WSOP-E thread

[TightEnd]

the highly anticipated World Series of Poker Europe festival pulls into the Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette for its French debut tomorrow.

This is the first time that the WSOPE has been held outside of London and with the move comes a few changes. The hop across the English Channel ensures a currency change from sterling to euro, the festival itself was moved forward from September to October, and it is said the new facility will allow for double the capacity with a planned 75 concurrent poker tables.

Most importantly, the number of bracelet events has increased from five to seven plus there will also be two non-bracelet events; the €550 buy-in ladies event and the Caesars Cup.

Here is the WSOP Europe 2011 schedule:

Event #1 Friday, Oct 7: six-handed no-limit hold’em (three days) — €2,680 buy-in
Event #2 Saturday Oct 8: no-limit hold’em (five days) — €1,090 buy-in
Event #3 Monday Oct 10: pot-limit Omaha (three days) — €5,300 buy-in
Event #4 Tuesday Oct 11: no-limit hold’em shootout (three days) — €3,200 buy-in (new)
Event #5 Wednesday Oct 12: no-limit hold’em split format (four days) — €10,400 buy-in
Event #6 Thursday Oct 13: six-handed pot-limit Omaha (three days) — €1,620 buy-in
Event #7 Saturday Oct 15: WSOPE main event championship (five days) — €10,400 buy-in
Saturday Oct 15: no-limit hold’em ladies event (non-bracelet, one day) — €550 buy-in
Wednesday Oct 19: Caesars Cup (non-bracelet, team event, one day) — Freeroll

As seen above, a €1,620 buy-in three-day six-handed pot-limit Omaha event and a €3,200 buy-in three-day no-limit hold’em shootout have been added to this year’s schedule. The £10,350 High Roller heads-up event from last year has become a €10,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em split format. The four-day event will start off nine-handed, change to sixhanded on the second day, and on days three and four players will go heads up.

The €10,400 buy-in main event kicks off on Oct. 15 and runs for five days (it ran for six last year). James Bord became the 2010 champion after he beat 346 players in London for the first-place prize of £830,401. In 2009,  Barry Shulman took home the title after beating Daniel Negreanu in a dramatic heads up for the £801,603 top prize.

[Royal Flush]

Here and regged, lets doooo this

[TightEnd]

How many fines on the journey down with Mitchell?

[Royal Flush]

Just the 1, if they can do anything with the speed cameras then i fear i have a few to come...

[TightEnd]

Event 1 day 2 field and seat draw at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dFpJTlpsYWJ3cXBJMERXMFE0V1Z5VHc&hl=en_US#gid=0

[Woodsey]

As this is in France don't we need spacefrog on hand to give flushy some mad rubs when he gets knocked out? 

[boldie]

As this is in France don't we need spacefrog on hand to give flushy some mad rubs when he gets knocked out? 

Return of the Spacefrog would be lovely.

[Woodsey]

As this is in France don't we need spacefrog on hand to give flushy some mad rubs when he gets knocked out?  

Return of the Spacefrog would be lovely.

As tight as it was on Flushy at the time, its still one of my top 5 lol moments on here. 

[boldie]

As this is in France don't we need spacefrog on hand to give flushy some mad rubs when he gets knocked out?  

Return of the Spacefrog would be lovely.

As tight as it was on Flushy at the time, its still one of my top 5 lol moments on here. 

Yeah, just went back through some of Froggie's posts in the "Rate my fry-up" thread...the man is a genius.

[TightEnd]

Nearly 400 already entered for Day 1A of WSOPE Event 2, 1090€ NL Hold'em, updates at pokernews 

[Royal Flush]

Place is rigged. But who cares, sauna ftw

[ManuelsMum]

Place is rigged. But who cares, sauna ftw

Online poker ftw.

[TightEnd]

Event #1: €2,680 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em — Guillaume Humbert Holds Chip Lead Moving into Final Day

Day 2 of Event #1, the €2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em, began with a change of venue. Instead of playing at the Hotel Majestic Barriere, players were moved across the road to the Le Croisette Casino Barriere for the first time. Luckily, the change of venue did not affect the action and railbirds and media members alike were once again treated to a scintillating display of poker.

Eighty players began the day with a plan to play either ten levels, or get down to the final table of six. When the day ended, the ten levels had won that particular race and 12 players remained. At the head of the pack was online player Guillaume Humbert, bagging 541,000 chips. The young Swiss player, who is playing in his first major live tournament, had his major break through after eliminating the Day 1 chip leader Flavien Guenan. Then as the end of the day neared, he also eliminated Johan Sundell and moved over the half million mark for the first time.

If Humbert looks over his shoulder he will see a man desperate for not only a WSOPE bracelet but the Player of the Year award as well. Phil Hellmuth was back to his old tricks on Saturday, and a great final level took him over the 400,000 mark, finishing in second place on the chip leaderboard.

Other notable players left in the field are David Benyamine (253,000), Anton Wigg (201,000) and Casey Kastle (119,000).

The final day will resume at 1500 CET (0600 PDT) with plenty of deep-stacked 6-max poker action..

Event #2: €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em — Hinrichsen Leads Day 1a Field

Day 1a of Event #2 at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe wrapped up on Saturday. The €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em event attracted 381 players for its first starting flight and is on pace to smash the record for the largest WSOP Europe event — 608 entries. There are 54 players remaining and Australian Andrew Hinrichsen is leading the way with 63,900 in chips.

Hinrichsen was a permanent fixture at the top of the counts all day long. In one of his bigger hands he played towards the end of the night, Hinrichsen bet 8,500 on the board of . His opponent tanked and went back and forth for a little bit. Then finally, the player raised all-in for 13,075. Hinrichsen called and his opponent showed for a pair of jacks. Hinrichsen tabled the for two pair and won the pot.

Plenty of notable players were in the mix on Saturday, but not all of them could advance to Day 2. Mike Leah, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Phil Collins, Jason Mercier, Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein and Nacho Barbero were a handful of names to hit the rail on the day.

Among those moving on to the second day of play are, Toby Lewis, Randy Dorfman, McLean Karr, Farzad Bonyadi, Richard Toth, Erik Cajelais, Eoghan O'Dea, Matt Waxman and Dan Shak. They'll all be part of the group that joins up with the remaining players from Day 1b to continue play on Day 2.

Day 2 will begin on Monday at 1400 CET (0500 PDT). Action for Sunday's Day 1b flight kicks off at 1200 CET (0300 PDT) with nine levels of play on the schedule

[Eck]

Live feed


http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11609

[paulhouk03]

GOOOOOOOO HELLMUTH

<3 hellmuth