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WSOP 2012 Schedule is announced at 1pm ET today, 6pm UK time

Already it is rumoured that the November Nine is No more....

Tweets over the last few days include

    What's tomorrow? Besides February 1st! It will be the unveiling of the 2012 World Series of Poker schedule! Stay tuned.

    The 43rd Annual WSOP will take place from May 27 to July 16, 2012 at @RioVegas. Full schedule comes at 1 PM ET Wednesday.

    A few hints on WSOP schedule coming tomorrow...you won't find the November Nine returning.

    For the 2012 WSOP, an expected 470 poker tables will be utilized...nearly 100 more than last year!

    Another good change coming to WSOP in 2012...no off day during Main Event

This thread for the schedule and more through 2012

Seen the schedule no 10k o8 :( an ante up/no blinds comp. a 4 max. Mixed hu event. All quite odd

According to 2p2

Mix max is

Full ring day 1, 6m day 2 and hu day 3

Shorter M/E with 3 start days and no day off on completion of day 1

Stud, Stud 8 and 08 championships have been lowered to 5k b/i

I am all for the no day off thing.  It wasn't the fact you could play for 3 days for no money that tilted, it was the fact those 3 days took 7 or 8 days to complete.  There was way too much hanging round waiting to bust my short stack last time I played it.

Does anyone know if the O8 championship is limit or pot limit?

Failing that please post the schedule!

Sunday, May 27, 2012 to Monday, May 28, 2012
Event #1: Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em (500)

Monday, May 28, 2012 to Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Event #2: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to Thursday, May 31, 2012
Event #3: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha (512 player max) (3,000)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to Thursday, May 31, 2012
Event #4: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better (1,500)

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 to Friday, June 01, 2012
Event #5: Pot-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Thursday, May 31, 2012 to Sunday, June 03, 2012
Event #6: No-Limit Hold'em Mixed Max (5,000)

Thursday, May 31, 2012 to Saturday, June 02, 2012
Event #7: Seven Card Stud (1,500)

Friday, June 01, 2012 to Sunday, June 03, 2012
Event #8: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (1,500)

Saturday, June 02, 2012 to Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Event #9A: No-Limit Hold'em Re-entry (1,500)

Sunday, June 03, 2012 to Thursday, June 07, 2012
Event #9B: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Sunday, June 03, 2012 to Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Event #10: Seven Card Stud (5,000)

Monday, June 04, 2012 to Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Event #11: Pot-Limit Omaha (1,500)

Tuesday, June 05, 2012 to Friday, June 08, 2012
Event #12: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em (512 player max) (10,000)

Tuesday, June 05, 2012 to Thursday, June 07, 2012
Event #13: Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Wednesday, June 06, 2012 to Friday, June 08, 2012
Event #14: No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (2,000 player max) (1,500)

dnesday, June 06, 2012 to Friday, June 08, 2012
Event #15: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (5,000)

Thursday, June 07, 2012 to Saturday, June 09, 2012
Event #16: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (1,500)

Friday, June 08, 2012 to Sunday, June 10, 2012
Event #17: Pot-Limit Hold'em (10,000)

Friday, June 08, 2012 to Sunday, June 10, 2012
Event #18: Seven Card Razz (2,500)

Saturday, June 09, 2012 to Monday, June 11, 2012
Event #19: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Saturday, June 09, 2012 to Monday, June 11, 2012
Event #20: Limit Hold'em (5,000)

Sunday, June 10, 2012 to Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Event #21: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Sunday, June 10, 2012 to Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Event #22: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) (2,500)

Monday, June 11, 2012 to Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Event #23: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (3,000)

Monday, June 11, 2012 to Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Event #24: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (5,000)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 to Thursday, June 14, 2012
Event #25: Limit Hold'em Shootout (1,500)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 to Thursday, June 14, 2012
Event #26: Pot-Limit Omaha (3,000)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 to Friday, June 15, 2012
Event #27: H.O.R.S.E. (1,500)

Thursday, June 14, 2012 to Saturday, June 16, 2012
Event #28: No-Limit Hold'em / Four Handed (2,500)

Friday, June 15, 2012 to Sunday, June 17, 2012
Event #29: Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship (1,000)

Friday, June 15, 2012 to Sunday, June 17, 2012
Event #30: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) (1,500)

Saturday, June 16, 2012 to Monday, June 18, 2012
Event #31: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Saturday, June 16, 2012 to Monday, June 18, 2012
Event #32: H.O.R.S.E. (10,000)

Sunday, June 17, 2012 to Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Event #33: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Monday, June 18, 2012 to Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Event #34: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed (5,000)

Monday, June 18, 2012 to Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Event #35: Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) (2,500)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 to Thursday, June 21, 2012
Event #36: No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (2,000 player max) (3,000)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 to Thursday, June 21, 2012
Event #37: Eight Game Mix (2,500)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 to Friday, June 22, 2012
Event #38: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Thursday, June 21, 2012 to Saturday, June 23, 2012
Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha (10,000)

Thursday, June 21, 2012 to Saturday, June 23, 2012
Event #40: Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed (2,500)

Friday, June 22, 2012 to Sunday, June 24, 2012
Event #41: No-Limit Hold'em (3,000)

Friday, June 22, 2012 to Sunday, June 24, 2012
Event #42: Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better (2,500)

Saturday, June 23, 2012 to Monday, June 25, 2012
Event #43: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Sunday, June 24, 2012 to Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Event #44: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Sunday, June 24, 2012 to Thursday, June 28, 2012
Event #45: The Poker Players Championship (50,000)

Monday, June 25, 2012 to Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Event #46: No-Limit Hold'em (2,500)

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 to Thursday, June 28, 2012
Event #47: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (1,500)

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 to Thursday, June 28, 2012
Event #48: Limit Hold'em (3,000)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 to Friday, June 29, 2012
Event #49: Ante Only No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Thursday, June 28, 2012 to Saturday, June 30, 2012
Event #50: No-Limit Hold'em (5,000)

Friday, June 29, 2012 to Sunday, July 01, 2012
Event #51: Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship (1,000)

Friday, June 29, 2012 to Sunday, July 01, 2012
Event #52: 10-Game Mix / Six Handed (2,500)

Saturday, June 30, 2012 to Monday, July 02, 2012
Event #53: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Sunday, July 01, 2012 to Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Event #54: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Sunday, July 01, 2012 to Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Event #55: The Big One for One Drop - No-Limit Hold'em (1,000,000)

Monday, July 02, 2012 to Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Event #56: No-Limit Hold'em (1,500)

Tuesday, July 03, 2012 to Thursday, July 05, 2012
Event #57: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (10,000)

Tuesday, July 03, 2012 to Thursday, July 05, 2012
Event #58: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (3,000)

Wednesday, July 04, 2012 to Saturday, July 07, 2012
Event #59A: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Thursday, July 05, 2012 to Sunday, July 08, 2012
Event #59B: No-Limit Hold'em (1,000)

Thursday, July 05, 2012 to Saturday, July 07, 2012
Event #60: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) (10,000)

Saturday, July 07, 2012 to Monday, July 16, 2012
Event #61A: No-Limit Hold'em Main Event (10,000)

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Friday, June 15, 2012 to Friday, June 15, 2012
Seniors Second Chance No-Limit Hold'em (560)

Saturday, June 30, 2012 to Saturday, June 30, 2012
Doubles No-Limit Hold'em (560)

Friday, July 06, 2012 to Friday, July 06, 2012
Bracelet Bounty No-Limit Hold'em (560)

that's a schedule from 2+2

It might be correct, probably it is, but it might not be

Someone can compare when the official announcement is made...

Yeah sorry should have added it in at the top

Event 9 listed as a re-entry event.  I suppose that was inevitable

It's not been clarified if it's a one entry per day or an enter as many times as you like comp yet though.

Saturday, June 30, 2012 to Saturday, June 30, 2012
Doubles No-Limit Hold'em (560)

I just wet myself. Need more details on this!

Re-entry tournaments are an abomination.

Poker players should boycott them, total ripoff.

Of course they won't, but I certainly won't play it.

why, Keith?

Assume cos pay rake twice

Yeah why do a rebuy when you can get extra juice, not that it makes it any better but apparently all other WSOP tourneys on the Circuit are one per day 1

Its just a way to change a comp from "1 rebuy" etc, where the house cant charge anything for the second bullet. Its ridiculous tbh.

I hate the fact DTD are turning all their comps into re-entry for the above reason. Dont get me wrong, I think its a great idea for the house. I just think its taking the piss.

To be honest, I'd be totally happy with them raking rebuys. A £9+£1 unlimited rebuy where they rake every rebuy sounds fair enough as opposed to a £10+6. where they don't.

Re entries give.more starting chips tho

getting your finger chopped off is better than having your arm chopped off

People just need to think of re-entries as different to rebuys then there's not a problem.

In a rebuy you get a shallow stack. 20 rebuy you usually get 1-2k chips and the last level of rebuys will usually involve a lot of gambling.

In a re-entry you receive a full stack. DTD You get 10k chips- no way is this the same as a rebuy.

Plus those who want a gamble/get outdrawn early have an extra life and the prize pool gets a nice boost. Don't see the issue with it tbh

Schedule out now - http://www.wsop.com/tourney/tourneydetails.asp?groupID=887

exciteaments

So, by my maths $67k for the NLHE events including the Mix Max but excluding heads up - better get a thread up selling 50% at 1.15 :-)

four max four max four max :D :D :D

only free people to beat gorra be easy :D

I'm a 4 max WCOOP final tableist - I must be a shoe in

VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYGAS

Oh, I like the look of event 6.

Shame they were so tardy putting the schedule up and I've already booked my flight to arrive the day after this turnament starts.

D'oh

October 9 doesn't have the same ring to it.

The Official Schedule, as released by WSOP, is as follows.....

May 27 – Event #1: Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em – $500 – 2-Day Event
May 28 – Event #2: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
May 29 – Event #3: Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em / Pot-Limit Omaha (512 player max) – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
May 29 – Event #4: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
May 30 – Event #5: Pot-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
May 31 – Event #6: No-Limit Hold’em Mixed Max – $5,000 – 4-Day Event
May 31 – Event #7: Seven Card Stud – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 1 – Event #8: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 2 – Event #9A: No-Limit Hold’em Re-entry – $1,500 – 5-Day Event
June 3 – Event #9B: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 5-Day Event
June 3 – Event #10: Seven Card Stud – $5,000 – 3-Day Event
June 4 – Event #11: Pot-Limit Omaha – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 5 – Event #12: Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em (512 player max) – $10,000 – 4-Day Event
June 5 – Event #13: Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 6 – Event #14: No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 player max)  – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 6 – Event #15: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better – $5,000- 3-Day Event
June 7 – Event #16: No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 8 – Event #17: Pot-Limit Hold’em – $10,000 – 3-Day Event
June 8 – Event #18: Seven Card Razz – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 9 – Event #19: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 9 – Event #20: Limit Hold’em – $5,000 – 3-Day Event
June 10 – Event #21: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
June 10 – Event #22: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)  – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 11 – Event #23: No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
June 11 – Event #24: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better – $5,000 – 3-Day Event
June 12 – Event #25: Limit Hold’em Shootout – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 12 – Event #26: Pot-Limit Omaha – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
June 13 – Event #27: H.O.R.S.E. – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 14 – Event #28: No-Limit Hold’em / Four Handed – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 15 – Event #29: Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
June 15 – Event #30: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 16 – Event #31: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 16 – Event #32: H.O.R.S.E. – $10,000 – 3-Day Event
June 17 – Event #33: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
June 18 – Event #34: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed – $5,000 – 3-Day Event
June 18 – Event #35: Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No-Limit) – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 19 – Event #36: No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 player max)  – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
June 19 – Event #37: Eight Game Mix – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 20 – Event #38: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 21 – Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha – $10,000 – 3-Day Event
June 21 – Event #40: Limit Hold’em / Six-Handed – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 22 – Event #41: No-Limit Hold’em – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
June 22 – Event #42: Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 23 – Event #43: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 24 – Event #44: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
June 24 – Event #45: The Poker Players Championship  – $50,000 – 5-Day Event
June 25 – Event #46: No-Limit Hold’em – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 26 – Event #47: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 26 – Event #48: Limit Hold’em – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
June 27 – Event #49: Ante Only No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
June 28 – Event #50: No-Limit Hold’em – $5,000 – 3-Day Event
June 29 – Event #51: Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship  – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
June 29 – Event #52: 10-Game Mix / Six Handed – $2,500 – 3-Day Event
June 30 – Doubles No-Limit Hold’em (Non-bracelet event) – $560 – 1-Day Event
June 30 – Event #53: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
July 1 – Event #54: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 3-Day Event
July 1 – Event #55: The Big One for One Drop – No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000,000 – 3-Day Event
July 2 – Event #56: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,500 – 3-Day Event
July 3 – Event #57: No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed – $10,000 – 3-Day Event
July 3 – Event #58: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better – $3,000 – 3-Day Event
July 4 – Event #59A: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 4-Day Event
July 5 – Event #59B: No-Limit Hold’em – $1,000 – 4-Day Event
July 5 – Event #60: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) – $10,000 – 3-Day Event
July 6 – Bracelet Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (Non-bracelet event) – $560 – 1-Day Event
July 7 – Event #61A: No-Limit Hold’em Main Event  – $10,000 – 10-Day Event
July 8 – Event #61B: No-Limit Hold’em Main Event – $10,000 – 10-Day Event
July 9 – Event #61C: No-Limit Hold’em Main Event – $10,000 – 10-Day Event

Some extracts from the official Press Release follow......

43rd Annual World Series of Poker® Schedule Announced

World’s Biggest, Richest, Longest-Running and Most Prestigious Poker Series
To Run May 27 through July 16, 2012 at the Rio® All-Suite Hotel in Las Vegas

Main Event Championship Begins July 7th; Total of 61 Gold Bracelets At Stake

Rio’s Tournament Arena Expands by Nearly 100 Tables!

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 1, 2012) – The 43rd annual World Series of Poker® (WSOP®) Presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky -- a set of poker tournaments open to anyone 21 years of age or older – officially puts cards in the air on Sunday, May 27, 2012.  The first open WSOP gold bracelet event will take place on Memorial Day Monday, May 28 – with a $1500 No-Limit Hold’em tournament to start things off in exciting fashion. 

The annual poker extravaganza, which dates back to 1970, is televised exclusively on ESPN from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.  The tournament series consists of a comprehensive slate of the game’s most popular poker variations running from May 27 through July 16.

A total of 61 coveted WSOP gold bracelets will be up for grabs in 2012 – which is three more than last year.

"This year’s WSOP schedule is very exciting,” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel, who will oversee the event for the seventh consecutive year. “We’re introducing some fantastic new events, while bringing back many successful stalwarts that our players love.  We will expand our footprint this year to include extra tables dedicated to cash games, as well as plenty of satellite and single-day tournament space, so players will have an easy time finding a desirable game without ever having to leave the Rio Convention Center.”   

In terms of layout, 2012 promises to be the biggest yet.  An additional 92 poker tables will be put in play in 2012, with the Brasilia Ballroom providing the additional tables not in use last year.  In all, the WSOP anticipates 470 poker tables in use throughout the summer – up from 378 in play during last year’s record-setting series in the Rio’s Convention Center.

Throughout June, Saturday and Sunday action will remain focused on catering to the so-called “weekend warriors,” with affordable buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournaments for WSOP gold bracelets at $1,500 on Saturdays and $1,000 on Sundays.  The opening weekend (June 2 & 3) features a re-entry $1500 No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event 9A/B), where players can play on Saturday and re-enter on Sunday if they get knocked out the first day.  July 4 and 5 will feature a multi-day start $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #59) and serve as the appetizer prior to the start of every poker player’s favorite entrée – the WSOP Main Event Championship.

Poker history will also be made on July 1 when the World Series of Poker will contest the highest buy-in poker tournament in history – at $1,000,000.  (Details below)

The 43rd annual WSOP concludes with the grandest spectacle in all of gaming – the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship (aka “The Main Event”) (Event #61), which begins play Saturday, July 7 and will reach its final table (nine players) on Monday, July 16, at which time play will be halted. 

Due to the increased table capacity, just three starting days will be necessary for the WSOP Main Event.  Participants will begin their journey to fame and fortune on Saturday, July 7, Sunday, July 8 or Monday, July 9.   Day 2 of the structure will be contested on Tuesday, July 10 for all players who played on Days 1A (Saturday) or 1B (Sunday).  Survivors, who started playing on Day 1C (Monday) and still have chips, will play their Day 2 on Wednesday, July 11. 

All fields will combine for the first time to form Day 3 on Thursday, July 12.  Note that there will be no scheduled off day this year.  In totality, those playing the Day 1A session can reach the final table in, at most, 10 days.  Players choosing to start on Day 1C can reach the final table in just eight days.  The event will play five full levels each day, shaving one more day from last year’s schedule.

These changes provide many benefits to the players.   Most important is the time commitment when determining whether to enter the event.   Shortening the WSOP Main Event by three full days is expected to encourage greater participation.  In addition, the costs associated with playing the event are reduced and there is less downtime between play.  It is important to note that changes to the WSOP Main Event do not include the tournament structure itself.  The world’s best tournament structure remains exactly the same, with 30,000 in starting chips, two hour levels, with Level 1 starting at 50-100 blinds with no ante.  In short, the 2012 WSOP keeps the most popular aspects of the tournament that have worked so well in the past, enhanced by a more convenient schedule.

One more important note relating to the WSOP Main Event: as is now customary, the delayed final table shall return but will be contested one week earlier than in previous years.  With the U.S. Presidential Election slated for the first Tuesday in November, the WSOP Main Event final table will be held in two stages, from nine players playing down to two on Sunday, October 28th, with heads up play on Tuesday, October 30th.  Once again, the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio will host the finale, in front of an anticipated live television audience on ESPN and ESPN2.

The opening weekend (June 2-3) features a $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #9A/9B), which for the first time will allow re-entry.  Players who participate in Saturday’s Flight A will have the ability to buy-in to Sunday’s Flight B if they are eliminated during Saturday’s play.  The event includes two starting flights – one each on Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m.  Players do not have to re-enter.  They can choose either Saturday or Sunday as their starting day and remain in play as long as they have chips.  Day 2 for all surviving players will be Monday, June 4. 

Once again, the entire convention center of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino will be exclusively dedicated to the 2012 World Series of Poker, with poker tables in the 55,000 square-foot Pavilion Ballroom, the 39,000 square-foot Amazon Room and the 20,000 square-foot Brasilia Ballroom.  The number of poker tables expected to be in play during the 2012 WSOP will be the largest amount ever deployed.

Playing Time:  There have been a few tweaks to playing times for the 43rd Annual WSOP.  Almost all WSOP gold bracelet tournaments will begin at 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific time each day, with a maximum of 10 one-hour levels being played for the noon starts if the field size is under 1,500 players.  If the field size reaches 1,500 players or more, 11 levels will be contested on Day 1.  Thus, noon tournaments will end at 12:40 a.m. and include four 20-minute breaks and a 90-minute dinner break after level 6.  For events where an 11th level is necessary, play will extend to 2 a.m., with an extra break of 20 minutes after level 10.  This adjustment of playing time based on field size is intended to help keep tournaments to their three-day schedule and increase the chances of reaching the money by the end of the first day.

The 5 p.m. events will be comprised of a maximum of eight one-hour levels on Day 1.   Day 1 play is expected to conclude at 2 a.m. and feature two 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute break after level 4.

For those advancing past the first day, re-starts for noon bracelet events will now be at 1 p.m.  Events that start at 5 p.m. will restart at 2 p.m., with a maximum of 10 levels being played each day until a champion is crowned.  The Main Event features two-hour levels, with play beginning at 12 p.m. each day and ending at 12:40 a.m. each day.

The Seniors event will begin at 10 a.m. this year.  The Big One for One Drop will begin at 1:11 p.m.

Registration for all bracelet events will remain open through four levels of play – or until all available seats have been sold.   This means players can register as late as 4:40 p.m. for noon tournaments and 9:45 p.m. for the 5 p.m. tournaments. The only exceptions to this are the Main Event, which will remain open for its customary two levels (or four hours of play) and the $50,000 Poker Players Championship which will take registrants until the start of play on Day 2, which is the start of Level 6 of the structure.

Pre-registration for the 2012 WSOP will be available online through http://www.wsop.com/registration beginning February 8, 2012. 

All Caesars Entertainment properties in Las Vegas offer special reduced hotel room rates for entrants of WSOP bracelet events.  Rates start as low as $69 for players staying at the host property, Rio.  On the Las Vegas Strip – the Imperial Palace offers rates as low as $35.  Bally’s, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Paris and Caesars Palace provide WSOP player rates as low as $40-$110 a night.  Click here for the special WSOP player hotel rates.

Among the highlights of the 2012 schedule:

•   61 gold bracelet events over 50 days.

•   Superb Structures & Starting Chips – All gold bracelet events in 2012 will feature triple the buy-in in starting chips and deep structures, providing plenty of play.

•   New Event -- $3,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha – To inject this year’s WSOP with some early excitement, this event (Event #3) combines the two most popular games played today in a Heads Up format (512 player cap) and should be a thrilling rollercoaster ride for the game’s young guns.  Players will alternate between games each 20-minute level.  Debuts Tuesday, May 29 at 12 p.m.

•   New Event -- $5,000 Mix-Max No-Limit Hold’em – Playing in this event will require players to have the skills to play 9-handed (on Day 1), 6-handed (on Day 2) and in a heads-up format, if they can make it to the final 32 players in the event.  Players will carry their chips throughout and be re-seeded when 32 players remain, with the highest chip total facing the lowest, etc.  The event (Event #6) is structured as a four-day event and begins on Thursday, May 31 at 12 p.m.  This event was played at WSOP Europe with Michael Mizrachi winning.

•   New Event -- $2,500 Four-Handed No-Limit Hold’em – It’s not Heads Up poker, nor is it six-handed; it’s a new variation, four-handed No-Limit Hold’em, where each table will start with a maximum of four players.   For those action junkies who excel at short-handed No-Limit Hold’em, this is a game created for you.  It is Event #28 on the schedule, debuting Thursday, June 14 at 12 p.m.

•   New Event -- $1,500 Ante Only No-Limit Hold’em – In a twist on traditional No-Limit Hold’em poker, this event will be played without the small and big blind bets.  All players at the table will ante to begin every hand, with the person to the left of the button starting the action  with a choice of  folding or bringing in the minimum chip amount in play.  The event will create a lot of action and multiple-player pots.  It’s Event #49 starting on Wednesday, June 27 at 12 p.m.

•   New Event -- $1,000,000 buy-in, Big One For ONE DROP – Never before has a player had to pony up $1,000,000 just to enter a poker tournament.  Typically this is what players are accustomed to winning, but for the first time, the WSOP will put on a $1,000,000 buy-in bracelet event.  The event (Event #55) will begin at 1:11 p.m. on Sunday, July 1 and play out as a three-day event and likely award the largest first place prize in poker history.  The event will be televised by ESPN. 11.1% of the buy-in will support www.onedrop.org.

•   New Exhibition Event -- $560 Doubles No-Limit Hold’em – Find a partner and take a seat!  In this special one-day, non-bracelet event, players pair up and work together to win.  Players will alternate playing each level, using one stack to guide their team to victory.  Scheduled on Saturday, June 30 at 10 a.m.

•   New Exhibition Event -- $560 Bracelet Bounty No-Limit Hold’em – To reward the fraternity of players with a bracelet, all are welcome to enter this one-day non-bracelet event that will feature bounties placed on any WSOP bracelet winners in the field.  It will occur on Friday, July 6 at 12 p.m.  Who will knock out the most bracelet winners and will a bracelet winner be able to outlast this field gunning for them?

•   $50K Poker Players Championship – The Chip Reese Memorial Trophy is up for grabs at the $50,000 buy-in eight-game mixed event, also dubbed the “Poker Players Championship.”  This eight-game format will serve as the true test of the game’s greatest all-around player.  Event #45 starts on Sunday, June 24 at 5 p.m.  Registration will remain open until the start of Day 2, which is just prior to the start of Level 6 of the event.

•   The Seniors-Only No-Limit Hold’em Championship – On Friday, June 15 at 10:00 a.m., Event #29 featuring a $1,000 buy-in for all poker enthusiasts 50 years of age or older.  In 2011, this event set a record when 3,752 players entered – the most ever on one day -- and the winner walked away with $557,435 for his $1,000 investment. 

•   The Ladies Only No-Limit Hold’em Championship – On Friday, June 29 at 12 p.m., featuring a $1,000 buy-in for the Ladies world championship (Event #51).

•   Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments – The Rio will host three different daily No-Limit Hold’em tournaments from May 27 to July 16.  At 2 p.m. daily, $235 buy-in events begin.  At 6 p.m., players can play the daily $185 buy-in tournament and at 10 p.m., a daily $135 tournament will be offered. These are one-day structured tournaments, and not bracelet events.  These events will take place in the Pavilion Ballroom.

