blonde poker forum

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

The Main Event isn't the final event anymore... It sort of makes sense to keep other things going around it to keep the atmosphere up etc and they aren't running the whole cardroom for one late stage of a tournament... but then, it's the main event!!

13 Tournaments starting after the main, including $10k 6maz NLHE, $3k 6max PLO, The Monster Stack (all very popoular comps) and a $50k high roller and the  $1m.

Can't decide between good or bad...but I think it's strange and surprising.

https://www.pokercentral.com/articles/wsop-announces-2018-schedule-with-78-gold-bracelet-events

New events

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Coincidentally, depending on how the structure and days look, the Main finishes the day before the $1m One Drop according to their website.

I'm assuming they'll finish at the same time with some off days for the Main.

Aria have now released the schedule for their 2018 Poker Classic, here;

https://twitter.com/TDPaulCampbell/status/964236709473927168

Nugget and Binions should be out next month, too.

They're just finalising the most important schedule for you, Tikay...

Planet Hollywood

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Great.

Love PH, me.

I've scoured 2 + 2 every day for Vegas Schedules, I've read every word of everything about Vegas this summer. Except the PH schedule.

I'll look at Nugget & Binions, and then play neither ;D

I'm taking 10 b/i for the Nugget 1/2 game, and going to play that for the 2 weeks I'm there.

Might play the Nugget main, most likely won't. I can't handle hangovers anymore, so might as well try and pay for my room.

The WSOP Player of the Year system has been updated. Here are details for 2018: http://wsop.com/n/83l

Landing page for system:
http://www.wsop.com/2018/POY/

Under a month away!

Can't wait to start railing some streams on PokerGO.

Jason Koon won Friday's $100k Aria SHR for $1m

thant makes $6.7m in live earnings this year so far


The SHR bowl, starts today, seat draw is out

Live streams for the 2018 WSOP are coming to Twitch

TwitchPoker and Poker Central partner to broadcast over 30 events, with commentary from Tuchman and Platt

https://www.pokercentral.com/articles/twitch-partners-with-poker-central-to-stream-world-series-of-poker-2/

Hope Nick Schulman does plenty of time in the booth.

The PokerGO sub, is prob the best money I have spent this year, and so com to see whining about it on 2p2.

30 of 48 through to day 2 in the SHR Bowl

are they doing the 25k fantasy draft this year?

They did one for the comp that's on now.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z5s4v73KHE

Talk about the fantasy starts at 8:00.

Doug Polk sits next to Negreanu at the super highroller bowl, and gets himself a new t-shirt for the occasion.

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That was pretty awkward for most of the day :D

 Elio Fox Wins First Ever WSOP $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $393,693

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/05/elio-fox-wins-first-ever-wsop-10k-super-turbo-bounty-30952.htm

because i am short of spare time it would really be nice if people could post up British big cashes they see, big name winners, stories for the series etc

thanks

I will try posting up any UK/notables when I get the chance to rail.

Event #3: $3000 NLHE Shootout (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-3-3000-shootout/)

Adam Owen
Harry Lodge
Chris Moorman
Jack Maskill

4 Brits make it through to the 2nd round of the shootout, and are guaranteed $6,302.

A few famous players left, including a couple of WSOP Main Event winners.

Phil Hellmuth
Taylor Paur
Joe McKeehen
Eli Elezra
Lee Markholt
Joe Cada
Kenny Hallaert

Event #4: $1500 PLO8 (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-4-1500-omaha8)

Chris Bjorin - 31900
Xunen Zheng - 29900
Benny Glaser - 27200
Philip Long - 25000
Ronan Nally - 16500
Benjamin Dobson - 7500

Half a dozen Brits left, including Blonde's own Ben Dobson.

240k up top, so best of luck, Ben!

John Monette flying high with 62000 chips, and other notables left below.

Victor Ramdin 42000
Layne Flack 41500
Allen Kessler 39600
Jeff Shulman 32600
Jeff Madsen 31900
John Racener 31300
Shaun Deeb 28700
Ashton Griffin 26500
Mike Leah 22500
Chris Klodnicki 21800
Frank Kassela 21200
Rob Mizrachi 17400
Scott Clements 15000
Mike Matusow 14800
Matt Glantz 12200
Maria Ho 8400

Whats the crack with the online bracelets? Do you have to be in Nevada to play them right?

Nevada and New Jersey

new today

Justin Bonomo is eight years removed from Poker Hall of Fame eligibility, and just two players stand between him and being ranked poker’s biggest winner of all time in live tournaments after he took down the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $5,000,000 last night. This is the story of the heater of a lifetime, and belonging among poker’s greats.

https://www.pokercentral.com/articles/a-career-defining-moment-justin-bonomos-super-high-roller-bowl-win/

Here's Adan Owen just minutes after winning his Shootout table yesterday.

He looks pretty pleased with life, as he should, as he is more of a Mixed Games man.

We chatted for a good while after & he told me it was the first time he'd ever won a (big) Shootout table.

I really like the kid, & think he'll be a force in poker for many years to come.


(http://i.imgur.com/cuY62pP.jpg) (https://imgur.com/cuY62pP)

Seems like a really nice lad, and a very good player.

oh my.   It is a real site too.   

Trolling taken to a new level.  Shouting snowflake juet doesn't cut it anymore.

Two brits on FT of shootout,  live streaming on poker go tonight.

Saying that’s he had a couple of big results in the last year playing no limit holdem

Would be great to get an early one for the Brits

Event #3: $3000 NLHE Shootout (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-3-3000-shootout)

Down to a final here, and 2 Brits made it.

Jack Maskill & Harry Lodge coming back to battle for the $226,218 first prize!

2 main event winners also on the final, the 2 Joes - McKeehen & Cada.

Event #4: $1500 PLO8 (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-4-1500-omaha8)

36 left, with Chris Bjorin sitting nicely in 3rd with 488,000, and $239,771 up top.

Event #5: $100,000 NLHE High Roller (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-5-100000-high-roller)

Event 5 drew 97 runners, and a very stacked field.

At the end of Day 1 49 players remain, and Elio Fox bagged up the chip lead, just days after winning the $10k Turbo Bounty event.

Three brits still in the running, with Niall Farrell and Daniel Merrilees busting out on the first day.

Stephen Chidwick 1,276,000
Aymon Hata 1,078,000
Talal Shakerchi 469,000

Too many big names to list, which should make for a super final table.

Event #6: $365 GIANT NLHE (https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2018-wsop/event-6-giant)

1289 players stared Day 1a of the Giant, and just 80 made it through to day 2, which will be played at the end of June.

Just seen that Allen Cunningham won the Daily Deepstack event I played last Tuesday. Also noticed they paid 45 places instead of the 43 the screens had said so even more sick at my 50th place now!

Joe Cada Wins 2018 WSOP $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em SHOOTOUT for $226,218 https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/06/joe-cada-wins-2018-wsop-3k-no-limit-hold-em-shootout-30982.htm …

Nick Petrangelo Leads Final 10 in WSOP Event #5: $100,000 High Roller https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/06/nick-petrangelo-leads-final-10-wsop-100k-high-roller-30983.htm …

And two Brits still in the running Chidwick and hata

So wanted that to be true, but it's not, it's a product of Photoshop.

I planned to take my own photo of it yesterday, but it's not there.

PS - it just occurred to me that I'm probably the only person alive who thought it was genuine in the first place. I'm Whoosh City these days

Is this an epic double bluff and I am getting whooshed?

https://morerakeisbetter.com (https://morerakeisbetter.com)

No no, don't doubt the site exists, but I was talking about that sign outside The Rio, which deffo does not exist. Or at least, not yesterday.

Not just online bots causing concern....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/02/las-vegas-workers-strike-automation-casinos?CMP=fb_gu

MGM & Caesars appear to have placated the unions.

I'd hate to see Tikay lose his shit with a robot, for not putting the correct amount of sweetener in his latte.

I'm all in favour of automation if it improves the current experience.

Tried to get me a latte in TWO different coffee shops yesterday, both of them in the same Hotel, & these were the queues.

I don't do queues, sod that.

For the sake of being fair, I won't name the Coffee Shop brand.


(http://i.imgur.com/4XjVLIU.jpg) (https://imgur.com/4XjVLIU)



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I have been able to solve that problem, & have agreed it with Tighty.

We have a chap Next Door who does really good & informative daily WSOP Updates.

I wrote to him & asked if I could C & P them here, & he readily agreed.

He puts a ton of work into these, so by way of a small favour, if any of you are football geeks, the link below is the site he runs, FCHD (Football Club History Database).

It's a labour of love, free to visit & packed with football stuff. Start with A-Z Index, & you'll be hooked for yonks.


http://fchd.info/


http://fchd.info/indexa-z.htm


It covers everything from A C Delco (Reserves) to Yorkshire Copper Tube Reserves, via all the big clubs, too.

With the WSOP just days old, I'll C & P the first few days now, then do them daily from here on in.

WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 566 entrants

Another large drop in entries (down 14% on top of last years 5% drop) in the traditional curtain-raiser, the casino employee's event.

13 players remain at the end of Day 1, none of whom have names that ring a bell although second placed Jordan Hufty is such a wonderful name I'll remember it in the future!

For the record, Jodie Sanders (from California) leads ahead of Hufty and Won Kim.

No surprise that there was no British cashes, in fact Italian Simone Ricci was the only European in the money, although I like to feel that 75th placed Sheyla Cornish has some Cornish ancestry!



Event 2 - $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 1, 243 entrants

Play is still ongoing with 3 players left, Elio Fox having 7m chips, Paul Volpe nearly 3m and Adam Adler 2m.

Former ME winner Joe Cada bowed out in 9th, and we had the first two British cashes of the Series, Talal Shakerchi finishing 17th for $14300 and Ben Heath 33rd for $10192, excluding any bounties they may have taken.



To Start Today
Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event
Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event

 



WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 2 of 2, 566 entrants

I picked out Jordan Hefty solely because of his name yesterday, well perhaps I should have paid more attention to his poker too as he went from $1900 lifetime tourney winnings to about $64K by winning event 1.

He took four hours to dispose of Jodie Sanders heads-up, with Katie Kopp bowing out in third.


Event 2 - $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 1, 243 entrants

The first bracelet actually went to the winner of Event 2, and it was a semi-familiar name who won it, with almost $400K to take home as well.

2011 WSOP Europe Main Event winner Elio Fox was the lucky guy, moving into the lead when a double elimination took it from 5-handed to 3-handed. With the super turbo format meaning stacks were never very big on the FT, he had more than half the chips in play and eliminated Paul Volpe in 3rd and Adam Adler (who did briefly have the lead in heads-up play) in 2nd.


Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day 1 of 3, 363 entrants

The players were split on to 50 tables, with the winner of each table making Day 2 and a min-cash of $6302.

Two players from the FT of last year's equivalent event, Taylor Paur & Jan-Eric Schwippert. There will be 10 5-handed tables on Day 2, and Paur has both Phil Hellmuth and Eli Elezra on his so there will be plenty of attention on that table.

Two ME winners, Joe Cada and Joe McKeehen are still alive, along with a former November Niner Kenny Hallaert, and a few British players, Jack Maskill, Adam Owen, Harry Lodge and Chris Moorman. There is a Frank Williams still in too, but it's probably not the Formula 1 team man!


Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 911 entrants

Just under a third of the players have made Day 2, but with only 137 getting paid there's still a lot of poker to play before a min-cash can be secured.

Dao Bac is the chip leader, ahead of Nick Guagenti & Pamela McPeak, and sitting nicely inside the Top 10 is former star of "Call My Bluff" on BBC2, Frank Muir. No, strike that, he's been dead 20 years, must be a different Frank Muir.

There's only one Benny Glaser as far as I know, the winner of this event 2 years ago and he's managed to survive Day 1, as has John Racener, Robert Mizrachi, Shaun Deeb and Mike Matusow.

Others shown as British on the chip counts - Xunen Zheng, Philip Long, Ronan Nally and Ben Dobson.




To Start Today
Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller
Event 6 - $365 The Giant NHL with subsequent Day 1 Flights on next 4 Fridays

No bracelets decided today


Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 3 of 3, 363 entrants

We're down to a FT (10-handed) with a 20% chance of a UK winner as both Harry Lodge & Jack Maskill won their second table to qualify for the final.

It's also a 20% chance a former ME winner takes home the bracelet as the two Joes, Cada and McKeehen are also still involved.

One other former bracelet winner, Anthony Reatugui is at the table, with each of them guaranteed $14K, and prizes rising until the winner takes $226 at the end of the tournament.



Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 911 entrants

Exactly three dozen remain in the first four-card event of the series, with Brandon Ageloff the chip leader ahead of Matt Woodward and a player very recognisable on these shores, Chris Bjorin.

No Brits unfortunately (Benny Glaser had the deepest run, 63rd for $3526).

Besides Bjorin, three other former bracelet holders ramin - Jason Lester, Mike Wattel & Mike Leah, plus there is also 2016 November Niner, Jerry Wong.


Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 1 of 4, 97 entries so far

Players can still use their single re-entry so the total entries may creep up towards three figures.

Elio Fox may well be story of the series if he keeps on playing like this. He won Event 2, and has used some his winnings there to good effect as he is the Day 1 chip leader in the High Roller.

Justin Bonomo has been on a heater in Super High Rollers this year and he's got a decent stack to take forward as have a couple of Brits, one of whom has been a regular in these updates in recent years (Stephen Chidwick) and the other of whom I know very little (Aymon Hata). Talal Shakerchi takes forward a considerably smaller stack.

One former ME winner I can see is still active, Ryan Reiss along with the likes of Jason Mercier, Dominik Nitsche, Isaac Haxton, Adrian Matoes, Christian Vogelsang, Bryn Kenney etc. Daniel Negreanu isn't among them, he tried both his bullets but aimed both wide of the target so he's out.


Event 6 - $365 The Giant NHL with subsequent Day 1 Flights on next 4 Fridays

1289 players played the first of five opening flights for the $565 Giant (which the WSOP always spells in capitals, I'm not going to follow that convention unless they prove it's an acronym).

Justin Sternberg leads just 80 qualifiers for the later stages, the man from Idaho one of only 2 players above a million chips (Danny Nguyen is second and Elvis Toomas is third with exactly a million).

Matt Affleck is probably the best known of the 80 after bracelet winners Phil Laak, David ODB Baker & Allyn Shulman busted.

194 players were said to have made at least a min-cash but there isn't a full list to see if any UK names cashed, but we do know that Adam Owen was one of the last few to depart before the bubble (wearing a Montreal Impact shirt. What's wrong with a Folkestone Invicta shirt Adam?)

Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 3 of 3, 363 entrants

The $3K shootout is shot out, and in favour of the 2009 ME winner, Joe Cada. It's his third bracelet overall, and comes with a cheque for $226K.

The two Brits at the FT went out in succession, Harry Lodge bowing out in 5th followed shortly after by Jack Maskill

Another former Main winner Joe McKeehan went out in third when his 4-bet shove with pocket sixes proved to be badly timed, as Cada was sitting behind him with pocket kings.

There was some ups and downs in heads up between Cada and Sam Phillips, but the pivotal hand saw Cada this time with the sixes against a Phillips shove with A4 and the pair held. This left Phillips with left than 2BB and next hand it was all over.


Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 911 entrants

We have our first over-run of the series as a ten-hour day couldn't whittle the 36 players down to a winner.

Four players remain with French player Julien Martini the overnight leader ahead of Kate Hoang who has Final tabled PLO/8 events three years running now.

The other two players are William Kopp and Mack Lee, but they enter Day 4 with just 2 big bets each in their stacks.


Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 2 of 4, 105 entries

A couple of re-entries and a few latecomers (including one Phil Ivey) pushed the entry total above 3 figures, with just 10 players battling through to Round 3.

Five of the 10 are former bracelet winners, including leader Nick Petrangelo, and second placed Elio Fox who won Event 2 just a few days ago.

Two Brits remain - Stephen Chidwick (3rd) & Aymon Hata (6th) and three other Euros - Fedor Holz, Adrian Mateos and Andreas Eiler making this a very strong group of 10.

They will likely not have a long day today, they are playing down from 10 to 6 then halting for the FT to be on Day 4.


Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, 5 Day Event, including 6 starting flights over 3 days - flights A & B today

Two flights of the Colussus saw 84 and 55 players progressing to Day 2 on Tuesday.

From Day 1A, former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel is the biggest name to make it through with Luke Brereton and Markus Kuhnen showing as from GB and bottom placed Andrew Hindmarsh showing as being from Blaydon, Estonia where I don't believe they have ever held famous races.

Later on in flight 1B it was an American 1-2-3 (Christopher Haydt/Patrick Roteman/Kevin Eyster) with Barry Shulman and former November Niner Scott Montgomery among the qualifiers with Andrei Moldovan from Hertforshire sitting nicely in 6th spot.


Event 8 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 321 entries

Chips were flying in all directions when Phil Ivey entered this in the last couple of minutes of late reg. He lost most of his starting stack of 12500 to be down to 100 at one point, then embarked on a series of double-ups and better to get back to 6000 chips before his luck eventually ran out.

Of those playing a more patient game, 95 bagged up chips at the end of the day with George Trigeorgis (does that mean George Three-Georges?) ahead of David Eichhorn (throw in the annual remark about how few names have double-h's in them) and Jesse Hampton

Some well known mixed-game players in contention too - Brian Hastings, Billy Baxter (only Ivey has more non-Hold'em bracelets than the 78 year old Baxter), James Obst, Scott Siever & Tom McCormick.

Brits? Not a lot, headed by Jon Shoreman in 25th, the omnipresent Adam Owen 55th and Gerald Ringe in 85th.

So that brings it up to date, & I'll post these daily from now on in.

I find the bottom pic very disturbing

Both photos from the nugget the top one is by the Carson tower lifts and valet area
Second one over on Fremont st exit mid way along the nugget
Do I win a sticky bun ?

Justin Bonomo
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@JustinBonomo

Ok so you might not believe this, but I just won the Aria $25k high roller again. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.

wow, didn't realise he had won it on the 1 June too.  Didn't he just disappear for a couple of years not that long ago, or am I imagining that?   

Disappeared from Stars 12 years ago, when he got banned for cheating.

I'd have answered last night, if I knew there were sticky buns to be had :D

Cheating or multi-accounting?

Personally I find the latter a lot more forgivable.

must have got him confused with someone else, thought he had disappeared from live poker for a while, but there are no big gaps on his hendon mob.   Maybe it was his 2nd account that took a break?

Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 4 of 3, 911 entrants

The event that wouldn't end, even running past the last level on the original schedule so that extra levels needed to be added to ensure the computers didn't go into meltdown!

It was no surprise that William Kopp and Mack Lee busted quite early on Day 4, Lee getting the ladder after trebling up once and doubling up twice before he went out at the hands of eventual winner Julien Marcini.

Heads up took over three hours before Marcini got the better of Kate Hoang, her very low cut evening dress notwithstanding.

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Marcini collected the 18th overall WSOP bracelet for France and nearly $150K while Hoang got her 7th cash and third final table of her career, all in Omaha Hi-Low.



Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 2 of 4, 105 entries

Rather a quiet day in the high roller, with just the 4 eliminations taking down from 10 to 6.

Chris Moore went out early to bring the two tables together for the unofficial FT of 9, and then Fedor Holz was outpipped by Elio Fox whose sixes held on against the German's pocket fives.

Eight handed play lasted about an hour, with not much happening until Bryn Kenney found the aces, raised, and was 3-bet all in by Adrian Mateos who had pocket sevens. Kenney of course snap-called, the aces held and Mateos was down to fumes and went out two hands later.

Jason Koon lost half of his stack with a river fold to Kenney, and as his stack dwindled he eventually went to war with middle pair on the turn against the same opponent. Tough luck for him that Kenney had turned top pair and that was that.

Overnight chip leader Nick Petrangelo maintained his lead more or less throughout the day with Kenny's accumulation of most of Koon's chips now putting him second.

We still have two chances for a British bracelet, but Aymon Hata & Stephen Chidwick are the shortest stacks at the table (albeit with 36 & 29 BB respectively)


Event 8 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 2 of 3, 321 entries

A round dozen remain in contention for this event, being held for the third time at the WSOP. One of those 12 knows exactly how it feels to win this very event, Chris Vitch won it on its debut back in 2016 and he takes a chip lead into Day 3.

Not far behind are Damjan Radanov, Day 1 leader George Tregiorgis and Scott Siever.

Three more bracelet winners are among the 9 other players, Frank Kassela, Mike Leah & Bryce Yockey.

All 3 Brits were eliminated before the bubble.


Event 9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 161 entries so far
I'm sure events 9 & 10 were the other way around on the original schedule I saw!

Anyway, the first of the billed "Championship" events attracted 161 entries so far, with late reg open until the start of play on Day 2.

75 players battled their way through Day 1, with Chris Bjorin leading from another double bracelet winner Jesse Martin & Daniel Ratigan.

As you would expect at the $10K buy-in level, a lot of big names entered, some who are still in and others who've moved on to the next event.

Robert Mizrachi sits inside the Top 10, Nick Schulman, Phil Hellmuth and Dan Shak also have decent stacks.

A quick perusal of the WSOP reports indicate two British players through, Stuart Rutter with just over 100K chips (leader is on nearly 250K) and Paresh Doshi with 66K. For a long part of the day it looked like former title-holder Benny Glaser was going to join them, running his stack up to 220K at one point before a series of unfortunate hands saw his chips all flow towards the hands of other players.

Event 4 winner Julien Mancini used some of his winnings to jump into this and made decent progress to make Day 2, but his heads-up victim Kate Hoang was less lucky, getting busted.


Event 10 - $365 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event, 2972 entrants

The expansion of the player pool to include New Jersey & Delaware as well as Nevada, and the lowest on-line price point for a WSOP bracelet event saw a number of players, although never threatening the pre-announced 5000 cap.

The player aliases mean nothing to me and I suspect the vast majority of you too, but for the record here are the top 3.

1. "Twooopair" $155K
2. "sHaDySTeem" $94K
3. "SteveSpuell" $69K.


Event 11 - $365 PLO, with subsequent Day 1 Flights on next 4 Sundays, 423 entries

The first of five starting flights for the PLO Giant saw just 19 players make it through to Day 2 which will be held on July 2.

