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« Reply #345 on: July 13, 2019, 07:02:26 PM »


Main Event from 28 players down to 17:

Event 73 - $10K MAIN EVENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NLH, Day 7 of 10, 8569 entries
The Final Table is set

Day 7 of the Main Event, sometimes the slowest day in poker, is over and we have our 2019 Final Nine, and there is a British player among the nine. More of that later.

Let's get back to where I had given the details of various exits, and start with

28. Yuri Dzivielevski. The Brazilian pro and recent bracelet winner three bet from the big blind with AK, unfortunately for him, the original raiser, Chris Barton had pocket aces and all the money went in. There was a King on the flop to give Dzivielevski some hope, but that was as good as it got for him and he was gone.

This led to a ladder to $324K and a full three-table redraw. Marchington was chip leader with 56m, Timothy Su had nearly 40m and Duey Duong and Hossein Ersan each had nearly 38m. The other GB player left in, Oliver Bithell was the short stack, but soon got a double up leaving him still in a perilous position, but at least a little wiggle room, but not for long.

27 Oliver Bithell. Went with AQ and was called by Su with pocket sixes. He gained some outs with a flop of 8J9 and a few more with a second eight on the turn but a 5 on the river ended his involvement in the Main Event.

Within a few minutes:
26. Zack Kroeper. Three bet with A9, but Marcelo Cudos understandably snap called with Aces. Koerper picked up a flush draw on the turn but it didn't come and the field was down to 25.

25. Hiroki Nawa. He'd been a short stack for some time, found A9 good enough to go with and was called by Preben Stokkan in the BB with K8 and an eight on the board sealed the Japanese player's fate

After the dinner break, within a couple of hands

24. Johnathan Dempsey. Another three bet shove, this time with A10, called by Dario Sanmartino with pocket jacks. A 9-high board saw Dempsey hand in his microphone and pick up a payout slip.

23. Marcelo Cudos. Unlike the other bustout players above, when the money went in he was ahead with pocket jacks against Ensan's AQ, but a Q on the board saw the lead change hands and the last South American player was out.

22. Nicholas Danias. He shoved twice in quick succession without getting any callers, but the third time he got two. Danias had AK, Alex Livingston had A10 of clubs while the biggest of the three stacks, Austin Lewis had pocket 10s. All three players were interested in the 8JQ flop with two clubs, the turn was a blank but the King of Hearts on the river gave Livingston Broadway, a near triple-up and sent Danias to the rail and put a severe dent in Lewis' stack.

Michael Niwinski needed a double up and got it with AK against Barton's AJ to give himself a bigger stack just before blinds went up to 250K/500K.

Robert Heidorn and Mihai Manole played several hands against each other before the German resident in London doubled up through Manole and left the Romanian short.

21. Preben Stokkan. The former chip leader had 22BB and after a raise from Zhen Cai, shoved with AK. Cai had pocket tens and picked up a set on the flop to leave Stokkan drawing almost dead, and then actually dead a few seconds later.

On the main feature table, Ensan had won several hands and became the first player over 100m after winning a huge hand against Marchington, the British player trying a 25m chip bet bluff which Ensan snap-called.

20. Warwick Marzikinian. The Aussie had been very busy but was down to about 15BB when he went with pocket twos, Marchington calling him with AK. An all even flop of 6 8 10 saw Marzikinian stay ahead, but an ace on the turn saw the Brit take the lead in the hand and there was no two on the river to save Marzikinian, Marchington getting back some of the chips he'd lost four hands ago.

Kevin Maahs had been comparitively quiet and his stack dribbled down a bit, but found a double-up against Niwinski with the classic race situation of AK against QQ, in true Barry Greenstein style spiking an ace on the river.

19. Duey Duong. Duong was gone, gone, gone in a rare all-in that went all the way to the river for the chips to go in. The board was 3J2-7-8 when Su shoved for 37m chips, Duong called with an overpair, but Su had hit a set of twos and Duong's ME was over.

Another ladder to $400K, but in a hand on the other at the same time

18. Mihai Manole. Went all in with AJ, called by Garry Gates who had Manole covered (had to get that one in once) but the shortie dominated Gates with AJ vs A10. Not for long as Gates hit a 10 on the flop and despite Manole picking up Broadway outs with a Q on the flop, he had to walk away $400K the richer.

Another re-draw at two tables, the top stacks being Ensan 120m, Su 105m, and Milos Skrbic 47m. Marchington was in 4th spot at this point.
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« Reply #346 on: July 13, 2019, 09:29:03 PM »

Main event from 17 players down to the Final Table.


