Oh 100%. Unfortunately I have zero sympathy for the staking business (sorry boys) because when you build out your shrewdie business model this is a variable you must factor in as a matter of business. When that eventuality transpires you can't turn on the non-businesses waterworks of trust abuse between friends. But that said as people we should do what we say we're going to do or life is going to suck ass. People tell me all the while 'I give you my word' and these days it means abs nothing. I am so anal about this, even to the degree that if I arrange a meet at 9:00...it gets to 9:01...and the other person isn't there...i'm already flipping my shit.

The risk of burglary is something that a person could factor in when moving to a certain part of town. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have any sympathy for the victim of a burglary, or that you shouldn't condemn the degenerate f*** that stole all their stuff.

Brits through from day 2a/b

Chaz Chattha 423k
Jake Cody 340k
Marc Foggin 283k
Georges Georgiou 199k
Chris Moorman 190k
Rob Sherwood 186k
Matt Davenport 162k
Nicholas Katz 145k
Michael Greco 140k
Talal Shakerchi 130k
Chris Bjorin 123k
Stuart Rutter 118k
Daniel Bland 102k
Charlie Carrel 96k
Chun Law 91k
Daniel McAulay 90k
Sebastian Ruthenberg 74k
David L'Honore 74k
Alfie Adam 71k
Rob Akery 71k
Sebastian Saffari 63k
Chris Brammer 57k
Keith Johnson 52k
Jon Spinks 49k
Chris Gordon 48k
Tim Davie 45k
Jerome Ogrodzki 35k
Peter Akery 34k
Peter Charalambous 29k
Darren Moreton 27k

If I got my sums right, 26% of day 1a and 1b field are still in, making average stack of 114,500. If day 1c has a similar percentage making it through, that will leave roughly 1682 progressing to day 3, with 1000 paying.

edit - 654 made it through instead of the 644 that were showing on the chip counts. Meaning % making it through is a little higher and average stack a little lower. Cba re-doing the maths but it's pretty close. Projected 1700 for day 3.

.. and more than one Brit on the ft

I predict there will be a British winner this year.

i gather you've had some storms?

simon found this one, taken from mccarran

Click to see full-size image.

Directly over the Rio. I guess Phil Helmuth must have entered the building.

And Ludo on 94k. Fair chance I've missed loads more.

Missed Fraser McIntyre on 25k

Jimmy White?

Think it's probably him, he's listed as London. Haven't seen him though.

Up at 5am in my hotel room and bored, so here's a rundown of all the Brits through to day 2 (sorry if I miss anyone)

Day 1a
Chun Law 114k
Talal Shakerchi 90k
David Gent 78k
Daniel Bland 66k
Matthew Pettit 63k
Benjamin Heath 60k
Michael Greco 58k
Charles Carrel 58k
Sebastian Saffari 55k
Roger Reynolds 54k
Marc Foggin 47k
Rob Tinnion 45k
Mats Rosen 44k
Chris Brammer 37k
Christopher Gordon 35k
Kenneth Hill 34k
Arkadi Kilman 32k
Sergi Reixach 27k
Keith Johnson 26k
Paul Newey 21k
Senh Ung 19k
Hector Rodriguez 16k
Redmond Lee 14k
Barkatul Mohammed 14k
Alistair Hill 9k
Alberto Gomez 9k
Jamie Chang 8k

