38,500
7    Jean-Robert Bellande    38,475
8    John D'Agostino    35,400
9    Chris Bjorin    34,500
10    Shaun Deeb    34,000

ruperte Rupert Elder
342k done for the day bloody knackered! 22 left

WSOP photo blog, http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/blog.asp?curpage=1
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Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Congratulations to Oleksii Kovalchuk, Winner of Event #26 ($689,739)

After three days of action Oleksii Kovalchuk won the gold bracelet in the $2,500 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em event. He bested a field of 1,378 players and takes home $689,739 after defeating Ionel Anton heads up.
At the start of heads up play the two exchanged the chip lead several times. They were fast and loose with their action until Kovalchuk opened up a chiplead that Anton couldn’t overcome. The final hand Kovalchuk had pocket sevens against a weak ace that Kovalchuk turned into a full house.

Day 3 began with 22 players returning to action. Players falling short of the final table were Will Failla, Antony Lellouche and Sam Grafton.

Chris Moorman exited in 3rd place after Kovalchuk’s straight draw got there on the river.

Dan O’Brien was knocked out in 4th place after he paired his king on the flop but Kovalchuk made a flush on the turn.

Mazin Khoury was eliminated in 5th place when he ran his {A-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} into Anton’s pocket aces.

Anthony Ruberto was the first victim of the final table. He took a huge bad beat that crippled his stack and shook the Amazon Room from the crowd reaction. He was in a pot with Kovalchuk and all in on the turn. Ruberto had a set of jacks and Kovalchuk had a set of fours, and then spiked the one-outer on the river making quad fours. Ruberto was eliminated shortly after.


3    Chris Moorman       271,800
4    Dan O'Brien       179,162
5    Mazin Khoury       121,416
6    Anthony Ruberto       84,549
7    Will Failla       60,473
8    Eric Hettinga       60,473
9    Benjamin Pollak       44,390
10    Antony Lellouche       44,390
11    Jesse James       33,418
12    Daniel Morgan       33,418
13    Christian Kohl       25,769
14    Samuel Grafton       25,769
15    Michael Finstein       25,769
16    Jesse Cohen       25,769
17    Tyler Cornell       25,769
18    Rupert Elder       25,769
19    Timothy Finne       20,377
20    Peter Gilmore       20,377
21    Christian Jeppsson       20,377
22    Davidi Kitai       20,377

Event #27: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Daniel Idema, Event #27 Champion ($378,642)

The $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship is one of the most prestigious tournaments held at the annual World Series of Poker. It also has a reputation as being one of the toughest. This year 153 players began Event #27 and played three grueling days of poker. In the end, only one man remained to claim the WSOP gold bracelet and the $378,642 first-place prize. That man was Daniel Idema, who redeemed himself after finishing runner-up in this very event just one year ago.

Day Three began with just 14 players including Matthew Gallin, who entered as chip leader with 575,000. Joining him were some tough competition in last year’s runner-up Daniel Idema; three-time bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Barry Greenstein; runner-up in the 2009 WSOP $40K NLHE tournament, Isaac Haxton; Microsoft millionaire Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie; online sensation Justin “Boosted J” Smith; and Nick Schulman, who has numerous titles to his credit including a WSOP bracelet in the 2009 $10K No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw event.

As Day 3 progressed, five players succumbed to the high betting limits. They included Marwan Abdelal (14th- $24,060), Matt Hawrilenko (13th- $24,060), Tam Hang (12th- $28,990), Darren Woods (11th- $28,990), and Hoyt Corkins (10th- $28,990). Their eliminations brought about the official WSOP Final Table, with Daniel Idema’s stack of 740,000 leading the pack.
Official $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship Final Table

Seat   Player   Chip Counts
1   Nick Schulman   252,000
2   Daniel Idema   977,000
3   Domenico Denotaristefani   461,000
4   Steve Landfish   649,000
5   Justin "Boosted J" Smith   484,000
6   Barry Greenstein   428,000
7   Matthew Gallin   514,000
8   Richard Brodie   384,000
9   Isaac Haxton   409,000

The first final-table elimination came when Schulman ran pockets nines into Greenstein’s pocket sevens on a {7-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} flop. The {4-Hearts} turn and {8-Clubs} river changed nothing and Schulman was sent packing in ninth place ($35,519). Next out the door was Brodie who grew short stacked and couldn’t improve his {Q-Hearts}{4-Hearts} against Greenstein’s {A-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

It took a long time before the next elimination, but it finally came when Haxton got his stack in preflop with {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} againt the {A-Diamonds}{J-Diamonds} of Landfish. The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{K-Spades} to give Landfish a flush and send Haxton out the door in seventh place ($55,908). Not long after, short-stacked Smith got his chips in with {8-Spades}{5-Hearts} against Greenstein’s {A-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}. The board ran out {10-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{7-Spades} and Boosted J followed Haxton out the door in sixth place ($71,897).

Five-handed action lasted a long time, which was surprising considering the high blinds. It just seemed like every time a player was all in, they doubled. That all changed when Denotaristefani raised on the button only to have Landfish snap three-bet from the small blind. Denotaristefani made the call and watched as the {5-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} came down on the flop. Landfish led out, Denotaristefani raised, Landfish three-bet, and Denotaristefani called off his last 35,000.

Landfish: {9-Clubs}{9-Hearts}
Denotaristefani: {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}

Denotaristefani’s tournament life was at stake but he was way out in front. The {J-} turn changed nothing and left Landfish looking for one of two remaining nines on the river to steal the pot and eliminate his opponent. When the {9-Spades} spiked on the river, Landfish slapped the table in celebration. Denotaristefani's supporters fell deafly silent as their man was eliminated by a two outer. Denotaristefani took home $94,029 as he made his exit in fifth place.

Landfish’s luck ran out soon thereafter when he ran {A-Spades}{Q-Hearts} into the {A-Diamonds}{A-Hearts} of Gallin. Three-handed play didn’t last long either as Greenstein received a bad beat after getting it all in with {Q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} against the {10-Spades}{5-Spades} of Gallin on {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}. Unfortunately for the fan favorite, the turn came the {A-Hearts} followed by the {5-Hearts} on the river.

