WSOP 2016

[TightEnd]

well done to Middy who won the Wynn $100k summer classic over the weekend

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[tikay]

There was the most surreal heads up finale to Colossus, and if you can find it on You Tube or somewhere, it'll be worth the effort.

It was J-J v A-9, & when the Ace rivered, BOTH players thought they had won. (The Jacks of Keeline four flushed it).

Horak, who had the A-9, did not realise, & ran to his rail, hugging & embracing his supporters, & at least one body tumbled over the rail in excitement.

It was some moments before Horak realised he had been beaten.

[TightEnd]

R Mizrachi became only the 11th player to win a bracelet three years on the trot

[TightEnd]

last 64 matches in the $10k HU

Christian Gleissner    vs.         Jared Jaffee
Andrew Lichtenberger    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Thomas Cannuli
Ivan Luca    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Dominik Nitsche    vs.    Federico Petruzzelli
Jason Les    vs.    Jason Koon
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Mark McGovern
Dzmirty Urbanovich    vs.    Matthew Parry
Konstantin Ramazanov         vs.    Doug Polk
Keith Block    vs.    Alan Wehbi
Alan Percal    vs.    Jeff Gross
Tanner Millen    vs.    Samantha Abernathy
Russell Rosenblum    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Alex Keating
Sam Soverel    vs.    Jake Abdalla
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    Martin Jacobson
Michael Kane    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    J.C. Tran
Bryn Kenney    vs.    Robert Gorodetsky
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Evgeny Kurilenko
Aaron Mermelstein    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Keith Lehr
Ali Davoudi    vs.    Jan-Eric Schwippert
Joe McKeehen    vs.    Sam Stein
Moritz Dietrich    vs.    Max Silver
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Tobais Ziegler
Adrien Allain    vs.    Steffen Sontheimer
Rob Tepper    vs.    Adrian Mateos
Timothy Adams    vs.    Max Altergott
David Farber    vs.    Alex Luneau
Bobby Oboodi    vs.    Egor Bulychev

Paul Newey and Max Silver are the two UK representatives

[TightEnd]

Final numbers for Event 8: $1,500 HORSE

778 players (six more than last year)
117 cash
1st $212,604
Min-cash $2,253

201 made it to day 2

"The apparent chip leader after this opening day of action is Japanese bracelet winner Naoya Kihara with 85,900 in chips from a starting stack of 7,500. His bracelet came in 2012 in a $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Event, for $512,029.

Close contenders for chip leader at the end of the day were Danny Wong (78,500), Ron Ware (77,800), Esther Taylor-Brady (75,000), and Nick Kost (72,900).

Other notables still in the field include double bracelet winner from 2015 Brian Hastings, 2008 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. winner Scotty Nguyen, Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton, and World Series of Poker broadcaster Norman Chad.

Also advancing to Day 2 (in no particular order) are Brandon Cantu, Greg Raymer, WSOP APAC Champ Scotty Abrams, Maria Ho, Bill Chen, Jimmy Fricke, Justin Bonomo, Rep Porter, Dan Heimiller, and a host of other bracelet winners and big names."

scrolling down the list for UK players its a case of the usual suspects

in day 2 are

Stuart Rutter
Richard Chufty
Adam Owen
 

[TightEnd]

going back to Colossus it was won by Ben Keyline who made a beeline for the $1m first prize

event 5 the $1500 DC was won by Lawrence Berg and Paul Volpe finalled

there are 36 left overnight in event 6 the $1500 NLHE

Ireland's Tim Farrell is 2nd

I was having fun with flags going through the list.

My Sheldonian list tells me that going into day 3 we have the fiollowing nationalities represented

US
Ireland
Slovakia
Argentina
Brazil
Russia
Uraine
Sweden
Germany
Hungary

but no Brits

 

[TightEnd]

there are 8 left in the 2-7 draw, event 7

among them is dan kelly and Portugal's Joao Viera

Benny Glaser from Southampton finished 12th, Adam Owen 22nd and Niall Farrell 29th all in the cash

[TightEnd]

last 64 matches in the $10k HU

Christian Gleissner    vs.         Jared Jaffee
Andrew Lichtenberger    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Thomas Cannuli
Ivan Luca    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Dominik Nitsche    vs.    Federico Petruzzelli
Jason Les    vs.    Jason Koon
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Mark McGovern
Dzmirty Urbanovich    vs.    Matthew Parry
Konstantin Ramazanov         vs.    Doug Polk
Keith Block    vs.    Alan Wehbi
Alan Percal    vs.    Jeff Gross
Tanner Millen    vs.    Samantha Abernathy
Russell Rosenblum    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Alex Keating
Sam Soverel    vs.    Jake Abdalla
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    Martin Jacobson
Michael Kane    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    J.C. Tran
Bryn Kenney    vs.    Robert Gorodetsky
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Evgeny Kurilenko
Aaron Mermelstein    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Keith Lehr
Ali Davoudi    vs.    Jan-Eric Schwippert
Joe McKeehen    vs.    Sam Stein
Moritz Dietrich    vs.    Max Silver
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Tobais Ziegler
Adrien Allain    vs.    Steffen Sontheimer
Rob Tepper    vs.    Adrian Mateos
Timothy Adams    vs.    Max Altergott
David Farber    vs.    Alex Luneau
Bobby Oboodi    vs.    Egor Bulychev

