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45th Annual World Series of Poker Schedule Announced with 65 Events on Tap

 
Headlines

Rio® All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to Host Poker’s Signature Event

For 10th Consecutive Year from May 27 - July 14, 2014

In Celebration, Winner of WSOP Main Event Gets $10 Million

First Saturday Marks Return of the “Millionaire Maker”

$1,500 Event (May 31) Guaranteed to Award $1 Million First Place Prize

Late Afternoon Events Moved to 4:00 PM Starts with 10 Levels of Play on Day 1;

Registration for Majority of Bracelet Events to Stay Open until Start of Level 7;

Mixed Games Schedule on the Rise with $1500/$10,000 Flights

 

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 11, 2014) – The 45th annual World Series of Poker® (WSOP®) – a set of poker tournaments open to anyone 21 years of age or older – officially puts cards in the air the day after Memorial Day, Tuesday, May 27, 2014, with an expected $200 million up for grabs, and play ramping up immediately with several new and exciting events early in the schedule.

 

But it may be what comes at the end of this year’s series that will steal the headlines, as poker’s world championship – aka the WSOP Main Event – will see the winner walk away with $10,000,000 and of course the diamond-encrusted bracelet.  As was the case with the Millionaire Maker last year, the payout structure will adjust accordingly to accommodate the new Main Event wrinkle.

 

To kick off the 2014 WSOP, a new $25,000 buy-in Mixed Max No-Limit Hold’em tournament (Event #2) offers the first open bracelet of the year on opening day, May 27 at 4 PM.   This high-roller four-day event plays nine-handed on the first day, six-handed on Day 2, four-handed on Day 3 and Heads-Up matches on the fourth and final day to ultimately crown poker’s best all-around No-Limit Hold’em player.  This is the first of 16 different high roller events on the schedule, with 13-$10,000 buy-ins, the above $25K, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, and of course the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop.

 

On Wednesday, May 28 at 12 noon, a new $1,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #3) makes its debut on the WSOP schedule -- marking the first time a discipline beyond No-Limit Hold’em has been offered at the $1,000 price point.  It is one of 37 different bracelet events priced at $1500 or less.  The first $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event is Event #4 on Thursday, May 29 at 12 noon and the opening weekend event on Saturday, May 31 at 11 AM marks the return of the “Millionaire Maker”, the record-setting No-Limit Hold’em event that attracted 6,343 entrants and a prize pool of $8.5 million in 2013.  This year’s winner will walk away with a minimum $1,000,000 – or 666 times the $1,500 buy-in.  Officially, Event #8, the “Millionaire Maker” features two starting flights, Flight A at 11:00 AM and Flight B at 5:00 PM, with a single re-entry allowed for those who bust Flight A and wish to enter Flight B.

 

Additionally, the 2014 WSOP will see the introduction of a two-tiered track for traditional mixed games, rarely spread at other tournaments around the world.  In total, ten poker variants beyond No-Limit Hold’em will see both $1500 and $10,000 “Championship” bracelet events contested in 2014.

 

The full 2014 WSOP schedule can be found and downloaded HERE.

 

The annual poker extravaganza, which dates back to 1970, is televised exclusively on ESPN from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.  The tournament series consists of a comprehensive slate of the game’s most popular poker variations running this year from May 27 through July 14.

 

A total of 65 coveted WSOP gold bracelets will be up for grabs – which is three more than last year.  With the new bi-annual format for International WSOP events taking affect this October, the total bracelets contested in 2014 remains flat year-over-year.

 

To help commemorate the tenth annual WSOP at the Rio, the winner of this year’s WSOP Main Event will walk away with a $10,000,000 first place prize. In fact, big money will be awarded throughout the 2014 WSOP, with a $1 million first place prize offered for Event #8 the $1500 buy-in Millionaire Maker, the $10 million for the Main Event (Event #65) winner and the possibility of $20 million being awarded to the winner of the Big One for ONE DROP (Event #57).*

 

“For ten years we have tried to raise the bar on tournament poker,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “There is real optimism 2014 can be our biggest year yet with an anticipated $200 million in prize money to be paid out this summer.  With new satellites and daily tournaments exclusively on WSOP.com and a plethora of side events, there is more reason than ever to make the trip to poker mecca.”

 

In 2013, the WSOP gold bracelet tournaments set an all-time record for attendance, with more than 79,000 entries and over $197 million in prize money.  An incredible 44 events had prize pools of at least $1 million, with 12 events reaching more than $2 million, seven events reaching $3 million, two events   reaching $4 million, plus $6 million, $8 million, $17 million and $59 million prize pools.

 

In terms of the physical layout, 2014 will look very similar to recent years.  The Pavilion, Brasilia and Amazon ballrooms will be transformed into poker’s version of Woodstock.  There are expected to be around 475 poker tables spread throughout the Rio Convention Center’s three largest areas, allowing for non-stop tournament, satellite, Daily Deepstack and cash game action.

 

Two notable changes have been made, one to starting times, the other to late registration.  The late afternoon gold bracelet events will now begin play at 4:00 p.m., and play 10, one-hour levels, with 15-minute breaks after every two levels.  Players will be able to register for these events until the start of Level 7 (approximately 10:45 p.m.) and play will end for the day at 3:00 a.m.  All gold bracelet events will now close registration before the start of Level 7 (with the exception of shootouts, heads up and Main Event).  12 Noon events will close registration at approximately 8:10 p.m. in most cases.

 

“We have tweaked our schedule and feel very good about the opportunities it presents poker players of all levels,” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel, who will oversee the tournament for the ninth straight year.  “Now in its tenth consecutive year at the Rio, we believe operationally we have optimized the experience to provide players maximum choice and comfort and can’t wait to open the doors May 27.”

 

All Caesars Entertainment properties in Las Vegas offer reduced hotel room rates for entrants of WSOP bracelet events if they book early using the special advanced booking codes.  The Rio is now offering its weekday (Sunday-Thursday) rates to WSOP players beginning at just $65.  On the Las Vegas Strip there are plenty of options as well.  Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Paris Las Vegas, Flamingo Las Vegas, Harrah’s Las Vegas, Bally’s Las Vegas and The Quad provide WSOP player rates as low as $40-$110 a night.  To view a complete list of rates across all Caesars Entertainment properties, please visit our reservations page HERE.  (Note: Rates are based on availability and are subject to blackout dates).

 

The 45th annual WSOP concludes with the grandest spectacle in all of gaming – the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship (aka “The Main Event”) (Event #65), where the winner walks away with $10,000,000.  The quest begins Saturday, July 5 and will reach its final table (nine players) on Monday, July 14, at which time play will be halted until November.

 

The WSOP Main Event features three starting flights.  Participants begin their journey to fame and fortune on Saturday, July 5 (Flight A), Sunday, July 6 (Flight B) or Monday, July 7 (Flight C) at 12 noon.   Day 2 of the structure is Tuesday, July 8 for all players who played on Days 1A (Saturday) or 1B (Sunday).  Day 1C (Monday) players who survive with chips play their Day 2 on Wednesday, July 9.  All fields combine for Day 3 on Thursday, July 10.  In totality, those playing Day 1A can reach the final table in, at most, 10 calendar days.  Players choosing to start on Day 1C can reach the final table in just eight days.  The event plays five full two-hour levels each day.  The world’s best tournament structure remains exactly the same, with 30,000 in starting chips, two-hour levels and Level 1 starting at 50-100 blinds with no ante.

 

As is now customary with the Main Event, the delayed final table, aka “The November Nine” returns and is expected to air live on ESPN and ESPN2 during a two-night extravaganza on November 10 & 11, 2014.

 

July 4th will be a special Main Event “satellite day” at the Rio featuring a comprehensive slate of satellites, mega satellites and single-table satellites with entry fees as low as $125.  (Satellites are tournaments which award tournament chips that can be used to enter larger buy-in tournaments).

Pre-registration for the 2014 WSOP is now available online through http://www.wsop.com/registration and can be done in person at the Rio main casino cage beginning March 1, 2014.

 

The 2014 WSOP marks the 45th running of the game’s most prestigious annual tournament.   In 2013, the WSOP generated 79,471 entries, the most ever, from 107 different nations.  Players competed for more than $197 million in prize money – the second-most ever – as a total of 62 championship gold bracelets, globally recognized as the game’s top prize, were awarded.

 

To view the entire schedule, visit WSOP.com/2014, where you will be able to download event structures, pre-registration form

Other notable highlights of the 2014 schedule:

 

    Superb Structures & Starting Chips – Gold bracelet events in 2014 feature triple the buy-in in tournament chips and deep structures, providing plenty of play. (Event #51 has ten times chips)

 

    ONE DROP Charity – After terrific success with charitable giving in 2012 & 2013, with more than $11 million donated to charitable causes via the WSOP, all events will continue to offer an opportunity to donate.  The “1% for ONE DROP” returns, where players cashing in any event, may donate 1% of their winnings to ONE DROP.  In addition, Events #57 & #62 will each have specific charitable components to help raise funds for WSOP charitable partner, the ONE DROP organization (www.ONEDROP.org)

 

    The Seniors-Only No-Limit Hold’em Championship – On Friday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m., Event #17 featuring a $1,000 buy-in for all poker enthusiasts 50 years of age or older.  In 2013, this event set another record when 4,407 players entered – the most ever for a one flight event -- and Ken Lind walked away with $634,890 for his $1,000 investment. 

 

    Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em – On Thursday, June 26 at 12 noon, the $1500 No-Limit Hold’em event (Event #51) features players beginning play with 15,000 in tournament chips, as opposed to the original 4,500.  This amounts to ten times the buy-in amount, another new event wrinkle to help commemorate the 10th annual WSOP at the Rio.  The event structure remains exactly the same in terms of blinds and levels, with a fourth day added to complete the event.

 

    The Ladies Only No-Limit Hold’em Championship – On Friday, June 27 at 12 p.m., featuring a $10,000 buy-in for the Ladies Championship (Event #53).  Ladies enjoy a special discounted buy-in of $1,000.  This continues to be the largest ladies poker tournament annually.

 

    Daily Deepstack No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments – The Rio will host three different daily No-Limit Hold’em tournaments from May 27 to July 14.  The first one, at 3 p.m. daily, is a $235 buy-in that averaged more than 1,100 entries last year.  At 6 p.m., players can play the daily $185 buy-in tournament and at 10 p.m., a daily $135 tournament will be offered. These are one-day structured tournaments, and non-bracelet events.  These events will take place in the Pavilion Ballroom.

 

    Satellites Every Day! – A complete array of satellites, from single-table to mega, will be offered from May 28 - July 7.  Mega satellites with buy-ins at $330 for the daily 5 p.m. and $550 buy-in for the daily 8 p.m. start.  And $75 Turbo-Mega-Satellites begin at 9 a.m. daily.

 

Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em – On Thursday, June 26 at 12 noon, the $1500 No-Limit Hold’em event (Event #51) features players beginning play with 15,000 in tournament chips, as opposed to the original 4,500.  This amounts to ten times the buy-in amount, another new event wrinkle to help commemorate the 10th annual WSOP at the Rio.  The event structure remains exactly the same in terms of blinds and levels, with a fourth day added to complete the event.

Blimey.

One year I will try and win a satellite to go to Vegas and play a wsop event - you gotta have those dreams

Interesting. The WSOP structures are what make the tournaments suck somewhat. If you're ever lucky to get to the last 2% of the field then the structure becomes fairly normal compared to other tournaments.

Nothing I hate more than the 75-150 and 100-200 levels with 3000/4500 chips and no antes.

Assume that they'll be introducing a new chip set just for that event?

But yeah looks good.  Can't wait.

:D  The rest of the series would be unplayable if they don't!

The average stack going down every break :D

I really like the look of this event. Might even be tempted to add some overlay by playing it.

Can confirm this is a picture of the new chips in play.

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Barry Carter discusses the $10m first prize, and gets Rob Yong's opinion on this GTE

""However, the payout needs to be unaffected for it to be a genuine guarantee and should the top prize fall short, the deficit should be added by the operators. I think for credibility purposes this would be a good decision all round."

see the full article at.....


http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/Everyone-but-the-champion-suffers-from-the-WSOP-$10-million-Main-Event-guarantee_81257/

Such an unnecessary guarantee.

However, on the whole it looks to be a really good schedule. Hope to go for the last two weeks and flick in the $1500 deepstack, looking forward to it already.

it'll just skew the payouts and then with no deals it could be ridic.


tis just PR


edit working linky

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/Everyone-but-the-champion-suffers-from-the-WSOP-$10-million-Main-Event-guarantee_81257/

Looks pretty incredible again and will be trying to satellite my way into events!

two weeks to go

bumped for me

day by day coverage

BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP COMMITTED PLAYERS LIST

$1 MILLION BUY-IN POKER EVENT RETURNS JUNE 29 - JULY 1ST DURING 2014 WSOP

(AS OF 5/15/2014)

NAME   PROFESSION
MAX ALTERGOTT   German Poker Pro
BOBBY BALDWIN   Las Vegas Casino Executive
JEAN-ROBERT BELLANDE   Las Vegas Poker Pro
DAVID EINHORN   NY Hedge Fund Manager/Philanthropist
ANTONIO ESFANDIARI   Poker Pro/Defending Champion
PHIL GALFOND   New York Poker Pro
ANTHONY GREGG   Maryland Poker Pro
PHILIPP GRUISSEM   German Poker Pro
NIKLAS HEINECKER   German Poker Pro
PHIL IVEY   Las Vegas Poker Pro
IGOR KURGANOV   Russian Poker Pro
GUY LALIBERTÉ   Founder Cirque du Soleil/Philanthropist
JASON MERCIER   Florida Poker Pro
PAUL NEWEY   UK Businessman
BILL PERKINS   Texas Hedge Fund Manager
FABIAN QUOSS   German Poker Pro
VIVEK RAJKUMAR   Las Vegas Poker Pro
BRIAN RAST   Las Vegas Poker Pro
TOBIAS REINKEMEIER   German Poker Pro
ANDREW ROBL   Las Vegas Poker Pro
NOAH SCHWARTZ   Florida Poker Pro
ERIK SEIDEL   Las Vegas Poker Pro
VANESSA SELBST   Los Angeles Poker Pro
BRANDON STEVEN   Kansas Poker Pro
SAM TRICKETT   UK Poker Pro
CHRISTOPH VOGELSANG   German Poker Pro
ANONYMOUS   Businessman
ANONYMOUS   Businessman
ANONYMOUS   Businessman
ANONYMOUS   Businessman
ARIA RESORT   Satellite Seat
BELLAGIO RESORT   Satellite Seat
WORLD SERIES OF POKER   Satellite Seat (at Rio)


Latest updates and information on the event can be found here: http://www.wsop.com/2014/bigone/

 $1 Million BUY-iN POKER EVENT RETURNS JUNE 29 - JULY 1st DURING 2014 WSOP


SELBST BECOMES FIRST FEMALE; Potential $20 MIllion+ 1st PLACE PRIZE

 Las Vegas, May 12, 2014 – The second installment of the The BIG ONE for ONE DROP will return to the famed Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, as ESPN committed to producing multi-day coverage from the event comprising three consecutive weeks of prime-time coverage.

Ten new players have committed as well, including the first female, Vanessa Selbst.

"I'm so excited to be taking part in The BIG ONE for ONE DROP this year,” said Selbst. “I didn't get to play in 2012, but after seeing how much fun everyone had with the event as well as how profound an impact it had on ONE DROP, I knew I had to be a part of it this time around."

Perhaps the most unlikely player to register early is former Survivor contestant Jean-Robert Bellande, known to poker fans as ‘BrokeLivingJRB.’  Bellande recently turned heads sending an Instagram photo of a new Bentley, and was reported to post his buy-in deposit with bricks of cash from a gym bag.

As part of the 45th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, The BIG ONE for ONE DROP is a $1,000,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em charity poker tournament limited to 56 players willing to put up the highest entry fee ever offered.

 

The BIG ONE for ONE DROP will take place over three days, from June 29 to July 1, 2014, with play beginning at 1:00 p.m. on the Sunday starting day.