With just 4 hands of the new tables being set

17. Enrico Rudelitz. The second shortest stack at the time found Pocket Kings and of course he only had one option, called by Sammartino with AQ. A 2-3-4 flop gave the Italian outs to the wheel, but he didn't need them as an ace came on the flop.

On the other table maybe a minute later

16. Austin Lewis. If Rudelits had been the second shortest stack at the redraw, Lewis was the shortest, and three-bet shoved with K10. Heidorn took his time but eventually called with A8, and in a cruel manner Lewis made a pair on the flop (KQ4), and a second pair on the flop (10) but Heidorn got his runner-runner Broadway with a Jack on the river.

Pay jump to a cool half a million dollars.

Again, in very quick succession

15. Paul Dhaliwal. AK against Sammartino's pocket 9s and a 9 on the flop, plus two sevens on the turn and river gave the Italian the Full House and eliminate Dhaliwal to leave two Canadians (Livingston & Niwinski) left.

Things then slowed down a little, with both Ensan and Skrbic chipping up by winning smallish pots.

14. Chris Barton. He'd been getting short for some time, but when you've got AK suited and there is a raise in front of you, things don't get much better for a short sack. The problem was that the raiser, Skrbic had pocket tens and called the shove and faded all five cards to knock out Barton.

Another ladder, the next two players to go would take $600K

Garry Gates is a well known figure in Vegas poker circles and he certainly had the biggest and loudest rail, and they were whooping and hollering when he doubled up through the chip leader with pocket kings against Ensan's AK

Marchington had been active throughout, and got a four-bet shove through against Cai, but lost all of his gains moments later when a flop bet from Skrbic forced him to fold.

Kevin Maahs was all-in again, and found another double up with Pocket Aces which were called by Marchington with AQ just after the blinds had gone up to 300K/600K, denting the Essex man's stack to about 25BB, and lost another 5m chips to Cai when he had to fold to a river bet.

13. Viktor Rau. Another three bet shove, from the Small Blind with Pocket Queens but Henry Lu's chips were in almost before Rau's forward motion had finished as he had Kings. A third King on the board ended the hand as a contest, and we were down to 12.

This is when the action slowed down, each table very aware of what was happening on the other table. Players were very cautious, but there were no really obvious stalling going on, and an onscreen graphic showed that at one point, each of the final two tables had played 61 hands so neither group of six players were gaining an advantage. Niwkinski almost-shoved one time but kept behind one chip in case anything serious was happening simultaneously on the other table, and then the next he shoved he didn't keep one behind, a tactic immediately noticed by Gates.

The first player to be at risk was Marchington. Most of the time it seemed to he him and Skrbic in hands together and it was here again, with the Brit down to 10m chips he shoved with sixes and was called by A10 but luckily for the Brit the board was kind and he doubled up. Soon after, Livingston also doubled through Skrbic (KQ held up against K4)

Chip leaders at a break - Ensan 118m, Su 76m, Gates 69m. Marchington was 9th with 18.5m.

Niwinski doubled up for what seemed to be the millionth time with pocket nines to put a small dent in Ensan's stack, and then we saw a sequence of hands with very few flops, let alone turns and rivers. Henry Lu shoved on Ensan a couple of times but got no action.

12. Michael Niwinski. Finally his luck ran out in a hand with Henry Lu. Niwinski went all-in with AK, Lu who had not much more than Niwinski's stack and would have been crippled with a loss, called with sevens. Lu was breathing much easier when the board came down 10-10-7 to give him a full house and there was no dramatic conclusion with Niwinski being busto.

The final pre-final money jump saw players in 10th and 11th claim $800K, but with 11 players left we had a little controversy.

Sammartino raised to 1.7 from UTG+1, Marchington shoved from the SB for 22m and Sammartino called. The cards were turned over with Marchington having the advantage of Queens over tens. The flop was dealt (8-high rainbow) but then play stopped, Sammartino realised that the amount to call he'd been told by the dealer was incorrect, instead of calling for something like 20BB, he'd called a 30BB bet and it took two tournament directors to determine that the call stood, with the board running out a harmless 6 & Jack. This took 10 minutes or so while the other table continued play and some people thought that due to the length of stoppage their table should have been paused too.

