No fewer than five hands were all-in and calls on the bubble.
Hand 1.
Stuart Rutter (yes that Stuart Rutter) goes all in with A-J on a jack-high flop and is called by Daniel Alaei with J-9. Action is paused.
Hand 2 Mark Newhouse (see above) makes quads to eliminate John Dwyer who had (only!) a full house, meaning the bubble has burst but play continues to see if anyone else busts out on the hand-for-hand hands
Hand 3 Zhen Cai shoves with Queens, get called with Aces and Zhen is gone
Hand 4 Kori Hunter shoved with aces, called with 9-8 by Harry Kaczka, a flop of Q-8-7 gives Kazcka a pair and a 9 on the river gave him two pair and busted Hunter's aces
Hand 5 Paul Tedeschi was another player to go all in with Aces, called by Queens of Arthur Morris. A flop of 7-3-9 with two diamonds gave Morris runner-runner outs but hearts on the turn and river saw Tedeschi survive and double up.
Meanwhile the Rutter/Alaei hand was still on pause.
When everyone finally got over there, two bricks on the turn and river meant the Sky analyst doubled up through Alaei and made the cash! Stu now has 174K.
Zhen, Hunter & Dwyer split the 693rd placed 18K prize money, but there is a free Main Event seat for the official bubble boy so they drew cards for it and Zhen Cai was the lucky(-ish) player
Since then, Craig McCorkell has had a much needed double-up to take him to over 200K
8:00am update, and it's still good news regarding our Birmingham correspondent, after being one of five players at risk on the bubble, he has continued to chip up and the last I heard had over 800K.
Just over 300 players remain, all of which are guaranteed a minimum of $33K, with a pay jump to $38K not far away.
One player who isn't in the event any more is Phil Ivey, falling to recent bracelet winner John Kabbaj in 430th place.
i am delighted that stuart rutter continues and improves by the hour.
i have chatted to stuart on a few occasions and know that he is the sort of bloke you would aspire to be more like. you know; taller, thinner, less bald, better pokerist, younger, richer, genuinely nice and still in the wsop main event. otherwise he has nothing going for him.
i am delighted that stuart rutter continues and improves by the hour. i have chatted to stuart on a few occasions and know that he is the sort of bloke you would aspire to be more like. you know; taller, thinner, less bald, better pokerist, younger, richer, genuinely nice and still in the wsop main event. otherwise he has nothing going for him. good luck stuart. Posted by aussie09
Day 4 is over and we have just 291 players still dreaming of the $10M prize, the platnum bracelet and the place in poker history.
Glad to say that one of those players is Sky Channel 861 analyst Stuart Rutter. And it could have been oh so different. On the pure cash bubble, with play at hand-for-hand, five players were all in and needing to win the hand to meet the first objective, making the cash.
Stuart got it all in with AJ on a Jack-high flop against the J9 of Daniel Alaei and after what must have been an age waiting for all the ESPN management of filiming all 5 hands in sequence, Stuart's hand held up (unlike 3 of the other 4) and just like that 690-odd players were able to celebrate making at least an $8K profit on their $10K entry fee.
Matthew Haugen has chipped up to have a stack approaching 3 million with another little-known player Zach Giganti in 2nd and the more experienced Canadian Griffin Benger in third.
Brits still in contention are led by 2014 bracelet winner John Kabaaj, who had earlier eliminated Phil Ivey. In order, the others from "over here" that bagged up chips over night are Craig McCorkell, Lee Taylor, Stuart Rutter, Gianfranco Vassali, Christopher Sly, Iaren Lightbourne, Steven Warburton, Jerome Bradpiece, Louis Salter & Jonathan McCann.
Brian Hastings & Leif Force are perhaps the biggest names of the bigger stacks. Mark Newhouse is going for back-to-back November Nines, Martin Jacobsen dropped a little in relative terms but is still in there fighting, along with Rep Porter, Mukul Puhuja, Maria Ho, Jeff Madsen & David Einhorn.
