WSOP MAIN EVENT: DAY 1A - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Well, I searched long and hard, and there’s no sign of Dave Colclough, nor can I spot Roy Brindley who also seems to have bitten the dust early doors. One player who is definitely in is Andy Black, stacked up with 150k and up there with the chip leaders, if not THE current chip leader. Also fairing well is Julian Gardner, who leapt out of the starting block like Keanu Reeves chasing a personality. He’s not flying quite so high at the moment, but is still in the very midst of that chasing pack with around 95k.

Rudders is still plugging away with 28k, as is Joe Beevers on 40k, although he did just lose a big pot to a young American, 30k in the pot, the board reading Ahearts and facing a 15k all-in. Beevers folded that hand, but still seems to be in confident spirits. As is 'Swimming With The Devilfish' author Des Wilson, who eagerly summoned me to retell a tale of joy in which he doubled back up this starting stack, his A-Ts surviving an all-in against A-K, a heart on the Turn saving the writer’s bacon.

There are some tough tables out there, and you only need to look as far as Table Tann for evidence, his opponents including Conor Tate (18.5k) and Peter Gould (13k). Willie seems to be in control though after his early collapse, The Dice Man stacking up a 47.5k as I joined the action.

Speaking of tough, maybe this is Johnny Lodden’s year, although he’s going to have to get passed table opponents Bertrand Grospellier (28k) and the currently very chatty Minh Ly (50k). The Lodden seems to have several orange 5k chips, but he conceals them with his hands making it nigh on impossible to see. Still, I’d say he has at least 50k.

Current top 10 according to worldseriesofpoker.com, although I did ask Andy Black directly what he had and he answered 150k.

1st  Randall Amiel -- $159,000
2nd  Adam Weiss -- $148,000
3rd  Cyrus Farzad -- $145,000
4th  Timten Olivier -- $141,000
5th  Andy Black -- $120,000
6th  Brock 'tsoprano' Parker -- $115,000
7th  Adam Richardson -- $114,000
8th  Alan King -- $100,000
9th  Gary Deardorff -- $91,000
10th  Mike Giordano -- $90,000

Others that have left their original seats and need to be located to confirm exit:

Michael Greco
Devilfish
Marcel Luske

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It's easy to lose track of time in the main room, I think I've wandered for about 40 minutes looking left right and centre.

In a raised, 3-way pot, I see the small blind check it to the c on a   board the cut-off who bets 1,500. The button calls and the small blind check/raises to 6,000. The cut-off original raiser passes and the button moves all-in, the small blind calls.

Button:



Small blind:



Turn:



River:





Wandering over to the outer reaches, I saw Liz Lieu nursing an 18k stack whilst Micky Wernick was in a 3-way raised pot. One of his opponents took it down with a 10k bet on the board.

Bumped into to Scott O'Reilly who goes by the name 'Mongy' on blonde though he says he has never posted. He and his mates thought he was playing tomorrow and he turned up late, having been blinded down to 18.5k, that hasn't matter since he's up to around 45k, which also roughly what Henning Granstad is on.

Joe Awada limp calls a raise from one of the blinds. The blind checks the flop, Joe bets 3,500 and gets a call. On the turn, the blind checks again and Joe bets 7400, now the blind moves in for 36k more and Joe has the clock called on him and he mucks, albeit reluctantly.

Blue Gloves Man, who Snoops referred to as 'The Undertaker' is out, his losing to .

Barry Greenstein is up to 90k, telling stories of high stakes games to his attentive table.

Finally, a mateyboy moment. One guy check/raises all-in on a board with and another calls with . There's major fist pumpage from the latter on the turn, but the river has the dealer separating all the chips in the middle.

[Tractor]

Simon Stocken please. 7th-table 104.

Dito

[snoopy1239]

Simon Stocken please. 7th-table 104.

Dito

I have been told via pm that he is playing Day 2.

[Tractor]

Simon Stocken please. 7th-table 104.

Dito

I have been told via pm that he is playing Day 2.