Polish pro Dzmitry Urbanovich (now that I've typed it once I can cut and past it whenever I need it next) and bracelet winner Leif Force were up amongst the leaders for several hours but at the end of the night it is Pete Arroyos who appears to have the biggest stack.

There isn't a full chip list available on the WSOP site as yet so I can't give much more details, mentions for Brits in dispatches were very few and far between, in fact online updates were very sparse indeed.


To Start Today
Event 12 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Handed, 3 Day Event

Remko Rinkema on the return of Phil Ivey to the WSOP. It's hard not to be excited by the possibilities of another Ivey bracelet run

https://www.pokercentral.com/articles/remko-on-the-rail-an-open-letter-to-phil-ivey/

Yeah that was before his entry into the live poker scene, i believe he was actually underage during the multi boxing stuff.

To be clear, he wasnt multi accounting, he was multi boxing which is totally different and way, way worse.

And I thought I was an Ivey fanboy :D

See Remko has a 2part pod up with Antonius, which should be good, and I'll link when I find it.

Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 4 of 4, 105 entries

Day 2 Leader - Nick Pentrangelo, Day 3 Leader - Nick Petrangelo, Bracelet winner - Nick Pentrangelo.

Petrangelo denied Elio Fox his second bracelet within a week and also prevented a first British bracelet of the series.

Petrangelo previously won a $3K shootout bracelet three years ago, but that achievement is dwarfed by his win here, a first prize of $2.9m moving him up to inside the Top 50 of the all-time tournament winnings list.

Fox collects over $1.7m to complete a great first week of the WSOP, and Scottish player Aymon Hata finished a very creditable third for a little under one and a quarter million dollars.

Hata had previously eliminated Stephen Chidwick in Brit-on-Brit action as the first casualty of the day, Chidwick taking $484K.


Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, 5 Day Event, including 6 starting flights over 3 days, 13079 entries

Right, first an apology, I omitted the "C" & "D" starting flights from yesterday's update.

539 players have made it through across the 6 flights

Flight C - Florian Duta is Romanian but appears to be playing out of Birmingham at the moment so he is showing as "GB" in the WSOP updates. Whichever flag listed beside his name, he had a great Flight C of the Colossus, bagging $523K for the flight lead which turned out to be the second most across all 6 flights. A couple of other Brits through - Robert Cowen & Alex Jennings.

Flight D honours went to Philip Albuquerque with almost double his nearest challenger. Jerome Bradpiece finished in 15th, Oliver Biles 24th so we have two GB qualifiers from this group. A little but lower down (47th of the 61 qualifiers) was one Phil Ivey. Wonder how often he's played live events at this price point in the last decade?

So on to Monday's flights

Flight E - the bigger flights on the last day saw higher numbers qualify (fairly logical that) with Kurt Jewell topping 127 players through. Dean Hutchison, Iain Paterson, Andrew Booth, Alan Tibber and probably Gilad Gutkin are the UK contingent from Flight E.

and on to Flight F, it was Brian Ray who racked up the most chips, but an interesting character lies third, Valentin Vornicu who has had a very successful winter in the WSOP circuit events. You have to look a long way down for Union Jacks, Scott Margereson in 60th, but then there's a little cluster including Louis Salter and Matas Cimbolas. Right near the bottom is Alexander Bowden who is shown as being from Brighton, Iran but I reckon is more likley to be from Brighton, East Sussex. We'll see.


Event 8 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 3 of 3, 321 entries

When you go out in the $100K, what do you do? If you are German Johannes Becker, you jump in to the next available event, the Mixed Triple Draw Lowball.

He is a mixed games player (2nd in the $50K Poker Players Championship last year), so it wasn't too difficult of a decision for him, and he'll be very glad he made the call now as he's $180K better off and the holder of his very first WSOP bracelet.

Scott Siever at one point had twice as many chips as anyone else, but he couldn't live with Becker in the later stages, and will have to settle for 2nd and $111K while Jesse Hampton was third for $71K.

Previous winner Chris Vitch made the FT but bowed out in 4th.


Event 9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 169 entries

It's a blast from the bast as the overnight chip leader after Day 2 is Eli Elezra (he won the first of his three bracelets over a decade ago)

He has 858K chips overnight, quite a distance ahead of Adam Coats & Steve Chantabouasy who are the only other two players over 600K

Among the other players left in are Paul Volpe, Chris Bjorin, Robert Mizrachi, Jesse Martin, Mike Matusow, Dylan Linde etc. but unfortunately no Brits - Stu Rutter made it through the bubble but bust shortly after for a $14912 payday.


Event 10 - $365 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event, 2972 entrants

Just an update on yesterday's event to link some names to the aliases reported yesterday. William Reymond took the win from Shawn Stroke and Stephen Buell



Event 12 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Handed, Day 1 of 3, 406 entries

The 400+ players have created a prize pool of nearly $550K, with 61 being paid and the overall winner picking up $129,882.

Ten levels of play across 20 possible poker variants have seen 120 entrants make Day 2, John Hennigan having the biggest bag of chips at the end of the night, with Andrey Zhigalov and Brian Saltus close behind.

Several well-known names survive, Jeff Lisandro, Chris Vitch, Chris Klodnicki, Mike Leah, Victor Ramdin, Allen Kessler, Mike Sexton, Dominik Nitsche & Barry Greenstein amongst them

Brits, yes of course. Four that I can see, Richard Ashby, Benny Glaser, Adam Owen & Jon Shoreman.


To Start Today
Event 13 - $1500 NLH (Big Blind Ante), 3 Day Event
Event 14 - $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball No Limit, 3 Day Event, single re-entry

Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, Day 2 of 4, 13079 entries

The players from all 6 starting flights came together for the first time and at the end of Day 2 we are down to just 32 players.

Matthew Causa came with a late flourish to top the overnight chip counts ahead of Thai Ha and Paawan Bansal.

Probably the biggest name of the 32 (after the likes of Phil Ivey went out) is John Racener, and probably the longest name is 29th placed Ajay Gnanasambanthan.

We've still got one Brit in contention, Scott Margerson who lies 13th spot at the end of Day 2. He previously made a WSOP FT two years ago, and won a WPT event as recently as April.


Event 9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, Day 3 of 4, 169 entries

Players holding the chip lead on two successive days may well becoming "a thing" this year, as we now have Day 2 leader Eli Elezra not only maintained his lead but extended it.

In search for his 4th bracelet, he has nearly a million more chips than his closest challeger Adam Coats, with two more former bracelet winners (Paul Volpe & Viacheslav Zhukov) also still in play. Dustin Dirksen is the short stack, and having less than 2BB he will need to find a decent hand fairly quickly and hope for a Scoopio or two.


Event 12 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Handed, Day 2 of 3, 406 entries

120 have become 15 after another wild and varying day on the tables. After winning a huge hand not long before the end of play, Jeremy Harkin is the chip leader ahead of Frankie O'Dell & Brayden Gazlay.

Two players from the mixed triple-draw lowball event FT, Chris Vitch & George Trigiorgis, have the possibility of making two successive mixed games FT, plus Mike Leah, James Woods, Jeff Lisandro and Chris Klodnicki are among the other challengers.

Last Brit standing was Xunen Zheng (24th for $4219) with Richard Ashby the only other to make a cash.


Event 13 - $1500 NLH (Big Blind Ante), 3 Day Event

The first time the Big Blind Ante format was used for a $1500 tournament, but there was no need to make a song and dance about it as Stephen Song hit all the right notes and bagged nearly 200K chips.

Lurking not far behind is the 2016 ME winner, Qui Nguyen with Dutch Boyd and Vojtech Ruzicka among the others with big stacks along with the top Brit, Iraj Parvizi.

You have to look quite a long way down to find the next UK player, Damien Le Goff, and further still for Joel Ettedgi and Yiannis Liperis

Multiple bracelet winners Jeff Madsen and Chris Ferguson (booooooooooooo) are just two of the other players going first of all for a spot in the 196 who will get paid, and then onwards towards the FT.


Event 14 - $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball No Limit, 3 Day Event, single re-entry

The very first player out of the day was last year's winner of this very same event, Frank Kassela (at the hands of former ME winner Ryan Reiss), but as this is a single re-entry he ponied up another $1500 (sorry, should have saved that line for tomorrow's HORSE event) and played through the rest of the day to bag 30K in tournament chips.

We've had a number of mentions for players whose name would work equally well the other way around, well we've got another one on top of the Day 1 chip listings as James Alexander bagged just over 80K ahead of Ajay Chabra and Shaun Deeb.

Robert seems to be doing the best of the Mizrachi brothers so far, and he lies 13th (of 54 qualifiers with 39 to be paid) and also in are Maria Ho, the aforementioned Ryan Reiss, Andre Akkari, another player who has won the Main (Greg Raymer)

There's only one Brit among those who had chips at the end of the night, and it's former Sky TV expert Stuart Rutter who looks to be on target to make his second cash of the series. Hope that hasn't jinxed him.


To Start Today
Event 15 - $1500 HORSE, 3 Day Event
Event 16 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, 3 Day Event

Thank you

Cheers, keep checking in for these summaries.

Good to see Stu Rutter back hunting for those “soft” mixed game bracelets :)

SALT!

Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, Day 3 of 4, 13079 entries

The Colossus is down to a FT and we have a huge variation in the number of chips held by the players.

Sang Liu is the chip leader with 114 BB, while the short stack, Steven Jones has just 8BB.

Liu has very little live history, only 5 recorded cashes for $7399, but he's now going to earn many times that and of course is still in contention for a cool million dollars for the top prize.

In contrast, the only Brit left, Scott Margereson has quite a record both live and online, and he lies in second place with 87BB

2010 ME runner-up John Racener is also among the final nine, and as the FT will be played out in the Brasilia room, it's apt that there is a Brazilian player (Roberly Felicio) there too.


Event 9 - $10K Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better Championship, Day 4 of 4, 169 entries

This one is in the books and the bracelet is on the wrist of Paul Volpe. He won his third bracelet (and $417K) by beating Eli Elezra heads up after running (by his own admission) really well.

Adam Coats finished third with the other bracelet holder on the FT, Viacheslav Zhukov bowed out in 5th.


Event 12 - $1500 Dealers Choice 6 Handed, Day 2 of 3, 406 entries

Jeremy Harkin has been coming to the WSOP since 2003 looking for a bracelet, and now his quest is over as he took first place in the $1500 Dealers Choice.

It was an all-American FT with Frankie O'Dell 2nd and George Trigeorgis 3rd.


Event 13 - $1500 NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 2 of 3

Just 30 players remain, and it's a familiar name at the top. Dutch Boyd wins bracelets at 4-year intervals (06, 10 & 14) and he's got a great chance of continuing that here.

Stefan Vidojkovic is the only player anywhere near Boyd in chips, with Steven Snyder in third.

Top Brit is Yiannis Liperis inside the top 10, with two others in contention also, Joel Ettedgi and Damien Le Goff who was on the Twitch featured table for several hours last night.


Event 14 - $1500 2-7 Draw Lowball No Limit, Day 2 of 3, 260 entries

Very little chance of needing extra time for Event 14, as we're down to just 3 players already.

There's a story among one of them though as Shaun Deeb is not only in the final 3 here, he's also still alive in Event 13, shutting between the two events all day long.

Daniel Ospina will be the biggest obstacle to the first leg of Deeb's double as he more than half the chips in play, with not much between Deeb and Tim McDermott.


Event 15 - $1500 HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 731 entries

A prize pool of almost a million dollars with a first prize of $202K and 110 to be paid.

217 bagged chips at the end of Day 1, Damjan Radanov has the chip lead, ahead of Italian Walter Treccarichi & another American Manelic Minaya.

Top Brit is Suketu Patel (28th) accompanied on the listings by Jeffrey Duval & Gerard Ringe while lurking in midfield is Phil Hellmuth aiming to extend his WSOP records of cashes, FT and ultimately, perhaps, bracelets.


Event 16 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, Day 1 of 3, 114 entrants

The last 16 of the Heads-up is set, and the matchups are

Martijn Gerrits v Kane Kalas
Julien Martini v Jan-Eric Schwippert
Justin Bonomo v Niall Farrell
Mark McGovern v Scott Siever
Jason McConnon v Galen Hall
Gregory Goldberg v Kahle Burns
Daniel McAulay v Nicolai Morris
Juan Pardo Dominguez v Jason Mo

4 Brits - Farrell and the three Macs mean there's still a reasonable chance of a UK bracelet, and of course French player Julien Martini already has one bracelet to his name this month.


To Start Today
Event 17 - $1500 NLH 6-max, 3 Day Event
Event 18 - $10K Dealers Choice 6-Max Championship, 3 Day Event

^^^^^

I saw the name of Gerard Ringe mentioned in there, and apologies for my bad memory, but I'm pretty sure he is a blonde.

Wonder what he got called at school?

Trust you to think of that......

Strike that. He's not a blonde, I knew him vaguely as Sky Poker interviewed him a few years back after he won a Bracelet here at some Mixed Game, think he was a regular at The Vic.


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aaVxnVoX5E

Spotted this morning in the WSOP $1,500 6 Max.

Lost a fair bit of weight.



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His brother Tony used to play a lot at Luton. Still to be found on the GUKPT circuit I think.

Scott Margereson currently 1/6 on the Colossus final table, which is being streamed here https://www.twitch.tv/pokercentral

He has 20m chips, and they're coming back to 150k/300k blinds.

He finished 4th for $220k

Heads up been going on for about an hour now and has been incredible. Liu is just like a guy you would see at Luton. Celebrated an all in on the flop way too early and got rivered. Brazilian guy has been pretty poor.

Must be the first person to move to Vegas and lose weight!

On a serious note, is he okay, he wasn't exactly massive before!

Good question, I thought the same.

We chatted for a good while, & he told me he is on a health kick - good food & exercise. Meanwhile, he said, Shola is going the opposite way & piling on weight.

I was momentarily slightly embarrassed, & was not sure how to respond to "the wife is getting well fat" until he continued "as she is 26 weeks pregnant".

What a lovely lad he is, deserves everything he gets in life.

His day job is playing cash at Bellagio usually.

Living the dream.

Seriously, I barely recognized him at first.

I went to bed when they were 4 handed, but it looked like a bit of a crapshoot was incoming.

A monkey comp at the WSOP is going to be filled with punters :D

Jesus.  I didn't realise it was who it was until you mentioned Shola!  I thought it was 'is it' (can't remember his name) from blonde Titbean!

LOL Titbean couldn't get that fat if he went on the Vinny/Arbboy diet for a year.

Lol... Arb..thats Simon Deadman

I literally scrolled down wondering how you would have disparaged me!

fwiw my gf says i've got a 'paunch', i'm super proud, she tells me it's not something to be proud of  :dontask:

:D

She's wrong mate. Take it from me  😀

i turned this on for something to help me sleep, just after the uk guy laid down trip 6s  and finally got to my bed during the break around 6am thanks marky

no idea who the guy was he was the only player making any moves on the table got me wanting to play

The look of surprise is presumably as he is still in after 10 minutes. ($565 PLO)

it's all relative.  :)up

Tittybeam looks well.

Wins

Well played, Tal :)


https://www.twitch.tv/pokercentral

Phil Galfond in the booth with, who is up there with Nick Schulman as an analyst, imo.

another day, another tournament win.   

He took down the WSOP heads up last night. 

Anybody know the British guy he beat in the final?

Remember the guy consulting charts late in the WSOP a couple of years ago.   

Also supposedly plays high stakes heads up.

Now thinking the chart thing may have been the best reverse tell ever.

Packing hand ranking chart for Vegas...   

I didn't, but that's what my old man told me.

Said must have been on the wind up, or it was some kind of complex GTO chart, lol.

Just spotted this in the overnight chip counts for the WSOP $565 PLO. These are the combined (Flights A & B) counts as they enter Day 2.


1 Christopher Trang STATEN ISLAND, NY, US 402,000 Amazon / 411 / 9  
2 Jeffrey Gibson DREXEL HILL, PA, US 374,000 Amazon / 419 / 7  
3 Anuj Bahl WOODINVILLE, WA, US 357,000 Amazon / 411 / 3
4 Florian Strasser AT 333,000 Amazon / 418 / 9  
5 Peter Linton NOTTINGHAM, GB 309,000 Amazon / 401 /

Excellent news! - not heard 'owt about him for yonks - hope he takes it down or at the very least gets a huge cash.

Goooo PeteL  ;cheerleader;

I'd not heard mention of him in yonks, either. Think last I heard he was living in Lebanon?

He'll be a bugger to play against with that stack today.

Wandering the Millionaire Maker tables & spotted Simon again, said hi, chatted a bit.

He opens, & flicks his cards up for me to see.

 Ahrt 8h

He picks up a customer, & they see the flop & turn......


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The boy is blessed. That's Karma at work.

One of my best friends in poker, from Newcastle. Hadn't played a tournament before that wsop main event, plays more now

Jerome Bradpiece, always with that sort of mischievous glint in his eye. 

Ha! I shoiuld have known there'd be some BitB in there somewhere :)

I'm so far out of the loop with poker, but it looked like he ran pretty bad situationally, in what I saw of the final.

Donnacha behind Jerome's shoulder, I see.

Crikey, good spot. I never even noticed.

Stu Rutter is ITM and down to last 3 tables of #18 $10k DC

He’s down the last 3 overnight last in chips but still got a chance  :)

As I mentioned a week or so ago, FCHD (Next Door) gave me the green light to C & P his WSOP Updates.

He's away this weekend, but they will resume tomorrow.

You can follow Stu's Live Updates from the table on his Staking Thread, here.....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=68158.0

Great read, highly recommended.

Flushy played Day 1A of the Millionaire Maker, & sits in 2nd place.

Here's the Top 10 from 1A - note also Aaron Lightbourne in 9th;

1 Kyle Hartree Edmonton, AB, CA 208,500 Amazon / 486 / 6
2 James Dempsey Brighton, , GB 167,400 Amazon / 409 / 5
3 Nick Schwarmann ORLANDO, FL, US 165,800 Amazon / 531 / 4
4 Aliaksei Boika Minsk, UA 164,400 Amazon / 511 / 1
5 Scott Baumstein NEW YORK, NY, US 160,100 Amazon / 513 / 7
6 Chad Hahn WESTFIELD, IN, US 150,400 Amazon / 487 / 4
7 Shannon Petluck MANSFIELD, MA, US 147,000 Amazon / 489 / 1
8 Igor Zektser LOS ANGELES, CA, US 145,500 Amazon / 492 / 5
9 Iaron Lightbourne LONDON, GB 143,000 Amazon / 401 / 3
10 JC Tran SACRAMENTO, CA, US 140,200 Amazon / 533 / 3

You can find the full Day 1A Chip counts here;

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/reports/?aid=2&grid=1487&tid=16421&dayof=6388&rr=5

In the $10,000 Dealers Choice, three remain, including Stu Rutter.

Here's how they stand;

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/?aid=2&grid=1487&tid=16418&dayof=6820&rr=5

Money?


1st $293,275

2nd $181,258

3rd$127,487

In the $565 WSOP PLO, Pete Linton was in great shape after Day 1, but it looks like the wheels came off a bit yesterday, he finished 71st for $2,675.

10 players remain.

Interestingly, I'm listed as hailing from Estonia. I could not locate Estonia on a map if I tried, but I'm sure it's very nice.

Birthplace of the great chess master Paul Keres.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keres

After the 2nd flight of the Milly Maker, after both flights are combined, here's the Top 10, with Flushy in grand shape, as well as another Brit with whom I am not familiar.


1 Andrea Buonocore IT 209,900 Amazon / 402 / 8
2 Kyle Hartree EDMONTON, AB, CA 208,500 Amazon / 486 / 6
3 Thanh Nguyen WICHITA, KS, US 199,500 Amazon / 407 / 1
4 Artan Dedusha LONDON, GB 191,600 Amazon / 408 / 5
5 Jared Jaffee BROOKLYN, NY, US 171,900 Amazon / 522 / 5
6 Thomas Taylor VICTORIA, BC, CA 169,600 Amazon / 478 / 7
7 Ryan Rivers ORILLIA, ON, CA 169,000 Amazon / 452 / 7
8 James Dempsey BRIGHTON, GB 167,400 Amazon / 409 / 5
9 Nick Schwarmann ORLANDO, FL, US 165,800 Amazon / 531 / 4
10 David Eldridge CRANBERRY TWP, PA, US 165,000 Amazon / 489 / 5




And here is Flushy's table;


81 Mark Cannon NORTHRIDGE, CA, US 61,100 Amazon / 409 / 1
82 Cole Jackson SEATTLE, WA, US 103,300 Amazon / 409 / 2
83 Jose Obadia MELILLA, ES 41,000 Amazon / 409 / 3
84 Zachary King LAS VEGAS, NV, US 72,600 Amazon / 409 / 4
85 James Dempsey BRIGHTON, GB 167,400 Amazon / 409 / 5
86 Alon Butcher Guttman LOS, CA, US 73,000 Amazon / 409 / 6
87 Ryan Goindoo PORT OF SPAIN, TT 144,000 Amazon / 409 / 7
88 DID NOT REPORT 1 US 65,800 Amazon / 409 / 8
89 Jared Fields DRAPER, UT, US 15,200 Amazon / 409 / 9

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/?aid=2&grid=1487&tid=16423&dayof=6398&rr=5

Both Doyle and Todd left in the last 15 of the 2-7 Lowball, how great would it be to see them heads up. Has it ever happened in a tournament before?

It's the last chance. Doyle is retiring completely after this event as he is 84 years old and his wife is very ill. Walking away to spend time with her.

https://www.pokercentral.com/articles/doyle-brunson-announces-retirement-from-poker/

Congrats to Philip Long 🇬🇧, winner of the WSOP $1,500 Eight Game Mix  ($147,348 )
🔗 Event Results: http://bit.ly/2HFMVG4
🔗 Player Profile: http://bit.ly/2HH09SN

others might know but i think he was a DTD regular at one time and a blonde poster?

FCHD, who compiles the Reports Next Door, has been away all weekend & is on catch up, & I'm a day behind him, so bear with us please.

Whoa! I go away for a weekend, and come back to several "near misses" for British bracelets, including one by someone we still think of here as "one of our own".

