WSOP 2018

[Doobs]

I have no real need for Euros, but if anyone needs dollars and can bank transfer let me know.   Got about 10k spare, as I'll save some of the rest and settle my hotel bill.  cheers

[tonytats]

well done Doobs. That position in MTTs is such a killer. I hope you aren't disappointed for two long.

If anyone wants to exchange their dollars for euros then let me know and I'll hook you up with my buddy

Otherwise can anyone recommrnend  the best place to exchange currency? Just go to a few casino cages and check rates?

1.25 @ Wynn n southpoint
1.12 @ the rio
1.00 yes 1 for 1 at the downtown grand
I’ve asked
I’m at nugget tomorrow I can ask then or mark s there now if he reads this

[bergeroo]

well done Doobs. That position in MTTs is such a killer. I hope you aren't disappointed for two long.

If anyone wants to exchange their dollars for euros then let me know and I'll hook you up with my buddy

Otherwise can anyone recommrnend  the best place to exchange currency? Just go to a few casino cages and check rates?

1.25 @ Wynn n southpoint
1.12 @ the rio
1.00 yes 1 for 1 at the downtown grand
I’ve asked
I’m at nugget tomorrow I can ask then or mark s there now if he reads this

Thanks Tony. That's quite a spread of rates! 1.25 is that a typo? Seems to be 1.15 spot right now?

Anyone ever heard of this place. In a strip mall just north of the Wynn, just off strip. Google seems to think it gives the best rates in Vegas.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g45963-d8364587-Reviews-Foreign_Money_Exchange-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html

[bergeroo]

Also Steve Albini won a bracelet. Amazing!

It is like Phil Ivey producing the new Foo Fighters album.

[DropTheHammer]

Also Steve Albini won a bracelet. Amazing!

It is like Phil Ivey producing the new Foo Fighters album.

Going to see them on Saturday, quite excited.

[Jamier-Host]

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.

The Worm has been playing? Please grab an action shot if he's still about. Not seen Mickey in years.

[MC]

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.

The Worm has been playing? Please grab an action shot if he's still about. Not seen Mickey in years.

<3

[bobAlike]

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.

The Worm has been playing? Please grab an action shot if he's still about. Not seen Mickey in years.

<3

I wonder who he nipped for this trip

[Doobs]

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.

The Worm has been playing? Please grab an action shot if he's still about. Not seen Mickey in years.

too late.  he was sat behind me one day.  did a double take

[tikay]

Have been AWOL for 2 days, but our man Next Door, FCHD, has continued with his Updates so I'll have a catch up now.

[tikay]

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

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi has only won four bracelets (the same as his brother Robert), but now three of them are for winning the prestigious 50K Poker Players Championship!

Mizrachi came out on top of a stacked final table, beating John Hennigan heads-up after an epic 3-way battle also involving Dan Smith.

The last Briton left in the event, Benny Glaser, came in to the FT in 5th, and exited it in 5th as well. He collects $260K, while Mizrachi boosts his career earnings by almost one and a quarter million dollars.


Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 3 of 4, total of 5700 entries

Just twenty players bagged chips at the end of Day 3 with local player Keith Ferrara holding the overnight lead.

Ferrara has 7.5m chips, quite a lead on his nearest challenger Tomas Teran Paredes who has a smidgen over 5m.

Two Wongs are right next to each other - Ralph is 11th and Jacky is 12th, while Pablo Campo (who has 3 cashes this month already) the only British player on the reports in 14th.

I think the only bracelet holder left is the short-stacked Andrey Zaichenko, but 6-time winner on the WSOP domestic circuit Joshua Turner is somewhat better off in terms of chips.


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

Day 4 was enough to sort out Event 35, and it didn't need very long to sort things out. Yueqi Zhu started the day as an overwhelming chip leader, and he quickly knocked off Carol Fuchs and then Gabriel Ramos.

Zhu has finished in the top 3 of bracelet events six times before, dating back over a decade, but this is his first win, for which he picks up the elusive bracelet and $211K.


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

Another near miss for a British bracelet!

Linda Iwaniak from Berkshire had just one 5-figure score on her Hendon Mob resume, $19K from a ladies event in Birmingham back in 2006. She still has just the one as she by-passed 5 figures, jumping straight through to 6-figures collecting over $103K for a fine 4th place in the Super Seniors

Her aggressive style saw her move all in with pocket 10s on a board of Q-2-2. Unfortunately for her, Paul W Lee had 8-2 in his hand, and he improved to quads to rub it in.

Iwaniak wasn't the only female player at the sharp end, Farhintaj Bonyadi is still very much involved in a heads-up battle with Robert Beach, but is up against it as Beach has about a 9:2 chip lead.

The other British player in Day 3, Bradley Viner, was an early casualty but walked away with a payslip for over $8K.



Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1330 entrants

As in event 34, 20 players will battle it out in the final day of Event 37.

Three players are sitting with over a million chips, Aaronm Massey, Ian Steinman and 2013 ME runner-up Jay Farber.

