I've never been so happy to bust out first!

I hope Poland smash Ukraine into pieces tomorrow.

It looks like it is between me and AdamM's Turkey for the woodenspoon prize.

In

(Is the OP aka Nick W?)

Thanks for running this. My picks are:


Captain: Dmitry Urbanovich

2015 ITM More than 5 times: Scott Clements

Brits: Stephen Chidwick

WSOP POTY Top 10s 2014-15: Daniel Negreanu

High Stakes: Vanessa Selbst

Main Event Champions: Phil Hellmuth

Eurozone: Dominic Nitsche

Best of Blondes: Stuart Rutter

Wild card 1: Dmitry Urbanovich

Wild card 2:Fedor Holz

I enjoyed reading the updates - East Africa is an amazing place to spend time. I visit a village in Tanzania each year with various friends and keep a diary at tomintanzania.com - spending a period of time, like you've done, in one place is the best way to find out what its like, rather than breezing in and out on a luxury safari package.

Asante kwa kuandika hapa.

I had Pale Mimosa each way. Does my replacement horse go EW or on the nose?

I am shocked only one of us had Bracelet.

Or if you can only manage audio, the races are on Radio 5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live

I hate money, so would love to take part.

Rob Hallworth to win the 6 max and Dan Carter the turbo please

+1 for both of those.

That would be an awesome result. GL guys.

+1 to wishing Leigh good luck and I also want to say the updates are fantastic. Too often you wait five minutes and hit F5 only for nothing new to appear, but with this event there are frequent interesting and amusing updates. It helps me through the working day.

Sam Trickett left his entire 2400 Euro prize as a dealer tip, and got a taxi just now straight to Heathrow, for a first class flight to Vegas

What.a. Life.

Very classy....still not quite in the realms of Phil Ivey's tip to 1 dealer in his WSOP

That didn't actually happen afaik was just a rumour.

He actually tipped 1st in a HORSE comp (around $400k) to the dealers iirc. Spoke to a guy at the WSOPE about it who was floor at the time

It was this event: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=35059

I was in another WSOP event at the time and my dealer said it was a myth.

Best of luck to Matt Dale and Leigh Wiltshire. Matt will need to get a beneficial chop on the final table to cover his bar bill.

Can you trade in a min-cash ticket for one of those Carlsbergs at the bar?

Amended to include a captain and wildcards (thanks for the PM).

Captain: Vanessa Selbst
Ivey Pros: Phil Ivey
Brits: Chris Brammer
WSOP POTY Top 10s 2012-13: Daniel Negraneau
High Stakes: Jason Mercier
Ladies: Vanessa Selbst
Eurozoners: Bertrand Grospellier

WildCard 1: Richard Trigg
Wild Card 2: Phil Hellmuth