First, those events that have been completed.

Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, 13079 entries

The first near miss, Scott Margerson was chip leader with 4 left, bit it all went a bit wrong and he was next out after a four hour long game 4-handed.

He picked up the small matter of $220K, while the million dollars and bracelet went to Brazilian Roberly Felicio, the 5th for the South American country and as is now customary, was played out to a large Brazilian rail.


Event 13 - $1500 NLH (Big Blind Ante), 1306 entries

The Moon shone in Vegas brightly as Benjamin Moon was the winner of the inaugural $1500 Big Blind Ante NLH tournament.

The Californian pro got the better of French player Romain Lewis to win the tournament and over $315K.


Event 15 - $1500 HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 731 entries

28-year old Russian semi-pro Andrey Zhigalov took down Event 15 after over three hours of heads-up play, that forced the tournament into an unplanned fourth day.

Day 4 was short-lived, as it took just twenty minutes for Zhigalov to defeat Timothy Frazin for the win and just over $200K. Zhigalov is a mixed-games specialist, only 2 of his 16 WSOP cashes have come in hold'em, with Razz being his preferred variant.


Event 16 - $10K Heads Up NLH Championship, 114 entrants

In my last update, I mentioned that Justin Bonomo was on a roll knocking out Brits, well he did it again in the final beating Jason McConnon to take his second career bracelet. It took Bonomo 59 hands to win the final, a far cry from his second round match with Jake Schindler which took just three hands.

Bonomo won $185K for his seven wins, a small drop in his total live wininngs this year which already amount to $14.5 million!


Event 17 - $1500 NLH 6-max, 1663 entries

We've had bracelets for Brazil & Russia (as well as the USA of course) already in this update, and you can now add Bulgaria as Event 17 went to Ognyan Dimov, the third bracelet winner from Bulgaria.

It was a European one-two with Antonio Barbato from Italy being the runner-up, with the 4 former bracelet winners among the 6-handed final table finishing 3rd-6th, Nick Schulman lasting the longest of the quartet.


Event 18 - $10K Dealers Choice 6-Max Championship, 111 entrants

So we come to another "near miss", and the one that resonates here with Stuart Rutter being the unlucky bridesmaid.

The Midlander was chip leader entering heads-up but was quickly overtaken by Adam Friedman who was winning his second bracelet.

A couple of odd things happened towards the later stages. When two tables remained, the players thought that the structure was playing far too fast, and requested that the tournament was slowed down, but this was denied by WSOP head guru Jack Effel. Then when Friedman and Rutter got heads-up, instead of each player choosing the game (from the list of 20 available variants) they agreed to choose the game in a random fashion.

This is Stuart's 3rd cash of the Series and the $181K second place prize money is his biggest recorded cash, marginally beating the $179K he picked up for a third place back in 2010.


Event 19 - $565 PLO, 3 Day Event, 2419 entries

Another tournament completed, won by Craig Varnell. He nearly skipped this event after firing eight bullets without success at the Colossus, but now he's glad he persevered. He's also $181K richer.

He knocked out most of the final table single handed, Seth Zimmerman being his final victim and he also disposed of Omar Mehmood in third, Maxime Heroux in 4th, and former WSOP ME winner Jonathan Duhamel in 6th.

The best UK cash went to Mats Rosen in 15th place for $9142.

Confirmed he was a DTD regular, I bumped into one of the old Gala Notts crew from back in the day, (photo to follow) and he confirmed it, also said the guy was a running mate of Pete Linton.

Anyone remember this fine young man who was a Gala Notts stalwart around 10 years ago?

For bonus points, what is his blonde alias?

Barney Boatman still in the running in the millionaire maker according to updates.

Tikay, will you be gracing the PLO8 events?

That's the plan Stu, Omaha Mix on Saturday, and PLO8 on Tuesday week, abw. Preferably not on your table, to be honest. :)

Congrats on such a terrific start, and loving those updates even though much of it goes over my head.

Great stuff, that mixed O8 event is very very special. I Still can't work out how I haven't seen you at the Rio, hopefully that will change soon

Amazing really, we are both staying here, and both playing here, but not set eyes on each other.

Could it be because I look so much younger and more virile these days?

Two more days and I will start to suspect that you're ignoring me

:)

To be fair, I've played a tourney almost every day since I got here, though mostly at Binions, Nugget and Venetian. Only 2 Rio WSOP tourneys so far though, a min cash in the $565 PLO, and in this morning's $1,000 PLO in which I lasted precisely 42 minutes, every one of them painful.....

Am always playing Big O cash at Rio on spare evenings though, and am always in the Media Centre from 6am until it's time to toddle off and play my tourney. ( It opens at 9am officially but i have the door code, lol).

What an absolute grinder, a lesson to all the kids.

Gotta be Ed Bailey surely, the "hair do" is making me slightly dither

Whats the temperature like in the Venetian car park please? might play there tomorrow and don't want to take hoodie if not required

Correct, and yes, the hair is a bit different.

I'd suggest taking a hoodie to Venetian, temperature is ok but usual aircon.

What are you playing, and at what time? I'm due there around 1230 for 1pm start.

Gotta say I think pokerGo is such good value for what they offer. Unique original content as well as live content from top tournaments with the very best commentating. Hope it sticks around for a while and is well supported. Currently Phil Galfond commenting on 2-7. Fantastic, if you haven’t got it I highly recommend.

Yes indeed along with sam razavi in the last 17 overnight and Ben Dobson is chipleader in $1500 seven card stud overnight

Goooooo Ben!

and yes Ed looks very different.

more like 15 years ago , guy never seems to age still plays regularly at dusk till dawn

good luck guys hoping they stream a final table with Barny on it so i can at least know i have heard of 1 of the players before

I find myself in your boat with a case of ditherments

Do i play Aria seniors or bimble down to car park for Venetian seniors

Going to lay round pool for a couple of hours and carry on dithering

If Venetian had been in Sands poker room i would of snapped it

Will report back

Event 6 - $365 Giant NLH, Flight 1B

Just 49 players appear on the overnight chip counts for Day 1B, and unfortunately it's a Brit-free zone.

Local player Jon Turner has a large chip lead form Lithuania's Matas Cikinas and Californian Ubaid Habib.


Event 11 - $365 Giant PLO, Flight 1B

Much the same story here with no UK players among the 31 qualifiers. The top dozen are all US names, with Randy Holland, Daniel Smith and Ayaz Mahmood the top three.

Holland has two bracelets already to his name, the only other bracelet holder through is Calen McNeil.


Event 20 - $5K NLH, Day 3 of 4, 518 entries

Just eight players go forward to the denouement of the Event 20 story, but there is still a British intrest with David Laka in 5th placed overnight.

Shawn Buchanan, Jeremy Wien and David Peters are the top three, with Eric Blair (not that Eric Blair, random literary reference) in 4th.

Stephen Chidwick and Ben Dobson had earlier cashed in this event.


Event 21 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 1A/B of 5, 7361 entries

The Millionaire Maker spread it's opening day over two days, if you get my drift. After combining the survivors from the two flights, Andrea Buonocore has the biggest stack, with two GB players among the top ten - Artan Dedusha lies in 4th and James Dempsey sits in 8th.

Other Brits still in include Iaron Lightbourne, Chris Moorman, Barny Boatman and Sam Razavi, while Sky player Michael Kane is shown at the bottom with 1 chip. I don't know if that means he has actually 0 chips or whether his bag wasn't recorded properly.


Event 22 - $1500 Eight Game Mix 6-Max, Day 2 of 3, 481 entries

Just 16 left after 2 days but a very interesting 16, especially for a $1500 event. Nicholas Seiken isn't the story but he's the chip leader, with Londoner Philip Long close behind.

Among the other 12 though are David Bach, Robert Williamson III, John Racener, Daniel Negreanu and Mike "the mouth" Matusow.


Event 23 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 1 of 3, 85 entries so far

Late reg still not closed and expect some of those knocked out on Day 1 to throw another bullet at this, seeing as there's only 38 players who bagged chips at the end of Day 1.

Four former winners of this very event are still active, Paul Volpe, Jesse Martin & Nick Schulman, plust 2017 winner John Monnette are among the 38, as are Benny Glaser and Stephen Chidwick (both inside the top 5) and Adam Owen a little bit (well quite a way to be fair) down the chip listing.

The WSOP have re-tweeted a message from the one and only Doyle Brunson, "Going to the Rio to play in 2-7 lowball tournament. Probably the last one I'll ever play." I bet he gets a huge reception on entering the room.

Event 20 - $5K NLH, Day 4 of 4, 518 entries

Jeremy Wien collected his first bracelet and over half a million dollars by winning Event 20.

He won the heads-up battle against a specialist in that format, Spaniard David Laka by using an unconventional strategy. Over 138 hands of heads-up play (taking 4 hours), Wien not only didn't raise all his buttons, he folded 32 times giving Laka a walk, and instead entering most hands out of position. With the time taken to play heads-up, blinds rose until they were only about 25BB deep, and with stacks about even Wien got a dream scenario - pocket aces with Laka holding pocket queens. Even then it didn't all go in pre-flop, but on a jack high flop it did and Wien held.

Eric Blair finished third.


Event 21 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 2 of 5, 7361 entries

155 players remain in the MM with Aaron Messmer the only player over a million chips.

Two former ME winners are still in - Joe McKeehan & Greg Raymer, as are player of the year leader Elio Fox, Joseph Cheong, JC Tran and British representatives Iaron Lightbourne, Barny Boatman and James Dempsey.


Event 22 - $1500 Eight Game Mix 6-Max, Day 3 of 3, 481 entries

BRITISH BRACELET ALERT

The first British bracelet of the series is in the possession of Philip Long, the 29 year old originally from Birmingham but now living in London taking down the tournament from a stacked Day 3 field.

David Bach, Robert Williamson II, Anthony Zinno and Mike Matusow all departed early, and by the time the FT was reached, Long had a substantial lead. When John Racener was knocked out in 4th, Long was left up against Kevin Malis and 6-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu.

Malis (by far the least experienced of the final 3) knocked out Negreanu during a NLH hand, lifting him almost even with Long as heads-up play started, but the Brit gradually got the better of it and on a hand of Razz a 6-5-3-2-A hand was good enough to claim the title.

According to WSOP stats, he is the 37th British player to win a bracelet, those 37 winning a total of 45 bracelets.

Long won $147K, not his biggest WSOP cash as he won over $229 for his run in the 2013 Main Event.


Event 23 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 2 of 3, 95 entries

It's not quite "Goodbye, Dolly" yet. Among the 10 players to late reg at the beginning of day 2 was the legend that is Doyle Brunson, apparently in his final poker outing before retiring completely.

The 84-year old made it through Day 2, and was chip leader for a decent proportion of the day and at one point his son Todd was second in chips (they also played a while side-by-side on the same table)

11 players remain, and 7 of the 11 have won a combined 24 bracelets between them.

Mike Wattel has the overnight lead, ahead of 2 of the 4 non-bracelet holders (Shawn Sheikhan & Galen Hall) with Doyle still inside the Top 5.

I'm sure no-one would mind Brunson getting at least to the FT, and possibly even going out in one final blaze of glory. Good luck Texas Dolly.


Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 1 of 5, 1479 entries so far

Late reg will be open for the first two levels of Day 2, so expect the total number of players to rise. Players joining in now will have plenty of play, their 26200 chips still being over 30 Big Blinds.

Of those who did play Day 1, Josuha Smith, Pablo Fernandez Campo and Sanjay Dulabh have the three biggest stacks. Campo is showing as from the UK but on Hendon Mob, every single one of his cashes have been in the USA (all but two in the WSOP)

706 come back with plenty of other British names amongst them - Ben Heath, Javier Fernandez, Dennis Rubba, Michael Kane, JP Kelly, Raul Martinez Requena, Chun Yam all inside the Top 200.

Trawling through a list of over 700 names isn't that easy, but I've found Oliver Busquet, Scotty Nguyen, Gaelle Baumann, Faraz Jaka, Gavin O'Rourke and Andre Akkari again all in the upper echelons of the field.


Event 25 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 596 entries

About a third of the field made it through to Day 2, with the wonderfully named Trent Gundrum bagging the most chips.

Eli Elezra narrowly missed a bracelet a few days ago, but he's in contention here lying in 3rd overnight.

Plenty of GB interest - Ben Dobson lies 10th, Mikko Hirvonen 65th and Adam Owen 128th.

90 places will be paid, so it will be quite a way into Day 2 before the bubble bursts.

Event 23 update

Early eliminations of Galen Hall and Todd Brunson have seen the field drop to 9 players. Doyle has lost about half his chips and is now one of the shorter stacks, but one good hand could see him vault back up towards the top half.


Stop Press

Ray Dehkharghani has gone too, leaving just 8, 1 spot away from the FT.

Event 21 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 3 of 5, 7361 entries

The Millionaire Maker is down to just two tables, with 17 players remaining with several interesting names amongst them.

The chip leader is comparitively little known Chad Hahn, ahead of Sean Marshall and Manuel Ruivo.

Lying in 6th place is Joe McKeehan, who has already won three of the iconic WSOP events - the Main Event, the Monster Stack and the $100K One Drop, adding this would mean he has a very impressive CV indeed.

Manig Loeser is a regular on the super High Roller circuit, but has come through this huge field with a decent stack, and there are two British players who will sit side-by-side on their Day 4 table, Sam Razavi & Barny Boatman.


Event 23 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 3 of 3, 95 entries

While the bracelet (and $259K) is in the possession of Brian Rast, the story has to begin with Doyle Brunson.

As he reached the FT, the rail grew and grew, whooping and hollering each time Brunson won a pot.

It couldn't last and he said his goodbye to the game in 6th place, adding one last cash to his total.

Rast picked up his 4th bracelet after beating Day 2 chip leader Mike Wattel heads-up, with Italian Dario Sammartino finishing 3rd.


Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 2 of 5, 1637 entries

Play ended with the bubble being burst at the end of Day 2 (after a two-hour spell of hand-for-hand play), with the 246 players left in the event all guaranteed a minimum of $3860.

Americans sit 1-2-3 with Walter Fisher, Scott Einiger and Daniel Colpoys the players in question.

Belgian Bart Lybaert is top Euro in 4th, while Chris Moorman, Javier Fernandez, Raul Martinez Requena, Matthew Moss, Pablo Campo, JP Kelly, Markus Kuhnen, Chun Yam, Jack Sinclair & Sergi Reixach all having "GB" against thir names in the chip counts.

Some other names that have progressed include former ME winner Ryan Reiss, Faraz Jaka, Marvin Rettenmaier and Jesse Sylvia.



Event 25 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 596 entries

Only 23 left, and there is a British name at the top - Ben Dobson - and he has quite a chip lead. His 595K compares very nicely to the second player's 349K.

Who is that second player? Hall of Famer and 3-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein. Eli Elezra is having a good series and lies 4th, and actor/producer James Woods is 10th.

Dobson got a huge chunk of chips in a house-over-house confrontation with Mike Matusow

Eli Elezra narrowly missed a bracelet a few days ago, but he's in contention here lying in 3rd overnight.


Event 26 - $1K PLO, Day 1 of 3, 986 entrants

Exactly 100 remain, with the leader being Trinidadian Ryan Goindoo. In a cosmopolitan leader board, Bulgarian Ivaylo Sivinov and American Clinton Mossford complete the top 3, with Israel, Brazil, Hungary, Austria, Finland and South Africa all represented inside the Top 20.

No Brits, although if I extended it to the Top 30 there would be as Phillip Mighall sits 27th and Robert Cowen 28th. John Kabbaj is also still in.

It appears to have been a good year for former ME winners, and we have another one doing well in this event, Joe Cada sits just below Cowen on the listings.


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Dauy 1 of 3, 157 entries so far

Already up on last year's field size, entries are open until the start of play on Day 2,

Shaun Deeb has the biggest stack of those who played Day 1 ahead of Michael McKenna & Robert Mizrachi

Top Brit is Iraj Parvizi, Benny Glaser and Suketu Patel have mid-sized stacks, while lurking down near the bottom of the chip counts is Stuart Rutter.

Other names include Daniel Negreanu and Scott Siever down with Stu among the shorties, Frank Kassela and Jason Mercier in the middle, and David Benyamine, James Obst and David "Bakes" Baker in the upper echelons.

As you know, the Updates I m posting are cut & pasted from Next Door (with permission of the Author), but they have their own WSOP thread too.

This post appeared overnight;

Great thread as usual. How is T Kendall getting on in the $1k PLO?

That was posted by my Boss. Lovely job.

And in reply to that post;


Heard the structure is pretty good in that.

Which was authored by an ex-friend of mine.


It's OK, keep it coming boys.


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Ben Dobson 1/23 in the Stud hi/lo. gogogo Ben

I only play once a week or so but he always seems to be in the PLO cash game, usually chooses 4 cards.

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barney and same are on final table being streamed live on twitch

Razavi a big chip leader 3 handed. 35m vs 10m vs 10m roughly. $1.2m up top with 3rd getting $538k

7 left in the $1,500 Stud Hi-Lo and Ben Dobson is big chip leader.

Sadly sam just missed out the bracelet but 2nd a great result is he still based in Asia?

Still chipleader overnight with 3 left :-)

Said on the stream this morning that he lives with his wife and two young kids in the Philippines.

Go on the lad!

He’s taken it down 2nd British bracelet of the series

Excellent!

Well played, Ben.

hellllooooooooooooooooooooooooo, superb stuff!

Parvizi (UK) is chippy of the $10k HORSE.

Looks to be loving life, and 89JQ in 08 until the river :)

We were discussing Pete Linton a few days ago, lo & behold he came & said hi to me yesterday.

Don't know him  but he looks healthier than he used to. Happy nice smile too. Something agrees with him

He seems far more happy, mature & settled than I recall from previously.

Hr's not quite sure what to do with is life, & whether he should stay in poker. He's involved in private games, were players are recruited rather like lambs to the slaughter, & it's starting to sit heavily on his shoulders.   

 

All over in the Millionaire Maker, and in somewhat dramatic fashion. Razavi down to just under 20 BB, shoves pre with AJ, Kern calls him with 4-2 suited in spades! Two spades on the flop gives him a flush draw, and another spade on the turn and it's all over! Kern gets the bracelet and over $1.1m, Razavi just misses out.

Another near miss for a British bracelet and a regular Sky Poker TV guest.

Sorry I can't bring you news of a British bracelet, but there's still plenty to be happy about


Event 21 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 5, 7361 entries

Almost unheard of, a tournament finishing a day early, and some fine British performances to note.

Two Brits made the final table, the legend that is Barny Boatman added to his impressive number of WSOP cashes by finishing 7th for $175K, and frequent former Sky Poker TV guest Sam Razavi went better, a lot better by being the runner-up and collected a cheque for $724K.

Even then that does not tell the whole story, as Razavi had the chip lead at times heads up, both players winning hands when at risk to double up but a full-house on hand 239 saw the game turn Arne Kern's way and ten hands later it was all over. I mis-described the action when giving a quick update earlier, it was shoved with his 4-2 of spades and Razavi who snap-called rather than the other way around.

Former ME winner Joe McKeehen picked up his second third place of the series for over half a million dollars.

Most British WSOP cashes
Stephen Chidwick 52
Barny Boatman 50
Niall Farrell 38
Andrew Teng 37
Chris Moorman 37
Roberto Romanello 35
Stuart Rutter 34
Dave Ulliott 33
Neil Channing 33
Surinder Sumar 31
Richard Ashby 30
Sorry, Tikay, you're not on this list yet. Maybe sometime soon!

(most overall Hellmuth 128, Negreanu 104, Seidel 102, Ferguson 101)


Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 3 of 5, 1637 entries

After 3 days, Taylor Paur has a significant chip lead at the overnight count.

Just 60 marathon runners survive, with Anton Morgenstern a distant second and a neighbour of Paur in San Diego, Mark Sleet in third.

There's still two former ME winners left - Martin Jacobson and Scotty Nguyen, and two Brits too - Javier Fernandez and Chris Moorman (second mention for him in this update)


Event 25 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 596 entries

In contrast to Event 21, this one will need an extra day as Day 3 couldn't whittle down the final 3 players.

The good news is that Day 2 leader Ben Dobson retains that position, and he has over half the chips in play. With only 30 big bets in play, none of the 3 players are deep stacked, but Dobson must have a huge chance of his first bracelet.

Tim Finne nursed a short stack throughout the day and laddered up as others perished, to the point where he sits in second and Jesse Martin brings up the rear with just over 3 big bets left.


Event 26 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 986 entrants

We're left with 14 players, none of whom have a bracelet on their CV

It's the Greek sounding American Filippos Stravrakis who leads, ahead of Pascal Damois (France) & Felipe Raomos (Brazil).

There's still a Welsh interest, but Robert Cowen will enter Day 3 with the second smallest stack, about 10% of the chip leader, already sure of $7446 with the winner picking up $169K and change.


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 2 of 3, 166 entrants

A sweet 16 survivors, with two of the lesser known players in the field, Laith Salem and Albert Daher in the top two places.

The better known John Hennigan is the first of 7 bracelet winners in the 16 person field, and the only British challenger, Iraj Parvizi is 4th.

The other former bracelet holders are Randy Ohel, Carol Fuchs, David "Bakes" Baker, Jean Gaspard, Anthony Zinno and Robert Mizrachi.


Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 1 of 3, 868 entrants

131 will get paid with the winner collecting $461K, but that's still some way off as 186 players remain in contention.

It's very close at the top between German Christian Rudolph and Italian Federico Petruzelli, just 1000 in chips between them with 3 other European players in the top 13, one of them being British challenger Philip Ward.

Several others with a British flag against their names are listed - Sergio Espina Aido, Daniel Hide, Florian Duta, James Akenhead, Stephen Chidwick (another getting his second mention), Michael Kane, James Rann (two Sky players with very similar stacks), Paul Newey, Darren Taylor and George McDonald. Six-max suits us well so it seems.

From elsewhere, Tony Dunst, Justin Liberto (fresh from the FT of event 21). Erik Seidel, Olivier Busquet, Eric Baldwin, Manig Loeser and Greg Merson.

Two more players I want to mention - Alex Keating, which if I remember correctly was Michael J Fox's character in Family Ties, and right down at the bottom of the chip counts, Zachary Smiley. What a great name to go through life with.



