WSOP One Stop Shop

[gatso]

http://atdhenet.tv/27621/watch-world-series-of-poker-25-000-heads-up

love robert williamson commentating. he sounds like kevin from the office

[gatso]

brilliant. they've played 20 minutes too long at 6k/12k so are now gonna skip a level. you'd think they could afford to have a clock

[Spraggs]

Put some gel or something in your hair Timoshenko!

soo tilting

[TightEnd]

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #2: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship


Jake Cody Wins


Well, this just in: Jake Cody is a sicko. Less than 15 months removed from his first major tournament victory, Jake Cody has completed his climb to the top of poker's highest mountain. At the tender age of 22, Cody has joined just two other men in achieving poker's Triple Crown. His EPT victory came in Deuville, France in January of last year, and he followed that up with another major title at WPT London just a few months later, Now today, in just his second WSOP event, he's added that elusive (or not so elusive, in Cody's case) bracelet to his trophy case. It's hard to overstate how impressive of an accomplishment it is.

Perhaps it's his soft-spoken tone or his haphazardly spiked hair. Something about Jake Cody indicates he's not much of a threat. But that's not exactly the case. Spurred on by an astoundingly loud cheering section of his countrymen, Cody blasted through his matches today. He used up only one of his three bullets to take all 4.8 million of Yevgeniy Timoshenko's chips, locking up the gold bracelet and sending his throng of supporters into a frenzy. It really was an impressive lesson in heads-up poker from a man who has a strange propensity for being underestimated.

Cody's path to this final was no cakewalk either. He knocked off Brandon Adams in the first round, then bested 2010 Player of the Year Frank Kassela to punch his ticket to to Day 2. Dani Stern was no match for him in their Round 3 contest, and Cody advanced through Jonathan Jaffe in the fourth round to move into the money. He had just one match to play on Day 3, but he admitted in his interviews that Anthony Guetti was his toughest challenge to that point. Cody was dangerously short-stacked for a good while during that match, but he stood his ground and battled back valiantly to take all the chips and earn his spot among today's final four.

Cody's semifinal match was one for the ages. If anyone has so thoroughly beaten Gus Hansen, we can't remember when it happened. Just like the final, Cody needed just one bullet to dispense with Hansen in a lopsided battle that went the opposite way many would have guessed. In the final, Yevgeniy Timoshenko put up a good battle, but Cody was just too much. In what had to be his toughest two tests, he didn't need any of his add-on buttons. Not even one.

So then, the second gold bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker goes to the young Brit, Jake Cody. With it comes the Triple Crown, and a good bit of exposure on national television, and more than $850,000 in U.S. dollars. Out of those, we're guessing the Triple Crown means most to the young Brit, and we at PokerNews send our congrats out to Cody and his countrymen for a truly impressive showing here this week!

Two events in, it's already shaping up to be the Year of the Brits in Las Vegas

[TightEnd]

2011 World Series of Poker
Event #3: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better

Francesco Barbaro Wins


The biggest field in Limit Omaha Hi-Low history finished early this morning with victory for the overnight chip leader Francesco Barbaro, defeating a field of 925 players to claim his first ever WSOP bracelet.

Barbaro began today as the chip leader just ahead of Matthew Waxman and although he was to relinquish the chip lead to Waxman as they reached the final table, Barbero regained the momentum at a crucial point with around five left and completely dominated once we got four handed.

The day began extremely quickly as we lost 11 players inside the first hour including Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis and double Omaha bracelet winner Scott Clements. Jimmy Fricke was another casualty, suffering a very swingy day while Day 1 chip leader Guillaume Rivet just failed to make the final table. As the event reached the final table, it was Barbaro, Waxman and Kostas Kalathakis who emerged as the three big stacks while the other players' chips began to dwindle and indeed they were the last three left standing.

After winning these two crucial hands, it always looked likely that Barbero would be the first person to take down a non Hold'em event. Those hands put him over the 3 million mark and knocked Kostas Kalathakis and Waxman down to about 500,000 each and from then on it seemed academic that Barbaro would claim the bracelet.

With Waxman finished off when Barbaro flopped a straight, it was left to Kalathakis to try and stop the bulldozer-like momentum of the chip leader. Although the short stack doubled up, it wasn't too last long and after only five minutes of heads up play, it was all over and bracelet was Barbaro's.

[TightEnd]

Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 Concludes with 2009 Champion Lemke on Top


What a day it has been. With the completion of Day 2 in Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em here at the 2011 World Series of Poker, another great day of poker is in the history books. At the start of the day, 246 players returned from the starting field of 865. At the end of the day, the field was whittled down to 42 with Brain Lemke leading the way. He holds 960,000 in chips.

