WSOP-E thread

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The number on the big board shows 196 players registered for today's Day 1b, and that puts the total field size over 500 This is now the largest prize pool France has ever seen for a poker tournament, and it blows away the previous WSOPE record.

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2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Rosen Leads Into Day 2; Defending Champion Bord Still Alive

This €10,400 Main Event Championship attracted a whopping 593 players over the course of two starting days and 333 of them remain in contention. Heading the pack is Jamie Rosen, who bagged up 162,700 in chips after Day 1a. Behind him are Lari Sihvo with 144,725 and Tommy Vedes with 142,775. Both Sihvo and Vedes played on Day 1b.

Previously, the largest-ever WSOP Europe Main Event was back in 2007 and 2008 when Annette Obrestad and John Juanda emerged victorious, respectively. In each of those years, the main event attracted 362 players. Comparing the 2007 and 2008 field size to this year, the tournament has grown nearly 64%. Comparing the number to last year's field size, you'll find a growth of over 71%.

Speaking of last year, the defending champion James Bord is still alive and well with above-average chips. He bagged up a flat 60,000 at the end of play last night, which puts him roughly 6,500 chips above the mean. We'll be keeping a close eye on him all day today in his title-defense run.

Other notables still remaining are Robert Mizrachi, McLean Karr, Leo Boxell, Tony G, Johnny Chan, Ben Lamb, Matan Krakow, Olivier Busquet and Freddy Deeb. Also still alive are current WSOP November Niners Ben Lamb and Sam Holden.

Top Chip Counts
1    Jamie Rosen    162,700
2    Lari Sihvo    144,725
3    Tommy Vedes    142,775
4    Alexander Kostritsyn    126,200
5    Antonio Palma    125,000
6    Dermot Blain    123,500
7    Chris Moorman    121,775
8    Constant Rjkenberg    121,500
9    Laurent Polito    120,200
10    Mustapha Kanit    117,700


Brammer 91k
Akenhead 78k
Cody 75k
Frankland 74k
Duthie 70k
Akery 70k
Sam Holden 62k
Ulliott 62k
B Boatman 60k
Bord 60k
Moseley 58k
Vamplew 48k
Dempsey 48k
Eames 36k


were the Brits I spotted still going

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2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Chip Counts

1    Constant Rijkenberg       462,800    
2    Hoyt Corkins       429,900    
3    Rifat Palevic       353,500    
4    Jake Cody       323,200    
5    Giuseppe Sammartino       305,900
6    Tom Bedell       301,900    
7    Andy Moseley       301,400    
8    Hyacinthe Bonnin       296,000
9    Erik Seidel       291,900
10    Shawn Buchanan       291,400    
11    Chris McClung       285,500    
12    Thibaud Guenegou       279,000
13    Joel Dodds       270,400    
14    Mathew Frankland       259,800    
15    Hans Winzeler       259,500    
16    Ricardo Tavares    249,500
17    Ilan Boujenah       241,400    
18    Philippe Ktorza       238,000    
19    Arnaud Mattern       237,300    
20    Brian Roberts       233,100    
21    James Dempsey       231,100    
22    Emin Aghayev       229,300    
23    Patrik Antonius       228,100    
24    Joao Barbosa       219,200    
25    Jeremy Kottler       212,300    

Day 2 is In the Bag; Rijkenberg Flying High


Day 2 is done and dusted here at the WSOPE Main Event, and our starting field has been dashed to bits. The remaining 328 (of the 539 starters) walked back into the tournament room today, but more than 200 of the walked right back out with a frown over the course of six testing levels. Including the start-of-day chip leader, Jamie Rosen. And the third-place stack of Tommy Vedes. It was Vedes' birthday today, but he was the one doing the giving, quickly passing his chips out to his table mates and heading off to (hopefully) celebrate.

With the bags out on the tables, it looks like Constant Rijkenberg has done the most work today, and his stack of 462,800 puts him atop the pack heading for the run to the money tomorrow.

Rijkenberg's finishing stack is still less than Rifat Palevic's high point on the day. Palevic was the first player to amass a big stack today, working his count up over the half-million mark at one point. The aggression that gave him the chips took a chunk of them away, however, and Palevic had to settle for a finishing count of 353,500 -- still quite healthy. Others who are still in the hunt for this title include Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein, Robert Mizrachi, Victor Ramdin, Patrik Antonius, Tony G, and the defending champion, James Bord. And don't look now, but last year's 13th-place finisher, Hoyt Corkins, finds himself in second place overall with 429,900 at night's end.

Everyone's chasing Rijkenberg, though, and the Dutchman certainly knows what it takes to win a big tournament. Rijkenberg is the EPT San Remo champion from a couple years back, and his game seems to have grown even a bit more mature in the time since then. He'll bring almost a half-million chips back with him tomorrow.