Of those who bowed out gracefully, Ivey I've already mentioned, Olivier Busquet, Daniel Alaei, Phil Galfond & Faraz Jaka are gone two and in almost the last hand of the evening Ian Simpson from Northumberland said bye-bye to the Main Event too.
Stuart's Day 5 table
1 Stuart Rutter (GBR) 692K 2 Ivan Radiv (ISR) 715K 3 Geoffrey Rasmussen (USA) 489K 4 Darlene Lee (CAN) 640K 5 Joseph Lacarrubba (USA) 247K 6 John Gorush (USA) 1057K 7 Huy Nguyen (USA) 157K 8 Juan Rodriguez (USA) 9 Pierre Canali (FRA) 587K
There may well be another Brit in, Paul Senter in 224th place with 313K chips
The delay between Stuart & Daniel Alaei getting it all in on the flop on the bubble and waiting for all the other bubble hands to play out was about 20 minutes!
Current payout level is still $33,734. Next two steps 226th-288th will receive $38,634 163th-225th will receive $44,728 Once we're down to 100 players the payjumps start to happen every 9 players and the amounts involved of course increase in bigger increments.
Hi FCHD, I seen your post, so I thought I would say hi , I hope your well. Be lucky at the tables. You take care ok FCHD. Bye just now , hope to see you soon. From truly56
Unless I have missed it did Redmond just disappear? Best of luck to Stu, wouldn't it be great if Sky Poker had someone connected to it go really deep. Keep the good work up Nick
Think Paul Senter is 'Senterpied' (or similar) online, bit of a beast.
Griffin Benger highlights how Sharkscope isn't the be all and end all....Railed him ( playing as Flush entity) a while back when he was HU in the weekly special on another site (imagine if a guy called Victor wanted to bet....). About 15k up top, and he was getting a fair bit of abuse from randoms who couldn't believe that someone who was a significant amount down on the site could be playing for a big fat pay day.
First hour or so of play has seen 18 eliminations, among them Jonathan McCann of Cumbria, Day 2a chip leader Tim Stansifer plus Mike Sowers. Also gone - John Andress from a place which sounds like it should be a hotbed of poker - "Doylestown" and the entertaingly named Duane Wellnitz & Gennady Shimelfarb.
Kyle Keranen is the new chip leader, the first player over 3 million.
Players are on their first break of the day at the end of Level 20.
Only 232 have made it this far, and the good news as far as Channel 861 and SkyPoker.com is concerned is that the latest info we have on Stuart is that he has increased his stack to about 920K
Kyle Keranan has moved on to about 3.5 million as chip leader, but recent eliminations include high-stakes PLO specialist Ole Amundsgard, bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi (who had been freerolling this due to him being last years bubble boy) and Kory Kilpatrick who won the shootout event earlier in the series. Preliminary readings of the players left indicate to me that John Kabbaj is therefore the last 2014 bracelet winner standing although I could have missed someone.
Mark Newhouse has approximately doubled his stack in his bid for back-to-back November Nines (I also can't see anyone else who has ever been on a WSOP ME final table left, whether November Nine or from before that era).
Leif Force, Mukul Pahuja & Brian Hastings all chipped up as well, as did one of the few female players left, Darlene Lee.
Edit - Stuart is now on the same table as the chip leader
Table 422 Kyle Keranen 3,525,000 Curtis Rystadt 1,200,000 Stuart Rutter 970,000 Adam Coats 870,000 Cristian Rotondo 710,000 Casey Stewart 560,000 Timur Margolin 500,000 Scott Blckman 351,000 (he actually has a further "A" in his name but the filter won't let me post that name!) Joseph Lacarrubba 201,000
And in a further development, that new table has now been shifted to the ESPN feature "mothership" table. It shows how light the field is in really big names that for the first level, Maria Ho was the main attraction for the cameras on the table and now it is someone (Keranen) who hasn't had a recorded live cash in two years although he did come 38th in the 2012 ME. I think this will be a good move for Stuart as he'll almost certainly be more at home with the lights and cameras than the other players.
