478 players return today, playing for a first prize of around $2 million dollars, the full prize money listings should be coming later today.
Last night we had the Media tournament featuring top names like
Tom McEvoy,
Barry Greenstein and Snoops. I managed to bluff half my stack off early doors, with A-J on a Q-T-8-3-Q board against T-9, before
sucking out completely masterfully outplaying Tuan Lam and knocking him out by shoving with

and getting him to call with his inferior

knowing that I was going to hit. Sadly I ended up losing with A-K against another player's Sevens, though I won the side pot against
Tom McEvoy's Queens after the board came K-x-x-x-7. Snoopy managed to make the final table before going all-in blind against A-J and A-8 and turned over 7-2. He lost. So rigged. Ok, the structure wasn't great but these little tournaments are really good fun, especially with the great atmosphere that's always in the media room.
Meanwhile, I have a slight bizarre phone situation to discuss. A good friend of mine sent me a happy new year etc... type message a couple of days ago before we left for the Bahamas, which I ended up receiving twice. "No matter," says I, "For surely it's simply a case of someone accidentally sending a text more than the once." However, two days later and I've now received the same text message roughly 25 more times, so I decided to text her and ask if there was something wrong with her phone. She sent me a reply saying that she didn't think so and that this hadn't happened with any of her other friends...
Of course, I've now also received this message about ten times more too.
But enough of my mobile-based shenanigans. Here's the chip counts for our remaining players:
Brian Lindsay 22 3 225,875
Asa Smith 31 9 223,775
Julio Marines 55 9 186,475
Ryan Collett 47 2 176,450
Steve Paul-Ambrose 51 1 170,925
Diego Pérez 7 7 169,100
Stephan Kjerstad 50 1 144,575
Jared Mahoney 22 6 142,650
Marco Savoni 14 7 141,925
Duy Le 59 5 141,800
Eric Lynch 52 8 141,675
Joshua Ewing 37 1 137,875
Johan Til 7 8 137,225
Cero Zuccarello 39 8 135,325
Robert Lederer 53 6 130,200
José Cuenca 5 1 129,950
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier 50 9 123,825
Allisen Connor 26 2 121,000
Johan Bergqvist 52 7 120,075
Dmitriy Kirin 30 3 118,325
David Truong Whitley 43 3 112,975
David Mcnew 23 1 110,425
Josh Arieh 44 1 109,800
Clayton Maguire 42 2 109,250
Tore Lagerborg 17 7 103,950
Adam Bragar 6 3 101,025
Michael Benedetto 19 1 100,575
Andrew Teng 46 3 99,600
Stuart Taylor 37 4 99,375
Raúl Lleida 12 4 98,550
Matt Greenwood 31 4 98,150
Ziad Alameddine 36 1 97,475
Dave Scatchard 3 7 95,975
Allan Puzontyan 20 7 95,400
Michael Martin 20 2 95,025
Daniel Negreanu 21 6 93,950
Robert Weiss 6 2 92,500
Aleksey Bobrov 33 5 91,800
Nick Gibson 50 6 91,625
Jared Eischeid 24 6 91,400
Duncan Bell 23 8 91,000
