WSOP 2015: every event, every stat.

[TightEnd]

the paviliion room, half an hour ago

[Longines]

Day 4 Brits.

Blinds start at 2500/5000/500. Average is 291,377.

Samir Tageldin   SIDCUP, GB   685,500
Phillip McAllister   Winchester, GB   661,000
Fraser Macintyre   Ayr, , GB   590,500
Charles Chattha   LONDON, , GB   544,500
Toby Lewis   SOUTHAMPTON, , GB   502,500
Jareth East   Redhill, GB   429,000
Jake Cody   ROCHDALE, , GB   355,500
Nicholas Katz   Watford Horts, , GB   340,500
Stuart Rutter   BIRMINGHAM, , GB   327,500
Daniel Bland   LONDON, GB   326,000
Georges Georgiou   London, GB   276,000
Craig McCorkell   WEST SUSSEX, GB   230,000
Jamie Roberts   LONDON, GB   225,500
Luke Marsh   SCUNTHORPE, GB   225,500
Peter Akery   BRISTOL, , GB   217,000
Alfie Adam   London, GB   214,000
Ian Woodley   LONDON, , GB   203,000
Alex Goulder   Nottingham, GB   150,500
Louis Salter   London, , GB   143,000
Chun Law   LONDON, , GB   132,500
Michael Greco   LONDON, , GB   88,500
Sebastian Ruthenberg   LONDON, , GB   83,600
Sebastian Saffari   LONDON, GB   80,000
Borja Gross   Bournemouth, , GB   78,500
Philip Carey   Haverfordwest, , GB   70,000
Chris Bjorin   LONDON, , GB   64,000

[Marky147]

Nice one, Grant.


Some good lads still left in the hunt.

[tikay]

Talal Shakerchi survived to the money with one big blind.

did any of the sky players cash?

3 cashed in the Little One Drop, but 0 from 5 in the Main.

I really thought Matt Bates ("magic817" on blonde) might run deep, he is the sort of player who is either going to get a big stack early, or bust in the process. He busted before lunch on Day One.

Matt is the 2nd most profitable MTT-er on Sky Poker in 2015 so far, was 2nd in 2014, & the most profitable in 2013, & his total profits on Sky Poker are nudging 6 figures, an impressive number considering that, relatively, the prize pools on Sky Poker are small, with the biggest weekly guarantee being £15,000. His ROI over 8,000+ MTT's is around 44%. He has an equally impressive ROI (37% over a 14,000 game sample size) on 'Stars, too, for an equally impressive 5 figure sum. It was not to be, though, & I whilst I never feel sympathy for anyone in poker, I certainly felt for him.

3 others in the Main were unknown to me. They all turned out to be "handy" & 3 of them made day 2 with well above average stacks, but all three met with accidents & failed to make day 3.

The sole Sky Poker survivor into Day Three was a lovely chap, Daren Moreton, an out & out recreational, who won his £10,000 package for £7. He busted early on Day Three, sadly. A lovely guy who tried his heart out, he just never got the breaks. He was chuffed to bits to make Day Three though.  

So, a bit disappointing in some ways, but for The Business, they sent 40 players to Vegas, and although many of the packages were won in Freerolls, the whole Viva Las Vegas Promo was very profitable.

Those who attended seemed to enjoy it, & those at home seemed to enjoy the Videos & Updates from Vegas judging by the feedback on the Sky Poker Community, where, for balance, there is usually no shortage of negativity.

Next up, the 6-Max Sky Poker UKPC @ DTD next month.  

All good, & it's pleasing to see an Online Poker Room doing so well, with revenues substantially up yoy, in what is a declining market.  

 

[TightEnd]

 46th Annual World Series of Poker® Becomes Most Attended in Event’s History, Up 25% Year-Over-Year

Total Entries Pass 100,000 for 1st Time, Prize Money Awarded Exceeds $200 Million for just 3rd Time in History


LAS VEGAS (July 11, 2015) – It was another record-breaking year at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where the 46th annual event continued to show a strong global poker business with attendance up 25% to a new record in 2015.
 
A whopping 103,512 entries participated this year, the first time the event has ever attracted over 100,000 entries – and shattering the previous record set last year when 82,360 attended poker’s biggest annual festival.

This WSOP established a host of new records as poker enthusiasts from 111 different nations traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the game’s grandest spectacle, and a record 11,638 players received prize money this year – which was actually more than the number of entries the event had in any of its first 33 years.

