WSOP 2018

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With the elimination of Jesse Martin, Ben Dobson is now heads-up in Event 25, with a 3.1m to 1.3m chip lead over Tim Finne.

Ante is 20K, bring in (by the low card) is 30K, 100K to complete, 200K big bet. Not much room for error here now, especially as it will be moving to 30K/30K/120K/240K pretty soon.

Edit - first hand of heads-up, Dobson scoops to bring stacks to approx 3.6m to 800K, and that was the last hand of the level. Finne now down to less than 4BB, but he's been nursing a small stack since the start of yesterday. Reminds me of me.

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BRITISH BRACELET ALERT

Ben Dobson has converted his chip lead in to first place in Event 25, the $1500 Stud High/Low event. It's Ben's first bracelet and also nets him a cool $173,528

It is the second British bracelet of the Series, following on from Philip Long's earlier victory, and there has also been 2 UK runner-up finishes so far.

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Well I've spoiled the big story already, but here's the rest of the action:


Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 4 of 5, 1637 entries

51 more marathon runners hit the wall on Day 4, leaving just the FT of 9 who have had the stamina and endurace to make it towards the last few miles.

Players from 6 different countries, who've won over $11million between them, make up the final 9 and we have one San Diegan, Mark Sleet replacing another, Taylor Paur as end of day chip leader.

Steer overtook former ME winner Martin Jacobson late on Day 4 after the Swede made a good lay down when things could easily have gone a lot worse for him.

Bart Lybaert from Belgium is third, with Paur dropping to 6th, Anton Morgenstern to 7th and Cate Hall is bringing up the rear.

Chris Moorman was first man out on Day 3 (60th, $9616) while Javier Fernandez went out in 28th for $16340.


Event 25 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 4 of 3, 596 entries

Ben Dobson maintained his chip lead throughout the unscheduled 4th day to claim his first bracelet, and the second for British players this series.

Dobson first eliminated Jesse Martin in 3rd and shortly after he knocked out Tim Finne as well to finish the job.

As well as the bracelet, Dobson earns $173K for his four days work


Event 26 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 986 entrants

This one is in the books too, with Filippos Stavrakis coming from behind (short stack when 4 handed) to pick up the bracelet and a prize just $3000 less than Dobson had collected earlier in the day.

Jordan Siegel was the runner-up, and in third was Brazilian Felipe Ramos, who, as usual when a Brazilian was on a FT, was accompanied by a very vocal rail. Too vocal in fact, as they were moved further away from the action at one point.


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 3 of 3, 166 entrants

Two very accomplished players will come back for a Day 4 in the HORSE, John Henningan and David "Bakes" Baker are both multiple bracelet holders, in fact Baker won this same event 6 years ago.

They outlasted a strong mixed-games field, with Lee Salem ending 3rd and Iraj Parvizi as top Brit in 4th for $127K


Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 1 of 3, 868 entrants

Twenty players have made it through Day 2 with two players having over a million chips (i.e. 100BB), Ben Palmer and Yorane Kerignard.

Jason Mercier (going for his 6th bracelet) is the biggest name player surviving, with one player in the listings having a Union Jack beside his name (Florian Duta) but he's really Romanian (sits 9th in the Romanian all-time money list)

Michael Kane was top of the genuine Brits (well Scots at least) finishing 46th for $7558 while former ME winners Ryan Reiss and Greg Merson went out in quick succession, 65th & 64th respectively.


Event 29 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 356 entrants

Seven players through to the final day, and again we have a British representative, Cody Wagner from Warrington sits second in chips just behind leader Hanh Tran, with double bracelet winner Brian Hastings another 10K chips behind Wagner.

Two Matthew Smith's cashed (23rd and 29th) but I doubt either one of them was a hero of my youth, the creator of Sinclair Spectrum games "Manic Miner" and "Jet Set Willy".


Event 30 - $1500 PLO, Day 1 of 3, 799 entries

130 players managed to bag chips at the end of Day 1, and with 120 to get paid, the bubble will be the first significant event of Day 2.

Michael Heritsch is chip leader ahead of Frank Williams (not that Frank Williams) and Aaron Henderson.

You have to go all the way to 43rd to find Darren Taylor, top Brit overnight but then Clive Wilson is only three spots behind and Peter Linton, Michael Wernick, David Barraclough are all inside the top half while Andrew Teng languishes near the bottom.

Other names still in include Jesse Sylvia, Victor Ramdin, Dutch Boyd, Eoghan O'Dea, Ryan Reiss (again) and Ismael Bojang.


Event 31 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 310 entries

While we have two not-so-well-known names at the very top (Farhad Mobassery and Ron Brown), lurking very close behind is stud specialist and multiple bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro.

I can only bring news of one UK player among the 80-odd survivors, Warren Colman.

He and all the other players still have to deal with the likes of last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, Elky, Brandon Shack-Harris and earlier bracelet winner Adam Friedman.

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Event 24 - $2620 The Marathon (100 minute levels), Day 5 of 5, 1637 entries

The Marathon is over, and the winner was Australian Michael Addamo who collected over $650K as he collected his first bracelet.

5-handed, with former ME winner Martin Jacobsen, Taylor Paur & Bart Lybaert still in, it was looking like a tough FT but as all three were knocked out, it was left to Addamo and amateur player Mark Sleet to fight it out for the bracelet.

Eventually Addamo weathered all Sleet's uncoventional moves, and the bracelet was heading Down Under (or more likely to Thailand, where Addamo lives as he can't play online in Oz).