With the money set at 81 places, anyone with the slightest hint of math in their repertoire can figure out that the money bubble burst today. That means not everyone returning got a piece of the $4,065,500 prize pool. Some of those who were eliminated on the day, but failed to make the money included Randy Lew, Justin Young, Joe Cassidy, Adam Geyer, Sam Stein and Nick Schulman. The worst finish of the day went to Jacqueline Hughes, who found herself as the tournament bubble girl finishing in 82nd place.

Down to her last ante on the button, Hughes posted and was all in. JC Tran limped in and then Seth Berger raised all in from the cutoff seat for 48,000. Action folded back to Tran and he gave it up. First, Berger was pushed the small blind, big blind and Tran's limp before action was held up while the other tables finished. After all the other tables had completed their hands, the cards were turned over to determine Hughes' fate. She held the {9-Hearts}{6-Hearts} and Berger the {A-Hearts}{K-Hearts}. The flop came down {Q-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{10-Hearts} and Berger stayed in front. Hughes chanted for a six, but the {K-Clubs} on the turn left her drawing dead. She got her wish on the river with the {6-Diamonds}, but it was too late as she was drawing dead. Berger won the pot and eliminated Hughes, sending the remaining 81 players into the money.

We've noted some of the eliminated players, but there's still plenty of firepower left in this field. Returning for Day 3 will be Allen Bari, Matt Glantz, Kyle Bowker, Bernard Lee and Carlos Mortensen. The chip leader Lemke won this event back in 2009 and will be taking the pole position into Day 3.

Lemke had himself a solid day on the felt. One of the largest pots he took down came during an all-in confrontation with Justin Gardenhire. Lemke and Gardenhire got all of the money in preflop after some raising back and forth. Lemke held the {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} and Gardenhire the {J-Hearts}{J-Clubs}. The board ran out {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds} to give Lemke the win and send his stack across the 500,000-chip mark.

It's also of note that Maria Ho still remains as well. She's fought her way to Day 3 in a field surrounded by men as the only woman left. Ho has eight WSOP cashes on record, making this her ninth. The largest of those came in 2007 when she took 38th place in the WSOP Main Event for $237,865.

Event #4 will continue on Saturday at 2:30 PM PT


Top Chip Counts
1    Brian Lemke    960,000
2    Allen Bari    680,000
3    Ricky Fohrenbach    642,000
4    Steven Levy    565,000
5    Simon Charette    470,000
6    Sergey Rybachenko    430,000
7    Matt Glantz    410,000
8    Gavin Cochrane    400,000
9    JC Tran    400,000
10    Markus Gonsalves    395,000

[TightEnd]

Event 5 2011 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

13 left

1               122,909
2          75,911
3          48,961
4          35,476
5          26,083
6          19,456
7          14,723
8          11,301
9          8,800
10          8,800
11          6,949
12          6,949
13          5,561

Top Chip Counts
1    Alessio Isaia    175,000
2    Kai Landry    165,000
3    Eric Buchman    160,000
4    Dennis Parker    150,000
5    Jeremy Ausmus    133,000
6    Ylon Schwartz    130,000
7    Eugene Katchalov    116,000
8    Thomas Servais    112,000
9    Jonathan Spinks    100,000
10    Arash Ghaneian    98,000

[TightEnd]

Event #6: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

We've officially closed the books on the first day of the $1,500 Limit Hold'em event! Today's field began with 675 players and we played down to the final 135 today. At the end of ten levels of play, Chris Tryba emerged as our Day One chip leader, finishing the day with 67,300 in chips. Close behind are Jason Kim with 59,900 and Sean Nguyen with 55,500.

Today's field started out slow in terms of big name professional players, but by the day's end we ended up with a field packed full of notables. Some thrived and some faltered in the face of this $1,500 Limit Hold'em event. Among those that fell out of the running today include Daniel Negreanu, Jean-Robert Bellande, Allen Cunningham, Joe Sebok, Steve Billirakis, and Phil Gordon.

However, while many big names were eliminated from the field, there still remained players who rose to the top and survived on to compete in Day 2. Among those moving on are Barry Shulman, Tom Schneider, Matt Matros, Chino Rheem, and the femme fatales Jennifer Harman and J.J. Liu. Each of these players has a shot of grabbing the event's top prize of $205,065 and it will be interesting to see who rises to the top during day two play.

