The WSOP 2013

[TightEnd]

Event #16: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em (512 player max) $10,000

Cashers include Hellmuth, Galfond and Melanie Wiesner

In the final four:

Mark Radoja (Canada) and three Americans

Ben Sulsky
Don Nguyen
Justin Bonomo


The UK players may be having a bad series, but Canada has a shot here at a fifth bracelet in 16 events..............

[TightEnd]

Event 17 $1500 NLHE, the first of two NLHE for the weekend crowd

226 of 2105 remain

Joe Laming from London, bigfella's nephew and along with brother Danny very much on the way up in UK poker is 19 of 226

Steve Watts from the same stable is 36 of 226

Jake Cody 61 of 226

twopercent Vamplew is 136 of 236


Joe Cada, Selbst, Sklansky, Baldwin, Faraz Jaka, Steve O'Dwyer, Duhamel etc etc in a very high powered field remaining

[The Camel]

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

[TightEnd]

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool has two final tables

[The Camel]

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool has two final tables

Blimey, never heard of the fella before today.

His record in the min bet games at the WSOP over the last couple of years is mighty impressive

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=175385

5 top 10 finishes in 3 WSOPs. doubt there's been more than 20 events total?

Plus won the 8 game event at the EPT grand final.

An interesting wild card for fantasy lists next year.

[77dave]

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool has two final tables

Blimey, never heard of the fella before today.

His record in the min bet games at the WSOP over the last couple of years is mighty impressive

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=175385

5 top 10 finishes in 3 WSOPs. doubt there's been more than 20 events total?

Plus won the 8 game event at the EPT grand final.

An interesting wild card for fantasy lists next year.

Matthew Ashton
Nickname: MUSTAFABET

[TightEnd]

Congratulations to Mark Radoja, Winner of Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em ($331,190)!

One of the more interesting events on the World Series of Poker schedule has officially come to a close. Mark Radoja was able to navigate a field of 162 entrants to come out on top of Event #16: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em, capturing the gold bracelet and the $331,190 first-place prize money in the process.

The third day of play began with four players returning and vying for the gold. On the secondary feature sat relative unknown Don Nguyen who had clinched his first WSOP cash with this event. Nguyen squared off with online legend Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky. All eyes were on Sulsky as the man who has consistently dominated the virtual felt was in the midst of a deep run in one of the most prestigious live tournaments around. Nguyen, however, made quick work of Sulsky, defeating him in just 41 short hands.

Simultaneously, Radoja played Justin Bonomo over on the ESPN Main Stage in the semifinals. Bonomo was the clear aggressor in the match, winning most of the smaller pots. However, Radoja seemed to hold when the money got in and eventually Radoja was able to clinch a victory over Bonomo.

A mere half hour later, Radoja and Nguyen took their seats on the feature table to play one last match for the championship. Nguyen took an early lead and forced Radoja to cash in one of his add-on's fairly early. Radoja found a huge double about halfway through the match when his pocket queens were able to hold against Nguyen's A-6 during a preflop all in. Despite this, Nguyen had managed to work Radoja down to cashing in his final lammer, meaning Radoja had a huge uphill battle to seize the victory.

From this point on, Radoja worked the short stack to his advantage by winning small pots by shoving all in and taking advantage of the ever-raising blinds. On the 83rd hand of the match, Nguyen moved all in from his button and Radoja snapped him off with pocket sixes. The pocket pair held and Radoja was able to completely turn the tide on Nguyen, who was left with only one lammer to cash in. A mere two hands later Nguyen shoved his short stack from the button and Radoja called for the tournament.

Nguyen: a-3
Radoja: K-9

Nguyen's ace-high was ahead and it stayed that way when the flop hit the felt but the K on the river brought everything to an abrupt halt with Radoja eliminating his final opponent and seizing WSOP glory.

[TightEnd]

Event #17: $1500 No-Limit Hold'em

20 of 2105 remain

Bakes has just knocked out Ian Frazer in 21st

As well as Bakes the final 20 includes Joe Cada and Barry Greenstein

Other British cashers were Ralf Schafer, Joe Laming, Craig McCorkell, Jake Cody, Martyn Frey and James Dempsey

[TightEnd]

Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

234 of 2071 remain

@SquidPoker has been running deep in this and was right up there for most of our night, with twitter updates galore

He currently has 45k at 800-1600 20 places off the money

For a $1k event there is a tough old field near the top.

Ivey, Lichtenberger, Nitzsche, Mr Twopercent, Bonomo, Razavi and taypaur all in the top 50

The chip counts  this year are particularly poor but at the last update Cody, Channing and Dempsey were reported still in

[TightEnd]

Event #19: $5000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

What an event this would be to play in. 5k PLHE. Swoon

145 of 195 remain here

Chris Brammer and John Eames reported in the top 30 in a field that reads like a whos-who of the WSOP.

[YEAHMAN123]

British performances pretty piss poor so far.

One final table so far?

Three by my count; Two seconds and a Third.

Mr Twopercent and ? ? ?

Matthew Ashton from Liverpool has two final tables

Blimey, never heard of the fella before today.

His record in the min bet games at the WSOP over the last couple of years is mighty impressive

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=175385

5 top 10 finishes in 3 WSOPs. doubt there's been more than 20 events total?

Plus won the 8 game event at the EPT grand final.

An interesting wild card for fantasy lists next year.

Wow Impressive record, def one to watch. Gl with the rest

[Tal]

So when is Blonde announcing it will be providing the updates for the 2014 WSOP?

It's pretty awful that they can't employ enough staff or run a system competent enough to cope with the fields.

[Doobs]

So when is Blonde announcing it will be providing the updates for the 2014 WSOP?

It's pretty awful that they can't employ enough staff or run a system competent enough to cope with the fields.

To be fair, there must be several thousand people over multiple rooms some days.  People move tables and switch rooms too, so guess unless they see an exit or are following twitter they are always going to struggle.

The system they had last year was good, but must have been pretty expensive to run.  As would a system with tens of updaters I imagine.

[tikay]

So when is Blonde announcing it will be providing the updates for the 2014 WSOP?

It's pretty awful that they can't employ enough staff or run a system competent enough to cope with the fields.

To be fair, there must be several thousand people over multiple rooms some days.  People move tables and switch rooms too, so guess unless they see an exit or are following twitter they are always going to struggle.

The system they had last year was good, but must have been pretty expensive to run.  As would a system with tens of updaters I imagine.

Am not certain, but I believe Updating & Chip Counts are carried out by PokerNews, who pay a fee for the rights, & WSOP.com are allowed to disseminate them.

A pretty daunting task to update with so many Tourneys running at the same time, & huge fields.

There was a new computerised system last year, run by "ChipTic", but as far as I am aware, it is not being used this year.

[Tal]

So when is Blonde announcing it will be providing the updates for the 2014 WSOP?

It's pretty awful that they can't employ enough staff or run a system competent enough to cope with the fields.

To be fair, there must be several thousand people over multiple rooms some days.  People move tables and switch rooms too, so guess unless they see an exit or are following twitter they are always going to struggle.

The system they had last year was good, but must have been pretty expensive to run.  As would a system with tens of updaters I imagine.

There are no surprises after ten years of big fields and concurrent events. I can understand updates being sporadic but chips counts and whether people are in the tournament should be reliable.