WSOP 2018

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Not just online bots causing concern....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/02/las-vegas-workers-strike-automation-casinos?CMP=fb_gu

[Marky147]

MGM & Caesars appear to have placated the unions.

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MGM & Caesars appear to have placated the unions.

I'd hate to see Tikay lose his shit with a robot, for not putting the correct amount of sweetener in his latte.

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MGM & Caesars appear to have placated the unions.

I'd hate to see Tikay lose his shit with a robot, for not putting the correct amount of sweetener in his latte.

I'm all in favour of automation if it improves the current experience.

Tried to get me a latte in TWO different coffee shops yesterday, both of them in the same Hotel, & these were the queues.

I don't do queues, sod that.

For the sake of being fair, I won't name the Coffee Shop brand.

Click to see full-size image.

Click to see full-size image.

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Elio Fox Wins First Ever WSOP $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $393,693

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/05/elio-fox-wins-first-ever-wsop-10k-super-turbo-bounty-30952.htm

because i am short of spare time it would really be nice if people could post up British big cashes they see, big name winners, stories for the series etc

thanks

I have been able to solve that problem, & have agreed it with Tighty.

We have a chap Next Door who does really good & informative daily WSOP Updates.

I wrote to him & asked if I could C & P them here, & he readily agreed.

He puts a ton of work into these, so by way of a small favour, if any of you are football geeks, the link below is the site he runs, FCHD (Football Club History Database).

It's a labour of love, free to visit & packed with football stuff. Start with A-Z Index, & you'll be hooked for yonks.


http://fchd.info/


http://fchd.info/indexa-z.htm


It covers everything from A C Delco (Reserves) to Yorkshire Copper Tube Reserves, via all the big clubs, too.

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With the WSOP just days old, I'll C & P the first few days now, then do them daily from here on in.

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WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 566 entrants

Another large drop in entries (down 14% on top of last years 5% drop) in the traditional curtain-raiser, the casino employee's event.

13 players remain at the end of Day 1, none of whom have names that ring a bell although second placed Jordan Hufty is such a wonderful name I'll remember it in the future!

For the record, Jodie Sanders (from California) leads ahead of Hufty and Won Kim.

No surprise that there was no British cashes, in fact Italian Simone Ricci was the only European in the money, although I like to feel that 75th placed Sheyla Cornish has some Cornish ancestry!



Event 2 - $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 1, 243 entrants

Play is still ongoing with 3 players left, Elio Fox having 7m chips, Paul Volpe nearly 3m and Adam Adler 2m.

Former ME winner Joe Cada bowed out in 9th, and we had the first two British cashes of the Series, Talal Shakerchi finishing 17th for $14300 and Ben Heath 33rd for $10192, excluding any bounties they may have taken.



To Start Today
Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event
Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event

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WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 2 of 2, 566 entrants

I picked out Jordan Hefty solely because of his name yesterday, well perhaps I should have paid more attention to his poker too as he went from $1900 lifetime tourney winnings to about $64K by winning event 1.

He took four hours to dispose of Jodie Sanders heads-up, with Katie Kopp bowing out in third.


Event 2 - $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 1, 243 entrants

The first bracelet actually went to the winner of Event 2, and it was a semi-familiar name who won it, with almost $400K to take home as well.

2011 WSOP Europe Main Event winner Elio Fox was the lucky guy, moving into the lead when a double elimination took it from 5-handed to 3-handed. With the super turbo format meaning stacks were never very big on the FT, he had more than half the chips in play and eliminated Paul Volpe in 3rd and Adam Adler (who did briefly have the lead in heads-up play) in 2nd.


Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day 1 of 3, 363 entrants

The players were split on to 50 tables, with the winner of each table making Day 2 and a min-cash of $6302.

Two players from the FT of last year's equivalent event, Taylor Paur & Jan-Eric Schwippert. There will be 10 5-handed tables on Day 2, and Paur has both Phil Hellmuth and Eli Elezra on his so there will be plenty of attention on that table.

