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The annual One stop shop/catch all thread

Each event, news daily and hopefully leading to UK and blonde poster sweats......we at home can funk away as we have done each of the last few years....

for example

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and even

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or

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Please post on here for events you play and how you get on

Notable events....

May 30
Event 3A: No-Limit Hold'em (Bust 3A re-enter 3B) (3 day event)
$1,000
May 30
Event 3B: No-Limit Hold'em 3B
$1,000
Jun 1
Event 6A: Millionaire Maker $1,000,000 Guaranteed First Place Prize
$1,500
Jun 1
Event 6B: Millionaire Maker $1,000,000 Guaranteed First Place Prize
$1,500
Jun 7
Event 16: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em - (512 player max) (3 day event)
$10,000
Jun 14
Event 26: Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship (50 or over) (3 day event)
$1,000
Jun 14
Event 27: Mixed Max - No Limit Hold'em (3 Day Event)
$3,000
Jun 18
Event 32: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (3 day event)
$5,000
Jun 19
Event 34: Turbo No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event)
$1,000
Jun 22
Event 41: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed (3 day event)
$5,000
Jun 25
Event 45: Ante Only No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)
$1,500
Jun 26
Event 47: One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)
$111,111
Jun 28
Event 51: Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship (3 day) (Ladies Discount $1K)
$10k/$1k
Jun 28
Event 52: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (3 day event)
$25,000
Jun 30
Event 55: The Poker Players Championship (5 day event)
$50,000
Jul 3
Event 58A: The Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em (unlimited re-entry first four levels) (4 day event)
$1,111
Jul 4
Event 58B: The Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em (unlimited re-entry first four levels) (4 day event)
$1,111
Jul 5
Event 60: No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)
$1,500
Jul 5
Event 61: Pot-Limit Omaha (3 day event)
$10,000
Jul 6
Event 62A: No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 1A
$10,000
Jul 7
Event 62B: No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 1B
$10,000
Jul 8
Event 62C: No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 1C
$10,000
Jul 13
Open Face Chinese (2 Day Event) (non-bracelet)
$5,000

Omg too excited....

Last year I only played one event but this year I think I'm gonna go for 7 or 8 and actually try to win of them dang bracelets.

Spam Alert.

If the WSOP interests you, there is a free to enter Fantasy League, here.....


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61015.0

If entering the main event, I presume you can choose which start day you play? Or is your start day allocated to make the numbers even on each day? Thanks in advance,  Nathan

You can usually choose which of the 3 Opening Days you play.

The third one will be much bigger than the first two, as to number of entrants, imo.

1a & 1b progress to 2a, & 1c progresses to 2b.

Indeed. Thank you sir.  ;hattip;

To specify, what he means by 'usually' is that towards the beginning of the event, they will block the one that has the highest number of runners so as to balance things out.

Play gets underway Wednesday at the Rio with the Casino Employee Event and the $5k Six Max

The Opening Weekend is expected to be huge with the Saturday, June 1 $1500 No-Limit Hold’em event guaranteeing the winner $1,000,000.
 
The WSOP is from May 29 to July 15, on this thread (well sort of)

The fun has started.

Current leader in the $5,000 Eight Handed NLHE is........

Chris Moorman, 100,000.

Long way to go yet, but there is $550,000 up top. Be nice to see him Lock that up.

Event 1, the Casino Employees Event

$500 NLHE

898 ponied up and currently 68 remain

No one will have any interest in those 68, so mhere are the current chip counts

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12797

Event 2 on the other hand is a biggies, the $5,000 Six Max

481 entered and 336 remain

A very high profile field

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp


One person who did not enter was Mr Channing, who tweeted

"Exercised better game-selection than the egomaniacs in the $5k event. Prob all busy telling the backers how soft it was 1.3 was a bargain"

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Nevertheless in the field we have

Moorman
Flushy
Rupert
Vamplew
Firaldo
Max Silver
Brammer
Cody


Ivey Mercier and Negraneau are amongst those already out

The 5k is an 8max Tighty, new addition to the schedule this year I believe.

glgl Team GB

So soft they need backers  ;D

8-Max seems like a very random format. Most live events are 8-Max anyway when you factor someone else is usually on the phone, buying a drink or gone for a piss.

Ha Channing must have been looking in the wrong room, or likely just made that assessment without having a look at the field at all.

Farmers all over the place.

Farmer discrimination itt.

232 made it through Day 1 of the 8 Max not 6 Max

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12798&dayof=2978

Moorman 77,825
Vamplew 53,725
Flushy 24,050
Farrell 21,000
Elder 21,000
Silver 16,500
Elias 16,000
Chidwick 11,000
Cody 9,500

are the surviving Brits

56 are paid with 1st over $550,000

True but the standard @ wsop is 10-max so it's nice to have it shorter for some events.

Gl to all the lads. Can't wait to join em on Thursday. Let's get some gold this summer.

You'll get the lot Sam, no danger.

Tighty may be a bit busy today, down Wembley Way, so a brief WSOP Update from the $5,000 Eight Handed jobbie.

481 began, 40 remain, & they are all in the money now.

The main Brit interest is David Vamplew, who sits in 4th place.

The winner can look forward to around $550,000.

In event 1, Poker News WSOP blogger Chad Holloway  is currently Heads Up for the Casino Employees bracelet

result so far http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12797

The Casino Employees event really is a 'lets guarantee we are one staff member short the entire series' tournament.

In event 2 the $5000 8 Max 30 are left

David Vamplew and Peter Gould are still in for the UK

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12798

cashers so far

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12798
 

Event 3a a $1000 NLHE attracted 1828 runners of which 660 remain

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12799

the second flight, 3b, is tomorrow

3b is actually just finishing now, same day. But WSOP hasnt updated, but you can see it on PokerNews

thanks

I am under it, so anyone feel free to update details of any event as and when they come through on any day please

interesting tweets too. twitter is good for railing during the series

more people that post, comment etc, the better the thread will be

Yes, all a bit confusing due to the WSOP site not Updating Flight B for some odd reason.

Flight A was an 11am start, Flight B 5pm.

@GriffinBenger 3h

Chip(leader) porn.

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Brit Final Table Alert!

David Vamplew is on the Final Table of the $5k Eight-Handed thing.

$48,000 locked up, $553,000 to the winner.

Unless I am mis-reading something, the chips are spread around in an almost bizarrely lopsided manner. The Chip Leader has almost half the chips in play, 3,420,000, & the other 7 all have between 430,000 & 630,000 each. Blinds are 12,000/24,000/4,000.

I anticipate some laddering games.


http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12798

Yeah but to be be fair tikay he did have aces v ace king in a5/6 bet pre war
Then aces v queens when queens insta shoved 700 k at 12/24 k
Even a donkey like me can play aces n aces

Some other news which will thrill her many fans on blonde is about the current leader of the snappily titled $1,500 Limit Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi Low Eight or better.


Allyn Shulman.

She is not the most cheerful of souls, & she gets some pretty bad press in the more acerbic poker forums, 2+2 especially, but she won the Seniors Event last year, & has a good few other cashes to her name. The Seniors Event is easy, of course, all those old farts having to be carried to the table.......it's also full of satellite qualifiers & Russians, French & Spsnish, so it must be the softest tourney ever, right?  

As an odd postscript, her hubbie, the equally popular Barry Shulman, won this event 12 years ago.

Here is Allyn in one of her better moods.
 

did she used to run the workhouse Oliver Twist went to?

Not sure how "Event #6: $1,500 "Millionaire Maker" No-Limit Hold'em" works but it looks like there is potential for it to have more "entries" than the main event with two day 1's and 3713 entered in day 1a.

David Vamplew is 2 of 3  in event #2.

Trevor Pope            5,930,000   
David Vamplew            780,000   
Darryll Fish         505,000

Correction: David Vamplew is heads-up.

David Vamplew finishes 2nd for $342,450.

Other UK cashes:

20  Peter Gould    $15,824


Full results are here:
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12798

Think it's gonna be a pretty big year for the brits again!

Event #3: No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry has been won by Canadian Charles Sylvestre who pockets $491,360.

UK cashes:

23   Dermot Blain         $14,067
30   Sunny Chatta         $11,361
59   Andrew Teng         $6,378
141   Samad Razavi         $2,961
167   David Tighe         $2,619
188   Daniel Bland         $2,619
193   Jack Salter         $2,335
222   Bruce Shannon         $2,335

Full results are here:
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12799

The final number of entries for Event #6: "Millionaire Maker" No-Limit Hold'em is 6,343 with 648 places paid.
First place pays $1,198,780.

I played with her all through day 1 of this tourn and she came across as a really nice lady, helping the dealers and creating a nice atmosphere at the table. Not sure of her past, but definitely didnt come across badly to me

I don't think I've ever funked for a player to lose more than David Sands after reading this tweet:



@Doc_Sands 28 May

I don't just want to win bracelets this year, I want to shatter dreams and cause opponents to question their career choice. #WSOP


What a knob!

In fairness if he is ever on my table i instantly question my career choice given he takes about 5 minutes minimum per action

Yes, he's so annoying if he was heads up against Negreanu for the main event I think I would be on #teamdannyboy

 ;gobsmacked;

Event 4 has reached the final table bubble with no GB&I interest remaining.

GB&I players in the cash:

23   Martin Malone         $9,640
39   Scott O'Reilly         $5,599
59   Craig McCorkell         $3,997
71   Sadan Turker         $3,391
79   Niall Farrell         $3,117

Note that I don't have Tighty's encyclopaedic knowledge of British players so I'm taking the lists from the WSOP pages and some players may have just registered as being from the UK.

The full list is:
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12801

In event #5 we have reached the end of day 2 and everyone left is in the money.

"GB&I" players who have cashed:

Zimnan Ziyard         $6,551
Chris Bjorin         $6,551


The full list is:
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=968&tid=12802

"GB&I" players remaining:

Matthew Ashton


The full list is:
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12802

In event Event #6: "Millionaire Maker" No-Limit Hold'em, 862 of 6.343 remain with 648 getting paid.

One of the biggest remaining stacks is Rupert Elder with 40,950 chips.

The full list is:

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12803

Great result for vamps overnight

In Event # 6, the "Millionaire Maker" ($1.2 MILLION up top) John Eames is over double average with just over 200 of the 6,343 entrants remaining.

Mr Channing departed the scene in about 270th place,  for $5,300.

Event 5 final result $2500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better

Finish   Player   Prize
1   Mike Gorodinsky   $216,958
2   Kristopher Tong   $134,017
3   Matthew Ashton   $86,437
4   Owais Ahmed   $62,631
5   George Fotiadis   $46,048
6   George Danzer   $34,348
7   Mack Lee   $25,993
8   Julie Schneider   $19,952
9   Dustin Leary   $15,536

Two British cashers

Zimnan Ziyard         $6,551
Chris Bjorin         $6,551

With 180 left, there are two Brits remaining

John Eames is 13/180 and Derek Chisholm from Berwick is middle of the pack

Notables in the hunt for the $1,199,104 first prize are:

Dan Kelly
Scott Clements
Bryn Kenney
Andrew Licthenberger
Calvin Anderson
Paul Volpe

Event 7 is a $1k NLHE which attracted 1837 runners of whom 186 remain

Difficult to tell how up to date the chip counts are, but it appears Padraig Parkinson and David Vamplew have cashed

Event #8: $2500 Eight-Game Mix

192 of 388 remain in this bijou field for a specialist event

Most of the big names are bracelet hunting in this but very few Brits. Stephen Chidwick is the only one listed in the counts.

Matthew Ashton is a Brit

Commentary on the live stream tonight is terrible, and it includes Bart Hanson. I hope they are just warming up. No chemistry in the booth, totally results oriented, contradiction on a hand by hand basis. Unwatchable in fact

I spent all day in a PLO cash game with her at the Venetian 2 years ago and she was pretty chatty and friendly all day despite losing so that kinda surprises me.

got some catching up to do...

Event 7

It's early in the 2013 World Series of Poker, but the Event #7 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em final table will no doubt go down as one of the most stacked of the summer. The day began with five amateurs who combined for $2,968 in WSOP earnings and five established pros with more than $4 million in combined earnings; what's more, two of the final table participants were seeking their second bracelet—Brent Hanks and Eric "basebadly" Baldwin.

Unfortunately for them, it was 28-year-old Matt Waxman who prevailed in a memorable final table to capture the $305,952 first-place prize and his first gold bracelet.

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Matt Waxman   $305,952
2nd   Eric Baldwin   $189,200
3rd   Jess Dioquino   $130,825
4th   Amit Makhija   $94,353
5th   Brent Hanks   $68,975
6th   Jacob Jung   $51,086
7th   Robert Dreyfuss   $38,340
8th   Tuu Ho   $29,147
9th   Jason Koon   $22,435
10th   Scott Yelton   $17,491

Event #8: Eight-Game Mix

The 8th event of the 2013 World Series of Poker is officially in the books. After three grueling days of mixed game play, it was Michael Malm who rose above the star-studded field to claim the title, the gold WSOP bracelet, and the $225,104 in first-place prize money.

Malm's story proves the old adage that is so frequently spoken at the WSOP that "Anyone can win,". Malm, who recently chopped a Daily DeepStack tournament here at the WSOP, was going to register for another but found himself too late. Registration for this event, however, was still open. He decided to hop in and give it a go. Little did he know three days ago that he would be the one to rise above some of the top professional mixed game pla

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Michael Malm   $225,104
2   Steven Wolansky   $139,034
3   Greg Mueller   $89,673
4   Eric Crain   $64,975
5   Michael Hurey   $47,771
6   Dario Alioto   $35,634
7   Mike Wattel   $26,966
8   Marco Johnson   $20,699

Cliff Josephy Wins Event #9: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout ($299,486)!
 

Event 09 Gold Bracelet Winner Cliff Josephy

Event #9, the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, began with 477 players. Ten players made it to Day 3 with a chance to claim a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. It wan an impressive bunch that included four bracelet winners, but only one would emerge from the tournament with three single-table wins. That man was Cliff Josephy, now the proud owner of two WSOP bracelets (the first coming in 2005 in a $1,500 Stud tournament for $192,150).

Place   Player   Prize
1   Cliff Josephy   $299,486
2   Evan Silverstein   $185,487
3   Steve Silverman   $123,202
4   Tim West   $91,428
5   Alessandro Longobardi   $68,613
6   David "Bakes" Baker   $51,997
7   Max Steinberg   $39,756
8   Chris Klodnicki   $30,641
9   Ryan Hughes   $23,791
10   Simeon Naydenov   $18,609

baxxxxx thouuuuuuu

Event #10: Limit Hold'em

Brent Wheeler and  Mark Mierkalns are currently HU, in the $1500 Limit. May take a while...

645 runners and another Schulman, Jeff (the son?) cashed in this...

Event #12:

$1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em started today with 535 players and after 10 levels of play, we have two players over the 100K mark: Robert Corcione (144,600) and Mike Carson (110,000). Both players have some history at the WSOP. Robert Corcione finished in 21st place in last year's Main Event for $294,601and Mike Carson won a bracelet in 2000 in a $3000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event for $222,000.

The day 2 table draw with 62 left is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dExwOVZ4YXBnZ0toSWVBSHJNQW5jRWc#gid=0

We can see that Sunny Chattha who is having a fine series is still in with 81,000

Event #13: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
$5000

early days, 160 of 210 left in the 7CS H-L

Stephen Chidwick is the only Brit I can see in the field

All the big boys are bracelet hunting in another bijouf field by WSOP standards

You must be busy Rich, as it is unlike you & your OCD-ness to miss a trick - there is at least one other Brit still in, a chap you know quite well, too.

I stole this fine piece of reportage from elsewhere, but it's OK, as I wrote it myself. You do Daily Updates here, I do them elsewhere, some efficiency gains should be possible really!

____________

"......Finally, today, Event # 13 was the $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, an absolutely lovely Event to play I would imagine even though it is played as LIMIT.  Only 210 runners though, of which 168 remain.

Stu Rutter is hanging in, with around 15 x Bigs, though in Limit Hi-Low, 15 bigs is plenty, even half that & you are not in terribad shape.

The name that caught my eye is Norman Chad, it'd be absolutely wonderful if he had a deep run. He made the Final Table of this event in both 2009 & 2011, & in 2012, he finished 6th in the Hi-Lo Stud/Omaha, so he clearly revels in the 4 card & non-flop split pot games.
 
Norman does a weekly column called "Couch Slouch" & it includes an "Ask the Slouch" section, & if your question gets answered, the person who sent it in gets a prize of a whole $1.25. Maybe we should try that here. We could go as high as £2.20.

Norman's Twitter feed is an absolute delight to follow.

A few days ago he Tweeted.....

....WSOP update: Out in 61st. I objected, but dealer insisted I could not continue without chips. Fine. I'll just take my business elsewhere....."

Amongst today's gems from Norman include.....

"....WSOP 5k stud/8 event, thru 4 levels: Started w/ 15,000 chips, now have 14,200. I am treading water in a bathtub that has no drain stopper....."

You can follow Norman on @NormanChad......"

By 15 bigs you mean bets right ;)

Congratulations to Brent Wheeler, Winner of Event #10: $1,500 Limit Hold'em ($191,605)

It took 121 hands of heads-up play, but we finally have a winner in Event #10: $1,500 Limit Hold'em, Brent Wheeler. Wheeler bested Mark Mierkalns to earn $191,605 and his first career gold bracelet. The Chicagoan now has over three quarters of a million dollars in career tournament earnings and 14 World Series of Poker cashes.

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Brent Wheeler   $191,605
2nd   Mark Mierkalns   $118,300
3rd   Malissia Zapata   $76,904
4th   Chiduziem Obi   $56,485
5th   Grayson Scoggin   $42,074
6th   William James   $31,747
7th   Brian Nichols   $24,232
8th   Alex Queen   $18,703
9th   Eric Froehlich   $14,585

Congratulations to Levi Berger, Winner of the Event #11 $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed (473,019)!
 