Top Chip Counts
1    Chris Tryba    67,300
2    Jason Kim    59,900
3    Sean Nguyen    55,500
4    Damien Leforbes    55,300
5    Bryan Pimlott    55,000
6    Chris Overgard    51,300
7    Matt Dames    49,600
8    Paul Schulmer    49,100
9    Brian Feder    47,600
10    Jon Aguiar    46,100

[TightEnd]

 Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

Day 1 completed
PLH Championship Day 1: 120 Players Hit the Rail; Levi Chip Leader with 137,000


The $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship kicked off Day 1 with eight levels of action-packed play as 249 players entered for their shot at the first $10K championship of the year. While that number was down slightly from last year’s 268 entrants, the quality of the field was not diminished in the least. In fact, many of the event’s former champs were in attendance including Nenad Medic (2008- $794,112), Allen Cunningham (2007- $487,287), and last year’s winner, Hungarian Valdemar Kwaysser (2010- $617,214). When the sun set on Day 1 approximately 137 players remained.

As many know, Pot-Limit Hold’em is extremely popular with the European contingent of players. That fact was evidenced by the players who had traveled from around the world to enter the event. Among them were PokerStars Team Pro UK members JP Kelly, James Akenhead, and Liv Boeree; and European superstars Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Vladimir Schemelev, Maxim Lykov, and Praz Bansi. Although, about half of those players would be eliminated during the day.

Obviously Europeans weren’t the only players in action. Some big names who played and even survived the day include Erik Seidel, David “Bakes” Baker, Dwyte Pilgrim, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Hoyt Corkins, and Pat Pezzin. Even more impressive, former champs Cunningham, Medic, and Kwaysser all survived to Day 2.

However, all of those players are trailing those at the top of the chip counts: Nicholas Levi (137,000), John Dwyer (130,000), McLean Karr (125,500), Darren Kramer (125,100), Martins Adeniya (124,800), Brandon Adams (114,000), Josh Arieh (113,000), Steve O'Dwyer (112,200) Sam Stein (111,000), Matt Marafioti (110,700), and Justin Bonomo (109,800).

Not all the big-name pros were as lucky as Levi. Huck Seed, David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Tom Marchese, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Alaei, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Frank Kassela, Scott Seiver, John Racener, and Michael Mizrachi were among those eliminated as the day wore on. In addition, PokerStars Team Pro members Vanessa Selbst, Alexandre Gomes, Jonathan Duhamel, Ville Wahlbeck, Vanessa Rousso, Lex Veldhuis, and Leo Fernandez all failed to make it through to Day 2.

Tomorrow, the remaining 137 players will return to compete for their share of a $2,340,600 prizepool, which will be distributed among the top 27 players with first place receiving $573,456. Here is a look at the payouts:

1st- $573,456
2nd- $354,460
3rd- $264,651
4th- $198,927
5th- $150,453
6th- $114,525
7th- $87,702
8th- $67,596
9th- $52,406
10th thru 12th- $40,890
13th thru 15th- $31,183
16th thru 18th- $25,348
19th thru 27th- $20,129


Top Chip Counts
1    Nicholas Levi    137,000
2    John Dwyer    130,000
3    McLean Karr    125,500
4    Darren Kramer    125,100
5    Martins Adeniya    124,800
6    Brandon Adams    114,000
7    Josh Arieh    113,000
8    Steve O'Dwyer    112,200
9    Sam Stein    111,000
10    Matt Marafioti    110,700

[AlexMartin]

Odds on Jake or Toby playing this plz ?   

id say trickett is the most likely....

[Royal Flush]

Hilarious table draw day 2 of 10k

Annette, Mercier, Moorman, Paul Geeeeees, Arieh, Sam Stein and myself, should be fun

[outragous76]

just got a text from moorman with his table draw in the 10k plh

Annette, Mercier, Moorman, Paul Geeeeees, Arieh, Sam Stein and some monkey from brighton

[TightEnd]

just got a text from moorman

sick brag

[TightEnd]

3 brits in top 10 of the 10k pot limit event 7....incuding james dempsey and sunny chattha..........what a start the brits are having


1   Martins Adeniya   200,000
2   Sunny Chattha   186,000
3   Binh Nguyen   159,000
4   Christopher Oliver   153,000
5   McLean Karr   150,000
6   Justin Bonomo   143,000
7   Dan Fleyshman   135,000
8   James Dempsey   132,300
9   Robert Mizrachi   130,000
10   Men Nguyen   129,900


courtesy geordieneil

[Amatay]

31 left i n $10k PLH. Might need another funk thread?

Top Chip Counts
1    McLean Karr    543,000
2    Chris Moorman    490,000
3    Christopher Oliver    430,000
4    Stephen Chidwick    400,000
5    Owen Crowe    385,000
6    Jason Somerville    375,000
7    Jarred Solomon    370,000
8    Jonathan Jaffe    355,000
9    Jason DeWitt    350,000
10    Toby Lewis    300,000