Ottavio Tassone 58 7 89,600
Charles McCrink 10 7 89,275
Richard Geyer 4 6 89,125
David Wells 7 2 88,150
Jesse Chinni 26 4 87,300
Stanislav Zavoyskiy 35 4 86,250
Christian Harder 36 9 86,025
Alex Michaels 14 6 85,000
Roger Tichenor 48 7 85,000
Ryan D'Angelo 8 6 84,775
Jason Glass 24 4 83,350
Jacob Walsh 52 9 82,850
Olvedo Heinze 55 4 82,450
Frederik Agersnap 7 9 82,350
Irina Liepina 13 7 82,125
Matt Rosen 57 6 81,975
Rhett Buttler 21 5 81,800
Steve Gross 13 4 80,850
Evan Roberts 38 3 80,750
Jonas Egeberg 47 5 80,725
Michael Brigante 10 3 80,000
Randy Dorfman 19 6 79,875
Deepak Patel 5 7 79,600
Peter Dumdeang 18 1 79,200
Simon Munz 18 5 79,200
Bill Ezzo 36 7 79,100
Harold Fitzpatrick 41 6 78,775
William Kopp Jr 41 1 78,650
Samuel Oberlin 52 3 78,200
Yueqi Zhu 58 8 78,200
Peter Jetten 17 6 76,775
Mauro Stivoli 59 3 76,400
Davidi Kitai 20 5 76,375
Matthew Giannetti 25 6 76,100
Justin Rollo 21 9 75,450
James Jewett 32 3 75,175
Philippe Rohr 28 3 74,775
Kevin Schaffel 45 2 74,650
Daniel Stern 27 9 74,600
Justin Wright 5 5 73,950
Daniel Burke 28 6 73,675
David Pham 10 2 73,325
Mike Vesia 2 9 73,000
Joseph Elpayaa 21 7 72,800
Bradley Schaaf 14 8 72,700
Navil Desai 31 8 72,250
Benjamin Yogel 60 5 71,400
Kristoffer Edberg 12 5 71,350
William Thorson 26 9 71,000
Håkon Bentsen 48 4 70,200
Eric Liu 54 7 70,075
Martin Mehdi 3 9 70,000
Craig Hopkins 4 7 69,925
Zev Roher 41 3 69,875
Michael Roe 33 8 69,475
Fredrik Jerndahl 42 9 69,050
Joseph Dimartino 34 1 68,700
Kris Kuykendall 41 4 68,675
Anthony Cousineau 23 7 68,525
Nicolas Levi 11 7 68,175
Jameson Painter 31 7 68,125
Hans Winzeler 44 5 67,300
Michael Cooper 16 3 66,225
Dennis Petronack 28 8 66,200
Lee Markholt 54 4 66,050
John Myung 38 2 65,925
Ross Romash 31 5 65,875
Mike Gorodinsky 48 3 65,800
Kai Herold 35 6 65,250
Jacob Petersen 6 4 65,250
Bryan Colin 9 9 64,975
Tony Calvin Burton 3 5 64,850
David Lacoste 14 1 64,775
Zack Stewart 60 9 64,600
Garrett Adelstein 15 9 64,225
Frank Nielsen 50 8 63,425
Cole South 17 2 62,975
Fuk-Sang Johnson 35 9 62,900
Eric Koskas 43 1 62,875
Mark Venegoni 49 7 62,800
Markus Ross 29 4 62,725
Pierre Neuville 49 2 62,550
Stephen Dudley 36 6 62,350
Daniel Smith 10 8 62,100
Noah Schwartz 8 7 62,000
Justin Marsh 43 8 60,875
Matt Zoorob 2 1 60,875
Chris Crawford 9 6 60,700
Magnus Karlsson 41 2 60,525
Sander Braaksma 25 2 59,925
Brian Hawkins 41 9 59,400
Christopher Klodnicki 52 5 59,225
Jason Levine 40 5 59,175
Jon Neyir 22 1 58,650
Chris Moneymaker 19 3 58,600
Eric Van der Burg 4 8 58,400
Valdemar Kwaysser 60 7 58,225
Don Mullis 33 1 58,200
Thierry Van Den Berg 26 3 58,150
Patrick Blye 50 2 58,000
Sean Gardiner 57 9 57,300
Andre Akkari 11 6 57,275
Alexander Eriksson 31 1 57,250
John Bird 44 8 56,625
Glen Chorny 49 3 56,375
Richard Furay 49 8 56,350
Sam Subilia 37 5 56,250
Adam Green 19 9 56,150
David Potts 31 6 56,075
Noah Boeken 29 5 56,000
