Tom Hall shoved with pocket 10s in the first hand of Day 2, Daniel Negreanu called with AQ, and got there with an Ace on the flop eliminating Hall on the bubble and ensuring all 8 remaining players will collect at least a $306K profit on their million dollar entry fee, including Paul Newey.
I gather from his Staking thread elsewhere that Stu Rutter exited the Limit O8 subsequent to your report.
Also, Alex Goulder keeps a Diary on another Forum, & he wrote this 2 or 3 hours ago.....
"....Really brutal day - started off great, turning 75k into 105k in the first half hour. Average was around 35k at this point, then lost a 155k pot with 88 vs JJ on KJ85r, he bets flop 5100, I and one other call, turn he bets 28k with 35k back or something. So cold, can never fold, and it's to have over 4x average itm of a bracelet event with 150 left.
Felt like a real punch to the stomach, then grinded 20-30bbs for an hour or two, laddered some spots then reshoved AQ into AK, gg.
Did some therapy shopping for a couple hours after and now getting ready to go out for a nice meal with everyone then maybe a show....."
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants Event 56 and it's $403K first prize has gone to Mike Kachan who outlasted 2524 other players.
He beat Jeff Blenkarn heads-up at the end of a final table that lasted a longer than most would have thought due to the general short-naturedness of the stacks when a lot of all-ins resulted in double-ups rather than knockouts.
Richard Milne was the only British player to make the later stages, busting in 8th place but picking up a very nice $39K.
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants With all the huge names from the world of poker still sitting on the final table, it was someone who wasn't really known on the live scene 3 months ago, Daniel Colman who won the huge $15million first prize and the platinum bracelet.
Colman, from Massachusetts, is a heads-up specialist and when he got to the final two against Daniel Negreanu, Colman gradually squeezed his advantage home over 46 hands and took the title when he called the Canadian's shove (with A4) holding KQ. An A-J-4 gave Negreanu two pair on the flop, Colman hitting his gutshot with a 10 on the turn and the river failing to give Negreanu his full house.
Colman sprang onto the live scene winning the Super High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final, reached the semi-finals of the 10K heads up here, and has now leapt all the way to 6th in the all-time money standings
This was Negreanu's 2nd runner-up spot this series, and the $8million he won has lifted him to the top of the all-time tournament winnings list.
Tom Hall was the bubble boy busting on the very first hand of Day 3, but Paul Newey used his short stack to ladder up to 7th place and collect $1.4million
All time money-list according to Hendon Mob 1. Negreanu $29.8m 2. Esfandiari $26.2m 3. Ivey $21.4m 4. Seidel $20.4m 5. Trickett $20.0m 6. Colman $18.2m 7. Hellmuth $18.1m 8. Juanda $16.0m 9. M Mizrachi $14.6m 10. Siever $12.6m I think I'd recognise 9 of the 10 if I saw them in the street, but not Colman!
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants Ten players will come back for the end of the 4-handed section of the event where they will play down to 4 players and then it becomes a heads-up knockout.
Jared Jaffee leads a strong 10-player line-up with Mark Herm & Brandon Cantu close behind, and the likes of Xiao Peng, Jeff Gross & Mike Watson still involved.
No UK players remain, with IH8PALACE Tim Davie having his second deep run of the series, collecting nearly $10K for 27th, finishing spot ahead of Daniel McAulay.
Other GB cashers - Trevor Reardon, Alex Goulder, Ashley Locker, Tom Middleton, Barkatul Mohammed, John Shipley, William Jones, Liv Boeree & Mark Teltscher.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants Twenty come back for Day 3, the last dedicated High-Low day of the series, and it's David Williams who holds the overnight lead. He has a 20% chip lead over next placed Joe Mitchell, with Matt Glantz in third.
Scott Abrans, Brett Richey, John D'Agostino and Justin Bonomo are still active, as is Melissa Burr who has four top 10 finishes (including 3 final tables) already.
As with event 58, no GB players to fight it out for the bracelet, in fact only Stephen Chidwick made the cash, and that was a min-cash of $4828 in 52nd place.