The WSOP remained the industry leader in terms of prize money awarded, with this year’s tally amounting to $210,379,285 – the third most in history – only behind the two WSOP’s that featured a $1,000,000 buy-in tournament.

The Main Event in 2015 had 6,420 entries, creating the largest prize pool of the 2015 WSOP at $60,348,000.  The winner will receive $7,680,021.

“2015 was a Colossal success thanks to the players and their continued passion for the World Series of Poker and 2016 will be even better,” said World Series of Poker Executive Director Ty Stewart.  “It’s a new era at the WSOP and we hope it is clear that all poker enthusiasts are welcome here.”

For the eleventh consecutive year, the WSOP generated a total prize pool well in excess of $100 million, and for only the third time in its history, topped the $200 million mark.

In the 46-year history of the WSOP, the game’s most prestigious tournament series has now awarded an incredible $2,278,264,214 in prize money.  This year’s total prize pool dipped slightly from last year’s record-breaking $227,718,875 that included $37,333,338 for the second iteration of the Big One for One Drop million-dollar buy-in tournament.

It was another successful year in terms of raising money for charity as well, as the two featured charity-linked tournaments, the Little One for ONE DROP and the High Roller for ONE DROP, which go to support the WSOP’s official charity partner the ONE DROP organization (www.onedrop.org), raised a combined $1,255,530.  ONE DROP uses donations to directly implement water access projects, where an average of $100 can transform someone’s life forever. With the High Roller for ONE DROP (Event #58), the Little One for ONE DROP (Event #61) and the All In for ONE DROP campaign, where players can donate 1% of their winnings to the cause, the poker community via the World Series of Poker has donated more than $13,500,000 since the partnership began in 2012 – enough to directly impact the lives of over 135,000 people.

Legions of amateur players competed alongside legendary poker pros, Hollywood A-listers and international sports figures to establish the new milestones.  Among the notable non-poker playing names competing during this year’s WSOP Main Event included: French actor and singer Patrick Bruel, Movie director Nick Cassavetes (Notebook), actor and comedian Brad Garrett, Emmy-award winning Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon writer J.R. Havlan, actor Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Curb Your Enthusiasm producer Gavin Polone, professional soccer player John Arne Riise, actor and comedian Ray Romano,  NFL defensive star and Super Bowl champion Richard Seymour, actress Jennifer Tilly, cricket superstar Shane Warne, NASCAR driver Jason White, actor James Woods and three-time Olympic medalist Fatima Moreira de Melo from Netherlands.

The youngest player in this year’s WSOP Main Event was Adrian Mateos, from Madrid, Spain who played Day 1C at age 21 years, 6 days. Mateos burst onto the scene in 2013 by winning the WSOP Europe Main Event when he was 19 (legal gaming age in France is 18). He cashed in this event too, finishing in 750th place.

 The oldest player to participate in this year’s Main Event was 94-year-old William Wachter of Mahopac, New York, who played Day 1-B and finished the day 39th overall with 105,825 chips. Wachter was also the oldest participant the past two years.  Jack Ury, at the young age of 97, still holds the WSOP record as oldest participant.  However, Wachter did cash, finishing in 524th place for $19,500 and becoming the oldest player ever to cash in the WSOP Main Event.

The $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship – commonly referred to as the WSOP Main Event paid out a record 1,000 places this year, and officially reached that point in the tournament in Level 14 on Friday, July 10 around 9:45pm.

To get up to date statistics from the 2015 World Series of Poker, please go to: http://www.wsop.com/players/stats/byyear/?y=2015

To get All-Time WSOP statistics, please go to: http://www.wsop.com/players/stats/

Here is a quick statistical overview of the 2015 WSOP official gold bracelet events:

·         Official WSOP Gold Bracelet Events: 68 (Two multiple bracelet winners: Max Pescatori (Events 9, 41) & Brian Hastings (Events 27, 39)

·         Total Entries: 103,512

·         Total Prize Pool: $210,379,285

·         Total Cashers: 11,638

·         Main Event Entries: 6,420

·         Main Event Prize Pool: $60,348,000

·         Largest 1st Place Prize: $7,680,021 (Event #68)

·         Average 1st Place Prize: $558,571

·         Average Age: 41.04 (Male average: 40.82; Female average: 44.86)

·         Male Participation: 94.56% (97,887 entries)

·         Female Participation: 5.43% (5,625 entries)

