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A late change of plan, & Marc Wright, aka "Railtard1", who qualified via Sky Poker, now plays TODAY.

Good luck to the ANIMAL.

I'll be railing all day, with the Blurry Camera, so if you have any pals playing today, hit me with their names, & if poss, seat & Table, & I'll try & get some photos & real time chip counts.

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Gl Marc!

Good luck to all the Brits, lets hope we get a couple at the final table this year..

Good luck, I'll be following  all the way.

Who is fetching you coffees tikay?

Wiiiiiiiiiiii

Gl all brits and double gl to those I know

Tatjana Pasalic is playiny today, dressed as a cat for losing a prop bet


A pic of that is tikay challenge number 1....

Any idea of Table Number, or even Room?

I guess u will b updating Redmond Lee pavilion White table 104 seat 2 ?
Can u keep an eye on Paul McCann ( lord lucan ) he is sat at Brasilia red table 72 seat 9 thanks
Doesnt look like too many Brits on the players list so far today

Zomg!

Seen the pic on twitter! Abs incred

sorry, where is the list being carried, anyone?

Gl Marc Wright and Tikays posse

I just got it on wsop 1a updates but it isn't there now !

They have moved LOTS of Tables & players. The original Table reported for Redmond Lee no longer exists.

I have got some pics though.....

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Lol tikay pulling tail

And gawping at boobies, not even an effort to be subtle  ;D

Marc Wright is up to 41,000.

Meanwhile, after a problem with is A-Kcc on a Q-4-2cc Flop, and a failed attempt to get Villain off after it blanked, this Gent is down to low twenties, & steaming a little. Told him to calm down, 21,000 is plenty @ 50-100.


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Jesus H Christ.

l look good, yeah?

Hadn't finished pulling mine yet. Revenge for all those dirty old man esque jokes!

Incred out, and gl to Marc Wright, picked you in a private most money won team bet, go go go!

lol tikay, challenge completed and achieved,


Next...Toby Lewis please. No idea where he is, sorry

Marc now has 50,000. Just small pots, relentlessly raising & c-betting every hand.

FYP

They don't look that tatty to me.

At your age, you shouldn't be looking.

 I expect Sports Continuous mode will get plenty of use, while Tatjana is still in.

Some more bitys & bobs are up here.....

http://bit.ly/MaUG3E

Good luck to all the Brits playing in the ME

Best of Luck to all the Brits playing the Main...

Very much looking forward to Tikays updates...

The "classy lady" is Wendeen Eolis.

She's not very classy at all really. Bit of a backstabber.

She owned the rival to Cardplayer back in the day. "Poker Player". Tacky, crappy newspaper thing. TJ and Mike Caro had columns after Cardplayer sacked them.

She did however lead the revolution of getting cardrooms to go smoke free.

So she isn't all bad.

Nooo, my dreams are shattered!

Nice backstory though Keith, thank you, I knew none of that.

Break right now, once they return, I'll get back in there with the camera.

PS - Which of the Hachem brothers was that?

Who is the "Casino" guy? Film crews following him everywhere, & he's a bit full of himself.

Kevin Pollak ?


Tony?

The Hachem is Joe.

Amazingly his brother is even more annoying than him!

No idea who the Casino guy is.

Thanks guys.

Joe Hachem not with 'Stars these days?

Kevin Pollak? Never heard of him.

I think the photo of you and Tatjana should be posted in the thread.  I can think of a fair few blondes who would want to take your place in that pic!

Hi all Newbie here. I just got back into poker (I played for fun money when I was about 14). I'm not at all experienced (18yo) and I only play freerolls and micro-micro-stakes (I'm talking two cent MTTs on 888), but have been monitoring this forum for a while and it seems like a laugh so I thought I'd sign up.

Anyway, sorry if this is an obvious question but will there be any livestreaming of the WSOP main event? I know that ESPN always do the final table but I want to watch the early stages. Atm I'm just following the PokerNews updates which is great but was wondering if there's a stream that I could watch.

All the best :)

I think ESPN are going to have live coverage later in the tournament.

And welcome to Blonde.

Hachem left Stars, or they left him

Pic is definitely Joe, not Tony

Okay, cheers for clearing that up. I suppose PokerNews will have to do :) Thanks for the welcome.

See Page 1 of the thread....I'm in trouble already about it on some of the Facebook pages who don't realise it was posed, lol.

Thanks, missed that.

Oh, and nice work sir! #toastylifeforsome

Wsop.com/live for the stream for all other events but not main event sadly

Yeah sure it was posed.

Definitely one poser in that photo.

You can't be too careful

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/chips.36891.htm

Nick Crisp!

Very cautious man indeed

I don't get enough sets to never put a single raise in when the once in blue moon happens!

GL all the brits :0

Any chance of update/pic of Niall Farrell (Firaldo87), Amazon room, blue 448, seat 9 if your in the area? :)

Thanks :)

He must sleep with the lights on! How is he not all in on turn or river there?

Not sure I get allin! (Well probably do against Vedes come to think of it!)

A modest raise is in order though imo.

I've just returned from a "walk" round the Room, will Upload those first, then try go get your man.

Thanks :)

So Jon Spinks is the leading Brit so far?

Kevin Pollack's the actor.  Pops up in alot of stuff.  Biggest/wellknown role is prob The Usual Suspects.

wouldn't recommend suicide bluffing in the main :D

A few more photos have been appended to the Blog.

http://bit.ly/MaUG3E

Joe Hachem now works with Asian Logic and is an ambassador for the Asian Poker Tour

Tony - disregard the PM I sent you earlier, will just send you my table and seat number when I reg tonight and we can meet tomorrow

Great updates, keep 'em coming!

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OK Dan, gotcha.

I'll arrive early, just after midday, just in case......

There you go, blonde, font of all wisdom.

Thanks Craig. Hope life is good.

Yes Tony thanks, can't really complain..except its monsoon season at the moment.

APT is back in Goa in December , its the final leg of the year, so it should be a good event as the APT POY will be decided

 Hope everything is good with you, loving the Vegas blogs  :)up

Craig, what has happened to your friend Don Mullis?

Someone was asking about him.

The German guy in the black shirt in seat 4 of marcs table that you posted - can't remember his full name but its Sebastian something and he's a 25/50 PLO grinder, lives in Brighton. Probably worth mentioning to Marc if they're still at the same table.

Sat next to Barry S was Jackie Glazier, insanely aggressive player. She's done pretty well already this wsop with a 2nd in a $3k

Was living in the Philippines but is moving back to USA

Love all the "I know that bloke/chap in the background of that photo" stuff.

Might just go shoot a bunch of photos of random Tables & see who knows who.

First up, I better find that PizicattoXev. Jeez, what sort of alias is that?!

Late Reg for Day 1a has now closed.

Player Lists are promised at 7pm Vegas (3am UK). 

Toby Lewis

Bronze Brasilia 57, by the way

Linked for research purposes

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/wsop-video-main-event-snapshot-with-tatjana-pasalic-32953/

Obv a knobhead by the sound of it :)

Done. He is actually bronze 48 (Brasilia) as that original Table was moved.



 
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lol thanks :)

Lol, next Table to Marc Wright, I've been to Marc's Table 15 time today, & never once spotted Toby on the very next table.

Officially 1066 is the WSOP Main Event number for Day 1A. Up 19% from 897 in 2011.

pic of marc and toby together pls

that hand is pretty funny, because if you have ever played with him you know he bluffraises turns and rivers a tonne....

Not against me he doesn't Spewster  ;)

I can almost oblige........

Best I can do, Mr Cos......


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And here are Marc & Sam. Must be almost a Caption Comp there.


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Don't go away now, I have another photo of a pal of yours to follow.

Not going too well today.

Said his opening Table was SO bad, but this is a better Table, so he's stil hopeful.


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I thknk he's off his game. Those two cards were J-8, & he snap-mucked, pre.

Hope this is OK to post?

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SJDi0XQXkM

Part Three of today's Blog is now up.


http://bit.ly/MaUG3E

Thank you TK. All your writing is smashing again this year. I look forward to reading your musings every morning.

Please keep an eye out for James Browning for me. I don't know what day he is playing but he has promised to play the October nine as his alter ego Rod Hartley including 70s style flared suit. Have you ever met Rod? You could be only bloke on here old enough to have seen him live.

You must be knackered Tony. Keep going though.

Alex

Marc Wright news.

Up to over 100,000 now, & battering ram mode engaged.

He loves his Table (there's a thing) & wants to attempt to get to 150,000 by close of play.

Eeek.

For the real geeks, the Official & Final Day 1a Entry List is here....

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161/Entrants_List_Day1A_2012_WSOP_Main_Event.pdf

Gotta love the name Olaoluwa Okelola

EACH Day1 (a, b & c) starts at noon, & plays for 5 Levels. Allowing for breaks, play ends at 12.45am each day.

1a is Saturday (today), 1b Sunday, 1c Monday.
 
Survivors from days 1a & 1b will play their Day Two on TUESDAY.

Survivors from Day1c will play their Day Two on WEDNESDAY. (Day 1c will be MUCH bigger than 1a & 1b, due, amongst other things to the plethora of Mega Sats, & players who prefer to play the "last" Day).
 
There were 1,066 players in today's Day 1a, up 19% from last years 897.  However, there were 4 Day 1's last year, & only 3 this year.

Pete Linton STILL grinding a bowl, Toby around 65,000, Marc Wright 62,000.

Playing the last 2 hour Level of the day now, 200/400-50.

... but no Brian Hastings?

Too good Sir, too good.

No Dave Nicholson either, I gather he is back home in lovely Leeds now.

Thank you Alex.

I must confess, I don't think I've heard, met, or know of Rod Hartley.  Did he used to play for West Ham? Sounds like he did. 

