WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

[TightEnd]

Event 2 final table

Seat 1: David Baker - 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev - 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda - 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000

Cashers so far

9     Nick Schulman           152,739
10    Alexander Kostritsyn    152,739
11    Abe Mosseri       129,957
12    Lyle Berman       129,957
13    Brett Richey       113,030
14    Allen Bari               113,030
15    Ilya Bulychev       98,330
16    Andy Bloch       98,330

[outragous76]

Event 2 final table

Seat 1: David Baker - 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev - 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda - 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000

Cashers so far

9     Nick Schulman           152,739
10    Alexander Kostritsyn    152,739
11    Abe Mosseri       129,957
12    Lyle Berman       129,957
13    Brett Richey       113,030
14    Allen Bari               113,030
15    Ilya Bulychev       98,330
16    Andy Bloch       98,330

Looking good for The Grinder with a NLHE only final table

[DaveShoelace]

Event 2 final table

Seat 1: David Baker - 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz - 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev - 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda - 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei - 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi - 2,620,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim - 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi - 3,125,000

Cashers so far

9     Nick Schulman           152,739
10    Alexander Kostritsyn    152,739
11    Abe Mosseri       129,957
12    Lyle Berman       129,957
13    Brett Richey       113,030
14    Allen Bari               113,030
15    Ilya Bulychev       98,330
16    Andy Bloch       98,330

Looking good for The Grinder with a NLHE only final table

Christ have they done that again? I wondered how they would play triple draw at a full table.

Oh well, swallow my disgust, good for TV etc

[TightEnd]

Press release


2010 represents the seventh year for the WSOP Player of the Year, and bets are already being taken on who will win the coveted title. Many consider it the most prestigious tournament award of all because it rewards consistency and a player’s ability to do well in all types of events. The prize is tailor-made to the individual winner. The first year, when Toyota was the sponsor, that car was the prize. In succeeding years, Erik Lindgren got a custom Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Jeffrey Lisandro received three WSOP Main Event buy-ins.

With the bracelet events just underway – it is wide open. But within the next week, the stalking horses will emerge and the rest of the pack will do their best to maneuver themselves into contention. Let the games begin.

Here is how the POY is decided. Points are awarded to everyone who cashes in a WSOP open tournament (except for the Employees, Ladies and Seniors), with the number of points based on the type of event and how high a player finishes. At the end of the WSOP, the player with the most points is crowned Player of the Year. There are four different points models. Normal events, called the Standard Points Model, award 100 points for first place, 75 for second, 60 for third, etc., down to five points for anyone who cashes 28th or lower. The limit and no-limit shootout events and the heads-up tournament have somewhat different structures, though all start with 100 points for the winner.

The first winner was Daniel Negreanu, followed by Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen, Tom Schneider, Eric Lindgren and Jeffrey Lisandro. Here is a rundown of the achievements and background of each year’s winners.

Daniel “The Kid” Negreanu is one of the most recognizable, popular and successful superstars in the world of poker. In taking down the first POY award in 2004, he won a bracelet in $2,000 Limit Hold’em, made five final tables and had a total of six cashes. Negreanu, born in Toronto, Canada, started playing when he was 15, and was so confident of his ability that at age 21 he dropped out of college, just one credit shy of graduation, moving to Las Vegas to become a full-time poker player. To date, his total tournament cashes worldwide exceed $12 million. He has a total of four WSOP bracelets. He won his first in 1998 for Pot Limit Hold’em, becoming at that time the youngest bracelet winner in WSOP history. Negreanu has his own online poker school, has written numerous articles on poker, contributed to Doyle Brunson’s “Super System II,” and has appeared on various poker game shows.

