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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #55: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship


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Top Chip Counts
1    Scott Seiver    4,050,000
2    Matt Glantz    2,420,000
3    Minh Ly    2,310,000
4    Brian Rast    2,300,000
5    Phil Hellmuth    1,650,000
6    Owais Ahmed    1,410,000
7    Jeffrey Lisandro    1,240,000
8    Ben Lamb    1,000,000
9    Vladimir Shchemelev    989,000
10    Jason Lester    850,000
11     George Lind 550,000

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Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1 completed

Ben Volpe - the overwhelming Day 1 chip leader!

There was no doubt in anybody’s mind that today was going to be a big day here in the Pavilion Room. Given that this was the last $1,500 event on the schedule before the Main Event, there was going to be plenty of interest from everyone – whether it was your Average Joe or Joe Cada, everyone has eyes on just one prize – the gold bracelet.

Oh, and some life-changing money, let’s not forget about that.

Nevertheless, all 3,389 players faced the Herculean challenge of conquering Day 1 of this event. By the dinner break, one man bolted out in front and coasted through to the finish – Ben Volpe.

He’s bagged up a whopping 156,200 in chips, followed by David Zemel in second place with 127,700. Bryn Kenney (113,000), David Eldridge (111,800) and Tyler Patterson (109,500) round off our top five. Others to have made it through today’s massive field include Brett Jungblut (100,500), Dan Kelly (99,300), Justin Schwartz (80,500), Nick Holbrook (70,900), Gavin Smith (46,500), Eddy Sabat (56,300), Haibo Chu (55,100), Randy Lew (15,200) and Kenny Nguyen (15,000).

Of course, with only 465 players returning for Day 2, naturally, the casualty list was always going to be looooooooong. Just some of the names to have been written into the tournament obituaries were Vanessa Selbst, Humberto Brenes, Scott Montgomery, Antonio Esfandiari, Andre Akkari, Liv Boeree, Sam Trickett and Nacho Barbero.

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better


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Top Chip Counts
1    Alexandre Gomes    73,000
2    Max Pescatori    71,000
3    Dan Shak    60,000
4    Allen Kessler    57,000
5    Galen Hall    55,200
6    Phil Laak    55,000
7    Erik Seidel    54,500
8    Joe Tehan    54,000
9    John Hennigan    52,000
10    Kevin MacPhee    49,000


Richard Ashby reported with 34,000

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World Series of Poker® World Championship Set to Begin Thursday

 
$10,000 buy-in Main Event Runs July 7-19, 2011 at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino

 ESPN to Provide Live Coverage; Winner to Become Instant Multi-Millionaire

 LAS VEGAS (July 5, 2011) – The 42nd annual World Series of Poker Presented by Jack Links Beef Jerky at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has been an unqualified success already.

 A total of 65,066 entrants have participated in the first 55 WSOP gold bracelet events and been awarded a total of $121,238,460 in prize money.  94 different countries have been represented.

 Participation is up 7.4% year-over-year, and on pace to become the largest and richest poker series in its 42-year history.

The 2011 WSOP has already broken 16 world poker records – an all-time high.

 “It has been a truly memorable 2011 World Series of Poker,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “When all is said and done we will have awarded nearly $200 million in prize money, crowned 58 new champions and provided a tremendous boost to the local economy.   That said, there is nothing like the WSOP Main Event and we hope players and spectators alike will come down to the Rio this week and experience this worldwide global phenomenon in person.”


Only three events remain, two which begin today, and of course the World Championship of No-Limit Texas Hold’em, commonly referred to as the WSOP Main Event, which starts officially on Thursday, with the first of four starting flights.

Thousands are expected to pay the $10,000 entry fee or qualify via a more affordable satellite entry with the hopes of becoming the next Jonathan Duhamel.  Duhamel is the reigning World Champion who bested a field of 7,319 players in 2010 en route to his first WSOP gold bracelet victory and the $8,944,310 first place prize.  The young Canadian poker ambassador has spent the last year traveling the poker tournament circuit worldwide.

