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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed

Congratulations to Chris Lee, Event #29 Champion ($254,955)!


Ship it to Chris "Genius28" Lee -- champion of Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed!

Four days ago, Chris Lee was just one of many in the starting field of 431 players who was vying for a chance at a bracelet. On the third day of play, Lee found himself at the final table and closer than ever. He was able to battle his way to the chip lead and take that lead into the extra Day 4 against Travis Pearson and Brian Haveson.

On the second hand of the day, Lee eliminated Pearson by winning a flip in the round of No-Limit Hold'em. By doing so, Lee had an even larger lead against Haveson when heads-up play began and steadily applied the pressure from there.

Haveson was able to find a few double ups here and then, but could never string them together. He'd double up, get short again, and then find another way to double. Finally though, Lee was able to hold up and end the tournament in a hand of 2-7 Triple Draw.

On the final hand, Lee's ten-nine was able to eliminate Haveson as he drew a king on the final draw. Haveson earned nearly $160,000 for his finish, but it's Lee taking home the $254,955 first-place prize and the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet!

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Chris Lee   $254,955
2   Brian Haveson   $157,491
3   Travis Pearson   $101,258
4   Shaun Deeb   $67,146
5   Kendall Fukumoto   $45,839
6   John D'Agostino   $32,200

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship

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Top Chip Counts
1    Joseph Bolnick    3,100,000
2    James Hess    2,300,000
3    James Jewell    2,160,000
4    Charles Cohen    1,200,000
5    Craig Koch    1,100,000
6    Gregory Alston    950,000
7    Richard Harwood    825,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

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Top Chip Counts
1    Sam Stein    1,800,000
2    Adam Junglen    1,500,000
3    Ben Lamb    1,400,000
4    Warren Fund    805,000
5    Christian Harder    700,000

6    Zimnan Ziyard       $71,548 for the UK

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em


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Top Chip Counts
1    Dror Michaelo    600,000
2    Michael Aron    590,000
3    Adam Lippert    425,000
4    Seyed Madani    400,000
5    Gary Dishongh    320,000
6    Rodrigo Portaleoni    300,000
7    Carter Gill    295,000
8    Kim Pham    295,000
9    Jakob Tostesen    280,000
10    Martin Stevens    280,000


Adam Latimer and Jamie Roberts still in for the UK

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship


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Top Chip Counts
1    Chris Tryba    390,000
2    Phil Laak    375,000
3    Ted Forrest    340,000
4    Antony Lellouche    315,000
5    Eric Rodawig    285,000
6    Ali Eslami    271,000
7    Phil Hellmuth    260,000
8    Joe Tehan    252,000
9    Bill Chen    225,000
10    Jon Turner    222,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 completed

Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

McClung Leads as Players Make the Money on Last Hand of Night

The Rio was once again a packed house for Day 1 of Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. The field started with 3,144 players but only 323 remain after ten levels of play and we just barely made the money on the last hand of the night. The chip leader appears to be Christopher McClung with 114,100 in chips.

Some other big stacks near the top of the leaderboard going into day 2 are Luke Davies (109,300), Nick Petrangelo (95,000), Lee Satterwhite (84,400) and Karoon Monfared (84,200). Notables that survived the day include Team PokerStars Pro Gualter Salles (Brazil), Dwyte Pilgrim, Barry Shulman, Lars Bonding and Mike Leah.

A few players that were unfortunately eliminated throughout the day were Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (USA), Randy Lew (Online), Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica), Liv Boeree (United Kingdom), David Williams (USA), as well as Tom Dwan, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Kathy Liebert, Hoyt Corkins and Amarillo Slim.