Cheers Snoops, ill be tuning in tonight then, past on my best wishes to him if you can find him tonight.

[snoopy1239]

Recent chip counts:

Katherine Hartree -- 34k
Joe Tehan -- 26k
Mike Sexton (pictured) -- 13k
Henning Grantsad -- 40k
Kenny Tran -- 38.5k
Huck Seed -- 37k
John Magill -- 64k
Mark Teltscher -- 36.5k
Conor Tate -- 32k
Tann -- 57.5k
Lars Bonding -- 56.5k
Stephen Wolff -- 13k
Ian McDonald -- 65k
Thang Duc Nguyen -- 25.5k
Julian Gardner -- 130k
Minh Ly -- 57k
Des Fitzpatrick -- 18k
Johnny Lodden -- 62k
Bertrand Grospellier -- 17.5k
Richard Rudling-Smith -- 33k
Des Wilson -- 18.5k
Barry Greenstein -- 73k
Joe Beevers -- 31.5k
Mickey Wernick -- 19.5k
Annand Ramdin (pictured) -- 34.5k
Mark Vos -- 67k
Scott O'Reilly -- 42k
Andy Black -- 110k
Ben Johnson (pictured) -- 32k

No sign of:

Jeff Buffenbarger
Luke Patten
Peter Gould
Dave Mobbs
Gu Lalliberte
Alex Jacob
Mickey Appleman
Ben Callinan

Jac Arama wins a 4-way pot, betting 5k on the end of a with and being called in one place.

Joe Tehan wins a small pot off Huck Seed, his enough against Huck's on a board.

Saw a big Mateyboy squared pot, poor lad being outdrawn with A-J vs. 8-6 on an 8-J-5 board. 8 on the River.

Jeff Madsen made an excellent River call with A-4 on a T-T-4-6-Q rainbow board.

Currently 640 players remaining on 64 tables. 40,218 average stack.

[vegaslover]

Currently 64 players remaining on 64 tables. 40,218 average stack.

Only 64 players remaining snoopy?

[star]

Good luck Barry N xxxxx Looking forward to seeing u on the final table!!!!!!!!! stella

[Robert HM]

Currently 64 players remaining on 64 tables. 40,218 average stack.

Only 64 players remaining snoopy?

It's been a long night for the poor pooch 

[snoopy1239]

Currently 64 players remaining on 64 tables. 40,218 average stack.

Only 64 players remaining snoopy?

It's been a long night for the poor pooch 

What happened to my 0?

[CrestOfaWave]

Great updates guys...
See you later tonight.

><///>. oO

[snoopy1239]

Inevitably, as the day draws to a close (they recently announced that this would be the last level), the play begins to tighten up, the majority of players keen to brag to their friends, "I made Day 2!". I fully expect professionals such as Huck Seed, Barry Greenstein, Mark Vos and co to take advantage of this vulnerability, raising a lot of pots and putting people for decisions for all their chips.

In the meantime, Andy Black and Julian Gardner are both running strong, the latter particularly so after somehow accruing a 193k stack. A real chip-getter and with the experience to boot, Julian could be a dark horse this year amid the discussions regarding the skills of Cunningham, Ivey, Hellmuth and co. With Roland de Wolfe and Ram doing so well, we often forget about Julian but, in my opinion anyhow, he's just as lethal.

Whilst I concern myself with the missing figures of Mickey Wernick and Lucy Lieu (for completely different reasons), I bump into Craig 'I KNOW IT' Wildman on the rail, a well liked Midlander now a valued member of the jonnytexaspoker team. At this point, I spotted Mike Lacey standing behind John Magil, who's up to 94k, so had to run up to protect my man. My tongue in cheek suggestion that we wrap a British flag around him wasn't popular with the Antes Up man who said, "For the last time, he's Irish!" I think I got the message now, but I'm just so desperate for British players, we're way too low at the moment. On the same table, Lars Bonding is on 80k after winning a pot with 9-6 on a T-9-6-K-K board (bet he loved that River).