 

ESPN cameras will be on hand throughout the three-day event to document the drama over three consecutive weeks on ESPN beginning July 15.  ESPN will air two-hour blocks as follows:

 

·         TUESDAY, JULY 15 – 9-11 P.M. ET – Day 1 and Day 2 action

·         TUESDAY, JULY 22 – 9-11 P.M. ET – Day 2 action, and final table bubble

·         TUESDAY, JULY 29 – 9-11 P.M. ET – Final table action through to winner

 

“With the unthinkable stakes of The BIG ONE for ONE DROP and  its colorful mix  of early committees, we are thrilled ESPN has embraced the opportunity to truly showcase a seminal moment for poker that just may yield the biggest first prize in sports television history,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.

 

Another way into the field will be via a comprehensive live satellite system.  On June 28th at 6pm, the Rio will hold a $25,300 satellite.  Players will have no fewer than seven mega-satellite “step” opportunities, ranging from $200 to $3,750 on June 26th and June 27th to generate entry into the culminating $25,300 tournament with potentially the final Big One entry on the line.

 

Since the WSOP and ONE DROP previously announced commitments from 23 to participate, a flood of new reservations have come in.  An additional ten players have confirmed their entry, bringing our current total to 33 entrants.  This means less than three tables -- only 23 seats remain. 

 

Of the ten new participants, nine are first-time entrants in this event.  They are:

 

·         Vanessa Selbst – Largely considered the best female player in the game today, Selbst breaks new ground again, becoming the first female to confirm her participation in the event.  She’s a two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner and a Yale University graduate.  The Brooklyn-born Selbst ranks second all-time in WSOP earnings by a female.

 

·         Jean-Robert Bellande – He once was featured on the reality TV hit show Survivor: China trying to win a million dollar first place prize.  Now he will put up a million dollars to try and win potentially $20 million.  We will see if one of the most colorful players in the game has what it takes to outlast, outwit and outplay the competition.

 

·         Anthony Gregg – The Maryland poker pro won last year’s One Drop High Rollers event at the WSOP, turning his $100,000 entry fee into a $4.8 million payday and captured his first WSOP gold bracelet.

 

·         Fabian Quoss – The German poker pro has only two cashes to his name at the WSOP, his biggest a second place finish in 2009 good for $427,912.  But Quoss is no stranger to high buy-in events, and he should feel right at home in this high stakes game despite being a first-timer.

 

·         Max Altergott – This young German pro has never cashed in a WSOP event before, or anywhere in North America. Altergott won nearly $2.3 million in a poker tournament in Monte Carlo one year ago and looks to translate his recent success into the biggest game in the world.

 

·         Tobias Reinkemeier – Reinkemeier played in the inaugural Big One event and is the only one of the new confirmed names to have played the event previously.  Sitting third on the all-time German player poker money list, Reinkemeier has three previous WSOP cashes to his credit.

 

·         Igor Kurganov – This Russian poker pro sits atop the all-time Russian money list, and has final tabled high roller events in Macau, Melbourne and Monte Carlo.  The first-time Big One entrant hopes to make his first WSOP final table.  Kurganov cashed for the first time at last year’s WSOP, finishing 11th in the $25,000 buy-in 6-handed No-Limit Hold’em event.

 

·         Christoph Vogelsang – Another German player, Vogelsang has only two previously recorded cashes in major poker tournaments and both have come in the last year.  He has never played in a WSOP event before and will make his debut in the largest buy-in event on the schedule.

 

·         Niklas Heinecker – Perhaps it is the Pius Heinz effect.  As the winner of the 2011 WSOP Main Event, Heinz from Germany, has really helped push the game of poker to new heights in his home country.  Heinecker becomes the sixth German poker pro to enter this event.  Heinecker comes in as the winningest player in online poker in 2013, amassing $6,190,599 in earnings – more than twice as much as the next highest finisher.  Heinecker has three previous WSOP cashes, including an 80th place showing in the 2007 WSOP Main Event for $106,382.

 

·         Anonymous Asian Businessman – The last of the newcomers, will be a first-time Big One for One Drop participant looking for his first-ever WSOP cash.  While he asked that his identity be kept confidential for now, he’s sure to be one of the most intriguing additions to the event this year.

 

The entire list of names in the field can be found here: http://www.wsop.com/2014/bigone/

 

The event seats are reserved on a first-come first-serve basis, with those providing a deposit guaranteeing their seat.  The winner will also receive a special edition WSOP platinum bracelet by famed jeweler Richard Mille. The event is open to anyone 21 years or older.

 

With the new 56 player cap, the first place prize has the potential to reach in excess of $20,000,000 if every seat is filled.   

No dan blitz. What is this.

barry carter talks one drop, germans, ole schemion and others....

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/Will-we-see-a-German-One-Drop-champion-_83798/

For those interested, the WSOP 2014 Media guide

Just the 79 pages

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hmWJY3rs91SEVVM1VIT0l4X05HRUgta0tQWXBPWW1IQ2k0/edit

Very useful Player Guide, too.....


Tony Kendall



Birthdate: Age 43 as of 2012 WSOP.
Birthplace: London, England
Resides: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England

I am sure most have seen through other sources and Facebook etc, however those of you lucky enough to heading to Vegas need to take TWO forms of Id, one with an address like a diving license or a utility bill

two days till event 1

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Dominik Nitsche warmed up by becoming WSOP National champion for $350,000 yesterday

Matthew Ashton was 3rd for $157,000

http://www.wsop.com/news/2014/May/4766/DOMINIK-NITSCHE-BECOMES-FIRST-NON-AMERICAN-NATIONAL-CHAMPION.html

I'm glad the WSOP have listened to feedback and brought in a frisbee dog display team...

http://www.pocketfives.com/articles/frisbee-dogs-invade-2014-wsop-589538/

Looking forward to seeing some pics.

Today's the day

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daily round ups on this thread from tomorrow

hoping to record every British cash, and some final table bracelet funks along the way

an ESPN article on the biggest stories to watch at this year's WSOP

http://espn.go.com/poker/story/_/id/10987669/2014-wsop-negreanu-world-championship-events-stories-watch

Just played and busted the Casino Employees event 144/876 with 90 paid.

Structure was terrible. 3k starting stack and hour levels starting at 25/50 then 100/200, 100/200/25a, 150/300/25a, 200/400/50a, 300/600/50a, 400/800/75a and not sure after that because I busted! Good fun though and proof that poker isn't anywhere near dead, especially tournament poker.

Err, 25/50 to 100/200? Really?

50/100 according to his friends at PokerNews.  Fella will never get a job as a reporter.  Structure a breath of fresh air after SCOOP.  Maybe a 25/25 level would have been good?

In event 1 the $500 Casino Employees event

Last year 898 runners

This year 876

64 currently remain

Lee Davy, the CalvinAyre reporter, secured the first UK cash of the series with a min cash

$82,000 up top

Nice to see a player going to an effort for the bloggers. DTD regs, take note

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Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em

131 entries and its early days with 90 left

the Brit Stephen Chidwick is currently going well near the top of the chip counts

1    Brian Rast    491,000
2    Fabrice Touil    316,000
3    Jason Mo    272,000
4    Stephen Chidwick    270,000
5    Aaron Jones    255,000
6    David Benefield    235,000
7    Mike Brady    211,000
8    Al Decarolis    205,000
9    Phil Ivey    192,000
10    Matt Marafioti    190,000

the event is a fantasy league who's who

still in we have, amongst others.....

Phil Ivey             
JC Tran             
Mickey Petersen             
Phil Laak       
Michael Mizrachi             
John Juanda             
Calvin Anderson             
Sam Trickett             
Talal Shakerchi             
Phil Galfond             
Noah Schwartz             
Daniel Negreanu          
Dan Cates             
Justin Bonomo             
Dan Shak             
Faraz Jaka                
Darren Elias          
Yevgeniy Timoshenko             
David Vamplew             
Phil Hellmuth          
Jason Mercier             
Scott Seiver             
Eugene Katchalov       

Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha is upcoming, where we are all wondering who will finish runner up to tikay

WSOP expectations are high for this one

"WSOP executive director Ty Stewart made two pretty bold statements during the annual WSOP conference call a few weeks back. First he predicted that the $1,000 pot-limit Omaha event on Day 2 of the WSOP could be the biggest non-hold 'em field in WSOP history. "

I will be getting my info primarily from http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/

Man its good to look at and use. (updater nerd porn)

Day 1 of the WSOP $25K Mix Max ended w/ 65 players remaining .No surprise to see Vanessa Selbst leading the pack going into the 6 Max round

1    Vanessa Selbst    562,800
2    Brian Rast    557,400
3    Michael Mizrachi    399,300
4    Jason Mo    380,000
5    Fabrice Touil    327,600
6    Dan Cates    317,500
7    JC Tran    290,000
8    Ravi Raghavan    275,000
9    Stephen Chidwick    270,600
10    John Juanda    264,800

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-2/

Jungleman in "first live strop of series" shocker....can't say I'm Selbst biggest fan but this is funny...

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-2/chips.84676.htm (http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-2/chips.84676.htm)

event 1 the casino employees $500 is down to four players as follows at 12-24k

4   Olivier Doremus   460,000
5   Charles Nguyen   482,000
7   Roland Reparejo   1,157,000
9   Corey Emery   460,000

Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em finished day 2 with 16 players left

347   1   Ryan Fee   656,000
347   2   Matt Giannetti   676,000
347   3   Barry Hutter   524,000
347   4   Al Decarolis   1,261,000
            
348   1   Brian Green   145,000
348   2   Nick Schulman   207,000
348   3   Kevin Song   198,000
348   4   Aaron Jones   306,000
            
353   1   Darren Elias   506,000
353   2   Jason Mo   1,214,000
353   3   Calvin Anderson   812,000
353   4   Richard Lyndaker   213,000
            
354   1   JC Tran   1,251,000
354   2   Vanessa Selbst   1,224,000
354   3   Noah Schwartz   193,000
354   4   Robert Tepper   490,000

$871,000 for 1st

Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

Before this event, The biggest non-holdem field at the WSOP was the $1,500 PLO in 2011 with 1,071 players.

1,128 entires for this event and the new record

117 remain at the end of day 1, having just hit the cash


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Loren Klein    133,900
2    John O'Shea    89,000
3    Allan Le    88,200
4    Iori Yogo    79,900
5    Steve Billirakis    73,800
6    John Gordon    73,100
7    Mark Thoennes    67,000
8    Phil Laak    65,700
9    Philip Siegel    58,500
10    Leif Force    58,100

will try and put a list up of Brits left when the day 2 seat draw comes out

I believe that the remaining GB&I players in event #3 are:

2   John   O'Shea   CHURCHTOWN,   ,   IE   89000   Amazon   /   435   /   6
28   Peter   Charalambous   SUFFOLK,   ,   GB   40500   Amazon   /   438   /   6
63   Stephen   Chidwick   DEAL,   ,   GB   21700   Amazon   /   444   /   8
94   Karim   Jomeen   LONDON,   GB   10600   Amazon   /   440   /   7   

Event 3

chip counts by seat draw for day 2

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13603/EV3-Day-2-Counts-by-Seat.pdf

good luck to Peter charra lying 42 of 103, one of four GB and I cashers in the event

SPAM ALERT

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Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1854/84/b5ce9c0f47d.png)

After defeating JC Tran and Al Decarolis respectively in the heads-up semifinals of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em, Jason Mo and Vanessa Selbst are set to face off for $871,148 and the coveted gold bracelet on Friday. Mo will enter the Thunderdome with a near two million-chip advantage, with 5.86 million to Selbst's 3.96 million.

1             871,148
2             538,308
3    Al Decarolis US       290,622
4    JC Tran    US       290,622
5    Matt Giannetti    US    171,461
6    Robert Tepper    US    171,461
7    Ryan Fee    US       112,752
8    Aaron Jones    US    112,752
9    Darren Elias    US    85,342
10    Brian Green    US    85,342
11    Richard Lyndaker    US    72,617
12    Kevin Song    US    72,617
13    Nick Schulman    US    63,158
14    Calvin Anderson    US    63,158
15    Barry Hutter    US    54,945
16    Noah Schwartz    US    54,945

Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

UK and I Cashers

10    Stephen Chidwick GB       11,593
11    Peter Charalambous GB    11,593
12    John O'Shea    IE       11,593
68    Karim Jomeen           2,842

7 remain chasing the $205,000 first prize

Steve Billirakis          770,000    
Brandon Shack-Harris       740,000    
Iori Yogo             500,000    
Robert Paddock          305,000    
Matthew Ryan          265,000    
Morgan Popham          250,000
Patrick Arena          215,000    

Event #4: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 253
Entries    2224
1st Prize $360,000

Wll try to get a comprehensive list of UK players through at the end of the day

for now the chip leaders are

1    Alan Clunie    110,000
2    Jeff Gross    84,000
3    Cy Williams    82,000
4    Jamie Kerstetter    80,000
5    Julius Malzanini    75,000
6    Todd Terry    59,000
7    Mark Radoja    55,000
8    Tom Koral    52,000
9    Steven Wolansky 40,375
10    Kevin ODonnell    37,200

Event #5: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Championship

Players Left 93
Entries    120
1st Prize $298,000

bracelet hunting time for the big boys in one of the low runner specialist events


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Eli Elezra    110,000
2    Scott Abrams    100,000
3    Huck Seed    92,000
4    John Monnette    90,000
5    Matt Szymaszek    90,000
6    Paul Volpe    81,000
7    Barry Greenstein    72,000
8    Danny Fuhs    72,000
9    John Hennigan    70,000
10    Tom Schneider    68,000

Event x $240 PLO Orleans

132 began, 22 remain, 18 paid

A J Kendall 43,000 @ 1,200-2,400 overnight

chip counts overnight event 4 on

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13604%5CEV4-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

Niall Farrell in 12/186 appears to be the only Brit left

chip counts overnight event 5 2-7 triple draw

52 remain, 16 paid

stuart rutter 19th

matthew ashton in 31st

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13605%5CEV5-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

Event #4: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

14 left

Niall Farrell was 23rd for over $10,000 the latest British cash of the series

top 10 of the 14 left


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    John Chou    3,000,000
2    Ylon Schwartz    990,000
3    Jeremy Dresch    800,000
4    Kyle Cartwright    655,000
5    Steve Chanthabouasy    518,000
6    Robert Kuhn    505,000
7    Jeff Gross    475,000
8    Matthew O'Donnell    435,000
9    Daniel Dizenzo    422,000
10    Ken Weinstein    300,000

Event #5: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Championship

13 left and a big name 13 it is too

1    Justin Bonomo    550,000
2    Tuan Le    420,000
3    Alexandre Luneau    410,000
4    Phil Galfond    350,000
5    Eli Elezra    290,000
6    Jon Turner    275,000
7    Sergey Rybachenko    270,000
8    George Danzer    260,000
9    Michael Chow    260,000
10    David Benyamine    190,000

Tuan Le was one of the players involved in the controversial Paul Maxfield final all those years ago and we have Bonomo, Galfond, pearljammer etc going for one of the $10ks with Mercier and Schneider short-stacked too



 

Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

controversy earlier with the tournament stopped, and each chip in the torunament counted

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo6EgFDIgAAYWcc.jpg:large)

last years 1,500 nl Shootout had 1.194 players at 120 tables

948 entries this year, and 120 made it through by winning their table to guarantee themselves a $4400 cash

will try to get Brit names when the day 2 sheets come through later

Event #7: $1,500 Seven-Card Razz

112 of 352 currently remain


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Phil Hellmuth    40,000
2    Sven Arntzen    25,000
3    Yuval Bronshtein    23,000
4    Kevin Iacofano    21,500
5    Jordan Siegel    21,400
6    Phil Laak    19,200
7    David Bach    19,000
8    Hernan Salazar    18,000
9    Rep Porter    16,000
10    Devin Looney    16,000

currently on the last break of the day, more to come later

Event 6 $1500 NLHE Shootout

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13606%5CEV6-Day-2-Counts-by-Name.pdf

British players who won their table to advance to day 2

Jamie Roberts
Louis Salter
David Vamplew

Event 7 $1500 Razz

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13607%5CEV7-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

75 remain, 40 paid

Hellmuth in the top 10

No British interest.

The Millionaire Maker thing, due to start in an hour, appears to have over 4,500 entrants already. Think there are two flights, of which some 3,500 are in Flight 1 so far. Could be the bggest Flight 1 Field ever?

The Rio Corridor, Registration etc are heaving.

The single flight record was 4,407 set in a WSOP Seniors Event, so this looks like it could be a record-breaker, assuming entry to the bigger flight is open for a few levels

Millionaire Maker has begun (11am), has total entries (both flights) of 4,783 so far, so the Prize Pool is currently $6.4 milly.

