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And here they are, the near-complete list for the final table starting later this afternoon, with the exception of the golden ticket winner who will progress after the consolation tournament finishes in an hour or so's time:

Phil Ivey           2,317,000
Richard Herbert   908,000
Paul Jackson       809,000
Marc Goodwin      681,000
Bengt Sonnert    582,000
Kenna James       310,000
GOLDEN TICKET   160,000 (ten big blinds)

Ta Jenn :)

2.06 Ivey on Betfair - not sure whether to back or lay!!!

Apparently at the beginning, Ivey was 35 to 1...according to Granite John

38/1

He is a truly amazing player but just on the chip stacks I will be laying him. The final table aint full of mugs and purely on a maths basis 2.07 is too short. I know negreanu won when he had a massive chip lead at last years 5 diamonds but at one stage he lost the chip lead and very nearly blew it. LAY LAY LAY LAY LAY (even though he is the best player)

That's good enough for me ariston - CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!

Heja Sonnert!

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

strummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmer

it says on bf that its suspended i think that paul is a brilliant bet

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

What's the story behind 'Team Badbeat'?

Backed Bengt on Betfair at 11 good value 8)

The market was suspended at the official start time of the final.

not that i will be betting ;)   ;karabiner;         ;karabiner;
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That will be my money then GOLDNBUTS..... ;D

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Sorry GOLDNNUTS  :D

Gl to AJ and Strummer bring it home lads.

Very kind of you to give away your money like that  :)

GL AJ and Strummer - get in there boys!

Micky 147, Lodger - how many points does AJ get on the leaderboard if he wins this? looooooooool

OK, the Final is just about ready to start.

For the early stages, oir Jen will do the commentary, & I'm gonna post pics of all the finsalists.

Good Luck to all of them!

Tim....

No points m8 but the ONE MILLION BUCKS will still make him smile

So Matt Savage has graciously introduced the final players (as if they need it!) and the seats and chips are as follows:

Richard Herbert   908,000
Phil Ivey           2,317,000
Kenna James       310,000
Marc Goodwin      681,000
Paul Jackson       809,000
Bengt Sonnert    582,000
John Juanda       160,000

The blinds are 8k - 16k with a 2k ante.  They're off!

BIG up for the blonde team.... another fantastic job nearly finished

Well, here is your Chip Leader, Mr Phil Ivey. He's been friendly & co-operative with blonde all week, even though he finds doing press chats a bit of a bind. Top bloke, nice demeanour at the table, & he got 3rd in this comp last year. And, bizarrely, he actually remembered playing against me in the WSOP this year - & I only played one event! Remarkable.

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does anyone know who the golden ticket effects the ranking points

are all the points frozen at 6th?

cmonnnnnnnnnnn action jack he is one of the best internet players now can he be know world wide by winnin this???? go 4 it aj

Are there ANY Rankes for this Iron? I mean, it was, officially, "invitation only".......Surely they can't give Rankers for that?

Anyway, here's Mr Billy Big Stack Ivey's Big Stack. The Green Chips, stacked in 20's, are 10k each......!

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A million bucks Micky mmmmmmmmm how rebuys will that get him when we get heads up in Norwich :-)

Here's Chip Second Richard Herbert. What a remarkable rags to riches story by this guy, a comparative unknown a few months back.

There has been no real action to speak of yet, Raise Pass, Raise Pass.

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And it's a full 20 minutes and counting without a flop - just thought I should pop back and report so you can all tell I've been watching closely... the blinds and antes have gone to:
Strummer (Richard Herbert) x2
Phil Ivey x2
Marc Goodwin x1
Paul Jackson x1

They are 8,000 - 16,000 so John Juanda must be feeling a tad pressed, and the other shorter stacks might be doing something so I'm heading back in.

Nice One TK.... 'A comparative unknown' sounds a bit better than 'A total unknown'   hehe

your correct tikay it was listed as a ranking event last time i looked but it is no longer listed that way

20 minutes flop-less, then it all goes off! Kenna James got himself busted all ends up when Marc Goodwin trapped him an absolute treat, when, seeing a 2-2-7 flop, the strangely subdued Kenna James thought his 33 was good, but Marc was a zillion miles ahead with his KK.