I will keep an eye out for James though, we've known each other many a year, & worked on 2 different TV Channels together, too. We are not kindred spirits, but I respect him in many ways, & hope he goes very deep this year.

Young Lynne impesses me too, she has fine game. I believe they BOTH qualified Online for their Main Event packages, each of which included a hotel room. Can't think of many couples who can claim that.

Knackered? Me? In truth, yes, I'm running on fumes here, & there are at least 4 more days without a break, but it's OK, there are far worse ways of spending a working day!

I've loved every moment of the trip in truth, would not change a thing. Except my 8 or Better exit hand maybe.......

8 hours late, the penny drops here.....

Mr kendell you are and always will be a star, pictures are great Big pair, and tail.

Don't suppose Hastings was playing today!?

Edit- beaten to it I've noticed. One in the eye for me!

I would imagine so

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=33645018&postcount=27

657 Day 1A survivors in the WSOP Main Event. William John 1A chip leader. Chip counts and table draws: http://bit.ly/NdJWEE

50 Niall Farrell LUGAR AGRSHIN, , GB 100,950 Amazon / 388 / 7
73 Marc Wright GB 88,150 Amazon / 404 / 9
106 Daniel Rudd ESSEX, , GB 78,925 Amazon / 395 / 9
123 Benjamin Longstaff GB 73,750 Amazon / 440 / 3
143 Jamie Sill Burlington, , GB 68,250 Amazon / 403 / 9
147 Asmat Asghar London, , GT 67,600 Amazon / 408 / 3
153 Jon Spinks EXETER, GB 66,800 Amazon / 422 / 1
158 Salman Behbehani GB 65,825 Amazon / 391 / 4
177 Najib Kamand SURREY LONDON, , GB 61,775 Amazon / 376 / 3
192 Jonathan Crute Belfast, , GB 59,750 Amazon / 398 / 1
213 Chris Bjorin LONDON, , GB 56,450 Amazon / 419 / 8
236 Toby Lewis Eastleigh, , GB 52,250 Amazon / 414 / 1
275 Christopher O'donnell SOUTHAMPTON, GB 46,800 Amazon / 378 / 1
280 Victor Ilyukhin LONDON, , GB 46,400 Amazon / 439 / 2
328 Neil Mcfayden LONDON, GB 41,950 Amazon / 436 / 7
333 Aurelien Guiglini LONDON, , GB 41,675 Amazon / 433 / 3
352 Peter Linton Nottingham, , GB 39,750 Amazon / 440 / 8
397 Lee Morris GB 35,350 Amazon / 383 / 6
412 Roy Papatheodorou Zug, , GB 33,725 Amazon / 418 / 1
415 Tore Lukashaugen LONDON, GB 33,400 Amazon / 438 / 6
419 Redmond Lee LONDON, , GB 33,000 Amazon / 398 / 7
423 Andrew Pantling ST JULIAS, , GB 32,725 Amazon / 370 / 8
426 Peter Charalambous SUFFOLK, , GB 32,550 Amazon / 389 / 5
432 Anthony Ramsden London, , GB 32,200 Amazon / 438 / 9
515 Sebastian Gohr BRIGHTON, , GB 23,100 Amazon / 412 / 1
541 Mark Shepherd Lisburn, , GB 20,925 Amazon / 386 / 9
553 Robin Keston LONDON, , GB 19,700 Amazon / 390 / 3
557 Martin Sutcliffe Aberdeen, , GB 19,100 Amazon / 385 / 4
584 Charles Smithson GB 16,300 Amazon / 412 / 3
588 John Eames SOUTHPORT, , GB 15,675 Amazon / 424 / 1
634 Neville Darrell DEVONSHIRE, , GB 9,575 Amazon / 377 / 4

I know! What's going on here? King Rollo likes nothing more than a good rise.

Cute picture of Firaldo! More of this please x

Didn't expect u TK fancy a woman with a tail !!

Good morning.

Day 1b is about to commence.

If you have any friends playing this today, or want updates, chip counts, or photos, on anyone in particular, let me know, & I'll do what I can.

I have 4 lads playing for next door today, so I'll be a bit busy, but I'm sure I can accommodate most requests.

Just seen that Dave Colclough, the co-founder of blonde, is playing today, too, & I gather that Brian Wilson has a seat, playing tomorrow. Some stories & memories there.....

From twitter so far I see that Daniel Negreanu, Galen Hall and Victoria Coren are playing today.

The georgeous Liv Boree please if it's not too much trouble  ;)

Liv Boeree‏@Liv_Boeree

Main Event today... Don't recognise anyone at the table so far which is a good sign. So excited!

EDIT: She's at pavillion white 110
 

If your not too out of breath from yesterdays running around still and are looking for Brits to ambush with a camera, may I request Nick Farnborough at Brasilia 32 seat 1 please? :)

Yeah, Nick Frnborough, Ben Dobson pls :)

Are you not doing video interviews this year, Tikay?

If you could get hold of Brian Wilson for an interview, would be intriguing. Had presumed he had given up the game.

Loving the blog anyway.

Padraig Parkinson‏ @padraig888

Best day of every year.Off to take on the world in WSOP MAIN EVENT.All prisoners will be shot.I hope Im not a prisoner

----

Love Padraig, characters like him and Neil Channing etc always makes me laugh. Hope he goes deep.

@__fullflush1__: @Kevmath even tho I hate u and 2+2 can u tell me if there's another mega sat today ?

Lol

@JamieBurland

Lol at the action I've just seen on this table. Nh Richard Trigg, man gets a full double with AA>KQo AIPF in level 1 of this t

Kevin Mathers ‏@Kevmath

I consider it an honour to be called a "massive douchenerd" by the legend that is @__fullflush1__


:-)

I actually have a tinsy winsy piece of Main Event action in the legend that is KevMath, simply because he seems a great guy, & has been very helpful to me down the years.


He seemed moderately pleased to have found a willing punter, too. He was, it would seem, pleased to see me, too.


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LOL totally not how I expected him to look. Camel's brother? lol  :D  Sorry Keith hehe

I need to get the Photo Blog up first, but I'll reply to the requests soonest.

For now, you'll have to make do with these. Barrel & scraping come to mind.

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What I really like about this picture (yes yes write your own jokes about this!) Is the chap next to her.

He would have got up yesterday morning, kissed his wife of 35 years goodbye and said to her: "You know what, honey? I'm going to wear that silly hat with the crazy hair on it. People get so nervous for the main event, it will be an easy way to break the ice; a conversation starter. Yeah, that'll be nice"

Instead, he's just a man in a hat.

He walks back through the door.

"How'd it go, sweetie? Did they like the hat?"
"Funny story..."

Tal, you I like, we think along similar & rather odd lines.

I almost think that chap might have been a character in Garrison Keiller's "Lake Wobegon Days". If you have not read it, or even better, listened to the author-narrated audio books, please do, you'd adore it.


The greatest line ever in that whole thing was almost a life metaphor, but I won't spoil the story by telling you the prelude.

"...How do these things happen? Nobody knows...."

Completely passed me by, that one. Wiki summary makes it sound like a very unusual read.

I went to rail day 1a yesterday / spew off my chips in the $235 megastack. Will inevitably be back in the next week so will look to say hello.

GL to any blondes playing in the Main Event.
 

His whole body language is strange.

I bet his wife was on the rail, because he's almost desperate NOT to be looking at her!

That would be hilarious!

"Will there be women there, Charles?"
"Barely any, honey. It's pretty much all middle aged men and young upstarts in hoodies"

Actually, I remember now. The reason he was staring ahead was that there was an even hotter woman in an even better catsuit in seat 1

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I know what he's up to...

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Think I'd have 1 Tikay-esque gawp at it and then turn my chair the other way also.  Fkin offputting...

The Day 1b Photo Blog is now up. Mostly pics, with a few wordy bits. 

 http://bit.ly/N8za3e

Dave Jones ‏@LeKnave
Made dinner break with 58,525. Return to 130/300/25.

Rich Hare ‏@Shrewdie1
37875 at dinner break. Going bk to 150/300/25 in 90 mins. Off to Society, so hungry! #WSOPmainevent

Good start Jones, gogo

Story checks out on Rich being hungry.

Bah, Tikay! Youve got me watching backgammon videos now!

Just watched Mr Channing play a hand, he's got a nice stack already.

Raised to 700 mid-pos, called in 2 spots, Neil defends in the Blinds.

 5h 9h Th

NC checks, opener checks, guy behind him takes a stab, 2,500 or similar, Button jams all-in for 13,000.

"How much?" says NC, he counts it out, "call".

Opener scrpers, stabber grimaces & also departs.

Neil says "nuts", & turns over  Ahrt Qh

Button flips  6h 7h

Not over yet!

Blank turn,  4h river, next case. 

Good! It's never a bad thing to look outside the window of our poker cottage sometimes.

These days "legends" is (imo) way over-used, or perhaps the meaning or usage has changed, ratherr like "friends" as in "Facebook Friends".

People like Paul Magriel, for all his current eccentricity, are to my mind in a different league.

In backgammon, his name is, or was, spoken of in awe.

In poker, not so much, but few realise that his "M" concept founded the first wave of "thinking" poker. Nowadays, few use it as such, or even need to, because it is ingrained in our minds as a basic fundamental. We don't know the numbers, or need to, we do it instinctively now, but someone had to lay out the original concept.

I just found this about him as to backgammon.....

 
Poker has become the game of choice for both Paul Magriel, a legend who wrote a weekly backgammon article for the New York Times in the Seventies and who famously beat George Plimpton blindfolded in a publicity game, and Bill Robertie, another giant on the backgammon scene who has won two world championships. Robertie, who has won the US Speed Chess Tournament as well, just put out his third volume of Harrington on Hold ’Em, a book on poker strategy that he co-wrote with ex-world champion Dan Harrington.

