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When is the schedule for the WSOP usually announced?

Last year was beginning of Feb. I would assume around the same time.

Hope the M/E starts the same week as last year.

previous main event start dates

2015  July 5th
2014  July 5th
2013  July 6th
2012  July 7th
2011  July 7th

highly unlikely it will start any time before last years date given the Americans obsession with July the 4th   :)

Does the series usually start at the same time? Chances are colossus will return?

Usually may 28 th George

Does this mean you won't be posting on the I'm Not Going To Vegas thread next year?

That's the plan!

Haha, thanks Fraser.

I was too lazy to look any further than last year ;D

The 2016 World Series of Poker, which is entering its 47th year, will run from May 31 to July 18, 2016 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

While the full schedule for the 50-day series hasn't been released – it's expected to come in either January or February – officials have revealed several details, including the first open event of the 2016 WSOP – Event #2: Colossus II!

The wildly popular tournament, which attracted a record 22,374 entrants last year has been revamped to make it even bigger and better. Colossus II will feature a $7 million guaranteed prize pool (up from $5 million last year), two additional entry flights, and a guaranteed first-place prize of $1 million.

Colossus II, which maintains the $565 buy-in and will host starting flights on Thursday, June 2, Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4, will use the format successfully introduced at WSOPE's Oktoberfest event where each starting flight plays into the money, which opens up the possibility players could cash multiple times in the event

Also back on the schedule in 2016 are the popular Millionaire Maker, Monster Stack, Little One for ONE DROP, Seniors Event and Ladies Championship.

Of course the highlight on the schedule will be the $10,000 Main Event, which is slated to run over ten consecutive days from July 9 - July 18, 2016 and will feature three starting flights – Saturday, July 9; Sunday, July 10; and Monday, July 11.

The date is also confirmed for this year’s $1,000 Senior Event — for those aged 50 or older – which will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 17.

team Event Returns to the WSOP For the First Time Since 1983

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/02/team-event-returns-to-the-wsop-for-the-first-time-since-1983-24089.htm

A blonde team? :)

I do wish WSOP would hurry up & get the schedule out.

I've been chasing it for ages, & it's getting a bit awkward.

I discovered today that the WSOP schedule has been released on the following dates in the last 9 years.......

2007: 9 Jan
2008: 12 Dec
2009: 26 Jan
2010: 17 Dec
2011: 25 Jan
2012: 1 Feb
2013: 14 Feb
2014: 11 Feb
2015: 2 Feb


Note the trend.

I'm understanding of the complexities involved, but people & businesses need to make plans.

they need every structure and payout approved for each event by the nevada gaming board before they can run with it apparently which sounds tedious.

is there still no schedule released? i heard about a team event!?

Thanks, I more meant is the full schedule released but it doesn't look like it.

no, i was just saying yes there is a team event and giving you the link to talk of it

i understand the wsop is having to go through an event by event process this year with the gaming board of nevada to get approval, and this is taking ages

KevMath suggested this morning on Twitter that it would be in the next 3 to 4 days Alex, & he's fairly close to the WSOP boys so it seemed like a nudge & a wink job. 

The 2016 WSOP schedule has been announced! Here’s the link to the full schedule and details:

http://www.wsop.com/news/2016/Feb/7659/WSOP-FINALIZES-2016-SCHEDULE-WITH-69-EVENTS-ON-TAP.html

Number of Places Paid Increasing – Up 50% for Most Events

Colossus II with $7 million Prize Pool Guarantee & $1 million for 1st begins June 2

Main Event & Other $10k Buy-In Events Now to Receive 50,000 Starting Chips

Start Times Being Pushed Up One Hour for Many Events, Now at 11am & 3pm

Structures Refined To Aid Events Meeting Scheduled Duration

There's a slight adjustment in payouts for this year's Main Event, comparison chart at http://bit.ly/1T4S7a5

No PLHE in the schedule, for the first time

Main Event structure. 50k starting stack, first level 75/150 instead of 50/100

antes in level 3 from 4 last year

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/structuresheets/structure_1232_14968.pdf

Team event July 6 http://bit.ly/1T4SgdG 

Top two players in the Milly Maker guaranteed $1,000,000 http://bit.ly/1T4UuK5

thanks tighty. not sure how i feel about 11am starts :o

Schedule pretty poor i think for anybody travelling for the whole series

The schedule is very good for hi lo players.  Last year I had to choose either the 3k or 1.5k.  This time I could do both and even take in the mixed plo8 and the 7 card stud hi lo in 10 days or so.   

I would much prefer 11am starts to 3pm ones coming out for a short time from the UK.  Never stopped waking up early last time I was there.

I don't see any need to meddle with stacks and then take away levels.  It just seems pointless. 

Unfortunately think I have to give it a miss this time :(

Loving the 11am starts. Some days I might even get my evenings to myself after updating!

Kenny Halleart over on 2p2 has released the link to his famous spreadsheet detailing all of the series.

Only WSOP so far but posting for bookmarking.

http://bitly.com/WSOP2016

Turns out I will be in the US with work in June and free 15th onwards.

The wsop events on at that time are too big for my boots, anyone got any links to any of the smaller series in other places that sometimes run along side the wsop please?

Ty in advance....

Sure, no probs Woodsey, KarmaDope wrote

Kenny Halleart over on 2p2 has released the link to his famous spreadsheet detailing all of the series.

Only WSOP so far but posting for bookmarking.

http://bitly.com/WSOP2016

the spreadsheet has been updated and will be updated as further events come out

http://www.venetian.com/content/dam/lasvegas/venetian/master/main/home/casino/DSE_III_2016-Schedule.pdf

https://t.co/8T8MeuWhXe

There will be a few of us at the nugget from the 20 th in residence for a week

Ok cheers won't open on my iPad...

Thanks 👍

Just as important, who else is around for a piss up around that time?  :cheers: ;sexybanana; ;danafish;

does this work better?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qk3emxdoqn8n94w/WSOP2016.xlsx?dl=0

If not, can't help you until you get to a proper computer.

Edit.  Just tried it on my iPhone and I could just directly download it rather than open in the Dropbox app. 

5 days to go and the rooms are nearly ready

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if people want it, i will do a daily round up of British news, cashes, deep runs, stories (follow most of the usual suspects on twitter and fb where a lot of the info goes first these days) etc as well as round up all the final tables and stats through the series on cumulative british money won, bracelets per country etc etc

if people don't want it and can get it elsewhere, i won't do it...up to you

Yes please Tighty.

Want

Definitely like reading updates, if you're happy to do them, Tighty.

Ta

In

Definitely. Thankyou

Absolutely, if you're up for doing it. It seems like another load on your, admittedly broad, shoulders.

Yes please Rich. You efforts always appreciated especially by those who cannot access FB or Twitter :)

Yes please

Hi guys,
Maybe me being completely stupid but Im finding it hard to see when Day2's are etc for certain events?

Anyone able to help me out with when Day2's are? I'll be starting my trip with the $300 $100k event on the 9th at 7pm but cant see when Day2 is?

the WSOP schedule is on http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/

it doesn't sound like you are referring to a WSOP bracelet event though?

what is the event you are playing and where is it?

Sorry mate. No it's not a WSOP event. Just a little festival event at Planet Hollywood. Wondering if anyone knows best place to find Day2 dates etc as the spreadsheets don't seem to show those?

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/festival.php?a=r&n=19092

looks like it starts on the 8th.

day ones at 3pm and 7pm

same on the 9th

that would make day 2 the 10th

Top man thanks for that mate.

Updates please.

I'm also up for starting a whip round to get the shrewdies back out to Vegas so they can do their diary. Or even cheaper, just lock rich in a cupboard for the series and Brent can do updates.

Yeah i would really enjoy updates.

Thank you for the effort.

Thanks for all the effort you put in for our enjoyment Tighty!

Always read the updates. Would be greatly appreciated.

Haha, what an incred thread that was.

Might have to give it a spin through over the next couple weeks to help pass the slowest month of the year.

+1

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNA7DcVppEs

Geo

Yes please Tighty. Always look forward to your updates.

The WSOP gets underway today at 7pm our time with Event 1, the traditional casino employees event before for most players the fun and games start with Event 2

Event 2 is the $7m GTD Colossus 2

Six starting flights, with re-entry

$1m to the winner

$565 buy in


any guesses as to the possible number of entries in that?

while i am here, a few of you might have heard of Staker. I can see a few familiar names playing it

I have a very small role in it quite recently, declaring an interest.

free to play, pick players for a nominated event, leaderboard prizes per event and overall

a nice concept, fantasy staking in effect.

http://www.staker.co.uk/about.asp

 

A couple of people I know are taking the over on 30,000 for The Colossus. Apparently the WSOP projected 11,500 last year and got 22,374. It's going to be bigger this year. Much bigger.

So the WSOP is underway

731 players in event 1 the casino employees, this compares to 688 last year

23 players remain and it was a pleasant surprise to see a Union Jack in the list of chip counts

Kerryjane Craigie, who is the Manager of the London Hippodrome card-room, sitting 2nd overnight and in the hunt for the $75,000 first prize. Nothing like starting the series with a bang, hopefully

I clicked the bars at the top to look around and it accessed my Facebook profile.  Suggest this needs sorting pretty sharpish, as at no stage have I given permission for this.   

access is via facebook profiles. maybe you logged in by mistake. will pass it on for you though

.I didn't login by mistake.  I told you exactly what I did. 

Facebook is quite sneaky.  If you just leave it, you are still logged on and if you click on anything like that link it will act like you were still on FB.  I delete their cookie when I leave and when I clicked the link it just took me to a FB login screen.

 

tikay's first articles for this year's WSOP


http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/28981/10300062/the-2016-world-series-of-poker

http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/28981/10271263/tricky-sam-living-the-poker-dream

Thanks Tighty, in fact there are a whole bunch of articles there.

They are not aimed at the poker serious, not at all, they are squarely targeted at the poker curious, & sports bettors who may be tempted to try poker.  They are crammed with SEO rich keywords,too, as it's really just a SEO exercise.

Having said that, if anyone is really bored, here's the full list of pieces.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/tv-shows/sky-poker


I will be blogging a lot from Vegas for Next Door too, & if anyone is interested, I'll post links. Penny a click, it all adds up.......

i reported this all through and Des spoke to the developers. (there's no intention to access friends lists or post on profiles etc or share to your friends) i believe the only info the game receives is name and email address

the reply came that it will only ask for permissions the first time you log in to Staker via Facebook.

Furthermore If you want to test it from a blank slate you can go to your Facebook settings, then Apps to see which apps your are registered with and what permissions they have. If you remove that and try to log back in to Staker it should ask you to confirm the permissions again.

I know why it's done, but I hate sites that require you to sign-in through Facebook. I simply won't use them, Staker and the WSOP.com live updates are two recent examples.

WSOP.com can also sign in through google. Set up a dummy account for this. Its what I do!

KerryJane Craigie - who runs The Hippodrome cardroom - has made the final table of the employees event. Gl to her, hopefully she wins the first British bracelet of the series.

Lol they got rid of chip runners?!  Will be hectic

Cheers for doing updates tighty, will look forward to reading them!

Event 1, nearly a bracelet for the UK as KerryJane Craigie of the London Hippodrome finished 2nd behind Christopher Sands for $46,000


Event 2 Colossus II

two flights yesterday and 1b is ongoing

1a 108 of 2153 are reported through but will wait for the official end of day sheets to be made public to be sure.

Plenty of British interest near the top of the chip counts including Max Silver

there are another two flights today at 10am and 4pm Vegas time, then another two tomorrow


Event 3 the $10k Seven card stud championship begins tomorrow

After 1a and 1b of Colossus there are 5402 entries

over the four starting flights last year there were 22,374 players

Tom "Middy" Middleton is right near the top of the 1b chip counts

other notables who played on day 1 are

Allen Kessler,
Phil Laak,
Dutch Boyd,
Barry Greenstein,
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi,
and former Main Event champions Carlos Mortensen and Joe Cada.



"While these players get a rest, we still have another four Day 1 flights to play and if they so wish, players that have busted 1A or 1B can re-enter into a later flight, even if they have finished in the money. This allows players to cash more than once in the Colossus, as each flight pays 15 percent of the field and will play into the money. All remaining players will reconvene on Sunday at 2pm for the combined Day 2 of play."

Does that mean that one player could be playing multiple stacks on day two, will they be merged or do the smaller stacks forfeit and just collect the min-cash?

I think they get into the money during day 1 but because they play 18 levels if you bust late on you can play another day one so can "cash" more than once.

For example 465 cashed in Day 1d but 105 were left at the end of day 1d

Cheers Simon, that makes sense.

If you bag chips at the end of a day, you can't buy into any subsequent day 1s.

5 left in the casino employees event 1

go to 38 minutes and play from there

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wxtJcN9Q20

Official numbers for Flight F of the Collossus, 4,487 players for a total field of 21,613 entries.

Top 674 players get paid in final flight.


chip counts from ABCD are at http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/reports.asp?grid=1232&tid=14902

i will look out for the combined chip counts at the end of 1F they have 2 levels left to play today

Event #3: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship

87 runners, 91 last year when it was event 27

38 remain

Adam Owen, Stephen Chidwick and Stuart Rutter are in the 38 with 14 paid

Event 3

* The first Championship Event of the 2016 World Series of Poker attracted a field of 87 entries, who all registered for the Event #3: $10,000 Seven Card Stud.

* There will definitely be a new champion this year. Last year's winner ,Brian Hastings, chose not to defend his title.

* Steve Weiss overnight chip leader.

* Other big stacks and notables include three times WSOP bracelet winner George Danzer (274,000), Chad J. Brown (238,000), Frank Kassela (199,000), Jeff Lisandro (141,000), Brandon Shack-Harris (79,000) and 14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth (65,000).

* Stephen Chidwick in 9th and Adam Owen 23rd remain for the UK

* only 33 players bagged up chips and the top 14 spots will be paid.

Colossus

* total field size for the overall tournament 21,613 players and generated a total prizepool of $10,806,500

*The winner of this event is guaranteed a payday of at least $1 million.