Top Chip Counts
1    Lars Bonding    71,000
2    Chad Batista    67,000
3    Bryan Paris    51,000
4    Joshua Schoonover    47,000
5    Dwyte Pilgrim    42,000
6    Veronica Dabul    40,000
7    Amanda Baker    35,000
8    Simon Watt    32,000
9    Mike Beasley    32,000
10    Thomas Conway    18,000

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The 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) Presented by Jack Links Beef Jerky at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino has officially reached the halfway point, eclipsing numerous records along the way and positioning this year’s slate of tournaments to shatter several all-time marks.   Through 30 events, total WSOP participation is up 11.7 percent, with 33,173 entrants lifting the prize pool 8.6 percent over 2010 levels and establishing a new midway milestone of $55,883,060.

 Eleven WSOP tournament records have been broken.  They are:


·         Biggest Heads-Up tournament prize pool in history ($3,040,000) – Event #2

·         Largest live Omaha High-Low Split Tournament in history (925 entries) – Event #3

·         Largest live Six-Handed tournament in poker history (1,920 entries) – Event #10

·         Biggest Deuce-to-Seven tournament prize pool in history ($1,184,400) – Event #16

·         Largest live $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start (3,157 entries) – Event #18

·         Largest live $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start (3,175 entries) – Event #20

·         Largest consecutive-days starting field sizes in poker history (combined 6,332 entries) – Event #18 and Event #20

·         Largest live Pot-Limit Omaha tournament in poker history (1,071 entries) – Event #22

·         Largest Mixed-Game (Eight-Game Mix) in poker history (489 entries) – Event #23

·         Largest Seniors poker tournament in history (3,752 entries) – Event #30

·         Largest live $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start – Event #30 (breaks record established in Event #20)

 These new attendance and prize money records come just one year after the 2010 WSOP enjoyed year-over-year attendance growth of 20 percent and set records for nine of the largest 17 live poker tournaments in history.  It is also worth noting that these live tournament records aren’t just WSOP-related.  In fact, they are the largest turnouts for any poker tournament worldwide – ever.

 e are humbled once again by the incredible turnout from players all over the world,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “It has been a record-setting summer thus far in 2011 and we are confident it will continue through the duration of the tournament.”

In addition to the official WSOP gold bracelet events, all other poker-related business is experiencing tremendous double-digit growth as well.  Year-to-date, 79,166 entries have been recorded.

WSOP side action, which refers to all non-bracelet events -- including cash games, single-table-satellites, mega-satellites and daily deepstack tournaments -- are up 45 percent year-over-year.

 sh games have attracted non-stop action featuring 96 live poker tables filled to capacity.  The cash games offered range from $1-$2 blinds all the way up to high-stakes competition, including No-Limit with blinds at $1,000/$2,000.  Pot-Limit Omaha, a game of growing popularity is generating more than 20 tables spread at a time.  This makes for arguably the greatest concentration of Pot-Limit Omaha action anywhere in history.

 Additionally, the WSOP is spreading more than 150 satellite tournaments daily throughout the 42nd annual event.  This segment is up 18 percent over last year.  (Note: A satellite tournament is a lower buy-in event whose prize is an entry into a larger buy-in event).  Mega-satellites have been particularly strong, regularly awarding dozens of seats per event and helping feed the larger buy-in bracelet events.

 inally, the Rio’s offering of low buy-in, one-day poker tournaments called “Daily Deepstacks” have been the busiest of all events year-over-year.  Players participating in the daily 2 pm tournaments with a $235 buy-in are regularly seeing 800-plus player fields and first place prizes in the $30,000-40,000 range.  Three Daily Deepstack tournaments are taking place, at 2 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm and all are seeing sharp increases.  These tournaments continue through July 16th.

 ournament Director Jack Effel explained, “It is one thing to plan and prepare to accommodate such a large number of people on a daily basis, but it is truly an amazing feeling to see it all unfold in front of your eyes like we have witnessed at the WSOP in 2011.  We are grateful for everyone’s patience throughout and want to thank the players who have showed up thus far.   We look forward to welcoming still more players who are still yet to make their 2011 WSOP debut.”
On Friday, June 18, the WSOP sat 5,946 players for the various poker tournaments scheduled that day – the largest number of players ever entered on a single day in live poker history.