·         # of Countries Represented: 111

·         # of U.S. States Represented: 50

·         Most Entries by Country:

o   1) United States (82,439)

o   2) Canada (4,871)

o   3) United Kingdom (3,466)

o   4) France (1,236)

o   5) Russia (1,150)

o   6) Brazil (1,077)

o   7) Germany (1,040)

o    Australia (778)

o   9) Italy (674)

o   10) Austria (537)

The Player of the Year race remains quite intriguing heading into the WSOP Main Event with only the Main Event in Las Vegas and the 10 WSOP gold bracelets up for grabs at WSOP Europe in Berlin, Germany in October left to earn qualifying points.  The current leader of the 2015 Global Poker Index WSOP Player of the Year is Mike Gorodinsky, who did not play in the Main Event due to family obligations.  Among the top 10 in points, only Brian Hastings (currently 5th) is still alive in the WSOP Main Event.  To see the entire standings, please visit: http://www.globalpokerindex.com/wsop/

The 2015 WSOP established new records, which are detailed in chronological order from when they occurred during this record-breaking WSOP:


·         Most Entrants: 103,512

 

·         Most Cashers: 11,638

 

·         Most Bracelets (Individual): Phil Hellmuth extended his first place lead to four, by winning his 14th WSOP gold bracelet in Event #17, the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Razz Championship.

 

·         Largest Live Poker Event in History: Event #5, the $565 No-Limit Hold’em “Colossus”, attracted 22,374 entries, a staggering 255% more than the previous record (8,773 in 2006).

 

Event #5 broke several other records as well, including:

o    Biggest single day attendance ever: 12,172 players in Event #5 on Friday, May 29, the Colossus, up 52% from last year’s Event #8, the Millionaire Maker.

o    Largest non-Main Event field size ever: 22,374

o    Largest $500 buy-in poker tournament ever held: 22,374 entries

o    Most unique entrants ever: 15,387

o    Largest 1st place prize for a $500 buy-in: $638,880

o    Most players paid in one event: 2,241 places.

o    Largest prize pool for any poker event under $5,000: $11,187,000

o    Most first-time players in a WSOP event in history: 5,664

 

·         Largest non-Hold’em field size ever: Event #22, the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, attracted 1,293 entries, making it the largest field ever sat to play poker outside of a Hold’em event in live poker history.

 

·         Largest 2-7 Draw Triple Draw Event: 388 players entered Event #33 won by Benny Glaser of the United Kingdom. This $1500 2-7 Limit Triple Draw tournament was the largest ever field for 2-7 Draw Triple Draw.

 

·         Largest Razz Event: 462 players entered Event #9, the $1500 Seven Card Razz event won by Italy’s Max Pescatori, the largest field ever for a Razz event.

 

·         Most events with $1MM+ First Prize: Six distinct events (Event #16, Event #28, Event #44, Event #58, Event #60 & Event #68) paid the winner more than $1,000,000 in prize money, setting a new WSOP record and one more than last year.  Two events (Event #58 and Event #68) made multiple millionaires from the prize pool (a dozen to be exact).

 

·         Largest Main Event Starting Flight: Day 1C of the Main Event drew a record 3,963 entrants, the most-ever to start on one day in Main Event history and more than the first 29 Main Event field sizes combined.

 
·         Most cashes at WSOP without a win: Tony Cousineau of Daytona Beach, Fla., extended his record as the player with the most cashes – 72 – without a win. He cashed four times in 2015.

 
·         All-time Cashes and Final Tables: 14-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth added to his record as the individual all-time leader in cashes (114) with his six cashes in 2015, including the WSOP Main Event.   With his two final table appearances this year, Hellmuth has now final tabled an incredible 52 of the 114 events he has cashed in.  Of 52 final table appearances Hellmuth has either won or come runner-up in 24 of them. Hellmuth also leads the category of most 4-9th place finishes, with 30.

[TightEnd]

Joe McKeehen (@dude904) bags as the end of Day 4 chip leader in the Main Event. 237 players remain

start of day 5 chip counts

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-5-by-Chips.pdf

chaz chattha is 6th

toby lewis 27th

george mcdonald 29th

Chun Law 102nd

Jake Cody 107th

phillip mcallister 153rd


i make it 6 UK players left


seat draw http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-5-by-Seat.pdf

[kp24]

Talal Shakerchi survived to the money with one big blind.

did any of the sky players cash?

3 cashed in the Little One Drop, but 0 from 5 in the Main.

I really thought Matt Bates ("magic817" on blonde) might run deep, he is the sort of player who is either going to get a big stack early, or bust in the process. He busted before lunch on Day One.