Player of the Year news is that George Danzer busted before the cash but Brandon Shack-Harris ended up in 34th. If you've a degree in maths and can understand the POY formula, I'm sure you could work out whether that is enough to move him ahead of Danzer atop the standings.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants Another event showing an increase in numbers against last year's equivalent event, but only a small increase of less than 1%. Still, an increase is an increase.
Chris Kolla is the chip leader after eliminating Chris Moorman on the very last hand of the night when the German's pocket 7's held up against the Brit's A6.
Israel, USA, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Sweden & Romania are all represented inside the Top 10 but you have to look down to 24th to see the top British player - Martin Malone.
Tom Middleton is only 300 chips behind Malone in 26th and Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Barny Boatman, Joshua Green, Vasileios Korkas, Robert McAdam, Roberto Romanello, David Stonehouse, Peter Akery & Simon Taylor all having chips to take forward to Day 2.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants Still in play as I type, with 57 of 102 left. Full update to follow later.
To Start Today Jul 2nd WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed
Difficult to compare but the last time a 10K stud event was held was in 2011 (so before Black Friday) there was 126 entrants.
Ben Yu is a great person for reports like this as he takes very little typing, and it is him who is the overnight leader, with James Obst (not too long) and Nikolay Losev (getting longer) in second and third.
The "usual" suspects from these shores for the 10K events, Richard Ashby, Stephen Chidwick & Matthew Ashton are all present and correct, as are Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Fabrice Soulier, 2011 winner Bertrand Grospellier, another former winner John Monnete, Daniel Negreanu & Gabe Kaplan.
And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day.
58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid.
I posted a message in the show thread on Sunday about how the WSOP had honoured Chad Brown with an honorary bracelet.
Chad never managed to win a bracelet proper, he finished 2nd twice and 3rd once, but was regarded as one of the best players without a bracelet and was regularly tipped as the most likely player without one to burst through. He was one of those players who no one seemed to have a bad word to say about. He was so good that he was awarded the Bluff Magazine "player of the year" in 2006. He was married to fellow poker pro Vanessa Rousso from 2009-2012.
He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2011, and has recently been in a Hospice, very ill indeed. Far too ill to attend the WSOP's touching ceremony last Saturday, but he did receive the bracelet and friends were able to put it on his wrist.
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions **** One Drop goes to Daniel Colman (who?) ****: . And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day. 58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid. Posted by FCHD
^^^ This is why I read this thread every day! Great piece. Thank you.
Jul 1st WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants Event 56 and it's $403K first prize has gone to Mike Kachan who outlasted 2524 other players. He beat Jeff Blenkarn heads-up at the end of a final table that lasted a longer than most would have thought due to the general short-naturedness of the stacks when a lot of all-ins resulted in double-ups rather than knockouts. Richard Milne was the only British player to make the later stages, busting in 8th place but picking up a very nice $39K. WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants With all the huge names from the world of poker still sitting on the final table, it was someone who wasn't really known on the live scene 3 months ago, Daniel Colman who won the huge $15million first prize and the platinum bracelet. Colman, from Massachusetts, is a heads-up specialist and when he got to the final two against Daniel Negreanu, Colman gradually squeezed his advantage home over 46 hands and took the title when he called the Canadian's shove (with A4) holding KQ. An A-J-4 gave Negreanu two pair on the flop, Colman hitting his gutshot with a 10 on the turn and the river failing to give Negreanu his full house. Colman sprang onto the live scene winning the Super High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final, reached the semi-finals of the 10K heads up here, and has now leapt all the way to 6th in the all-time money standings This was Negreanu's 2nd runner-up spot this series, and the $8million he won has lifted him to the top of the all-time tournament winnings list. Tom Hall was the bubble boy busting on the very first hand of Day 3, but Paul Newey used his short stack to ladder up to 7th place and collect $1.4million All time money-list according to Hendon Mob 1. Negreanu $29.8m 2. Esfandiari $26.2m 3. Ivey $21.4m 4. Seidel $20.4m 5. Trickett $20.0m 6. Colman $18.2m 7. Hellmuth $18.1m 8. Juanda $16.0m 9. M Mizrachi $14.6m 10. Siever $12.6m I think I'd recognise 9 of the 10 if I saw them in the street, but not Colman! WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants Ten players will come back for the end of the 4-handed section of the event where they will play down to 4 players and then it becomes a heads-up knockout. Jared Jaffee leads a strong 10-player line-up with Mark Herm & Brandon Cantu close behind, and the likes of Xiao Peng, Jeff Gross & Mike Watson still involved. No UK players remain, with IH8PALACE Tim Davie having his second deep run of the series, collecting nearly $10K for 27th, finishing spot ahead of Daniel McAulay. Other GB cashers - Trevor Reardon, Alex Goulder, Ashley Locker, Tom Middleton, Barkatul Mohammed, John Shipley, William Jones, Liv Boeree & Mark Teltscher. WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants Twenty come back for Day 3, the last dedicated High-Low day of the series, and it's David Williams who holds the overnight lead. He has a 20% chip lead over next placed Joe Mitchell, with Matt Glantz in third. Scott Abrans, Brett Richey, John D'Agostino and Justin Bonomo are still active, as is Melissa Burr who has four top 10 finishes (including 3 final tables) already. As with event 58, no GB players to fight it out for the bracelet, in fact only Stephen Chidwick made the cash, and that was a min-cash of $4828 in 52nd place. Player of the Year news is that George Danzer busted before the cash but Brandon Shack-Harris ended up in 34th. If you've a degree in maths and can understand the POY formula, I'm sure you could work out whether that is enough to move him ahead of Danzer atop the standings. WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants Another event showing an increase in numbers against last year's equivalent event, but only a small increase of less than 1%. Still, an increase is an increase. Chris Kolla is the chip leader after eliminating Chris Moorman on the very last hand of the night when the German's pocket 7's held up against the Brit's A6. Israel, USA, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Sweden & Romania are all represented inside the Top 10 but you have to look down to 24th to see the top British player - Martin Malone. Tom Middleton is only 300 chips behind Malone in 26th and Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Barny Boatman, Joshua Green, Vasileios Korkas, Robert McAdam, Roberto Romanello, David Stonehouse, Peter Akery & Simon Taylor all having chips to take forward to Day 2. WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants Still in play as I type, with 57 of 102 left. Full update to follow later. To Start Today Jul 2nd WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed Posted by FCHD
loving the updates!
Coleman is/was an online HUSNG specialist, playing under the name mrGr33N13 or something like that. He won over $1m from HUSNGs in 2013, but think he has locked his SN on SS now. Like you say, he has now burst on to the live scene in style. Think we will be seeing alot more of him!
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions **** Trickett succumbs to variance, Lynne Beaumont collects over $250K **** : loving the updates! Coleman is/was an online HUSNG specialist, playing under the name mrGr33N13 or something like that. He won over $1m from HUSNGs in 2013, but think he has locked his SN on SS now. Like you say, he has now burst on to the live scene in style. Think we will be seeing alot more of him! Posted by chicknMelt
Hes a beast. One of the most creative players in the game.
He got his break by railing olivier busquest who was at the time the only player to make $1m playing husngs. Colman used to call out his hole cards on the rail. He must have got a few right as busquets subsequently staked and coached him. Hes now seen as the end boss in hypers.
His table chat is the stuff of legend, not for the right reasons.
It wasn't until Tikay said her partners name above that I realised who she is....I had her on my direct right in an Aria tournament back in May. Got chatting to her during our hour or so together. I think I'm right in saying she lives in the Swindon area, and her and her partner host the occasional high stakes home game.
When the topic of online poker arose, I said I played on Sky and she reeled off various names including Tikay (of course), Carlo and Coxylboro amongst others that she knew.
Very nice lady, and I was very surprised when she said she was playing the senior event in this series, as she didn't look anywhere near 'senior' enough. Unlike others Tony Sure she also mentioned a deep run and good cash in the ladies event last year, maybe $10/11k or so.
Lynne Beaumont! It wasn't until Tikay said her partners name above that I realised who she is....I had her on my direct right in an Aria tournament back in May. Got chatting to her during our hour or so together. I think I'm right in saying she lives in the Swindon area, and her and her partner host the occasional high stakes home game. When the topic of online poker arose, I said I played on Sky and she reeled off various names including Tikay (of course), Carlo and Coxylboro amongst others that she knew. Very nice lady, and I was very surprised when she said she was playing the senior event in this series, as she didn't look anywhere near 'senior' enough. Unlike others Tony Sure she also mentioned a deep run and good cash in the ladies event last year, maybe $10/11k or so. Posted by hhyftrftdr
Correct on all counts.