Midnight update - just cracked the 200 players left barrier. Stu on the ESPN mothership with 1.28million. Most other Brits still rolling along, but we've lost Louis Salter in the last hour.
One player who's having a good level is Michigan's Jason Johnson. He's already made two final tables including the Millionaire Maker this series, and has chipped up to 1.1million.
I've also just noticed Vitaliy Lunkin still in - he won a bracelet in 2008 and a special 40th anniversary tournament in 2009, and has since been very successful in EPT weekends, winning the Super High Roller at Barcelona last August and and a side-event Turbo at the Grand Final in Monte Carlo two months ago.
Midnight update - just cracked the 200 players left barrier. Stu on the ESPN mothership with 1.28million. Most other Brits still rolling along, but we've lost Louis Salter in the last hour. One player who's having a good level is Michigan's Jason Johnson. He's already made two final tables including the Millionaire Maker this series, and has chipped up to 1.1million. I've also just noticed Vitaliy Lunkin still in - he won a bracelet in 2008 and a special 40th anniversary tournament in 2009, and has since been very successful in EPT weekends, winning the Super High Roller at Barcelona last August and and a side-event Turbo at the Grand Final in Monte Carlo two months ago. Posted by FCHD
Is it possible to watch on ESPN player? . .says no events at present!!! I'm confused. :-(
No, no live coverage or stream. ESPN are recording highlights to be broadcast in the run up to the November 9.
Anyway, 7am update - good news!
127 or so still in, among them 7 Brits. Craig McCorkell & Lee Taylor each have about 2.6m, Iaren Lightbourne 2.1m, STUART RUTTER 1.3m, Gianfranco Visali, Paul Senter & Chris Sly all around the 900K mark. They are in the early stages of Level 24, 15K/30K with a 5K ante.
Stuart seems to have been moving with a pretty narrow range all the time I've been asleep, recorded chip counts for him over the last few hours vary from about 1m to 1.3m with no individual hands listed.
Bruno Politano proves that at least one Brazilian somewhere is doing OK as he now has the chip lead with over 6m, and it is Mark Newhouse in his quest for back-to-back November 9s who is closest to him in second with 4.9m
Three GB players who were knocked out overnight UK time
Steven Warburton bust in 182nd for $44728. Not long later John Kabbaj went out in 179th for the same amount, and in the next pay level ($52141) Jerome Bradpiece busted in 157th.
We've also lost Brian Hastings, Rep Porter, David Einhorn, Irishman Derek Murray and previous big stacks Andrew Liporace & Mehrdad Yousefzadeh.
Results are now showing 123 left, with current eliminations up to and including 100th place picking up $52141, then the payjumps start to come thick and fast with the returns increasing every 9 players.
Comments
Ronnie Bardah (see above) has just hit a double up to make his bid for the record a little bit more secure.
One player with a 16 BB stack has just been issued with a one-orbit penalty. If he's here to cash, it might be the best penalty he'll ever serve.
Fraser McIntyre
Andrew Hulme
Alex Jennings
Alberto Gomez
Looks like Gianfranco Vasalli from Ramsgate can be added to the GB survivors though, unless there is a Ramsgate in Gabon.
Hand 1.
Stuart Rutter (yes that Stuart Rutter) goes all in with A-J on a jack-high flop and is called by Daniel Alaei with J-9. Action is paused.