WSOP Event 11 Gold Bracelet Winner Levi Berger

Today was the conclusion of one of the most action packed events of the summer, Event #11 $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed. 14 players came back today for the Day 3 restart, and at the beginning of the day, Levi Berger held a big chip lead. He lost it before the start of the final table, and despite having an up and down final table, he ended up knocking out every single player, including Scott Clements heads up for his first gold bracelet, and $473,019 to boot.



Canada now has four WSOP bracelets this summer.

Gary Pearce from Haslemere finished 12th for $22786

Scott Clements seems to be getting deep in everything this year (its probably the first year I haven't had him in my fantasy squad too)

Event 12 $1500 PLHE

Sunny Chattha finished 16th for $6,478

Day 2 of Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em is officially in the books! We began today with 62 players returning out of the original 535 entrants. After just over eight levels of play only the final nine remain with none other than Eric Crain leading the way. Crain, fresh off of a fourth place finish in Event #8: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix, is poised and ready to try once more to earn his first gold WSOP bracelet.

Event #12 Final Table
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Allen Cunningham   452,000
2   Nicolas Halvorson   110,000
3   Jean-Nicolas Fortin   47,000
4   Eric Crain   620,000
5   Jaspal Brar   382,000
6   Timothy Reilly   282,000
7   Anthony Harb   178,000
8   Lev Rofman   200,000
9   Kenneth Shelton   160,000

I see Bax has still got it!!!!

Event #13: $5000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

22 of 210 remain

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool is currently 8-22 and in the money

Also cashed, Bakes, Elezra, Matusow, Katchalov amongst others....

Event #14: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

218 of 1819 remian

Vamplew, Channing and Trickett appear to still be in 20 places off the cash.....

I was in Vegas in April on a mate's stag do and played in a $200 or $300 comp at the Venetian with about 60 runners. Looked a nice field of tourists and old cowboys, til who walks in and takes the empty seat on my table, Allen Cunningham! All I can hear is Norman Chad's commentary 'THAT'S ALLEN CUNNINGHAM!'....he plays great tho, nice to see his practice is paying off!

Matthew Ashton has made his second final table of the WSOP in event #13 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better.

Streaming is here:
http://www.wsop.com/2013/live-video/default.aspx?TID=12811

Event #13: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

is 4 handed. Ashton is a big chip leader ahead of Bakes, Matusow and Leah

In Event #14: No-Limit Hold'em $1500

David McConachie cashed in 41st for Scotland

21 are left Ben Dobson, fenix35 on here and DTD reg is 4 of 21

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12812


Good luck Ben!

Event #15: H.O.R.S.E. $1500

232 of 862 remain in one of the accessible weekend Non Hold Em events attracting a huge field.

862 for HORSE!!

All the big guys in this, and little sign of UK presence but that is usually an accident of being missed in the chip counts

Event #16: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em (512 player max)

The $10k event won by Jake Cody last year

68 of 162 remain so far

Among those through to the latter stages are Sam Trickett and Max Silver

Didn't jake win the 25k version two years ago? Think Brian Hastings won the 10k last year

Ben Dobson
@f3nix35

Woooo day 3! On the downside I'm prob 14/14 with 16bb. $20k locked up, gonna try to spinspinspin tomorrow for that $450k first prize 2moro

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Go on mate, one of the good
Guys.

GL Ben!

They have him listed as from Canada on the WSOP chip count page.
I remember Simon Deadman was from bemuda or something one year haha

I don't agree with Negreanu very often, but fck me there's a lot of NL Holdem in the WSOP this year.

Too much.

Thanks for the gl messages, came 14th. I agree it would be fun to have a few more lower limit mixed games on the sched

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Jonathan Taylor Wins Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($454,424)
 

Jonathan Taylor Winner WSOP 2013 Event 14

After a grueling three days of poker in Event #14 of the 2013 World Series of Poker, it was Jonathan Taylor who walked away as the champion. Taylor bested a field of 1,819 players to lock up a bracelet and $454,424.

Taylor started Day 3 second in chips, coming into the final 14 players just behind Hiren Patel. Taylor battled through the day and watched the eliminations of Benjamin Dobson, Chris Hunichen, Morgan Machina, Daniel Paska, and Russell Crane before making it to the official final table.

Place   Player   Prize (USD)
1   Jonathan Taylor   454,424
2   Blake Bohn   281,049
3   Hunter Frey   194,315
4   Hiren Patel   140,143
5   Tommy Vu   102,449
6   Patrick Kubat   75,879
7   Jed Hoffman   56,946
8   Dan Gannon   43,293
9   Joseph Pergola   33,323

Well done to Ben/fenix35 for his 14th place cash.

Event 15 $1500 HORSE

21 left overnight

Dan Kelly has cashed again, very consistent so far this series...

One British casher, David Tarbet

Event #16: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em (512 player max) $10,000

Cashers include Hellmuth, Galfond and Melanie Wiesner

In the final four:

Mark Radoja (Canada) and three Americans

Ben Sulsky
Don Nguyen
Justin Bonomo


The UK players may be having a bad series, but Canada has a shot here at a fifth bracelet in 16 events..............

Event 17 $1500 NLHE, the first of two NLHE for the weekend crowd

226 of 2105 remain

Joe Laming from London, bigfella's nephew and along with brother Danny very much on the way up in UK poker is 19 of 226

Steve Watts from the same stable is 36 of 226

Jake Cody 61 of 226

twopercent Vamplew is 136 of 236


Joe Cada, Selbst, Sklansky, Baldwin, Faraz Jaka, Steve O'Dwyer, Duhamel etc etc in a very high powered field remaining

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool has two final tables

Blimey, never heard of the fella before today.

His record in the min bet games at the WSOP over the last couple of years is mighty impressive

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=175385

5 top 10 finishes in 3 WSOPs. doubt there's been more than 20 events total?

Plus won the 8 game event at the EPT grand final.

An interesting wild card for fantasy lists next year.

Matthew Ashton
Nickname: MUSTAFABET

Congratulations to Mark Radoja, Winner of Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em ($331,190)!

One of the more interesting events on the World Series of Poker schedule has officially come to a close. Mark Radoja was able to navigate a field of 162 entrants to come out on top of Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em, capturing the gold bracelet and the $331,190 first-place prize money in the process.

The third day of play began with four players returning and vying for the gold. On the secondary feature sat relative unknown Don Nguyen who had clinched his first WSOP cash with this event. Nguyen squared off with online legend Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky. All eyes were on Sulsky as the man who has consistently dominated the virtual felt was in the midst of a deep run in one of the most prestigious live tournaments around. Nguyen, however, made quick work of Sulsky, defeating him in just 41 short hands.

Simultaneously, Radoja played Justin Bonomo over on the ESPN Main Stage in the semifinals. Bonomo was the clear aggressor in the match, winning most of the smaller pots. However, Radoja seemed to hold when the money got in and eventually Radoja was able to clinch a victory over Bonomo.

A mere half hour later, Radoja and Nguyen took their seats on the feature table to play one last match for the championship. Nguyen took an early lead and forced Radoja to cash in one of his add-on's fairly early. Radoja found a huge double about halfway through the match when his pocket queens were able to hold against Nguyen's A-6 during a preflop all in. Despite this, Nguyen had managed to work Radoja down to cashing in his final lammer, meaning Radoja had a huge uphill battle to seize the victory.

From this point on, Radoja worked the short stack to his advantage by winning small pots by shoving all in and taking advantage of the ever-raising blinds. On the 83rd hand of the match, Nguyen moved all in from his button and Radoja snapped him off with pocket sixes. The pocket pair held and Radoja was able to completely turn the tide on Nguyen, who was left with only one lammer to cash in. A mere two hands later Nguyen shoved his short stack from the button and Radoja called for the tournament.

Nguyen: a-3
Radoja: K-9

Nguyen's ace-high was ahead and it stayed that way when the flop hit the felt but the K on the river brought everything to an abrupt halt with Radoja eliminating his final opponent and seizing WSOP glory.

Event #17: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

20 of 2105 remain

Bakes has just knocked out Ian Frazer in 21st

As well as Bakes the final 20 includes Joe Cada and Barry Greenstein

Other British cashers were Ralf Schafer, Joe Laming, Craig McCorkell, Jake Cody, Martyn Frey and James Dempsey

Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

234 of 2071 remain

@SquidPoker has been running deep in this and was right up there for most of our night, with twitter updates galore

He currently has 45k at 800-1600 20 places off the money

For a $1k event there is a tough old field near the top.

Ivey, Lichtenberger, Nitzsche, Mr Twopercent, Bonomo, Razavi and taypaur all in the top 50

The chip counts  this year are particularly poor but at the last update Cody, Channing and Dempsey were reported still in

Event #19: $5000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

What an event this would be to play in. 5k PLHE. Swoon

145 of 195 remain here

Chris Brammer and John Eames reported in the top 30 in a field that reads like a whos-who of the WSOP.

Wow Impressive record, def one to watch. Gl with the rest :)

So when is Blonde announcing it will be providing the updates for the 2014 WSOP?

It's pretty awful that they can't employ enough staff or run a system competent enough to cope with the fields.

To be fair, there must be several thousand people over multiple rooms some days.  People move tables and switch rooms too, so guess unless they see an exit or are following twitter they are always going to struggle.

The system they had last year was good, but must have been pretty expensive to run.  As would a system with tens of updaters I imagine.

Am not certain, but I believe Updating & Chip Counts are carried out by PokerNews, who pay a fee for the rights, & WSOP.com are allowed to disseminate them.

A pretty daunting task to update with so many Tourneys running at the same time, & huge fields.

There was a new computerised system last year, run by "ChipTic", but as far as I am aware, it is not being used this year.

There are no surprises after ten years of big fields and concurrent events. I can understand updates being sporadic but chips counts and whether people are in the tournament should be reliable.

It surely can't be too hard to get the seat open updates onto the web.  They know who's in what seat right?  So when the floor get the seat open card and remove the player from the system how hard can it be to have that sync'd with the online update system?

This just seems massively unrealistic. 

How do you propose they get real time updates of people's chipstacks, how can they catch every leaver, how do they know they aren't just going for a fag, some food, a toilet break or just to rail their mate in another room? How do they identify the mateyboys? If people didn't seek out Tighty at DTD, I imagine he'd probably miss way more exits than he saw on day 1s.

I guess the reason chiptic is now silent is the technology must have been very expensive and the revenues must have been nowhere close to covering the.  Even chiptic couldn't cope with the bigger events and think they limited themselves to bigger buy ins and smaller fields last year.

I guess they could do a bit better at ends of days etc, but they aren't ever going to be close to perfect.

Any poker tournament has a "seat open!" cry from the dealer. The seat card is handed to the floor and the floor should know who was in that seat.

The scale of the comp should not be a factor, as it just means a bigger workforce is needed.

I'm not saying it should be perfect and I've no idea what the financial constraints are. All I'm saying is the resources should be available to enable it to work and businesses should be able to operate a system capable of performing the task.

DTD does it with aplomb and for a lot less juice. I don't think it's completely fantastic or simplistic to say scaling up the same basic operation is achievable.

Congratulations to Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Winner of Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($518,755)
 

Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Winner of Event #17 ($1,500 No-Limit Hold'em)

After winning his second World Series of Poker bracelet in three years, Athanasios Polychronopoulos was mobbed by a boisterous bunch of friends, fans, and fellow poker pros. Having navigated the minefield in 2011 to best a massive field for his first piece of gold, Polychronopoulos has once again weaved through thousands of amateurs and experts to claim every chip in play.

A total of 2,105 runners took their seats on Saturday afternoon, and that enormous field was quickly carved down to size, leaving us with a star-studded final two tables that included 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada, online legend David "Bakes" Baker, poker sage Barry Greenstein, and of course, Polychronopoulos.

Cada was 4th
Bakes 8th
Greenstein 11th

Paur Leads Final 14; Ivey Looking to Win First Hold'em Bracelet
 

Phil Ivey

It was quite a day in Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em . When the day started there were 163 players already well into the money, and the remaining players were looking up at the top prize of $340,260. After 10 levels of play, only 14 players advanced to Day 3, and Taylor Paur was leading the way with a commanding chip lead.

Paur grabbed the lead late in the night and will take 1,318,000 into the final day. Two of his closest competitors are Alex Barlow (792,000) and DJ MacKinnon (557,000). WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Idema is still in the mix with 400,000.

The big story however was the emergence of Phil Ivey. After securing his first cash of the series in this event, Ivey will try to earn his 10th bracelet when play resumes on Tuesday. Ivey will go into Day 3 with a below-average stack of 285,000, but the world's best player is always a favorite regardless of where he stands on the leaderboard. If he were to win the event, it would mark his first WSOP title in a hold'em event.

In Event 19 the $5k PLHE

16 remain

they include

Dan Kelly (again)
Minieri
Katchalov
Elky
Vandersmissen the Irish Open winner
Hennigan

Jason Mercier and Paul Volpe cashed

No British cashers

Event #20: €1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

219 of 1014 remain

James Bord, Stephen Chidwick and Richard Ashby appear to still be in

Three players entered by the UK's LivePubPokerLeague cashed in Event #18, one in 42nd, but you'd never know it from the updates. They've got one of them as being from Guatemala and one from Somalia. How?

At comps outside of DTD this simply isn't the case. The only way for sure the floor would know who was in that seat was if the player was in that seat from the start of day seat draw. Of course this simply isn't the case as tables break throughout the day and a so the player in, for example, Table 19, Seat 7 may have started the day at Table 37, Seat 2. To get round this, as I'm sure you know, at a lot of events, such as UKIPT's, players have an ID card in front of them which corresponds to a name on an excel spreadsheet tournament staff send to media. When a player gets knocked out the ID card is handed to the floor and they pass it on to the media and we can report that Mr X is out. It's an imperfect system as players don't always display them, or leave them behind when they move table (and then get reported as out) and to be honest they're doing us a favour by displaying them so it's their choice as I see it.

Tournaments don't always have them and updating a field of any size is so much harder without them, the last tournament I covered had a manual seat draw where players simply picked their seat out of a bucket! I have no idea how DTD's system works but covering events at their venue as I get to do a couple of times a year is a doddle compared to elsewhere as I'm sure Tighty will attest.

I've never updated from the WSOP but I'm sure it's a thankless task in the massive NLHE events and keeping track of every exit at a series where the events take place in a massive conference space (so no inbuilt casino software etc) in multiple rooms is impossible.  

Added to all that, why should they be obligated to run good Live Updates? Would poker players pay for them if they were available at a cost? I don't think so!

There seems to me, as I see it anyway, a misplaced sense of entitlement here.

We don't have a right to Live Updates.
 

Maybe not. I think a live update adds something to a comp and I'd happily pay an extra ten bucks on my entry fee for a big comp for there to be live updates. This would be 10 grand for 1000 runners. If a service is being run, it should either be run properly or not at all. This is a halfway house and deeply unsatisfactory IMO.

I've said enough on this anyway, so I'll stop now. 

but they buy the rights for marketing reasons and then do a terrible job

this is such a backward mentality, when there is technology is place capable of improving their offering.

I love the WSOP and I follow it everyday. So far this year I have been to poker news once (in 2 weeks?), to view their content, (when Bax won), and Im almost certain I could have just you tubed the interview the next day anyway. The manner in which they cover the WSOP does nothing but damage their brand (IMO ofc)

So you want the service for free, but are not happy with the free service?

How does you viewing Live Updates monetise the brand?

The brand is monsta huge, & with or without Live Updates, the numbers won't alter much.

They did try technology last year (Chiptic) but it was fearfully expensive & full of glitches, & it seems to have been dropped this year. To my certain knowledge, Chiptic must haver had 12 staff full-time on the WSOP gig last year. Lotta money, that, with zero payback.

As it happens, I belive numbers will be down this year.

I really don't care whether they update or not, because what they provide is terrible and a waste of time. An no I wouldn't pay for it

They would have a good degree more traffic if they did a decent job is what I am saying.

As for traffic not yielding revenue, you know as well as I do that's nonsense. Ok so the user doesn't pay, but they can increase cost of advertising, etc etc

Take blonde for example, how many people join blonde because of a live update, or because of a mate who signed up during a live update? 50% of members?

How many posts and views come from live update boards? What impact does that have on value?

The point I am making is there is little merit in paying for it then doing a terrible job. They pay for it so that they are "seen" as market leader and for protectionism, as if it was left to open competition they would lose within a few years.

Look what the Poker farm did a few years ago, it was the best WSOP content id seen in years (and with no live chip counts)

Poker and WSOP in the big scheme of things is tiny, no one cares outside poker players. You would think offering anyone who wants to report on it, chip counts or whatever could do so for free to push the brand in as many media sources as possible. Current insular thinking means no one bothers to look, care or read about it.

Yup.

We get a bit carried away with ourselves at times.

The WSOP squeeze Poker News for every penny they can, I daresay, but they can hardly do that AND impose standards. Who else will step into the breach if PokerNews quit?

The very much larger slice of WSOP income comes from ESPN, which is massive. Their intrusion on the playing experience is nothing short of disgraceful, but CE has bills to pay & shareholders to keep happy, so they are obliged to monetize it for all their worth.  

I would not pay extra rake for live updates!

I don't believe enough people would be turned off from entering a $1,500 event because $10 went towards providing accurate updates, exposure for those who play well but don't necessarily final, memories of the occasion and records for those who follow them from afar.

All depends on the product being offered. At the moment, it is implicitly being paid for by the punters anyway if the wsop is funding it.

I keep being drawn into a rant - no one else's fault but my own - so I'm going to stop properly now.

I can understand it being difficult to keep up when there are hundreds still in a tournament, but I don't see why they mis-identify players when there are four or five tables left. They remind me of AWOP - focus on the players they know and ignore the others.