Event 29 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 356 entrants

A real niche game now, with just over 350 players for a $1500 bracelet. At least it's up on last year's 328.

86 of the 356 bagged chips at the end of Day 1, New Yorker Jared Bleznick the overnight leader ahead of Rick Fuller and David Prociak.

Philip Long's confidence must be sky-high right now after winning his first bracelet the other day, and he's on the lookout for another one here, inside the Top 10 after Day 1.

Other Brits Cody Wagner and Haresh Thaker join him for some Day 2 action along with David "ODB" Baker, Frank Kassela, Shaun Deeb and the short-stacked trio of Brian Hastings, Allen Kessler & Dzmitry Urbanovich.

With the elimination of Jesse Martin, Ben Dobson is now heads-up in Event 25, with a 3.1m to 1.3m chip lead over Tim Finne.

Ante is 20K, bring in (by the low card) is 30K, 100K to complete, 200K big bet. Not much room for error here now, especially as it will be moving to 30K/30K/120K/240K pretty soon.

Edit - first hand of heads-up, Dobson scoops to bring stacks to approx 3.6m to 800K, and that was the last hand of the level. Finne now down to less than 4BB, but he's been nursing a small stack since the start of yesterday. Reminds me of me.

BRITISH BRACELET ALERT

Ben Dobson has converted his chip lead in to first place in Event 25, the $1500 Stud High/Low event. It's Ben's first bracelet and also nets him a cool $173,528

It is the second British bracelet of the Series, following on from Philip Long's earlier victory, and there has also been 2 UK runner-up finishes so far.

Well I've spoiled the big story already, but here's the rest of the action:


Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 4 of 5, 1637 entries

51 more marathon runners hit the wall on Day 4, leaving just the FT of 9 who have had the stamina and endurace to make it towards the last few miles.

Players from 6 different countries, who've won over $11million between them, make up the final 9 and we have one San Diegan, Mark Sleet replacing another, Taylor Paur as end of day chip leader.

Steer overtook former ME winner Martin Jacobson late on Day 4 after the Swede made a good lay down when things could easily have gone a lot worse for him.

Bart Lybaert from Belgium is third, with Paur dropping to 6th, Anton Morgenstern to 7th and Cate Hall is bringing up the rear.

Chris Moorman was first man out on Day 3 (60th, $9616) while Javier Fernandez went out in 28th for $16340.


Event 25 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 4 of 3, 596 entries

Ben Dobson maintained his chip lead throughout the unscheduled 4th day to claim his first bracelet, and the second for British players this series.

Dobson first eliminated Jesse Martin in 3rd and shortly after he knocked out Tim Finne as well to finish the job.

As well as the bracelet, Dobson earns $173K for his four days work


Event 26 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 986 entrants

This one is in the books too, with Filippos Stavrakis coming from behind (short stack when 4 handed) to pick up the bracelet and a prize just $3000 less than Dobson had collected earlier in the day.

Jordan Siegel was the runner-up, and in third was Brazilian Felipe Ramos, who, as usual when a Brazilian was on a FT, was accompanied by a very vocal rail. Too vocal in fact, as they were moved further away from the action at one point.


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 3 of 3, 166 entrants

Two very accomplished players will come back for a Day 4 in the HORSE, John Henningan and David "Bakes" Baker are both multiple bracelet holders, in fact Baker won this same event 6 years ago.

They outlasted a strong mixed-games field, with Lee Salem ending 3rd and Iraj Parvizi as top Brit in 4th for $127K


Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 1 of 3, 868 entrants

Twenty players have made it through Day 2 with two players having over a million chips (i.e. 100BB), Ben Palmer and Yorane Kerignard.

Jason Mercier (going for his 6th bracelet) is the biggest name player surviving, with one player in the listings having a Union Jack beside his name (Florian Duta) but he's really Romanian (sits 9th in the Romanian all-time money list)

Michael Kane was top of the genuine Brits (well Scots at least) finishing 46th for $7558 while former ME winners Ryan Reiss and Greg Merson went out in quick succession, 65th & 64th respectively.


Event 29 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 356 entrants

Seven players through to the final day, and again we have a British representative, Cody Wagner from Warrington sits second in chips just behind leader Hanh Tran, with double bracelet winner Brian Hastings another 10K chips behind Wagner.

Two Matthew Smith's cashed (23rd and 29th) but I doubt either one of them was a hero of my youth, the creator of Sinclair Spectrum games "Manic Miner" and "Jet Set Willy".


Event 30 - $1500 PLO, Day 1 of 3, 799 entries

130 players managed to bag chips at the end of Day 1, and with 120 to get paid, the bubble will be the first significant event of Day 2.

Michael Heritsch is chip leader ahead of Frank Williams (not that Frank Williams) and Aaron Henderson.

You have to go all the way to 43rd to find Darren Taylor, top Brit overnight but then Clive Wilson is only three spots behind and Peter Linton, Michael Wernick, David Barraclough are all inside the top half while Andrew Teng languishes near the bottom.

Other names still in include Jesse Sylvia, Victor Ramdin, Dutch Boyd, Eoghan O'Dea, Ryan Reiss (again) and Ismael Bojang.


Event 31 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 310 entries

While we have two not-so-well-known names at the very top (Farhad Mobassery and Ron Brown), lurking very close behind is stud specialist and multiple bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro.

I can only bring news of one UK player among the 80-odd survivors, Warren Colman.

He and all the other players still have to deal with the likes of last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, Elky, Brandon Shack-Harris and earlier bracelet winner Adam Friedman.

Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 5 of 5, 1637 entries

The Marathon is over, and the winner was Australian Michael Addamo who collected over $650K as he collected his first bracelet.

5-handed, with former ME winner Martin Jacobsen, Taylor Paur & Bart Lybaert still in, it was looking like a tough FT but as all three were knocked out, it was left to Addamo and amateur player Mark Sleet to fight it out for the bracelet.

Eventually Addamo weathered all Sleet's uncoventional moves, and the bracelet was heading Down Under (or more likely to Thailand, where Addamo lives as he can't play online in Oz).


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 4 of 3, 166 entrants
It took about an hour of Day 4 play to separate John Hennigan and David "Bakes" Baker before the former got the better of it, and became the 25th player to win 5 or more WSOP bracelets, 16 years after he won his first.


Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 3 of 3, 868 entrants

As with Event 27, Event 28 is going into extra time as a fourth day will be needed, with three players still in the running for the bracelet.

Gal Yifrach holds the chip lead over fellow-American James Mackey, with Gary Hasson (from Belgium) bringing up the rear.

Jason Mercier went out in 16th spot, with Romanian-resident-in-the-UK Florian Duta 12th.


Event 29 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 3 of 3, 356 entrants

No extra time needed here as Hanh Tran from Vienna, Austria managed to convert his Day 2 chip lead into the bracelet (although the lead did change hands repeatedly throughout the day).

This is only Tran's 2nd WSOP cash, his first coming in the equivalent event back in 2014.

Cheshire's Cody Wanger finished a very creditable 4th place for nearly $31K.


Event 30 - $1500 PLO, Day 2 of 3, 799 entries

The 130 players were reduced by 90% on Day 2, as 13 players is all that is left to fight for the win on Day 3.

Ryan Bambrick has twice the chips of his nearest challenger, who is Phil Riley, with the Finn Sampo Ryynanen in third.

Darren Taylor was top Brit in 36th, getting $750 more than Clive Wilson who fell one place earlier by the other side of a ladder.

Michael Wernick finished just inside the top 50, with David Barraclough and Peter Linton getting a min-cash.


Event 31 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 310 entries

Nine players remain in the $1500 Stud, so the unofficial FT. The top three of the nine are bracelet holders, chip leader Michael Moore, Chris Ferguson and Jeff Lisandro

There's also two female players still involved (in a Series which hasn't been great for women so far), Esther Rossi & Katharine Fleck.

The only British Day 2 player, Warren Colman, bowed out in 23rd place for a cash of $2982.


Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 1 of 3, 5919 entries

Yes, the number is up from the 5389 of last year but this year players were allowed a single re-entry so that clouds the matter somewhat. Either way, it's still an impressive single flight entry figure.

Almost 1000 players remain, so just a quick scan through some names with the top 3 being Kevin O'Donnell, David Middaugh & Christopher Ocksrider, Americans all.

Jehan Zaib appears to be top Brit in 35th, with Robert Parkin, Matthew Bayford, David Maudlin, Christhoper Jordan and Shukri Mushawar inside the top half of the field.

A couple of other names I've spotted include former November Niner Neil Bluemfield, double bracelet winner Steve Zolotow and former ME winner Scotty Nguyen.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 1 of 5, 77 entrants

The big one for the pros, with such a slow structure that 74 of the 77 have made it to Day 2, the three unlucky ones being Frank Kassela, Kristijonas Andrulis and Scott Siever who lost a house-over-house confrontation.

Registration is still open for another 4 levels, so a few more pros could be enticed in to increase the pricepool further.

Benny Glaser revels in this type of event and he has the Day 1 chip lead, ahead of Anthony Zinno and Brian Rast.

Other UK players involved include Matthew Ashton, Talal Shakerchi, Iraj Parvizi, Adam Owen, Stephen Chidwick & Philip Long.

Most of the other "big names" can be found on the chip listings, with the notable exception of Phil Hellmuth who decided to swerve it and play the Seniors event for the first time instead (he busted from that). Perhaps he will make an appearence on Day 2.


Event 6C, Flight 1C of the Giant, 1148 entries

1148 became 55 by the end of the day, with French player Matthieu Philibert making a late run to be chip leader. He leads Kevin Ninkovich and Arkadiy Tsinis.

I can't see a full report or chip listing, but it appears to include one British player, Artan Dedusha.

Thank the man next door for these, just the job.

Missed most of the last day or so, and nice to be able to catch up with everything double quick.

Event #32 Seniors $1000

There's a Blonde still in this 😉
No doubt this will be a horrible self-bok. 593 remain right now.

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GOGOGO!

Seniors $1000

Made a big error. Grind mode instated.
389 remain....

Seniors $1000

291 remain & amazingly I'm still included in this number. The long clock, and #Lucky$ from Sam Razavi has helped, lol
Grind mode still on

Spin, spin, spin!!

Busto 221st

Got it in good

Onto the next..

Congrats on the cash.

Guilty! Will be out on Wednesday!

what's the tournament you are entering on wednesday Matthew?   :P

nh Bean...only time you will hear that on a Sunday!

Made it to the last day of the O8 mix.  I have 101k, and the average is about 180.   Need to run good tomorrow.

Love these O8 mix tournaments, and even sat next to Barry Greenstein for much of the day. 

Very well done David - looking forward to a big day from you tomorrow.

GL Doobs

All the best Doobs.

Best of luck Doobs

Geo

Good luck Doobs

Great work, go go Doobs

GOGOGO!

Yay, well done & good luck David.

Room & table number please?

Fantastic Doobs well done and good luck in the rest, go get a big payday. Any stories from The Barry?

Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 4 of 3, 868 entrants

Israeli-born but now resident in California, Gal Yifrach took his first bracelet after coming out on top of the extra day needed in this event.

Three handed play with Yifrach, James Mackey & Gary Hasson was quite slow, taking nearly 50 hands before Hasson fell at the hands of Yifrach, but heads up was over in a jiffy even though both players had very similar stacks.

Yifrach collects $461K for 4 days work.


Event 30 - $1500 PLO, Day 3 of 3, 799 entries

Turning up late seems to be the secret for Ryan Bambrick. He missed the start of Day 2 by an hour, and was late again (about 30 minutes late) for Day 3.

The Day 2 chip leader was briefly overtaken by Sampo Ryynanen, but the part-time trader, part-time online player got the lead back and converted it into a win, a bracelet and $217K

Ryynanen finished second, and Tim McDermott was third.


Event 31 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 3 of 3, 310 entries

With two 6-time bracelet winners among the last 4 players, Steven Albini would probably have not been one of the favourites, but a full-house against Ferguson's nut flush saw him leap to the top of the standings.

Both Ferguson and Katherine Flack were very short handed, with Flack outlasting Ferguson to ladder up to third gaining herself an extra $21K, and that left it between Albini and Jeffrey Lisandro.

The lead chopped and changed a few times (Lisandro having a 3:1 advantage at one point) before Albini won a couple of hands in a row which led him to an overwhelming lead and eventually the bracelet.


Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 2 of 3, 5919 entries

101 players have made it through to Day 3, so there must be a real prospect of this being another event that needs to run in to an extra day.

Two players have over one million in chips, Ronald Bishop and Frank Berry with not many well known names in the field after the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Neil Blumenfield and Steve Zolotow went out on Day 2. 10th place William Sindelar may well be related to 2014 November Niner Daniel Sindelar?

The oldest player still in is 83-year old Andreas Dassopoulos, while from the UK we appear to be down to just two challengers, Shukri Mushawar and Jehan Zaib.

135th placed finisher for $4345 was David Maudlin, who I believe is (or was) a Sky Poker player.

Oh and live poker must be fixed. Douglas Hartwick won a 4-way all in with pocket kings, the other three having pocket aces, queens and jacks when he hit top set on the flop.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 2 of 5, 87 entrants

Ten players took advantage of the late reg strectching in to Day 2, taking the field to 87 and the prizepool to over $4.1m

We're down to less than half that number, with two-time previous winner Michael Mizrachi bagging the biggest stack, with a certain Phil Ivey close behind in second.

Of course bracelet winners litter the remaining field, with Eilor Sion and Benny Glaser two such names from GB, and they are joined by a third British player, Luke Schwartz.

14 will get paid, with the min-cash being $72500.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, 5 Day Event including 2 Day 1s

First ot two flights with 533 of 2387 using the extra chips to make it through to Day 2.

Brian Yoon, Phuoc Nguyen and Michael Delvecchio have the biggest stacks, with Christopher Gordon top Brit in 55th.

Directly behind Gordon is Craig McCorkell, and other British names I've found include David Stonehouse, Daniel Hide, Will Kassouf, Pratik Ghatge, Daniel Bland, Matas Cimbolas, Jack Hardcastle, Joseph Field, Matthew Moss, Jeff Kimber, Angelo Milioto, Daniel Teng, Sam Razavi, Adam Daniel and Andrew Hedley.


Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 1 of 3, 773 entries

The final event of the day to draw stumps with 225 players still in with just over half of them eventually walking away with a payment slip.

Peter Neff, Matthew Woodward & Gabriel Ramos sit in the top 3 places after Day 1, with the best placed British challenger Daniel Kent sitting nicely in 6th.

David Wood, David Barraclough, James Dempsey, Stu Rutter, Jeff Duvall, Stephen Chidwick comprise the rest of a strong British challenge to go forward to Day 2.

Phil Hellmuth is looking to extend his WSOP record number of cashes, and Robert Mizrachi, Barry Greenstein, Max Pescatori and Allen Cunningham just some of the more recognisable names also still involved.

Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 4 of 3, 5919 entries

Eight players have made it through to Day 4, all guaranteed $76K but all still aiming for the first prize of over $662K (and of course the bracelet).

Seven of the players are American, led by Gary Friedlander who carries a stack of over 80BB to the final table.

Rachel Delatorre is the last female player standing, one of three with less than 20BB, trying to win the first bracelet of the summer for the female contingent.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 3 of 5, 87 entrants

Exactly a dozen players remain and it is a familiar figure at the top of the listings, twice previous PPC Champion Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.

Phil Ivey had the lead at one point, but he lost some hands late on to drop to behind Mike Leah and Aaron Katz.

One GB player is among the dozen, Benny Glaser sitting comfortably in midfield.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 1B of 5, total of 5700 entries

A bigger flight than 1A, with, as expected, a bigger number getting through to Day 2.

It's not very often The Philippines have the chip leader but they do here with Mike Takayama holding that position at the end of 1B ahead of Lithuania's Eimantas Adaomavicios and Vinny Pahuka, from (I'm not making it up) Hicksville, New York.

Plenty of Brits through, with Conor Beresford, Iaron Lightbourne, Steven Morris & Luke Brereton inside the top 100 and others lower down including James Akenhead, Chris Moorman, Rupinder Bedi, Niall Farrell, Louis Salter & Shola Akindele.


Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 2 of 3, 773 entries

Whatever Michael can do, Robert Mizrachi can almost do as well. Right up to the last few hands, it looked like he was going to hold the Day 2 chip lead in Event 35 but a late run from James Alexander and Gabriel Ramos have dropped the Grinder's brother down to third.

14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth crashed out late in the day to add to his record number of WSOP cashes in 35th as just 31 players move on.

The good news is that two UK names are among them - Daniel Kent and David Barraclough, neither have particulary big stacks but both have already guaranteed themselves $5252 and there's a ladder for another $850 in three eliminations time.

If they were to go the whole way, there'd be over $211K and a certain piece of jewellry to take home.


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2191 entries

$311K will await the winner of the Over 60s bracelet, but with 347 players still left, there's still a lot of flops to see before then. 329 will be paid so with lots of players under 10BB, a bubble will probably occur in the first level of Day 2 play.

Clifford Matthews probably won't need to concern himself with the bubble, he has a massive stack (over 130BB) and he has Henri Besson and Steven Wenrich not far behind. Wenrich is from another fantastically named US town - Quitman, Texas.

Linda Iwaniak leads the British challenge, and is accompanied by Bradley Viner and Ronald Lawton

The best known players in the battle are probably two double-bracelet holders, Steve Zolotow and Chris Bjorin

Thanks all

I am at Miranda 602/1, 2pm restart.  Hiden away a bit with the players championships on.  Got a big stack on my left who was on my left for much of yesterday.  He isn't techically brilliant but plays a lot of v high stakes in other games and is tricky to play against.  

No big stories from Barry; loads of people coming up to him and congratulating him on his podcast.  Apparently he has become a bit of an agony uncle and getting asked for lots of relationship advice!  He just seems a really nice bloke.

This could easily go in to day 4.  Structure is very slow, but limit is a bit of a nightmare.  Playing 4k/8k off a 50k stack just isn't boring.  It is much less painful to fold the big blind in the pot limit games where the big blind is half the size.

The other Brit is a good lad who lives in Costa Rica.

Good luck today

Good luck, Miranda

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Carry the spirit of the Great Britainshire Soccer Lions with you today.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates/?rr=5&aid=2&grid=1487&tid=16435&dayof=6442

scoopio.  nr average again

21 left redraw

down to 18 at break.   got 200k+, but would have had 300k+ but for the miracle 2 on the river.  average is about 300k

Best of luck, nitroller ;D

Go Doobs go

I can confirm there is a lot loud shouting in Doobs' tournament. None from him yet

down to 14, which is two 7 handed tables.   just took a hit.   got about 200k; average nearer 400k; but have been pretty much below average since day 1.

moved to amazon in far corner table 431

There's 12 left and getting closer to average again after biggish call vs pearljammer.

chuntering.  "I've only bluffed twice all tournament and each time against the wrong person". 11 left

pretty brutal level finished off with QQxyz vs AATbc on QTT7.  all in.  river ace.  Tenth.  Getting top 10 in a WSOP event isn't too shabby.. day off tomorrow.

Great run doobs and terribly unlucky exit

+1

Unlucky mate.

Nice score, saw the update, brutal 3 outer.

Good run there Doobs

Unlucky but well done bud

Fantastic work Doobs

Great run, well played! And thanks for the updates.

Great result Doobs, very well done

Geo

well done doobs.

Ooh, painful exit. Nice run though.

Ugly one so deep David but a tremendous effort nonetheless.

well done David and ul

Absolutely superb effort David, very well done.

Thanks all.

I am determined not to get too down on this.  It is important to not look at these things in isolation.  I won a flip on day 1 for most of my chips when I was probably slightly behind, and there was a triple up late on day 2, where I got it in with AT84 ds when holding 4 big blinds in limit (2 big bets) and hit the flush.  Suits are important in O8, but I dare say I wasn't in great shape right there.  And there have been several times when I have left Vegas when down to shrapnel.

I can't stress how much fun this tournament was at times.  Most of the people playing were good company, and it is probably my favourite format currently.  I don't ever smile as much in hold em tournaments these days.   I hope the other Blondes who come out for the series enjoy it as much as I did.

Funking for Ramos today, he plays the game with a smile on his face, a glass of wine by his side, and isn't shy on getting creative.  Not anti-funking the other two, as Carol Fuchs seems pleasant too, but I didn't spend much time with her and I never sat at a table with Zhu so have no view on him.  Got to love those who find themselves asking for a 9 on the river, and Ramos is that man.

I might play something today after all.  There is a 550 daily hold em at the Wynn, and there is a 250 PLO8 at the Golden Nugget.  I walked past the Wynn room last night and the contrast between that and the parking garage at the Venetian is pretty stark.

Finally, I had to sit next to Ben Dobson at the payout desks.  FML....

Just joking, I recognised him and had a brief chat, he seems a really nice bloke too.

Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 4 of 3, 5919 entries

After over 100 hands of heads-up play, Matthew Davis, a statistics teacher from California has got his hands on the bracelet and well over $660, dwarfing his two previous WSOP cashes.

Bill Stabler made the FT of this very event six years ago, and did so again today, taking over $400K for the runner-up spot, and the only non-US player at the FT, Scott Hamilton-Hill from New Zealand, was the third placed finisher.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 4 of 5, 87 entrants

We've reached the FT and it is two-time winner Michael Mizrachi who is gunning for a third PPC with the biggest stack overnight.

The only non-bracelet winner among the last 11 players, Dan Smith, is 2nd with about half the Grinder's stack, and Aaron Katz is third.

Benny Glaser was comfortably in the middle of the pack at the end of Day 3, and while he's now 5th out of 6, he still has over 50BB. John Hennigan and Mike Leah complete the final 6.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 2 of 5, total of 5700 entries

Fast and furious action has reduced the field to just 162 after Day 2, 5 of whom appear to be British - Phillip Mighall, Steven Morris, Pablo Campo, Robert Bain and Daniel Corbett.

They're not in the top 20 in chips though as the chip lead is held by Daniel Colpoys who's had a few cashes already this month. David Kaiura is second and Japanese player Yosuke Sekiya is third.

Our old friend from Hicksville, Vinny Pahuja is still involved, as is Jeremy Ausmus, 2012 November Niner.



Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 3 of 3, 773 entries

Another tournament that needs an extra day to come to a conclusion, three players remain, but they're far from equal in stacks. Chinese Yueqi Zhu has 78% of all the chips in play, with Gabriel Ramos having about three quarters of the remainder and Carol Fuchs the last few. Fuchs though is the only bracelet holder among the three.

David Barraclough was top Brit, falling to a 3-outer on the river to finish 10th for $13114. Daniel Kent had gone out some time earlier (22nd for $6414).


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2191 entries

43 go forward to the 3rd and hopefully final day, with Jerry Weber, Paul W Lee and John Borzio the top 3 stacks.

Right behind them is Linda Iwaniak, part of a two-pronged British assault on the event with Bradley Viner the other contender.

Two-time bracelet holder Steve Zolotow brings a decent stack with him, and a player who has WSOP cashes dating back to 1990 and has had run ins with Phil Hellmuth among others over the years, Sam Grizzle also is quite comfortable.


Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1330 entrants

These $1500 NLH events used to be the backbone of the series, one running at least every weekend, but with the increased number of gimmicky or themed tournaments, they're almost an endangered species now.

With 200 to be paid and 236 players bagging at the end of Day 1, it won't be long before the bubble bursts.

Kirk Banks has the end of Day 1 lead, ahead of Michael Rocco and Duy Ho, with JC Tran the first of the well known names in 11th spot.

Two more former November Niners Eoghan O'Dea and Jay Farber, Andy Frankenberger, Eric Baldwin, Chris Ferguson and Barry Greenstein are among the qualfiiers, while the British contingent consists of Jack Sinclair, Damien Le Goff, Daniel Tang, Steven Warburton, Matas Cimbolas, Edwin Biber, Conor Beresford, Andrew Teng and Thomas Hall

I always like to pick out Anna Antimony, as a) I like players with alliterative names, and b) she joins the likes of Max Silver and Jamie Gold as players with surnames the same as chemical elements.


Event 38 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 1 of 3, 76 entries so far

In common with the other $10K events, late reg is open until the start of Day 2.

27 of those 76 remain, headed by Ben Yu with Daniel Negreanu and Scott Siever among those hard on his heels.

I can't see any British names in the chip listings, Stu Rutter and Adam Owen both busted some time before the end of Day 1.


To Start Today
Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, 3 Day Event

Well done Doobs.

well done Doobs. That position in MTTs is such a killer. I hope you aren't disappointed for two long.

If anyone wants to exchange their dollars for euros then let me know and I'll hook you up with my buddy

Otherwise can anyone recommrnend  the best place to exchange currency? Just go to a few casino cages and check rates?

I have no real need for Euros, but if anyone needs dollars and can bank transfer let me know.   Got about 10k spare, as I'll save some of the rest and settle my hotel bill.  cheers

1.25 @ Wynn n southpoint
1.12 @ the rio
1.00 yes 1 for 1 at the downtown grand
I’ve asked
I’m at nugget tomorrow I can ask then or mark s there now if he reads this

Thanks Tony. That's quite a spread of rates! 1.25 is that a typo? Seems to be 1.15 spot right now?

Anyone ever heard of this place. In a strip mall just north of the Wynn, just off strip. Google seems to think it gives the best rates in Vegas.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g45963-d8364587-Reviews-Foreign_Money_Exchange-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html

Also Steve Albini won a bracelet. Amazing!

It is like Phil Ivey producing the new Foo Fighters album.

Going to see them on Saturday, quite excited.

The Worm has been playing? Please grab an action shot if he's still about. Not seen Mickey in years.

<3

I wonder who he nipped for this trip :)

too late.  he was sat behind me one day.  did a double take

Have been AWOL for 2 days, but our man Next Door, FCHD, has continued with his Updates so I'll have a catch up now.

Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 5 of 5, 87 entrants

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi has only won four bracelets (the same as his brother Robert), but now three of them are for winning the prestigious 50K Poker Players Championship!

Mizrachi came out on top of a stacked final table, beating John Hennigan heads-up after an epic 3-way battle also involving Dan Smith.

The last Briton left in the event, Benny Glaser, came in to the FT in 5th, and exited it in 5th as well. He collects $260K, while Mizrachi boosts his career earnings by almost one and a quarter million dollars.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 3 of 4, total of 5700 entries

Just twenty players bagged chips at the end of Day 3 with local player Keith Ferrara holding the overnight lead.

Ferrara has 7.5m chips, quite a lead on his nearest challenger Tomas Teran Paredes who has a smidgen over 5m.

Two Wongs are right next to each other - Ralph is 11th and Jacky is 12th, while Pablo Campo (who has 3 cashes this month already) the only British player on the reports in 14th.

I think the only bracelet holder left is the short-stacked Andrey Zaichenko, but 6-time winner on the WSOP domestic circuit Joshua Turner is somewhat better off in terms of chips.


Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 3 of 3, 773 entries

Day 4 was enough to sort out Event 35, and it didn't need very long to sort things out. Yueqi Zhu started the day as an overwhelming chip leader, and he quickly knocked off Carol Fuchs and then Gabriel Ramos.

Zhu has finished in the top 3 of bracelet events six times before, dating back over a decade, but this is his first win, for which he picks up the elusive bracelet and $211K.


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2191 entries

Another near miss for a British bracelet!

Linda Iwaniak from Berkshire had just one 5-figure score on her Hendon Mob resume, $19K from a ladies event in Birmingham back in 2006. She still has just the one as she by-passed 5 figures, jumping straight through to 6-figures collecting over $103K for a fine 4th place in the Super Seniors

Her aggressive style saw her move all in with pocket 10s on a board of Q-2-2. Unfortunately for her, Paul W Lee had 8-2 in his hand, and he improved to quads to rub it in.

Iwaniak wasn't the only female player at the sharp end, Farhintaj Bonyadi is still very much involved in a heads-up battle with Robert Beach, but is up against it as Beach has about a 9:2 chip lead.

The other British player in Day 3, Bradley Viner, was an early casualty but walked away with a payslip for over $8K.



Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1330 entrants

As in event 34, 20 players will battle it out in the final day of Event 37.

Three players are sitting with over a million chips, Aaronm Massey, Ian Steinman and 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber.

JC Tran is one of the other 17 players, all but two being American with the exceptions being Ryan Goindoo (Trinidad & Tobago) & Enrico Rudelitz (Germany)

We almost had a Brit involved, but Plymouth's Damien Le Goff was the penultimate Day 2 elimination for $9513.



Event 38 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 83 entries

No messing around with 20 left here, we're down to 8 with Yaniv Birman, Jesse Martin & Ben Yu the top 3 stacks.

Stud specialist Matt Grapenthien is in the middle of the pack while among the short stacks is the only non-US player, James Obst.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 1 of 3, 908 entrants

We've reached the halfway point of the 78-event WSOP 2018.

100 tables were set up for play, and at the end of the day each one of those tables has provided one participent for Day 2.

All 100 have earned $5227 so far, and today will compete on 10 10-handed tables with the winner guaranteeing themselves $15K and a place on the FT.

Reigning ME champion Scott Blumstein is one of the 100, as is another ME winner (Martin Jaconbson) and the runner-up in last year's shootout, Thomas Boivin. Also through are names such as Phil Hellmuth, Jesse Sylvia, Rep Porter and Dylan Linde.

Four UK names also made Day 2, Mark McGovern, Tom Hall, Endrit Geci & Yudhishter Jaswal.


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, 3 Day Event

This event, being held for the second time, attracted 205 players of whom one quarter played their way through to Day 2.

2012 PLO bracelet winner Naoya Kihara holds the big stack, with Dario Sammartino, fresh off a third placed finish in the $10K 2-7 Lowball event is second.

Stuart Rutter is back for another attempt to win a bracelet, and he had a good first day lying just inside the Top 10.

John Henningan jumped into this after losing the heads-up battle with Michael Mizrachi in the PPC, and he's made the most of it as he's got the fourth biggest stack overnight.

Other well-known names include Jeff Lisandro, Mike Matusow, Eli Elezra, Shaun Deeb, Max Pescatori, David "ODB" Baker, Barry Greenstein and the Frenchman with the impressive hair, Bruno Fitoussi.

^^^^

What a great result for Linda Iwaniak, who many of you will know very well from APAT.

Event 36 update

The Super Seniors is all over, and it took rather longer on Day 4 than I anticipated. We started today with Robert Beach having a significant chip lead over Farhintaj Bonyadi, but 110 hands later, Bonyadi has come from behind to take the win.

In an angle that I should have picked up on earlier, she is the mother of three-time bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi.

She is, of course, the first female to win a bracelet in 2018.

Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 4 of 4, total of 5700 entries

It's getting to be a theme this summer that tournaments need an extra day to finish them off, well add the Double Stack to the list as an unscheduled 5th day will be needed to determine which of the final three will get the bracelet.

The final three (all of whom wanted to continue on to find a winner) are headed by Robert Peacock, who has 38m, with Nicholas Salimbene (10m) and Joshua Turner (8m)

The two Wongs finished the day as they started, adjacent to each other on the listings with Jacky 4th and Ralph 5th, while Pablo Campo was early Day 4 casualty (and he's now showing as being from Spain)


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 4 of 3, 2191 entries

As already mentioned, this one was completed early on Wednesday night with Farhintaj Bonyadi collecting her first bracelet and $311K.

She is now part of the only mother-son combo to win WSOP bracelets.


Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1330 entrants

You remember what I was saying about Event 34? An extra day will be needed here two with Eric Baldwin having about a 7:2 chip lead over Ian Steinman. With the winner getting $319K and the loser $197K, the heads-up match is for over $120K and of course the gold bracelet.

Enrico Rudelitz was the last elimination of the Day, leaving Baldwin and Steinman two levels of play to sort things out but neither buckled and they will recovene for a Day 4.


Event 38 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 83 entries

This one, in stark contrast, ended within the scheduled timescale and the victor was businessman and part time high-limit Stud cash player, Yaniv Birman.

He beat twice bracelet-holder Jesse Martin into second, and Ben Yu was third.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 908 entrants

The FT has been reached, with the 10 winners of the Day 2 tables all set to be sitting with very similar stacks (between 109 BB & 112BB)

There's one former bracelet winner among them, Anthony Rategui (who also made the final table of the earlier $3K shootout event) and there's one British name, Endrit Geci (who, not to be rude, looks like an anagram - perhaps "get nicer id" or "deter icing")


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 2 of 3

Very rarely can a player have had this big of a lead at the end of Day 2. Scott Bohlman has over 1.5 million chips, with the nearest of his four remaining challengers (Ryan Hughes) has 345K.

Daniel Wienman, Aaron Rogers (not the Green Bay QB) and Marcel Vonk of the Netherlands are the other three players.

Last British player left was Stuart Rutter, but he departed the scene before the bubble was reached.


Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 1 of 3, 596 entries

You can see the difference between the popularity of Limit Hold'em and No Limit as the last $1500 NLH event attracted more than twice the field of this Limit event.

The British presence in Limit is usually minimal, but at least we've got two of the 174 survivors, Warren Colman & Joe Brindle.

The chip leader is from Liverpool, but it's Liverpool, New York that Brian Vollick hails from. Local Rex Clinkscales and West-coast player Cody Riedel complete the top 3.

Most of the names mean very little to me, but I can pick out Jeff Shulman, Matt Grapenthein and Dutch Boyd, and there's the wonderfully named Jet Black in 83rd. I haven't come across anyone called Jet Black since The Stranglers in 1977.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, 192 entries

The number of entries includes two dozen re-entries, and will rise further as late reg is open not just to the start of Day 2, but for another 2 levels after that.

Konstantin Beylin holds the chip lead from Bulgarian Veselin Karakitukov and Canadian Daniel Negreanu.

Fraser MacIntyre is inside the top ten, with Adam Owen just outside, and several other GB players make the Day 2 field - Philip Ward, James Park, Gavin Cochrane and Daniel Merrilees. Iraj Parvizi didn't join them, despite firing two bullets at it, and having at one point a stack that would have placed him inside the overnight Top 5.

Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 5 of 4, total of 5700 entries

Going in to day 5, Robert Peacock was always going to be the favourite, and he ended with his tail feathers on display as he finished off first Joshua Turner and then Nicholas Salimbene, all in just 23 hands.

Peacock, a high stakes cash player locally in Vegas, $644K, Salimbene nearly $398 and Turner $294K.


Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1330 entrants

Despite this one having only 2 players left as opposed to the 3 in Event 34, this one took a lot longer to sort out as Eric Baldwin slogged it out with Ian Steinman. The former had the lead at the start of the day, and no matter what he did, Steinman never could close the gap and Baldwin finished the job when his AJ cracked Steinman's pocket Kings.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 3 of 3, 908 entrants

A loooooooong FT, over 12 hours of it, and Preston Lee came out on top. He beat Corey Dodd after over 120 hands of heads-up, and Anthony Reategui finished third.

The only Brit at the FT, Endrit Geci, was the first elimination of the day and picked up $15180.


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 2 of 3

Scott Bohlman entered Day 3 with a massive heads-up, but he doubled up several short stacks, and by the time it was 3-handed with Ryan Hughes and Daniel Weinmann, the stacks were comparitively balanced.

After a break, Bohlman won a big hand of triple draw to get more or less back to where he started, and never looked back.

He eliminated Wienman, and then not much later saw off two-time bracelet holder Hughes.


Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 596 entries

Nineteen players are left standing, with Matt Woodward leading the way, ahead of Robert Nehorayan and Matt Russell

A few bracelet holders are still involved, Kevin Song, Matt Grapenthien and Benjamin Scholl, whose previous win was also in a limit hold'em event.

There was just one UK player in the cash, Warren Colman, from Chigwell, who took 87th spot for a min-cash of $2246.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 230 entries

Once late reg and re-entries were taken into account, a decent 230 x $25K had been taken and most of it entered into the prizepool.

Thirty five players go on to Day 3, with a 3-hour period of mind-numbingly dull hand-for-hand play starting 3 off the money as some tables were perceived to be slow playing.

Ben Yu chipped up during that period, sufficiently so that he now holds the chip lead ahead of Jason Koon and late entrant Ryan Tosoc.

Defending champion James Calderaro is among the survivors, as is the winner of the ME 20 years ago baby (Scotty Nguyen), Jason Mercier, Robert (but not Michael) Mizrachi and one Brit, Adam Owen.


Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1248 entrants

Just under 300 remain, with 188 to get paid so we're still some way off the bubble.

The chip lead is in the hands of Ashwin Sarin, with Steve Foutty and Josh Bergman second and third overnight.

Harry Lodge sits just inside the top 50 as top Brit, with several other GB names through including a couple of names familiar to former Sky Poker TV regulars, James Rann and Sam Razavi.

Others through include Valentin Vornicu, Jake Schwarts, Ismael Bojang and Aditya Agarwel (sitting next to each other in 12th-15th), Chino Rheem, David "Bakes" Baker, Taylor Paur, Faraz Jaka and Tony Dunst.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 100 entries so far

As we have 100 entries on day 1, it's easy to calculate that 41% of the players bagged up chips at the end of the day.

Luke Schwartz sits just outside the top 3 which is made up of Michael Noori, Max Kruse and Christopher Kruk.

Benny Glaser and Stuart Rutter are both still involved as are Eli Elezra, Farzad Bonyadi (after his mother won a bracelet yesterday), Todd Brunson, Mike Matusow, JC Tran, and making her 2018 WSOP début, Vanessa Selbst.


To Start Today
A busy day today!
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), 2 Day Event
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), 3 Day Event
Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event
plus Flight D of Event 6, The Giant.

^^^^^

There's a sentence few ever expected to see in a WSOP event......




Nineteen players are left standing, with Matt Woodward leading the way, ahead of Robert Nehorayan and Matt Russell

I got 1,2448 @ the Wynn Wednesday lunch n forget to ask in nugget last night

ok I just realised you are talking about Sterling...

My mate went to the currency exchange place I mentioned a few posts above - just bit north of the Wynn and was happy with the rate and the service.

 rotflmfao

Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 596 entries

Robert Nehorayan came from second at the end of Day 2 to finish alone on the table at the end of Day 3.

With the $173K first prize, Nehorayan almost tripled his biggest previous biggest cash achieved 11 years ago when he finished 146th in the Main Event.

His final victim, Kevin Song, won his only bracelet 21 years ago (when Tikay was a lad) and David Gee ended third.

The final table were all American except for Oleg Chebotarev, the Russian finishing 7th.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries

Event 42 has reached a final table, and another WSOP veteran is well in contention, 1998 ME winner Scotty Nguyen. Scotty baby leads defending event champion James Calderaro and Shaun Deeb.

Last UK representative, Adam Owen, finished 30th for $41K.


Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1248 entrants

Two days down, one (at least) to go with 34 players coming back to fight for the bracelet.

Seth Davies is the chip leader, closely followed by Jeff Hakim and Javier Fernandez, with a distinct gap to the rest of the field.

James Rann is still running well, just outside the top 10, while there are a number of former bracelet holders still in - last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, David Peters, Ryan Laplante & Andreas Klatt.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 109 entries

Nine Day 2 entries boosted the field to 109, with 13 of them making Day 3.

Michael Noori was at or near the top of the chip standings most of the day, and ended it with a sizeable lead over Christopher Kruk and Randy Ohel.

Farzad Bonyadi is still alive trying to match his mother's bracelet a few days ago, and another former bracelet holder Calvin Anderson (one of the Day 2 entrants) is still there too, albeit with a shortish stack.

No Brits, Luke Schwartz's position two off the money being the best the UK could get.



Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 1 of 2, 1712 entrants

Fast and furious action meant just 41 players will come back for the second and final day of Event 45.

Steven Wolansky bagged the biggest stack with 620K chips ahead of DJ Mackinnon's 532K and Michael Wang's 335K.

Elliott Peterman is the highest ranked Brit in 10th, while Matthew Hunt, Conor Beresford and Andrew Tang are clustered around the high 20s.

Others include two men who've had deep runs in the ME - Joseph Cheong (3rd, 2010) and Martin Staszko (3rd 2011) and three well known female players - Kathy Liebert, Kelly Minkin and Esther Taylor.


Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 1 of 3, 402 entries

152 of the 402 navigated a day of potenial split pots, aiming for Tikay's favourites, "Scoopio".

Sergio Ramirez collected the largest Day 1 stack, with only Eric Rodawig anywhere near him in terms of chips.

Paul Jackson has a decent stack and lies in 32nd, and the only other Brits through are the West Country duo of Ben Dobson and Robert Price

2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem has been relatively quiet in recent years, but has made it through Day 1, as has Daniel Negreanu, Kate Hoang, Julien Martini, Robert Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, Perry Friedman, and Barry Greenstein.


Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event

The online PLO event went to Matthew Mendez who collected $135K for over 15 hours work.

The only non-American on the FT, Marton Czuczor was second and Anthony Zinno third.

Scott Clements was multi-tasking this event plus the mixed high/low event above, he busted that short of the money but finished 18th in the online event for $4451 to at least make some profit on the day.


Flight D of Event 6, The Giant, 1167 entrants

The fourth attempt of qualifying for the later stages of the Giant saw 63 players book their ticket.

Duy Ho is a nice short name with a nice big stack, and Ian Pelz isn't that bad either. Alice Sicconi holds third place.

Four British players qualified, Andrew Wilson, Katie Swift, Michael Bucher and the seemingly omnipresent Adam Owen.

One semi-notable player through is the 12th-placed finisher from last year's ME, Richard Dubini from Argentina.

The Day 2 for this event is next Saturday, 30th June.


To Start Today
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event

1.24 sounds predictably bad. 1.32 readily available in London so $80 extra per £ thousand to figure out if it was worth a detour to collect

Is there a better feeling than washing your hands and forearms in the break of a tournament, getting them nice and dry and then putting anti bacterial lotion on them, around your wrist and up your forearms. Lovely Stuff.

I believe Sam Razavi is looking to offload some of his $$$ for £££. Pretty sure you'll get spot rate, Simon. He's usually easily accessible via Messenger. Of course it means going to LV with your £s, but it may work for you.

I'm going with yes.

 ;D

No good to me this year ;'(


I thought I used to have it set up quite nicely.  Skrill USD to Citibank London USD, to Citibank LV USD to collection in hand.  $1 in and $1 out.  But then the banking system decided to put a stop to all that.

Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries

12 months ago, Ben Yu beat Shaun Deeb heads-up to win the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw event. The two double bracelet holders clashed again here with the High Roller PLO bracelet at stake, and this time Deeb got his revenge.

The $1.4 million prize is by far Deeb's highest ever cash, beating his previous highest of $318K (although he did once win a seat to the $1million One Drop in a satellite).

Former ME winner Scotty Nguyen was third, James Calderado 4th and Jason Koon 5th.

By running this deep, neither Yu nor Deeb could compete for that $10K 2-7 Triple Draw this year, more of that anon.


Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants

As suspected, this one wasn't done and dusted within the regulation 3 days and 6 players will come back to fight for the win on Day 4.

Chris Ferguson holds a large chip lead overnight, almost double the stack of Israel's Timur Margolin.

The rest of the FT isn't too shabby either - Ismael Bojang, Michael Marder, Dylan Linde & Ryan Laplante.

As briefly mentioned last night, James Rann was unlucky to bust in 23rd place for a little over $15K.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 109 entries

He'd never played a 2-7 Triple Draw tournament before, but it must surely be Nicholas Seiken's favourite game now!

Having only previously played the format in mixed-games, he got the better of another mixed-games name, Randy Ohel heads-up, with Kristijonas Andrulis third.

Behind them, Farzad Bonyadi's quest to follow his mother in winning a 2018 bracelet finished in 4th, Matt Glantz was 5th and top Brit, Jason Gray (who I missed in yesterday's roundup), was 6th ($46K)


Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 2 of 2, 1712 entrants

Just seven hours of Day 2 action needed, and the denoument came in a hurry as Spaniard Martin Prats Garcia knocked out all the last 5 opponents in just 14 hands.

First he came from behind to bust Gregory Worner, then his A-10 dominated Mark Schluter's 10-8 which never improved. Shortly afterwards he picked up A-K and was able to call Michael Wang's shove with pocket threes, a King on the flop sealing the elimination, and heads-up with Matthew Hunt lasted just 3 hands.

