Looks like the WSOP had some trouble with their software in relation to producing the normal end-of-day reports for Event 11 as the data supplied isn't in their usual format and gives no indication of nationality etc.
Anyway, it looks like I was right about Rhys Jones having chips (he lies in 33rd position) but incorrect about Niall Farrell who doesn't appear on the Day2 startlist. Circuit grinder Stephen Hensley has the most chips with Nicholas Immekus (who had a decent run in last years ME) in second. Others in contention include Noah Schwartz, Olivier Busquet, Will Failla, Jeff Madsen & former November niner Russell Thomas.
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries The Millionaire Maker ended with 31 year old Jonathan Dimmig emerging victorious from the final table after going in as one of the short stacks. His heads-up opponent, Jeffery Coburn was also in the bottom half of the field at the start of the day while huge chip leader Stephen Graner lost a big pot in the 4th hand of the day and never really recovered and finished 6th.
The British representative, Andrew Teng, grinded a short/medium stack for hours but was knocked out in 4th for over $465K, by far his biggest live score.
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries With the Millionaire Maker and the 10K Omaha both going on at the same time, this one sort of got lost in the mix, but will be fondly remembered by Jeff Smith who got the better of Danny Nguyen heads-up.
It took 138 hands to go from nine players to two, but 164 more (and three hours) for the heads-up match.
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 178 entrants As I wrote earlier, so close and yet so far. Richard "Chufty" Ashby already has one bracelet from years past, and had an excellent chance to make it two but couldn't quiet get the job done as Brock Parker ran well when he needed to and took his 3rd bracelet and over $443K. Parker had already final tabled the 10K Razz a couple of days ago and now takes the very early lead in the Player of The Year competition. Ashby takes $274K for his efforts.
Two female players made the final table - Melissa Burr (8th) & Shirley Rosario (4th)
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants The plan was to get down to a 6-handed final table, but a very slow last level where no eliminations at all took place means that instead 10 players will come back for Day 3.
8 Americans, led by Mike Sowers (1.4m), Justin Bonomo (1.2m) and Taylor Paur (1.1m) are still in, along with 2 Germans (Sebasatian Pauli & Frank Debus) who both have short stacks. Basic maths will tell you that this means there are no UK survivors. Neil Busher was the best of the bunch (42nd, $7498) while Chun Law & Rhys Jones finished 92nd & 93rd for $3492 each.
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants Not No Limit as I implied yesterday, and you can tell by the number of entrants - way down on what it would have been for a No Limit $1500 event.
Sixty nine move through to Day 2, with two players over the 100K chip mark, Americans David Martirosyan & Matthew Damadeo with no-one else over 80K.
Joseph Cheong is close enough in 5th with another former November Niner Phil Collins inside the top thirty. Phil Ivey (again of course an ex-November Niner), Ryan Riess (not just a November Niner, but last years ME champion), Tony Gregg (last years One Drop winner) and Marvin Rettenmaier are also still involved, along with three British players - Dominic Rossookh, Kevin Allen and the venerable Barny Boatman.
63 will get paid so the bubble will burst very early on Day 2.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants The latest of the "Championship" events saw the smallest field yet, a mere 87 players of whom 36 remain (14 will get paid).
As a result, a lot of familiar names lie high up on the chip counts, with Jennifer Harman currently in the lead from John Juanda & Shawn Sheikhan. The likes of Rast, Negreanu, Ballade, Lisandro, Deeb, Mercier, Mizrachi, Hellmuth, Greenstein, Porter & Schulman remain, along with Adam Owen who the WSOP says is from Folkestone, but Folkestone in Estonia (!?!). The only Adam Owen in the Hendon Mob Database is from England but only has live cashes for a grand total of less than $6K so if it is the same guy this he is holding his own in a level far above what he has on his live record so far.
A comparitively quiet day with just 1 final table scheduled and only 4 events in play
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
After a slow last level on Day, action ensued thick and fast on Day 3. We lost Frank Debus on the very first hand of the day and three more quick eliminations gave us a final table.
