WSOP-E 2009, sponsored by Betfair

[TightEnd]

Meanwhile, I am reminded to remind you that Phil Hellmuth will enter the tournament scene at 12pm today as Julius Caesar, on a Chariot.

Consider yourself reminded.

[NoflopsHomer]

The 3rd event of the WSOPE came down to a gruelling headsup battle between Jani Vilmunen and Howard Lederer.  Both players fought hard through the early rounds and at one point it looked like it would be an all Finnish finish.  Jani Vilmunen walked away with £204,048.

Vilmunen won the WCOOP Omaha event on Stars recently, so this is a spectacular double 

WSOPE 2009 Event 3 $5000 PL Omaha Poker final standings
1 Jani Vilmunen
2 Howard Lederer
3 Aarno Kiveli
4 Ross Boatman
5 Ville Haavisto
6 Daniel Hindin
7 Roberto Romanello
8 Jeffery Kimber
9 Robert Williamson III

Betfair has been sponsoring the WSOPE this year and they are giving away a free seat to the main event.  You need to play at Betfair and you stand a chance of winning the seat.  New and existing active players are entered into a draw.  You need to be available to play on day 1B.  You have until 5.00pm on Saturday 26th Sept to play a single raked hand on Betfair when the chance to enter the draw ends.

Day1a of the WSOPE Main Event begins Saturday 12pm

gg Tighty, that's Theo Jorgensen, last year's PLO winner.

[tikay]

An opportune moment to remind everyone of blonde's gratitude to Betfair, who are sponsoring this Board.

Here's the winner of the Betfair-sponsored WSOPO-E PLO.

[mj2c]

Are they putting any streams up? And if not have they said why not. A bit disappointed this year.

[doubleup]

Meanwhile, I am reminded to remind you that Phil Hellmuth will enter the tournament scene at 12pm today as Julius Caesar, on a Chariot.

Consider yourself reminded.

promoting UB in the UK is actually a criminal offence under the gambling act, don't suppose the authorities will do anything about it tho.

[TightEnd]

WSOPE Event Number 4
WSOP Gold Bracelet Number 61
Buy-In £10,000 (= $16,020 USD)
Game No-Limit Hold'em
Number of Entries TBD
Net Prize Pool TBD
First Place Prize Money TBD
Total Places Paid TBD
Dates: 26 September to 1 October 2009

End Day One Standings -- By Chip Count

Aguiar Jonathan Las Vegas, NV USA 160,100
Akenhead James London, UK 77,675
Andersson Fredrik NA 45,475
Azor Ran Tel Aviv, Israel 47,200
Baldassari Fabrizio Monte Carlo, Monaco 33,250
Bebzimra Christopher Bucharest, Romania 24,350
Beevers Joe Hendon, UK 101,450
Bichon Thomas Paris, France 82,575
Bjorin Chris London, UK 73,350
Bleeker Nick Warmenhuizen, Germany 52,050
Blom Viktor NA 163,175
Bonyadi Farzad Los Angeles, USA 75,150
Brown Chad Las Vegas, NV USA 44,975
Brunson Doyle Las Vegas, NV USA 92,900
Brunson Todd Las Vegas, NV USA 46,050
Buecherl Konstantin Regensburg, Germany 49,000
Campbell Robert Miami, FL USA 21,850
Cantu Brandon Las Vegas, NV USA 89,000
Chen Andrew Mississauga, ON Canada 49,250
Cousineau Anthony Daytona Beach, FL USA 43,000
Decarolis Alfred Los Angeles, USA 63,400
Demjan Shandoi Budapest, Hungary 64,000
Dickstein Mark New York, NY USA 47,825
Docherty David Coatbridge, Scotland 81,350
Drexel Thor London, UK 53,900
Duerr Michael Palm City, FL USA 40,475
Ebanks Joe NA USA 49,175
Filippi Arron Eric New York, NY USA 76,000
Frazer Ian London, UK 32,750
Friberg Eric Stockholm, Sweden 49,475
Golser Markus Vienna, Austria 65,025
Goodwin Marc Birmingham, UK 50,375
Gould Peter London, UK 70,400
Grace Richard Wellington, New Zealand 116,850
Griffin Ashton Lake Worth, FL USA 74,875
Hansen Martin Bjerringbro, Denmark 152,775
Harder Christian Annapolis, MD USA 134,125
Hellmuth Phil Palo Alto, USA 18,450
Hicks Kenneth Huntington, WV USA 21,100
Houghton Laurence London, UK 78,950
Jacobs Lawrence New York, NY USA 50,025
Janneh Hativ Banjul, Gambia (West Africa) 33,625
Kabbaj John London, UK 104,500
Kelopuro Sami Monte Carlo, Monaco 168,925
Keston Robin London, UK 67,100
Kilman Arkady London, UK 26,775
Kravchenko Alexander Moscow, Russia 31,100
Kyllonen Jens Helsinki, Finland 84,325
La Hieu Van Siagon, Vietnam 34,550
Lavalee Jason Montreal, QB Canada 39,475
Lieu Liz Las Vegas, NV USA 65,600
Margets Leo London, UK 19,300
Marigliano Marcelo Milan, Italy 55,725
Matusow Mike Las Vegas, NV USA 28,900
Mc Nulty Thad Jacksonville, FL USA 8,950
McNulty John Jacksonville, FL USA 36,750
Mercier Jason Fort Lauderdale, FL USA 189,725
Montgomery Scott Ottowa, ON Canada 18,225
Munns Ian London, UK 99,475
Naujoks Sandra Berlin, Germany 40,225
Nguyen Men "the Master" Bell Gardens, USA 43,200
Paez Corral Raul Barcelona, Spain 23,750
Pavlicek Tommy London, UK 119,825
Plens Jonathan Toronto, ON Canada 6,900
Powell Brian Louisville, KY USA 194,600
Riaz Nadeem Rome, GA USA 40,675
Schulmann Nicholas New York, NY USA 31,000
Seidel Erik Las Vegas, NV USA 9,925
Shulman Barry Las Vegas, NV USA 80,250
Tom Phil "Chairman" Las Vegas, NV USA 44,950
Traniello Marco Las Vegas, NV USA 33,000
Van Til Johan Groningen, The Netherlands 26,325
Wang Michael Livingston, NJ USA 38,850
Wice Alex Toronto, ON Canada 92,300
Wilf Saar Tel Aviv, Israel 22,950

