WSOP 2019 Updates

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Is that from the deli, as opposed to the 'All American Grill'?

Look almost like proper chips, too.

Sports Deli, yeah. God's food.

After 5 months of hard-dieting, living on Ryvita & fruit, can't begin to tell how how delish that was.

[Marky147]

Is that from the deli, as opposed to the 'All American Grill'?

Look almost like proper chips, too.

Sports Deli, yeah. God's food.

Was going to give Dave $300, but might just give it to the Sports Deli and Haagen Daz.

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Where did action man finish?

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Where did action man finish?

I'll have a proper look later Adzy, but a quick peruse suggests he failed to make it to Day 4.

Pretty sure he cashed for about $1,600, but I'll check properly later, unless anyone else has the result to hand. 

[4KSuited]

Where did action man finish?

I'll have a proper look later Adzy, but a quick peruse suggests he failed to make it to Day 4.

Pretty sure he cashed for about $1,600, but I'll check properly later, unless anyone else has the result to hand. 

383rd for £5144

[BigAdz]

Cheers.

That's a proper start for backers......

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Event 3 - $500 Big 50 NLH, 5 Days, Day 4 of 5


Getting down to the business end, with 7 players challenging for the $1.15million prize and the gold bracelet (having already bagged at least £182K)

The chip leader is Femi Fashakin who is recording his very first WSOP cash. He leads Paul Cullen (1 WSOP cash back in 2015) and Adrian Curry (no WSOP cashes) in an inexperienced (in WSOP terms at least) top 3 spots

Curry was the one who knocked-out 5-time bracelet winner Allen Cunningham down in 47th spot.


Event 11 - $5K NLH, Day 4 of 4, 400 entrants


We were bound to have a bracelet virgin take the prize, and it was Daniel Strelitz who the fates determined would be the one breaking his duck.

He beat Shannon Storr in a heads-up match which was practically level at the start, but soon took control and finished him off when a pair of tens held up.

Strelitz gets $442K, Storr $273K and Serbian Ognjen Sekularac $186K for third.


Event 13 - $1500 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw, Day 3 of 3, 296 entries


It's a bracelet for Israel in the guise of Yuval Bronshtein who took a title at his 10th FT.

Asaf Chabra held a 2:1 chip lead a the start of heads-up, and at one point Bronshtein was all-in for his tournament life, but he survived and then flourished sufficiently to at first take the lead and then dominate.

Former November Niner Jerry Wong finished third.


Event 14 - $1500 HORSE, Day 2 of 4, 751 entries


Down to 28 runners with two Jasons in the top 2 positions. Jason Acosta leads Jason Stockfish, with a significant gap between those two and Russian Sergey Altbregin in third.

A couple of the well-known names I picked out yesterday are still there - Chris Klodnicki & Andrew Akkari

No Brits made it to Day 3, in fact none even managed a min-cash.

Down near the bottom of the pack we've got a classic sports car (Ferrari) and a tractor (David Brown). Both of them will need to do a lot of overtaking to make the FT.


Event 15 - $10K Heads-up NLH, Day 1 of 4, 112 entrants


Sixteen were first sorted in to eight, and then to a final four.

Those four will be, in alphabetical order, Cord Garcia, Keith Lehr, Sean Swingruber and Ben Yu. All but Swingruber have one previous bracelet to their credit. Swingruber will play Garcia in the first SF, while fairly obviously Yu & Lehr will meet in the second.

From that you will be able to see we've lost the last Brit (Simon Burns) and the favourite John Smith


Event 16 - $1500 6-max NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1832 entrants


21 left in the 6-max, with a French player in the lead - Romain Nussmann who ended Day 1 with over 200BB, ahead of Ong Dingxiang from Singapore and Pierce McKellar (US) the only others with over 100BB.

Day 1 chip leader Richard Hasnip continues to fly the Union Jack but is now settled in midfield, guaranteed at least $16K but still with eyes on the first prize of $407K.