Heads up play lasted less than five hands as Idema entered with a commanding chip lead of 3.6 million to Gallin’s 900,000. While Idema hadn’t eliminated any opponents up to that point, he steadily increased his chip lead throughout the final table; in fact, he was the only player who was never all in during final-table play. His perseverance and patience paid off when he cracked Gallin’s pocket queens by flopping two pair. After suffering with the title of $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship runner-up for a year, Idema has validated himself and found redemption as he claimed the title of Champion!
Final Table Results

Place   Player   Winnings
1st   Daneil Idema   $378,642
2nd   Matthew Gallin   $233,944
3rd   Barry Greenstein   $169,512
4th   Steve Landfish   $125,120
5th   Domenico Denotaristefani   $94,029
6th   Justin “Boosted J” Smith   $71,897
7th   Isaac Haxton   $55,908
8th   Richard Brodie   $44,207
9th   Nick Schulman   $35,519


Darren woods 11th for $29,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

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Top Chip Counts
1    Bret Hruby    750,000
2    Frederik Jensen    555,000
3    Steven Merrifield    485,000
4    Lars Bonding    360,000
5    Gabriel Rouleau    360,000
6    Josh Field    350,000
7    Thao Nguyen    320,000
8    Robert Thompson    290,000
9    Tore Spannenberg    275,000
10    Andy Frankenberger    270,000

Ben Vinson still in with 160,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

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Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Haveson    310,000
2    Roland Israelashvili    295,000
3    Don McNamara    257,000
4    David Whitis    195,000
5    Travis Pearson    188,000
6    Shaun Deeb    182,000
7    Jason Stern    163,000
8    Matt Vengrin    121,000
9    Scott Bohlman    120,000
10    Chris Lee    118,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

Today marked a record-setting number of entrants for the Seniors Championship, with exactly 3,752 seniors packing into both the Pavilion and Amazon Room. Similar to last year, the event had such a large player pool that it actually interfered with starting times of other tournaments, including the Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, which was delayed by a little over an hour.

By the end of the day, we dwindled down to just 529 players. Just a handful of "notables" remain, including Susie Isaacs (26,500), Shirley Williams (10,300) and Paul Magriel (56,100).

Big names who busted early include Amarillo Slim, Dennis Phillips, Lon McEachern, T.J. Cloutier, Berry Johnston, Tony Ma and Charles "Woody" Moore. Harold Angle also busted, which means we will crown a new champion this year.

It appears our current chip leader going into day two is John Bovin, who managed to amass a commanding 113,000 in chips. Other big stacks include Charlie Sewell (74,800) and Rick Mombourquette (66,700).

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha



    Players Left
        216

    Entries
        684


Top Chip Counts
1    Emmanuel Sebag    120,000
2    Matt O'Donnell    110,000
3    Christian Harder    82,000
4    Andrew Chen    70,000
5    Tex Barch    62,000
6    Andrew Watson    60,000
7    Leif Force    51,000
8    Roberto Romanello    44,000
9    Brock Parker    41,000
10    Jeffrey Lisandro    39,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


Andy Frankenberger has just defeated Josh Evans to win the bracelet

1     Andy Frankenberger          599,153
2    Joshua Evans       372,498
3    Robert Shortway       263,655
4    Owen Crowe       190,147
5    Tyler Kenney       138,847
6    Steven Merrifield       102,600
7    Thao Nguyen       76,747
8    Sidney Hasson       58,083
9    Bret Hruby       44,482
10    Geoffrey Lay       34,458
11    Karl Johansson       34,458
12    Jefferson Lasecki       34,458
13    Stephen Falcon       27,000
14    Frederik Jensen       27,000
15    Mickey Petersen       27,000
16    Aleksandr Mozhnyakov       21,397
17    Jacobo Fernandez       21,397
18    Gabriel Rouleau       21,397
19    Matt Graham       17,145
20    Timothy Ulmer       17,145

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed


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Top Chip Counts
1    Shaun Deeb    1,230,000
2    Brian Haveson    555,000
3    Travis Pearson    485,000
4    Chris Lee    370,000
5    Kendall Fukumoto    355,000
6    John D'Agostino    155,000
7    Kevin Chance    62,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship


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Top Chip Counts
1    Richard Harwood    520,000
2    Kenneth Russell    460,000
3    Harvey Bundy    460,000
4    Gregory Meredith    450,000
5    Gregory Alston    405,000
6    James Hess    403,000
7    Anthony Hornyak    345,000
8    Andrew Bradshaw    340,000
9    Sanford Lubetkin    330,000
10    Hans Pfister    305,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha


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Top Chip Counts
1    Warren Fund    475,000
2    Christian Harder    470,000
3    Emmanuel Sebag    370,000
4    Ben Lamb    300,000
5    Sam Stein    290,000
6    Brock Parker    285,000
7    Tommy Le    280,000
8    Benjamin Keiley    250,000
9    Gabor Gyarmati    250,000
10    Austin Scott    240,000


Jon Spinks and Jerome Bradepiece both in and short-stacked with 33,000 and 31,000 respectively

Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed


Day 1 of Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has concluded. Another enormous field of 2,828 runners came out for this one, making it another great starting day for a 2011 World Series of Poker event. Adam Lippert should be the overall leader heading into Day 2 with 144,800 in chips. That is, unless we missed someone hiding among the masses. Under 400 players remain and we're less than 100 eliminations away from the money.

A lot of faces were spotted throughout the day, but the following group was nowhere to be found at the end of it. MIke Leah, Phil Laak, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jerry Yang, Dwyte Pilgrim, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Cada, Kara Scott, Kathy Liebert, Adam Levy, Ronnie Bardah, Allen Cunningham and Jeff Madsen all played, but were eliminated on the day. Humberto Brenes, Jason Mercier, Gualter Salles, Andre Akkari, Martin Hruby and Randy Lew were some of the Team PokerStars players who hit the rail as well on Day 1.

There's plenty of notables still remaining in this field including Chino Rheem and Martin Kabrhel. Every time we see these two in an event, they're always stacking towers. Rheem bagged up 101,500 to end the night while Kabrhel finished with 94,800. They'll be towards the top of the bunch to start things off tomorrow. Joining them in the mix will be Kyle Cartwright, Layne Flack, Tim West, Brent Hanks, Josh Brikis, Todd Terry and Justin Young.


Top Chip Counts
1    Adam Lippert    139,000
2    Rodrigo Garrido    129,000
3    Chino Rheem    110,000
4    Kyle Cartwright    105,000
5    Claudio Rinaldi    98,000
6    Martin Kabrhel    82,000
7    Brett Jungblut    69,000
8    Layne Flack    62,000
9    Ramsey Ajram    45,000
10    Eric Cloutier    45,000

Still in: Channing, Trickett, Cody, Vamplew, Steve Watts, Josh Field, Jack Powell, Martins Adeniya

Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

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Top Chip Counts
1    Maxwell Troy    85,000
2    Allen Kessler    79,000
3    Ted Forrest    73,000
4    David Benyamine    69,000
5    Bernard Lee    61,000
6    Jonathan Duhamel    56,000
7    David Singer    54,000
8    Alex Kravchenko    54,000
9    Hasan Habib    54,000
10    Matt Glantz    52,000

come on you old twat. i have never said one time but would gladly let him use mine

Zimnan Ziyard is 9th- known as Zimmy

Event 32 $1500 nlhe


1   Jacob Szudera   240,000
2   Adam Latimer   236,000   from oxford
3   Andrea Dato   210,000
4   Carter Gill   185,000
5   Adam Lippert   150,200
6   Rodrigo Portaleoni   144,800
7   Andrew Barber   142,400
8   Michael Whitfield   125,000
9   Justin Young   125,000
10   Matthew Wantman   124,200

147 left from 2828

quite a few brits still in, including John Eames  43,600       Ramsey Ajram 104,800


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-32-no-limit-hold-em/

Level InfoLevel23Blinds10,000 / 20,000Ante0Players InfoPlayers Left9Entries685Average Chip Stack685,000Total Chips6,165,000Prize Pool1,870,050Next Pay OutPlace 9, $31,360


Top Chip Counts


1 Christian Harder 1,520,000

2 Ben Lamb 1,050,000

3 Adam Junglen 1,010,000

4 Austin Scott 525,000

5 Sam Stein 465,000

6 Zimnan Ziyard 460,000

7 Brock Parker 370,000

8 Warren Fund 292,000

9 Dilyan Kovachev 190,000


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-31-pot-limit-omaha/

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

Congratulations to Chris Lee, Event #29 Champion ($254,955)!


