WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

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Players Info

    Players Left
        27

    Entries
        7319

    Average Chip Stack
        8132222

    Total Chips
        219570000

Top Chip Counts
1    Joseph Cheong    24,490,000
2    Cuong Nguyen    23,100,000
3    Pascal LeFrancois 15,780,000
4    Jason Senti    13,550,000
5    Matthew Jarvis    13,300,000
6    Matt Affleck    12,515,000
7    Jonathan Duhamel 10,520,000
8    John Racener    10,470,000
9    Filippo Candio    10,020,000
10    Benjamin Statz    9,885,000


Day 8 Seat Draw


Table 100
Seat 1: Michael Mizrachi (6,300,000)
Seat 2: Scott Clements (7,250,000)
Seat 3: Michiel Sijpkens (7,765,000)
Seat 4: John Dolan (2,175,000)
Seat 5: John Racener (10,470,000)
Seat 6: Brandon Steven (6,045,000)
Seat 7: Redmond Lee (3,315,000)
Seat 8: William Thorson (3,680,000)
Seat 9: Mads Wissing (3,070,000)

Table 101
Seat 1: Johnny Lodden (1,560,000)
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong (24,490,000)
Seat 3: Jason Senti (13,550,000)
Seat 4: Matt Affleck (12,515,000)
Seat 5: Matthew Jarvis (13,300,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Bucaric (2,270,000)
Seat 7: David Baker (6,825,000)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (10,020,000)
Seat 9: Ronnie Bardah (2,525,000)

Table 102
Seat 1: Adam Levy (4,745,000)
Seat 2: Benjamin Statz (9,885,000)
Seat 3: Soi Nguyen (23,100,000)
Seat 4: Duy Le (7,225,000)
Seat 5: Jonathan Duhamel (10,520,000)
Seat 6: Robert Pisano (8,060,000)
Seat 7: Pascal LeFrancois (15,780,000)
Seat 8: Hasan Habib (1,510,000)
Seat 9: Patrick Eskandar (1,655,000)

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Yesterday's exits

28     Bryn Kenney       PokerStars Qualifier      255,242
29    Gianni Direnzo       255,242
30    Theo Jorgensen    PokerStars Sponsored Player    255,242
31    Michael Skender    PokerStars Qualifier    255,242
32    Eduardo Parra    PokerStars Sponsored Player    255,242
33    Corey Emery    PokerStars Qualifier    255,242
34    Edward Ochana    PokerStars Sponsored Player    255,242
35    Gabe Costner       255,242
36    Michal Wywrot       255,242
37    Dag Palovic    PokerStars Sponsored Player    206,395
38    Nicolas Babel    PokerStars Qualifier    206,395
39    Jonathan Driscoll    PokerStars Player    206,395
40    Jakob Toestesen       206,395
41    Damien Luis       206,395
42    Jerry Payne    PokerStars Qualifier    206,395
43    Matthew Berkey       206,395
44    David Assouline    PokerStars Qualifier    206,395
45    Sergey Rybachenko       206,395
46    Evan Lamprea    PokerStars Sponsored Player    168,556
47    Evgeny Shnayder       168,556
48    James Fennell    PokerStars Qualifier    168,556
49    Jacobo Fernandez    PokerStars Sponsored Player    168,556
50    Tony Dunst       168,556
51    James Manning    PokerStars Player    168,556
52    Alexander Kostritsyn       168,556
53    Christopher Bolt       168,556
54    Peter Jetten    PokerStars Sponsored Player    168,556
55    Josh Brikis       138,285
56    Jared Ingles    PokerStars Sponsored Player    138,285
57    Matt Harris       138,285
58    David Benyamine       138,285
59    Eric Baldwin       138,285
60    Bill Melvin    PokerStars Sponsored Player    138,285
61    Rudy Miller       138,285
62    Jim McCrink       138,285
63    Gary Dishongh       138,285
64    Denis Pisarev       114,205
65    Ismail Erkenov       114,205
66    John Armbrust       114,205
67    Meenakshi Subramaniam       114,205
68    Niklas Toorell       114,205
69    Marcel Cole       114,205
70    Pierre Canali       114,205
71    Richard Morgan    PokerStars Sponsored Player    114,205
72    Habib Khanis    PokerStars Sponsored Player    114,205
73    Gabriel Nassif       94,942
74    Brock Bourne       94,942
75    Jeff Banghart    PokerStars Qualifier    94,942
76    Mark Meloche    PokerStars Player    94,942
77    Adam Etter    PokerStars Sponsored Player    94,942
78    Jean-Robert Bellande    PokerStars Sponsored Player 94,942