Hunt raised and took the first hand pre-flop, Garcia shoved with 9-5 on the second hand with Hunt calling with A-2, neither improved and Hunt doubled up and then on the third hand, it got all the way to the river before the chips went in, the board being 5-4-7-9-8 with 3 diamonds. Hunt had 10-6 for a 7-card straight, but Garcia had the diamonds and it was all over.

That's at least the third runner-up finish for British players this Series, to go along with 2 bracelets and several other very deep runs.


Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries

Fifteen players survive after Day 2 of this one, all guaranteed at least $7K for their troubles.

Ian Shaw doesn't have a ton of recorded cashes, with just 2 WSOP scores and 4 in total according to Hendon Mob, but the Mexico resident is top dog after Day 2

Tyler Groth sits in second after eliminating Daniel Negreanu and Colombia's Daniel Ospina makes a 1-3 for Latin America.

Hani Awad won this very event two years ago and is in with a chance of a repeat, and other bracelet holders Cyndy Violette, Brendan Taylor and Eric Rodawig are also in the hunt for more jewellery.

Two GB names took some cash home, Paul Jackson was the penultimate Day 2 elimnation for 17th place and nearly $6K while Robert Price went out in 34th for $4577.



Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)

The first flight of the Monster Stack is in the books with 723 players through to Sunday's Day 2.

The 1A chip leader is midlander Kfir Ivgi who has been picking up cashes across the UK for a few years but only collected his first US cash a few days ago in a Rio Daily Deepstack.

With over 700 players through, I'm not going to list all the GB qualifiers, but they do include Daniel Corbett, Ben Farrell, Samuel Welbourne, Michael Kane, John Eames, Simon Deadman, Jerome Bradpiece & Paul Newey


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 439 entries so far

Already up on last year's field size, with of course late reg still open with just under half the field bagging chips at the end of the night.

Ryan Hughes holds the lead ahead of Majid Yahyaei and Veselin Karakitukov.

Ben Lamb made the FT of last year's Main Event (and won a $10K PLO tournament at the Aria a few days ago) and he's carried that form through here lying 4th overnight.

Phillip Mighall and Stephen Chidwick have both bagged top-20 stacks, Richard Gryko is inside the Top 50 while Alex Lindop is nursing a smaller stack.

A few names I've picked out - brothers Michael (11th) and Robert (38th) Mizrachi, Mike Leah, Brandon Shack-Harris, Sylvain Loosli and Eoghan O'Dea plus a guy with a long name if not a big name, Veerachai Vongxaiburana


To Start Today
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event

plus another starting flight of the $565 Giant PLO.

Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1248 entrants

Depending on which WSOP update you believe, Timur Margolin has become either the eighth or ninth player from Israel to win a WSOP gold bracelet.

On the extra Day 4, Ryan Laplante and Dylan Linde busted early before a action-packed session of 4-handed play took place. A number of double-ups occured with all four players being the ones at risk at one point or another.

Margolin eventually got the better of Chris Ferguson, and then Michael Marder, leaving him heads up with Ismael Bojang. More swings and swongs (copyright T Kendall 2005) before Israel got the better of Germany with Margolin taking $507K and Bojang $313K.



Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries

Coming back from an 8:1 chip lead heads-up, David Broookshire added a WSOP bracelet to a circuit ring beating Brandon Taylor heads-up

The key hand was a Stud hand where Brookshire already had the low end tied up and filled a flush on 7th street to scoopio (copyright T Kendall 2006). After that he moved relentless onwards and less than an hour later the win (and $214K) was his.

The Latin-American duo of Daniel Ospina and Ian Shaw finished third and fourth.


Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 5, total of 6260 entries

What's that coming over the hill? It's another starting flight of the Monster Stack.

Jeffrey Trudeau isn't a member of Canada's politicial first family but a poker player from Florida and he bagged the biggest 1B stack. Shalev Halfa completed a good day for Israel and is lying second and Sami Ruston third.

Some GB qualifiers among the 1362 through - Ben Jackson, Marc Foggin, Dan Laming, Damien Le Goff, Stephen Chidwick, Steven Watts, Stuart Rutter, Steven Warburton and James Rann. Oh and someone by the name of Natterley (copyright T Kendall 2007) Bromley

With just a week to the Main Event, 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan is looking to add to his 2 FTs already this summer and he's got lots of chips here.


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far

Down to 37 and despite and up-and-down day, Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes is back in the lead just in time to bag up at the end of Day 2.

Rep Porter lies in second and William Kopp third. Others still in include Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Laplante, Anton Morgenstern and Mike Leah.

Richard Gryko appears to be the only British name through, despite losing a huge hand to Hughes.

One hand that had people taking notice was a confrontation between Brandon Shack-Harris and Joe Hachem, the Aussie who flopped Aces full, yet was behind to Shack-Harris' flopped quads. As live poker isn't fixed, Hachem didn't improved and was busto (copyright T Kendall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014....)


Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 389 entrants

Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.

He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.

Adam Owen hasn't had a mention today (until now), he's 6th overnight and Benny Glaser 11th but they appear to be the only 2 Brits.

Julien Martini won Event 4 (seems like ages ago now) but he's involved with this one as are Shaun Deeb and John Hennigan (currently 1st and 2nd in the Player of the Year race), two former razz winners (Max Pescatori and Ted Forrest) and multiple-bracelet winners such as Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Cantu, Chris Bjorin and Barry Greenstein.


Event 11 $365 Giant PLO.

The penultimate flight saw 33 more names guarantee progression to day 2. Heroico Aguiluz was the hero of the day and was the chip leader with Aussie Daniel Laidlaw and Argentinian Gonzalo Mercade showing better form than their countries World Cup teams in second and third.

Not many recognisable names among the 33, but Matt Stout and Men Nguyen do appear, and so does Linda Iwaniak who has added another cash to her FT in the super seniors event last week.


To Start Today
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event, $500 Bounties
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event

Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 5, total of 6260 entries

A little over 250 players will return form Day 3 of the Monster Stack, with a double-bracelet winner, Steve Billirakis, in pole position.

He has a lead over Tommy Nguyen and James Stewart, with in 4th place and marked as GB, Raul Manzanares Lozano, who may be one of a group of Spanish players living in the UK.

Daniel Corbett, Robert Heidorn, Jose Auslander, Steven Watts, Richard Pearson, Dean Hutchison are also still involved, all of whom have $5140 locked up and still a dream of first prize of just over a million dollars.


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far

Another event where the first prize is just over a million dollars but this one is a) a lot closer to the end and b) a much bigger buy-in, so the 6 players who've made sure the tournament goes into a unscheduled 4th day have already secured themselves $157K.

Remember yesterday I said Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes was also Day 2 chip leader? Well he's slipping. He's only second at the end of Day 3 behind Brandon Shack-Harris and ahead of Loren Klein.

Last Brit standing was Richard Gryko who went out in 16th spot with a slip for $34K to take to the payout desk.


Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants

Woth players sich as Adam Owen, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Kevin Iacofano among the final 9, it may surprise some to know there's not a single bracelet holder among them.

Iacofano is chip leader, with Michael McKenna and Thomas Taylor second and third.

Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.

He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.

Benny Glaser finished 44th for $2471 as the only other GB player to cash.


Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries

With a slight increase in entries above 12 months ago, tbe bubble burst on the last hand of Day 1 so all 298 remaining players have guaranteed themselves $1415 plus any bounties they may accrue.

We have a British name at the top of the chip listings - Alex Whitenstall from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His 198K chips is 20K more than nearest challenger Quyen Hoang and third placed Samuel Miller.

Another British player, Matthew Hunt from Salisbury is also inside the Top 20, while lower down are Aaron Woodcock, Gaurav Assomull, Steven MOrris, Adam Daniel, Oliver Biles, Michael Richardson, Chun Yam, Marc Foggin (another one for Newcastle), Raul Martinez Requena (see xx reference above), Conor Beresford and Daniel Tang.

Not a lot of hugely recognisable names, Marvin Rettenmaier the easiest one to pick out.


Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 1 of 3, 101 entries so far

Hmmm, limit Hold'em for $10K? I'll pass thanks but 100 of the WSOP's finest are up for it and surprisingly only 43 of them stick around for Day 2 (maybe to be joined by a few more late entrants).

Michael Moore leads with a decent advantage over Joao Vieira and Nick Schulman.

Benny Glaser can turn his hand to most variants and he's made Day 2, albeit with one of the smaller stacks.

Also still in, Anthony Zinno, Robert Mizrachi, Andre Akkari, Ismael Bojang and Jeff Lisandro, while the smallest Day 1 stack of all belongs to Juha Helppi.


To Start Today
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event including our very own Tikay.
Event 54 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event

How about this for a lovely photo?

Spotted today in the Rio.......


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Apologies again for the lateness of the post, it's been too nice weather to be indoors typing results! And it's likely to be late again tomorrow, as there's a charity event I'm likely to be headed to straight after work.


Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 3 of 4, total of 6260 entries

257 players started day 3, with one table Daniel Wojcik of the USA sitting right next to Daniel Wojcik of Canada. What's the chances of that? Perhaps live poker is rigged in different ways to what people thought!

Anyway, 29 of those 257 move on, headed by Vitor Rangel, James Carroll and Harald Sammer. Steve Billirakis who was the youngest ever Las Vegas WSOP winner and Day 2 chip leader is still involved, as is Raul Manzanares Lozano and Daniel Corbett, showing as from Manchester and Blackburn respectively.

Down at the bottom of the listings is David Cabrera Polop, who has the proverbial "chip and a chair", his 20K chips forming just one ante. He'll need to get super lucky to even ladder up (next pay jump at 27)

If you're fans of players with no vowels in their name, Mstr Lynch is your man. He'll come back with about 20BB and look to spin it up early.


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 3 of 3, 476 entries so far

2016, winner of Event 45 (Mixed NLH/PLO), 2017 winner of event 41 (PLO), 2018 winner of Event 49 (PLO), that's a very nice resume for Loren Klein as he earned his third bracelet in three years.

This one was was a lot bigger than his first two wins (both $1500 events) and he is now the proud possessor of not just a third bracelet but over a million dollars.

Looking back to 2016, Klein also had a deep run in this very event, falling second to Brandon Shack-Harris. Shack-Harris bowed out in 3rd this time, with Rep Porter being the runner-up


Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants

Good luck if you understood yesterday's update of this one, it appears to have had more typos than the average Grauniad article of the 1980s.

Hopefully it will be better today, reporting the win of self-proclaimed Razz specialist Jay Kwon (as far as I know, no relation to early 2000s rapper J-Kwon).

British mixed-games player Adam Owen went out in 3rd for $52K and Polish player Dzmitry Urbanovich was second for $77K. Kwon by contrast earned almost as much as those two together ($125K)


Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries

The WSOP were having a bit of a 'mare about the nationalities on the chip listings, showing the first three players as from Eritrea, the US and Iran.

The US, fair enough with Ryan Leng from Illinois in second place. The leader is Ranno Sootla, who is actually from Estonia, and in third place is Jamie O'Conner, showing as from "West Yorkshire, Iran" but is actually Irish.

Lying in 4th is 2013 ME runner-up, Jay Farber while German "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier has one of the smaller stacks.

No Brits, Alex Whitenstall busted in 41st for $5722.



Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 2 of 3, 114 entries

56 players started Day 2, only 14 were still standing at the end of the day.

Dan Zack is the overnight chip leader, and has a huge stack (more than double his nearest challenger).

That nearest challenger is Nick Schulman, with Anthony Zinno very close behind.

Benny Glaser is the last non-US representative, in the lower middle order.


Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 935 entries

So, first things first, I have to be the bearer of bad news as our very own Tikay has not extended his decent run in WSOP events, losing his stack at some point during Day 1.

Stu Rutter is through though after a very eventful day where he earned a one-level suspension (if that's right that's the biggest penalty I've heard of in years) for "constant mocking" of Phil Hellmuth, and then lost a late big pot to Bryce Yockey, tanking after Yockey shoved until the clock was called, and even then did not act and his hand was declared dead. After that, he will come back with a pretty short stack and will a) need to be on his best behaviour and b) get lucky to double up a few times. Mocking Hellmuth may be as good for the soul as taking the mickey out of present-day Diego Maradona, but I guess there's a time and a place.

That hand put Yockey near the top of the listings, along with the likes of Brad Albrinck, Dustin Pattinson and Eli Elezra.

Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Bruno Fitoussi, the aforementioned Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, John Racener, Joseph Cheong, Chris Bjorin and Brandon Cantu make up a quite high quotient of big names for a $1500 event.

Other Brits through include Thomas Cazayous, Warren Colman, Paul Jackson and Peter Charalambous


Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 1 of 3, 1020 entrants

A nice field size of over 1000 players, meant that 153 will get paid but with almost 100 more than that qualifying for Day 2 the bubble is still intact.

Braclet winners who will be present and correct for Day 2 include Kathy Liebert, Frank Kassela and Scotty Nguyen, but the biggest stack belongs to Fahredin Mustafov. The Bulgarian has only a small lead over Jordan Young with Canada's Rayan Chamas a bit further behind.

Max Silver lies in 20th spot, Oscar Serradell 36th, and former November Niner James Akenhead is 46th. Adrien Delmas, Paul vas Nunes, Ben Farrell, Steven Warburton, Guillermo Sanchez, Paul Fontan, Soner Osman, Mark Teltscher and Robert Heidorn make up the rest of the GB challenge, but I refer the honourable readers to a previous update, where I posit that some of the GB players are actually Spanish but resident in the UK.



To Start Today
Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), 3 Day Event
Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event

I am, I really am.

Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 4 of 4, total of 6260 entries

The newest WSOP millionaire is 28-year old Tommy Nguyen with the Canadian coming out on top after a FT that was a big slick shove fest, nine times there was an all-in hand with AK and it being successfull seven of those nine times.

James Carroll was second and Francis Rusnak third, with Daniel Corbett best Brit in 5th after holding the chip lead on and off through the day.


Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries

The Bounty Hunder has gone into a fourth day with the regulation 3 days unable to separate the final four players.

Ryan Leng had a rollercoaster of a day, but ended it on an upswing to hold the chip lead, reversing the top two places from Day 2 with Ranno Sootla. Christian Nolte is third and 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber brings up the rear.


Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 3 of 3, 114 entries

Hands up who thought Scott Siever had more than one bracelet already? I see quite a lot of hands. Mine would have been up too but it took today for Siever to add his second WSOP gold bracelet.

He took down Event 52 for $296K, a drop in the ocean in his massive tournament and cash winnings, but the bracelet meant a lot to him after not planning to play much WSOP action at the start of the summer. A second place in Event 8 restored the hunger and now three weeks later he has his win. He played the FT wearing a T-shirt bearing the face of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her win was more unlikely than his.

Benny Glaser was the only UK player to cash, finishing 10th for $20K.


Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 935 entries

Twenty players remain, and the defending champion in this event, Nathan Gamble, is the chip leader.

Plenty of well known names line up behind Gamble, including Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Quinn Do, Eli Elezra (all on the same Day 3 table), Bryce Yockey and Bruno Fitoussi.

What we don't have is any UK names - Warren Colman did best for 52nd spot ($4125) while Paul Jackson earned about a grand less for 64th.


Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 2 of 3, 1020 entrants

31 players make Day 3 and the chip listings have an unbalanced look about them.

Jonathan Abdellatif has over 2.7m chips, almost three times as many as his nearest challenger Barry Hutter, and 3.5 times that of third placed Mariano Cruz.

Paul Fontan is the only UK representative and he has the second smallest stack, 125K.


Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 1 of 3, 1032 teams

A little hard to follow who's who in this, all I can say for sure is that 242 teams bagged up for the night, and that 155 will get paid.

The leading team is made up of Juan Ramirez, Isai Coello & Dustin Pattinson.

The WSOP are only showing the team captains on the chip listings but they do include Alex Zeligman from Surrey in 2nd place. He's playing with Jonathan Roux & Daniel Price.

Hopefully a clearer update will be available tomorrow.


Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 1 of 3, 112 entries so far

John Hennigan has already won one $10K bracelet (Event 27, the HORSE) and he's on the lookout for a second, a late run giving him the chip lead on Day 1 of the Razz.

He's got Ted Forrest and Per Hildebrand on his heels and another 2018 bracelet winner Julien Martini close behind.

There's just one "GB" shown in the Day 1 chip report, attached to the name of Jason Gray in 13th spot, out of the 42 qualifiers


To Start Today
Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, 3 Day Event

Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 4 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries

A fourth day of action was needed to decide the bounty hunter, and it was decided in favour of the start-of-day leader Ryan Leng.

The man he's been basically neck and neck with for two days, Ranno Sootla from Estonia was his defeated heads-up and Jay Farber went out in third.



Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 935 entries
Talk about cutting it fine. There were just two minutes and 30 seconds left in Day 3 play when Joey Couden scooped Bruno Fitoussi to win his first bracelet and $244K. He has previously made a couple of FTs but never really challenged for the bracelet, but that's all changed now.

There were plenty of other big names in contention too, four handed play saw Couden facing Fitoussi, Eli Elezra and Mike Matusow, all 4 holding the chip lead at one point, while Daniel Negreanu finished 9th.


Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 3 of 3, 1020 entrants

Add Event 54 to the list of those needing extra time.

Four left, all guaranteed $163K but looking for the $522K and the bracelet for first.

Barry Hutter has one bracelet to his name (from 2015) and he's the leader overnight ahead of Diogo Veiga (Portugal) and Radoslav Stoyanov (Bulgaria). Day 2 leader Jonathan Abdellatif is hoping to do more than just make up the numbers.

Paul Fontan took 28th spot for the UK and a prize of $12399


Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 2 of 3, 1032 teams

28 teams of 2-4 players are still in, with Bon Koo and Bienvenido Caballero the chip leaders going into what should be the final day.

Not many well known players left, but Loni Harwood & Kelly Minkin are part of one of the teams with a decent stack, plus Manig Loeser and Cord Garcia are still in with their teams and the Alex Zeligman team has made it through albeit with only 16BB and other British names shown on the listings are Andrew Wilson & Jack Hardcastle. There may be others in theirs or other teams.


Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 119 entries

Both John Hennigan and Julien Martini are still in with a chance of a second 2018 bracelet, lying 2nd and 4th of just 13 qualifiers.

Calvin Anderson has the chip lead, but there's still plenty of accomplished names left in - Leah, Urbanovich, Kassela, Kessler, Volpe, Bojang and Forrest included.

This one looks like it is going to be a really good FT


Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 696 entries

After 10 hours of play, 104 ladies are still battling for the title, bracelet and $130K with Mesha James holding the biggest stack.

She manoevuered her way to the chip lead during the 40-minute long bubble, winning a massive pot with pocket eights.

Next in chips are Alexis Sterner and Tara Snow, with some reasonably well known names playing on include Kristy Annett, Melanie Wiesner and Gaelle Baumann.

We had the runner-up in this last year in the shape of Deborah Worley-Roberts, this time around it looks like there are two UK players through - Charlotte Godwin and Ishbel Leddy who allegedly hails from that well known place in Sussex, "Burger Hill"!


Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 1 of 3, 595 entries

According to the report, the Day 1 chip lead is in the hands of 2015 November Niner and 2017 bracelet winner Thomas

According to the chip listings page, both Josip Simunic and Aleksandr Shevliakov both have way bigger stacks than Cannuli.

Who to believe?

Outside the very top echelons of the day 1 runners, Yiannis Liperis, Liv Boeree, Conor Beresford, Thomas Waters, Dean Lyall, Markus Kuhnen, Toby Lewis, Max Silver, Ben Morrison, Javier Fernandez, Damien Le Goff, Michael Kane and Robert Heidorn make up a decent GB quota, both in quantity and quality.

Some other names are Jean-Robert Bellande, Robert Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Greg Merson, Valentin Vornicu, 2012 PCA winner Kyle Julius and another November Niner, Russell Thomas.


To Start Today
Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties
Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event
plus the final starting flight of Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH.

Event 54 - $3K NLH (Big Blind Ante), Day 4 of 3, 1020 entrants

It's the third bracelet for Portugal, but the first in Las Vegas as Diego Veiga got the better of his 3 Day 4 tablemates

Veiga won $555K in a tournament in Barcelona three months ago, and almost matched that here by taking the $522K first prize.

Barry Hutter finished second, Radoslav Stoyanov third and Jonathan Abdellatif fourth.


Event 55 - $1K Tag Team NLH (2-4 players per team), Day 3 of 3, 1032 teams

Last year, a male/female tag team won one of the then two such bracelet events, this year with only this one on the schedule Guiseppe Panteleo and Nikita Luther each won their first bracelets and will split $175K.

Luther was also playing Event 54 at the same time as most of this one (she finished 17th) and only tagged in for Pantaleo in the breaks, but she was done with Event 54 by Day 3 and they split the play reasonably evenly.

The Japanese combination of Kazuki Ikeuchi, Hiroki Iwata and Sho Mori finished third while another international/mixed-gender team of Manig Loeser, Joelle Parenteau and Daniel Weinand finished third.

The highest finishing British players were Andrew Wilson and Ben Phillips who combined with American Eric Penner for 19th spot and $1668 each.


Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 3 of 3, 119 entries

More time needed in Event 56, with the heads-up battle between Calvin Anderson and Frank Kassela undecided at the end of Day 3. Anderson has over a 3:1 lead but with stacks so shallow that even Anderson only has 15 big bets, one hand could easily equalise things.

Heads up has already been going on for 5 hours after the departure of Julien Martini in 3rd and Mike Leah in 4th while John Hennigan departed in 7th.


Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries

Ten players are still left, all American, in the battle to win the Ladies bracelet.

Jill Pike has twisted and turned her way to the top of the chip listings, moving upwards consistently during the last level of Day 2.

Jessica Dawley (two cashes already this series) is in second place and Weiyo Mo sits third.

Also left in include Dannielle Anderson and notable poker reporter Molly Mossey.

The British challenge ended pretty early on Day 3. First Charlotte Godwin went out (80th, $1646) and then Ishbel Leddy followed her out (62nd, $1969).


Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 2 of 3, 595 entries

No confusion about the chip leader after Day 2 after Andrew Graham's five-bet shove with Kings got the better of Anthony Spinella's Jacks.