Play is set to resume at noon tomorrow, and we'll play eight-handed from here on out.

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115 remain, 64 paid

1          1,400,000
2          800,000
3          550,000
4          400,000
5          275,000
6          200,000
7          150,000
8          115,000
9          90,000
10          90,000
11          67,500
12          67,500
13          53,000
14          53,000
15          43,000
16          43,000
17          37,000
18          37,000
19          37,000
20          37,000
21          37,000
22          37,000
23          37,000
24          37,000
25          32,000
26          32,000
27          32,000
28          32,000
29          32,000
30          32,000
31          32,000
32          32,000
33          27,500
34          27,500
35          27,500
36          27,500
37          27,500
38          27,500
39          27,500
40          27,500
41          24,000
42          24,000
43          24,000
44          24,000
45          24,000
46          24,000
47          24,000
48          24,000
49          21,475
50          21,475
51          21,475
52          21,475
53          21,475
54          21,475
55          21,475
56          21,475
57          20,000
58          20,000
59          20,000
60          20,000
61          20,000
62          20,000
63          20,000
64          20,000


Good luck to Flushy, Jake, Moorman and others today

[geordieneil]

flushy just busted a few off the bubble

[geordieneil]

feature table on the live stream includes Moomin, Eames, Freddy deeb to name but a few

http://www.wsop.com/2011/wsope/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11617

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now joined by Jake Cody

[GreekStein]

now joined by Jake Cody

yeh sick table. melanie weisner and maria ho too.

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now joined by Jake Cody

yeh sick table. melanie weisner and maria ho too.

Moorman playing awesome, reallly looks zoned in, can see him taking this down

[istrabraq]

Watching live stream buzzing after city win was a nervy win . The derby on Saturday should be a cracker

[toddswain]

Moooorman thooo

[geordieneil]

now joined by Jake Cody

yeh sick table. melanie weisner and maria ho too.

Moorman playing awesome, reallly looks zoned in, can see him taking this down

running good helps too, calls a shove with JJ v QQ and turns a set..............boooooooooom

[mondatoo]

GLGL Jake, Eames and Moorman.

[geordieneil]

what a card rack moorman is, he just knocked out melanie weisner aipf with kk v ak.  he must have close to 2.5mill now

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Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship

Day 3 completed
Every Day 3 Has a Silver Lining: Max Silver Leads The WSOPE Main Event

Level 19: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante

There was a great atmosphere inside the Hotel Majestic Barriere today. Maybe it was the sunshine? Maybe it was the fact that 64 souls were going to earn some money? Whatever it was it moved around the air flicked in and out of the cards and created some amazing action, fantastic face-offs and superb suck-outs. It was, of course, day three of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €10,400 Main Event Championship.

In Sep 2010, Max Silver got himself noticed on the European poker scene after winning the UKIPT in Dublin and then winning a side event at EPT London. Fast forward 12 months and Silver had not cashed in one single live event, but as he rolled into his favourite month it all began to change. He finished 28th at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, 4th at UKIPT Dublin (again) and then 4th in the WSOPE Event #4 €3,200 Shootout a few days ago. To top off a fantastic few months, he has finished as our day three chip leader with 1,780,000 chips. Silver's magic moment came in a flush-versus-flush encounter with fellow countryman Mathew Frankland. After that moment Silver just went from strength to strength.

Just behind Max Silver is Chris Moorman. Moorman spray-painted his name all over the poker world when he received notoriety for his performances in cyber space. But just recently Moorman has been showing the world that he also knows the way into a live card room, and boy when that lad turns up, can he play! In January Moorman finished in 7th place at the Aussie Millions Main Event before having a crazy summer in Vegas, winning over $1 million at the WSOP. The last time he cashed in a live event on European soil was at the WSOPE in 2010 and he has just done it again, only this time he might just go all of the way. Moorman's vital moment came after a monumental bubble hand against Constant Rijkenberg. Then after being moved to the final table he ran amok eliminating Hoyt Corkins, Freddy Deeb, Carbone Damiano and Melanie Weisner. Moorman finally bagged up 1,769,000 chips to take second place just a hair's breadth from Silver.

Day 3 was also the day that we breached the money bubble, and the unfortunate player was none other than Barry Greenstein. Just before his exit Greenstein told the table that his girlfriend had predicted that he would be the bubble boy. How unfortunate that she should be proved so right – Brian Roberts the recipient of a brand new signed copy of Ace on the River.

23-players will return, at 14.00 (CET) Wednesday, as the WSOPE main event launches into day four. Other notables to make the cut include Shawn Buchanan (1,267,000), Patrik Antonius (696,000), Jake Cody (522,000), John Duthie (314,000), Erik Seidel (242,000) and father and son Tony G (226,000) and John Eames (210,000).