Ship it to Chris "Genius28" Lee -- champion of Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed!

Four days ago, Chris Lee was just one of many in the starting field of 431 players who was vying for a chance at a bracelet. On the third day of play, Lee found himself at the final table and closer than ever. He was able to battle his way to the chip lead and take that lead into the extra Day 4 against Travis Pearson and Brian Haveson.

On the second hand of the day, Lee eliminated Pearson by winning a flip in the round of No-Limit Hold'em. By doing so, Lee had an even larger lead against Haveson when heads-up play began and steadily applied the pressure from there.

Haveson was able to find a few double ups here and then, but could never string them together. He'd double up, get short again, and then find another way to double. Finally though, Lee was able to hold up and end the tournament in a hand of 2-7 Triple Draw.

On the final hand, Lee's ten-nine was able to eliminate Haveson as he drew a king on the final draw. Haveson earned nearly $160,000 for his finish, but it's Lee taking home the $254,955 first-place prize and the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet!

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Chris Lee   $254,955
2   Brian Haveson   $157,491
3   Travis Pearson   $101,258
4   Shaun Deeb   $67,146
5   Kendall Fukumoto   $45,839
6   John D'Agostino   $32,200

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

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Top Chip Counts
1    Joseph Bolnick    3,100,000
2    James Hess    2,300,000
3    James Jewell    2,160,000
4    Charles Cohen    1,200,000
5    Craig Koch    1,100,000
6    Gregory Alston    950,000
7    Richard Harwood    825,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

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Top Chip Counts
1    Sam Stein    1,800,000
2    Adam Junglen    1,500,000
3    Ben Lamb    1,400,000
4    Warren Fund    805,000
5    Christian Harder    700,000

6    Zimnan Ziyard       $71,548 for the UK

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em


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Top Chip Counts
1    Dror Michaelo    600,000
2    Michael Aron    590,000
3    Adam Lippert    425,000
4    Seyed Madani    400,000
5    Gary Dishongh    320,000
6    Rodrigo Portaleoni    300,000
7    Carter Gill    295,000
8    Kim Pham    295,000
9    Jakob Tostesen    280,000
10    Martin Stevens    280,000


Adam Latimer and Jamie Roberts still in for the UK

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship


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Top Chip Counts
1    Chris Tryba    390,000
2    Phil Laak    375,000
3    Ted Forrest    340,000
4    Antony Lellouche    315,000
5    Eric Rodawig    285,000
6    Ali Eslami    271,000
7    Phil Hellmuth    260,000
8    Joe Tehan    252,000
9    Bill Chen    225,000
10    Jon Turner    222,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 completed

Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

McClung Leads as Players Make the Money on Last Hand of Night

The Rio was once again a packed house for Day 1 of Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. The field started with 3,144 players but only 323 remain after ten levels of play and we just barely made the money on the last hand of the night. The chip leader appears to be Christopher McClung with 114,100 in chips.

Some other big stacks near the top of the leaderboard going into day 2 are Luke Davies (109,300), Nick Petrangelo (95,000), Lee Satterwhite (84,400) and Karoon Monfared (84,200). Notables that survived the day include Team PokerStars Pro Gualter Salles (Brazil), Dwyte Pilgrim, Barry Shulman, Lars Bonding and Mike Leah.

A few players that were unfortunately eliminated throughout the day were Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (USA), Randy Lew (Online), Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica), Liv Boeree (United Kingdom), David Williams (USA), as well as Tom Dwan, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Kathy Liebert, Hoyt Corkins and Amarillo Slim.


Top Chip Counts
1    Lars Bonding    71,000
2    Chad Batista    67,000
3    Bryan Paris    51,000
4    Joshua Schoonover    47,000
5    Dwyte Pilgrim    42,000
6    Veronica Dabul    40,000
7    Amanda Baker    35,000
8    Simon Watt    32,000
9    Mike Beasley    32,000
10    Thomas Conway    18,000

The 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) Presented by Jack Links Beef Jerky at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino has officially reached the halfway point, eclipsing numerous records along the way and positioning this year’s slate of tournaments to shatter several all-time marks.   Through 30 events, total WSOP participation is up 11.7 percent, with 33,173 entrants lifting the prize pool 8.6 percent over 2010 levels and establishing a new midway milestone of $55,883,060.

 Eleven WSOP tournament records have been broken.  They are:


·         Biggest Heads-Up tournament prize pool in history ($3,040,000) – Event #2

·         Largest live Omaha High-Low Split Tournament in history (925 entries) – Event #3

·         Largest live Six-Handed tournament in poker history (1,920 entries) – Event #10

·         Biggest Deuce-to-Seven tournament prize pool in history ($1,184,400) – Event #16

·         Largest live $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start (3,157 entries) – Event #18

·         Largest live $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start (3,175 entries) – Event #20

·         Largest consecutive-days starting field sizes in poker history (combined 6,332 entries) – Event #18 and Event #20

·         Largest live Pot-Limit Omaha tournament in poker history (1,071 entries) – Event #22

·         Largest Mixed-Game (Eight-Game Mix) in poker history (489 entries) – Event #23

·         Largest Seniors poker tournament in history (3,752 entries) – Event #30

·         Largest live $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start – Event #30 (breaks record established in Event #20)

 These new attendance and prize money records come just one year after the 2010 WSOP enjoyed year-over-year attendance growth of 20 percent and set records for nine of the largest 17 live poker tournaments in history.  It is also worth noting that these live tournament records aren’t just WSOP-related.  In fact, they are the largest turnouts for any poker tournament worldwide – ever.

 e are humbled once again by the incredible turnout from players all over the world,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “It has been a record-setting summer thus far in 2011 and we are confident it will continue through the duration of the tournament.”

In addition to the official WSOP gold bracelet events, all other poker-related business is experiencing tremendous double-digit growth as well.  Year-to-date, 79,166 entries have been recorded.

