Vegas Main Event - off we go!

[TightEnd]

End of the day twitter round up

Neil Channing ‏@SenseiChanning

Made 5 normal opens all day & got 3-bet 5 times. 2 shoves in last hour since the AK double. 2nd was squeeze shove with AQ. 10s snapped. OUT.

Rhys Jones ‏@floppinhel

Finished the day 2 with 137,400. Return midday Thursday at 800/1600/200. Today could have gone better but im happy.

Sam Razavi ‏@Sam_Razavi

Man lost his mind and got it in pre for 60k pot with Q9 vs my QK. Of course he won. Thanks for the support everyone, til next year!

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

Well that, I would say, is an imperfect finish. Last hand of the day, re-raise all in with 99...

Victoria Coren ‏@VictoriaCoren

...my opponent has QQ and 7000 chips less than me! So I'm through to Day 3 but with four big blinds.


Craig McCorkell ‏@CraigMcCorkell

Finished day 2 with 230k, day off tomorrow #wsopmainevent

Dave Jones ‏@LeKnave

Ran it to 115k in the last level, but bricked the nfd after barrelling, and then an ill timed river raise leaves me with 66,800.



Please post more Brit news or chip counts if you see or hear of them, ty

[the sicilian]

What is the average atm?

No idea Keith, not sure how to check, either. We are 3 levels into Day 2a, (which comes from 1a & 1b) & 2b (comes from 1c) is tomorrow.

Starting stack is 30,000, & in Days 1a, b & c, approx 65% of the field fell.

No idea how many players have fallen by the wayside today, either. Guess 60% (of 2a) or so will perish today?

At start of play today, I would estimate average as somewhere around 50,000.

Short version. I have no idea.

Following the Main Event from home is terrible.

It's like listening to the Grand National on the radio.. you have no idea whether the horse you've backed has fallen and the commentator has missed it or it's cruising in behind the leaders with a double handful!

Relying on tweets, and if the players you are following don't tweet for 90 minutes you automatically assume the worst!

I can imagine.

It gets worse in the last 2 levels of the day, as players i-phone batteries die. I had about 10 people ask me to charge their phones towards the end of play last night. Obv, Channing got priority, as he talks most.  

Tell the boys to get themselves like this...   http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004GGU8SS/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00

Gives you 1-1.5 extra charges..essential for #myiphonechewsbatterylife

[TightEnd]

Sky poker got at least 2 through, Marc Wright with 129,000, Sam1986 Baylis with 102,000

Any more tikay?


Flushy made it through?

[TightEnd]

Day2 c table draw

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AphmWJY3rs91dHNSMW85ZGhCRzEwQk1MaUNzWGRtTlE

[Royal Flush]

Yeah i am through, 66,700 1200 more than i started the day with. Also happens to be about 90k less than i had at the 2nd break

[The Camel]

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

I'm not one for HH but this is golden. Tight guy opens EP 1800 I flat QQ mp HU flop, Q83r he 2200 I call, turn 2 him 5300 me 13k he calls

river J he check tank calls 24k, then gets a penalty for not raising....not sure if I'm ecstatic or tilted

Lol last year beginning day 3 a woman check called my pot bet with the nut straight vs my 2nd nut straight no flush possible. Love the main event

There was a hand a couple of years ago.

Level one board was 789 two clubs.

Betting went ballistic. Guy open folded JT hh against two allins.

On their backs, one had 67 the other one top set!

[woody03210]

WOULD J10 OF HEALD UP???

[The Camel]

WOULD J10 OF HEALD UP???

Yes.

It's in the pokernews archives somewhere

[AlunB]

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

I'm not one for HH but this is golden. Tight guy opens EP 1800 I flat QQ mp HU flop, Q83r he 2200 I call, turn 2 him 5300 me 13k he calls

river J he check tank calls 24k, then gets a penalty for not raising....not sure if I'm ecstatic or tilted

Am I being really stupid or is there something missing from this? Did the guy have 9-10?

[pleno1]

tikays blog stopped after day 1b or am i blind?

[MereNovice]

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

I'm not one for HH but this is golden. Tight guy opens EP 1800 I flat QQ mp HU flop, Q83r he 2200 I call, turn 2 him 5300 me 13k he calls

river J he check tank calls 24k, then gets a penalty for not raising....not sure if I'm ecstatic or tilted

Am I being really stupid or is there something missing from this? Did the guy have 9-10?

He got a penalty for not raising. I can't think of any other scenario where that would happen.

[AlunB]

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

I'm not one for HH but this is golden. Tight guy opens EP 1800 I flat QQ mp HU flop, Q83r he 2200 I call, turn 2 him 5300 me 13k he calls

river J he check tank calls 24k, then gets a penalty for not raising....not sure if I'm ecstatic or tilted

Am I being really stupid or is there something missing from this? Did the guy have 9-10?

He got a penalty for not raising. I can't think of any other scenario where that would happen.

Fair point. It's been a long week.