Guy,

Apologies if I've missed it elsewhere but what in your opinion should they do to make the coverage better? What technology is there that can improve their offering? Genuinely asking for constructive criticism and I'll pass it along to someone I know working out there for them or point them in the direction of this thread.

I can tell you what I used to like about the site, that is now missing and what I would like to see  - this ofc will just by my opinion and tastes (ill do it later on)

As for alternatives, I believe there was a company 2/3 years ago offering a chip update system but its not something I know anything about.

The point I was making is that they stifle any innovation by taking sole rights then doing absolutely nothing to improve (and infact this year go backwards IMO).

sounds like the BBC on every sport they cover.

Taylor Paur Wins Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($340,260)
 

Event 18 Gold Bracelet Winner Taylor Paur

After navigating a field of 2,017 players over three days, Taylor Paur was crowned the champion of Event#18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em taking home $340,260 and his first WSOP bracelet.

We started the day with 14 players and all eyes were on Phil Ivey, even as Paur was the chip leader. He maintained the chip lead through out most of the day only giving it up for a brief time in heads up play. Paur remained dominate as we watched the eliminations of Phil Ivey, Nick Colbrese, Adam Sanders, Robert Deppe and James Epner to get to our official final table.

Place   Player   Prize (USD)
1   Taylor Paur   $340,260
2   Roy Weiss   $211,794
3   Tai Nguyen   $147,220
4   Alexander Barlow   $106,027
5   DJ MacKinnon   $77,491
6   Phillip Hui   $57,324
7   Daniel Idema   $42,962
8   Ryan Austin   $32,608
9   Kyle Cartwright   $25,041

Davidi Kitai Wins Second Career Bracelet in Event #19: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em ($224,560)
 
Davidi Kitai outlasted a small-but-stacked field of 195 entrants to take down his second bracelet in Event #19: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em, along with about a quarter of a million dollars. His other bracelet came also came in a PLHE event, a $2,000 buy-in, when he won $244,583.

Place   Player   Country   Prize
1   Davidi Kitai   Belgium   $224,560
2   Cary Katz   USA   $138,794
3   Vincent Bartello   USA   $103,628
4   Dimitar Danchev   Bulgaria   $77,893
5   Eugene Katchalov   Ukraine   $58,912
6   Kristina Holst   USA   $44,844
7   Bertrand Grospellier   France   $34,341
8   Dario Minieri   Italy   $26,468
9   Chris Johnson   USA   $20,520

22 of 1014 remain after two days of Event 20 the $1500 PLO8

Stephen Chidwick is 18 of 22 for the UK in a field that includes Todd Brunson and Jennifer Harman

Kim Sherlin from Essex and James Bord were the two other British cashers

Event #21: $3000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

129 of 807 remain with 90 paid

Day one of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'Em (Six-Handed) is in the books. The unofficial chip leader after 10 levels of play is Jesse Wilkie with 187,700 in chips. He leads the 129 players who remain from the starting field of 807.

Following Wilkie are Victor Ramdin (184,000), Ryan Olisar (154,500), Danny Doucet (140,000), Scott Seiver (132,000), and Maurice Hawkins (100,500). Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth both survived late into the day, but both were knocked out and will have to wait until another day to add to their bracelet count.

Only 90 players will be paid, so 39 who return for day two will walk away empty-handed, but all players still in the tournament surely have their eyes firmly fixed on winning the $506,764 first prize


For the UK the following are still in

Sam Grafton
Rhys Jones
Steve Watts
JP Kelly
Sam Trickett

UK players in the early WSOP events.....

Event No.   Player   Position   Prize (USD)
2   David Vamplew   2   $342,450
2   Peter Gould   20   $15,824
3   Dermot Blain   23   $14,067
3   Sunny Chattha   30   $11,361
3   Andrew Teng   59   $6,378
3   Sam Razavi   141   $2,961
3   David Tighe   167   $2,619
3   David Bland   188   $2,619
3   Jack Salter   193   $2,335
3   Bruce Shannon   222   $2,335
4   Martin Malone   23   $9,640
4   Scott O’Reilly   39   $5,599
4   Craig McCorkell   59   $3,997
4   Sadan Turker   71   $3,391
4   Niall Farrell   79   $3,117
5   Matthew Ashton   3   $86,437
5   Zimnan Ziayrd   20   $6,551
6   Tom Alner   42   $26,631
6   John Eames   99   $8,563
6   Derek Chisholm   222   $6,165
6   Rupert Elder   228   $5,309
6   Leslie Duthie   248   $5,309
6   Neil Channing   275   $5,309
6   Sebastian Saffari   277   $5,309
6   Paul Vas Nunes   443   $3,510
6   Heath Cram   485   $3,510
6   Philipp Roch   502   $3,510
6   Jamie Roberts   578   $2,740
6   Jake Cody   633   $2,740
7   Andrew Teng   180   $1,868
11   Gary Pearce   12   $22,786
11   Chris Moorman   25   $11,435
12   Sunny Chattha   16   $6,478
13   Matthew Ashton   2   $164,700
14   David McConachie   41   $8,987
14   Joel Ettedgi   143   $3,020
15   David Tarbet   74   $2,816
17   Ian Frazer   19   $15,317
17   Scott O’Reilly   44   $10,343
17   Joe Laming   88   $4,546
17   Peter Murphy   112   $3,537
17   Craig McCorkell   119   $3,537
17   Jake Cody   126   $3,537
17   James Dempsey   150   $3,182
17   Yudhishter Jaswal   182   $2,898

UK & Irish players through Events 1-17 have 45 cashes in total. Of those 45 cashes there have been three final table appearances that resulted in two runner-up finishes and a third place.

Two of those final table appearances were made by Matthew Ashton who has combined winnings of $251,137.00 which is still short of the $342,450 that David Vamplew won for coming second in Event #2.

In total, UK & Ireland’s players have won $845,273

Event #20: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,368,900
Entries: 1,014
Remaining: 2

Calen McNeil leads C.K. Hua.

Can Kim Hua and Calen McNeil have played through the 10 levels that were scheduled for today, and they've elected to call it a night and return tomorrow to resume heads-up play. The two played heads-up for about an hour, beginning with Hua holding a chiplead of about five to two. However, it's now McNeil who has about three times as many chips as Hua

Stephen Chidwick finalled for the UK, finishing 6th for $43,120

Event #21: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $2,205,840
Entries: 807
Remaining: 13


Rhys Jones finished 16th
Sam Grafton finished 59th

Dan Kelly, on another deep run, David Pham and Erik Seidel are still in with 13 left

Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha
Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,378,350
Entries: 1,022
Remaining: 117

Chris Brammer and Richard Ashby are shown in the top 20 of those remaining, Ross Boatman shown still in too


After a full ten hours of Pot-Limit Omaha action here in Event #22, a field of 1,021 runners was decimated by the wrap draws, re-sucks, and random variance so common in this wildly popular poker variant. In the end, a rare feat for three-day WSOP events was achieved, as we reached the money on the first day of play with only 117 players surviving the onslaught.

Brandon Crawford is our chip leader, after amassing a stack of 125,400

Joseph Cheong of 2010 "November Nine" fame also built a sizable stack by the end of Day 1, gaining momentum when he bricked on a flush draw but found a runner-runner straight to more than double up. With 52,400 chips entering play tomorrow, Cheong is in position to make yet another deep run here in a WSOP event.

The story of the day, however, was not about players earning chips. Instead, the saga of Ben Tollerene's missing chip stack captured the attention of players, reporters, and tournament officials alike, as the online super-stakes sicko returned from the dinner break to find his table broken, and his stack absconded with. Despite a brief delay while the issue was sorted out, Tollerene managed to make the money here tonight, but with only 5,300 chips entering Day 2 he will need to make things happen in a hurry.

Event #23: Seven Card Stud

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $559,650
Entries: 246
Remaining: 106

Day 1 of Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud has come to a close. A small, but stout field of 246 competitors took to the felt today, and it was Adam Friedman who proved to be the player soaring the highest at day's end. Friedman, who won the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo event last year, bagged up a field-leading 48,300 in chips.

Following not too far behind on Friedman's heels are Freddie Ellis, winner of the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud in 2009, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, winner of the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship in 2011, Rex Clinkscales and Mike Leah. Outside of that group of players, Gary Benson, David Chiu, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, David Bach, Bill Chen, Andrey Zaichenko and Cyndy Violette.

On the flip side of the coin, Jason Mercier, Phil Ivey, Sam Grizzle, Joe Cassidy, David "Bakes" Baker and Barry Greenstein were all eliminated.

While some great poker was played today, much of the news came from just before play. The World Series of Poker honored the late and great Dr. Jerry Buss with a few special words from WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel and poker pro Chad Brown. Then, an extremely special "shuffle up and deal" announcement was given via video by none other than Kobe Bryant to kick things off. A special framed photo of Buss was placed behind an honorary stack next to Ivey's seat to begin the day, and there were a lot of warm feelings in the room as the players exchanged stories throughout the day about Buss and his love for the game of poker.

Event #21: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $2,205,840
    Entries: 807

Matt Stout and Martin Finger are currently Heads Up

David Pham finished 4th, Erik Seidel 8th,Dan Kelly 10th

Event #22: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,378,350
    Entries: 1,022

At the final table led by Noah Schwartz

Chris Brammer finished 29th, Richard Ashby 52nd

Other UK cashers were Alex Lindop and Ross Boatman

Event #23: Seven Card Stud


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $559,650
    Entries: 246
    Remaining: 11

Liverpool's Matthew Ashton is on course for is third final table of this WSOP, and is 5/11 currently with the likes of Scott Seiver and Michael Mizrachi still in

Event #24: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,336,850
    Entries: 1,731
    Remaining: 200

Difficult to say for sure but it looks like the following UK players are still in

Roberto Romanello
Rupert Elder

Those in the top 30 or so include

Paul Wasicka   
Eric Baldwin
Jeff Madsen   
Sorel Mizzi   
Dominik Nitsche   
Sam Stein
Jonathan Aguiar   
Kevin MacPhee      
Ludovic Lacay   
Timothy Adams   
Antonio Esfandiari   
Erick Lindgren

Event #25: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,132,700
    Entries: 241
    Remaining: 162

Flushy is reported 43/162 and Stuart Rutter 73/162 in one of the most star studded fields of the series so far

Is Lindgren going back to being a great poker player or is it just demonstrating variance?

Either way, it seems he's not having a bad couple of months

The festivities at the 2013 World Series of Poker extend far beyond the gold bracelet events inside the Rio. This year, the WSOP brought back the Carnivale of Poker. Originally taking place from 1998-2000, the Carnivale of Poker was at one time the second largest poker event in the world.

The series has been running alongside the 2013 WSOP and offers plenty of options on its schedule including events in hold'em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E. and Chinese poker. To further juice up the events, a special point system is in place that allows players to earn points as they go for seeding on an overall leader board. That overall leader board will see the top players net their share of an exclusive $100,000 prize pool.

The first five events of the Carnivale of Poker have been completed, and there is one UK reported  final tablecash in those events

Event #4: No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-in   Entrants   Prize Pool
$365   270   $81,000
Place   Player   Prize
1   Drew Scott   $19,857
2   Mark Smith   $12,266
3   Thibaud Guenegou   $9,158
4   Neil Channing   $6,884
5   Adam Lewandowski   $5,206
6   Kazuhito Oshima   $3,963
7   Kyle Schertz   $3,035
8   Pim Overbeeke   $2,339
9   Ross Bybee   $1,813

Broadway regular PLO player James Park is on this final table.

Awesome! Be good to get a second bracelet holder playing there!

Yeah, I think he's had a phenomenal year playing both live and online. He's definitely got the talent to take it down.

After Event 20

Updated 2013 WSOP POY Leader Board (6-13-13)
 
Current 2013 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Place   Player   Points
1   Daniel Negreanu   427.15
2   Benny Chen   300.00
3   Mark Radoja   292.50
4   Daniel Kelly   269.70
5   Charles Sylvestre   260.00
6   Matt Waxman   253.25
7   Daniel Marton   252.00
8   Athanasios Polychronopoulos   241.00
9   Matthew Ashton   240.75
10   Davidi Kitai   240.72

Calen McNeil Wins Event #20 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low 8-or-better ($277,274)
 

2013 WSOP Event 20 Gold Bracelet Winner Calen McNeil

It took an extra day than scheduled, but at the end of four days of split pots, scooped pots, and wheels, Calen McNeil has emerged as the victor, taking home his first gold bracelet, and $277,274 for first place. McNeil and the runner up, Can Kim Hua, ended play heads-up last night, and returned today to battle it out for the bracelet.

Hua started the day with just five and a half big bets, but he quickly won a handful of pots to take a 2:1 chip lead over McNeil. From there, the two exchanged the lead multiple times for the near three hours of Day 4 play, until McNeil was finally able to pull away from Hua

Congratulations to Martin Finger, Winner of Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) ($506,764)!
 

2013 WSOP Event 21 Gold Braclet Winner Martin Finger

Another day, another tournament in the books here at the 2013 World Series of Poker. Three days ago, an astounding 806 entrants put up the $3,000 entrance fee to participate in one of the few short-handed no-limit hold'em events offered at the WSOP. After thirty 60-minute levels of poker, it was German professional Martin Finger to grab hold of the title, the bracelet, and the $506,764 in first-place prize money.

Final Table Results
Place   Player   Prize
1   Martin Finger   $506,764
2   Matt Stout   $313,370
3   Matt Berkey   $199,733
4   David "The Dragon" Pham   $131,679
5   Nikolai Sears   $89,402
6   Andrew Dean   $62,458

Congratulations to Josh Pollock, Winner of Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha ($279,431)

After three relatively quick days of play, the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #22, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha has crowned a champion—Josh Pollock. The 29 year old from Silver Spring, Maryland topped a field of 1,021 players to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and $279,431 top prize.


James Park from the Broadway, we are told above, finished 3rd for over $108,000. Great stuff

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Josh Pollock   $279,431
2nd   Noah Schwartz   $172,931
3rd   James Parks   $108,196
4th   KT Parks   $78,532
5th   Shawn Silber   $57,974
6th   Eric Shanks   $43,460
7th   Eddie Blumenthal   $33,057
8th   David Greene   $25,483
9th   Brandon Crawford   $19,909

Congratulations to David Chiu, Winner of the Event 23: $2,500 Seven Card Stud ($145,520)
 

WInner David Chiu

After three days of intense poker action, a winner has been crowned in the Event 23: $2,500 Seven Card Stud event with David Chiu capturing his fifth WSOP gold bracelet.

Three days ago 246 players took to the felt to play the only seven card stud tournament of the series; and thus technically the Stud Championship. Although there was controversy over the diminishing amount of stud tournaments at the WSOP and the decrease in buy-in from $10,000 to $5,000 to $2,500, a plethora of pros came out to play - some of which make this stud event their only appearance at the WSOP.

As the tournament progressed through the first two days there would be ten individuals remaining eyeing the prestigious bracelet, and once the final table was reached, the eight remaining players were mixed game specialists with eight of the 12 bracelets on the table coming in a form of Seven Card Stud. Young guns Adam Friedman and Matthew Ashton would fall first before Gary Benson's pursuit to claim bracelets 17 years apart ended in 6th. 2010 Player of the Year Frank Kassela fell next before three-time bracelet winner Michael Mizrachi exited in 3rd to leave a battle between 2009 winner Freddie Ellis, David Chiu and Scott Seiver. Unfortunately for the 78-year old Ellis, his run would end in 3rd place to see Chiu and Seiver enter heads-up play fairly even in play after 138 hands of final table play so far.

In a battle of youth versus experience, Chiu and Seiver swapped chips back-and-forth before Chiu slowly began to claw his way into the lead eventually holding a near four-to-one advantage only to see Seiver claim a double to give him some hope. However the match would end after 89 intense hands of heads-up play when Chiu spiked a bigger two pair on seventh to send Seiver out in 2nd.



This was Liverpudlian Ashton's 3rd WSOP final in 23 events, by far the best overall British Performance in what has been a disappointing series for the UK so far

Event #24: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,336,850
    Entries: 1,731
    Remaining: 17

Salvatore Dicarlo Leads the Final 17; Moshin Charania Not Far Behind

EPT Winner Zimnan Ziyard is 7/17. Good luck to Zimnan later

Gareth Teatum from Doncaster is 11/17. Good luck to Gareth later.

British cashes

Chris O'Donnell 34, David Tighe 77, Alex Lee 89

Event #25: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,132,700
    Entries: 241
    Remaining: 29


Flushy is still in, reportedly, short-stacked. Good luck with a spin up. Two away from the cash.

Quite a field in this still

George Danzer leads Brian Hastings

Also in Matusow, Ho, Huck Seed, Duhamel, Robert Mizrachi, Lisandro, Bloch, Dan Kelly etc etc

Event #26: Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $3,966,300
    Entries: 4,407
    Remaining: 640


4407 entries!!

Every year at the World Series of Poker thousands of young guns flock to the poker Mecca to test their mettle against five-bets, flop floats, and flush draws, but the Seniors Championship offers a reprieve from the hyper-aggression that has come to dominate the game. For players of a certain generation, those can still remember when the third raise always meant aces in the hole, the Seniors event is a tried and true tradition, and the last bastion of A-B-C poker in a world turned on its head by the online style.

Today, a total of 4,407 seniors took their seats bright and early, besting the Seniors Championship record set just last year, and nearly topping the unprecedented number of entrants to play on a single day established by this year's historic "Millionaire Maker" event. With seniors spread throughout the Rio's multiple venues, including the Pavilion, the Brasilia Room, and the Amazon Room, the atmosphere here today has rivaled that of the Main Event, as the crowded halls and throngs of interested onlookers suggest that a major event is being contested.

