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Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

29 left. Marvellous news!

Top Chip Counts
1    James Mackey       1,030,000
2    Neil Channing       980,000
3    John Nelson       900,000
4    Jared Rosenbaum    750,000
5    Zach Clark               735,000
6    Michael Benvenuti    695,000
7    Balazs Botond       580,000
8    Kevin Song       580,000
9    Andres Sanchez       572,000
10    Carter Phillips       540,000

Tom Alner also still in with 350,000 for the UK

Table 439
Seat   Player   Chip Count
1   Cary Marshall   180,000
2   Neil Channing   980,000
3   Karim Vegas   200,000
4   Carl DiVeglia III   285,000
5   William Dannels   95,000
6   Adam Foster   330,000
7   Julian Herold   195,000
8   Tom Alner   350,000
9   John Nelson   900,000

Table 441
Seat   Player   Chip Count
1   Francois Dur   325,000
2   Zach Clark   735,000
3   Jesse Yaginuma   374,000
4   Shankar Pillai   310,000
5   Michael Benvenuti   695,000
6   Carter Phillips   540,000
7   Michael De Gilio   82,000
8   Mark Ketteringham   445,000
9   Daniel Zeihen   200,000

Table 443
Seat   Player   Chip Count
1   Randy Lew   510,000
2   Kevin Song   580,000
3   Jared Rosenbaum   750,000
4   James Mackey   1,030,000
5   Andres Sanchez   572,000
6   Henry Lu   415,000
7   Balazs Botond   580,000
8   Michael Judge   370,000
9   Hovan Nguyen   335,000

1          654,380
2          406,409
3          286,633
4          207,019
5          151,338
6          111,961
7          83,802
8          63,459
9          48,614
10          37,657
11          37,657
12          37,657
13          29,505
14          29,505
15          29,505
16          23,372
17          23,372
18          23,372
19          18,735
20          18,735
21          18,735
22          18,735
23          18,735
24          18,735
25          18,735
26          18,735
27          18,735


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-43-no-limit-hold-em/

gl

So hope Mr Channing wins this. glgl

GL Neil!

Gl my wages.

Pob lwc Neil

gogogog

Good luck Neil. Definate boost for morale this one

Gl neil

Very best of luck Neil! 

All the best Neil.

 ;kneelsucker;

VBOL sir,

Geo

 Thanks guys - I'm touched. Had a fun day. The cards helped me a lot, may have to rely on playing a bit more tomorrow. Back at 1pm (9pm in the UK).

Wow.  all the very best

Good luck neil

good luck neil! Bring home some gold!

Would love to Neil win gold. Gogogogogo

Do a win Neil.

Don't know Neil personally but he comes across as an interesting sort and as straight as a die.

VBOL.

Oh my my my, great news, & if Neil could win this, it would be just wonderful.

Good luck Mr C.

Go Channing, I look forward to his victory interview where every other word is replaced with 'BlackBelt Poker'.

Seriously though, one of the great ambassadors for UK poker, hope he spanks everyone tomorrow.

Good luck Neil

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3 of 20 going back later with double average.

glgl Dr C

GO NEIL! Will be on the rail later!

Gl all the best for today

any stream for FT when he gets there?

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11481

4
[United Kingdom] Neil Channing
1,050,000        
-269,000
London
-
United Kingdom

7
[United Kingdom] Tom Alner
785,000        
+355,000
Bristol
-
United Kingdom


Two of them right in the mix of it!

Good luck brits hope the rail is epic if they both make it! Love to hear the Americans complaining about British Success!

I am trying the live stream but it tells me to comeback next summer. Anyone got a link that works please

dont know if it is up yer not down to FT yet

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?rr=5&grid=887&tid=12143&dayof=

i get some updates from here!

Cheers. Pleased to see mee old mate Randy Lew is there too

Can he play more tables then you yet?

Tom Alner is a fellow Phuketeer. Gl to him too. V nice guy by all accounts - got a lot of mutual friends.

He was struggling with his eyes and was wearing those great big jam jar things. Put him onto Norfolk Optitians and he sorts him out with lenses that have been ground down real fine. I ain't been allowed on stars for a year bUt used to open all his tables for the craic like but obv he never spoke. Guess he must still be one of their top guys still. Never thought but I should have contacted him about trying to get James Atkin a slot on the on line team. With stars it's usually more who you know than what you know. MC would be an asset to em for sure.