With Nik Persaud on 9k, Richard Rudling-Smith on 14k (but looking tired), I can't help but notice that Mel Judah is no more, my Beagle sense informing me that he ran Kings into Aces for the third consecutive year, two of which have been button versus blind. Neverends says the spirit of a certain recently discipline blondeite.

Observations:

Huck Seed has the world's longest body.
Mateyboy is doing particularly well this year.
There are some really dumb players, the announcer asking if "anyone knows this man, he's lost his table".

Current top 10 courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com:

1st  John Dutchak -- $218,000
2nd  Timten Olivier -- $212,000
3rd  Julian Gardner -- $196,000
4th  Steve Miranda -- $165,000
5th  Adam Weiss -- $149,000
6th  Todd Crosswell -- $140,000
7th  Cyrus Farzad -- $137,000
8th  Scott Watkins -- $124,000
9th  Randall Amiel -- $119,000
10th Adam Richardson -- $116,000

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I spotted Paul Parker who was watching the Actionjeff (I think), Min Ly, Johnny Lodden, Elky table (pic1) which is easily the toughest of the fifty or so remaining tables. When Actionjeff made what looked like a 13.5k bet on the river (pic2) of a board, Min Ly thought for a while before calling and was shown the . Paul was then telling me a story about the millions that Min Ly won years ago when suddenly I heard a shout behind me. Rudders was OUT. J-7 on a J-7-3-J-A board versus A-J. All the money in on the flop.

Missing, presumed OUT:

Mel Judah
Nik Persaud
Micky Wernick
Peter Gould

Willie Tann held up seven fingers, each finger representing 10k I'm guessing. Not bad, considering he was down to around 4k early doors. A few reporters are hovering around Tobey Maguire likes flies, he's quite short now. Also short is early pacemaker Mark Vos who still has a big stack but mostly of smaller denominations, though he got some back with against on a board, the higher three pair winning.

Finally here's Henning Granstad knocking out a short-stack, but is that a distant cousin of Red-Dog also on the table? (pic3)

Speaking of look-a-likes, here is a young Neil Channing (with about 10% Harry Potter) (pic4)

[snoopy1239]

With only 15 minutes left, I made a quick dash around the cardroom obtaining chip counts on any face I recognised:

Des Wilson -- 12,000
Lars Bonding -- 106,000
John Magill -- 98,000
Jac Arama -- 73,500
Conor Tate -- 79,500
Willie Tann -- 39,500
Minh Ly -- 40,000
Johnny Lodden -- 60,500
Bertrand Grospellier -- 10,500
Joe Beevers -- 97,500
Huck Seed -- 53k
Raymond Davis -- 56,500
Rick Wild -- 11,500
Scott O'Reilley -- 72,000
Anyd Black -- 59,500
Tobey Maguire -- 12,000
Julian Gardner -- 140,000
Ian McDonald -- 91,000
Can Hua -- 51,000
Jeff Madsen -- 70,000
Barry Greenstein -- 91,000
Ricky Rodriguez-- 80,000

The last of those gave me his name as I peered at his chips. "What's you name?" I asked. "Ricky," he replied. "Ricky Martin?" "Yep, no Ricky Rodriguez." "Hehe, you said Martin at first." "Ah, I though you meant 'as in Ricky Martin'." "I have to take down some American players, we're running out of Europeans." "I'm Mexican, perhaps you can blog Mexicans when the Europeans run out." "By the looks of it, that won't be too long."

Although everyone looks like zombies and are just folding their way to Day 2, a few of the short-stacks are gambling, an amusing example being when a chap moved in from the small blind only to be called by A-2. The shortstacker flipped over 7-2 off and proceeded to hit a 2-J-K-7-2 board. "I'm sorry, buddy!" he exclaimed as he reeled in his 13k pot to draw closer to Day 1 survival. "That's the first bluff I've made," he added amusingly. Not often you encounter kicker problems all-in with 7-2.