*846 players alive at the start of Day 2.

hoping i see a combined chip count list soon, which i will post up

I see Chris "Jesus" ferguson returned in this event as a notable footnote

Four events have been taking place overnight as follows

- Colossus is down to the last 40 or so. It looks like one Brit is left, Ben Heath. Full summary when the end of play stuff comes through

David ODB Baker is the hitghest profile name i recognise left

- the $10K 7CS is on the final table with 7 left

Quite the seven players. Benjamine, Danzer, R Mizrachi, Forrest and Chen among them

Stephen Chidwick and Adam Owen cashed in 11th and 12th respectively

-  the $1k top up turbo NLHE is down to its final table from 667 starters

A German and a Belgian amongst seven Americans, and no one i know of

UK Cashers were Liv Boeree in 29th and one of the six poker playing Tom Hall's in 72nd

- $1500 DC Six Max began overnight and 82 of 389 remain

Chufty Ashby is showing 3rd in the counts, Stuart Rutter 12th

Some Colossus stats

89 countries entered Colossus II

USA - 18,704
Canada - 801
UK - 408
GER - 182
AUS - 143
FRA - 133
BRA - 102
Rus -90
IRE - 75
AUT - 63


9900 players re-entered
5,191 entered 2x
2,525 entered 3x
1,296 entered 4x
620 entered 5x
268 entered 6x

Day 3 of the Colossus resumes at 2pm with 78 players remaining.

Chip counts: http://bit.ly/1Oa1aW8 

Table Draw http://bit.ly/1Oa0P5P

Ben Heath is 64/78 overnight, the last UK player

Six players return at 2pm for the conclusion of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship

http://bit.ly/1Oa1unO

The final table is set in the Turbo Top Up, resuming Monday at 12pm

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Thanks for doing this Rich, very much appreciated.

there are currently 11 left in Colossus playing down to a final table today

8 Americans, a canadian and two Czechs with a big czech chip leader

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?grid=1232&tid=14902

Robert Mizrachi won the $10k Stud

His 4th bracelet

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George Danzer finished 3rd, Forrest 4th and Benyamine 6th

Sick table currently in the $1,500 NL 2-7 Single Draw I'm working:

1 - Ben Yu
2 - Barry Greenstein
3 - Niall "Firaldo87" Farrell
4 - Daniel "Deoxyribo" Strelitz
5 - Felipe Ramos
6 - Eric Wasserson
7 - Jennifer Harman

Kyle Julius won Event #4: $1000 Top Up Turbo No-Limit Hold'em

29yo pro from Illinois

(http://www.wsop.com/images/imagestore/flashlarge/Event04_KyleJulius_2016.jpg)

Event #5: $1500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed

389 entries 14 left

well known pro Paul Volpe is the chip leader

Richard Ashby was the only british casher, in 58th

Event #6: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

2016 entries

321 remained at the end of the first day

303 are paid

Plenty of big names will advance to Day Two. Big One for One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari will be joined by John Racener, Mohsin Charania, Faraz Jaka, Upeshka De Silva, Federico Butteroni, Jason Koon, and actor James Woods.

We have a British chip leader, from the Northern mill town of Zaporizhzha (near Huddersfield)

Roman Rogovskyi

Jack O'Neill, Darren Judges, David Vigplew, Andrew Fleming, Joe Laming, Louis Salter, Ross Boatman and James Rann are still hunting the cash as they resume near the bubble tomorrow

Table got sicker:

1 - Ben Yu Adam Owen
2 - Barry Greenstein
3 - Niall "Firaldo87" Farrell
4 - Daniel "Deoxyribo" Strelitz
5 - Felipe Ramos
6 - Eric Wasserson
7 - Jennifer Harman

Event #7: $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit)

279 began this, and 70 remain in the august company of Karma Dope and his pen and reporters notebook

3 brits currently listed in the top 11:

Benny Glaser
Niall "if i am not out on the lash yet i soon will be" Farrell
Adam Owen

many of the great and good playing this, one of the more specialist events including Harman, Seed, Benyamine, T Brunson, Elezra, Seidel, Greenstein and Chino Reem 

tikay's latest blog

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/vegas-news/las-vegas-and-the-2016-wsop-off-we-go

the latest from the staker game i mentioned a few days ago

"The result is in for WSOP #3 $10k Stud Championship.

The high buy in and small field of 87 runners made this our highest risk event to date. Stakers participated in volume, placing 183 stakes at a value of £322k.

The players did not disappoint either, bringing in 21 profitable stakes. Indeed, stakers owned a piece of the top 4 finishers and 7 of the 14 players who cashed.

With those figures, we might have expected a bloodbath in payouts. However, the percentages held by stakers were relatively low and the final outcome of £133k paid saw the big guy with the baseball bat win once again.

Congrats to Leigh Wiltshire who topped the leaderboard, with a profit of just over £40k in the event.

click http://www.staker.co.uk/leaderboard.asp?t=&e=11 to see who joined him in the top 10

Can you beat the Staker? www.staker.co.uk "

well done to Middy who won the Wynn $100k summer classic over the weekend

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There was the most surreal heads up finale to Colossus, and if you can find it on You Tube or somewhere, it'll be worth the effort.

It was J-J v A-9, & when the Ace rivered, BOTH players thought they had won. (The Jacks of Keeline four flushed it).

Horak, who had the A-9, did not realise, & ran to his rail, hugging & embracing his supporters, & at least one body tumbled over the rail in excitement.

It was some moments before Horak realised he had been beaten.

R Mizrachi became only the 11th player to win a bracelet three years on the trot

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last 64 matches in the $10k HU

Christian Gleissner    vs.         Jared Jaffee
Andrew Lichtenberger    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Thomas Cannuli
Ivan Luca    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Dominik Nitsche    vs.    Federico Petruzzelli
Jason Les    vs.    Jason Koon
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Mark McGovern
Dzmirty Urbanovich    vs.    Matthew Parry
Konstantin Ramazanov         vs.    Doug Polk
Keith Block    vs.    Alan Wehbi
Alan Percal    vs.    Jeff Gross
Tanner Millen    vs.    Samantha Abernathy
Russell Rosenblum    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Alex Keating
Sam Soverel    vs.    Jake Abdalla
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    Martin Jacobson
Michael Kane    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    J.C. Tran
Bryn Kenney    vs.    Robert Gorodetsky
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Evgeny Kurilenko
Aaron Mermelstein    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Keith Lehr
Ali Davoudi    vs.    Jan-Eric Schwippert
Joe McKeehen    vs.    Sam Stein
Moritz Dietrich    vs.    Max Silver
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Tobais Ziegler
Adrien Allain    vs.    Steffen Sontheimer
Rob Tepper    vs.    Adrian Mateos
Timothy Adams    vs.    Max Altergott
David Farber    vs.    Alex Luneau
Bobby Oboodi    vs.    Egor Bulychev

Paul Newey and Max Silver are the two UK representatives

Final numbers for Event 8: $1,500 HORSE

778 players (six more than last year)
117 cash
1st $212,604
Min-cash $2,253

201 made it to day 2

"The apparent chip leader after this opening day of action is Japanese bracelet winner Naoya Kihara with 85,900 in chips from a starting stack of 7,500. His bracelet came in 2012 in a $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Event, for $512,029.

Close contenders for chip leader at the end of the day were Danny Wong (78,500), Ron Ware (77,800), Esther Taylor-Brady (75,000), and Nick Kost (72,900).

Other notables still in the field include double bracelet winner from 2015 Brian Hastings, 2008 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. winner Scotty Nguyen, Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton, and World Series of Poker broadcaster Norman Chad.

Also advancing to Day 2 (in no particular order) are Brandon Cantu, Greg Raymer, WSOP APAC Champ Scotty Abrams, Maria Ho, Bill Chen, Jimmy Fricke, Justin Bonomo, Rep Porter, Dan Heimiller, and a host of other bracelet winners and big names."

scrolling down the list for UK players its a case of the usual suspects

in day 2 are

Stuart Rutter
Richard Chufty
Adam Owen
 

going back to Colossus it was won by Ben Keyline who made a beeline for the $1m first prize

event 5 the $1500 DC was won by Lawrence Berg and Paul Volpe finalled

there are 36 left overnight in event 6 the $1500 NLHE

Ireland's Tim Farrell is 2nd

I was having fun with flags going through the list.

My Sheldonian list tells me that going into day 3 we have the fiollowing nationalities represented

US
Ireland
Slovakia
Argentina
Brazil
Russia
Uraine
Sweden
Germany
Hungary

but no Brits

 

there are 8 left in the 2-7 draw, event 7

among them is dan kelly and Portugal's Joao Viera

Benny Glaser from Southampton finished 12th, Adam Owen 22nd and Niall Farrell 29th all in the cash

right things have moved on as they are nearly down to the last 32

Newey and Slver are both through

Alex Luneau is through, listed from London

Daniel McAulay is through, listed from Glasgow

Michael Kane is in the last match to complete. I know Michael, he is also from Glasgow and is a Sky poker player but for the life of me i can't remember his username.

looks like he is going out unfortunately 

the draw for event 9 $10k HU last 32

Jared Jaffee    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Federico Petruzzelli         vs.         Jason Les
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Orlando Romero
Matthew Parry    vs.    Konstantin Ramazanov
Alan Wehbi    vs.    Alan Percal
Tanner Millen    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Sam Soverel
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    Bryn Kenney
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Ali Davoudi
Sam Stein    vs.    Moritz Dietrich
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Adrien Allain
Adrian Mateos    vs.    Max Altergott
Alex Luneau    vs.    Bobby Oboodi

win one more round to hit the cash

Sam Stein    vs.    Moritz Dietrich

is actually

Stein v Max Slver

it was reported by wsop in error earlier

He's an incredibly talented mixed game player. I'd say he could be this year's Adam Owen, but that'd be doing him a disservice as he already has a bracelet! He plays as RunGodlike on PokerStars. Won a SCOOP this year I believe. Almost (almost) picked him as a wildcard for the WSOP fantasy game, but with only two spots he got squeezed out.

tikay's latest vegas blog

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/vegas-news/jesus-at-the-2016-wsop

Interesting read Tony. I'm with you about Ferguson but I guess for those who had significant money on full tilt you can't blame them for being angry about the whole saga

Yeah, I completely get that George, I really do.

I just think there comes a time to move on, & maybe show a little forgiveness, if not forgetness.

Nobody died, it's poker, & inherently full of risks.

Of course it was a bad do, no arguments, but do we all want to spend the rest of our lives being angry & snarly? Not me, I'll pass on that.

Has Phil Ivey played anything yet?

Not even heard his name this year. I think he'll show up for the $50k and the One Drop and thats it.

Personally I'd like to see some one give him a good kick in the balls
Trust honesty and decency are basic human skills and he has none of them
Disappears for 4/5 years then crawls out from under his stone n expects forgiveness and we all supposed to forget ??
I have to disagree with you both sorry
FFS GET HIS HAIR CUT TOO OLD MEN WITH LONG STRAGGLY HAIR LOOK RIDCULOUS

the final hand of the colossus

"a millionaire for 10 seconds"

as tikay said yesterday, the runner up thought he had won

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7b_otrc5J8

Keeline was a skint uber driver 10 days ago, a great story

http://www.wsop.com/news/2016/Jun/7731/BENJAMIN-KEELINE-WINS-COLOSSUS-II-AND-MILLION-DOLLAR-GUARANTEED-PRIZE.html

(http://pnimg.net/w/articles/4/575/7e63a4f710.jpg)

overnight 4 remain in event 6

Seat 1: Davis Aarvik - 3,630,000
Seat 2: Peter Eichhardt - 2,640,000
Seat 3: John Racener - 2,470,000
Seat 4: Michael Addamo - 6,595,000

Tim Farrelly finished 5th for Ireland, Anthony Zinno who did so well in the 2015 series finished 8th

event 7 the 2-7 draw was won by Ryan D'Angelo ahead of John Monnette

Dan Kelly finished 4th, Barry Greenstein 9th

20 of 778 head to day 3 in event 8 the $1500 HORSE

Among them are justin bonomo, ismael bojang, matt glantz,, andre akkari and scotty nguyen

highest finishing Brit was Chufty in 64th

event 9 the $10k HU

4 LEFT

Alex Luneau is a 28-year-old French pro who currently resides in London. His path to the semifinals included victories over Kevin Rabichow, David Farber, Bobby Oboodi, Adrian Mateos, and Matthew Diehl.

Olivier Busquet is a heads-up specialist widely considered to be among the best at this discipline -- if not the best. He is a 34-year-old professional poker player from New York City. He had a tough road to the final four in this event, emerging unscathed from matches against Darren Elias, Ivan Luca, Chance Kornuth, Jared Jaffee, and Orlando Romero.

John Smith is a 69-year-old highway contractor Artesia, California. . Smith defeated Lorenz Buehler, Michael Kane, Igor Yarosheskyy, Antonio Esfandiari, and Nick Yunis on his way to the semis.

Alan Percal is a 23-year-old actuary from Miami, Florida. . Percal defeated Brian Rast, Jeff Gross, Alan Wehbi, Konstantin Ramazanov, and Benjamin Geisman on his way to the semis


Luneau v Smith and Percal v Busquets in the semis

among the other cashers was Esfandiari

event 10 $1500 6 max

183 of 1477 remain after day 1

simon deadman is 36th overnight

JP Kelly 79th

Ludo Geilich 111th

David Vamplew 166th

event 11 the $10k DC Championship began yesterday

48 of 118 remain

Adam Owen is 5th

Richard Ashby 18th

one of the biggest name fields you will see for this more specialist smaller field event

fitoussi, hastings, shak, gorodinsky, shack-harris, lisandro, kassela all in the top 20

These updates are great Rich.  Please keep 'em coming.

He said a year or so ago that he only plans on playing the Main, One Drop and the Players Championship, as all his bracelet bets have dried up.

Ian Johns beat the ever popular Justin Bomomo to the win in event 8, $1500 HORSE

Johns won a limit event bracelet in 2006

Bonomo has 4 second place finishes in bracelet events now

Alan Percal, a 23-year-old actuary from Westin, FL with the Humana health care provider, won the $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em tournament. 

