WSOP 2016

[TightEnd]

report extracts

Just 243 players remain in contention for poker's most illustrious prize. Leading the field heading into Day 5 is bracelet winner Bryan Piccioli , who bagged a stack of 4,026,000.

Other top stacks at the end of Day 4 belong to Thomas Miller (3,684,000), Farhad Jamasi (3,380,000), Daniel Zack (3,085,000), and Tom Middleton (3,025,000).

daniel colman (big one for one drop winner for $15m) had AA v QQ for a big double up in the last level. Has 3.7m

Other familiar faces returning for Day 5 include Jared Bleznick (2,568,000), Griffin Benger (2,400,000), Antoine Saout (2,283,000), Tom Marchese (2,108,000), Tony Gregg (2,013,000), Max Silver (1,810,000), Gaelle Baumann (1,724,000), Mike Gorodinsky (1,612,000) Jon Turner (1,536,000), Marc-Andre Ladouceur (1,245,000), and Jennifer Shahade (976,000).

Players will return at 12 p.m. on Saturday where they will play five more two-hour levels.

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UK players into day 5

10 Tom Middleton 3,025,000
16 Will Kassouf 2,713,000
22 Jason McConnon 2,440,000
25 David L'Honore 2,348,000
32 Alex Goulder, 2,140,000
57 Max Silver 1,810,000
61 Andrew Christoforou 1,784,000
74 Rupom Pal 1,620,000
75 Alex Lindop 1,619,000
122 Eliott Peterman 1,225,000
124 Matthew Moss 1,220,000
149 Tom Macdonald 1,019,000
179 Robert Heidorn 820,000
188 Stafford Hamilton 752,000
190 Ben Middleton 739,000
242 David Nicholson 312,000
245 Iaran Lightbourne 300,000

blinds are ?

[Lonohray2]

Coming back to 12/24

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Coming back to 12/24

good luck

you had thousands of posts, presume you lost password to the first account?

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seat draw for tomorrow

Seats - http://bit.ly/29KKBgA

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Day 3 of the Little One for One Drop starts at 2 Saturday w/ 104 players.

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/14969/Ev69-Day-2-Counts-by-Chips.pdf

UK players remaining

44 Daniel Harwood, Cheltenham
49 Lucas Blanco GB

[bobby1]

Alex Goulder ‏@cambridgealex

Yessss. 2.14million in the bag for day 5! Average is around 1.2m with 260ish left. The dream is alive! #WSOPMainEvent

Click to see full-size image.

Good luck fella.

[strak33]

Dietrich Fast
‏@2pacnrw16

huuuge fold of @SIMONDEADMAN with qq vs my 44 on q44kx for 2kk pot. i have 1,5kk now

HAS to be a bad fold

Beyond terrible

Yeah the 2 hands are the same.

[NoCardDSC]

GL to all remaining Blondes in particular Lonohray!!! 😬

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216 left current top 10 is....

[MereNovice]

180 left and the top dozen are:

[Doobs]

Interesting for many reasons.  I have been on the wrong end of Will Kassouf's chat, so you have to feel a bit sorry for her.  ...But appealing for a hand to be called dead is a new one on me, that seems a very wrong way to win a hand of poker.  Then having a go at someone calling the clock seems a bit much too.  I pretty much never call the clock, but it feels like it was reasonable time here.

Finally, I have never seen a one round penalty for taunting.  It feels close to a penalty for bluffing, but maybe justified given all the warnings.


There's more than 600,000 in the pot as the river card arrives on a board. William Kassouf (pictured above) is heads up and out of position, and he moves all in with his big stack. That puts the decision on Stacy Matuson, who has 490,000 chips left in front of her.

While Matuson deliberates, the cameras gather around, and Kassouf starts chatting. "You don't want to be eliminated in front of the whole camera crew, do you? The whole world?" By this time, a watchful floorman has arrived, and he gives Kassouf a verbal warning about his conversation. Kassouf, however, doesn't stop. He continues to offer bits of conversation, including things like "lay it down" and "don't go broke in this hand."

Now Matuson is getting upset, and she pleads with the floorman for some help. "How is his hand still live?" she asks.

The floorman repeats his warning to Kassouf and explains that he and Kassouf will "have a discussion" after the hand. Kassouf continues to peck, though, and the floorman has had enough. "If you say one more word before the hand is over, I'm going to give you a penalty."

"I'll handle this one," Tournament Director Jack Effel says, suddenly stepping into place behind Kassouf.

Kassouf is not done trying, though. He complies with the order to remain quiet, but he mimes and gestures and waves his hands at Matuson while she thinks. He zips his lips with his fingers, then plays charades with "You show, I'll show," acting it out several times. Effel now issues him another verbal warning.

"How about a clock?" someone at the table asks. "We want to play, too."

Matuson is not happy with the time limit imposed on her, and she lets the clock tick all the way down to zero before open-mucking   .

Kassouf, on the other hand, acts pleased with himself. "Do you want to see it? Do you?" Matuson nods. "Double gutter and I missed," Kassouf says, showing   . "Nine-high like a boss! Big heart. Big heart of a lion."

Kassouf is quickly pulled aside by Jack Effel, who issues him a one-orbit penalty for taunting.

"How dare you call the clock on me?" Matuson says as she stands up to gather herself for a moment.

Kassouf has a lot of chips, but they're still in an uncountable pile in front of his vacant seat -- call it 3,500,000 for now. Matuson, on the other hand, does not have a lot of chips left after surrendering that big pot.

Stacy Matuson - 490,000 (16 bb)

[SuuPRlim]

doobs, I thought the same.

However I'm with kev Allen who informs me there is a rule now called the Jamie gold rule about using excessive speech play to manipulate opponents. Sounds a silly rule to me.

There is also a law of common decency which it's very hard to argue he broke, what a knob.

[jakally]

From the reported hand I'm definitely on his side.
Any serious poker player who complains when their opponent is offering lots of free information needs to have a little talk with themselves.

[Doobs]

doobs, I thought the same.

However I'm with kev Allen who informs me there is a rule now called the Jamie gold rule about using excessive speech play to manipulate opponents. Sounds a silly rule to me.

There is also a law of common decency which it's very hard to argue he broke, what a knob.

Jamie Gold was box office though?  Would put a whole heap of people above Will Kassouf as more damaging to poker/the ecosystem.