WSOP 2018

[tikay]

The 10 finalists for the 2018 election to the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame have been announced:

Chris Bjorin
David Chiu
Mori Eskandani
Bruno Fitoussi
John Hennigan
Mike Matusow
Chris Moneymaker
David Oppenheim
Matt Savage
Huckleberry Seed

[Simon Galloway]

John Hennigan and David Oppenheim I assume would be fav?

[MC]

John Hennigan and David Oppenheim I assume would be fav?

Moneymaker?

[tikay]

Press Release by WSOP;


We will crunch numbers tomorrow, but here’s a quick look at 2018 WSOP Main Event numbers.

7,874 entries (2nd most ever)

$74,015,600 prize pool

$8.8 million for winner


For photo use, please credit: Joe Giron Photos/WSOP

2018 Main Event – By the Numbers – 49th Annual World Series of Poker


Total # of Entries:          7,874 (up 9% y-o-y; 2nd largest ever; largest since 2006)

Game:                            No Limit Texas Hold’em (Freeze out; no re-entry)

Entry Fee:                       $10,000

Net Prize Pool:               $74,015,600

Entries by Day:               1A: 925 (up 16%)
1B: 2,378 (up 10%)
1C: 4,571 (up 7%) (largest ever in one sitting)
2A: 659
2B: 1,801
2C: TBD

Players in the Money:      1,181

1st Place Prize:                $8,800,000
2nd Place Prize:               $5,000,000
3rd Place Prize:               $3,750,000
4th Place Prize:               $2,825,000
5th Place Prize:               $2,150,000
6th Place Prize:               $1,800,000
7th Place Prize:               $1,500,000
8th Place Prize:               $1,250,000
9th Place Prize:               $1,000,000


1,181st place pays (last slot paid):                   $15,000

Last Year’s Key Stats
Defending Champion:     Scott Blumstein, New Jersey
2017 1st Place Prize:        $8,150,000
2017 Net Prize Pool:       $67,844,400
2017 No. of Entries:        7,221

2018 WSOP Overall:       The Main Event is Event #65.  There are 78 events scheduled this year, with 13 events remaining.  Through 65 events, there have been 109,463 entries and $213,425,143 in prize money distributed, both on pace to be 49-year highs. (120,995/$231,010,874 set in 2017)

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[redsimon]

Press Release by WSOP;


We will crunch numbers tomorrow, but here’s a quick look at 2018 WSOP Main Event numbers.

7,874 entries (2nd most ever)

$74,015,600 prize pool

$8.8 million for winner


For photo use, please credit: Joe Giron Photos/WSOP

2018 Main Event – By the Numbers – 49th Annual World Series of Poker


Total # of Entries:          7,874 (up 9% y-o-y; 2nd largest ever; largest since 2006)

Game:                            No Limit Texas Hold’em (Freeze out; no re-entry)

Entry Fee:                       $10,000

Net Prize Pool:               $74,015,600

Entries by Day:               1A: 925 (up 16%)
1B: 2,378 (up 10%)
1C: 4,571 (up 7%) (largest ever in one sitting)
2A: 659
2B: 1,801
2C: TBD

Players in the Money:      1,181

1st Place Prize:                $8,800,000
2nd Place Prize:               $5,000,000
3rd Place Prize:               $3,750,000
4th Place Prize:               $2,825,000
5th Place Prize:               $2,150,000
6th Place Prize:               $1,800,000
7th Place Prize:               $1,500,000
8th Place Prize:               $1,250,000
9th Place Prize:               $1,000,000


1,181st place pays (last slot paid):                   $15,000

Last Year’s Key Stats
Defending Champion:     Scott Blumstein, New Jersey
2017 1st Place Prize:        $8,150,000
2017 Net Prize Pool:       $67,844,400
2017 No. of Entries:        7,221

2018 WSOP Overall:       The Main Event is Event #65.  There are 78 events scheduled this year, with 13 events remaining.  Through 65 events, there have been 109,463 entries and $213,425,143 in prize money distributed, both on pace to be 49-year highs. (120,995/$231,010,874 set in 2017)

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Over $4 million rake MBN

[titaniumbean]

and toilets not fixed (for how many years now), cashier windows not open, terrible food options and break scheduling.

classic WSOP 

[Doobs]

and toilets not fixed (for how many years now), cashier windows not open, terrible food options and break scheduling.

classic WSOP 

Taking my daughter to ballet tonight, think I'd cope with the toilet queues.  To be fair, the seniors was likely worse.