WSOP side action, which refers to all non-bracelet events -- including cash games, single-table-satellites, mega-satellites and daily deepstack tournaments -- are up 45 percent year-over-year.

 sh games have attracted non-stop action featuring 96 live poker tables filled to capacity.  The cash games offered range from $1-$2 blinds all the way up to high-stakes competition, including No-Limit with blinds at $1,000/$2,000.  Pot-Limit Omaha, a game of growing popularity is generating more than 20 tables spread at a time.  This makes for arguably the greatest concentration of Pot-Limit Omaha action anywhere in history.

 Additionally, the WSOP is spreading more than 150 satellite tournaments daily throughout the 42nd annual event.  This segment is up 18 percent over last year.  (Note: A satellite tournament is a lower buy-in event whose prize is an entry into a larger buy-in event).  Mega-satellites have been particularly strong, regularly awarding dozens of seats per event and helping feed the larger buy-in bracelet events.

 inally, the Rio’s offering of low buy-in, one-day poker tournaments called “Daily Deepstacks” have been the busiest of all events year-over-year.  Players participating in the daily 2 pm tournaments with a $235 buy-in are regularly seeing 800-plus player fields and first place prizes in the $30,000-40,000 range.  Three Daily Deepstack tournaments are taking place, at 2 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm and all are seeing sharp increases.  These tournaments continue through July 16th.

 ournament Director Jack Effel explained, “It is one thing to plan and prepare to accommodate such a large number of people on a daily basis, but it is truly an amazing feeling to see it all unfold in front of your eyes like we have witnessed at the WSOP in 2011.  We are grateful for everyone’s patience throughout and want to thank the players who have showed up thus far.   We look forward to welcoming still more players who are still yet to make their 2011 WSOP debut.”
On Friday, June 18, the WSOP sat 5,946 players for the various poker tournaments scheduled that day – the largest number of players ever entered on a single day in live poker history.

 
A total of 408 poker tables are in use at the Rio this summer during the WSOP.  Despite the largest concentration of poker tables at one time anywhere in history, on several days demand has outstripped supply due to the unprecedented number of players descending upon the Rio.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em



Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (USD)
1          668,276
2          414,918
3          292,634
4    Gabriel Morin       211,353
5    Dror Michaelo       154,506
6    Randy Haddox       114,304
7    Rodrigo Portaleoni       85,556
8    Kyle Cartwright       64,788
9    Alan Stevens       49,631

Top Chip Counts
1    Kirk Caldwell    5,150,000
2    Marc Mclaughlin    4,275,000
3    Ben White    3,150,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship


Top Chip Counts
1    Eric Rodawig    3,075,000
2    Phil Hellmuth    1,460,000
3    John Racener    505,000


1          442,183
2          273,233
3          171,122
4    Ted Forrest       123,904
5    David Benyamine       96,836
6    Mikhail Savinov       77,222
7    Joe Tehan       62,710
8    Ali Eslami       51,750
9    Antony Lellouche       43,317
10    Felipe Ramos       43,317
11    Christopher George       36,858
12    Phil Laak       36,858
13    Erik Seidel       32,057
14    Bill Chen    PokerStars Friend of PokerStars    32,057
15    Cyndy Violette       27,888
16    Chris Tryba       27,888

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

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Top Chip Counts
1    Alex Findlay    525,000
2    Michael Souza    460,000
3    Robbie Verspui    400,000
4    Lee Satterwhite    390,000
5    John Berreman    365,000
6    Jonas Mackoff    340,000
7    Steven Davisson    325,000
8    Randy Kritzer    305,000
9    Justin Cohen    300,000
10    Scott Shelley    290,000

Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed
Day 1 completed
Selbst, Lindgren, Deeb, & McDonald Thrive on Day 1 of Inaugural $5K PLO/Six-Handed Event!

Vanessa Selbst is Day 1 chip leader with 250,300.

No one really knew what to expect today in regards to Event #35 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/Six Handed. This was the first time a six-handed PLO event graced the World Series of Poker Schedule, so the turnout was anyone’s guess. As it turned out, the inaugural event drew an impressive 507 entrants, creating a prizepool of $2,382,900. With the top 48 finishers slated to get paid, including $619,575 that was reserved for first place, the pros turned out in full force. By the end of the night, only 110 players remained, including chip leader Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Vanessa Selbst with 250,300. A little further behind her are Erick Lindgren (208,700), Shaun Deeb (195,000), and Mike “timex” McDonald (181,100).

McDonald, who is playing in his first WSOP this summer, built his chips steadily throughout the day, but one hand was really reminiscent of his day-long heater. Late in the day, Amnon Filippi got his short stack all in preflop against McDonald:

Filippi: {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}
McDonald: {A-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}

Filippi was ahead with his aces, but the {J-Clubs}{K-Spades}{Q-Spades} flop quickly changed that by giving McDonald a straight. The {9-Clubs} turn and {6-Clubs} river improved him to a flush, but the result was the same . . . Filippi was eliminated. "This is the best I've ever run in a tournament," McDonald said after the hand. "And I run good all the time."

While McDonald and company were running good, not everyone was so fortunate. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Carlos Mortensen, Galen Hall, Sammy Farha, Barry Greenstein, Eric Baldwin, Joe Cada, Robert Williamson, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Scott Seiver, and Daniel Negreanu were just a few of the pros who hit the rail on Day 1.

While many pros failed to survive, others successfully navigated the field and will be return on Day 2. They include David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast, Layne Flack, Erick Lindgren, Andy Seth, Jeff Lisandro, and Jason Mercier. Also making it through were Kevin Boudreau and Chance Kornuth, the runner-up and winner of last year’s $5,000 PLO event (though that one was played nine handed), who happened to play at the same table much of the day.


Top Chip Counts
1    Vanessa Selbst    250,300
2    Erick Lindgren    208,700
3    Shaun Deeb    195,000
4    Mike McDonald    181,800
5    Jamie Rosen    157,000
6    Jesper Hogaard    142,800
7    Chris DeMaci    137,700
8    Peter Jetten    134,000
9    David Ulliott    125,000
10    Joseph Cheong    120,700

Makes you proud to be british

New video from WSOP2011: Dave`The Devilfish' Ulliott http://bit.ly/jyHUVF

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Eric Rodawig Wins Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship! ($442,183)


Eric Rodawig started today as the chip leader by a fair distance and then never once relinquished the top spot. He was always above everyone else and even when he suffered a slight dip during the final table, he kept his nose in front of the rest of the field.

With 18 players coming back today, it was a quick jump into the money as it took less than 10 minutes for Jon Turner and Justin Smith to be eliminated having turned up for three days to take home no money. Cyndy Violette, Erik Seidel and Phil Laak all made the money while unlucky Frenchman Antony Lellouche was to be the bubble at our final table.