Anyway, after all this had worked itself out, the very next hand (on the table that had continued to play)

11. Henry Lu. A Lu bet, and a Gates three-bet pre, a Gates bet and a call on the flop, a Gates check followed by a Lu bet on the turn. Gates spent a lot of time thinking what to do before raising Lu all-in, and Lu himself then went into the tank for several minutes before calling. Gates had Lu dominated from the start with AJ against KJ, while the Jack on the flop gave each of them a pair. Lu needed one of the three remaining kings on the river, but it was the 8 of hearts and Gates had won by far the biggest pot of the ME so far of over 80m chips.

This brought the field down to the unofficial FT of 10, all rammed in together on the feature table. Leaders Ensan 169m, Gates 102m then a huge cap back to Cai 44m and Marchington 42m.

It took just four hands to being some action, it came down to blind against Blind and Skrbic shoved on Livingston, the Canadian had KQ and decided he was probably in front and so it proved, Skrbic had tried to pick up the blinds and antes with Q3 but failed and was lost about half his stack in the process. A run of raise and take it down pots followed, before in hand 129, we had the last hand of the evening.

10. Robert Heidorn. He hadn't featured in many big pots and had dwindled to the short stack and decided to go with KQ suited for his last 9m. Livingston iso-shoved for 22m from the button and turned over two red eights with Heidorn showing KQ. The flop was a Canadian-pleasing 987 but there was a sweat after a Jack on the turn gave Heidorn a gut shot, but the river was a 5 and the FT was set.

The 9 remaining players have a rest day/media day Saturday and will return on Sunday with the blinds at 500K/1m (and a Big Blind ante of 500K) so even I can work out how many BB each player has in their stack.

Seat draw is

1. Hossein Ensan (GER) 177m
2. Nicholas Marchington (GBR) 20m
3. Dario Sammartino (ITA) 33m
4. Kevin Maahs (USA) 43m
5. Timothy Su (USA) 20m
6. Zhen Cai (USA) 61m
7. Garry Gates (USA) 99m
8. Milos Skrbic (SRB) 23m
9. Alex Livingston (CAN) 38m

I'll post tomorrow giving a little more about the players, but if Marchington wins, he will become the youngest ever winner of the Main Event, a few months younger than Joe Cada was when he won. (I believe Cada would have been younger had the tournament played to it's conclusion immediately not waited for the November Nine concept).
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« Reply #347 on: July 13, 2019, 09:32:04 PM »



Sorry this isn't more than a brief rundown of the other events

Event 75 - $1111 Little One for One Drop, Day 5 of 4, 6248 entries


It was almost a third Brazilian bracelet of the summer, but Fernando Karem came up just short as the win went to James Anderson

A recent returnee to the game after a few years away, Anderson has three six-figure wins on his Hendon Mob page, but the $690K he picked up here now becomes his career high.

Third place went to Marco Guibert from Argentina making it a very succesful "Droplet" for South America.


Event 78 - $1500 PLO Bounty, Day 4 of 3, 1140 entries


It's a rare bracelet for Denmark and for Maximilian Klostermeier who has only been a pro for a year and much prefers NLH to PLO.

David Callaghan achieved the best result of the summer for an Irish player when he came second for $109K (plus bounties) while Bryce Yockey made his 4th top ten finish of the series ended up in third spot.


Event 79 - $3K NLH, Day 4 of 4, 671 entries


Allez France! In the first 30 events of the 2019 we had no French winners, now Ivan Deyra has followed up wins by Thomas Cazayous and Jeremy Saderne by taking down Event 79.

He won the event in style, holding a full house when David Gonzales tried to bluff him and made perhaps the easiest call of his career to win his first bracelet and $380K, by far the biggest cash of his life.

Patrick Leonard had his highest WSOP finish to date when he went out in 4th with a very tidy pink slip for $114K.


Event 80 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 1250 entries


As I posited yesteday, this has overrun to a 4th day with 7 players left. The leader is Ayaz Mahmood, with Lucas Greenwood and Jeremy Kotter in second and third but the British interest lies in the player in 5th spot, Peter Linton.

Linton is getting his 4th cash of the series (including a $38K cash for a decent run in the ME), and like Anderson (see Event 75) took a long break from the game with no cashes recorded between May 2013 (when he had his highest cash, $487K from the ill-fated International Stadiums Poker Tour in London) and June 2017.

Iaron Lightbourne was one of the early Day 2 casualties, finishing 34th for $6506.


Event 81 - $1500 Bracelet Winners Only NLH, Day 3 of 4, 185 entries


The unique event went to Shankhar Pillai who qualified for this by winning a $3K NLH event twelve years ago.

He beat Michael Gagliano (2016 $2500 NLH winner) heads-up with Tommy Nguyen (2018 $1500 Monster Stack) in third.