Will you be playing stoke or Sheffield Cos?

Yeah gonna defo play one of the two. not decided which yet.

Cool I thought that the actionjack would have insisted on it as you are great for morale and an inspiration to many

rofl thanks

Best of luck Neil

Best of luck Neil, take it down.....am looking forward to Neil getting the bracelet with Tikay on the rail doing shoe bombs!! Of the two I think I know which one has more chance of happening!

I think you under estimate Neil. He has a great chance imo

They seem to be dropping like flies! unofficial FT time!

chunks for channing! big chip leader nwo!

oioi.

Brilliant for British poker. Can't wait for the stream to come on

keep clicking refresh! im such a saddo!

Let us know as soon as. I'm on the iPhone and don't know how to do both at the same time

The stream has started:
http://www.wsop.com/2012/live-video/default.aspx?TID=12143

David Tuchman:

"The pasty looking gentleman in seat 7 - that's Neil Channing".

was having problems with mine but got it working now!

Neil knocks out Jared Rosenbaum in 9th place.
QQ > A4 aipf and flops a set.

has the british rail been kicked out already seems subdued

was going to coment on that also espesh as neil seems to be crushing at the minute!

brill to be able to sweat it live.

cmon Neil

Go on Neil!!!

I bet he wishes it was a bounty hunter.

Lets hope he gets em all.

Queens twice :)

Wheeeeeeeee.
Vicky Coren on commentary.

Oh my, I would so love to see Neil win this.

Good luck Mr C!

And that's the icing on the cake, those two go back such a long time. Lovely.

On a twenty minute break.

Vicky Coren:

"I'm going to go and find Channing".

When do you two ever sleep ?

Every time James Mackey wins a pot he has one railbird in the stands that stands up and yells "Oh, yeah" with a creepy gyrating motion.

Perhaps its best not to be on the rail!

hope she comes back with some good news!

Can't sleep. Our hero is at a final table ...  and Mr. Channing too.

Yeah that sure as hell is some double.

back up and running!

haha wp Smashed for getting a message read out on the feed.

Wiiii Tuchman a boss lol

i missed it what he say?

Also channing is playing really well at the moment and dominating all players not letting himself be out played/out positioned!

Great stuff keep it up!

was along the lines of good luck Neil from all the blondes.

Yeah kept it short so he would read it out. Just worked out how to use twitter. Could be some carnage now lol

I double dare you telll him that back home Neil's nickname is Neil' Tiikay' Channing

Hes american hell definatly fall for it!

wheres the british rail we just have some guy saying OoOO yeah!

They must be at The Wynn cheering on Tikay :)

He's worked with tikay on Sky - he definitely won't!

I'm en route down to rail now!

a lot of people in the $2.5k and venetian 1k today so the rail's going to  be sparse sigh

Still enough of a group to irratate a few american's no doubt.

goood work

neils going all the way so no rush ;)

Another knock-out for Neil.
wheeeeeeeeeee.

Have fun Dave.

5 left

channing has double the chips of 2nd place

2 brits left!

Great times! Should smash the 3 million barrier in WSOP earnings for UK! wonder hopw many entry fees have been paiud and weather we are in profit!

mate that is diff class, Tikay making the final table at the Wynn just got announced on the live final feed.

The guy even said what a great guy he was too.

great ninja work Smashed

Yeah what ya saying now guys. Even got my new mate to mention tikay is in a final on the live stream

Good work on the shoutout....get Tikay to do a shoe bomb for top marks!

Mr. Channing putting manners on John Nelson there - excellent work.

... and again.

great stuff.

On our way to Rio to rail Neil!

Get there quick.
Mr. Channing has just bust John Nelson.

1    Neil Channing       6,520,000
2    James Mackey       3,000,000
3    Henry Lu       2,200,000
4    Tom Alner       675,000

Both Brits in the last 4 a one two would be nice too.

Top stuff Neil, now finish the job.

One hour break - slackers.

oh no, bed for me. good look to Neil, would be a really well deserved bracelet.

Fml. Just tried to get onto Blackbelt poker with the intention of playing 50 tables at once to get upto bluebelt in the next few hours.  Got a feeling Neil is gonna be looking to put a lot of mates into the main event :)


Can't wait for Neil to knock out James Mackey and have lildave go "oooooooohhhhhhhhhh nnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooo"

The stream is back.
http://www.wsop.com/2012/live-video/default.aspx?TID=12143

I came straight back from Wynn to rail Neil, & there was nobody there! Lunch break I guess. Not sure I should go down there again now, as I have my jimjams on.