JC Tran is one of the other 17 players, all but two being American with the exceptions being Ryan Goindoo (Trinidad & Tobago) & Enrico Rudelitz (Germany)

We almost had a Brit involved, but Plymouth's Damien Le Goff was the penultimate Day 2 elimination for $9513.



Event 38 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 83 entries

No messing around with 20 left here, we're down to 8 with Yaniv Birman, Jesse Martin & Ben Yu the top 3 stacks.

Stud specialist Matt Grapenthien is in the middle of the pack while among the short stacks is the only non-US player, James Obst.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 1 of 3, 908 entrants

We've reached the halfway point of the 78-event WSOP 2018.

100 tables were set up for play, and at the end of the day each one of those tables has provided one participent for Day 2.

All 100 have earned $5227 so far, and today will compete on 10 10-handed tables with the winner guaranteeing themselves $15K and a place on the FT.

Reigning ME champion Scott Blumstein is one of the 100, as is another ME winner (Martin Jaconbson) and the runner-up in last year's shootout, Thomas Boivin. Also through are names such as Phil Hellmuth, Jesse Sylvia, Rep Porter and Dylan Linde.

Four UK names also made Day 2, Mark McGovern, Tom Hall, Endrit Geci & Yudhishter Jaswal.


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, 3 Day Event

This event, being held for the second time, attracted 205 players of whom one quarter played their way through to Day 2.

2012 PLO bracelet winner Naoya Kihara holds the big stack, with Dario Sammartino, fresh off a third placed finish in the $10K 2-7 Lowball event is second.

Stuart Rutter is back for another attempt to win a bracelet, and he had a good first day lying just inside the Top 10.

John Henningan jumped into this after losing the heads-up battle with Michael Mizrachi in the PPC, and he's made the most of it as he's got the fourth biggest stack overnight.

Other well-known names include Jeff Lisandro, Mike Matusow, Eli Elezra, Shaun Deeb, Max Pescatori, David "ODB" Baker, Barry Greenstein and the Frenchman with the impressive hair, Bruno Fitoussi.

[tikay]

^^^^

What a great result for Linda Iwaniak, who many of you will know very well from APAT.

[tikay]

Event 36 update

The Super Seniors is all over, and it took rather longer on Day 4 than I anticipated. We started today with Robert Beach having a significant chip lead over Farhintaj Bonyadi, but 110 hands later, Bonyadi has come from behind to take the win.

In an angle that I should have picked up on earlier, she is the mother of three-time bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi.

She is, of course, the first female to win a bracelet in 2018.

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Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 4 of 4, total of 5700 entries

It's getting to be a theme this summer that tournaments need an extra day to finish them off, well add the Double Stack to the list as an unscheduled 5th day will be needed to determine which of the final three will get the bracelet.

The final three (all of whom wanted to continue on to find a winner) are headed by Robert Peacock, who has 38m, with Nicholas Salimbene (10m) and Joshua Turner (8m)

The two Wongs finished the day as they started, adjacent to each other on the listings with Jacky 4th and Ralph 5th, while Pablo Campo was early Day 4 casualty (and he's now showing as being from Spain)


Event 36 - $1K Super Seniors NLH, Day 4 of 3, 2191 entries

As already mentioned, this one was completed early on Wednesday night with Farhintaj Bonyadi collecting her first bracelet and $311K.

She is now part of the only mother-son combo to win WSOP bracelets.


Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1330 entrants

You remember what I was saying about Event 34? An extra day will be needed here two with Eric Baldwin having about a 7:2 chip lead over Ian Steinman. With the winner getting $319K and the loser $197K, the heads-up match is for over $120K and of course the gold bracelet.

Enrico Rudelitz was the last elimination of the Day, leaving Baldwin and Steinman two levels of play to sort things out but neither buckled and they will recovene for a Day 4.


Event 38 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 83 entries

This one, in stark contrast, ended within the scheduled timescale and the victor was businessman and part time high-limit Stud cash player, Yaniv Birman.

He beat twice bracelet-holder Jesse Martin into second, and Ben Yu was third.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 908 entrants

The FT has been reached, with the 10 winners of the Day 2 tables all set to be sitting with very similar stacks (between 109 BB & 112BB)

There's one former bracelet winner among them, Anthony Rategui (who also made the final table of the earlier $3K shootout event) and there's one British name, Endrit Geci (who, not to be rude, looks like an anagram - perhaps "get nicer id" or "deter icing")


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 2 of 3

Very rarely can a player have had this big of a lead at the end of Day 2. Scott Bohlman has over 1.5 million chips, with the nearest of his four remaining challengers (Ryan Hughes) has 345K.

Daniel Wienman, Aaron Rogers (not the Green Bay QB) and Marcel Vonk of the Netherlands are the other three players.

Last British player left was Stuart Rutter, but he departed the scene before the bubble was reached.


Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 1 of 3, 596 entries

You can see the difference between the popularity of Limit Hold'em and No Limit as the last $1500 NLH event attracted more than twice the field of this Limit event.

