WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

[TightEnd]

Poor Ben Blackmore- cashes in 10k plo and 10k main and still isnt acknowledged

Well he is now. Probably because I don't know him, or that he is a Brit

[Royal Flush]

Poor Ben Blackmore- cashes in 10k plo and 10k main and still isnt acknowledged

Paiiiii me

[Dry em]

8 million $ wouldnt make me happy knowing that i blew it with shoenburg, shudve gone to the gym dave

It should do - have you seen the state of his new bird? 10x hotter imo

[snoopy1239]

8 million $ wouldnt make me happy knowing that i blew it with shoenburg, shudve gone to the gym dave

It should do - have you seen the state of his new bird? 10x hotter imo

I have. I nearly gepspunkened onto my notepad.

[TightEnd]

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It's getting to that stage of the World Series Main Event when some really big stacks emerge. Not just big in a numerical sense (although plenty are that too) but physically big, tower upon tower of multi-coloured chips behind which their owner appears to shrink.

Some people suit the big stack better than others - think about it for a moment and there's some player you just can't imagine with millions of chips. Some, however, seem as though they were born into a crib of chips, they are so accustomed to the mighty stack.

The Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly falls into that second category. He is to the big stack born. Pretty much ever since Kelly has been playing poker, his baby face has been peeking over almighty walls of chips: "Kelly Was Here".

There is, of course, good reason for that. Pretty much ever since Kelly has been old enough to play poker, he has been winning tournaments. As a 23-year-old last summer, he came to Vegas and won the $1,500 pot limit hold 'em bracelet at the World Series.

Back in his native Britain, he then won his second bracelet of the year at the WSOP-E in London. Those successes were each worth in the neighbourhood of $200,000. Big chips mean big cheques.

Kelly is still alive in the Main Event this year, and unsurprisingly he's sitting with piles of chips. He was one quarter of a devastatingly difficult line of players on the secondary feature table yesterday, but the others (Gavin Smith, Jorge Arias and Dan Harrington) have all departed - further proof that Kelly is more than capable of holding his own among the big boys.

Kelly has already secured his third cash of this Series. The cheques just keep getting bigger from hereon.

[Sighmuns]

Bansi Folds to Seven-Bet Shove

Posted 17 hours 24 minutes ago by change100

The hand started innocently enough, but ended with Praz Bansi losing about 35% of his chips without even seeing a flop.

The action was folded around to Bansi in late position. He opened for 14,000 and Ryan Eriquezzo three-bet to 36,000. Both blinds folded and Bansi came back over the top for 88,000. Eriquezzo five-bet to 150,000, Bansi put in a sixth raise to 300,000 and Eriquezzo moved all-in for about 900,000 total. He had Bansi covered.

Bansi thought for an eternity before giving up his hand and saving his last 530,000 for a better spot.

"Weeeeeeee!" said Eriquezzo, rubbing salt in the wound as he showed the . He's up to 1.25 million

Sry to see that Praz busted later in the day, but I'm pretty shocked with this hand. Wondering if anyone can shed any light on wtf happened here?  

Obv there was some history between them, but i'd love to hear more about it...

[titaniumbean]

Where's Benyamines new bird, pic?


And surely that's just going to be spew from banzi?

[DungBeetle]

Bansi Folds to Seven-Bet Shove

Posted 17 hours 24 minutes ago by change100

The hand started innocently enough, but ended with Praz Bansi losing about 35% of his chips without even seeing a flop.

The action was folded around to Bansi in late position. He opened for 14,000 and Ryan Eriquezzo three-bet to 36,000. Both blinds folded and Bansi came back over the top for 88,000. Eriquezzo five-bet to 150,000, Bansi put in a sixth raise to 300,000 and Eriquezzo moved all-in for about 900,000 total. He had Bansi covered.

Bansi thought for an eternity before giving up his hand and saving his last 530,000 for a better spot.

"Weeeeeeee!" said Eriquezzo, rubbing salt in the wound as he showed the . He's up to 1.25 million

Sry to see that Praz busted later in the day, but I'm pretty shocked with this hand. Wondering if anyone can shed any light on wtf happened here?  

Obv there was some history between them, but i'd love to hear more about it...

"I moved table after that," he continued, "and when I arrived, they were kinda talking about me like I could play and was capable of being a bit crazy. When I got A-K I made a standard raise and this Internet kid three-bet to 46,000. I thought he could have any two so reraised to 88,000, but he made it 150,000. I then raised again to 280,000 and he shoved all in for 900,000. I thought about it for a while, but folded and he had tens, which put me back down to 550,000. I wasn't that keen on his play to be honest, but I couldn't see how he could be making this move without a big hand. I really didn't want to go out of the Main Event with A-K."

[Royal Flush]

Bansi Folds to Seven-Bet Shove

Posted 17 hours 24 minutes ago by change100

The hand started innocently enough, but ended with Praz Bansi losing about 35% of his chips without even seeing a flop.

The action was folded around to Bansi in late position. He opened for 14,000 and Ryan Eriquezzo three-bet to 36,000. Both blinds folded and Bansi came back over the top for 88,000. Eriquezzo five-bet to 150,000, Bansi put in a sixth raise to 300,000 and Eriquezzo moved all-in for about 900,000 total. He had Bansi covered.