[ ] love tweets where I have to work out the details myself

[smashedagain]

Someone please C&P my hand from twitter on here it's golden

I'm not one for HH but this is golden. Tight guy opens EP 1800 I flat QQ mp HU flop, Q83r he 2200 I call, turn 2 him 5300 me 13k he calls

river J he check tank calls 24k, then gets a penalty for not raising....not sure if I'm ecstatic or tilted

Am I being really stupid or is there something missing from this? Did the guy have 9-10?

He got a penalty for not raising. I can't think of any other scenario where that would happen.

Fair point. It's been a long week.

[ ] love tweets where I have to work out the details myself

Don't add Chippyman on twitter then. He is hard work

[TightEnd]

This is the list of people I think are Brits based on the information in:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/12161%5C2012WSOP_EV61_EOD2A-2B%28chips%29.pdf

Some may be from Guatemala.
Leo Margets is Spanish
Not too sure about Dmytro Nemyrovskyi or Pratik Ghatge either!
The rest might be "genuine" though.

70    Craig McCorkell    WEST SUSSEX, GB    230,100    Brasilia / 15 / 3    
214    Nicholas Farnborough    GB    147,800    Brasilia / 45 / 5    
237    Teddy Sheringham    LONDON, , GB    142,000    Amazon / 370 / 8    
242    Alin Rapoport    NORWICH, , GB    140,500    Brasilia / 8 / 9    
252    Rhys Jones    FAREHAM, GB    137,400    Brasilia / 1 / 5    
273    Mel Judah    LONDON, , GB    130,700    Amazon / 394 / 5    
280    Marc Wright    GB    128,200    Pavilion / 98 / 9    
301    Jamie Sill    Burlington, , GB    122,100    Amazon / 370 / 7    
307    Leonor Margets    London, , GB    120,400    Amazon / 377 / 9    
372    Liv Boeree    EAST MOLESY, GB    104,300    Amazon / 369 / 8    
383    Dmytro Nemyrovskyi    GB    101,000    Brasilia / 83 / 5    
415    Barny Boatman    HENDON, , GB    94,700    Brasilia / 78 / 1    
421    Neil Lusher    Battersea, , GB    93,600    Brasilia / 28 / 9    
424    Kevin Williams    LEYTON STONE, , GB    92,600    Brasilia / 25 / 5    
427    Pratik Ghatge    GB    91,900    Brasilia / 48 / 1    
454    Sebastian Gohr    BRIGHTON, , GB    86,000    Amazon / 365 / 5    
457    Adam Latimer    OXFORD , , GB    85,900    Brasilia / 29 / 9    
474    Jonathan Crute    Belfast, , GB    81,500    Amazon / 407 / 7    
493    Tristan McDonald    LONDON, , GB    78,000    Brasilia / 34 / 5    
502    Daniel Rudd    ESSEX, , GB    76,800    Amazon / 406 / 1    
513    Daniel Sauva    London, , GB    74,800    Brasilia / 91 / 3    
523    Mohammed Sadiq    Wakefield, , GB    73,200    Brasilia / 16 / 1    
542    Priyan de Mel    LONDON, GB    71,100    Brasilia / 81 / 5    
561    David Jones    NORTH YORKSHIRE, , GB    66,800    Brasilia / 58 / 7    
564    James Dempsey    BRIGHTON, , GB    66,700    Brasilia / 48 / 9    
580    Ben Roberts    LONDON, GB    64,200    Amazon / 441 / 7    
590    Tomas Macnamara    NEW CASTLE, TYNE‐WEAR, GB    62,700    Brasilia / 61 / 9    
626    David Charalambous    GB    56,500    Brasilia / 31 / 5    
638    George McKeever    LONDONDERRY, , GB    55,000    Brasilia / 79 / 7    
660    Zimnan Ziyard    EASTBOURNE, , GB    50,100    Brasilia / 92 / 9    
665    Anthony Ramsden    London, , GB    49,600    Pavilion / 101 / 3    
679    Sadan Turker    LONDON, , GB    47,800    Brasilia / 72 / 7    
710    John Shipley    SOLIHULL, , GB    43,500    Brasilia / 56 / 5    
827    Najib Kamand    SURREY LONDON, , GB    18,500    Pavilion / 98 / 7    
839    Victoria Coren    LONDON, , GB    7,100    Brasilia / 29 / 3    




Here are some people listed as Irish (including Nic Abou Risk!):

72    Peter Murphy    SILVERBRIDGE, IE    228,900    Amazon / 422 / 7    
105    Fergal Nealon    SLIGO, , IE    201,300    Brasilia / 51 / 1    
128    Nicholas Abourisk    DUBLIN, IE    186,100    Amazon / 365 / 7    
208    John Oshea    CHURCHTOWN, , IE    149,700    Brasilia / 11 / 7    
806    Cornelius Foley    Cork, , IR    23,300    Brasilia / 59 / 3    

(thanks to MereNovice, again)

[tikay]

tikays blog stopped after day 1b or am i blind?

No, I just got overwhelmed with work & some other issues which diverted me.

The Day 1c Blog is complete, bar a bit of tidying up, be up in an hour or so I hope, the Day 2a Blog will follow shortly thereafter, unless I get diverted again today by other matters.