Players can choose from the following start days for the Main Event (all times 12 noon in Las Vegas):

·         Thursday, July 7 – Day 1A

·         Friday, July 8 – Day 1B

·         Saturday, July 9 – Day 1C

·         Sunday, July 10 – Day 1D

Those that start on Thursday or Saturday and make it through five levels of play with chips will return on Monday, July 11 for Day 2A.
 
Fields from Day 1B & 1D on Friday and Sunday are combined to form Day 2B which resumes play on Tuesday, July 12 at 12 noon for those that have chips after Day 1.

Players will play five two-hour levels on both Day One and Two, and then the format switches and players will play four two-hour levels from Days three on.  The final scheduled day, July 19, will continue until just nine players remain – known as the Final Table of the WSOP Main Event – or the “November Nine.”

 The November Nine will see the action paused until November 5, 2011, when they will return to Las Vegas to contest the remainder of the tournament in front of a live audience.

ESPN television plans comprehensive coverage of the 2011 WSOP Main Event, including telecasts on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3.com.  And for the very first time, coverage with hole cards is planned on a 30-minute delay basis.  Players should familiarize themselves with the planned coverage by visiting this FAQ HERE.

 

The 2011 WSOP will be remembered as the most-participated poker festival ever, as live action, daily deepstack tournaments and satellite offerings have all seen record-setting attendance as well.

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Event #55: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
Day 4 completed
Day 4 Concludes; Ly Leads Final Nine

A long, long, long day and night of poker has concluded, with nine players still remaining with chips in Event No. 55, the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship. Seven 100-minute levels today saw the field cut from 29 to the final nine, with Minh Ly ending the day with the most chips.

It took about five hours of Day 4 for the field to be trimmed to 16 and the money bubble to burst. Among those going out prior to making the cash were Phil Galfond, David Oppenheim, David "ODB" Baker, Gus Hansen, Shaun Deeb, and Jon Turner. Robert Mizrachi -- hoping to match his brother Michael's victory in this same event last year -- saw his tourney journey come to an end in 17th, just one spot shy of the cash.

Meanwhile, Brian Rast, Scott Seiver, and Matt Glantz began to push forward to the top of the counts as the first players to make the money were eliminated. Sebastian Ruthenberg (16th), Barry Greenstein (15th), and Michael Binger (14th) went out in relatively rapid succession, followed by start-of-Day-4 leader Josh Arieh in 13th. Then, after Yan Chen went out in 12th, it would be more than three hours before Jeffrey Lisandro (11th) and Vladimir Shchemelev (10th) hit the rail.

Play continued past 5 a.m. as the remaining nine gathered around a single table. During the latter stages of play, Minh Ly emerged as the big chip leader with more than 5.2 million -- about twice that of his nearest challengers Rast and Glantz. Here are the seating assignments and chip counts:

Those three will be joined by George Lind, Phil Hellmuth, Owais Ahmed, Ben Lamb, Jason Lester, and Scott Seiver when play resumes at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Here's where they'll be sitting, and how many chips each will have for tomorrow's first hand:
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Brian Rast   2,660,000
2   George Lind   2,315,000
3   Phil Hellmuth   2,245,000
4   Owais Ahmed   1,425,000
5   Scott Seiver   725,000
6   Minh Ly   5,215,000
7   Ben Lamb   1,180,000
8   Jason Lester   920,000
9   Matt Glantz   2,535,000

[Royal Flush]

Lol Gomes CL why wouldn't he be. Vamooooo

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2011 World Series of Poker Main Event on ESPN
Unedited Action, Hole Cards on Limited Delay and 40 Hours of Live Coverage Starting July 14
 
ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event begins Thursday, July 14, from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. For the first time, ESPN’s presentation of poker’s marquee event will feature ‘live’ unedited hole cards on a 30-minute delay and unprecedented 40 hours of coverage in high definition on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3.com.
 
From July 14-19, ESPN will offer six consecutive days of coverage of the WSOP Main Event, where every hand will be shown unedited and hole cards will be available post-flop (for all players still in the hand).  Coverage will shift between two feature tables approximately every 30 minutes and will show all “all-in” and “call” situations at both tables when possible.
 