•   Satellites Every Day! -- A complete array of satellites, from single-table to mega, will be offered from May 27 - July 9.  Mega satellites with buy-ins at $330 for the daily 4 p.m. and $550 buy-in for the daily 8 p.m. start.

Under a month to go to event 1

bumping thread


News on each event, daily plus WSOP press releases on here to keep everyone in touch


What is the over/under on British bracelets this year?


2010 5 Praz Bansi, James Dempsey, Richard Ashby, Mike Ellis and Steve Jellinek

2011  3   Jake Cody, Matt Perrins, Darren Woods

I'd say 3 again. Reckon we will see a few German bracelets this year too.

I'll take over 3 for £50 ?

Not sure I want to anti-rail them tbh.

Online railbirds wanting to follow the action at this year's World Series of Poker will be able to do so after organisers announced that it will be streaming 60 final tables from this year's event.

Two streams are set to be made available with the primary one featuring six cameras with commentary and analysis. American David Tuchman, a familiar face to poker (and NFL) fans in the UK will be the primary commentator with a series of yet to be announced analysts set to join him.

“It doesn't get bigger or better than the World Series of Poker,” said Tuchman. “I am excited and humbled to be working with the WSOP to bring the live stream to a hungry and growing audience.”

When two or more final tables are taking place on the same day, WSOP.com will employ a two-camera, fly-on-the-wall web stream for the additional coverage, in the same manner used at the 2011 WSOP. These streams will feature audio from the tournament director’s microphone. Most non-flop games will be featured in these webcasts.

The streams will be shown on a five minute delay, and as per gaming regulations, hole cards will not be shown.

WSOP has announced major changes in its rules following a hour-long conference call on Tuesday May 8th. The hour long conference call mainly dealt on the expectations of the 2012 WSOP events including the scheduled addition of the WSOP APAC event scheduled to take place in Australia. After the call, the following changes were announced:

Change on the No talking about your hand rule

The “no talking about your hand rule” was one of the most contentious rules of the year 2011. The rule inspired by Jamie Gold has been scrapped completely in the coming season. Players will now be allowed to say anything they feel like concerning their hand provided that it falls under the following criterion:

• The talking player is not capable of reopening the action

• The player is prohibited from exposing his or her hand to other players

The main reason for revoking this rule is to bring back the verbal strategy of the game in addition to lightening up the atmosphere


Rule on excessive celebration

WSOP also agreed to ease on the rule concerning excessive celebration. In the coming season players will be allowed to express their victories within an “acceptable” reason. What type of vocal celebration and what form of excessive celebration will earn a player a penalty is the discretion of WSOP staff overseeing the events.


DN a prominent critic of the old rules gave his views

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L6xLnqs9R0

A more controversial rule changes was detailed by Rich Ryan in his article

"I fully support these new changes, but there is a third major change that is going to anger a lot of players. Rule 88, which basically states that verbal declarations are binding — now states this at the end:

    ”Participants at all bracelet event final and feature tables are required to verbalize each action in the form of “Check”, “Bet” or specific amount, “Call”, “Raise”, or “All-in.” Violators will receive a penalty in accordance with Rules 39, 102, and 103.”

Effel explained on ESPN’s The Poker Edge podcast that the best players will adapt to this rule, but even if they do, they wont do so willingly or happily. I understand that there is a need to make poker more entertaining, but this rule directly affects the action. Showing the hole cards on a 15-minute delay does not affect hands while they are in progress, rather it affects the long-term meta-game. Forcing a player to verbalize their actions, when they otherwise wouldn’t do so, changes the way they approach the game on the most basic level."


 http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/05/five-thoughts-deeb-scoops-up-multiple-watches-8442.htm

Exciting news, tikay will be colour commentating on various of the bracelet final tables for the WSOP alongside David Tuchman

"We will live-stream all bracelet events this year on WSOP.com.  The best link for that is: www.wsop.com/2012/live-video/"

During the 2012 World Series of Poker, WSOP.com, the official website of the World Series of Poker will be the exclusive home to live video of all 60 of the final tables of the official WSOP gold bracelet events.


Up to three final tables a day could be streamed, but in most instances, two different final tables will stream, with scheduled start times of 1:00 pm PT and 2:00 pm PT.


All live streaming will begin when the official final table gets underway, thus hard start times are difficult to predict but announcements will be made via the WSOP’s official Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/WSOP.

 
Two distinct streams will be available.

 The primary stream will feature six different cameras along with announcer/analyst commentary.  These webcasts will feature flop games in most instances and be streamed from the main WSOP stage inside the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio.

 Renowned play-by-play anchor David Tuchman will serve as the WSOP’s official announcer for the primary webcasts and will be joined by a rotating group of player analysts.  Jay “WhoJedi” Newnum will serve as the WSOP’s Video Coordinator overseeing the streaming project, and any players interested in being part of the coverage are encouraged to contact Jay via Twitter @WhoJedi.

 
We anticipate the primary stream to feature 34 WSOP gold bracelet events over 45 days of coverage, beginning with Event #1 on Monday, May 28 and continuing through Sunday, July 8.

 All the primary streams will emanate from the Amazon Ballroom’s Main Stage.

“It doesn't get bigger or better than the World Series of Poker,” said Tuchman.  “I am excited and humbled to be working with the WSOP to bring the live stream to a hungry and growing audience.”

 
When two or more final tables are taking place on the same day, WSOP.com will employ a simple two-camera, fly-on-the-wall web stream for the additional coverage, in the same manner used at the 2011 WSOP and throughout the WSOP Circuit this season.  These streams will feature audio from the tournament director’s microphone.  Most non-flop games will be featured in these webcasts.

 The Pavilion Ballroom Stage will serve as the secondary final table location, with a set-up in front of the Media Press Box in the Amazon Purple section housing the third final table location, during the two days this WSOP where three final tables are scheduled on the same day.
 
All WSOP.com live final table web streams will be on a 5-minute delay without hole cards, to conform to gaming regulations.

 
Veetle.com returns in 2012 as the WSOP’s official streaming provider.  Veetle is dedicated to changing how people connect and communicate using live video.  As an added enhancement to this year’s coverage, WSOP.com will archive the final table streams to allow the ability to replay an event.

We invite live attendees and players to download the Veetle app (mobile.veetle.com) and share your WSOP moment.

 
WSOP.com’s live streaming schedule (subject to change) is as follows:
 

DATE
   

TIME (PT)
   

EVENT
   

LOCATION

Monday, May 28
   

1 pm
   

#1: Casino Employees No
   

Amazon Main Stage

Wednesday, May 30
   

1 pm
   

#2: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, May 31
   

1 pm
   

#3: Heads Up No-Limit/PLO
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, May 31
   

2 pm
   

#4: 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split
   

Pavilion Stage

Friday, June 1
   

1 pm
   

#5 Pot-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Saturday, June 2
   

2 pm
   

#7: Seven Card Stud
   

Pavilion Stage

Sunday, June 3
   

1 pm
   

#6: Mixed-Max No-Limit HU
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 3
   

2 pm
   

#8: Omaha Hi-Lo Split-8
   

Pavilion Stage

Tuesday, June 5
   

2 pm
   

#10: Seven Card Stud
   

Pavilion Stage

Wednesday, June 6
   

1 pm
   

#11: Pot-Limit Omaha
   

Pavilion Stage

Wednesday, June 6
   

1 pm
   

#9: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, June 7
   

2 pm
   

#13: Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Friday, June 8
   

1 pm
   

#12: Heads Up NL Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Friday, June 8
   

1 pm
   

#14: No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
   

Pavilion Stage

Friday, June 8
   

2 pm
   

#15: 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split
   

Amazon Purple

Saturday, June 9
   

1 pm
   

#16: NL Hold’em 6-Handed
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 10
   

1 pm
   

#17: Pot-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 10
   

2 pm
   

#18: Seven Card Razz
   

Pavilion Stage

Monday, June 11
   

1 pm
   

#19: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Monday, June 11
   

2 pm
   

#20: Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Tuesday, June 12
   

1 pm
   

#21: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Tuesday, June 12
   

2 pm
   

#22: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball
   

Pavilion Stage

Wednesday, June 13
   

1 pm
   

#23: NL Hold’em 6-Handed
   

Amazon Main Stage

Wednesday, June 13
   

2 pm
   

#24: Omaha Hi-Lo Split-8
   

Pavilion Stage

Thursday, June 14
   

1 pm
   

#25: Limit Hold’em Shootout
   

Pavilion Stage

Thursday, June 14
   

2 pm
   

#26: Pot-Limit Omaha
   

Amazon Main Stage

Friday, June 15
   

1 pm
   

#27: H.O.R.S.E.
   

Pavilion Stage

Saturday, June 16
   

1 pm
   

#28: 4-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 17
   

11 am
   

#29: Seniors NL Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 17
   

1 pm
   

#30: 2-7 Draw Lowball
   

Pavilion Stage

Monday, June 18
   

1 pm
   

#31: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Monday, June 18
   

2 pm
   

#32: H.O.R.S.E.
   

Pavilion Stage

Tuesday, June 19
   

1 pm
   

#33: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Wednesday, June 20
   

1 pm
   

#34: 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha
   

Amazon Main Stage

Wednesday, June 20
   

2 pm
   

#35: Mixed Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Thursday, June 21
   

1 pm
   

#36: No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, June 21
   

2 pm
   

#37: Eight-Game Mix
   

Pavilion Stage

Friday, June 22
   

1 pm
   

#38: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Saturday, June 23
   

1 pm
   

#39: Pot-Limit Omaha
   

Amazon Main Stage

Saturday, June 23
   

2 pm
   

#40: 6-Handed Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Sunday, June 24
   

1 pm
   

#41: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, June 24
   

2 pm
   

#42: Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo
   

Pavilion Stage

Monday, June 25
   

1 pm
   

#43: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Tuesday, June 26
   

1 pm
   

#44: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Wednesday, June 27
   

1 pm
   

#46: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, June 28
   

1 pm
   

#47: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split
   

Amazon Purple

Thursday, June 28
   

2 pm
   

#45: Poker Player Championship
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, June 28
   

2 pm
   

#48: Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Friday, June 29
   

1 pm
   

#49: Ante Only No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Saturday, June 30
   

1 pm
   

#50: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Sunday, July 1
   

1 pm
   

#51: Ladies No-Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Sunday, July 1
   

2 pm
   

#52: 6-Handed 10-game Mix
   

Amazon Purple

Monday, July 2
   

1 pm
   

#53: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Tuesday, July 3
   

12 noon
   

#55: Big One for One Drop
   

Amazon Main Stage

Tuesday, July 3
   

1 pm
   

#54: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Pavilion Stage

Wednesday, July 4
   

1 pm
   

#56: No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, July 5
   

1 pm
   

#57: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em
   

Amazon Main Stage

Thursday, July 5
   

2 pm
   

#58: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split
   

Pavilion Stage

Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas expected to be packed for

Memorial Day $1500 Event

 

WHAT:                        Play begins at the world’s largest, richest and longest-running poker tournament.

 

The action kicks off Sunday, May 27 at noon for the annual Casino Employees Event – a unique event bringing all Las Vegas employees together under one roof.  On Memorial Day Monday, huge crowds of poker players will descend on Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for a $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament that serves as the first official open WSOP gold bracelet event.

 

The World Series of Poker is the gaming industry’s premier event, each year drawing tens of thousands of poker enthusiasts from around the globe to Las Vegas to compete for millions in prize money and the game’s most coveted trophy – a World Series of Poker Champion’s Bracelet.

 

WHERE:                    Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino Convention Center

 

WHEN:                       The $500 Casino Employees event begins Sunday, May 27 at noon   

                                    The $1500 No Limit Hold’em event begins Monday, May 28 at noon

                                    The 61-event schedule runs from May 27 - July 16, 2012

Exciting news, tikay will be colour commentating on various of the bracelet final tables for the WSOP alongside David Tuchman

(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Lamb-to-the-slaughter.png)

That aside, 2 days to go to the start of WSOP 2012 - really revved up for it this year.

Good luck them blondes playing it.

Today, the 43rd annual World Series of Poker officially begins.  The first gold bracelet event (of 61) will be the "Casino Employees Championship."  The buy-in is $500.  The game is No-Limit Hold'em.  This tournament is limited to casino employees only.  All players must be employed by the gaming industry.
 
Event #1 begins at noon.  Registration is expected to close at approximately 4:40 pm -- following four levels of play (plus two 20-minute breaks).  This means eligible players may enter up until about 4:40 in the afternoon on Sunday.*

Day One action is expected to be concentrated inside the Pavilion -- which is the largest of the three tournament rooms.  Most opening day events will begin inside the Brasilia Room.  However, last-minute work and preparations are still being done in that room.  So, opening day will take place inside the Pavilion instead.

The Casino Employees Championship is officially listed as a two-day event.  Day One will play from noon until about 12:30 am.  There will be a one-hour dinner break -- expected to take place from 6:40 to 7:40.
 
Performing the official "Shuffle Up and Deal" honors alongside WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel will be longtime poker dealer Richard Turnbull.  Announcements begin promptly at noon.

Surviving players from Event #1 will bag up at the end of the night and return to play on Monday for Day Two.  That session will begin at 1 pm.

Last year's Casino Employees Championship drew 850 entries.  The 2011 winner was Sean R. Drake, from Folsom, CA.

The Casino Employee's Championship is the most American-centric of all gold bracelet events.  American players dominate the entry ranks, unlike some open events which sometimes draw as much as 30 to 40 percent from outside the United States.
 
There will be no video stream on this day.  The first video stream is expected take place Monday.  All final tables of gold bracelet events will be streamed at WSOP.com on a five-minute delay.  Action can be seen exclusively at WSOP.com.
 
Coverage of Event #1 can be seen at WSOP.com.  Updates will include almost-live chip counts as well as written updates supplied by our friends at PokerNews.com.
 
The official Structure Sheet for Event #1 can be viewed here.

The first of many Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournaments begins at 2 pm.  The entry fee is $235.
 
The next Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournament begins at 6 pm.  The entry fee is $185.
 
The last Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournament begins at 10 pm.  The entry fee is $135.
 
Two Mega-Satellites will be held on Sunday.  The first begins at 4 pm and costs $330 to enter.  The second begins at 8 pm and costs $550 to enter.  These satellites award seats into the WSOP Main Event Championship.
 
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!  The first gold bracelet event open to all players begins on Monday.  Because a large turnout is expected, PLAYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER EARLY in order to avoid possible lines at the Rio on the day of the tournament. 
 
Here's to a great 2012 World Series of Poker!

I always wondered who deals for the dealers event.  A part of me hope it's like a Victorian Boxing day with the pro shuffling up.  That way dealers can now bad mouth Scotty Nguyen.

WSOP

Apart from the Cash there is this

 http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/26/jason-beverly-hills-says-world-series-poker-bracel/

Regards

M

Of academic interest at this stage

Day2 survivors and seat draw for event 1, Casino Employees NLHE

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dF8wNGdHRC1fTTA4LVhkN2ZtenVBQ1E#gid=0


Event 2, $1500 NLHE is where it gets going for most today. Going to be packed with Brits from what I see on facebook and twitter. 3 day event, good luck to all of them

Day 2:  Monday, May 28, 2012
 
"The Daily Shuffle" will be posted exclusively at WSOP.com just prior to the start of the day's events.  Post time will be at about 11 am (Las Vegas time).  Players and fans may look to this page as a daily clearinghouse for important news and information about tournaments and other events happening at the Rio.  When applicable, "The Daily Shuffle" will also provide a brief overview of the highlights from the previous day.
 
 
DREAM ON
 
Given the size and scope of the WSOP, there's always an unwelcome kink or two -- especially during opening day.  On Sunday, about an hour into the first gold bracelet event, loud music unexpectedly blasted out from the speakers inside the tournament room.  Normally, music would be a distraction for tournament players.  However, the title of the musical misstep could not not have been more appropriate for those in pursuit of their first WSOP gold bracelet.  The song?  Aerosmith's mega-classic -- "Dream On."   
 
 
WHAT'S ON DECK -- TODAY'S NEWS
 
Happy Memorial Day!  A special salute goes out to all veterans who have proudly served this nation.  All poker players thank you for your service.  We also all wish to remember those brave men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice.  Please keep them in your thoughts on this day.
 
Prior to the start of today's noon event, veterans will be recognized in a brief service held inside Brasilia.  The national anthem will be played to commemorate the holiday. 
 
Event #2 is a $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament.  Action begins at noon.  Registration is expected to close at approximately 4:40 pm -- following four levels of play (plus two 20-minute breaks).  This means players may enter up until about 4:40 in the afternoon on Monday.*

Event #2 Day One playing action is expected to be concentrated inside the Brasilia Room -- which is one of three large tournament rooms in use at this year's WSOP.  The other tournament rooms are the Pavilion (used primarily for cash games, satellites, and Deep-Stack tournaments) and Amazon (used primarily for 5 pm starts and all re-starts).  Most noon-start events will begin inside Brasilia.  Note that if Brasilia is not large enough to accommodate the entire starting field, tournament play is also assigned to Pavilion -- sections Black and White.

Event #2 is officially listed as a three-day event.  Day One will play from noon until about 2 am.  There will be a 90-minute dinner break -- expected to take place between 6:40 and 8:10.
 
Event #2 surviving players will bag up at the end of 11 playing levels and return to play on Tuesday for Day Two.  That session will begin at 1 pm.

Event #2 coverage (and all gold bracelet events) can be seen at WSOP.com.  Updates include almost-live chip counts as well as written updates supplied from the tournament floor by our friends at PokerNews.com.

The official Structure Sheet for Event #2 can be viewed HERE.
 
Event #2 could sell out, so players are encouraged to register early not only for this tournament, but all of the most popular events, as well.
 
Event #1, the $500 buy-in Casino Employee's Championship continues with the play of Day Two on Monday.  Starting time is 1 pm, inside Amazon.  Dinner break is expected to be about 7:40 pm, and will last one hour.   
 
Tournament Director Jack Effel estimates the duration of Event #1 to be a total of 22 to 23 one-hour levels.  Since 11 levels were already completed during Day One, this means an estimated 12 more levels will be needed to complete the tournament.  That would put the end time at 3 am (technically, Tuesday morning).  If the tournament is not completed by 3 am, play is suspended and resumes the following day.
 
The first WSOP final table video stream is expected to begin sometime tonight.  All final tables of gold bracelet events will be streamed at WSOP.com on a five-minute delay.  Action can be seen exclusively at WSOP.com.  Coverage begins once the final table of nine players is set -- estimated to be sometime on Monday evening.
 
As will be the case on many WSOP mornings, a $75 buy-in Turbo Mega-Satellite begins at 9 am.
 
The first daily Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournaments begins at 2 pm.  The entry fee is $235.
 
The next Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournament begins at 6 pm.  The entry fee is $185.
 
The last Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em tournament begins at 10 pm.  The entry fee is $135.

Two Mega-Satellites will be held on Monday.  The first begins at 4 pm and costs $330 to enter.  The second begins at 8 pm and costs $550 to enter.  These satellites award seats into the WSOP Main Event Championship.
 
Single-table satellites are being held 24/7 inside the Pavilion.  All satellite winners receive $500 buy-in tournament chips.
 
Rio advises that safety deposit boxes are filling up fast.  Players are encouraged to come to the WSOP Main cage soon if they are interested in obtaining a secure box for cash, chips, and valuables.
 
 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT -- YESTERDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
 
Yesterday, the 43rd annual World Series of Poker officially began.  The first gold bracelet event (of 61) was the $500 buy-in "Casino Employees Championship," which in recent years has become the traditional schedule opener.
 
Performing the official "Shuffle Up and Deal" honors alongside WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel was longtime poker dealer Richard Turnbull, from Reno, NV.  He is an 85-year-old veteran of World War II -- when he served proudly in the U.S. Navy.  Turnbull started dealing poker 37 years ago and has since worked at the Fremont, Las Vegas Hilton, MGM, and Sahara.  Effel jokingly introduced the honoree by saying, "Turnbull has dealt more bad beats than Mike Tyson."  The WSOP is pleased to see Turnbull back again dealing the tournament again this year.
 
Event #1, the Casino Employee's Championship began with 732 players.  After the first day, only 46 players remain.  The end-of-day chip leader is Chip Saechao, from Visalia, CA (with 150,600 in chips). 
 
The Event #1 prize pool totals $329,400.  The top 81 finishers will be paid.  First prize receives $70,859.
 
Cash games started booming on Sunday.  There are now 82 poker tables dedicated to cash games inside the Pavilion, plus an additional 14 poker tables dedicated to cash games inside the Rio (Main Casino).  The most popular game spread is $1-3 No-Limit Hold'em.  However, games of virtually all limits will be held in the coming days and weeks ahead.
 

GLGL to all the heroes, gettttttttttttttt.

Last report I saw, in the $1,500 NLH, Flushy & Dubai were both going along nicely, as were John Eames, JP, David Vamplew, & Sam Trickett.

2,101 started, & 400 odd remain in Level 9.

Tighty will post the overnights later.

Come on lads! 

Think I have David Vamplew in my WSOP Fantasy League. ;)

Get there boyssssssssssssssss!!

I've got Flushy in mine GOGOGO!!

Event 2: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

After 11-hours of poker, Event #2 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has managed to whittle itself down to 240 players from a huge field of 2,101. We didn't make the money but boy were we close. The man with more chips than anyone else is Sadan Turker, who bagged and tagged an impressive haul of 158,100 chips. Turker is no stranger to finding his way through huge fields after finishing 2nd in last years $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. That event contained 4,178 entries and he earned $377,411 for that finish, but there is $517,725 up for grabs if he can go one place further this time around.

Hot on the heels of Turker are WSOP bracelet winner Eli Elezra with 155,900, Ryan Snickles with 142,400 and multiple WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Cantu with 130,100. Other superstars of poker returning for Day 2 are the likes of Phil Hellmuth with 44,600, Jason Mercier with 41,900, John Juanda with 60,700 and Vanessa Selbst with 52,300.

Top 10

1    Sadan Turker       158,100
2    Eli Elezra       155,900
3    Ryan Snickles       142,400
4    Brandon Cantu       130,100
5    Mike Lee       109,200
6    Kwinsee Khoa Tran       92,000
7    Deepak Bhatti       88,300
8    Andras Stumpf       83,300
9    Evan McNiff       80,000
10    Todd Keikoan       75,000

JP Kelly 43,000
John Eames 28,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-2-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em

Chiab Saechao is the champion of employee event.

After 21 hours of grueling, crazy poker, we have our first bracelet winner of the 2012 World Series of Poker! A big congratulations goes out to Chiab “Chip” Saechao, who came into today as the chip leader, and rode that momentum to a final table victory in Event #1 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em. He will take home almost $71,000, and of course, the coveted gold bracelet, for his efforts.

732 entrants ponied up the $500 entry fee for the opening event of the series, and 81 of those players walked away with money in their pockets. 46 of those players came back today, including WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart. Stewart played very well but, ultimately bowed out in 19th place.


Place   Player   Prize
1   Chiab Saechao   $70,859
2   Patricia Baker   $43,754
3   James Routos   $28,206
4   Ray Pulford   $20,663
5   Nicolas Vaca-Rondon   $15,359
6   Jay Pinkussohn   $11,571
7   Steven Phan   $8,824
8   Matthew Wilmot   $6,808
9   Georgi Ivanov   $5,309


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-1-casino-employees-no-limit-hold-em/#post-203367

Rich Hare

Made day 2 of the $1500 WSOP. Got 24k going bk to 600/1200 2mo. 240 left, 24 off the monies! Get therrrrre!

Sadan is a Brit!

(http://uk.pokernews.com/w/articles/4fc4/9e48cf3ec.jpg)

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/05/wsop-event-2-no-limit-hold-em-huge-crowd-kicks-off-the-serie-8511.htm

Paul Foltyn

made day 2 of the $1500 with 44k, lost 30bb flip in the last level, flag hunting tomorrow to erase nightmares of last year

far more importantly

Rich Hare‏@Shrewdie1

Made day 2 of the $1500 #WSOP . 240 left with 216 paid. Got 24.4k going into 600/1200/200 2mo. Back at 1 2mo.


or as LeKnave pointed out:

Got word that @Shrewdie1 has day2 woohoo'd the first event. #20offaflag Any danger?

These events start today, shortly in fact


Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to Thursday, May 31, 2012
Event #3: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha (512 player max) (3,000)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to Thursday, May 31, 2012
Event #4: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better (1,500)

319 entered the $3k HU ROE

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12103%5CEntrants-List.pdf

Phil Ivey is back

One year ago, during the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey shocked the world. He announced through his Facebook account that he was going to boycott the 2011 WSOP, and that he had filed a lawsuit against Tiltware.