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1               8,944,138
2          5,545,855
3          4,129,979
4          3,092,497
5          2,332,960
6          1,772,939
7          1,356,708
8          1,045,738
9          811,823
10          635,011
11          635,011
12          635,011
13          500,165
14          500,165
15          500,165
16          396,967
17          396,967
18          396,967
19          317,161
20          317,161
21          317,161
22          317,161
23          317,161
24          317,161
25          317,161
26          317,161
27          317,161


is the money from here so sole British survivor Redmond Lee is guaranteed $317,000. v nice indeed

[Jon MW]

...
6    Matt Affleck    12,515,000
...

OMG they've morphed into one person 

[titaniumbean]

Goooooo Redmond. Sick name but gogogoogogoggo

[faireycakes]

im sure last year i managed to watch daily updates of the wsop online somewhere with table highlights etc
Anything like that this year ?

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On the Stars blog

At a conservative estimation, more than two million poker hands have been dealt in this World Series Main Event. But if any single hand is likely to be remembered long into the future of poker, it is the one that has just eliminated Matt Affleck in 15th place.

It wasn't necessarily what happened with the cards - the outdraw was no less horrific than thousands that occur every hour. But the reaction from Affleck, both the very minute an 8♦ rivered a straight for Johnathan Duhamel, and then for the next 20 minutes as Affleck attempted to begin the rest of his life, was without comparison in modern poker memory.

Here's what happened, from the very start:

At the table

Affleck and Duhamel were involved in a pot worth 42 million tournament chips, an amount large enough to carry to November's final table with serious expectations of becoming World Champion. Affleck, 23, had pocket aces. Duhamel, 22, had pocket jacks. They had seen a flop of T♦9♣7♥, and then a turn of Q♦. And then all of Affleck's chips found their way into the middle.

Duhamel took five minutes before calling the bet. Affleck was leading but Duhamel could hit any king, any jack or any eight to win, eliminating Affleck. He hit the 8♦.

As the eight-deep crowd gasped and roared, Affleck leant forward, slid his hat forward over his eyes, and rested his head on the arm-rest around the table. His body started to shake like a man beginning to weep. He held his head there for longer than any player I've ever seen. When he lifted it, he held his cap over his reddened cheeks. He wanted no one to see the tears in his eyes, but no one could look anywhere else.

He shook hands with his opponents, he took his off his microphone, he didn't pause to watch his chip stacks, meticulously arranged and scrupulously earned through eight days, slid in the direction of Duhamel.

As play resumed - it always does that - there was still the nervous chattering that follows any kind of monumental happening in any sporting pursuit. Folks discussed the hand, adding their own inexpert views to what they had seen, then discussed what they expected to happen in the future. "They sure take their time to make a decision these guys," said one man on the rail. "I mean, man, either do it or don't. Come on."

Affleck was not around to hear it. In the long corridor outside the Amazon Room, he stood beside three friends, all of them silent and frozen. He was in the very middle of the hall, like a statue. A few strays from the MMA fight in the neighbouring Pavilion Room ambled past. A janitor swept a plastic cup into his trash-can.

One poker spectator had pursued Affleck all the way out into the hall and he sheepishly approached him with a baseball cap and a marker pen, proffering it nervously. Affleck took the pen, scribbled on the white baseball cap, and sent the man on his way. No words were exchanged.

Affleck then blew out his cheeks, still red and still moist, and wandered along the hall towards the main Rio Casino. He stopped when he caught sight of one of the monitors that showed the chip counts to spectators. It still had his name on it, fifth in chips, and heading to the November Nine. It was wrong, plain wrong. Affleck pulled his cap over his eyes again.

Off he went once more. He walked slowly, feet splayed outward, his "Griffey 24" Seattle Mariners jersey disappearing into the distance. He was still crying. His friends followed, but they gave him a five yard start. Affleck was alone; there was nothing a fist pump or a handshake could do.