Before crossing over, Magriel, and Robertie made significant impacts in backgammon. In the Seventies, they published some of the most strategic, statistically advanced books ever written on the game, including Magriel’s classic Backgammon, which is considered “the bible of backgammon.”

Next time you bump into Jen Mason, grill her about Paul, she worked with him for a while on some book or other.

That must have been genuis on genius.   

lol, i got a comment removed about kevmath? the guy who will say anything about anyone in a "do-good" tone for self gratification. seeing him, No wonder he feels pretty brave behind a keyboard.
Guy is a complete dousche imo.

anyways gl to other brits playing today, popped down and saw trigg a coupla hours ago and he was on like 45 i think. He said he managed to get AA in vs KQo for a full double in level 1 lol

I agree Tikay. Have done alot of reading about him tonight and hes just incredible. I just cant stop!

Id seen Paul before in clips of World Series things, and thought he was just another comedian (a-la Humberto Brenes) that like to play cards. I dont think I could have been any more wrong

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Perfectly put, & I used to think the same thing of him

Quite something, eh?

Just for the record Marc, no comments were removed overnight by the mods

No one is asking you to like the guy, but no flaming him please. thanks

Good luck on Day 2

Unusually for Liv

A sense of humour

Liv Boeree ‏@Liv_Boeree

Been asked twice today if my clothing choice is the result of a lost prop-bet. No, it is not. Screw you guys.

Rounding up some end of day tweets

Rich Hare ‏@Shrewdie1

Just cudnt do anything, was more than happy with 35k with 6 hands to go. Finished with 14,075. Gutted atm but guess am still in... #day2

Sam Razavi ‏@Sam_Razavi

Dropped to 22k,was getting pretty frustrated;finished with 38k last 2 hands after barrelling all streets k-10 on 9hi flop and b/d the nuts.

Rhys Jones ‏@floppinhel

Good day of poker bagging up 116,950 from 30k start, 250/500/50 tues. Feel v.unwell though, need 2moro day off to recover. #punishmentiguess

Craig McCorkell ‏@CraigMcCorkell

Finished the day with 91,175, day off tomorrow before day 2 #wsopmain

Neil Channing ‏@SenseiChanning

Ridiculously frustrating last 2 hrs. Lost a flip to get to 150k & went from 100k to 43k. Lots of pots including rivering nut flush v quads.

Dave Jones ‏@LeKnave

Recovered to 53,925 to end the day. Really happy! Return on Tuesday to 250/500.

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

Day 1 over! Through to day 2 with 53k in chips. After a pretty card-dead day, I've got to be pleased with that.

Liv Boeree ‏@Liv_Boeree

Finished with 45,500. Day 2 on Tuesday!

Ben Dobson ‏@f3nix35

Busto last few hands of day 1 AQ<33 on Q73ssx for my last 23bb. Didn't get much going all day and seemed to have the 2nd best hand too much


James Dempsey ‏@FoieGrasAddict

Finished with 65,500 at the end of day 1. Rather frustrating as I had 100k with 10 minutes to go #takeitatthestart

my mate won the jungleman "good deeds challenge" ended up on feature table with Vannessa Selbst, Sammy Farha, Marc Karam, Antoine Saout, Kevin Schaefal (sp) and a few others. fhl

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to the left of Liv, DTD Qualifier Sunil Mistri, tikay

I had her to my left in the UKIPT at DTD. One thing's for sure, Sunny isn't wearing the earphones to drown out her chatter.

apart from vanessa, sounds like a dream lol

Good start in the big one Niall. Keep it going all the way now. GL.

Well I won't be winning the main event

Went to Hamiltons after party and got mangled. Missed flight, 4th of year. What a complete clown

Anyone i owe money for shares will send soon as indoors, anyone who owes me ship whenever.

Back to bed

anybody not sold out for today?

Even when he fails, Dubai wins.

Awesome. Can't help but love the guy :D

Can't blind out for it to make it in time? Or buy a ticket off someone @ markup?

balla!

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Lol that's brilliant

You have to register in person, complete with Passport etc.

What a great shame he won't be here.

Mr TK , can u try update Julian, Mitch, Mr & Mrs Deadman, Stato , K & K , Bedi ....
Ty ty ty ty

Yes - but I need the Table numbers for them please. If you can find their Table numbers, I can do it. I have Thewy's Table. 

Brazila bronze 64

Thanks Geo, good luck, photo op coming.

Good Luck George and all Blonde players ...........

especially to My Stable of Horses Mr Ten percents Julian Thew & Paul McTaggert (Bobba Fett) & also Ryan Spittles whom all play today   

Be Safe Boys and Bring it Home  !

Howard 'Tahoe' Andrew, Pavillion White, (can't find exact seat) if possible.

Hendon mob for Herbie,
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=8014


From Wsop site,


Lead tournament director Jack Effel has just finished making his preliminary announcements and proceeded to make two special introductions.

Our first introduction for today is the player to play the most consecutive World Series of Poker Main Events in history. Today marks his 39th consecutive year of participation - and that man is Howard Tahoe Andrew.

Karl is playing today, pics and updates of him whenever possible pls teeks

this man has herbie flags older than me!

My little stable all in action today; Tiity, Stao and George (already asked for) and Rooky if poss Tikay - tyvm

Regards, Stuart ;)

Chris playing today . Any pics updates appreciated . ty : )

Chris is Brasilia silver 34 1 table right behind me. Gogogo

Luckychewy two to my left but apart from that my table is pretty delightful

Decent start, 38k with a few minutes left of level 1

Any News on what day Rasta-Fish is playing....?

Done, but bear with me whilst I upload. Think he's down to the felt actually. (OK, he's doing fine, but he told me to tell you that).

I have pics of most of the other requests on here, too.

James Keys amazon 401 please.

SAndy

Mitch had set into set, unforch, he had the under.

Cost him quite a bit, but he's fine, though he has a face like a seaside donkey.

Hi Sandy - yeah, he will be in the Gallery-ette.

Hi Tony...Hope you are keeping well after your antics with the girl in cat suit    :)

Hows our Man Thewy doing please ?

Julian has 30k

Thewy 30,000, Ryan 43,000, not seen Paul.

Cheers Tony............take it easy

Played day 1a.
He said that it played a lot slower than the tourneys at DTD...... but he didn't.

Good Luck Jakally

Juan maceris is at my table and he's bring quite active.

Scot to my left 450 at 100/200

Juan 1075- scot to 3k Juan to 8550 scot to 13k Juan flats!?!!

Board runs out 763A4.

Scot AK. Juan has the mighty 53dd for the straight.

Why did stars drop him?

Pros gonna pro.

I need to go do my Blog, but here are a few Blondes, & photos requested.


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Cant find their table number but u try ur best sir...ty ty

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MODS - Spam Alert.


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Nice to see CT Law dealing on Mitch's table

gogogogogogogogogo

Link
To
Blog teeks?

Superb quality photographs.

Today's is not up yet, yesterday's is here....

http://bit.ly/N8za3e

From there, should you still be awake, you can easily see the other 20 odd blogs from this trip. By "20 odd", I mean "22 or 23" odd blogs......

Not much poker content, I must warn you.   

Where on earth did you get the idea George McKeever was grumpy from?

I've known him donkeys years and I've never seen him be grumpy once!

Great fun and a terrific fella.

Goooooo keysinho

This Juan maceris could be the absolute worst

I'm great fun, & arguably a reasonable chappie, but catrch me wrong & I've been known to be grumpy. Very rare, like.

In case anyone thinks otherwise from my waffley prose, I love George to bits.

great blog Teeks.

Tikay are you wearing your lil dave hat? No pictures of it as of yet....

I think the fans wanna see Tony Kendall, wearing the lil dave hat a'la Sammy Grafton....

GIVE THE FANS WHAT THEY WANT DAMMIT

I wore it ALL DAY yesterday. Pay me!

Photo to follow.

I wear it Sam Grafton style, too, proper attitudey.

Oddly, I saw Sam today, & he is NOT wearing his hat. I gave him a little sermon, he has image to protect.

Wow see that's a hero right there. Still locked in the pub at 2am here ffs

Juan up, one down.

I'm afraid that George is out.

Flopped a set of Tens on a Q-10-9 flop.

Young Juan had the Aces, & could not let go, in they go.

Perfect-perfect Broadway followed.

George seems remarkably sanguine about it.

Rumour has it that Stato has perished, too.

She was sat next to Sunny Mistri for most of the day I believe... found it hilarious that his facebook went mental with chat up lines and the like.. apparently footsie was played.

Think he finished with 80k+... wp sir..

Bleugh! UL sir. Good to hear a British stiff upper lip was employed. None of this tears and tantrums malarkey. #herobutrunbetternextyear

I gather it has just been announced that there are 6,598 runners in total, with - get the cliche - $8,527,982 up top

The WSOP Live Stream for 2012 has now finished, ESPN have Main Event exclusivity.

Day 1c Entry List. Don't read it all at once.


http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161/Entrants_List_Day1C_2012_WSOP_Main_Event.pdf

Teeks any chance of a fellow Phuketeer update pls.

1520 Jordan Kaplan Staten Island, NY, US Brasilia Red / 68 / 7

After the Dinner-Break (another hour yet), of course, no prob.

NO MORE Poker Encore spam though, you've had enough for today.

I rather liked those Karl pics, must be said.

Any chance of an update on Kourosh Radfar please?

Yes, of course, if you tell me where he is Seated, I'll try after the Dinner Break.

Thanks Tikay, requesting on behalf of geordieneil who is having problems logging in.