He has 1.4m chips with only 3 other players above a million - Eric Blair, Dave Stefanski & Justin Adams.

27 are left, with former ME winner Greg Merson, former November Niner Sylvain Loosli, Jean-Robert Ballande and Martin Finger amongst them.

The British challenge rather petered out with Dean Lyall the only one left, with Sergio Aspina Aido also showing as fron the UK but is one of those Spanish players resident here that I seem to being up every night. His biggest win is over $1.3m in an event in the Phillipines which brings us nicely on to event 59.


Event 59 - $1000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH, 1 Day Event, $300 bounties, 2065 entries

This one was a first - the first bracelet ever for a player from the Phillipines. Mike Takayama was the king of the super-turbo bounty, according to the WSOP he seemed to say "All in" about as much as he said "Fold".

He won the bracelet and over $198K when he beat Lorenc Puka heads-up with Matthew Smith in third.

Steve Jelinek added to the top-4 Brit finishes this summer by taking 4th for $65K. Darren Taylor, Gil Thierry, Richard Kellett, Florian Duta, Stefan Fabian, Adam Bromley (yay!), Chun Yan, Dan Laming, Sunny Chattha, Alejandro Torres and Ben Farrell also cashed. (Others may have also won some bounties but they're not shown on the WSOP reports tab)

Shaun Deeb scored a small cash to add more points to his lead in the Player of the Year standings.


Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 218 entries so far

Onto the next $10K championship event, with 125 of the 218 entries surviving the ups and downs of PLO8 Day 1.

Nathan Gamble has had deep runs in both Event 35 and Event 53 and he's at it again holding the biggest stack in Event 60.

Shaun Deeb tried this one too, but went out in a huge hand also involving Mike Leah & Talal Shakerchi, both Deeb & Leah flopping straights while Shakerchi had a set, which became a house on the river to scoop.

Talal has held on to most of those chips and sits 56th overnight which is also 3rd Brit behind Richard Gryko & Thomas Cazayous with Barny Boatman and Stu Rutter also still in.


Event 61 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH Championship, unlimited re-entry, 1 Day Event

This online event went to Ryan Tosoc ($238K) ahed of Anthony Maio ($175K) and Aussie Joel Feldman ($124K)

Shaun Deeb was also playing this while he was involved in the live events, he busted in 95th spot for $2640

Not much more to say about this one, to be honest.


Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, final Day 1, total of 8920 entries

The final day 1 of the Giant has now concluded with a confirmed 535 players from across the five flights returning for Day 2.

Alexander Lokhov, Daniel Dealmeida and David Bellacose took the top three stacks forward from Day 1E, no-one getting close to the stack of Day 1B chip leader Jon Turner.

Five British players joined the part from today's play - Neil Edwards, Daniel Toffel, Frank Bastow, Hugh Cairnie and Andrew Abernathy.

No record of Shaun Deeb playing this one but apparently he was railing the action in this at 4am!


To Start Today
Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee
Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event

Apologies first as I’m a long time sitting in the shadows not posting, after falling back in love with the game/having a little more time to play my interest is booming and I must admit the diaries and updates on blonde are a fantastic read for someone like me. I first got on to blonde for the live updates and I think the people in higher places who sort out tournaments shouldn’t underestimate the power a forum like this has for generating interest to a game. Rightly or wrongly if I had the choice of 2 tourneys and 1was  being live updated I’d go there. I am very much a recreational player so I understand that may be the wrong line to take but for me it’s about enjoyment as well as trying to bink.
 Anyway back to my original post, I’m lucky enough to have been to Vegas albeit not for the wsop but these updates have got me hooked again so thank you.

I hope the forum can continue for a long time to come and I’d love it if the live updates were to come back one day.

Good luck to those still out there.

Ricky

Great post Ricky, hope you hang around.

Event 56 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 4 of 3, 119 entries

I said yesterday that "More time needed in Event 56", well it wasn't much more time as Calvin Anderson finished the job in just 5 hands.

The big hand was the fourth hand which went all the way to 7th street which left Kassela with just 2 ante chips, which disappeared in the very next hand.

It's the second bracelet for Anderson, he previously won a Stud High/Low bracelet in 2014.


Event 57 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 696 entries

It was the fourth time Jessica Dawley cashed in the ladies event, but the very first time she has taken it all the way to the bracelet.

She won over $130K after a very short heads-up match with Jill Pike, the latter shoving her last 5BB with K4 and Dawley getting there after flopping a five to go with her holding of 85suited

Third place on the All-American final table went to Lisa Fong.


Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 3 of 4, 595 entries

Action paused after the FT was reached in Event 58, with the extrovert that is Jean-Robert Bellande having a large chip lead over his 5 opponents.

Second place is a British player, Dean Lyall while Kacper Pyzara from Poland is third.


Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 218 entries so far

Of the 125 players who entered Day 2, only two dozen finished the day with chips.

Californian Michael McKenna holds the chip lead being the only player with over a million chips. Two players who come very early when names are listed in alphabetical order, Ali Abduljabbar and Michael Abecassis are his nearest challengers.

Some well known names among the 24 include Brandon Shack-Harris, Chris Ferguson, David "ODB" Baker, Phil Galfond and Eli Elezra

Unfortunately no Brits remain, the only cash coming from Thomas Cazayous in 30th for $15000.


Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries

The survivors from all 5 Day 1 flights came together and battled down to a FT of 9.

The biggest stack belongs to Brazilian Renato Kaneoya with Luis Vasquez second and Alexander Lakhov third.

There's a quarter of a million dollars for the winner and some pretty large pay jumps for a $365 event so this FT could get very cagey.

We were so close to having British representation on the FT - Jordan Bamford battled long and hard but went out in 10th spot after losing two successive hands to Vasquez.


Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee

Two flights of the Crazy Eights saw 99 and 90 players respectively make it through.

GB players through from 1A - Peter Linton, Alexander Elias, Stavros Kalfas, Paul vas Nunes, Arkadi Kilman and Louis Salter, and from 1B just Peter Akery


Event 63 - $3200 WSOP.com Online NLH High Roller, 1 Day Event

356 different players plus 124 rebuys saw a prize pool of almost a million and a half dollars, with Chance Kornuth taking the bracelet and $341K share of that pool.

David Goodman and Timothy Nuter finished in the minor places, with the top 7 all showing as American.


To Start Today
Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event

plus the final starting flight of the $365 PLO Giant.

Event 58 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 4 of 4, 595 entries

It's a first bracelet (after several near misses including 2 second places) for Jean-Robert Bellande.

JRB finished off Scot Dean Lyall (yet another very deep run for a British player) by winning 11 out of the last 12 hands. First prize was $616K, while Lyall more than doubled his career earnings with his $380K payday.

Well known online player Andrew Graham finished third.


Event 60 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 218 entries so far

Taking a break from organising a brand new poker site, Phil Galfond earned his third bracelet in a game that isn't among his regular high stakes online repertoire.

He only took the lead in the event partway through heads-up play with Day 2 leader Michael McKenna who had finished fourth in the $1500 Razz just last week.

On an all-American final table, Ali Abduljabber was the third placed finisher.


Event 6, the $365 Giant NLH, Day 2 of 3, total of 8920 entries

One of the shorter stacks at the FT, Jeremy Perrin's first ambition was to ladder up a few spots. Once had had sixth he aimed for third, and only when he made the Top 3 did he think about winning it.

He beat Puerto Rican Luis Vazquez heads up, with Bulgarian Svetlozar Nestorov third, the top 3 picking up $250K, $155K and $118 respectively.

Alexander Lekhov's fifth place was his second FT of the series.


Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 3 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 2495 entries

The final 2 starting flights of the Crazy Eights were concluded with a familiar name at the top of the 1C listings - Chris Moorman. Several other Brits through - Mark McGovern, Oliver Price, Ian Simpson (who I believe was a guest in the days of Channel 861) and Conor Beresford,

Some other well known names progressing too including Sorel Mizzi, Eric Baldwin, Marvin Rettenmaier & Ylon Schwartz

Flight 1D contributes 138 players to the Day 2 total with Andrew Wilson fresh from his cash in the Tag Team event as top Brit with Andrew Hills and Katie Swift both through too.

Matt Salsberg is the leader from this flight with former ME winner Ryan Riess (and his almost namesake Ryan Weiss) bagging chips and moving on to Day 2.


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far

A little under half of the starting field made Day 2, with the reigning champion of this event, Chris Vitch, topping the table. He is also looking to become one of a very few players to win bracelets in three straight years.

The good news from a UK perspective is that Stuart Rutter is continiung to have a fine series. 6 cashes including 3 at $10K entry levels could be added to as he lies third overnight, with Daham Wang in second.

Sonny Osman also sits inside the Top 10 with Adam Owen, Benny Glaser and Jason Gray are also through.


Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Final starting flight

You wouldn't exepct to see Michael Mizrachi playing too many events at this entry level, but he's had a go at this one and ended the day as the chip leader of this flight.

He is in fact the overall leader across the 5 flights, his 1.845m chips outranking all the other qualifiers. He leapt to the top of the listings midway through the day, had a little bit of a blip, but then hit quads on the penultimate hand to regain the advantage.

There isn't a full list of the qualifiers online yet, if there is anyone particularly noteworthy I'll update later.


To Start Today
It's the big one.
Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s

It doesn't look like we are getting any TV coverage of the early action in the UK this year. Last year we got at least 2 hours per day from the beginning (remember the clash between Vanessa Selbst and Gaelle Baumann?) but I can't see anything on the Programme Guide for today.

Gutted hope there will be coverage later in the event remember the selbst hand well she wanted to fold too

A marching band just did "Gonna Fly Now" (Rocky song as he climbs the steps) up the Rio corridor.

Really hope Stu Rutter has organised that for his Stud 8 table move.

Does anyone know where you can get more than the first two episodes of the 2017 main event as shown on ESPN ?.. youtube no good...

They are on pokerGo, need subscription but for the money and what you get I think its worth it. Lots of poker content, not just live tournaments/cash but also original content like documentaries, interviews, comedy poker show etc

cheers Omm

you can get a free 30 day trial of pokergo too, just cancel before first payment goes out if you decide dont want to subscribe

The 10 finalists for the 2018 election to the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame have been announced:

Chris Bjorin
David Chiu
Mori Eskandani
Bruno Fitoussi
John Hennigan
Mike Matusow
Chris Moneymaker
David Oppenheim
Matt Savage
Huckleberry Seed

John Hennigan and David Oppenheim I assume would be fav?

Moneymaker?

Press Release by WSOP;


We will crunch numbers tomorrow, but here’s a quick look at 2018 WSOP Main Event numbers.

7,874 entries (2nd most ever)

$74,015,600 prize pool

$8.8 million for winner


For photo use, please credit: Joe Giron Photos/WSOP

2018 Main Event – By the Numbers – 49th Annual World Series of Poker


Total # of Entries:          7,874 (up 9% y-o-y; 2nd largest ever; largest since 2006)

Game:                            No Limit Texas Hold’em (Freeze out; no re-entry)

Entry Fee:                       $10,000

Net Prize Pool:               $74,015,600

Entries by Day:               1A: 925 (up 16%)
1B: 2,378 (up 10%)
1C: 4,571 (up 7%) (largest ever in one sitting)
2A: 659
2B: 1,801
2C: TBD

Players in the Money:      1,181

1st Place Prize:                $8,800,000
2nd Place Prize:               $5,000,000
3rd Place Prize:               $3,750,000
4th Place Prize:               $2,825,000
5th Place Prize:               $2,150,000
6th Place Prize:               $1,800,000
7th Place Prize:               $1,500,000
8th Place Prize:               $1,250,000
9th Place Prize:               $1,000,000


1,181st place pays (last slot paid):                   $15,000

Last Year’s Key Stats
Defending Champion:     Scott Blumstein, New Jersey
2017 1st Place Prize:        $8,150,000
2017 Net Prize Pool:       $67,844,400
2017 No. of Entries:        7,221

2018 WSOP Overall:       The Main Event is Event #65.  There are 78 events scheduled this year, with 13 events remaining.  Through 65 events, there have been 109,463 entries and $213,425,143 in prize money distributed, both on pace to be 49-year highs. (120,995/$231,010,874 set in 2017)





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Over $4 million rake MBN

and toilets not fixed (for how many years now), cashier windows not open, terrible food options and break scheduling.

classic WSOP  ;dingdell; ;frustrated;

Taking my daughter to ballet tonight, think I'd cope with the toilet queues.  To be fair, the seniors was likely worse.

Pretty surprising numbers given the doom and gloom around online poker.

It never ceases to amaze me where people pull $10 k up from ?
Are they really all winners at poker ?
Some of the updates Ive read are amazingly bad plays / calls !

What a day for my laptop to have problems! I've had to dig the old one out of the loft, which itself has broken wi-fi and a dodgy keyboard to put some sort of report together.


Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 2 of 3 , $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

Day 2 saw the field reduced to 29 players with a number of familiar names amongst them.

Galen Hall is the chip leader, with the best Brit, Paul Vas Nunes close behind and Hunter Frey third.

Chris Moorman is also still there for the UK, and we also have 7-times bracelet winner Men Nguyen with a very playable stack.


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far

Chris Vitch's chances of repeating his win of 12 months ago in the equivalent event, and become a rare 3-in-3 successive years are increasing day-by-day, as he held on to his Day 1 chip lead.

Other bracelet holders still in include Brice Yockey, Scott Bohlman and Jesse Martin, but there's no British challenge as all 4 contenders fell by the wayside on Day 2, all before the cash bubble burst.


Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 2 of 3, 3250 entries

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi is still in with a great chance of adding this bracelet to the won at the other end of the entry-fee levels, the $50K Poker Players Championship.

He doesn't have the chip lead (that belongs to the almost unpronouceable Srinivas Balasubramanian ahead of Robert Ciccheli and Pete Arroyos but he does comeback with over 30BB on the 9-man FT. (although that will reduce soon after the start of play as there is only two minutes left in the level)


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1

It may not be the biggest buy-in, or the biggest field size, but it's still the Numero Uno event.

Day 1A is traditionally the smallest of the starting days, but the WSOP will be very happy with the 915 players who stumped up the $10K.

They included a number of former winners, 4 made it through (Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen, Eric Seidel & Joe McKeehen) while 3 didn't (the last 2 winners Scott Blumstein and Qui Nguyen, and Jerry Yang)

Timothy Lau navigated the day with the biggest stack ahead of another in the seemingly endless line of Nguyens, this time Truyen Nguyen second and Chris Fraser third.

With over 650 players making it though, there a lot of Brits amongst them so I'm only really touching the surface by mentioning Gavin Cochrane, Jason McConnon, Colin Guthrie, Charles Clark, Chuc Khuu, Scott Margereson, David Douglas and Jonathan Prested all in the top half, plus two names known here David Maudlin and James Rann a little further down.

These players will come back on Thursday for their Day 2.


To Start Today
None


I'll try to fix my main machine before tomorrow...

Work/personal life schedules mean an early (and incomplete) update today

Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

Play has been halted wit 3 players unable to be split on what was supposed to be the final day.

Just as at the end of Day 2, Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.

Chris Moorman left the scene early on Day 3 after a Brit-on-Brit clash with Paul vas Nunes (23rd, $27661). PvN took exactly the same payout not much later when he bust in 17th


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far

Play is ongoing with an Dan Matsuzuki leading Scott Bohlman by about a 5:2 chip lead.

Chris Vitch's attempt at a repeat ended in 4th spot. He takes $108K, 3rd place Ken Aldridge $154K with the top two taking $364K and $225K respectively


Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 3 of 3, 3250 entries

No need for extra time here as this one is done and dusted.

Canadian Tim Andrew didn't get off to the best of starts - he overslept and missed the first 30 minutes of the FT. It all ended in rather a better fashion with him winning the bracelet and $116K.

Day 2 chip leader Srinivas Balasubramanian was the first to exit, losing three or four big hands in a row.

Michael Mizrachi's attempt for another bracelet foundered in 5th, leaving Andrew to finish off fellow Canadian Robert Ciccheli in third and Pete Arroyos heads-up.


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1

For the second day in a row, a sizeable increase on last year's numbers - 2378 entries and just under 1900 qualifiers.

The biggest stack was held by France's Smain Mamouni ahead of Samuel Bernabeu.

One player went out on the very first hand, it all went in pre-flop with Aces against Kings and there was a King on the flop to bust the aces.

I haven't got much time to look thorough the list of survivors, so just to pick out a few of the top British players - Tom Hall, Philip Ward, Richard Howe, Paul Fontan, Aeragan Arunan, Rhys Jones, Mark Hammond, Fraser MacIntyre, Richard Gryko, Antony Hallam, Charlotte Godwin, Ben Morrison and former bracelet winner Matthew Ashton.

Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

No play in this one on Wednesday, play will resume tonight with 3 players left - Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far

It took until 3:30am to split the final two, with Dan Matsuzuki finally getting the better of Scott Bohlman.


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s

This year's Main is the second biggest in history, with 7874 players entering and 5940 making through the three day ones. This means the total prize pool is over $74m and the winner will collect $8.8m

The biggest stack on Day 1C belongs to French player Samuel Touil ahead of Peter Forsstrom from Atlanta, Georgia and Singapore's Bernhard Steiner.

Patrik Antonius had one of the top stacks for most of the day and despite dropping down a few spots did bag over 208K chips (the starting stack was 50K).

Some former ME winners made it through - Phil Hellmuth, Martin Jacobson, Jonathan Duhamel & Joe Cada but Chris Moneymaker (after doing the Shuffle Up & Deal honours) bowed out.

As for Brits, Martin Malone sits inside the top 10, while Chris DaSilva, Daniel McAulay, Robert Cowen, James Akenhead, William Overmire, Phillip Mighall, Dominic Cullen, Peter Linton, Ben Cade, Alan Findlay, Robert Sherwood, Thomas Cazayous, Ben Farrell, Ben Jackson, William Chattaway, Kafeel Jahangir, Alan Hayter and Waikiat Lee all bagged over 100K

The players from Day 1 A & B come back today, those surviving from 1C have a day off and will reconvene tomorrow.


To Start Today
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day event

Mention of Pete Linton there in the Day 1C report, & I know many of you enjoy following Pete's adventures, so here's his stack;

Peter Linton Nottingham, , GB 123,100 Amazon / 454 / 2

Bless Plinton <3

Gooo PeteL  ;cheerleader;

Just disposable income most of the time I reckon. Plenty of people pile unnecessary cash into designer clothes, golf memberships/trips, fancy cars, luxury holidays, oversized houses or whatever. Some people chuck it at poker comps / gambling.

Yeah they’re all winners at poker.

Gotta love Trumper.


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Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

Galen Hall came in to the extra day with a dominating chip lead, and he never relinquished that advantage.

Belgian Neils Herrogodts went out in third for $355K, and then Eduards Kudrjavcevs from Latvia ended up in second for $476K, leaving Hall to celebrate tbe bracelet and $888,888 first prize. No points for guessing which online poker site is a major WSOP partner.


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, Day 2AB, 7874 entrants

2460 players started Day 2 A & B and over half of them were knocked out of the Main Event with only 1131 moving on to Day 3.

More player from California entered this year than any other state, and it was a Californian who bagged the biggest stack - Shawn Daniels from Placerville having 532.5K in chips.

Eric Leibeler is only 1500 chips behind and Samuel Bernabeu from Spain lies hird.

Daniel Merrilees is top Brit in 20th spot, and others in the top half are (deep breath) Richard Gryko, Thomas Hall, Barny Boatman, Chris Fraser, Aeragan Arunan, Charles Clark, Scott Margereson, Arron Fletcher, Oliver Price, Matthew Ashton, Richard Howe, Marc Daubach, Fraser MacIntyre and Thomas Christgen.

Former winners Joe Hachem and Ryan Riess departed today, as were two-time November Niner Antoine Saout, last year's FT hero John Hesp, Erik Seidel, Gaelle Baumann and Jeremy Ausmus.

Four other former ME winners did make it through - Johnny Chan, Chris Ferguson, Greg Merson and Scotty Nguyen and I've also seen the name of George Danzer listed. I believe he recently became a father for the first time and is playing his only event of the series.

The players from Day 2 A & B now have a day off with 2C playing today before everyone gets mixed up together tomorrow.


Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1351 entrants

227 bags were needed to hold stacks of chips at the end of Day 1, with John Pannucci having the most bulging bag for his 235K chips.

24 more will be eliminated before the remaining players secure a min-cash, with the top prize being $323K.

"Fish" is usually a derogatory term for a poker player, but a big fish has a big stack - Akin Tuna is second, and a former November Niner, Kenny Hallaert (who also final tabled a similar event to this last year) is third.

I can only see one British name, Daniel Jones, and he's going to need some help to even make it past the bubble as he has just 7800 chips in 223rd place, with the opening level of day 2 being 500/1000 with a 100 ante.


To Start Today
Event 66 - $1500 PLO Bounty (fixe $500 bounties), 3 Day event

For reasons I won't bore you with, these daily Updates from Next Door are always a day or so behind, but I'll continue to post them.

Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, Day 2C, 7874 entrants

This was the last day before all the remaining players combine for the first time.

1655 players will move on from Day 2C, led by Ignacio Sanchez (who also easily outchips Day 2AB leader Shawn Daniels. Second place Eric Sfez also outchips Daniels, but third placed Matthew Klapstein doesn't quite.

Top Brits aren't quite Three Lions but two members of Ally's Tartan Army, both Daniel McAulay and Ludovic Geilich hailing from Glasgow.

A looming presence in 12th spot is Phil Ivey. He made the FT in 2009, perhaps This Time (He'll Get It Right) and go all the way.

One former winner, Martin Jacobson was sent Back Home, but we still have 12 former winners (from across the Day 2s) involved, from 1983 winner Tom McEvoy to 2012 winner Greg Merson.

Other Brits who have decent stacks are led by Philip Mighall, Daniel Tang, Vishal Maini, Robert Polanyi, William Chattaway, Samuel Welbourne, Robert Sherwood, Chris Moorman and Paul Otto all inside the top 300 of Day 2C, while with smaller stacks the names of Liv Boeree, Peter Linton, James Akenhead, Sunny Chattha and Stuart Rutter stand out.


Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1351 entrants

26 survive for the first post-Main Event bracelet, with two Americans of Asian origin, Longsheng Tan and Heng Zhang moving to the top of the chip listings.