Ali Eslami was first to be knocked out of the final table having been the short stack coming in. Joe Tehan was next, despite managing to fold a full house on the river correctly, he got chopped up in one pot to leave himself dangerously short and busted disappointingly in seventh place. Phil Hellmuth was the shortest for much of the six-handed play, managing to find several double ups to bring himself up the leader board. Russian Mikhail Savinov, a limit-game specialist was next to be eliminated, followed by David Benyamine - another deep run for the Frenchman but he will have wanted another bracelet.

Four-handed saw Ted Forrest go from second place to virtually out when he called every street against Rodawig, only to muck when he was shown a simple pair of aces. Forrest then got scooped by Hellmuth soon after and ended up going out in fourth.

Three-handed play between Hellmuth, Rodawig and John Racener continued for an extended period of time but Rodawig always stayed in control as the other two vied for second position. Racener eventually lost out after losing consecutive significant pots to first Rodawig then Hellmuth leaving us with our heads up battle.

chris moorman and devilfish in last 30, john kabbaj unlucky to be knocked out in 32nd, pretty interesting final table brewing with plenty big names still in

Gregory Brooks      725,000   21,000 pos
Erick Lindgren      500,000   30,000 pos
Vanessa Selbst   PokerStars PokerStars Team Pro (USA)   485,000   40,000 pos
Jeff Lisandro      435,000   211,000 pos
Tom Dwan      400,000   170,000 pos
Michael McDonald      340,000   20,000 pos
Steven Merrifield      320,000   50,000 pos
Peter Jetten      315,000   35,000 pos
Jason Mercier   PokerStars PokerStars Team Pro (USA)   315,000   67,000 pos
Joseph Ressler      302,000   52,000 pos
Micah Smith      280,000   60,000 pos
Hans Winzeler      273,000   -17,000 neg
David Callaghan      260,000   85,000 pos
Chris DeMaci      250,000   0
David Chiu      242,000   56,000 pos
Emil Patel      225,000   85,000 pos
Shawn Bennani      210,000   65,000 pos
Robert Shortway      200,000   90,000 pos
Chris Moorman      175,000   55,000 pos
Jared Bleznick      160,000   35,000 pos
Daniel Fuhs      160,000   15,000 pos


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-35-pot-limit-omaha-six-handed/chips.htm

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em


currently heads up as follows

Top Chip Counts
1    Justin Cohen    7,850,000
2    Mark Schmid    1,600,000


1          488,283
2          302,031
3    Andrew Rudnik       213,747
4    Jonathan Clancy       154,722
5    Trevor Vanderveen       113,297
6    Benjamin Volpe       83,925
7    Robbie Verspui       62,873
8    Michael Souza       47,622
9    Jeremy Kottler       36,473

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed


16 of 507 remaining

Gregory Brooks       1,310,000
David Chiu       1,020,000
Jared Bleznick       610,000    
Michael McDonald    540,000
Joseph Ressler       525,000
Jason Mercier       455,000    
Hans Winzeler       430,000    
Robert Fellner       390,000
Daniel Fuhs       350,000
Peter Jetten       305,000
Chris Moorman       300,000    
Shawn Bennani       280,000    
David Callaghan       255,000
David Ulliott       240,000    
Steven Merrifield    150,000    
Tom Dwan       105,000    

1          619,575
2          383,075
3          239,100
4          156,628
5          105,967
6          73,965
7          53,210
8          53,210
9          39,413
10          39,413
11          30,024
12          30,024
13          23,519
14          23,519
15          23,519
16          23,519

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em


Day 1 of the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em is in the books and Marvin Rettenmaier is your chipleader with 174,100. The day began with 1,734 players and the field has been whittled down to 296 runners. Joining Rettenmaier at the top of the leaderboard are Dan O’Brien, Jack Ellwood and Brian Phelps.

Also moving on to Day 2 are notables Dwyte Pilgrim, Martins Adeniya, Gavin Smith, Randy Dorfman, Eric Baldwin, Matt Marafioti, Lars Bonding, Leo Wolpert, J.C. Tran, Tim Phan, Nam Le, Randal Flowers and Terrence Chan.

One of the most interesting hands of the day occurred when Tommy Vedes shoved on the button, not expecting a call, with only one card. After the call was made Vedes asked the dealer for another card. The floorman was summoned and the ruling was that since Vedes was on the button the top card obviously belonged to him.
Vedes only held the {Q-Clubs} and the dealer peeled off the top card and it was the {A-Clubs}. He was up against {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} and won the hand after pairing his queen.

Plenty of notables were sent to the rail including: Andy Frankenberger, Dan Fleyshman, Nenad Medic, Jordan Young, Liv Boeree, Jason DeWitt, Nick Binger, Jonathan Duhamel, Isaac Haxton, Sorel Mizzi and Matt Stout.

Tom Dwan was in the tournament today, albeit for just one hand. Dwan played the first hand after the dinner break after his stack had been blinded off down to just over 4,000. He shoved on the button with {7-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds}, got called by a player with {K-Clubs} {9-Clubs} and the board gave his opponent two pair. Dwan literally never took his seat, he played his one hand in what Eric Baldwin called a “runner’s stance.”

Top Chip Counts
1    Marvin Rettenmaier    174,100
2    Dan O'Brien    164,500
3    Jack Ellwood    124,700
4    Brian Phelps    118,000
5    Rob Akery    116,000
6    Dwyte Pilgrim    110,000
7    Dmitriy Stelmak    110,000
8    Chance Kornuth    105,000
9    Martins Adeniya    105,000
10    Gavin Smith    95,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

196 of 240 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Ron Ware    122,300
2    Dusty Leary    114,000
3    Eugene Katchalov    101,600
4    Daniel Negreanu    99,900
5    Tom Koral    98,400
6    Brett Richey    88,000
7    Barry Greenstein    86,900
8    Chau Giang    85,000
9    Chris Tryba    84,400
10    Sergey Rybachenko    77,000

Overnight in Event 35

1    USA    Gregory Brooks    Chips: 1,294,000
2    USA    David Chiu    Chips: 891,000
3    USA    Michael McDonald    Chips: 827,000
4    USA    Jared Bleznick    Chips: 710,000
5    USA    Jason Mercier     Chips: 619,000
6    USA    Joseph Ressler    Chips: 564,000
7    USA    Hans Winzeler    Chips: 446,000
8    UK    Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott    Chips: 415,000
9    USA    Steve Merrifield    Chips: 357,000
10    USA    Robert Fellner    Chips: 343,000
11    Ireland    Dave Callaghan    Chips: 314,000
12    Canada    Peter Jetten    Chips: 310,000
13    UK    Chris Moorman    Chips: 208,000
14    USA    Daniel Fuhs    Chips: 193,000
15       Shawn Bennani    Chips: 130,000

GOGOGO Ellwood and Moorman.

ESPN

As play concluded early Wednesday morning, 34 bracelets have been awarded at the 2011 World Series of Poker. With the passing of the halfway point, the WSOP sent out some stats regarding the composition of the players its seen through the first 29 events this summer.