Christian Toboc 54 3 55,650
Frank Rusnak 3 8 55,300
Paul Holub 46 2 55,250
Robert Ford 57 2 55,000
Humberto Brenes 59 7 54,875
Hugo Spangenberg 60 1 54,750
Nathaniel Melvin 53 3 54,125
Erik Cajelais 21 2 54,100
Hevad Khan 50 5 54,050
Greg Smith 42 8 53,725
Jonathan Screeney 10 9 53,625
David Benefield 21 8 53,550
Steven Weinstock 7 4 53,525
Kyle Molik 32 4 53,400
Bradley Craig 33 4 53,300
Stephen Murphy 2 8 53,200
Christophe Benzimra 6 7 53,200
Marcel Kleczka 42 1 52,900
Minaya Manelic 51 6 52,600
Wilhelmina Detz 39 3 52,200
Benjamin Reed 49 6 52,075
Gasperino Loiacono 34 7 52,025
Mike Chiappetta 27 4 52,000
Jack Damsky 15 6 51,450
John Zioulas 15 4 51,350
Eugenio Carmoneto 30 4 51,300
Jonathan Aguiar 36 5 51,275
Thomas Gilles 54 9 51,200
Michael Wywrot 33 3 51,050
Maxime Villemure 44 2 50,825
Per Ravn 12 6 49,900
Victor Escudero 46 7 49,600
Jeffrey Papola 18 3 49,225
James Chiddy 45 3 49,200
Tom McEvoy 29 8 49,000
Johnny Lodden 32 1 48,900
Scott Buller 33 7 48,825
Thomas Ilg 3 6 48,825
Daniel Grolemund 41 8 48,525
Rami Boukai 34 9 48,475
David Héon-Althot 44 4 48,275
Fredrik Andersson 3 3 48,225
Jonathan Drane 40 1 48,200
John Roveto 13 3 48,175
Aleksander Bolotin 52 4 47,950
Barry Greenstein 16 7 47,550
Christopher Andler 32 2 47,175
Aurangzeb Sheikh 32 8 46,975
Peter Schneider 28 2 46,900
Erlend Melsom 22 2 46,775
Xuantien Nguyen 35 1 46,775
Daniel Shiff 24 3 46,675
John Buchanan 20 6 46,450
Nick Niergarth 9 8 46,225
Jeremy Harkin 47 3 46,075
Brent Bibby 13 1 46,000
James D'Ambrosio 18 6 45,850
Gary Haglund 43 5 45,400
Reuben Peters 5 3 45,325
Spencer Hudson 28 1 45,275
Jean-Pierre Gleize 57 5 44,875
Tyler Reiman 29 7 44,875
Samuel Chartier 42 3 44,800
Thomas Dolezal 29 2 44,500
Jonathan Lessin 59 6 44,500
Ville Mattila 51 7 44,475
James Wisemiller 16 8 44,300
Dean Murphy 42 5 44,250
Mikael Hogbom 11 1 43,850
Claude Marbleu 23 5 43,775
Keith Tilston 43 4 43,450
Hans-Ari Varsi 12 3 43,425
Rosamelia Ferreia 39 4 43,050
James Ferguson 11 4 43,000
Robert Wisiak 19 4 43,000
Christopher Walsh 37 7 42,975
Steven Tague 34 5 42,900
Emil Henriksson 46 8 42,875
Anirudh Seth 3 2 42,800
Michael Ries 1 7 42,550
Spencer Lawrence 52 6 42,050
Ted Lawson 11 2 42,000
Samuel Lehtonen 12 1 41,975
Marius Olsvik 35 2 41,950
Freddy Sumanth 43 2 41,650
Travis Klein 16 4 41,550
Bill Kontaratos 5 8 41,350
Thomas Koral 23 4 41,225
Clayton Mozdzen 58 6 41,175
Patrick O'Brien 34 3 41,025
Jonathan Tamayo 60 2 40,700
John Dibella 47 6 40,650
Joshua Herman 59 8 40,500
Joel Bidnick 9 7 40,350
Christian Taepper 60 3 40,350
Patrick Devlin 51 8 40,075
Curtis Wenger 43 9 39,450
Jens Eriksson 40 8 39,300
Chad Batista 28 7 39,250
Ian Prevost 39 1 39,200
Stefan Hansen 26 7 39,050
Michael Pino 4 2 38,725
Kai-Are Hauge 4 1 38,575
Bill Edler 8 2 38,525
Mark Skorvanek 29 6 38,400
Sam Shamburg 16 1 38,375
Guy Tomaselli 33 2 38,250
Rodney Pennington 51 5 37,750