His seat is 380/8 amazon orange

Oh dear, I've just realised, geordieneil sent me a PM about this chap a week ago, but I've got behind with my PM's, there are shedloads, & I clean forgot to reply.

Bugger.

Luckily, those Geordies are always very understanding.

Passed on your apologies.

Well this is the current occupant of Amazon Orange, 380/8, but somehow he does not strike me as a Kourosh. Kourosh's NEVER wear orange, it's well known.

If he is, by some chance, an extremist Kourosh (orange, yellow, even red), then your man has around 55,000.


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Whereas we NAILED your man, I never saw anyone more likely to be called Jordan.

Nice lad, too, & we swapped Cos stories. I was quite surprised by one of them. Very surprised in fact. You seriously wear a thong?

Must say, when I saw him, I thought he must be your son - a dead ringer, but much younger.


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Meanwhile, Thewy is OUT, & Scotty77 is down to 6,000.

Photos of Liz Hurley please, I assume she'll be stood somewhere near Warne!

Titty mate? Seems to have gone twitter silent

Dunno - I'll go take a look in a mo.

Tyvm Mr K

Chips he has, i-phone battery, not so much.

47,675. Approx.

This would seem, on the whole, to be good news.


Daniel Morgan ‏@DanMorgan26
Boom QQ vs JJ btn vs BB against good aggro for a full double. 118k

Cheers Tikay

Got around 170k

:)




:)

Dan Morgan is getting a wriggle on.......


Daniel Morgan ‏@DanMorgan26
Couple of 3bets get through then get 3 streets with QQ vs AQ on KdQh4h7d9d. 126k at 200/400/50

gogo Dan, great start

Wow gl

thats bordering CL territory i think

Well Done Boba my son

Gotta Keep The Faith

Ooooh.

Daniel Morgan ‏@DanMorgan26
Bagging up 160,025 going into day 2 on Wednesday #chaaaaarge

1.6 ftw dan gogo.

Think I was closer to 160k on the last update, bagged up 155,475

gogogo Dan too!

seat draw for the survivors from 1b

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD1B%28seat%29.pdf

from 1a

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD1A%28seat%29.pdf

How am I still down as from Gautamala rotflmfao

Must be the tan obv :D

ISIT ...... Gl  ISIT

GL all the Brits in day 2.

Great job tikay  ;hattip;

For the maths & stats geeks.......

Day 1a - 1,066 entrants, 657 survivors.

Day 1b - 2,114 entrants, 1,387 survivors

day 1c - 3,418 runners, 2,300 survivors.

gl all

Roughly how many British players are remaining, anyone know?

Today's seat draw

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dHYzaXEyNVRzck1iQTd2cDZLT29md2c#gid=0

Thanking you  ;hattip;

Top stattage, sir.

So 61.6% of the field made it through 1a, 65.6% through 1b and 67.3% day 1c.

Does this mean it's better to register later?

Or more droolers on day 1a and more nits on 1c?

or a function of fewer hands played due to more table breaks etc?

PokerNews:

Redmond Lee (GB) - Busted

Also Liv Boree just dropped 7.5k chips. :(

On a more postive note, apparently Rhys Jones has just won a sizeable pot to go up to 147,000. :)

Sexton has been elimated, lost a coin flip with 7s 7c against  Ac Qc.

John Eames‏@johneamespoker

Down to 8k. Really wanted to min raise all in on a river as a bluff. But then realised I didn't trust the opponent to fold

:(

EDIT: PokerNews now reporting -
 
"..... Lovgen lead out for 2,500 into Eames ... after a minute, Eames let his hand go ... under 10,000 in chips left .... Lovgren moves above six-figures."

Chip Counts:

Sofia Lovgren SE 103,000
John Eames GB 7,800

EDIT: New tweet by @johneamespoker - Home time

Shame that :(

Teeks - thanks very much for the pic of Jordan yesterday. 30 people 'liked' it in the Phuket group when I posted it.

If you could post one more in a few hours with a chipcount that would be just awfully jolly young chap.

Thanks a bunch.

BlackBeltPoker prop Sam Ravazi just tweeted:

Sam Razavi‏@Sam_Razavi

Played 2 hands; paid 2 hands. Up to 53k from 38k. #grindddddddd

Meanwhile Vannesa Selbst, who is my bet to win the ME has tweeted:

Vanessa Selbst‏@VanessaSelbst

Just got owned. UTG 2k MP call I call BB AJdd. Flop AJ5r chk MP 2.5 I call utgfold. Turn 4d chk chk river Qd chk he chcks back AK. #soulread

I think I've won every hand I've played today except 1 and I've played over half of them for 1hr40 back to 100k :)

Go on the Demps. Pretty sure you will happily lose our bet in this one

Happy to, but can you, or someone, give me his table number please?

Liv Boeree‏@Liv_Boeree

Back at starting stack (30k) after one level after a bit of yo-yo-ing. Still 60bbs so very comfortable.

Leave us out with the Liv updates!

:D

But she's the best female British player (and not bad looking either ;).

Updated Chip Counts from the Brasilia Silver Section:
http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/chips.37555.htm (http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/chips.37555.htm)

..

James Dempsey GB 90,000 +24,500

...

Neville Darrell and Robin Keston have busted unfortunately.

Jason Somerville is new chip leader w/ 255k

Pics are fine though  :)

From Twitter at the start of the series:

@Liv_Boeree

Playing event number 2 the $1500 NLH. So excited to be back at the ‪#WSOP2012


@Choke_Doke

@Liv_Boeree just get your tits out ffs and be done with it. nobody gives a fuck what events you're playing

LOL the man has a point to be fair  ;D

Any Trigg news anywhere?

tony can you get a pic of blondes superjez all i know is he is on the table with mike the mout matsow

just got a message back saying he is on orange 385 if that means anything

James Dempsey‏@FoieGrasAddict

Forgot where I was for a minute and engineered a situation where I had to make a tough decision, unfortunately my opponent played her hand


James Dempsey‏@FoieGrasAddict

terribly and I doubled her up still on 110k #backtothegrind #smallballpoker

Hi Tikay

Sorry, do not post here much, a bit of a lurker....but if you are passing that way could you possibly keep an eye on the stack of Reza Tabatabai   Pavilion / 147 / 4   ...otherwise known as John

I would be hugely grateful

Thank you Sir

Barney upto 180k according to twitter...is MacPhee still in, love a clash and Barney to royally f**** him...top bloke, proper old school. Gooooo on Barney

190k now according to PokerNews.

Cliffs on liv hatred?

Hi Phinny

Unfortunately, that Table has now broken. If you get word of his new Table, I'm sure I can oblige.

orange 385 superjez from aberdeen aka marting succliffe please tony if table is in one piece
and try wind up mike the mouth in process

Bonomo out - how we laughed

where can i check todays seat draw?

On wsop,site cos - last tab, reports

Obviously last tab of main event page

Cos,

Day 1A survivors are HERE

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD1A%28seat%29.pdf


Day 1B Survivors are HERE

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD1B%28seat%29.pdf

However, many of the openng tables (mainly in "Pavilion", White) have now broken. They are breaking from the higher numbers in "Pavilion" downwards.

Great job Tony.
My best wishes to our boys.

Will be down later to cheer them on.

superjez table broken he is short after a tough first table today table seems softer and doesnt want any attention from camera

but if anyone can find him and get some chip counts i would be greatfull

Thanks Neil. The lads next door are all going along nicely, we lost Reds & James Rann today, but the other six are golng well, & we have 4 or 5 returning tomorrow for 2B. (All 5 VLV winners are still in). 

See you later.

Interesting day, one way & another. 

is there any way to filter on these things?

Looking for Jordan obv

Jordan is playing Main Event??

Lol, I've no idea!

If "Mere Novice" is Online, send him a PM, he will sort it, he's a bloody magician with them spready things. Don't tell him I sent you thoigh, he gets well grumpy. (He's old).

Lok. Not THAT Jordan! Mr Cos refers to "Kaplan Jordan", who, he tells me, is a "Phuketeer".

I remember Dubai said she was on his flight and put 2 and 2 together and made 69

She's called Katie Price now Keefy! :)

What is the average atm?

No idea Keith, not sure how to check, either. We are 3 levels into Day 2a, (which comes from 1a & 1b) & 2b (comes from 1c) is tomorrow.

Starting stack is 30,000, & in Days 1a, b & c, approx 65% of the field fell.

No idea how many players have fallen by the wayside today, either. Guess 60% (of 2a) or so will perish today?

At start of play today, I would estimate average as somewhere around 50,000.

Short version. I have no idea.

Sorry, wasn't online.

From day 1c:

Jordan Kaplan   Staten Island, NY, US   46,300   Brasilia / 87 / 9

He returns tomorrow.

Well done Vince, thanks. Tomorrow, the deed will be done, if Cossy reminds me.

Following the Main Event from home is terrible.

It's like listening to the Grand National on the radio.. you have no idea whether the horse you've backed has fallen and the commentator has missed it or it's cruising in behind the leaders with a double handful!

Relying on tweets, and if the players you are following don't tweet for 90 minutes you automatically assume the worst!

will do, ty.

This has made railing the main better but as Keefy Orkins says, it's tilting.

I can imagine.

It gets worse in the last 2 levels of the day, as players i-phone batteries die. I had about 10 people ask me to charge their phones towards the end of play last night. Obv, Channing got priority, as he talks most. 

Is Neil still in?

2 hours since his last tweet and he was getting pretty low..

Not seen him on my random wanders.

Last Tweet 3 hours ago was not optimistic, either.


So card dead & depressed. Dropped to 22k from 44k in four hours. Seems long time since I had 100k. Just shoved 24k over 1300 open ‪#desperate‬

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

Camel - looks like Neil is still in, or was @ Dinner-Break, which ended 30 minutes ago.