Flushy on commentary.

1    Neil Channing       7,900,000
2    Henry Lu       2,125,000
3    James Mackey       1,500,000
4    Tom Alner       1,350,000


Mr. Channing took a big pot off James Mackey with a boat holding 22.

Gonna head down for the rail...

Be quick!!!

Heads up.

1    Neil Channing       10,200,000
2    Henry Lu       2,250,000

This is epic

come on Neil, close it out! good luck

Neil doubles Lu up, Heads Up...

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Channing is a WARRIOR. Playing so sick

How longs the break for. Gonna be pretty annoyed having been up all night and miss the final hand :(

They're back.
With Vicky Coren and Flushy on commentary - dream team.

Only one more to go keep it up Neil

Any updates?

1    Neil Channing       7,265,000
2    Henry Lu       5,200,000

It's been to-ing and fro-ing.

Neil's had him aipf twice but had dominated aces both times.

Good call Vince. Gotta take the kids to school in a minute :(

Blimey!  Don't know how all you managed to stay awake through the night.  Just glad he's still going now when the rest of the world is awake.

I take it the chip counts on pokernews are a bit behind?

Looks like Channing has at least double Lu.

[ ] I read stacks well :(

Quietest rail so far,we all sober for a change! Come on Neil finish it off we need to go to bed!

Loving the stream commentary. Banter between Coren and Flushy, and stuff the poker.

I'm not sure I could eat 100 fried eggs in a day, but I might try for enough money.

dubai will lay you that bet

Unlucky Neil.
Great effort.

WP Neil, gg.

Wow tough luck. Unlucky Mr C.

sighhhhhhhhhhhhh

Neil looked crushed

So unlucky Neil-  vwp

Abs gutted for Neil. WP sir and very ul

Damn!  Sigh.  Well played to get heads up Neil and vul in the finish.

Unlucky Neil, fantastic effort.

Great  effort wp

Noooo, well played Neil

Omg. That man deserves a braclet more than any guy I can think of in British poker . Wp mate

Very Unlucky, Well Played Neil

Very wp Mr Channing

Ul Gutted for Neil great effort it will happen next time

Unlucky Neil, fantastic effort.

:(

Ul Neil, genuinely one of the good guys and I know the bracelet would have meant more than the reddies.

great work in the booth flushy - i only saw HU but it sounded fun and your technical stuff was v good

fell asleep and woke up again just to hear that he had lost heads up flushy and coren are wierd voices to wake up to was very confused! But hey ho!

VUL neil and very well played for the parts i was watching!

Very much this, I read Snoopy's interview with him on BBP over the weekend and it was clear how much a bracelet would mean to him.

It feels like we should be celebrating a great score but the strange thing is I didn't even check how much he had won, was just gutted for him that he didn't get the bracelet.

vv well played Neil.

Always struck me as one of the good guys and to come so close must be horrible, but as Jase will tell you, second is pretty good too

I'm really chuffed that he found time today to email me personally to tell me about some exciting training videos too

always on the job!

I was a bit disappointed  that Neil didn't wear his black belt poker karate outfit and do a kind of heavyweight boxing contender walk on in it to the final table chanting 'black belt cha cha cha, black belt....then bowing to the camera. Also handing out black belts to the rail and even asking/paying some if the Brit rail to wear the emblazoned  karate outfits would have been brill too.

For the nut advertising tho I would have got that guy in the crowd that seemed to have a bit of an erection every time  he danced to bang a Gong after each hand Neil won, he could then have done a small bow to the camera and given how many pots he won it would have been advertising dynamite.

 ;spam; FTW
 






 

Nothing can hurt worse than 2nd in a braclet event. It's bad enough finishing 2nd at anytime but when it's for the holy grail of poker it is that being so close that cuts you up. Still plenty of time for Neil imo

Fantastic effort Neil , very well played.

Whilst I agree with this in one sense I'm sure there are worse things. He has 400,000 reasons to feel better altho obv he ultimately wanted gold

nice rub lol

Congrats and unlucky Neil. Get it next time!

Pretty sure he would take winning £70k and a braclet. Those 400,000 reasons are worth about 70p each. To a lot of guys the braclet is worth a lot more than quite large sums of money. He is adored by everyone in Ireland and winning the Irish open meant a lot more than a majority of the 810,000 eeee ors.