Percal collected $320,574 in prize money in what was his very first time to cash in a WSOP event after two previous in-the-money finishes on the WSOP Circuit.

He beat Busquet in the semi and then 69yo John Smith in the final

it was only the second HU tournament that Percal has played

22 of 1477 are currently left in event 10 $1500 Six Max

A Spaniard, Javier Garcirreynaldos leads

not huge star power in those remaining. Fedor Holz was chip leader for much of the day but is near the bottom of the chip counts now

No Brits left

Simon Deadman cashed in 34th, the only UK player in the top 100

14 of 118 remain in event 11 the $10k Dealers choice

Adam Owen and Richard Ashby for the uK are listed 13th and 14th of the remaining players. Both were chip leaders earlier in the day, both have cashed again as they continue their never ending quest to play as many mixed game events as possible

Above then the likes of Jen Harman, Dan Smith/holla and John Monnette sit

Event #12: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha

this was described by Kev "gamblingpays" Allen as a "complete punter fest"

He min cashed for $890 or so but ended up -$1200 in the event as he "spent more time re-entering at the cage than i did playing hands"

Anyway 2483 entered and 80 remain

one of the many David Bakers, "ODB" sits second in the rankings at the moment

Richard Robinson from the UK sits 26th

I know Richard, he is from Manchester and plays on SkyPoker. can i remember his sky poker name? no i cannot. getting old

Stephen Woodhead is the only other Brit left in

UK Cashers

Robert Cowan
Fraser Macintyre of MET
Barny Boatman
Peter Charalambous
Ross Boatman
Kevin Allen
JP Kelly
Jerome Bradpiece

event 13 $1500 Razz, which sounds like an expensive gentleman's magazine from the 1990s

Kirsty, 23, a receptionist from Manchester would like to report the following

461 entered, 144 are left

All the big names are in this

Matthew Ashton currently listed in 12th

Around him in the chip counts lie Negraneau, Soulier, Kessler, Zinno, Shaun Deeb etc to give you a flavour of it

Stephen Chidwick appears to be the other Brit left in

starting today is one of the high volume weekend events

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

last year it got 7275 entrants and made $9.8m

Busquet, Lindgren and Mke Sexton finalled

good luck those updating that.

Is that the same Kirsty who transcribed the F1 drivers press conference on TFT? 

A certain Tod Wood will be playing that one (on behalf of BCPC) so will be trying to follow it. Fully expect him to win a massive hand with J6.

Having updated a few large field events in my time I'm firmly of the belief that you simply shouldn't bother with traditional hand updates for the Day 1s of these events. At the WSOP this could probably go for every Day 1 of any event <$2k that won't reach the money on Day 1.

You could use the resources in a more efficient way in my opinion by either

a) using them on more important events be it (i) An event that is playing Day 2,3,4 etc but not yet at the final table or (ii) An event with a higher buy-in, which is likely to also get a higher amount of traffic to your website. Sorry Camel, people care about Negreanu, and how he's doing, a lot.

b) root out some stories and do longer feature pieces, at the end of which you can put a paragraph or two about what's going on in the tournament, runners/chip leader/exits etc
I think at the WSOP this is perhaps more important as they don't use player ID cards (at least they didn't last year).

event 10 the $1500 six max overnight won by Mike Cordell ahead of Pierre Neuville.

Fedor Hold finished 18th

there are 4 left in the $10k DC event 11

Richard Ashby finished 11th for the UK

Dan Holla smith 9th, james obst 7th and john monnette is in the final 4

event 12 the $565 omaha

9 remain

Chris "forgive and forget" Ferguson finished 13th

Ireland's Paul Leckey 21st

Manchester's Richard Robinson 38th

Stephen Woodhead 76th the only other UK casher in the top 100

with 18 left in event 13 the $1500 Razz David Benyamine leads

Shaun Deeb and Daniel Negraneau are in the top 10

Usman Sddique from Sheffield is still in

Stephen Chidwick finished 22nd

day 1a of the $1500 millionaire maker with re-entry available into 1b

Max Slver is 4/505/3088

Pleno 37/505/3088

UK Players through

tod wood
fraser bellamy
ben heath
paul newey
james long
james rann
jack o'neill
tom hall
louis salter
kelly saxby
chaz chattha
barny boatman

Event #15: $1500 Eight Game Mix (6-Handed)

162 of 491 remain

Gerald Ringe from London listed 12th in the current chip counts

above him? only Volpe, Mercier, glantz, cantu, leah

in fact looking down the field its a whos who of bracelet winners and the stuff of wsop fantasy league dreams

get this lot in the top 50

R Mizrachi
maria ho
kessler
hellmuth
zinno
clements
somerville
elezra
bojang
greenstein
t brunson

 

spotted playing the series yesterday

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkoYkivUkAA0JDT.jpg)

Nice to see played an event a high roller at ept Barcelona earlier in the season brings coverage an interest in the game,please to see max kruse still the razz tournament felt a bit sorry for him after the incident earlier in the season, I'm sure it was a factor for him being left out of the Germany squad

I was there covering the event for the headline sponsors. Never seen a media scrum like it. Poor Gerard Pique (he also played).

What isn't known about Neymar's appearance there is that he played three more tournaments that day including a €200 buy-in event. He absolutely loves the game. Genuine genuine passion for the game. Heck his dog is even called Poker (true story).

Yeah saw pique played that day too I'm sure we will see pique play if Spain get knocked out of the euros early,really interesting to know he'd played a couple of smaller events just shows he loves to play

event 14 millionaire maker

day 1b 4102 entries

overall 7,190 entries

1172 have made the start of day 2, paying 1079 spots

i will try and stick up a combined UK list when the field is consolidated into a day 2 seat draw later

top Brit in flight b is Stephen Morris from Birmingham in 21st


others through

Fraser McIntyre
Idris Dreef
Middy
Deadman
Teng
Danny Laming
Luke Brereton
James Walsh
Jamie Burland
Vamplew
James Bell
Jason Boyd
Richard Lord
Gordon huntly
David Weeks
ben murray
james gadd



 

15 of 491 remain in Event #15: $1500 Eight Game Mix (6-Handed)

Paul Volpe is chip leader

Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit)

began overnight

100 runners

41 remain

in the top 10

Matusow
Hastings
Negreneau
Mercier

Benny Glaser from Southampton currently 12/41

Owen, Chidwick and Rutter still listed as in too

playing his first event of the series in event 16....

(http://www.wsop.com/images/ImageStore/__Selected/27003232573_c98ba02418_z.jpg)

I saw this pic on 2p2, wonder if Rutter had a chat with him?

Do you think Stuart's shoe/sock combo is the reason people find the photo offensive on 2p2?

  I read the updates this morning and it seems they both took chunks out of each other at various times. 

Fwiw it also stated Lederer re-entered.  That seems very amiss in a championship event to me, though I assume it is within the rules and wasn't more scumbaggery from Lederer. 

 :D very controversial shoe/sock combo!

Yup, it's a "single re-entry" affair, which, imo, is against the spirit of a "Championship" event.

Have to say, Rutter's shoe/sock combo is an utter disgrace. We have to assume he is a Northener, no Southerner would be seen dead in gear like that.   

Not too much chat in evidence in the late stages of the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball.

You'll no doubt recognise Mr Lederer, and the young man in the foreground is Folkestone's finest, young Adam Owen.

Adam has just shy of 100,000, with the blinds at 1,500-3,000.

 This chap sent his best regards to Mr Camel.

Looking rather well, don't you think?

Poker is an odd little world where lots of people can't take the moral high ground and those of us who think we can decide not to, because you never really know who you're sitting next to.

Tikay, you've missed this advert while you've been away and I wouldn't want to deprive you of it...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HADh2Fwen_Y

I do wonder what happens at the meetings where adverts like this are discussed.

Mr Shoelace, you know media stuff. Do they just draw a load of scribbled slips out of a terrible ideas hat?

I beat them pretty badly iirc, but I'd have to check my excel sheet :D

They shut me down eventually though, unfortunately.

Yup, it's about a dreadful as it gets.

Oddly, I was reading a report about adverts such as these only this morning.

And here's the thing - there is a line of thinking which correlates "most annoying adverts" with "most recognizable/most memorable" & which therefore exactly perform what they are designed to do as to Brand recognition & awareness.

I imagine Argue will be giving it plenty of lolzz as to the Marketing Departments, but it's a fairly sophisticated & refined process these days. And it works, God help us. 

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZHrrT-tHA


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au0Qg2QiFL0

Had some hair work done surely? Good on him either way....

Not at all.  Go compare is an amazing brand that has worked off this guy in the ad's for over a decade now right?  Meerkat's are the same.  It must work otherwise they would change it.  No lolzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz from me here.  I only comment on areas i know about.  I know feck all about marketing campaigns for non gambling companies.

I used to play Adam Owen a lot at plo8/nlo8, but don't see him anymore.  Guess he just plays a lot of the other games these days.  There was a beautiful hand earlier in this where he 3 bet 77772 (no typo) and showed afterwards.   

Through 15 events this year, here’s a glimpse at how overall numbers are tracking (NOT apples to apples as events change year to year and order of them change too)
 
2016:     38,933 entries                    $34,119,350 in prize money awarded     

2015:     31,412 entries                    $27,493,490 in prize money awarded

Inside the Numbers – Event #14 - $1500 Buy-in ‘Millionaire Maker’ No-Limit Hold’em

Total # of Entries:                              7,190

Total Prize Pool:                                 $9,706,500

Total Places Paid:                                1,079

1st Place Prize:                                     $1,065,403 (710 times the buy-in)

1079th Place:                                        $2,250

Total # of Unique Entries:                  5,479 (76.2% of entries)

Total # of Players Re-Entering:          1,711 (this was single re-entry only, those who played A could play B if eliminated in A)

# of Male Entries:                               5,233

# of Female Entries:                           246 (4.4% of entries)

Average Age of Entrants:                    39.01

Avg. Age of Male Players:                   38.87

Avg. Age of Female Players:               42.13

Oldest Entrant:                                   92 years old

Norman Spivock (Santa Rosa, CA) – also played Colossus II and was oldest

Youngest Entrant:                               21 years old, 19 days: Brandon Sheils (Birmingham, England)

# of Countries w/Participants:                       67

Top 10 Countries w/participants:

1.        United States (5,804 entries)

2.         Canada (333 entries)

3.         United Kingdom (237 entries)

4.         Australia (115 entries)

5.         Germany (79 entries)

6.         France (61 entries)

7.         Brazil (48 entries)

8.         Russia (47 entries)

9.         Ireland (40 entries)

10.       Austria (40 entries)

 
of U.S. Players:                    5,804

# of International Players:      1,386

Top 10 States w/participants:

1.  California (1,118 entries)

2.  Nevada (710 entries)

3.  Florida (491 entries)

4.  Texas (422 entries)

5.  New York (387 entries)

6.  Illinois (244 entries)

7.  New Jersey (177 entries)

8.  Colorado (158 entries)

9.  Washington (152 entries)

10. Arizona (149 entries)

Entries by Day:                                   1A:      3,088

1B:       4,102


Total Day 2 Players:                            1,172 players 505 (A) + 667 (B)

Total Day 3 Players:                            TBD

Total Day 4 Players:                            TBD


Total Survivors By Day/Flight:

Day 1A:                                               505 (16.35% of field) (Played 10, 60-minute levels)

Day 1B:                                               667 (16.26% of field) (Played 10, 60-minute levels)

Day 1 Total Survivors:                                    1,172 (16.3%)

Day 2:                                                  1,172 started, TBD survived (9.2%)  (Played 10 60-minute levels)

Day 3:                                                  TBD started, TBD survived (11.5%) (Played 10 60-minute levels)

Day 4:                                                  Played Final Table and reached winner in Level TBD


# of starting chips per player:              7,500

# of chips needed to win event:          53,925,000

# of physical poker chips used:           172,560

# of Dealers Required:                                    798

# of Copag Decks of Cards Used:       3,192

 

the latest from event 14 Millionaire Maker

124 of 7190 left after day 2

Mohsin Charania leads

"Other notables making it to Day 3 include Mikhail Semin (973,000), Jason Dewitt (768,000), Sofia Lovgren (707,000), Upeshka De Silva (693,000), Adam Levy (538,000), Max Silver (496,000), Loni Harwood (417,000), Jordan Cristos (359,000), and Alex Jacob (304,000)."


Louis Salter of the UK is 9/127 overnight

Ben Heath 15th

Matthew Moss 28th

Max Silver 41st

Andrew Teng 72nd

Luke Brereton 78th

Simon Deadman 109th


Brit cashers but now out

Tod Wood 128th

Middy 160th

Richard Lord 229th

Ben Murray 277th

pleno 279th

steven morris 263rd

paul newey 385th

neil mcfadyean 399th

tom hall 441st

james rann 484th

fraser macintyre 596th

dan laming 642nd

james walsh 724th

idris drief 747th

grodon huntly 775th

david weeks 842nd

chaz chattha 958th

jason boyd 1010th

event 15 $1500 Eight Game Mix (6-Handed) was won by Paul Volpe

his second bracelet

what does the P on his hat represent?

he always wears hats with a P on. its a sports team

(http://media.cardplayer.com/assets/000/013/927/paulV.jpg)

11 remain in Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit)

Two Brits in the final 11

(http://www.londonfanfaretrumpets.com/wp-content/uploads/BGS2.jpg)

Southampton's Benny Glaser sits 4th

the other world's Stephen Chidwick is 7th

chip leader? never heard of him, some chap called Jason Mercier

Alex Luneau who lives in London is 2nd

Anthony Zinno is also still in, another deep run

Event #17: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

2242 runners and 240 remain

steve watts is best placed Brit in 56th overnight


jamie burland 67th.

this is not a joke, but this is jamie's first live cash in 2 years. good luck sir. got to pay for that golf betting somehow

He limp shoved QQ on the bubble, as you do

was called by Kings

Made Quads. if thats what it takes to cash, then its a tough game for Jamie



gary blackwood 72nd

roberto romanello 89th

david stones 91st

richard shiels 97th

craig mccorkell 106th

james poulter 158th

Event #18: $3000 H .O. R. S. E.