Lon McEachern and David Tuchman will handle the play-by-play for the live coverage with a rotation of professional poker players providing analysis. ESPN will also use a sideline reporter for the first time with Kara Scott making her WSOP debut.
 
The 2011 World Series of Poker presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky Tuesday night telecasts with McEachern, Norman Chad and sideline reporter Scott will begin Tuesday, July 26 on ESPN for 16 consecutive weeks leading up to the November Nine final table on Nov. 8 (ESPN, 9-11p.m.).
 
ESPN’s coverage of the 42nd annual WSOP is being handled by executive producer Mori Eskandani and POKER PROductions for the first time, which has been widely praised for producing top-level poker telecasts, including Poker After Dark and WSOP-Europe. Together, ESPN and POKER PROductions will offer a new vision for this year’s WSOP that will bring a major sports event feel to the telecasts. In addition to live hole cards, planned highlights include:
 
Replays and analysis from poker professionals – top poker pros will make guest appearances during the telecasts and examine hands more in-depth to explain how they were played;
Sideline reporter – Scott will interview players before they sit down at the tables and after they compete;
New set design – The new WSOP set, created by Orlando-based Innovative Show Design, provides a true poker arena with bleacher seating equipped with an enormous lighting grid that resembles a WSOP bracelet. A large jumbotron is part of the structure and poker players will enter the competition area through a tunnel. The entire space is much more open for players and spectators to see the table, and the LED boards throughout the arena add to the big-event atmosphere.
Player profile features – Segments will highlight WSOP players away from the table, including Chris Moneymaker in Memphis, poker Triple Crown winner Jake Cody in Las Vegas, and others.
Segments with Joe Navarro – The 25-year FBI agent, an expert in non-verbal communication, will analyze body language and other “tells” from hands shown during the broadcasts, to evaluate the strength of a poker player’s hand. Video.
 
“From unprecedented live coverage to a greater emphasis on analysis and a stunning poker arena, we are introducing a variety of new elements to ESPN’s presentation of the World Series of Poker that will enhance our multiplatform coverage and bring fans even closer to the action at poker’s premier event,” said Doug White, ESPN senior director of programming and acquisitions.
 
ESPN’s 2011 WSOP Coverage by the Numbers:
4.5 – Miles of cable
10 – Number of days to build the WSOP bracelet-themed lighting truss structure
40 – Number of live hours of Main Event coverage – a first
55 – Number of ESPN cameras (18 Hole Card cams, 14 feature cams, 9 secondary table cams + others)
85 – Number of LED video panels throughout the room
150 – Number of people involved in the WSOP telecasts
700 – Number of lights used on-set
1,000 – Number of man hours needed to go from an empty room to final set for the telecast
 
ESPN.com poker editor and blogger Andrew Feldman and other experts will provide complete coverage on location with blogs, podcasts, videos, interviews with the games’ top players and more. Fans can also follow @ESPN_Poker on Twitter for instant updates and tournament coverage.
 
About ESPN
ESPN, Inc., the leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities, launched its first network on September 7, 1979 in 1.4 million homes. Today, both ESPN and ESPN2 are available in more than 100 million homes respectively, and ESPN’s media platforms are America’s top source for sports programming, news and information.  ESPN3.com is ESPN’s live sports broadband network, a 24/7 online destination that delivers thousands of live, global sports events annually.  ESPN3.com is currently available in approximately 70 million homes at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet connection or cable TV video subscription from an affiliated service provider.  It is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers connected to on-campus educational networks and on-base military networks.
 
