WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

[The Camel]

Daniel Negreanu has today overtaken Hellmuth as the most self obsessed and self righteous twat in poker.

Congrats Daniel 

[Woodsey]

I've heard a few murmurs about the misreporting of hands too. I know Sam Trickett wasn't happy with PN

I can't think why anyone would give a toss tbh, just focus on the game imo and worry about the important things...........

pretty short sighted statement.

For players like Sam, who are potentially attractive to sites it's pretty important that hands are being reported correctly.

Just win the thing and they won't give a monkeys imo..........

[The Camel]

The only time updates matter are at the final table.

What effing difference does it make if Danny Boy has 70k or 80k with 100 left of a seven card stud tournament?

And as for reporting hands correctly, I know plenty of players who report hands they actually played incorrectly so it's hardly surprsing someone watching away from the table, who can't ask for counts sometimes makes mistakes.

People whp worry about such things need to get a grip and start worrying about important stuff.

[Sheriff Fatman]

From WSOP update, made me LOL:

James Dempsey has a crew of British poker players supporting him on the rail, including Chris Moorman and Nicky Evans. This hasn't been the most action-filled final table yet, so they're keeping themselves entertained by betting on the color of the flops. There haven't been so many of those, either, but when they do come out, the announcer is getting into the spirit of the game. He's been calling out the red/black tally along with the poker action. The case of Milwaukee's Best that just showed up ought to help keep the rail entertained as well.

[snoopy1239]

Interesting, but ignorant post by Daniel imo. Glad I wasn't covering the Stud though.

[TightEnd]

Event Nine wrap up

The first Pot-Limit Hold'em bracelet of 2010 goes to James "Flushy" Dempsey. Just before the final table began, we heard the British national anthem played as Praz Bansi was awarded his second career bracelet. To the delight of Dempsey's vocal British rail, he has ensured we'll get to hear "God Save the Queen" at least once more. The $197,470 he earned for this win doubles Dempsey's lifetime live tournament cashes, but it is less than he earned for his largest online cash. He picked up $211,000 for second place in the 2009 SCOOP $320 No-Limit Hold'em event.

Dempsey defeated Steve Chanthabouasy heads up in a tough battle that took more than two hours. Both outlasted a stacked field of 650 that began the tournament three days ago. Dempsey ended Day 1 as chip leader and maintained his position through most of Day 2, only relinquishing it at the end to Chanthabouasy, who began the final table as chip leader with only 5,000 more than Dempsy. Flushy quickly retook the lead and bullied the table for the rest of the evening before finally eliminating Chanthabouasy and securing the title.

Dempsey eliminated JJ Liu in third place. She earned the honor of being the first woman to make a final table at the 2010 World Series. She began the day with her eyes on the bracelet, but could never accumulate enough chips to make a run at the top spot. Liu lost a flip to Dempsey to end her fight and had to settle for $86,512.


                                            $
1     James Dempsey          197,470
2    Steve Chanthabouasy    121,963
3    JJ Liu                86,512
4    Mark Babekov       62,232
5    Scott Haraden       45,393
6    Armen Kara       33,573
7    Joseph Williams       25,166
8    Edward Brogdon       19,120
9    Gregg Wilkerson       14,715

[TightEnd]

Event 10 the $10,000 Stud is heads up between Men Nguyen and Brandon Adams

Other cashers

3     Steve Billirakis           152,788
4    Nikolay Evdakov       110,629
5    Joe Cassidy       86,461
6    Michael Mizrachi       68,949
7    Vladimir Schmelev    55,991
8    Sirious Jamshidi       46,206
9    Dan Heimiller       38,676
10    Todd Barlow       38,676
11    Ray Dehkharghani    32,909
12    Eric Buchman       32,909
13    Shane Douglas       28,623
14    Pat Pezzin    PokerStars Team Pro    28,623
15    Yuval Bronstein       24,901
16    Edouard Mignot Bonnefous    24,901

[TightEnd]

Event 11 $1500 NLH has 43 of 2563 left


Chip leaders include Tom Dwan

1      Kyle Julius     1,100,000
2    Tom Dwan    840,000
3    Christopher Giddings 550,000
4    Simon Watt    450,000
5    David Randall    443,000
6    Nicholas Phillips    432,000
7    Austin Mccormick 427,000
8    Jeff Hakim     380,000
9    Jacobo Fernandez    362,000
10    Harsukhpaul Sangha    335,000


Javed Abrahams the only British casher I could see

[TightEnd]

Event 12 $1500 Limit has 21 of 625 left


chip leaders

1      Jameson Painter  306,000
2    Kirk Banks       230,000
3    Ahmad Abghari    203,000
4    Ilya Sheyn    180,000
5    Terrence Chan    178,000
6    Georgios Kapalas    176,000
7    Jason Potter    175,000
8    Adrian Dresel-velasquez 170,000
9    Ben Lamb    170,000
10    Hope Williams    160,000

[TightEnd]

Event 13 $1,000 NLH at the end of 1a 1925 began 304 left and Andy Black is chip leader

1      Andy Black     92,000
2    Marcello Delgrosso 68,300
3    Andrew Youngblood    54,300
4    Dylan Linde    53,200
5    Mikhail Tulchinskiy 50,500
6    George "Riley" Panagakis 50,000
7    Dylan Lynde    46,000
8    Mike Atkinson    46,000
9    Clark Hamagami    45,650
10    Jared Hamby    44,500

The field was smaller than expected for the first day one flight of Event #13, the second $1,000 no-limit hold'em event of the 2010 World Series of Poker thus far. Just 1,922 players entered the day with the hopes of bagging chips at the end of the night and making it to Day 2.