Neil Channing ‏@SenseiChanning
Made the dinner break with 20,600 at 500/1000. Fairly frustrating day wouldn't really cover it.

Lol last year beginning day 3 a woman check called my pot bet with the nut straight vs my 2nd nut straight no flush possible. Love the main event

The lack of info in the main is a real shame

Just a function of the sheer scale of it I suppose, and we have to rely on tikay on here, twitter and the like to get anything meaningful

I am sure things could be done by PN/team to make the whole provision of info easier next year for those railing friends/family at home

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

Last break (before last level of the day); I have about 60k. Got up to 90k but suffered a couple of very unfortunate plot twists.


Neil Channing Neil Channing ‏@SenseiChanning

Open shove, wait 1hr, 3-bet shove, wait 40 mins, open shove. Guy snap-calls my 19bb early pos shove from button with A10. My AK holds.

James Dempsey ‏@FoieGrasAddict

I call

#realnegreanutweets

 :D

"In the last hand at their table, action folded around to Terry Grimes on the button. He looked down at his cards and said, "Let's get this over with," before moving all in for well over 200,000. The small blind got out of the way, but Kevin Davis called off for nearly 200,000 from the big blind."


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/chips.37726.htm

Guess the hands lol. Must be nice blowing a huge chunk of equity jamming 150 bigs...

End of the day twitter round up

Neil Channing ‏@SenseiChanning

Made 5 normal opens all day & got 3-bet 5 times. 2 shoves in last hour since the AK double. 2nd was squeeze shove with AQ. 10s snapped. OUT.

Rhys Jones ‏@floppinhel

Finished the day 2 with 137,400. Return midday Thursday at 800/1600/200. Today could have gone better but im happy.

Sam Razavi ‏@Sam_Razavi

Man lost his mind and got it in pre for 60k pot with Q9 vs my QK. Of course he won. Thanks for the support everyone, til next year!

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

Well that, I would say, is an imperfect finish. Last hand of the day, re-raise all in with 99...

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

...my opponent has QQ and 7000 chips less than me! So I'm through to Day 3 but with four big blinds.


Craig McCorkell ‏@CraigMcCorkell

Finished day 2 with 230k, day off tomorrow #wsopmainevent

Dave Jones ‏@LeKnave

Ran it to 115k in the last level, but bricked the nfd after barrelling, and then an ill timed river raise leaves me with 66,800.



Please post more Brit news or chip counts if you see or hear of them, ty

Tell the boys to get themselves like this...   http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004GGU8SS/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00

Gives you 1-1.5 extra charges..essential for #myiphonechewsbatterylife

Sky poker got at least 2 through, Marc Wright with 129,000, Sam1986 Baylis with 102,000

Any more tikay?


Flushy made it through?

Day2 c table draw

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dHNSMW85ZGhCRzEwQk1MaUNzWGRtTlE

Yeah i am through, 66,700 1200 more than i started the day with. Also happens to be about 90k less than i had at the 2nd break :(

There was a hand a couple of years ago.

Level one board was 789 two clubs.

Betting went ballistic. Guy open folded JT hh against two allins.

On their backs, one had 67 the other one top set!

WOULD J10 OF HEALD UP???

Yes.

It's in the pokernews archives somewhere

Am I being really stupid or is there something missing from this? Did the guy have 9-10?

tikays blog stopped after day 1b or am i blind?

He got a penalty for not raising. I can't think of any other scenario where that would happen.

Fair point. It's been a long week.

[ ] love tweets where I have to work out the details myself

Don't add Chippyman on twitter then. He is hard work :)

This is the list of people I think are Brits based on the information in:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD2A-2B%28chips%29.pdf

Some may be from Guatemala.
Leo Margets is Spanish
Not too sure about Dmytro Nemyrovskyi or Pratik Ghatge either!
The rest might be "genuine" though.

70    Craig McCorkell    WEST SUSSEX, GB    230,100    Brasilia / 15 / 3    
214    Nicholas Farnborough    GB    147,800    Brasilia / 45 / 5    
237    Teddy Sheringham    LONDON, , GB    142,000    Amazon / 370 / 8    
242    Alin Rapoport    NORWICH, , GB    140,500    Brasilia / 8 / 9    
252    Rhys Jones    FAREHAM, GB    137,400    Brasilia / 1 / 5    
273    Mel Judah    LONDON, , GB    130,700    Amazon / 394 / 5    
280    Marc Wright    GB    128,200    Pavilion / 98 / 9    
301    Jamie Sill    Burlington, , GB    122,100    Amazon / 370 / 7    
307    Leonor Margets    London, , GB    120,400    Amazon / 377 / 9    
372    Liv Boeree    EAST MOLESY, GB    104,300    Amazon / 369 / 8    
383    Dmytro Nemyrovskyi    GB    101,000    Brasilia / 83 / 5    
415    Barny Boatman    HENDON, , GB    94,700    Brasilia / 78 / 1    
421    Neil Lusher    Battersea, , GB    93,600    Brasilia / 28 / 9    
424    Kevin Williams    LEYTON STONE, , GB    92,600    Brasilia / 25 / 5    
427    Pratik Ghatge    GB    91,900    Brasilia / 48 / 1    
454    Sebastian Gohr    BRIGHTON, , GB    86,000    Amazon / 365 / 5    
457    Adam Latimer    OXFORD , , GB    85,900    Brasilia / 29 / 9    
474    Jonathan Crute    Belfast, , GB    81,500    Amazon / 407 / 7    
493    Tristan McDonald    LONDON, , GB    78,000    Brasilia / 34 / 5    
502    Daniel Rudd    ESSEX, , GB    76,800    Amazon / 406 / 1    
513    Daniel Sauva    London, , GB    74,800    Brasilia / 91 / 3    
523    Mohammed Sadiq    Wakefield, , GB    73,200    Brasilia / 16 / 1    
542    Priyan de Mel    LONDON, GB    71,100    Brasilia / 81 / 5    
561    David Jones    NORTH YORKSHIRE, , GB    66,800    Brasilia / 58 / 7    
564    James Dempsey    BRIGHTON, , GB    66,700    Brasilia / 48 / 9    
580    Ben Roberts    LONDON, GB    64,200    Amazon / 441 / 7    
590    Tomas Macnamara    NEW CASTLE, TYNE‐WEAR, GB    62,700    Brasilia / 61 / 9    
626    David Charalambous    GB    56,500    Brasilia / 31 / 5    
638    George McKeever    LONDONDERRY, , GB    55,000    Brasilia / 79 / 7    
660    Zimnan Ziyard    EASTBOURNE, , GB    50,100    Brasilia / 92 / 9    
665    Anthony Ramsden    London, , GB    49,600    Pavilion / 101 / 3    
679    Sadan Turker    LONDON, , GB    47,800    Brasilia / 72 / 7    
710    John Shipley    SOLIHULL, , GB    43,500    Brasilia / 56 / 5    
827    Najib Kamand    SURREY LONDON, , GB    18,500    Pavilion / 98 / 7    
839    Victoria Coren    LONDON, , GB    7,100    Brasilia / 29 / 3    




Here are some people listed as Irish (including Nic Abou Risk!):

72    Peter Murphy    SILVERBRIDGE, IE    228,900    Amazon / 422 / 7    
105    Fergal Nealon    SLIGO, , IE    201,300    Brasilia / 51 / 1    
128    Nicholas Abourisk    DUBLIN, IE    186,100    Amazon / 365 / 7    
208    John Oshea    CHURCHTOWN, , IE    149,700    Brasilia / 11 / 7    
806    Cornelius Foley    Cork, , IR    23,300    Brasilia / 59 / 3    

(thanks to MereNovice, again)

No, I just got overwhelmed with work & some other issues which diverted me.

The Day 1c Blog is complete, bar a bit of tidying up, be up in an hour or so I hope, the Day 2a Blog will follow shortly thereafter, unless I get diverted again today by other matters.

I had to check today. I thought Jeeves had got ahead of you and you were having to read his stuff before writing yours.

Tony any video reports like last year ?

Correct, we got 2 through to Day Three yesterday.

Today, in Day 2b, we have 2 VLV Qualifiers (JAKALLY & James Foley), plus Matthew Chard (LolRaise) on his TSP money & Beaneh, who is on his own dime, but of course we will support him just as we do the others, as he is a regular & prominent player next door.

No, unfortunately not.

sigh  ul gg, it was those that got me to venture to next door.

Decision vindicated then. No point wasting more money when the job is done. ;)

Wow you set all that up just to get me aboard, impressed  :)

Oh great, I now have a stomach bug and diarrhea so please no one tank call my bluffs today or I will shit myself literally.

Pratik Ghatge is a live cash game player from London Rich.

Gl to all esp Jamie Dale, Jono Beck and the Ellwood twins.

Sorry, but can you remind me who you are please? Not so much detail though.......

Very best of luck today, & Ill update your progress if I find out who you are.

Excellent, I enjoy reading them. They're a little bit like going on holiday without leaving the laptop.

Liv Borree?

That was my mistake.
Thanks for the correction.

Jordan Kaplan   Staten Island, NY, US   46,300   Brasilia / 87 / 9

Please sir :)

amazon 418

dan morgan

Just tweeted 119k, moved to amazon 418

Pab43k, Moorman 124k

I have a life

any luck teeks?

Yes, but like a donkey, I Posted it & a few others on the wrong thread.....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56648.msg1602918#msg1602918

Here you go, again, sorry. Recognize anyone ele in that photo?


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1247011.jpg)

Some random photos & words from the WSOP, with a few odd blondes thrown in for purposes of schmooze.


http://bit.ly/NolHnh

Sammy G getting a massage from my future wife....