 
A total of 408 poker tables are in use at the Rio this summer during the WSOP.  Despite the largest concentration of poker tables at one time anywhere in history, on several days demand has outstripped supply due to the unprecedented number of players descending upon the Rio.

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em



Place    Winner    Sponsor    Prize (USD)
1          668,276
2          414,918
3          292,634
4    Gabriel Morin       211,353
5    Dror Michaelo       154,506
6    Randy Haddox       114,304
7    Rodrigo Portaleoni       85,556
8    Kyle Cartwright       64,788
9    Alan Stevens       49,631

Top Chip Counts
1    Kirk Caldwell    5,150,000
2    Marc Mclaughlin    4,275,000
3    Ben White    3,150,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship


Top Chip Counts
1    Eric Rodawig    3,075,000
2    Phil Hellmuth    1,460,000
3    John Racener    505,000


1          442,183
2          273,233
3          171,122
4    Ted Forrest       123,904
5    David Benyamine       96,836
6    Mikhail Savinov       77,222
7    Joe Tehan       62,710
8    Ali Eslami       51,750
9    Antony Lellouche       43,317
10    Felipe Ramos       43,317
11    Christopher George       36,858
12    Phil Laak       36,858
13    Erik Seidel       32,057
14    Bill Chen    PokerStars Friend of PokerStars    32,057
15    Cyndy Violette       27,888
16    Chris Tryba       27,888

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

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Top Chip Counts
1    Alex Findlay    525,000
2    Michael Souza    460,000
3    Robbie Verspui    400,000
4    Lee Satterwhite    390,000
5    John Berreman    365,000
6    Jonas Mackoff    340,000
7    Steven Davisson    325,000
8    Randy Kritzer    305,000
9    Justin Cohen    300,000
10    Scott Shelley    290,000

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Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed
Day 1 completed
Selbst, Lindgren, Deeb, & McDonald Thrive on Day 1 of Inaugural $5K PLO/Six-Handed Event!

Vanessa Selbst is Day 1 chip leader with 250,300.

No one really knew what to expect today in regards to Event #35 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha/Six Handed. This was the first time a six-handed PLO event graced the World Series of Poker Schedule, so the turnout was anyone’s guess. As it turned out, the inaugural event drew an impressive 507 entrants, creating a prizepool of $2,382,900. With the top 48 finishers slated to get paid, including $619,575 that was reserved for first place, the pros turned out in full force. By the end of the night, only 110 players remained, including chip leader Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Vanessa Selbst with 250,300. A little further behind her are Erick Lindgren (208,700), Shaun Deeb (195,000), and Mike “timex” McDonald (181,100).

McDonald, who is playing in his first WSOP this summer, built his chips steadily throughout the day, but one hand was really reminiscent of his day-long heater. Late in the day, Amnon Filippi got his short stack all in preflop against McDonald:

Filippi: {A-Spades}{A-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}
McDonald: {A-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}

Filippi was ahead with his aces, but the {J-Clubs}{K-Spades}{Q-Spades} flop quickly changed that by giving McDonald a straight. The {9-Clubs} turn and {6-Clubs} river improved him to a flush, but the result was the same . . . Filippi was eliminated. "This is the best I've ever run in a tournament," McDonald said after the hand. "And I run good all the time."

While McDonald and company were running good, not everyone was so fortunate. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Carlos Mortensen, Galen Hall, Sammy Farha, Barry Greenstein, Eric Baldwin, Joe Cada, Robert Williamson, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Scott Seiver, and Daniel Negreanu were just a few of the pros who hit the rail on Day 1.

While many pros failed to survive, others successfully navigated the field and will be return on Day 2. They include David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast, Layne Flack, Erick Lindgren, Andy Seth, Jeff Lisandro, and Jason Mercier. Also making it through were Kevin Boudreau and Chance Kornuth, the runner-up and winner of last year’s $5,000 PLO event (though that one was played nine handed), who happened to play at the same table much of the day.