To start off with the big picture of its scope, there have been 29,421 participants in the first 29 events that have created prize pools totaling $52,506,260. The average age of a WSOP participant so far has been 36 and the average age of the winners is 28. Players have come from 74 counties around the world and 62 of those countries have players who can boast a WSOP cash.

Given the worldwide appeal, it's impressive to see the masses flock to Las Vegas to participate, but only six countries are represented by 2011 bracelet winners. The most successful country thus far has been the United States, which has had 23 champions and 3,298 cashes by all players that total more than $48 million in prize money. Canada ranks second with four bracelets and 238 cashes ($4.6 million in prize money), then comes the United Kingdom (three bracelet winners and 121 cashes for $4.0 million in prize money), France (two bracelet winners and 59 cashes for $1.2 million in prize money), and Russian and the Ukraine who are each represented one WSOP champion.

Men represent 96.8 percent of all entries and one man, Tom Dwan, has entered 26 of the first 29 events to lead the WSOP in that category. The ability to play those events doesn't usually shout success and Dwan has only cashed twice so far in the $25,000 heads-up event and Event 35, $5,000 pot-limit Omaha. Two players are tied at five cashes apiece, Shaun Deeb and Kirill Rabtsov, and 14 players are tied behind those two with four cashes. The honor of winning the most money in the first 29 events belongs to Event 4 champ Allen Bari who edged out Event 2 champ Jake Cody by $27,402. The most successful woman is Maria Ho who finished behind Bari in Event 4 to capture the $540,020 second-place prize. She has entered 12 events.

The second half of the WSOP includes five $10,000 buy-in events (including the main event) as well as the $50,000 Player's Championship. The most successful players in those events will most likely jump to the top of the earnings list. There are also four $5,000 buy-in events which, as evidenced by Bari in Event 4, can produce huge prize pools.

After another hectic start to the week, only three events are resuming their progress on Wednesday, most notably the $5,000 six-handed pot-limit Omaha event which features a spectacular field as it enters its final day.

Event 35: Six-handed pot-limit Omaha

Only 15 players remain in this wildly aggressive event and Greg Brooks, formerly retired Mike McDonald, Jason Mercier, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Chris Moorman, Peter Jetten, and Daniel Fuhs.

This is Chiu's, Mercier's and Moorman's fourth cash of the 2011 WSOP. Both Mercier and Moorman have made final tables already, but both also fell short. The spotlight will probably be on the third-place McDonald who is making his first career WSOP cash after winning $2.7 million across Europe over the past three years.

Play will continue at 5:30 p.m. ET and a champion will most likely be crowned early Thursday morning and win $619,575.

Event 36: $2,500 no-limit hold 'em

The first no-limit hold 'em tournament of the week attracted another big turnout, as a field of 1,734 players dwindled to 308 players after Day 1 of Event 36. Marvin Rettenmaier will enter Day 2 as the chip leader, but unlike many events at the WSOP, the start of Day 2 won't quickly bring the money bubble. Only 171 players will make the money and there will need to be 138 eliminations prior to all the players having a little something to celebrate. Every player that makes the money in this event will earn at least $5,207.

Dan O'Brien is hoping to become the third player this Series to earn five cashes and he's in great position to do so starting the day in second place. Dwyte Pilgrim and Gavin Smith are also both hold top-15 chip stacks.

The winner of this event will earn $749,610. Tomer Berda won the event in 2010 as he defeated a larger field of 1,942 players.

Event 37: $10,000 HORSE

The HORSE World Championship began on Tuesday with 240 players in action, one player short of the 2010 turnout of 241. The slow structure during the early levels resulted in only 67 eliminations on Day 1. Ron Ware, Eugene Katchalov, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Koral, Brett Richey, Barry Greenstein and Chris Tryba were all among the top 10 in chips at the conclusion of the first day of play.

Day 1 casualties included Phil Hellmuth, Erik Seidel, Dan Shak, Jennifer Harman, Robert Williamson, Maria Ho, Ylon Schwartz, Shaun Deeb and Andy Frankenberger.

This is one of the largest $10,000 buy-in events we've seen this summer and $609,130 will be awarded to the winner. Ten levels will be played on Wednesday.

The big picture

Two events begin on Wednesday, another $1,500 no-limit hold 'em event and a $5,000 split pot-limit Omaha/pot-limit hold 'em event. This week has provided a number of higher buy-in events that the pros have been looking for, but on the other side of the spectrum is the daily events that can also be found in the Amazon Room.

The glory at the WSOP may be found in the bracelets, but for those with smaller bankrolls, the daily "deepstack" events have been the perfect solution and attraction. The turnouts have been incredible in these events that offer buy-in levels of $135, $185 and $235. One of the biggest events of the WSOP took place during Sunday's 2 p.m. deepstack ($235 buy-in) which attracted a field of 1,110 players.

Besides the deepstacks, which are awarding top prizes in the five-figure range, the satellites have also been picking up. With no access to online poker, more players than ever are at the Rio are actively trying to get in the bigger events for cheap. It makes sense that the WSOP made a greater effort on this front this year and the changes have paid off with a double-digit growth in participation year-over-year.

Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Jason Mercier, Event #35 Champion ($619,575)

The World Series of Poker heard the voice of the players and included a six-handed PLO event on this year’s schedule. Event #35 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/Six Handed was the first of its kind and appealed to an assorted mix of amateurs, professionals, and seasoned online players. When registration closed two days ago, 507 players had entered to create a prize pool of $2,382,900, with $619,575 of that reserved for first. It took three grueling days of intense play, but eventually it was Jason Mercier who defeated a stacked field to claim the prize and his second PLO WSOP gold bracelet.

Day 3 got off to a bang when the field of 15 that started the day was whittled down to just eight within the first two hours of play. The man making the most noise during that time seemed to be Mercier, who scored a double knockout to vault among the top stacks. In that hand, David "Devilfish" Ulliott raised to 25,000 from the button and Peter Jetten re-raised to 110,000 from the small blind. Mercier called from the big blind, while Ulliott called behind

The flop came down {2-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}{8-Spades} and Jetten open-shoved all in, Mercier instantly went all in, and Devilfish called off his stack.

Mercier: {q-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{6-Clubs}
Jetten: {a-Hearts}{a-Clubs}{9-Spades}{5-Clubs}
Ulliott: {j-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}

Ulliott was ahead with a set of jacks, but Mercier had both straight and flush draws and Jetten's aces weren't looking too good. The turn came {q-Clubs} to give Mercier the straight, leaving Devilfish looking to pair the board; however, the river was the {4-Clubs} and both Jetten and Devilfish hit the rail. Of course the ever-vocal Devilfish didn’t leave before calling Mercier "the luckiest f***ing mother f***cker alive"
Early Eliminations

Place   Player   Prize
15   Shawn Bennani   $23,519
14   Peter Jetten   $23,519
13   David “Devilfish” Ulliott   $23,519
12   Daniel Fuhs   $30,024
11   Chris Moorman   $30,024
10   Jared Bleznick   $39,413
9   Robert Fellner   $53,210
8   David Callaghan   $39,413
7   Greg Brooks   $53,210

Brooks’ elimination meant the official final table had been reached. It was there that WSOP rookie Michael "Timex" McDonald got his short-stack all in against four-time bracelet winner David Chiu.