Queues to register are all the way down the corridor. There are 30 in the queue at Starbucks, ffs.

(http://www.ohmagif.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hulk-smash.gif)

5,365 TOTAL entries for the Millionaire Maker going into the first break

The Millionaire Maker has now topped 6,000 entries halfway through level 4 of Flight A, 7,000+ anyone?

Wouldn't surprise me if the  'monster stack' 1500 got somewhere close.

What an amazing piece of organisation to seat over 7,600 players in a single day.

(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/tikay2195/MMWSOP1_zps544e9c9f.jpg) (http://s1147.photobucket.com/user/tikay2/media/tikay2195/MMWSOP1_zps544e9c9f.jpg.html)


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/tikay2195/MMWSOP2_zps28972dce.jpg) (http://s1147.photobucket.com/user/tikay2/media/tikay2195/MMWSOP2_zps28972dce.jpg.html)

That was at 7.15pm Vegas time by the way, & the number is still rising - 7,643 now.

8pm - 7,705.

9.15pm, 7,847.

Tuan Le, Winner of Event #5: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Championship ($355,324)

1    Tuan Le    US    355,324
2    Justin Bonomo    US    219,565
3    Eli Elezra    US       144,056
4    Nick Schulman    US    99,015
5    George Danzer    DE    70,308
6    Phil Galfond    US    51,538
7    Sergey Rybachenko    RU    38,961
8    Alexandre Luneau    GB    38,961
9    Jason Mercier    US       30,794
10    Michael Chow    US       30,794
11    Jon Turner    US       24,342
12    David Benyamine    US    24,342

Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Here is the Day 3 table and seat draw:
Table   Seat   Player   Chips
446   1   Shawn Busse   354,000
446   2   Alex Bolotin   353,000
446   3   Colin York   353,000
446   4   Dimitar Danchev   352,000
446   5   Maxx Coleman   354,000
446   6   Josh Arieh   358,000
            
450   1   Jon Lane   350,000
450   2   Steven Loube   361,000
450   3   Jared Jaffee   354,000
450   4   David Trager   354,000
450   5   Douglas Foster   358,000
450   6   Steven Geralis   346,000

Louis Salter 43rd, David Vamplew 75th and Jamie Roberts 107th cashed for the UK

Event #7: $1,500 Seven-Card Razz

It was a record-setting day for Phil Hellmuth at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He not only notched his 101st cash by making the money in Event #7 $1,500 Seven-Card Razz – a tournament that attracted 352 runners and created a prize pool of $475,200 – he also went on to make the final table, his 50th at the WSOP. Hellmuth, who won the razz event at the 2012 WSOP for his 12th bracelet, will return on Sunday second in chips, putting him in prime position to make a run at the $121,196 first-place prize and his 14th gold bracelet.

Name    Chips
1    Greg Pappas    391,500
2    Phil Hellmuth    314,000
3    David Bach    295,000
4    Brandon Cantu    175,000
5    Ted Forrest    171,000
6    Brock Parker    138,500
7    Yuebin Guo    90,000
8    Kevin Iacofano    45,500

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

Entries    7954, including the largest single sitting flight in poker history

Understandably wading through that lot is a tough task for the reports

more news at the end of the playing day

Concrete in Vegas? You bet.

http://bit.ly/SnaidR

7,977 entries. $10.7 mil prize pool. $1.3 mil 1st place payday. And many broken records

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

http://www.wsop.com/news/2014/Jun/4789/MILLIONAIRE-MAKER-DRAWS-AN-ASTONISHING-7977-ENTRIES.html

1466 through 819 are paid

and the full list/day 2 draw is on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f2JNSryfSHQRBR8iNWljWHtggheS-wX3eS4Q_rNgd4A/edit#gid=0 for anyone wanting to wade through

Just absolute lolz. William Reynolds and Dan Kelly on my table (411)

Hey I'm in Vegas and made day 2.  Sorry what was the problem?

I manage to draw 2 absolute sickos out of a field of lollers was my point ldo

Event #7: $1,500 Seven-Card Razz

Phil Hellmuth Eliminated in 2nd Place ($74,848)

Phil Hellmuth has been denied his fourteenth bracelet by Ted Forrest, who has captured his sixth gold bracelet and second in razz.

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1855/53/bb61aff7eb5.jpg)

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 259
Entries    7977

Andrew Teng in the top 10 for the UK players


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jonathan Dimmig  550,000
2    Andrew Oh    508,000
3    Bart Lybaert    420,000
4    Colby Burleson    385,000
5    James Mackey    360,000
6    David Fong    350,000
7    Andrew Teng    340,000
8    Steven Moseley    340,000
9    Curt Kohlberg    325,000
10    Matt Newcombe    300,000

Rhys Jones and Scott O'Reilly look to be prominent from the last chip counts

full list of UK players remaining when the overnights are sent round

Event #9: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 279
Entries    1940


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Alexandros Kolonias 87,300
2    Chris Hunichen    84,700
3    Mark Radoja    74,000
4    Roland Israelashvili 62,000
5    Owen Crowe    60,000
6    Kevin ODonnell    49,100
7    Faraz Jaka    47,000
8    Stuart Pfeifer    45,300
9    Charles Welch    43,300
10    Keven Stammen    39,000

approaching the bubble with one level left to play tonight, UK news once the chip counts are sent through

Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship

early days in a $10k

Players Left 138
Entries    178


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Eli Elezra    118,500
2    Ismael Bojang    85,000
3    Larry Wright    83,000
4    Chris George    80,000
5    Dan Kelly    80,000
6    Michael Mizrachi    77,000
7    John Monnette    73,000
8    Alexandre Luneau    68,000
9    Scott Clements    66,000
10    Doug Polk    65,000

The Milly Maker has 178 players remaining at the end of Day 2. $1.3 million first place prize. Chip counts here

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13608%5CEV8-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

20 Andrew Teng LONDON, , GB 351,000
59 Scott O'Reilly TORQUAY, , GB 231,000
94 Rhys Jones FAREHAM, GB 163,000

Event 9 ends Day 1 with 161 players remaining including circuit ring leader Alex Masek (@pujolsofpokr) Chip counts:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13609%5CEV9-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

31 Najib Kamand SURREY LONDON, , GB 55,600
127 Idris Drief Barnet, , GB 15,800

Day 1 of the 10K Omaha 8 or better ends with Dan Kelly (@djk123poker) holding the chip lead. Full chip counts:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13610%5CEV10-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

8 Richard Ashby WATFORD, , GB 112,000
24 Matthew Ashton LIVERPOOL, , GB 64,600
43 Stephen Chidwick DEAL, , GB 50,700

I'm from Delaware these days

sorry about that, will have to search by name by now on. these people who put wrong locations down....

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

BRITISH FINALIST, the first of the series....

9 remain

$1,300,000 up top

Stephen Graner          12,005,000
James Duke          4,645,000
Andrew Teng    GB       4,375,000    
Andrew Dick          4,185,000
Bradley Anderson          3,850,000    
Jonathan Dimmig    US       2,870,000    
Maurice Hawkins    US       1,960,000    
Jeffrey Coburn          1,660,000
Jason Johnson          1,245,000

2 x GUKPT Winning player http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=99827

(http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pictures/Andy%20Teng.jpg)

Event #9: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

12 left from 1940 after 2 days

Frank Patti    US       1,197,000
Jorge Vergara       1,159,000
Nghiahiep Nguyen    687,000    
David Inselberg    US    458,000    
Jeff Smith          431,000    
Chris Hunichen    US       404,000
Vinny Pahuja    US       341,000    
Dylan Linde          311,000    
Chris Haugo          277,000    
John Fontana          255,000    
Brad Libson          232,000    
Cornel Medes    RO       116,000    

Idris Drief finished 111th for the UK

Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship

Players Left 20
Entries    178

Chufty is in the final 20, with 18 paid

chip leader...


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Richard Ashby    580,000
2    Doug Polk    565,000
3    Eli Elezra    505,000
4    Dan Kelly    505,000
5    Perry Friedman    460,000
6    Andrew Brown    380,000
7    Ofir Mor    335,000
8    Ismael Bojang    285,000
9    Shirley Rosario    270,000
10    Brock Parker    250,000

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1855/71/bae89533e02.jpg)

Event #11: $1,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

1,587 players filled the Brasilia Room and Part of the Pavillion for the first six-handed event of the 2014 WSOP today.

A number that absolutely crushed the 1,069 this same $1,500 event drew last year.

Players Left    151


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Nicholas Immekus    159,900
2    Luis Camprlo    145,000
3    Blake Whittington    135,400
4    Chris MacNeil    130,000
5    Steven Hensley    120,000
6    Jason Wheeler    119,200
7    Abraham Korotki    103,000
8    David Peters    90,000
9    Erik Cajelais    89,000
10    Eddy Sabat    86,000

UK News when the WSOP lists are sent through

Down at Rio, doesn't seem to be much of a Brit rail for Andrew Teng.

Chufty is heads up with a chip deficit right now

http://www.wsop.com/2014/live-video/default.aspx?sr=&TID=13610

Don't think I can remember seeing anyone scoop as many pots in a row...

He got very short, flipped good for a short while, then finished 2nd.

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

Andrew Teng finished 4th, well done, tremendous score

1    Jonathan Dimmig US       1,319,587
2    Jeffrey Coburn    US       815,963
3    James Duke    US       614,368
4    Andrew Teng    GB       465,972
5    Bradley Anderson US       355,913
6    Stephen Graner    US       273,854
7    Jason Johnson    US       211,394
8    Andrew Dick    US       164,118
9    Maurice Hawkins    US       128,150

Jeff Smith Wins Event #9: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($323,125)

1    Jeff Smith    US    323,125
2    Danny Nguyen    US    199,829
3    Frank Patti    US    138,160
4    John Fontana    US    99,644
5    Chris Haugo    US    72,843
6    Chris Hunichen    US    53,951
7    Brad Libson    US    40,489
8    David Inselberg    US    30,781
9    Jorge Vergara    US    23,693

Brock Parker Wins Event #10: $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Championship ($443,407)

Well done to Chufty, close to the first British Bracelet of the series in 2nd

Ashby, who won a bracelet event in 2010, now has over $1.9 million in career earnings.

1    Brock Parker    US    443,407
2    Richard Ashby    GB    274,019
3    Ofir Mor    US    198,508
4    Shirley Rosario    US    146,522
5    Viatcheslav Ortynskiy    RU    110,113
6    Jason McPherson    US    84,195
7    Steve Lustig    US    65,472
8    Melissa Burr    US    51,768
9    Dan Kelly    US    41,595

Event #11: $1,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 10
Entries    1587

Name    Chips
1    Justin Bonomo    1,380,000
2    Mike Sowers    1,270,000
3    Taylor Paur    1,100,000
4    Daniel Strelitz    740,000
5    Sebastian Pauli    720,000
6    Lance Harris    590,000
7    Frank Debus    460,000
8    Niel Mittelman    385,000
9    Todd Anderson    300,000
10    Viet Vo    100,000

Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 69
Entries    557


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    David Martirosyan 119,500
2    Matt Damadeo    117,600
3    Joseph Cheong    67,200
4    Ahmed "H" Amin 62,000
5    Greg Kolo    57,000
6    Jesse Yaginuma    52,500
7    Darryll Fish    49,500
8    Jeremy Menard    48,000
9    Dylan Linde    43,000
10    Phil Collins    39,700

it appears that Kevin Allen and Barney Boatman are still in, full list at the end of the day

Event #13: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship

Players Left 62
Entries    87


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Bob Bright    100,000
2    Paul Volpe    100,000
3    Michael Mizrachi    94,000
4    John Juanda    93,000
5    Alexandre Luneau 86,000
6    David "Bakes" Baker 83,000
7    Shawn Sheikhan    80,000
8    Justin Smith    80,000
9    Mike Watson    78,000
10    George Danzer    74,000

Wins $446k and now selling his $$ for a 5% vig.

Goes without saying not many people are rooting for him.

I did think RedSimons post was a line up, obviously not aware of the lets call them "issues" last year. Guess we had the debate then, sure he's not a bad kid but some see the world differently Cos. Personally couldn't do it - however guess it's just business to him

No it was a genuine query, thought that vig thing was Vamplew, forgot it was Teng too.

said on 2p2 5% over $10k, 8% <$5k and 6% inbetween
 ;ifm;

Lol I'd really rather share a table with 9 angleshooters than this guy

this just in: poker sites caught charging vig on tournaments and cash games

NO ONE IS SAFE, PLAY NO WHERE

Yeah but dont they offer vigback?

Everyone cries non stop about lowering the tounry and cash game "vig" aswell.

Where were the police when Stu Rutter reappeared after 12 months to sell on Blonde?

8% some markup mind.  Was thinking last year, you'd pay 3% with your average cheap forex dealer. 

Totally this.  Cheaper rocking up at the Post Office or Thomas Cook at buying it at high st rates without even haggling.  Fair play to the kid if he shifts $450k at those prices.

Would you sell your dollars at 8%?

Only to you

Ya so the main market he's looking for is obviously not UK guys coming to USA. In the Mexican and to a lesser extent Canadian poker scenes there is a big contingent of American expats who are too lazy/trying to avoid hassle etc wanting USD. The online for cash markets over there typically see vigs of 10%.

Keep your wig on.

Am I not allowed to be critical of your buddy?

Spoken to plenty of people today who wouldn't do it and just don't like it.

I was, of course, joking. You can criticise who you want, I don't care and he doesn't care. I just don't think it's a very good argument.

I think I've charged vig 2 or 3 times btw, people who I didn't know especially well but know better now and probably wouldn't vig them in future. I've also had people ask me for large amounts who I knew wouldn't be receptive to vig so just said no (it would have been at inconvenience and risk to me, I had never met these people but knew who they were). I've also done thousands of swaps vig free, both when it's benefited me, and when it's benefited them and definitely not me. I'm too lazy to pool all my funds into the vigging game, but thank the people who do for providing more options, particularly people like Gary Benson in more obscure locations who to the poker community a good service at a typically small cost.

Agree with Cos, it's a total pisstake. 

If I got lucky enough to win such a large amount of money there's no way id charge a penny of vig. I'd be happy to help out my fellow poker players in the community who have in turn helped me out in the past. Eg random punter I'd never seen before in Marrakech selling me €5k at spot the other week.

In fact it'd probably help me to shift them back to sterling at spot anyway.

Don't remember Vamplews vig being 5%, more like 2, but might be wrong. Think 5% is ridiculous, when the high street is 2%, I'd rather give my money to Thomas Cook.

I love you guys crying over Vig game every year. Such haters that I wanna make more money this summer after a big score, like you just cash big one time and quit trying to make a living.

I can shift 100s of k every wsop np at 5%, usually sell out so much I really think I might charge too little. Last year I ran out of money selling....

It's not like I'm multi after this cash or anything, and it's not like people have to accept whatever price I ask for.

Everyone I've ever dealt with has been pleased by my service, lmk when Thomas cook start taking stars/ neteller and then come by and hand you the money at the rio  the next day.

Saying that, 5% min Vig, more for smaller amounts. Get at me if you need a reliable source of USD cash in a short period of time.

i aint no hater.  VWP i said if you can shift that much at 5% or bigger.  Toasty life.  All the best. 

vig thing is wte, i dont like it, but business is business i guess.

really didnt like the interview on pokernews, came across awfully though imo.

Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em

Gregory Kolo Leads As Final Table Finishes With Eight Players


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Gregory Kolo    633,000
2    Kazu Oshima    425,000
3    Dan Goldman    335,000
4    Ryan Schoonbaert    322,000
5    David Martirosyan    266,600
6    Ahmed Amin    242,000
7    Dean Bui    151,000
8    Tom McCormick    137,000

Dominic Rossookh finished in 19th for just over $5k, Kevin Allen cashed in 62nd, the only UK Cashers

Event #13: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship

big name final table

Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Paul Volpe    783,000
2    Jason Mercier    469,000
3    Daniel Negreanu    426,000
4    Brian Rast    390,000
5    Larry Wright    203,000
6    John Monnette    169,000
7    Abe Mosseri    162,000

Event #14: $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low

The winner of this one will take home $283,275 for outlasting a total field of 1,036 runners, a very slight increase over last year's field of 1,014

Apparently, this is the biggest live O8 field, 4th non-Hold'em event to clear 1,000 players in WSOP history, 3rd largest non-Hold'em WSOP event ever

220 remain after day 1

1    Kal Raichura    68,100
2    Konstantin Puchkov    65,800
3    Greg Trelski    63,300
4    Alexander Kuzmin    51,900
5    Mike Roeseler    50,700
6    Nick Kost    50,500
7    Lance Dodd    48,100
8    Chris Viox    45,500
9    Benjamin Perez    45,000
10    Guillaume Rivet    45,000

British players remaining - Matthew Ashton, Stephen Chidwick, John Kabbaj, Stuart Rutter, Seb Saffari

Re vig gate- is there a big difference between what Andrew is doing and selling at MU for a comp? Why is one universally accepted whilst the other is frowned upon?