Justin Bonomo, Katja Thater, Gavin Smith, Joe Sebok, JP Kelly, James Akenhead, Eli Elezra, Chris Ferguson, Tom McEvoy, Gavin Griffin, and Kara Scott were among the bracelet hopefuls that would not be back on Monday.

Players bagging and tagging their chips tonight include, Shaun Deeb, Phil Gordon, Phil "USCPhildo" Collins, Paul Wasicka, Vitaly Lunkin, Bill Chen, and "Miami" John Cernuto. It appears that Andy Black is our overnight chip leader with 92,000.

Tomorrow at noon local time, another round of hopefuls will make their way into the Pavilion Room here at the Rio with the same dream as the 1,922 that entered today. The remaining players from tomorrow night will meet the remaining players from tonight on Monday at 2:30 local time.

[TightEnd]

Event 14 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball $1500


250 began, 97 remain

Led by

1      Brandon Cantu     49,700
2    Scott Seiver    45,500
3    Alex Kravchenko    28,900
4    Josh Arieh    27,000
5    Keith Lehr    22,500
6    JC Tran    21,000
7    David 'Chino' Rheem 21,000
8    Chris Viox    21,000
9    Peter Gelencser    20,500
10    Yan Chen    16,000

[DaveShoelace]

Dino was spot on about Negreanu wanting what is good for himself, not the game. Every year he lobbies for something to be changed at the WSOP - he has asked for pro only events, more mixed games and make the main event a shootout = essentially all things that would give him a better chance of winning while at the same time isolating the masses upon masses of players and fans who have made him the star he is.

Here he basically logged on to his PC, didn't see chip counts for two friends he was sweating and decided the whole system is wrong. Live updating is the most thankless job in the world, when people do it right nobody notices and when someone makes the tiniest of errors everyone is calling for blood. Usually there are only one or two people covering a field between 300-2000 players and the live pros are often just as bad as the internet players at stacking their chips in such a way that someone can get an accurate count from 6 yards away. The one exception to this is the Blonde updates, where there is a real community spirit of appreciation between players, bloggers and the audience.

Camel is right, only thing that matters is the final/final twoish tables and everything else till that point is colour.

I love Negreanu as a player, I always stop everything to watch him play, but he always always talks about the game in terms of what benefits him right now and is very short sighted about the things that have made him what he is.

[DaveShoelace]

I've heard a few murmurs about the misreporting of hands too. I know Sam Trickett wasn't happy with PN

I can't think why anyone would give a toss tbh, just focus on the game imo and worry about the important things...........

pretty short sighted statement.

For players like Sam, who are potentially attractive to sites it's pretty important that hands are being reported correctly.

Sorry Greeky old chum but this is a short sighted statement. Well, not short sighted, overly long sighted, if thats an actual thing.

First of all the numbers of people that actually look at the live updates is probably a lot less than you and most people think. In particular all the decision makers in potentially interested sponsors probably dont have much of a clue about hand reporting, nor do they read the updates. The only sponsors who will be perusing these updates will be doing so to see if the people they have already sponsored are getting coverage (Often we will get them dropping us a line saying 'can you edit that last update to say he is an XXX sponsored player'). The only people who will get noticed and sponsored as a result of a deep WSOP run will be getting signed up in person because there was an agent hanging around the Rio like a vulture.

What the potential sponsors care about are final tables and TV coverage in these events. It doesn't matter if they misplayed every hand in the world to get to a final or a feature table, as long as they are there.

[TightEnd]

Event 11 $1500 NLH has 43 of 2563 left


Chip leaders include Tom Dwan

1      Kyle Julius     1,100,000
2    Tom Dwan    840,000
3    Christopher Giddings 550,000
4    Simon Watt    450,000
5    David Randall    443,000
6    Nicholas Phillips    432,000
7    Austin Mccormick 427,000
8    Jeff Hakim     380,000
9    Jacobo Fernandez    362,000
10    Harsukhpaul Sangha    335,000


Javed Abrahams the only British casher I could see

Just to add to this Neil Channing, Sam Trickett and Karl "discomonkey" Fenton were also British cashers

[TightEnd]

Event 10 the $10,000 Stud is heads up between Men Nguyen and Brandon Adams

Other cashers

3     Steve Billirakis           152,788
4    Nikolay Evdakov       110,629
5    Joe Cassidy       86,461
6    Michael Mizrachi       68,949
7    Vladimir Schmelev    55,991
8    Sirious Jamshidi       46,206
9    Dan Heimiller       38,676
10    Todd Barlow       38,676
11    Ray Dehkharghani    32,909
12    Eric Buchman       32,909
13    Shane Douglas       28,623
14    Pat Pezzin    PokerStars Team Pro    28,623
15    Yuval Bronstein       24,901
16    Edouard Mignot Bonnefous    24,901

and Men the Master Nguygen has just won Event 10 for just shy of $400,000