The WSOP 2013

[CHIPPYMAN]

dont worry tho, if u lose in vegas this year, just contact this guy http://www.bluff.com/news/doug-lee-on-his-600hr-coaching-business-and-making-moves-on-phil-ivey-45757/

That's cheap considering he's a fish too !

[TightEnd]

Nguyen Leads Final Table; Duhamel & Benyamine Remain
 
The 2013 World Series of Poker continued Wednesday with Day 4 of the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. At 2 p.m. local time, the remaining 26 players of a 132-player field returned to the Amazon Room to play through the money bubble on the way to the final table. It took four and a half levels of play to do it, but now just eight players remain.

Leading the way is Don Nguyen, who bagged up 5,680,000. While he is best position to capture the $1,774,089 first-place prize, he faces some stiff competition in Matthew Ashton (2,996,000), George Danzer (2,868,000), David Benyamine (2,709,000), Minh Ly (2,307,000), Jonathan Duhamel (1,627,000), John Hennigan (1,412,000) and Mike Wattel (810,000).

Obviously those players all had good days, but 18 others did not. John Juanda was the first to leave, but he was soon followed out the door by Joe Hachem, Stephen Chidwick, Greg Mueller, Erick Lindgren, David Bach, Justin Smith, all of who fell in the first level of play.

From there, the eliminations of Mike Leah and Max Pescatori brought about the money bubble. Alas, there would be no bubble boy as two players, Joe Cassidy and Gary Benson, busted at the same time to split 16th-place money, each taking home $55,947.

From there the in-the-money eliminations began to mount and included Troy Burkholder (15th - $111,893), Kevin Song (14th - $128,620), Tommy Hang (13th - $128,620), Bryn Kenney (12th - $147,882) and Huck Seed.

Seed's demise actually came in Level 20 when Seed moved all in for 223,000 from middle position and received a call from Matthew Ashton in the cutoff. The rest of the field folded and the cards were turned up.

Seed: A-J
Ashton: A-K

Ashton held and the final table line up is

Official Final Table Seating and Chip Counts
 
Seat   Player   Country   Chips
1   Matthew Ashton   UK   2,996,000
2   Jonathan Duhamel   Canada   1,627,000
3   Don Nguyen   USA   5,068,000
4   Mike Wattel   USA   810,000
5   George Danzer   Germany   2,868,000
6   Minh Ly   USA   2,307,000
7   John Hennigan   USA   1,412,000
8   David Benyamine   France   2,709,000

Good luck to Matthew tomorrow

[TightEnd]

Day 1A of Event #58 ($1,111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em) Has Come to a Close!
 
More than two thousand runners took their seats this afternoon for Day 1A of the Little One for One Drop, and the field of 2,233 was quickly whittled down to just 428 survivors.

Along the way there were a number of notable names to fire a first, second, and even third bullet during this reentry event, with Melanie Weisner, Tony Dunst, Erick Lindgren, Pius Heinz, Jennifer Tilly, Dwyte Pilgrim, and Antonio Esfandiari just a few of the pros to go busto before the night ended.

Mikolaj Zawadzki emerged from the fray as the chip leader, having amassed an enormous stack of 85,225 by the time bag-and-tag began. The Polish pro has company on the leaderboard, however, as Liv Boeree (65,675), Paul Volpe (32,225), Randy Lew (26,300), Erik Seidel (23,575), and Tommy Vedes (18,400) are all lurking with healthy stacks.

The tournament will continue tomorrow at 12 noon local time, with those who fell on Day 1A returning for a second try, while thousands more take their first shot at the Little One for One Drop.



Liv Boeree is shwon as 2nd on the chip counts and other Brits with healthy stacks are Roberto Romanello, Barney Boatman, Chaz Chattha and Niall Farrell

[TightEnd]

Event #59: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)


    Buy-in: $2,500
    Prizepool: $641,550
    Entries: 282
    Remaining: 102

Stephen Chidwick appears to be the only Brit in the chip counts, with the likes of Konstantin Puchkov and Michal Mizrachi in the top ten

[DaveShoelace]

2nd place would put Ashton into the POY lead. So awesome that a relatively unknown Brit is crushing the mixed games.