She is such a lovely lady, too, with exemplary manners & table demeaneur. Comes from good stock I imagine, as she is very well spoken, & always dresses impeccably, her trademark being fashionable silk scarves.
She has a quite remarkable record in Las Vegas, with no less than 43 Tournament Cashes there, including SEVEN Tournament victories to her credit, of which, & this must be almost unprecendented for a Brit, SIX wins @ Wynn.
She finished 11th in last year's WSOP Ladies Event for $9,805, & chopped the Seniors @ Golden Nugget last year for just north of $12,000. Amazingly, her partner, James Browning, was recorded as finishing 3rd in the same event.
Lynne has plenty of UK cashes, too, & in aggregate, her lifetime Live cashes are just shy of $500,000 now.
As promised, an end-of-Day 1 update on Event 61 Difficult to compare but the last time a 10K stud event was held was in 2011 (so before Black Friday) there was 126 entrants. Ben Yu is a great person for reports like this as he takes very little typing, and it is him who is the overnight leader, with James Obst (not too long) and Nikolay Losev (getting longer) in second and third. The "usual" suspects from these shores for the 10K events, Richard Ashby, Stephen Chidwick & Matthew Ashton are all present and correct, as are Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Fabrice Soulier, 2011 winner Bertrand Grospellier, another former winner John Monnete, Daniel Negreanu & Gabe Kaplan. And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day. 58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid. Posted by FCHD
I hope you don't mind, but I "stole" your comments & Posted them on another Forum, (with acknowledgement to you) on the Diary of a very close friend of mine, who is a genuine Romany Gypsy. You probably know that millions of Romany Gypsies were sent to the gas chambers & were victims of the Holocaust, so I knew the story would fascinate him.
Amongst the replies, this one from Tom, my Gypsy friend....
".....Fascinating!
At $17, his book is the most expensive I've seen on Kindle.
Also, another close friend of mine, Ralph, who is Jewish, wrote this lovely anecdote in reply.....
"....I'm sure that I played some PLO with him at The Venetian a few years ago.
We were sat next to each other, I spotted the camp tattoo on his forearm and discretely (I thought), having introduced myself and been in friendly conversation for a while, tried to ask him a few questions about it but he said that he didn't like to talk about The Holocaust at the poker table.
Lovely man, and what a life he's led. I hope he wins....."
I thought the Henry story would be right up your street Tikay, glad you enjoyed it.
He's still in as I type, on the bubble of the 10K Stud, as is Richard Ashby, Phil Hellmuth and another player who life hasn't always dealt the nuts to, Shirley Rosario.
Edit - and with Vladimir Schmelev going out in 17th place, Henry and the other 15 players are in the money.
I thought the Henry story would be right up your street Tikay, glad you enjoyed it. He's still in as I type, on the bubble of the 10K Stud, as is Richard Ashby, Phil Hellmuth and another player who life hasn't always dealt the nuts to, Shirley Rosario. Edit - and with Vladimir Schmelev going out in 17th place, Henry and the other 15 players are in the money. Posted by FCHD
Wonderful news.
Who said old blokes can't play poker? Terms & Conditions apply, of course......
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions **** Trickett succumbs to variance, Lynne Beaumont collects over $250K **** : loving the updates! Coleman is/was an online HUSNG specialist, playing under the name mrGr33N13 or something like that. He won over $1m from HUSNGs in 2013, but think he has locked his SN on SS now. Like you say, he has now burst on to the live scene in style. Think we will be seeing alot more of him! Posted by chicknMelt
Don't know if anyone follows the weekly Premier League Poker shows (been on for month and still running) but Dan Colman is playing in it.
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants Jared Jaffee has a WPT crown and a number of WSOP cashes, but takes home his first WSOP bracelet by winning Event 58.
He dispatched Joseph Allen in double-quick time in the semi-final, and then after a more protracted affair got the better of Mike Watson by going runner-runner on the turn & river to complete a straight. Watson had earlier beat Mark Herm in his semi.