Chiu: {A-Clubs}{A-Hearts}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}
McDonald: {Q-Hearts}{10-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}

Unfortunately the board ran out {6-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} and Timex was eliminated in sixth place for $73,965. The next elimination came some time later and in excruciating fashion. It began when Joe Ressler raised to 80,000 from under the gun and the action folded to Steven Merrifield in the small blind. He called as did Mercier in the big blind to see the flop fall {7-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}. Merrifield and Mercier checked to Ressler who bet 150,000, only to see Merrifield check-raise to 425,000. Mercier folded, Ressler snap-shoved and Merrifield insta-called.

Ressler: {K-Hearts}{K-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{2-Hearts}
Merrifield: {A-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}

It was set-over-set as the dealer burned and turned the {4-Clubs}. Ressler was one card away from a double, but much to the shock of his supporters, the {10-Spades} spiked on the river. Merrifield had hit a one outer to send Ressler home in fifth place ($105,967).

The next to go was Chiu, who grew extremely short stacked and couldn’t outflop Mercier. The four-time bracelet winner hit the rail in fourth place, worth $156,628. Three-handed play began with the chips essentially spread equally between the players. Merrifield held a small lead, but short-handed play did not go his way. He was chipped down considerably and eventually eliminated at the hands of Hans Winzeler. That left Mercier (3.49 million) to do heads-up battle against Winzeler (4.125 million).

The heads-up match saw the chip lead change hands a couple of times, lasting almost two hours. In the end, Mercier hit a straight on the river to claim the title, his second in the PLO variation, with his previous victory coming back in the 2009 Event #5 $1,500 PLO after he cleared a field of 809 players to claim the $237,462 first-place prize. That means he has now won two PLO bracelets for a combined $857,037.
Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1   Jason Mercier   $619,575
2   Hans Winzeler   $383,075
3   Steven Merrifield   $239,100
4   David Chiu   $156,628
5   Joe Ressler   $105,967
6   Michael McDonald   $73,965

Congratulations to Jason Mercier on becoming the Event #35 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/Six Handed champion.

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em


52 of 1734 left

Three Brits in the top ten

Top Chip Counts
1    Thomas Miller    1,000,000
2    Randy Dorfman    566,000
3    Alexis Bouchiouane    540,000
4    Nicholas Petrangelo    510,000
5    Franciscus Dekkers    445,000
6    Jerry Wong    415,000
7    Eddy Sabat    385,000
8    Steven Watts    375,000
9    Thomas Middleton    365,000
10    Benjamin Jenkins    355,000


Richard Gryko also still in

1          749,610
2          463,480
3          305,015
4          219,885
5          160,949
6          119,528
7          90,021
8          68,719
9          53,137

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

30 of 240 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Fabrice Soulier    470,000
2    Michael Binger    430,000
3    John Monnette    390,000
4    Erik Sagstrom    390,000
5    Tom Dwan    360,000
6    Andrey Zaichenko    320,000
7    Shawn Buchanan    320,000
8    Fu Wong    320,000
9    Matthew Ashton    305,000
10    Joe Cassidy    270,000


Ram Vaswani still in for the UK

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 in the Books; Jon Spinks On Top


Day 1 of Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em has officially ended after ten long levels of hard-played poker. Play began at 12 p.m. PDT with 2,192 hopefuls looking to claim WSOP glory and the $540,136 first-place prize that goes along with it. However, only 320 players survived to see Day 2, including defending WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel (13,500), Melanie Weisner (55,600), Bernard Lee (19,200), Sam Trickett (45,300) and Justin "Boosted J" Smith (32,300) Our big stacks heading to Day 2 include our current chip leader Jon Spinks (133,600), Gabriel Aleria (122,800) and David Rounick (121,200).

Notables unfortunate to bust early include David Williams, Randy "Nanonoko" Lew, Faraz Jaka, Liv Boeree, Matt Affleck, Dennis Phillips, Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, Men Nguyen, Betrand "Elky" Grospellier and Antonio Esfandiari.


Top Chip Counts
1    Jon Spinks    133,600
2    Gabriel Aleria    122,800
3    David Rounick    92,000
4    Dustin Dorrance-Bowman    82,000
5    Bryan Devonshire    68,800
6    Robert Cheung    62,200
7    Melanie Weisner    55,600
8    Metin Kose    48,000
9    Sam Trickett    45,300
10    Jeff Watterworth    44,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha


150 OF 606 LEFT

Top Chip Counts
1    David Williams    136,700
2    Mitch Schock    121,600
3    Ashkan Razavi    115,800
4    Scott Clements    108,700
5    Adam Junglen    90,000
6    Carter Gill    69,900
7    Quinn Do    48,500
8    James Mitchell    42,000
9    Tom Schneider    40,000
10    Stephen Chidwick    40,000

WORLD SERIES OF POKER STATISTICS AT HALFWAY POINT

 
LAS VEGAS (June 21, 2011) – The 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) Presented by Jack Links Beef Jerky at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino is past the halfway point and here is a look at some of the statistics from the tournament, through Event #29.


The Basics:

 
·         The 2011 WSOP has awarded $52,506,260 through 29 events.

·         The 2011 WSOP has seen 29,421 participants through 29 events.

·         The list of 2011 WSOP bracelet winners can be found HERE.

 
Is Age Just a Number, or does it have a direct correlation to who is winning the most?

 

·         Average Age of Entrants:               36.17

·         Average Age of Cashers:               34.9

·         Average Age of Final Tables:        33.92

·         Average Age of Winners:               28.82

 

Location, location, location!

 

·         # of countries entered:                    74

·         # of countries to cash:                    62

·         # of U.S. states entered:                 50

 

Top 5 STATES TO CASH
 STATE
 # of CASHES
 TOTAL
 
1
 Nevada
 424
 $6,868,162
 
2
 California
 408
 $5,649,640
 
3
 Florida
 178
 $2,824,387
 
4
 Texas
 155
 $2,908,179
 
5
 New York
 148
 $3,913,078
 

 

·         # of Canadian provinces entered:            10

·         For a list of World Rankings, including leading money winners by country, please click HERE.

 

Entrants

 

·         Only 946 of 29,421 entrants have been female – or 3.2%

·         Thus, the men represent 96.8% of all participants to date.

Individual Stats

 

·         Of the 29 WSOP gold bracelets awarded, no one has won more than one.

·         The current leader of the WSOP Player of the Year race is Phil Hellmuth (as of 6/21/2011).

·         The leaderboard for the WSOP Player of the Year can be found HERE.