    I am deeply disappointed and embarrassed that Full Tilt players have not been paid money they are owed. I am equally embarrassed that as a result many players cannot compete in tournaments and have suffered economic harm.

    I am not playing in the World Series of Poker as I do not believe it is fair that I compete when others cannot. I am doing everything I can to seek a solution to the problem as quickly as possible.

The news was jaw dropping to say the least. One of the most popular players in the game (and arguably the best player in the game) wasn’t going to play in the biggest and most important tournament series in the world. Rumors swirled about where Ivey actually was during the summer. A few reliable individuals said that he was in Ireland at some point, attempting to single-handedly broker a deal between Tiltware and potential buyers. If this is true, his attempts were obviously unsuccessful — we’re still waiting for someone to purchase FTP’s assets and finally pay the players.

The WSOP moved on without Ivey, and it took a week or two, but we finally let go of the issue, until the Main Event arrived.

Ivey owns the Main Event. He’s finished 23rd or higher four times in the last decade, including a 10th-place finish in 2003 ($82,700), and a seventh-place in 2009 ($1,404,014). Assuming that Ivey has played the Main Event every year since turning 21 in 1997, his ROI is over 1200%. Despite these mind-blowing numbers however, Ivey did not enter the 2011 Main Event.

When the WSOP concluded, Ivey was still nowhere to be found, until the 2011 PokerStars.net APPT Macau rolled around in November. He entered quietly, and he busted quietly, but his return sparked an argument within the poker community — by playing this event, was Phil Ivey being true to his word?

APPT Macau was not a WSOP-sponsored event, but Ivey was still playing when “others cannot,” and some people took offense to this. It’s nearly impossible to blame him for both FTP and Groupe Bernard Tapie’s mistakes however. GBT had an opportunity to end this mess and resurrect FTP, but their plan was allegedly flawed, and the Department of Justice would not accept it. Ivey is one of the two or three most well-known Team FTP players however, so it’s easy to deflect blame to him rather than some suit we’ve never seen before.

Following APPT Macau, Ivey made appearances at the Aussie Millions, the L.A. Poker Classic, and the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final. It was clear that he would return to the WSOP in 2012, but for how many events? During the 25K Fantasy auction draft on Saturday, PokerNews’ Remko Rinkema asked Daniel Negreanu about Ivey, and how many events he’d be playing. Negreanu didn’t give a direct answer, but he did tell Rinkema that he and Ivey were willing to bet anyone that one of them would win a bracelet in 2012. He also said that they had already booked some big action.

Even still, when Ivey sat down in the Tan section of the Amazon Room yesterday for Event #2, I was more excited than I should’ve been. He’s back. The most feared poker player in the world is back. The eight-time bracelet winner (watch your heels, Phil Hellmuth) is back. The man who’s number three on the all-time money list is back.

Phil Ivey is back, and he returned to play a measly $1,500 no-limit hold’em tournament. That smells like a large schedule to me


http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/05/five-thoughts-ivey-returns-to-the-world-series-of-poker-12742.htm

Oh noes! Sick joke

Rich hare pure bubbled event 1

Kind of. 219th with 216 paid.

Eames strolled out soon after too, 218th for him.

Fk our lives

prob best to keep the Jason Herbert looking so suave Rich :)up

With around 40 left of over 2,000 starters, the current leader of Event # 2 ($1,500 NLH) hails from Aylesbury, one J P Kelly.

VBOL to him.

LilDave safely through to Day 2 of Event # 3, the Heads Up NLH/Omaha.

Wow so sick. Daves in equal first place going into day 3. Gl him

Event 2 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Helmuth gets a record 86th WSOP Cash

currently 18 left, with JP Kelly 3rd in chips

1    Jacob Bazeley       1,250,000
2    Ryan Schmidt       1,100,000
3    JP Kelly       900,000
4    Joseph Cino       720,000
5    Kenneth Strickland       660,000
6    Neil Willerson       610,000
7    Dan Smith       525,000
8    Abdyl Konjuhi       510,000
9    Andrew Badecker       400,000
10    Richard Park       400,000

Sadan Turker of the UK in with 280,000

$3,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

64 Players Advance to Day 2 in Stacked Field

Annette Obrestad returns as the last woman standing.

Day 1 of Event 3 at the World Series of Poker is in the books after three rounds of play. The first ever Heads-up No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha mix had a $3,000 price tag and 317 players signed up. At the end of play 64 players are advancing to Day 2 and are guaranteed a min-cash of $3,395.

Annette Obrestad (last woman standing), Justin Bonomo, Guillaume Darcourt, David Williams, Eric Froehlich, David Benefield, John Racener, Andy Frankenberger, Jason Koon, Sam Stein, Josh Arieh and David Chiu are a few of the returning notables.

Two of the heads-up matches for Round 3 drew heavy onlookers – Eric Froehlich vs. Shaun Deeb and Guillaume Darcourt vs. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. Froehlich’s win over Deeb happened pretty fast – Deeb called 800 to see a flop of {Q-Diamonds} {J-Hearts} {8-Hearts} and then check-called 1,200. He called 2,500 on the {K-Hearts} turn and then check-called all in. Froehlich tabled {Q-Hearts} {J-Spades} {7-Hearts} {3-Clubs} and Deeb mucked his hand.

The start of the tournament was a star-studded affair with Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Ben Lamb, Carlos Mortensen, Grospellier, Jonathan Duhamel, Eugene Katchalov, Mohsin Charania, Jeffrey Lisandro, Rob and Michael Mizrachi, Jake Cody, Thomas Marchese and Marco Traniello all sat to play. However, none of them made it through to Day 2.

Players will return to Day 2 with 72,000, 24,000 to start with two rebuy lammers behind. Another three rounds are in store, with the day ending at 16 players.

Ben Vinson and David Nicholson are still in for the UK


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-3-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em-pot-limit-omaha/

Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better


622 entries and 248 remain currently

Top Chip Counts
1    Michael Mizrachi       30,000
2    Zimnan Ziyard       23,000
3    David Singer       20,500
4    Jan Fisher       19,500
5    Andrey Zaichenko       19,000
6    Tom Koral       18,500
7    Chris Tryba       17,500
8    Jimmy Fricke       16,500
9    Phil Ivey       16,000
10    Jeff Madsen       15,500


Zimnan

(http://www.onlinepoker.net/poker-news/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/zimnan_ziyard_ept_loutraki_champion2.jpg)


British, went to school with Rupert Elder, won EPT Greece

Event 2: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Congratulations to Brent Hanks, Event #2 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Champion ($517,725)


The poker purists couldn't have dreamed for a better final table for our first top tier WSOP bracelet event of 2012. WSOP bracelet holders Vanessa Selbst, JP Kelly and Andrew Badecker all making sure that our lips remained moist by securing their berths. But after the cards had stopped flying and the chips stopped riffling it was only fitting that Brent Hanks was the man who had to find a security box for his new piece of gold. Hanks has made three previous WSOP final tables, but until today his pan always remained devoid of gold, so our congratulations are with him in his moment of glory.

When the final table started all eyes were on the WSOP gold bracelets owners and it was JP Kelly who had the roughest ride of the three. The infamous British rail was back and they hollered and cheered irrespective of whether JP Kelly won or lost! JP Kelly doubled up Abdyl Konjuhi, cracked the aces of Andrew Badecker, was crippled my Michael Kaufman, quadrupled up and then finally left the building after being eliminated by Brent Hanks in 8th place.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-2-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 3: $3,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

The final 8

Top Chip Counts
1    Jason Koon       576,000
2    Annette Obrestad    576,000
3    Andy Frankenberger 576,000
4    David Benefield    576,000
5    Leif Force               576,000
6    Julian Powell       576,000
7    Simeon Naydenov    576,000
8    Gregg Merkow       576,000

David Nicholson and Ben Vinson cashed for $3395

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-3-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em-pot-limit-omaha/post.203568.htm

Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better

24 left

1    Chris Tryba       231,000
2    Cory Zeidman       210,000
3    Chris Bjorin       145,000
4    Erik Gorman       113,000
5    Mike Sexton       106,000
6    Xuan Liu       103,000
7    Yarron Bendor       100,000
8    David Singer       90,000
9    John Monnette    89,000
10    Owais Ahmed       87,000

Zimnan Ziyard finished 45th for the UK

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-4-seven-card-stud-hi-low-8-or-better/

639 players for

Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Currently on the bubble with 73 left

1    Jonathan Aguiar    103,000
2    Antonio Esfandiari    92,000
3    Justin Gardenhire    71,000
4    Corey Burbick       70,000
5    Anh Van Nguyen    69,000
6    Daniel Negreanu    58,000
7    Alan Sternberg       58,000
8    Jordan Smith       57,000
9    James Mackey       55,000
10    Terrence Chan       50,500

John Eames, Jack Ellwood and Toby Lewis still in the hunt for a cash, at least

Daniel Negreanu ‏@RealKidPoker

End day 1 #wsop5 71 players left in the money I have 94k average stack is 40k. Restart at 1pm tomorrow. #DNegsGrind2012

Toby Lewis ‏@810ofclubs

ITM got 19,600 at 600/1200. Need sleep so bad! #WSOP

Just spat my cornflakes out then saw it said berg :)

So far

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final   
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5 Toby Lewis, Johm Eames, Jack Ellwood: cash

What about Scott O reilly I believe he is still in the PLH 1500?

Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better

London based Swede Chris Bjorin is currently 1 of 3 going for his third bracelet

1    Chris Bjorin       1,150,000
2    Cory Zeidman       1,000,000
3    Brandon Shack-Harris    655,000

$200,000 up top

Michael Mizrachi, Xuan Liu and Todd Brunson all finalled


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-4-seven-card-stud-hi-low-8-or-better/

Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

With 14 left Negraneau is near the top

1    Brant Hale       315,000
2    Daniel Negreanu 300,000
3    Nick Jivkov    294,000
4    Bryan Pellegrino 270,000
5    Jonathan Aguiar 260,000
6    Mike Allis       235,000
7    Steve Brecher    220,000
8    Tommy Vedes    180,000
9    James Mackey    160,000
10    Thom Werthmann 145,000

Jack Elwood and John Eames are still reported in with 130,000 and 100,000 respectively

Both guaranteed $9,075 with $189,000 up top

Scott O'Reilly finished 48th, Toby Lewis finished 59th

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-5-pot-limit-hold-em/

Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max

409 runners and 135 are currently left


Some good British interest in the current top 10 from Duthie and Frankland while MadMarvin continues his recent form

1    Joe Tehan       260,000
2    Marvin Rettenmaier    168,000
3    Gavin Smith       119,000
4    Chris Klodnicki       100,000
5    David Chiu       90,000
6    John Duthie       88,000
7    Mathew Frankland    84,000
8    Victor Ramdin       80,000
9    Kirill Kruglov       76,000
10    Kyle Julius               71,000

Stephen Chidwick and Toby Lewis in the chip counts too

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-6-no-limit-hold-em-mixed-max/

Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

176 of 367 remain

1    Mike Baxter       22,000
2    Fabrice Soulier       19,500
3    Marco Traniello       19,000
4    David Benyamine    17,500
5    Jacobo Fernandez    16,500
6    Men Nguyen       16,000
7    Mario Adinolfi       16,000
8    Andy Bloch       15,500
9    Mike Leah               15,000
10    Max Pescatori       12,750


No Brits reported left in, though that will need double checking on the official overnights. Indeed very few seem to have entered one of the old-skool events.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-7-seven-card-stud/

So far

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6
#7  -

Jack Ellwood ‏@jackellwood85

Doubled up A3cc v KTo. flopped a flush and then improved to a straight flush. 240k now with 16 left #WSOP

John Eames finals Event 5

1    Bryan Pellegrino       760,000
2    Tommy Vedes       325,000
3    Brant Hale       315,000
4    Daniel Negreanu       300,000
5    Nick Jivkov       294,000
6    Jonathan Aguiar       260,000
7    Mike Allis       235,000
8    Keanu Tabali       180,000
9    James Mackey       160,000
10    John Eames       100,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-5-pot-limit-hold-em/


Jack Ellwood out 13th A-Q v J-10 on A-10-10 the J-10 improving to a full house

Event #3 – $3k Heads Up NLHE / PLO – Force is with Leif

The man with probably the best name at this year's WSOP has got himself a bracelet. Leif Force won the final three matches of the $3k Heads Up NLHE / PLO mixed event to clinch his first bracelet.

The American beat Andy Frankenberger in the quarter final and Aussie Julian Powell in the semi before beating Jason Koon in a rapid-fire finale. The biggest names to have made the last eight, Annette Obrestad and David Benefield, both bowed out at the quarter final stage. Force pocketed $207,708 for his efforts.

Event #4 – Zeidman beats Bjorin to Seven Card Stud bracelet

We'll have to wait a little longer to report the first UK bracelet success at this year's WSOP as London-based Swede Chris Bjorin came up just short in the Seven Card Stud Hi Lo 8 or better. The two-time bracelet winner worked his way through a stacked returning field of 23 that included such luminaries as Michael Mizrachi and Mike Sexton but couldn't quite seal the deal against Cory Zeidman. Almost $125k should provide some consolation though.


The final table payouts were as follows:

1 Cory Zeidman $201,559
2 Chris Bjorin $124,838
3 Brandon Shack-Harris $84,415
4 Yarron Bendor $58,518
5 Michael Mizrachi $41,447
6 Xuan Liu $29,985
7 Todd Brunson $22,142
8 Bonnie Rossi $16,684
9 Marsha Waggoner $12,822


Event #5 - $1.5k Pot Limit Hold'em – Can Negreanu make it bracelet number five?

Daniel Negreanu has been one of the nearly men of the WSOP in recent years with a number of strong finishes but no wins. Kid Poker is well placed to make it WSOP bracelet number five though, returning to the final table of the $1.5k Pot Limit Hold'em event sixth in the chip counts with 212,000.

Leading the way is Bryan Pelegrino on 790,000 followed by  Jonathan Aguiar on 552,000. Other notables at the final table include Tommy Vedes on 247,000 and Southport's John Eames who returns to his second WSOP final table in eighth with 181,000.

Breaking News

James Dempsey ‏@FoieGrasAddict

Absolutely hammered and playing the $1500 O8. Retweet this if you love alcohol, O8 or @johneamespoker

I've hit the trifecta.

I may have just seen a post on FB asking Brits at the Rio to attend the final table and wondering if they would be removing their shoes....

Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Congratulations to Nick Jivkov, Winner of Event #5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em ($189,818)!

Event #5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em is in the books after nine hopefuls played down to a winner Friday night. It looked to be a relatively short day 3, that is, until heads up began. After two grueling levels of back-and-forth action, it was Nick Jivkov who would take home the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

Day 1 began with a healthy field of 639 players. We had no shortage of poker pros in attendance, to be sure. Among those who showed up for day 1 included Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Little, Barry Greenstein, Shaun Deeb, Gavin Smith, Antonio Esfandiari, John Juanda, Nam Le and none other than Phil Ivey – who made his return to this year’s WSOP after being absent for all of 2011’s WSOP.

Of those players, only Negreanu, Le, Juanda and Esfandiari would survive into day 2. Esfandiari, who is commonly referred to as “The Magician,” came in as chip leader and looked to make a deep run. Eliminations ran rampant and of the 71 players who started day 2, only 22 remained within the first six levels of play.

All eyes were on Negreanu going into day 3, who would come into the final table 6th in chips. Joining him were notable pros Tommy Vedes, Jonathan Aguiar and day 2 chip leader Bryan Pellegrino.

When the final table began, seven of the nine remaining players had under 20 big blinds, which made early all-ins inevitable. Even chip-leader Bryan Pellegrino, who began the day with 790,000, could be considered relatively short-stacked with 50 big blinds.

Next to go was John Eames, who found himself all-in preflop with {A-Diamonds}{6-Spades} against the {A-Spades}{A-Hearts} of Nick Jivkov. It was a grim situation for Eames, who was nearly a 19-1 underdog going to the flop. No miracle occurred for Eames and he was eliminated in 8th place.

Congratulations to Nick Jivkov, who will take home his first WSOP bracelet and a cool $189,818 for his efforts.
Event #5 Final Table Payouts

Place   Player   Prize

1st   Nick Jivkov           $189,818
2nd   Bryan Pellegrino   $117,199
3rd   Jonathan Aguiar   $76,189
4th   Tommy Vedes   $55,960
5th   Daniel Negreanu   $41,683
6th   Mike Allis           $31,452
7th   Brant Hale           $24,007
8th   John Eames   $18,529
9th   Keanu Tabali   $14,449


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-5-pot-limit-hold-em/

Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max

Day 2 completed

Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max

Day 2 of the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max has come to the end here in the Amazon room with 31 players all gearing up for the chance to compete for a WSOP bracelet tomorrow in a heads-up tournament.

The day started with 112 players playing six-handed and play was scheduled to last until 32 remained. Interestingly enough we lost two players on the last hand of the night, and chip leader Warwick Mirzikinian will receive a bye in the round of 32 as a result. The bracket is seeded by having the largest stack face off against the smallest stack, the second largest stack against the second shortest stack, and so on. Here is how the final 31 will face off.

Round of 32 Heads-Up Matches

1. Warwick Mirzikinian (467,500) vs. 32. bye (only 31 players remain)
16. Michael Ferrell (184,000) vs. 17. Ryan Odonnell (153,500)

8. Sergey Tikhonov (294,000) vs. 25. Matthew Deluca (90,500)
12. Brian Rast (230,500) vs. 21. Toby Lewis (108,500)

4. John Hennigan (362,500) vs. 29. Anthony Gargano (49,000)
13. Adam Geyer (202,500) vs. 20. Markus Gonsalves (118,000)

5. Aubin Cazals (340,000) vs. 28. Eric Froehlich (64,000)
9. Marvin Rettenmaier (266,000) vs. 24. Igor Yaroshevskyy (92,000)

2. Fabrizio Baldassari (461,000) vs. 31. Tom McCormick (19,000)
15. Daniel Buzgon (196,000) vs. 18. Dimitar Danchev (152,000)

7. Joseph Cheong (307,500) vs. 26. Nabih Zaczac (78,000)
11. Randy Haddox (244,500) vs. 22. Konstantin Puchkov (105,500)

3. Aaron Jones (409,000) vs. 30. Victor Ramdin (47,500)
14. Hugo Lemaire (201,000) vs. 19. Robert Tepper (135,500)

6. Ryan Leng (335,000) vs. 27. Joe Tehan (67,000)
10. Nicolas Levi (253,400) vs. 23. Brock Parker (100,000)

With the elimination of 81 players today it was only natural that few familiar faces wouldn't be making day 3. Chad Brown, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Collins, Eli Elezra and Eugene Katchalov all made impressive showings before being eliminated early on in the day.

Joe Tehan again controlled the chip lead for most of the day, but as the night wore on his chip stack started to dwindle before ending the night with 67,000. Former November Niner Joseph Cheong went on a rush late in the evening to end the day with 307,500 and looks to face off against Nabih Zaczac who holds 78,000.

With the exit of Ronald Lee, all remaining players made the money. Once the money bubble was burst players started dropping fairly quickly. Unfortunately, WIll Failla knows the feeling all too well as two back-to-back hands sent him packing..

We return tomorrow at 1:00pm and will play down to the final eight players.

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-6-no-limit-hold-em-mixed-max/

Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

15 of 367 left

Top Chip Counts
1    David Williams       286,000
2    Barry Greenstein    172,000
3    Lee Goldman       156,000
4    Stephen Su       155,000
5    Steve Billirakis       135,000
6    Fabrice Soulier       130,000
7    Huu Vinh               123,000
8    Andy Bloch       106,000
9    Mike Baxter       97,000
10    Caroline Hermesh    94,000


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-7-seven-card-stud/

2012 World Series of Poker

Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

378 of 967 currently remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Matthew Croker       50,000
2    Raymond Davis       42,000
3    Men Nguyen       36,000
4    Amnon Filippi       28,500
5    Dan Shak               28,400
6    Ryan Lenaghan       28,000
7    Daniel Negreanu    27,000
8    Jeff Madsen       26,800
9    David Chiu       24,000
10    Thayer Rasmussen    23,000

James Dempsey and Richard Ashby

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-8-omaha-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

So far

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya: Cash
#7  -
#8 -

Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max

Joseph Cheong in search of bracelet #1

It took an exhausting five-hour heads-up match for the final four to be set, but with the elimination of Marvin Rettenmaier in fifth place, only four players remain in the quest for a WSOP bracelet in Event 6, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max.

Day 3 began with 31 players looking to navigate their respective ways through the bracket. For Warwick Mirzikinian, his path to the the final four was a bit easier than the rest. As the #1 seed to begin the day, Mirzikinian earned a first-round bye and after defeating Ryan O'Donnell and Rettenmaier, his final four ticket was punched. He will face Aubin Cazals, the #5 seed to start the day. Eric Froehlich, Toby Lewis, and Adam Geyer are in his rear-view mirror as he prepares for a date with Mirzikinian.

2010 November Niner Joseph Cheong (the #7 seed) is in search of his first bracelet and after defeating Nabih Zaczac, Brock Parker, and Fabrizio Baldassari, Cheong is in position to capture it. He'll square off against Hugo Lemaire (the #14 seed). The path for Lemaire included wins against Robert Tepper, Aaron Jones, and Randy Haddox.

Here are the matchups with their chip counts for Sunday's Day 4:

Warwick Mirzikinian (1,547,500) vs. Aubin Cazals (1,475,000)

Joseph Cheong (1,567,000) vs. Hugo Lemaire (1,545,000)

There will be plenty of room for them to play as the blinds and antes will be at 2,500/5,000/500


Toby Lewis finished 13th for over $24,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-6-no-limit-hold-em-mixed-max/#post-203921

Congratulations to Andy Bloch, Winner of Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud ($126,363)

Andy Bloch is the bracelet winner of Event 7

He finally did it! Andy Bloch has been playing at the World Series of Poker for more than a quarter of a century, and after reaching nine WSOP final tables and finishing runner-up twice, he is finally the owner of a shiny gold bracelet.

The day began with David Williams in the lead and three players with less than six big bets. Joseph Ranciato, Scott Abrams and Caroline Hermesh exited quickly, while Huu Vinh — who started the day with just two big bets — battled back into contention. Vinh won a very large pot during the first level of play where he got four streets of value off of two players, which allowed him to sit back and climb the money ladder.

Bloch entered heads-up play with nearly a four-to-one chip lead and eventually extended it to ten-to-one. On the final hand, Bloch had buried queens and made queens and tens on fifth street. Greenstein had made an eight-high straight, though, and was in prime position to double up. The {a-Clubs} on sixth and the {k-Spades} on seventh gave Bloch Broadway, however, and he was finally a champion.

After winning, he said to himself, “Now nobody is going to talk about me."

Final Table Payouts
1   Andy Bloch   $126,363
2   Barry Greenstein   $78,038
3   Stephen Su   $50,332
4   David Williams   $36,470
5   Huu Vinh   $26,813
6   Lee Goldman   $20,001
7   Caroline Hermesh   $15,135
8   Scott Abrams   $11,618
9   Joseph Ranciato   $9,046

The next time you’re making a list of great players who have yet to win a bracelet, make sure you omit Mr. Andy Bloch. It took him more than 26 years, but today’s win was better late than never.


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Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
Day 2 completed
Schwecke Leads With 20 Left, Allen Bari Close Behind in Second

The massive $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better tournament saw 220 players return for the second day of play. The goal was to play down to a final table but there are still 20 players remaining as we head into the final day. There are plenty of big names remaining amongst which Allen Bari, Dutch Boyd and Gavin Griffin stand out. Bari and Griffin are chasing their second WSOP gold while Boyd is already looking to add a third one to his collection.

We started off the day over 100 spots from the money, but it didn't take us long to get close. Daniel Negreanu was doing very well from the start while Jason Mercier busted out within half an hour.

1    Tyler Schwecke       452,000
2    Allen Bari       417,000
3    Gavin Griffin       346,000
4    Michael Kleist       290,000
5    Wes Self       269,000
6    John Racener       264,000
7    Brian Lives       262,000
8    Ryan Turner       257,000
9    Ashly Butler       255,000
10    Bryan Jolly       245,000


Scott O'Reilly finished 73rd, his second cash of the series so far, David Nicholson 81st

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Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry
Day 1a completed

Giorgio Medici, the chip leader

After a long day at the felt, the end of the first day one flight of Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry has come to an end!

It all started with a field of 1,696 players spread across three rooms in the Rio. The goal was to play down to 15% of the field and by the end of the night that’s exactly how many remained as 254 players will return for Day 2 action on Monday.

All in all it took just under 10 levels to finish the day and that sets precedent for tomorrow’s Day 1 flight as those who busted today and a new batch of players will take to the felt in just under 12 hours’ time.