Here's Kenna in happier times.

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First time follower of this live update and just want to tell you that I am really impressed. This is much more interesting than most poker on telly.

Keep up the good work.


Mike

Jen - djinn - & I are 50 metres apart, can't see or speak to each other, so apologies if our Posts overlap, we are doing our best in awkward circumstances. All the other bloggers have ost their power supply, the building's power supply is grossly overoaded with all these tv peeps & stuff, & fuses have been blowing left right & centre. But Jen & I have both found little power enclaves, & we arre keeping a low profile, in case someone tries to steal our precious power.

Yes, wouldn't you know it, the minute I disappear, all the action kicks off (thanks Tikay).  I eventually got the story from Mel Judah and have to guess that Marc now has about 900,000. 

oops i think i over did the thumbnail shrinkage

normall service will be resumed soon

John Juanda OUT. Forced, due to his Golden Ticket Mini-stack, to gamble, he staked his all on  As 6c, only to run in to  Ad Qc. No improvement for either, & John is OUT.

sorry ladies and gents to try and improve the forum speed i have disabled the preview of the pics

so now you need to click on the little link on tikays posts to view the pictures

CMON STRUMMER AND ACTIONJACK Team bad Beat are Rocking Monaco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tikay,
any news about Bengt?
Been involved in any pots yet ot just passing?

Who put him out Tikay....   thanks

ActionJack & Bengt Sonnert collide big-style, it's all-in pre-fliop, & this is what they show.

Bengt has..... Ad Kd

ActionJack has.... As Kh

Flop is ...... Js 6h 3h

And despite a nerve tingling moment when the possibility of a 4 flush existed, it alll ended up as a split pot.

But THEN it alll went off next hand.....

Two get out of jails for Bengt Sonnert - almost immediately after he gets a split pot, he's all in against Richard Herbert and it's all looking a bit bleak:
Flop: 3 6 9
Richard has flopped a set of sixes, Bengt has 9 10.
Turn: 10
River: 9

And runner-runner full house propels Bengt to 510,000.

Brilliant news! Keep'em coming!

Wow, what an escape for Bengt Sonnert THAT was!

Due to the immense traffic on blonde right now, we will not put any more pics up for half an hour or so, & try to concentrate on the table action a little better. Once is calms down, we will post all the pics we have taken for you.

GL BadBeat boys AJ & Strummer ! GOoooooo

DISASTER for Richard Herbert. as if having his boat over-boated by runner-runner, now he moves with  As 5s and Phil Ivey was sat there with  Ac Ad......

Richard Herbert is OUT

Who are "Bad Beat" ? what is there web address? I gather they have paid for AJ and Strummers entry. Thanks in anticipation of a reply.

After that unlucky loss of chips, Strummer (Richard) fought back by taking two sets of sizeable blinds and antes in a row, but then ran his  As 5s into Phil Ivey who had picked up  Ad Ac!

He hit one five on the flop, but there was no miracle for him and so Richard Herbert is the 5th place finisher, winning $175,000

congatulations Strumm, a superb effort, done only by the poker gods!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR TYPICAL MCM RNG MUFFED THE GANGSTER

Good luck to Marc, just win baby , JUST WIN

At this rate we may not make the dinner break, scheduled for 8.30pm Local, that's 7.30pm UK.

The Power Supply to Jen & I's computer remains flakey, the Wi-Fi has fallen over, but we are hanging in, & you are getting the news as it happens.

so whats the latest chip count tikay?

Phil Ivey wins fascinating hand news now -

Bengt raises under the gun, and is called by Phil on the button and Paul Jackson in the big blind.  Flop:  Ah 4h 3c.  Paul checks, Bengt bets 100k, Phil calls and after a big dwell, so does ActionJack.
Turn:  Td checks around.
River:   3h  And Paul Jackson bets 150,000, getting a pass from Bengt Sonnert and an eventual flat call from Phil holding the nut flush - which was good.

