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[TightEnd]

Cashers from the round of 16

    * [United States] Tom Dwan
    * [United States] Steve Billirakis
    * [United Kingdom] John Duthie
    * [United States] Olivier Busquet
    * [United States] Richard Lyndaker
    * [Japan] Kunimaro Kojo
    * [Serbia] Mikhail Smirnov
    * [United States] Jonathan Jaffe

All won $67k


Money for the top 8

PAYOUT STRUCTURE

    1 $851,192
    2 $525,980
    3-4 $283,966
    5-8 $138,852

[TightEnd]

Event #3: Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better $1500.

210 of 925 remain

Event #3: End of Day 1
 
Today saw records broken as WSOP Event #3 began with 925 players, seven more players than the same event back in 2009 and 107 more than last year. For people who could not afford the $25,000 HU event, this was the real start of the WSOP and the event was filled with more stars than was probably expected.

Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Michael Mizrachi - all got quickly involved but were early casualties as were Eugene Katchalov, Jeff Madsen, Daniel Negreanu amongst others.

At the end of the day, Canadian Guillaume Rivet appears to be chip leader with 71,200 ahead of Andy Seth (61,700) with about 210 players remaining. Other players still involved include Barry Greenstein (46,900) James Dempsey (38,900) while TJ Cloutier, John Phan, Jean-Robert Bellande, Lex Veldhuis and Erik Seidel are all still in with a shout.

[Hairydude]

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO Jake Cody; in my team

[TightEnd]

Ladbrokes open a book on main event runners

Ladbrokes has today opened a book on the size of the 2011 World Series on Poker (WSOP) field.  The betting firm believes that following April 15th, poker’s Black Friday (when the FBI effectively barred online poker to US citizens), there will be fewer qualifiers for the 2011 event than last year’s event. 

 

Ladbrokes, one of the world’s biggest and oldest bookmakers who have been in operation since 1886, believe that the fallout from ‘Black Friday’ will have an effect on this year’s WSOP.   So much so, that the firm is offering odds of 7/2 that there will be less than 4,249 runners – 3,000 less than last year.

 

The firm is also offering 15/8 that there will be 5,000 to 5,749 runners, the same bracket as the 2005 event six years ago. It is also 15/8 that there will be between 4,250 and 4,999.

Last year there were over 7,000 runners, the second highest is the tournaments history, but this year Ladbrokes believe this will be much lower and is offering odds on 5/1 that there will be more than 6,500 runners.

 

In other markets Ladbrokes is offering 50/1 that a woman wins the main event.  However, only one woman player has ever made the final table of the WSOP main event, Barbara Enright in 1995.  Ladbrokes price the chances of that feat being repeated at 9/4.

 

The age of the ultimate winner is a lot more open market with 27 years and younger a marginal favourite at 4/5 ahead of 28+ priced at 10/11.

[TightEnd]

extract from the seat draw of day 2 of event 3

Samuel Ngai   23,500   Amazon / 372 / 1
Roland Israelashvili   23,000   Amazon / 372 / 2
David Sklansky   4,200   Amazon / 372 / 3
James Dempsey   58,900   Amazon / 372 / 4
Brian Saltus   12,900   Amazon / 372 / 5
Daniel Klein   33,600   Amazon / 372 / 7
Cameron Mckinley   13,100   Amazon / 372 / 8
Kirk Loberman   13,300   Amazon / 372 / 9

[celtic]

50/1 on a woman winning? Wouldn't back that at 500/1.

[Longy]

50/1 on a woman winning? Wouldn't back that at 500/1.

Hmm think I would have a pound or two at 500's.

[TightEnd]

SenseiChanning Neil Channing

Realised ages ago that the $5k nlh is worst value of series. Finally using my brain. Nice rest day before $10k plh tomorrow.

tighty Rich Prew

@SenseiChanning why poor value? everyone good, whereas relatively poor at PLHE?


SenseiChanning Neil Channing

@tighty full of pros. The 5ks are 10x harder than the 1500s. Plh is tough nlh field playing a game many adapt to poorly.

[redarmi]

50/1 on a woman winning? Wouldn't back that at 500/1.

I actually think that 50-1 is a fair value bet.  From what I can see women normally represent about 3% of the field and I would imagine that there aren't as many women playing tha are totally without a chance as there are men due to the fact men have bigger ego's etc.  All things being equal I would say it is probably a 33-1 shot.  Anyone care to lay the 50's as I have been persona non grata with Ladbrokes for years.....

[gatso]

last 8 of event 2 and they're starting with 30bb each. kinda ridic for a 25k buyin event

[seven2unsuited]

I take it there is nowhere online doing live feeds?

[Amatay]

extract from the seat draw of day 2 of event 3

Samuel Ngai   23,500   Amazon / 372 / 1
Roland Israelashvili   23,000   Amazon / 372 / 2
David Sklansky   4,200   Amazon / 372 / 3
James Dempsey   58,900   Amazon / 372 / 4
Brian Saltus   12,900   Amazon / 372 / 5
Daniel Klein   33,600   Amazon / 372 / 7
Cameron Mckinley   13,100   Amazon / 372 / 8
Kirk Loberman   13,300   Amazon / 372 / 9

Robert Price aka Animal still going in this with about 22k i think

[Bongo]

Anyone fancy the $1mill buy in event next year?

http://loadtest.story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_sp_ot/wsop_high_roller_tournament

[UpTheMariners]

I take it there is nowhere online doing live feeds?

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/

[mondatoo]

last 8 of event 2 and they're starting with 30bb each. kinda ridic for a 25k buyin event

Eh ? They started at 2500/5000 and had starting stack of 400k or even 1.2 million if they took there extra bullets.