Tikay won't like Jaffee (who also collected $405K), he wears a backwards baseball cap.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants Phillip **** replicated what his girlfriend Loni Harwood did almost a year to the day by taking down his first bracelet, and depositing $286K to the joint account.
**** came back from a 6-1 chip deficit heads up against Zack Milchman to win the tournament, with Michael Bess the third placed player.
Of the players mentioned yesterday, David Williams couldn't hold on to the chip lead and exited in 6th, Matt Glantz 7th and Melissa Burr in 13th.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants Two-time bracelet winner Steve Sung almost multipled his start-of-day stack by 20 to end Day 2 as the big chip leader of the 24 remaining players.
Sung leads a very Euro-heavy leaderboard, with Erwann Pechaux from France in 2nd, Thomas Dietl from Germany 3rd and players from Denmark & Italy 4th & 5th.
Martin Malone was top Brit going into Day 2 and ended the event as best Brit, departing in 51st for almost $10K, Tom Middleton maintained station just behind Malone, while Barny Boatman, Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Roberto Romanello & James Earl all had smaller scores.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants The Henry Orenstein story I mentioned yesterday seems to have attracted some interest, and I'm glad to say the story still has legs.
Henry lies 8th of the 9 players going into the final day of the table, with Todd Brunson lying atop the standings and Phil Hellmuth looking to make yet another final table.
Richard Ashby was the last player busted on Day 2, and will pick up $26299 for his efforts
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH Day 1a of the Little One for One Drop and the WSOP are showing that there were 2181 entries.
This will include numerous re-entries, JC Tran had to rebuy 5 times in addition to his original stake and still isn't on the Day 2 listing so he'll be able to try again on Day 1b
Cuong Van Nguyen has the biggest stack at the end of 1a from Jason Wheeler & Preston Harwell, with Joe Laming lying as top UK player in 36th. Too many other Brits to mention them all at this stage, but Chris Moorman & Sunny Chattha.
Players who have chips at the end of 1a are not permitted to buy back in on 1b, meaning a few pros with very short stacks made what would look like reckless shoves late on as they thought to come back tomorrow with a new entry and a new stack was better for them than trying to grind up a chip and a chair.
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed - 485 entrants The final mixed event of the series has seen a field of 485 dwindled down to 86 after the 10 levels of play.
Bryn Kenny has the lead but it is a fragil eone with players like Scott Clements and Justin Bonomo close behind.
Stuart Rutter appears to be the only GB player left in the event, but Mel Judah, who Tikay pointed out last year is an Aussie resident in London, also still has chips.
In the Player of the Year race, Brandon Shack-Harris made day 2 (in decent shape) but George Danzer didn't.
Also through - Victor Ramdin, Allen Cunningham, Daniel Negreanu, Jeremy Ausmus, Marcel Luske (haven't heard that name much this series), Chris Moneymaker, Bruno Fitoussi, Berry Johnston and with the smallest stack of all, Martin Stazsko.
To Start Today WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO The penultimate event, the big one starts on Saturday...
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions **** One Drop goes to Daniel Colman (who?), root for Henry Orenstein, Chad Brown RIP **** : Wonderful news. Who said old blokes can't play poker? Terms & Conditions apply, of course...... Posted by Tikay10
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions **** One Drop goes to Daniel Colman (who?), root for Henry Orenstein, Chad Brown RIP **** : More like "old blokes can play stud" perhaps? Posted by FCHD
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Loving these Updates, thank you.
I gather from his Staking thread elsewhere that Stu Rutter exited the Limit O8 subsequent to your report.
Also, Alex Goulder keeps a Diary on another Forum, & he wrote this 2 or 3 hours ago.....
"....Really brutal day - started off great, turning 75k into 105k in the first half hour. Average was around 35k at this point, then lost a 155k pot with 88 vs JJ on KJ85r, he bets flop 5100, I and one other call, turn he bets 28k with 35k back or something. So cold, can never fold, and it's to have over 4x average itm of a bracelet event with 150 left.
Felt like a real punch to the stomach, then grinded 20-30bbs for an hour or two, laddered some spots then reshoved AQ into AK, gg.
Did some therapy shopping for a couple hours after and now getting ready to go out for a nice meal with everyone then maybe a show....."
Have to say, the performance by Lynne Beaumont was outstanding. And if she wins that "race", she could well have gone Top 3, or even won it.