One of the players who didn’t last long today was Phil Ivey as he busted during the first level of play. Joining Ivey on the rail in the early stages included Erik Cajelais, Jennifer Leigh, Jason Somerville, Vanessa Selbst, Betrand Grospellier and Martin Staszko.

Some of the other players who started the day, but will have to try their luck during tomorrow’s day one flight include Bryan Devonshire, Vitaly Lunkin, Kathy Leibert, Justin Bonomo and Dan Smith.

Another player who was looking like he would be finishing the day strong was Jason Mercier, but that didn’t end up being the case. Mercier was extremely active throughout the afternoon and managed to be sitting on a well above average stack late into the night. However, it would all be over in just a few hands as Mercier effectively saw his 50,000-chip stack plummet to zero in just a few hands.

Managing to do far better than the above players include Brian Rast, Ari Engel, Terrence Chan and 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel as they will all return on Day 2 with a fighting chance at making a run at a WSOP bracelet. Also surviving the day was PokerNews Hostess, Kristy Arnett.

The biggest stack at the end of the night was Giorgio Medici as he managed to accumulate an impressive 106,500 in chips. Medici has only one previous WSOP cash on his record and will be looking to improve with a big finish here in Event 9.

Top Chip Counts

1    Giorgio Medici       106,500
2    David Miscikowski    105,100
3    Josh Mancuso       81,800
4    Brian Rast       70,000
5    Ari Engel               69,000
6    Jonathan Duhamel    65,700
7    Robert Lipkin       64,000
8    Kevin MacPhee       64,000
9    Terrence Chan       58,000
10    David Benyamine    51,600


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-9-no-limit-hold-em-re-entry/

So far

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9

The new final table rule at the WSOP caused a row at the final table of event 5

This year, players who make a final table are required to verbally announce every single action and bet.  Probably this is to help stream viewers and commentators, a case of the tail wagging the dog


Jon Aguiar, who made the final of Event #5, tweeted the following:

"The WSOP final table rule requiring players to announce every single action and bet is possibly the worst rule in poker history."

The WSOP Tournament Director, Jack Effel, tweeted a reply

"Appreciate your support in helping grow the great game of poker!"

Isaac Haxton  tweeted "He's right, the rule is AWFUL."

 Shawn Daniels tweeted Aguiar:

"Why are you the only one who cries all day every day about everything? Adapt and stop sounding like a complete b**ch."

Shawn's comment was then RE-TWEETED by the official WSOP Twitter account!

This caused a hail of comments against this retweet.

WSOP TD Interview: Controversial rule changes

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBrG0pNGNF4

I think the retweeting was stupid on @WSOP and @WSOPTD part but isn't the player being a bit precious?

wow up to 11 people re enter wsop event twice on same day ?!

Palansky: Handling the same day re-entry controversy

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ1cnL5evTQ

Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max

Day 4 completed

Championship Match Set; Play Resumes Monday at Noon

Day 4 of Event 6, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max, began with four players remaining from the starting field of 409. The plan was for the winner of the two semi-final matches to play in a championship match. How did the semi-final matches play out?

Joseph Cheong defeated Hugo Lemaire in what was a one-sided match from the start. Within 15 minutes of the start, Cheong cracked Lemaire's aces with pocket threes to take a solid chip lead. He never looked back from there and closed out the match in just less than three hours.

It was a different story for Aubin Cazals. His match with Warwick Mirzikinian lasted for nearly nine-and-a-half hours. Mirzikinian had control for much of the match and had Cazals all in and at risk twice, but Cazals would not settle for a third-place finish. He fought back valiantly and earned the victory.

What came next was much debate as to when the championship match would take place. In the end, it was agreed upon by all parties involved that the championship match will convene at 9:00 AM Monday morning. However, following Cheong's elimination in Event 9, the two players agreed to bump the start time to 12:00 PM. Following confirmation from the WSOP staff, it was settled.

1          480,564
2          296,956
3    Warwick Mirzikinian    162,443
4    Hugo Lemaire       162,443
5    Marvin Rettenmaier    68,151
6    Fabrizio Baldassari    68,151
7    Randy Haddox    68,151
8    Adam Geyer       68,151
9    Anthony Gargano    24,390
10    Daniel Buzgon       24,390
11    Matthew DeLuca    24,390
12    Ryan O'Donnell    24,390
13    Toby Lewis       24,390


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Event 8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

is currently heads up between Gavin Griffin and Herbert Tapscott

1          264,400
2          163,625
3    Ashly Butler       102,373
4    Can Kim Hua       74,306
5    Michael "Boonie" Kleist 54,855
6    John Racener       41,121
7    Thayer Rasmussen    31,278
8    Raymond Davis    24,111
9    Bryan Jolly       18,837



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Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry
Day 1b completed
John Juanda Searching For Bracelet Number Six

Players have bagged and tagged for the evening and after nine and a half levels of poker, James Dambrosio has emerged as Day 1b's chip leader with 89,900 in chips. Close on Dambrosio's heels is Jovan Sudar with 85,800.

Several notable players have been able to rise above the stiff competition in this event and earn themselves solid stacks going into Day 2. Among those returning tomorrow are Tony Dunst (38,700), Greg Mueller (37,000), Men Nguyen (31,000), Lars Bonding (29,500), Kathy Liebert (26,800), Mike Matusow (21,500), and Jake Cody (8,200)

With a field this size, it was inevitable that many notable players found themselves felted before play ended. Eric Froelich, Gavin Smith, Steve O'Dwyer, Andy Frankenberger, Dwyte Pilgrim, Mario Ho, Freddy Deeb, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko are just a small sample size of the players to hit the rail today.

Team PokerStars had a fair showing today, with Jason Mercier (50,400) and Liv Boeree (57,700) thriving and moving on to Day 2. That being said, many of the PokerStars pros to enter the event today eventually found themselves walking to the rail. Those to enter and not find the fortunes that Mercier and Boeree found include Vanessa Selbst, Martin Staszko, Shane Schleger, Randy Lew, Vanessa Rousso, George Lind and Andre Akkari.

The 260 remaining players from today's play will combine with the 254 runners from Day 1a for a grand total of 514 returning to Day 2. Giorgio Medici of Day 1a still leads the pack with the top stack of 106,500.

Top Chip Counts
1    James Dambrosio    89,900
2    James Sudar       85,800
3    John Juanda       70,600
4    Jason Mercier       50,400
5    Dominik Nitsche    48,000
6    Liv Boeree       46,500
7    Amnon Filipi       37,500
8    Greg Mueller       37,000
9    Shannon Shorr    35,000
10    Men Nguyen       31,000

Liv Boeree, Jake Cody, Chris Moorman are those listed on the overnights, that I can see

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-9-no-limit-hold-em-re-entry/

Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud

96 of 145 remain after Day 1

Top Chip Counts
1    Bryn Kenney    59,000
2    David Singer    55,400
3    Mike Sigel       54,900
4    Maxwell Troy    54,200
5    Frank Kassela    53,800
6    Paul Volpe    46,900
7    Mike Leah       45,700
8    Matt Kelly       43,600
9    Freddie Ellis    36,000
10    Jeff Lisandro    36,000

Richard Ashby is the only British player I can see that entered, he is out

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So far, unchanged from yesterday, A relatively quiet start compared to last year.

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final   
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9

Congratulations to Aubin Cazals, Winner of Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max ($480,564)

Aubin Cazals traveled from Malta all the way to Las Vegas for the 2012 World Series of Poker, and, thanks to winning Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max, he's not going to leave empty handed.

Cazals finished Day 1 with an average stack of 63,600 chips. On Day 2, he finished fifth in chips with 340,000, making him the No. 5 seed heading into heads-up play. His first opponent was Eric Froehlich, who finished fourth in last year's $25,000 heads-up event. Cazals finished off E-Fro in less than two levels however - Froehlich moved all in with middle pair on a king-high flop, and Cazals held ace-king. The Frenchman held, and was off to the round of 16 to face Toby Lewis.

Cazals began with a slight chip advantage, and never looked back. In the end, on a board of {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades}{q-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}, Cazals moved all in, and Lewis called, putting his tournament life on the line. Cazals tabled {a-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds} for aces and queens, and Lewis mucked his hand.

Adam Geyer was Cazal's third heads-up opponent, and Geyer took an early lead in the match. Cazals battled back however, and then the two played a massive pot in which Cazals had two kings and Geyer had ace-king. Cazals' kings held, crippling Geyer, and he eliminated him a few hands later.

In the semi-finals, Cazals battled Warwick Mirzikinian for over nine hours. Yes, you read that correctly. Over nine hours. The chip lead changed hands several times, until Level 26, where Mirzikinian was all in preflop with {k-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}. Cazals' {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts} held, and his next opponent was 2010 November Niner Joseph Cheong.

The problem is, nobody knew when they were going to play. Initially, they decided to play on Tuesday, but the tournament staff informed them that they must play today. The two then agreed to play at 9 a.m. - which would've been the earliest final table in WSOP history - but Cheong busted from Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry, and they rescheduled to noon.

Today's match looked like it was going to be another marathon - both players were trading blows, and no one jumped out to a substantial lead. Finally, towards the end of Level 24, the fireworks went off. Cheong six-bet shoved for nearly 3 million chips, and Cazals snapped it off, holding two kings. Cheong's fours were crushed, and did not improve.

Congratulations to Mr. Aubin Cazals for winning Event 6


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Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry

43 of 3404 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Rast       1,100,000
2    Aviraham Lovton    950,000
3    Jonathan Duhamel    600,000
4    Domenico Scalamogna 540,000
5    Alan Zelman       500,000
6    Arthur Morris       470,000
7    Ashkan Razavi       440,000
8    Par Hilderbrand    420,000
9    Randy Lanosga    420,000
10    Stephen Reynolds    373,000

Martins Adeniya still in, shortstacked

James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng  all cashed






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Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud

21 of 145 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Mark Dickstein       181,000
2    Freddie Ellis       163,000
3    John Monnette    161,000
4    Jeff Lisandro       160,000
5    Bryn Kenney       160,000
6    Perry Friedman    121,000
7    Eugene Katchalov    120,000
8    Timothy Finne       117,000
9    Yuval Bronshtein    112,000
10    Raymond Dehkharghani    94,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-10-seven-card-stud/

Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

118 of 970 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Chuck Tonne       175,000
2    Sholom Lipszyc    101,000
3    Dustin Dobrilovic    101,000
4    Matt Maggard       96,000
5    Vincent Van Der Fluit 85,000
6    Noah Boeken       62,000
7    Jiaqi Xu       61,000
8    Tristan Wade       56,000
9    Alexander Dovznenko    52,400
10    Jonathan Poche    51,000

JP kelly has cashed

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-11-pot-limit-omaha/

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - JP Kelly: cash

Total : $281,951

Think leknave cashed in #9

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash

Total : $309,951


Grafton 31 of 33 in 9 overnight

JP Short in 11 going back tomorrow

Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry

Today's play saw 33 runners return on their quest for WSOP glory. After a few short levels of play, the final table is officially set! Leading the way is Ryan Olisar who is sitting on a chip stack of 3,715,000.

Even with the large number of entrants in this event, it seemed the the cream still managed to rise to the top. A number of notable names were still alive when play began today. Among those to hit the rail today were Paul Wasicka, Ari Engel, Lee Childs, Scott Seiver, and Daniel Idema.

The final table will commence tomorrow at 1pm local time

Final Table Seating Chart

Seat   Player   Chips

1   Amanda Musumeci   2,040,000
2   Benjamin Reinhart   1,800,000
3   Greg Mueller   820,000
4   Ashkan Razavi   985,000
5   Brian Rast   2,415,000
6   Derrick Huang   760,000
7   Ryan Olisar   3,715,000
8   Duy Ho   1,990,000
9   Dien Le   775,000

Sam Grafton finished 28th, Joe Carr-Hill 34th

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-9-no-limit-hold-em-re-entry/

Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud

The 2012 World Series of Poker Event #10 Seven Card Stud started with 145 players three days ago, and now only one remains. Day 3 began with 16 players, including some of the game’s best, but after ten and a half hours of play it was mixed-games specialist John Monnette who emerged victorious to capture the $190,826 first-place prize and his second WSOP gold bracelet.

Pre-Money Eliminations

Place   Player   Prize
9th   Eugene Katchalov   $18,693
10th   Lee Goldman   $18,693
11th   Cyndy Violette   $22,332
12th   Max Pescatori   $15,906
13th   Roger Smith   $13,834
14th   Yuval Bronshtein   $13,834
15th   Mike Sexton   $12,035
16th   Nick Schulman   $12,035

Final Table Results

Place     Player            Prize
1   John Monnette   $190,826
2   Huu Vinh   $117,913
3   Tim Finne   $73,847
4   Perry Friedman   $53,470
5   Jeff Lisandro   $41,789
6   Mark Dickstein   $33,325
7   Bryn Kenney   $27,062
8   Raymond Dehkharghani   $22,332


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-10-seven-card-stud/

Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

9 of 970 left

1    Charles Tonne       1,300,000
2    Damien Lhommueau 600,000
3    Alex Dovzhenko    460,000
4    Rodney Brown       450,000
5    Tristan Wade       210,000
6    Vincent Van Der Fluit 200,000
7    David Schnettler    200,000
8    Calvin Anderson 180,000
9    Brian Garbe    170,000

Scott O'Reilly finished 63rd, JP Kelly 80th




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Event 12: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

After three exciting rounds of heads-up poker, the first day of the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end. There are 32 players remaining out of the 152-player field, all of whom are in the money. The day started with a short delay as many last-minute registrations were able to get into this event. After the draw was posted, 48 of the 152 players weren't amused as they had to play the first round. The remaining 104 players received a bye securing their seat in the second round.

Among the notable losers in the first round were Matt Marafioti, Sam Trickett, Jason Koon and Vanessa Rousso as Jason Mercier, Chris Moorman, David "Doc" Sands and Matt Perrins moved onto the next round. The real action started as the field got down to 128 and we had a full bracket of players to follow.

Sands, Phil Ivey and Justin Bonomo were among the first players to win their second round match while Andy Frankenberger, Shaun Deeb and Vladimir Shchemelev each busted. Today also marked the World Series of Poker debut of online superstar Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom who proved he could also play live during the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure when he won the $100,000 Super High Roller event banking just over $1.2 million. Blom beat Andy Bloch in the first round, but had to admit defeat in the second when he lost against Tommy Chen. Other notables that lost their second round match were Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Victor Ramdin, Erik Seidel and 2009 Heads-Up Championship winner Leo Wolpert.

With the field down to 64, all players had to win just one more match in order to cash for $10,966. Steven Landfish was the first player to reach the money when he beat Peter Jetten by rivering a straight against a turned set. Scott Baumstein didn't have a lot of trouble with Victor Ilyukhin, who called a big shove from Baumstein preflop with jack-ten. Baumstein watched his ace-deuce hold up and give him a seat in the fourth round. Richard Lyndaker took out the 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela. Lyndaker had flopped a straight when the money went in and Kassela's pair and gutshot couldn't catch up. We also said goodbye to 2010 Heads-Up Champion Ayaz Mahmood and 2011 Champion Jake Cody in the round of 64.

Daniel Negreanu beat Faraz Jaka in the second round and got another top opponent in the third matching up with heads-up specialist Jonathan Jaffe. Negreanu lost a big pot halfway through the match when both players had made a full house and the money went in on the river. He didn't recover and lost his last chips with fives against aces.

Other big names to make it to the round of 32 are Brian Hastings, Brock Parker, Eric Froehlich and Vanessa Selbst. The biggest upset came when Phil Ivey lost against the unknown Chae An. Ivey got it in good with ace-king against ace-seven, but a seven on the flop send him out the door.

We will come back tomorrow with the final 32 players and play down to there are just four players remaining.

Place   Prize
1   371,498
2   229,722
3 - 4   130,606
5 - 8   56,380
9 - 16 20,674

Ryan O'Donnell is the only Brit remaining


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-12-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

315 of 730 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Rep Porter       27,000
2    John Racener       21,000
3    J.C. Tran               20,800
4    Michael Mizrachi    20,500
5    Roland Israel       19,000
6    Men Nguyen       16,800
7    Randy Lew       14,800
8    Eric Buchman       13,500
9    Isaac Haxton       13,500
10    Michael Benvenuti    13,500

Stephen Chidwick and Richard Ashby are still in according to the partial chip counts

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-13-limit-hold-em/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final   
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash

Total : $309,951

Joe Carr Hill, from Brighton, is a teacher

An APAT regular, just a small stakes guy who is over there on holiday

Only last weekend he was in Cardiff playing a £75 APAT jobbie

Finished 34th in the first event off the plane....

Forgive the branding in the pic please, here he is after finishing top 3 in an APAT last year

Meanwhile Scott O'Reilly from Torquay has cashed three times in the first twelve events, not bad going..

Here's his Online Profile http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/mongy/

(http://www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk/spotlight/wsop2006/gallery/wsop-2006-scott-oreilly.jpg)

Ryan O'Donnell meanwhile cashed in #6 and is in the last 32 of the Heads Up Championship

I know very little about him.

Here's a THM database pic

(http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pictures/200/10s4.jpg)


Any ideas, anyone?

Tighty obviously doesn't read my blog :( :(

#Invalid YouTube Link#

guy is an absolute legend

pop a link up then, Patrick. ty

HShusng player, blog here.

http://mocachoca.com/?p=244

(Pleno beat me to it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FF4YawxInqY

Ivey’s 0-fer, and Dwan’s MIA

The return of Phil Ivey has been anticlimactic. Through seven events played, he has as many cashes as Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson combined.

In fact, the only entertaining thing Ivey has done during the first week of the WSOP, is sprint around the halls alongside Jason Mercier. With no Full Tilt Poker, Ivey has no media obligations and has no interest in talking to anybody about anything unless it has something to do with a prop or sports bet. And, if you are making a wager with Ivey, it’s probably going to be for a substantial amount of money, so that whittles the number of people who’ve talked to Ivey to a dozen or so.

At least Ivey is in Las Vegas — Tom “durrrr” Dwan is missing in action. He’s been confirmed in the Big One for One Drop, so he’s going to grace everyone with his presence at some point, but for now it appears as though the cash games in Macau are just too juicy. Maybe Dwan fell off of the face of the Earth — he last tweeted on May 18. Or, perhaps Dwan has been hired as an ambassador to make sure Richard Yong and Paul Phua actually make the trip to Vegas to play in the Big One. The two are currently on the confirmed participants list, as well, but I’m quite certain that if they skipped the flight, it wouldn’t be the first time they lit $50,000 on fire.

What is certain is that one of the game’s biggest stars is absent, and the other is batting .000 through 11 events. That’s not very good. It’s still early, and we anticipate Dwan showing his face at some point, but right now the 2012 WSOP is looking like a huge bust for two of the most popular players in the world


http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/five-thoughts-verbal-drama-breaking-records-bloch-s-bracelet-8554.htm

nearly three weeks ago I wrote that the verbalization rule was a bad idea. Unfortunately, it took the players until the fifth event of the series to say or do anything about it, and a lot of them acted like they had never heard of the rule change until that time. Even Daniel Negreanu:

RealKidPoker Daniel Negreanu "The @wsop retweet was unprofessional and having to verbalize bets at FT is silly and adds nothing. Can't imagine that rule will last a week." June 02 2012

The verbalization rule has since been reduced to a “suggestion,” but we could’ve avoided this whole mess if the players acted before the series started. The well-publicized WSOP conference call took place on May 8, giving the players plenty of time to file formal complaints with Jack Effel and the rest of the WSOP staff. And they should have because the rule made no sense. If enforced, verbalization changes the way some poker players act entirely, and it doesn’t add that much to the broadcast because all of a sudden there’s a third or fourth announcer in the booth.

If you’ve ever watched a broadcasted sporting event, then you know that there’s usually one play-by-play announcer and one color commentator. Poker is no different, so on the WSOP live stream, David Tuchman will guide the viewers through the action and ask his broadcast partner to break down the action. There’s already a tournament director on hand to announce the action for spectators, so if you force the players to verbalize their actions, you’re going to get information repeated twice, once by the TD, and once by Tuchman. That’s not great television. Thankfully, this rule has been tossed out, and, hopefully, the drama that came with it will begin to die down.

The All American Dave issue is different because it has nothing to do with the Effel or any other decision- maker for the WSOP — it’s the vendors at the Rio who are unhappy, and rightfully so. They’re trying to maximize profits while someone who may not have a license, and probably doesn’t have to pass a health inspection, is running around the halls delivering meals to their potential customers. The customers aren’t at fault — they’re just looking for a more healthy option at a more reasonable price.


http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/five-thoughts-verbal-drama-breaking-records-bloch-s-bracelet-8554.htm

Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry

Congratulations to Ashkan Razavi, Winner of Event 9: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-Entry ($781,398)!


Five days ago a uniquely structured event began that allowed tournament runners who busted on the first day a second chance. When all was said and done, the event turned up an astounding 3,404 entrants. After five days of play, Ashkan Razavi was the lone man standing, earning him $781,398 in prize money and a shiny gold World Series of Poker bracelet.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-9-no-limit-hold-em-re-entry/

Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Congratulations to Vincent van der Fluit, Winner of Event 11 ($265,221)

After three days of skilled Pot-Limit Omaha play, Event 11 of the World Series of Poker has came to an end. Some 970 players entered the tournament and only nine returned for the final day. Dutchman Vincent Van Der Fluit has claimed his first gold bracelet and $265,211.

The final table was an international affair and returned players from five different countries. Tristan Wade was the only returning WSOP bracelet winner but he had stiff competition with high stakes player Van Der Fluit. Charles Tonne returned as the chip leader for the second day in the tournament.

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-11-pot-limit-omaha/

Event 12: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

The Final Four is Set

A field of 152 players started in Event 12, the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em. Making Wednesday's Day 2 was what it took to make the money and 32 players did just that. From there, three rounds of matches were played and when all was said and done, only four players survived to have a shot at capturing the World Series of Poker gold bracelet tomorrow.

Among the players that were eliminated in the round of 32 were Scott Baumstein (29th), Tommy Vedes (28th), Kevin Saul (26th), Eric Froehlich (25th), Andrew Lichtenberger (23rd), Mark Radoja (21st), Richard Lyndaker (19th), and Darren Elias (18th). They each earned $10,966.

Those who fell in the sweet 16 and collected $20,674 include Antonio Esfandiari (16th), Jonathan Jaffe (13th), Paul Volpe (12th), and Vanessa Selbst (9th).

Following them out the door with losses in the elite eight worth $56,380 were Michael Drummond (8th), Andrew Robl (7th), Jeffrey Gross (6th), and Chris Moore (5th).

Here are the players who will be returning tomorrow, along with their respective Day 2 paths to the final four:
Player             Round of 32 Opponent   Round of 16 Opponent   Round of 8 Opponent
Tommy Chen      Eric Froehlich   Antonio Esfandiari   Chris Moore
Brian Hastings      Tommy Vedes Amritraj Singh           Jeffrey Gross
Jason Mo              Max Steinberg Eevert Kokkonen   Andrew Robl
Brock Parker      Mark Radoja   Douglas Polk   Michael Drummond

Play resumes Thursday at 1:00pm local time with Tommy Chen vs. Brian Hastings and Jason Mo vs. Brock Parker.

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-12-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

33 of 730 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Chris Swan       242,000
2    Roland Israel       240,000
3    Jed Dickerson       175,000
4    Jared Woodin       150,000
5    David Arsht       143,000
6    Isaac Haxton       140,000
7    Michael Noori       130,500
8    Al Barbieri               118,000
9    Jennifer Harman    103,000
10    Eric Menser       90,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-13-limit-hold-em/

Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

The $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout Sees 120 Players Progress to Day 2

The $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout event is always a popular tournament at the World Series of Poker. The players look at the structure and see that you only have to win three tables to win a bracelet. That is easier said than done, but there is the possibility of spending less hours at the table in winning a bracelet in this event than it takes to get through some day ones of other events.

A total of 1,138 turned up to play today and they were spread across 120 tables spilling into a second room. There is no outright chip leader heading into tomorrow as this was a shootout format. All 120 remaining players will bring back roughly the same stack tomorrow where they will shootout one more time. For a complete of who’s through click on the chip count tab or click here.

Some of the notable players who won their tables to advance included: Phil Ivey, Joe Cada, Blair Hinkle, David “Doc” Sands, Scott Clements, Erik Seidel, Terrence Chan, Gavin Smith, Jeff Madsen, Melanie Weisner and John Eames.

Eames had a table of “grinders” and was one of the last ten tables to finish. He had to overcome the sturdy force of Tony Cousineau in a long heads up battle. The final hand came when Eames pushed with {q-Clubs}{10-Spades} and was called by Cousineau and his {a-Spades}{7-Diamonds}. The board ran out to give Eames a straight and Cousineau was gracious in defeat.