[TightEnd]

DAY ONE FILLED WITH SEVERAL HIGHLIGHTS



The first day of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event has come to an end. A total of 156 players from more than two dozen different nations paid a £10,000 entry fee and competed in the first of two starting flights. £10,000 (GBP) is equal to about $16,000 (USD). After more than 12 hours of play on day one, Brian Powell, from Louisville, KY USA emerged as the early chip leader.



The day was filled with several highlights. During an early break in the action, WSOP President and Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack presented poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro with his prize for winning 2009 World Series of Poker “Player of the Year” honors. Lisandro, who won a record-tying three gold bracelets in events earlier this year in Las Vegas, received a whopping three buy-ins into future WSOP Main Events. He will freeroll the 2010, 2011, and 2012 world poker championships, courtesy of Harrah’s Entertainment. Lisandro’s award is valued at more than $30,000.



A short time later, Jani Vilmunen, from Helsinki, Finland was officially presented with his first gold bracelet in a special ceremony. Vilmunen became only the second Finnish player in history to win a WSOP title when he earned his victory (and $330,000 in prize money) in the Pot-Limit Hold’em championship held the previous day. The ceremony honoring Vilmunen was the final such observance of the year. In 2009, for the first time ever, all WSOP gold bracelet winners were honored with ceremonies in what promises to become a popular WSOP tradition.



The day officially began with Doyle Brunson performing the traditional “Shuffle Up and Deal” honors. Jeffrey Pollack introduced Brunson by saying, “Doyle was there in Las Vegas at the very start of the WSOP forty years ago. Doyle was also with us when we started WSOP Europe three years ago in London. And, we are proud to have him with us today.” Predictably, Brunson’s introduction received a standing ovation from players and spectators.



But the spotlight was certainly eclipsed if not stolen outright by none other than 11-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Replicating his grand entrance into a WSOP event earlier this year held at the Rio in Las Vegas, something which has now become a Hellmuthian custom, the poker bombast was clad in full regalia as a Roman gladiator and rode through Leicester Square in Central London on a chariot drawn by a white horse. As if that was not enough pomp and circumstance, Hellmuth was encircled by several muscled centurions and concubines wearing white dresses. “It’s great to be me,” the poker legend mused. Hellmuth’s grand arrival brought a mix of gasps, laughter, and puzzled stares from the thousands of people gathered around London’s theatre district witnessing the spectacle.



Next, Hellmuth entered Empire Casino much like Nero burning through Rome, oblivious to the ongoing tournament and taking his seat at the televised feature table. The bizarre spectacle was ornamented by an army of faux Roman soldiers erect and pretty girls standing at attention, while trumpets blared. Meanwhile, Doyle Brunson, who was positioned at the same feature table with Hellmuth and had his back to the entire Romanesque ordeal, could only muster half smile and shake his head with an unconcealed sense of bewilderment.