Event 82 - $1500 NLH Double Stack, Day 2 of 2, 2589 entries


Just call me psychic, or perhaps the WSOP should ask me when determining how many days events will take?

Eight players remain going into extra time, the chip lead held by the wonderfully named Freek Scholten of the Netherlands from Darren Rabinowitz and two-time bracelet winner Barry Schulman.

The only other bracelet holder left among the final 9 is a winner in a Stud event, Tom Koral..

Pablo Campo was the last Brit standing, being the last player eliminated on Day 2 for $43K, while Gary Solomons, Yiannis Laperis and Daniel Wendorf all made the Top 50.


Event 83 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 2 of 3, 99 entries


Six players will fight it out for the High Roller led by Keith Tilston ahead of Day 1 leader Brandon Adams and Nick Schulman in third. Schulman was a regular in the ESPN/Poker Go live coverage earlier in the series but has been removed from the team, with different explanations for his disappearance depending on who you believe.

Daniel Negreanu has made another FT in 6th, with the two players in 4th and 5th also well known names Dominik Nitsche and Igor Kurganov.

With only 15 cashing, Sam Grafton made 13th spot for $171K and Sergi Reixach, a Spanish player who lives in Bournemouth getting $353K for 7th position.


Event 84 - $1500 The Closer NLH, Day 1A, 463 entries so far


The Day 1A chip leader is Event 26 champion Roman Korenev, with Griffen Abel the only other player to bag a million chips at the end of the first of three Day 1s.

Another recent bracelet winner, Ari Engel lies third, with just 30 players moving on and no British names amongst them.


Event 85 - $3K PLO 6-max, Day 1 of 4, 835 entries


After the British wipeout in Event 84 (at least the first flight), it's nice to say there is a British leader of Day 1 of Event 85.

Paresh Doshi, for it is him, has 359K chips bagged, ahead of Kenneth Lucas' 291K and Hao Chen's 287K.

Doshi isn't alone as Iaron Lightbourne, Max Silver, John Kabbaj, Benny Glaser, Fraser MacIntyre, Dimitri Holdeew and Matthew Smith are also through to Day 2.

Also still involved are Anton Morgenstern, David Williams, Leif Force, Scott Bohlman, Loren Klein, Bruno Fittousi, Robert Mizrachi, recent bracelet winner Juha Helppi and many more, in fact 173 in total will come back for more PLO.


To start today

Event 86 - $10K NLH 6-max, 4 Day Event


Plus Day 1B of The Closer
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« Reply #348 on: July 13, 2019, 09:32:25 PM »

Peter Linton has taken a step closer to a bracelet by eliminating Jeremy Kottler in 7th place in #80
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« Reply #349 on: July 13, 2019, 11:47:09 PM »

PLinton now heads-up for the bracelet.

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« Reply #350 on: July 14, 2019, 12:04:12 AM »

Pete lost Heads-up Sad
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« Reply #351 on: July 14, 2019, 01:28:29 AM »




For those that want to gamble on other people gambling, here it is. I will also note that this is another example of the major improvement in Caesars books in recent years. The hold on this is about the lowest I've ever seen on WSOP futures, B&M or offshore.


https://twitter.com/John_Mehaffey/status/1150153288043630592


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« Reply #352 on: July 14, 2019, 08:24:08 AM »

125% overround isn't exactly generous
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« Reply #353 on: July 14, 2019, 09:13:35 AM »

betfair exchange has a market up betting to 112% currently.  125% isn't generous but by vegas future book standards its like betting it to 102%.

ps vegas.  3/2? reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

https://twitter.com/MartinChapman12/status/1150314676355588097

Caesers positively generous compared to the 150% + on the board for a 5 runner race at swindon trackside last night for a top class open race.
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« Reply #354 on: July 14, 2019, 10:06:54 AM »

Forum rules question.

Can you say anything about anybody these days on Blondepoker without getting a post deleted or a ban?

No, bans are still meted out from time to time.

The parameters are much wider these days though, they have to be, times have changed.

It's damned if we do, damned if we don't really.

We are all grown-ups, & we all know each other, so for the most part it ought to be possible for Posters to sort things out without Mods getting

As you know, the reason I stopped posting was a series of unprovoked personal attacks from a couple of unpleasant people which were left unchecked.

I came back a couple of weeks ago to congratulate a good guy on a great result.

I decided to continue posting in threads where I could post without any personal abuse.