Others who failed to make it through the day included: Liv Boeree, Viktor Blom, Joeseph Cheong, Jonathan Duhamel, Chris Moorman, Jake Cody, Steve O’Dwyer, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Jose “Nacho” Barbero, Daniel Negreanu, and a whole load more we could mention in this class.

The restart for tomorrow is scheduled for 1pm in the Amazon room. The remaining 120 players will be spread over 12 tables of ten players each. Each table will play to a winner and the remaining 12 players will return on Friday. There they will play on two tables of six until the remaining ten play on one table down to a winner.

John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson won their tables and have cashed for at least $5,295


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-14-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

168 of 212 remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Bryan Devonshire    40,000
2    Abe Mosseri       38,000
3    Nicholas Verkaik    36,000
4    Bryn Kenney       35,000
5    Yarron Bendor       34,500
6    Marco Johnson    32,000
7    Jesse Martin       30,000
8    Ben Yu               29,600
9    Christopher George    29,500
10    Michel Limongi       29,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-15-seven-card-stud-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash

Total : $346,900

Event 14 shootout. British table winners I didn't spot earlier


Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods


Padraig Parkinson for Ireland too



Nick Gibson quipped on twitter

Nick Gibson ‏@gwibbo

BBBB BOOM! That must be the first sit n go I've won for 7 years. One for the old guard!!!!

Event 12: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

Congratulations to Brian Hastings, Winner of Event 12: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em ($371,498)!

We began Event 12, the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em, with 152 players. After 151 matches, only one emerged with an undefeated record. 24-year-old Brian Hastings outlasted the field, capturing his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet and a $371,498 pay day. Known for his high-stake online cash-game wizardry, Hastings has certainly made his mark in the live poker scene with his triumph.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-12-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

4 of 730 left

1    David Arsht    1,500,000
2    Donald Auger    820,000
3    Stephen Hung    500,000
4    Al Barbieri       460,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-13-limit-hold-em/

Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Birthday Boy Madsen Joins 11 Other for Day 3 of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

The remaining 120 players came back today to try and repeat what they did yesterday; win a sit 'n' go to advance to the next day. They were spread over 12 tables and it took until 12:10 PM for all tables to complete. They will advance to the final day tomorrow where they will play down to a winner.

The final 12 will line up on two tables of six until two players are eliminated. From there they will redraw and face-off against each other, and shootout until one player is left standing. Here's how they will line up tomorrow:

Table   Seat   Player   Chips
441   1   Justin Schwartz   423,000
441   2   Dylan Horton   422,000
441   3   Jeff Madsen   431,000
441   4   Brandon Schaefer 432,000
441   5   Jarred Solomon 426,500
441   6   Michael Corson   432,000
            
445   1   Zachary Korik   418,000
445   2   Layne Flack   431,000
445   3   David Chase   417,000
445   4   Jon Cohen   431,000
445   5   Brandon Steven 427,000
445   6   Adam Kagin   423,000

Jeff Madsen turned 27-years old today and it looked as if his birthday present was lost in the post as he lined up at the "Table of Death" along with, and out of position to Lauren Kling, Tom Schneider, David "Doc" Sands, Randal Flowers, Joe Cada, and Ben Jenkins. He ran well and said he played some of the best poker he's ever played to give himself the ideal birthday present.

Madsen's key moment came when he knocked out the very dangerous Sands. Sands had just taken a bad beat to get somewhat short and shoved with {q-}{j-}. Madsen looked down and saw pocket pocket aces, called, and took care of Sands.

Other players with high hopes who fell away included: Phil Ivey Erik Seidel, Terrance Chan, Gavin Smith, John Eames, Scott Clements, Davidi Kitai, Melanie Weisner, and Jason Koon.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-14-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

On the bubble with 25 of 212 left

Phil Ivey leads a big name line up remaining in this

1    Phil Ivey       285,000
2    Tuan Vo       212,000
3    John Monnette 201,000
4    Adam Friedman 186,000
5    Nicholas Verkaik 170,000
6    Phil Hellmuth    170,000
7    Sven Arntzen    165,000
8    Brian Twete    153,000
9    Andy Bloch    135,000
10    Todd Brunson    135,000

Monnette and Bloch going for their second bracelets of the series

Zimnan Ziyard, Rupert's mate who won EPT Loutraki, is still in near the bottom of the chip counts


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-15-seven-card-stud-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

Attracted 1604 runners!

180 remain led by

Top Chip Counts
1    Mark Radoja       120,000
2    Nick Maimone       105,100
3    Joe Cappuccio       105,000
4    Andy Seth       102,000
5    Thiago Nishijima    83,000
6    Larry Berg       78,500
7    Lars Bonding       75,000
8    James Akenhead    75,000
9    Tristan Wade       65,000
10    Dmitry Savelyev    63,000

Behind Akenhead, Sam Grafton, Matt Perrins, Sam Razavi and Martins Adeniya are still alive according to the chip counts  


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Plus hellmuth going for number 12. Gogogogo!

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final 
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins: cash

Those in #15 and #16 still in.

Total : $366,700

Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 1 completed


After 11 long levels of play, Day 1 of Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed is history. The massive field kept climbing throughout the first four levels and eventually landed on a total of 1,604 entrants, which generated a handsome $2,165,400 prize pool. Nick Maimone would end the day as chip leader with 175,900. World Series of Poker bracelet-winner Mark Radoja is nipping at his heels, however, with 172,500.

The entrants fell just as fast as they rose – with over a third of the field eliminated by the end of the beginning of the fifth level. In fact, eliminations came so swiftly that we were even able to burst the money bubble on the final level of the day. Only 137 survived to see Day 2 – a mere 8.5% of the original field.

This event was popular with the pros, to be sure. Some who made an appearance, but were unable to survive into Day 2, include Daniel Negreanu, Shannon Shorr, Shaun Deeb, Dwyte Pilgrim, Faraz Jaka, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Vanessa Selbst, Jerry Yang and Phil Ivey.

Another notable elimination was that of online cash-game sensation Viktor Blom, who earned his first WSOP cash for finishing in 151st place ($2,706).

Even so, plenty of big names were able to bag up chips for the night, including Mike “The Mouth” Matusow (15,700), Todd Terry (84,600), Tristan Wade (84,200), Tony Dunst (21,000), Adam Junglen (43,500), Sam Grafton (99,400), Matt Matros (118,700) and Frank Kasella (75,000).

Here are our chip leaders going into Day 2:
Rank   Player   Chip Count   
1   Nick Maimone   175,900   
2   Mark Radoja   172,500   
3   Thijmen Stocker   156,000   
4   Joe Cappuccio   152,000   
5   Matt Matros   118,700   
6   Matty Levine   105,000   
7   Sam Grafton   99,400   
8   Mark Burford   91,200   
9   Andy Seth   86,00   
10   Todd Terry   84,600

When the full list comes up will seem if any more Brits made it through to join Grafton

Sam Razavi finished 150th   
James Akenhead finished 141st


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

On Thursday, the World Series of Poker announced 12 more entrants for the Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament taking place at the Rio  from July 1 through 3.

Thirty players had confirmed their participation when the WSOP released its updated list in April. The latest additions brings the total to 42, just six shy of the 48-player cap.

Among the latest to throw their hats in the ring are poker pros Jason Mercier, Eugene Katchlov, David "Viffer" Peat, Vivek Rakjumar, Andrew Robl, Nick Schulman, Sam Trickett and Noah Schwartz, as well as Winmark Corporation CEO John Morgan.

Here is a look at the players who have committed to the event thus far:

    Guy Laliberté
    Bobby Baldwin
    Phil Ruffin
    Andy Beal
    Patrik Antonius
    Gus Hansen
    Daniel Negreanu
    Johnny Chan
    Tom Dwan
    Tony Guoga
    Jonathan Duhamel
    Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
    Giovanni Guarascio (Montreal private citizen group)
    Arnaud Mimran
    Cary Katz
    Paul Phua
    Paul Newey
    Richard Yong
    Bob Bright
    Justin Smith
    Erik Seidel
    Dan Shak
    Carlos Nahas (Loto-Québec/Casino Montreal satellite)
    Anonymous (U.S. Venture Capitalist)
    Anonymous (European Hedge Fund Manager)
    Anonymous (U.S. Hedge Fund Manager)
    Frédéric Banjout (French businessman)
    Caesars Entertainment seat
    Caesars Entertainment via June 30 $25,300 satellite at Rio
    MGM Mirage Satellite seat
    Anonymous (U.S. Hedge Fund Manager)
    John Morgan (CEO, Winmark Corporation)
    Eugene Katchalov
    Jens Kyllönen
    Jason Mercier
    David "Viffer" Peat
    Vivek Rakjumar
    Andrew Robl
    Nick Schulman
    Noah Schwartz
    Roger Teska
    Sam Trickett



 http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/42-players-confirmed-for-world-series-of-poker-big-one-for-o-8568.htm

Fk me, Sam Trickett has gone a long way from the old gala days  :D

No Hellmuth?

That would be a real surprise.

Quite something in these times that they have to put a cap on the field for a $1M buy-in event.

lol - when I saw a Yong was entered I thought it was Rob!

Congratulations to Brandon Schaefer on Winning Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout.

Twelve players came back today with the relative same size chip stacks. Thirty minutes into the day Zachary Korick and Jarred Solomon were eliminated and all players were transferred from the Amazon room over to the feature table in the Pavilion room.

Layne Flack came out pretty strong once the final table commenced, and once he eliminated Dylan Horton in 10th place he secured a massive chip lead on the others at the table. The elimination of Dylan Horton brought us to our official nine handed final table. Flack started the final table by dictating a lot of the action, but he didn’t always come out on top. In fact he is a big reason Brandon Schaefer got to heads up play. Flack slowly got shorter and shorter, and eventually he was forced to go all in and things didn’t go in his way and the six time bracelet winner was eliminated in fourth place.

Layne Flack wasn’t the only bracelet holder to make an early exit on us today. Jeff Madsen also came to play. However Madsen never seemed to really pick up any steam though and was knocked out in 7th place.

Once Adam Kagin was eliminated in third we found ourselves in a highly competitive heads up match between Brandon Schaefer and Jonathan Cohen. Schaefer maintained a steady lead for the entirety of the match, but just because he held a lead does not mean it was an easy undertaking. Cohen continually check-raised pots and put Schaefer in tough spots. Schaefer eventually started to pick up on Cohen’s tendencies and managed to make a great call. In the end though Schaefer came out on top.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-14-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

3 Currently remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Adam Friedman    1,640,000
2    John Monnette    800,000
3    Todd Brunson       740,000

Zimnan Ziyard from Eastbourne finished 6th for $45,000

Ivey 7th, Hellmuth 15th

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-15-seven-card-stud-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

19 of 1604 remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Robert Muzzatti    900,000
2    Mark Darner       815,000
3    Matt Glantz       725,000
4    Remy Shaio       455,000
5    Keith Ferrera       440,000
6    Jonathan Currle    430,000
7    Austen Johnson    365,000
8    Mark Radoja       300,000
9    Asad Goodarzy    300,000
10    Gulyy Yury       240,000

Sam Grafton 62nd

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

96 of 179 remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Farzad Bonyadi    165,000
2    Keith Lehr       128,000
3    Olivier Busquet       125,000
4    Steve Landfish       125,000
5    Chris Klodnicki       125,000
6    David Benyamine    120,000
7    Josh Bergman       115,000
8    Andrew Lichtenberger 110,000
9    Patrick Cronin       110,000
10    Pierre Neuville       105,000

JP Kelly, Moorman, Liv, Martins Adeniya, Stephen Chidwick and John Eames look to be the British presence still left in this


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

248 of 309 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Amir Nematinia       20,250
2    Owais Ahmed       16,400
3    Tommy Vedes       15,000
4    Ted Forrest       14,000
5    Brandon Guss       13,500
6    Mickey Doft       13,000
7    Jason Mercier       10,500
8    George Lind       10,500
9    Greg Raymer       9,000
10    Linda Johnson       9,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-18-seven-card-razz/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final 
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash

Total : $411,200

69 left overnight in the $10,000 PLHE

18 paid

2 Brits in the overnight top 10

Top Chip Counts
1    Steve Landfish       224,500
2    Farzad Bonyadi    184,600
3    Sean Dempsey    170,200
4    Patrick Cronin       155,000
5    Chris Moorman    147,400
6    David Benyamine    145,000
7    Liv Boeree       140,000
8    Kevin MacPhee       138,000
9    Jeff Tims               127,400
10    Erik Seidel       120,000

JP Kelly through with 111,000
Ben Vinson through with 53,000
Martins Adeniya through with 40,000
Stephen Chidwick through with 25,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

Absolutely over the moon that Brandon won, sounds cliche but he really is one of the nicest guys around, very friendly during the early days of the blonde updates and I'm sure Tikay and Jen would say the same.

Titty. Ashes the 6max

Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 completed
Day 3 Seat Assignments

Table   Seat   Player   Chips
445   1   Antonio Esfandiari   303,000
445   2   Ryan Julius   503,000
445   3   Chris Klodnicki   145,000
445   4   Cary Katz   65,000
445   5   Steve Landfish   599,000
445   6   Andy Frankenberger   166,000
445   7   Manuel Bevand   961,000
445   8   Shaun Deeb   396,000
445   9   Hoyt Corkins   416,000
            
451   1   Phil Ivey   180,000
451   2   Matt Marafioti   154,000
451   3   Patrick Cronin   373,000
451   4   --empty--   --
451   5   Alex Venovski   235,000
451   6   Daniel Weinman   167,000
451   7   Ali Eslami   228,000
451   8   Jeff Tims   233,000
451   9   David Benyamine   117,000

Bevand Leads a Stacked Field of 17


Today was Day 2 of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event, numbered 17 on the WSOP schedule. From the starting field of 179, the surviving 69 returned to the felt to play another ten levels. The money bubble was burst very late in the night, and it's Manuel Bevand who'll lead the remaining 17 players into tomorrow's finale. His massive stack of 961,000 chips puts him miles ahead of his nearest challenger.

The field that returned for Day 2 was absolutely packed with notables. November Niner Matt Giannetti was one of the first to drop out, and he was followed out the door by Gavin Smith, Erick Lindgren, Shannon Shorr, John Juanda, and Kevin MacPhee. Defending champion Amir Lehavot bagged up after Day 1, but the early stages of the second day was his downfall this time around. Also exiting fairly early on were Erik Seidel, Jon Aguiar, Steve O'Dwyer, Tom Marchese, and Robert Mizrachi. A bit later fell Olivier Busquet, Andrew Lichtenberger, Humberto Brenes, Noah Schwartz, Liv Boeree, and another former November Niner, Jason Senti.

The 18 who survived that bubble are all guaranteed a payday this weekend, and there is some serious talent (and quite a few bracelets) left in the field. Only Bertrand Grospellier cashed but failed to make it through Day 2. He exited in 18th place right at night's end. Some of the notables who will return for the final day are Julius, Antonio Esfandiari, Hoyt Corkins, Ali Eslami, Andy Frankenberger, Matt Marafioti, David Benyamine, Chris Klodnicki, and Cary Katz.

Oh, hey. Let's not forget about Phil Ivey. The man himself is back at the WSOP for 2012, and he's doing some serious bracelet hunting once again. Ivey's played just about everything this summer, and he's already made one final table. He's in contention for another here tomorrow. After a relatively quiet day on the felt, Ivey bagged up 180,000 chips to put himself in 11th place for Day 3.

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

18 of 309 remain overnight

Top Chip Counts
1    Brandon Cantu    298,500
2    Brendan Taylor    288,500
3    Phil Hellmuth       287,500
4    Chris Viox       189,000
5    Michael Chow       183,000
6    Jeff Misteff       155,000
7    David Rosenau    149,000
8    Don Zewin       115,500
9    Jeff Mervis       111,500
10    Barry Greenstein    94,500

Jon Spinks finished 21st for $5904

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-18-seven-card-razz/

Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 of Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has completed. A massive field of 2,302 players came out for this event and generated a prize pool of over $3.1 million. The top 243 spots will be paid out with the winner taking home nearly $560,000. When the night wrapped up, the field was approximately two tables away from the money, making tomorrow the bubble day.

There were plenty of big names in action for this event including David "Doc" Sands, Jason Mercier, Angel Guillen, Layne Flack and Eric Baldwin. Unfortunately for that group of five, they all hit the rail and will have to go bracelet hunting in other events. Paul Wasicka, Allen Kessler and Tommy Vedes were some to join them.

A few of the notables moving on to Day 2 include actor James Woods and former November Niner John Dolan. They finished on 10,600 and 86,100, respectively. Lauren Kling, David Peters and Cliff Josephy are also moving forward to Day 2.

Leading the charge at the end of the night was Jessica Bertrand Hanna. She bagged up 149,500 in chips and looks to be the overnight chip leader. Josh Hillcock bagged up 128,600 and is nipped at her heels. Clint Tolbert was another big stack and bagged up 91,000.

Top Chip Counts
1    Jessica Bertrand Hanna    149,500
2    Josh Hillcock       128,600
3    Sam Grafton       100,000
4    Justin McGill       100,000
5    John Dolan       93,000
6    Clint Tolbert       91,000
7    Phil Bartholet       90,000
8    Harrison Gimbel       85,500
9    Chris Bolek       80,000
10    Cliff Goldkind       70,000

Ben Vinson, Martins Adeniya still in

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-19-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 20: $5,000 Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed

Today marked the day for the biggest Limit Hold'em buy-in of this year's World Series of Poker. A total of 166 players showed up all dishing out $5,000 to compete in the most mechanical form of poker. Play started off traditionally slow, with many big bets in play, but there were some very interesting tables to watch. Defending champ Daniel Idema was in the field, as was this year's WSOP Player of the Year leader, John Monnette. The latter will not be adding any points to his already impressive total as he busted out quickly. The title holder is still in the race as he survived the day with 3,500 chips.

In order to have some fun you need to get table talk going and there was plenty in this tournament. Over on Table 356, Daniel Negreanu, Eugene Katchalov and Jameson Painter sat down, and during a small pot some fun chatter started. You can read all about that here in the blog post.

One player always up for table talk, and some needling here and there, is Mike Thorpe. He's better known as "Crazy Mike" and proved once again he deserves that name. From the start he was very loud and active and especially Michael Winnett, who wore a dinosaur suit, was a big target.

Thorpe didn't survive the day just as, among others, David Chiu, Carlos Mortensen, Maria Ho, John Racener and Dan Kelly. Kelly started the day off in a very interesting situation matching up against seven other superstars. His table full of late registered players looked like this and many of them survived the first day of play.

Seat   Name   WSOP Bracelets   Live Tournament Earnings
1   Erick Lindgren   1   $8,457,544
2   Shawn Buchanan   0   $4,678,970
3   Greg Mueller   2   $1,989,989
4   Mark Radoja   1   $1,197,755
5   John Juanda   5   $12,378,559
6   Nick Schulman   1   $5,118,771
7   Huck Seed   4   $7,260,200
8   Unkown   -   -
9   Dan Kelly   1   $2,219,790

In total we lost just 57 players on day one and among the ones returning for more tomorrow we see Shawn Keller, Jason Mercier, Dwyte Pilgrim and Terrence Chan. Chip leader is Nicholas Derke followed by Warwick Mirzikinian who finished third in the $5,000 Mixed-Max cashing $162,443.

James Dempsey the only Brit I can find who is through

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-20-limit-hold-em/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 -
#20 -

Total : $417,100

stop press, unfortunately

James Dempsey ‏@FoieGrasAddict

busted the $5k LH at the end of Day 1 to continue my boycott of days 2's was the softest $5k i have played in a very long time

With Ivey and Hellmuth currently Heads Up for bracelets, simultaneously in different events, today's update when they conclude


Ivey, it could be argued, back where he belongs...


Hellmuth gouing for a record 12th bracelet....

Ivey 2nd, sigh.

GO Phil, he's nearly there!

how the hell does this frankenburger win lol

Jesse May ‏@ScurrilousMay

You've been Frankenbergered. That's one message to send to the doubters. Huge respect to @AMFrankenberger


Kathy Liebert ‏@pokerkat

Wow. Outplay outwit and beat Ivey heads up in Holdem.

Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

Congratulations to Matt Matros, Event #16 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Champion ($454,835)


It has been a wild, action packed three days here at the Rio, and the sun has set on Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Six-Handed. An incredible 1,604 players brought in for this tournament, but there could only be one victor. That man is Matt Matros. He took home his third gold bracelet in as many years, and oh yeah, also won $454,835 to boot.

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Matt Matros   $454,835
2nd   Mark Radoja   $281,502
3rd   Ramey Shaio   $182,521
4th   Gordon Vayo   $121,262
5th   Robert Muzzatti   $81,202
6th   Mark Darner   $56,300
7th   Matt Glantz   $40,059
8th   Mike Matusow   $40,059
9th   Jonathan Currle $29,665


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Congratulations to Andy Frankenberger, Winner of Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em ($445,899)

Andy Frankenberger WSOP Event #17 Champion

Today was a pretty fantastic day at the World Series of Poker. It was one of the greatest final tables we have had this year, and it produced a great heads-up encounter that drew crowds around the rail the likes of which we have not seen at this years WSOP.

That heads-up finale was fought out between arguably the world's greatest poker player and eight time WSOP bracelet holder, Phil Ivey, and fellow member of the WSOP bracelet club, Andy Frankenberger. In the end, there can only be one winner, and it was Frankenberger that spoiled the Ivey party with a quite magnificent heads-up performance to take his second WSOP bracelet.

Wow! What a tournament!

Three days ago, 179 players turned up to buy a ticket to the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em extravaganza. At 1:00 PM this afternoon, the Amazon Room came to life as the final 17 players strolled back into the ropes to play for the bracelet.

Cary Katz (who'll you'll see again in The Big One For One Drop) came into Day 3 as the shortest stack left, and he wasted no time getting it all in. He was dealt {K-Spades} {J-Spades} on the very first hand, but he ran his two Broadway cards smack into the pocket aces of Steve Landfish. It was a fine start for the latter, but Katz was sent to the rail to mark the end of his one-hand work day.

David Benyamine was short on chips when he fell in 16th place, the victim of a three-outer. Shaun Deeb won a flip against Chris Klodnicki to send him off in 15th place, and he was followed to the cashier by Patrick Cronin. Cronin had an unenviable final day to his event. He was three-outed twice in the early going, then got the remainder of his short stack in with a dominated hand. He earned more than $28,000 as a consolation prize.

Jeff Tims lost a flip to bow out in 13th place, and we lost a real contender in 12th. Antonio Esfandiari was working on his fourth cash of this young WSOP and looking for his second career gold bracelet. His first came in pot-limit hold'em, but he could not escape the perils of the early levels today. "The Magician" three-bet Manuel Bevand two hands in a row, and the first one got through. Bevand four-bet shoved the second time, though, and Esfandiari's pocket fours could not out-race Bevand's king-queen. Esfandiari had been lively and chatty for the duration of the event, and his exit cleared a few spaces in the bleachers as his fans followed him out the door.

Despite coming into the day with the chip lead, Steve Landfish could not work his way to another $10,000 final table. He had two of those last year, but this time around, he'd have to settle for an 11th-place cash after Shaun Deeb sent him on his way. That brought the field down to just one table of ten, and they were relocated to the main ESPN stage.

Ten-handed play lingered for a couple levels as a couple players doubled up. Ryan Julius could not accomplish that feat, though, and he was the one run out as the final table bubble boy. Julius got his short stack in bad with {A-Spades} {8-Spades} against Manuel Bevand's two nines, and he could not overcome them. The final table was set, and it would prove to be a damn good one.

WSOP stalwart and double bracelet winner, Hoyt Corkins brought his trusty cigar to the final table, but his stay would be the shortest one. Corkins three-bet shoved with pocket nines, and Bevand won a flip with ace-jack to send the Cowboy pacing off into the distance.

They were eight-handed for a long while before Daniel Weinman met his demise. Weinman shoved in with {K-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}, but Andy Frankenberger's {Q-Spades} {Q-Hearts} were too much to overcome.

Next to fall was Canada's Matt Marafioti, who finished runner-up in this event in 2010. Marafioti found himself nearly all in with {A-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} against the {K-Hearts} {9-Hearts} of Eslami. A king flopped to all but end Marafioti's day, and he lost his last 15,000 chips on the next hand to depart in seventh place.

Six remained, and one of them was Shaun Deeb. He had a more volatile event than anyone else in the field, going back and forth between chip leader and short stack like a yo-yo. He was almost felted early in the day, but he recovered well to find himself healthy with one hand before the dinner break. On that hand, though, Deeb got himself all in and flipping a coin for his tournament life. It was the most dramatic hand of the tournament, too. Andy Frankenberger flopped a set with his pocket sixes, but Deeb's {A-Hearts} {K-Spades} had outs on the {J-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {6-Spades}. The {Q-Hearts} ripped right off on the turn to give Deeb Broadway, but it paired again with the {Q-Diamonds} river to give the pot back to Frankenberger. His full house was the hand that sent Deeb packing, and it seems like it's only a matter of time before he earns a bracelet. Today was not the day.

