WSOP 2018

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As of 20 minutes ago (7am UK, 11pm Vegas), the Updates were showing James Akenhead with 2,400,000, comfortably within the top 15 of the 370 remaining.

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Main Event - Day 4 update

600-700

The 600s range include the only double ME winner, a couple of former November Niners, three Brits and a 5-time bracelet holder.
612 Johnny Chan
616 Jesse Sylvia
631 Amir Lehavot
641 Jonathan Tamayo
642 Allen Cunningham
652 William Chattaway
664 Christopher Wood
671 Chun Yam
685 Eugene Katchalov

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Richard Gryko going steady too on million plus

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Richard Gryko going steady too on million plus

Great news. I like Richard very much. He can be very intense, but once you cut through the outer layer he's a fascinating & very clever chap.

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Main Event - Day 4 update

501-600

At first I thought there was not too many notables in the 500s. Then I looked again. Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (532nd) was a 2013 November Niner, Manig Loeser (539th) is a regular in Super High Rollers, and Todd Brunson, Men Nguyen and Phil Ivey all went out within minutes of each other (541, 544 & 547th).

Three more British casualties. First Samuel Welbourne left the scene in 597th, followed by Robert Sherwood in 591st and a little while later, Fraser MacIntyre busted in 555th, by which time the payout was $23940.

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You are never drawing dead;

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Main Event - Day 4 update

So Day 4 ended with 310 players still in with a chance of winning the $8.8million first prize.

Barry Hutter was hovering around the top of the chip listings for most of the day and he ended it at the very top with nearly 5.6 million chips. Alexander Haro is the only other person with more than 5m and in third is Brian Altman with 4.8m

There is still a decent British contingent led by Daniel Tang of Salford in 19th spot, with former November Niner James Akenhead, Daniel Merrilees and Jonathon Prested all inside the Top 50 with over 2 million chips. Chris DaSilva, Phillip Mighall, Ben Jackson and Thomas Macdonald all have over 1 million while trailing at this point are Ludovic Geilich, Chris Moorman, Richard Gryko (the latter two being near the lead at one point), Rhys Jones, Gavin Cochrane and Ashley Locker while Scott Franklin is listed with just the 1 chip.

As already mentioned, Joe Cada is the only former winner still in, while names such as Benjamin Pollak, James Obst, Shaun Deeb, Cliff Josephy, Chino Rheem, Sylvain Loosli, Ivan Demidov, Antonio Esfandiari, Bruno Politano, Daniel Alaei, Kyle Julius, Chris Bjorin and Barbara Enright may be familiar to some of you.

To bring things completely up to date, eliminations between 311-400 included 2014 November Niner William Tonking, two Brits (Liv Boeree and Andrew Wilson) and the guy who sounds like he will do your handywork, no questions asked, 347th placed Cash Carpenter.

Update on the other events to follow.

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Other events

With all the spotlight on the main, the other events are taking a bit of a backseat.

Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 4 of 4, 1351 entrants

Longsheng Tan led Day 2, Day 3 and ended Day 4 as the bracelet winner and $323K richer.

Tan is a real estate agent, originally from Nanking in China but now resident in Vegas. This is his 4th cash of the year, and his first lifetime bracelet.

Second was Lanny Levine and Jayaram Kavoorchathoth third.


Event 67 - $1500 PLO Bounty (fixed $500 bounties), Day 3 of 3, 833 entries

Anthony Ireland had never won a bracelet before. He had never cashed at the WSOP before. In fact, he hadn't cash any live event before, so his first Hendon Mob entry is a very impressive one, for $141K.

He beat Matt O'Donnell heads up, with Canadian player Joon Park third.


Event 68 - The Little One For One Drop, $1000 + $111 NLH, Day 1B, 2215 entries so far

252 made it through day with the vowel-heavy trio of Jon Sataoen, Robert Lofaso and Ran Ilani taking the top three spots.

I was immediately drawn to 5th placed Kristofer Kneale when I saw he was from Cornwall, but unfortunately it is not the real Cornwall but Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. This leaves the top Brit as Bristol's Peter Akery with Adrian Gray, Jonathon Wong, Chun Yam, Luke Haward, Shola Akindele, Simon Deadman, Andrew Teng, Stavros Kalfas, Xizhe Yuan and Daniel Sodling also making Day 2.

Day 1C today.


Event 69 - $3K PLO 6-handed, Day 1 of 3, 901 entries

The 202 qualifiers for Day 2 are headed by South African Jarred Solomon, with German Dominik Nitsche and French player Romain Lewis close behind.

5th place sees the highest placed British player, Max Silver, but only four other Brits appear in the 202, Alex Lindop, Robert Cowen, Thomas Cazayous and Soner Osman.

Plenty of other well known players including Phil Galfond, Chance Kornuth, Daniel Negreanu, Robert Salaburu and Loren Klein.

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Main Event - Day 5 update

They're playing 5 and a half levels (i.e. 11 hours) to take the field to somewhere in the region of 81 players.

The opening exchanges of Day 5 haven't been kind to the Brits - we've lost Chris Moorman (273rd), Rhys Jones (263rd) & Ludovic Geilich (259th)

Some other victims in the 251-310 range - Chris Bjorin, Daniel Alaei, and two ex-Final Tablers of different eras Bruno Politano (2014) and Barbara Enright (1995)

The currrent payout level is a little under $43K.

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Main Event - Day 5 update

As it had to at some point, the rate of eliminations has slowed down.

We're down to 214 players, no drama for the Brits but it's been a bad last hour for Dutch players (3 gone) and Canadians (4 gone). Biggest name from this batch was the 2008 November Niner Chino Rheem.

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Play ended earlier than scheduled on Day 5 after a massive storm caused a power outage at The Rio.

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Main Event - Day 5 update

Overnight we've lost just over 100 more players, and the current field is made up of just 111.

We've lost some Bitish players - Scott Franklin 203rd, Ashley Locker 195th, Gavin Cochrane 193rd, James Akenhead 192nd, Richard Gryko 172nd (all at the $49335 payout level), Philip Mighall 146th, Ben Jackson 138th and Daniel Merrilees 125th (all for $57010)

2016 November Niner Cliff Josephy bust in 123rd, Antonio Esfandiari 132nd, last Irish player Nick Newport 157th.

So what's happening now? Nothing. There's been a problem with the electicity, and to quote wsop.com

"The lights in the Amazon Room here in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino have turned off. They partially came on for a moment, but then everything went dark again.

All hands are currently being completed on each table as the ESPN camera crews bring a spotlight around to tables with action so that it can be completed.

If the lighting doesn't return, the plan is to send the players home for the evening as per a Tournament Director."

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Good luck to Jonathan Prested "whollyflush" on here

in the last 100 of the main headed to day 6

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GL GL

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The WSOP Updates page is offline at present, so I can't check it, but it would be amazing if this were true;

The first well known player is in 10th spot, the only female player ever to reach the Main Event FT - Barbara Enright who finished 5th way back in 1995.



Barbara is 68.



 

I would.