Neil Channing is usually a fixture at the Rio for the duration of the WSOP.

So why is he giving it a swerve this year?

http://bit.ly/SbfW25

I have no idea.  Andrew is providing a service and charging accordingly.  People don't have to use it.  I really don't see the issue.

I've talked to 5 different well respected pros today about this issue and they unanimously agree this is not cool and none of them would do it.

Trigg wrote on fb (and I hope this is ok to post here). This basically summarises what every single person I've spoken to about it in private thought.

'id rather jump off a bridge than sell at vig for a mutually beneficial transaction. Put in laymen's terms its a ***** trick'

Imo this kinda sums it up perfectly but if you're like Andrew or Rupert and money is seemingly the be all and end all then I guess it's fine because you aren't breaking the law but it says it all that this guy had a pathetic rail. I don't remember the last time a UK guy finalled a WSOP and didn't half half the Brits in Vegas cheering them on.

Lol at judging a guy by how many fanboys were there to who hoo, I bet he is devastated.

Game has changed a lot and if people want to pay to get money when they have run out then fair play to the guy.

It's deffo changed since I once needed $10k US dollars to buy someone into a comp in ST Kitts as they were missing from the list of qualifiers and the comp started in 60 mins. Thewwy casually asked Marc Goodwin if he had a spare 10 I could borrow and tho I barely knew him at the time he gave it me str8 away and just said we could square up when we all got home. I needed the money quickly and he did me a favour, if he had asked for a few hundred in return I would have given it to him myself because he was doing me a favour. The guy selling now is getting a few quid because he is doing the guys a favour, ok it also helps him to get his money home but that's the perk of having the cash, you get to choose what to do with it.

Congrats on the win too.

i don't feel as vehemently as others about this, but kinda think andy and others are thinking too short term. Not charging vig can create a lot of opportunities for friendship, business, banter etc. i mean who wants to go for a beer with someone charging vig or condoning it.

Not as many loud brits this year and Justin "cry baby" Bonomo is leading POY.

Of course Its a free market out there so potential buyers can make their own choice .

You could draw comparisons to mark up on staking requests  as people have the same  purchase options  - To Buy Or Not To Buy !  however at least with buying money you know what your returns are.

As regards your post above  ... The  " Sledgehammer " reply  is not exactly endearing and could of done with a bit more love ...  words like Subtle and Humility spring to mind... still  its your choice to post as you see fit.

Congrats On The Result !

If a random stranger asks him for an exchange then I think vig is fine and I certainly wouldn't judge them on it.

It's a bit of a weird one though because Andrew could have just got a bank transfer but instead went down the route of getting cash so he could get vig for it. The thing is I know he is in colossal make-up ATM and I wouldn't be surprised if he just got out with this 4th place finish and is looking to get a lot more out of it.

If I was forced to take the $450k in cash then I'm definitely going to be advertising and selling at spot, it's a win win situation. Not so long ago Piper was trying to sell at spot on here and got ruined for it by the Camel!!!!!

Don't have an opinion on $ vig but saw it loads on twitter etc.. just want to hop in the thread to congratulate tufat on a big UK score.. wp.

Can we direct some hate at Justin Bonomo, known outed cheater that just won his first bracelet?

Greekstein - I find it odd that you pigeon hole me with Andy when I've a) merely been defending him and b) stated my complete history of charging vig (hardly enough to tarnish me with only caring about money) but nevertheless I'll hold reservation over your judge of character - particularly after adamantly recommending investing in your (former?) good mates Blatch sports betting empire.

For what it's worth, I have played about 30k hands of poker since WSOP last year so clearly making money is not my be all end all as I would expect that would be the most profitable thing for me to do. Secondary to that, and I may be misguided, but I get more than my fair share of rounds, meals, and will liberally punt on staking action. If you think money is my life, you are frankly wrong.

I find your change of tune from last years thread


somewhat amusing, but mostly you just come across as a bit washed up and withered to me now, to have something that has zero bearing on your life influence you so much.

Nevertheless an interesting debate, especially as every other culture within poker is accustom to it as the norm, for better or for worse. Some people like having options, others would rather criticise I suppose.

I've done lots of stars for bank xfers for mates or people I've known through here or from online comps and would never charge vig for it. I think if the general accepted market rate for something is lower such as Party $ or w.e then we'd work something out that was fair. I don't really have anything against the guy for doing it but I certainly wouldn't be rushing to the bar to get the drinks in when he turned up late at the bar. It certainly does hold well with me asking for cash to charge $ on it, but if its to a bunch of random dudes then what is the problem? If i'd had a score, taken the cash and Trigg asked for some I wouldn't dream of mentioning vig though. Its kind of a fine line, but it goes on all the time in the poker world, I think the British regs might just be a bit sensitive to it.

Well actually I stand by my opinion on Teng but I must apologise to you - I take back the comments that grouped you with him. I most definitely overreacted and am quite embarrassed by the childishness of that post. I was just angry that you were seemingly defending him and winning the argument even though I somehow still felt you were wrong and I was right! I should state here just for those who are reading that I have nothing to base remarks that I may have tarnished you with and it was merely a childish dig.

I don't recall ever recommending to anyone else about investing in Blatch though - only to my dad. But if you dig out a 5 year old post where I'll have to stand corrected again, I'm more than happy to apologise again.

I HAVE changed my tune considerably from last year's thread - simply because I didn't really think everything through. If he's running it as a business which he seemingly is, is he legally allowed to operate in such away in America? Does he pay tax on this? The rates he is charging don't sit well with me either. I can get my head round 1 or 2% if they are $$ that he doesn't really want to shift or he is going on journeys delivering them but this doesn't seem to be the case.

In the last 12 months I've sold baht to friends in Phuket several times and never charged a single person a cent more than what it cost me so I'm not just jumping on a bandwaggon for the sake of criticising someone.

Anyway, apologies once again.

Regards,

A withered and washed up Greekstein.

I wouldn't do this, but he can do what he wants I guess. It's not very community spirited, and not very generous, and not very classy. And it is pretty short-sighted in many ways. Plus not likely to make him especially popular. But I'm sure he doesn't care. Money money money innit.

The Vamplew thing was worse from what I heard. Apparently a regular poster on here lent him the money to buy into a tourney, vig free obviously. Vamplew cashed big. Then the same guy asked if he could buy some of the dollars, and Vamplew wanted to charge him vig. That is simply shocking and scummy and disrespectful. But again, I'm sure he doesn't care and just thinks well business is business. Money money money innit.

Is tuftat23 Andrew Teng then? Either way, not a very classy post to make. But then perhaps you are not a very classy guy? I'm sure you don't care though. Money money money innit.

Not even sure why I am bothering typing this tbh. Or why any of us bother to get upset by stuff like this. The gambling world is full of this sort of nonsense and much worse, and we can never change it. Just remember who the good guys are and look after each other. And try not to give up too much to the money money money guys.

This for me, good post.

the is he paying tax on this is very interesting. especially as hes done it for years and mentioned specific numbers itt.

should he be paying to UK or US?

It certainly is.  If he had a couple more mates in poker then someone would probably warn him it might not be the smartest thing to do to mention it in public........

Well done on a fantastic result Andrew. As for the other stuff I'm long past the point of caring what other people do. I'm sure I fall short of many peoples standards of conduct so I'm not going to pass comment on people who aren't my close friends.

Gl with rest of series.

Yeh, and whilst we are at it, what about all the staking we buy and sell.  Nice little business there.  Wonder if mark up should be taxed?   People taking 30% on packages worth thousands going to be different? 

Don't think he'd have pushed any personal tax thresholds previously.  Assuming he us keeping some dollars to reinvest it us going to be pretty marginal here.  I am also sure there is a business vs just changing his money back question to get past too.  Something like selling coaching could be clearer businesses?

Or are we only discussing ways other people could be taxed?  The ones that do "scummy" things. 

Absolutely anybody who does coaching should pay tax/loans off. When I did I was paying full tax back/top student loan tiers, everybody informed etc.

I don't think people playing poker should pay voluntary tax but those who are making a business should and he is obviously treating it like a business and making tens of thousands of dollars.

Unsure about stance of the markup situation. 

tbh, that anybody even discusses another man's enterprise or how he deals with money transactions shows what a strange little world poker is.

Guy charges for services shocker - utterly ridic for anyone to criticise or even pass comment really if you stop and think about it

Dry similar to markups in poker right?

The whole "money money money" thing is a bit ridiculous given that the game of poker is literally designed to swindle your opponents out of their money with little to no value to society.

The game of life could be seen that way too but I still like to give help to others.

back to the action (temporarily no doubt)

overnight.....


- Gregory Kolo Wins Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em ($169,225)

- Paul Volpe Wins First WSOP Bracelet in Event #13 $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship ($253,524)

besting Daniel Negreanu during heads up play and denying KidPoker his seventh World Series of Poker bracelet


- Event #14: $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low

Players Left 27
Entries    1036

Greg Raymer and Maria o are among the final 27

Stephen Chidwick cashed 72nd, Matthew Asthton 107th

Event #15: $3,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 156
Entries    810


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Brandon Cantu    244,700
2    Barry Hutter    201,100
3    Andreas Hoivold    195,200
4    Nick Guagenti    178,100
5    Davidi Kitai    141,900
6    David Chase    122,900
7    Benjamin Horgan    114,500
8    Michael Mizrachi    100,700
9    Byron Kaverman    100,000
10    Mark Dube    100,000

Event #16: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Players Left 96
Entries    348


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Mike Leah    51,000
2    Layne Flack    42,300
3    Don Nguyen    38,000
4    Todd Bui    37,000
5    Tom Franklin    27,000
6    Ben Yu    21,300
7    Dan Smith    21,000
8    John Racener    21,000
9    Kevin Iacofano    20,000
10    Cathy Dever    19,600

Why is it "very interesting"?  Seems very petty to raise this to me?

 

I didn't bring it up btw.

I just think that people will just not see things they do in poker as business because poker is not taxable. Whether that be coaching, charging vig on financial transactions or otherwise.

Why is it interesting? Idk, just find it interesting.

Well I guess - but unless it's a registered poker site I assume coaching revenue will either

A) Not breach the 10k limit
B) Even if it does would only be marginally above it and be treated cash in hand

Hypothetically if you earned £15k in a year from coaching would you register as a sole trader and file a tax return?  Credit to you if you would, but I can't imagine many people would.

Fx transactions are less clear cut, and charging mark up even less so of course.

By the way - I may be vastly underestimating the private tutor/coaching market with my £10k statements.  Just can't imagine people will be paying £50k a year between them on coaching when they could be staking themselves.

Yeah there is people charging 300/hour and doing 5+hours a week.

I guess staking is another thing. If we invest money into somebody  and we make more than x in  no year should we be paying tax? I guess not in huh is instance. Mark up similarity is borderline but I guess not.

Doing money transactions as a pure business seems more so, but then again maybe not.

I can see some great tax returns:

Coaching   +30000
Offset by business expenses
Staking lol punters   -10000
Hookers -5000
Blow.  -10000
Roulette -63367763
Mouse pad    -1

:D

Coaching looks very much like a business to me, and think you'd struggle to argue otherwise.

I think staking people would be viewed as just gambling if you do a few one offs.  If you run a big stable, employed people to do admin etc, I expect it would be viewed differently*.  Would expect charging mark up is more dodgy.  You are charging people for your skills. Though you could probably offset expenses on it if live.  Probably harder to claim that much in legit expenses for coaching.

Don't think the forex thing is that clear.  It isn't like it is his real business.  He wouldn't be trading if he didnt just bink 400k.   

* Just because staking could be viewed as a business in some circumstances, it would have to make a profit before you pay tax.  Guess that is where it would still fall over.

I said that I and other guys do pay tax for coaching and it's clearly 100% business. Most of the guys who have made coaching a business are American anyway so it's kinda irrelevant I guess. I was just confirming the numbers so,e guy can make to dung in this post hut replied directly to your last.

Congrats to Andrew on his final and the boost in liquidity it gave to his currency exchange business. He can do what he wants of course if he gets 'customers' I wonder if he will be buying $ back again at the end of the series for no vig?

Huge excitement this morning at The Rio, where the Seniors Event starts at 10am. (So they can finish early, & get their Horlicks, I suppose).

With 10 minutes until the start, there are already a whopping 4,035 runners.

The Oxygen Bars in the Rio Corridor are doing great business today, too.

Event #14: $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low

Nick Kost Wins Event #14: $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low ($283,275)

Stuart Rutter cashed 39th, John Kabbaj 82nd, Matthew Ashton 107th

Event #15: $3,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 15
Entries    810

Hellmuth 6 of 15 overnight


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Heinz Kamutzki    841,000
2    Davidi Kitai    815,000
3    Pratyush Buddiga    760,000
4    John Andress    699,000
5    Mark Darner    538,000
6    Phil Hellmuth    491,000
7    Gordon Vayo    483,000
8    Bill Burford    454,000
9    Artem Metalidi    448,000
10    Ryan Olisar    444,000

Event #16: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Players Left 9
Entries    348


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    David Bell    240,000
2    David Gee    190,000
3    Kevin Iacofano    180,000
4    Vladimir Shchemelev    165,000
5    Ismael Bojang    160,000
6    Aaron Steury    160,000
7    Tom Franklin    160,000
8    Don Nguyen    155,000
9    Todd Bui    150,000

Stephen Chidwick cashed 24th

Event #17: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

4,425 entries once the registration was closed at the start of level seven.

For the third year in a row the event drew more than 4,000 entries and the previous record attendance of 4,406 from 2013 was overthrown

486 players will return for Day 2


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Ronald Bradway    125,100
2    Mary Totzke    115,100
3    Richard Munro    104,400
4    Herbert Bennett    90,600
5    Sammy Farha    89,400
6    Milwood Motley    86,000
7    Kevin Detienne    85,100
8    Dennis Palmer    79,000
9    Marcia Topp    78,900
10    Lenard Sepke    75,100

Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship

Players Left 79
Entries    112


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Thomas Butzhammer    122,800
2    Todd Dakake    117,000
3    Mike Gorodinsky    92,000
4    Brent Keller    90,000
5    Eric Rodawig    85,000
6    Wade Townsend    85,000
7    Yuval Bronshtein    82,000
8    Brandon Cantu    82,000
9    Ali Eslami    81,000
10    Roland Israelashvili 74,000

Simon Trumper through in the seniors 45,000 av 27,000

when i see the overnight counts i will search for more Brits

Peter Costa - 41,800

Keith Johnson - 21,700

9 british players remain in the seniors with 486 left

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13617%5CEV17-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

76 Simon Trumper Nottinguam, , GA 45,400
91 Peter Costa LEICESTER, , GB 41,800
109 Barny Boatman HENDON, , GB 39,100
148 Michael Fisher Chester, , EE 34,100
253 Micky Mccloskey London Derry, , IR 21,200
264 Richard Hodgkins BIDFORD ON AVON, , EE 20,600
288 Philip Ford ASHFORD, , GB 18,400
359 John Murray Portsmouth, , GA 14,400
456 Simon Hawksworth Nottingham, , EE 6,800

Lovely!

If someone could assist me by finding their seat & Table Draw for today, I'll go get some photos for this thread.

Richard just popped into "my office" (= Media Centre) & he is blonde "duncethehat".

Best of luck to all the blondes but especially for my old mate Slo-Mo.

Special best wishes today to Slow-Mo, who has about 7 Bigs, & is 18 off the money, with 486 left, & 468 paid.

Go Slow-Mo!

Think I'd best get his photo first.

I reckon he'll be super slo-mo until(hopefully) the bubble bursts.

I'm pretty sure he can fold to the money, Ralph.

I just bumped into Barny Boatman, & he thinks the same, Simon just needs to keep folding, the bubble should burst pdq.