61 hands was all it took to get from 6 players to 2, but the heads-up match lasted exactly 100 hands, and at the end of the day it was Justin Bonomo who emerged victorious. Bonomo claimed his first bracelet and the $449K prize a few days after he had got to the heads up in the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw.
Overnight chip leader Mike Sowers ended up in 2nd, with Daniel Strelitz in 3rd
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
The final table commenced early as 90 minutes of nine-handed play occured late on Day 2, and we're down to 8 for Day 3 as Phil Collins went out when his Queens ran into Gregory Kolo's Kings and he hit the rail like all the other former November Niners mentioned yesterday. Kolo now has the chip lead ahead of Kazuhito Oshima and Daniel Goldman.
Dominic Rossookh finished in 19th for just over $5k while Kevin Allen min-cashed in 62nd for $2443
The field has been reduced to 7 for the final table. Six of the seven are bracelet holders, yet it is the only non-bracelet holder Paul Volpe who has the advantage heading into Day 3.
Volpe has 783K chips ahead of Jason Mercier's 469K, with the rest of the FT being made up of (in chip order) Daniel Negreanu, Brian Rast, Larry Wright, John Monnette & Abe Mosseri
The only event to start today and we have what might be the biggest field for Omaha Hi/Low in WSOP history. (Last years field was 1014).
220 come back for day 2 headed by Kai Raichura ahead of Konstantin Puchkov with among those still in contention Eric Baldwin, brothers Robert & Michael Mizrachi, George Danzer, Phill Ivey, Frank Kassela, Erik Seidel, Perry Green, John Racener, Kelly Kim, Dan Kelly, Marcel Luske, John Cernuto and last year's winner Calen McNeil.
British players remaining - Matthew Ashton, Stephen Chidwick, John Kabbaj, Stuart Rutter, Seb Saffari
Thanks for updates. Just a quick question you may know the answer to I am going to Vegas on 8th June and wonder if you are allowed to rail any other events at the Rio.
Thanks for updates. Just a quick question you may know the answer to I am going to Vegas on 8th June and wonder if you are allowed to rail any other events at the Rio. Posted by Nannypat66
Hi Nanny,
I'll take the liberty of replying on FCHD's behalf.
Yes, you can rail any & all events at The Rio, though you are, literaly, "railing", as you have to stand behind a barrier.
However, all spectators are obliged to leave the Arenas (there are 3, Amazon, Brasilia, & Palma) 10 minutes before each break, & not allowed allowed to return until play resumes.
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants Gregory Kolo came in to the final table as the chip leader, and that's the way it stayed for most of the day.
After taking 38 hands for the first of the 8 remaining players to be eliminated, but only 36 for the rest of the tournament to play out as the speed of play speeded up with what looked like some very questionable calls pre-flop (but this is a Limit event so ranges will be a little bit different to a No Limit event)
Kolo won $169K to go with his first bracelet, Kazu Oshima took home $104K for second and Dean Bui $74K for third.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants What do you expect to happen when 6 of the 7 players on a final table are already bracelet holders? Yep, the other player is the one who takes it down.
Paul Volpe collected all the chips to win Event 13 and over a quarter of a million dollars beating Daniel Negreanu heads-up, denying Kid Poker what would have been his 7th bracelet.
Jason Mercier finished 3rd, Brian Rast 4th and Larry Wright (who has now cashed in this elite event 3 years in a row) was 5th.
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants Down from 220 to 26 on Day 2 and unfortunately the nearest thing to a British player is that Frenchman-in-London who seems to be having a really good series, Alexandre Luneau. He sits third in a field headed by Daniel Hirleman from James Bucci in 2nd.
Defending champion Calen McNeil is still in the race for the $ first prize, along with former ME winner Greg Raymer.