My last statement was not meant to be a rub. I showed my love for Neil doing the $5 satellite spin to a well documented 2nd place in Marrakesh then wore his blackbelt patches for a couple of seasons. Try tell me who has ever looked that devestated at winning that sort of money and you would be pretty hard pressed to find someone. Neil has been a positive influence on many of the uks players and provided many of em a step onto the first rung of the ladder. There are not many harder working guys in poker and it's not just for his own benefit

The point I'm making Jase is it's not the "worst thing that could have happened" Don't disagree he really wanted a bracelet. Would be interesting to know whether he'd now pay 330k for one

Yes it is quite funny that we are devestated that he has won 400k. He would never pay any amount for a braclet I don't think but might just give all the cash up to have sucked out when he had Henry Lu all in and covered. :)

I know I would like to feel how he is is feeling about coming second, shit as it must be.

Ul Neil but it will happen.

one of teamGB's general's leading the way in turbulent times!

Cracking effort and result Neil!

Generals Dempsey and Moorman are currently missing in action

Fantastic effort Neiil, very well played. Watched it till 7:30am then had to go to sleep. UL at the end, all about the gold for the rest of the trip, now the money has been locked up  ;)

Wing Commander Shallow appears to have deserted.

I wouldn't normally put a link up, but Anne Laymond's photo set of Neil's final table is a must look

Skills.

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/Poker-WSOP-Neil-Channing-Gallery-Pictures

Yeah Anne takes some great pics. Her and Mickey May are my two favs.

Please tell me the "oooooohhhhhhh yyyyyeeeeaaaaahhhhhh" guy was dressed like this for a bet

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i honestly don't know Jason, I kinda hope he is just mental but the chances are it was a bet...

in one of the purest moments of the summer someone on the rail started to mock him, at which point he turned to them and said;

"Yh - Come back when you have a customised bahama's visor"

Impossible to come back from that lol

actually he wasn't even the most hilarious railer, supporting the guy who won was this really big black guy, who was asleep for the majority of the final, then occasionally woke up and started shouting things like

"Put him in a coma"

"Make Neil kneel"

"Smash his knee-caps, don't let him breathe"

"That right boy, get all the pringles"

"NO GREASE, we don't need no vaseline"

"SLice him up like sushi son"

Pretty hilarious

The British rail seemed quiet. Have you all been shown the yellow card?

no-one was drunk this was the problem, if the Rio hadn't been such utter clowns previously we'd have defo gotten a bit louder, but when your sober and everyone hungover it's just hard to be bothered with the inevitable fight as much as it is when you're a bit merry, as keen as we all were to support Neil.

Thanks to those who commented on my efforts in the booth, i'm really enjoying it and want to get better at it so everything helps

Incredibly talented...always love Anne's photo's

Railed the whole of the final table, as did about 99% of blackbelt players I think! Appreciate what some of said along the lines of the $$$ cushioning the blow, and Neil has said as much himself since - he appreciates as much as anyone the fact that he has just won more than a lot of people will earn in a lifetime and, knowing how much that bracelet meant to him, I think he's done a pretty good job of keeping any public display of disappointment to a minimum. You only had to see the video of his immediate reaction to losing to see how utterly devastated he was. I was worried this outcome might lead him to pack the game in to be honest as the final table progressed. So pleased to see that he has picked himself us pretty damn quick and got back to the tables....inbetween replying individually to people who were railing and sent messages of support.

No-one deserves that bracelet more in my opinion...certainly not from the UK poker community. With the luck Neil's "one time" is still to come

 I just like to say thanks to evryone here who has either supported me personally or from home. It's a long old slog getting through the field in these $1500s and $1000s and along the way there are sure to be setbacks. It definitely really helps to have people in your corner.

 Vegas is such a great place and there is so much to do so I especially would like to thank every single person who made the time and effort to sit around watching when they could be eating at great restaurants, gambling, watching naked ladies or getting a living at poker.

 Just having a lot of fantastic players sitting around was quite inspiring to me.

 I'm now planning to play a few extra events. I had felt I was a little out of form and had planned a smaller schedule than usual years.

 Fuck that shit - I'm in everything now.

Lol.

good luck Neil, I hope you get your bling in one of these.

Incred

Beautiful ending to that post!

Go get it all neil! Land that Irish triple crown!

you think he was gutted, think of the rail, we all bubbled the Monday Night Rhino freeroll, crushing.