WSOP 2018

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There's a sentence few ever expected to see in a WSOP event......




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

[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

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

I got 1,2448 @ the Wynn Wednesday lunch n forget to ask in nugget last night

[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

I got 1,2448 @ the Wynn Wednesday lunch n forget to ask in nugget last night

ok I just realised you are talking about Sterling...

My mate went to the currency exchange place I mentioned a few posts above - just bit north of the Wynn and was happy with the rate and the service.

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There's a sentence few ever expected to see in a WSOP event......




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

 

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

Robert Nehorayan came from second at the end of Day 2 to finish alone on the table at the end of Day 3.

With the $173K first prize, Nehorayan almost tripled his biggest previous biggest cash achieved 11 years ago when he finished 146th in the Main Event.

His final victim, Kevin Song, won his only bracelet 21 years ago (when Tikay was a lad) and David Gee ended third.

The final table were all American except for Oleg Chebotarev, the Russian finishing 7th.


Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries

Event 42 has reached a final table, and another WSOP veteran is well in contention, 1998 ME winner Scotty Nguyen. Scotty baby leads defending event champion James Calderaro and Shaun Deeb.

Last UK representative, Adam Owen, finished 30th for $41K.


Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1248 entrants

Two days down, one (at least) to go with 34 players coming back to fight for the bracelet.

Seth Davies is the chip leader, closely followed by Jeff Hakim and Javier Fernandez, with a distinct gap to the rest of the field.

James Rann is still running well, just outside the top 10, while there are a number of former bracelet holders still in - last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, David Peters, Ryan Laplante & Andreas Klatt.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 109 entries

Nine Day 2 entries boosted the field to 109, with 13 of them making Day 3.

Michael Noori was at or near the top of the chip standings most of the day, and ended it with a sizeable lead over Christopher Kruk and Randy Ohel.

Farzad Bonyadi is still alive trying to match his mother's bracelet a few days ago, and another former bracelet holder Calvin Anderson (one of the Day 2 entrants) is still there too, albeit with a shortish stack.

No Brits, Luke Schwartz's position two off the money being the best the UK could get.



Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 1 of 2, 1712 entrants

Fast and furious action meant just 41 players will come back for the second and final day of Event 45.

Steven Wolansky bagged the biggest stack with 620K chips ahead of Mackinnon's 532K and Michael Wang's 335K.

Elliott Peterman is the highest ranked Brit in 10th, while Matthew Hunt, Conor Beresford and Andrew Tang are clustered around the high 20s.

Others include two men who've had deep runs in the ME - Joseph Cheong (3rd, 2010) and Martin Staszko (3rd 2011) and three well known female players - Kathy Liebert, Kelly Minkin and Esther Taylor.


Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 1 of 3, 402 entries

152 of the 402 navigated a day of potenial split pots, aiming for Tikay's favourites, "Scoopio".

Sergio Ramirez collected the largest Day 1 stack, with only Eric Rodawig anywhere near him in terms of chips.

Paul Jackson has a decent stack and lies in 32nd, and the only other Brits through are the West Country duo of Ben Dobson and Robert Price

2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem has been relatively quiet in recent years, but has made it through Day 1, as has Daniel Negreanu, Kate Hoang, Julien Martini, Robert Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, Perry Friedman, and Barry Greenstein.


Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day Event

The online PLO event went to Matthew Mendez who collected $135K for over 15 hours work.

The only non-American on the FT, Marton Czuczor was second and Anthony Zinno third.

Scott Clements was multi-tasking this event plus the mixed high/low event above, he busted that short of the money but finished 18th in the online event for $4451 to at least make some profit on the day.


Flight D of Event 6, The Giant, 1167 entrants

The fourth attempt of qualifying for the later stages of the Giant saw 63 players book their ticket.

Duy Ho is a nice short name with a nice big stack, and Ian Pelz isn't that bad either. Alice Sicconi holds third place.

Four British players qualified, Andrew Wilson, Katie Swift, Michael Bucher and the seemingly omnipresent Adam Owen.

One semi-notable player through is the 12th-placed finisher from last year's ME, Richard Dubini from Argentina.

The Day 2 for this event is next Saturday, 30th June.