At least we have some GB cashes to report - Stuart Rutter was eliminated in 39th for $6K, the ominpresent Stephen Chidwick was 72nd for $3.9K and John Kabbaj and Matthew Ashton also finished in the money.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants With the large increases in player numbers among the "smaller" events, the field sizes in the medium events are pretty much on a par with last year (this one showing a 3 player increase). What implications this has for the ME field we don't know yet.
Brandon Cantu has already been fairly visible this series, and he ends Day 1 of Event 15 with the chip lead, and a decent lead at that with 40% more chips than his nearest opponent Barry Hutter.
Norwegian pro Andreas Hoivold who I'm sure a lot of you will have seen on various TV cash games is third, with Michael Mizrachi, Will Failla, Phil Hellmuth, Jesse Sylvia and Eric Baldwin among the top half of the gross of players who will return for Day 2.
Brits still in - Seb Saffari, Paul Newey (recently of the Sky Poker cash game) and Artem Kobylynskyi (thanks to whoever invented cut & paste for that one).
I don't normally try and lift too much direct from the PokerNews feeds, but have to mention the story of Chris Molica who departed on the very first hand (getting it all in pre-flop with AQ!) and "spent more time walking to the exit than he did in the tournament".
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants After 10 levels 348 have become 54 with Canadian Mike Leah top of the shop just ahead of Brian Tate and "Captain" Tom Franklin.
Jason Mercier (fresh from his earlier final table in Event 13) is in the top 10 with Layne Flack, Todd Brunson, Joe Cheong, Dan Kelly and one of the David Bakers still playing along with the sole British representative, Stephen Chidwick (I told you he was omnipresent)
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants Event 14 is done and dusted and the winner is Nick Kost. He came in with a little over $15K in live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob, but increased that tally by over $283K with this win. He beat Day 1 big stack Kal Raichura heads-up, with defending champion Calen McNeil making a valiant effort to repeat, but he departed in 4th. Another notable name on the final table was former ME champion Greg "Fossilman" Raymer who was knocked out in seventh.
As mentioned yesterday, the best British performance was that of 861 analyst Stuart Rutter in 39th.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants 15 players have made Day 3 of the 6-max. Five European nations ares still represented but unfortunately the UK is not amongst them. Heinz Kamutzki of Austria leads from Davidi Kitai of Belgium, with players from Russia (Vladimir Geshkenbein), Ukraine and Bosnia still in contention for the bracelet and $x first prize.
Nine of the other 10 players come from the US, with the other one being Phil Hellmuth who appears to be from a planet of his own somewhere out there in the galaxy. Hellmuth made this event his 102nd WSOP cash extending his already large lead in that category.
Only one of three British players who made Day 2 ended up "in the money", Sebastian Saffari who finished 35th for a little over $10K.
Other cashers included the last woman standing in last year's Main Event, Jackie Glazier, Brandon Cantu (who got the worst of confrontations with Hellmuth for the second time in a few days), Matt Jarvis, recent bracelet winner Paul Volpe, Andreas Hoivold, Michael Mizrachi and Jesse Sylvia
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants We're down to a final table of 8 and it's Captain Tom Franklin who holds a small lead over nearest challenger David Bell. Franklin won his only bracelet as far back as 1999.
Stephen Chidwick (it wouldn't be an FCHD WSOP update without at least one Chidwick mention) was best of the UK players in 24th, the only one to cash. Othe cashers included Todd Brunson, Layne Flack and Dan Kelly.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants A huge field as expected, last years record entry of 4406 was beaten by 19 players to set a new high mark. 468 will get paid, and we're almost there with 486 and some familiar UK names amongst them - Barny Boatman, Peter Costa and Philip Ford. Simon Trumper is still in but shown as from "Nottinguam, Georgia"
Ronald Broadway is the chip leader with among those in close contention is TV cash game veteran Sammy Farha, and Marcee Topp who had a deep run in the ME a few years ago after getting in for very cheap and had the time of her life on the feature table with November niners Sam Holden & Rob Salaburu.
Nice to see that there are plenty of other female players in contention too
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants This is apparently the first time there's been a $10K Razz event on the WSOP schedule and the 112 players who coughed up the entry fee is up on what the powers that be anticipated.