A number of notable names from the professional ranks were spotted early on in Day 1, with Johnny Chan, Chad Brown, Susie Isaacs, Men Nguyen, and defending champion Allyn Jaffrey Shulman all trying their best to run up a chip stack and make a deep run. Unfortunately for this pack of pros, Day 1 was the end of the line, but plenty of top-flight players managed to bag and tag after eleven full hours of play.

Young Ji (51,800), "Captain" Tom Franklin (48,100) Hoyt Corkins (48,100), Robert Varkonyi (39,900), John Strzemp (32,700), and T.J. Cloutier (29,400) are some of the more notable names still alive after Day 1, and with former Main Event winners and bracelet holders still in the hunt, tomorrow's Day 2 promises to be action packed.

Event #27: Mixed Max - No Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $1,618,890
    Entries: 593
    Remaining: 234

Calvin Anderson leads Dominic Nietschze currently

Moorman reported 11/234

Rutter 66/234

Abou Risk 70/234

Vamplew 87/234

Boeree 96/234

Eames 112/234

Cody 130/234

McCorkell 159/234

Thought we might have had a fun sweat, but nay


For the second straight year, James Dempsey has bubbled this tournament.

He limped in under the gun and Viacheslav Zhukov raised from UTG+2. Maria Ho called from the small blind, Robert Mizrachi called from the big blind, and Dempsey called all in for his remaining 1,000 after his original call.

The flop was checked around and when the turn fell, Ho checked to Mizrachi who bet. Zhukov folded, Ho called, and the river completed the board. Ho check-folded to Mizrachi's bet this time and Mizrachi tabled for kings full.

Dempsey couldn't beat it and for the second straight year is the bubble boy of this event.
Robert Mizrachi   339,500   99,500
James Dempsey   0   -6,000

I feel sick, absurd run of hands to bust.

Event #25: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,132,700
Entries: 241
Remaining: 2

Robert Mizrachi finished 3rd
Brian Hastings finished 4th
Lisandro 7th

Other cashers included Matusow, Dan Kelly, maria Ho, Jonathan Duhamel and Huck Seed

No Brits

Event #26: Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $3,966,300
    Entries: 4,407
    Remaining: 35

Chris Bjorin finished 45th
Mad Turk finished 63rd

No Brits remain

Event #27: Mixed Max - No Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $1,618,890
Entries: 593
Remaining: 40

Tom Alner finished 42nd

Moorman finished 51st, 4 bet shoving KQss into Timoshenko's 10-10 and flipping bad

Alex Lindop is 31/40 for UK

the final 40 includes Timoshenko, Waxman, Nitsche and TayPaur

Event #28: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,855,250
Entries: 2,115
Remaining: 650

Craig McCorkell and Chris Brammer are reported 4/650 and 8/650 respectively near the top of the chip counts

Channing, Thewy, Ash Mason, Nicky Evans, Ben Warrnigton, Rupert Elder and both Boatmans were recorded in the top 100 a few minutes ago

Event #29: H.O.R.S.E.
Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,226,700
Entries: 261
Remaining: 229

very early days, Matthew Ashton is the only Brit I can see recorded in the chip counts in a field full of poker household names

crushing the mixed games this Ashton is! gogo

Event #27: Mixed Max - No Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $1,618,890
Entries: 593
Remaining: 3

Max Steinberg, Isaac Hagerling and Jeremy Ausmus remain

Jovial Gent was 5th, Brandon Cantu 8th, Nick binger 9th and Taypaur 17th

Event #28: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $2,855,250
Entries: 2,115
Remaining: 16

TJ Clouiter is in with 16 left

Unfortunately the last British Interest fell with the exit of Ash Mason in 34th


Other UK cashers

Rupert Elder 43rd
Chris brammer 65th
Seb Saffari 77th
Dave Brannan 88th
Craig McCorkell 92nd
Ben Warrington 98th
Nicky Evans 142nd
Sunny Chattha 183rd

Event #29: H.O.R.S.E.


Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,226,700
Entries: 261
Remaining: 36

is currently on the bubble with David Benyamine leading the likes of Todd Brunson and Gus Hansen

No UK Cashers

Event #30: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $1,897,200
Entries: 2,108
Remaining: 218

Scott OReilly, a UK-based pro who has over $1,100,000 in online tournament winnings and almost $330,000 in live tournament winnings, a large percentage of which have come from the WSOP. is the only UK player listed in the chip counts as we go through the bubble

Who is this Ashton guy? Is he UK based? What a massive boss.

Haha well i don't expect people emigrate to Liverpool after Black Friday!

Seems like total boss tho.

Jason Duval Wins Event #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($521,202)
 

Jason Duval - 1st Place.

After about two hours of heads-up play, Jason Duval defeated Majid Yahyaei on this hand, when Yahyaei, perhaps sensing his opponent held a flush draw, called off his stack with queen-high. Unfortunately for Yahyaei, his opponent had a queen-high flush draw with a higher kicker, and Yahyaei didn't improve.

Duval claimed the World Series of Poker gold bracelet and more than half a million dollars in prize money after outlasting a field of 2,115, while Yahyaei's consolation prize was $324,442. Duval, who recorded his second career six-figure cash after placing third in a WPT event for just under $200,000 this spring, pulled off the rare feat of winning a tournament after being the Day 1 chipleader.

Sixteen players survived to Day 3, and the biggest name by far was TJ Cloutier, who fell short of his 40th career WSOP final table when he busted in 13th. Pace of play was fast, as it took just over three hours for the field to be whittled down to the final table. Once there, well-known online player Dan "Wretchy" Martin busted in sixth shortly after being crippled by a huge two-outer courtesy of Day 2 chipleader Masayuki Nagata. Nagata wound up finishing third.

Event #29: H.O.R.S.E.

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $1,226,700
Entries: 261
Remaining: 4

1[United States] Tom Schneider 1,250,000       
2[United States] Benjamin Scholl 1,175,000       
3[Canada] Greg Mueller 825,000       
4 Viatcheslav Ortynskiy 595,000

David Benyamine 7th, Marcel Luske 13th, Dan Kelly 17th     

Event #30: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $1,897,200
Entries: 2,108
Remaining: 17

No Brits remain

Top Brit was Desmond Marsh from Shenfield in 68th. Paul Vas Nunes 80th, Scott O'Reilly 102nd, Niall Farrell 192nd

Event #31: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

Buy-in: $1,500
Prizepool: $1,263,600
Entries: 936
Remaining: 129

Stephen Chidwick looks to be the only Brit remaining in 45th

Allen Cunningham and Barry Greenstein are in the top ten currently

yes im hearing that on facebook :) gl matt

The 2013 World Series of Poker has almost hit its halfway point and so far there have been no British or Irish winners. However, there have been several final table appearances and a couple of second place finishes, too.

in the money finishes of our players from Event 18-26.

Event   Player   Position   Prize
18   Tamer Kamel   20   $10,046
18   John Payne   42   $6,784
18   Sam Grafton   106   $2,320
18   Thomas Brady   142   $2,087
18   Guy Ellis   146   $2,087
18   Najib Kamand   171   $2,087
20   Stephen Chidwick   6   $43,120
20   Kim Sherlin   44   $5,913
20   James Bord   109   $2,600
21   Rhys Jones   16   $19,475
21   Sam Grafton   59   $6,455
22   James Park   3   $108,196
22   David Colin   11   $15,756
22   Christopher Brammer   29   $7,050
22   Richard Ashby   52   $5,091
22   Alex Lindop   110   $2,621
22   Ross Boatman   113   $2,621
23   Matthew Ashton   7   $18,266
24   Daniel Cascado   2   $267,452
24   Zimnan Ziyard   7   $54,191
24   Gareth Teatum   8   $41,198
24   Christopher O’Donnell   34   $10,328
24   David Tighe   77   $4,533
24   Alexander Lee   89   $3,972
24   Najib Kamand   101   $3,178
26   Yucel Eminoglu   61   $8,448
26   Donnacha O’Dea   114   $3,411
26   Stephen Littlejohn   292   $2,498

As you can see from the above table, our players have been racking up the cashes for fun and we have had a number of sweats for that elusive first WSOP bracelet of the summer. Stephen Chidwick finished sixth in Event #20, while James Park came closer still in Event #22 where he finished in third spot.

Matthew Ashton reached yet another final table of a non-Hold'em event when he finished seventh in Event #23. There were three Brits on the final table of Event #24, yet that piece of poker jewellery stayed out of reach. Yorkshireman Gareth Teatum finished eighth, EPT Loutraki champion Zimnan Ziyard crashed out in eighth and Daniel Cascado lost heads-up to finish in second place.

There are still over 30 events to play out

Trainwreck so far for everyone. Dollars will be running out faster than last year

sok not with the levels of vig being charged by the nits with it all. vamplews 2% sounding good from what pads was saying. utterly ridic

There's a few people with decent amount of dollars who will snap do it at spot, dunno if should post names but especially around main event time thy will be looking to change it back to ££

wish I had the problem of being in vegas needing $.

I'm a G I sold my leftovers at a v fair rate.


fking viggy twats

I'll win the euros tonight and $$$$ for everyone will be on the way at better than spot!

Final Table for Matt Seer ....9 left!!

Fair play to Matt. 7th for 43k.

Lovely quiet fella. Chuffed to bits for him! 

Delighted for him although would rather someone we can nip ;)

surely trickett has a zillion he can trade for people?

I can get 300k worth for people but guy is charging 1.5. Reliable and will drop it off although ofc still ridic.

Chris Dombrowski Wins Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
 

Chris Dombrowski, Winner Event #30

Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em had crowned it champion. Chris Dombrowski battled through a field of 2108 players over three days to earn his way to the $346,332 first-place prize and the coveted gold bracelet.

Here is how the final table finished:
Place   Name   Prize
1st   Chris Dombrowski   $346,332
2nd   Mathew Moore   $215,578
3rd   Jesse McEuen   $149,850
4th   Dimitar Yosifov   $107,922
5th   Carter Myers   $78,876
6th   Chris Bolek   $58,348
7th   Matt Seer   $43,730
8th   Mike Pickett   $33,191
9th   Jonathan Thompson   $25,448

Event #31: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,263,600
    Entries: 936
    Remaining: 14

Barry Greenstein is 7/14 heading into Day three.

Woody Deck finished 17th. Stuart Rutter cashed in 53rd

Event #32: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $2,425,200
    Entries: 516
    Remaining: 128

Day 1 of Event #32: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) has come and gone. When registration closed, 516 players had ponied up the buy-in for this event and the top prize was set at over $600,000. Finishing the day in the pole position was Jonathan Little with 179,700 in chips. Hot on his heels are a group of tough competitors including Daniel Negreanu (168,600), Brian Rast (151,200) and Justin Smith (149,800).

Moorman is 16th overnight, Brammer 32nd, Charlie Coombes 78th

Event #33: Seven Card Razz


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $684,775
    Entries: 301
    Remaining: 176

early days in this one with Marco Traniello, Mr Jennifer Harman, leading most of the big guns

Beamer and Charlie are both such beasts.

Event #32: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $2,425,200
    Entries: 516
    Remaining: 14

The 14 include Lindgren, Bari and Robl

No British cashers

I'm predicting 0 brit bracelets this year :(

Event #33: Seven Card Razz


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $684,775
    Entries: 301
    Remaining: 16

Stephen Chidwick cashed 31st

Stuart Rutter currently listed 16 of 16 and very short

Event #34: Turbo No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $1,466,100
    Entries: 1,629
    Remaining: 35

Event #34: $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em began today with 1,629 players and true to its "turbo" format, the tournament lost 1,594 players at a record pace to end the day with just 35 players and well into the money.

After 17 levels of play, the first four of which were 30-minutes long and the remaining thirteen were 40-minutes, it appeared that Victor Figueroa (354,000) has the largest stack in the room. Some of the other top stacks included: Noah Vaillancourt (301,000), Michael Gathy (256,000) and Mikk Matiiesen (255,00). You can also find Jason Duval (193,000), Jake Cody (190,000), Jennifer Tilly (113,000) and Russell Crane (100,00) still in the field with respectable stacks.


Jake Cody is listed 9 of 35

Warrington, Eames, Toby Lewis, Mike Ellis and Dominic Rossokh all cashed

Event #35: Pot-Limit Omaha

    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $1,747,200
    Entries: 640
    Remaining: 198

All the big guns in this and Barny Boatman, Sam Trickett and Max Silverare all reported in the top 40 for the UK

 

44th Annual World Series of Poker® On Record-Setting Pace at Half-Way Point

 

Participation up 27% and at 44-Year Highs; Several Records Already Broken

 

Gold Bracelet Events, Cash Games, Satellites & Daily Deepstacks All Up in 2013

 

LAS VEGAS (June 19, 2013) – The 44th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino has officially reached the halfway point, eclipsing more than a dozen records along the way and positioning this year’s slate of tournaments to become all-time highs.   What has become clear this year is that the WSOP has truly evolved to become something for everyone.  From $75 buy-in daily tournaments to $111,111 buy-in three day events, plus up to 100 additional cash game tables, the WSOP has grown into one giant poker festival spreading every imaginable variant of the game to all comers, at all levels of players coming to Las Vegas from all corners of the earth to compete on the game’s grandest stage.

 

Through 31 events (of what is a 62-event WSOP gold bracelet schedule this year), total WSOP participation is up 27% versus 2012 levels, with 40,039 entrants and besting the record-breaking year of 2011.  Counting all WSOP-related tournaments thus far, more than 77,000 have entered events at the Rio during the WSOP – up 36% year-over-year.  Total prize money awarded in official gold bracelet events has been $54,109,710 versus $49,095,775 in 2012 at this point – equating to a 10% increase in money awarded.  (It is important to note that the year-over-year schedule is not apples to apples, as events fall in different locations on the calendar each year).

 

40,039 entrants thru 31 events at the 2013 WSOP are more than the total entrants in the first 26 years of the WSOP combined (38,748).  The first 26 WSOP’s consisted of 329 official bracelet events or an average of 118 players per event.  The 2013 WSOP has averaged 1,292 entrants per bracelet event, just under the all-time record average of 1,304 entrants per event for the 58-event schedule in 2011.  In 2012, the WSOP had 31,490 entries in its first 31 scheduled events.  2011 holds the total record with 75,762 entries in 58 events.

 

The $54,109,710 in prize money awarded thus far in 2013 is more than the total prize money awarded in the first 21 years of the WSOP combined ($49,006,304).  $54,109,710 is also more money awarded than during any WSOP prior to 2005.

 

2013 WSOP Summary, through 31 events:

·         Participation (official WSOP gold bracelet events): 40,039 entrants (up 27% vs. 2012)

·         Prize Money Awarded (official WSOP gold bracelet events): $54,109,710 (up 10% vs. 2012)

·         Average Entrants per event: 1,292 (up from 1,015 per event in 2012)

·         The average WSOP gold bracelet winner  walks away with a first place prize of $364,308 – more than 7 times the U.S. median household income ($50,054)

·         Total tournament entries (includes bracelet, deepstack, Carnivale & satellite tournaments at Rio during WSOP): 77,243 (up 36% vs. 2012)

·         3 p.m. $235 buy-in Daily Deepstack tournament a runaway train: Through 20 events in 2013, the 3 p.m. tourney has produced 22,408 entries, up 44% versus 2012 equivalent (15,515).  Averaging 1,120 entrants and a $43,000 first place prize. (183 times ROI)

·         6 p.m. $185 buy-in Daily Deepstack tournament strong as well.  Through 18 events in 2013, the 6 p.m. tourney has produced 5,203 entries, up 33% versus 2012 equivalent (3,898).

·         10 p.m. $135 buy-in Daily Deepstack tournament showing improvement too.  Through 20 events in 2013, the 10 p.m. tourney has produced 3,344 entries, up 30% versus 2012 equivalent (2,569).

·         Largest 1st place prize thus far: $1,199,104 (Benny Chen, Event #6 - $1500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker)

·         Event #26 winner Ken Lind has the highest return on investment for any player thus far.  He played only Event #26, the WSOP Seniors event, and his $1,000 entry fee returned him $634,809 for his win – a staggering 634 times his investment, in just three days of work.

·         59 different countries have participated in WSOP gold bracelet events thus far, with four different countries winning gold bracelets (USA, Canada, Great Britain & Belgium) and 56 different countries recording in-the-money finishes.

·         Event #6, the inaugural Millionaire Maker event, not only crowned the 258th WSOP millionaire but either broke or contributed to the breaking of six records.

 

A record thirteen WSOP tournament records have been broken.  They are:

 

·         Most entries through 31 events in WSOP history – 40,039 entries – Events 1-31

·         Largest non-WSOP Main Event field size ever – 6,343 entries – Event #6

·         Largest re-entry event field size ever – 6,343 entries – Event #6

·         Most unique entrants for a non-WSOP Main Event – 5,044 entries – Event #6

·         Most entries in one day – 7,417 entrants participated in all tournaments at Rio on June 1, the most ever in one day.

·         Largest Seniors poker tournament in history – 4,407 entries – Event #26

·         Largest single-day, single flight poker tournament in history – 4,407 entries – Event #26

·         Largest payout for a $1500 buy-in poker tournament in history - $1,199,104 – Benny Chen, Event #6

·         Largest live Omaha High-Low Split Tournament in history (1,014 entries) – Event #20

·         Largest consecutive-days starting field sizes in poker history (combined 8,180 entries) – Event #6 & 7

·         Largest Mixed-Max Hold’em field size in poker tournament history (593 entries) – Event #27

·         Most cashes at midway point in WSOP history – Dan Kelly, Potomac, Maryland – 8 cashes (record for one WSOP is 11 and 12 is record in one calendar year of WSOP events)

·         Best cash percentage based on 10 events entered – Dan Kelly, Potomac, Maryland – 66.67% (8 cashes in 12 events entered)

·         Most bracelets by a country outside USA – Canada (7) – bests mark set in 2010 (Canada makes up 5.1% of entries, but has captured 25% of bracelets thus far)

 

These new records come just one year after the 2012 WSOP enjoyed the record for most prize money awarded in one year, with more than $222 million doled out to bracelet winners.  This record is not expected to be broken this year, due to the $1,000,000 buy-in event not being on this year’s schedule as it was in 2012.