Event 17 - $1500 NLH Shootout, Day 1 of 3, 917 entrants


100 tables of 9 or 10 all played down to a finish with the winners all guaranteed a min-cash of $5279, but you don't get a prize ladder until you win your Day 2 table as well when you will get at least $15K, a place on the 10-handed FT and a chance to play for $238K.

Chip leader isn't really a worthwhile concept at this stage although stacks do vary slightly so I'll restrict myself to noting a few names through.

These include a couple of ME winners (Joe Cada & Qui Nguyen), a couple of well known female players (Loni Harwood & Jen Tilly) and several Brits or at least players with United Kingdom beside their names (Florian Duta, Jonathan Proudfoot (these two will share a Day 2 table), Yiannis Liperis, Dragos Trofimov and Brandon Shiels)

We've also got a pair of twins through - 2017 ME runner-up Daniel Ott will share table 410 with his brother Dillon.


Event 18 - $10K, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 1 of 4, 173 entrants so far


90 players remain, but late reg (like all the other 10K "Championship" events) is open until hours into Day 2. There is a chance that the record field for this event (212) could be matched or broken.

Of the 90, the biggest Day 1 stack belongs to Yarron Bendor who has form in this event (3rd in 2017). David Benyamine (1 bracelet) and Shaun Deeb (4 bracelets and 2018 Player of the Year) are his nearest challengers.

Still in - Perry Friedman, Mike Matusow, Ben Lamb, Brandon Shack-Harris and 2018 winner Paul Volpe.

Benny Glaser and Tim Flanders are both inside the Top 30, while Richard Ashby is shown as with 1 chip which usually means there was a misunderstanding somewhere along the bagging process.


To start today

Event 19 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, 5 Day Event, 2 starting flights Fri/Sat

Event 20 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 4 Day Event

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Don't know when I'm going to do a full update today (Saturday) - I'm out at what will almost certainly be my last football of the season, so here's an interim update on those events that were already in play. A fuller update plus a review of the events that had their Day 1 on Friday will follow at some point.

Event 3 - $500 Big 50 NLH, 5 Days, Day 5 of 5


The largest field in WSOP history has been whittled down to just one player, Femi Fashakin. The WSOP recorded yesterday that he had not previously recorded a single WSOP Cash but actually he had two, both in 2016 for a little under $11K. He's bested that by 100 times as he collected over $1.1m and a gold bracelet.

He finished off heads-up with Paul Cullen in style as after his oppenent raised with QJ, he shoved with the best hand in poker and the aces held. He ended up with 1.418 billion chips. Yes, that's billion. With a "B".

Israel had a bracelet yesterday and it was almost another one in this massive event as Rafi Elharar finished third.




Event 14 - $1500 HORSE, Day 3 of 4, 751 entries


This one may finish within 3 days, they're currently playing heads up and have two more levels to play tonight.

The battle is down to Jason Stockfish v Murilo Souza with the former holding a marginal lead as I type.



Event 15 - $10K Heads-up NLH, Day 3 of 4, 112 entrants


It's a day off, the semi-finals (Sean Swinghuber v Cord Garcia and Ben Yu v Keith Lehr) will take place on Saturday.


Event 16 - $1500 6-max NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1832 entrants


Heads-up and in-play in this one too - Ong Dingxiang has just overtaken Isaac Baron but with only about 22BB in play between them, this could crack at any moment.


Event 17 - $1500 NLH Shootout, Day 2 of 3, 917 entrants

The FT has been set as all 10 tables have finished, and we go from A to Z as in seats 1 and 2 are going to be Brett Apter and Anatoli Zyrin.

I don't think a single player that I mentioned yesterday made it through!