But no, the trolls sought me out and abused me at the first opportunity without any fear of punishment. Pretty sad.

Self moderate and stop with the sanctimonious nonsense and you will not have a problem. You get the abuse because you behave poorly, you only have yourself to blame. You yourself were trolling with your question earlier trying to fish out a reason to call people racist where there wasn’t a reason, stop that nonsense and you won’t have a problem.


Agree.

Camel, no trolls sought you out. You unnecessarily hinted at some minor racism where I think everyone but you knew exactly what Tikay was meaning. Was just annoying to read and I bit my tongue. Woodsey obviously went over the top in his reply but a toned down version of his would have been just IMO.


I was having a perfectly civilised discussion when a troll started abusing me. I never accused anyone of being racist.

Language matters. Stereotyping people causes a them and us attitude. And lots of the problems facing our society right now are caused by lack of understanding of people different to us.

What is the qualification for being a Plastic Brit? Not lliving here 5 years? 10? 30? Who decides when the cut off point is? Who knows, maybe not using such divisive language would stop causing unnecessary differences between people.

Nobody abused you until you started your angle towards wanting to accuse someone of being racist. You didn’t use that phrase per se but it was very clear the angle you were taking.......and you have history. So don’t act all innocent, you knew exactly what you were doing.......stop with your divisive language and nobody will bother you.



You abused me because you thought you knew what I was going to say in the future? It would be funny if you weren't so sad.

You are a truly awful human being.

Now fuck off and don't address me in the future please.
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« Reply #355 on: July 14, 2019, 10:30:49 AM »

Can we sort the quoting skills pls
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« Reply #356 on: July 14, 2019, 09:30:13 PM »


Event 73 - $10K MAIN EVENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NLH, Day 7 of 10, 8569 entries


A day off, which I'm sure all 9 will be grateful for.


Event 80 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 4 of 3, 1250 entries


So, so close to another British bracelet as Peter Linton's run finished in a heads-up defeat to Sweden's Jerry Odeen

After third placed player Adam Demersseman was knocked out, Odeen had slightly less than a 2:1 lead, but the next eight hands would be in NLH, the game in which he probably had the advantage with Linton the better player in PLO.

Unfortunately for Linton, he never got to see another hand of the four card game, folding the first hand to a flop bet and three-bet shoving the second with 10-9 suited and was snap called by Odeen with the two red jacks.

An interesting flop of 2-8-J saw Odeen make a set, but gave Linton a gut shot, but the dealer turned over a 10 and a 3 with the final two cards.


Event 82 - $1500 NLH Double Stack, Day 2 of 2, 2589 entries



This one also had a day off, and will return on Sunday for the extra Day 3.


Event 83 - $100K NLH High Roller, Day 3 of 3, 99 entries


Daniel Negreanu's wait for a seventh bracelet will have to wait for a little while longer as he was the runner-up for a 10th time in a WSOP event, matching the record for seconds held by Phil Hellmuth.

He came from the short stack entering Day 3, and doubled up on five occasions, at least once against all the other players on the FT with the exception being the winner Keith Tilston

Tilston had also FT'd the $50K High Roller, and started Day 3 as the chip leader, but the only player without a bracelet, a hole in his CV he has now filled.

He took $2.792m for first, Negreanu $1.725 for second and Nick Schulman $1.187m for third.


Event 84 - $1500 The Closer NLH, Day 1B


For the second day running, there is a complete absence of British players from the qualifiers for Day 2 of The Closer.

45 from elsewhere in the world did make it through, with Shaun Deeb (still with one eye on retaining the Player of the Year title) holding the chip lead.

Denis Gnidsah lies second and Jeff Gross third.

There are a few well known players trying to grab a bracelet late on in the Series, Mike Leah, Joe Cada and Michael Mizrachi among them.


Event 85 - $3K PLO 6-max, Day 2 of 4, 835 entries


24 left after Day 2 with John Richards, who took the lead midway through the day, the chip leader with a significant margin back to Abraham Faroni and Michael Kuney in second and third.

This is another event in which we won't see a British winner, the last GB player departing in 29th when Iaron Lightbourne was kncoked out (taking $12678). Other cashes went to Max Silver, Matthew Smith, Paresh Doshi, John Kabbaj while Benny Glaser was the bubble boy.

Recent bracelet winner Juha Helppi is still standing, as are Joseph Cheong and Brandon Shack-Harris.

After the British wipeout in Event 84 (at least the first flight), it's nice to say there is a British leader of Day 1 of Event 85.