Hand 2
Mark Newhouse (see above) makes quads to eliminate John Dwyer who had (only!) a full house, meaning the bubble has burst but play continues to see if anyone else busts out on the hand-for-hand hands
Hand 3
Zhen Cai shoves with Queens, get called with Aces and Zhen is gone
Hand 4
Kori Hunter shoved with aces, called with 9-8 by Harry Kaczka, a flop of Q-8-7 gives Kazcka a pair and a 9 on the river gave him two pair and busted Hunter's aces
Hand 5
Paul Tedeschi was another player to go all in with Aces, called by Queens of Arthur Morris. A flop of 7-3-9 with two diamonds gave Morris runner-runner outs but hearts on the turn and river saw Tedeschi survive and double up.
Meanwhile the Rutter/Alaei hand was still on pause.
When everyone finally got over there, two bricks on the turn and river meant the Sky analyst doubled up through Alaei and made the cash! Stu now has 174K.
Zhen, Hunter & Dwyer split the 693rd placed 18K prize money, but there is a free Main Event seat for the official bubble boy so they drew cards for it and Zhen Cai was the lucky(-ish) player
Since then, Craig McCorkell has had a much needed double-up to take him to over 200K
He has made a record fifth-successive Main Event cash, and he's since knocked out Eric Cloutier to increase his stack.
Just over 300 players remain, all of which are guaranteed a minimum of $33K, with a pay jump to $38K not far away.
One player who isn't in the event any more is Phil Ivey, falling to recent bracelet winner John Kabbaj in 430th place.
i am delighted that stuart rutter continues and improves by the hour.
i have chatted to stuart on a few occasions and know that he is the sort of bloke you would aspire to be more like. you know; taller, thinner, less bald, better pokerist, younger, richer, genuinely nice and still in the wsop main event. otherwise he has nothing going for him.
good luck stuart.
Glad to say that one of those players is Sky Channel 861 analyst Stuart Rutter. And it could have been oh so different. On the pure cash bubble, with play at hand-for-hand, five players were all in and needing to win the hand to meet the first objective, making the cash.
Stuart got it all in with AJ on a Jack-high flop against the J9 of Daniel Alaei and after what must have been an age waiting for all the ESPN management of filiming all 5 hands in sequence, Stuart's hand held up (unlike 3 of the other 4) and just like that 690-odd players were able to celebrate making at least an $8K profit on their $10K entry fee.
Matthew Haugen has chipped up to have a stack approaching 3 million with another little-known player Zach Giganti in 2nd and the more experienced Canadian Griffin Benger in third.
Brits still in contention are led by 2014 bracelet winner John Kabaaj, who had earlier eliminated Phil Ivey. In order, the others from "over here" that bagged up chips over night are Craig McCorkell, Lee Taylor, Stuart Rutter, Gianfranco Vassali, Christopher Sly, Iaren Lightbourne, Steven Warburton, Jerome Bradpiece, Louis Salter & Jonathan McCann.
Brian Hastings & Leif Force are perhaps the biggest names of the bigger stacks. Mark Newhouse is going for back-to-back November Nines, Martin Jacobsen dropped a little in relative terms but is still in there fighting, along with Rep Porter, Mukul Puhuja, Maria Ho, Jeff Madsen & David Einhorn.
Of those who bowed out gracefully, Ivey I've already mentioned, Olivier Busquet, Daniel Alaei, Phil Galfond & Faraz Jaka are gone two and in almost the last hand of the evening Ian Simpson from Northumberland said bye-bye to the Main Event too.
Stuart's Day 5 table
1 Stuart Rutter (GBR) 692K
2 Ivan Radiv (ISR) 715K
3 Geoffrey Rasmussen (USA) 489K
4 Darlene Lee (CAN) 640K
5 Joseph Lacarrubba (USA) 247K
6 John Gorush (USA) 1057K
7 Huy Nguyen (USA) 157K
8 Juan Rodriguez (USA)
9 Pierre Canali (FRA) 587K
There may well be another Brit in, Paul Senter in 224th place with 313K chips
The delay between Stuart & Daniel Alaei getting it all in on the flop on the bubble and waiting for all the other bubble hands to play out was about 20 minutes!