Pretty surprising numbers given the doom and gloom around online poker.

[tonytats]

It never ceases to amaze me where people pull $10 k up from ?
Are they really all winners at poker ?
Some of the updates Ive read are amazingly bad plays / calls !

[tikay]

What a day for my laptop to have problems! I've had to dig the old one out of the loft, which itself has broken wi-fi and a dodgy keyboard to put some sort of report together.


Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 2 of 3 , $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

Day 2 saw the field reduced to 29 players with a number of familiar names amongst them.

Galen Hall is the chip leader, with the best Brit, Paul Vas Nunes close behind and Hunter Frey third.

Chris Moorman is also still there for the UK, and we also have 7-times bracelet winner Men Nguyen with a very playable stack.


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 133 entries so far

Chris Vitch's chances of repeating his win of 12 months ago in the equivalent event, and become a rare 3-in-3 successive years are increasing day-by-day, as he held on to his Day 1 chip lead.

Other bracelet holders still in include Brice Yockey, Scott Bohlman and Jesse Martin, but there's no British challenge as all 4 contenders fell by the wayside on Day 2, all before the cash bubble burst.


Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 2 of 3, 3250 entries

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi is still in with a great chance of adding this bracelet to the won at the other end of the entry-fee levels, the $50K Poker Players Championship.

He doesn't have the chip lead (that belongs to the almost unpronouceable Srinivas Balasubramanian ahead of Robert Ciccheli and Pete Arroyos but he does comeback with over 30BB on the 9-man FT. (although that will reduce soon after the start of play as there is only two minutes left in the level)


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1

It may not be the biggest buy-in, or the biggest field size, but it's still the Numero Uno event.

Day 1A is traditionally the smallest of the starting days, but the WSOP will be very happy with the 915 players who stumped up the $10K.

They included a number of former winners, 4 made it through (Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen, Eric Seidel & Joe McKeehen) while 3 didn't (the last 2 winners Scott Blumstein and Qui Nguyen, and Jerry Yang)

Timothy Lau navigated the day with the biggest stack ahead of another in the seemingly endless line of Nguyens, this time Truyen Nguyen second and Chris Fraser third.

With over 650 players making it though, there a lot of Brits amongst them so I'm only really touching the surface by mentioning Gavin Cochrane, Jason McConnon, Colin Guthrie, Charles Clark, Chuc Khuu, Scott Margereson, David Douglas and Jonathan Prested all in the top half, plus two names known here David Maudlin and James Rann a little further down.

These players will come back on Thursday for their Day 2.


To Start Today
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I'll try to fix my main machine before tomorrow...

[tikay]

Work/personal life schedules mean an early (and incomplete) update today

Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

Play has been halted wit 3 players unable to be split on what was supposed to be the final day.

Just as at the end of Day 2, Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.

Chris Moorman left the scene early on Day 3 after a Brit-on-Brit clash with Paul vas Nunes (23rd, $27661). PvN took exactly the same payout not much later when he bust in 17th


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far

Play is ongoing with an Dan Matsuzuki leading Scott Bohlman by about a 5:2 chip lead.

Chris Vitch's attempt at a repeat ended in 4th spot. He takes $108K, 3rd place Ken Aldridge $154K with the top two taking $364K and $225K respectively


Event 11 - $365 PLO Giant, Day 3 of 3, 3250 entries

No need for extra time here as this one is done and dusted.