2011 WSOP Live Main Event Telecast Schedule:
Date Time (ET) Show Network
Thu., July 14 3 p.m. – 9 p.m. WSOP Day 3~ ESPN3.com
  7 – 9 p.m. and
11 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. WSOP Day 3 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Fri., July 15 3 p.m. – 9 p.m. WSOP Day 4~ ESPN3.com
  7 – 9 p.m. and
11 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. WSOP Day 4 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Sat., July 16  3:30 – 10 p.m. WSOP Day 5, part 1 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
  midnight – 2:30 a.m. WSOP Day 5, part 2 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Sun., July 17 3 p.m. – 8 p.m. WSOP Day 6~ ESPN3.com
  10 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. WSOP Day 6 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Mon., July 18 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. WSOP Day 7~ ESPN3.com
  7 p.m. – 10 p.m. WSOP Day 7, down to 27, part 1 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
  Midnight – 2:30 a.m.* WSOP Day 7, down to 27, part 2 ESPN2/ESPN3.com
Tue., July 19 3 p.m. – 8 p.m. WSOP Day 8~ ESPN3.com
  8 p.m. – 10 p.m. * WSOP Day 8, down to 9, part 1 ESPN/ESPN3.com
  Midnight – 4:30 a.m.* WSOP Day 8, down to 9, part 2 ESPN2/ESPN3.com

 
~ no hole cards
* Play could run long
* TV schedule subject to change
 
Note: The World Series of Poker presented by Jack Link’s Beef Jerky weekly taped shows continue in primetime Tuesday, July 26 through Tuesday, Nov. 8.
 
Visit ESPN’s WSOP press kit for the latest schedules, news, photos, video and audio clips, and more.
 

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Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 4 completed
Max Lykov Wins Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em ($648,880)

Max Lykov came into today's final table as the chip leader with almost a third of the chips in play and never lost that lead as he stayed in command throughout the day's proceedings.

The action was fast early on as Stanislav Alehkin hit an early double up with {A-Hearts}{9-Clubs} through Joshua Evans' {A-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} to give the Russian a fighting chance. It was Sebastien Roy though, who would bust first when he reraised all in with {8-Clubs}{8-Spades} against Lykov, the latter's {K-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} rivering broadway to send the French-Canadian spinning out of the event.

Joshua Evans, crippled from doubling up Alekhin earlier was when he pushed with {J-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} and found Dror Michaelo more than willing to make the call with {K-Spades}{K-Clubs}. Michaelo had a real sweat though, when the board came {8-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{3-Clubs}, fading the flush draw.

With Lykov and Michaelo holding most of the chips, everyone else was suffering as short stacks. Douglas MacKinnon made a push with queen-seven but Lykov held pocket sevens to dominate him, a queenless board later and the chip leader was increasing said lead.

Ren Ho Zhang won a huge flip against Alekhin and then dispatched the crippled short stack in sixth place, leaving just one Russian remaining in Lykov. At this point, Englishman Warren Wooldridge came into his own, first doubling through Lykov then knocking out Harald Olsen in fifth place. Olsen had pushed with {Q-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} from the small blind and Wooldridge made the call with {A-Spades}{J-Clubs}, neither player hit and Wooldridge moved up into second place as a result.

Ren Ho Zhang was knocked out in Lykov in third when he bluffed all in with a missed straight draw, only to find Lykov happy to call with a rivered flush. Wooldridge was then eliminated in 3rd place after an extended period of three-handed play, Wooldridge got it in with {A-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} against Lykov's {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} but the latter flopped a nine and it managed to hold to give a 2:1 lead over Michaelo going into heads up.

The final battle against Michaelo was brief and bloody, the Russian getting paid off when he flopped the nut straight and then quickly dispatching his foe when he had him all in with a dominating hand. Lykov takes home nearly $650,000 for his efforts and already having an EPT title, is now two-thirds of the way towards a triple crown.

1    Maxim Lykov    PokerStars Team Pro (Russia)    648,880
2    Dror Michaelo       401,296
3    Warren Wooldridge       288,946
4    Ren Ho Zhang       213,539
5    Harald Olsen       159,134
6    Stanislav Alehkin       119,598
7    Douglas Mackinnon       90,604
8    Joshua Evans       69,230
9    Sebastien Roy       53,333

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

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Top Chip Counts
1    Bryn Kenney    740,000
2    Selin Oulmekki    570,000
3    Nick Grippo    568,000
4    Jason Gravatt    390,000
5    Marcello Iacino    385,000
6    Rayan Nathan    381,000
7    Nicholas Gryppo    375,000
8    John Cook    373,000
9    Gavin Smith    335,000
10    Grudi Grudev    335,000