Ten levels of play have only reduced the field from 112 to 76 with up-and-coming German player Thomas Butzhammer king of the castle after Day 1 with only Todd Dakake close in chips.
Still in with a decent stack - Brian Hastings, Dan Shak, Brandon Cantu, Brandon Shack-Harris, Matt Glantz, Daniel Negreanu, Justin Bonomo and someone whose name I've forgotten. Oh yes, it's Stephen Chidwick.
Medium sized stacks - Jason Mericer, Stuart Rutter, Paul Volpe, Barry Greenstien, Matthew Ashton, Hoyt Corkins, Ted Forrest, Doyle Brunson etc.
Need a raipd double up - Brock Parker, Chris Klodnicki, Brian Townsend, Tom Schneider & Scott Siever.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants Two players, Davidi Kitai and Gordon Vayo will have to return for an unscheduled Day 4 after both players agreed to call it a day at 2:10am having fairly even chip stacks.
They are already guaranteed $314K and evidently decided that to play for the $204K prize jump and the gold bracelet that they would rather do it refreshed than carry on through the small hours.
Phil Hellmuth busted in 8th so was just unable to add to his Final Tables tally.
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants This one has ended on time, and it's Todd Bui who came in to the final table as one of the short stacks but grinded throughout the day and eventually collected the first prize of $124K and of course the bracelet. "Captain" Tom Franklin was runner-up with another former bracelet winner Aaron Steury 5th.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants 32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester who returns with a relatively small stack but at least he has chips, unlike Barny Boatman and Simon Trumper who unfortunately departed during Day 2, each collecting $3504 for their efforts. Richard Hodgkins and John Murray collected just under $3K, Derek Miller $2270 and Philip Ford $1991. There must have been more British players than I reported yesterday lurking in the end of Day 1 chip counts.
One other name I see in the cashers list is Barbara Enright, still the only female player to make the ME final table and now co-holder of the record number of bracelets won by a woman (3).
Enough of those who are out, Kevin DeTienne from the state capital of Montana (Helena to stop you having to look it up) has the chip lead, and a decent lead it is. Michael Wilson and Mitchell Lehman are 2nd and 3rd overnight with former November Niner Dennis Phillips lurking inside the top 10.
It looks like there is just one lady left - 17th placed Deborah Phillips, don't know if she is any relation to Dennis
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants Exactly five score (as Tikay may say) have been knocked out of the $10K Razz leaving a round dozen to progress to Day 3.
Former HORSE winner David Bach leads with Daniel Negreanu (who has made an excellent start in his bid to retain the Player of the Year epithet) in third. However, if the player in 2nd overnight wins it everyone else will have a huge wall to climb if they want to be Player of the Year as it is Brandon Shack-Harris, already winner of a bracelet in Event 3.
Dan O'Brien lies 4th with vocal German George Danzer in 6th. Event 13 winner Paul Volpe was the last player eliminated on Day finishing 13th.
First prize for this event will be almost $295K
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH - 2086 entrants The seat draw for Day 2 shows 233 players who have battled through 10 levels of fast and furious play on Day 1 meaning we are 17 off the money.
Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!
Players marked as British still in contention - Artem Kobylynskyi, Ian Woodley, Gareth Teatum, Adrian McGreevy, Max Silver, Daniel Tighe, Darren Judges, ex-Sky analys Carlo Citrone and Joe Laming making this one of the best GB showings (in depth at least) so far this Series.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants One of the tables is still in action so an update on this one will have to wait a little while.
To start today Jun 8th WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE
And yes, I know I've failed. Not a single Stephen Chidwick mention anywhere :-(
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants Update now that Day 1 is complete:
Forty players have won their day 1 tables and will come back for a short shift on Day 2 as it is comprised of 10 4-handed tables where the winner of each table will make the 10-handed unofficial final table at the start of Day 3.
