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Bit of a late one this, the man is a machine in all games....

Stud Bracelet last year, O8 this?

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

standard

glglgl

Unreal.

Good luck, Richard.

4th sighs

funk fail. great result though, wpwpwp

well it said on poker news that he is out but he played a hand 6 mins a go and there was nothing saying that he is out in the feed :s

feed is behind. he's def out

Here we go again

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

1               367,170
2          226,907
3          143,833
4          97,416
5          69,216
6          51,485
7          40,020
8          32,440
9          27,928
10          27,928

GL Chufty

only 11 left Johnny Chan exited 12th

Ashby is just the biz

play just finished, 9 left and Ashby is the overnight chip leader.....


c'mon chufty


FROM POKERNEWS.COM

Ashby Leads a Stacked Final Nine

Posted 1 minute ago by EricRamsey • Level 18: 4,000-8,000, 2,000 ante
Phil Hellmuth - 8 away from #12
Phil Hellmuth - 8 away from #12

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!


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-16-2-7-draw-lowball-championship-no-limit/



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


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-16-2-7-draw-lowball-championship-no-limit/

7 left with chufty in 2nd, just behind.............hellmuth? wtf


glglgl richard, take it down

Anyone but hellmuth please, I don't think I could deal with the chirping..........

Gl...watching now.....if only I knew the game.....

lol....just make the shittest hand u can

3 handed....looks like Phil,juanda n Richard....helmuth huge cl...wow...he just made a call with a king....respect...good call....anyone want a game....I'm on a sng on stars...just me....been here one hour....still just me...$1.50 on stars...let's pretend its for mirrions

nooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr

chufty exits 3rd, phil "i haven't got a fkin clue how to play this game and thought it was holdem" hellmuth....is the villain

anyone got a link to the stream?

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

From twitter earlier,


phil_hellmuth phil_hellmuth
3 left now at dinner break, I have $2.7 million, John Juanda roughly $400k, Richard Ashcroft roughly $700k. Event is LIVE on net + ESPN III

Kevmath Kevin Mathers
If "Richard Ashcroft", according to @phil_hellmuth wins the WSOP NL 2-7, it'll be a bittersweet symphony.

it is rumoured Phil took steroids to boost his game and win a 12th bracelet, but het Phil......"the drugs don't work"