Blimey Tony, Pete Costa looks well in this pics.

Amazingly so - especially compared to his "flab" stage. and I'm not knocking the "flab" stage, I know the problem!

Pleased for him.

Nearing the end of Day 2B and Two brits doing well are   Jake Cody on 292,000 and my man Paul McTaggert  (Boba Fett )on 282,000

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/chips.htm

Go on Boba

boo..boba just lost 141,000 chips  :(

Is there a days break now then day 3 on Friday night for us

Nope, no break, Day 3 is tomorrow (Thursday).

Cheers Tony. Can we get a day 3 seat draw posted

nice job  :)up

Chips counts at end of day 2 c for people registered as from GB in:
 http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD2C%28chips%29.pdf

15   Sam Holden   SUSSEX, GB   352,600   Brasilia / 23 / 4
17   Karim Jomeen   LONDON, GB   328,600   Brasilia / 27 / 8
18   Jake Cody   ROCHDALE, , GB   322,000   Brasilia / 58 / 2
27   Neil Ryder   Brimingham, , GB   283,000   Brasilia / 7 / 2
62   James Keys   BURY ST EDMUNDS SUFFOLK, , GB   234,400   Brasilia / 15 / 4
89   James Mitchell   WIMBLEDON, GB   213,100   Amazon / 440 / 4
121   Mark Teltscher   LONDON, , GB   191,700   Amazon / 367 / 8
124   Andres Ibarguen   GB   189,900   Amazon / 394 / 8
146   Andy Moseley   WOKING, , GB   183,200   Amazon / 430 / 2
148   Marvin Lee   Solihull, , GB   181,800   Pavilion / 97 / 8
154   Philip Peters   London, , GB   179,900   Amazon / 421 / 4
187   Stephen Devlin   OMOGH, , GB   160,600   Brasilia / 41 / 4
240   Simon Deadman   NOTTINGHAM, GB   146,500   Brasilia / 54 / 8
244   Adam Lawler   Rayleigh, Essex, , GT   146,100   Brasilia / 72 / 8
248   Lynne Beaumont   SWINDON, GB   144,800   Brasilia / 35 / 8
260   Shane Warne   Brighton, , GB   141,000   Amazon / 436 / 9
264   Benjamin Vinson   GB   139,400   Amazon / 363 / 2
292   Paul Mctaggart   GB   132,400   Amazon / 413 / 7
323   James Sykes   GB   123,000   Brasilia / 1 / 6
326   Daniel Pickard   Devon, , GB   121,800   Amazon / 370 / 6
346   Senh Ung   Handsworth Birmingham, , GB   118,200   Brasilia / 33 / 2
350   Keith Johnson   NOTTINGHAM, , GB   117,800   Brasilia / 13 / 6
355   Sebastion Saffari   LONDON, , GB   117,000   Amazon / 373 / 4
382   Charles Clark   LONDON, , GB   108,900   Brasilia / 6 / 4
389   JP Kelly   AYLESBURY, , GB   107,400   Amazon / 406 / 8
392   Andrew Gough   Rhyl, , GB   107,000   Brasilia / 49 / 6
404   Chris Moorman   BENFLEET, , GB   103,900   Amazon / 417 / 2
415   Nick Gibson   BUCKS, , GB   101,900   Amazon / 359 / 1
437   Darren Judges   WALTHAM ABBEY, , GB   98,400   Brasilia / 16 / 8
486   Paul Ephremsen   BERKHAMSTED, , GB   91,000   Amazon / 432 / 8
488   Niall Charlton   CARDIFF, GB   90,600   Pavilion / 105 / 4
505   Jan Klein   GB   86,000   Amazon / 399 / 9
511   Derek Chisholm   BERWICKSHIRE, , GB   85,100   Brasilia / 45 / 2
519   Matthew Chard   UPPERMILL, , GB   83,800   Pavilion / 121 / 5
556   Peter Akery   BRISTOL, , GB   78,300   Amazon / 406 / 4
571   Igor Yaroshevskyy   Onepropet Rovse, , GB   74,700   Brasilia / 61 / 6
591   Jamie Dale   GB   69,700   Brasilia / 30 / 8
621   Philip Green   FRINTON ON SEA ESSEX, , GB   64,600   Amazon / 351 / 2
625   Scott Shelley   LONDON, , GB   63,800   Pavilion / 106 / 2
641   Christopher Tighe   BRISTOL, , GB   60,100   Amazon / 429 / 3
654   Jonathan Beck   GB   58,100   Amazon / 434 / 8
698   Andrew Wayman   GT   52,600   Pavilion / 106 / 4
707   James Brodie   SOUTHSEA, GB   51,100   Pavilion / 111 / 4
718   Jamie Brown   BIRCHINGTON, , GB   50,400   Brasilia / 5 / 8
739   Ashley Mason   YORK, , GB   47,000   Amazon / 408 / 8
743   Gary Hurst   WASHINGTON, , GB   46,400   Amazon / 403 / 2
758   Oluwashola Akindele   GB   42,800   Amazon / 379 / 6
774   Eli Heath   Daventry, , GB   41,000   Brasilia / 85 / 8
856   Mykola Chornyi   GB   26,300   Brasilia / 58 / 8
861   Graham Francis   Romford Essex, , GT   24,900   Pavilion / 111 / 2
898   Kevin Lanceley   Poole, , GB   15,000   Amazon / 411 / 8
911   Alistair Hill   REDLAND BRISTOL, , GB   DNR   Amazon / 367 / 4


May be easier to read as:

15   Sam Holden      352,600
17   Karim Jomeen      328,600
18   Jake Cody      322,000
27   Neil Ryder      283,000
62   James Keys      234,400
89   James Mitchell      213,100
121   Mark Teltscher      191,700
124   Andres Ibarguen      189,900
146   Andy Moseley      183,200
148   Marvin Lee      181,800
154   Philip Peters      179,900
187   Stephen Devlin      160,600
240   Simon Deadman      146,500
244   Adam Lawler      146,100
248   Lynne Beaumont      144,800
260   Shane Warne      141,000
264   Benjamin Vinson      139,400
292   Paul Mctaggart      132,400
323   James Sykes      123,000
326   Daniel Pickard      121,800
346   Senh Ung      118,200
350   Keith Johnson      117,800
355   Sebastion Saffari      117,000
382   Charles Clark      108,900
389   JP Kelly      107,400
392   Andrew Gough      107,000
404   Chris Moorman      103,900
415   Nick Gibson      101,900
437   Darren Judges      98,400
486   Paul Ephremsen      91,000
488   Niall Charlton      90,600
505   Jan Klein      86,000
511   Derek Chisholm      85,100
519   Matthew Chard      83,800
556   Peter Akery      78,300
571   Igor Yaroshevskyy      74,700
591   Jamie Dale      69,700
621   Philip Green      64,600
625   Scott Shelley      63,800
641   Christopher Tighe      60,100
654   Jonathan Beck      58,100
698   Andrew Wayman      52,600
707   James Brodie      51,100
718   Jamie Brown      50,400
739   Ashley Mason      47,000
743   Gary Hurst      46,400
758   Oluwashola Akindele      42,800
774   Eli Heath      41,000
856   Mykola Chornyi      26,300
861   Graham Francis      24,900
898   Kevin Lanceley      15,000
911   Alistair Hill      DNR

Plus, from Ireland:

118   Eoghan O'Dea   DUBLIN, IE   193,000   Pavilion / 112 / 6

Gogogogo keys, deadman, o'dea, johnson etc!

Just noticed something a tad spooky with the figures at the end of Day 2

43rd Annual World Series of Poker
Event #61: No‐Limit Hold'em Main Event
END OF DAY REPORT FOR DAY: 2C
Amazon
Entries: 6598 Remaining Players (at EOD): 911 Places Paid: 666
Buyin: $10,000 Prize Pool: $62,021,200

Players Left   9/11
Places Paid        666

Maybe you have to pledge allegiance to both America and The Devil to with the Main Event   :)

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012_WSOP_EV61_DAY%203%20START%20LIST%20BY%20SEAT.pdf

1229 Jean Malherbe Court St Etienne, , BO 210,600 Brasilia / 15 / 1
472 Bryan Veach HYDE PARK, NY, US 136,400 Brasilia / 15 / 2
1230 Craig McCorkell WEST SUSSEX, GB 230,100 Brasilia / 15 / 3
473 James Keys BURY ST EDMUNDS SUFFOLK, , 234,400 Brasilia / 15 / 4
1231 Steven Lerner Valley Stream, NY, US 61,400 Brasilia / 15 / 5
474 Kyle Julius NAPERVILLE, IL, US 152,100 Brasilia / 15 / 6
1232 Chris Lee CLARKSVILLE, MD, US 126,100 Brasilia / 15 / 7
475 Shawn Hattem BLAINVILLE, QC, CA 67,800 Brasilia / 15 / 8
1233 Narinder Singh Khasria MILTON, ON, CA 161,400 Brasilia / 15 / 9


Best of luck James.

Sandy

Just caught your blog. The guy in calipers must have been Glenn L Scheck who I wrote about when I played with him in 2009. Please wish him well if you see him. Pretty sure he will remember me, the wedding and JJ v AA

Even spookier how it's expected to be reached on Friday the 13th. :o

Another spooky number i noticed........... Keys' stack size to finish day 2, is exactly the age of David Gorr!!!


Fancy that!

GL 2moro, if you get to 18million chips, you will also have the size of the chiplead to 1, that you lost with.

Much love x

How is the British field faring compared to previous years?

There are 1,752 (approx) players left, Fraser, not 911.