Notable players who survived day one included – Chris Bjorin, Farzad Bonyadi, Chad Brown, Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Brandon Cantu, Tony Cousineau, Eric Friberg, Peter Gould, Phil Hellmuth, John Kabbaj, Alex Kravchenko, Liz Lieu, Mike Matusow, Jason Mercier, Scott Montgomery, Men “the Master” Nguyen, Nick Schulmann, Barry Shulman, Erik Seidel, Phil Tom, and Marco Traniello.



Notable players who did not survive day one included – Jeff Madsen, Hoyt Corkins, Dario Alioto, Max Pescatori, Robert Mizrachi, Roland de Wolfe, Vanessa Rousso, David Pham, Huck Seed, Barny Boatman, Phil Ivey, Dario Minieri, and Andy Bloch.



The WSOP Europe Main Event continues tomorrow – on Sunday. It’s not too late to still register and play. Players may register for WSOP Main Event championship as late as the end of Level 2, on day two. Registration is projected to close at about 3:40 pm on Sunday.



World Series of Poker Europe championship event coverage and results continues tomorrow and will run daily through 2 October.



-- Nolan Dalla

[iwillwinlots]

is there a live feed for wsope?

[TightEnd]

is there a live feed for wsope?

Live updates on www.betfair.com/poker

No feed that I know of

[cambo]

i see the camel has a decent stack

[tikay]