176 of 400 remain

in the top 10 matt glantz and eli elezra

leading brit? go on you'll never guess....

told you you wouldn't guess. Adam Owen, again. In 10th

beneath him the massed ranks assemble

Hellmuth
greenstein
lisandro
volpe
pescatori
leah
hachem
madsen

all among those in

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOe3P_2KG2Y

worth a watch.

Okay, this is interesting. Staker In Play. Millionaire Maker Day 3. You know the players, you know their chipstacks, can you pick the players to run deep and cash BIG ?

http://apat.com/forum/index.php/topic,19808.0.html

Mercier leads the final 9 of the 10k Lowball overnight

Stephen Chidwick is 3rd

Benny Glaser is 4th......

$273,000 up top

Sigh.

He actually cashed the milky maker too though.

There are 15 of 7190 headed into day 3 of the Millionaire Maker event 14

Luke Brereton who is British, but location not listed, is 5/15 overnight. good luck sir. will do some detective work shortly

also in the final 15 is Sofia Lovgren from Sweden

always worth a quick trip to google images

(http://sofialovgren.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PN-60.png)

right, i am back

British cashers

Simon Deadman had another deep run finishing 27th

Ben Heath 30th

Matthew Moss 36th

Louis Salter 43rd

Max Silver 46th

Andrew Teng 90th

from those who started the day

Jason Mercier wins his first bracelet of 2016 in WSOP 16 The 2-7 lowball championship event

Benny Glaser finished 5th, Stephen Chidwick 6th

jason's 4th bracelet

(http://www.wsop.com/images/imagestore/flashlarge/EV16_Jason_Mercier_2016_WSOP_Abrego.jpg)

here is a picture of assorted WSOP fantasy league owners from leagues the world over congregating on the news

(http://inhabitat.com/nyc/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2012/02/Ticker-dkaz.jpg)

24 of 2242 remain in Event #17: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

representing partypoker this series Mr Roberto Romanello is currently 2nd on the chip counts

good luck sir.



Jamie Burland, representing the get rinswun out of it syndicate, finished 33rd

david stones from hull finished 37th

steve watts finished 150th, james poulter 159th

richard shields 171st

16 of 400 remain in Event #18: $3000 H .O. R. S. E.

gerald ringe from london is listed 2 of 16 currently, just ahead of chino reem

Adam "deep run" Owen finished 18th

136 of 1105 remain in Event #19: $1000 Pot-Limit Omaha

3 brits remain

david colin
kevin allen
john gale

brian "BRIAN YATES" yates of WBA FC finished 142nd and in the cash

Event #20: $10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship

45 of 100 remain at the end of the day

the blurb reads "David Benyamine leads 45 survivors" which reads like a long mislaid episode of Lost.

Anyway, he leads

this event is full of names and stories

"Phil Hellmuth is the all-time leader on that list with 14, and he's also the defending champion of this Razz Championship. Hellmuth joined right at the tail end of the registration period, and he wasted no time building a formidable stack. He finished the day with 319,000 chips, good for second place on the overnight leaderboard."

"Jason Mercier is another man who's had his fair share of WSOP success, winning his fourth gold bracelet earlier today in the $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship. Mercier took just a short break to celebrate before hopping in this follow-up Championship event, and he too had a productive day. The decorated Florida pro ended with an above-average stack of 144,000 chips."

"Others who advanced through the day include Brian Hastings (251,000), Aleksandr Denisov (223,500), Mike Gorodinsky (145,000), Erik Seidel (143,000), Howard Lederer (43,000), and George Danzer (39,500)"

one Brit still in it

Owen? Ashton? Chufty? Rutter?

no its him again, stevie444 in 31st overnight

well done suzanne and redsimon

(if only it were real money...)

"Big win for the Stakers overnight, with Simon Brooke and Suzanne Hayward leading the way with a big share of bracelet winner, Jason Mercier. Play along. It's free and the ten most profitable stakers win stuff at every event. www.staker.co.uk

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Millionaire maker event 14

Jason DeWitt won

Luke Brereton from Prestbury was 5th for $275,000

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=180307

(https://www.seminolehardrockpokeropen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Luke-Brereton1.jpg)

Event #18: $3000 H .O. R. S. E.

was won by Marco Johnson

London's Gerald Ringe was 3rd for $108,000, a great follow up to his Stud bracelet last year

(http://archive.bluff.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Gerald-Ringe-WSOP-1024x682.jpg)

Event #17: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

Roberto Romanello finished 3rd for $142,000

(http://pnimg.net/w/articles/4/575/ed61c73891.jpg)

Event #19: $1000 Pot-Limit Omaha

12 of 1106 remain including Dan Shak

highest uk finisher was david colin in 66th

10 of 100 remain in Event #20: $10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship

John Racener leads Jason Mercier, Mercier going for back to back bracelets

Pescatori and R Mizrachi still in too

Hellmuth min cashed in 15th

event #21: $3000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

233 of 1029 remain at the end of day 1

UK interst

Stephen Sontheimer from Brighton in 14th

Ben Heath 54th

Ariel Schefer 67th

Elior Sion 93rd

David Vamplew 102nd

Craig McCorkell 165th

Adrian Gray 176th

John Gale 177th

Daniel McAulay 218th

Event #22: $1500 Limit Hold'em

198 of 665 remain

Michael Mizrachi in 2nd

Chidwick, Silver and Moorman listed in the top 40

Event #19: $1000 Pot-Limit Omaha

was won by Sam Soverel

A Brazilian and two Finns on the final and the high stakes player Dan Shak just missed out finishing 12th

Event #20: $10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship

Jason Mercier just missed out on back to back bracelets, finising runner up to Ray Dehkharghani

Hastings, Racener, Pescatori, S Deeb and Hellmuth all cashed in the top 15

26 of 1029 left in Event #21: $3000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

David Vamplew was chip leader for much of the day and is now listed in 2nd behind Australian Martin Kozlov

Stefan Sontheimer who is down as from Brighton is in the top 10 

25 of 665 remain in Event #22: $1500 Limit Hold'em

stephen chidwick is listed as 7th of those remaining

283 of 1419 remain in Event #23: $2000 No-Limit Hold'em

Steve Watts is currently 6th

Ben Vinson 23rd

Dan Laming 85th

Niall Farrell 94th

Fraser Macintyre 123rd

Craig McCorkell 144th

David Tovar 145th

Jamie Burland 151st

Kevin Allen 268th

Rod Higgins 269th

Kevin O'Leary 278th

 

80 of 171 remain in Event #24: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

led by Bryn Kenney

Matthew Ashton appears to be the only Brit left in 60th

as far as i can tell only he, chufty and owen were Brits who played it

Scott Clements ‏@BigRiskky

Congrats to @VanessaSelbst for winning the 10k Razz.

Wondered what had happened to Ben Vinson, guess now we know!

Event #23: $2000 No-Limit Hold'em

27 of 1419 remain overnight

Craig McCorkell is 26 of 27 going into tomorrow

steve watts finished 61st

daniel laming 90th

kevin 0'leary 92nd

david tovar 117th

jamie burland 135th

fraser mcintyre 193rd

Event #24: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

18 of 171 remain

Nick Schulman leads

Jason Mercier well placed again in 3rd

Kenney, Somerville, Obst and Alaei amongst those remaining

out but cashed, Ferguson, Seidel and Benyamine

229 Players Return for Day 2 of Event #25 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em, from 1045 players

made day 2:

former Main Event champion Ryan Riess (155,000)
Daniel Negreanu (64,300),
Main Event Champions Joe Cada (60,900) and Jonathan Duhamel (18,500),
Layne Flack (66,900),
David 'Doc' Sands (70,400),
Yevgeniy Timoshenko (43,300).

for the UK

Darren taylor 47th
niall farrell 73rd
Middy 81st
Phillip McAllister 135th
Ben Dobson 140th

Event #26: $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

342 of 934 remain

Matthew Ashton is the top placed Brit in 35th

more at the close of play of this one

Event #23: $2000 No-Limit Hold'em

Craig McCorkell finished 6th, which was his third WSOP final table

4 left in Event #24: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Jason Mercier is going for another one, 3/4 alongside Obst, N Schulman and Friedman

24 of 1045 remain in Event #25: $2500 No-Limit Hold'em

Niall Farrell is currently 16th.

Event #26: $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

45 of 934 remain led by Brandon Shack-Harris

Benny Glaser from Southampton is on another deep run currently listed 7th

Event #27: $1000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

4499 entries! my god, the queue for the restrooms.....

John Gale is shown as 18th of the 674 remaining

Paul Kerr from Bothwell 45th. Bothwell is 9 miles SE of Glasgow with a population of 6458. Thought you needed to know that

Martyn Frey 260th

Matthew Brayford 386th

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

110 entries and, er, 110 remain

in the top 20?

Duhamel
Rast
Lisandro and

Lederer

Queue was horrendous, I can confirm.

Ms Selbst doesn't seem to be playing much this year.

Probably crapping herself again tho'..

No strange haven't seen her name come up once in the updates,rumour has it she sold the bet off during mercier's to his 2nd final table

Jason Mercier just won the 10k Horse

Not heard that, but if it's true whoever bought it has probably gone from feeling quite smug to feeling quite unwell during the last few days.

The production quality on the WSOP live stream has been top class so far imo

Good mix of guests, hole cards for mixed games, the graphics with stack sizes, action on every street etc all work to make it very watchable which it hasn't been so much in previous years

Yeah, it's been superb, and Tuchman has been praising up the guys behind the scenes, whohave been writing code to improve how everything displays.

Only thing missing from the booth this morning was Nick Schulman, who was playing with them.

"I've got a special request for the winners photo"

"shoot, anything you want"

"i want my dog in it too"

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClOqLB4UYAAse-s.jpg)

for the next bracelet, which will be his sixth and due on about Wednesday, he's bringing his pet rabbit too

Too many obvious dog jokes

.

Martyn must have just seen how many notifications he's got, from Tony tagging him in selfies on Facebook ;D

He just had to lay down A-K on a 2-4-5 flop after villain set him all-in - he was shown J-J.

He was soon smiling again though, & he's in the money already.

Marching on, then.

Vanessa Selbst tweeted that she was only just getting into town this weekend, hence why she hasn't made any appearances yet.

Event #25: $2500 No-Limit Hold'em

Niall Farrell finished 6th for $75,000

His twitter was interesting afterwards, he described himself as being in an "ICM coffin all final" and wished luck to another finalist saying he hoped he won the "least deserved braclet in WSOP history"!

Daniel Cooke and Michael Gagliano are currently heads up for the bracelet

Event #26: $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

3 are left

in those three is Benny Glaser, going for the first British bracelet of the series

Brandon Shack-Harris and Max Pescatori finalled


edit, Benny is now Heads Up. 5.4m v 1.7m with $244,000 for the winner

good luck to him

Event #27: $1000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

57 of 4499 remain

I believe in those final 57 are Paul Romain and John Gale for the UK

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

is just reaching the final table

including Brian Rast, David Chiu and Bill Chen

Dublin's Nick Abou Risk finished 14th

Event #29: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

274 of 1796 made it through Day 1

one of the chip leaders is from the UK, David Vamplew

Ben Dobson is in the top 30

James Dempsey is in the top 75

Philip McAllister is in the top 130

Fraser Bellamy 170th

near the bottom of the chip counts Mike Ellis and Jack Salter

Event #30: $3000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

126 of 580 remain

Max Silver is in top 20

Roberto Romanello and Stephen Chidwick in the top 50

Barny Boatman and Adam Owen just outside the top 50

he's close

Benny Glaser - 6,500,000 (32 BB)
Benjamin Gold - 335,000 (1 BB)

Southampton's Benny Glaser won event 26 for $244,000 beating 933 others to the win

the first British bracelet of 2016

This is Benny's second bracelet, he won the $1500 2-7 Triple draw event 33 last year for $155,000

Well played, images follow

Think Firaldo's tweet re the other player was tongue in cheek

Unfortunately, both have busted afaik.

Sadly both Paul and John busted late on.

Only GB&IRE player left is Sean Byrne, brother of APAT stalwart Brendan. He's only been eligible to play Seniors since 2014...and finished in the top 60 (out of over 4000) every year!

Fraser had <10 BBs in level 7 and got it in by shoving over a mid position limp from a chap who had about 12BB and who snap called.

Fraser   Aspades  3h
Chap  Ad 5d

"Lot of chops here", Fraser assures the dealer.

Flop  Qc 8s 5c

"Not after that..."

Turn  3c

"Ooh! Go on! Three!"

River  3s

"BOOM!"

He walks away from the table and punches the air in a Tim Henman style.

(http://www.10sballs.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/h_994610941.jpg)

Half an hour later, he almost trebles his stack with AA v KK aipf, with a man calling the 3 bet with AK and folding to the fourth bet.

Artist's impression of the Thunderdome in a couple.of days, if it becomes Fraser Field for the day:

(http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/07/03/22/web-murray-mound-getty.jpg)

Is tikay playing in the super seniors?