My eyes may have failed me, but 2 Brits seem to be missing from that list. I only noticed this because I am "following" them for next door.

Marc Wright approx 130,0000

Sam Bayliss, (Sam1986 next door) approx 110,000.

Good luck to them both today, ditto Andrew Wayman (Beaneh) , Matthew Chard (Lolraise), & Dan Pickard ("nosebleed").

My plan WAS to fly home on Saturday. Hopefully, I'll have to delay that flight.

Good luck to those 5, & all the other blonde & GB lads

fyp.

Tristan McDonald updates a plenty today please.

My last remaining piece of action in the WSOP this year!

Take a picture if you must, but he's an ugly bugger.

no.

Is the bubble likely to burst today Tony.

only playing 5 levels, can't see it busting until Friday

Wow and they are hoping for a final table by Monday?

 Lots of our regulars are cheering on James Mitchell, Kevin Williams and Tristan MacDonald as they have won 2% of their action in a promotion so any news or pictures would be good.

 (obviously 2% is 2% of what they win and not what they get out of it, including make-up, the cost of their hotel or any expenses they have incurred in life - we thought it would be best to keep it simple).

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Post of the week

Ha ha ... And people say he has a dry sense of humour. That's made me pee myself

That list has not combined all of the 2a/b and 2.c qualifiers on some tables.

Tristan owns part of the company and he's in make up?

You run a tight ship!

glglgl

Ahh yes, of course, my bad, thank you.

Corrected one stands.

All very confusing!

Absolutely NOT.

Bubble time will be 5.03pm on Day Four (Friday, tomorrow) give or take 10 minutes.

Lol. Nice effort but you know you ain't Simon Trumper right :)

wasn't it end of day 3 last year?

For those that prefer spreadsheets to pdf documents, here is the day 3 seating:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdGxKMW1IX1BPclJxcFhWMUpZNjg4UXc

Think it's been day 3 for last 3 years

More day 1s last year would have any effect?

Funking for Mr. & Mrs Deadman .    Go on my  son.
Shippppp Ittttttt & bring back the gold

 ;applause;  Very Good

And most interestingly to everyone here.....

.....Liv Boeree is on a rampage. :D

Up to 232k :D

Needs more love. Ahrt


Yes, very good :D

Can confirm that it was day 4 last year

Don't think it has.  

When I first played I went on day 3 about 4 levels in not long before the bubble.  When I played a couple of years ago I went out on day 3 about 4 levels in and I was about 500 from the bubble.  The difference was that when I first played, you played until 4am on days 1 and 2, now you finish 3 or 4 hours earlier.

Good luck all the UK and Irelands, especially Beaneh who I think is the sole member of team Doobs remaining.

Preparing myself already- swapped 5% with decent player last night was there, missed flight so swap is cancelled as I didn't play. He has 400k+.... Normally I just swap with flushy and see him busting comps just as I'm buyin in. Could be worst beat ever

Jake Cody GB 342,000 +20,000

James Dempsey GB 80,000

JP Kelly GB 105,000 -2,400

Neil Ryder GB 340,000 +60,000

Liv Boeree  GB 166,900 +56,900

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/

Neil Ryder to bring the bracelet to the Broadway! GL

Ahem....

Liv Boeree‏@Liv_Boeree

Gone on a rather lovely heater. 292k!!!!

:)

Sam Holden‏@Sam_Holden888

Wifi not working which is prob good for me. Upto 375k: Level 12: 1000/2000-300 just about to start.

Victoria Coren is out.

I was wandering the Room & heard someone call my name, was Flushy, so I stood & chatted for a moment.

He was playing (all numbers approx) 100,000 ish, & made it 4,000.

The SB then jammed on him for a meaty chunk.

Flushy immediately asks for a count.

45,000 says the dealer.

"More, or total?"

"More"

As the dealer says it, Flushy is already counting out the call....and he calls.

Flushy flips his hand first......

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Then Mr Chunky Bet......


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1249041.jpg)

......and we see this board




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Be a good one pls....

Sigh

 :(

On the plus side, Liv Boeree has just busted another player to move over 400k. ;)

Shortly thereafter, Flushy ran his Eights into Kings, & the Dealer did not do that setty thing.

Keith Johnson says he has 260,000. Deduct 200,000, & you'd be about right.

I had a request next door for a Keith Johnson count, whiich struck me as odd. His fame is universal.

Titty and Jones gone as well - big sigh

James keys please.

Sandy

280k an hour ago hasnt tweeted since - guess a running on spot sign

sent u a message on tweeeter teeks

Craig McCorkell ‏@CraigMcCorkell
@skolsuper1 just whipped out the 5 slide on this poor French guy. I remember when 4betting got some credit...

Just after the last count, hopefully.

James doesn't update much which is cool if he keeps gathering chips ;)

Sandy

Handsome Paul up to around 250k, just doubled up with pocket jacks. He likes pocket jacks.

Mystery resolved......

Replied. Jewish Bro, eh?

Soon........

whos handsome Paul Please ?

Paul Ephremsen, his gonna tid with the mof

Translate ?

:)

Sandy

James Keys ‏@skolsuper1
Bout tree seventy

Sandy

No sooner the word than the deed. I'm pretty sure you must be related to this kid, Cos. Think he is playing around 200,000, 250,000, that sort of area. (Orange 5k, Yellow 1k, light blue 500, dark blue 100).


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1250001.jpg)


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Player at Luton. Dogracer1 on blonde.

Ship the comeback?

John Shipley had 32,000 at the first break today, make that 300,000 now.


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1252005.jpg)

Go on the Ship!

Pokernews said he was out yesterday!

I am happy to report that rumours of his demise are premature. I'd love to see him cash again.

Sorry to do the "all our yesterday's" thing, but if memory serves me right, you, Ship, Dave Colclough, Rhowena  & myself all had dinner once in about 2004 at a gaff called - surely not? - "Mad O'Rourke's Pie Factory", somewhere in the Black Country?

I think a single pie weighed about 4lbs or whatever. Even had cow horns.


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boba fett still in?

You missed one member from our party.

He was the only one to completely finish his pie, and h only just recovered from heart surgery..

Can you name him?

Blimey Keith, you got me there.

Paul Maxfield? Mickey Wernick?

Gissaclue....

Not from this island.

Been past that gaffe so many times and always fancied eating there.

Do it, Stu, it's awesome. It's lke going to watch the FA Cup Final - you HAVE to do it once in your life. The afters were monsta, too.

Meanwhile, Camel's question is killing me.  I'm thinking Irish. I'm guessing. I'm fishing. I'm trying to think who that gang ran with in those days.

Marc Wright has 545k  ;hide;

Liam Flood.

Ahh yes, "Gentleman" Liam.

Still around, saw him quite recently. Bet he's top side of 70 now.

Daniel Rudd is top 10 in chips.

Remember him from this?

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=27631

Does he post here?

yeah he's UPTHEMARINERS on here.

Such a nice guy

1800 posts and I've never heard of the poster.

Was even an update from that comp where Dan and Tony finalled:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23992.msg487470;topicseen#msg487470

Seems to have been deleted though :(

Lordy Lordy, yes, of course I do, great great lad. That was about his first decent bink, & the first time I had met him. He was a blonde already then.

Look at those names! That must have been one of Mr Bedi's earliest Live cashes. To be honest, I have no recollection of George being there.

You'll have to pardon the oh-so-rare opportunity to chirp, but that was their May Fessie, & on top of that 3rd on the Thursday, I also won the Main, which started on the Friday. Actually, more likely, reading the result, I chopped it.

I flopped a set against the late Dave Smith & busted him, but the kid "Koky Yu" (yup, that was his real name) was a right handful. We played cash afterwards, & he got about £1,500 back from me, & more from Compo.

Compo & I were doing "Poker Week" there, for next door, it was all a bit surreal for me to be the winner of an Event we were covering for TV. Probably the last time I did something I could chirp about.

We tried to record the "wrap" on the balcony, overlooking the greyhound track (there was a meeting on), & had to do some 30 takes, every time we hit our stride, "So that's it from Poker Week here in Sheffield" the stadium PA would make an announcement about some nonsense.

This went on for nearly 45 minutes, before we realised we were having our leg lifted, Lawrence Gosney had teed up the PA man to speak every time Compo started his outro.
 
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=27632

That's a fantastic story.
 
Haven't seen Mr Gosney in a while. I was railing him when he won his bracelet beating one of the most obnoxious American players around, Dustin Woolf, who is currently spending some time at one of Obama's finest jails. My heart bleeds for him. Not.

Was/is Lawrence in Vegas?

I remember it well tikay. Barry Neville knocked me out with TT vs my AJdd. Those were the days where u got a 5k stack for 300 quid. Room was full of smoke too.

Sorry I don't recall you being there George, the old memory is buggered.

I do recall Barry Neville finalling, he was a standing dish up there in those days, & in the breaks, he'd flog suits from his car boot.

Room full of smoke? It was the nut worst place on earth for smoke. Ashtrays on the table, 12 or 13 players to a giant table, eyes watering from the smoke, George Geary puffing away at THE biggest cigar you ever saw. Thewy used to take a fan with him to clear the smoke, George Geary later got one, it was HUGE.

The chips there were disgusting too, they were so filthy that you could pick up a stack of 5 or 10 by the top chip, the rest would just stick together. Riffle chips there? Forget that.

It might - prove me wrong - also be the only Licensed Casino I can ever recall that had a 200 denom tourney poker chip. (As well as 25's, 50's, & 100's). Never understood that.   

Thanks Keith. I sometimes wish I could forget forums & just write stories every day. I've loved Blogging from Vegas, but there are just not enough hours in the day.