Paul Newey and Max Silver are the two UK representatives

right things have moved on as they are nearly down to the last 32

Newey and Slver are both through

Alex Luneau is through, listed from London

Daniel McAulay is through, listed from Glasgow

Michael Kane is in the last match to complete. I know Michael, he is also from Glasgow and is a Sky poker player but for the life of me i can't remember his username.

looks like he is going out unfortunately 

[TightEnd]

the draw for event 9 $10k HU last 32

Jared Jaffee    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Federico Petruzzelli         vs.         Jason Les
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Orlando Romero
Matthew Parry    vs.    Konstantin Ramazanov
Alan Wehbi    vs.    Alan Percal
Tanner Millen    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Sam Soverel
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    Bryn Kenney
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Ali Davoudi
Sam Stein    vs.    Moritz Dietrich
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Adrien Allain
Adrian Mateos    vs.    Max Altergott
Alex Luneau    vs.    Bobby Oboodi

win one more round to hit the cash

[TightEnd]

Sam Stein    vs.    Moritz Dietrich

is actually

Stein v Max Slver

it was reported by wsop in error earlier

[dino1980]

there are 8 left in the 2-7 draw, event 7

among them is dan kelly and Portugal's Joao Viera

Benny Glaser from Southampton finished 12th, Adam Owen 22nd and Niall Farrell 29th all in the cash

He's an incredibly talented mixed game player. I'd say he could be this year's Adam Owen, but that'd be doing him a disservice as he already has a bracelet! He plays as RunGodlike on PokerStars. Won a SCOOP this year I believe. Almost (almost) picked him as a wildcard for the WSOP fantasy game, but with only two spots he got squeezed out.

[TightEnd]

tikay's latest vegas blog

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/vegas-news/jesus-at-the-2016-wsop

[George2Loose]

Interesting read Tony. I'm with you about Ferguson but I guess for those who had significant money on full tilt you can't blame them for being angry about the whole saga

[tikay]

Interesting read Tony. I'm with you about Ferguson but I guess for those who had significant money on full tilt you can't blame them for being angry about the whole saga

Yeah, I completely get that George, I really do.

I just think there comes a time to move on, & maybe show a little forgiveness, if not forgetness.

Nobody died, it's poker, & inherently full of risks.

Of course it was a bad do, no arguments, but do we all want to spend the rest of our lives being angry & snarly? Not me, I'll pass on that.

[tikay]

last 64 matches in the $10k HU

Christian Gleissner    vs.         Jared Jaffee
Andrew Lichtenberger    vs.    Scott Baumstein
Chance Kornuth    vs.    Thomas Cannuli
Ivan Luca    vs.    Olivier Busquet
Dominik Nitsche    vs.    Federico Petruzzelli
Jason Les    vs.    Jason Koon
Daniel McAulay    vs.    Mark McGovern
Dzmirty Urbanovich    vs.    Matthew Parry
Konstantin Ramazanov         vs.    Doug Polk
Keith Block    vs.    Alan Wehbi
Alan Percal    vs.    Jeff Gross
Tanner Millen    vs.    Samantha Abernathy
Russell Rosenblum    vs.    Benjamin Geisman
Paul Newey    vs.    Alex Keating
Sam Soverel    vs.    Jake Abdalla
Igor Yaroshevskyy    vs.    Martin Jacobson
Michael Kane    vs.    John Smith
Antonio Esfandiari    vs.    J.C. Tran
Bryn Kenney    vs.    Robert Gorodetsky
Ankush Mandavia    vs.    Evgeny Kurilenko
Aaron Mermelstein    vs.    Jacob Wideman
Nick Yunis    vs.    Keith Lehr
Ali Davoudi    vs.    Jan-Eric Schwippert
Joe McKeehen    vs.    Sam Stein
Moritz Dietrich    vs.    Max Silver
Matthew Diehl    vs.    Tobais Ziegler
Adrien Allain    vs.    Steffen Sontheimer
Rob Tepper    vs.    Adrian Mateos
Timothy Adams    vs.    Max Altergott
David Farber    vs.    Alex Luneau
Bobby Oboodi    vs.    Egor Bulychev

Paul Newey and Max Silver are the two UK representatives

right things have moved on as they are nearly down to the last 32

Newey and Slver are both through

Alex Luneau is through, listed from London

Daniel McAulay is through, listed from Glasgow

Michael Kane is in the last match to complete. I know Michael, he is also from Glasgow and is a Sky poker player but for the life of me i can't remember his username.

looks like he is going out unfortunately