Tremendous stuff from, essentially, a recreational player, & her man, James Browning, must be chuffed to bits.
WSOP56 - $1,000 NLH - 2525 entrants
Event 56 and it's $403K first prize has gone to Mike Kachan who outlasted 2524 other players.
He beat Jeff Blenkarn heads-up at the end of a final table that lasted a longer than most would have thought due to the general short-naturedness of the stacks when a lot of all-ins resulted in double-ups rather than knockouts.
Richard Milne was the only British player to make the later stages, busting in 8th place but picking up a very nice $39K.
WSOP57 - $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop NLH - 42 entrants
With all the huge names from the world of poker still sitting on the final table, it was someone who wasn't really known on the live scene 3 months ago, Daniel Colman who won the huge $15million first prize and the platinum bracelet.
Colman, from Massachusetts, is a heads-up specialist and when he got to the final two against Daniel Negreanu, Colman gradually squeezed his advantage home over 46 hands and took the title when he called the Canadian's shove (with A4) holding KQ. An A-J-4 gave Negreanu two pair on the flop, Colman hitting his gutshot with a 10 on the turn and the river failing to give Negreanu his full house.
Colman sprang onto the live scene winning the Super High Roller event at the EPT Grand Final, reached the semi-finals of the 10K heads up here, and has now leapt all the way to 6th in the all-time money standings
This was Negreanu's 2nd runner-up spot this series, and the $8million he won has lifted him to the top of the all-time tournament winnings list.
Tom Hall was the bubble boy busting on the very first hand of Day 3, but Paul Newey used his short stack to ladder up to 7th place and collect $1.4million
All time money-list according to Hendon Mob
1. Negreanu $29.8m
2. Esfandiari $26.2m
3. Ivey $21.4m
4. Seidel $20.4m
5. Trickett $20.0m
6. Colman $18.2m
7. Hellmuth $18.1m
8. Juanda $16.0m
9. M Mizrachi $14.6m
10. Siever $12.6m
I think I'd recognise 9 of the 10 if I saw them in the street, but not Colman!
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants
Ten players will come back for the end of the 4-handed section of the event where they will play down to 4 players and then it becomes a heads-up knockout.
Jared Jaffee leads a strong 10-player line-up with Mark Herm & Brandon Cantu close behind, and the likes of Xiao Peng, Jeff Gross & Mike Watson still involved.
No UK players remain, with IH8PALACE Tim Davie having his second deep run of the series, collecting nearly $10K for 27th, finishing spot ahead of Daniel McAulay.
Other GB cashers - Trevor Reardon, Alex Goulder, Ashley Locker, Tom Middleton, Barkatul Mohammed, John Shipley, William Jones, Liv Boeree & Mark Teltscher.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants
Twenty come back for Day 3, the last dedicated High-Low day of the series, and it's David Williams who holds the overnight lead. He has a 20% chip lead over next placed Joe Mitchell, with Matt Glantz in third.
Scott Abrans, Brett Richey, John D'Agostino and Justin Bonomo are still active, as is Melissa Burr who has four top 10 finishes (including 3 final tables) already.
As with event 58, no GB players to fight it out for the bracelet, in fact only Stephen Chidwick made the cash, and that was a min-cash of $4828 in 52nd place.
Player of the Year news is that George Danzer busted before the cash but Brandon Shack-Harris ended up in 34th. If you've a degree in maths and can understand the POY formula, I'm sure you could work out whether that is enough to move him ahead of Danzer atop the standings.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
Another event showing an increase in numbers against last year's equivalent event, but only a small increase of less than 1%. Still, an increase is an increase.
Chris Kolla is the chip leader after eliminating Chris Moorman on the very last hand of the night when the German's pocket 7's held up against the Brit's A6.
Israel, USA, Japan, Canada, Ireland, Sweden & Romania are all represented inside the Top 10 but you have to look down to 24th to see the top British player - Martin Malone.
Tom Middleton is only 300 chips behind Malone in 26th and Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Barny Boatman, Joshua Green, Vasileios Korkas, Robert McAdam, Roberto Romanello, David Stonehouse, Peter Akery & Simon Taylor all having chips to take forward to Day 2.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants
Still in play as I type, with 57 of 102 left. Full update to follow later.