The only one of the ten who already have a bracelet on their CV is Tommy Nguyen although Cary Katz is 24th in the all-time money list and has 5 scores of over a million dollars (including 8th in the Big One for One Drop in 2014)


Event 18 - $10K, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 2 of 4, 183 entrants


Still playing with 33 or so left with Robert Mizrachi holding the big stack. Two Brits left, both in the middle of the pack - Tim Flanders & Richard Ashby



Started Friday, will update later


Event 19 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, 5 Day Event, 2 starting flights Fri/Sat

Event 20 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 4 Day Event

To start today


Event 21 - $10K No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw, 4 Day Event

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Niall Farrell
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@Firaldo87poker
 Jun 5
 
In light of the recent “angling” controversy - petition to have 1 tournament a year during the series where anything goes. Angling, collusion, hand signals, the lot. All scummery allowed and indeed encouraged. Call it the “Big Purge” or the “Men Nguyen Invitational” or something

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https://twitter.com/robertgoldfarb/status/749101749030367233

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Updates from a donkey

Great flight on virgin in a new dream liner
Plotted up at the encore no suite ready
That’s ok 2 bloody Mary’s 2 vodka cokes $70
Nearly spat my dummy out
Felt raped
Nice room not as nice as Wynn
Played roulette lost $400
Played $2_5 lost $400\500 bunch of lunatics
Idiot guy raises to 20 I re raise to 60 ak
He calls
Flop ace 4 7
He bets 60
I make it 120
He calls
Turn is a 10
He check I bet 150
He call
River a jack
He leads for 120 I call
He has jack 4 off suit
I fold ace9 on a 972 spade spade club flop to a raise n a receipt raise
Idiot jams 74
8-10 spades calls n gets there

Get a text rooms ready
Un pack
Go down few goes on slots $209|300 down
But get 4/5 vodka cokes for a dollar - bargain ??
Get a reasonable nights kip

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Update number two

Denise’s birthday Saturday
Pool day down there 9 am get beds
Meet4 brits have a lovely day
Go up at 330 pm kip n jiggy jiggy
Dinner 6 pm
Diana Ross @8 pm
Dinner n show pkg $333 each
Meatballs chicken parmigiana tiramisu plus 2 coronas [$29] plus 2 comp Prosecco which I give mine to Denise !

$400 on roulette
$200 on slots
4-5 vodkas n it’s bed at 11 pm
Awake at 330 am
Nap 6-8 am
Bally’s Sunday brunch was $100
Now $125 plus tax $270 for 2 people
V nice though
Lose $400 on roulette- by now I’m thinking fk roulette
Win $200 on a slot
Uber there n back
Having a chill , in th3 room - watch uporn n have a wank maybe as
Denise gone to fashion show mall 😂😂😂
Omaha at Rio 11 am in the morning
Gl me

[Karabiner]

Keep 'em coming Tony and GL tomorrow.

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Anybody bringing the Mrs or GF go see Diana Ross at the encore till the 15 th she was amazing
1 hour 8 mins of singing
Then she pulls a chair on stage n asks for audience questions
It took a couple of mins but folk soon got in the swing of it
I assumed she may be a  bit big headed / arrogant / aloof .
Not at all she was incredible

One guy aged 30 ish if that
 said he knew at aged 5/6 he was “ different “ I.e gay
as in his words he danced around his parents living room singing chain reaction !
It helped him come to terms with it all

Another woman spoke of her decision to divorce aged 30 listening to ? I’ve forgotten which song lol
It was getting a bit Jerry springer tbh
Diana wasn t phased
She gave some lovely answers to these people
It left us with a warm fuzzy glow !
Then I realised I’d peed my pants ! - not really ! Joking

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Sorry I never got around to doing a second post yesterday, just too tired to even switch the computer on when I got home.

Therefore this is an update on both the Friday action and that from Saturday.


Event 14 - $1500 HORSE, Day 4 of 4, 751 entries


There's not much that can top a British rail at a WSOP FT, but a Brazilian one may just do.

Murilo Souza had the benefit of that rail and used it to his advantage as he took his first WSOP gold bracelet.

He had just the one cash outside his native country before today, for the grand total of $327 in a deepstack in Vegas last summer. Now he's got a cash for over $270K on his Hendon Mob page.

Heads up lasted six hours, ended by Souza turning quads on a hand of Omaha Hi-Lo and fading the low draws of Jason Stockfish.

For Stockfish, it's a frustrating 4th runner-up spot on a WSOP final table.