To Start Today
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event

[Simon Galloway]

1.24 sounds predictably bad. 1.32 readily available in London so $80 extra per £ thousand to figure out if it was worth a detour to collect

[Omm]

Is there a better feeling than washing your hands and forearms in the break of a tournament, getting them nice and dry and then putting anti bacterial lotion on them, around your wrist and up your forearms. Lovely Stuff.

[4KSuited]

1.24 sounds predictably bad. 1.32 readily available in London so $80 extra per £ thousand to figure out if it was worth a detour to collect

I believe Sam Razavi is looking to offload some of his $$$ for £££. Pretty sure you'll get spot rate, Simon. He's usually easily accessible via Messenger. Of course it means going to LV with your £s, but it may work for you.

[Jamier-Host]

Is there a better feeling than washing your hands and forearms in the break of a tournament, getting them nice and dry and then putting anti bacterial lotion on them, around your wrist and up your forearms. Lovely Stuff.

I'm going with yes.

[Omm]

Is there a better feeling than washing your hands and forearms in the break of a tournament, getting them nice and dry and then putting anti bacterial lotion on them, around your wrist and up your forearms. Lovely Stuff.

I'm going with yes.

 

[Simon Galloway]

1.24 sounds predictably bad. 1.32 readily available in London so $80 extra per £ thousand to figure out if it was worth a detour to collect

I believe Sam Razavi is looking to offload some of his $$$ for £££. Pretty sure you'll get spot rate, Simon. He's usually easily accessible via Messenger. Of course it means going to LV with your £s, but it may work for you.

No good to me this year ;'(


I thought I used to have it set up quite nicely.  Skrill USD to Citibank London USD, to Citibank LV USD to collection in hand.  $1 in and $1 out.  But then the banking system decided to put a stop to all that.

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Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entries

12 months ago, Ben Yu beat Shaun Deeb heads-up to win the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw event. The two double bracelet holders clashed again here with the High Roller PLO bracelet at stake, and this time Deeb got his revenge.

The $1.4 million prize is by far Deeb's highest ever cash, beating his previous highest of $318K (although he did once win a seat to the $1million One Drop in a satellite).

Former ME winner Scotty Nguyen was third, James Calderado 4th and Jason Koon 5th.

By running this deep, neither Yu nor Deeb could compete for that $10K 2-7 Triple Draw this year, more of that anon.


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

As suspected, this one wasn't done and dusted within the regulation 3 days and 6 players will come back to fight for the win on Day 4.

Chris Ferguson holds a large chip lead overnight, almost double the stack of Israel's Timur Margolin.

The rest of the FT isn't too shabby either - Ismael Bojang, Michael Marder, Dylan Linde & Ryan Laplante.

As briefly mentioned last night, James Rann was unlucky to bust in 23rd place for a little over $15K.


Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 109 entries

He'd never played a 2-7 Triple Draw tournament before, but it must surely be Nicholas Seiken's favourite game now!

Having only previously played the format in mixed-games, he got the better of another mixed-games name, Randy Ohel heads-up, with Kristijonas Andrulis third.

Behind them, Farzad Bonyadi's quest to follow his mother in winning a 2018 bracelet finished in 4th, Matt Glantz was 5th and top Brit, Jason Gray (who I missed in yesterday's roundup), was 6th ($46K)


Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 2 of 2, 1712 entrants

Just seven hours of Day 2 action needed, and the denoument came in a hurry as Spaniard Martin Prats Garcia knocked out all the last 5 opponents in just 14 hands.

First he came from behind to bust Gregory Worner, then his A-10 dominated Mark Schluter's 10-8 which never improved. Shortly afterwards he picked up A-K and was able to call Michael Wang's shove with pocket threes, a King on the flop sealing the elimination, and heads-up with Matthew Hunt lasted just 3 hands.

Hunt raised and took the first hand pre-flop, Garcia shoved with 9-5 on the second hand with Hunt calling with A-2, neither improved and Hunt doubled up and then on the third hand, it got all the way to the river before the chips went in, the board being 5-4-7-9-8 with 3 diamonds. Hunt had 10-6 for a 7-card straight, but Garcia had the diamonds and it was all over.

That's at least the third runner-up finish for British players this Series, to go along with 2 bracelets and several other very deep runs.


Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries

Fifteen players survive after Day 2 of this one, all guaranteed at least $7K for their troubles.