In 2005, Allen Cunningham’s five cashes included a win in $1,500 No Limit Hold’em, and his four others were all at final tables. Cunningham, 33, is married to another well-known poker pro, Melissa Hayden. He was a civil engineering student at UCLA before dropping out to pursue a career in poker, and his polite and unassuming demeanor at the table has earned him the respect of his peers. His more than $10 million in total cashes include five bracelets, and he demonstrated his versatility by winning all of them in different events. His other four were for $5,000 Seven Card Stud in 2001; $5,000 Deuce to Seven Lowball in 2002; $1,000 No Limit Hold’em with re-buys in 2006; and $5,000 Pot Limit Hold’em in 2007. His biggest cash was $3,628,513 when he finished fourth in the Main Event in 2006. Other notable cash-outs include a $300,000 “Mega Match” victory on “Poker. After Dark” and a $499,162 win in the championship event of the WSOP Circuit at Caesars Palace in 2008.

Jeff Madsen earned his POY title in 2006 by winning two bracelets. One was a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event that paid $660,948, the other a $5,000 short-handed No Limit Hold’em tourney that paid $643,381. He also made two additional final tables, including a third in $2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo. At the time he won his first bracelet, a month past his 21st birthday, he was the youngest ever to do so, and is still the youngest to win two in one year. A resident of Los Angeles, Madsen gained fame in baseball before doing so in poker. He was a member of the Pacific Palisades High Dolphins team that won the City Invitational Baseball Championship at Dodgers Stadium. (That was also the same school that Chris Ferguson had attended.) The 25-year-old pro earlier this year won the championship event of the Borgata Winter Open, and his prize of $625,006 pushed his career earnings past the $3 million mark.

The next POY winner, in 2007, was Tom Schneider. He racked up two wins, in a $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha and Seven Card Stud Hi Lo event, and a $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi Lo tournament, along with a fourth in $2,500 H.O.R.S.E. Schneider, 50, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he learned poker at age 10, playing with his mother and friends. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was a certified public accountant and also chief financial officer and president of three Arizona companies before turning to poker in 2002. Schneider’s total cashes to date are more $1.6 million. He is the author of a book called “Oops! I won Too Much Money: Winning Wisdom from the Boardroom to the Poker Room” which combines both business and poker advice. He is also co-host of a poker podcast and a contributing columnist at Pokerati.

Erik Lindgren, 33, earned his POY title in 2008 by winning one bracelet in Limit/No Limit Hold’em, along with a third in a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event paying $781,440, a fourth in $5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball, a 10th in $1,500 Limit Hold’em and 18th in the $10,000 championship No Limit Heads Up event. Lindgren, originally from Burnley, California, where he was a football and basketball star in high school, now lives in Las Vegas. He began playing poker in his spare time while working as a blackjack dealer in an Indian casino in northern California, eventually becoming a full-time pro playing in tournaments worldwide. Lindgren is the author of “World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table.” His total tournament cashes now exceed $7 million.

And last year, Jeffrey Lisandro ran off with the POY award by winning three bracelets, in $1,500 Seven Card Stud, $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi Lo, and $2,500 Seven Card Razz. He also had a ninth in the $10,000 world championship Seven Card Stud event, along with cashes in $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo and $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha. Lisandro is something of a world traveler. He was born in Perth, Australia, later lived in Salerno, Italy, now owns a home in Santa Barbara, California, but still calls Salerno his home. Lisandro, whose nickname is “The Iceman” for his calculating demeanor while playing, was a real estate investor before turning to poker full time. He learned poker from his mother at age five and is considered one of the world’s best cash game players. His tournament wins now exceed $4 million. He also won a bracelet in $2,000 Seven Card Stud in 2007.

[TightEnd]

Press release

The $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship played down to eight finalists late Monday night. The chip leader entering the final table is former WSOP gold bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi, from Miramar, FL. He won the $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Championship in 2007. The finale will be played starting on Tuesday afternoon.
When players take the ESPN Main Stage most of the attention will undoubtedly focus on mega-stacked Mizrachi and his younger brother Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi, who made it to the final table of a WSOP event together for the first time.

Robert, age 31, is nearly three years older than his brother Michael. Both players are well-respected and highly-accomplished poker pros who have been playing on the tournament circuit for several years. For the Mizrachi family, this is certainly a fairy-tale, with a potential storybook finish.