 

It is also worth noting that these live tournament records aren’t just WSOP-related.  In fact, they are the largest turnouts for any poker tournament worldwide – ever.

 

“We are truly humbled once again by the players from all over the world who continue to make the World Series of Poker the great success of the poker industry,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “It has been a record-setting summer thus far in 2013 and we still have plenty of major events remaining on our schedule that runs through July 15 here at the Rio in Las Vegas.”

 

In addition to the official WSOP gold bracelet events, all other poker-related business is experiencing tremendous participation growth as well.  Year-to-date, 77,243 entries have been recorded across all tournaments at the Rio running during WSOP.  This includes WSOP gold bracelet events, Daily Deepstacks, the new Carnivale of Poker events and daily satellite tournaments – up 36 percent.

 

WSOP side action, which refers to all non-bracelet events -- including cash games, single-table-satellites, mega-satellites and daily deepstack tournaments -- are up 35%year-over-year when looked at in totality.

 

The Rio’s offering of low buy-in, one-day poker tournaments called “Daily Deepstacks” have been the busiest of all events year-over-year.  Players participating in the daily 3 p.m. tournaments with a $235 buy-in are regularly seeing 1200-plus player fields and first place prizes in the $45,000+ range.  Three Daily Deepstack tournaments are taking place, at 3 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. and all are seeing increases ranging from 30-44%.  These tournaments continue through July 15th.

 

WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel explained, “It is truly an amazing feeling to see it all unfold in front of your eyes like we have witnessed at the WSOP in 2013.  We are grateful for everyone’s patience throughout and want to thank the players who have showed up thus far.   We look forward to welcoming still more players who are still yet to make their 2013 WSOP debut.”

 

On June 1, the WSOP sat 7,417 players for the various poker tournaments scheduled that day – the largest number of players ever entered on a single day in live poker history.  This number would have been higher, but one of the deepstack tournaments had to be cancelled, due to a lack of available table space, since they were all in use at peak time.  A total of 480 poker tables are in use at the Rio this summer during the WSOP, the most poker tables ever assembled anywhere during one poker series.


When players are eliminated from the WSOP tournaments, a strong and varied stable of cash games await.  Cash games, where players can buy-in at any time and play as long as they want, have been in full swing in both the Pavilion Ballroom in the Rio Convention Center as well as the Rio Poker Room in the main casino area.  Combined, as many as 100 poker tables are being used to meet the demand.  Games range from $1-$2 blinds, up to the biggest games players compete in, which have included $1,000-$2,000 blinds.  Pot-Limit Omaha has continued in its popularity and growth and has, for the first time, eclipsed the number of No-Limit Hold’em games at certain points this summer.  The presence of the MegaBeat Jackpot -- which recently reached over $900,000 -- in the Rio Poker Room on the casino floor has also enticed a number of new players to that location, creating two exciting and unique poker destinations for cash game players while visiting the WSOP this summer.

 

Along with all the poker action, some outstanding charitable work is being performed as well.  Poker players are rallying behind the “One Percent for ONE DROP” initiative, where one percent of all poker winnings are pledged to official WSOP charity: the ONE DROP organization (www.onedrop.org).

 

Two key WSOP charitable events are scheduled to take place very soon as well, the One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold’em (Event #47 - $111,111 buy-in) tournament on Wednesday, June 26 at 12 noon that will see $3,333 of each buy-in, the house fees, be donated to ONE DROP on behalf of the Rio.  This field is expected to reach 100 players.  And then, the Little One for ONE DROP, a $1,111 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament will play on July 3 and July 4 at 12 noon, where players will be able to re-enter unlimited through the first four levels, and the event will feature two start days.  $111 of each buy-in will be redirected to the One Drop organization on behalf of the poker playing community.  This event is expected to attract more than 4,000 entries.

 

The remainder of the WSOP schedule continues in earnest, with many big events still on tap including the $111,111 One Drop High Rollers (June 26), the Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship (June 28), the $50,000 Poker Players Championship (June 30) and of course the greatest spectacle in all of gaming, the $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event (July 6, 7, 8 starting flights).  The 44th annual edition wraps up for good on Monday, July 15 when the November Nine will be determinED

the rail is rofl loud.

First fracas with security..:.1hr min

Got on the stream to see AJ>>>>>>>>88 for Jake, and the crowd goes wild, oioiiiii.

GLGLGL.

They were all warned not to lean on the front rail because it's there just for decoration.  If it goes on for long, I see a mash of drunk englishmen in a heap near the table :)

Event #32: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $2,425,200
    Entries: 516

Is currently heads up between Erick Lindgren and Lee Markholt

Finalists included Little, Bari and, Robl

Cashers included Rettenmaier, Glantz, Busquet and Rast

There were no British cashers

Event #33: Seven Card Razz

    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $684,775
    Entries: 301

was won by Bryan Campanello

Stuart Rutter finished 16th for just under $7,000

Event #34: Turbo No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $1,466,100
    Entries: 1,629

was won by Michael Gathy from Belgium

Jake Cody finished 7th for over $33,000

Tom Alner from Bristol finished 12th For over $15,000

Event #35: Pot-Limit Omaha


    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $1,747,200
    Entries: 640
    Remaining: 25


Glenn Altham from Lowestoft finished 27th just behing Hellmuth who cashed in 26th

Padraig Parkinson cashed in 52nd

Jeff Madsen leads Scott Clements at the head of the remaining 25. Duhamel, Sexton and Harder are still in

Event #36: No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (2,000 player max)


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,611,900
    Entries: 1,194
    Remaining: 120

tional MTT, this tournament plays out in sit-n-go formats. All of the 120 players who have advanced to Day 2 won their table of either nine or ten players, and will be moving on to tomorrow to try and do the same.

We had a handful of notables who emerged with all the chips at their table. Some of them were Bertrand Grospellier, Amanda Musumeci, Taylor Paur, Nacho Barbero, Peter Jetten, Gavin Smith, Andy Seth, Ari Engel, Ray Henson, Matt Berkey, Eric Baldwin, Brent Hanks, Erik Seidel, Allen Kessler, and Maxim Lykov, amongst others.

This of course is a popular event, so there were a ton of big names that weren't able to make it through, including Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, David "Bakes" and "ODB" Baker, and Eugene Katchalov, Michael Mizrachi, Tristan Wade, Jason Mercier, Randy Lew, Matt Salsberg, and Tommy Vedes were amongst the players who just missed out, losing their heads up matches.


Brits I can see who won their first tables

Darren Elias
Andrew Teng
Trevor Reardon

Event #37: Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $799,000
    Entries: 170
    Remaining: 113

With just 30 minute left in the night, Greg "FBT" Mueller is more than likely going to finish as the chip leader. After eliminating yet another player, the two-time bracelet winner is sitting with a little over 90,000 in chips! That's almost double many of the other big stacks.

Stuart Rutter is shown as 32/113 and is the only Brit listed in the counts

It might seem like this, but Dubai is flying in fresh for main.... Practically a lock :)

Following Jake's final table last night,interesting interviews during the rail

http://calvinayre.com/2013/06/21/poker/british-rail-jason-duval-jake-cody-ld-audio-interview/

and in the aftermath of security guards taking action...

this is an Anne Laymond photo

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Such a great article - made me so jealous not to be out there.

Would be good for another British FT. Will look to pop along and experience the atmosphere, if it's as fun as described.

Great photos from Anne

Outrageous pop at the Proclaimers

catching up, sorry. Broadband problems, updating schedules #whyshouldyoucare

Congratulations to Jeff Madsen, Winner of Event #35: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha ($384,420)
 

Jeff Madsen - Event #35: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Champion

It seems hard to believe it was almost seven years ago when most of us in the poker world first became aware of Jeff Madsen. Of course, his introduction on the scene was so sudden and spectacular, the impression was strong enough to last a long time.

As a 21-year-old Madsen became at the time the youngest ever to win a WSOP bracelet (a record since broken). Then within a week he'd win a second. A third-place finish at yet another event days later helped ensure 2006 WSOP Player of the Year honors for Madsen, and that we'd all be keeping an eye out for him at subsequent events for years to come.

Madsen has remained a part of the scene ever since, gathering more than 25 cashes at the Series although never quite getting back to the top. Until today, that is, as Madsen earned his third career bracelet and a first prize of $384,420 here in Event #35: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha.

Today's final day saw 19 return from the starting field of 640, with Madsen bringing the chip lead to the start of play. He'd continue to maintain it as they played down to a final table, with Steven Loube (19th), Christian Harder (18th), Jarred Solomon (17th), Mike Sexton (16th), and Ashton Griffin (13th) among those falling shy of the final nine.

Madsen kept out in front as the final nine whittled down as well, watching as Douglas Corning took out another two-time bracelet winner, Scott Clements, in fifth after hitting a four-outer to do so.

It was Corning who'd meet Madsen heads-up, and in fact for the only time all day Madsen would be in second position, though less than a big blind behind Corning as the pair's stacks were virtually even.

But they wouldn't stay that way for long, as Madsen took the lead on the first hand, began increasing it steadily over the next 30 hands, then after a few more finally claimed the last of a short-stacked Corning's chips.

Somewhat uncannily, Madsen becomes the fourth former WSOP Player of the Year to win a bracelet in 2013 along with Tom Schneider, Erick Lindgren, and Daniel Negreanu (winner of the WSOP APAC Main Event)

Event #36: No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (2,000 player max)

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $1,611,900
    Entries: 1,194
    Remaining: 10

Salman Behbehani is listed as from the UK and is on the final table

Erik Seidel finished 14th

Sebastian Saffrai in 18th, Ben Vinson and Andrew Teng all cashed for the UK

Event #37: Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $799,000
    Entries: 170
    Remaining: 9


Justin Bonomo finals

Bruno Fitoussi finishes 12th

Event #38: No-Limit Hold'em / Four Handed


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $1,287,650
    Entries: 566
    Remaining: 37

Matt Perrins and Craig McCorkell cashed 37th and 47th respectively

Stephen Chidwick is currently listed as chip leader

Charlie Combes listed 18/37

Tim Chung is listed 22/37

v high powered big name field remains

Demidov, Juanda, Timoshenko, Pham, Calvin Anderson for example

Event #39: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $753,300
    Entries: 558
    Remaining: 115

Mercier and Hellmuth currently listed 1st and 3rd in the chip counts

Toby Lewis is the only Brit listed in the chip counts

Event #40: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $0
    Entries: tbd
    Remaining: 2000


early days in the weekend $1500

I did see that Flushy is already out and on the golf course, unfortunately

Many Many brits in this. Claypole, Trickett, Cody and Moorman are the top 4 on the chip counts which are pretty sparse in these early stages

Event #41: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $0
    Entries: tbd
    Remaining: 0


Your guess is as good as mine. It starts today, but no news yet!

Sadly not a Brit:-

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=b&n=121338

Ryan spittles listed as one of the chip leaders I'm the $1500 event good luck Ryan

Big Chara is in the 5k PLO. Don't know him but everyone else does.

GL to Ryan, proper nice bloke would love to see a bink from him.

Event #38: No-Limit Hold'em / Four Handed

    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $1,287,650
    Entries: 566
    Remaining: 8

On the final two tables tomorrow, David Pham and John Juanda

Event #39: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $753,300
    Entries: 558
    Remaining: 17

Kirsty Gazes and Layne Flack are in the final 17

Toby Lewis finished 35th for $3743

Greenstein, Hellmuth and Mercier cashed

Event #40: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,917,350
    Entries: 2,161
    Remaining: 287

Play ended just outside the money

scotty77 Ryan Spittles is quoted as 4/287. Very best of luck to him later!

claypole Shaun Conning is quoted as 15/287. Best of luck to him too

Would be two very popular deep runs if they can happen


 

Event #41: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,880,000
    Entries: 400
    Remaining: 132

They've reached the end of eight one-hour levels and Day 1 is complete in Event #41: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Six-Handed). About 120 survived the first day of play in this three-day tournament out of a starting field of exactly 400, and by night's end the biggest stacks included Sorel Mizzi who made the most of the post-dinner levels to end the day with 146,400.

Chad Brown also ended the day well, concluding several levels' worth of chip accumulation to end with 139,600. Peter Charalambous likewise made a late push to end with 126,200.

Others enjoying successful Day 1s that ended with their bagging above average stacks included Juha Helppi, Davidi Kitai, Phil Galfond, and the two Deebs — Freddy and Shaun. Andy Bloch, Daniel Negreanu, Brian Rast, and Sam Farha will also be returning for tomorrow's Day 2.

That event 41 remaining field is ridiculously strong! This is just the top 10 with around 55-60 left:
1 Sorel Mizzi 146,400
2 Peter Charalambous 139,600
3 Chad Brown 139,600
4 Juha Helpp i106,600
5 Davidi Kita i105,300
6 Shaun Deeb 105,000
7 Phil Galfond 101,400
8 Klaus slot Kristensen 100,000
9 Freddy Deeb 90,000

Gl to Peter.

But special gl to shaun and Ryan.

With thanks to FCHD, next door, this is Ryan's table today.......


1 - Matthias Beonarek (GER) 40.400 chips
2 - Jeffrey Izes (USA) 12,100 chips
3 - Hans Joaquim Hein (GER) 16,500 chips
4 - Peter Hengsakul (USA) 64,400 chips
5 - Joseph Ferry (CAN) 18.000 chips
6 - Ferdinando Locascio (ITA) 52,500 chips
7 - Alvin Staana (USA) 41,300 chips
8 - Sadan Turker (GBR) 31,500 chips
9 - Ryan Spittles (GBR) 139,300 chips

 

Ryan confirmed in 4th overnight. Min cash for 243rd is $2625, from then on it upwards to finial table 9th for $38,625 and the bracelet winner takes $525,272

Omg clay pole plz

Any  idea where I can find the day 2 seat plans?

Try this, Vinni.....


http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12838/Ev40-Day2-Counts-by-Table.pdf

There we go, Table 443.....



223
Asher Conniff
BROOKLYN, NY, US
86,000
Amazon / 443 / 1
224
Christopher Beck
ROSELLE, IL, US
58,700
Amazon / 443 / 2
225
Mathew Moore
Las Vegas, NV, US
96,100
Amazon / 443 / 3
226
Christian Sare
Ashby, MA, US
35,800
Amazon / 443 / 4
227
Robert Bennett
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US
20,400
Amazon / 443 / 5
228
Shaun Conning
HERTFORDSHIRE, , GB
71,500
Amazon / 443 / 6229
Alex Maturi
OAK PARK, IL, US
15,000
Amazon / 443 / 7
230
Ryan Olisar
NAPERVILLE, IL, US
29,900
Amazon / 443 / 8
231
Jake Balsiger
TEMPE, AZ, US
85,600
Amazon / 443 / 9

Thanks Tony.

GL Ryan & Claypole

Plinton still in 5k according to pokernews. Gogogog Peter's!

Latest from Ryan in event #40.

Ryan Spittles ‏@RyanSpittles 41m
37 left I have a bowl at 125k going into 5/10k locked 10k$


Claypole cashed in 159 for $3,150

Ryan Spittles ‏@RyanSpittles 39m
Down to 3 tables in WSOP 40 with 1 more level to play. I have 220ish at 6/12/2ka.

Kara Scott on 295,000

Wandering round railing dem pokerz at Rio today, I saw two chaps playing chess. Neither was particularly strong but both were competent, club standard players.

A man comes to see them and explains that there is a man around who is interested in a game and that this bloke would lay $20,000 to $5,000 he would win. Was anyone keen?

Forget it's chess for a second. Is there any situation in which you would automatically agree to this arrangement in a game not based heavily in luck? You've no idea who this mystery man is or what his strength is. If he is a grandmaster, if you are a good club player, you're more like a 50/1 shot. And I would put good money on there being 20+ International Masters and Grandmasters in the WSOP. Does this not scream set-up to you?

Chap number one - who was winning the game in play - thought for a while, postulated and said "go on. I'll play him for $5,000".

I came back a bit later and he was playing against a different guy, who was obviously a much stronger player than I saw him playing earlier. The new chap was ripping him to shreds.

If that was the mystery 20k guy, it was the easiest $5,000 made yesterday without exception.

From PokerNews:

Ryan Spittles Eliminated in 22nd Place ($15,024)

Ryan Spittles got the rest of his short stack in preflop holding  Ahrt Qs, and he was up against the 9s 9c of Jorge Breda. The board ran down Td 8c 8s 3c 3h, and Breda secured the knockout on one of the last hands of the night.

so what did you do with your 5k yo? hookers and blow?

Event #40: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,917,350
    Entries: 2,161
    Remaining: 21

Allen Cunningham, Griffin Benger and Kara Scott are among the remaining runners

Well done to Ryan Spittles 22nd for over $15,000 and Shaun Conning who cashed 159th

Event #41: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,880,000
    Entries: 400
    Remaining: 22

Well done to Peter Charalambous who finished 31st for just under $11,000

Steve gboro Gross leads, Timoshenko and Mizzi are among the final 22

Event #42: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $1,890,000
    Entries: 2,100
    Remaining: 168

Potential excitement in the one with Niall Firaldo87 Farrell and Sam Grafton currently quoted in the top ten of chip counts

Matt Matros leads

Event #43: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)


    Buy-in: $10,000
    Prizepool: $817,800
    Entries: 87
    Remaining: 55


Stuart Rutter, as usual in the arcane and the wonderful poker games, flys the flag for UK Mixed game Poker and is quoted still in 14/55

This is a star name packed field, with 87 runners its a bracelet hunting game

Currently Calvin Andreson leads Paul Volpe with Flack, Hennigan, Laak and Lisandro all in the top twenty

Lol. I'd be amazed if mystery man were only at my level.