Ian Shaw doesn't have a ton of recorded cashes, with just 2 WSOP scores and 4 in total according to Hendon Mob, but the Mexico resident is top dog after Day 2

Tyler Groth sits in second after eliminating Daniel Negreanu and Colombia's Daniel Ospina makes a 1-3 for Latin America.

Hani Awad won this very event two years ago and is in with a chance of a repeat, and other bracelet holders Cyndy Violette, Brendan Taylor and Eric Rodawig are also in the hunt for more jewellery.

Two GB names took some cash home, Paul Jackson was the penultimate Day 2 elimnation for 17th place and nearly $6K while Robert Price went out in 34th for $4577.



Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)

The first flight of the Monster Stack is in the books with 723 players through to Sunday's Day 2.

The 1A chip leader is midlander Kfir Ivgi who has been picking up cashes across the UK for a few years but only collected his first US cash a few days ago in a Rio Daily Deepstack.

With over 700 players through, I'm not going to list all the GB qualifiers, but they do include Daniel Corbett, Ben Farrell, Samuel Welbourne, Michael Kane, John Eames, Simon Deadman, Jerome Bradpiece & Paul Newey


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 439 entries so far

Already up on last year's field size, with of course late reg still open with just under half the field bagging chips at the end of the night.

Ryan Hughes holds the lead ahead of Majid Yahyaei and Veselin Karakitukov.

Ben Lamb made the FT of last year's Main Event (and won a $10K PLO tournament at the Aria a few days ago) and he's carried that form through here lying 4th overnight.

Phillip Mighall and Stephen Chidwick have both bagged top-20 stacks, Richard Gryko is inside the Top 50 while Alex Lindop is nursing a smaller stack.

A few names I've picked out - brothers Michael (11th) and Robert (38th) Mizrachi, Mike Leah, Brandon Shack-Harris, Sylvain Loosli and Eoghan O'Dea plus a guy with a long name if not a big name, Veerachai Vongxaiburana


To Start Today
Event 50 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event

plus another starting flight of the $565 Giant PLO.

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

Depending on which WSOP update you believe, Timur Margolin has become either the eighth or ninth player from Israel to win a WSOP gold bracelet.

On the extra Day 4, Ryan Laplante and Dylan Linde busted early before a action-packed session of 4-handed play took place. A number of double-ups occured with all four players being the ones at risk at one point or another.

Margolin eventually got the better of Chris Ferguson, and then Michael Marder, leaving him heads up with Ismael Bojang. More swings and swongs (copyright T Kendall 2005) before Israel got the better of Germany with Margolin taking $507K and Bojang $313K.



Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 2 of 3, 402 entries

Coming back from an 8:1 chip lead heads-up, David Broookshire added a WSOP bracelet to a circuit ring beating Brandon Taylor heads-up

The key hand was a Stud hand where Brookshire already had the low end tied up and filled a flush on 7th street to scoopio (copyright T Kendall 2006). After that he moved relentless onwards and less than an hour later the win (and $214K) was his.

The Latin-American duo of Daniel Ospina and Ian Shaw finished third and fourth.


Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 5, total of 6260 entries

What's that coming over the hill? It's another starting flight of the Monster Stack.

Jeffrey Trudeau isn't a member of Canada's politicial first family but a poker player from Florida and he bagged the biggest 1B stack. Shalev Halfa completed a good day for Israel and is lying second and Sami Ruston third.

Some GB qualifiers among the 1362 through - Ben Jackson, Marc Foggin, Dan Laming, Damien Le Goff, Stephen Chidwick, Steven Watts, Stuart Rutter, Steven Warburton and James Rann. Oh and someone by the name of Natterley (copyright T Kendall 2007) Bromley

With just a week to the Main Event, 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan is looking to add to his 2 FTs already this summer and he's got lots of chips here.


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far

Down to 37 and despite and up-and-down day, Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes is back in the lead just in time to bag up at the end of Day 2.

Rep Porter lies in second and William Kopp third. Others still in include Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Laplante, Anton Morgenstern and Mike Leah.

Richard Gryko appears to be the only British name through, despite losing a huge hand to Hughes.

One hand that had people taking notice was a confrontation between Brandon Shack-Harris and Joe Hachem, the Aussie who flopped Aces full, yet was behind to Shack-Harris' flopped quads. As live poker isn't fixed, Hachem didn't improved and was busto (copyright T Kendall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014....)


Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 389 entrants

Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.

He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.