Bansi thought for an eternity before giving up his hand and saving his last 530,000 for a better spot.

"Weeeeeeee!" said Eriquezzo, rubbing salt in the wound as he showed the . He's up to 1.25 million

Sry to see that Praz busted later in the day, but I'm pretty shocked with this hand. Wondering if anyone can shed any light on wtf happened here? 

Obv there was some history between them, but i'd love to hear more about it...

"I moved table after that," he continued, "and when I arrived, they were kinda talking about me like I could play and was capable of being a bit crazy. When I got A-K I made a standard raise and this Internet kid three-bet to 46,000. I thought he could have any two so reraised to 88,000, but he made it 150,000. I then raised again to 280,000 and he shoved all in for 900,000. I thought about it for a while, but folded and he had tens, which put me back down to 550,000. I wasn't that keen on his play to be honest, but I couldn't see how he could be making this move without a big hand. I really didn't want to go out of the Main Event with A-K."

lol behave

[GreekStein]

Who is Dungbeetle?

[TightEnd]

Day Six Is In The Books: Theo Jorgensen Will Lead Us Into the Home Stretch

Theo Jorgensen leads the 2010 WSOP Main Event

Day 6 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event has come and gone. We got through four and a half levels of play today, which means that we are finally back on track with no more overlapping of levels at the end of the day. Hoorah!

The Main Event remains on track as our field of 205 players has been reduced to the magical number of 78 by the close of play. There were big movers and shakers, in both directions, with perhaps none greater than the fall of the legendary Johnny Chan. Poker fans around the world were excited to see Chan going deep in this event, but his run ended rather abruptly today after running both kings, and then jacks, into opponents' pocket aces. It was too much for even the great Johnny Chan to overcome.

Others to join Chan at the cashier during the day included Phil Galfond, Gualter Salles, Robert Mizrachi, Tristan Wade, JP Kelly, Theo Tran, Jesper Hougaard, Christian Harder, Todd Witteles, Juha Helppi, Ian Gordon and the last woman standing in the field, Breeze Zuckerman, who finished in 121st place.

At the other end of the spectrum, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was amongst the leaders throughout the day to continue his rich form during this series. However he was overtaken in the last level of play by Theo Jorgensen (9,295,000) who will enter Day 7 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event with all of the cameras, attention and pressure as official "chip leader". We'll have the complete and official chip counts for you shortly.

Others still in contention include John Racener, Alexander Kostritsyn, William Thorson, Matt Affleck, Bryn Kenney, David Baker, Scott Clements, David Benyamine, Johnny Lodden, Tony Dunst, Hasan Habib, Peter Jetten and Jean-Robert Bellande.

We'll be back to do it all over again tomorrow as the action kicks off at 12 noon local time. That's all from us at the Rio this evening and we look forward to your company again tomorrow as we reduce the field down to our final 27.

[TightEnd]

Players Info

    Players Left
        78

    Entries
        7319

    Average Chip Stack
        2815000

    Total Chips
        219570000

Top Chip Counts
1    Theo Jorgensen    9,300,000
2    Michael Mizrachi    7,535,000
3    John Racener    7,200,000
4    Jonathan Driscoll    6,570,000
5    William Thorson    6,525,000
6    Matthew Jarvis    6,125,000
7    Edward Ochana    5,950,000
8    Alexander Kostritsyn 5,715,000
9    Cuong Nguyen    5,650,000
10    Joseph Cheong    5,555,000


Some notables

Redmond Lee             2,220,000     

Eric Baldwin       2,135,000    

David Benyamine         1,540,000

Scott Clements           1,085,000

Matt Harris          965,000     



Matt Harris, I am told, is a Brit and won his seat in a Broadway casino Live sat

[TightEnd]

JP Kelly finished 111th for $57,000 and change. 10-10 vs Jorgensen's A-J for a 1.8m chip pot


Good result though for JP well played

[titaniumbean]

GOGOGOOO Redmond Lee!

[TightEnd]

Final 27 Set, November Nine Decided Tomorrow

A total of 78 players -- all survivors of six days' worth of poker -- arrived at noon today with hopes of continuing their long and winding tourney journeys. They were the final standing from the starting field of 7,319, and all had already achieved much.

But all wanted more. And just 27 would earn the right to come back tomorrow for the last day of poker this summer in the 2010 WSOP.

Bustouts began shortly after cards went in the air, with Jean-Robert Bellande, Meenakshi Subramaniam, David Benyamine, Peter Jetten, Alexander Kostritsyn, and Tony Dunst among those departing during the first levels.

The pace slowed as the dinner break approached, and with 42 left it was thought it might take a while before we'd get down to three tables.

But then came the fireworks of Level 29 -- specifically the last hour of Level 29, when 11 players were eliminated. It didn't take long after that for Theo Jorgensen, Gianni Direnzo, and Bryn Kenney all to hit the rail, too, each earning $255,242 for getting this far.

As the night wore on, Joseph Cheong and Cuong Nguyen put some distance between themselves and the rest of the field, but there's a formidable bunch behind them, among them Matt Affleck, John Racener, Scott Clements, David Baker, and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi. Mizrachi took some hits early today, but true to his name, grinded his way back into contention, and still (incredibly) has a chance of tying Frank Kassela for WSOP POY with a Main Event victory.