Event 86 - $10K NLH 6-max, Day 1 of 4, 248 entries so far


The last $10K event of the Vegas portion of the 2019 WSOP saw a high-quality field battle through 10 one-hour levels and at the end of play, 113 players still had chips in hand.

Felix Bleiker holds the chip lead, from John Andress and Yuri Dzivielevski who won Event 51 and had a very deep run in the ME.

Sam Greenwood also ran deep in the Main and is through to Day 2, as did Alex Foxen, and some other names through include Jennifer Tilly, Barry Hutter, Robert Mizrachi and Nick Schulman.

From a British perspective, Paul Fontan leads the challenge in 11th spot, both GB 2019 bracelet winners (Ben Heath and Stephen Chidwick) move on, along with Simon Deadman, Max Silver, Toby Lewis, Damien Le Goff, Niall Farrell and a number of those overseas-resident-in-the-UK players, headed by Sergi Reixach inside the top 10.

Daniel Negreanu hopped into this after losing his heads-up match, what odds another second place here?



To start today
Event 87 - $3K HORSE, 3 Day Event
Event 88 - $500 WSOP.com Online NLH Summer Saver, 1 Day Event I incorrectly stated we had already had the last online event of the series last week.

Plus Day 1C of The Closer and the resumption of the Main Event and Event 82.
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« Reply #357 on: July 14, 2019, 10:16:32 PM »

The Final Table of the 50th World Series of Poker Main Event

There is 1 hour and 31 minutes left of Level 37, with the Blinds at 500K/1million, with a 1million Big Blind Ante. This a) makes working out how many Big Blinds each player has left a piece of cake, and b) means that each orbit will cost each player 2.5million chips.

The Day 8 play will take the field from 9 down to 6, which sounds like it shouldn't take too long, but with the huge payjumps involved and regular commerical breaks it could take some time.


Seat 1 Hossein Ensan Germany 177,000,000


The overwhelming chip leader is Iran-born German pro Hossein Ersan. He moved to Germany aged 25, and has been a recognisable name around European poker circles since 2013. He finished 3rd in an EPT Main Event in 2014 and went two better in Prague in 2015 where he won his biggest prize money to date, €754,510. He also won a WSOP Circuit ring in 2017. He rose through the field on Day 4 which he ended in 14th spot and has continued on a upward spiral for most of the time since.

Seat 2 Nick Marchington United Kingdom 20,100,000


The only Brit at the FT is a 21-year old virtual live rookie, with just the one result recorded on the Hendon Mob database, a 19th place in the $800 8-handed deepstack event for $12K. This though is on a whole different level and for most of the time, he's looked at home. He would be the youngest ever WSOP Main Event champion taking the record from Joe Cada (Cada would have held the record had the FT in his year played out straight away not held over to be the November Nine). He may not have much live experience, but he does have plenty of online history. For the first six days he moved up in the standings every day - 355 to 186 to 179 to 32 to 6 to 1, from where of course he couldn't go any higher, and as others increased their stack he goes to the FT as the short stack after losing a huge pot to Ensan on a bluff.

Seat 3 Dario Sammartino Italy 33,400,000


Sammartino is a highly experienced live professional from Naples with over $8 million in live cashes. He has stepped back a little in the amount he plays recently, and this seems to have done him a power of good as he's making his 3rd FT of the summer, including finishing 3rd in the $10K Horse event for $184K.He also had a good run in the $50K Poker Players Champioship. He has 15 different scores of over $100K, and one seven-figure payday when finishing third in the 2017 $111,111 High Roller for One Drop for $1.6m

Seat 4 Kevin Maahs United States 43,000,000


Perhaps the most anonymous player so far of the final 9, the 27 year old from Illinois is the only one of the final nine who took advantage of the new system where players could enter on Day 2. He has 10 live cashes on his record, 3 of them coming this year totalling $61K, all of them being at events held in the Mid-West. He was at risk late on Day 6 but patiently hang around and got his double up with Pocket Aces to build him a stack that would last him until the FT.

Seat 5 Timothy Su United States 20,200,000


One of the bigger characters of the early days of the Main Event, he was the chip leader on both Day 2 and Day 5. He has the smallest live cash total of the field, just $2467 gathered from three events, one of which was the Colossus (Event 61) where he picked up $927. By day, he's a software engineer whose hobies are playing the oboe, reading and listening to classical music. Not your typical ME final tabler.