Brilliant well played more Brit bracelets to come 😃

Yeah he's my room mate lol

ok good. the perils of social media when read by idiots (points at self)

Event #27: $1000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

6 left at the end of day 3

Wesley Chong - 8,585,000
Roger Sippl - 5,320,000
Joseph Somerville - 3,085,000
Johnnie Craig - 2,695,000
Paul Runge - 2,120,000
Jamshid Lotfi - 790,000

Event #29: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

31 left as play finishes for the night

Marino Mura is 2nd, he is listed as from Downham Market, which i think is Bury St Edmunds way in Suffolk

David Vamplew is 9th

there was only one other British casher, Colin Lovelock was 114th

15 of 580 are left in Event #30: $3000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

these include two Russians, a Finn and a Frenchman but no Brits


Max Silver cashed in 35th

Peter Charalambous in 50th

Michael Stephenson in 61st

Event #31: $1000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em

attracted 1476 entries, with 221 left as of now

not a single Brit in the 221

which is frankly disappointing, where have all the over 65 Brits in Vegas gone?

the latest championship event began overnight

Event #32: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

87 of 163 remain

a few sweats here given the seven figure sum swing if Mercier wins a third bracelet and the relatively small field...he is currently listed 57/87


Richard Ashby is listed in 5th

Benny Glaser going well again, in 14th

Stephen Chidwick 45th

Matthew Ashton looks to have been the only other British entry and he was out early
 

WSOP Wrinklies weekend with the author, a fountain of youth

http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/28981/10319656/wsop-wrinklies-weekend

Event #31: $1000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold'em

14 of 1476 head into day 3

here is the chip leader a Mr Fred Berger

(http://www.wsop.com/images/imagestore/flashlarge/Fred_Berger_2016_WSOP_EV31.JPG)

Event #32: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

18 of 163 remain and they have just gone to two tables as follows

Table 1:

Seat 1: Felipe Ramos - 60,000
Seat 2: Todd Brunson - 825,000
Seat 3: Grzegorz Trelski - 1,070,000
Seat 4: Matthew Kelly - 360,000
Seat 5: Jason Mercier - 395,000
Seat 6: Shaun Deeb - 160,000
Seat 7: Richard Ashby - 106,000
Seat 8: Par Hilderbrand - 140,000
Seat 9: Eric Kurtzman - 290,000

Table 2:

Seat 1: Eli Elezra - 560,000
Seat 2: Benny Glaser - 420,000
Seat 3: Andrew Brown - 420,000
Seat 4: Doug Lorgeree - 615,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 895,000
Seat 6: Jeffrey Vaughn - 215,000
Seat 7: Matt Glantz - 815,000
Seat 8: Esther Taylor-Brady - 320,000
Seat 9: Robert Campbell - 380,000

1 Glaser and Ashby more British deep runs in championship events

2 Mercier going for another bracelet, with huge prop bet swings riding on it

Event #33: $1500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold'em

445 of 1840 made day 2

Antoine Saout the former main event finalist, who has been a DTD regular in the big comps in 2016 and is listed as from Brighton, Guatemala interestingly is in the top 10 alongside Olivier Busquet

Brits

44 Carlo Hassan from London
76 David Tovar Cardiff
81 Michael Kane Gasgow (i remembered his sky poker online name, its "style")
84 Paul Romain from Moansville
89 James Akenhead
154 Rhys Jones
282 Phillip Ford from Ashford
302 Matt Davenport
354 Sadan Turket
355 Barny Boatman
373 David Tompkins from Barking
411 John Gale
428 Richard Dawson from Walton on thames
432 Chris Moorman from another planet

Event #34: $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

65 of 358 remain

Adam Owen currently 6th

a Vanessa Selbst sighting, in 11th

in the top 20 Andy Bloch and Greg Raymer

Doobs wake up the 10ko8 final is being streamed.

Thanks.  It is on a delay I think so no spoilers.  Trelskig and Benny Glaser still in.   Leaders have like 14 bbs, but guess that is the way with limit.  Kids get to school!

I was pretty sure it was live except when they take breaks and show highlights.

They are going after trelski in the comms box a little.

30 min delay so they can safely show cards

Think that must be right, it was on a break earlier and the live update had already restarted.  Trelskig, Glaser 1-2 on live stream.  Hold.

Love Trelski.  Bet he has played way more o8 hands than the commentators.  Plays exactly the same online.

 if you're on Twitter feel free to take a shot at a $6K Package - MUST post on Twitter thread and be my follower and first served system on numbers, IE, of someone has already guessed 6834 they have locked up that number, so you have to choose another one

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it could be a 15 minute break they were talking about it on a previous stream

I will leave the $10k PLO8 for now in case i post spoilers

other events

Event #33: $1500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold'em

heading into day 3

5 UK players left in

Chris Moorman is 3/91/1840  Chris has 4 WSOP final tables to date

Michael "style" Kane is 6/91/1840

James Akenhead is listed 20th one of three "November Niners" remaining

Carlo Hassan 59th

John Gale 81st

Event #34: $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

9 of 358 remain

Adam Owen finished 32nd, the only UK casher

197 of 541 made it through day 1 of Event #35: $5000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

"The chip leader appears to be 2013 November Niner Sylvain Loosli, who bagged 230,000. Matt Moore ended Day 2 second in chips with 225,000, and last year’s November Niner Pierre Neuville ended the day in third with 208,000. "

Phillip McAllister is top Brit in 60th

Patrick Leonard 88th

Liv Boeree 94th

Jake Cody 104th

Roberto Romanello 117th

Matt Davenport 140th

Jack O'Neill 141st

Niall Farrell 146th

Daniel Macaulay 149th

Matthew Moss 150th

Stephen Chidwick 154th

Barny Boatman 160th

Chris Brammer 163rd

David Vamplew 175th

Jack Salter 196th

Event #36: $2500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

129 of 384 remain

remaining field reads like a who's who of the WSOP over the last 15 years. names i haven't spotted so much in this series that are going well include Andreas Hoivold, Chris Bjorin, Mike Matusow, Cyndi Violette, Chip Jett

the WPT TD Matt Savage is still in too

Jason Mercier is at it again too "you are wiping out entire villages" says Chad at the end of one 7CS hand

This is indeed correct. Just fizzled out for trelski but benny is putting on a clinic.

I think the other two just aren't that great at O8.  They have both put in some pretty iffy folds.  I saw glantz fold AK and a good low draw in the SB to a Trelski button raise, when Trelski is raising every hand in that position and Glantz had about 3 big bets left and I think he was clear short stack at the time.  Glantz has obviously laddered since then, but had to run pretty good to do so.  The other fella was just playing way too nitty when he had the 3 shorties in an ICM coffin.

Trelski was running over the table for a while.  He had been folding well, but think he tilted a bit towards the end. 

I don't know if you heard but apparently WSOP are putting out vidoes of the final tables (think they said they were aiming for 4 days after the event).  I think this one is definitely worth a watch.

"After a long day of action and some intense competition, just three players remain in the hunt for the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo bracelet. Benny Glaser leads the trio and is in search of his second bracelet both of the summer and in this particular game, having already won the $1,500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo event last week. He will be back on Wednesday at 2 pm along with Matt Glantz and Doug Lorgeree to play down to a winner."

Doug Lorgeree - 3,095,000
Benny Glaser - 3,225,000
Matt Glantz - 1,850,000

good luck again to Benny, looked very impressive on the stream today and a second bracelet for him and the Brits would be great news

Benny Glaser Quietly Taking WSOP by Storm

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2016/06/benny-glaser-quietly-taking-wsop-by-storm-21909.htm

I loved the bit where Glaser was described as the worst pick of the entire draft.  They mentioned that in the commentary today too.  Even though they are so short, I wouldn't be in a rush to lay odds against on Glaser here.  If Trelski was still in it would be different.

What is with the Mercier service dog thing?  Sat at a table with him last year and he managed to play better than me without any need for the dog.  Or is it a 2 bracelet perk?  3 bracelets and you can bring your 2 kids in and they show finding dory on the screens? 

Lorgeree was down to 1bb with 9 or 10 left

08 live stream just restarting 3 way

really interesting, one of my weaker games in 8 Game, I'm learning loads

bossed it.  Wd Benny Glaser.   keeping the O8 bracelets in the UK.

Tremendous play from Benny  :)up ;applause; ;applause;

Such a beast wpwpwp

;kneelsucker;

Hand for hand in the 5k six max. 83 left with 82 paid.

Stephen Chidwick is to the right of Joe Hachem. Hachem asks if everyone wants to do a saver. That joke literally never gets old.

While the Silver Rogue is getting Trelski signed up to blonde, may as well get Benny too

Sitting enjoying a Starbucks while the WSOP passes you by is a treasured past time. You get the usual slew of "I was thrashing my table and then I lost all my chips" tales, the odd "I'm completely out of my league against these wizards" and, once in a while, an "I'm just loving this whole experience".

Rarely do you see one of the well known, established pros, say a word. Perhaps they know they're liable to be overheard. Perhaps it's that they're just processing all the information from the last 2 hours. Perhaps they're just miserable.

I'm only half way through my cup of tea and I'm into double figures on "so the flop came...", although that was a 1/33 shot anyway.

I particularly enjoy the ones in foreign languages. Sometimes you can pick something up that gives you a sense of what's being discussed. Let's face it: most of these conversations are going to be the same as the ones in English. It does make me feel a bit of a Peter O'Hanran-Hanrahan, mind.

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

Well, the people who were heading right to left are now making their way past me again, reinvigorated, refocused and refreshed. Puzzled faces replaced with game faces. Crises with opportunities. Mistakes with lessons.

Then a woman in a shark onesie shlomps past and punctures the wistful air. She's followed by a couple rowing over which pizza supplier is better (mate, if your missus says it's Domino's, it's Domino's). Oh and a young man zooms past on a mobility scooter he's rented because walking is not what balla people do and he can record the trip way more easily this way on his iPhone.

All that for the price of a cup of tea. Why would you spend an hour any other way?

Just found out that Benny Glaser now has the most wsop bracelets of any UK player with 3. 

Glaser's first cash at the wsop was last year.  He has cashed in 6 events now, of which he has won 3.  Some conversion rate.

Event #33: $1500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold'em

17 of 1840 through to day 3 at the end of the night

David Tovar from Cardiff is 5th

Chris Moorman is 15th

WSOPE Main event winner Adrian Mateos leads, with pearljammer and Kathy Liebert also still in

Carlo Hassan from London finished 25th

Michael Kane from Glasgow finished 29th

John Gale 57th

James "ThinkerJE" Edwards 59th

James Akenhead 64th

Rhys Jones 121st

David Thompson 145th

Richard Dawson 154th

Paul Romain 169th

Katie Swift 183rd

as already discussed

Event #32: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Benny Glaser won his second bracelet of the series and third overall for the UK

(http://www.wsop.com/images/imagestore/flashlarge/Benny_Glaser_2016_World_Series_of_Poker_Abrego.jpg)


Extract from the post torunament blurb

"Glaser’s victory now gives him two wins for the series in Omaha High-Low Split.  He previously won the $1,500 buy-in event, which concluded a week earlier.  Glaser joined Tom Schneider (HORSE) and Greg Mueller (Limit Hold’em).

“It’s surprising that I would win two gold bracelets, at all,” Glaser confided.  “But if I was going to win, it would have been in this game since this is my best game and the one I have played the most online.”

When asked about what makes Omaha his best game, Glaser replied: “I think it’s the one game that plays closest to a cash game as a tournament.  Definitely, some adjustments need to be made.  But these limit games are more like I am used to in day to day.”

As for Mercier’s influence on the final table, Glaser stated he gave some consideration to the fact that his opponent was more likely to be playing for first place, which meant he might take more chances at the final table in order to accumulate chips.  Still, Glaser dismissed that as having much influence on his game.

“The stack sizes and situations pretty much played themselves, regardless,” Glaser said.

Incredibly, although Glaser has cashed just six times in WSOP events, all since the start of 2015 -- four of the six in-the-money finishes resulted in final table appearances.  And, three of the six ended as victories.  That’s as high a ratio as anyone with so few cashes and so many wins."

Event #35: $5000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

21 of 541 have made day three

Christian Christner from Brighton and Scott Margereson are still in for the UK

Jack O'Neill finihsed 23rd

Stephen Chidwick 32nd

Jake Cody 34th

Chris Brammer 46th

Niall Farrell 51st

David Vamplew 55th

Matt Davenport 81st

Event #36: $2500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

13 of 384 remain

Jason Mercier is the shortstack of the 13 left who include Fabrice Soulier

No British cashers

Event #37: $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha

128 of 776 made it through day 1

Jan Collardo is listed as being from East Sssex is in the top 10 overnight

Jeff Duval 24th

Toby Lewis 50th

Keith Johnson 96th

also still in, in 79th is Calgary Alberta's Anthony Kendall

117 are paid

Event #38: $3000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em

72 of 245 remain

Brits i can see that played are Chidwick, Rutter and Ashton

top 20 currently includes Matros, McKeehan, Somerville, Duhamel, Hennigan and Lisandro

Thanks for keeping us up to date Tighty , appreciated.

Keep it come on Brits and..............tikay  :)

The current WSOP Player of the Year standings has Jason Mercier leading Benny Glaser http://bit.ly/1Usue7K

Event #33: $1500 Summer Solstice No-Limit Hold'em

4 remain, Adrian Mateos the WSOPE Winner from Spain is the chip leader


David Tovar from the UK finished 9th

Moorman had AK v JJ for the chip lead with 13 left and lost the flip

Event #35: $5000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em is currently heads up

Scott Margereson from the UK finished 5th

Christian Christner from Brighton finished 21st

Event #36: $2500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Fabrice Soullier of France is currently HU for a bracelt

Jason Mercier finished 13th

Event #37: $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha

20 of 776 remain

Legendary london player Jeff Duvall is currently 15/20

Jan Collado from East Sussex finished 24th

Keith Johnson finished 25th

tikay finished 36th

toby Lewis finished 78th

Event #38: $3000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em

15 of 245 remain

Joe McKeehan the 2015 main event winner is currently 2/15

294 playing one of the championship events

Event #39: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship

early days but chip leader is Roberto Romanello

Max Silver sitting 9th

Simon Deadman sitting 20th

Niall Farrell 30th

other Brits playing

McCorkell
Chidwick
Gale
Boeree

117 of 221 remain in Event #40: $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

Stuart Rutter is 4th in the chip counts

Benny Glaser is going for back to back to back bracelets and is 13th on the list

Well done to Jeff Duvall who won $130,000 in finishing second in Event #37: $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha

"Jeffrey Duvall, from Royal Herbert, UK finished as the runner up.  He’s only had two cashes at the series, including this deep run and a showing in the money back in 2010. "

Event #38: $3000 6-Handed Limit Hold'em

was won by Raphael Lebron, who both plays basketball and paints friezes on chapel roofs

"Consider this:  He came in second in a Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha tournament just four days ago.  Then, he entered another Six-Handed tourney and this time he finished in first place.  His winnings just for this week – about $380,000.  Not a bad payout for a player that until now hadn’t posted any high finishes of note."