Two Brits qualified - Jake Cody & Tamer Kamel, along with Ireland's Nicholas Abourisk and a sprinkling of well-known players - Faraz Jaka, Noah Bronstein, Phil Galfond, Jonathan Jaffee, Erik Seidel, Humberton Brenes and last year's Main Event 4th placed finisher Sylvain Loosli. A pair of brothers also are still in contention - well known Canadian pro Sorel Mizzi and his less-well known brother Marcus. Daniel Alaei won the 40th and final table to finish at about half past four in the morning. Each remaining player has locked up $7815, to ladder up they'll have to win their table when they'll the guaranteed over $16K
"....Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!....."
"....WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants 32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester...."
Peter lives in Las Vegas these days, after marrying a local girl a few years back, but originally, as you note, from Leicester.
If you look him up on THM, you'll see that "back in the day", from around 2001 to 2004, he almost owned Live Poker, with a string of very impressive results in Las Vegas, Australia & Europe.
Many of the SPT regulars will have met Maria "Chili" Demetriou, she is Peter's neice.
Peter used to play with Thewy, Maria & myself @ Gala Notts, & he used to do this amazing trick of playing poker "no-look". He would not look at his cards during a hand, but could still outplay most players. He could also name, with great accuracy, his opponents cards, which he did repeatedly.
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Anyway, it looks like I was right about Rhys Jones having chips (he lies in 33rd position) but incorrect about Niall Farrell who doesn't appear on the Day2 startlist. Circuit grinder Stephen Hensley has the most chips with Nicholas Immekus (who had a decent run in last years ME) in second. Others in contention include Noah Schwartz, Olivier Busquet, Will Failla, Jeff Madsen & former November niner Russell Thomas.
Richard Ashby finished as runner-up in the $10K Limit Omaha High/Low and
Andrew Teng had to settle for 4th in the Millionaire Maker
Full reports to follow when all the events are done for the day
WSOP8 - $1,500 NLH Millionaire Maker - 7977 entries
The Millionaire Maker ended with 31 year old Jonathan Dimmig emerging victorious from the final table after going in as one of the short stacks. His heads-up opponent, Jeffery Coburn was also in the bottom half of the field at the start of the day while huge chip leader Stephen Graner lost a big pot in the 4th hand of the day and never really recovered and finished 6th.
The British representative, Andrew Teng, grinded a short/medium stack for hours but was knocked out in 4th for over $465K, by far his biggest live score.
WSOP9 - $1,000 NLH - 1940 entries
With the Millionaire Maker and the 10K Omaha both going on at the same time, this one sort of got lost in the mix, but will be fondly remembered by Jeff Smith who got the better of Danny Nguyen heads-up.
It took 138 hands to go from nine players to two, but 164 more (and three hours) for the heads-up match.
WSOP10 - $10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 178 entrants
As I wrote earlier, so close and yet so far. Richard "Chufty" Ashby already has one bracelet from years past, and had an excellent chance to make it two but couldn't quiet get the job done as Brock Parker ran well when he needed to and took his 3rd bracelet and over $443K. Parker had already final tabled the 10K Razz a couple of days ago and now takes the very early lead in the Player of The Year competition. Ashby takes $274K for his efforts.
Two female players made the final table - Melissa Burr (8th) & Shirley Rosario (4th)
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
The plan was to get down to a 6-handed final table, but a very slow last level where no eliminations at all took place means that instead 10 players will come back for Day 3.
8 Americans, led by Mike Sowers (1.4m), Justin Bonomo (1.2m) and Taylor Paur (1.1m) are still in, along with 2 Germans (Sebasatian Pauli & Frank Debus) who both have short stacks. Basic maths will tell you that this means there are no UK survivors. Neil Busher was the best of the bunch (42nd, $7498) while Chun Law & Rhys Jones finished 92nd & 93rd for $3492 each.
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
Not No Limit as I implied yesterday, and you can tell by the number of entrants - way down on what it would have been for a No Limit $1500 event.