Seat 6 Zhen Cai United States 60,600,000


Usually a PLO cash game player, the 35-year old has turned his hands to Live NLH rather well, with cashes in events dating back to 2008 although this his first WSOP cash since 2011. He is very good friends with last year's runner up Tony Miles who has been seen in Cai's rail over the last two days. He holds the third biggest stack entering the FT and was the player responsible for eliminating NFL star Richard Seymour on Day 5.

Seat 7 Garry Gates United States 99,300,000


Gates will undoubtedly have the largest and most vocal rail at the FT. He was the lead reporter for PokerNews, the firm that do most of the live updates from the WSOP that I rely heavily on when researching these posts, he then went on work for PokerStars as a Senior Consultant of Player Affairs for their live events, bringing him into regular content with some of the biggest names in the game, who are right behind him in his run to the FT. He will doubtless have been fully prepared by some of those big names over the last 24 hours. It's his 4th cash in the Main Event, his previous best effort voming in 2011 when he made it to 173rd spot.

Seat 8 Milos Skrbic Serbia 23,400,000


The fourth European at the FT, originally from Serbia but now resident in San Diego, California. Along with Sammartino, he has a million dollar score on his CV, a $1.06m win for finishing 2nd in the 2018 WPT Five Diamond event to Dylan Linde. He also has a WSOP ME FT to his name, the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event FT where he finished 5th. He also has plenty of experience of high stakes cash games. Upfront, he seems to have been the most confident of the players, telling his friends not to bother getting to Vegas until Tuesday when the final 3 play out for the bracelet.

Seat 9 Alex Livingston Canada 37,800,000


Last but not least, Livingston has some experience of a very deep run in the ME to draw on, as he made Day 7 six years ago before going out in 13th. He had a good start to the ME, finishing inside the top 100 on both day 1 and day 2, but was never really among the upper echelons until the very late stages, in fact he entered Day 7 as the second smallest stack of the 35 players. He was the winner of the final hand of the night when he flopped a set of eights to eliminate Robert Heidorn and confirm the Final Table. The 32 year old has two cashes earlier in the Series and 15 in all dating back to 2011 in numerous variants of the game.


TV coverage starts on BT Sport/ESPN from 3am (on the normal 30-minute delay) and is scheduled to last until 5am, but I'm sure if play hasn't finished they will continue to show the action until play has ended for the day.


The 9th placed player will get $1m, eighth place takes $1.25m and 7th earns you $1.525m


Thanks to PokerNews and the HendonMob database for a lot of the content referenced in this posting.
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« Reply #358 on: July 15, 2019, 12:29:57 AM »

125% overround isn't exactly generous

BV priced it up too:

Hossein Ensan 2/1
Garry Gates 3/1
Zhen Cai 6/1
Dario Sammartino 8/1
Kevin Maahs 9/1
Alex Livingston 12/1
Milos Skrbic 16/1
Nick Marchington 18/1
Timothy Su 33/1
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Event 73 - $10K MAIN EVENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NLH, Day 8 of 10, 8569 entries


With the intention to have just three bustouts on Day 8, things got going pretty quickly when on just the third hand Nick Marchington three-bet shoved with pocket tens, the original raiser Zhen Cai eventually calling the bet with AQ. A ten on the flop virtually sealed the deal and the Brit doubled up.

Hand 6, one of the shorter stacks, Milos Skrbic was faced with a decision for all his chips when Gates bet big ahead of him. From the BB, Skrbic with AJ, understandably thinking he was ahead of Gates' range from the SB but Gates had AQ and the Serbian was out in 9th for a cool million dollars.

Five hands later, Timothy Su shoved from UTG. Zhen Cai asked for a count, thought long and hard before folding but chip leader Hossein Ersan called. He had AJ and Su had pocket threes. Su couldn't have got a much worse flop than J55, there was a blank on the turn and another Jack added insult to injury on the river giving the German a full house. Su was out with a $1.25m payday.

Ensan moved over the 200m chip mark when he got a turn bet through against Kevin Maahs, but lost 11m of them not much later in a hand with Cai which went to showdown with both players having two pair.

After a break, Gates took another chunk of Ensan's chips on a hand where a pair of eights was enough to beat a pair of twos.

Hand 32, Ensan raised from the cutoff, Marchington three-bet all in for his last 14BB and Ensan snap called with two black kings, Marchington having A7. After a flop of J86, he turned some straight outs with a 6 but there was no help on the river and the last British player was out for $1.525m.

The WSOP then made the decision that as we'd had only about 90 minutes of poker, they'd carry on until another player was eliminated.

Alex Livingston won three smallish pots in a row to move into third spot, but still a long way behind the top two.