Another big hand saw Mateyboy all-in on a , his speech play, which included, "Hey, you've got a rolex, I've got a rolex, we'll be all right whatever happens" prising a call out of his opponent, whose was no match for the victor's .

Richard Wild looked mighty pissed, he called a pre-flop raise with Kings, got it all-in on a Queen high Flop against Q-J, but lost out to runner runner straight. Not a happy chappy.

As I looked at the clock winding down, I had awake nightmares (if that's possible) of David Bowie from Labyrinth prancing over in his tights and twirling the clock back to 5 hours. Shudder.

Top 10 courtesy of worldseriesofpoker.com

1st  Timten Olivier -- $260,000
2nd  John Dutchak -- $218,000
3rd  Steve Austin -- $200,000
4th  Adam Weiss -- $165,000
5th  Adam Richardson -- $156,000
6th  Cyrus Farzad -- $152,000
7th  Julian Gardner -- $143,700
8th  Scott Watkins -- $135,000
9th  Todd Crosswell -- $131,000
10th  Steve Jacobs -- $131,000

Missing presumed lost (unconfirmed):

Michael Mizrachi
Richard Ashby
Blair Rodman
Victor Ramdin
David Grey
Mark Vos
Teddy Sheringham
Jan Boubli
Mohammed Hassan

Finally, a few piccies of some of the players still remaining:

(1) Des Wilson
(2) Jac Arama
(3) Barry Greenstein
(4) Scott O'Reilly
(5) Minh Ly
(6) Rick Wild

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Play has ended for the day. The 450 remaining players or so, whoop with delight like they've just made the 2nd round of the X-Factor or something. It's seems like a victory, but in the end, for most of them it means nothing.

Mike Sexton has gone I think, but EPT Warsaw champion Peter Jepsen is around with 65k, while Barry Greenstein has yet to have to sign his book for someone. He had a big stack of those 5k orange chips which will put him close to 100k. Jeff Madsen is still in, he maybe the courtyard jester at the moment, but he still has a shot at being the king.

Finally, we've found some relatives of Red-Dog! Crazy, huh?

Here's Rojo-Dog, Shades-Dog and Borat-Dog.

[snoopy1239]

 

[trustno1]

Before I forget

 

to Jen.

[JacArama]

I started my own thread, so that only those who wanted to read it would, but it got moved and I was told that I am not allowed my own thread.

Sorry to those who are not interested.

I played today, Day 1, Table 1 Seat 1.

It is the first break. This year they increased the starting stack from 10,000 to 20,000, but missed out the 25 - 50 blind and started with 50 - 100.

There are only 1287 players on day 1. SO FAR THERE ARE APPROX 5000 PLAYERS REGISTERED.

My table is very frisky, and every hand is raised pre flop by about 600 and around 50% are reraised.

Every time I tried to limp in, I had to pass the raise / reraise.

2 memorable hands.

The first was about 90 minutes in and I was down to 14,000 after a bad river. I raised to 400 pre flop with 

2 callers.

The flop was

I bet 800, he called.

The turn was

He bet 1200 & I called.

The River was

Now he bet 5500.

It seemed like a huge over bet.

I reflected for about 3 minutes and called - he mucked before I turned over my cards.

The other hand, I had pocket queens and raised to 400. The player to my left raised to 1500 & the button reraised to 3000. I passed, but the player to my left called with .

The flop was

check, bet pass. The button had pocket kings!!! Lucky escape!

Next break in 2 hours.

I have 22,500 chips

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A terrible start when I returned from the break.

I started with 22,500 and 40 mins in, I had 10c 10d & raised the 200 big blind to 700. 2 calls. (both blinds)

The flop was 10s

Check, check, - I bet 1500 - 1 call

Turn was

He bet 2500, I raised to 7000

call.

River was

He moved all in for 11,000. I eventually folded leaving me with 13,000. He showed me .

Then I built my stack to 32,000.

I was about to leave with 2 mins of the session to go, but I was the big blind.

3 limpers & I had . I didn't want to get involved on the last hand, so I checked.