The British presence in Limit is usually minimal, but at least we've got two of the 174 survivors, Warren Colman & Joe Brindle.

The chip leader is from Liverpool, but it's Liverpool, New York that Brian Vollick hails from. Local Rex Clinkscales and West-coast player Cody Riedel complete the top 3.

Most of the names mean very little to me, but I can pick out Jeff Shulman, Matt Grapenthein and Dutch Boyd, and there's the wonderfully named Jet Black in 83rd. I haven't come across anyone called Jet Black since The Stranglers in 1977.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, 192 entries

The number of entries includes two dozen re-entries, and will rise further as late reg is open not just to the start of Day 2, but for another 2 levels after that.

Konstantin Beylin holds the chip lead from Bulgarian Veselin Karakitukov and Canadian Daniel Negreanu.

Fraser MacIntyre is inside the top ten, with Adam Owen just outside, and several other GB players make the Day 2 field - Philip Ward, James Park, Gavin Cochrane and Daniel Merrilees. Iraj Parvizi didn't join them, despite firing two bullets at it, and having at one point a stack that would have placed him inside the overnight Top 5.

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Event 34 - $1K NLH Double Stack, Day 5 of 4, total of 5700 entries

Going in to day 5, Robert Peacock was always going to be the favourite, and he ended with his tail feathers on display as he finished off first Joshua Turner and then Nicholas Salimbene, all in just 23 hands.

Peacock, a high stakes cash player locally in Vegas, $644K, Salimbene nearly $398 and Turner $294K.


Event 37 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1330 entrants

Despite this one having only 2 players left as opposed to the 3 in Event 34, this one took a lot longer to sort out as Eric Baldwin slogged it out with Ian Steinman. The former had the lead at the start of the day, and no matter what he did, Steinman never could close the gap and Baldwin finished the job when his AJ cracked Steinman's pocket Kings.


Event 39 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 3 of 3, 908 entrants

A loooooooong FT, over 12 hours of it, and Preston Lee came out on top. He beat Corey Dodd after over 120 hands of heads-up, and Anthony Reategui finished third.

The only Brit at the FT, Endrit Geci, was the first elimination of the day and picked up $15180.


Event 40 - $2500 Mixed Big Bet Event, 7 game mix, Day 2 of 3

Scott Bohlman entered Day 3 with a massive heads-up, but he doubled up several short stacks, and by the time it was 3-handed with Ryan Hughes and Daniel Weinmann, the stacks were comparitively balanced.

After a break, Bohlman won a big hand of triple draw to get more or less back to where he started, and never looked back.

He eliminated Wienman, and then not much later saw off two-time bracelet holder Hughes.


Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 596 entries

Nineteen players are left standing, with Matt Woodward leading the way, ahead of Robert Nehorayan and Matt Russell

A few bracelet holders are still involved, Kevin Song, Matt Grapenthien and Benjamin Scholl, whose previous win was also in a limit hold'em event.

There was just one UK player in the cash, Warren Colman, from Chigwell, who took 87th spot for a min-cash of $2246.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 230 entries

Once late reg and re-entries were taken into account, a decent 230 x $25K had been taken and most of it entered into the prizepool.

Thirty five players go on to Day 3, with a 3-hour period of mind-numbingly dull hand-for-hand play starting 3 off the money as some tables were perceived to be slow playing.

Ben Yu chipped up during that period, sufficiently so that he now holds the chip lead ahead of Jason Koon and late entrant Ryan Tosoc.

Defending champion James Calderaro is among the survivors, as is the winner of the ME 20 years ago baby (Scotty Nguyen), Jason Mercier, Robert (but not Michael) Mizrachi and one Brit, Adam Owen.


Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1248 entrants

Just under 300 remain, with 188 to get paid so we're still some way off the bubble.

The chip lead is in the hands of Ashwin Sarin, with Steve Foutty and Josh Bergman second and third overnight.

Harry Lodge sits just inside the top 50 as top Brit, with several other GB names through including a couple of names familiar to former Sky Poker TV regulars, James Rann and Sam Razavi.

Others through include Valentin Vornicu, Jake Schwarts, Ismael Bojang and Aditya Agarwel (sitting next to each other in 12th-15th), Chino Rheem, David "Bakes" Baker, Taylor Paur, Faraz Jaka and Tony Dunst.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 100 entries so far

As we have 100 entries on day 1, it's easy to calculate that 41% of the players bagged up chips at the end of the day.

Luke Schwartz sits just outside the top 3 which is made up of Michael Noori, Max Kruse and Christopher Kruk.

Benny Glaser and Stuart Rutter are both still involved as are Eli Elezra, Farzad Bonyadi (after his mother won a bracelet yesterday), Todd Brunson, Mike Matusow, JC Tran, and making her 2018 WSOP début, Vanessa Selbst.


To Start Today
A busy day today!
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), 2 Day Event
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), 3 Day Event
Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event
plus Flight D of Event 6, The Giant.