WSOP 2010 Thread. Feed your wild side revisited

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $2,500 Seven Card Razz


Go Stuart Rutter!

18 of 365 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Stuart Rutter    347,000
2    Maxwell Troy    310,000
3    Vladimir Schemelev 235,000
4    Mikko Pispala    225,000
5    William Wood    195,000
6    Linda Johnson    180,000
7    Frank Kassela    175,000
8    Nick Helm            160,000
9    Jennifer Harman    140,000
10    Arthur Cobb    135,000


2010 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

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Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (USD)
1          214,085
2          132,229
3          85,284
4          61,795
5          45,433
6          33,890
7          25,646
8          19,686
9          15,329
10          15,329
11          12,105
12          12,105
13          9,687
14          9,687
15          7,857
16          7,857
17          6,464
18          6,464

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Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better


That's a wrap for Day 1 of Event No. 41. When registration closed for the day, the final number of entrants was set at 847, a good amount larger than last year's field. As it stands, it looks to be Mike Chappus as the overnight chip leader barring any crazy action that we missed on the last few hands of the night. He amassed himself a stack of 133,400 by the end of the night.

Plenty of big names showed up for this one, but not all of them made it through the day. Eric Baldwin, Jon Friedberg, Jason Mercier, Scott Seiver, Jeff Madsen and Erica Schoenberg all vanished from play before day's end. Tom Dwan also busted rather early on as did Phil Ivey, fresh off his bracelet victory last night.

Out of those names still hanging around, we've got Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Binh Nguyen, Ben Lamb, David Sands and Tony Cousineau. Even the defending champion Brandon Cantu is still alive. Cantu held the chip lead for a good portion of today, but had a few hiccups towards the end of the day that caused him to finish out with 27,300 in chips.

Barry Greenstein (83,000), Spencer Lawrence (79,500), Kevin MacPhee (77,100), Michael Sapko (76,500) are the few that look to be the closest to Chappus on the overnight leaderboard.


Top Chip Counts
1    Mike Chappus    133,400
2    Barry Greenstein    83,000
3    Spencer Lawrence 79,500
4    Kevin MacPhee    77,100
5    Michael Sopko    76,500
6    Ben Lamb             56,000
7    Jacobo Fernandez 39,000
8    Phil Hellmuth    36,000
9    Mike Matusow    35,000
10    David Sands    32,000


Flushy is still in this!

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #40: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

Day 2 completed

After a long day on the felt, Event #40: $2,500 Seven Card Razz has come to an end.

136 players returned today for day two action with their goal of sneaking into the money and taking home a guaranteed $4,550 in prizemoney at the forefront of their focus. Unfortunately many fell short of this as Kirk Morrison, Erick Lindgren, Justin Bonomo, Howard Lederer, Ted Forrest and Archie Karas were just a few that exited shy of the top forty.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko (38th), Greg Raymer (37th), Shawn Sheikhan (35th), Tommy Vedes (32nd), Daniel Negreanu (29th), Joe Hachem (22nd), David Chiu (20th) and Dario Minieri (19th) all fell late in the night as we were left with a final fifteen.

Melville Lewis will be carrying the honor of being the overnight chip leader with an amassed 504,000 in chips. Snapping at his heels are Mikko Pispala (458,000), Stuart Rutter (295,000) and Maxwell Troy (258,000).


Top Chip Counts
1    Melville Lewis    504,000
2    Mikko Pispala    458,000
3    Stuart Rutter    295,000
4    Maxwell Troy    258,000
5    Chris Bjorin      163,000
6    Nick Helm      145,000
7    Frank Kassela    144,000
8    Daniel Ospina    136,000
9    Dee Tiller            128,000
10    Jennifer Harman    108,000

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Cup of tea: Check

Toast with marmalade: check

Radio 5 Live Phone in: check

Cool breeze from throwing the windows open: check



Then I am ready to begin

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Event 36 $1,000 NLHE

Scott Montgomery - Event #36 Champion

Two years ago Scott Montgomery was a part of the inaugural November Nine. While he came up short of a bracelet with a fifth place finish on that final table, he completed the job this time around by winning the bracelet this evening. While the payday for today's win may not come close to what he earned in the 2008 Main Event, it's the bracelet that's invaluable and perhaps his greatest accomplishment.

Montgomery started the day with the second-shortest stack, but his aggressive playing style soon saw him propel towards the top of the table on his way to accumulating every chip in play.

In addition to the bracelet, Montgomery will be walking to the cage to cash in a receipt worth $481,760. It'll be his second-largest cash to date and worth more than every live cash he's earned since making the Main Event final table two years ago.

Congratulations to Montgomery for taking home the bracelet and walking away as champion of Event No. 36!

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Congratulations to Valdemar Kwaysser, Event #38 Champion ($617,214)


"BOO KA YA! YA! YA! BOO KA YA YA YA!" cheered Valdemar Kwaysser's throng of supporters, embracing their man as they collectively jumped up and down to celebrate his victory. We're not exactly experts in Eastern European languages, but from here it looked genuine, emotional, and utterly thrilling for the young man from Hungary who just captured his first WSOP bracelet.