End of Day One Standings -- By Chip Count         
         
CHIP COUNT   TABLE   SEAT   PLAYER
194600   13   4   Powell, Brian
189725   3   7   Mercier, Jason
168925   2   4   Kelopuro, Sami
166825   3   3   Zolotow, Stephen
163175   20   3   Blom, Viktor
160100   16   9   Aguiar, Jonathan
155450   10   4   Bassi, Praz
152775   11   5   Hansen, Martin
144400   14   7   Saout, Antoine
134125   2   2   Harder, Christian
127450   16   1   Dedic, Lubor
120750   13   1   Ristola, Markus
119825   11   9   Pavlicek, Tommy
118000   5   4   Fung, Steven
116850   18   7   Grace, Richard
114450   11   1   Kruel, Christian
113625   5   7   Vaswarni, Ram
108050   3   8   Reinkemeier, Tobias
104500   12   1   Kabbaj, John
102850   10   3   Nordkvist, Joel
101450   18   9   Beevers, Joe
99475   1   6   Munns, Ian
92900   16   6   Brunson, Doyle
92300   1   1   Wice, Alex
91050   18   1   Fasco, Michael
89500   6   1   Lichtenberger, Andrew
89000   8   5   Cantu, Brandon
88925   7   4   Negreanu, Daniel
87500   5   2   Boeken, Noah
86800   20   2   Chinni, Jesse
84325   3   6   Kyllonen, Jens
82575   16   5   Bichon, Thomas
81350   3   9   Docherty, David
80650   7   7   Vilmunen, Jani
80250   9   1   Shulman, Barry
79200   2   6   Helppi, Juha
78950   16   2   Houghton, Laurence
78850   19   2   Tabatabai, John
78800   15   6   Millar, Alex
78025   8   1   Monnette, John
77675   19   8   Akenhead, James
76925   11   8   John, Simon
76000   10   5   Filippi, Arron Eric
75150   4   6   Bonyadi, Farzad
74875   5   1   Griffin, Ashton
73550   16   3   Esfadiari, Antonio
73350   5   8   Bjorin, Christer
73175   15   8   Hawrilenko, Matt
73100   4   4   Stout, Matt
72875   4   8   Berg, Elijah
72625   11   4   Vedes, Tommy
72475   13   3   Hawkins, Keith
72350   14   1   Adams, Brandon
70400   14   3   Gould, Peter
70050   3   1   Keating, Alex
69125   1   8   Elliot, Chris
67100   18   6   Keston, Robin
66900   9   3   Ruya, Sargon
66650   20   6   Burgess, Craig
65600   19   3   Lieu, Elizabeth
65025   12   5   Golser, Markus
64925   14   9   Montury, Jean
64425   7   5   Persaud, Nikhil
64200   6   2   Keys, J
64000   17   7   Demjan, Shandoi
63400   18   3   Decarolis, Alfred
61325   6   8   Herbert, Richard
60900   4   9   Riisem, Oyvind
57975   18   4   Schmejkal, Moritz
56900   19   6   Deeb, Kassem
56350   9   5   Levy, Steven
55725   17   2   Marigliano, Marcelo
54625   6   9   Tureniec, Michael
54425   13   7   Charter, Samuel
53900   17   6   Drexel, Thor
52975   3   5   Smith, Daniel
52400   8   4   Obrestad, Annette
52050   15   7   Bleeker, Nick
50375   9   7   Goodwin, Marc
50025   10   1   Jacobs, Lawrence
49800   12   6   Ulliott, Dave
49475   12   3   Friberg, Eric
49250   15   4   Chen, Andrew
49175   9   2   Ebanks, Joe
49000   19   7   Buecherl, Konstantin
47825   7   6   Dickstein, Mark
47200   17   5   Azor, Ran
46050   1   3   Brunson, Todd
45475   12   7   Andersson, Fredrik
44975   10   9   Brown, Chad
44975   15   3   Trickett, S
44950   8   7   Tom, Philip
44300   3   2   Mahrenholz, Karl
44175   15   1   Chan, Terrance
44100   18   8   Behbehani, Salman
43200   17   3   NGuyen, Men
43000   7   3   Cousineau, Anthony
42450   13   8   Roberts, Ben
42450   12   2   Wooka, Kim
41675   11   6   Smith, Justin
40950   10   8   Obst, James
40675   16   7   Riaz, Nadeem
40500   1   9   Aaltonen, Jari
40475   11   3   Duerr, Michael
40225   3   4   Naujoks, Sandra
39475   6   5   Lavalee, Jason
38875   15   9   Johnson, Carl
38850   2   5   Wang, Micheal
38000   9   6   Wong, Danny
37825   13   6   James, Kenna
37800   6   7   Liu, Eric
37500   10   2   Deeb, Shaun
37025   10   6   Akery, Rob
36900   8   3   Summerville, Jason
36750   4   5   McNulty, John
36050   4   1   Aaretti Sahamies, Ilari
35675   4   3   Gant, David
35250   17   1   Nevanlinna, Jussi
35200   18   5   Mattern, Arnauld
34675   19   4   Tafur, Daniel
34550   20   2   La, Hieu Van
34250   15   2   Akkari, Andre
34150   12   4   Chapman, Michael
33625   14   8   Janneh, Hativ
33350   6   6   Sheringham, Teddy
33250   15   5   Baldassari, Fabrizio
33075   14   5   Johansson, Christer
33000   19   1   Traniello, Marco
32975   4   7   Kettunen, Henri
32750   1   7   Frazer, Ian
32350   16   4   McCormick, Thomas
32325   19   5   Charania, Mohsin
32200   7   8   Kjerstad, Stephen
31525   10   7   Oppenheim, David
31400   8   8   Koskinen, Ilkka
31100   7   9   Kravchenko, Alexander
31100   14   4   mahagitsiri, Chalermchai
31000   6   3   Dehkharghani, Raymond
31000   5   3   Schulmann, Nicholas
30500   18   2   Potter, Brian
29675   14   2   Timoshenko, Yevgeniy
28900   20   4   Matusow, Mike
28875   11   7   Kuerschner, Mathias
28800   12   8   Phillips, Dennis
28525   17   8   Juanda, Johnson
28250   5   6   Willis, Robert
26775   7   2   Kilman, Arkady
26325   11   2   Van Til, Johan
25850   2   7   Williams, David
24350   1   4   Bebzimra, Christopher
23750   1   2   Paez Corral, raul
23125   2   3   Jung, Willie
22950   1   5   Wilf, Saar
22150   9   4   Milisits, Ryan
22000   7   1   Chen, Benny
21925   5   5   Unga, Tapani
21850   4   2   Campbell, Robert
21100   8   2   Hicks, Kenneth
20075   2   1   Drescher, Daniel
19300   13   5   Margets, Leo
19275   5   9   Gould, Josh
19075   2   9   Keogh, Anthony
18450   20   7   Hellmuth, Phil
18225   17   4   Montgomery, Scott
18000   8   9   Erlandsen, Morten
17750   12   9   Reynolds, Jonathan
15075   9   8   Alaei, Daniel
12675   6   4   Nishijima, Thiago
11475   2   8   Thew, Julian
10325   14   6   Comer, Micheal
10000   20   5   Binger, Micheal
9925   13   9   Seidel, Eric
8950   16   8   Mc Nulty, Thad
7675   13   2   Lederer, Howard
7150   8   6   Irsberg, Jacob
6925   9   9   Greenstein, Barry
6900   17   9   Plens, Jonathan
5600   20   8   Cassidy, Joe
0              NA           NA             Cos Papertits

[MC]

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lol...

[The Camel]

FML. The chip leader, who by all accounts is an excellent player, is one to my left today.

[MC]

FML. The chip leader, who by all accounts is an excellent player, is one to my left today.

GL today Keith!

[GreekStein]

0              NA           NA             Cos Papertits

Sick rub - Love it!