Two ME winners, Joe Cada and Joe McKeehen are still alive, along with a former November Niner Kenny Hallaert, and a few British players, Jack Maskill, Adam Owen, Harry Lodge and Chris Moorman. There is a Frank Williams still in too, but it's probably not the Formula 1 team man!


Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, 911 entrants

Just under a third of the players have made Day 2, but with only 137 getting paid there's still a lot of poker to play before a min-cash can be secured.

Dao Bac is the chip leader, ahead of Nick Guagenti & Pamela McPeak, and sitting nicely inside the Top 10 is former star of "Call My Bluff" on BBC2, Frank Muir. No, strike that, he's been dead 20 years, must be a different Frank Muir.

There's only one Benny Glaser as far as I know, the winner of this event 2 years ago and he's managed to survive Day 1, as has John Racener, Robert Mizrachi, Shaun Deeb and Mike Matusow.

Others shown as British on the chip counts - Xunen Zheng, Philip Long, Ronan Nally and Ben Dobson.




To Start Today
Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller
Event 6 - $365 The Giant NHL with subsequent Day 1 Flights on next 4 Fridays

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No bracelets decided today


Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 3 of 3, 363 entrants

We're down to a FT (10-handed) with a 20% chance of a UK winner as both Harry Lodge & Jack Maskill won their second table to qualify for the final.

It's also a 20% chance a former ME winner takes home the bracelet as the two Joes, Cada and McKeehen are also still involved.

One other former bracelet winner, Anthony Reatugui is at the table, with each of them guaranteed $14K, and prizes rising until the winner takes $226 at the end of the tournament.



Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 911 entrants

Exactly three dozen remain in the first four-card event of the series, with Brandon Ageloff the chip leader ahead of Matt Woodward and a player very recognisable on these shores, Chris Bjorin.

No Brits unfortunately (Benny Glaser had the deepest run, 63rd for $3526).

Besides Bjorin, three other former bracelet holders ramin - Jason Lester, Mike Wattel & Mike Leah, plus there is also 2016 November Niner, Jerry Wong.


Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 1 of 4, 97 entries so far

Players can still use their single re-entry so the total entries may creep up towards three figures.

Elio Fox may well be story of the series if he keeps on playing like this. He won Event 2, and has used some his winnings there to good effect as he is the Day 1 chip leader in the High Roller.

Justin Bonomo has been on a heater in Super High Rollers this year and he's got a decent stack to take forward as have a couple of Brits, one of whom has been a regular in these updates in recent years (Stephen Chidwick) and the other of whom I know very little (Aymon Hata). Talal Shakerchi takes forward a considerably smaller stack.

One former ME winner I can see is still active, Ryan Reiss along with the likes of Jason Mercier, Dominik Nitsche, Isaac Haxton, Adrian Matoes, Christian Vogelsang, Bryn Kenney etc. Daniel Negreanu isn't among them, he tried both his bullets but aimed both wide of the target so he's out.


Event 6 - $365 The Giant NHL with subsequent Day 1 Flights on next 4 Fridays

1289 players played the first of five opening flights for the $565 Giant (which the WSOP always spells in capitals, I'm not going to follow that convention unless they prove it's an acronym).

Justin Sternberg leads just 80 qualifiers for the later stages, the man from Idaho one of only 2 players above a million chips (Danny Nguyen is second and Elvis Toomas is third with exactly a million).

Matt Affleck is probably the best known of the 80 after bracelet winners Phil Laak, David ODB Baker & Allyn Shulman busted.

194 players were said to have made at least a min-cash but there isn't a full list to see if any UK names cashed, but we do know that Adam Owen was one of the last few to depart before the bubble (wearing a Montreal Impact shirt. What's wrong with a Folkestone Invicta shirt Adam?)

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Event 3 - $3K Shootout NL, Day 3 of 3, 363 entrants

The $3K shootout is shot out, and in favour of the 2009 ME winner, Joe Cada. It's his third bracelet overall, and comes with a cheque for $226K.

The two Brits at the FT went out in succession, Harry Lodge bowing out in 5th followed shortly after by Jack Maskill

Another former Main winner Joe McKeehan went out in third when his 4-bet shove with pocket sixes proved to be badly timed, as Cada was sitting behind him with pocket kings.