Hand 40, on a three-bet pre-flop hand, a board of 652 looked pretty uninviting but Cai shoved and Maahs folded.

On the very next hand, Cai lost those chips and more when Gates made a full house, slow playing it hoping Cai would commit himself but he lost somewhere near the minimum. Gates was now becoming a serious threat to Ensan's chip lead.

Cai continued to put chips in pre-flop but getting very little out of hands, and drifted down to become one of the bottom two with Dario Sammartino who was not very active at all.

Cai eventually picked up AK, and with a raise in front from Ensan and a call from Maahs, shoved. Ensan folded but Maahs with pocket nines took the chance and called. The board ran out Queen high with no flush possibilities, Cai was out ($1.85m) and play ended for the day with just 5 players in the running for the $10m first prize and the title of World Champion.

So we now have a very polarised table, with Ensan and Gates having massive stacks and the other three players only having 25% of the chips in play between them.

Both the two big stacks won 11 of the 56 hands today, Ensan adding about 31m to his stack but Gates added over 72m to his stack.

Seat 1 Ensan 207m
Seat 2 Sammartino 23m
Seat 3 Maahs 66m
Seat 4 Gates 171m
Seat 5 Livingston 46m

Blinds are 600K/1.2m with a 1.2m ante, they've about 35 minutes left before the price of poker will rise yet again.

I presume they'll stick with the original plan of having three players left at the end of tonight, but if we see two of the short stacks bust within the first half hour, who knows?


Event 82 - $1500 NLH Double Stack, Day 3 of 2, 2589 entries


Tom Koral has been around the poker scene since 2005, and has recorded cashes (and decent ones at that) in a number of variants. But it was in good ol' NLH that he won his second bracelet and his biggest monetary prize ever ($530K) in Event 82.

He held a 3:2 leads heads up against the Netherlands' Freek Scholten at the start of heads-up and one massive point where basically Koral had ace-high (although technically the board was paired) and Scholten had King high saw him establish a lead that only got bigger as the match went on. Koral finished it in style with pocket aces.

Barry Shulman's bid for a third bracelet ended in third spot.


Event 84 - $1500 The Closer NLH, Day 1C, 2800 entries in total


Hallelujah! At the third time of asking we finally got some British players through to Day 2, and in style two with Waikat Lee and Ian Simpson both inside the top ten.

Jack Salter, Usman Siddique and Ryan O'Sullivan make it 5 GB names through, with 196 in total from the three day 1s.

Day 1C was "won" by Tam Nguyen ahead of Steve Yea and Anton Wigg with Phil Hellmuth one of the other qualifiers along with Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, KC Tran, Dylan Linde and Tom Franklin

This should finish today.



Event 85 - $3K PLO 6-max, Day 3 of 4, 835 entries


Six left for the last PLO bracelet, with two big stacks (Millard Hale and Day 2 leader John Richards), two medium stacks (Alan Sternberg and Evengelos Kokkalis) and two less than 12BB stacks (Ka Kwan Lu and event 34 winner Joseph Cheong).


Event 86 - $14K NLH 6-max, Day 2 of 4, 272 entries



This has raced through to just 16 players with potentially two days to go, with the chip lead held by Anuj Agarwal. He has just over 2m chips with Markus Gonsalves and Jeffrey Trudeau either side of 1.7m in second and third.

Ben Heath is one of two British players left (the other being Simon Deadman) and one of two former bracelet winners left (the other being short stacked Gal Yifrach)

The plan is to play down to 6, but as we've found out in the Main Event today, that could well change.



Event 87 - $3K HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 301 entries


127 of the 301 players survive Day 1 with defending champion Brian Hastings one of a large number of bracelet holders making it through.

They're all chasing the Day 1 leader Harold Klein, second placed Justin Liberto and third placed Yueqi Zhu.

Adam Owen, Patrick Leonard, Benny Glaser and Paul Sokoloff make up a strong British challenge, but just some of the names left in will give you an idea of the strength of the field - John Monnette, Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Mueller, Paul Volpe, Ismael Bojang, Jeff Lisandro, and Mike Matusow.


Event 88 - $500 WSOP.com Online NLH Summer Saver, 1 Day Event, 1859 entries



The last online bracelet of the summer will live on the wrist of Taylor Paur, who claimed his second overall bracelet and a prize of nearly $150K.

He finished ahead of Swiss player Francois Evard with Satfish Surapeneni coming third.


To start today
15/07/19 Event 89 - $5K NLH, 2 Day Event
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