Sixty nine move through to Day 2, with two players over the 100K chip mark, Americans David Martirosyan & Matthew Damadeo with no-one else over 80K.
Joseph Cheong is close enough in 5th with another former November Niner Phil Collins inside the top thirty. Phil Ivey (again of course an ex-November Niner), Ryan Riess (not just a November Niner, but last years ME champion), Tony Gregg (last years One Drop winner) and Marvin Rettenmaier are also still involved, along with three British players - Dominic Rossookh, Kevin Allen and the venerable Barny Boatman.
63 will get paid so the bubble will burst very early on Day 2.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
The latest of the "Championship" events saw the smallest field yet, a mere 87 players of whom 36 remain (14 will get paid).
As a result, a lot of familiar names lie high up on the chip counts, with Jennifer Harman currently in the lead from John Juanda & Shawn Sheikhan. The likes of Rast, Negreanu, Ballade, Lisandro, Deeb, Mercier, Mizrachi, Hellmuth, Greenstein, Porter & Schulman remain, along with Adam Owen who the WSOP says is from Folkestone, but Folkestone in Estonia (!?!). The only Adam Owen in the Hendon Mob Database is from England but only has live cashes for a grand total of less than $6K so if it is the same guy this he is holding his own in a level far above what he has on his live record so far.
To Start Today
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low
A comparitively quiet day with just 1 final table scheduled and only 4 events in play
WSOP11 - $1,500 NLH 6 handed - 1587 entrants
After a slow last level on Day, action ensued thick and fast on Day 3. We lost Frank Debus on the very first hand of the day and three more quick eliminations gave us a final table.
61 hands was all it took to get from 6 players to 2, but the heads-up match lasted exactly 100 hands, and at the end of the day it was Justin Bonomo who emerged victorious. Bonomo claimed his first bracelet and the $449K prize a few days after he had got to the heads up in the $10K 2-7 Triple Draw.
Overnight chip leader Mike Sowers ended up in 2nd, with Daniel Strelitz in 3rd
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
The final table commenced early as 90 minutes of nine-handed play occured late on Day 2, and we're down to 8 for Day 3 as Phil Collins went out when his Queens ran into Gregory Kolo's Kings and he hit the rail like all the other former November Niners mentioned yesterday.
Kolo now has the chip lead ahead of Kazuhito Oshima and Daniel Goldman.
Dominic Rossookh finished in 19th for just over $5k while Kevin Allen min-cashed in 62nd for $2443
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
The field has been reduced to 7 for the final table. Six of the seven are bracelet holders, yet it is the only non-bracelet holder Paul Volpe who has the advantage heading into Day 3.
Volpe has 783K chips ahead of Jason Mercier's 469K, with the rest of the FT being made up of (in chip order) Daniel Negreanu, Brian Rast, Larry Wright, John Monnette & Abe Mosseri
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
The only event to start today and we have what might be the biggest field for Omaha Hi/Low in WSOP history. (Last years field was 1014).
220 come back for day 2 headed by Kai Raichura ahead of Konstantin Puchkov with among those still in contention Eric Baldwin, brothers Robert & Michael Mizrachi, George Danzer, Phill Ivey, Frank Kassela, Erik Seidel, Perry Green, John Racener, Kelly Kim, Dan Kelly, Marcel Luske, John Cernuto and last year's winner Calen McNeil.
British players remaining - Matthew Ashton, Stephen Chidwick, John Kabbaj, Stuart Rutter, Seb Saffari
To start today
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
Just a quick question you may know the answer to
I am going to Vegas on 8th June and wonder if you are allowed to rail any other events at the Rio.
I'll take the liberty of replying on FCHD's behalf.
Yes, you can rail any & all events at The Rio, though you are, literaly, "railing", as you have to stand behind a barrier.
However, all spectators are obliged to leave the Arenas (there are 3, Amazon, Brasilia, & Palma) 10 minutes before each break, & not allowed allowed to return until play resumes.