So, just five players returned from the dinner break, and Manuel Bevand was leading the way. That would not last long. He had been worked all the way down around 800,000 when another huge pot broke out involving Frankenberger. The latter got all his own chips in with {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs}, and Bevand was content to flip for the knockout with {J-Hearts} {J-Clubs}. The flop was blank, but the {A-Diamonds} on the turn cued a big celebration from Frankenberger. Bevand was eliminated on the next hand, and Frankenberger was suddenly in contention and a real threat to take the title.

So we were down to four-handed play and the next player to be culled was Alexander Venovski. As per usual at this stage of the tournament it came down to a flip and the benefactor was Phil Ivey. The pocket sevens of Ivey standing strong against the ace-queen of Venovski and we were down to a menage a trois.

When we went three-handed it was Andy Frankenberger with all of the work to do. He started as the short stack with just 8BB but fought like a lion. Frankenberger really turned it on and in the end it was Ali Eslami who was eliminated in third place after losing a flip to Phil Ivey. This time Ivey found {8-Hearts} {8-Clubs} to beat the {K-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} of Eslami and we were heads up with neck and neck stacks.

The heads-up battle drew one of the biggest crowds that the Amazon has seen this year, as players and fans aliked flocked to see if Phil Ivey could create a dream story of nine WSOP bracelets. But today was not to be a Phil Ivey day. Today was an Andy Frankenberger day. Considering he was up against the greatest player in the world Frankenberger's victory was a wonderful moment for the former stocks trader. The final hand coming on a board of {A-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} with Frankenberger holding {A-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} for top pair and Ivey holding {7-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} for the draw. The draw never came in and Frankenberger was soon getting himself ready for a hell of a lot of photographs!

Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Andy Frankenberger   $445,899
2nd   Phil Ivey   $275,559
3rd   Ali Eslami   $199,623
4th   Alexander Venovski   $147,345
5th   Manuel Bevand   $110,731
6th   Shaun Deeb   $84,668
7th   Matt Marafioti   $65,840
8th   Daniel Weinman $52,059
9th   Hoyt Corkins   $41,829


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 completed

Day 2 of Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has wrapped up after another 10 levels of play. Finishing atop the final 19 was Gregg Wilkinson with 1.227 million in chips. He'll return on Monday with the chip lead for the final day, but it's not going to be easy to win this thing.

Early in the day the money bubble broke. It was Pratik Ghatge who was the tournament bubble boy. His pocket kings went down to an opponent's {A-}{Q-} when an ace hit the river and that sent everyone into the money. Some of the notables to finish the day in the money, but short of Day 3 were Sam Stein, Clint Tolbert, Justin Schwartz, John Dolan, Lauren Kling, Isaac Haxton and Christina Lindley.

Coming in behind Wilkinson and rounding out the top five are Patrick Smith (867,000), Cliff Goldkind (760,000), Eric Wasserson (725,000) and Adria Balaguer (697,000).

Canadian Philippe Boucher is still alive and bagged up 459,000 in chips. Boucher was the winner of Event 6: €1,620 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe. There he won €125,584 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Another notable, David Peters, bagged up 681,000 and is in sixth place overall.

1    Gregg Wilkinson    1,227,000
2    Patrick Smith       867,000
3    Cliff Goldkind       760,000
4    Eric Wasserson    725,000
5    Adria Balaguer       697,000
6    David Peters       681,000
7    Barry Shulman       650,000
8    Jason Wheeler       622,000
9    Greg Ronaldson    594,000
10    Aram Zerounian    464,000

Sam Grafton and Rickm Trigg finished 103rd and 114th respectively for just under $4,000 each


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-19-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 20: $5,000 Limit Hold'em

currently 17 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Matthew Woodward 290,000
2    Samuel Golbuff       285,000
3    Jeff Shulman       220,000
4    Terrence Chan       210,000
5    Ayman Qutami       180,000
6    Andrew Prock       155,000
7    Jesse Martin       150,000
8    Nicholas Derke       150,000
9    Matt Glantz       140,000
10    Kenneth Shei       130,000




http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-20-limit-hold-em/

Event 21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Attracted a whopping 2779 entrants and is in the cash with 260 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Edward Locke       124,000
2    John Mangg       110,000
3    Chris McClung       95,000
4    Jason Manggunio    90,000
5    Kory Kilpatrick       85,000
6    Matt Prior               82,000
7    Jerry Wong       70,000
8    Dan Smith       66,000
9    James Dempsey    65,000 (though I gather this is oudated info)
10    Austen Johnson    62,000

John Duthie and Stephen Chidwick have cashed

I think Leknave has to, but waiting for a complete list....please add names if you hear of them




http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-21-no-limit-hold-em/

Yes, he cashed. Well done

Dave Jones ‏@LeKnave

day 2! coming back with 49100 to 600/1200.

Seventy-Nine Advance to Day 2 of Event 22: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

A total of 79 (of 222) players made it through eight one-hour levels today, and will restart at 1pm tomorrow with the aim of making history by making a World Series of Poker final table.

From what we could see at the frantic end of play bagging up period, Shawn Buchanon leads the way with 61,800 chips. John Monnette (43,000), Layne Flack (34,300), and Josh Arieh (33,100) all come back with healthy stacks and will be happy with their progress. Jean-Robert Bellande was down to around 2,000 chips in the last level but managed to spin that up to 25,200 at play's end.

Bill Chen (13,200), Richard Ashby (12,000), and Marvin Rettenmaier (2,000) all had bad last levels and were clearly frustrated with their late progress, but at least they're still in.

The same cannot be said for Doyle and Todd Brunson, Shaun Deeb, Vannesa Selbst, David "Viffer" Peat, Daniel Negreanu and Andy Bloch who were amongst many marquee players who failed to advance to day two.

Top Chip Counts
1    Shawn Buchanon    61,800
2    John Monnette    43,000
3    Layne Flack       34,300
4    Josh Arieh       33,100
5    David "Bakes" Baker 33,000
6    Vincent van der Fluit 32,000
7    Tristan Clemencon    26,100
8    Jean-Robert Bellande 25,200
9    Barry Greenstein    23,000
10    Allen Kessler       22,10

Stuart Rutter, Richard Ashby and John Kabbaj are still in


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-22-2-7-triple-draw-lowball/

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Congratulations to Phil Hellmuth, Winner of the 2012 WSOP Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz ($182,793)

On Sunday, the 2012 World Series of Poker continued with the third and final day of Event #18 $2,500 Seven Card Razz. What began with 309 players was down to the final 18, each looking increase their share of a $702,975 prize pool with the ultimate goal of capturing the $182,793 first-place prize.

The big story headed into the day was 11-time bracelet Phil Hellmuth, who was sitting third in chips and primed to make a run at a record 12 bracelets. Standing in his way were some experienced players including chip leader “Any Two” Brandon Cantu; 2008 Razz champion Barry Greenstein; and Don Zewin, who actually took third to Hellmuth and Johnny Chan back in the 1989 WSOP Main Event.

Last year, Hellmuth came close to bracelet 12 on three different occasions only to be denied. While his three runner-up finishes were impressive, they left him wanting. When would he get his elusive twelfth? In the early morning hours of Monday, that question was answered when he took down Event #18 $2,500 Seven Card Razz!

A short-stacked Scott Clements set the pace for the day as he was eliminated on the very first hand. Over the course of the next three hours, nine more players would hit the rail on the way to the final table; however, no one would come closer than David Rosenau, who earned the unfortunate distinction as final-table bubble boy.

Rosenau, who was the short stack during nine-handed play, was eliminated when Scott Fishman brought it in with a {K-} and Brandon Cantu completed. Rosenau then raised all in for 14,000 total, which both Fischman and Cantu called. Fischman proceeded to check-call bets on the turn, fifth and sixth, and then bet when Cantu checked seventh. Cantu thought for a long time before he folded.

Fischman: (x-x) / {K-}{6-}{4-}{K-} / (x) ({7-}{5-}{3-})
Rosenau: (x-x) / {7-}{3-}{2-}{7-} / (x) ({2-}{5-}{6-})
Cantu: (x-x) / {8-}{3-}{A-}{7-} / (x)

Rosenau ended up with three pair and was dispatched in ninth place by Fischman's 7-6-5-4-3 low.

Here’s a look at the players who were eliminated on Day 3 short of the final table:
Pre-Final Table Eliminations

Place   Player   Prize
9th   David Rosenau   $13,827
10th   Scott Abrams   $13,827
11th   Calvin Anderson   $10,945
12th   Gerald Ringe   $10,945
13th   Jared Bleznick   $8,780
14th   Jeff Mervis   $8,780
15th   Chris “Pi Master” Viox   $7,135
16th   Dan O’Brien   $7,135
17th   Chirs “Fox” Wallace   $5,904
18th   Scott Clements   $5,904

The first elimination of the final table came when Brendan Taylor completed with a {6-} and then called a raise from Jeff Misteff. The latter bet the turn before calling a bet on fifth. Misteff's last 10,000 went in on sixth and the cards were tabled.

Misteff: {A-}(x) / {5-}{3-}{5-}{10-} / (x)
Taylor: {A-}{2-} / {6-}{9-}{J-}{4-} / {4-}

We didn't get a good look at Misteff's cards, but we do know he was drawing dead headed into seventh street. He finished in eighth place and parted with a $17,693 consolation prize.

In another hand, Michael Chow fired out a bet on the turn and was called by Hellmuth, who was showing a pair of aces. Fifth street saw Chow fired out another bet, but this time Helluth quickly raised. "You can just say all in," Hellmuth told Chow, who only had 10,000 behind. While he didn't say it, Chow did commit it.

Chow: {8-}{4-} / {3-}{2-}{4-}{J-} / {3-}
Hellmuth: {2-}{5-} / {A-}{A-}{3-}{9-} / {10-}

Sixth street gave Hellmuth a nine-low, which meant Chow needed to improve on seventh. He squeezed out his card and didn't see any pips, meaning it was either a deuce, three or ace. "You've got two of the aces though," Chow said, knowing it was the only card that would save his tournament life. He then flipped and revealed a {3-}. With that, Hellmuth chipped up to 500,000 and sent Chow home in seventh place.

Former Razz champ, Greenstein, was the next to go:

Greenstein: {x-}{x-} / {2-}{7-}
Cantu: {x-}{x-} / {4-}{2-}

Greenstein completed, Hellmuth released, and Cantu examined Greenstein's stack before raising. Greenstein called. On fourth street, Cantu led out, and Greenstein raised. Cantu re-raised, putting Greenstein all in, and Cantu called.

Greenstein: {6-}{5-}
Cantu: {7-}{3-}

Greenstein was dealt a {j-} on fifth, Cantu received a {9-}, and then both players were dealt {9-}s on sixth. Cantu flipped over a {10-} on seventh, while Greenstein squeezed his down card.

"I'm even money," Greenstein said, grinning. "It's either the six or eight of hearts."

The {6-Hearts} would pair him, and the {8-Hearts} would give him the best hand. Unfortunately for the Bear, it was the {6-Hearts} eliminating him from the tournament. Greenstein received a loud round of applause, and he's off to the cage to collect his $30,150.

The next to go was Brendan Taylor. It happened when he completed with a {3-}, Cantu raised with an {8-}, and Taylor re-raised. The rest of the chips got in, and the hands were opened.

Taylor: {6-}{2-} / {8-}
Cantu: {7-}{6-} / {3-}

Both players were dealt paint on fourth street - Cantu a {q-} and Taylor a {k-} - and both players received a {4-} on fifth. Cantu improved with a {2-} on sixth, Taylor received more paint ({q-}), and Cantu turned over a {7-} on seventh. We missed Taylor's last card, but he mucked, and exited the tournament in fifth place.

After returning from the dinner break, Cantu brought it in, Don Zewin completed, and Fischman raised. Only Zewin called. Fischman called a bet on fourth street, and when Zewin paired on fifth, Fischman led out. Zewin called, and Fischman bet all in on sixth. Zewin called.

Fischman: {4-}{2-}/ {6-}{9-}{a-}{10-} / {x-}
Cantu: {x-}{x-} / {8-} (FOLDED)
Zewin: {6-}{2-}/ {5-}{4-}{5-}{a-} / {x-}

Zewin was turned over a {10-} on seventh, so Fischman was drawing, but the {q-} did not improve his hand. Fischman was eliminated in fourth place, while Zewin moved into second on the chip counts.

A short time later, Zewin brought it in with a {K-} and was met with a completion by Hellmuth. Cantu came along for the ride, Zewin got out of the way, and it was off to the turn. Cantu ended up with the lead and bet out, which prompted Hellmuth to ask for a count.

"Can't afford to let you bluff me," Hellmuth said. "Let's put it all in." He then raise and put the pressure back on Cantu, who though for about 40 seconds before three-betting. Sure enough, his chips ended up in the pot and his tournament life was at risk.

Cantu: {4-}{9-} / {5-}{2-}{3-}{J-} / (x)
Hellmuth: {A-}{5-} / {7-}{8-}{4-}{10-} / {6-}

Hellmuth had the best hand when the money went in and maintained the lead through sixth. Hellmuth quickly showed the {6-} he received on seventh, which meant Cantu needed either a six, seven or ace on the river to win. He squeezed it out slowly and there were no pips visible, meaning it could be an ace. He said it was also a heart, and the {A-Hearts} was alive. He completed the squeeze and all the tension disappeared when he turned over the {3-Hearts}.

Hellmuth's hand held to send Cantu to the rail in third place, and also give him a commanding chip lead headed into heads-up play.

It would take awhile before Hellmuth finished off his opponent as he took a slow and steady approach to the match; however, in the end Hellmuth had a date with destiny as he captured bracelet number 12 in 2012!
Event #18 $2,500 Seven Card Razz Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Phil Hellmuth   $182,793
2nd   Don Zewin   $113,024
3rd   Brandon Cantu   $74,269
4th   Scott Fischman   $54,248
5th   Brendan Taylor   $40,167
6th   Barry Greenstein   $30,150
7th   Michael Chow   $22,945
8th   Jeff Misteff   $17,693

Congratulations to Phil Hellmuth on taking down his record twelfth gold bracelet!

$2,500 Seven Card Razz Champions Since 2004

Year   Player   Entrants   Prize
2012   Phil Hellmuth   309   $182,793
2011   Rep Porter   363   $210,615
2010   Frank Kassela   365   $214,085
2009   Jeff Lisandro   315   $188,390
2008*   Barry Greenstein453   $157,643
2007*   Katja Thater   341   $132,653
2006*   James Richberg409   $139,576
2005*   O’Neil Longson   291   $125,690
2004*   TJ Cloutier   195   $90,500

* $1500 buy in


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-18-seven-card-razz/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final  
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany: cash

Total : $441,800

David Vamplew ‏@davidv1213

Grinded next to no chips all day in #wsop21 and ended up making day 2, 16bbs tomorrow and am itm. Didn't come easy, deserve a spin up imo


Another British cash

227 got through in the $1,000 NLHE in the end

Full list at http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12121%5C2012WSOP_EV21_EOD1%28chips%29.pdf


David Kilpatrick 14th
Pete Haslam 38th
David Jones 53rd
Stephen Chidwick 92nd
Sebastian Saffari 155th
David Vamplew 156th
Zimnan Ziyard 180th


are the Brits going to tomorrow

All have cashed for at least $2015

Paul Damany finished 235th

Stu Rutter going along nicely, this from his Staking Thread......

Triple draw, day two, dinner break update

Just a quick one, to say I'm still in the triple draw!

In the money, 18 left, I have 61k, average is 88k

Really pumped

Playing down to a final table tonight

Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Congratulations to Cliff Goldkind, Event #19 Champion! ($559,514)

On Saturday afternoon, a field of 2,302 players turned up for Event #19 of this 2012 World Series of Poker. The buy-in was a moderate $1,500, but the big field created a hefty prize pool of more than $3 million. More than a half-million dollars of that awaited the eventual champion, and that comes with the priceless gold bracelet.

This evening, we crowned our champion. Cliff Goldkind is a 24-year-old student from Potomac, Maryland. Tonight, he's a WSOP bracelet winner. After one of the quicker Day 3's of the Series, Goldkind knocked off the gregarious Kennii Nguyen in the final duel to get his first taste of live tournament glory.

Heads Up.....


"You wanna know payouts now, Cliff?" one of his friends asked.

"Sure," Goldkind answered.

"Five-fifty-nine," came the reply.

Goldkind's eyes rolled back in his head. "Oh," he said with an impenetrable grin.

"You're halfway to One Drop!" another said.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-19-no-limit-hold-em/

1    Cliff Goldkin       559,514
2    Kennii Nguyen       347,036
3    Adria Balaguer       245,197
4    Patrick Smith       176,299
5    Gregg Wilkinson    128,441
6    Justin McGill       94,815
7    David Peters       70,886
8    Barry Shulman       53,669
9    Gary Burks       41,145

Event 21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Ends With Jamie Armstrong Bagging the Most

With 222 people coming in with chips, only 17 left the day with their markers. Jamie Armstrong finished the day with the most chips, bagging 1,434,000. Right behind him was Noah Vaillancourt with 1,212,000 and Eric Baldwin with 887,000,making this no easy pickings for anyone. Those players will return tomorrow in the Amazon room to fight it out.

Of course the day was filled with plenty of players hitting the rail early. Of those departed Maria Ho made the strongest impression. Dictating the action at her table most of the day. Here is a look at what happened when we watched her table for an orbit early on today. Eventually a few bad beats caused Ho to be on the chopping block, and she never recovered and was sent packing. A few other players that left us today were Martin Staszko, Matthew Prior, Ryan Gentry, and Huy Nguyen.

Nguyen especially had a rough go at it, coming out with a monster stack early on today, but falling after a string of bad beats, including this one. Alan Keating who came out of the woodwork late, making a strong impression by acquiring chips. In the end though he was vanquished by Jamie Armstrong.

Tomorrow the 17 remaining players will play down until an ultimate winner is crowned. Will it be Eric Baldwin? The former collegiate baseball champion and current career poker player had many highs today, knocking out opponents, doubling up late, and just knowing when he is ahead and getting value. The truth is anyone could come out tomorrow and walk away with a World Series of Poker bracelet.

1    Jamie Armstrong    1,434,000
2    Noah Vaillancourt    1,212,000
3    Eric Baldwin       887,000
4    Derek Wolters       865,000
5    Jean-Louis Santoni    595,000
6    Eric Davis               527,000
7    Jason Manggunio    400,000
8    Mitch Merritt       388,000
9    Jonathan Poche    374,000
10    Dan Smith       339,000

LeKnave, David Jones finished 56th for just under $6,000

David Kilpatrick 68th
Pete Haslam 88th
Stephen Chidwick 120th
John Duthie 195th
David Vamplew 216th



http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-21-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 22: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

9 left

Top Chip Counts
1    David Baker       340,000
2    Von Altizer       270,000
3    Jason Lavallee       235,000
4    Josh Arieh       230,000
5    Randy Ohel       150,000
6    Farzad Bonyadi    142,000
7    Layne Flack       130,000
8    Shawn Buchanan    110,000
9    Benjamin Lazer    75,000

Stuart Rutter finished 16th for over $6,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-22-2-7-triple-draw-lowball/

Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 1 completed
Jeff Manza Leads Day 1 of Event #17 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed

If No-Limit Texas Hold'em is the Cadillac of poker then No-Limit Texas Hold'em Six-Handed poker is the Ferrari. Event #17 started with 924 players and we lost two-thirds of the field in the first six-levels.

The action was frenetic, fast and fine and when the last card had settled on the felt there were 141 players that remained in the hunt for a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. As usual we have to have somebody with more chips than everyone else, and that honor goes to Jeff Manza who bagged and tagged 275,000 chips.

Other notables through to Day 2 include Liv Boeree, Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand Grospellier, Roberto Romanello, Jason Mercier, Kyle Weir and 2006 WSOP bracelet holder Paul Kobel with 12,500 chips!

Top Chip Counts
1    Jeff Manza       275,000
2    Aaron Jones       182,900
3    Kyle Julius       159,400
4    Matt Berkey       156,600
5    Steve Gross       145,500
6    Kyle Weir               138,400
7    Yordan Mitrentsov    130,000
8    Jordan Young       127,200
9    Alexander Nudin    127,200
10    Ryan Fair               122,400

Brits through Day 1 Liv Boeree, Roberto Romanello, Ash Mason, Craig McCorkell,

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-23-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

256 started, 203 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Dan Kelly               65,000
2    Jim McCrink       47,000
3    Yueqi Zhu       45,000
4    Michael Chow       43,000
5    Matt Waxman       40,000
6    Pat Pezzin       40,000
7    Jon Turner       38,000
8    Melissa Burr       37,000
9    Chris Tryba       37,000
10    Antony Lellouche    37,000

As of 5 minutes ago James Dempsey was reported with 36,000, James Bord with 28,000, Richard Ashby 22,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-24-omaha-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final 
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23-
#24-
#25-
#26-

Total : $452,800

Paul Foltyn ‏@Pab09

Made day 2 of $3k 6max with 55bbs, hoping to convert this into a real deep run #WSOPgrind

Event 16 3rd  Ramey Shaio   $182,521 is British

My mistake, sorry...will be added to the list

Event 21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

1    Michael Gathy       440,829
2    Jamie Armstrong    273,776
3    Noah Vaillancourt    193,089
4    John Esposito       139,457
5    Eric Baldwin       101,948
6    Eric Davis                 75,422
7    Jean-Louis Santoni      56,453
8    Jason Manggunio      42,749
9    Joshua Field         32,748

Zimnan Ziyard in his 3rd cash of the series finished 28th for $10,228


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-21-no-limit-hold-em/payouts.htm

Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

Day 2 completed

Aaaand just like that – another action-packed day of six-handed No Limit Hold’em is in the books. Out of the original 141 who began Day 2 in hopes of landing a World Series of Poker gold bracelet – only 18 will return for a third and final Day 3. Artem Metalidi will come into tomorrow as chip leader with a monstrous 1,523,000 stack. Behind him is the only other player to break a milly during Day 2, Luis Rodriguez, who bagged up 1,005,000.

As is always true in poker, where there are winners, there must be losers. Among those who didn’t survive into Day 3 include Jason Mercier, David Benyamine, Dan O’Brien, Galen Hall, Liv Boeree, Will Failla, Brad Booth and Gavin Smith. William Reynolds also fell by the wayside, but in notably brutal fashion as he was outdone by one of No Limit Hold’em’s prominent cooler situations.

As noted, our remaining players will be chasing after Artem Metalidi, who found himself with a massive chip late into Day 2 after winning a couple of key pots. There is still plenty of notable talent still in contention, however, including bracelet winner and 2008 November Niner Scott Montgomery, World Poker Tour champion and bracelet-winner Eugene Katchalov, online tournament phenom Andrew Lichtenberger and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier – whose live tournament earnings exceed $8,400,000.

Here are the final chip counts going into tomorrow:
Player   Chip Count
Artem Metalidi   1,523,000
Luis Rodriguez Cruz   1,005,000
Foster Hays   679,000
Joseph Urgo   572,000
Damien Lhommeau   511,000
Bertrand Grospellier   487,000
Freddy Deeb   425,000
Taylor Paur   424,000
Simon Charette   405,000
Eddie Blumenthal   395,000
Craig Bergeron   375,000
Scott Montgomery   288,000
Thiago Nishijima   272,000
Andrew Lichtenberger   246,000
Alexander Nudin   245,000
Toan Trinh   224,000
Ryan Fair   199,000
Eugene Katchalov   84,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-23-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Five British cashers in 23

Craig McCorkell 34th for $11400

Liv Boeree 47th for $8,500

Ash Mason 68th for $5,900

Roberto Romanello 94th for $5,000

Pab Foltyn 97th for $5,000

Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

is on the pure bubble 28 left, 27 paid

and.....

it's been a torrid day for Flushy who as of now

James Dempsey ‏@FoieGrasAddict

1 outted on pure bubble got 3 bets left...


.......

Stephen Chidwick is still in, in another stacked field with Ivey chip leader

Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

Day 1 completed

After a rather short day of poker, fifty players were able to conquer their tables and move on to Day 2 of Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout. Each player to move on to play tomorrow is guaranteed to win at least $3,088. If the players can best their table tomorrow, they will make the final table of ten and be guaranteed even more money.

Today's play saw a slew of notable players enter only to hit the rail a few levels later. Among those to try their best but come up short today were Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Cantu, Marcel Luske, and Joseph Cheong.

While those players busted from their tables while there were still a few players left, several notable players made it to heads up only to end their tournament life one spot from the money. Barry Greenstein, Bryan Devonshire, McLean Karr, Maria Ho and Viktor Blom are some of the players who were able to make it to heads up but were unable to seal the deal.