When he reached the end of the corridor, Affleck left the building and stood by the stairs leading to the taxi rank. He walked through a few smokers to a railing and lent over it, two elbows propping him there, as though he was about to be sick. He stood for two minutes before one of his friends walked over and patted him twice on the shoulder. They said nothing.

Affleck moved away and propped on another stretch of railing. His friend removed his jacket but stayed where he was. A group of four MMA fans smoked and talked about a car wreck one of them had recently been in. The petty minutiae of their impending court case, peppered by expletives, was out of earshot. Affleck instead stared into the shrubbery beneath the suites of the Palazzo Towers. That's usually where the November Nine stay when they return to Vegas to play the final table.

A plane flew into McCarran airport and Affleck watched it briefly. Then his friend moved over again and patted his back once more. Aflleck turned around and this time the buddies talked. Then they walked together back into the hall.


As he held the door open for a lady to leave the corridor, the woman recognised Affleck and wanted to talk. "Congratulations," she said. "Congratulations on getting that far. We've been watching you for days."

Affleck thanked her but wandered away. She shouted after him: "Congratulations on getting that far."

He wandered back in the direction of the Amazon Room, pausing again to sign another baseball cap with a Sharpie and accepting congratulations. Three other poker supporters approached him, including Greg Mueller. They exchanged handshakes, but Affleck did not tarry. He seemed to be heading to the payouts room, but once again got only as far as the rotunda, and turned 180 degrees again.

Once more, with his silent three-man entourage lagging five paces behind, Affleck headed away. It was now the third time he had walked this corridor in as many minutes, like a polar bear in a zoo, having lost all sense of purpose. This time he turned past the shuttered merchandise stand and past the photos of previous Main Event champions. Six cabinets displayed World Series bracelets. Affleck did not look.

He then drifted into the corridor that led to the bedlam of the main casino. About a week ago, a banner hanged there that read "Thank You For Visiting the World Series of Poker. Don't Forget the Main Event."

Matt Affleck will never forget the 2010 Main Event. And the Main Event should never forget Matt Affleck.

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Currently one away from the November Nine

Top Chip Counts
1    Jonathan Duhamel    49,350,000
2    John Racener    37,000,000
3    Joseph Cheong    35,305,000
4    John Dolan    24,550,000
5    Matthew Jarvis    18,175,000
6    Soi Nguyen    17,415,000
7    Filippo Candio    13,260,000
8    Jason Senti    12,495,000
9    Michael Mizrachi    9,680,000
10    Brandon Steven    4,155,000

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exits on Day 8

11     Pascal LeFrancois           635,011
12    Adam Levy       635,011
13    Duy Le    PokerStars Sponsored Player    500,165
14    Hasan Habib       500,165
15    Matt Affleck    PokerStars Sponsored Player    500,165
16    Benjamin Statz       396,967
17    David Baker    PokerStars Sponsored Player    396,967
18    Scott Clements       396,967
19    Michiel Sijpkens    PokerStars Qualifier    317,161
20    Patrick Eskandar       317,161
21    Redmond Lee    PokerStars Sponsored Player    317,161
22    William Thorson    PokerStars Team Pro (Sweden)    317,161
23    Robert Pisano    PokerStars Sponsored Player    317,161
24    Ronnie Bardah       317,161
25    Mads Wissing    PokerStars Sponsored Player    317,161
26    Matthew Bucaric       317,161
27    Johnny Lodden    PokerStars Team Pro (Norway)    317,16

[Sighmuns]

That is just beyond sick, feel awful for the guy. Literally pretty moved by the whole thing

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Nine is the Number

Day 8 of the Main Event (which our calendar tells us was actually Day 12) is all over but for the shouting and the celebrating. The action during the course of these two weeks has been fast and furious enough to raise a few eyebrows, but today was a much different, much longer, much more serious day. It took nearly 18 hours to whittle our field from the twenty-seven starters down to the final nine.

We've played so much poker today, it's hard to condense the action down to just a few paragraphs. But we'll try. Let's start at the beginning, where Joseph Cheong came into this penultimate day with the chip-leading stack of more than 24 million. He hovered around that mark for the duration of the day.

The same can't be said for the two prominent Scandinavian hopefuls. Johnny Lodden lost a coin flip to beat the parking lot rush, exiting in 27th place as the first casualty of the day. Sweden's William Thorson outlasted another four players, but he ran his {10-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} into John Racener's pocket kings to put his name on the payout sheet in 22nd place.