To Start Today
Jul 2nd
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed
Difficult to compare but the last time a 10K stud event was held was in 2011 (so before Black Friday) there was 126 entrants.
Ben Yu is a great person for reports like this as he takes very little typing, and it is him who is the overnight leader, with James Obst (not too long) and Nikolay Losev (getting longer) in second and third.
The "usual" suspects from these shores for the 10K events, Richard Ashby, Stephen Chidwick & Matthew Ashton are all present and correct, as are Todd Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Fabrice Soulier, 2011 winner Bertrand Grospellier, another former winner John Monnete, Daniel Negreanu & Gabe Kaplan.
And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day.
58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid.
I posted a message in the show thread on Sunday about how the WSOP had honoured Chad Brown with an honorary bracelet.
Chad never managed to win a bracelet proper, he finished 2nd twice and 3rd once, but was regarded as one of the best players without a bracelet and was regularly tipped as the most likely player without one to burst through. He was one of those players who no one seemed to have a bad word to say about. He was so good that he was awarded the Bluff Magazine "player of the year" in 2006. He was married to fellow poker pro Vanessa Rousso from 2009-2012.
He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2011, and has recently been in a Hospice, very ill indeed. Far too ill to attend the WSOP's touching ceremony last Saturday, but he did receive the bracelet and friends were able to put it on his wrist.
Chad Brown died today, aged 52.
. And one final player to mention - another former winner of the stud, back in 1996. One Henry Orenstein, who deserves to be more famous than he is. He is 90 years old, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent time in concentration camps and has gone on to be an entrepreneur and philanthropist, but his best known contribution to poker is that he was the inventor of the hole-card-cam. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008. He did the "shuffle up and deal" at the start of the event and sits nicely inside the top 20 at the end of the day. 58 players will come back, 16 places will get paid.
Posted by FCHD
It wasn't until Tikay said her partners name above that I realised who she is....I had her on my direct right in an Aria tournament back in May. Got chatting to her during our hour or so together. I think I'm right in saying she lives in the Swindon area, and her and her partner host the occasional high stakes home game.
When the topic of online poker arose, I said I played on Sky and she reeled off various names including Tikay (of course), Carlo and Coxylboro amongst others that she knew.
Very nice lady, and I was very surprised when she said she was playing the senior event in this series, as she didn't look anywhere near 'senior' enough. Unlike others Tony
She is such a lovely lady, too, with exemplary manners & table demeaneur. Comes from good stock I imagine, as she is very well spoken, & always dresses impeccably, her trademark being fashionable silk scarves.
She has a quite remarkable record in Las Vegas, with no less than 43 Tournament Cashes there, including SEVEN Tournament victories to her credit, of which, & this must be almost unprecendented for a Brit, SIX wins @ Wynn.
She finished 11th in last year's WSOP Ladies Event for $9,805, & chopped the Seniors @ Golden Nugget last year for just north of $12,000. Amazingly, her partner, James Browning, was recorded as finishing 3rd in the same event.
Lynne has plenty of UK cashes, too, & in aggregate, her lifetime Live cashes are just shy of $500,000 now.
A quite remarkable record.
Here is his Wiki page.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Orenstein
I hope you don't mind, but I "stole" your comments & Posted them on another Forum, (with acknowledgement to you) on the Diary of a very close friend of mine, who is a genuine Romany Gypsy. You probably know that millions of Romany Gypsies were sent to the gas chambers & were victims of the Holocaust, so I knew the story would fascinate him.
Amongst the replies, this one from Tom, my Gypsy friend....
".....Fascinating!
At $17, his book is the most expensive I've seen on Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/Shall-Live-Surviving-Holocaust-Against-ebook/dp/B0048EKO0U ....."
Also, another close friend of mine, Ralph, who is Jewish, wrote this lovely anecdote in reply.....
"....I'm sure that I played some PLO with him at The Venetian a few years ago.
We were sat next to each other, I spotted the camp tattoo on his forearm and discretely (I thought), having introduced myself and been in friendly conversation for a while, tried to ask him a few questions about it but he said that he didn't like to talk about The Holocaust at the poker table.
Lovely man, and what a life he's led. I hope he wins....."