Can't get anywhere near the table for counts, I'm afraid, but it's safe to say Phil Ivey is the safe chip leader, and Bengt Sonnert is probably the lowest stack, but still not at the felt, or anything like that.

sounds like you guys are having fun????  working to hard???? 8)

No this is a truly breathtaking place and there's just enough information flying to me to (hopefully) make it interesting for you and that's what's so fun about this job...

Like:  Bengt Sonnert eliminated in 4th place for $250,000

He moved in with K9 and Phil Ivey's A 10 took him out, even after the King popped out on the flop, he turned the 10 and rivered the Ace to get up to an astounding chip lead of 4.3million

Marc Goodwin has 880,000
And Paul Jackson therefore 500,000 or thereabouts.

Team BadBeat?  What's that all about?

there is a debate about team bad beat in the general forum

can u believe the badbeats that Team Bad-Beat have suffered, unbelievable!!!!!!!! Go AJ take on Ivey and show him the future of poker has arrived!!!!!!!

I'd have thought that if you're going to call your little Red Hand Gang 'Team Bad Beat', then you could be tempting the gods of fortune just a bit.

Chip Counts, approx.

Marc Goodwin 700,000

Paul Jackson 700,000

Phil Ivey - 7 wheelbarrows full. That's about 4.3 million, at a guess.

Will we reach the dinner break, whch is just under an hour away? We will if one of those Brummies doubles up against Ivey!

Paul 'ActionJack' Jackson wins a couple of odd pots, one involving calling Marc Goodwins 40k river bluff (he had Jack high) with a little pair to win, and the other involved his betting 20k into a 160k pot on the river with a board thus:  Q 6 2 7 K (3 spades) against Phil Ivey on the button.  Phil called; now, what do you reckon Paul had?  I bet you don't guess 5s 5h.  But that's what he had, and it won.

my money is on Marc, he may have picked up a few moves from the Rookies WSOP final, just put them in the middle and suckout :blonde:

It's almost deathly quiet in the Arena now.There was a lot of vocal support for Bengt, but they have all left now, & Marc & Paul have it all on to wrest those chips away from the great & good (& also, today, a bit lucky) Phil Ivey.

But if they wanna win, then they have to gamble at some stage, & maybe THEY will get lucky, too. You don't get lucky by passing! Paul & Marc have played the comps of their lives, & it ain't over yet.

I agree Tikay, w/ that many chips Mr. Ivey will not play big pots, you will need to beat him w/ a draw or some luck, what does 2nd and 3rd pay??????

2nd & 3rd? as I recall, around $600k & $325k. Not real money, mind, just US $$$$'s......

easy there big boy, I dont think anyone will have a problem w/ that much "fake" money :D

Tell Marc good luck when he makes the dinner break, I gotta run out and pay the billls so I will be ready to go to St Kitts on Monday! How many blondites are going to make the trip??????

It's gotten noticably quiet here as there is no desire apparent from the final three to get it all in with their fingers crossed.

All three players see a board come out of A 8 7 8 3 which is taken down by Paul Jackson with one of his 20,000 bet-outs on the river.

Apart from that there are a couple of walks(!) which included probably the only fold on the button from Phil Ivey in the tournament, which actually got an announcement from Matt Savage and a clap from the audience.

The big question - how's Marc's make-up doing under the hot  lights? Has his tan started to run yet?

Marc seems to be calling all the way, then passing to bets on the end, he's playing pretty passive now, & has called away down to about 300k. Most of his chips have gone to Paul, who is to his left, but who keeps betting, whether he hits or not, I fancy. Phil, meanwhile, with over 4 milion, is sitting out, & watching in amusement. He don't care who he gets, but he's awaiting the Heads-Up battle.

Come on the brits/midlanders!!
Can you not put the pics elsewhere? i.e. on another server, i miss the pics

Sounds like Action's typically aggressive play is going to get him through. Great stuff from the Midlands boys though!!

Dinner Break now, so we are off for a quick bite, play resumes at 9.15pm Local.