Derek Wark 54 8 37,600
Robert Delaney 5 2 37,475
Regent Lacroix 37 8 37,350
Jonathan Rozema 37 2 37,350
Chris Gallagher 6 5 36,875
Lionel Nazarian 46 5 36,500
Jeffrey Neuman 25 5 36,325
Patrick Sullivan 53 2 36,225
Brent Haverty 27 2 36,125
Justin Smith 18 4 35,875
David Greenberg 60 8 35,650
Jason Glatzer 22 8 35,500
Brandon Becker 6 1 35,325
Gregory Byard 30 7 35,175
Eli Perlman 53 4 35,025
Eric Benhamron 56 4 34,925
Jonathon Mercer 51 3 34,700
Christopher Bonita 2 5 34,675
Derek Vandamme 50 4 34,625
Thomas Santoli 32 9 34,400
Abraham Rosenkrantz 55 6 34,325
Robert Altman 9 5 34,300
Robert Preston 34 6 34,175
Isaac Baron 27 8 34,150
Lance Gettler 8 4 33,950
Marc Naalden 14 4 33,925
Joris Jaspers 30 6 33,825
Guy Sitbon 4 5 33,475
Andy Lowe 1 8 33,225
Michael Scala 50 3 33,050
Joe Pharo 45 4 33,025
Dale Pinchot 16 5 32,600
Peter Chedid 20 9 32,550
Greg Anda 26 8 32,475
Hafiz Khan 18 2 32,425
Benjamin Maerefat 7 3 32,250
Mark Levy 32 6 32,250
Eric Ladny 38 8 32,000
Erik Sjödin 10 1 31,975
Jonathan Zuchowski 48 6 31,925
Jesse Rockowitz 13 8 31,800
Jakob Brekken 27 1 31,800
Patrick Kelly 1 1 31,700
Elton Tsang 27 6 31,625
Dov Shiff 9 3 31,625
Michael Katz 30 9 31,400
Brett Puffer 58 3 31,300
David Schultz 24 9 31,175
Olaf Zeeuw 28 9 30,800
Ulrich Hauzirek 56 3 30,700
Kevin McColgan 59 1 30,400
Adrian Gavile 29 9 30,050
Marc Alioto 12 7 29,875
Christian Pereira 11 3 29,600
Phillip Fankhauser 25 1 29,525
George Lusby 55 7 29,500
Bill Campbell 25 7 29,200
James Pechac 53 9 29,150
Thomas Dekker 25 8 29,000
Scott Zakheim 39 9 28,875
Edward Shouse 38 4 28,700
Joseph Hammerman 14 2 28,675
Brett Levitzke 46 6 28,575
Eldon Wu 56 1 28,300
John Dutchak 24 8 28,000
Kevin Risener 15 3 27,950
Marius Pospiech 22 4 27,750
Thaddeus Wolff 29 1 27,650
Pietro Valente 48 8 27,600
Federico Stivoli 19 8 27,600
Stuart Paterson 20 4 27,500
Johan Mattsson 12 2 27,400
Gerald Lauderman 3 1 27,275
Reid Walker 53 8 27,200
James McCrink 46 4 27,100
Peter Chan 13 9 27,100
Jon Dull 35 7 27,075
Saul Ivan 17 8 26,625
Thanh Nguyen 41 5 26,575
Jospeh Aronesty 11 5 26,500
Richard Fohrenbach 1 3 26,300
Rory Brennan 40 2 26,050
Louis Cohen 15 1 25,900
Thithi Tran 14 9 25,850
Shamil Danilov 45 1 25,675
Eugene Katchalou 44 7 25,550
William Pilossoph 7 1 25,425
David Redlin 21 1 25,250
Tomas Brolin 12 8 25,000
Jimmy Dowda 58 1 24,850
Isabelle Mercier 45 7 24,825
Gregory Baird 40 9 24,575
Julien Wellhoff 28 4 24,550
Andri Arnþórsson 36 3 24,375
Chris Leveroni 49 5 24,200
Kevin Bryniczka 2 7 24,050
David Baker 16 9 24,025
Mikko Pirinen 7 6 24,000
Grayson Phystor 44 9 23,725
Jeffrey Neadom 2 4 23,675
Michael Nye 38 1 23,550
Michael Melin 40 6 23,500
Raymond Garcia 23 6 23,350
Markus Ritt 53 1 23,350
Stefan Katz 2 3 23,275
Eric Tomberlin 13 2 23,225
Evan Tindell 37 3 23,175
Bourbonnais Maurice 15 5 22,950
Bryan Shaffer 18 8 22,850
Hans Eskilsson 5 6 22,575