[TightEnd]

Event #57: No-Limit Hold'em


    Buy-in: $5,000
    Prizepool: $3,684,800
    Entries: 784
    Remaining: 31

Day 2 of Event #57: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end with Seth Berger topping the final 31 players.

At the beginning of the day 235 players all had eyes of firstly making the money-paying top 81, but as players battle back-and-forth trying to climb the chip leaderboard many notables would fall with the likes of Maria Ho, Taylor Paur, Allen Cunningham, Calvin Anderson, Eugene Katchalov, Dan O'Brien and Mike Watson all finding themselves on the rail.

Chips would begin to fly as a multitude of players hit the rail with Tobias Reinkemeier (77th), Dani Stern (72nd), Barry Shulman (63rd), Dominik Nitsche (60th), Eric Baldwin (43rd), Phil Laak (41st) and Jared Hamby (35th) all bounced to the rail before play was called for the night. Of those remaining players it is Seth Berger who topped the counts with an impressive 986,000 however snapping on his heels include Philipp Gruissem (743,000) and Antonio Buonanno (732,000) as the top ten chip counts stack up follows.
Name    Chip Count
Seth Berger   986,000
Philipp Gruissem   743,000
Antonio Buonanno   732,000
Christian Rudolph   668,000
Arthur Pro   656,000
Dan Martin   630,000
Matt Perrins   619,000
Ravi Raghavan   598,000
Joe Serock   574,000
Olivier Busquet   546,000

With play expected to play down to the final table of nine, highly skilled players such as Joe Serock, Olivier Busquet, Matt Berkey, Grant Levy and the short stacked Sam Trickett all still have a chance of grabbing their first WSOP bracelet here in Event #57.

Good luck to Matt Perrins and Sam Trickett tomorrow

[titaniumbean]

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GL Ashton what a g

[pokerfan]

2nd place would put Ashton into the POY lead. So awesome that a relatively unknown Brit is crushing the mixed games.

Yeah, good luck to the guy.

[The Camel]

I guess it's a different world these days.

I read somewhere that someone binked a nice win - 25kish I think and went out for a meal with his mates to celebrate.

And they flipped for bill.

If I had just copped the equivalent of nearly a years average wage it would be my pleasure to buy my mates dinner.

I understand it is making up for all the tournaments where they blanked, but still.

Life is too short to be a nit isn't it?

Oh well, me thinking some of the new breed of players are tight isn't going to change them.

If they can look themselves in the mirror and are happy with what they see, good luck to them.

[George2Loose]

Don't think it's anything to do with being a nit. It's just the done thing. Everyone loves the sweat

I go out with a group of mates- some of them are under it and they still love to flip even if it means walking home!

[The Camel]

Don't think it's anything to do with being a nit. It's just the done thing. Everyone loves the sweat

I go out with a group of mates- some of them are under it and they still love to flip even if it means walking home!

I'm not criticising them for doing it, I'm saying it's a different world.

In my day, the player who has just had the bink would treat his mates.

Today it just doesn't happen.

I don't like it at all, just seems mean.

But nothing wrong with it if everyone behaves the same.

[Tal]

Im with you, Camel. Each to their own and that, but I wouldn't win 25k and encourage a 1/5 shot on the dinner. Do you reckon the WSOP will let me play in the Seniors next year, Camel?

[celtic]

Think it depends on how much he has lost this week. I mean, 25k is nice, but what if he has done 24.7k this week? And this has gave him a $300 profit for the week. Would you go to work for the week, for $300, the spend it all on your mates for dinner?

[LonOhRay]

25k is just a score off of make up for hundreds of MTT players, 25k score doesn't mean as much as it did 10 years ago, but I agree with the point entirely I'd hope he/she put their card back in the flip a few times or something similar (if they got to keep any of the win)

[The Camel]

Think it depends on how much he has lost this week. I mean, 25k is nice, but what if he has done 24.7k this week? And this has gave him a $300 profit for the week. Would you go to work for the week, for $300, the spend it all on your mates for dinner?

As I said, I understand it's wages, he might have lost 50k in the last month, blah de blah.

But the point remains he is 25k richer than he was before he entered the tournament.

And he was lucky to win said tournament.

Share your good fortune with your mates.