While only fifty players progressed through Day 1, many notable names still survived. Those coming back for round two tomorrow include Victor Ramdin, Mike Leah, Justin Bonomo, JJ Liu, Ari Engel, Brock Parker, and many more.

Also to return tomorrow is Matt Matros. Matros recently won his third World Series of Poker bracelet when he defeated Mark Radoja heads up in Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed. This marks the third consecutive year that Matros has won a gold bracelet, and tomorrow he will return to try his hand at bracelet number four.

Rounding out the notable names to return to the felt tomorrow are Greg "FBT" Mueller and Scott Seiver. Mueller and Seiver both made a deep run earlier in the series during Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry. Seiver finished a modest 17th place while Mueller was able to make the final table, ultimately finishing in seventh.

Tomorrow players will return to play 10 five-handed tables. The winner of each table will go on to the final table where the final ten will be guaranteed a cash prize of at least $7,164. Cards will be in the air at 1:00 PM local time and we'll be here to provide you with all of the latest coverage. Until tomorrow!

Final Table Payout Information
Place   Prize
1   $116,118
2   $71,704
3   $51,861
4   $37,897
5   $27,986
6   $20,886
7   $15,747
8   $11,992
9   $9,225
10   $7,164


In the 50 names, and cashed is Jon Spinks


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Event 26: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

162 of 589 remain

Matt Perrins and Martins Adeniya are in the reported chip counts

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Event 22: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Congratulations to Randy Ohel on Winning Event 22: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball ($145,247)

Coming back today most of the eyes, and probably a lot of money in the Rio Sportsbook, were on first-time bracelet hunting David Baker and Shawn Buchanon. Layne Flack and Josh Arieh have enjoyed their spills; surely one of these two renowned players would close the deal. It wasn’t to be as Benjamin Lazer and Randy Ohel were the ones to make it to head-up.

Then began one of the most epic duels in World Series of Poker History. Their battle lasted for six and a half hours including a dinner break. The chip lead changed sides so many times we lost count. Both players had 90% of the chips in play at least twice each, but both somehow managed to fight their way back from fumes on each occasion. Something, or someone, had to give and it turned out to be Lazer. He got down to less than one big blind at nearly 2:00 AM and that situation, even for him, was too much to come back from. Ohel had a rail full of fans with him for hours upon hours and they, as he, were just as full as relief, as well as joy, come the end of the match.

He takes over the championship mantle left by these esteemed fellows:
Year   Player   Prize   # of Entrants
2007   Rafi Amit   $227,005   209
2008   Bon Phan   $151,911   238
2009   Abe Mosseri   $165,513   258
2010   Peter Gelencser   $180,730   291
2011   Lenny Martin   $189,818   309

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Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

James Dempsey Bubbles, The Day is Done

Mike Wattel raised to 10,000 from the under the gun position and Bart Hanson made the call. James Dempsey smiled and said, "Please no trips," as he looked down at his cards from the big blind. He put in the call and had just 2,500 chips left behind.

The flop came down {2-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}{2-Spades} and Dempsey put his last chips in. Wattel gave it some thought and folded after which Hanson called and said, "You're in trouble man".
Bart Hanson   {2-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{4-Spades}
James Dempsey {A-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}

The board ran out {10-Spades}{5-Diamonds} giving Hanson the win and knocking out Dempsey on the money bubble.


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Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26-

Total : $694,500

mbn to be able to burn $3k

Phil Ivey made it to Day 2 of this event without ever playing a hand on Day 1. The reason? He was busy working his magic over in Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better where he finished the day as the chip leader with 27 players left.
 
Because he was simply blinded off all day yesterday, Ivey made Day 2 with just 700 in chips. He never showed up today, either, as he's over in the other event, but his 700 in chips were put in when it was his turn to be the big blind. As soon as the dealer pitched out all the cards, his hand was mucked and his chips pulled into the pot. So much for that $3,000 investment


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Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 3 completed

Congratulations to Simon Charette, Winner of Event #23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed ($567,624)!


Early Monday afternoon, 924 hopefuls dished out $3,000 for Event #23: No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed in hopes of turning it into fame and fortune – or at the very least to cut a profit. After three long and hard-fought days of six-handed action, it would be Simon Charette who took home the gold bracelet and the $567,624 that went along with it.

Even with just 18 players remaining going into Day 3, it was still a stacked field with the likes of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Freddy Deeb, Andrew Lichtenberger, Eugene Katchalov and Scott Montgomery. Fun fact: combined – those five players alone have over $25 million in tournament winnings.

Congratulations to Simon Charette, who has now bested his second-place finish that occurred last year during Event #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em.
Event #23 $3,000 No Limit Six-Handed Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Simon Charette   $567,624
2nd   Artem Metalidi   $350,806
3rd   Luis Rodriguez Cruz   $225,511
4th   Eddie Blumenthal   $146,053
5th   Foster Hays   $98,756
6th   Bertrand Grospellier   $68,738

Scott Montgomery 7th, Luckychewy 8th

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Phil Ivey is chip leader 3 handed going for his 9th bracelet ahead of Scotty Nguyen and Joe Cassidy

More as it develops

Stephen Chidwick finished 22nd for over $10,000

Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

Limit Final Table Set to Shoot it Out

Victor Ramdin is in contention for his first WSOP gold bracelet

Well folks, that’s all here on Day 2 of Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout. Fifty players have been whittled down to just ten and tomorrow will now see a final table fight it out for the $116,118 1st-place prize, all the glory and of course, the World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

At the start of the day, there were ten tables each playing five-handed and the goal was for just one player to remain at each table. The first elimination of the day was Greg Mueller on Table 408 and from there, all of the tables started losing players one-by-one.

Some of the players who succumbed to the rail early in the day include Ari Engel, Mike Leah, Jon Spinks and Tom Hang. The likes of Mike Thorpe, Scott Seiver and JJ Liu managed to last quite a while longer, but couldn’t make it to heads-up play at their tables.

The first player to prevail over his table was Brian Meinders, followed closely by Sean Rice and Matthew Schrieber. At this point, all the tables were down to just two players and half the field would be making their way to the final table. Brock Parker also made quick work of their table, as a few of the tables played slow.

A couple of the players who were part of all the heads-up fun were Justin Bonomo and Victor Ramdin and they happened to be at the same table. Ramdin started the heads-up battle with a chip lead and after a fierce contest of ups and downs, managed to take down the victory.

Quickly after Ramdin's victory, Preston Derden took down the win at his table over Millie Shiu. Christopher Hartman was the next player to win a table and secure a spot in the final ten and after that, only four remained.

It took longer than any of the other tables, but eventually Ian Johns was too strong for Hooman Nikzad and Daniel Walker fell to the might of Darin Thomas. Here's how the final table looks:

Final Table Lineup
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Darin Thomas   155,500
2   Preston Derden   157,500
3   Christopher Hartman   162,500
4   Victor Ramdin   165,500
5   Brock Parker   164,500
6   Christopher Vitch   162,000
7   Sean Rice   160,000
8   Brian Meinders   162,400
9   Ian Johns   159,000
10   Matthew Schreiber   154,500


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Event 26: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

20 of 589 left

led by

Top Chip Counts
1    Tom Chambers       620,000
2    Oleksii Kovalchuk       580,000
3    Vadzim Kursevich       520,000
4    Thomas Pettersson       346,000
5    Austin Scott               280,000
6    Huykhiem Nguyen       278,000
7    Steve Merrifield               270,000
8    Dutch Boyd               260,000
9    Emil Patel                       260,000
10    Robert Williamson III    245,000

Joe Beevers finished 25th for just under $11,000

Matt Perrins 37th for over $7,000


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Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Day 1 completed

"Skip" Wilson Leads Day 1 with 165 Remaining; Cunningham, Idema & Elezra Lurking
Allen Cunningham will return on Day 2 with a healthy stack of 55,200.

The 2012 World Series of Poker continued on Wednesday with Event #27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., which attracted 889 entrants and created a prize pool of $1,200,150. The top 96 players are slated to take home a minimum payday of $2,676, with the eventual winner taking home $267,081. The man best positioned to make a deep run is Karle “Skip” Wilson, who finished Day 1 as chip leader with 165 players remaining.

 Other early eliminations included Shaun Deeb, Maxwell Troy, Owais Ahmed, Erick Lindgren, Greg Raymer, James Woods and PokerNews’ own Rich Ryan.

The middle stages of Day 1 were characterized by eliminations as the blinds caught up with the stacks. An extensive list of pros met their end during this time including Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Matt Glantz, Men “The Master” Nguyen and Jonathan Duhamel.

While hundreds fell, some players managed to survive. Tom Schneider (28,300), Marcel Luske (28,900), Linda Johnson (30,500), Eli Elezra (35,500), Christian Harder (37,100), Rep Porter (41,500) and John Monnette (42,000) all advanced to Day 2.


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Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27-

Total : $712,500

Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

The Heads Up Will Continue Tomorrow at 2:00 PM

play has been suspended for tonight.

Phil Ivey is Eliminated in 3rd Place ($136,046)

Phil Ivey - 3rd Place
Phil Ivey - 3rd Place

It's all over for Phil Ivey. From the small blind Joe Cassidy raised and Phil Ivey called from the big blind. The flop came down {Q-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} and Cassidy bet. Ivey raised all in for 95,000 and his opponent made the call.

Cassidy showed {K-Clubs}{K-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} and Ivey was all in with {K-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{6-Hearts}. The turn was the {5-Clubs} and the river the {J-Diamonds} ending Phil Ivey's tournament run in third place. We are heads up!

Chip Counts
Joe Cassidy       US US    3,000,000    500,000 pos
Scotty Nguyen       US US    845,000    -85,000 neg


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Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
Day 4 completed
Congratulations to Joe Cassidy on Winning Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better ($294,777)

Joe Cassidy wins his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet after beating Scotty Nguyen in an epic heads up battle. This event started four days ago with 256 players all gunning for that little piece of poker history, and of course a $294,777 first place prize.

Many greats came to play, and possibly the greatest came very close to winning his ninth bracelet. Phil Ivey couldn't close it out yesterday and found Nguyen and Cassidy battle heads up for the title today. And what a battle it was! Read all about Ivey's fight for number nine in yesterday's recap, as we started this fourth day with just two players.

These were the chip counts going into the final day of play.
Joe Cassidy   3,000,000
Scotty Nguyen   845,000

With this win Joe Cassidy collects his first ever gold bracelet and a $294,777 payday

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Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Brian Meinders, Winner of Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout ($116,118)!

Defeat three tables and win a World Series of Poker bracelet. It sounds like an easy task in theory, but 365 people would disagree with you. That being said, one person was able to accomplish what the others could not and accumulate all of the chips on the table three days in a row. Brian Meinders was able to defeat Darin Thomas heads up to take home $116,118 in prize money and his first gold WSOP bracelet.

Despite being one of the smaller buy-in events at the WSOP, this event drew a rather stacked field. Many professionals swarmed to this event with the hopes of being able to attain WSOP glory. Among those to lose to their first table in this event were Joseph Cheong, Barry Shulman, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Little, Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Maria Ho and many more.

Fifty players were able to earn the title of Day 1 champion and lock up a guaranteed cash of $3,088. Of those fifty, only ten would move on to the final table. Several notable names came close on Day 2, only to fall short of making the prestigious WSOP final table. Greg Mueller, JJ Liu, Scott Seiver, Justin Bonomo, Matt Matros, and Mike Leah were among those to walk away from Event 25 with a min-cash. The ten who did make it on though were guaranteed at least $7,164 and only had to best nine others to attain WSOP immortality.

Final Table Lineup
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Darin Thomas   155,500
2   Preston Derden   157,500
3   Christopher Hartman   162,500
4   Victor Ramdin   165,500
5   Brock Parker   164,500
6   Christopher Vitch   162,000
7   Sean Rice   160,000
8   Brian Meinders   162,400
9   Ian Johns   159,000
10   Matthew Schreiber   154,500

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Brian Meinders   $116,118
2   Darin Thomas   $71,704
3   Christopher Vitch   $51,861
4   Victor Ramdin   $37,897
5   Brock Parker   $27,986
6   Preston Derden   $20,886
7   Matthew Schreiber   $15,747
8   Sean Rice   $11,992
9   Ian Johns   $9,225
10   Christopher Hartman $7,164


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Austin Scott Wins Event 26: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha ($361,797)!

Last year, Austin Scott took eighth place in this event for $40,748. Not only did he better that performance this year, but Scott went on to win it all to grab his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet and $361,797 in prize money.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Austin Scott   $361,797
2   Brett Richey   $223,492
3   Vadzim Kursevich   $158,530
4   Scott Stanko   $114,530
5   Khiem Nguyen   $83,180
6   Tom Chambers   $61,521
7   Romik Vartzar   $46,117
8   Dutch Boyd   $35,038
9   Thomas Pettersson   $26,966


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Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day 2 completed
Schwartz Leads After Day 2

Today was Day 2 of the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, numbered 27 on the WSOP schedule this year. A day prior, 889 people turned up with their entry tickets in hand. By the time the clock ticked down through Level 20 tonight, just 18 remained in contention for the title. Ylon Schwartz will take the big stack of 416,000 into tomorrow's finale, and he'll be the betting favorite to capture the top prize of $267,081 and the gold bracelet. Those prizes will be handed out tomorrow.

When the 165 Day 2 starters returned this afternoon, the field still needed to be reduced by almost half to break the money bubble. Some of the notables to drop out empty handed include Alex Bolotin, Jason Mercier, Frank Kassela, Bryan Devonshire, Christian Harder, Marcel Luske, and David Sklansky.

Bryce Yockey, Cliff Josephy, Stephen Chidwick, Zimnan Ziyard, Daniel Idema, Allen Cunningham, Rep Porter, and Chiu round out the list of notables among the 19 who survived this brisk Day 2.

Chidwick in 9th, Ziyard in 14th both with around average stacks

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Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Four-Handed

Day 1 Ends Six Eliminations Off of the Bubble

Ten levels of play are in the books here in Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Four-Handed, and six of the remaining 86 players will return to Day 2 only to leave empty-handed. Steven Weiss (171,000) and Brian Rast (168,000) most likely won’t bust before the money bubble bursts – they’re our chip leaders.

Event 28 was one of the most anticipated events of the summer, because there has never been a four-max tournament in the history of the World Series of Poker. There were 750 entrants looking to make history as the first four-max bracelet winner ever, and the chips were flying almost immediately. During the first six levels of play, we lost more than two thirds of the field, including Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Marvin Rettenmaier, Daniel Negreanu, David Vamplew, Aaron Jones, and the 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada.

There are plenty of other notables who will return tomorrow, including Sam Stein (154,200), Tony Dunst (162,800), Darryll Fish (125,700), Joe Tehan (96,600), Lex Veldhuis (102,200), Isaac Haxton (49,500), and Jason Koon (139,000).

With 86 players remaining, we are just six eliminations away from bursting a $4,385 money bubble

Jake Cody has a top 20 stack, Martins Adeinya in too


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Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick, Zimnan Ziyard: cash

Total : $727,400

Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

4 left with a British chip leader

Top Chip Counts
1    Stephen Chidwick    1,500,000
2    Ylon Schwartz       1,160,000
3    Robby Rasmussen    760,000
4    David Chiu       135,000

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Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Four-Handed

As of now

Top Chip Counts

1    Brendon Rubie       1,260,000
2    James Schaaf       730,000
3    Timothy Adams       700,000
4    Greg Merson       660,000
5    Anthony Gregg       630,000
6    Andrey Gulyy       580,000
7    Jason Koon       400,000
8    Toan Trinh       330,000
9    Torrey Reily       300,000

Martins Adeniya finished 43rd, Nick Gibson 73rd

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Event 29: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

513 of 4128 remain

A high profile top ten currently

Top Chip Counts

1    Fred Roll               81,000
2    Dennis Phillips       56,000
3    Pete Giordano       53,000
4    Marcel Luske       36,000
5    Chris Bjorn       27,000
6    Toto Leonidas       22,000
7    Humberto Brenes    19,000
8    Hal Lubarsky       18,000
9    Marilynn Kroon       18,000
10    Steve Patch       10,000



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Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball

140 of 285 remain

Early days, but look who is near the top.....

Top Chip Counts
1    Aaron Jones       28,500
2    Stuart Rutter       21,500
3    Andrew Lichtenberger 21,000
4    Rep Porter       18,000
5    John Phan               18,000
6    Dan Smith               15,200
7    Kevin MacPhee       14,000
8    Brandon Cantu       13,000
9    Galen Hall               12,500
10    Liv Boeree               11,000

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Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29-
#30-

Total : $807,300



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Stephen Chidwick now 3 handed going for the first British Bracelet of the summer

Not sure if anyone knows Chidwick, but he plays all the big stuff with a very low profile

Yet, his record is superb...

$3m won online http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/stevie444/

This is now his 11th WSOP Cash http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=97716

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/PCA09_10K_IJG_3396.jpg)

The final three coming back tomorrow in the HORSE

Overnight chip counts

1    David Chiu       1,920,000
2    Ylon Schwartz       1,300,000
3    Stephen Chidwick    785,000

Quality line up Gl him tho

The Chiu Chiu train has to be one of the most underrated players in poker.

Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day 4 completed
Ylon Schwartz Wins His First Bracelet! ($267,081)

For the past four days, Event #27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. of the 2012 World Series of Poker unfolded as a starting field of 889 players played down until just one remained. That man was Ylon Schwartz, who outlasted 17 other players on Day 3 to capture his first gold bracelet and the $267,081 first-place prize.

Today was Day 4 of this three-day event, and the finalists returned bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Chidwick was the short stack left, and he was the first to bow out. It was Omaha Hi/Lo when he fell, going to war with Schwartz on a {7-Spades} {9-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} board. Chidwick had already put 500,000 of his chips into the pot, leaving just 135,000 back. Schwartz made the river bet, and Chidwick tanked for ages before committing himself. The cards were turned up, and it was bad news for the one at-risk.

Chidwick: {A-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {10-Spades}
Schwartz: {7-Clubs} {6-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {4-Hearts}

The straight for Schwartz was the winner, and that left he and Chiu heads-up for the bracelet. Chiu was facing a chip deficit to start the duel, but he wasted no time drawing the match nearly square.

Nearly was as close as he'd get though. Chiu lost a monster pot during the Stud round to all but end the match. Here are the boards the two players went with on the deciding hand:

Chiu: (x-x) / {2-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} / (x)
Schwartz: (x-x) / {3-Clubs} {4-Spades} {7-Spades} {7-Hearts} / (x)

Schwartz called bets on fourth and fifth, but he raised on sixth. Chiu reraised, but Schwartz came right back with the fourth bet, drawing a curious look from his opponent. Chiu flatted that bet and another one on sixth. On seventh, Schwartz got in a sneaky check-raise, and when Chiu called, he revealed {K-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} {7-Clubs} in the hole. Quads!

Chiu was reduced to just 200,000 chips — one big bet — and the match was over within minutes.

Event 27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Ylon Schwartz   $267,081
2nd   David Chiu   $164,960
3rd   Stephen Chidwick   $112,106
4th   Robby Rasmussen   $78,021
5th   Elior Sion   $55,422
6th   David Rogers   $40,169
7th   Jason Brown   $29,679
8th   Marlon Milne   $22,358


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-27-h-o-r-s-e/

Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Four-Handed
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Timothy Adams, Winner of Event 28, $2,500 NLH Four-Handed ($392,476)

The third and final day of Event 28, $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Four-Handed, of the World Series of Poker has come to an end. After returning with eight players only Timothy Adams walked away with $392,476 and his first WSOP gold bracelet.

It took less than one full level to trim the field to five and move to the ESPN Feature Table in the Amazon Room. Andrey Gulyy, Toan Trinh and Torrey Reily were all short stacked and looked to double up. But their luck didn’t hold and they missed out on the final table.

The players played about a level and a half before the next elimination would occur. Brendon Rubie opened for 33,000 and Greg Merson shoved behind him. Rubie called holding {A-Spades} {Q-Hearts} and Merson had {A-Hearts} {K-Diamonds}. Rubie paired his queen on the turn and Merson never improved, sending him home in fifth place.

Anthony Gregg had been on short stack for all of Day 3 after enjoying some time in the chip lead on Day 2. He made his final stand by shoving preflop with {A-Spades} {3-Clubs} and Rubie called with pocket deuces. Gregg never improved his hand and exited in fourth place.

During three-handed play Timothy Adams scored a sick double up. Adams opened for 48,000, Brendon Rubie raised to 112,000 and Adams called. The flop came {7-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds}, Rubie checked, Adams bet 201,000 and Rubie check-raised to 976,000. Adams tank-shoved and Rubie called. Adams held {A-Diamonds} {K-Spades} and Rubie had {10-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds}. The board completed {Q-Hearts} {2-Clubs} and Adams took the chip lead.

The third place finisher was determined when Adams and James Schaaf each put 48,000 in preflop and the board came {Q-Diamonds} {2-Spades} {2-Hearts}. Schaaf check-called the flop and the {Q-Clubs} came on the turn. Both players checked to the {Q-Spades} river. Schaaf bet 175,000, Adams put him all in and Schaaf called. Schaaf tabled pocket fours but Adams had him beat holding pocket tens.

Heads up play covered three levels of action and it was a slow affair. Rubie and Adams traded small pots back and forth, mostly min-raising or betting twice the minimum.

The last hand occurred when Rubie opened for 80,000 on the button and Adams raised to 225,000. Rubie called and the flop fell {8-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} {10-Diamonds}. Adams led out with 255,000 and Rubie called to see the {5-Spades} turn. Adams moved all in and
Rubie went deep into the tank. Rubie called after a few minutes, only to face bad news. Rubie tabled {K-Spades} {Q-Hearts} and Adams held {A-Clubs} {Q-Spades}. The {A-Spades} fell on the river, shipping the match and the bracelet to Adams.

Final Table Payouts

Place   Player   Prize
1   Timothy Adams   $392,476
2   Brendon Rubie   $242,458
3   James Schaaf   $164,823
4   Anthony Gregg   $114,711


: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-28-no-limit-hold-em-four-handed/

Event 29: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2 completed

Day two has just finished and the hopefuls will return tomorrow where a winner will be crowned. Kevin DeTienne came out as today’s chip leader, bagging 1,325,000. With 462 players returning for the day only 33 came out the other side. The money bubble was burst early during the first level of the day and the rest of the day saw a consistent flow of people being eliminated.

Marcel Luske had a yo-yo of a day that ended with him making his exit late. Humberto Brenes, Hal Lubarsky, and Toto Leonidas all left early also.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-29-seniors-no-limit-hold-em-championship/

Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
Day 2 completed
Cantu Clear Leader Heading to the Final Table of Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball

Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball played down to a final table today from the 66 that started at 2:00 PM. The field was star-studded from the off and it’ll be no different heading into the final table tomorrow. Brandon Cantu came into today as one of the biggest stacks and ended the day as clear chip leader.

Michael Mizrachi won a huge pot right at the beginning of the day and used his chip prowess to apply pressure all day long, before late slide saw him drop back to third spot. He did set the final table though when he knocked out John Pham in 8th place.

Cantu had a very similar day too, and for a while took over the chip lead from Mizrachi, before it was wrestled back off him. Cantu finished super-strong and regained it in the last hour of play. His aggressive style worked well in this No-Limit format and when he needed hands he found hands, and when he didn’t, he drew very well.

Cantu knocked out Bryan Devonshire in 9th, Leo Margets in 22nd, and also Galen Hall in 32nd. Other notable players who cashed included, Stuart Rutter, (10th), Erik Seidel (13th), Jennifer Harman (19th), Scott Fischman (25th), and David Sklansky (33rd).

Those not so lucky to even cash today included Liv Boeree, Michael Binger, Ted Forrest, Bryce Yockey, Michael Watson, Greg Raymer, and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. None was more unlucky than Todd Bryson, the bubble boy. He was one of the many who failed to overcome Cantu in a hand.

