2013 WSOPE Thread

[TightEnd]

The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe began on Friday with the first of eight bracelet events.

The first-ever WSOP Europe Ladies Event with a buy-in of €1,100 and saw just 65 competitors

At the end of the first day from the two-day event, the final table was reached

Jackie Glazier, 31st in the summer WSOP Main, leads

2013 WSOP Europe €1,100 Ladies Event Final Table

1   Celine Bastian   15,675
2   Maryline Valente 35,725
3   Laurie Bismuth   31,975
4   Jackie Glazier   57,400
5   Anais Lerouge   15,975
6   Nathalie Odet   9,150
7   Gaelle Baumann 4,500
8   Sherrill Lindsey   25,625


News on all 8 events through next week

[kp24]

65 runners must be disappointing

[DaveShoelace]

The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe began on Friday with the first of eight bracelet events.

The first-ever WSOP Europe Ladies Event with a buy-in of €1,100 and saw just 65 competitors

At the end of the first day from the two-day event, the final table was reached

Jackie Glazier, 31st in the summer WSOP Main, leads

2013 WSOP Europe €1,100 Ladies Event Final Table

1   Celine Bastian   15,675
2   Maryline Valente 35,725
3   Laurie Bismuth   31,975
4   Jackie Glazier   57,400
5   Anais Lerouge   15,975
6   Nathalie Odet   9,150
7   Gaelle Baumann 4,500
8   Sherrill Lindsey   25,625


News on all 8 events through next week

You must have got this from UK PokerNews today, Glazier actually won it yesterday.

65 must be the smallest non-one drop field since the boom. The €1k re-entry looks to have got less than 400 which seems small, I would have thought the (near) Paris venue would have massively increased attendance this year.

[TightEnd]

I wondered about the scheduling, overlapping with the tail end of the EPT London fortnight

Do we think many of the British big buy-in guys are going across?

I must admit to have heard very little about the WSOPE compared to previous years (London or Cannes) hence my tardiness with the thread

[DaveShoelace]

I wondered about the scheduling, overlapping with the tail end of the EPT London fortnight

Do we think many of the British big buy-in guys are going across?

I must admit to have heard very little about the WSOPE compared to previous years (London or Cannes) hence my tardiness with the thread

I dunno. I spoke to a few big names last week who said they were not bothering this year.

My big gripe with the post London WSOPE is that they seem to be very restrictive when it comes to the media. PokerNews had exclusivity in Cannes and now Pokerlistings have it this year. I think thats generally why we hear less about it.

[kp24]

I wondered about the scheduling, overlapping with the tail end of the EPT London fortnight

Do we think many of the British big buy-in guys are going across?

I must admit to have heard very little about the WSOPE compared to previous years (London or Cannes) hence my tardiness with the thread

I dunno. I spoke to a few big names last week who said they were not bothering this year.

My big gripe with the post London WSOPE is that they seem to be very restrictive when it comes to the media. PokerNews had exclusivity in Cannes and now Pokerlistings have it this year. I think thats generally why we hear less about it.

Very true about pokernews not covering it but seen a few of the big Americans and Canadians who don't usually play epts like hellmuth,Buchanan and David "bakes" baker have made the trip early to help ept London numbers,surprised numbers haven't been better for wsope but I hear venue isn't that close to Paris?

[Royal Flush]

I've seen Liv so far from the UK and that's it.

Venue is lovely, obviously not as nice as Cannes, nor is it near to all those rich Italian punters we love.

Played both day 1's of the 1k, can confirm its very juicy with a lot of scaled/finned types. I think it attracted over 600 in the end which is pretty good, tomorrow will be a decent indicator with the €5k mixmax.

[The Squid]

Made the schedule so unappealing. WSOPE brand on the wain at the moment. Schedule should include a lot of straight-forward hold'em comps at accessible buy-in levels for the time being.

[Royal Flush]

Made the schedule so unappealing. WSOPE brand on the wain at the moment. Schedule should include a lot of straight-forward hold'em comps at accessible buy-in levels for the time being.

Agree wholeheartedly with this. I think they do it to make it attractive to the big name Americans, it doesn't actually encourage growth though.

[TightEnd]

By: PokerListings.com

Another brilliant day of poker has wrapped at the WSOPE in Enghien-les-Bains with Henrik Johansson and Phil Ivey taking the spotlight as the tables went quiet for the night.

Johansson, a fairly unheralded grinder from Sweden, was anything but today is he racked up the big stack heading into the final table of Event 2, €1,100 NLHE Re-Entry.

Ivey, meanwhile, lead a parade of big names that included Phil Hellmuth, Scott Clements and November Niners Marc-Etienne McLaughlin and David Benefield into Day 2 of the marquee €5,300 Mix Max event.
Johansson Controls 25% of Chips In Event #2

Day 2 in Event 2 started with 85 players and 8.5 levels later was reduced to just nine.

Swede Henrik Johansson will go in tomorrow as undisputed chip leader with 587,500 and over a quarter of the chips in play.

Johansson's stack got some extra padding when he eliminated Marco Conti in tenth place to set the final nine.

Joining Johansson are a relatively unknown but deciedly determined group all looking for their first bracelet. The full final table line up:

    Seat 1: Daniel Laidlaw - 357,000
    Seat 2: Daniel Weinman - 408,000
    Seat 3: Serge Ekert - 28,500
    Seat 4: Jose Obadia - 119,000
    Seat 5: Henrik Johansson - 587,000
    Seat 6: Jean Philipe Tuffery - 142,000
    Seat 7: Andrei Konopelko - 101,000
    Seat 8: Yaniv Jacque Botbol - 85,000
    Seat 9: Adriano Torregrossa - 155,500
 

The first "big-name" event of the 2013 WSOPE kicked off today in the Casino Barriere with 135 players taking aim at the prestigious €5,300 Mix Max bracelet.

Registration is open right up until the start of Day 2 so that number could increase but no one is likely to take any of the focus off Phil Ivey tomorrow.

Ivey, who still sends a buzz through a poker room whenever he appears, did exactly that when he took a seat early in the day.

He didn't disappoint, either, socializing with fans and playing plenty of hands before bagging up a solid 51,300 chip stack.

The end-of-day chip leader is Matt O'Donnell with 73,425 but he'll have to contend with multiple bracelet winners among the 67 players bearing down tomorrow. Scott Clements, Jason Duval, James Dempsey and Phil Hellmuth are just a few of them.

Six-handed play starts at 1:00pm and play will go down to the Final 16. The Final 16 will play four-handed on Day 3 and the final four will battle it out heads up.

The top 10 in chips entering Day 2:

    Matthew O'Donnell 73,425
    Ville Mattila 70,120
    Scott Clements 68,625
    Jason Duval 68,525
    James Dempsey 65,175
    Chris Klodnicki 64,175
    Tuan Le 61,100
    David Dayan 59,025
    Jonathan Little 58,500
    Phil Hellmuth 55,950

http://www.pokerlistings.com/ivey-surges-in-mix-max-johansson-eyes-1k-bracelet-67846#sthash.PbdLAwUn.dpuf



good luck to Flushy today

[NigDawG]

can't make my mind up on whether to go for the main or not....unfinished business.

rest of the schedule didn't interest me one bit tbh

[edgascoigne]

Anyone who's anyone has won a mixmax event in France.

[Royal Flush]

4 handed, oioi

[tikay]

4 handed, oioi

Oooh, go on James, good luck!

[Tal]

4 handed, oioi

Oooh, go on James, good luck!

Allez M. le Flush!