There was some ups and downs in heads up between Cada and Sam Phillips, but the pivotal hand saw Cada this time with the sixes against a Phillips shove with A4 and the pair held. This left Phillips with left than 2BB and next hand it was all over.


Event 4 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 911 entrants

We have our first over-run of the series as a ten-hour day couldn't whittle the 36 players down to a winner.

Four players remain with French player Julien Martini the overnight leader ahead of Kate Hoang who has Final tabled PLO/8 events three years running now.

The other two players are William Kopp and Mack Lee, but they enter Day 4 with just 2 big bets each in their stacks.


Event 5 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 2 of 4, 105 entries

A couple of re-entries and a few latecomers (including one Phil Ivey) pushed the entry total above 3 figures, with just 10 players battling through to Round 3.

Five of the 10 are former bracelet winners, including leader Nick Petrangelo, and second placed Elio Fox who won Event 2 just a few days ago.

Two Brits remain - Stephen Chidwick (3rd) & Aymon Hata (6th) and three other Euros - Fedor Holz, Adrian Mateos and Andreas Eiler making this a very strong group of 10.

They will likely not have a long day today, they are playing down from 10 to 6 then halting for the FT to be on Day 4.


Event 7 - $565 Colossus NLH, 5 Day Event, including 6 starting flights over 3 days - flights A & B today

Two flights of the Colussus saw 84 and 55 players progressing to Day 2 on Tuesday.

From Day 1A, former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel is the biggest name to make it through with Luke Brereton and Markus Kuhnen showing as from GB and bottom placed Andrew Hindmarsh showing as being from Blaydon, Estonia where I don't believe they have ever held famous races.

Later on in flight 1B it was an American 1-2-3 (Christopher Haydt/Patrick Roteman/Kevin Eyster) with Barry Shulman and former November Niner Scott Montgomery among the qualifiers with Andrei Moldovan from Hertforshire sitting nicely in 6th spot.


Event 8 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 321 entries

Chips were flying in all directions when Phil Ivey entered this in the last couple of minutes of late reg. He lost most of his starting stack of 12500 to be down to 100 at one point, then embarked on a series of double-ups and better to get back to 6000 chips before his luck eventually ran out.

Of those playing a more patient game, 95 bagged up chips at the end of the day with George Trigeorgis (does that mean George Three-Georges?) ahead of David Eichhorn (throw in the annual remark about how few names have double-h's in them) and Jesse Hampton

Some well known mixed-game players in contention too - Brian Hastings, Billy Baxter (only Ivey has more non-Hold'em bracelets than the 78 year old Baxter), James Obst, Scott Siever & Tom McCormick.

Brits? Not a lot, headed by Jon Shoreman in 25th, the omnipresent Adam Owen 55th and Gerald Ringe in 85th.

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So that brings it up to date, & I'll post these daily from now on in.

[typhoon13]

MGM & Caesars appear to have placated the unions.

I'd hate to see Tikay lose his shit with a robot, for not putting the correct amount of sweetener in his latte.

I'm all in favour of automation if it improves the current experience.

Tried to get me a latte in TWO different coffee shops yesterday, both of them in the same Hotel, & these were the queues.

I don't do queues, sod that.

For the sake of being fair, I won't name the Coffee Shop brand.

Click to see full-size image.

Click to see full-size image.

I find the bottom pic very disturbing

[tonytats]

Both photos from the nugget the top one is by the Carson tower lifts and valet area
Second one over on Fremont st exit mid way along the nugget
Do I win a sticky bun ?

[TightEnd]

Justin Bonomo
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@JustinBonomo

Ok so you might not believe this, but I just won the Aria $25k high roller again. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.

[Doobs]

Justin Bonomo
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@JustinBonomo

Ok so you might not believe this, but I just won the Aria $25k high roller again. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.

wow, didn't realise he had won it on the 1 June too.  Didn't he just disappear for a couple of years not that long ago, or am I imagining that?