Flop 10s.

I bet 800 - 1 caller.

Turn Ah

I bet 1000, he raised to 2000 - I called.

River

I checked, he bet 6000

I eventually called, & he showed As 5S

Down to 23,500 ugh!!!!

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After the 2nd break I had 23,500. After just 2 hands, blinds were 200 - 400 & I raised to 1200 with As and the lunatic on the table called.

The flop was Ah 4C .

Before I could do anything, he moved all in out of turn for 9000.

I called & he turned over pocket 4's UGH!!

His hand stood up and he didn't stop talking for the next hour.

I then called an 800 raise on my big blind with .

The Flop was

He bet 1000, I flat called.

The Turn was

He bet 1500 - I called

The River was

He bet 1500 & I raised to 4000 - He called & turned over As .

Then Claude Cohen raised my 400 big blind to 1200.

Again I had . I called

Flop was

Claude bet 1500 & I called

Turn was

Claude bet 2000 - I called

River was

Claude bet 2500 & I raised to 6000.

He called & mucked when I showed my house.

Since then the lunatic got knocked out and I have built steadily.

At the dinner break, I have 40,500

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Bad session!

Someone raised I I reraised 10,000 with pocket Queens.

He eventually called.

Flop was K, A 2

He moved all in for 8,000 more. I passed & he showed A, 2

MARVELLOUS.

Down to 33,000

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Came back from the break, to find that our table had broken. I was moved to table 67 - seat 8.

A terrible start! first bhand at the new table, I had Ah and raised to 2400. 2 callers.

Flop

I bet 4000. - 1 caller

Turn was - he checked - I checked & took the free card.

River was a

I tried to buy the pot with a bet of 7000. He raised all in for 12,000 more - I passed & was down to 19,000.

I built my stack back up to 30,000 & then a few key hands:

Hand 1:  I limped in with - 3 other limpers.

Flop

I checked top 2 pair, but no one bet.

Turn - - I bet 2000 - 1 caller

River

I bet 2500 and the other player threw in  a 5000 chip. I turned over my top 2 pair & he exclaimed "I said raise".

A manager was called & after much discussion, he allowed the raise.

I didn't know if it was a move, but as the raise was only 2500 more, I called. He showed As .

I was tired and hadn't even seen the flush. Anyway, I played the hand very badly & got what I deserved! Back down to 23,000.


Hand 2: I limped in with 10h. There were 4 other limpers

Flop was

utg bet 3500 & the other 3 called, so even though I didn't have a diamond, I called 3500 in the hope of winning a pot of over 20,000.

Turn was 10s - everyone checked!

River was - I bet 5000 - 1 caller.

I showed my straight & he mucked. Up to 40,000.

Hand 3: I was on the big Blind with . The button raised to 1200 - I called.

Flop 10d

I tried to buy the pot with a bet of 2500 - the button called (oops!)

The turn was - I bet 6000.

After what seemed like 20 minutes (but was probably 2 minutes), he passed.

42,000 chips at the break

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2am - We have been playing for 14 hours and this is the last 2 hour session.

A good session for me.

3 key hands.

I limped in with . The button (a young Scandi) raised to 2400.

The big blind nearly passed - thought for ages and then called.

I saw an opportunity and on instinct reraised to 7,400.

They both passed.

2. I raised to 2400 with As 10h

5 callers (wow - nice pot)

Flop was everyone checked

Turn was . I nearly bet it, but decided to take a free card to hit the 4th spade.

River was . There was a staright on the board, so I bet 4000 to try to get a couple to pass - they all passed!

3. Last hand of the night. I was up to 75,000 exactly. I was on the big blind.

The button raised to 2400. I looked down at pocket Jacks & raised to 4800. The button (who had just come to our table) reraised a further 20,000. It was the last hand of the night, so I put it down.

450 players left (from 1287 started) Average chips are 57,000
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B R E A K - BACK ON TUESDAY AT 12 MIDDAY 70,200 CHIPS
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