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https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates/?aid=2&grid=4943&tid=20328&dayof=203283&rr=5

Ending seems brutal

Dudley first celebrated before he walked back to the table and then shook his head. Both bumped fists and Dudley gathered his belongings while both awaited the winner's interview with Jeff Platt.

Been there many times online, but those times I have celebrated on my own don't seem so bad anymore.

John Eames 10/35 in the main at close of play last night.  GLGLGLGl

I saw this last night.  Can you answer my where are they now query?

I have even less idea than you doobs tbh.   I have no involvement at all in poker now outside of playing Midlands based cash games.   I don't follow the live mtt scene at all or social media of what any of the class of 2008 internet kids are doing.  Great to see him doing well.   never won a big one like most of that crew did back in the day.

https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=92618

Unsighted live results wise for 5 years effectively.

Think he crushed in EPT 2ks for a time and got signed by Ivey.  Can't remember seeing him on Stars recently, and Hendon Mob is very quiet, hence my question.  It was a weird one he disappeared, as seemed quite successful at the time.

Obviously rooting for him.

Andy Taylor - wiisssppppaa online is 8th in chips

Agree it would be smashing to see John win it, but let's not forget GB has 3 players in the Top 10.

In addition to John (10th with 22,450,000), we have...

Phillipe Souki (3rd, 32,475,000), who I understand is a very popular regular at The Vic.

Andy Taylor (8th, 23,900,000) who amongst other successes, won the SPT Grand Final in Manchester in 2019.


Any of those three would do nicely for me, & might just give domestic poker a shot in the arm.

Domestic poker is dead. The Government has made it that way with the requirements for live casinos to KYC. Now most of the old regs aren't willing to prove, or can't due to dubious legality, where they source their funds from so they're not playing in casinos. They're playing cash in private games. I knew this was going to happen when it was brought in.

Private games will be dead soon also I reckon. The fish won't last forever, and if you look at new players, they're learning online and play quite nitty, which private game players hate, so there's no influx. It's booming now but give it a couple of years and they'll die as well.

I think cash is probably suffering, but the recent GUKPT events have been amongst the biggest ever. 

I know it doesn't apply in the USA, but fields at the WSOP were amongst the biggest ever in pretty much every event I looked at. 

All very surprising given the cost of living crisis and the chances of picking up Covid.  I came back and am not sure I'd go again unless I had a recent booster/dose of covid.  Will possibly change my mind when it comes round again.  And if Suella gets in, maybe I'll just stay there!

Some fella has put the ICM values up on Twitter;




https://twitter.com/derek_wolters/status/1547279994799497219


Needs to be read in conjunction with this....



https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/?aid=2&grid=4943&tid=20370&dayof=2037010&rr=5

Cash is really suffering. Tournaments bar big events also seem to not be doing well, especially in the Midlands. 3 tournaments at Birmingham per week. 2 at Coventry. Walsall the outlier but that is slightly to be expected given it's history and reputation. Bury New Road also doing horrendously, they ran a £30 self deal last Thursday and got 1 table ffs.

MBN to be Eames....


https://twitter.com/PokerGO/status/1547450531878019072

16 left  glgl Mr Eames

Can we claim Espen as ours?  He was Pads' partner in the tag team, so I have even railed him for a few minutes.

He just doubled Eames up.

they started day 6 at 2pm vegas time, its now 6.15am out there.

still 3 to go till final 9 , which was the original plan.

how long can they carry on?

playing for such huge amounts of money after 16 hours at the table cant be easy.

10 left Eames just had a monster double up.   Sitting safely in the pack.  Play stopped with 10 left after a 17 hour day 6.

Thursday, July 14, 2022 6:49 AM Local Time (about 8 minutes ago)
Play Has Ended With the Unofficial Final Table
After a near 17-hour day, tournament officials have made the decision to end play with ten players left at the unofficial final table.

They will return at 2 p.m. Friday to begin the final stretch of play from ten players down to four en route to crowning a new World Series of Poker Main Event champion.

End-of-Day 7 Chip Counts
Matthew Su   83,200,000   0
Espen Jorstad   83,200,000   0
Matija Dobric   68,650,000   -2,450,000
Aaron Duczak   56,000,000   3,700,000
John Eames   54,950,000   0
Adrian Attenborough   50,800,000   0
Michael Duek   49,775,000   -200,000
Jeffrey Farnes   35,350,000   4,750,000
Asher Conniff   29,400,000   5,000,000
Philippe Souki   13,500,000   0

I get that, but it one day and have a feeling it used to be 12 til 4am day 1.   

Also my typical Friday is get up at 7 work 8/9 hours then poker 7.30pm to 2am (though can be later).  Suspect a fair few recs with families do similar.  Also rocking up in Vegas to play a 3pm PLO8 is a bit more hardcore (this year I was pretty much up 24 hours in the sat for the 3.5k Wynn main. It just doesn't feel as excessive as Twitter thinks.  FWIW I did fold BB to a limp from SB late on! 

Later today it goes from 10 to 5 which should at least give them some respite.

LETS GO SOUKI AND EAMES!

Eames finishes 4th for $3m. GG

Saw that, he had a good run.  Espen looks very good, but most of the play has been really decent this year.  Duek definitely the weakest player remaining.

Think this is one of the few final tables you wouldn't feel any urge to chop.  Once you have got half a million, your life is already changed?

Even if you had retained 100% of your action, I’m not sure that half a million dollars is particularly life changing.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a significant amount of money, but even up here in the deprived North, half a million wouldn’t go that far. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124715798#/?channel=RES_BUY

Hell, there are folks out there that can blow that much on one party. There are probably people on Blonde that may have lost half a million on their BTC accounts this past few months.

Nice.

Pads is even his wingman in the winner's photo, think a solid result for the Brits.

Meh, think for most people half a million either way is enough to change their life.  Though I am well and truly South of Stockton I can buy a whole house for half that.  Think I am at the stage of life where I could probably go with £100k.  Also a fair few of these punting 10k are going to have a decent amount already?

Quite suprised that house costs that much in Stockton, but it is a pretty nice house, with a decent garden.  I don't think your average poker wizard needs that much space. 

You’re probably right about this, as you almost inevitably are about most things.
Half a million would probably double my net worth (incl pension and house) and would increase my disposable income by a lot. So yeah, it would change my life. Not to the extent that $10,000,000 would though!

It’s an exceptional house for the area. As a contrast, this one is about a mile closer to the town centre…
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124188977#/?channel=RES_BUY

Great to see Espen winning this.

It’s amazing to think it was 6 years ago he was streaming 200/400nl cash games on twitch. Without a doubt Espen was  one of the best streamers.

It must have been quite a journey from his Unibet days.

Also a great guy.

I can't help but wonder how big of a piece Pads had  ;izimbra;

https://twitter.com/uhlenpoker/status/1551756588427403264?s=21

Winner had 56% after multiple swaps. Biggest was 7.5%.

No mention of any of the swaps owing him though…  ;whistle;