Play resumes at 2:00 PM tomorrow on the secondary feature table in the Pavilion room. Here’s how the final seven players players will line up tomorrow:

Seat   Player   Chip Count
1   Erick Lindgren   185,600
2   Ryan Tepen   51,100
3   Rep Porter   233,400
4   Brandon Cantu   336,100
5   Michael Mizrachi   206,800
6   Andrew Lichtenberger   161,100
7   Larry Wright   116,200

Stuart Rutter finished 10th for $5,955

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-30-2-7-draw-lowball/

Event 31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

440 of 2811 currently remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Erik Cajelais       117,000
2    Thomas Miller       107,000
3    Maxi Lehmanski       84,000
4    Cherish Andrews    82,000
5    Angel Guillen       65,000
6    Dwyte Pilgrim       45,000
7    Dan Harrington       43,000
8    Joe Cada               38,000
9    Eric Baldwin    32,000
10    John Juanda    27,000

Will hunt around to see which Brits are left in when overnights go up

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-31-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E

144 of 178 remain

Numbers in this are 20% down on last year, continuing a treand in the $10ks whereas $5k numbers have held up. Tough times

Another stacked top ten

Top Chip Counts
1    Fabrice Soulier       93,000
2    Steve Zolotow       86,000
3    Allen Bari               82,000
4    Phil Ivey               73,500
5    Mori Eskandandi    72,000
6    Brandon Shack-Harris    71,000
7    Phil Hellmuth       70,000
8    Raul Paez               69,000
9    Daniel Negreanu    68,000
10    Joe Tehan              68,000

Jon Spinks and Richard Ashby going for the UK, Zimnan Ziyard is out already


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-32-h-o-r-s-e/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29-
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31-
#32-

Total : $848,200

I'm not sure if they are c and p'd but either way the updates are much appreciated. Poor year for Britain, but a score is on the way

the reports are PokerNews, with links to the fuller reports attached.

the Brit results table is mine, obviously net the Brits are going to be down a way so far this year. Impossible to estimate how much without a lot of admin!

Need some results or the British poker economy is gonna be gg

Event 29: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 3 completed
Day Three Ends With Phillips on Top

Day 3 has come to an end, and only four players remain. The plan was to finish tonight, but the decision was made and all four players will return tomorrow at 12:00 PM to finish it out.

Dennis Phillips possesses the chip lead with 5,335,000 and spent his day climbing back from the brink of elimination. Eventually after winning enough hands he overtook the lead and now looks to be in prime position to claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet.

Second in chips is Bob Phelps who spent his day acquiring chips and becoming the fan favorite to the crowd. Phelps sky rocketed to the top of the counts after he delivered the knock-out blow to William Stabler.

Third in chips is Hoyt Corkins who has been short stacked for the majority of the day, finding few spots but making the most of them. Corkins has quietly stayed around the entire day, rarely saying a word and raking in a pot every so often.

Bagging the least of the four was Allyn Jaffrey Shulman who had some big moments through out the day, knocking out Stuart Spear and doubling up when she needed to.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-29-seniors-no-limit-hold-em-championship/

Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Larry Wright, Winner of Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball ($101,975)!

After three fast paced days of No-Limit 2-7 Lowball we’ve got ourselves a winner! Larry Wright defeated a star-studded final table and a total of 284 players in order to claim a World Series Of Poker gold bracelet. After claiming the gold Wright said he had only learned how to play Single Draw four days ago, and accidentally mucked a deuce instead of an ace on day one when he was drawing one card. Wright didn't play as a rookie, and went on a tear today at this amazing final table!

Brandon Cantu got eliminated in second place earning him $63,048 while Larry Wright will walk home with his biggest prize ever, $101,975 and a World Series of Poker gold bracelet


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-30-2-7-draw-lowball/

Event 31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

19 of 2811 remain at the end of the day

1    Joe Cada       1,869,000
2    Michael Aron    1,745,000
3    Valentyn Shabelnyk 1,391,000
4    Cherish Andrews    1,383,000
5    Maximilian Lehmanski 908,000
6    Adam Kornuth       892,000
7    John Nelson       550,000
8    Jonathan Poche       491,000
9    Jim Kasputis Jr       457,000
10    Huy Quach       410,000

Najib Kamand of the UK is the shortstack with 142,000 guarnateed $19,000

James Akenhead finished 37th, Niall Farrell 79th, Priyan De Mel 89th, Kevin Allen 280th and Jamie Dale 290th

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-31-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E.

20 of 178 left with Hellmuth and Ivey in contention again

1    David Bach       495,000
2    Abe Mosseri       455,000
3    John Monnette       440,000
4    Brandon Shack-Harris    435,000
5    Phil Hellmuth       390,000
6    Phil Ivey               340,000
7    Matt Waxman       325,000
8    David Bakes Baker    300,000
9    Dan Kelly               262,000
10    Scott Clements            250,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-32-h-o-r-s-e/

Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

253 of 2795 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Brad Libson       106,000
2    Thomas Fuller       101,000
3    Jordan Cristos       95,000
4    Faraz Jaka               81,000
5    Amanda Baker       80,000
6    Mohsen Tayfeh       71,000
7    Justin Cohen       65,000
8    Jay Hong               65,000
9    Daniel Idema       65,000
10    Tim Ryan               54,000

Middleton, Adeniya, Teng, Ziyard, McCorkell and Vamplew appear to be amongst those who have cashed. More news at the end of the day's play



http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-33-no-limit-hold-em/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29-
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand,James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-

Total : $893,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-33-no-limit-hold-em/


Middy is a top ten stack overnight in Event 33:

1    Brad Libson       117,000
2    Eric Price               115,300
3    Thomas Fuller       103,000
4    Jordan Cristos       95,000
5    Sergey Laradev       91,900
6    Ren Heo Zhang       83,900
7    Faraz Jaka               81,900
8    Tom Middleton       78,500
9    Amanda Baker       74,700
10    Mohsen Tayfeh       71,000

He, Vamplew,McCorkell, Teng, Adeniya are in the money

Another heart warming WSOP story

Larry Wright

http://www.wsop.com/news/2012/Jun/3862/LARRY-PLAYS-DEUCE-TO-SEVEN-THE-WRIGHT-WAY.html

"Larry worked most of his life in the trucking business.  He built up a fleet of trucks and specialized in shipping and transportation.  When he turned 60, Larry decided he’d worked long and hard enough.  He’d made enough money to be happy.  So, he decided to give up his successful trucking company.  He sold it.  In fact, he sold it directly to his employees.
 
For how much?
 
Try -- $1."

Event 31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Carter Phillips and Joe Cada are curently heads up

Najib Kamand finished 5th for $153,000 for the UK

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-31-no-limit-hold-em/

David Baker has just won Event 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. beating John Monnette Heads Up

Hellmuth finished 4th, Ivey finished 5th


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-32-h-o-r-s-e/

Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

14 left

A number of British cashes

CT Law 45th $8531
Sunny Chattha 81st $4176
David Vamplew 140th $2767
Jon Spinks 163rd $2767
Andrew Teng 152nd $2767
Craig McCorkell 184th $2214
Zimnan Ziyard 195th $2214
Andy Bradshaw 214th $2012
Martins Adeniya 215th $2012


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-33-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed

72 of 419 left

Top Chip Counts
1    David Benyamine    248,300
2    Shaun Deeb       231,000
3    Scott Bohlman       226,900
4    David Colin       202,500
5    Kevin MacPhee       173,500
6    Adam Kornuth       165,400
7    Chris De Maci       164,000
8    Joseph Cheong       162,600
9    Karim Jomeen       160,000
10    Joe Monro               157,100


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-34-pot-limit-omaha-six-handed/

Event 35: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em

108 of 393 left

Top Chip Counts
1    David Williams       64,000
2    Andre Akkari       60,000
3    Bryan Devonshire    41,000
4    James Dempsey       41,000
5    Richard Brodie       41,000
6    Dan Harrington       37,500
7    Phil Ivey               36,000
8    Hiren Patel       32,000
9    Brian Meinders       30,000
10    Randy Lew       29,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-35-mixed-hold-em-limit-no-limit/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35-

Total : $1,053,200

Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em


Congratulations to Max Steinberg on Winning Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day three has ended here at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino with Max Steinberg being crowned champion of Event 33: No Limit Hold’em. Steinberg bested 2,779 other players and walks away with $440,238. Steinberg will also receive his first World Series of Poker bracelet.

Fourteen people came in today with the aspirations of winning poker’s top prize. The afternoon went quickly with players being eliminated right in the first level of the day. With the elimination of Vincent van der Fluit and Mikhail Timoshin who were each at different tables, but got eliminated at the same time as each other we went straight to our official nine-handed final table. Once the final table was reached the action stayed at the same fast pace with Christopher Shaw being eliminated 20 minutes into the final table.

Soon play slowed down though with the majority of preflop raises stealing the blinds and antes. Eventually though the game sped up and we saw a slew of eliminations; Vitaly Meshcheriakov, Ryan Laplante, David Nicholson, and Joseph Marzicola all dropped off. After some more intense game play Dylan Hortin was knocked-out. The former chip leader continued his aggression and ultimately paid the price for it .

Then it was down to the final three. Matt Stout, Steinberg, and Samuel Gerber. Matt Stout was the first to leave after having a yo-yo of a day finishing in third.

The two remaining players both knew what it was like to be where they were. Both Steinberg and Gerber have been runner ups in WSOP events, and both players did it in the same year. Heads up play began with both players fairly even in chips, but a couple of hands put Steinberg in front, and he was able to ride that all the way to victory.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-33-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed
Day 2 completed

The World Series of Poker Event 34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed came back today with 72 players all with two aims: to get in the money, and then go on and make a final table. We got to, and burst the bubble, but fell a little short of making the final table.

After 10 levels of play the field was whittled all the way down to 11 players. The player who tops the lot is runaway chip leader from Japan, Naoya Kihara with 1,548,000 chips. He had an incredible day where he busted player after player with huge hands that held, or draws that got there. When there were 24 players left he had more chips than the average player will take forward to tomorrow’s six-handed final table. Did anyone tell him this is a three-day tournament? He ended with around a quarter of the chips in play!

The field was stacked today, and will continue to be so tomorrow. Remember the name Hans Winzeler from last summer? He came second to Jason Mercier in this very tournament, earning $383,075. He’s in a great position to do a repeat, he’ll be hoping for one better though.

Here’s how the final 11 and their chip counts look heading to tomorrow:
Place   Player   Chips
1   Naoya Kihara   1,548,000
2   Tommy Le           965,000
3   Davidi Kitai           789,000
4   Hans Winzeler   613,000
5   Chris De Maci   515,000
6   Dimitar Danchev   469,000
7   Jason DeWitt   465,000
8   Scott Bohlman   397,000
9   Daniel Hindin   211,000
10   Kevin MacPhee   174,000
11   Joseph Cheong   125,000

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-34-pot-limit-omaha-six-handed/

Event 35: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em

10 of 393 remain

1    Joep van den Bijgaart    455,000
2    Erik Cajelais       411,000
3    Michael Gathy       390,000
4    Samuel Golbuff       363,000
5    Salman Behbehani    298,000
6    Brent Wheeler       268,000
7    Jeremy Ausmus       245,000
8    Chris Tryba       235,000
9    Michael Foti       152,000
10    Phil Ivey               136,500

James Dempsey finished 11th  for $12,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-35-mixed-hold-em-limit-no-limit/

Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 1 completed
60 Players Advance to Day 2

Day 1 of Event 36, $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, of the World Series of Poker has come to a close. There were 587 entrants across 60 tables in the Brasilia Room, 13 of them nine-handed and 47 ten-handed. The shootout format allows the winners to advance with the chips they collected from their table, so we have 47 players tied for the chip lead.

Kidding aside, there will be some small variation in the counts when the field returns for Day 2. The stacks will range from 81,000 to 90,000 and each returning player will have made the money. Each player is guaranteed at least $9,086 but they’re all gunning for the $368,593 first place prize.

Fresh of his $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship win the night prior, David “Bakes” Baker returned to the felt today. He cashed for the second day in a row by winning his table, although it may not compare to the $451,779 he won last night.

Jean-Robert Bellande also moved on just minutes after we heard him announce, “I’m going to open up my calling range.” The next hand saw him call and lose with {K-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds}, but he two hands later his {J-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} made a flush and won him the table.

Two of Great Britain’s best players, James Akenhead and Liv Boeree, played heads up for the better part of two levels before their match was decided. Akenhead held {A-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} on the final against Boeree’s {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs}. The board ran {7-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {5-Spades} and Akenhead moved on.

One of the lightest moments occurred at Chris Moneymaker’s table today. We came upon his table and he confirmed the hand he just lost he, “played really bad.” He moved all in the next hand and doubled up and said, “I run so bad at the WSOP.”

“You won the Main Event, shut up.” Eric Baldwin and his tablemates said giving the 2003 champ a needle.

“I meant this year’s WSOP,” Moneymaker had to clarify with a smile.

Steve Billirakis, Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, Chance Kornuth, Christian Harder, Ryan D’Angelo, Jonathan Tamayo, Jason Koon, Melanie Weisner, Joe Tehan and Huy Nguyen are just a handful of those that will be playing on Day 2.

Many came and many fell during Day 1 including: Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Tristan Wade, Moneymaker, Jake Cody, Chris Moorman, Galen Hall, Isaac Haxton, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Kacthalov.

Day 2 will see ten six-handed tables and they will play down to a final table of ten.

James Akenhead and Roberto Romanello are through to tomorrow


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-36-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Event 37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix

209 of 477 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Jeff Madsen       50,000
2    Ylon Schwartz       30,000
3    Gavin Griffin       29,000
4    Dan Kelly               28,000
5    Eric Crain               26,000
6    Huck Seed               26,000
7    Daniel Idema       25,000
8    Barry Greenstein    25,000
9    Kyle Bowker       24,000
10    Jameson Painter    22,500

Jon Spinks, Stuart Rutter and Chris Moorman reported still in

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-37-eight-game-mix/

How fast do you type.

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 -
#37-

Total : $1,065,600

Lots of practice. Fast.

I delete quicker than I type, too

Ivey now 5 final tables in his last 6 WSOP Events.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/13541-phil-ivey-dominant-but-aloof-toward-the-poker-community

Amazing really

I wish I was like this. My excessive hendonmobbing is unhealthy.

Lutoner Paul Kemp is through in the $3k shootout after smashing up Barry Greenstein HU

Did you rail him. Ruholding is Owen Robinson right?

No RUHolding is Phil Anderson. Best tipster South of Watford.

Just going up there now to play the $1500 so will rail Kempo from about 1pm prob. RUHolding is WPIL.

Ok. Just  knew Owen uses that on ipoker

Congratulations to Naoya Kihara, Winner of Event #34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed ($512,029)

After three days of scintillating poker Event #34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Six-Handed has come to a conclusion. Our congratulations go to Naoya Kihara who defeated Chris De Maci, heads-up, to become our latest World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder and the first-ever from Japan.

419 players entered this competition creating a prizepool of $1,969,300 but from midway through Day 2 there was only ever one winner. Kihara took the chip lead after eliminating top quality opponents for fun. It was seriously one of the hottest streaks of poker we have witnessed, and he will surely never have another run like it.

Final Table Seat Draw
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Davidi Kitai   1,681,000
2   Hans Winzeler   1,042,000
3   Daniel Hindin   723,000
4   Naoya Kihara   1,577,000
5   Chris De Maci   612,000
6   Tommy Le   638,000


Congratulations to Naoya Kihara the first ever WSOP bracelet holder from Japan who earns himself $512,029 in the process. .

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Naoya Kihara   $512,029
2   Chris De Maci   $316,308
3   Daniel Hindin   $203,369
4   Hans Winzeler   $134,857
5   Davidi Kitai     $92,064
6   Tommy Le    $64,671

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

Congratulations to Chris Tryba, Winner of Event #35: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em ($210,107)!

After three hard-fought days of Texas Hold'em, both in its limit and no-limit formats, Event #35: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em is in the books with Chris Tryba standing tall as champion.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Chris Tryba   $210,107
2   Erik Cajelais   $129,766
3   Salman Behbehani   $93,842
4   Joep van den Bijgaart   $68,576
5   Michael Gathy   $50,640
6   Samuel Golbuff   $37,793
7   Brent Wheeler   $28,494
8   Phil Ivey   $21,699
9   Michael Foti   $16,692

And just like that, Chris Tryba claimed his first WSOP gold bracelet and the $210,107 prize that went along with it. This victory adds to Tryba's already-impressive poker resume, which includes over $1 million in live tournament earnings.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?grid=887&tid=12135

Event #36: No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Final Table Seat Draw

Seat   Player   Chip Count

1   Antonio Esfandiari   538,000
2   Joe Tehan   529,000
3   Jeremiah Fitzpatrick   539,000
4   Athanasios Polychronopoulos   528,000
5   Alessandro Longobardi   512,000
6   Jonathan Lane   509,000
7   Sardor Gaziev   527,000
8   Craig Mccorkell   539,000
9   Roberto Romanello   530,000
10   Thiago Nishijima   510,000


1st
$368,593
2nd
$228,261
3rd
$151,613
4th
$112,512
5th
$84,436
6th
$63,988
7th
$48,924
8th
$37,707
9th
$29,277
10th
$22,899

Roberto, if he wins, wins the Triple Crown having won WPT and EPT titles already

Craig, from Brighton, and friend of the great and good of British Poker

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=131872


Good luck to them both later.


James Akenhead, Niall Farrell and Max Silver all cashed for $9,086

Event #37: Eight Game Mix

32 of 477 left currently

No Brits cashed, though Chris Bjorin did again

Who's left? see

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=887&tid=12137

Event #38: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

A mammoth 2534 entries and 333 remain currently

News on Brits left at the end of the Day's play

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 - Roberto Romanello, Craig McCorkell: final. James Akenhead, Max Silver,Niall Farrell cash
#37-
#38-

Total : $1,136,800

We'll take it tho. He will be on England and not Italy come sunday

First British Bracelet of the summer

Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Craig McCorkell, Winner of Event 36, $3,000 NLH Shootout ($368,593)


The third and final day of Event 36, $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, of the World Series of Poker has come to and end. After a final table of ten players resumed play this afternoon only Craig McCorkell remained to claim the WSOP gold bracelet and $368,593.

The ten returning players had to win two tables to make the final table. The first round saw a full ring table and Day 2 had six-handed action. McCorkell won his first bracelet and had to battle Jeremiah Fitzpatrick heads up to claim it.


Final Table Payouts

Place   Player   Prize
1   Craig McCorkell   $368,593
2   Jeremiah Fitzpatrick   $228,261
3   Antonio Esfandiari   $151,613
4   Jonathan Lane   $112,512
5   Athanasios Polychronopoulos $84,436
6   Alessandro Longobardi $63,988
7   Roberto Romanello $48,924
8   Thiago Nishijima $37,707
9   Joe Tehan   $29,277
10   Sador Gaziev   $22,899


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-36-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

Event 37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix

5 left, including Donnacha O'Dea from Ireland

Top Chip Counts
1    Greg Mueller       1,550,000
2    Kevin Calenzo       720,000
3    Joseph Couden       530,000
4    Donnacha O'Dea    500,000
5    David Baker       210,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-37-eight-game-mix/

Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Down to the final three tables

able 439
Seat   Player
1   Jeffrey Manza
2   Bahman Jahanguiri
3   Miguel Proulx
4   David Pham
5   Jai Liu
6   Ardys Reed
7   Aharon Shabtay
8   Matthew Pierce
9   Fred Kulikowski

Table 440
Seat   Player
1   Layne Flack
2   Bastian Fischer
3   Marcus Gurley
4   Blair Hinkle
5   Blake Cahail
6   Zachary Korik
7   Jesse Wilke
8   Scott Clements
9   Kristijonas Andrulis

Table 441
Seat   Player
1   Ricky Crandell
2   Christopher Bonita
3   Jason Lester
4   Michael Palamidessi
5   Theo Tran
6   Michael Palamidessi
7   Dung Nguyen
8   Michael Borovetz
9   Tyler Patterson

Sam Razavi finished 33rd for $14,000, Scott Shelley 57th for $8,000, Nicky Evans 93rd for $4,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-38-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

95 of 293 left

Joe Beevers, Richard Ashby, Ben Grundy, John Kabbaj, Sam Trickett all reported still in

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-39-pot-limit-omaha/

Event 40: $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

178 of 302 left

Stephen Chidwick appears to be the last Brit left standing

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-40-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 - Craig McCorkell: BRACELET Roberto Romanello final. James Akenhead, Max Silver,Niall Farrell cash
#37-
#38- Sam Razavi, Scott Shelley, Nicky Evans: cash
#39-
#40-

Total : $1,522,000

Congratulations to David Baker, Winner of the 2012 WSOP Event 37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix ($271,312)

Over the past four days, Event #37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix has played out at the 2012 World Series of Poker and tested 477 players’ mettle in a variety of games: Triple-Draw 2-7, Limit Hold'em, Omaha 8, Razz, Stud, Stud 8, No-Limit Hold’em, and Pot Limit Omaha. While many played well, there could only be one winner, and that man was David Baker, who was long overdue to win his first gold bracelet.

Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   David Baker   $271,312
2nd   Greg Mueller   $167,637
3rd   Kevin Calenzo   $106,564
4th   Joe Couden   $76,841
5th   Donnacha O’Dea   $56,277
6th   Konstantin Puchkov   $41,844
7th   Christopher McHugh   $31,578
8th   Chris Viox   $24,188

Congrats to David Baker on winning Event 37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix, the $271,312, and perhaps more importantly, his first WSOP gold bracelet.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-37-eight-game-mix/

Congratulations to Dung Nguyen, Winner of Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($607,200)

After a long and exciting day of poker, Dung Nguyen has been crowned the champion of Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. Nguyen overcame a field of 2,502 players to take home all the glory, the $607,200 first-place prize and of course, the World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Dung Nguyen   $607,200
2   Theo Tran   $377,565
3   Bahman Jahanguiri$267,241
4   Blair Hinkle   $192,734
5   David Pham   $140,736
6   Kristijonas Andrulis $103,995
7   Zachary Korik   $77,791
8   Jeffrey Manza   $58,874
9   Tyler Patterson   $45,087


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-38-no-limit-hold-em/

Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

19 of 293 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Andrew Brown       1,120,000
2    Sammy Farha       1,100,000
3    Benjamin Sage       950,000
4    Steven Silverman    760,000
5    Joe Kushner       685,000
6    Jan-Peter Jachtmann    665,000
7    John Kabbaj       435,000
8    Adam Kornuth       410,000
9    Nikolai Yakovenko    340,000
10    Andy Seth                320,000

Tim Flanders and Joe Beevers also still in

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-39-pot-limit-omaha/

Event 40: $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

15 of 302 left

op Chip Counts
1    Terrence Chan       342,000
2    Vincent Gironda       270,000
3    Brent Wheeler       203,500
4    Joep van den Bijgaart    196,000
5    Rep Porter       165,000
6    Marco Johnson       157,000
7    Jacob Petersen       150,000
8    Chad Brown       140,000
9    Maria Ho               140,000
10    Hans Minocha       140,000

No British cashers

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-40-limit-hold-em-six-handed/payouts.htm

Event 41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

324 of 1394 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Brock Parker       112,000
2    Steven Kerr       106,000
3    Kennii Nguyen       89,000
4    Jason Koon       77,000
5    John Racener       61,000
6    Tim West               58,000
7    Layne Flack       52,000
8    Justin Barnum       51,000
9    Ronald Lee       49,000
10    Adam Junglen       46,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-41-no-limit-hold-em/chips.htm

Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better

288 of 393 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Norman Chad       24,000
2    John Cernuto       23,500
3    Tom Koral               22,000
4    Perry Friedman       21,000
5    Can Kim Hua       19,000
6    Scott Seiver       19,000
7    Dan Kelly               18,000
8    Dylan Linde       18,000
9    Amnon Filippi       18,000
10    Xuan Liu               18,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-42-omaha-seven-card-stud-hi-low-8-or-better/

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Steve Watts, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 - Craig McCorkell: BRACELET Roberto Romanello final. James Akenhead, Max Silver,Niall Farrell cash
#37-
#38- Sam Razavi, Scott Shelley, Nicky Evans: cash
#39- John Kabbaj, Tim Flanders, Joe Beevers: cash
#40-
#41-
#42-

Total : $1,595,000

Congratulations to Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Winner of the 2012 WSOP Event #39 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha ($661,000)

The 2012 World Series of Poker continued on Saturday with the third and final day of Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. What started with 293 players was down to the final 13 at the start of the day, each looking to take down the $661,000 first-place prize. It took less than six hours to determine a winner, and that man was Germany’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann.

Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Jan-Peter Jachtmann   $661,000
2nd   Andrew Brown   $408,393
3rd   Steven Silverman   $299,960
4th   Micah Smith   $222,044
5th   Andy Seth   $165,665
6th   Benjamin Sage   $124,600
7th   Nikolai Yakovenko   $94,442
8th   Jason Mercier   $72,132
9th   Joe Kushner   $55,525


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-39-pot-limit-omaha/

Ronnie Bardah Wins Event 40: $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed ($182,088)!

Coming into the day, Bardah was dead last in chips, which was much in part to losing some big pots towards the end of Day 2. Never the one to let obstacles deter him from reaching his goal, Bardah fought and fought hard. He walked into the Amazon Room with a smile on his face and went right to work, doubling up the first hand and picking up steam from there. Before anyone knew what had happened, Bardah was right in the thick of it all.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Ronnie Bardah   $182,088
2   Marco Johnson   $112,525
3   Vincent Gironda   $73,040
4   Brent Wheeler   $48,828
5   Sorel Mizzi   $33,541
6   Hans Minocha   $23,648


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-40-limit-hold-em-six-handed/