Canadian Tim Andrew didn't get off to the best of starts - he overslept and missed the first 30 minutes of the FT. It all ended in rather a better fashion with him winning the bracelet and $116K.

Day 2 chip leader Srinivas Balasubramanian was the first to exit, losing three or four big hands in a row.

Michael Mizrachi's attempt for another bracelet foundered in 5th, leaving Andrew to finish off fellow Canadian Robert Ciccheli in third and Pete Arroyos heads-up.


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1

For the second day in a row, a sizeable increase on last year's numbers - 2378 entries and just under 1900 qualifiers.

The biggest stack was held by France's Smain Mamouni ahead of Samuel Bernabeu.

One player went out on the very first hand, it all went in pre-flop with Aces against Kings and there was a King on the flop to bust the aces.

I haven't got much time to look thorough the list of survivors, so just to pick out a few of the top British players - Tom Hall, Philip Ward, Richard Howe, Paul Fontan, Aeragan Arunan, Rhys Jones, Mark Hammond, Fraser MacIntyre, Richard Gryko, Antony Hallam, Charlotte Godwin, Ben Morrison and former bracelet winner Matthew Ashton.

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Event 62 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 3 of 3, $888,888 guarantee first prize, 8598 entries

No play in this one on Wednesday, play will resume tonight with 3 players left - Galen Hall has the chip lead, with Niels Herrogodts and Eduards Kudrjavcevs the othe two still in the running.


Event 64 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 141 entries so far

It took until 3:30am to split the final two, with Dan Matsuzuki finally getting the better of Scott Bohlman.


Event 65 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s

This year's Main is the second biggest in history, with 7874 players entering and 5940 making through the three day ones. This means the total prize pool is over $74m and the winner will collect $8.8m

The biggest stack on Day 1C belongs to French player Samuel Touil ahead of Peter Forsstrom from Atlanta, Georgia and Singapore's Bernhard Steiner.

Patrik Antonius had one of the top stacks for most of the day and despite dropping down a few spots did bag over 208K chips (the starting stack was 50K).

Some former ME winners made it through - Phil Hellmuth, Martin Jacobson, Jonathan Duhamel & Joe Cada but Chris Moneymaker (after doing the Shuffle Up & Deal honours) bowed out.

As for Brits, Martin Malone sits inside the top 10, while Chris DaSilva, Daniel McAulay, Robert Cowen, James Akenhead, William Overmire, Phillip Mighall, Dominic Cullen, Peter Linton, Ben Cade, Alan Findlay, Robert Sherwood, Thomas Cazayous, Ben Farrell, Ben Jackson, William Chattaway, Kafeel Jahangir, Alan Hayter and Waikiat Lee all bagged over 100K

The players from Day 1 A & B come back today, those surviving from 1C have a day off and will reconvene tomorrow.


To Start Today
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day event

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Mention of Pete Linton there in the Day 1C report, & I know many of you enjoy following Pete's adventures, so here's his stack;

Peter Linton Nottingham, , GB 123,100 Amazon / 454 / 2

[StuartHopkin]

Mention of Pete Linton there in the Day 1C report, & I know many of you enjoy following Pete's adventures, so here's his stack;

Peter Linton Nottingham, , GB 123,100 Amazon / 454 / 2

Bless Plinton <3

[Karabiner]

Mention of Pete Linton there in the Day 1C report, & I know many of you enjoy following Pete's adventures, so here's his stack;

Peter Linton Nottingham, , GB 123,100 Amazon / 454 / 2

Bless Plinton <3

Gooo PeteL 

[Jamier-Host]

It never ceases to amaze me where people pull $10 k up from ?
Are they really all winners at poker ?

Just disposable income most of the time I reckon. Plenty of people pile unnecessary cash into designer clothes, golf memberships/trips, fancy cars, luxury holidays, oversized houses or whatever. Some people chuck it at poker comps / gambling.