Mitch Johnson 60th for $10,156

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

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Top Chip Counts
1    Bryce Yockey    413,000
2    Gary Bolden    400,000
3    Anders Taylor    370,000
4    Nick Schulman    360,000
5    Nick Binger    320,000
6    Phil Laak    282,000
7    Fabrizio Gonzalez    245,000
8    Allen Kessler    230,000
9    Igor Sharaskin    220,000
10    Alexander Dovzhenko    200,000


Ram Vaswani and Peter Charalalalalambous still in

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Where can u follow main event updates cheers

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-58-no-limit-hold-em-championship/

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


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Top Chip Counts
1    Hasan Anter    5,475,000
2    Andy Philachack    4,500,000
3    Selim Oulmekki    1,625,000
4    John Borzio    1,595,000
5    Nemer Haddad    1,335,000
6    John Horvatich    755,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

Top Chip Counts
1    David Bach    3,015,000
2    Nick Binger    2,270,000


2011 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better

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Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (USD)
1          397,073
2          245,314
3    Bryce Yockey       180,180
4    Phil Laak       133,377
5    Trevor Reader       99,512
6    Peter Charalambous       74,845
7    Nick Schulman       56,729
8    Bjorn Verbakel       43,328
9    Allen Kessler       33,352

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Event #58: $10,000 Main Event
Day 1a completed
Day 1a Concludes

Posted 12 minutes ago by CrysQ • Level 5: 200-400, 50 ante
Fred Berger - Chip Leader
Fred Berger - Chip Leader

Day 1a of the 2011 WSOP Main Event is now in the books! It appears that our chip leader at the end of play today was Fred Berger who finished the day with 209,500 in his stack. One of the other biggest stacks belonged to Shane Sigsbee who accumulated a total of 182,600.

A total of 897 players took to the felt today in what is generally known to be as the smallest Day 1 starting field. We were told by the WSOP staff at the beginning of the day that on average, Day 1a accounts for 17% of the total Main Event participants. If this holds true, we can expect a total of 5,276 players to take part in the Main Event this year.

For having such a "small" number of players to start the day, we certainly weren't lacking when it came to familiar faces. Notable players still in the hunt include Sebastian Ruthenberg, Annette Obrestad, Jason Alexander, Lex Veldhuis, Fatima Moreira De Melo, Olivier Busquet, Josh Brikis, and Mickey Appleman.

A number of well known players also hit the rail today. At the beginning of play today four former Main Event Champions took to the felt, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer, and Jerry Yang, but Chan was the only one to survive the day. Other players eliminated include Vanessa Selbst, Isaac Haxton, John Hennigan, Randy Lew, Chip Jett, and Tom Schneider.

Also eliminated were Adam Levy who finished 12th in last year's Main Event, and Matt Affleck who made deep runs in the Main Event in the past two years (80th in 2009 and 15th in 2010).

Two of last year's "November Nine" were spotted in the field today, Filippo Candio and Soi Nguyen, and both survived and will continue on to Day 2. Perhaps we'll see one of them make the final table two years in a row.

A number of players choose to don interesting hats or outfits in an attempt to get themselves noticed by the roaming cameras of the ESPN crew, but our award for best costume of the day has to go to Richard Wyrick who showed up after the dinner break in a Snow White costume. Someone even gave him an apple, but we don't think Wyrick ever decided to take a bite; probably a wise decision on his part.

Roughly 560 players survived the day and they will join with the players who come out of Day 1c to form our Day 2a field which will resume play at 12:00pm PST on Monday July 11th.


Top Chip Counts
1    Fred Berger    209,500
2    Shane Sigsbee    182,600
3    Kyle Burnside    159,050
4    Cedric Annen    155,400
5    Lynne Mitchnick    145,675
6    David Diaz    139,150
7    Chris MacFarland    135,350
8    Philipp Gruissem    133,050
9    Greg Kaplan    129,175
10    Brendan Taylor    128,000