Event 15 - $10K Heads-up NLH, Day 4 of 4, 112 entrants


In the first semi-final, Ben Yu saw off Keith Lehr after 81 hands, while in the second Sean Swinghuber made quick work of Cord Garcia in less than 40 hands.

The final was a more drawn-out affair. Yu won a big hand early (hand 7) with a full house, and held that for nearly 80 hands before Swingruber grinded back to overtake. Yu did wrestle back a small lead at hand 120, but not long after the lead had changed hands again, and this time it was for good as Swingruber went on to be another first-time WSOP bracelet winner (and collect $186K)


Event 16 - $1500 6-max NLH, Day 4 of 3, 1832 entrants


This didn't end on time as heads-up play between Isaac Baron and Ong Dingxiang played over 100 hands of heads-up before a halt was called.

Coming back on Saturday, it took just 4 hands to find a winner when Baron picked up the aces and Dingxiang's KQ found a queen on the flop. All the chips went in on the turn and Baron looked on content as the river was a meaningless 3.

Baron has been playing WSOP events for 12 years but he too is winning his first one. He is no stranger to big Final Tables though as he has several very large cashes to his credit.


Event 17 - $1500 NLH Shootout, Day 3 of 3, 917 entrants


The theme of the day is first time WSOP winners, so let's carry on with that in Event 17 with Brett Apter.

Like Baron, Apter's winning hand was pocked aces, an easy call on a Q-10-4 board after Anatolii Zyrin had shoved with top pair


Event 18 - $10K, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Day 3 of 4, 183 entrants

Robert Mizrachi was chip leader last time I reported on this event, and he still is as six players will come back to play the FT.

He ended day 3 with 33BB, almost twice the stack of his nearest rival, Nick Guagenti. Mizrachi has 4 bracelets already in his drawer, while both Owais Ahmed and Frankie O'Dell are also former bracelet holders.

Richard Ashby was the only Brit to cash, finishing 14th for almost $22K.


Event 19 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, Day 1 A/B of 4, 8809 entries

Another huge field, with 2268 of them making Day 2.

Noah Schwartz in the combined chip leader from the two starting flights, with 2-time bracelet winner Calvin Anderson not far behind and also inside the top ten heads-up semi-finalist Keith Lehr.

The top three Brits are all within 2000 chips of each other, Robert Cowen, Stefan Fabian and Steven Warburton lie clustered in 73rd, 74th & 76th respectively. Looking deeper down, Ben Heath, James Dempsey, Sam Grafton, James Rann, Niall Farrell and Barny Boatman are also part of a deep British contingent.


Event 20 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, Day 2 of 4, 285 entries

In contrast, no Brits remain in Event 20 - the final 10 are all American. The plan is to play just down to 6 on Day 3, but there must be a chance of the players wanting to play on to a winner, especially if the early eliminations come quite quickly.

For a $1500 event, there's a comparitively loaded final table, chip leader is Anthony Zinno, Valentin Vornicu, Rep Porter, Eli Elezra and Scott Siever are also among the final 10.

Two GB cashers, who disappeared in quick succession, Ludovic Geilich went out in 17th for $3061 while Gerald Ringe was the very next player out but he managed a ladder and picked up an additional $504.


Event 21 - $10K No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw, Day 1 of 4, 83 entries so far


We could be heading towards another of those Brazilian rails as the Day 1 chip leader is Pedro Bromfman, ahead of just 28 others who have made Day 2. Late reg is still open so we could see some other entries (or indeed players using their single re-entry) during the first couple of hours of Day 2 play.

Majid Yahyaei is second overnight and event 6 winner Dan Zack lies third.

As you would expect in a $10K event, there is several braclet winners (including multiple bracelet winners) still involved like Frank Kassela, Daniel Negreanu, the UK's Benny Glaser, Brian Rast, Billy Baxter, Jennifer Harman etc.


To start today

Event 22 - $1000 Double Stack NLH, 2 Day Event

Event 23 - $1500 Eight Game Mix, 3 Days Event

Event 24 - $600 WSOP.com Online PLO 6 handed, 1 Day Event