There are plenty of players with less than 6,800, & 8 players of the reported 486 already appear to be out, judging by this. (See Page 3).....


http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?tid=13617&grid=1052&dayof=3582&rr=5&curpage=1

What would you do in his position if you found QQ UTG?

Is Estonia next to England on the alphabetical list and Iran next to Ireland?

haha hope that was intentional

Simon just told me he intends to jam if he finds any sort of hand.

He'll think about it for a very long time, though.....

Bubble time, H4H.

Simon shoved once, then got walked on his Big Blind.

His average dwell time is 9 minutes.

An extra "e" sometimes helps.....

When it comes to dwelling he's had plenty of practice.

He used to dwell for England in £20 rebuys at Nottingham Gala.

Funnily enough he doesn't play golf slowly at all.

BOOMIO

Slow-Mo has cashed, happy days.

Barny, Peter Costa, Simon Trumper & "duncthehat" ditto.

duncthehat's wife is currently viewing blonde, I gather, Dunc has doubled up & now has 46,000 or so.

Photos of all of them to follow, once I get them developed.

 ;cheerleader; ;woohoo; ;cheerleader;

Before play commenced......


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...and after he cashed.


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Pete Costa, looking in great shape.


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Barny, in thoughtful mode......


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This is for Mrs duncthehat......


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Lord Plumper......


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...wearing a cheap Timex watch. I offered him a fiver, he refused.


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Unforch, Slow-Mo has busted, but he's got a WSOP Flag, & he's chuffed to bits.

He's in the Payout Room now, collecting.

Greatest feeling ever in poker, for a pure recreational player to cash in a WSOP thing.

Great stuff, & I'm chuffed for Simon.


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He's now gone down to Golden Nugget to Late Reg for the Seniors there, & if that goes wrong, he'll play the Seniors @ Binions tomorrow.

Simon Trumper was going along nicely, & decided to go to war with a particular chap.

Simon raised, geezer calls, they take a flop.

Simon bets, call.

15k (?) in the pot now.

The turn comes down......


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Simon bets 9,500 on the turn......

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Geezer stares @ Simon.

Simon looks nervous.

Geezer asks how many Simon has behind.

"About 28".

Geezer counts out enough to set Simon in. Prepares to push the stack forward, then stops, dwells some more, stares @ Simon again, dwells some more.

..then FOLDS.

Simon shows his hand......

 2d 4c

Back in business, this is after the hand. 52,000 ish?


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Any updates on John Murray (mintrav) or duncthehat?

Tony, if you see slow mo again, please pass on my regards. Glad he cashed. They would have had to add another day to the schedule if he finalled.

Will go look shortly, Simon. I never even knew minttrav was playing it.

Might struggle to find him, mind, lots of starting tables have broken.

I'll get Dunc, too, all being well, I can recognize him.

minttrav has just busted, I gather. Wish I'd known he was playing, I'd have got a photo.

duncthehat has around 30,000, @ 1,200-2,400/200.

Pete Costa just got a full 2xUp with A-K, & is now double average.

Old foes re-united.


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This is either karabiner, or Dan Carter. Or their love child.


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Sadly, duncthehat is out, but he picked up a handy $2,986.

I lolled

still there tikay?

how is simon doing?

Busted 207th for 3k. Good run played well no complaints.  On to the horse tourney next week.   Thanks for the updates  tk

I'll say hello next time I see you around The Rio. Finished 273rd for $2,588. Off to the Nugget to have a shot at their Stud tournament.

that is the best double lookalike ever.  Right up there with any of tighty's update lookalikes!

Agree, abs spot on wp!

Event #15: $3,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

currently heads up between Davidi Kitai and Gordon Vayo

Phil Hellmuth was 8th

No British cashers

Event #16: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Todd Bui Wins First Bracelet in Event #16: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball ($124,510)

1   Todd Bui   $124,510
2   Tom Franklin   $76,943
3   David Bell   $49,944
4   Vladimir Shchemelev   $33,388
5   Aaron Steury   $22,935
6   David Gee   $16,170

Stephen Chidwick the only UK Casher 24th

Event #17: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

32 of 4425 remain after 2 days


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Kevin Detienne    988,000
2    Michael Wilson    714,000
3    Mitchell Lehman    700,000
4    Milwood Motley    687,000
5    Doc Barry    666,000
6    David Vida    629,000
7    Dennis Phillips    613,000
8    Dan Heimiller    613,000
9    David Tran    576,000
10    Robert Cramer    494,000

UK Cashes

42nd Michael Fisher
130th Barny Boatman
138th Simon Trumper
207th Duncan Hodgkins
273rd John Murray
299th Mick McCloskey
414th Simon Hawksworth

Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship

Players Left 15
Entries    112


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    David Bach    425,000
2    Daniel Negreanu    421,000
3    Todd Dakake    370,000
4    Dan O'Brien    360,000
5    George Danzer    345,000
6    Brian Hastings    340,000
7    Yuval Bronshtein    325,000
8    Naoya Kihara    300,000
9    Thomas Butzhammer    180,000
10    Brandon Shack-Harris    155,000

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

Players Left    252
Entries    2086


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Mihails Morozovs    107,000
2    Mitch Garshofsky    106,000
3    Andy Spears    100,000
4    Jameson Painter    95,300
5    Chris Furbert    90,000
6    Michael Levine    89,000
7    Keanu Tabali    79,600
8    Marc Alioto    66,500
9    Cody Slaubaugh    65,250
10    Ron Macmillen    60,00

Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

389 entries

list of table winners later in the day

Late night poker champ. One of the pioneers of poker. Still can't stack chips

The 40 table winners in the $3k shootout on this link

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13620%5CEV20-Day-2-Counts-by-Seat.pdf

Jake Cody
Tamer Kamel

are the two British players through

Day 1 of Event 19 $1,500 NLHE is complete. 233 players remain. Chip counts here:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13619%5CEV19-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

81 Ian Woodley LONDON, , GB 43,400
104 Gareth Teatum DONCASTER, , GB 35,800
109 Adrian Mcgreevy LEICESTER, , GB 34,000
116 Max Silver LONDON, GB 32,600
120 David Tighe BIRMINGHAM, , GB 32,200
131 Darren Judges WALTHAM ABBEY, , GB 30,400
173 Carlo Citrone Enland, , GB 19,600
209 Joe Laming London, GB 12,000

Danny Laming 2nd of 900 in the Venetian $600 Deepstack overnight

It's all over Tighty he finished 2nd for $53k what a great effort well done that man.

 ;sexybanana;

weeeeee


so happy for him.

just hope he didn't tip!!

Apologies, I had to dash away to take some photos of a helicopter.

Think we should Tineye all of these 'pics', to make sure that you're not just pulling them off the web, while you're plotted up in Glitter Gulch 24/7 ;)

There'll be loads of photos of helicopters in my next blog. Went to Grand Canyon was THE most amazing thing, took tons of photos. The Grand Canyon was quite nice too. It's big.

Looking forward to some pics of the big hole in the ground ;)



Great score, congrats to him!

Event #17: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Won by Dan Heimiller

1    Dan Heimiller    US    627,462
2    Donald Maas    US    388,054
3    David Smith    US    279,412
4    Anthony Wise    US    206,492
5    Dennis Phillips    US    153,883
6    David Tran    US       115,651
7    Doc Barry    US       87,615
8    David Vida    US       66,945
9    Jim Custer    US       51,573

George Danzer, Winner of Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship ($294,792)

1st   George Danzer   Germany   $294,792
2nd   Brandon Shack-Harris   USA   $182,155
3rd   Todd Barlow   USA   $114,081
4th   Yuval Bronshtein   USA   $82,602
5th   Brian Hastings   USA   $64,557
6th   Todd Dakake   USA   $51,481
7th   Naoya Kihara   Japan   $41,806
8th   David Bach   USA   $34,500

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

Players Left 15
Entries    2086


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Mustapha Kanit    1,164,000
2    Jaime Kaplan    1,108,000
3    Ted Gillis    1,040,000
4    John Hennigan    814,000
5    Hiren Patel    808,000
6    Dylan Thomassie    625,000
7    Gregg Merkow    620,000
8    Edison Shields    454,000
9    Dejan Divkovic    439,000
10    Jacobo Fernandez 400,000

Max Silver of the UK currently 11/15

Event #20 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, a $3,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em shootout, originally began with 389 runners, which created a prize pool of $1,061,970. The first day saw each table player down to a winner, which left 40 at the start of play today. That meant ten tables of four players with the winner of each advancing to the final table of ten.

Here is how the final table stacks up:
Seat   Name   Chip Count
1   Chris Bell   346,000
2   Taylor Paur   339,000
3   Kory Kilpatrick   344,000
4   Jack Duong   338,000
5   Noah Bronstein   354,000
6   Michael Stonehill   346,000
7   Dylan Linde   346,000
8   Eric Wasserson   345,000
9   Narendra Banwari   346,000
10   Phil Galfond   347,000

Jake Cody, Tamer Kamel and Nck Abou Risk all cashed for $7,805 but could not win their 4 max SNG to final

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

Players Left 225
Entries    2043


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Dominik Nitsche    85,000
2    Chris Hunichen    82,000
3    David Williams    71,000
4    Fausto Saucedo    70,500
5    Jeff Sluzinski    70,000
6    Zo Karim    60,000
7    James Mackey    51,800
8    Dee Dozier    50,000
9    Soi Nguyen    44,000
10    Jason Senti    42,400

full list of UK survivors when the counts come through atr the end of play

200 runners for the $10k HORSE, Event 22

a Brit currently in 3rd...


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Eric Rodawig    113,000
2    Jon Turner    92,000
3    Zimnan Ziyard    82,000
4    Calvin Anderson    80,000
5    Joe Weinberger    76,000
6    Tuan Le    75,000
7    Toby Hausen    75,000
8    David Benyamine    74,000
9    David Chiu    74,000
10    James Obst    74,000

Event #21 $1,000 NLHE moves on to day 2. 168 players remain. Full chip counts here

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13621%5CEV21-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

23 David Burt Boston, GB 63,800
30 Sunny Chattha LONDON, GB 55,000
66 Charles Denton LIVERPOOL, EE 37,800
126 Mike Ellis LONDON, GB 17,800
129 David Tarbet United Kingdom, GB 16,800
155 John Murray Portsmouth, GB 9,800

Max Silver ‏@max_silver

Bust 13th. Rejammed 99 30bb over 10bb who had QQ. Btn woke up with aces. Good for $23k and change. Solid start to the series

Ted Gillis Wins Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($514,027)

1    Ted Gillis    US    514,027
2    John Hennigan    US    319,993
3    Dejan Divkovic    BA    222,429
4    Jacobo Fernandez US    160,193
5    Mustapha Kanit    MS    117,079
6    Jaime Kaplan    US    86,609
7    Hiren Patel    US       64,911
8    Edison Shields    US    49,267
9    Dylan Thomassie    US    37,834
10    Darin Stout    US    29,709
11    Gregg Merkow    US    29,709
12    Ron Mcmillen    US    29,709
13    Max Silver    GB       23,486

Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Kory Kilpatrick    US       1,536,000
Eric Wasserson    US       1,061,000    
Noah Bronstein    US       854,000    

4    Jack Duong    US    85,616
5    Chris Bell    US       63,877
6    Phil Galfond    US    48,043
7    Taylor Paur    US    36,414
8    Michael Stonehill    US    27,812
9    Dylan Linde    US    21,409
10    Narendra Banwari  US    16,609

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

Players Left 18
Entries    2043


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Louis Campbell    750,000
2    Jeff Gross    563,000
3    Dominik Nitsche    450,000
4    Lance Harris    425,000
5    Eric Shanks    400,000
6    Dave D'Alesandro 395,000
7    Erwann Pecheux 385,000
8    Thayer Rasmussen 350,000
9    Zachary Gruneberg 340,000
10    David Lucchesi    300,000

Event #22: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Players Left 30
Entries    200


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Bill Chen    405,000
2    Calvin Anderson    355,000
3    John Cernuto    340,000
4    Bertrand Grospellier    275,000
5    Richard Ashby    270,000
6    Randy Ohel    240,000
7    David Benyamine    240,000
8    Sergey Rybachenko    235,000
9    Richard Sklar    235,000
10    Lee Goldman    218,000

Event #23: $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 28
Entries    1473


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Joe Kuether    415,000
2    Doug Polk    380,000
3    Asher Conniff    295,000
4    Amanda Baker    246,000
5    Ryan Laplante    230,000
6    Caufman Talley    225,000
7    Liam Alcock    220,000
8    Joe Palmer    205,000
9    Andrew Mackenzie 160,000
10    Anthony Gregg    136,000

British LPPL players Liam Alcock and Dave Burt doing it.

Liam is smashing #23. Currently 1/10 with over 900k. Second 600k, 3rd 300k.

Dave 10/17 in #21.

thank you

in 23 the Turbo Rhys Jones is also in with 14 left

Quick update on that.

In ONE day, they got down to 9 players, from 1,473. Yikes.

Even more impressive was Liam's effort. I am copying this from the (also) excellent WSOP thead Next Door, run by Cornwall Bloke, aka FCHD.....


Next on the list is Liam Alcock, who according to the WSOP is from Rotherham, and according to Hendon Mob has a grand total of $0 in lifetime earnings, just a couple of mentions of finishing positions in events at a Festival Of Pub Poker. If this is the same guy it is a major step up as he is now guaranteed a minimum of $17K. It's not been easy to track him as PokerNews' updates are calling him Liam Allock, presumably to get around their ultra-sensitive profanity filter.

Later, "murray69" (MintTrav maybe?) replied further......


I know Liam, and yes you are correct he hasnt had many big cashes but finished 2nd at the livepubpoker main event back in march, but he has a great game and im confident that he can win this.


I LOVE these stories, of "little guys" having a day in a lifetime.

Good luck him.

Dave Burt, unforch, is out.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=1052&tid=13623

Liam, as you will see, is listed as being from Rotherham, EStonia.

what an amazing story that would be if he binked $250k with nothing other than pub poker experience.  Has he won a sat into this $1k or just took a shot? Staked?

No idea, but I'm going to try & bump into him before the Final, & ask him how he came to be playing this. Maybe "murray69" knows?

I've had a word with Seth Palansky, too, about changing his Country to GB. If he wins it, it'd be a bit sad if he were reported as Estonian.

The 6-Max $5,000 has just began, very few Brits in it so far, thought I might see Flushy, but no sign of him yet. 300 Entrants so far, half an hour in.

Did see this reprobate, & his Rail, though.


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Dave Burt is not in the same event as Liam, he is still in event #21 according to WSOP and pokernews

Ahh yes, so he is, you are absolutely right, apologies.

It was my reverse anti-bok.

Haha, wish those 2 reprobates the best of luck from me if you pass them again, please.


Good luck to the other brits that are deep, too!

More from "murray69" next Door........


"He won the trip to Vegas for finishing 2nd in the LPPL nationals in march which included flights and accom, so he has used his own money to buy into the event, he also played event 21 but didnt do too well although his mate Dave Burt is still in with 16 remaining. Not a bad trip for them both"

Amazing stuff.

Gonna try & get a photo & have a word with him, play starts in 10 minutes.

Just bumped into MintTrav, who has fiilled me in about Liam & Dave, then I had a chat with Liam.

Incredibly, with Dave in the last 16 of the other event, & Liam in the Turbo Final, the 2 of them are sharing the same room. What a trip for them both.

Liam paid himself in, after winning the "flight & hotel" package in the Pub League Final.  

Liam has won a good few bob Online, he tells me, but nothing Live that qualifies or a Database entry.

He is an Accounts Clerk for a frozen food distribution company in Sheffield, apparently.

Here's Liam, 5 mins ago, the photo is a bit dark, sorry, but flash photography is not allowed.


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Live stream just come online! should be a fun watch and really rooting for Liam!

5 left in the Turbo now, including Liam.

And his room-mate, Dave Burt, is now on the Final Table of the other Event.

Meanwhile, the Boys are in town, Ryan & Posh Bloke.


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Incred stuff

Hideous lighting. I thought you were a photographer?

Hard to work with such poor material.

Incredible.

::) You're no David Bailey.

Admittedly, I'm no David Gandy...

Liam OUT in 5th, for, I think, $54,000.

Think he Live Stream is on delay, so won't reveal the hands yet, but it was a real brutal exit, an absolute corker.

I thought the tummys came ot rather well..

Dangerous ground there, sir.