I was there when Lawrence binked too, & when Mr Arsey American decided to start with his speech play on Gosney, we all snap knew he was dead in the water, Gosney minced him, rinsed him, & spat him out. Why is Woolf in Prison? Drug related?

I have not spotted Lawrence in Vegas this year, no. He just does his own thing, usually on impulse. Very wealthy man actually. He used to kill the £20-ers up in Bradford & Sheffield, win them night after night, & was an amazing Padooki player, the Padooki games up there were well big.

Naps Sheffield was very popular then, & the Notts lads always came up & we'd have a meal before, Thewy, Jamie Moult, Red-Dog, Ralphy Boy, Ian Oldershaw & Co. The Blackpool lads used to come across, too, plus there were a whole bunch of bent buggers who played there.

Whoops, Episode 27 of all Our Yesterdays there, I'll confine them to my diary in future.

Love reading about stuff like this...

I wasn't there long tony and it was my first tourney on the live circuit. Quite a big buy in for me. Pretty funny thinking back. I remember when first travelling the circuit I'd get a real buzz being at the same table as some of the old school Brit pros such as cold lough, beevers, Vaswani etc. seems a lifetime ago!!!

JP just got a full double KJ > JT on 9TQ sitting with 350k now

'won't cash till tomorrow if I make it. 900 left 1.5 levels left of the day average is 200k I have 300k'

wiiiiiii glgl Fettdozer! #Hero :) :)

Gl to James Keys too, think he had 440k ? decent stack too :)

gl other blonde's! Bring the gold to Britain - wiiiiiiiiii

I think it will be very close to the bubble tonight.

In 3.5 levels today, they hsve gone from 1,753 to 927, & they have 3 hours (1.5 levels) remaining. It slows down incredibly near the bubble, but they are dropping like flies - 800 in 3.5 levels!

Anyway, good luck Boba.

I have stolen this story from next door with a little adaption - different audience - as I'm juggling Updates on both sites, but as I wrote it, I guess it's OK. ;)

What would you do here?

 Marc's table is the absolute centre of attention, it is by the ropes, there is a HUGE rail,, plus ESPN are there with 3 cameras, a sound man with his "boom" microphone, all the gubbins, it's hard to even get near it.

It includes three great players & 3 very good players, three of the players cover Marc, & thay are all going at it hammer & tongs, 3 & 4 betting pre every hand, no quarter asked or given, it is THE most exciting thing to watch, attack attack attack.

So, Marc opens, as per, & picks up a caller from Mr Hat.

Marc c-bets the flop & turn, & after much deliberation, checks the river.

Mr Hat now fires out a mini-bet, 37,000 into about 90,000.

Marc thinks for ages, stares his man down, Hat stares back, + a bit of speech play from Hat. I don't now if Marc is gonna raise him, fold, or call with 9 high or some equal spanners.

Eventually, Marc lets go.

And then this happens......

Marc has pushed his cards towards the Dealer, face down, ditto the winner.

But now an ESPN guy with a little Z50 camera or similar (a hand-held mini-camera) wants to SEE the two hands.
 
So the Dealer touches the muck with Marc's hand to "kill it", & Marc is given his cards back. The cameraman now gets Marc to show his "dead" hand to the mini-camera.

Nobody else can see them. Rinse repeat for Mr Hat's hand.

Bear in mind that the players sign a Disclaimer saying that ESPN MAY record the action, film the table etc, but I very much doubt - in fact I am sure - they cannot "force" a player to reveal his hand.
 
In those circumstances, would YOU show your hand to the camera?

Me? No chance, forget that. Maybe I'm just stubborn, but why should I? 

That was one of my favourite memories of Vegas , watching a mate win a bracelet. I remember him busting Dusting Woolf ,all in preflop 22 vs KK and Lawrence hitting a 4 card flush with the 2 clubs.  :D

The notoriously unreliable WSOP Chip Counts have two Brits in the Top Ten - Marc Wright in 7th (700,000) & Dan Rudd in 8th (695,0000).

Marc reported his stack @ 730,000 at the break, a few minutes ago.

Depends on whether I think what I had would make me look silly or not obv!

If not, why not? I prefer the why not attitude to the why should I.

Rudd Grabs The Chip Lead For Now
Posted 5 minutes ago by 123md • Level 15: 2,000-4,000, 500 ante     
Daniel Rudd has just overtaken and Ben Alcober and AJ Jejelowo for the chip lead for the time being.
We caught up to the action on the river, but Rudd was kind enough to fill us in on the details. He opened to 8,500 in early position and was called by two players before a third player re-raised to 24,500 from the small blind. Rudd called, as did the other two players, landing an  flop.
The three-bettor bet 67,000, Rudd called, and the other two opponents folded. The turn fell the  where the bet was 101,000 to Rudd. He called, landing the  on the river. This time, Rudd's opponent fired 167,000. Wasting little time, Rudd re-raised all in for an additional 97,000. After a few moments his opponent called and Rudd tabled . His opponent tabled a weaker ace, , shipping the nearly seven-figure pot Rudd's way.
Rudd now sits on a stack of about 980,000.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/

AK vs AQ on A2299

Wow, go Daniel!

The form in that 2007 Tourney that Keefy posted is working out well.....

My home town casino did use to be popular...you cant believe how  cramped and smokey it was with Georges cigars and like you say ironically he would have the biggest fan that Dave Smith(lovely man RIP) would always try and steal.Cash games where great with Norman (from Halifax I think) Shaf fron Blackburn and various locals

Great times indeed but to be honest the place is exactly the same now...still a bit dumpy(without the smoke),,,Tony I recall you had a different hair colour then  :)

Tony or anybody know how Paul McTaggert (Boba Fett) is going please ? as only got Dreenies post to go on

Had 240k about an hour ago.

Cheers...if anybody knows  his twitter account name that would be great ..thanks

@BobaFettdozer11

Cheers Guy

Dan Rudd showing as 834k - gogo that man

Brit chip counts from PokerNews:
Daniel Rudd          834,500
Marc Wright          635,500
James Keys          430,000
Sam Holden          418,000
JP Kelly          400,000
James Mitchell          337,000
Chris Moorman          305,500
Karim Jomeen          300,000
John Oshea          295,000
Liv Boeree          207,500
Eoghan O'Dea          200,000
Gary Hurst          195,000
Salman Behbehani          170,000
Neil Ryder          150,000
Darren Judges          140,000
Jake Cody          105,000




I'll update when the official counts are available.

Cody bust, acc to his twitter.

Paul Ephremsen finished with 292k

End of day 3 counts - ctrl+f and you can search for your horses names.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD3%28chips%29.pdf

Extract of Brits from the above pdf.

7   Daniel Rudd      834,500
33   Craig McCorkell      638,500
37   Marc Wright      635,500
77   Nicholas Abourisk      517,000
79   John Oshea      514,500
84   JP Kelly      506,000
92   Niall Farrell      495,000
95   Karim Jomeen      485,000
96   Adam Lawler      481,000
123   Rhys Jones      433,000
125   Derek Chisholm      429,500
131   Sam Holden      424,500
148   James Keys      399,000
243   Daniel Sauva      317,000
246   Charles Clark      311,500
249   Alin Rapoport      310,000
257   Chris Moorman      305,500
274   Paul Ephremsen      292,000
279   John Shipley      286,500
312   Adam Latimer      264,000
316   James Mitchell      260,000
347   Keith Johnson      241,000
359   Paul Mctaggart      236,000
389   Salman Behbehani      219,000
394   Philip Peters      216,500
415   Liv Boeree      207,500
421   James Brodie      202,000
487   Jamie Sill      171,500
506   Vitalii Minakov      159,500
517   Fergal Nealon      152,000
536   Gary Hurst      142,000
552   Daniel Pickard      133,000
557   Peter Murphy      128,500
573   Andres Ibarguen      123,500
633   Kevin Williams      95,000
655   Lynne Beaumont      83,500
670   Neil Ryder      75,000
676   Marvin Lee      71,500
718   Mark Teltscher      20,000
720   Teddy Sheringham      DNR

370   1   Dag Martin Mikkelsen   230500
370   2   James Keys   399000
370   3   Frank Calo   329000
370   4   Aaron Kaiser   169500
370   5   Robert Schulz   106500
370   6   Brian Nadell   187500
370   7   Adrian Apmann   74500
370   8   Michael Nasserazad   354500
370   9   Jan Kasten   636000


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/


Decent shape.

:)

Sandy

Adam Lawler in 96th used to run the cardroom at the Mint Casino in Southend.....keep running like God!!

Still is a manager at the casino and took the lions share of a chop in the Sunday Million a month or so ago.

Good times. I bought a hand held fan too, not a gay looking one, a proper gadgetty thing, think thewy and i both got one in brookstone in vegas. it was a god send in Naps and Gala.

Those chips were awful, covered in filth and yes why have a 25, 50, 100, 200 and 500 denom chip!? The stacks were so shallow, the lot used to go in most hands anyway

Pokernews site says Rob Yong in with about 110k, didnt even know he was playing.  Full chip counts and seat assignments up there now. Not sure if a copy and paste is allowed?

There's more than one Robert Yong in the world.
That one is from Brookline, Massachusetts.

Handsome Paul in at 274th, Dogracer on here

Gl paul

Phil Peters still in. Absolute legend. GL him and of course Keys and Keith, and Niall, and yeah, pretty much everyone

He was in fact in the Rio yesterday, but he was not playing.

<3 Danny Rudd and another kid come through naps hull. Mariner on here but seem to remember he ain't a full blown cod head like lfmagic. Good luck to him.

Pretty sure he went to school in grimsby.Dont know if he was born there tho

Yeah you could be right. Think he gad links with some diddly donk town further down east coast tho, may even be Cambridge. He was playing In hull round about the time Jon doughnut Lundy was there too