 



MOST EVENTS ENTERED (by Individual)

 

Name
 # of ENTRIES
 
Tom Dwan
 26
 
Shanon Shorr
 22
 
Justin Smith
 22
 
Michael Mizrachi
 21
 
Sorel Mizzi
 20
 
Steven Kelly
 20
 
Jason Mercier
 20
 
Dan Heimiller
 20
 

 

MOST CASHES (by individual)

 

Name
 # of CASHES
 
Kirill Rabtsov
 5
 
Shaun Deeb
 5
 
14 tied at four
 4
 

 

MOST MONEY WON (by individual)

 

Name
 # of CASHES
 MONEY EARNED
 
Allen Bari
 3
 $883,469
 
Jake Cody
 2
 $856,427
 
Foster Hays
 1
 $735,400
 
Oleksii Kovalchuk
 3
 $696,633
 
Sean Getzwiller
 2
 $647,854
 

 

 

 

MOST EVENT ENTERED (female; individual)

 

Name
 # of ENTRIES
 
Maria Ho
 12
 
Erica Schoenberg
 12
 
Vanessa Selbst
 12
 
Jennifer Tilly
 12
 
Liv Boeree
 11
 
Denise Molloy
 11
 

 

MOST CASHES (female; individual)

 

Name
 # of CASHES
 MONEY EARNED
 
Melanie Weisner
 4
 $18,215
 
Jennifer Tilly
 2
 $25,127
 
Cyndy Violette
 2
 $11,798
 
Erica Schoenberg
 2
 $8,579
 
Joanne Monteavaro
 2
 $8,379
 
Svetlana Gromenkova
 2
 $6,152
 

 

 

MOST MONEY WON (Female; individual)

 

Name
 # of CASHES
 MONEY EARNED
 
Maria Ho
 1
 $540,020
 
Stephanie Nguyen
 1
 $131,900
 
Diana Allen
 1
 $63,493
 
Odette Tremblay
 1
 $49,258
 
Kim Frederiksen
 1
 $29,743
 

Should be a corking day tomorrow with Middy, Spinks, Trickett, Jenkins et al all going deep in their events

Please post progress on here if I am not around

Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Lets see the kid finally get there! He is due so much run good live!

Could be the greatest funk & rail ever if he gets there - Saturday night plans are officially on hold!



(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/middyaments.png)

GOGOGOGO Middy and Ben. GL Spinks also.

oh wow - didnt even see Ben with my Middy goggles on!

the ol' one two pls

whats spinks in?

More gold pls!

As well as Jon I think there are a few other Brits going well in the 1500. Think Alexander Martin has chips according to WSoP chip counts.

On final chip counts think some of the Brits have slipped down the 2500 leaderboard a bit.

Alex has 56k according to his facebook.

Posted 3 minutes ago by EricRamsey • Level 21: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante

Kevin Eyster and Thomas Middleton got it all in before the flop, but we walked up too late to see how it happened. However it went, but men were in with fairly marginal hands, Eyster in front with   against Middleton's  .

Middleton ran out better, though, as the board came     . It looks like he was all in for just over 200,000, and he's doubled to 430,000 with that pair of queens. Eyster could afford the payoff, but he's down to 190,000 now, essentially cut in half.



Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-36-no-limit-hold-em/

Ben out but Richard Gryko is still in aswell

did ben grundy or marcel luske go to the wsop?

i wonder what has happened to them

http://twitter.com/#!/milkybarkiid

Middy over a mirrion, JJ>>>>>>>>>>>AA BINK!!!!!!! CMON MIDDY

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-36-no-limit-hold-em/post.190058.htm

gonna crushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


gpgogogogogogooogogoooooooooooooooooo

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-36-no-limit-hold-em/chips.7605.htm

Middy Middy Middy - here ready to rail - bubble just burst in 1500 and Brummie has 80k, ave about 47

PLZ WIN MIDDY

Will be at the Rio at some point today so will drop by for a rail

<3 the 6-bet with Jacks and getting there vs AA. After the PCA, he is owed a few of those!

Sick hopefully I get a rail the day I get there!

GOGOGOGO Middy!!

Matt Ashton 7/8 on the 10k Horse Championship FT. Needs a funk! Durr CL too. Should be epic.

Middy also 3/9 on the final of the $2.5k

6th of 6 in

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em


Already a fantastic acheivement he is guaranteed $119,000

Top Chip Counts
1    Thomas Miller    3,600,000
2    Matthew Berkey    3,025,000
3    Mikhail Lakhitov    2,405,000
4    Eddy Sabat    2,015,000
5    Hassan Babajane    1,300,000
6    Thomas Middleton    1,160,000

blinds 25-50k

1          749,610
2          463,480
3          305,015
4          219,885
5          160,949
6          119,528


"A large group of Brits are cheering for Thomas Middleton and they're doing usual singing asking for waves and declaring their love for Middleton."

Richard Gryko finished 12th for $41,000, Steve Watts 23rd for $21,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

4 of 240 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Andrey Zaichenko    2,500,000
2    Fabrice Soulier    2,200,000
3    Shawn Buchanan    1,360,000
4    Daniel Ospina    445,000


1          609,130
2          376,458
3          247,799
4          180,750
5    Tom Dwan       134,480
6    Matthew Ashton       101,813
7    Michael Binger       78,328
8    Jacobo Fernandez       61,160


UK's Matt Ashton finishes 6th, well done

Ram Vaswani 12th for $43,000

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


74 of 2192 left

Paul Nash is Brummieboy

Top Chip Counts
1    Jamie Armstrong    465,000
2    Sebastian Ruthenberg    400,000
3    Gabriel Alarie    390,000
4    Pim de Goede    370,000
5    Tad Jurgens    370,000
6    Johnny Woolen    308,000
7    Jonathan Spinks    305,000
8    Paul Nash    280,000
9    Per Martin Jacobson    257,000
10    Kwinsee Khoa Tran    255,000


Jack Powell is also still in

$540,000 up top!

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha

36 of 606 left

Top Chip Counts
1    David Lestock    296,000
2    Rodney Brown    290,000
3    Scott Clements    285,000
4    Eugene Du Plessis    265,000
5    Jonas Mackoff    245,000
6    Rami Boukai    236,000
7    Jan Fernandez    236,000
8    Adam Junglen    180,000
9    Kyle Zartman    175,000
10    Tyler Patterson    145,000

three Brits finished high up


50    Joshua Field       5,266
51    Stephen Chidwick    5,266
52    James Mitchell       5,266

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


213 of 732 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Randy Dorfman    225,000
2    Daniel Negreanu    144,000
3    Mclean Karr    130,000
4    Matthew Jarvis    120,000
5    Matt Hawrilenko    98,000
6    Carter Swidler    86,000
7    Dan Martin    85,000
8    Shaun Deeb    75,000
9    Nacho Barbero    68,000
10    Zach Gruneberg    65,000