Current payout level is still $33,734. Next two steps
226th-288th will receive $38,634
163th-225th will receive $44,728
Once we're down to 100 players the payjumps start to happen every 9 players and the amounts involved of course increase in bigger increments.
Best of luck to Stu, wouldn't it be great if Sky Poker had someone connected to it go really deep.
Keep the good work up
Nick
Think Paul Senter is 'Senterpied' (or similar) online, bit of a beast.
Griffin Benger highlights how Sharkscope isn't the be all and end all....Railed him ( playing as Flush entity) a while back when he was HU in the weekly special on another site (imagine if a guy called Victor wanted to bet....). About 15k up top, and he was getting a fair bit of abuse from randoms who couldn't believe that someone who was a significant amount down on the site could be playing for a big fat pay day.
Pretty sure the abusers didn't know who he was
Kyle Keranen is the new chip leader, the first player over 3 million.
No news on Stuart yet.
Only 232 have made it this far, and the good news as far as Channel 861 and SkyPoker.com is concerned is that the latest info we have on Stuart is that he has increased his stack to about 920K
Kyle Keranan has moved on to about 3.5 million as chip leader, but recent eliminations include high-stakes PLO specialist Ole Amundsgard, bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi (who had been freerolling this due to him being last years bubble boy) and Kory Kilpatrick who won the shootout event earlier in the series. Preliminary readings of the players left indicate to me that John Kabbaj is therefore the last 2014 bracelet winner standing although I could have missed someone.
Mark Newhouse has approximately doubled his stack in his bid for back-to-back November Nines (I also can't see anyone else who has ever been on a WSOP ME final table left, whether November Nine or from before that era).
Leif Force, Mukul Pahuja & Brian Hastings all chipped up as well, as did one of the few female players left, Darlene Lee.
Edit - Stuart is now on the same table as the chip leader
Table 422
Kyle Keranen 3,525,000
Curtis Rystadt 1,200,000
Stuart Rutter 970,000
Adam Coats 870,000
Cristian Rotondo 710,000
Casey Stewart 560,000
Timur Margolin 500,000
Scott Blckman 351,000 (he actually has a further "A" in his name but the filter won't let me post that name!)
Joseph Lacarrubba 201,000
One player who's having a good level is Michigan's Jason Johnson. He's already made two final tables including the Millionaire Maker this series, and has chipped up to 1.1million.
I've also just noticed Vitaliy Lunkin still in - he won a bracelet in 2008 and a special 40th anniversary tournament in 2009, and has since been very successful in EPT weekends, winning the Super High Roller at Barcelona last August and and a side-event Turbo at the Grand Final in Monte Carlo two months ago.
Anyway, 7am update - good news!
127 or so still in, among them 7 Brits. Craig McCorkell & Lee Taylor each have about 2.6m, Iaren Lightbourne 2.1m, STUART RUTTER 1.3m, Gianfranco Visali, Paul Senter & Chris Sly all around the 900K mark. They are in the early stages of Level 24, 15K/30K with a 5K ante.
Stuart seems to have been moving with a pretty narrow range all the time I've been asleep, recorded chip counts for him over the last few hours vary from about 1m to 1.3m with no individual hands listed.
Bruno Politano proves that at least one Brazilian somewhere is doing OK as he now has the chip lead with over 6m, and it is Mark Newhouse in his quest for back-to-back November 9s who is closest to him in second with 4.9m
Steven Warburton bust in 182nd for $44728. Not long later John Kabbaj went out in 179th for the same amount, and in the next pay level ($52141) Jerome Bradpiece busted in 157th.
We've also lost Brian Hastings, Rep Porter, David Einhorn, Irishman Derek Murray and previous big stacks Andrew Liporace & Mehrdad Yousefzadeh.
Results are now showing 123 left, with current eliminations up to and including 100th place picking up $52141, then the payjumps start to come thick and fast with the returns increasing every 9 players.