WSOP 2018

[Magic817]

Guilty! Will be out on Wednesday!

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

nh Bean...only time you will hear that on a Sunday!

[Doobs]

Made it to the last day of the O8 mix.  I have 101k, and the average is about 180.   Need to run good tomorrow.

Love these O8 mix tournaments, and even sat next to Barry Greenstein for much of the day. 

[Karabiner]

Made it to the last day of the O8 mix.  I have 101k, and the average is about 180.   Need to run good tomorrow.

Love these O8 mix tournaments, and even sat next to Barry Greenstein for much of the day. 

Very well done David - looking forward to a big day from you tomorrow.

[booder]

GL Doobs

[celtic]

All the best Doobs.

[Geo the Sarge]

Best of luck Doobs

Geo

[bobAlike]

All the best Doobs.

[bookiebasher]

All the best Doobs.

[engy]

Good luck Doobs

[easypickings]

Great work, go go Doobs

[Marky147]

Made it to the last day of the O8 mix.  I have 101k, and the average is about 180.   Need to run good tomorrow.

Love these O8 mix tournaments, and even sat next to Barry Greenstein for much of the day. 

GOGOGO!

[tikay]

Yay, well done & good luck David.

Room & table number please?

[Omm]

Made it to the last day of the O8 mix.  I have 101k, and the average is about 180.   Need to run good tomorrow.

Love these O8 mix tournaments, and even sat next to Barry Greenstein for much of the day. 

Fantastic Doobs well done and good luck in the rest, go get a big payday. Any stories from The Barry?

[tikay]

Event 28 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 4 of 3, 868 entrants

Israeli-born but now resident in California, Gal Yifrach took his first bracelet after coming out on top of the extra day needed in this event.

Three handed play with Yifrach, James Mackey & Gary Hasson was quite slow, taking nearly 50 hands before Hasson fell at the hands of Yifrach, but heads up was over in a jiffy even though both players had very similar stacks.

Yifrach collects $461K for 4 days work.


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

Turning up late seems to be the secret for Ryan Bambrick. He missed the start of Day 2 by an hour, and was late again (about 30 minutes late) for Day 3.

The Day 2 chip leader was briefly overtaken by Sampo Ryynanen, but the part-time trader, part-time online player got the lead back and converted it into a win, a bracelet and $217K

Ryynanen finished second, and Tim McDermott was third.


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

With two 6-time bracelet winners among the last 4 players, Steven Albini would probably have not been one of the favourites, but a full-house against Ferguson's nut flush saw him leap to the top of the standings.

Both Ferguson and Katherine Flack were very short handed, with Flack outlasting Ferguson to ladder up to third gaining herself an extra $21K, and that left it between Albini and Jeffrey Lisandro.

The lead chopped and changed a few times (Lisandro having a 3:1 advantage at one point) before Albini won a couple of hands in a row which led him to an overwhelming lead and eventually the bracelet.


Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 2 of 3, 5919 entries

101 players have made it through to Day 3, so there must be a real prospect of this being another event that needs to run in to an extra day.

Two players have over one million in chips, Ronald Bishop and Frank Berry with not many well known names in the field after the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Neil Blumenfield and Steve Zolotow went out on Day 2. 10th place William Sindelar may well be related to 2014 November Niner Daniel Sindelar?

The oldest player still in is 83-year old Andreas Dassopoulos, while from the UK we appear to be down to just two challengers, Shukri Mushawar and Jehan Zaib.

135th placed finisher for $4345 was David Maudlin, who I believe is (or was) a Sky Poker player.

Oh and live poker must be fixed. Douglas Hartwick won a 4-way all in with pocket kings, the other three having pocket aces, queens and jacks when he hit top set on the flop.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 2 of 5, 87 entrants

Ten players took advantage of the late reg strectching in to Day 2, taking the field to 87 and the prizepool to over $4.1m

We're down to less than half that number, with two-time previous winner Michael Mizrachi bagging the biggest stack, with a certain Phil Ivey close behind in second.

Of course bracelet winners litter the remaining field, with Eilor Sion and Benny Glaser two such names from GB, and they are joined by a third British player, Luke Schwartz.