In the 41-year history of the WSOP, siblings have only made it to a final table together on two previous occasions. In 1995, Annie Duke finished sixth in the Pot-Limit Hold'em championship. Brother Howard Lederer finished in ninth place in that same event. Seven years later in 2002, Ross Boatman and Barney Boatman finished seventh and ninth respectively in the Pot-Limit Omaha event.

Currently in second place is David Baker, a 25-year-old poker pro from Rochester Hills, MI. This marks Baker's fifth time to cash in a WSOP event. His best previous showing was a 15th-place finish in last year's $40,000 buy-in 40th Anniversary Championship. He has accumulated in excess of $500,000 winnings overall in poker tournaments. This marks his first time in the WSOP spotlight.

This final table includes an interesting mix of nationalities and different playing styles. There will be six Americans, one Swede, and one Russian. The eight finalists and their current chip counts are as follows:
Seat 1: David Baker (Rochester Hills, MI) -- 3,095,000
Seat 2: Mikael Thuritz (Stockholm, Sweden) -- 2,300,000
Seat 3: Vladimir Schmelev (St. Petersburg, Russia) -- 1,925,000
Seat 4: John Juanda (Las Vegas, NV) -- 2,620,000
Seat 5: Daniel Alaei (Los Angeles, ) -- 1,705,000
Seat 6: Michael Mizrachi (Miramar, FL) -- 2,175,000
Seat 7: David Oppenheim (Los Angeles, ) -- 460,000
Seat 8: Robert Mizrachi (Miramar, FL) -- 3,125,000

Final table action can followed at the official WSOP website, at the following link:

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updat...23&dayof=1362

The inaugural Poker Players Championship is the successor to the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, which began in 2006. That first tournament was won by poker legend David "Chip" Reese. Following his death, the tournament was played in his honor. The official "Chip Reese Memorial Trophy," presented to the winner, is inscribed with each champion's name.

Eight different games are played in the Poker Players Championship, making it the ultimate test of all-around poker skill. The games played in rotation are: Triple-Draw Deuce-to-Seven Lowball, Limit Hold'em, Omaha High-Low Split/Eight-or-Better, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Split/Eight-or-Better, Pot-Limit Omaha, and No-Limit Hold'em.

This year's tournament began with 116 entries, up from last year's number which attracted 95 participants. Among them were 54 former WSOP gold bracelet winners. Eight different nations were also represented, including the United States, Russia, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. The prize pool this year exploded by more than $1 million over last year's figure. The top 16 tournament finishers will split up $5,568,000 in prize money. The winner receives $1,559,046, the coveted gold bracelet encrusted with diamonds, plus poker immortality.

The defending champion was David Bach, who was eliminated on the second of five playing days. Other former champions Freddy Deeb (2007) and Scotty Nguyen (2008) also failed to make the money. However, among those who did cash were former WSOP gold bracelet winners Abe Mosseri who finished 11th and Lyle Berman who finished 12th. The unfortunate "bubble" finisher was former gold bracelet winner Kirk Morrison, who was stung by ending up one spot away from a $98,330 payout (for 16th place).

All players who survived to this point are guaranteed at least $182,463. ESPN will film the final table for broadcast on July 27th, from 5-7 pm PST.
Final table play begins Tuesday at 3 pm PST and will be played on the ESPN main stage, which is located inside the Amazon Room at the Rio. Seating is open to spectators over the age of 21.

[DaveShoelace]

The whole field was distracted for a few minutes by a bizarre scene on the rail. One of the players wives was sitting behind the ropes watching her husband play. All of a sudden the husband jumped out of his seat and started shouting at a man on the rail. It turns out he hit the woman in the head, she said intentionally, he said otherwise. All of the spectators jumped in with their opinions, the woman burst into tears, and the volume of the kerfuffle kept climbing. It took multiple security guards and floor managers staff to calm down the player and his wife, lead away the accused hitter, and diffuse the situation.