I shall try to get over there just to see what its like
Goodluck ev1 playing there at the minute
Pat
WSOP12 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em - 557 entrants
Gregory Kolo came in to the final table as the chip leader, and that's the way it stayed for most of the day.
After taking 38 hands for the first of the 8 remaining players to be eliminated, but only 36 for the rest of the tournament to play out as the speed of play speeded up with what looked like some very questionable calls pre-flop (but this is a Limit event so ranges will be a little bit different to a No Limit event)
Kolo won $169K to go with his first bracelet, Kazu Oshima took home $104K for second and Dean Bui $74K for third.
WSOP13 - $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 87 entrants
What do you expect to happen when 6 of the 7 players on a final table are already bracelet holders? Yep, the other player is the one who takes it down.
Paul Volpe collected all the chips to win Event 13 and over a quarter of a million dollars beating Daniel Negreanu heads-up, denying Kid Poker what would have been his 7th bracelet.
Jason Mercier finished 3rd, Brian Rast 4th and Larry Wright (who has now cashed in this elite event 3 years in a row) was 5th.
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
Down from 220 to 26 on Day 2 and unfortunately the nearest thing to a British player is that Frenchman-in-London who seems to be having a really good series, Alexandre Luneau. He sits third in a field headed by Daniel Hirleman from James Bucci in 2nd.
Defending champion Calen McNeil is still in the race for the $ first prize, along with former ME winner Greg Raymer.
At least we have some GB cashes to report - Stuart Rutter was eliminated in 39th for $6K, the ominpresent Stephen Chidwick was 72nd for $3.9K and John Kabbaj and Matthew Ashton also finished in the money.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
With the large increases in player numbers among the "smaller" events, the field sizes in the medium events are pretty much on a par with last year (this one showing a 3 player increase). What implications this has for the ME field we don't know yet.
Brandon Cantu has already been fairly visible this series, and he ends Day 1 of Event 15 with the chip lead, and a decent lead at that with 40% more chips than his nearest opponent Barry Hutter.
Norwegian pro Andreas Hoivold who I'm sure a lot of you will have seen on various TV cash games is third, with Michael Mizrachi, Will Failla, Phil Hellmuth, Jesse Sylvia and Eric Baldwin among the top half of the gross of players who will return for Day 2.
Brits still in - Seb Saffari, Paul Newey (recently of the Sky Poker cash game) and Artem Kobylynskyi (thanks to whoever invented cut & paste for that one).
I don't normally try and lift too much direct from the PokerNews feeds, but have to mention the story of Chris Molica who departed on the very first hand (getting it all in pre-flop with AQ!) and "spent more time walking to the exit than he did in the tournament".
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
After 10 levels 348 have become 54 with Canadian Mike Leah top of the shop just ahead of Brian Tate and "Captain" Tom Franklin.
Jason Mercier (fresh from his earlier final table in Event 13) is in the top 10 with Layne Flack, Todd Brunson, Joe Cheong, Dan Kelly and one of the David Bakers still playing along with the sole British representative, Stephen Chidwick (I told you he was omnipresent)
To start today
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz
WSOP14 - $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low - 1036 entrants
Event 14 is done and dusted and the winner is Nick Kost. He came in with a little over $15K in live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob, but increased that tally by over $283K with this win. He beat Day 1 big stack Kal Raichura heads-up, with defending champion Calen McNeil making a valiant effort to repeat, but he departed in 4th. Another notable name on the final table was former ME champion Greg "Fossilman" Raymer who was knocked out in seventh.
As mentioned yesterday, the best British performance was that of 861 analyst Stuart Rutter in 39th.
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
15 players have made Day 3 of the 6-max. Five European nations ares still represented but unfortunately the UK is not amongst them. Heinz Kamutzki of Austria leads from Davidi Kitai of Belgium, with players from Russia (Vladimir Geshkenbein), Ukraine and Bosnia still in contention for the bracelet and $x first prize.
Nine of the other 10 players come from the US, with the other one being Phil Hellmuth who appears to be from a planet of his own somewhere out there in the galaxy. Hellmuth made this event his 102nd WSOP cash extending his already large lead in that category.