14 will get paid, with the min-cash being $72500.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, 5 Day Event including 2 Day 1s

First ot two flights with 533 of 2387 using the extra chips to make it through to Day 2.

Brian Yoon, Phuoc Nguyen and Michael Delvecchio have the biggest stacks, with Christopher Gordon top Brit in 55th.

Directly behind Gordon is Craig McCorkell, and other British names I've found include David Stonehouse, Daniel Hide, Will Kassouf, Pratik Ghatge, Daniel Bland, Matas Cimbolas, Jack Hardcastle, Joseph Field, Matthew Moss, Jeff Kimber, Angelo Milioto, Daniel Teng, Sam Razavi, Adam Daniel and Andrew Hedley.


Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 1 of 3, 773 entries

The final event of the day to draw stumps with 225 players still in with just over half of them eventually walking away with a payment slip.

Peter Neff, Matthew Woodward & Gabriel Ramos sit in the top 3 places after Day 1, with the best placed British challenger Daniel Kent sitting nicely in 6th.

David Wood, David Barraclough, James Dempsey, Stu Rutter, Jeff Duvall, Stephen Chidwick comprise the rest of a strong British challenge to go forward to Day 2.

Phil Hellmuth is looking to extend his WSOP record number of cashes, and Robert Mizrachi, Barry Greenstein, Max Pescatori and Allen Cunningham just some of the more recognisable names also still involved.

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Event 32 - $1K Seniors NLH, Day 4 of 3, 5919 entries

Eight players have made it through to Day 4, all guaranteed $76K but all still aiming for the first prize of over $662K (and of course the bracelet).

Seven of the players are American, led by Gary Friedlander who carries a stack of over 80BB to the final table.

Rachel Delatorre is the last female player standing, one of three with less than 20BB, trying to win the first bracelet of the summer for the female contingent.


Event 33 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 3 of 5, 87 entrants

Exactly a dozen players remain and it is a familiar figure at the top of the listings, twice previous PPC Champion Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi.

Phil Ivey had the lead at one point, but he lost some hands late on to drop to behind Mike Leah and Aaron Katz.

One GB player is among the dozen, Benny Glaser sitting comfortably in midfield.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 1B of 5, total of 5700 entries

A bigger flight than 1A, with, as expected, a bigger number getting through to Day 2.

It's not very often The Philippines have the chip leader but they do here with Mike Takayama holding that position at the end of 1B ahead of Lithuania's Eimantas Adaomavicios and Vinny Pahuka, from (I'm not making it up) Hicksville, New York.

Plenty of Brits through, with Conor Beresford, Iaron Lightbourne, Steven Morris & Luke Brereton inside the top 100 and others lower down including James Akenhead, Chris Moorman, Rupinder Bedi, Niall Farrell, Louis Salter & Shola Akindele.


Event 35 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better & Big O, Day 2 of 3, 773 entries

Whatever Michael can do, Robert Mizrachi can almost do as well. Right up to the last few hands, it looked like he was going to hold the Day 2 chip lead in Event 35 but a late run from James Alexander and Gabriel Ramos have dropped the Grinder's brother down to third.

14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth crashed out late in the day to add to his record number of WSOP cashes in 35th as just 31 players move on.

The good news is that two UK names are among them - Daniel Kent and David Barraclough, neither have particulary big stacks but both have already guaranteed themselves $5252 and there's a ladder for another $850 in three eliminations time.

If they were to go the whole way, there'd be over $211K and a certain piece of jewellry to take home.


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2191 entries

$311K will await the winner of the Over 60s bracelet, but with 347 players still left, there's still a lot of flops to see before then. 329 will be paid so with lots of players under 10BB, a bubble will probably occur in the first level of Day 2 play.

Clifford Matthews probably won't need to concern himself with the bubble, he has a massive stack (over 130BB) and he has Henri Besson and Steven Wenrich not far behind. Wenrich is from another fantastically named US town - Quitman, Texas.

Linda Iwaniak leads the British challenge, and is accompanied by Bradley Viner and Ronald Lawton

The best known players in the battle are probably two double-bracelet holders, Steve Zolotow and Chris Bjorin