Here is the great man.
He's still in as I type, on the bubble of the 10K Stud, as is Richard Ashby, Phil Hellmuth and another player who life hasn't always dealt the nuts to, Shirley Rosario.
Edit - and with Vladimir Schmelev going out in 17th place, Henry and the other 15 players are in the money.
Who said old blokes can't play poker? Terms & Conditions apply, of course......
WSOP58 - $1,500 Mixed-Max NLH - 9 handed/6 handed/4 handed/HU - 1475 entrants
Jared Jaffee has a WPT crown and a number of WSOP cashes, but takes home his first WSOP bracelet by winning Event 58.
He dispatched Joseph Allen in double-quick time in the semi-final, and then after a more protracted affair got the better of Mike Watson by going runner-runner on the turn & river to complete a straight. Watson had earlier beat Mark Herm in his semi.
Tikay won't like Jaffee (who also collected $405K), he wears a backwards baseball cap.
WSOP59 - $3,000 Limit Omaha High-Low - 457 entrants
Phillip **** replicated what his girlfriend Loni Harwood did almost a year to the day by taking down his first bracelet, and depositing $286K to the joint account.
**** came back from a 6-1 chip deficit heads up against Zack Milchman to win the tournament, with Michael Bess the third placed player.
Of the players mentioned yesterday, David Williams couldn't hold on to the chip lead and exited in 6th, Matt Glantz 7th and Melissa Burr in 13th.
WSOP60 - $1,500 NLH - 2563 entrants
Two-time bracelet winner Steve Sung almost multipled his start-of-day stack by 20 to end Day 2 as the big chip leader of the 24 remaining players.
Sung leads a very Euro-heavy leaderboard, with Erwann Pechaux from France in 2nd, Thomas Dietl from Germany 3rd and players from Denmark & Italy 4th & 5th.
Martin Malone was top Brit going into Day 2 and ended the event as best Brit, departing in 51st for almost $10K, Tom Middleton maintained station just behind Malone, while Barny Boatman, Iqbal Ahmed, William Jones, Roberto Romanello & James Earl all had smaller scores.
WSOP61 - $10,000 Seven Card Stud - 102 entrants
The Henry Orenstein story I mentioned yesterday seems to have attracted some interest, and I'm glad to say the story still has legs.
Henry lies 8th of the 9 players going into the final day of the table, with Todd Brunson lying atop the standings and Phil Hellmuth looking to make yet another final table.
Richard Ashby was the last player busted on Day 2, and will pick up $26299 for his efforts
WSOP62 - $1,111 Little One For One Drop NLH
Day 1a of the Little One for One Drop and the WSOP are showing that there were 2181 entries.
This will include numerous re-entries, JC Tran had to rebuy 5 times in addition to his original stake and still isn't on the Day 2 listing so he'll be able to try again on Day 1b
Cuong Van Nguyen has the biggest stack at the end of 1a from Jason Wheeler & Preston Harwell, with Joe Laming lying as top UK player in 36th. Too many other Brits to mention them all at this stage, but Chris Moorman & Sunny Chattha.
Players who have chips at the end of 1a are not permitted to buy back in on 1b, meaning a few pros with very short stacks made what would look like reckless shoves late on as they thought to come back tomorrow with a new entry and a new stack was better for them than trying to grind up a chip and a chair.
WSOP63 - $1,500 10-Game Mix, Six Handed - 485 entrants
The final mixed event of the series has seen a field of 485 dwindled down to 86 after the 10 levels of play.
Bryn Kenny has the lead but it is a fragil eone with players like Scott Clements and Justin Bonomo close behind.
Stuart Rutter appears to be the only GB player left in the event, but Mel Judah, who Tikay pointed out last year is an Aussie resident in London, also still has chips.
In the Player of the Year race, Brandon Shack-Harris made day 2 (in decent shape) but George Danzer didn't.
Also through - Victor Ramdin, Allen Cunningham, Daniel Negreanu, Jeremy Ausmus, Marcel Luske (haven't heard that name much this series), Chris Moneymaker, Bruno Fitoussi, Berry Johnston and with the smallest stack of all, Martin Stazsko.
To Start Today
WSOP64 - $10,000 PLO
The penultimate event, the big one starts on Saturday...
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