Adam Owen hasn't had a mention today (until now), he's 6th overnight and Benny Glaser 11th but they appear to be the only 2 Brits.

Julien Martini won Event 4 (seems like ages ago now) but he's involved with this one as are Shaun Deeb and John Hennigan (currently 1st and 2nd in the Player of the Year race), two former razz winners (Max Pescatori and Ted Forrest) and multiple-bracelet winners such as Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Cantu, Chris Bjorin and Barry Greenstein.


Event 11 $365 Giant PLO.

The penultimate flight saw 33 more names guarantee progression to day 2. Heroico Aguiluz was the hero of the day and was the chip leader with Aussie Daniel Laidlaw and Argentinian Gonzalo Mercade showing better form than their countries World Cup teams in second and third.

Not many recognisable names among the 33, but Matt Stout and Men Nguyen do appear, and so does Linda Iwaniak who has added another cash to her FT in the super seniors event last week.


To Start Today
Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event, $500 Bounties
Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, 3 Day Event

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Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 5, total of 6260 entries

A little over 250 players will return form Day 3 of the Monster Stack, with a double-bracelet winner, Steve Billirakis, in pole position.

He has a lead over Tommy Nguyen and James Stewart, with in 4th place and marked as GB, Raul Manzanares Lozano, who may be one of a group of Spanish players living in the UK.

Daniel Corbett, Robert Heidorn, Jose Auslander, Steven Watts, Richard Pearson, Dean Hutchison are also still involved, all of whom have $5140 locked up and still a dream of first prize of just over a million dollars.


Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 476 entries so far

Another event where the first prize is just over a million dollars but this one is a) a lot closer to the end and b) a much bigger buy-in, so the 6 players who've made sure the tournament goes into a unscheduled 4th day have already secured themselves $157K.

Remember yesterday I said Day 1 chip leader Ryan Hughes was also Day 2 chip leader? Well he's slipping. He's only second at the end of Day 3 behind Brandon Shack-Harris and ahead of Loren Klein.

Last Brit standing was Richard Gryko who went out in 16th spot with a slip for $34K to take to the payout desk.


Event 50 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 389 entrants

Woth players sich as Adam Owen, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Kevin Iacofano among the final 9, it may surprise some to know there's not a single bracelet holder among them.

Iacofano is chip leader, with Michael McKenna and Thomas Taylor second and third.

Shalom. That's not a reference to yet another successful run by an Israeli player, but the surname of Victor Shalam who is top razzer after Day 1.

He leads Richard Sklar, John Beringer and 115 other hopefuls into Day 2.

Benny Glaser finished 44th for $2471 as the only other GB player to cash.


Event 51 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, $500 Bounties, 1982 entries

With a slight increase in entries above 12 months ago, tbe bubble burst on the last hand of Day 1 so all 298 remaining players have guaranteed themselves $1415 plus any bounties they may accrue.

We have a British name at the top of the chip listings - Alex Whitenstall from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His 198K chips is 20K more than nearest challenger Quyen Hoang and third placed Samuel Miller.

Another British player, Matthew Hunt from Salisbury is also inside the Top 20, while lower down are Aaron Woodcock, Gaurav Assomull, Steven MOrris, Adam Daniel, Oliver Biles, Michael Richardson, Chun Yam, Marc Foggin (another one for Newcastle), Raul Martinez Requena (see xx reference above), Conor Beresford and Daniel Tang.

Not a lot of hugely recognisable names, Marvin Rettenmaier the easiest one to pick out.


Event 52 - $10K Limit Hold'em Championship, Day 1 of 3, 101 entries so far

Hmmm, limit Hold'em for $10K? I'll pass thanks but 100 of the WSOP's finest are up for it and surprisingly only 43 of them stick around for Day 2 (maybe to be joined by a few more late entrants).

Michael Moore leads with a decent advantage over Joao Vieira and Nick Schulman.

Benny Glaser can turn his hand to most variants and he's made Day 2, albeit with one of the smaller stacks.

Also still in, Anthony Zinno, Robert Mizrachi, Andre Akkari, Ismael Bojang and Jeff Lisandro, while the smallest Day 1 stack of all belongs to Juha Helppi.


To Start Today
Event 53 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, 3 Day Event including our very own Tikay.
Event 54 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event

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How about this for a lovely photo?

Spotted today in the Rio.......

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