McKeehan finished 4th

3 time limit bracelet winner Matt Matros finished 5th

21 of 294 remain in Event #39: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship, the event that had the multi-hour bubble overnight

Selbst is 2nd, Bonomo 3rd

London's Jack Salter sits 5th

Steffen Sontheimer from Brighton 14th


Max Silver finished 23rd

Patrick Leonard finished 26th

Simon Deadman finished 39th

Event #40: $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

9 of 236 remain


Stuart Rutter cashed in 30th

the latest large field weekend event began with 1a of

Event #41: $1500 MONSTER Stack No-Limit Hold'em

4054 entries!

TJ Cloutier is a top 5 stack

So is Birmingham's Mohammed Ladak

David Welch, the Southend one from britian's got talent, in the top 100

"Day 1B begins tomorrow at 10 a.m. Players who entered Day 1A may not enter Day 1B. All remaining players from both flights will combine and play on Sunday for an 11 a.m. restart"

the top 40 of 400 who entered Event #42: $3000 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em won their tables to advance to day 2

Rhy Jones
Phillip McAllister
Stephen Chidwick
Daniel Merrilees

appear to be the four UK players still standing, better than they've ever been, true survivors and no doubt feeling like little kids

 ;D

3 on final table surely great chance for another Brit braclet

Event #39: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship

was won by Martin Kozlov

Kitai 2nd
Bonomo 3rd
Jesus 4th

and the UK's Jack Salter 6th, well played

at the end of 1b Event #41: $1500 MONSTER Stack No-Limit Hold'em

2001 of 6927 remain

"Day 1B of the Monster Stack drew 4,507 entries, which combined with Day 1A generated a total 6,927 runners and a prize pool of $9,351,450 with $1,120,196 and a WSOP gold bracelet awarded to the winner"

Brits in the top 100 of 1b

Harry Lodge in 10th
Pete Charra 39th
Luke Brereton 46th
Max Silver 76th

Event #42: $3000 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em

Final table

three British players

Rhys Jones
Stephen Chidwick
Phillip McAllister

good luck to them all

Faraz Jaka has also made the final, Maria Ho too

Event #43: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship

56 of 139 remain in the latest championship event

Adam Owen 20th
Richard Ashby 26th

gorodinsky, danzer and benyamine in the top 10

That is a pretty stacked final table.  Always assumed this was a real lottery comp, so probably I am wrong.

My housemate final table there too. Suoer tough ft. But that's natural with shootouts

Event #41: $1500 MONSTER Stack No-Limit Hold'em

273 of 6927 remain after two days play

chip leader is Nabil Mohammed listed from the UK

Other uk players

Usman Sddique 67th
Daniel Wlson, Cardiff 71st
Aaron Virchis, Southampton 73rd
Barny Boatman 76th
Matt Davenport 92nd
Ross Boatman 119th
James Dempsey 224th
Stephen Woodhead 233rd

 

a third British bracelet as Phillip McAllister from Wnchester wins Event #42: $3000 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em

@grindation on twitter, fyi

(http://www.wsop.com/images/ImageStore/__Selected/27828259001_7654c7ec51_z.jpg)

rhys jones finished 8th

stephen chidwick finished 10th

Event #43: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship

16 of 136 remain

Justin Bonomo leads

Elezra, Benyamine, Danzer, Leah, Shak and Clements among those left in

288 of 2076 made it through day 1 of Event #44: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

uk players

Tim Wright from Swindon, charliek on here, 19th
john gale 34th

will need to wait for the official list for more, only 60 players are listed with chip counts

208 of 909 remain in Event #45: $1500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

Niall Farrell is listed as a big chip leader

Matthew Ashton and Benny Glaser are also listed on the chip coutns which are incomplete with only 50 players listed

 INSIDE THE NUMBERS: 2016 WORLD SERIES OF POKER AT THE HALFWAY POINT

35 of 69 Events Complete, All Benchmarks Showing another Sensational Year at the WSOP

Still Plenty of Poker Left with Exciting and New Events on Tap through July 18 Including Crazy Eights, Tag Team Event, Online Event & Main Event


LAS VEGAS (June 27, 2016) – The 2016 version of the World Series of Poker is currently ongoing at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and is pacing exceptionally, following what was a record-breaking year in 2015.

With 35 official WSOP gold bracelet events complete (and 34 more to go), the 47th Annual WSOP is on pace to potentially surpass last year as the largest in terms of participation in the series’ storied 47-year history.

To date, 59,507 entries have been tallied in the first 35 gold bracelet events, just behind last year’s record pace of 59,771, less than half of one percent off.  (This is not an apples-to-apples comparison, as the schedule of events differs from year to year). Thus far in 2016, the average entries per official WSOP gold bracelet event are 1,700.


Players from 98 countries have already participated in events this WSOP, the exact same seen at this point last year.

In terms of prize money awarded, the 35 official WSOP gold bracelet events have awarded $69,072,845. On an event basis, the average prize pool is averaging $1,973,510.

“It’s great to see poker alive and well in Las Vegas this summer,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “Paying out 50% more places this summer and continuing to sprinkle in some new and unique events while bringing back the stalwarts has proven to be a successful recipe at the WSOP.  Everyone seems to be having fun this summer and with several new and exciting events in the back half of our schedule, we remain confident that players will find some great poker playing options the rest of the way.”

A record 8,694 participants have received prize money this year (through 35 events), a result of the payout structure change awarding prize money to the final 15% of entrants in most events, instead of what was 10% in the past.  Last year a record 11,638 cashed in WSOP gold bracelet events during the 68-event schedule, a number sure to be smashed this year.

Between official WSOP gold bracelet, Daily Deepstack, single and mega satellites, a total of 124,844 entries have been recorded at the 2016 WSOP, ahead of last year’s 116,977 entries at this point (Up 6.7%) (Note these numbers do not include participation in cash games, for which we don’t track entries).

In terms of participants, the Top 5 countries are U.S. (49,323), Canada (2,287), United Kingdom (1,889), Germany (580) and Russia (549).

To date in WSOP gold bracelet events, 75 different countries have cashed with the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Russia and Germany in the Top 5.

For more on how players are doing based on their nationality, please see our World Rankings for 2016 here: http://www.wsop.com/2016/worldrankings/

The WSOP gold bracelet tally shows the U.S. players dominating, winning 27 of the first 35 events, with Russia (2), Spain (2), United Kingdom (2), Belgium (1) and Sweden (1) the others.


Poker of course attracts participants of all ages.  Thus far the WSOP has seen those as young as 21 and as old as 95. The average age of entrants is 42.91 and for cashers it is 40.44.  Males account for 56,601 of entries (95.1%) with females tracking at 4.9% (2,906 entries).

 For more stats on the 2016 WSOP, please visit: http://www.wsop.com/players/stats/byyear/?y=2016

In addition to the fantastic tournament action, live action game activity has been plentiful as well, with as many as 81(so far) tables running simultaneously.  WSOP Live-Action (@WSOPLiveAction) is spreading a wide variety of games at stakes from $1-$3 NL, all the way up to $10-$25 NL and $100-$200-$400 PLO.  Pineapple Open Faced Chinese has been a big hit again this year. Players have also enjoyed the no posting for new players in Pot Limit and No Limit games sitting down. With the upcoming schedule, live action is expected to reach the 91 table capacity.  For limit players, the Rio cash game section has brought back mandatory posting for new players in all limit games. Cash games are dedicated to maintaining must move tables for all of the limit games (7 Stud, 7 Stud 8/O, Omaha 8/O and Mixed).  Limit action this year has ranged from $10-$20 to $75-$150. By popular demand, the Rio Pavilion room is running PLO and BIG O games with three blind structures as opposed to two blind. They are playing with mandatory button straddles/mandatory Mississippi straddles, depending on the limit and game.  There has also been a new game introduced in the mix this year. Called “Drawmaha”.  This is played as a “Split Game”.  Half of the hand goes to the winner of an Omaha High hand and half of the hand goes to the winner of a Budugi hand.

 
The 2016 WSOP official has just over three weeks remaining, and among the highlights left on the schedule is as follows:

 
·         Monday, June 27 - Event #46 – $1,500 buy-in Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (every player is a bounty worth $500) – 11am

·         Tuesday, June 28 – Event #48 - $5000 Turbo No-Limit Hold’em (30-minute levels) (2 day event) – 11am

·         Wednesday, June 29 – Event #50 - $1,500 buy-in Shootout No-Limit Hold’em  -- 11am

·         Wednesday June 29 – Event #51 – $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Championship – 3pm

·         Friday, July 1 – Event #54A/B - $888 buy-in Crazy Eights Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em (new event) ($888,888 guaranteed 1st place prize) – two starting flights, 10am & 4pm

·         Saturday, July 2 – Event #54C/D - $888 buy-in Crazy Eights Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em (new event) ($888,888 guaranteed 1st place prize) – two starting flights, 10am & 4pm

·         Saturday, July 2 – Event #55 - $50,000 buy-in Poker Players’ Championship 6-Handed (8-game variants to determine poker’s all-around top player) – 3pm

·         Monday,  July 4 – Event #58 - $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em (30 minute levels; two-day event) – 11am

·         Wednesday, July 6 – Event #61 - $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold’em – 2-4 person teams. New Event, Entry fee is per team. 11am

·         Wednesday, July 6 – Event #62 - $25,000 buy-in High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed (4-day event) – 3pm

·         Friday, July 8 – Event #65 - $10,000 buy-in Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship (Ladies receive 90% discount on buy-in price) – 11am

·         Friday, July 8 – Event #66 - $1,000 buy-in WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em (only online WSOP gold bracelet event of the year, via WSOP.com Nevada software) – 1pm

·         Friday, July 8 – Event #67 - $111,111 buy-in High Roller for ONE DROP Charity No-Limit Hold’em (5% of entry pool donated to ONE DROP organization) – 1pm

·         Sat. July 9/Sun. July 10/Mon. July 11 – Event #68 - $10,000 buy-in Main Event World Championship (3 starting flights) – Now with 50,000 starting chip stack. Expected to pay 1,000 places – 11am

·         Tues. July 12/Wed. July 13/Thurs. July 14 – Event #69A/B/C - $1000 buy-in Little One for ONE DROP ($111 add-on to double starting chip stack) – All $111 would go to ONE DROP as charitable donation – 3pm

26 of 6927 remain headed into day 4 of Event #41: $1500 MONSTER Stack No-Limit Hold'em headed by David Pham

Aaron Virchis from Southampton is the last Brit left in 14th

Donnacha O'Dea and TJ Cloutier are amongst those remaining

UK finishers

Matt Davenport 27th
Mo Ladek 51st
Nabil Mhammed 58th
Ross Boatman 118th
Usman Sddique 142nd
Shaun Stanfield 177th
Barny Boatman 211th
Stephen Woodhead 233rd
James Dempsey 262nd
Danny Toffel 292nd
Peter Charra 315th
Louis Salter 342nd

Event #43: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship

heads up between Danzer and Ohel

Bonomo was 3rd todd brunson 5th, elezra 6th

scott clements, leah and Benyamine also cashed

19 remain in Event #44: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

No British players left

Top British finishers were

Matthew Hopkins 46th
Simon Deadman 64th
Mike Ellis 93rd
Danny Tang 154th

Event #45: $1500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

19 of 919 remain

Niall Farrell finished 21st
 

Event #46: $1500 BOUNTY No-Limit Hold'em

308 of 2158 remain led by Jonathan Duhamel

top Brit listed Moorman in 54th

David Tovar 58th
Chun Law 126th
David Crane 132nd
Henry Fewster 136th
Max Silver 174th
Daniel Wilson 178th
Rhys Jones 299th

48 of 125 remain

Event #47: $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship

all the big boys in this

Top brit so far Chidwick in 17th

Adam Owen 23rd
Chufty 36th
Matthew Ashton 43rd

Danzer has just won.

Such a shame, was hoping that Bonomo would have refused a winner's picture then lectured all us men on how awful we are in his interview.

Bonomo not winning was like SCOOPIOOOOOOOO. 

Event #44: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 3 began with 19 hopefuls and quickly played down to the final nine. After 152 hands at the final table, it's now it's been whittled down to heads up play between Wenlong Jin (5,265,000) and Steven Wolansky (5,120,000).

Loren Klein won Event #45: $1500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha

Niall Farrell was the top finishing Brit in 21st

36 of 2158 remain at the end of the day's play in Event #46: $1500 BOUNTY No-Limit Hold'em

No Brits remain

Henry Fewster 75th

Chris Moorman 77th.his twitter reported he ripped QJs into AQ,KK then AA in a row and still had outs on the river....

David Crane 83rd   
 

9 remain in Event #47: $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship

Stephen Chidwick cashed in 14th

49 of 523 remain in Event #48: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30-minute levels)

Max Silver currently 4/49

Patrick Leonard listed 19/49

Keith Johnson 27/49

Jon Wong 28/49

Ben Dobson 37/49

so plenty of British interest and hopefully some deep runs coming

Matthew Moss cashed in 53rd

William Chattaway 71st

Event #49: $1500 Seven Card Stud

90 of 331 remain

Benny Glaser currently shows 4/90 on the chip counts

 

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Event #46: $1500 BOUNTY No-Limit Hold'em

they went to another day, tomorrow, with 3 remaining

 Bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell (7,080,000) leads ahead of Norbert Szecsi (5,600,000) and John Myung (3,550,000),

The three players remaining have each locked up six figure paydays, with the remaining payouts as follows:

1st - $290,768
2nd - $179,625
3rd - $130,588

The chip counts of the remaining players are as follows:

Kristen Bicknell - 7,080,000
Norbert Szecsi - 5,600,000
John Myung - 3,550,000

Event #48: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30-minute levels)

Ankush Mandavia is the newest member of poker’s gold bracelet club.
 
The 29-year-old professional poker player from Kennesaw, GA won the $5,000 buy-in Turbo No-Limit Hold’em tournament, 

Mandavia collected $548,139 in prize money, making this the biggest win of his career.  However, he’s no newcomer to the tournament scene, having first cashed at the series five years ago.  He’s now posted 16 in-the-money finishes, two very deep runs, and now a debut victory.