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2010-wsop/event-4/post.54445.htm?page=4

Omaha hi/lo event, reckon this could be the drama year of the WSOP after that fella that got banned for life, how long till we see a Hellmuth or Fullflush acts like a twat story I wonder?

[claypole]

Moorman is 3rd in the $1500, still just over 200 runners left so a long way to go but a great start - him and Prash in the the top 10....

Meanwhile I am off to play ,my first final table of the 10 day trip - sods law it's the smallest buy in and field to date!  After getting my KK busted in the $100 at Ri on Sunday, I played the $340 at Venetian, 750 runners and crashed out just in time to get into the $340 at Caesars as an alternate.  $340, 159 runners $12k ish up top.  I am short but back at 2pm....gll me

[LeedsRhodesy]

moorman in CL now

[ChipRich]

Interview with Chris here:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid24178865001?bclid=24196480001&bctid=89405581001

iwwil, but gl moom.

[JaffaCake]

praz is chippy, moorman third, 90 left

[DaveShoelace]

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2010-wsop/event-5/#post-54988

Moorman out I'm afraid

[DaveShoelace]

While watching John "Tex" Barch double up, Allen Kessler came darting over to make sure we got what was going on at Table 334. There was a dispute betweel Raphael Zimmerman and the other players at the table on whether or not there was another round of draws left. Zimmerman was heads up with an opponent and believed that he still had one draw. Zimmerman's opponent thought the hand was over and had tabled the . Zimmerman made a solid case to the floor staff and his argument was granted a look on the surveillance tape to get the correct ruling.

Knowing that this could take a while, the players at the table began to complain and wanted the clock paused because they would lose some very valuable time and hands due to the process involved. At the current time, Zimmerman couldn't beat his opponent's hand so the staff and players decided to give Zimmerman his next draw. If he failed to beat his opponent's hand, it wouldn't matter whether there was no draws left or one and they could move on. Instead, Zimmerman pulled a  to make the  and now was ahead. Therefore, going to the cameras was a must. After arguing about that for a little bit, David Baker suggested that the pot at hand be put to the side and the next hand continued on. Zimmerman and his opponent had enough chips that it was suggested they may not go broke in the next few hands so they could continue to play without the controversial pot awarded yet. Zimmerman objected to this and the wait for the ruling was on.

After several minutes of standing around and talking about what all the commotion was about, the ruling finally came back. It was ruled that Zimmerman was indeed correct that there was one more draw to be had and his wound up winning the pot with his seventy-six. The other player let Zimmerman have it a bit after the hand, claiming that he cried and complained and should just keep quiet.

Zimmerman won the pot and now has 25,000 chips as action resumed back to normal.

http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2010-wsop/event-7/post.55052.htm




This could be a pointless question given that live triple draw doesnt happen much at all anywhere, but does the dealer do anything to remind themselves how many draws have been made? Like a burn card for each draw or something? I'd assume so because the above seems like a daft mistake to make.

[Marky147]

I see Stu, James Akenhead and Neil Channing all won their first table in the 5k shootout.

GOGOGO!

[gatso]

This could be a pointless question given that live triple draw doesnt happen much at all anywhere, but does the dealer do anything to remind themselves how many draws have been made? Like a burn card for each draw or something? I'd assume so because the above seems like a daft mistake to make.

if they're burning then they should be doing it before each draw so unless they've been heads up all the way that may not help. also depending on the number of discards the burns may well have been shuffled back into the deck

[TightEnd]

Michael Mizrachi wins Event 2 the Players Championship

the final hand

Michael Mizrachi moves all in from the button and this time Vladimir Schmelev makes the call.

Mizrachi: Q-5

Schmelev: Q-8

The crowd is chanting for a five, but there is nothing on 9-6-4 the flop.

However their faith is rewarded on the turn and a huge roar erupts as the 5 falls! Schmelev is left needing a seven or eight to survive but it isn't to be as a 4 hits the river and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is our champion!

Congratulations to Vladimir Schmelev who put in a tremendous tournament and solid final table to just fall short at the final hurdle. He'll take home $963,375 for an amazing tournament.