Stephen Bierman lies third, but perhaps the most interesting player is the guy in 6th spot, Timur Margolin. He won event 43 a couple of weeks ago, and could maintain the streak of years where at least one player has won more than one bracelet.

A wonderful set of names left including Kfir Nahum, Rex Clinkscales and Lanny Levine, and of course there's a Nguyen there, Nathan Nguyen is in 24th spot.

No UK players left, in fact we couldn't even muster a min-cash as Daniel Jones wasn't able to nurse his small stack into the money.


Event 67 - $1500 PLO Bounty (fixed $500 bounties), Day 1 of 3, 833 entries

One of the new event on the schedule, 125 players making it through to Day 2, led by Robert Oxenberg, ahead of Georgios Karavokyris and Hai Chu.

We have British interest, Gruffudd PughJones is about as Welsh sounding name as you can get, sure enough he comes from Aberyswyth. Five other UK players through - Christopher Flint, Benny Glaser, Iaron Lightbourne, Florian Duta & David Charalambous.

A few well known names are still in - Dan Sindelar, Perry Friedman, Eric Baldwin, Robert Mizrachi


To Start Today
Event 68 - The Little One For One Drop, $1000 + $111 NLH

Appreciated.

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Kassouf is rattling off his standard attention seeking drivel at the next table. “Back home they call me the iron, because I iron people out.”
I’ve got news for you mate. That’s not what we call you.

The following post brings us right up to date.

Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, Day 3, 7874 entrants

The WSOP have been aiming for the money bubble to burst at the end of Day 3, and they almost managed it with perfection. Hand-for-hand play (2 players from the money) was reached with just 77 seconds left in what was supposed to be the last level of the day, Level 15.

There were two all-in confrontations on the first hand, one with Ryan Messick and Paul Volpe chopped, having aces against aces, while Chi Chan knocke out Sam Taylor to end the level on the real bubble.

They entered level 16, and on one table Ross Mallor got it all in with AK against Ben Cade's queens. With the TV crew waiting, Mallor hit a king on the flop to double up and duly celebrated.

On another table, Matthew Hopkins 3-bet with his 8BB stack with A5, hoping to get it through, but the original raiser Byron McVay had other ideas, his AQ dominating Hopkins' hand. Hopkins got no help on the flop or the turn, and the river ace gave both men one pair with McVay's kicker playing and 1182 players were in the money. Hopkins, as is traditional these days, got a consolation prize of a seat into next year's Main.

In Sun Geoum holds the chip lead ahead of Frank Flowers (who sounds like 80s Mobster to me) and Alexander Wong.

The first well known player is in 10th spot, the only female player ever to reach the Main Event FT - Barbara Enright who finished 5th way back in 1995.

Four more former winners bit the dust - Messrs Hellmuth, Nguyen, Varkonyi and Merson, leaving only Tom McEvoy, Chris Ferguson, Joe Cada & Jonathan Duhamel dreaming of a second title.

Of the British challenge, Daniel Merrilees has he biggest stack with Richard Gryko and Chris Moorman close behind. Chris DaSilva, Ludovic Geilich, Daniel Tang, Thomas Macdonald, Robert Sherwood, Phillip Mighall, William Chattaway, Thomas Hall, Chun Yam, Jack O'Neill, Martin Malone and Ba Dinh are all inside the Top 500. Liv Boeree, James Akenhead and Jake Cody are still in a little further down the listing, but it looks like Stuart Rutter has been eliminated.


Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 4, 1351 entrants

Longsheng Tan made it 2 days in a row as chip leader, with 6 players battling through Day 3.

It's an all US board, Adam Laskey and Stephen Bierman lying second and third, the latter suffering a one-orbit penalty at one point after a verbal confrontation with Trey Brabham who is also still in contention but holds the shortest stack.


Event 67 - $1500 PLO Bounty (fixed $500 bounties), Day 2 of 3, 833 entries

Ten left here, with Matt O'Donnell holding a sizeable chip lead over Anderson Ireland and Hai Chu.

Florian Duta was last Brit standing, bowing out in 24th and collecting $3946 (plus any bounties he may have taken.


Event 68 - The Little One For One Drop, $1000 + $111 NLH, Day 1A, 947 entries

Less than a quarter of the players from Day 1A have made it through, the 194 survivors led by John Utley, with Spain's Alberto Rodriguez and 2016 November Niner, Kenny Hallaert of Belgium.

Brits through are Harry Lodge, Ian Simpson, Adrien Delmas, Ben Farell and Paul Byrne

Some other big names (presumably after being knocked out of the Main) include Phil Laak and Calvin Anderson, both inside the top ten, Sorel Mizzi, Martin Finger, Dominik Nitsche and David "ODB" Baker.


To Start Today
None, but it is Day 1B of the Little One For One Drop.

The WSOP Updates page is offline at present, so I can't check it, but it would be amazing if this were true;

The first well known player is in 10th spot, the only female player ever to reach the Main Event FT - Barbara Enright who finished 5th way back in 1995.



Barbara is 68.


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Think they added a zero to chip count as she had 120k not 1.2mill

Ahh, that makes a lot more sense, thanks Simon. It was hard to believe Barbara could have a Top Ten stack, all things considered.

Main Event - Day 4 update

As expected, post bubble, exits have been coming thick and fast and we're down to just over 900 players left

Brits gone so far
977 Yudhishter Jaswal
985 Philip Ward
1002 Colin Guthrie
1015 Ba Dinh
1038 Charles Clark
1052 Jake Cody
1098 Paul Otto
1100 Daniel McAulay
1126 Thomas Ward
1170 Mitesh Patel
1178 Steffen Kylevik

Others
933 Day 2AB chip leader Shawn Daniels
950 Vladimir Geshkenbein
982 Jamie Kerstetter
983 Yevgeniy Timoshenko
995 Pierre Neuville
1025 Marvin Rettenmaier
1059 Illya Trincher
1088 Ryan Laplante
1111 Max Altergott

Frank Flowers has become the first player with over 2million chips. Farukh Tach from the Netherlands has chipped up considerably while Messrs Merrilees, Moorman and Gryko all appear to have had good starts to Day 4

Main Event - Day 4 update

800-900 exits
814 Patrik Antonius
822 Jack ONeill (one of two Brits in this batch)
834 Barry Greenstein
839 Martin Malone (the other Brit)
874 Jared Bleznick
888 Chip Jett

Current payout level is $18340.

Main Event - Day 4 update

700-800

We've lost another couple of UK players - Ben Cade in 799th for $18340 and Richard Howe in 708th ($19900)

This batch saw the exit of a number of well known female players (Loni Harewood, Jackie Glazier & Melanie Wiesner) plus probably India's best known player Aditya Agarwal, Taylor Paur and Chris Klodnicki.

As of 20 minutes ago (7am UK, 11pm Vegas), the Updates were showing James Akenhead with 2,400,000, comfortably within the top 15 of the 370 remaining.

Main Event - Day 4 update

600-700

The 600s range include the only double ME winner, a couple of former November Niners, three Brits and a 5-time bracelet holder.
612 Johnny Chan
616 Jesse Sylvia
631 Amir Lehavot
641 Jonathan Tamayo
642 Allen Cunningham
652 William Chattaway
664 Christopher Wood
671 Chun Yam
685 Eugene Katchalov

Richard Gryko going steady too on million plus

Great news. I like Richard very much. He can be very intense, but once you cut through the outer layer he's a fascinating & very clever chap.

Main Event - Day 4 update

501-600

At first I thought there was not too many notables in the 500s. Then I looked again. Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (532nd) was a 2013 November Niner, Manig Loeser (539th) is a regular in Super High Rollers, and Todd Brunson, Men Nguyen and Phil Ivey all went out within minutes of each other (541, 544 & 547th).

Three more British casualties. First Samuel Welbourne left the scene in 597th, followed by Robert Sherwood in 591st and a little while later, Fraser MacIntyre busted in 555th, by which time the payout was $23940.

You are never drawing dead;


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Main Event - Day 4 update

So Day 4 ended with 310 players still in with a chance of winning the $8.8million first prize.

Barry Hutter was hovering around the top of the chip listings for most of the day and he ended it at the very top with nearly 5.6 million chips. Alexander Haro is the only other person with more than 5m and in third is Brian Altman with 4.8m

There is still a decent British contingent led by Daniel Tang of Salford in 19th spot, with former November Niner James Akenhead, Daniel Merrilees and Jonathon Prested all inside the Top 50 with over 2 million chips. Chris DaSilva, Phillip Mighall, Ben Jackson and Thomas Macdonald all have over 1 million while trailing at this point are Ludovic Geilich, Chris Moorman, Richard Gryko (the latter two being near the lead at one point), Rhys Jones, Gavin Cochrane and Ashley Locker while Scott Franklin is listed with just the 1 chip.

As already mentioned, Joe Cada is the only former winner still in, while names such as Benjamin Pollak, James Obst, Shaun Deeb, Cliff Josephy, Chino Rheem, Sylvain Loosli, Ivan Demidov, Antonio Esfandiari, Bruno Politano, Daniel Alaei, Kyle Julius, Chris Bjorin and Barbara Enright may be familiar to some of you.

To bring things completely up to date, eliminations between 311-400 included 2014 November Niner William Tonking, two Brits (Liv Boeree and Andrew Wilson) and the guy who sounds like he will do your handywork, no questions asked, 347th placed Cash Carpenter.

Update on the other events to follow.

Other events

With all the spotlight on the main, the other events are taking a bit of a backseat.

Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 4 of 4, 1351 entrants

Longsheng Tan led Day 2, Day 3 and ended Day 4 as the bracelet winner and $323K richer.

Tan is a real estate agent, originally from Nanking in China but now resident in Vegas. This is his 4th cash of the year, and his first lifetime bracelet.

Second was Lanny Levine and Jayaram Kavoorchathoth third.


Event 67 - $1500 PLO Bounty (fixed $500 bounties), Day 3 of 3, 833 entries

Anthony Ireland had never won a bracelet before. He had never cashed at the WSOP before. In fact, he hadn't cash any live event before, so his first Hendon Mob entry is a very impressive one, for $141K.

He beat Matt O'Donnell heads up, with Canadian player Joon Park third.


Event 68 - The Little One For One Drop, $1000 + $111 NLH, Day 1B, 2215 entries so far

252 made it through day with the vowel-heavy trio of Jon Sataoen, Robert Lofaso and Ran Ilani taking the top three spots.

I was immediately drawn to 5th placed Kristofer Kneale when I saw he was from Cornwall, but unfortunately it is not the real Cornwall but Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. This leaves the top Brit as Bristol's Peter Akery with Adrian Gray, Jonathon Wong, Chun Yam, Luke Haward, Shola Akindele, Simon Deadman, Andrew Teng, Stavros Kalfas, Xizhe Yuan and Daniel Sodling also making Day 2.

Day 1C today.


Event 69 - $3K PLO 6-handed, Day 1 of 3, 901 entries

The 202 qualifiers for Day 2 are headed by South African Jarred Solomon, with German Dominik Nitsche and French player Romain Lewis close behind.

5th place sees the highest placed British player, Max Silver, but only four other Brits appear in the 202, Alex Lindop, Robert Cowen, Thomas Cazayous and Soner Osman.

Plenty of other well known players including Phil Galfond, Chance Kornuth, Daniel Negreanu, Robert Salaburu and Loren Klein.

Main Event - Day 5 update

They're playing 5 and a half levels (i.e. 11 hours) to take the field to somewhere in the region of 81 players.

The opening exchanges of Day 5 haven't been kind to the Brits - we've lost Chris Moorman (273rd), Rhys Jones (263rd) & Ludovic Geilich (259th)

Some other victims in the 251-310 range - Chris Bjorin, Daniel Alaei, and two ex-Final Tablers of different eras Bruno Politano (2014) and Barbara Enright (1995)

The currrent payout level is a little under $43K.

Main Event - Day 5 update

As it had to at some point, the rate of eliminations has slowed down.

We're down to 214 players, no drama for the Brits but it's been a bad last hour for Dutch players (3 gone) and Canadians (4 gone). Biggest name from this batch was the 2008 November Niner Chino Rheem.

Play ended earlier than scheduled on Day 5 after a massive storm caused a power outage at The Rio.

Main Event - Day 5 update

Overnight we've lost just over 100 more players, and the current field is made up of just 111.

We've lost some Bitish players - Scott Franklin 203rd, Ashley Locker 195th, Gavin Cochrane 193rd, James Akenhead 192nd, Richard Gryko 172nd (all at the $49335 payout level), Philip Mighall 146th, Ben Jackson 138th and Daniel Merrilees 125th (all for $57010)

2016 November Niner Cliff Josephy bust in 123rd, Antonio Esfandiari 132nd, last Irish player Nick Newport 157th.

So what's happening now? Nothing. There's been a problem with the electicity, and to quote wsop.com

"The lights in the Amazon Room here in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino have turned off. They partially came on for a moment, but then everything went dark again.

All hands are currently being completed on each table as the ESPN camera crews bring a spotlight around to tables with action so that it can be completed.

If the lighting doesn't return, the plan is to send the players home for the evening as per a Tournament Director."

Good luck to Jonathan Prested "whollyflush" on here

in the last 100 of the main headed to day 6

GL GL

I would.

Just in from Barbara Enright ....


I Wouldn't

wp

lol

Sat on a table at binions with her once that was enough ,more than enough

Main Event - Day 5 update

So play was called off for the night about 80 minutes early, with 109 players still dreaming.

Michael Dyer may be dreaming a little more vividly than others. Winning a huge hand against Cliff Josephy thanks to an ace on the river, and continued to chip up throughout the rest of the day. He now has over 12m chips, over 3m more than triple bracelet winner Brian Yoon and Jeffery Trudeau.

Chris Da Silva heads the British challenge in 18th place, with Thomas McDonald 35th, Daniel Tang 51st and Jonathon Prested barely hanging on in 106th.

Joe Cada is still there looking for a second ME win, but Ben Pollak is also looking for an impressive repeat - he finished third last year so he's looking to "do a Newhouse".

Shaun Deeb is currently 2nd in the player of the year standings, and the deeper he runs here the more nervous current leader John Hennigan will get (Joe Cada is currently 16th in the standings)

There is only one female player among the 109, Kelly Minkin, and she's going to have to get things going pretty quickly on Day 6 as she is in 103rd of the 109.


Event 68 - The Little One For One Drop, $1000 + $111 NLH, Day 1C, 4732 entries

After there starting days, and unlimited re-entries, we have just over 1000 players making the combined Day 2.

Domyo Agnelli of Italy holds the lead of a comspolitan top 10, with players from the US, India, Spain, Greece and Taiwan also there. (and Japan, Latvia, France, Singapore and Philippines inside the top 22).

Notice I didn't include the UK there, we have to go down to 50th for our leading player, Matthew Hunt. Others doing well include Paul vas Nunes, Andrew Hills, Michael Fletcher, Robert Heidorn, Raul Manzanares, Florian Duta, Jack O'Neill and Yiannis Liperis.


Event 69 - $3K PLO 6-handed, Day 2 of 3, 901 entries

I mentioned above the top 2 in the Player of the Year race, well in third spot is Scott Bohlman, and he is getting more points in this event as he leads the 24 survivors ahead of Blake Whittington and Romain Lewis.

There is one Irish player among the 24 (Dermot Blain who is the short stack) but no Brits, the last Brit standing was Max Silver who bowed out in 33rd for $11K


Event 70 - $3K Limit Hold'em 6-handed, Day 1 of 3, 221 entries

Showing just how unpopular limit hold'em is these days, this attracted less than a quarter of the field of the similar PLO event above.

We do have some British interest to cheer on here though as the chip leader is triple bracelet holder Benny Glaser.

Event 44 winner Nicholas Seiken is one of his nearest challengers as is limit specialist (FT in the $10K version two years ago) Anh Van Nguyen.

Some other names still in include Ben Yu and Barry Greenstein, and two more Englishmen Adam Owen and Ben Dobson.


To Start Today
Event 71 - $5K NLH (30 minute levels), 2 Day Event
Event 72 - $1500 NLH/PLO mix 8-handed, 3 Day Event

Main Event - Day 6 update

The usual plan on Day 6 is to play down to 27 players but with more in the field than usual at the start of the day, we'll see.

Players finishing from 100th-109th will collect $57K, but then the pay jumps every nine players with the next few payout levels as follows

91st-99th $66K
82nd-90th $77K
73rd-81st $91K

before we get to 6 figure pay slips from 72nd place upwards.

The first elimination of Day 6 was Hector Dominguez-Depaz after pocket queens got busted by Alexander Haro's 8-9 of clubs which rivered a flush.

Main Event - Day 6 update

108 Victor Pedote Dos Santos
107 Jason Maeroff

and we've also lost the first of the UK contingent, Jonathon Prested after his Aces were cracked by Volodymyr Drokin's Jacks which turned a straight. I think Prested finished 106th but there may have been other eliminations around the same time that may affect things by a place or two

Main Event - Day 6 update

Confirming Prested's 106th spot.

The next exit was an important one - Shaun Deeb eliminated by Alexander Ziskin. All very standard, all in pre-flop, Deeb 5-bet shoving with Queens, Ziskin calling with Kings and nothing on the board helped Deeb

105 Shaun Deeb
104 Sean Marshall
103 Cory Williams
102 Nicholas Cushman
101 Steven Adams

Exactly 100 left. Kelly Minkin had an early double up to give her some breathing space. Chris Da Silva lost half his stack but has since got some of them back.

Main Event - Day 6 update

Excitement growing as the field has now been reduced to less than 8 tables, but it's not great news for the UK

100 Michael Lavenburg
99 Chris Da Silva. And then there were two. Da Silva came up against Aces when he had AK and that was all she wrote. British challenge down to Thomas MacDonald and Daniel Teng.

98 Brayden Gazlay
97 Justin Harvell
96 Ognjen Sekularac (Serbia)
95 Ayman Qutami
94 Seth Foster
93 Jared Palmer
92 Alexandre Reard (France)
91 Philip Chun

Ladder to $77K

90 Barry Faecher
89 Jeremy Ansher
88 Vivek Rughani (India)
87 Alexander Gross
86 Jack Duong
85 Sharukh Shaw
84 Richard Robinson
83 Peter Nguyen
82 Aleksandr Shevelev (Russia)

Payjump to $91K
81 Alexander Ziskin
80 Vicent Bosca Roman (Spain)
79 Laurynas Levinskas (Lithuania)
78 Thomas MacDonald (GB). After losing a big hand to Teng in Brit-on-Brit action, Macdonald busted soon after when his Queens were always behind Andres Jeckeln's Aces
77 Paulino Uemura (Brazil)
76 Stefan Huber (Switzerland)
75 Jamie Flynn
74 Cole Miller (runs kings into Sylvain Loosli's aces)
73 Ahmed Amin

Another ladder to over $108K
72 Robert Fabre
71 Dan Wilson (last Irish player, lost to a one-outer on the river)
70 Mason Barrell

69 left. Day 5 chip leader Michael Dyer is still near the top, but he was first overtaken by Israel's Hari Bercovici and then by current chip leader Jorden Fox. Last Brit Daniel Tang is in about 15th at the moment, with Joe Cada not far behind.

Kelly Minkin has been very up and down, she's been all in and at risk at least twice but has managed to survive.

There is one other player with a Union Flag against his name in the listings, Volodymyr Drokin but I believe that is an error and he is from Ukraine.


Stop Press
69 Jordan Cristos. 68 left.

Play is very close to coming to an end after another long day. 27 players is the target and they're currently at 28.

Overnight eliminations (all USA unless stated)

$108K
67 Mario Mosbock (Austria)
66 Brent Ballentine
65 Michael Feil (Germany)
64 Krasomir Yankov (Bulgaria)

$129K
63 Michael Cordell
62 Jaime Kaplan
61 Roger Lussier
60 Shaun O'Donnell
59 Franklin Azevedo
58 Ryan Rivers (Canada)
57 Bas De Laat (Malta)
56 Volodymyr Drokin (now correctly shown as Ukraine)
55 Rifat Palevic (Sweden)

$156K
54 Ofir Mor
53 Mark Zullo
52 Mark Stockton
51 Mike Jukick
50 Kelly Minkin (last female player)
49 Chanracy Khan (Canada)
48 Artur Koren (Austria)
47 Ubaid Habib
46 James Obst (Australia)

$189K - prize jumps getting very chunky indeed now
45 Richard Pyne
44 Randall Lack
43 Kerry Bell
42 Ben Pollak (France, no back to back final tables)
41 Brian Yoon
40 Jan Mach (Czech Republic)
39 Shannon Storr
38 Henrik Hecklen (Denmark)
37 Ricardo Souza (Brazil)

$230K
36 Jason Gooch
35 Nghia Le
34 Nishant Sharma
33 Peter Campo
32 Andres Jeckeln (Argentina)
31 Daniel Tang (UK) So we don't have a John Hesp-like British run to the FT this year. Tang three-bet shoved from the button for his last 1.4m chips, original raiser Clayton Fletcher obliged him and unfortunately he had Tang dominated with A-10 against A-8 and there was no help on the board.
30 Samuel Bernabeu
29 Randy Lowery


Aram Zobian has assumed the chip lead with over 40m chips (nearest challenge Artem Metalidi has 28.8m) but the intriguing presence of Joe Cada remains. He may be in the bottom third of the field but still has nearly 50BB so a very playable stack for the former champion.

Edit - they played a couple more hands since I started this post, and we've lost not one but two players.

First Clayton Fletcher got his just desserts for knocking out the last British player when he was on the other end of a very similar coup, holding K-10 againt Yueqi Zhu's K-Q and not improving.

Almost simultaneously, Barry Hutter went all-in for his last few chips, TV played out the above hand on the feature table first, and them the cards were turned over, he had pocket threes but Alex Lynskey had the aces. Luckily for Mr Hutter, there was a three on the turn and he tripled up, but he is still the short stack of the whole field.

The action wasn't over though as former chip leader Jorden Fox got it all in on the turn, his pocket Jacks being an overpair to the board. Michael Dyer looked him up with two pair, and Fox couldn't make a set or a counterfeiting two pair on the river to send him home with a slip for $282K.

A further update with end of day chip stacks will follow later.