Matt is the 2nd most profitable MTT-er on Sky Poker in 2015 so far, was 2nd in 2014, & the most profitable in 2013, & his total profits on Sky Poker are nudging 6 figures, an impressive number considering that, relatively, the prize pools on Sky Poker are small, with the biggest weekly guarantee being £15,000. His ROI over 8,000+ MTT's is around 44%. He has an equally impressive ROI (37% over a 14,000 game sample size) on 'Stars, too, for an equally impressive 5 figure sum. It was not to be, though, & I whilst I never feel sympathy for anyone in poker, I certainly felt for him.

3 others in the Main were unknown to me. They all turned out to be "handy" & 3 of them made day 2 with well above average stacks, but all three met with accidents & failed to make day 3.

The sole Sky Poker survivor into Day Three was a lovely chap, Daren Moreton, an out & out recreational, who won his £10,000 package for £7. He busted early on Day Three, sadly. A lovely guy who tried his heart out, he just never got the breaks. He was chuffed to bits to make Day Three though.  

So, a bit disappointing in some ways, but for The Business, they sent 40 players to Vegas, and although many of the packages were won in Freerolls, the whole Viva Las Vegas Promo was very profitable.

Those who attended seemed to enjoy it, & those at home seemed to enjoy the Videos & Updates from Vegas judging by the feedback on the Sky Poker Community, where, for balance, there is usually no shortage of negativity.

Next up, the 6-Max Sky Poker UKPC @ DTD next month.  

All good, & it's pleasing to see an Online Poker Room doing so well, with revenues substantially up yoy, in what is a declining market.  

 

Hopefully you will run it next year too, sadly I'm on holiday when the six max is on such a shame,matt is a very good player

[Longines]

Spot on Tighty.

237 left. Blinds will be 8000/16000/2000. Average is 813,000. $34,000 locked up.

Charles Chattha   LONDON, , GB   2,157,000
Toby Lewis   SOUTHAMPTON, , GB   1,436,000
George McDonald   Glasgow, , GB   1,404,000
Chun Law   LONDON, , GB   790,000
Jake Cody   ROCHDALE, , GB   764,000
Phillip McAllister   Winchester, GB   519,000

[TightEnd]

Day 5 of the Main Event ends with pierreneuville as the chip leader.  69 remaining

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-6-by-Chips.pdf

George Macdonald from Glasow is 9th going into day 6

Toby Lewis 33rd

Chun Law 34th

Chaz Chattha 57th


Jake Cody finished 113th

[tikay]

Day 5 of the Main Event ends with pierreneuville as the chip leader.  69 remaining

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-6-by-Chips.pdf

George Macdonald from Glasow is 9th going into day 6

Toby Lewis 33rd

Chun Law 34th

Chaz Chattha 57th


Jake Cody finished 113th

Pretty sure that is not "our" Chung Law, Tighty. The WSOP reports have consistently confused the UK one & the USA one - I think that is the USA one.

[TightEnd]

ok, i had assumed it was "harry" law, late 20s, cash game player in london

not CT (John) Law and not Chun Hin Law, the US one!

[redsimon]

ok, i had assumed it was "harry" law, late 20s, cash game player in london

not CT (John) Law and not Chun Hin Law, the US one!

Be hard to be CT Law!

[celtic]

The chip leader is older than teeks!

[Doobs]

Day 5 of the Main Event ends with pierreneuville as the chip leader.  69 remaining

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-6-by-Chips.pdf

George Macdonald from Glasow is 9th going into day 6

Toby Lewis 33rd

Chun Law 34th

Chaz Chattha 57th


Jake Cody finished 113th

Pretty sure that is not "our" Chung Law, Tighty. The WSOP reports have consistently confused the UK one & the USA one - I think that is the USA one.

Pretty sure I read the opposite on 2 plus 2 and it is our man.

[Doobs]

Day 5 of the Main Event ends with pierreneuville as the chip leader.  69 remaining

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14268%5CMain-Event-Start-of-Day-6-by-Chips.pdf

George Macdonald from Glasow is 9th going into day 6

Toby Lewis 33rd

Chun Law 34th

Chaz Chattha 57th


Jake Cody finished 113th

Pretty sure that is not "our" Chung Law, Tighty. The WSOP reports have consistently confused the UK one & the USA one - I think that is the USA one.

Pretty sure I read the opposite on 2 plus 2 and it is our man.

Ha, somebody has corrected on 2p2 and it is the fella from Memphis right now and not another Brian Hastings account.