Vegas Main Event - off we go!

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The notoriously unreliable WSOP Chip Counts have two Brits in the Top Ten - Marc Wright in 7th (700,000) & Dan Rudd in 8th (695,0000).

Marc reported his stack @ 730,000 at the break, a few minutes ago.

[cambridgealex]

 
In those circumstances, would YOU show your hand to the camera?

Me? No chance, forget that. Maybe I'm just stubborn, but why should I?

Depends on whether I think what I had would make me look silly or not obv!

If not, why not? I prefer the why not attitude to the why should I.

[JK]

Rudd Grabs The Chip Lead For Now
Posted 5 minutes ago by 123md • Level 15: 2,000-4,000, 500 ante     
Daniel Rudd has just overtaken and Ben Alcober and AJ Jejelowo for the chip lead for the time being.
We caught up to the action on the river, but Rudd was kind enough to fill us in on the details. He opened to 8,500 in early position and was called by two players before a third player re-raised to 24,500 from the small blind. Rudd called, as did the other two players, landing an  flop.
The three-bettor bet 67,000, Rudd called, and the other two opponents folded. The turn fell the  where the bet was 101,000 to Rudd. He called, landing the  on the river. This time, Rudd's opponent fired 167,000. Wasting little time, Rudd re-raised all in for an additional 97,000. After a few moments his opponent called and Rudd tabled . His opponent tabled a weaker ace, , shipping the nearly seven-figure pot Rudd's way.
Rudd now sits on a stack of about 980,000.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/

AK vs AQ on A2299

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Wow, go Daniel!

The form in that 2007 Tourney that Keefy posted is working out well.....

[FUN4FRASER]

Daniel Rudd is top 10 in chips.

Remember him from this?

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=27631

Does he post here?

Lordy Lordy, yes, of course I do, great great lad. That was about his first decent bink, & the first time I had met him. He was a blonde already then.

Look at those names! That must have been one of Mr Bedi's earliest Live cashes. To be honest, I have no recollection of George being there.

You'll have to pardon the oh-so-rare opportunity to chirp, but that was their May Fessie, & on top of that 3rd on the Thursday, I also won the Main, which started on the Friday. Actually, more likely, reading the result, I chopped it.

I flopped a set against the late Dave Smith & busted him, but the kid "Koky Yu" (yup, that was his real name) was a right handful. We played cash afterwards, & he got about £1,500 back from me, & more from Compo.

Compo & I were doing "Poker Week" there, for next door, it was all a bit surreal for me to be the winner of an Event we were covering for TV. Probably the last time I did something I could chirp about.

We tried to record the "wrap" on the balcony, overlooking the greyhound track (there was a meeting on), & had to do some 30 takes, every time we hit our stride, "So that's it from Poker Week here in Sheffield" the stadium PA would make an announcement about some nonsense.

This went on for nearly 45 minutes, before we realised we were having our leg lifted, Lawrence Gosney had teed up the PA man to speak every time Compo started his outro.
 
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=27632

That's a fantastic story.
 
Haven't seen Mr Gosney in a while. I was railing him when he won his bracelet beating one of the most obnoxious American players around, Dustin Woolf, who is currently spending some time at one of Obama's finest jails. My heart bleeds for him. Not.

Was/is Lawrence in Vegas?

Thanks Keith. I sometimes wish I could forget forums & just write stories every day. I've loved Blogging from Vegas, but there are just not enough hours in the day.

I was there when Lawrence binked too, & when Mr Arsey American decided to start with his speech play on Gosney, we all snap knew he was dead in the water, Gosney minced him, rinsed him, & spat him out. Why is Woolf in Prison? Drug related?

I have not spotted Lawrence in Vegas this year, no. He just does his own thing, usually on impulse. Very wealthy man actually. He used to kill the £20-ers up in Bradford & Sheffield, win them night after night, & was an amazing Padooki player, the Padooki games up there were well big.

Naps Sheffield was very popular then, & the Notts lads always came up & we'd have a meal before, Thewy, Jamie Moult, Red-Dog, Ralphy Boy, Ian Oldershaw & Co. The Blackpool lads used to come across, too, plus there were a whole bunch of bent buggers who played there.

Whoops, Episode 27 of all Our Yesterdays there, I'll confine them to my diary in future.

My home town casino did use to be popular...you cant believe how  cramped and smokey it was with Georges cigars and like you say ironically he would have the biggest fan that Dave Smith(lovely man RIP) would always try and steal.Cash games where great with Norman (from Halifax I think) Shaf fron Blackburn and various locals

Great times indeed but to be honest the place is exactly the same now...still a bit dumpy(without the smoke),,,Tony I recall you had a different hair colour then 

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'won't cash till tomorrow if I make it. 900 left 1.5 levels left of the day average is 200k I have 300k'wiiiiiii glgl Fettdozer! #Hero

Gl to James Keys too, think he had 440k ? decent stack too

gl other blonde's! Bring the gold to Britain - wiiiiiiiiii

Tony or anybody know how Paul McTaggert (Boba Fett) is going please ? as only got Dreenies post to go on

[celtic]

Had 240k about an hour ago.

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Had 240k about an hour ago.

Cheers...if anybody knows  his twitter account name that would be great ..thanks

[outragous76]

Had 240k about an hour ago.

Cheers...if anybody knows  his twitter account name that would be great ..thanks

@BobaFettdozer11

[FUN4FRASER]

Had 240k about an hour ago.

Cheers...if anybody knows  his twitter account name that would be great ..thanks

@BobaFettdozer11

Cheers Guy

[outragous76]

Dan Rudd showing as 834k - gogo that man

[MereNovice]

Brit chip counts from PokerNews:
Daniel Rudd          834,500
Marc Wright          635,500
James Keys          430,000
Sam Holden          418,000
JP Kelly          400,000
James Mitchell          337,000
Chris Moorman          305,500
Karim Jomeen          300,000
John Oshea          295,000
Liv Boeree          207,500
Eoghan O'Dea          200,000
Gary Hurst          195,000
Salman Behbehani          170,000
Neil Ryder          150,000
Darren Judges          140,000
Jake Cody          105,000




I'll update when the official counts are available.

[pokerfan]

Cody bust, acc to his twitter.

[Chompy]

Paul Ephremsen finished with 292k

[c4ught]

End of day 3 counts - ctrl+f and you can search for your horses names.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD3%28chips%29.pdf