Day 2. Let's do this!

Event #40: No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $2,917,350
    Entries: 2,161
    Remaining: 2

Kara Scott finished 17th, Allen Cunningham finished 10th

Peter Hengsakul and Jared Hamby are currently heads up

Event #41: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $1,880,000
    Entries: 400
    Remaining: 7

Yevgeny Timoshenko and Steve Gross are in the final 7, Sorel Mizzi finished 17th

Event #42: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $1,890,000
    Entries: 2,100
    Remaining: 11

Mike Ellis from the Vic who won a bracelet two years ago is in the final 11, I think, though the chip counts are well behind the numbers left from the updates

Event #43: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)

    Buy-in: $10,000
    Prizepool: $817,800
    Entries: 87
    Remaining: 9


Final 9 includes Bakes, Layne Flack.I think. The schedule says there are 9 left and 15 players are listed on the chip counts :-)

Event #44: No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $2,926,560
    Entries: 1,072
    Remaining: 229

Jonathan Duhamel leads Dominic Nitsche

Vamplew is listed 17/229, Eames 55/229, Elder 65/229, Romanello 70/229

Interview with mixed game expert Matthew Ashton from Liverpool who is having such a good WSOP

http://calvinayre.com/2013/06/25/poker/matthew-ashton-mixed-game-master-ld-audio-interview/

I have a prop bet that there will be a UK bracelet winner in Vegas this series, gogogogo Rory Matthews!

WORLD SERIES OF POKER & ONE DROP AIM TO RAISE $1,111,111

with CHARITY CAMPAIGN KICKING OFF THIS WEEK

Las Vegas, June 24, 2013 – After a successful debut with a sold-out inaugural BIG ONE for ONE DROP™ in 2012 that raised $5.6 million for ONE DROP, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and ONE DROP are pleased to announce two poker events with charitable components, with one kicking off Wednesday.

“ONE DROP is doing important and impactful work and we intend to continue to help their efforts,” said Mitch Garber, CEO, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (owners of the WSOP). “We were wildly successful out the gate in 2012, but we can’t slow down. Access to clean water is a worldwide issue that needs our continued attention and Caesars, the WSOP and the poker community will continue to go All In for ONE DROP.”

This year’s version is two-fold. The WSOP will offer a High Roller (#1dropHighRollers) event with an $111,111 buy-in on Wednesday, June 26 at 12 noon, known as WSOP Event #47. This three-day official WSOP gold bracelet event does have a charitable component, as 3% of the buy-in amount will be re-directed to ONE DROP as a charitable contribution from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. $107,777 of each buy-in will go towards the prize pool, which is expected to reach over $10 million. Players who cash in this event will be encouraged to consider donating some of their winnings to ONE DROP.

Then, on July 3 & July 4, the WSOP will host another official WSOP gold bracelet event with a charitable component. Event #58A & 58B, the LITTLE ONE for ONE DROP (#Little1drop), with a $1,111 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event, features two starting flights and unlimited re-entry through the first four levels each day. Players must be out of chips to re-enter. From each buy-in, $111 will be donated to ONE DROP.

Additionally, the WSOP-ONE DROP alliance will continue to enourage all poker players, who cash in any WSOP eent to consider going All In for ONE DROP (@Allinfor1drop) by donating 1% of their winnings to ONE DROP.  Poker players have a long, consistent and successful track record of supporting charitable causes via poker tournaments and can help ensure water access for everyone, today and forever. With the help of the poker communiy we aim to raise $1,111,111.

“It’s amazing what you can achieve when you dream,” said ONE DROP chairperson Guy Laliberté. “We took a concept and turned it into the most successful poker initiative ever held. As a result, ONE DROP has transformed 150,000 lives. Projects in Honduras, El Salvador and Burkina Faso have already put the money to use. With these type of initiatives, we can continue to impact the lives of those in need, while at the same time raising awareness of the impact water has on our planet.”

 
After winning the Big One for ONE DROP, Antonio Esfandiari got involved with ONE DROP and started supporting its mission. With his poker player friends Jeff Gross and Phil Laak, Antonio travelled to Honduras and El Salvador to visit ONE DROP’s projects. “ONE DROP’s initiatives are not just about giving access to water, they are about giving hope for a brighter future,” said Esfandiari. “The money we raise for ONE DROP goes a long way and it changes lives forever.”

Antonio, Jeff and Phil have all pledged to go “All in for ONE DROP” and donate 1% of their winnings to ONE DROP during WSOP 2014.

Simon deadman, Tim Chung, Ben Vinson and stato still in this. Possibly more English.

GL DAY2 to Deadman, Andrew, Tim, Ben, Roberto and also Eames . Hopefully all English and Welsh FT with Deadmsn coming on top . Wiiiiiiii

Some strong uk players, wouldnt be surprised if this was the one. GL all.

Congratulations to Steve Gross, Winner of Event #41: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Six-Handed) ($488,817)
 
For many years, Steve Gross was better known by his online poker handle — "gboro780" — than by his actual name, his successes at the online tables earning him copious notice as he consistently ranked as one of the best players on the virtual felt. He'd added some live scores to those successes, too, over the years, but the one breakthrough win had eluded him. Until today, that is, as Gross has become the latest WSOP bracelet winner after topping a field of exactly 400 to win Event #41: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Six-Handed).

Event #42: No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $1,890,000
    Entries: 2,100

Won by Hungarian Norbert Szecsi

Rory Matthews finished 5th for $78576, well done

Mike Ellis finished 20th

Event #43: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)

    Buy-in: $10,000
    Prizepool: $817,800
    Entries: 87

Bakes narrowly failed to repeat, finishing runner up behind Jesse Martin

Puchkov, Lisandron, Flack, Turner and Hennigan were part of a big name final table

Event #44: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $2,926,560
    Entries: 1,072
    Remaining: 22

Niall "firaldo87" Farrell is reported as chip leader with 22 left ahead of the likes of Mark Teltscher and Jason Mercier.

Plenty of Brit cashers

Pab finished 35th
Gary Pearce 48th
Simon Deadman 64th
Stephen Chidwick 71st
Stato_1 72nd
Sunny Chattha 77th

Event #45: Ante Only No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $915,300
    Entries: 678
    Remaining: 71

Has just reached the cash

Chris Moorman is reported as a big chip leader

David Vamplew and Rhys Jones also reported in the top 20 stacks

Event #46: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better


    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $1,187,550
    Entries: 435
    Remaining: 171

Pete Linton is a top ten stack

Stephen Chidwick reported 13th

Last I heard TV's Tony Kendall had an average stack and was still in the hunt

Play is about to end, so further news soon

 Lots of other Brits in the ante only including Scott O'Reilly, Barny and myself as well as Rhys, Moorman and Vamplew and maybe one or two others in there that I've forgotten.

good luck tomorrow. You weren't listed on the intra-day chip counts. Have a word.

plo8 event 46

Matt Woodward Leads as Event #46 reaches Day 2
 

Matt Woodward

Today marked the start of the $3,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or Better tournament at the 2013 Word Series of Poker and what a day of poker it was. Pot Limit Omaha creates some crazy action, but through in the split-pot format and the action goes off the chart!

Matt Woodward is the tournament's overnight chip lead, having bagged up an impressive 99,700 chips when play ended for the night. Woodward is something if a Limit Hold'em expert if his past tournament results are anything to go by, but he has some fantastic results in other formats too, including a runner-up finish in the 2009 EPT Grand Final and a 217th place finish in the 2012 WSOP Main Event. Now Woodward has given himself the best chance of reaching the money places and beyond in this tournament.

Hot on Woodward's heels are Zhen Cai (95,300), Michael Sanders (79,500) and Paul Tedeschi (70,800), the latter peaking at almost 90,000 chips before losing some ground as the day ground to a halt. Most of Tedeschi's stack used to belong to Owais Ahmed, but the two created a huge pot that resulted in Ahmed's exit. Ahmed will not be too upset, though because he won a seat to the One Drop tournament in the WSOP.com draw worth a cool $111,111.

so 144 remain

I am hoping the chip count page updates so we can see where tikay is with his 22,000 or so http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12844

Chris Moorman Dominates First Day of Ante Only Event
 

Day 1 of Event 45 $1500 Ante Only tournament has come to an end. 678 players started the day. This was a drop from the 939 that entered last year's inaugural Ante Only tournament. This year's event brought a prize pool of $915,300. There would be 72 players to enjoy those riches with each guaranteed $2,581. Only one player could win the top prize and the gold bracelet. That top prize equated to $201,399.

In this very interesting format players were given a starting stack of 4,500 in chips. There were no blinds but only antes. Each player started the day having to ante 25 chips each. By the end of the day they were anteing 400 each. This created a lot of action and many multi-way pots. Some people could not handle or figure out the structure but others handled it as a way to dominate their competition.

One player to have no troubles with this Ante Only format was the chip leader Chris Moorman. He found every opportunity to gain many chips from his opponents. At the end of the day he took his starting stack of 4,500 and turned it into a monster stack of 143,900. His next closet competitor Sam Panzica had 118,000. Other notables who stayed on top of the counts were Aaron Massey (99,200), Gabriel Nassif (89,500), Allen Cunningham (83,400), and David Vamplew (78,000).

Again if I see proper chip counts or a seat draw for tomorrow I will pop them up as a lot of UK players aren't mentioned

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=968&tid=12843

Seat draw for ante up is out,

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dE5zQndySWNiTGZFbmZyTXNVc3RkZ0E&usp=sharing

75/139 by the day 2 chip count PDF - 22,600

The PDFs are under the tab marked reports.

Chris Moorman 143,900
David Vamplew 42,300
Rhys Jones 32,200
Barny Boatman 24,000
Andrew Hills 21,900
Neil Channing 13,600

As per the end of day 2 PDF under reports tab mentioned above. Apologies if I missed anyone listed as GB. GL to those left in.

Jake has just tweeted...turning $111,111 into a tournament receipt

(http://distilleryimage3.ak.instagram.com/24bfa1b2de9b11e292d622000ae909ac_7.jpg)


gulp!

Hero

Ante up always gonna be won by online wizard. Moorman would qualify for that category.

Niall Farrell huge in  3k. Glgl

According to the updates, Mr Moorman's final table starts at 12:45 Vegas time, so 8:45pm UK time.

Is this likely to be well attended?

I'd imagine so Tal. He is the captain

The captain?

Now heads up - GL Niall

Niall posts as firaldo87 on blonde. Was(is?) associated with BlackBelt and won an APAT in Bolton a while back.

Good luck to him as he hopes to close out our first bracelet of the summer

Here is Anne Laymond's picture of him on the final earlier

(http://distilleryimage3.ak.instagram.com/cc150de0dedb11e2bcc022000a1fbb0e_7.jpg)

Gl Niall, would he be first Scottish bracelet winner?

Moorman has finalled the Ante Only

Details and funking at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61587.msg1800018#new

UK Cashers:

David Vamplew finished 16th
Rhys Jones 42nd
Barny Boatman 46th
Neil Channing 56th
Andrew Hills 66th

Event #48: Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $780,325
    Entries: 343
    Remaining: 144

Very little British presence in this one, unsurprisingly. Hellmuth appears to be making a run, in the top thirty of the chip counts. Bakes has a top ten stack as he aims for yet another WSOP final

Event #46: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better


    Buy-in: $3,000
    Prizepool: $1,187,550
    Entries: 435
    Remaining: 21

tikay finished 41st for his 3rd WSOP cash, updated as it happened at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25486.msg1800015;boardseen#new

Two Brits remain, Stephen Chidwick 7/21 and Robert Price 20/21

Event #47: One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em
EVENT IN PROGRESS:    Level: 10  |  Blinds: 2500/5000  |  Ante: 500

    Buy-in: $111,111
    Prizepool: $17,891,148
    Entries: 166
    Remaining: 109

Sam Trickett was an early exit but in so far as I can tell the Other brits Jake Cody, Darren Elias and Toby Lewis survive in a ridiculous field, as I suppose you'd expect for a $111,111 buy in

In the top 30: Renkemeier, Lamb, Glantz, Negraneau, Juanda, Bellande, Hansen, Alaei, Katchalov, for example....

 Pretty certain Darren Elias is American (very good player).

 Are you highlighting Irish players here Tighty? John O'Shea doing pretty well in the PLO8.

Can do. I thought Darren was from Walsall. Possibly Walsall, Illinois, then.

Hellmuth didn't play One Drop.


@phil_hellmuth 5h

Yep, It's true, I skipped #WSOP One Drop Tourn today. I LOVE "One Drop Charity" and will continue to support it, but wasn't feeling it


Why can't he just admit he couldn't afford it/couldn't find backers?

Niall "firaldo" Farrell heads up in the $3k. been 10:1 chip lead HU but is 2/2 now. GO NIALL :)

 Ouch. 2nd for Niall. Had a big chip lead and lost every showdown. Bad luck mate.

 Got a feeling he'll have many more chances.

The Scene a few minutes ago (h/t Jamie Burland)

https://vine.co/v/hzUh6XEAZQt

Unlucky Niall, well played

Would have been, yes.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/160

Surely he would have no trouble finding backers?

Prob.didnt want.to play or not in mood. I would guess he could afford to play

Surely he would have no trouble affording it?

I mean you never know but he did win the WSOPE main event less than a year ago...

If Bellande can find backers, I'm sure Hellmuth can too!

Saw Hellmuth lasted 33 minutes in 100K PCA 2013 High roller, maybe he realises hes a dog in that field?

This probably. The consensus seems to be he is the best in the world at playing against amateur players but not in pro heavy fields.

He would have no problems finding backer, he has so many fanboys (like George) who would love some of his action.

People seem to have forgotten how he did last year

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=64804

Didn't he win some VIP freeroll at MGM last year to get in?

ya iirc it was last minute and he got hu and dealt for the seat because the other guy just wanted cash.

to be fair to him he's gone up in my estimation for knowing not to play in this field.

Yeah I think there was a story about a deal five-handed where the other players each took a piece of his action.

Confirmed fan boy.

Dunno about affordability. Surely most of the field can't really afford to play? These guys just don't seem to worry about losing such a big sum of money whereas it seems to effect hellmuth?

He's prob exercising solid brm tbh and nothing wrong with that.

Makes total sense to me. Not like he needs the exposure/publicity.

If anyone's in the Rio today, I'll be wearing a purple polo shirt, blue jeans and white trainers. Please feel free to approach. Unless that description turned you on, in which case PM me a photo first and maintain a safe distance until such time as you hear further.

It's not that he's the best against fish it's that the fish play terribly against him. He has some insane precence at a table and it works so well for him.

Bumped into him in a bar other day and he said he wasn't going to bother, he said he just doesn't feel like he will win atm so might take a few days off. Very interesting mentality and I'm sure it works for him, his style relies a lot on making tough decisions (because of poor fundamentals) so being positive is an absolute must for him.

I gain more and more respect each day for him.

2013 WSOP Event #45 Final Table Results
Place    Name    Prize Money
1   Ben Volpe   201,399
2   Paul Lieu   124,352
3   Louis Bonnecaze   80,839
4   Blair Hinkle   59,375
5   Chris Moorman   44,227
6   Horacio Chaves   33,371
7   Adam Stone   25,472
8   Danny Johnson   19,660
9   Samuel Panzica   15,331

Eventual second place finisher Paul Lieu, had a tough time with seven remaining, as he was at the bottom of the chips counts, before two crucial hands brought him back to life. In the first, he committed the last of his chips with 6-6 against Chris Moorman's A-Q on a Ace high . He was able to spike the 6 on the turn to double back up. Shortly after, he used his new earned wealth, to eliminated Adam Stone from the final table.

Chris Moorman started the day as one of the lowest chip stacks, and was able to make it to the final five, before the inform Lieu was on a mission to eliminate another player on his quest for victory, The remaining five players limped into the pot, and saw the flop come J-10-8 , before Moorman moved all and was called by Lieu. Moorman had 8-5 and was up against Lieu's 10-8. He wasn't able to improve with his bottom pair, as we were left with just four.

Vladimir Shchmelev Wins Event #46: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or-Better ($279,094)
 

2013 WSOP Event 46 Gold Bracelet Winner Vladimir Shchmelev

The day began with 17 players all vying for the top prize of a World Series of Poker bracelet and $279,084 and at the beginning of the day it was anyones game. Everyone came into the day just a stone throw away from each other, but it was Alexey Makarov leading that pack.

Players started dropping fast at the start of the day. So fast in fact that before the second break, players had already reached the unofficial final table. First to go was Ari Engel. Engel doubled up early, but he couldn't hang on tight enough and he was flung out of the tournament in 17th place when he was eliminated by Joshua Weiland. Next to go were Dylan Linde, Matthew Lansdon, and Stephen Chidwick who all fell in rapid succession. Right before the final table, John O'Shea and Vladimir Shchmelev got involved in a huge pot that gave Shchmelev some momentum that he needed to eventually win the tournament. In the hand, Shchmelev cracked O'Shea's aces and managed to quarter him for most of his stack.

Leaving in the next spot was Joshua Weiland who started the day as one of the shorter stacks, but was able to grind back up. He ended up finishing in 13th place when Ashly Butler began a monster run that would propel him into the chip lead. Falling next was John O'Shea who dropped to Mel Judah and closing it out just short of the unofficial final table was Robert Price, who was eliminated by Alexey Makarov.