Nineteen players returned from the second break. Michiel Sijpkens 19th-place elimination cued the two-table re-draw and left everyone nine spots away from a seat at November's final table.

Scott "BigRiskky" Clements might have been the betting favorite coming into the day as the player with the most WSOP final table experience left. After an active, up-and-down first few hours, Clements put his trust in ace-queen but ran it smack into Matthew Jarvis' ace-king. No help on board ended Clements' run in 18th place, and his table let out a big, relieved exhale as he left the Amazon Room for the last time this year.

David Baker had a whale of a WSOP in his own right. This Main Event marked his seventh cash of the 2010 Series, and five of those saw him running deep into the final two tables. That where this one ended too, though; Baker was knocked off in 17th place after putting his faith in a flush draw that never materialized. Benjamin Statz was next to depart, and the fifteen finalists were off to dinner a short while later.

When they returned, there was no sign of the dreaded after-dinner coma. The action came fast, and the next knockout provided possibly the most memorable moment of the Main Event, and maybe of the entire 2010 WSOP. It was a massive confrontation between Matt Affleck and Jonathan Duhamel, and it was one of those pots that brought media and spectators scurrying from all corners of the room clamoring to catch a peek at the action. Duhamel started it with a raise to 550,000, and Affleck three-bet to 1.55 million. Duhamel re-raised right back to 3.925 total. Affleck called to put 8 million chips into the pot going to the flop.

Possibly sensing the danger he was in, Duhamel checked the {10-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} {7-Hearts} flop. Affleck took the opportunity to fire out 5 million chips. Duhamel called, and Affleck shoved his last 11.6 million into the pot as the {Q-Diamonds} hit fourth street. Duhamel was faced with a decision for most of his own stack. The tension mounted as hushed murmurs of this monsterpotten coursed through the room. Duhamel finally called, putting an enormous pot of about 42 million chips in the middle of the table!

Affleck showed down {A-Spades} {A-Clubs} for the overpair. He certainly had to be nervous when he watched Duhamel table {J-Hearts} {J-Clubs} for the pair and the open-ender. The entire rail inched forward in anticipation of the river card that would give one of the two players a commanding chip lead. Fate fell with Duhamel this time. The last card off was the {8-Diamonds}, and a thundering reaction signaled the bad beat to the crowds who were too far away to see it with their own eyes. Affleck's aces had indeed been run down. He was visibly stricken by the result, choking back his emotions and burying his face in his cap for a good long while. He finally mustered the strength to leave the room after his 15th-place elimination, red-faced and awfully upset with the result.

That was the pot that pushed Duhamel into a commanding chip lead. It is a hand that will likely be talked about and analyzed over and over for the next year.

The next big name to fall was Adam "Roothlus" Levy in 12th place. Roothlus had a three-deep cheering section here with him for support today. He managed to chip his way up significantly over the course of the first couple levels. Levy had trouble winning a pot in the third level, though, and he was relieved of his last 4 million chips when he ran king-queen into the pocket aces of -- guess who, Jonathan Duhamel.

Pascal LeFrancois won his first gold bracelet this year at the WSOP, but his bid for number two was quashed with ten players left. This time it was Cheong looking for the knockout. His {K-Hearts} {K-Spades} took care of LeFrancois and his {Q-Spades} {J-Spades} in 11th place. That signaled the final redraw of the night. The last ten players were shuffled over to the main featured table to play it out under the bright lights.

We needed just one more elimination to end Day 8, but it would be a stubborn one. More than six hours passed with nary a bust-out. The short stacks were able to gather enough chips to stick around for a while and make this thing a real dogfight. Finally, the day-long short stack of Brandon Steven got into the pot, and this time he could not fade elimination. He was racing his {A-Clubs} {K-Spades} against Matthew Jarvis' {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades}, but he would find no help from the dealer. The board ran out with five blanks. With that, the cheering sections of the other nine players rushed the stage to congratulate their men on making the final table of the Main Event.