Top Chip Counts
1    Vanessa Selbst    250,300
2    Erick Lindgren    208,700
3    Shaun Deeb    195,000
4    Mike McDonald    181,800
5    Jamie Rosen    157,000
6    Jesper Hogaard    142,800
7    Chris DeMaci    137,700
8    Peter Jetten    134,000
9    David Ulliott    125,000
10    Joseph Cheong    120,700

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Makes you proud to be british

New video from WSOP2011: Dave`The Devilfish' Ulliott http://bit.ly/jyHUVF

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship

Eric Rodawig Wins Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship! ($442,183)


Eric Rodawig started today as the chip leader by a fair distance and then never once relinquished the top spot. He was always above everyone else and even when he suffered a slight dip during the final table, he kept his nose in front of the rest of the field.

With 18 players coming back today, it was a quick jump into the money as it took less than 10 minutes for Jon Turner and Justin Smith to be eliminated having turned up for three days to take home no money. Cyndy Violette, Erik Seidel and Phil Laak all made the money while unlucky Frenchman Antony Lellouche was to be the bubble at our final table.

Ali Eslami was first to be knocked out of the final table having been the short stack coming in. Joe Tehan was next, despite managing to fold a full house on the river correctly, he got chopped up in one pot to leave himself dangerously short and busted disappointingly in seventh place. Phil Hellmuth was the shortest for much of the six-handed play, managing to find several double ups to bring himself up the leader board. Russian Mikhail Savinov, a limit-game specialist was next to be eliminated, followed by David Benyamine - another deep run for the Frenchman but he will have wanted another bracelet.

Four-handed saw Ted Forrest go from second place to virtually out when he called every street against Rodawig, only to muck when he was shown a simple pair of aces. Forrest then got scooped by Hellmuth soon after and ended up going out in fourth.

Three-handed play between Hellmuth, Rodawig and John Racener continued for an extended period of time but Rodawig always stayed in control as the other two vied for second position. Racener eventually lost out after losing consecutive significant pots to first Rodawig then Hellmuth leaving us with our heads up battle.

[geordieneil]

chris moorman and devilfish in last 30, john kabbaj unlucky to be knocked out in 32nd, pretty interesting final table brewing with plenty big names still in

Gregory Brooks      725,000   21,000 pos
Erick Lindgren      500,000   30,000 pos
Vanessa Selbst   PokerStars PokerStars Team Pro (USA)   485,000   40,000 pos
Jeff Lisandro      435,000   211,000 pos
Tom Dwan      400,000   170,000 pos
Michael McDonald      340,000   20,000 pos
Steven Merrifield      320,000   50,000 pos
Peter Jetten      315,000   35,000 pos
Jason Mercier   PokerStars PokerStars Team Pro (USA)   315,000   67,000 pos
Joseph Ressler      302,000   52,000 pos
Micah Smith      280,000   60,000 pos
Hans Winzeler      273,000   -17,000 neg
David Callaghan      260,000   85,000 pos
Chris DeMaci      250,000   0
David Chiu      242,000   56,000 pos
Emil Patel      225,000   85,000 pos
Shawn Bennani      210,000   65,000 pos
Robert Shortway      200,000   90,000 pos
Chris Moorman      175,000   55,000 pos
Jared Bleznick      160,000   35,000 pos
Daniel Fuhs      160,000   15,000 pos


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-35-pot-limit-omaha-six-handed/chips.htm

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em


currently heads up as follows

Top Chip Counts
1    Justin Cohen    7,850,000
2    Mark Schmid    1,600,000


1          488,283
2          302,031
3    Andrew Rudnik       213,747
4    Jonathan Clancy       154,722
5    Trevor Vanderveen       113,297
6    Benjamin Volpe       83,925
7    Robbie Verspui       62,873
8    Michael Souza       47,622
9    Jeremy Kottler       36,473