Anyway, well done to the two chaps for a pretty stupendous story.

horrid run out

Exactly, Ralph, I did not want to say as much, but you spotted them.

Think Posh Bloke is wearing an Arsenal shirt, too.

Grim lap of table fist pump from opponent too.

is the 10k horse getting streamed tonight?
and is the event liams room mate is in getting streamed ?

forget that last posts i see they aint on final tables yet

Dave Burt has made the Final of the other one.

Spotted in the $3,000 6-Max, tis is either claypole or Roberto.

No sign of Flushy or Sam Trickett yet.

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just turned it on to see him bust unlucky

Great story about the two lads from England gives us all hope ;D

Slightly less good looking older brother. Top lad, hope he does well....had one of best night so trip with Roberto lat year with epic craps syndicate line up where we couldn't lose, if I named them which would be name dropping you understand we could not lose.

You were absolutely useless in the Nugget!

;)

Yes, getting so tilted....just been looking at flights ha ha

See you in a couple of weeks then  :D

Richard ashby just went from 180k to 900k chip lead with no hands reported in the horse I am hoping this game gets streamed it's one of few games I enjoy watching

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Remember playing with him at the Concorde years ago in a comp, then he was kitted out in a suit, the lot. Hence, I was a bit confused when I  saw the Sideshow Bob photo on Pokernews!

Clicked on the link, and the photos showed his hair getting wilder over the last couple years. Must be nice being able to grow a barnet like that at his age, or at any age!

I know - or knew - him well, but I walked past him 3 times today without realising who it was.

I would never have recognized him in a thousand years.

who is he?  i don't know him from either photo!

Bruno fitoussi (sp)

Neither would I have... He looks like Leif Force after spending far too long in the sun!


http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=84

Dominik Nitsche Wins Event #21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Less than a month removed from a win in the 2014 World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship, Dominik Nitsche won his third WSOP gold bracelet, taking down Event 21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em today.

David Burt of the UK was 9th for $24,700

3 left in the $10,000 HORSE, Event 22

Randy Ohel    
Christopher Wallace    
Richard Sklar

Another final table for Chufty

4    Richard Ashby    GB       150,625
5    Max Pescatori    IT       112,066
6    Lee Goldman    US       84,844
7    Bill Chen    US       65,273
8    Calvin Anderson    US       50,966
9    Bruno Fitoussi    FR       40,363

Doug Polk Wins Event #23: $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em ($251,969)

1    Doug Polk    US       251,969
2    Andy Philachack    US    155,756
3    Jonathan Hanner US    102,503
4    Chad Cox    US       73,894
5    Liam Alcock    GB    54,088
6    Tony Gregg       40,168
7    Gianluca Cedolia    CA    30,252
8    Dash Dudley    US    23,093
9    Andrew Mackenzie US    17,857

Event #24: $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 129
Entries    541


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Chris Hunichen    177,200
2    Bryn Kenney    166,200
3    Bjorn Li    152,900
4    Ben Volpe    150,000
5    Freddy Deeb    145,900
6    Kevin Saul    143,200
7    Calvin Anderson    133,600
8    Greg Merson    132,700
9    Andrea Dato    125,000
10    Dani Stern    123,000

list of brits when the overnight pdf comes through

Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low

Players Left 208
Entries    470


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Dan Shak    52,000
2    James Hoeppner    41,000
3    David Tarbet    35,000
4    Joe Tehan    35,000
5    Michael Moed    32,000
6    Owais Ahmed    29,000
7    Vanessa Selbst    28,000
8    Andrew Barber    26,100
9    Edison Shields    26,000
10    Adam Friedman    24,000

Victoria Coren on skipping the WSOP

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/team_pokerstars_blogs/vicky_coren/2014/on-skipping-the-wsop-149025.shtml

Quite a few of the UK festival/circuit regs missing Vegas this year

Calvin Anderson finishes Day 1 of the 5K Six Max with a top 10 chip count after final tabling the 10K HORSE earlier today.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13624%5CEV24-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

16 Richard Kellett Chorley, , EE 118,300
26 Martins Adeniya LONDON, , GB 94,100
113 Zimnan Ziyard EASTBOURNE, , GB 24,100

Tom Schneider has a big stack in Event 25 at the end of Day 1.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13625%5CEV25-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

14 David Tarbet United Kingdom, , GB 46,400
27 John Kabbaj BUSHEY, GB 36,200
28 Iaren Lightbourne GB 35,500
127 Robert Price CORNWELL, , GB 8,600

After the first two weeks of the 2014 World Series of Poker, Justin Bonomo is out to an early lead in the Player of the Year standings. Bonomo reached his eighth career final WSOP final table last week and finally claimed his first WSOP bracelet, removing his name from the list of the best players without poker's most prestigious piece of hardware.

Bonomo is followed closely in the standings by Brandon Shack-Harris, a cash game player who virtually came out of nowhere to win a bracelet of his own. Shack-Harris won the largest pot-limit Omaha event in Event #3, and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $10,000 Razz Championship event.

Sitting third in the POY standings through 20 events is George Danzer, who defeated Shack-Harris heads-up in the Razz Championship on Sunday. It was also the first bracelet for Danzer, wideley considered one of the top mixed-games minds in the game.

Rounding out the top five through the first two weeks of the series are Brock Parker and Jonathan Dimmig. Parker picked up his third career bracelet in Event #10, and Dimmig collected the first seven-figure score of the 2014 WSOP with his victory in the Millionaire Maker.

WSOP PLAYER OF THE YEAR TOP 10 (through 20 events)
Place   Player   Points
1   Justin Bonomo   399.00
2   Brandon Shack-Harris   389.00
3   George Danzer   372.60
4   John Brock Parker   349.50
5   Jonathan Dimmig   300.00
5   Vanessa Selbst   300.00
7   Paul Volpe   272.25
8   Tuan Le   270.00
9   Kyle Cartwright   251.50
10   Jeffrey Smith   230.00

Event #24: $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 17
Entries    541

347   1   Kory Kilpatrick   USA   250,000
347   2   Mustapha Kanit   Italy   250,000
347   3   Bryn Kenney   USA   740,000
347   4   Matt Jarvis   Canada   850,000
347   5   Andrea Dato   Italy   505,000
347   6   Griffin Benger   Canada   265,000
                
353   1   Amanda Musumeci   USA   145,000
353   2   David Borrat   France   545,000
353   3   Byron Kaverman   USA   520,000
353   4   Pierre Neuville   Belgium   605,000
353   5   Pratyush Buddiga    USA   270,000
353   6   Greg Merson   USA   295,000
                
359   1   Fabrice Touil   France   335,000
359   2   Andrew Lichtenberger   USA   565,000
359   3   Jay Dragland   Canada   125,000
359   4   Mark Darner   USA   535,000
359   5   Kevin Eyster   USA   460,000
359   6   Jeremy Kottler   USA   347,000

Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low

Players Left 25
Entries    470

444   1   Christopher McHugh
444   2   Terrence Hastoo
444   3   Fu Wong
444   4   Cameron Tahmasebi
444   5   Allyn Jaffrey Shulman
444   6   Chris Reslock
444   7   Jeet Shetty
444   8   Mike Matusow
        
445   1   Matt Lefkowitz
445   2   Mike Leah
445   3   Robert Mizrachi
445   4   Matt Glantz
445   5   Tyson Marks
445   6   Tom Schneider
445   7   Konstantin Puchkov
445   8   Andrey Zhigalov
        
440   1   Thomas Keller
440   2   Erik Seidel
440   3   Owais Ahmed
440   4   Michael Roeseler
440   5   Raymond Bonavida
440   6   Jan Erik Sorensen
440   7   John Kabbaj
440   8   Joe Tehan


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Andrey Zhigalov    340,000
2    Tyson Marks    280,000
3    Erik Seidel    265,000
4    Terrence Hastoo    205,000
5    Robert Mizrachi    200,000
6    Fu Wong    190,000
7    John Kabbaj    190,000
8    Thomas Keller    185,000
9    Joe Tehan    180,000
10    Mike Matusow    170,000

Event #26: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 216
Entries    1594


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Ryan Welch    89,000
2    Vanessa Kade    81,000
3    Chris Symesko    73,600
4    Mark Dube    73,000
5    Ami Barer    68,000
6    Scott Clements    64,000
7    Geremy Eiland    62,400
8    Max Silver    62,000
9    Hector Quiroz    61,000
10    Dan Smith    58,000

full uk list at the close of play when the pdf comes through

Greg Merson and Andrew Lichtenberger (luckychewy) will return for Day 3 of the 5K Six Max. Full Chip Counts

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13624%5CEV24-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

phi hellmuth survives Day 1 of Event 26 and is in pursuit of a record extending 14th bracelet. Day 2 Chip Counts:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13626%5CEV26-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

13 Tom Alner BRISTOL, , GB 85,300
18 Max Silver LONDON, GB 80,100
32 Adam Wilkinson GB 61,300
42 Mike Ellis LONDON, GB 54,900
58 Karim Jomeen LONDON, GB 46,900
85 Matthew Davenport Cheshire, GB, GB 33,500
148 Steven Watts London, , GB 15,100

Eight time bracelet winner, Erik Seidel, leads Event 25 - Omaha/Stud 8 with 18 players remaining

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13625%5CEV25-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

John Kabbaj 3 of 18 overnight

71,700 for Danny Laming too - always put him down as a Swiss player for some reason.

The 2014 World Series of Poker Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low began with 470 players, but after 28 levels of play it was England’s John Kabbaj that emerged as the last man standing.

Kabbaj, who won the 2009 WSOP Event #45 $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em for $633,335, captured his second gold bracelet and a $267,327 first-place prize.

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1857/39/b6ac86ab23e.jpg)

This is the UK's first 2014 bracelet, and takes Jhn to over $2.9m in career earnings

Many congratulations

Event #24: $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Pierre Neuville    3,970,000
2    Kevin Eyster    2,790,000
3    Andrew Lichtenberger    1,360,000

4    Bryn Kenney    US    160,927
5    Jeremy Kottler    US    109,844
6    David Borrat    FR    77,145
7    Mustapha Kanit    IT    55,710
8    Fabrice Touil    FR    55,710
9    Matt Jarvis    CA       41,344

Event #25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low

Place   Player   Prize
1st   John Kabbaj   $267,327
2nd   Thomas Keller   $165,177
3rd   Christopher McHugh   $105,000
4th   Terrence Hastoo   $75,713
5th   Joe Tehan   $55,451
6th   Erik Seidel   $41,230
7th   Mike Leah   $31,115
8th   Tom Schneider   $23,833

Event #26: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 15
Entries    1594


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Ryan Welch    775,000
2    Tony Gargano    740,000
3    Anthony Spinella    605,000
4    Christopher Symesko    590,000
5    Heinz Kamutzki    575,000
6    Michael Katz    570,000
7    Dan Smith    530,000
8    Reed Goodmiller    452,000
9    Geremy Eiland    390,000
10    Andrew Rennhack    381,000

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

Players Left 160
Entries    743


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jason Riesenberg 72,600
2    Huck Seed    59,400
3    Lonnie Heimowitz 52,500
4    Ron Lane    51,000
5    Ronald Lane    47,200
6    Jeff Wagner    45,900
7    James Van Alstyne 45,000
8    John Monnette    43,900
9    Dutch Boyd    43,400
10    Pnut Brand    42,500

Full list when the overnight counts come through

Event #28: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

Players Left 99
Entries    160


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Dan Shak    128,000
2    Antonio Esfandiari    127,000
3    Alex Bilokur    123,000
4    Timothy Adams    95,500
5    Taylor Paur    93,000
6    Mike Matusow    87,000
7    Barney Boatman    84,000
8    Di Dang    77,100
9    Amit Makhija    73,000
10    Justin Bonomo    70,200


Full list when the overnight counts come through

John Kabbaj‘s first bracelet was most notably remembered for the playing of the Sex Pistol’s version of “God Save the Queen.” He’s giving the World Series of Poker staff a chance to make up for the faux pas by winning another bracelet on Thursday night, thus a second ceremony.

The British pro topped a field of 470 players in the $2,500 Omaha H-Lo/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo event to earn $267,327. The win puts his career tournament earnings over the $2 million mark and into a small group of players who can say that they have multiple bracelets.

“It’s surreal,” said Kabbaj. “I’m still in shock at the moment.”

After a few years of personal struggles, Kabbaj looks at this accomplishment as a fresh start for him.

“I’ve had the worst two years of my life and this is quite special,” said Kabaj. “I’ve been through a really bad divorce, sold my house, moved countries and had a really tough year. This is the icing on the cake.

After his divorce, Kabbaj decided to move to the Austrian mountains, a place that he describes as “the middle of nowhere,” with his dog to get away from his personal problems in Britain.

“I moved out there with my dog and dreamed of this moment,” he said. “I’m in the mountains up by the ski resort. It’s a beautiful place with my dog. I reached the age of 40 and decided I would find myself.”

If he can offer one piece of advice for anybody going through similar problems, it would be to stay away from the tables.

“If you ever get divorced, don’t play poker for a long time. Take time out. I should have taken some time out,” said Kabbaj. “I should have taken some time out and I didn’t. I just went on a roller coaster. It’s hard for me to explain the year that I had, but it’s basically the low of the low to the high now, so it’s going to take time to sink in.”

1996 Main Event champ, Huck Seed, is second in chips of the $1,500 HORSE event at the end of Day 1.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13627%5CEV27-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

24 Adam Owen Folkestone, GB 34,500
60 Richard Ashby WATFORD, , GB 24,200

John Kabbaj is a huge boss, funny polite subtle, gentleman and really pleased he won.

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow – Bulldozered By WSOP Floor For “Outrageous Behavior”

Matusow lashes out, top pros lend support over “unjust ruling.”

http://f5poker.com/poker-news/2014/6/12/mike-mouth-matusow-get-bulldozered-wsop-floor-outrageous-behavior-matusow-lashes-out-top-pros-lend/


Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth Speak Up For The Mouth

Penalty for Mikey called “atrocious” and “disgusting.”

http://f5poker.com/poker-news/2014/6/13/daniel-negreanu-phil-hellmuth-speak-mouth-penalty-mikey-called-atrocious-and-disgusting/

For pretty much anyone else, my first reaction is if you run around the Amazon Room hollering and whooping, that's what's outrageous and how can you possibly complain about getting a penalty. I thought they were clamping down on it after Hevad Khan a few years ago. The TD's decision is final and it's hardly Draconian to say you shouldn't run around the room screaming if you win a pot, however important, when the competition is still live. To suggest you should always give a warning first is embarrassing. I really hope they don't give him the apology it's said he deserves. If someone won a 200k pot at my local casino and started off like that, they'd be lucky to escape with a warning. And not just from the TD. Pathetic to suggest it's in any way close to appropriate behaviour.

For Mike Matusow, I'm reminded of a Lisa Simpson quote:

"You can't create a monster and complain when he stomps on a few buildings"

Probably a bit unjust and a warning sounds absolutely fine io. His celebration does sound somewhat excessive though and if it was Joe Bloggs the ruling would have been the same so I don't see a particular issue. What I find more interesting/worrying is that yet again a cash game at the RIO has been found to have 2 of the same card in it. Crazy. No real proof but a fairly convincing thread on 2+2

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/2-aces-spade-deck-rio-plo-game-1450770/index3.html

Matt Glantz @MattGlantz  ·  May 31
What were the pre tournament odds on any player being dealt a joker in this massive field #MillyMaker today? Just happened on table 221.

I know mistakes will happen with so many hands getting dealt but these seem particularly crazy.

This.

It amazes me how Daniel is screaming for "warnings" to be given. Him, and all the other pro's siding with him, play Poker EVERY day and have been doing for decades. Why do you need to be WARNED that something is OOL? I mean come on, really? Someone who goes in a Casino once a month knows where the line is.

The fact they're playing for large amounts of money means nothing either. The reason you dont celebrate like that in someones face is because its a rubdown. Yes you're more excited because you've just gained X equity in this $250k up top tournament, but what about the guy whos just lost X equity?

Im all for atmosphere, and Im all for emotion, but there has to be a line. Running around the room like a demented loon and pounding the table is definitely past that line.

Andrew Rennhack Wins Event #26: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($408,953)

1    Andrew Rennhack    US    408,953
2    Michael Katz    US       252,826
3    Tony Gargano    US       166,384
4    Ryan Welch    US       119,946
5    Reed Goodmiller    US       87,797
6    Heinz Kamutzki    AT       65,202
7    Geremy Eiland    US       49,106
8    Eric Rappaport    US       37,486
9    Dan Smith    US       28,986

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

just 15 players remained in contention for the bracelet and the $230,744 in first-place prize money. Kristan Lord is the player closest to achieving that goal, bagging up the chip lead with 475,000 in chips.