So then, we are down to just nine players left out of 7,319 starters. One of them will be your new World Champion come November. Here's how things stacked up at the end of the night, a snapshot of what we'll be seeing in four months:

Seat 1: Jason Senti (7,625,000)
Seat 2: Joseph Cheong (23,525,000)
Seat 3: John Dolan (46,250,000)
Seat 4: Jonathan Duhamel (65,975,000)
Seat 5: Michael Mizrachi (14,450,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Jarvis (16,700,000)
Seat 7: John Racener (19,050,000)
Seat 8: Filippo Candio (16,400,000)
Seat 9: Soi Nguyen (9,650,000)

We'll spend the next several weeks researching these players and dissecting them (figuratively, of course), getting a feel for who they are. For now, all you need to know is that Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is the man to watch. His victory in this year's $50,000 Players' Championship earned him a spot in the "best poker player" conversation, and this Main Event run is a remarkable encore to that performance. Grinder can earn a share of Player of the Year honors if he can manage to win this thing, and current POTY leader Frank Kassela will have a nervous four months to sweat while he waits for the title to be decided.

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This year's November Nine are:

SEAT 1:  Jason Senti
Hometown:  St. Louis Park, MN (USA)
Age:  28
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  This is Senti's first time to ever cash in a WSOP event.  He picked the right tournament and the right year to achieve a poker breakout, since he's now guaranteed more than $800,000 in prize money.
Chip Count:  7,625,000
 
SEAT 2:  Joseph Cheong
Hometown:  La Mirada, (USA)
Age:  24
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  Cheong earned a degree in psychology from UC-San Diego last year.  He also won a WSOP Circuit gold ring at Harrah's Rincon four months ago.  When Cheong won his victory, he promised himself he would play in the Main Event.  Here he is now, competing on poker's grandest stage.
Chip Count:  23,525,000
 
SEAT 3:  John Dolan
Hometown:  Bonita Springs, FL (USA)
Age:  24
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  Dolan has six WSOP cashes, including three in-the-money finishes at this year's series.  He has been one of the more consistent performers on this tournament, hanging around the leader board much of the way.   
Chip Count:  46,250,000
 
SEAT 4:  Jonathan Duhamel
Hometown:  Boucherville, Quebec (Canada)
Age:  22
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  This is Duhamel's third time to cash at this year's WSOP.  This has been a huge year for Canadian players so far, with five gold bracelet winners.  Duhamel hopes to become number six.   
Chip Count:  65,975,000
 
SEAT 5:  Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
Hometown:  Miami, FL (USA)
Age:  29
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  "The Grinder" is among the most successful tournament performers since the poker boom began.  He won his first WSOP gold bracelet and $1,559,046 in this year's Poker Players Championship, which took place during the opening week of the series. 
Chip Count:  14,450,000
 
SEAT 6:  Matthew Jarvis
Hometown:  Surrey, BC (Canada)
Age:  25 
Profession:  Poker Pro/Student
Note:  Jarvis is primarily an online player.  This marks his first time to cash in a WSOP tournament.  Jarvis would become the first Canadian world champion in history should he win the Main Event.
Chip Count:  16,700,000
 
SEAT 7:  John Racener
Hometown:  Port Richey, FL (USA)
Age:  24
Profession:  Poker Pro 
Note:  Racener is one of the stars of the national WSOP Circuit, with more than $500,000 in earnings, including the 2007 Main Event championship victory at Harrah's Atlantic City.
Chip Count:  19,050,000
 
SEAT 8:  Filippo Candio
Hometown:  Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy)
Age:  26
Profession:  Poker Pro
Note:  Candio is the first Italian player ever to make it to the Main Event final table.  He has a number of cashes at major tournaments held in Europe.
Chip Count:  16,400,000
 
SEAT 9:  Cuong "Soi" Nguyen
Hometown:  Santa Ana, (USA)
Age:  38 
Profession:  Sales (Medical Supplies)
Note:  Nguyen is the senior player at this final table, at the advanced age of 36.  He's also the only two amateur sitting among the final nine.  Nguyen has been near the chip lead during the past three days of competition.  He cashed in the 2008 Main Event (614th place). 
Chip Count:  9,650,000
 
The unfortunate N9 "bubble" finisher was Brandon Steven, from Wichita, KS

[Longy]

Must be the youngest final table ever.

[NoflopsHomer]

lol who did that bet with Trigg about the winner being under 30?

[EvilPie]

lol who did that bet with Trigg about the winner being under 30?

Whoever has the over surely has to lump the lot on Mr Nguyen to freeroll a nice big paiiii daiiiii