Andrew Anderson 13 6 22,500
Michael Schweiger 1 5 22,350
Thomas Kok 19 5 22,325
Davide Sciabbarrasi 58 5 22,075
Ben Grise 57 8 21,925
Brian Tracy 1 6 21,700
Arthur Van der Meeren 38 9 21,450
Gary Newman 5 9 21,400
Björn Lindblom 15 8 21,275
Bobba Sasidhar 2 2 21,200
Chris Pearsall 11 9 21,150
Michael Gaubert 47 7 21,075
Jim Cleveborg 16 6 21,000
Jason Brummell 25 9 20,900
Blair Hinkle 40 4 20,875
Peter Gould 24 5 20,850
Warren Silversmith 27 5 20,650
Stephen Devlin 22 5 20,500
Dennis Van Rijn 42 6 20,500
Peter Darvill 18 7 20,400
Arnaud Mattern 37 6 20,375
Robert Bradley 8 3 20,350
Mats Iremark 34 2 20,275
Barry Wiedemann 20 8 20,150
Jean-Claude Moussa 8 5 20,100
John Phan 10 6 20,050
Gerald Banach 17 9 19,800
Jimmy Pan 31 2 19,700
Niki Kollar 58 4 19,600
Laurence Houghton 44 3 19,575
Timo Hansio 48 9 19,125
Bill Brindise 4 9 19,075
Benjamin Sprengers 45 8 18,850
Fernando Saboya 25 4 18,625
Nicolas Atlan 45 5 18,550
Michael Tikoian 17 1 18,475
Christoph Niesert 48 2 18,400
Anton Talle 55 1 18,100
Jeteral Mitchell 24 7 18,000
Carter Gill 56 8 17,900
Jennifer Lam 36 8 17,825
Emil Timberg 33 9 17,725
Tyler Dickinson 20 3 17,700
Ray Sukkar 38 7 17,350
Victor Ramdin 8 1 17,300
Thor Hansen 54 5 17,300
Mikhael Saakian 8 8 17,200
Julian Thew 6 6 16,950
Dominik Stopka 15 2 16,625
Vincent Bos 32 5 16,600
James Sileo 24 2 16,575
Jonathan Friedberg 19 2 16,500
Dang Trai 40 7 16,425
Thomas Mørland 20 1 16,400
Chris Grigorian 49 4 16,275
James Lampropoulos 17 4 15,975
Hunter Frey 39 7 15,950
Danny Stiegler 39 5 15,875
Massimo Reynaud 47 4 15,850
Jacques Zaicik 46 9 15,700
Otto Richard 30 1 15,475
Joseph Michael 55 3 15,450
Raymond Thomas Jr. 47 9 15,425
Robin Van der Hoff 23 9 15,375
Byron Kaverman 43 7 15,200
Shane Fumerton 26 5 14,550
Steven Tabb 30 5 14,550
Lars-Egil Nielsen 34 4 14,500
Rob Sterken 22 7 14,375
Alexander Selishchev 36 2 14,150
Brian Dodsworth 42 7 14,075
Chris Lee 56 9 14,000
Guillaume De La Gorce 49 9 13,950
Trevor Williams 51 2 13,775
Tim Bennett 4 4 13,400
Sidney Chreem 55 8 13,175
Eric Tracy 30 2 13,175
Magnus Tollefsen 10 5 12,850
Sean Bruder 21 4 12,850
Peter Busch 35 5 12,700
David Colclough 45 9 12,650
Peter Garber 60 4 12,325
Darshan Shah 57 4 12,125
Robert Emond 47 8 12,025
Ryan Mackinnon 38 6 12,000
Andrew Lichtenberger 48 1 11,950
Kevin Zubek 57 1 11,875
Justin Phillips 17 5 11,625
Michael Meredith 52 1 11,600
Kathy Liebert 23 3 11,175
Nicholas Schulman 39 2 11,000
Tom West 51 4 10,650
Olive Laurent 55 5 10,375
Andrew Schultz 56 3 10,300
Ed Bender 26 1 10,250
Andrew Boccia 1 4 9,725
Shahin Moshirian 35 8 9,600
Jeremy Menard 9 1 8,875
Mats Båtnes 56 2 8,800
Søren Nielsen 56 7 8,475
Matt Sterling 57 3 8,000
Clayton Newman 14 3 7,700
Gary Blaby 59 4 7,425
Craig Loucks 58 9 7,300
Hugo Meijer 53 7 7,125
David Morgan 54 6 6,250
Mitesh Anjaria 9 4 5,875
James Crockett 1 9 4,400
James Akenhead 6 9 575