Chip Counts - Marc Goodwin 368k

ActionJack 803k

Phil Ivey - too many to count, but looks to be about 4.6 million.

*************Dinner Break**************

The final three and the cast and crew are heading for dinner and I rather think it's a good idea that I do the same.  When I return it will be to Frosty Corner in which my battery will last for 2hrs which should be enough to see this to its thrilling conclusion.  The good people of Fox have noticed me in here now (wouldn't you just know it) and I consider it tactically imprudent to press them for any further generosity.  I feel I have already been treated with all the good grace, and more than, I expected.   >:(

ifm asks us to try & resume the pics. We'd LOVE to, they MAKE the Live Updates, but, once again, we have technical issues, & to say I'm not best pleased would be an understatement.

We are trying to sort it, I promise, please bear with us.

I have raised it with the techy boys time & time again, but tomorrow, I'm gonna get seriously cross, trust me. Bear with us, we will get there. Eventually.

We do apologise.

Great coverage guys.


Come on AJ !

Great updates guys    unlucky goldnnuts you had me sweating for a while ;)

besides the cold... what's the latest?

COME ON DAD !!!!!!!!

How long is dinner - is it full a carvery type thing or more a cricket tea? Do they have carveries in Monte Carlo? Maybe a kebab shop or something.

another 30 minutes for dinner i believe

sorry......................Cmon AJ finish it!

I know Action is a massive online player - but what's his history in tournaments like this? Is this a real first for him?

2005: 1st £1,500 No Limit Hold'em at The Cavendish Club Classic, Belfast
2004: 1st £1,500 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em at Midlands Masters, Walsall, England

Thanks shmuel - he and MG must be loving this. I wish I was there!!

Hello actionjack jr!!!  Your Dad just came over specially to say Hi to you and we'll be following his every move so stay tuned...

Hate him or love him you have to agree, he's one hell of a poker player! Comon AJ, spank the yank!

And they're off!  And immediately, almost - we have a 3rd place finisher in Marc Goodwin!

He and Phil Ivey saw a flop of  Jh 8c 4c.  The money went in and their hands were: Marc  Js 9d, Phil  Jd Ts!
Turn and river:   7c 3c and he was out, winning $325,000.

AJ is GANGSTER even if he is a perv

hello

VWP Marc Goodwin
From Reports u have played whole tournament in great spirit
Excellent return GO ON AJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ

GOOOO AAAAAAJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ

Give the yank a good MUFFFFFIIIINNNGGGGGG

So it's heads up between the megafamous American with all the chips (looks like a five to one lead), and the soon-to-be pretty famous (or more so than he is already) ActionJack...

They've started slowly; the first pot went to Paul, and the second which has gone all the way to the river has also been taken by him... is this the start of a truly monumental comeback?

Im sooo excited

id love AJ to win it but im sure Phil Ivey is gona destroy him,

it will all be over soon

They're seeing pots in past the flop a fair bit, with none of that all-in preflop stuff (yet).  Now on a  4h 4c Jd 5h board Paul Jackson takes down another one, to rapturous applause from the Brits, especially his team mates.  He's a great underdog to root for as he is playing like someone who's a long way from giving up.

Gooooooooooooo onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn AJ show them Yanks us Brits mean business......................and the best of luck to you too m8..............2nd is an excellent result from this field anyway, but 1st from this chip position would be fantastic.

They've got into a biggie here - On a  Jh Jc 7c flop, Paul bet 80k, Ivey (I think check-)raised 150k, then Paul re-re-raised another 150k!  Ivey dwells and....

if there's one way to make everybody to refresh like crazy that's it!!

Tikay / jen

Not from Nottingham Nick  & Mrs G here. Sat in airport in Antigua with Mark banin and Paul Alterman (with respective missuses (?)) waiting for our connecting flight to St Kitts.

Grabbed the last few threads.

Awesome display from Rich (Strummer) and incredibly unlucky.

Will you please pass on my best wishes to Paul. He's had a rough time playing live recently and what a time for his FORM to change. AWESOME DISPLAY.