When final table time approached, Ashly Butler eliminated Zhen Cai in stunning fashion when the two of the top three stacks in play collided. Butler turned a straight against Cai's set on a high only board and Cai couldn't fill up. From there, Butler took control of the final table and held the chip lead until three handed play. Falling in ninth was start of the day chip leader Alexey Makarov, who slowly slipped from the top of the leader board, to the middle, to completely out of the tournament. Then in a very short span, Ashly Butler eliminated Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, Andrey Zaichenko, and Tyler Nelson. Falling in fifth was "Miami" John Cernuto, who was yet another casualty of Ashley Butler. In the hand, Butler rivered Cernuto right out the door when he caught a straight and a nut low.

Four handed play was when the tides began to slowly shift towards Vladimir Shchmelev. It began when he eliminated Brian Hacker in fourth place. In the hand, Shchmelev rivered a straight against Hacker's set to send him to the payout desk. From there, Shchmelev took several big pots off Butler to gain the chip lead. And in the biggest one, Shchmelev had Butler drawing to just a quarter to stay alive. Butler hit his gin card for a quarter, but that hand left him crippled. Shortly after, Shchmelev flopped the nuts when Butler had aces and that was the end of Butler's run.

Heads-up player didn't last for too long and after trading back and forth for a few hands, Mel Judah flopped trips while Shchmelev flopped a boat. All the money got in the middle, and at the end of it Shchmelev remained standing victorious. After coming close to a bracelet several times, and having a massive run with no bracelet in 2010, Shchmelev was able to claim his first, well deserved World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
Place   Player   Prize
1   Vladimir Shchmelev   $279,094
2   Mel Judah   $172,361
3   Ashly Butler   $124,645
4   Brian Hacker   $91,085
5   John Cernuto   $67,262
6   Tyler Nelson   $50,197
7   Andrey Zaichenko   $37,847
8   Allyn Jaffrey Shulman   $28,821
9   Alexey Makarov   $22,171

Day 2 Ends Two Players Away from the Money
 

Chip leader Martin Jacobson and Big One for One Drop Winner Antonio Esfandiari

Despite fielding several objections from the surviving players, Day 2 of Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em ended two players away from the money. At the end of the 10th and final level of the day, the tournament staff called Jack Effel, the Vice President of the World Series of Poker, who ruled that the players would bag-and-tag rather than burst the bubble. There were then complaints when the players learned that there would be a total redraw, but this is a standard WSOP rule. At the completion of each day at the WSOP, there is a total redraw, unless the players have already redrawn to three tables. The redraw hasn't happened yet in Event 47, thus the remaining 26 players were randomly dispersed. You can find the table draw below.

Day 3 Redraw & Counts
 
Table   Seat   Player   Counts
453   1   Olivier Busquet   2,275,000
453   2   empty   -
453   3   Jeremy Ausmus   995,000
453   4   empty   -
453   5   Nick Schulman   1940000
453   6   Steve Gross   1,270,000
453   7   Lawrence Greenberg   1,565,000
453   8   Blake Bohn   1,375,000
            
452   1   Richard Fullerton   1,705,000
452   2   Dan Shak   1,020,000
452   3   Anthony Gregg   1,750,000
452   4   empty   -
452   5   Brandon Steven   3,140,000
452   6   Phil Laak   1,760,000
452   7   Martin Finger   2910000
452   8   Antonio Esfandiari   2,970,000
            
447   1   empty   -
447   2   Andrew Lichtenberger   1,575,000
447   3   Chris Klodnicki   2,570,000
447   4   Bill Perkins   2,750,000
447   5   Matt Glantz   3,005,000
447   6   Yevgeniy Timoshenko   1,205,000
447   7   Daniel Alaei   1,140,000
447   8   Shaun Deeb   1,215,000
            
446   1   Connor Drinan   3,250,000
446   2   Martin Jacobson   3,255,000
446   3   Farshad Fardad   1,900,000
446   4   empty   -
446   5   empty   -
446   6   Jason Koon   1,195,000
446   7   Haralabos Voulgaris   1,240,000
446   8   Mike Sexton   740,000

Event #48: Limit Hold'em / Six Handed


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $780,325
    Entries: 343
    Remaining: 15

Bakes leads the final 15, with Juha Helppi 3rd. No British cashers

Event #49: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $3,033,450
    Entries: 2,247
    Remaining: 258

In so far as I can tell, these are the British players to have made Day 2

Barny Boatman
Simon Deadman
Marc Foggin
Neil Channing
Scott Shelley
Andrew Teng
Alex Goulder
Shaun Conning

Event #50: 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $846,300
    Entries: 372
    Remaining: 168

Freddy Deeb, Scotty Nguyen, Bruno Fitoussi and Marcel Luske all shown in the top 10

Alex DIDN'T make day2. He got stacked 15 minutes before end of day1

Gl Alex. Gogogogo

Die

 ;boldie; ;boldie; ;boldie; ;boldie;

Event #47: One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $111,111
    Prizepool: $17,891,148
    Entries: 166
    Remaining: 5


Antonio Esfandiari is 3/5 and going for an amzing double

Anthony Gregg, Chris Klodnicki, Bill Perkins and Richard Fullerton are the other players remaining

Congratulations to Marco Johnson Winner of the Event #48 $2,500 Limit Hold'em Six Handed ($206,796)!
 
Marco Johnson knows plenty about finishing runner-up at a WSOP event. He has done it three times now, including in this very event last year, as well as a runner-up finish in an event just last week. Well today, Johnson wouldn't be denied, as he took down Event #48 $2,500 Limit Hold'em (Six-Handed) for his first elusive bracelet, and $206,796.

The big story coming into the day was David "Bakes" Baker looking for his fifth final table at this year's WSOP. He came into the day as one of the shorter stacks, and was never able to get anything going, as he busted in 10th place. We also lost Mike Watson along the way to the unofficial final table, after Watson managed to secure at least three double ups.

Event #49: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $3,033,450
    Entries: 2,247
    Remaining: 21

Barny Boatman is in the final 21, currently shown 14/21

Good luck to him

Simon Deadman finished 56th

Event #50: 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $846,300
Entries: 372
Remaining: 22

Robert Price from Cornwall finished 33rd, Howard Smith from Bedford 39th

In the final 22 Seb Saffari is shown as 3rd, Ben Dobson as 7th alongside the likes of Puchkov, Raymer and Scotty Nguyen

good luck to both tomorrow

Event #51: Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $858,600
Entries: 954
Remaining: 122

An excellent turn out, at $1k per lady and no men at $10k this year....

Lynne Beaumont and Liv Boeree are currently shown in the top 20 of the chip counts and Shola Akindele just outside....

Event #52: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Buy-in: $25,000
Prizepool: $4,156,250
Entries: 175
Remaining: 107

Stephen Chidwick, Chris Brammer and JP Kelly appear to still be in the running for the UK in what must be one of the toughest events

Mad Marvin, who has had a quiet series, is currently 3/107

Congratulations to Lynne Beaumont who has made day 2 of the Ladies WSOP
There were 954 runners and there are 122 left. 117 get paid.
Average is about 23k and Lynne has 61k

Brag!

Congratulations to the ladies, however without seeming to be rude how much longer can this comp be valid. I'm sure its been discussed many times..but in a game which has a perceived level playing field for the sexes i.e. there is no advantage to being physically stronger etc what is the point of a single sex competition?

The top ladies in the world are more than capable of holding their own so why the need for this competition. Ever since the suffragettes woman have been fighting tooth and nail for equality yet with this they cast a self inflicted shadow. As the saying goes..you can't have it both ways.
I'm sure the outcry would be long and loud if a men only comp was scheduled...
Add this to the fact winning this bracelet would never be truly recognised by the fraternity as a true WSOP win.

Who cares. There's a seniors comp- don't see nearly as much fuss

Im assuming old Dorise's can play in this?

not so much who cares as its like a broken pencil..pointless

960 odd women disagree

Not only that but all the comments I saw were that the ladies loved the atmosphere, liked playing it, friendly at the tables etc

Live and let live I reckon

Easy to forget how intimidating, sexist and male dominated some areas of poker are. One lady player said exactly that to me at DTD last weekend.

Think this is the crux..and fair enough..

I used to hold the view that Ladies ONLY Events were wrong, though not to the extreme extent that sicilian seems to. I just felt them to be un-necessary, & a little demeaning.

I've now very much changed my mind, having recently been in the same Cardroom during two different Ladies Events in Vegas, including the woefully named "LIPS" & "High Heels Poker Tour" & then yesterday, walking the floor of the WSOP Ladies Event.

Rarely have I seen so many people having such a great day, & a great sense of occasion for them, rather as APAT Events are, &, to some degree, SPT Events. Many of them had taken a little time & trouble over their appearance, & some had travelled all the way to Vegas just to play this.

Poker NEEDS to look at itself, & try & make things better. I think these Ladies Events can only be good for poker, overall, & with hindsight, it was churlish of me & others to suggest otherwise, when so many Ladies really enjoy them.

It was a perfect joy to see so many people, so enjoying themselves. We should celebrate that.  

Meanwhile, I am indebted to Chili, who, overnight, sent me the name of a player in the WSOP, being this man.

Kendall Fukumoto

I'm still not quite sure that guy is real......I may have been set up there.

Not sure whether my view is extreme boss..i'm actually on the side of the ladies as i would have thought it was the kind of belittling attitude they so hate, there you go ladies have your own event with no nasty men in it.. just don't see much point it being a bracelet event.. you know everyone rolls their eyes when Tilly tells you she won a bracelet..but hey if the ladies are having fun and the atmos is good i suppose its all cool...

Given the gender ratio in poker, I would opine to the view that almost 1,000 entries in yesterday's WSOP Ladies Event suggests otherwise.

Eventually found my level on day 8, and can confirm it is 1/3 at the Wynn.  Somebody bump this for me next year.  Cheers

like so many..men and women alike they can put their principles aside when it suits...

Go Barney and seb both at final tables England well overdue a braclet this series

Sebastian Saffari            
Philip Sternheimer   

both listed as english and 1st and 2nd with 5 left in the 2500 10 game mix

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1836/66/beb76855660.jpg)

Barney has doubled up KK > TT aipf and is now 2/7

Barney knocks two players out. 2/5 now

what event is this?

how is this not streamed?

Abs chunks up top glglgl

1/3 at the dinner break

Barny Boatman           4,925,000
Brian O'Donoghue   3,130,000   
Van Tran                   2,045,000   

 ;goodluck;

$239k locked up. Half a mirrion to the winner.

come on barny TID for the old timers

Rail going ballist!

Barney Army!

Gutted I'm missing this! Am trying to convince our group to rail!

Go on the Brit!

How many in the rail?

Notable names?

On my right is

Channing, Vicky Coren, Mitch, Kev Allen, Kevin Williams, Ross Boatman, Jamie burland, romanello, riverman.

On my left is some god awful American rail with really poor banter! They brought up princess di as a last resort, they couldn't take it anymore!

Shit ground, no fans
Shit ground, no fans...

Keep the banter reports coming, please.

"Shall we sing a song for you? Shall we sing a song for you"

Check when you're folding
You only check when you're folding

Reading the updates, his opponent HU folds his button way too much :)

C'mn Barny!

Right. Am.coming over.

Alex, STALL!!!

Boooom. Well done Barney, one for the good guys.

 ;first; ;first;

No stream ?

Timing Steve, well done sir, No 1 brought home, flood gates open now.

Someone convert these!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnyYZne8xkI


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efk-3sZrC-0

Genius. Literally just turned up at Rio and everyone's leaving.

Supreme performance by Barney by the sound it, tho.

Thank goodness there's a British bracelet winner.

Some images from facebook and twitter of Barny's win

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BN_mUG0CEAMj00w.jpg:large)

stocking up for the rail

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It was a storybook ending for UK-based writer Barny Boatman in Event 49, a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournament, early Sunday morning at the 44th Annual World Series of Poker.

Boatman has been coming to the WSOP for years, recording his first cash in 2000 and recording numerous cashes since -- 25 to be exact. Boatman had success, sure, but his results were not indicative of the years he had put in on the WSOP felt.

Sunday morning, though, his hard work paid off as he bested Brian O'Donoghue to win his first gold bracelet and $546,080. The victory came in his fourth final table appearance at the WSOP and moved him just shy of the $1 million mark in career earnings.

O'Donoghue, a two-time WSOP Circuit champion, was sent home with a $338,745 consolation prize.

This $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event drew 2,247 players, generating a prize pool of $3,033,450. The top 243 finishers in the large field each collected a payday of $2,730. Some of the notables who earned a payday were hockey player Philip Kessel (230th), Faraz Jaka (127th), two-time bracelet winner Michael Gathy (60th), Erica Schoenberg (38th), Jamie Kerstetter (32nd), and Kevin MacPhee (21st).

The then-three-time WSOP final tablist Boatman headlined the final table line-up, which included no prior gold bracelet winners. While none of the final nine had a bracelet, there were two players with Circuit Ring victories on their poker resume, Aditya Prasetyo and two-time Circuit winner O’Donoghue.

Here are the final table results from the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event 49:

1st: Barny Boatman - $546,080
2nd: Brian O'Donoghue - $338,745
3rd: Van Tran - $239,339
4th: Tara Kripps - $172,087
5th: Aditya Prasetyo - $125,372
6th: Robin Ylitalo - $92,550
7th: Paul Dasilva - $69,192
8th: Noah Sandler - $52,387
9th: Roger Lussier - $40,162

Brandon Wong was so close to a bracelet this past April at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific he could taste it. Wong outlasted a stacked field in a $2,200 Mixed event and found himself at the final table with the current WSOP Player of the Year points leader Daniel Negreanu and nine-time gold bracelet champion Phil Ivey.

Negreanu hit the rail, but Wong couldn't best Ivey, who sent him home in second place, just shy of his first gold bracelet.

Wong headed back to the states and came to the 44th Annual World Series of Poker more determined than ever. He got himself in position again, first working his way through the start-studded field of Event 50, a $2,500 10-Game Mix Six-Handed tournament, then outlasting player after player at the final table until he was heads-up with England's Sebastian Saffari.

Saffari didn't get the best of him, and Wong won the prestigious event, earning $220,061 and finally claiming the elusive gold bracelet. He is a 38-year-old poker professional from Fresno, Calif.

The 10-Game Mix Six-Handed tournament (Event 50) drew 372 entrants generating a prize pool of $846,300. Each of the top 42 in-the-money finishers received a pay day of at least $4,189. Gold bracelet winners Scott Fischman (38th), Freddy Deeb (31st), Gavin Smith (28th), Scotty Nguyen (21st), Konstantin Puchkob (18th), Robert Williamson III (17th) and Greg Raymer (11th) were among those to finish in the money.

Others to cash, but fall short of the final table include Dan O'Brien (36th), Marcel Luske (30th) and Shawn Buchanan (25th). The defending champion, Vanessa Selbst, was unable to repeat as victor, finishing short of the money.

The tournament was decided over a 10-game mix of No-Limit Hold'em, Razz, Limit Hold'em, Badugi, Stud, No-Limit 2-7 Draw, Omaha 8, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw and Stud 8.

The lack of bracelet winners at the final table wasn't telling of the talent to comprise the late stages of play. Of the last six players, four boasted WSOP earnings of more than $300,000. Most notably, the $644,794 of Scott Abrams and the $493,361 of Wong. Christopher George became the 29th player to make multiple final table appearances at the 2013 WSOP, finishing fourth.

Here's a look at the final table results from the six-handed event:

1st: Brandon Wong - $220,061
2nd: Sebastian Saffari - $135,932
3rd: Philip Sternheimer - $87,397
4th: Christian George - $57,954
5th: Scott Abrams - $39,564
6th: Loren Klein - $27,792

Well done to Londoner Seb Saffari for his result here.....

When Greg Merson made his incredible run to a Main Event victory last year, Anthony Gregg was the best friend he could’ve asked for. The Maryland-based poker pro was at every rail, traveled with his friend to Europe, and helped keep Merson focused on poker, friendship, family, and the important things in life. He was a supportive friend while Merson had his moment in the spotlight.

Today, it is Anthony Gregg’s turn to shine though. The 26-year-old from Columbia, Maryland trumped one of the toughest fields of the year to win the $111,111 One Drop High Roller event, his first bracelet, and a massive payday of $4,830,619. The mild-mannered pro certainly kept his cool during this time of high stress for most any other player. In fact, he was so calm, cool, and collected during the late stages of play, he even registered the $25,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event and multi-tabled.

He will have plenty of time to play the $25,000 event’s Day 2 today, as he plowed through the final four players in the span of just 90-minutes en route to the marquee victory. He defeated fellow East Coast poker pro Chris Klodnicki heads-up for the bracelet shortly before 2:30pm PT. When asked if he had anything to say about the win, he simply shrugged, suggesting, “What is there to say?”

In the case of Anthony Gregg, his actions today certainly speak louder than any words could.

The final four of this $111,111 One Drop High Roller Event rivaled the star power of any basketball tournament. From a field of 166 top pros, businessmen, poker enthusiasts, and philanthropists, the four players who returned for the fourth and final day of play were all familiar faces to poker fans.

Perhaps the most familiar face of all was that of Antonio Esfandiari, who was looking to make it back-to-back One Drop bracelet victories after winning a record $18 million in last year’s Big One for One Drop Event. As Esfandiari joked on Twitter the night before, he was hoping to make it “One more time”, but it was not to be. He exited on just the fifth hand of the day when Klodnicki spiked a dramatic ace on the river to best Esfandiari’s pocket pair and send him to the rail in fourth place.

It took just four more hands to see another reversal of fortune at the final table, as Anthony Gregg doubled through the start of day chip leader Bill Perkins, leaving Perkins short on chips. The lone amateur in the line-up got it all-in just four hands later, with Gregg’s playing card: Asplaying card: Qs besting Perkins’ playing card: Acplaying card: 5d to eliminate him in third place. The venture capitalist and film investor collected $1,965,163 for his efforts.