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Kristan Lord    475,000
2    Stewart Yancik    468,000
3    Brandon Guss    371,000
4    Jim Collopy    336,000
5    Chris George    311,000
6    Joe Villella    287,000
7    Dutch Boyd    209,000
8    Michele Limongi    199,000
9    Tommy Hang    163,000
10    Lonnie Heimowitz 161,000

Event #28: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

10 left


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Alex Bilokur    725,000
2    Matt O'Donnell    570,000
3    Chino Rheem    560,000
4    Alexander Venovski    550,000
5    Ismael Bojang    460,000
6    Dan Shak    440,000
7    Todd Brunson    350,000
8    Pratyush Buddiga    320,000
9    Richard Lyndaker    271,000
10    Barny Boatman    270,000

Barry Hutter Leads After Day 1 Of The $2,500 NLHE Event #29

Players Left 209
Entries    1165


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Barry Hutter    150,500
2    Grayson Ramage    138,600
3    Justin Oliver    115,100
4    Richard Kirsch    110,000
5    Rep Porter    107,900
6    Jorge Walker    104,700
7    Isaac Baron    103,100
8    Jake Schwartz    99,800
9    Kunal Patel    98,000
10    Pierre Milan    95,000

uk survivors when the overnight pdf comes through

Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low

Players Left 144
Entries    588


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Daniel Ospina    42,000
2    Hoyt Corkins    41,000
3    Matt Glantz    40,000
4    Mike Watson    38,000
5    Jimmy Fricke    34,000
6    Andreas Hoivold    33,000
7    Ylon Schwartz    32,000
8    Calvin Anderson    32,000
9    Jonathan Tamayo 31,000
10    Maria Mayrinck    29,500

uk survivors when the overnight pdf comes through

Day 1 of Event #30 has concluded. 110 players remain and move on to day 2.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13630%5CEV30-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

91 Sebastian Saffari LONDON, GB 8,900

Day 1 of Event #29 has come to a close. 209 players move on to day 2. Chip counts here:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13629%5CEV29-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

16 Ben Warrington Cardiff, , GB 86,700
25 Roberto Romanello GORSEINON, , GB 73,100
89 Sunny Chattha LONDON, , GB 42,000
149 Ian Woodley LONDON, , GB 25,600

and good luck to

38 Daniel Laming CH 60,900

sorry glenn, by about event 60 i will learn not to filter by location :-)

gl to danny.

Likely to be a rail for this? What time does it start? Hopefully, still going after the final whistle in the England game and I'll pop down.

Sure, Chino there, they will be 10 deep outside the cage.

Really seems short of young brits this time, so maybe not as big as in the past.   We need someone there to make a count. 

would be awesome to see him win bracelets in back to back years.  Why is there not much mention of the english super kids like flushy, moorman, spinks, brammar, jake, lewis, trigg etc?  Are they knocking it in at level 2 of every event or just not bothered going this year cus of the world cup?

Moorman just got there I think, the rest aren't there yet or in jakes case left there for Marbella. Flushy played a few events I think. Not entirely sure.

And trigg not going.

ok cheers.  It's not intended as a rub as i just reread it and it could come across like that.  Just like to see the english kids have it right off out there.

9 left in Marbella.

Katja Svendsen, Norway, PokerStars Qualifier, 2,344,000
Gareth Hamilton, Ireland, 743,000
Marcin Barwinski, Poland, PokerStars Player, 2,206,000
Rodrigo Espinosa, Spain, PokerStars Qualifier, 2,002,000
Jake Cody, United Kingdom, Team PokerStars Pro, 1,667,000
Daniel Rodriguez, Spain, PokerStars Player, 611,000
Sam Grafton, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, 1,712,000
Christian Bauer, Germany, 2,400,000
Javier Elorza, Spain, PokerStars Qualifier, 1,200,000

bramm, toby not there either

After several close calls, Tommy Hang is now a bracelet winner. More on his $1.5K HORSE victory

http://www.wsop.com/news/2014/Jun/4840/TOMMY-HANG-GETS-REDEMPTION-AND-WINS-A-BRACELET.html

November Niner David Benefield survives Day 2 of Event 29 - $2.5K NLHE. Play resumes tomorrow at 1 with 20 players left

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13629%5CEV29-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

Note Danny Laming of Estonia, Switzerland and Latvia but most recently England, is 6 of 20 going into day 3. good luck

Ted Forrest is chasing his second bracelet of the summer in Event 30 - $1.5K Stud 8. 12 players remain

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13630%5CEV30-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

end of Day 1 in Event 31 - $1,500 NLHE. Full chip counts available:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13631%5CEV31-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

they are just off the money and

8 Peter Gould LONDON, , GB 100,300
37 Najib Kamand SURREY LONDON, , GB 57,100
97 Benjamin Dobson POOLE, DORSET, , CA 31,500
101 Adam Owen Folkestone, GB 30,000
120 Iqbal Ahmed Birmingham, , GB 23,000

Ev 32 - $10K NLHE 6 Max draws 264 players creating a $2,481,600 prize pool. Top 30 places paid with $670K for first

102 remain

Max Silver and Chris moorman are in the top 20

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=1052&tid=13632

Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Daniel Laming Eliminated in 8th Place ($48,952)

Players Left 4
Entries    1165

Justin Oliver    CA       3,450,000
Pierre Milan    US       3,055,000
Thad McNulty    US       1,475,000
Matt Salsberg    US       760,000

Calvin Anderson Wins Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low ($190,538)

Calvin Anderson, ranked as the top online tournament player in the world as recently as last November, just added his first World Series of Poker bracelet to his resume, taking down Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low. Anderson will pocket $190,538 for his win after defeating fellow American pro Joe Tehan heads up. He defeated a total field of 588 players to claim his win.

1    Calvin Anderson    US       190,538
2    Joe Tehan    US       118,014
3    Eric Kurtzman    US       79,800
4    Levon Torosyan    US       55,319
5    Melissa Burr    US       39,181
6    Sanjay Pandya    US       28,346
7    Jimmy Fricke    US       20,932
8    John Myung    US       15,772
9    Ted Forrest    US       12,121

Event #31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 20
Entries    1631

British chip leader....

op Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Peter Gould    700,000
2    Eric Spitzer    700,000
3    Matt Stout    655,000
4    Robert Schmidt    640,000
5    Brett Shaffer    555,000
6    Rajaee Wazwaz    430,000
7    Steven Mcnally    425,000
8    Kyle Weir            348,000
9    Seth Berger    335,000
10    Jason Vanstrom    260,000

Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Players Left 17
Entries    264


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Dario Sammartino    1,060,000
2    Joe Cada    960,000
3    Hiren Patel    823,000
4    Kyle White    742,000
5    Layne Flack    492,000
6    Igor Kurganov    471,000
7    Max Silver    468,000
8    Jeremy Ausmus    440,000
9    George Danzer    430,000
10    Brock Parker    292,000

Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 174
Entries    1688


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Goran Mandic    93,000
2    Shelby Standley    77,000
3    Mike Sowers    71,700
4    Joseph Iarussi    71,400
5    Mark Wahba    69,000
6    Sean Jazayeri    65,000
7    Martin Finger    60,000
8    Chris Sensoli    50,900
9    Anthony Gregg    50,000
10    David Peters    48,000


full list of brits through at close of play

Event #34: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

Players Left 128
Entries    345


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Robert Mizrachi    26,500
2    Marcel Luske    20,500
3    Aaron Steury    18,500
4    Doug Lee    18,000
5    Iori Yogo    17,700
6    Tommy Hang    17,700
7    Daniel Negreanu    17,000
8    Thomas Hammers    15,500
9    Men Nguyen    14,500
10    Barbara Enright    14,000

full list of brits through at close of play

Max Silver of the UK holds the chip lead in the $10K Six Max followed closely by Sunny Patel . 13 remain Overnight

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13632%5CEV32-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

Matt Stout is the chip leader in Event 31 - $1,500 NLHE heading into the final day of play

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13631%5CEV31-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

15 left

5 Peter Gould LONDON, , GB 639,000

Max has been pinging in deep runs left right and centre this year.

Such a boss, literally been playing out of his skin, and so happy to finally see some justice for Danny, such a lovely boy too. Congrats and keep it going!! xx

Brett Shaffer Wins 2nd WSOP Bracelet in Event #31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($418,435)

Brit Peter Gould was 4th

1    Brett Shaffer    US       418,435
2    RJ Sullivan    US       258,695
3    Matt Stout    US       170,247
4    Peter Gould    GB       122,731
5    Aleksandr Gofman    RU    89,835
6    Robert Schmidt    US       66,176
7    Rob Wazwaz          50,246
8    Jim Jakobsen    NO       39,356
9    Jason Vanstrom    US       29,658

Joe Cada Wins Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship ($670,041)

When Joe Cada won the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, he was the target of criticism. The young kid from Detroit was dragged through the mud for running well on the biggest stage in poker, but in the last decade, few Main Event champions have put up results at the Rio like Cada.

The ’09 champ fell just short of winning his second bracelet in 2012, finishing runner-up to Carter Phillips, and he finished in fourth place twice in 2013. Cada couldn’t be held back any longer, and on Monday he topped a very impressive final table to win Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship, his second gold bracelet, and $670,041.

Since Carlos Mortensen, Cada becomes the first Main Event champion to win a bracelet after winning the biggest tournament in poker

1    Joe Cada    US       670,041
2    Jeremy Ausmus    US       414,104
3    Max Silver    GB       273,646
4    JC Tran    US       185,971
5    Erick Lindgren    US       129,192
6    Dario Sammartino    IT       91,670
7    Martin Jacobson    SE       66,382
8    Kyle White    CA       66,382
9    George Danzer    DE       49,061

$273,000 for Max Silver in 3rd.....

Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 11
Entries    1688


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Will Givens    1,200,000
2    Dutch Boyd    850,000
3    Steven Norden    700,000
4    Paul Cogliano    410,000
5    Chad Dixon    340,000
6    David Olmsted    330,000
7    Vinny Pahuja    250,000
8    Pok Kim    210,000
9    Faraz Jaka    205,000
10    Christopher Sensoli    157,000

Event #34: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

Players Left 8
Entries    345

Aleksandr Denisov    RU       380,000
William Thompson    US       310,000    
Bryn Kenney    US          280,000    
Eric Buchman    US          230,000    
David Prager    US          120,000
Nabih Helmi    US          85,000    
Alex Kravchenko    RU          50,000    
Mallory Smith    US          40,000    

Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

Sam Trickett Leads as 170 Players Advance from Strong Day 1 Field

The $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event is a popular one on the World Series of Poker schedule. In 2013, the tournament attracted 481 players, but this year it was bigger and better as 550 players created a prize pool of $2,585,000, which will be distributed to the top 56 players with the winner taking home $633,341.


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Sam Trickett    172,000
2    Dan Smith    144,000
3    Steven Kerr    122,900
4    Fred Kulikowski    122,500
5    Noah Vaillancourt    119,000
6    Josh Bergman    118,300
7    Fhima David    115,000
8    Jeff Madsen    114,500
9    Chris Tryba    111,900
10    Matt Davenport    110,500

Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball

Players Left 68
Entries    241


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Brian Rast    48,000
2    Ali Eslami    44,000
3    Christopher Mecklin    39,000
4    Marcel Vonk    36,000
5    Erle Mankin    34,000
6    Eric Wasserson    30,000
7    Brian Brubaker    27,000
8    Darren Elias    25,000
9    Robert Williamson 23,000
10    Bryce Yockey    23,000

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13635%5CEV35-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

10 Matthew Davenport Cheshire,, GB 110,500
76 Stephen Chidwick DEAL, , GB 47,600
89 Craig McCorkell WEST SUSSEX, GB 39,500
93 Steven Watts London, , GB 38,400
100 Senh Ung BIRMINGHAM, GB 35,300
123 Ben Warrington Cardiff, , GB 28,300
129 Michael Hill CHESIRE, GB 24,300
169 Charles Chattha LONDON, , GB 9,500

Have I missed how Barney Boatman did in that PLO final?

event 28

9th for $37,000 and change

Hi Liam,

I may be wrong, but I'm 90% certain it was PLH, not PLO.

Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

The third and final day of the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event #33 of the 2014 World Series of Poker saw 10 players return to the ESPN feature stage. Will Givens was leading the field as only player with more than one million in chips.

After less than seven levels and 154 hands of play, Dutch Boyd emerged victorious to win his third gold bracelet, adding to his victories in a $2,500 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em in 2006 and a $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six Handed four years ago.

Position   Player   Payout
1   Dutch Boyd   $288,744
2   Steven Norden   $178,490
3   Paul Cogliano   $117,464
4   Will Givens   $84,680
5   Pok Kim   $61,983
6   Christopher Sensoli   $46,031
7   Vinny Pahuja   $34,668
8   Gabriel Nassif   $26,464
9   Chad Dixon   $20,463

Event #34: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud

Eric Buchman nabbed his second World Series of Poker bracelet today, winning a short final table of Event #34: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud for $118,785. Few could question Buchman's limit poker prowess, as he has a bracelet in limit hold'em along with a second-place finish in eight-game, a second-place finish in limit hold'em, and a third-place finish in stud at the WSOP.

Buchman may be best known for a deep run in the 2009 Main Event, which resulted in a fourth-place score for over $2.5 million. Coincidentally, Buchman made it two 2009 November Niners to take down bracelets in two days after 2009 winner Joe Cada scored a second bracelet last night.

New York native Buchman topped a field of 345 to take down the title,

1    Eric Buchman    US       118,785
2    Alex Kravchenko    RU       73,360
3    Aleksandr Denisov    RU       47,315
4    William Thompson    US       34,283
5    Bryn Kenney    US       25,206
6    Nabih Helmi    US       18,802
7    Mallory Smith    US       14,228
8    David Prager    US       10,921
9    Steve Sung    US       8,504
10    Daniel Negreanu    CA       8,504

Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

On Tuesday, the remaining 170 players in a 550-player field returned for ten more one-hour levels of play in the 2014 World Series of Poker Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em. By the end of that time, which rolled into the early Wednesday morning hours, just 23 remained with Jeff Madsen and his stack of 661,000 leading the way.


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jeff Madsen    661,000
2    Jay Conley    592,000
3    Brian Yoon    587,000
4    Josh Bergman    553,000
5    Matt Davenport    543,000
6    Michael Rocco    501,000
7    Sam Trickett    456,000
8    Timo Pfutzenreuter    429,000
9    Nick Grippo    413,000
10    Josh Arieh    385,000

Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball

Day 2 of Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball began with 38 players remaining from the starting field of 241 entrants. Among them were bracelet winners Brian Rast, Eli Elezra, and Phil Hellmuth. However, none were able to reach the final table. Hellmuth, in fact, was eliminated by end-of-day chip leader Steven Wolansky.

The official final table was reached shortly after the dinner break and following Scott Bohlman's elimination in seventh place, the remaining six players opted to bag and tag for the night. Among those still in the field is German football star Max Kruse, as well as 2010 WSOP November Niner Joseph Cheong.

Here is the complete lineup for the final table:
Seat   Player   Chips
2   Samuel Touil   233,000
3   Orjan Skommo   109,000
4   Joseph Cheong   221,500
5   Steven Wolansky   257,000
6   Christopher Mecklin   145,000
7   Max Kruse   131,000

Event #37: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

Players Left 113
Entries    967


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Brandon Paster    135,300
2    Fabrice Soulier    129,300
3    Mike Wang    113,900
4    Julio Marines    113,500
5    Erick Lindgren    100,000
6    Norm Silverman    86,800
7    Raj Vohra    85,000
8    Taylor Paur    85,000
9    Noomis Jones    83,800
10    Jonathan Poche    77,700

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13637%5CEV37-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf


7 Derek Miller Accrington, GB 88,000
28 Jerome Bradpiece HARROW, , GB 51,500
50 Peter Charalambous SUFFOLK, , GB 34,600
74 Robert Price CORNWELL, , GB 21,600
86 George Hassabis ondon, , GB 18,700

Event #38: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Championship


Players Left 84
Entries    134


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    George Danzer    200,000
2    Todd Dakake    105,000
3    Brian "Trigger" Twete    102,000
4    Richard Sklar    101,000
5    Stephen Chidwick    92,000
6    Roland Israelashvili    91,000
7    Jan Suchanek    84,000
8    Brian Hastings    81,000
9    Huck Seed    80,000
10    Abe Mosseri    78,000

He didn't make the plane to Brazil because Löw preferred Klose and no other strikers, but max Kruse of Mönchengladbach will go for all the gold in the $1.500 2-7 NL this evening.