“I’ve had a lot of deep runs in the past, but until now had never closed the deal,” Mandavia said in a post-victory interview.  “So, it’s really gratifying to win.  It feels really good.”

Max Silver finished 10th

Patrick Leonard finished 14th

Keith Jhnson finished 25th

8 of 331 remain in Event #49: $1500 Seven Card Stud

Benny Glaser finished 25th

in the final 8 S Deeb leads Katchalov on a final including Pescatori and Monette

1050 Began Event #50: $1500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em

win your table to advance and so on down to a final

British table winners so far

James Dempsey
Henry Fewster
Niall Farrell
Roberto Romanello
Danny Laming
Alex Lindop
Tom Hall
Daniel McAulay
Jeff Kimber
Andrew Hulme

400 ponied up for the latest championship event

Event #51: $10,000 8-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

in the top 10 so far Max Silver and Negraneau, Glantz, Mizrachi, Cheong

other Brits listed as playing

pleno
Simon Trumper
Barny Boatman

more details when full chip counts come through, play has just ended

The ever popular Shaun Deeb is heads up against Adam Friedman for the 1,500 Stud bracelet.

Cheers for the updates guys, much appreciated.

Three British players have made the final 12 of Event #50: $1500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em

Table 1

Seat 1: Niall Farrell - 651,000
Seat 2: Raymond Ho - 630,500
Seat 3: Alexander Lakhov - 646,000
Seat 4: Daniel Tang - 640,000
Seat 5: Erkut Yilmaz - 651,000
Seat 6: Daniel McAulay - 641,500

Table 2

Seat 1: Safiya Umerova - 654,000
Seat 2: Damian Salas - 654,000
Seat 3: Yuliyan Kolev - 631,000
Seat 4: Sam Greenwood - 653,000
Seat 5: Vanessa Selbst - 639,000
Seat 6: Michael Mixer - 635,000

$264,000 up top

Brits who fell at stage 2 were:

Jeff Kimber
Andrew Hulme
James Dempsey
Henry Fewster
Tom Hall
Alex Lindop
Roberto Romanello

28 of 400 remain in Event #51: $10,000 8-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Brandon Shack-Harris leads James Obst

Max Slver is the last UK player, currently 8/28

287 of 1125 remain in Event #52: $3000 No-Limit Hold'em

Michael Kane is listed 5/287
Robert Tinnion in 11th
Paul Vas Nunes 34th
Craig McCorkell 38th
Stephen Chidwick 45th
Alex Ward 59th
James Akenhead 61st
Chun Law 92nd
Liv Boeree 132nd
Simon Deadman 165th
Mo Ladak 182nd
Alex Goulder 191st
David Vamplew 219th
Daniel Rudd 225th
Luke Bindon 235th
James Rann 236th
Talal Shakerchi 268th
 

259 of 668 remain in Event #53: $1500 Mixed PLO/8; Omaha 8/8; and Big O

Monnette, Mizrachi and Leah in the top 10

a player who used to play in the UK a lot, Woody Deck in 11th

can't see much British presence in this, will need to see the end of play official list

starting today

Event #54: $888 Crazy Eights 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

"what is it?" i thought to myself

well its merely 8 handed, but branded/sponsored by 888

"On Friday, July 1, the 2016 World Series of Poker will host Event #54: $888 Crazy Eights 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. The tournament, which will feature re-entries over four starting flights, is guaranteeing a $888,888 first-place prize. So it's no surprise it's one of the most popular additions to this year's schedule.

"You should recall we ran a $777 event last year," said Seth Palansky, WSOP vice president of corporate communication. "That concept really came because we wanted to offer another affordable buy-in event but have it stand out from others. Then Ty Stewart and Jack Effel thought, for this year, we should try to have an affordable buy-in event that also played short-handed – or relatively short-handed.  So this concept got settled around an 8-handed event, which we don’t believe has been done at this point. So once you are playing 8-handed, then the leap to making it $888 was pretty easy."

What to Expect

The $888 Crazy Eights event, which was named one of the five best tournaments for first-time players by USA Today, marks the first time in WSOP history that a sub-$1,500 buy-in event will be run eight-handed.

Here's a look at the event schedule:

    Flight A – Friday, July 1 at 10:00 am.
    Flight B – Friday, July 1 at 4:00 pm.
    Flight C – Saturday, July 2 at 10;00 am.
    Flight D – Saturday, July 2 at 4:00 pm.

The plan for each day is to start players with 5,000 in starting chips and play 18, 30-minute levels. If a player is eliminated, they may elect to re-enter any remaining flight (max one entry per flight).

Survivors from all four flights will then return for Day 2 on Sunday, July 3 at 2 pm. for 10, 60-minute levels. From there, two more days of action will take place with the event expected to conclude on Tuesday, July 5."

Beautifully timed for my trip.  10am start and done by early evening sounds perfect or someone adjusting to vegas time.

Happy to help out.

UK flagged players from the list - 207 left, 101 paid, ave stack 24,200

80th Warren Colman 25,000
86th Paul Johnson 23,925 (my mate from another forum)
99th Jonathan Wong 21,575
141st Usman Siddique 13,650
204th Simon Trumper 3,400

Event #51: $10,000 8-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

6 left headed into day 4 led by Brandon Shack Harris

Max Silver finished 12th

31 of 1125 remain in Event #52: $3000 No-Limit Hold'em

4 British Players in the 31

James Akenhead 6th
Simon Deadman 14th
Daniel Rudd 17th
Michael Kane 24th


finishers

Paul Vas Nunes 40th
Alex Goulder 41st
Alex Ward 47th
Stephen Chidwick 82nd
Craig McCorkell 84th
Chun Law 90th
Robert Tinnion 97th
Talal Shakerchi 98th

Niall Farrell finished runner up in Event #50: $1500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em for $163,000. Very well done

Daniel McAuley finished 7th
Danny Tang finished 8th

30 of 668 remain in the PLO Trifecta Event #53: $1500 Mixed PLO/8; Omaha 8/8; and Big O

Usman Siddique from London is in 11th

Jon Wong finished 48th
Warren Colman finished 88th

three flights are underway in Event #54: $888 Crazy Eights 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

73 of 1525 remain in a, Andrew Teng the only UK player listed

news on the others to follow

Cashes and chip counts for Flight B of the Crazy Eights tourney can be found here:

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/reports.asp?grid=1232&tid=14954&dayof=149542

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14954/Ev54-Flight-B-Chip-Counts.pdf

I've not noticed Barry Greenstein mentioned on any updates.

He's usually a fixture, I hope he's okay.

How much do 888 put into the prize pool or donate to charity to sponsor this event?

What do the players get from 888 for playing in it?   Anyone know?

Seen him a good few times over the last month Ralph, playing most of the WSOP events as far I can tell.

Looking a little older, smaller, grumpier & greyer, but otherwise seems his normal self. 

Hi Greg,

888 do not put any money directly in the Prize Pool, or donate anything to charity for the "$888 Crazy Eights Event".

They are partners/sponsors of the WSOP 2016 as a whole, not specifically this event, so they may have paid a fee for sponsoring rights of the SERIES, but not this event. At least, not officially, anyway.

I would imagine that as part of their overall WSOP 2016 sponsorship/partnership deal, this $888 Crazy Eight events was "suggested" & formed part of the deal.   

Note the event is not sponsored by 888.com, & their name does not feature in any WSOP Promos, other than all those eights - $888 Buy In, 8 handed, and a guaranteed $888,888 to the winner.

That's my understanding, anyway.

Sounds familiar; the older, smaller, grumpier and greyer bit.

He doesn't seem to have had many cashes then which might have enhanced the grumpiness.

I bet he's still lucky in love though..

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20 minutes ago, presumably exiting the 888 thing - grumpier, greyer, smaller & blurrier. 

Hero.

Great car tho. 

Mr Greenstein has cashed in events #2, #7, #17, #45 and #53.

Thanks for the 888 info TK.

Always amazes me how firms that 'sponsor' or are associated with events get so much from the players providing the prize pool and seemingly give nothing back apart from the odd free hoody or other branded gift that only serves to further promote their website.

They may have paid money to the series but what added benefit is that to the players that enter?

Almost everyone seems to have a beard these days, including James Akenhead, who was sat behind me on the flight across, but I've not set eyes on since until moments ago.

This is deep in the $3,000 affair, just 23 left I think.

Average stack is just over 700,000.

Michael Kane, who plays a lot Next Door, & in some style, also deep in the $3,000.

A lady in jeans last seen in Wayne's World playing today:

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"Take me, Garth"
"Where? I'm low on gas and you need a jacket"

I spotted Danny Rudd, said hi, & we chatted for a moment or two. He had 650,000, with the average at 700,000, so I wished him well & congratulated him on having a great shot at this.

Barely moments later, he exited in spectacular fashion with A-K v Q-Q when it ran out A-A-2-7-Q.  

Wish I had not bokked him so awfully.

.

It depends on the deal, Greg, sometimes the sponsor guarantees the prize pool or whatever, though that is not the case here, or I would not imagine it is.  To be fair, it is not sponsored by 888, they are "Official Partners" of the 2016 WSOP as a whole. So they presumably paid the WSOP a chunk of money in return for branding rights. And WSOP keep that money, naturally. 

Brandon Shack-Harris Wins Event #51 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha ($894,300)

The Crazy Eights event is now the 13th largest live poker tournament in history. Marks 5th Top 25 event set at this WSOP.

Leading the final 5 of the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Trio is gavin smith

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Linglin Zeng leads the $3,000 NL Holdem final table with 6 players remaining.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmaXuILVIAAaz0v.jpg)

in the $3k NLHE

Akenhead finished 18th

Michael Kane 20th

Danny Rudd 23rd

Simon Deadman 25th

87 entries in the PPC

Event #55: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed)

Benny Glaser currently 5/87

7 Brits played this overall

Tony Bloom
Adam Owen
Talal Shakerchi
Matthew Ashton
Stephen Chidwick
Elior Sion

event expected to take 5 days

Seiver, M Mizrachi and Zinno currently in the top 5 behind William O'Neill

Keith finally caved in and bought a personal number plate did he?

Scott Seiver leads Day 1 of the Poker Players Championship. Day 2 starts at 2pm

Chips http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14955/Ev55-EoD1-Counts-By-Chips.pdf

Brits

10 Talal Shakerchi ESHER, , GB 395,100
13 Benny Glaser Southampton, GB 383,000
29 Elior Sion London, , GB 309,200
32 Adam Owen Folkestone, GB 275,800
45 Tony Bloom LONDON, GB 233,800
74 Matthew Ashton LIVERPOOL, , GB 136,900

The combined flights are in. A total of 206 players advance to Day 2 of Crazy Eights Event.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/reports.asp?grid=1232&tid=14954&dayof=149544

39 Luke Marsh SCUNTHORPE, GB 251,000
57 Waikiat Lee SALFORD, GB 214,000
79 Alex Lindop STOKE-ON-TRENT, GB 175,000
160 Andrew Teng LONDON, GB 87,000
165 John Gale BUSHEY HEATH, GB 85,000

16 remain in Event #54: $888 Crazy Eights 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em

No Brits left, put in the shade by Bulgaria with 2 left

top UK finishers

Alex Lindop 82nd
Luke Marsh in 85th
John Gale 113th
Andrew Teng 119th
 

Still 1hr 15 to go in this and the $50k. Might hit FT in the 888 tonight at this rate.

50 of 91 remain in Event #55: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed)

as you would expect, high profile playera bount

currently David Grey leads Bonomo, Seiver and Mizrachi

1 UK player left, Benny Glaser 49/50....

293 of 1860 remain in Event #56: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

UK players who have made day 3

43rd David Longmate
67th Yiannis Liperis
105th Henry Fewster
112th Steven Warburton
129th Chun Law
170th Jeff Kimber
185th Andrew Hulme
214th Gary Fisher
217th Danny Tang
220th Tom Hall
284th Chris Brammer
288th Paul Vas Nunes

279 are paid

189 of 732 remain in Event #57: $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better

Adam Owen is 7/189 in a top 10 including Clements, ODB and Laak

Stuart Rutter 40th

James Dempsey 43rd

full list to follow as chip counts currently incomplete

"“I have five kids.  We are a lower middle class family.  We work hard.  This is life changing money for us.”

How fitting that Hung Le, a Vietnamese immigrant now living in Dayton, Ohio won the latest World Series of Poker tournament on the Fourth of July.

Just as appropriate was Le winning a tournament known as “Crazy Eights.”

Le was the most unlikely WSOP champion for a number of reasons.

First, hard to believe, but he’d never entered a major tournament before, including a WSOP event.  This was his first attempt to play in the world’s most prestigious poker series.

Second, if Le had limited playing experience, he had even more limited personal finances.  A small business owner, Le operates a single store, which is a nail salon with his family, including five children.  Two of his children work at the nail salon.

Third, Le had utterly no concept of what playing at a WSOP final table was like.  He made baffling calls, which he later explained provided him with the only chance he had of winning the tournament.  He would later even admit that he was completely outclassed by his opponents and had to resort to extremely unorthodox measures.  In a sense, as crazy as this strategy was, it was also brilliant."