Day 1b
Lewis Barber 113k
Pablo Fernandez Campo 111k
Simon Higgins 103k
Jon Spinks 91k
Matthew Ashton 81k
Chaz Chattha 80k
Peter Charalambous 69k
Nicholas Katz 67k
David Lhonor 66k
Fraser Bellamy 64k
Alberto Morales 63k
Chris Moorman 63k
Tim Davie 61k
Matt Davenport 60k
Daniel McAulay 58k
Alison Verity 55k
Alex Lindop 55k
Marc McGovern 55k
Stuart Rutter 53k
Kevin O'Leary 49k
Ian Simpson 46k
Stevie Watts 46k
Georges Georgiou 44k
Darren Hill 43k
Niall Farrell 42k
Daren Moreton 40k
Ewan Maddock 38k
Mark Dalimore 37k
Mat Frankland 37k
Darren Judges 33k
JP Kelly 31k
John Eames 29k
Christopher Flint 28k
Rob Sherwood 28k
Sebastian Ruthenberg 28k
Francis Foord-Brown 27k
Alfie Adam 24k
Chris Bjorin 23k
Paul Ephremsen 23k
Jake Cody 22k
David Stonehouse 22k
Rob Akery 21k
Peter Akery 20k
Vitaly Samoylenko 17k
Andrew Hulme 16k
Lee Taylor 15k
Murray Henderson 14k
Allan Peers 12k
Luke Bindon 10k
Lazar Mikovic 10k
Alvarez Fernandez 6k
Tomas McCabe 2.5k

Day 1c
Ben Vinson 114k
Chun Law 107k
Tom Alner 86k
Jack O'Neil 81k
Max Silver 75k
Rhys Jones 75k
Louis Salter 75k
Andrew Seden 75k
Ian Woodley 74k
Jamie Roberts 73k
Jonathan Somekh 73k
Michael Kane 70k
Jack Salter 68k
Borja Gross 67k
Howard Smith 64k
Toby Lewis 63k
Ben Longstaff 63k
Jareth East 62k
Victor Illyukhin 57k
Benjamin Rolle 56k
Chriaag Thanki 54k
Jon Kalmar 53k
Simon Deadman 53k
Alex Goulder 53k
Andrew Teng 51k
Chihao Tsang 49k
Luke Brereton 48k
Oliver Price 48k
Craig McCorkell 46k
Kev Allen 45k
Martin Malone 45k
Neil McFayden 44k
Stephen Foster 44k
Sam Trickett 42k
Constantine Paparestis 42k
Dan Rudd 42k
Carles Ecsobedo 40k
Joel Ettedgi 40k
Mike Hill 36k
Jimmy White 35k
Robert Cowen 34k
Billy Chattaway 32k
Paul Vas Nunes 28k
Iaran Lightbourne 28k
David Greene 28k
Phillip McAllister 25k
Luke Marsh 25k
Paul Senter 23k
Albert Lesko 22k
Phillip Carey 22k
Pratik Ghatge 21k
James Scott 19k
Graeme Hibbert 19k
Mitch Johnson 18k
Nick Hicks 18k
Rickie Vedhara 16k
Alex Spencer 16k
James Dempsey 15k
James Rann 14k
Daniel Merrilees 13k
Javed Abrahams 13k
Gordon Huntly 12k
Adam Reynolds 12k
David Tighe 12k
Tim Hickling 11k
Dennis Rubba 11k
Shola Akindele 9k


JFC that took longer than I thought! More Brits here than I imagined.

People who know him, know exactly how good Alex Lindop is. I'd put him in the absolute top tier of UK players and I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't his last score of this magnitude.

You could say he's offtheradar

People who know him, know exactly how good Alex Lindop is. I'd put him in the absolute top tier of UK players and I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't his last score of this magnitude.

Cheers buddy

Any chance of an update of Ben Jones in the hr please?

Cheers mate. Can't deny my arse will be going a bit no matter how many people try to assure me things will be fine

You can take as much as you want out, but just make sure that you declare it.

If you cash in a WSOP event, there are staff who will go through the process of filling in the forms to ensure you get your ITIN number.

I took mine in cash, but there are plenty here who have won sums large enough to warrant payment in other ways.

I always find that cash is an issue to get back to the UK, but not for the reasons you're obviously thinking of...

Cheers mate.

So it's ok to sort out the ITIN with staff once I've cashed my first event (if I do cash one that is). Is it an instant thing or do I have to wait a while before I get my winnings?

There really should be no problems taking like £30k plus through airport security stuffed in my pocket? Transferring at Newark which I'm guessing might be a bit more of an issue than if I was flying direct to Vegas..