He returns in the final 6.

Brian Yoon Wins Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em for $633,341

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Brian Yoon   $633,341
2nd   Josh Arieh   $391,575
3rd   Josh Bergman   $246,169
4th   Ardit Kurshumi   $176,684
5th   Mustapha Kanit   $128,862
6th   Dan Smith   $95,515
7th   Timo Pfutzenreuter   $71,940
8th   Tony Cousineau   $55,034

Steven Wolansky Wins Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball for $89,483

Place   Players   Prize
1st   Steven Wolansky   $89,483
2nd   Joseph Cheong   $55,309
3rd   Max Kruse   $36,494
4th   Christopher Mecklin   $24,908
5th   Orjan Skommo   $17,445
6th   Samuel Touil   $12,529

Event #37: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

11 left


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Kevin Saul    690,000
2    Brandon Paster    690,000
3    Millard Hale    488,000
4    Matthew Humphrey    485,000
5    Galen Hall    405,000
6    Dapreesch Scates    310,000
7    Matthew Dames    299,000
8    Marcel Vonk    277,000
9    AP Phahurat    250,000
10    Gabriel Nassif    215,0

Event #38: $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Championship

15 of 134 left


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    George Danzer    720,000
2    Alexander Jung    500,000
3    Calvin Anderson    380,000
4    David Singer    310,000
5    Ted Forrest    305,000
6    Richard Sklar    290,000
7    Jeff Lisandro    270,000
8    Chris George    250,000
9    Brian Hastings    250,000
10    John Monnette    240,000

Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

A total of 205 players of the 992 who bought in managed to navigate their way through to Thursday's Day 2

drumroll......


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    James Mackey    116,800
2    Matt Lapossie    107,100
3    Gino Levrini    102,500
4    Masato Yokosawa    98,900
5    James Dempsey    95,000
6    Barny Boatman    90,000
7    Dario Sammartino    86,000
8    Bart Hanson    80,500
9    Glenn Lafaye    77,000
10    Gualter Salles    76,000

full british chip counts when the overnight pdf comes through

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13639%5CEV39-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

7 Richard Kellett Chorley, , EE 98,600
11 James Dempsey Newark, DE, US 95,000
14 Barny Boatman HENDON, , GB 90,000
24 Sunny Chattha LONDON, , GB 81,000
59 Elior Sion London, , GB 53,100
72 Michael Hill CHESIRE, GB 50,000
132 Benjamin Jackson EE 29,600
166 Chris Moorman BENFLEET, GB 22,000
174 William Chattaway GB 19,400
180 Liv Boeree EAST MOLESY, GB 17,000
183 Iwan Jones Cardiff Wales, , GB 15,700

11 left in the 10k Stud8. Just on a break.

Norman Chad the only player hovering around the tables. Understandable, as he has 27k with 5k antes, 5k bring in and limits 20/40k. The dealer asks Norman, "Hey, Norm. If I deal it so you outlast Ted [Forrest, on 26k], can I get a shout out?"

The dealer on the other table chirps "Seems only fair"

Norm pipes "What are you? His lawyer?!"

Jeff Lisandro just doing an interview for some media bod. Nothing intrusive. Just a couple of stock questions ("How are you feeling today?" "Going for bracelet number five today?") and smiley stock responses ("Yeah, excited. Hopefully get a little bit of luck").

Have to wonder what the point of all of that was.

Lisandro building towerz (with a Zed) after a couple of scoops, including one against an imaginatively coiffeured George Danzer:

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1858/59/bcd186fc57c.jpg)

Short at the sides, long on top and right down the back. Somewhere between a mullet and a Mohawk: I give you the Mullhawk.

Tannoy over the Amazon Room, seven minutes in to the DC event:

"All dealers in the Dealer's Choice: please note that there are no antes in limit draw games"

Incredible.

Meanwhile, Danzer wins a big pot with a seven high straight. Lisandro has been moved after Ted Forrest is the eleventh man to depart. Norman Chad heads to the payout room a hand later. Lisandro bizarrely told to the sit in the wrong seat by the TD and only gets to the correct place after protesting in his polite yet transparently clear tone. Danzer then picks up a monster pot and knocks two out in the process.

Down to seven.

Nilawina has some random fish on his right. Huckleberry somethingorother.

I would take a photo but he's in some crummy gooner shirt and I like my camera.

Live from the Rio, with Tal!

#Gissajob

It's better this way, keeps him quiet and occupied!

Urgh, hashtags and 'gissa' from someone whose language choices are usually so delicious. Get him back from the States before he starts wishing everyone a nice day, and telling us all that things be how they be :D

Bubblicious time in the 3k NLHE. 118 left. 117 paid. Updaters, tournament officials and shortstacks are patrolling the tables with varying levels of alacrity.

No one's suggested a saver, yet...

Elsewhere, the Tannoy TD reminds the dealers in the Dealer's Choice event that five card draw is pot limit. What would Clancy make of this?

(http://pixhst.com/avaxhome/82/60/000d6082_medium.jpeg)

In the money in the 3k holdem. Gaiety ensues. Hands are slapped overhead, wives are telephoned, tears are shed, nudity abounds, 117 hendonmob flags fall from the ceiling.

Approximate field make-up:

10% of the remaining players are wearing head attire. One of those players is sporting a hat last seen when Greg Norman plopped his tee shot into the water at the 12th at Augusta in 96. He's a fairway away, so I can't quite see if it is him, though assume not.

Oh, and the TD asks players to remove their headphones, now that they are in the money. I never knew they did that.

Break time in the 3k.

Wandering around the Dealer's Choice, there's an argument on every fifth table about one rule or another. Far and away the noisiest tournament I've ever been to.

"He's supposed to ante!"

"Did she say raise?"

"I get the low pot! What do you mean it's high only?!"

You can barely hear the riffling crickets.

If anyone's wandering around, come say hi to the chap in the Lions Rugby top (the blue one). You'll be very unlucky to accost the wrong guy.

Wonderful wordage.

Thank you. I've had a change of heart and decided it would be nice to win a poker tournament. Have therefore come to Aria for the evening affair.

GL everyone still jewelry jewellery hunting.

Shame i missed you Tal, was clicking away in that $3k, finished 44th saw Sunny still had a stack when i bust.

Half a chance I'll pop to the Rio tomorrow. If I do, I'll carpe that diem and say hello.

Brandon Paster Wins Event #37: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha For $264,400

1    Brandon Paster    US       264,400
2    Marcel Vonk    NL       163,625
3    Gabriel Nassif    FR       102,373
4    Matthew Humphrey    US       74,306
5    Matthew Dames    US       54,855
6    Millard Hale    US       41,121
7    Dmitrii Valouev    US       31,278
8    Kevin Saul    US       24,111

George Danzer Wins Event #38 for Second Championship Bracelet of the 2014 WSOP ($352,696)

$10,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Championship

Place   Player   Prize
1st   George Danzer   $352,696
2nd   John Racener   $217,935
3rd   Calvin Anderson   $136,490
4th   Brian Hastings   $98,828
5th   Jeff Lisandro   $77,238
6th   Chris George   $61,594
7th   David Singer   $50,018

Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 26
Entries    992


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Anthony Spinella    600,000
2    Ryan Jaconetti    585,000
3    Dylan Linde    546,000
4    Ryan Olisar    520,000
5    Jacob Schindler    505,000
6    Matthew Lapossie 490,000
7    Elior Sion    490,000
8    Takashi Yagura    480,000
9    Pfizer Jordan    320,000
10    Ryan Laplante    240,000

sunny chattha still in approx 16 of 26


flushy 44th, barney boatman 75th, moorman 116th

Event #40: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship

only 16 players remain from a starting field of 136 entrants.

Here are the matches for tomorrow:
Name   vs   Name
Erik Seidel   -   Scott Baumstein
Max Silver   -   Sam Stein
Jason Koon   -   Dee Tiller
Alberto Gomez -   Scott Davies
Tommy Chen   - Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Colman   - Taylor Paur
Davide Suriano   - Serkan Kurnaz
John Smith   -   Ankush Mandavia

Event #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealer's Choice

Players Left 144
Entries    210


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Larry Tull    34,500
2    Kyle Loman    30,000
3    Jen Harman    28,500
4    Jimmy Fricke    25,600
5    Melissa Burr    25,600
6    John Myung    24,000
7    Brandon Cantu    19,200
8    Gavin Smith    18,500
9    Huck Seed    18,000
10    Alexander Kuzmin 16,600

I chatted with Sunny during the last break of the day, he felt confident. There were, at the time, 38 left & he was close to average with, I think, 260,000 @ 3,000-6,000.

The young lad two to his left, Elior Sion, who I'm told plays the big cash games in London, seemed fearless, & was policing Sunny.


 (http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/tikay2169/SUC2_zpsd4d0419f.jpg) (http://s1147.photobucket.com/user/tikay2/media/tikay2169/SUC2_zpsd4d0419f.jpg.html)


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/tikay2169/SUC1_zps15034aa9.jpg) (http://s1147.photobucket.com/user/tikay2/media/tikay2169/SUC1_zps15034aa9.jpg.html)

26 remain in sunny's event

they finished..

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13639%5CEV39-Day-3-Counts-by-Chips.pdf


and it appears he busted just before the end

Unlucky Flushy, save the heater for that $10m imo.

Guess its likely he is CrazyElior online. Big game player.

Yes, that was what I was told. He's just a young boy, it's weird when you see them in real life, barely ready to start shaving, but playing at such stakes. I don't begrudge them it at all, not one bit, but age & experience used to matter, & for these lads to have such skills at such a tender age is quite something. 

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2014-wsop/event-41/post.123419.htm

Farce.

!

Meanwhile, some general Vegas stuff, including Mrs S's take on that Matusow incident......


http://bit.ly/1ldXD8F


Warning - may contain an ickle bit of spam.

Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 4
Entries    992


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jacob Schindler    2,850,000
2    Ryan Olisar    2,765,000
3    Sean Dempsey    1,980,000
4    Ryan Jaconetti    855,000

1             548,460
2             339,440
3             212,373
4             154,148
5    Ryan Laplante    US    113,796
6    Nam Le          85,307
7    Layne Flack    US    64,887
8    Takashi Yagura       50,019
9    Andrew Becker    US    39,078
10    Clyde Walters    US    30,927
11    Elior Sion          30,927

Event #40: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Sam Stein and Davide Suriano Will Battle it out For the Gold

Another cash for Max Silver of London

1             335,553
2             207,347
3    Daniel Colman          111,942
4    Scott Davies          111,942
5    Scott Baumstein          54,736
6    Ankush Mandavia          54,736
7    Tommy Chen          54,736
8    Dee Tiller          54,736
9    Serkan Kurnaz          26,584
10    Daniel Negreanu          26,584
11    John Smith          26,584
12    Max Silver          26,584
13    Erik Seidel          26,584
14    Taylor Paur          26,584
15    Jason Koon          26,584
16    Alberto Gomez          26,584

Event #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealer's Choice

Players Left 16
Entries    210


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jen Harman    230,000
2    Arthur Morris    205,000
3    Marco Johnson    185,000
4    Bill Chen    175,000
5    Daniel Idema    170,000
6    Aaron Schaff    165,000
7    Kevin Haney    87,000
8    Frank Kassela    87,000
9    Robert Mizrachi    72,000
10    Shane Abbott    71,000

Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

Players Left 100
Entries    452


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Davidi Kitai    315,050
2    Matthew Squeters 304,000
3    Brandon Crawford 202,900
4    Kory Kilpatrick    202,000
5    Yosei Obadia    185,000
6    Mike Gorodinsky    167,500
7    Scott Bohlman    154,050
8    Brian Rast    147,900
9    Attilio Donato    136,000
10    Mike Watson    130,000

uk counts when the overnight pdf comes through

Event #43: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Players Left 207
Entries    657


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Eric Bensamochan    43,000
2    Justin Thurlow    32,000
3    Brandon Shack-Harris    26,800
4    Todd Witteles    25,700
5    Nick Abou Risk    22,000
6    Allyn Jaffrey Shulman    19,000
7    David Plastik    18,700
8    Jeff Lisandro    17,500
9    Stephen Chidwick    17,000
10    Dan Kelly    15,500


uk counts when the overnight pdf comes through

96 left at the end of the day

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13642%5CEV42-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

42 Philip Long LONDON, GB 60,000
47 Demis Hassabis LONDON, , GB 58,700
64 Richard Ashby WATFORD, , GB 42,700
85 Senh Ung BIRMINGHAM, GB 27,000

Day 1 has concluded of event # 43. 118 players remain. Chip counts here

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/13643%5CEV43-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

3 Matt Davenport Cheshire, GB, GB 58,700
87 Timothy Flanders PRESTON, GB 12,800

Event #40: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship

25-year-old Davide Suriano outlasted the field, capturing his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet and a $335,553 pay day

Round   Opponent Defeated
Round of 128   Scott Seiver
Round of 64   Dan Cates
Round of 32   Shane Moran
Round of 16   Serkan Kurnaz
Round of 8    Ankush Mandavia
Round of 4           Daniel Colman
Finals            Sam Stein

Robert Mizrachi Wins Event #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealer's Choice ($147,092)

his second career World Series of Poker bracelet. Mizrachi overcame a severe chip deficit and bested Aaron Schaff during heads up play to earn $147,092 in first-place prize money as well as the prestige of being the champion of the first-ever dealer's choice event.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Robert Mizrachi   $147,092
2   Aaron Schaff   $90,854
3   Shane Abbott   58,414
4   Bill Chen   $38,735
5   Daniel Idema   $26,444
6   Frank Kassela   $18,575

Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

Laak Leads the Final 13 Heading Into Day 3; Mizzi, Ashby & Baker Lurking


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Phil Laak    1,087,000
2    Joseph Leung    818,000
3    Sorel Mizzi    735,000
4    Ryan Schmidt    720,000
5    Brant Hale    583,000
6    Darius Studdard    555,000
7    Michael Drummond    546,000
8    Demis Hassabis    515,000
9    Richard Ashby    426,000
10    Kory Kilpatrick    333,000

Event #43: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

10 left


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Dan Kelly    650,000
2    David Chiu    350,000
3    Sean Berrios    325,000
4    Yegor Tsurikov    300,000
5    Brandon Shack-Harris    275,000
6    Jesse Katz    275,000
7    Ron Burke    205,000
8    Bryce Landier    190,000
9    Jeff Lisandro    150,000
10    Steven Wolansky    72,000

Event #44: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Players Left 212
Entries    1914


Top Chip Counts
Name    Chips
1    Jason Johnson    150,900
2    Louis Laxineta    111,600
3    Kennii Nguyen    108,000
4    Ray Foley    105,600
5    Theo Tran    103,300
6    Andrew Shack    99,400
7    Vinicius Silva    96,700
8    John Twyman    93,700
9    Justin Schwartz    84,600
10    Jesse Cohen    81,200

uk chip counts when the overnight pdf comes through

Ryan and poshalex left in still. 10 or so from the money.

Jack Allan (zeefruitbat) is 7/16 going into day 3 of the $1,600 Venetian deepstack with $143,000 for first.

Some bits & bobs fom Vegas, including, remarkably, some poker stuff.


http://bit.ly/1lhmp7T

4.30 PM Vegas.

10 left in the 6 Max PLO, $540,000 to the winner, Richard Ashby still going along nicely.

In the 1,900 runner $1,500 NLH, 110 remain, and Ryan Spittles has 160,000, which is a long way above average.

Where is he sat will go over and have a look in my next break!

Good luck ryan

Amazon, Table 438, Purple, near the entrance from the main corridor.

8 left in the 6 Max PLO, Chufty included, though he is a bit short. Might pop in and give him some advice.

Chufty has made the (7 player) final table of the 6 Max PLO.

It will be on the main stage, so might be streamed.

He is very short, but has been eyeing the meaty ladder jumps.

Think it is....

7th - $48,000

6th - $66,000

5th - $95,000.

wow ryan up to 3rd on 260k

best of luck