Cant wait to log on later to see his win

aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its like eastenders

Jen, you tease... :P

Hi Nick and Anna

gl in st. kitts m8.... hope you come second to mcbest... coz I got 10% of him 

After an IMMENSE dwell - aboit 7 months, roughly -  Ivey pushed all-in, whereupon Paul insta-folded. Pah!

go on dad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ivey pushed all-in, whereupon Ivey insta-folded... is that sound right?

AJ 2 nd so says gutshot

Eh?

Well, did the petrol bottle it?

is someone fibing gutshot says aj  came second ,

Good grief, not only do we have to cope with lag and errors popping up on refreshing, we now have to cope with them speaking Double Dutch too!!!!

I don't think Jen's teasing helped much either.  lol

WHAT IS HAPPENING, WHAT A TIME FOR EVERYTHING TO FALL APART!!! ONE SITES SAYS ITS OVER AND THIS ONES SAYIN NOTHING

 were has every one gone can we have real update please

According a Swedish site Ivey has won it.

Now Paul's all-in with  Qh Jh.....and Ivey calls!  With  Kc Qd..

The board comes out:  Th 6c  9c (some outs there!) then  2s 5s, so Paul Jackson finishes in Second Place (with a cool $600,000 in prize to console him)

And Phil Ivey is the Monte Carlo Millions 2005 Champion and the giant cheque for $1,000,000 has his name on it.

Congratulations to ActionJack for a totally fearless final and heads up against chip monster Ivey, who himself played a great game throughout.

And honestly sorry for the delays, we're experiencing it at our end too :(

ive followed your great coverage for the first time so well done,shame i had to go to another site for the result but hey

well done dad

well played AJ and the 2nd prizemoney aint too shabby.

Well Done AJ get yourself into the real tourney of the moment TALLINN CHALLENGE

congratulations from all connected with inthebelly go to "actionjack" paul jackson for his magnifecient performance in monte carlo.

finishing 2nd to the great phil ivey in such a fantastic field of players is an immense performance

well done paul!

Impressive achievement, very nice. I guess beer's on AJ on the boat?  :D

Congrats go out to AJ & Strummer for great performances..................and a great result for the bad beat team for getting 2 players on the final table and several quite close to making it too.

Congrats to AJ and Strummer

Would be interesting to know what AJ and Ivey had in the re-re-raise hand where Ivey had the '7 minute' dwell. Any interview slot secured with AJ yet?

Otherwise see TK and co on Friday at Walsall.

Congratulations to Phil Ivey on being the best Poker player ever to walk planet earth.

glad you said walk

LOL

From the very start of the thread some may remember the sage advice from Ariston 'lay Ivey the price is way too short'


Note to self 'never listen to Aristons betting tips'

stay lucky,

(only joking m8)

Great reporting once again folks, congrats to AJ who is a true gent (sponsored a few players for their buyins in the children in need comp Friday) and railed it literally 45 mins before he caught the flight to monte.

Paul, brilliant display mate, I'm proud to have played with you and to be able to call you a mate. Can't wait to hear about this game face to face (better than your usual drivel).

Team Blonde, excellent reporting, updates and atmosphere building, your forum is awesome and there;s literally hundreds of aldbrokes players (who were following AJ And Strum and the other 10 bad beat/laddies fellas) who are now converted to what a proper poker forum should be about, big congrats on a great job.

well done paul, well done marc,
great results for 2 great guys

excellent stuff paul! you really are an awesome player, proved it online,and I hope this furthers your offline ambitions

just managed to catch up with this, (GF been in hospital all week)

and i just want to say, a big well done to Ivey, he is an absolute god of a poker player, outstanding!

Stunning performance by both the guys - congratulations !!

Hope your GF is ok Dave  !!!

nice one paul, nice one marc - excellent!

i don't know mr ivey personally but have to agree he's a different class. - congrats to him too.

Nice one Paul - just got back from Edinburgh and caught up - talk soon hopefully...mind you you are famous now!! 8)