That left the two young East Coast poker pros heads-up for the bracelet and the $4.8 million payday. It is a career-high payday for both players. The top five finishers in this event also join Benny Chen on the list of players with seven-figure WSOP paydays this year.

Klodnicki finished as runner-up in this event at his second final table of the summer. The finish puts him in the top five of the WSOP Player of the Year race. It also marks the second time the Philadelphia-area poker pro has been heads-up in a WSOP bracelet event. He finished second to Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi in last year’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship.

Here are the final table results from the $111,111 One Drop High Rollers Event:

1st: Anthony Gregg - $4,830,619
2nd: Chris Klodnicki - $2,985,495
3rd: William Perkins - $1,965,163
4th: Antonio Esfandiari - $1,433,438
5th: Richard Fullerton - $1,066,491
6th: Martin Jacobson - $807,427
7th: Brandon Steven - $621,180
8th: Nick Schulman - $485,029

Final of the ladies event

Good luck to Eleanor Gudger from London, 3/9

1 [United States] Shana Matthews 497,000       

2 Chris Priday 455,000       

3 [United Kingdom] Eleanor Gudger 398,000       

4 [United States] Connie Bruce 360,000       

5 [Canada] Kristen Bicknell 316,000       

6 [United States] Amanda Baker 277,000       

7 [Australia] Leanne Haas 272,000       

8 [France] Julie Monsacre 188,000       

9 [Canada] Cindy Kerslake 100,000 


Well done to Lynne Beaumont who finished 11th, Claire Renaut who finished 12th and Liv Boeree in 54th the other UK Cashers 

Event #52: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

Buy-in: $25,000
Prizepool: $4,156,250
Entries: 175
Remaining: 19

Stephen Chidwick is currently chip leader for the UK with 19 left and 1.5m, 300k ahead of 2nd. Good luck to him

Galfond, Bakes, Mad Marvin, Quoss and Kurganov arein the remaining 19

Next highest UK finisher was JP Kelly in 45th

Event #53: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $3,801,600
    Entries: 2,816
    Remaining: 378

David Vamplew currently shown 4/378

Chris Moorman, John Eames, Kevin Williams and Rupert Elder are amongst those still listed on the counts as in

Think Rupert bust. Posted a very unhappy tweet :/

guatemala is a pretty over represented country according to wsop locations  ;carlocitrone;

Wow.

Arise Sir Barney!

So so pleased for him, & doubtless the rest of the THM crew had a little bit of his action.

Excellent news.

Simply amazing stuff from Barny - restores your faith in poker! Just hope he had a good saver with Ross as I adore them both.

So pleased Barney was railing on the net after a night out nice for one of the good guys to win

What an amazing night! Well done to Barney, he killed it!

Anybody who was there last night will remember the " you can't even play onlineeee" chant. So funny! Who was he?

Please tell me the poms on the rail went fucking nuts throughout?

Well done Barney! Seems like a great guy.

If there are any more great guys or even ok guys out there that have any $ left then it's getting to the point where I could do with buying some from people. Hopefully not at 2% either! Gl all and get some more British bracelets.

Kristen Bicknell Wins Event #51 and her First WSOP Bracelet ($173,922)

Kristen Bicknell has just bested a field of 954 players, to take down Event #51: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship, pocketing $173,922 and a white gold bracelet for her efforts. In only 120-hands, and just over five hours of play, Bicknell made her first WSOP cash a memorable one, also awarding Canada with their 10th bracelet of the series.

Place   Name    Prize Money
1   Kristen Bicknell   $173,922
2   Leanne Haas   $107,616
3   Julie Monsacre   $67,331
4   Shana Matthews   $48,871
5   Connie Bruce   $36,078
6   Eleanor Gudger   $27,045 -UK
7   Amanda Baker   $20,572
8   Chris Priday   $15,858
9   Cindy Kerslake   $12,389

173k not much return for a 10k is it ;)

And poor Cindy, FTs and only gets 12k :D

I think it's should be $1000 IS IT

whoooooooooooosh.

Event #52: No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed

    Buy-in: $25,000
    Prizepool: $4,156,250
    Entries: 175

Steve Sung overcame a big HU Deficit to beat Phil Galfond to the bracelet

Stephen Chidwick from the UK was 4th for over $350,000

Amongst the 18 cashers were Mad Marvin, Bakes, Benyamine, Quoss and SHannon Storr

Event #53: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $3,801,600
    Entries: 2,816
    Remaining: 25

UK Cashers

88 Neil McFadyean
102 Lee Taylor
115 Nick Hicks
123 Talal Shakerchi
148 Jack Ellwood
160 Darren Judges
196 Chris Moorman
201 Sunny Chattha
251 Paul Foltyn
259 John Eames
262 James Rann
274 Sebastian Gohr
277 Ben Dillion
282 Luke Marsh

David Vamplew is currently 9/25 and still in contention

Event #54: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $2,594,700
    Entries: 2,883
    Remaining: 315

Sam Grafton is currently shown 14/315 and is the top Brit in the counts


fter 11 full levels of exciting No-Limit action, an enormous field of 2,883 runners has been whittled down to just 239, with yet another tournament reaching the payout phase during the first day of play. Along the way, a number of notables and professional players came and went, while a few unique names surged to the top of the chip counts.

The day saw several professionals try to navigate the minefield known as Day 1 of these low buy-in events, with Olivier Busquet, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Victor Ramdin, Tony Dunst, Matt Stout, Randy Lew, and Bryan Micon just a few of the pros to go busto before the money bubble burst.

Barry Hunter emerged as the overwhelming chip leader by the time bags were tagged, after amassing a stack of 211,000 to end the night. Hunter will be joined by the regally named Marcus Aurelius (150,800), and Warwick Mirzikinian (111,700) as the only players to top the 100k mark, while last year's Main Event runner-up Jesse James Sylvia (83,000) is threatening with a late charge at the end of the night.

Event #55: The Poker Players Championship


    Buy-in: $50,000
    Prizepool: $5,760,000
    Entries: 120
    Remaining: 116

Early days in one of the biggies.

Duhamel leads Mercier as they come to the close of the first day

Richard Ashby is shown in 27th

He and Talal Shakerchi in 59th appear to be the only Brits in the field

Luke Swartz is listed too but surprised no Sam Trickett in there.

It is mixed games, so guess it is safe to assume he isn't that great at most of them. 

This was his SIXTH cash of this Series, what a great run that is, & well done him. 3 of them in NLH, 2 in Omaha 8 or Better, 1 in Razz.

The only other stat which surprises as much is the 10 Bracelets for Canada.

Canadians + American pros relocated to Canada ?

Ahh yes, I suppose that could be the case. I had assumed "Canada" was Nationality (as reported?) rather than location or residence.

Was going to say that about Stephen Chidwick.  He seems to just go deep in a couple of events every year and even more so this year.

6 cashes so far this year, 5 last year, 4 in 2011 & 3 in his first year here, 2010.

Must be quite a talent.

Does anyone here know much about him?

Looked him up earlier

was aware he was stevie444 online and here is an interview with him

http://www.pokerlistings.com/stephen-chidwick-i-know-i-ll-win-a-wsop-bracelet-57389


Much like Matthew Ashton in the mixed games, seems to fly under the radar, gets it quietly, very professional, low profile etc etc

Used to be very highly ranked on pocket 5s, think he plays high up at cash too.  Is a bit of an online legend.

Very interesting interview, the lad seems to have his feet on the floor.

Apart from winning 101 (ONE HUNDRED AND ONE) WSOP Main Event Seats one year (WHAT, can that be true, that is a MILLION dollars worth!?) I really liked this - every word of it.....


I really just want to have a well-rounded life. I’d like to branch out away from poker.
 
There are a few business ideas that I’m developing and I want to make sure I’ve got a healthy social life and that I spend a lot of time with friends and family.
 
Mainly I just want to be happy you know? And when I was obsessed with poker nothing else really mattered to me, and it wasn’t very conducive to living a happy lifestyle.
 
When everything’s focused 100% on poker it’s very stressful, and it’s just crushing when you lose. And as a poker player you’re going to lose a lot of the time

stevie is a hs mtt/hs cash and mix player. Plays very well at all the games and from what I know doesn't spend much time in the UK so you won't see him around the UK tour.


Matthew Ashton is MUSTAFABET online or something similar who you will see in nosebleed games online

Vamplew 3 handed and chip leader in 1500

I've heard the rail are giving it a full 98%

No love for Vamplew among the Brits? Cliffs?

Bloke shoves 20bb into Vamplew who has AA

Q9 vs AA

9T9 was nice for him

Don't know if the lack of Vamplew love is about the 2% or if he just generally keeps himself to himself, but if it is the money, then anything he has made can not be worth the lack of rail at this point

maybe it's just running joke above expectation over a small sample then being douschey enough to charge vig. either way would be great to get a massive anti rail going.


gowan the Q9

Event #53: No-Limit Hold'em

    Buy-in: $1,500
    Prizepool: $3,801,600
    Entries: 2,816

Vamplew Leads Final 3
 

David Vamplew

The expected final day of Event #53: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end!

What was expected to finish at some point on this day three, the final table has seen players swap chips back-and-forth on numerous occasions even after a quick start saw several early bustouts. However after 174 final table hands and ten levels of play, the dust has settled with just three players remaining.

Seat   Player   Chip Count
2   David Vamplew   5,345,000
5   Arttu Raekorpi   2,055,000
9   Brett Shaffer   5,285,000

Scottish player David Vamplew is the chip leader, but if it wasn't for having his aces cracked just 15 hands earlier, Event #53 may already have a champion, or at least still be playing the extra allowed level. The victor of the aces cracked hand is Brett Shaffer who was only slightly pipped by Vamplew as the chip leader. Rounding out the rear is Finish player Arttu Raekorpi who also had a chance to take this final table to heads-up play if it wasn't for a three-out by Vamplew.

Play is set to re-commence at 1 p.m. local Las Vegas time with the three remaining players playing down until the Event #53 Champion is crowned and their pocket is $665,397 heavier.


Good luck to David tomorrow, going for a second British bracelet

Event #54: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $1,000
    Prizepool: $2,594,700
    Entries: 2,883
    Remaining: 14

Tom Hall from Shrewsbury is currently 4/14 in this event. Good luck to Tom (I know two poker playing Tom Hall's I'd be guessing to say which it was!)

Louis Salter finished 26th, Sam Grafton 43rd

Event #55: The Poker Players Championship

    Buy-in: $50,000
    Prizepool: $6,336,000
    Entries: 132
    Remaining: 78

David Benyamine leads in this ultra slow structure mixed game monster.

The amazingly consistent Matthew Ashton from Liverpool is currently 3rd in chips and going for his 453rd final table of the series in Mixed games

Richard Ashby is reported 14th in chips, giving the possibility of a dual UK sweat in the latter stages

Amongst the top ten Jonathan Duhamel, Brian Rast and Shaun Deeb's presence points to what a tough event this is

All the hate seems pretty harsh.

VBOL Vamplew

Event #56: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $3,949,400
    Entries: 1,736
    Remaining: 261

Top Brit is shown as Steve Watts in 36th ahead of Jamie Burland, Rupert Romanello, Rupert Elder

Play is just finishing for the night, so will havea more ccurate view wehn tomorrow's seat draw goes up

george and vamplew bumming in a tree.......

No vig tho

Funking against someone for blowing a raspberry at Lady Variance is daft. Goodness knows we'd all like to be that guy.

If there's something else, that might be a different matter. Otherwise, I hope he tears it up

no way, the twitter bants has been off the charts today.

Right. Have found what everyone's on about and have expressed my views about charging vig previously so won't repeat.

Still won't hope he loses.

Good luck Davig Vamplew.

wait till you play more and brick more big equity spots. then those who run hot over a small sample of them become utterly fair game.

The last 12 months have seen me earn enough bricks to build a small town, but the fact that someone else has won the flips I've lost or whatever isn't their fault.

If the guy is a total aunt, fine, but wanting a guy to lose because they are lucky when it really matters isn't in my nature.

I'm sure Tal's has played enough to have an understanding of variance :) Small sample size or not, he's clearly got talent. The vig thing is poor form though, lack of appreciation/community spirit for fellow pros imo

edit: Vamplew has talent. Sorry Tal ;)

Why can't we both have talent?

:(

just of different sorts. :p


and tbf anyway it's a pros job to root against fellow pros so ridic hard. GOWAN THE RECS.

Interesting reading the staking threads earlier, a few of the regulars over in Vegas playing an awful lot of poker but no real deep runs yet

It's refreshing to see some of the honesty from those who are spending $20-30K on buy ins yet still prepared to post when they don't cash, poker reporting only ever seems to be xxx won this and xxx won that we never read xxx lost xxx in 6 weeks etc

Well done lads, hope you hit a big one before you come back.

The seat draw for day 2 of the $2500 is up at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dFhUaXY3UDIweklsMlUzVHJqRzNRZ1E#gid=0

Jack Ellwood 101,000

Paul Vas Nunes 57,000

Jamie Burland 22,000

Rhys Jones 71,000

Sunny Chattha 32,000

Steve Watts 58,000

the UK players going forward, good luck all

Hope he wins and starts charging 3.  Go Vamplew

Abs rofl at all the banter on twitter, especially when flushy tries to come in and take the piss but gets pwned

David Vamplew ‏@davidv1213
@FoieGrasAddict not paying my debts and trying to freeroll action buying #realflushytweets

Defo harsh if all the hate is cos of the vig thing, I'm pretty sure there's more to it though.

Someone do a photoshop of flushy as voldemort

Don't get the hate towards Vamplew or the conclusion that he must be rididc lucky. He's defo one of the very best I've ever played against, extremely tough to beat, makes very few mistakes. Maybe it's too much of a reality check to admit the guy's really good and that's why he has success? Gl to him, hope he wins.

FWIW I don't agree with charging vig but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, just wouldn't buy off him or anyone charging vig, not gonna change my life or his I wouldn't think

100% agree with all that.
 
Jeez, the amount of hate that emenates from some people astonishes, they must dread getting out of bed in the morning. Don't like David's vig, don't buy.
 
I disagreed with David's Vig policy, but it has all got a bit out of perspective if haters are anti-railing him for it.

I hope David gets the lot today.

" Where is The Love  ? "

Feels a lot like bullying to me. Not everyone has masses of mates out there or in general, does that make them bad people? Some people I like are getting a bit involved in some pack mentality stuff, maybe they think it's innocent fun, but it's not coming over that way.

Add to that, it's not like the guy just busted, he's trying to focus, going into three handed play with a chip lead. Hope his head is clear and he wins.

Me and Karl were at the Rio a few years ago and went past the final table area to see Steve Jelinek short handed for a bracelet. Nick Gibson was his only railer. The guy he ended up hu with had about 15 rowdy loud Americans cheering him on. Me and Karl stayed and cheered Steve on and home to a bracelet, even giving our opinion and advice when a deal was mooted (the other guy said no and busted next hand lol). Neither of us are close pals with Steve, but we wanted a Brit to do well and felt duty bound to cheer him on and were thrilled for him. If I was in Vegas I'd be going to cheer Vamplew on today I know that much.

Good luck David

Yeh echo what jeff has said. Seems pretty unreasonable he has no rail. Don't think it'll bother him too much. Seems like a GIQ guy anyway

Good Post Jeff

I think its fair to say the majority of poker players would get behind fellow Brits in Vegas/abroad regardless of how well they know them .

Very best of Luck to David

Strikes me that David treats poker like business, therefore it irritates people he doesn't roflspunk his dough on degening, hookers and blow like they do! Kid used to work in Aldi and doesn't wanna end back there, think anti railing is pretty low, especially when proven grimmers probs get less stick.

On the flip side, as he doesn't live his poker life like a 'hero' he doesn't warrant a hero type rail!

I'm just completely shocked that 2 days after Barny's rail, something like this could even happen, really shown the best and worst of the UK community in space of the matter of days.

Vamps is one of the hardest working players I know, doubt he's owed anyone a penny for longer than a week and doubt he's negatively affected any of these people's lives before, yet he's being treated like the biggest POS ever.

At least his rail is full of people that unanimously are supporting him because they want to see him do well, for most of the people speaking ill of him, their rail would probably consist more of people waiting in line to get paid.

The world of the Internet has just developed a load of people that say stuff online that they would never dare to say to them in real life face to face. I'm sure most of us have crossed the line at some point when things get heated or are pissed etc but I don't think that is a bad rule to try and live by on the whole.

I think there is a mix of things going on here (I don't know David in the slightest so feel happy to throw this out there)

David, from what I could tell on the stream, barely had a rail at all. Whether he cares or not, I don't know, but I can safely say that those brits that have finalled in the last few years have definitely benefitted from such rails, and it must be an incredible roller coaster to be on - far better than the silence he is sat in

Onto the Vig issue - if players genuinely haven't turned out to support him because of this, then its safe to say its the worst money he will have ever earned (the vig charged I mean). He is missing out on a life experience possibly never to be repeated.  It may be that he does keep himself to himself, or is even disliked (I honestly don't know).

As for the Vig stuff on twitter, it is all harmless fun/banter. Now it may also be that it has cost him some friends/buddies/pals in poker too and that you can easy say that its bullying or gone too far. It don't think that's the case. People are just having a laugh, maybe with a slight edge to it, but its still just humour. Nothing malicious has been said, just trying to get the word "vig" into a silly sentence. Its not bullying.

But like the other thread said, in poker its important to have friends to help you through the tough times, of which there will be some. Maybe this is a little nod to David as to the feeling his Vig charging has generated. He of course might not care less, he might think "business is business", but strikes me that he has lost on this transaction, and what he is losing has no monetary value, but its much much more than he could ever buy, that's for sure

Really think he doesn't care about the rail. 665k will make him feel better if he does.

which is very sad indeed if that's the case

Why is it sad Guy? Cos he hasn't got a bunch of people
He doesn't know using the rail as an excuse for a piss up?