HUNG LE WINS $888 BUY-IN NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM EVENT

15 of 91 remain in Event #55: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed)

and they are on the bubble

Bonomo leads

Also still in Alaei, Gorodinsky, Volpe, Mizrachi, Lederer,Negreanu, Rast, the other Mizrachi

and London's Elior Sion currently 9th

28 of 1860 remain in Event #56: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

Matt Affleck leads a field including Dara O'Kearney, Peters and Jaka

London's Chun Law is 8/28

Andrew Hulme finished 70th

Henry Fewster 94th

Tom Hall 113th

Jeff Kimber 146th

Yiannis Liperis 194th

23 of 732 remain in Event #57: $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better

No UK players remain

Francis Lincoln finished 23rd

Andrew Andreou 29th

Adam Owen 36th

James Dempsey 75th

Paul Johnson 99th

Stuart Rutter 101st

28 of 1397 left in Event #58: $1000 No-Limit Hold'em (30-minute levels)

UK Cashers

Ben Vinson 50th
David Vamplew 80th
Luke Davies 81st
Adrian Gray 108th
Rhys Jnes 183rd

the $50k PPC has reached the final table

Michael Mizrachi Seeking Unprecedented 3rd Poker Players Championship

Seat 1: Lamar Wilkinson - 2,045,000
Seat 2: Ray Dehkharghani - 395,000
Seat 3: Eric Wasserson - 3,800,000
Seat 4: Justin Bonomo - 7,750,000
Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi - 5,535,000
Seat 6: Brian Rast - 3,185,000

Elior Sion finished 9th for the UK

Defending champ Gorodinsky cashed in 13th

DNeg cashed in 12th

Event #56: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

Dara O'Kearney finished in 13th, London's Chun Law finished 21st

371 of 863 remain after the first day of Event #59: $5000 No-Limit Hold'em

top Brits

David Vamplew 22nd
Liv Boeree 25th
Jack Salter 37th
Max Silver 47th

Holz, Jacobsen and Shak are in the top 20

full list of British survivors to follow

176 of 521 remain in Event #60: $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

led by Calvin Anderson

Benny Glaser is the only Brit listed in the 40 names for which there are chip counts

full list to follow

15 Liv Boeree EAST MOLESY, GB 132,000
36 Iaron Lightbourne LONDON, GB 109,100
44 Chun Law LONDON, , GB 103,700
47 Benjamin Heath GB 100,600
53 James Akenhead LONDON, , GB 98,400
57 Toby Lewis SOUTHAMPTON, , GB 95,800
58 Jonathan Somekh London, , GB 95,700
93 Kuljinder Sidhu GB 77,100
111 Tom Middleton SLIDSEN, GB 73,000
112 Matthew Moss London, , GB 72,700
132 Robert Cowen Swansea, , GB 65,700
140 Alfie Adam London, GB 63,900
186 Steven Warburton GB 48,900
195 Jack Salter LONDON, , GB 47,300
199 Benjamin Dobson POOLE, DORSET, GB 45,700
207 Max Silver LONDON, GB 43,600
228 Darren Hill Canterbury, , GB 40,300
251 Daniel McAulay Glasgow, GB 35,700
256 Oliver Price London, GB 34,900
264 Steven Watts London, , GB 33,000
312 Daniel Rudd ESSEX , GB 23,700
335 Paul Vas Nunes GUILDFORD, GB 19,900
345 Phillip McAllister Winchester, GB 16,900

well done to DTD Player/Qualifier Andreas Olympios who won the WPT500 at the Aria

you may recognise a few familiar faces on his rail.....

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Brian Rast won Event #55: $50,000 Poker Players Championship (6-handed) for $1.2m

Bonomo finished 2nd, M Mizrachi going for his third win in the event finished 4th

47 remain after day 2 of Event #59: $5000 No-Limit Hold'em

Daniel Rudd is 16/47 going into tomorrow

Jonathan Somekh from London is 28/47

amongst the notables still going Nitsche, Bojang, Kaverman and Holz

UK Cashers

Tom Middleton 61st
David Vamplew 62nd
Jack Salter 86th
Matthew Moss 91st
Craig McCorkell 92nd
Ben Heath 99th
Iaran Lightbourne 101st
James Akenhead 106th
 

16 of 521 remain in Event #60: $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

final 16 includes clavin anderson, monnette, shack-harris

no Brits

UK cashers were Sonny Osman in 63rd, Jeff Duvall in 66th

130 pairs remain after 1 day of Event #61: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em

836 entered

quite an innovative one this, with reports of early chaos but no doubt interesting tactics as it gets deep and you have to tag in your team mate

i think i have to wait for the official report for who these guys are teamed with but UK players listed are

Harry Lodge 11th
Adam Owen 13th
Pete Charra 19th
John Gale 32nd
Ivan Stokes 35th
Andrew Teng 40th
Dan O'Callaghan 41st
James Dempsey 47th
Peter Costa 57th
Rberto Romanello 120th
Nabil Mhammed 123rd

121 entered the next of the biggies

Event #62: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)

Ludo Geilich currently 2/121

Max Silver 15th

Fraser MacIntyre 47th

top 20 features the following

Shak
Laak
Volpe
Kozlov

Although he's flying the Cyprus flag George Georgiou has been a fixture at what was Nottingham Gala for as long as I can remember.

He was sittling pretty in 10th last time I looked.

95 back for day 2 of the $25k PLO

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14962/Ev62-EoD1-Counts-By-Seat.pdf

British players

Ludovic Geilich Glasgow, GB 663,000
Max Silver LONDON, GB 287,000
James Park BIRMINGHAM, GB 146,000
Adam Franks London, GB 129,500
Jan Collado East Sussex, GB 36,200
Stephen Chidwick DEAL,GB 21,000

122 different players have cashed the WSOP $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Here’s the top 25 by money won.

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Brian Rast claimed his second $50K Poker Players' Championship win, and, he hopes, the respect of all of his peers.

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http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2016/07/building-a-legacy-brian-rast-wins-50k-ppc-a-second-time-22059.htm

Main Event Satellites run July 8-11, schedule and structure sheet information below http://bit.ly/29l553f

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The $25,000 PLO High Roller has just reached the money, 28 players remain with two hours of play remaining

29 of 184 remain

Glasgow's Ludo Geilich leads ahead of the Mizrachi brothers in 2nd and 3rd

Event #61: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em

11 teams left

the British team of James Dempsey and Chris Godfrey is 3/11

in so far as i can tell the team in 5th includes John Gale

the team in 8th includes Adam Owen and Benny Glaser


a team including Pete Charra finished 13th

a team including two Sky Poker UKPC winners Harry Lodge and Edmund Yeung finished 45th

Dan O'Callaghan's team finished 71st

the Romanello Bros team finshed 73rd


$153,000 for the win (presumably split x ways depending on number in team)

a bit more on this, as we would love to see Flushy crush it


Table 440
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2:
Seat 3: Moshin Charania / Marvin Rettenmaier - 624,000 (78 bb)
Seat 4: Jonathan Little / Larry Little / Rita Little - 79,000 (10 bb)
Seat 5: Taylor Black / Steven Daoud - 150,000 (19 bb)
Seat 6: Niel Mittelman / Adam Greenberg / Gabriel Paul - 264,000 (23 bb)
Seat 7: Reuben Peters / Robert Altman - 129,000 (16 bb)
Seat 8: John Gale / TJ Shulman - 419,000 (52 bb)
Seat 9: John Myung / Evelyn Chong - 328,000 (41 bb)

Table 450
Seat 1: Marco Caruso / Mike Padula / Daniel Urban - 232,000 (29 bb)
Seat 2: Doug Polk / Ryan Fee - 244,000 (30 bb)
Seat 3: Ed Smith / Alec Smith - 265,000 (33 bb)
Seat 5: Bart Lybaert / Adam Owen / Benny Glaser / Owais Ahmed - 123,000 (15 bb)
Seat 6:
Seat 7: Igor Yaroshevsky / Petr Bartagov - 130,000 (16 bb)
Seat 8: --empty--
Seat 9: James Dempsey / Chris Godfrey - 470,000 (59 bb)

270 of 2452 remain in Event #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Imran Ladak of Milton Keynes, Guatemala is currently listed in 9th place in this

Shola Akindele/Deadman 63rd

Alex Goulder 85th

Mike Ellis 124th

Matthew Moss 148th

216 of 473 remain in Event #64: $3000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better

Adam Owen is a British chip leader

 Barny Boatman is listed in 28th

wonder if any other Brits are in?

Flushy just eliminated another team to make the unofficial final table of 10.

thanks. are you covering it? if so please pass on best wishes of everyone on here

when does play stop tonight?

Not me. I'm covering the FT of the $5,000 tomorrow. Not sure when play stops, I think in the next hour though - Level 20 is definitely the last level planned, whether they stop earlier when they reach 9 I dont know.

Think they just stopped at 9, back at noon US/8pm UK time. Won't be streamed though, the $5k is.

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Ludovic Geilich Leads Final 20 After Day 2 of the $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha

the winner can look forward to a payday of $1,127,035 and the elusive gold bracelet.

 
Table 1
Seat 1: empty
Seat 2: Kyle Kloeckner – 840,000 (28 bb)
Seat 3: Ryan D'Angelo – 1,640,000 (54 bb)
Seat 4: empty
Seat 5: Konstantin Bouloutsos – 320,000 (10 bb)
Seat 6: Dan Smith – 1,160,000 (38 bb)
Seat 7: Paul Volpe – 1,430,000 (47 bb)
Seat 8: Michael Mizrachi – 2,435,000 (81 bb)

Table 2
Seat 1: Jens Kyllonen – 1,165,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 190,000 (6 bb)
Seat 3: Joshua Ladines – 565,000 (18 bb)
Seat 4: Cary Katz – 275,000 (9 bb)
Seat 5: empty
Seat 6: Sean Winter – 1,560,000 (52 bb)
Seat 7: Ludovic Geilich – 3,025,000 (100 bb)
Seat 8: David Len Ashby – 785,000 (26 bb)

Table 3
Seat 1: Tommy Le – 1,200,000 (40 bb)
Seat 2: Veselin Karakitukov – 1,215,000 (40 bb)
Seat 3: David Wang – 580,000 (19 bb)
Seat 4: empty
Seat 5: Chris Lee – 1,245,000 (41 bb)
Seat 6: Dmitry Savelyev – 765,000 (25 bb)
Seat 7: Andreas Freund – 370,000 (12 bb)
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi – 2,245,000 (74 bb)

157 of 473 remain after day 1 of Event #64: $3000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better

jon "pearljammer" Turner leads

71 are paid

richard ashby 20th
sonny osman 31st
adam owen 55th
peter charra 59th
tony kendall 114th
barny boatman 136th
david barraclough 140th

Doobs still alive in the 3k too, glgl guys

thanks added above

Mercier has made a schoolboy error proposing today. Doesn't he realise the engagement ring price is based on how much you've earned in the last month?

5 remain in Event #62: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)

Dan Smith leads

Ludo Gravyboat finished 7th

The Mizrachis finished 9th and 12th

26 of 2452 remain in Event #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

in those 26 Brits Matthew Moss and Mike Ellis as well as Shola Akindele

UK cashers

47th Anthony Forsyth-Forrest
66th Paul Jenkinson
150th Alex Goulder
344th Chun Law

31 of 473 remain in

Event #64: $3000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better

pearljammer leads

chufty is currently 5/31

Adam Owen currently 31/31


UK Cashers

39th Sonny Osman
56th Tony Kendall

The Polk-Fee team won Event #61: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em

Polk, who was playing the one drop, joked afterwards that he was the first player to win a bracelet without being present for the final!

The Dempsey-Godfrey team finished 4th

The John Gale team finished 5th

The Adam Owen/Benny Glaser team finished 6th

5 UK players involved in the final on those three teams

112 of 819 remain in Event #65: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Natalia Breviglieri (sometime DTD regular based Lincolnshire way) and Daiva Barauskaite "balticblonde" the only British based cashers in the field

104 of 170 remain in Event #67: $111,111 High Roller for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em

Taypaur leads

Robl, Holz and Gross round out the top 4

pick a poker big name, they are all in it...

for the UK

Jack Salter is 6/170

Niall Farrell 17/170

Stephen Chidwick 23/170

Max Silver 59/170

Tony Bloom 60/170

Talal Shakerchi 72/170

Paul Newey 76/170

Liv Boeree 82/170

Chufty was 2nd overnight.  Adam Owen out.

Jens Kyllonen beat Tommy Le and Dan Smith to the win in the Event #62: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed)

Kyllonen a finnish PLO specialist reputdely $5m up on stars this year in the format

Le one of five brothers living in california, each of whom have made WSOP final tables. Le has only played three WSOP events this year

$1500 PLO
$10000 PLO
$25000 PLO

and finalled them all

Kyle Bowker and Kate Hoang are heads up in Event #64: $3000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better

Chufty finished 4th

10 remain in Event #65: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Natalia Breviglieri is 2/10

here's Natalia, from Lincoln way.....if you've played at DTD a lot you will probably recognise here

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22 of 183 remain in Event #67: $111,111 High Roller for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em

With three left in the $25k PLO Jack Eifert wandered over and said that if any of them wanted to play the one drop high roller he would extend late reg by a level if the PLO finished and they wanted in

Dan Smith Holla said "if this finishes i will jump in whatever the blinds are"

He then lost A-A-Q-J v 10-8-6-2 on 10-x-x, 6 on the river to cripple him

exited 3rd, jumped in the $111k event

now has 11.4m chips, chip leader by 3m ahead of the UK's Jack Salter

Niall Farrell going well too, he's currently 9th


soft field this

McKeehan is 2nd, Holz 7th, Siever, Esfandiari, Julius etc etc

its $4.98m up top and $750k already raised for the one drop charities with any prize winner donations to come

day 1a of the main event

746 played, up from 741 last year

546 appear to have made it through

when the official chip counts come through i will try to list the UK players

Matthew Ashton is listed 7/567 in the unofficial counts

partypoker's Tony Dunst won Event #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cm_S9vzUsAAet1u.jpg)

Matas Cimbolas finished 5th

Matthew Moss finished 11th

Shola Akindele finished 19th

Courtney Kennedy from Detroit won Event #65: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Natalia Breviglieri from Lincoln was 4th for $45,000

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnB-a36WEAEw9gO.jpg)

In shock news, because he hadn't won a high roller for at least 48 hours previous, Fedor Holz won the $111,111 One drop high roller for $4.98m

only 22yo this was his fifth high roller title of the year to date

This was Holz’s third seven-figure score of 2016.

He has made 13 final tables this year and cashed for $14,517,350 along the way.

With lifetime live tournament earnings of $18,395,882 he now sits in ninth place on the all-time money list.

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for the UK....

Jack Salter was 4th for $1.5m

Niall Farrell was 8th for $486k

play has just finied for the day on 1b of Event #68: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold'em Championship

1733 players

Vamplew is listed 20th

pleno 53rd

Chidwick 77th

Glaser 84th

Owen 175th

will try to do the UK list when the full chip counts come through later