Matt Marafioti literally had to kiss the bracelet goodbye when his flush draw failed to come in on that final hand. As Kwaysser celebrated, Marafioti quietly walked back to the table, picked it up and stared at it longingly before walking offstage.

Kwaysser has been wearing a plaid newsboy cap for the duration of this tournament and we're virtually guaranteed to see more of his lucky hat in the coming days. Hailing from Budapest, Kwaysser had already captured two major titles before today, winning the first-ever Latin American Poker Tour Event back in 2008 and taking down the Italian Poker Tour-San Remo main event last February. This is his seventh cash overall at the WSOP, his third this year, and at his first final table, he was able to close it out and come away with the win.

Congratulations to Valdemar Kwaysser on a dominating short-handed performance and a spectacular victory.

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Coincidentally

"BOO KA YA! YA! YA! BOO KA YA YA YA!" cheered Valdemar Kwaysser's throng of supporters


What sort of behaviour is this? You'd never catch the Brits doing that.

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

24 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Ryan Karp    392,000
2    Alexander Dovzhenko    280,000
3    Igor Gotz             270,000
4    Barry Greenstein    260,000
5    Michael Jacobs    260,000
6    Mandy Thomas    190,000
7    Richard Austin    175,000
8    Phil Hellmuth    170,000
9    Jeffrey Baker    160,000
10    Bryan Andrews    147,000

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2010 World Series of Poker
Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

24 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Ryan Karp    392,000
2    Alexander Dovzhenko    280,000
3    Igor Gotz             270,000
4    Barry Greenstein    260,000
5    Michael Jacobs    260,000
6    Mandy Thomas    190,000
7    Richard Austin    175,000
8    Phil Hellmuth    170,000
9    Jeffrey Baker    160,000
10    Bryan Andrews    147,000

in this Ben Grundy finished 25th

Darren Sprengers, who I recognise as a poster on THM forum is still in, good luck to him

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Event #42: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 completed

With one day down in this edition of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em bustament, the field has already been cut from 2,521 to under 280. Zheng Jackson used the last levels of the day to surge to the top of the leader board with 151,000. Humberto Brenes hit a rush after dinner and terrorized his table, shark in tow, to finish with 146,400. Darren Spurlock, who dominated the field for most of the day, ended the night in third with 142,400. Grayson Ramage brings 130,000 into Day 2, and notables Mike Sowers and Carter Phillips both have over 120,000.

At 21, Phillips would love a chance to become the youngest player to win two bracelets in the same year, but he's got his work cut out for him on Day 2 first. Phillips and the other big stacks will be joined by plenty of other tough opponents who made it through a day full of firing, flipping, and folding. To keep their chips, they'll have to fight off the likes of Arnaud Mattern, Nam Le, Jude Ainsworth, and Shannon Shorr.

When the remaining players return to the Rio at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, they'll be less than one table away from bursting the money bubble. Once that happens, it will be a beeline for the final table and a shot at a bracelet and the sweet $604,222 first prize.

Top Chip Counts
1    Zheng Jackson    151,000
2    Humberto Brenes 146,400
3    Darren Spurlock    142,400
4    Grayson Ramage    130,000
5    Mike Sowers    124,300
6    Jerry Wong    122,500
7    Carter Phillips    122,100
8    Bryan Paris     117,100
9    Niccolo Caramatti 108,600
10    Arnaud Mattern    107,500

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Event #43: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship


That's a big HORSE.


241 began including all the names and 198 are left


So far


Top Chip Counts
1    Matt Glantz    125,000
2    Thor Hansen    87,500
3    Greg Raymer    81,000
4    Scotty Nguyen    70,000
5    Marco Johnson    70,000
6    Jason Lester    68,000
7    Chris Ferguson    67,000
8    Allen Kessler    64,500
9    Scott Seiver    60,000
10    Annie Duke    60,000

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Event #39: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

1     Steven Kelly          381,922
2    Jeffrey King       236,819
3    Derric Haynie       161,117
4    Dustin Dirksen       112,214
5    Reagan Leman       78,361
6    Brett Shaffer       56,446
7    Paul Varano       40,887
8    Michael Cooper       30,119
9    Justin Scott       22,575
10    Michael Pesek       17,294
11    Annette Obrestad    13,654
12    Johnny Kitchens       10,844
13    J.C. Tran               8,638
14    Heinz Kamutzki       6,940
15    Tristan Wade       5,620
16    Steve Hohn       5,620
17    Leonard Cortelino    5,620
18    Fatima Moreira De Melo 5,620


Fatima Moreira De Melo is described as a PokerStars Sports Star Without googling I can tell you that Fatima Moreira de Melo LL.M. (born 4 July 1978 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch field hockey player. She has played 191 international matches for the Dutch national team, where she has scored 30 times

Here she is, having just pushed all in

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Event 39 the Razz


Stuart Rutter finished 7th, and four remain. Details follow when the event is complete

[Jon MW]

Pokernews

There's been a power outage in the Amazon Room
. Internet is out, tournament clocks are out, and emergency generators are providing limited lighting. The tournament is playing on and we'll try to bring limited updates by phone.

well that's interesting

[DaveShoelace]

Tighty start a funk for Steve Jelinek, Darren Sprengers and Joel Ettedgi thread please, Omaha Hi-lo

I dont want to be accused of jinxing it