Event 27 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 4 of 3, 166 entrants
It took about an hour of Day 4 play to separate John Hennigan and David "Bakes" Baker before the former got the better of it, and became the 25th player to win 5 or more WSOP bracelets, 16 years after he won his first.


Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 3 of 3, 868 entrants

As with Event 27, Event 28 is going into extra time as a fourth day will be needed, with three players still in the running for the bracelet.

Gal Yifrach holds the chip lead over fellow-American James Mackey, with Gary Hasson (from Belgium) bringing up the rear.

Jason Mercier went out in 16th spot, with Romanian-resident-in-the-UK Florian Duta 12th.


Event 29 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 3 of 3, 356 entrants

No extra time needed here as Hanh Tran from Vienna, Austria managed to convert his Day 2 chip lead into the bracelet (although the lead did change hands repeatedly throughout the day).

This is only Tran's 2nd WSOP cash, his first coming in the equivalent event back in 2014.

Cheshire's Cody Wanger finished a very creditable 4th place for nearly $31K.


Event 30 - $1500 PLO, Day 2 of 3, 799 entries

The 130 players were reduced by 90% on Day 2, as 13 players is all that is left to fight for the win on Day 3.

Ryan Bambrick has twice the chips of his nearest challenger, who is Phil Riley, with the Finn Sampo Ryynanen in third.

Darren Taylor was top Brit in 36th, getting $750 more than Clive Wilson who fell one place earlier by the other side of a ladder.

Michael Wernick finished just inside the top 50, with David Barraclough and Peter Linton getting a min-cash.


Event 31 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 310 entries

Nine players remain in the $1500 Stud, so the unofficial FT. The top three of the nine are bracelet holders, chip leader Michael Moore, Chris Ferguson and Jeff Lisandro

There's also two female players still involved (in a Series which hasn't been great for women so far), Esther Rossi & Katharine Fleck.

The only British Day 2 player, Warren Colman, bowed out in 23rd place for a cash of $2982.


Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 1 of 3, 5919 entries

Yes, the number is up from the 5389 of last year but this year players were allowed a single re-entry so that clouds the matter somewhat. Either way, it's still an impressive single flight entry figure.

Almost 1000 players remain, so just a quick scan through some names with the top 3 being Kevin O'Donnell, David Middaugh & Christopher Ocksrider, Americans all.

Jehan Zaib appears to be top Brit in 35th, with Robert Parkin, Matthew Bayford, David Maudlin, Christhoper Jordan and Shukri Mushawar inside the top half of the field.

A couple of other names I've spotted include former November Niner Neil Bluemfield, double bracelet winner Steve Zolotow and former ME winner Scotty Nguyen.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 1 of 5, 77 entrants

The big one for the pros, with such a slow structure that 74 of the 77 have made it to Day 2, the three unlucky ones being Frank Kassela, Kristijonas Andrulis and Scott Siever who lost a house-over-house confrontation.

Registration is still open for another 4 levels, so a few more pros could be enticed in to increase the pricepool further.

Benny Glaser revels in this type of event and he has the Day 1 chip lead, ahead of Anthony Zinno and Brian Rast.

Other UK players involved include Matthew Ashton, Talal Shakerchi, Iraj Parvizi, Adam Owen, Stephen Chidwick & Philip Long.

Most of the other "big names" can be found on the chip listings, with the notable exception of Phil Hellmuth who decided to swerve it and play the Seniors event for the first time instead (he busted from that). Perhaps he will make an appearence on Day 2.


Event 6C, Flight 1C of the Giant, 1148 entries

1148 became 55 by the end of the day, with French player Matthieu Philibert making a late run to be chip leader. He leads Kevin Ninkovich and Arkadiy Tsinis.

I can't see a full report or chip listing, but it appears to include one British player, Artan Dedusha.

[Marky147]

Thank the man next door for these, just the job.

Missed most of the last day or so, and nice to be able to catch up with everything double quick.

[4KSuited]

Event #32 Seniors $1000

There's a Blonde still in this 😉
No doubt this will be a horrible self-bok. 593 remain right now.

[Tal]

Event #32 Seniors $1000

There's a Blonde still in this 😉
No doubt this will be a horrible self-bok. 593 remain right now.

[Marky147]

Event #32 Seniors $1000

There's a Blonde still in this 😉
No doubt this will be a horrible self-bok. 593 remain right now.

GOGOGO!

[4KSuited]

Seniors $1000

Made a big error. Grind mode instated.
389 remain....

[4KSuited]

Seniors $1000

291 remain & amazingly I'm still included in this number. The long clock, and #Lucky$ from Sam Razavi has helped, lol
Grind mode still on

[Marky147]

Spin, spin, spin!!

[4KSuited]

Busto 221st

Got it in good

Onto the next..

[Omm]

Busto 221st

Got it in good

Onto the next..

Congrats on the cash.

[Magic817]

As you know, the Updates I m posting are cut & pasted from Next Door (with permission of the Author), but they have their own WSOP thread too.

This post appeared overnight;

Great thread as usual. How is T Kendall getting on in the $1k PLO?

That was posted by my Boss. Lovely job.

And in reply to that post;


Heard the structure is pretty good in that.

Which was authored by an ex-friend of mine.


It's OK, keep it coming boys.

Guilty! Will be out on Wednesday!

[titaniumbean]

Guilty! Will be out on Wednesday!

what's the tournament you are entering on wednesday Matthew?