The WSOP 2013

[Tonji]

WSOP site shows him winning it for $1.7m

Cool summer job, wp 

[c4ught]

What a boss 

[TightEnd]

Congratulations to Matthew Ashton, Winner of the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship ($1,774,089)
 
For Matthew Ashton, the fourth time was the charm here at the 2013 World Series of Poker. At this, his fourth final table of the summer, he finally captured that elusive gold bracelet, and it comes in one of the most marquee tournaments of the year, the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship. Not only does Ashton earn the gold and nearly $1.8 million, but his name will now be etched on the trophy next to legends like Chip Reese, Freddy Deeb, Scotty Nguyen, David Bach, Michael Mizrachi, and Brian Rast.

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Matthew Ashton   $1,774,089
2nd   Don Nguyen   $1,096,254
3rd   John Hennigan   $686,568
4th   David Benyamine   $497,122
5th   George Danzer   $388,523
6th   Minh Ly   $309,830
7th   Mike Wattel   $251,602
8th   Jonathan Duhamel   $207,630

Congratulations to Ashton, the second British player to win a bracelet here at the 2013 WSOP

[TightEnd]

Event #56: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $3,949,400
Entries: 1,736

Heads Up Play Continues Tomorrow

The conclusion of 10 levels happened just 25 hands into heads-up play, with Nikolaus Teichert and Vincent Maglio set to return tomorrow at 1 p.m. They will then finish what they started and determine who will claim the World Series of Poker gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $730,756. Heads-up play began with the players nearly equal in chips, but at the conclusion of the night, Teichert leads with 7,620,000 while Maglio holds 5,415,000.

[TightEnd]

Matt Perrins Leads The Final Nine Players Going Into Day 4 of Event #57: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
 
Only 31 players began the day at the start of Day 3 in Event #57: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Just five and a half hours later players were already down to final table. In the first two hours of play, 13 players dropped extremely quickly, one after another, bringing the tables down to the final two tables right away. The first player to drop out of the tournament today was Sam Trickett, who ended his day quickly by losing a race to Jeff Papola.

Seat    Name   Chips
1   Antonio Buonanno   1,185,000
2   Seth Berger   1,698,000
3   Thomas Muehloecker   1,434,000
4   Kent Roed   482,000
5   Matt Berkey   1,585,000
6   Joe Serock   1,211,000
7   Randal Flowers   619,000
8   Matt Perrins   1,946,000
9   Arthur Pro   1,610,000

With that the final nine players were set to bag and tag, ready to return for the final table tomorrow at 12:45 p.m. local time. Play will begin in the middle of level 25 with the blinds at 1,2000/2,4000 with a 4,000 chip ante.

$792,275 up top

[TightEnd]

Day 1B of Event #58 ($1,111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em) is in the Books!
 
After eight full levels of action here at the Rio, Day 1B of the Little One for One Drop whittled a total of 2,523 entrants to just 588 survivors. The reentry format allowed players to fire multiple bullets today, which accounts somewhat for the staggering turnout, but the atmosphere here today suggested that the poker community simply loves playing for a charitable cause.

Just like yesterday's Day 1A, a star-studded cast of professionals turned out, with Phil Ivey, David Williams, Jonathan Little, Jennifer Tilly, Pius Heinz, Joe Cada, and Carlos Mortensen just a few of the notable names to try, and try again, on this second flight. Unfortunately for this group, the end of the line came early, but many familiar faces will be returning when the fields combine tomorrow afternoon.

Humberto Brenes (67,775), Bryn Kenney (58,000), Antonio Esfandiari (53,800), Henry Van Tran (56,250), Cliff Josephy (29,050), Victor Ramdin (23,900), Aaron Massey (19,575), and Kenny Nguyen (18,500) all survived to bag and tag chips by the end of the night, but they will have work to do if they hope to catch the Day 1B chip leader.

Suraj Dutt took down a massive three-way all-in pot to emerge as the chip leader, and his stack of 90,125 puts him well ahead of the majority of the field. Belgian pro Philip Meulyzer nearly caught Dutt with his stack of 86,950, and he will return tomorrow to try and take over the chip lead.

All told there were 4,746 entries to this unique event, and this amazing turnout generated $526,806 in donations to the One Drop's assortment of water relief causes. Tomorrow the surviving 1,016 players will reconvene at 1 p.m.

[TightEnd]

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

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $641,550
Entries: 282
Remaining: 15

Mizrachi leads Baker with the likes of Elezra and Negraneau in the top ten of this big hitters specialist event

[Royal Flush]

Matthew Ashton, what a boss.

[TightEnd]

Flushy/others

Tonight going to be the biggest/loudest Brit rail of the year for Pez?

[MereNovice]

Event #56: No-Limit Hold'em

Buy-in: $2,500
Prizepool: $3,949,400
Entries: 1,736

Heads Up Play Continues Tomorrow

The conclusion of 10 levels happened just 25 hands into heads-up play, with Nikolaus Teichert and Vincent Maglio set to return tomorrow at 1 p.m. They will then finish what they started and determine who will claim the World Series of Poker gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $730,756. Heads-up play began with the players nearly equal in chips, but at the conclusion of the night, Teichert leads with 7,620,000 while Maglio holds 5,415,000.

Teichert has won this.

[dwayne110]

This Matthew Ashton fella seems to be an absolute boss! 4 final tables in 1 series including a win?? Ridiculous.

[kp24]

Well done Ashton well deserved takes to lead in poy standings too

[JaffaCake]

Anyone know this lad Ashton? He played brilliantly from what I saw, and 4 finals in one wsop? Awesome

[CHIPPYMAN]

This Matthew Ashton fella seems to be an absolute boss! 4 final tables in 1 series including a win?? Ridiculous.

Rich , try and ask TK to find this guy and do an  interview or post here .

[pokerfan]

This Matthew Ashton fella seems to be an absolute boss! 4 final tables in 1 series including a win?? Ridiculous.

Rich , try and ask TK to find this guy and do an  interview or post here .

From 2009, http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/wcoop/2009/wcoop-profile-mustafabet-goes-from-freer-059406.html

Quite a rise.