Only one of three British players who made Day 2 ended up "in the money", Sebastian Saffari who finished 35th for a little over $10K.
Other cashers included the last woman standing in last year's Main Event, Jackie Glazier, Brandon Cantu (who got the worst of confrontations with Hellmuth for the second time in a few days), Matt Jarvis, recent bracelet winner Paul Volpe, Andreas Hoivold, Michael Mizrachi and Jesse Sylvia
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
We're down to a final table of 8 and it's Captain Tom Franklin who holds a small lead over nearest challenger David Bell. Franklin won his only bracelet as far back as 1999.
Stephen Chidwick (it wouldn't be an FCHD WSOP update without at least one Chidwick mention) was best of the UK players in 24th, the only one to cash. Othe cashers included Todd Brunson, Layne Flack and Dan Kelly.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
A huge field as expected, last years record entry of 4406 was beaten by 19 players to set a new high mark.
468 will get paid, and we're almost there with 486 and some familiar UK names amongst them - Barny Boatman, Peter Costa and Philip Ford. Simon Trumper is still in but shown as from "Nottinguam, Georgia"
Ronald Broadway is the chip leader with among those in close contention is TV cash game veteran Sammy Farha, and Marcee Topp who had a deep run in the ME a few years ago after getting in for very cheap and had the time of her life on the feature table with November niners Sam Holden & Rob Salaburu.
Nice to see that there are plenty of other female players in contention too
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants
This is apparently the first time there's been a $10K Razz event on the WSOP schedule and the 112 players who coughed up the entry fee is up on what the powers that be anticipated.
Ten levels of play have only reduced the field from 112 to 76 with up-and-coming German player Thomas Butzhammer king of the castle after Day 1 with only Todd Dakake close in chips.
Still in with a decent stack - Brian Hastings, Dan Shak, Brandon Cantu, Brandon Shack-Harris, Matt Glantz, Daniel Negreanu, Justin Bonomo and someone whose name I've forgotten. Oh yes, it's Stephen Chidwick.
Medium sized stacks - Jason Mericer, Stuart Rutter, Paul Volpe, Barry Greenstien, Matthew Ashton, Hoyt Corkins, Ted Forrest, Doyle Brunson etc.
Need a raipd double up - Brock Parker, Chris Klodnicki, Brian Townsend, Tom Schneider & Scott Siever.
To start today
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout
Loving your work on this thread, Cornwall Bloke, thank you very much.
What a player Mr Chidwick must be, eh?
WSOP15 - $3,000 NLH 6 handed - 810 entrants
Two players, Davidi Kitai and Gordon Vayo will have to return for an unscheduled Day 4 after both players agreed to call it a day at 2:10am having fairly even chip stacks.
They are already guaranteed $314K and evidently decided that to play for the $204K prize jump and the gold bracelet that they would rather do it refreshed than carry on through the small hours.
Phil Hellmuth busted in 8th so was just unable to add to his Final Tables tally.
WSOP16 - $1,500 Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball - 348 entrants
This one has ended on time, and it's Todd Bui who came in to the final table as one of the short stacks but grinded throughout the day and eventually collected the first prize of $124K and of course the bracelet. "Captain" Tom Franklin was runner-up with another former bracelet winner Aaron Steury 5th.
WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester who returns with a relatively small stack but at least he has chips, unlike Barny Boatman and Simon Trumper who unfortunately departed during Day 2, each collecting $3504 for their efforts. Richard Hodgkins and John Murray collected just under $3K, Derek Miller $2270 and Philip Ford $1991. There must have been more British players than I reported yesterday lurking in the end of Day 1 chip counts.
One other name I see in the cashers list is Barbara Enright, still the only female player to make the ME final table and now co-holder of the record number of bracelets won by a woman (3).
Enough of those who are out, Kevin DeTienne from the state capital of Montana (Helena to stop you having to look it up) has the chip lead, and a decent lead it is. Michael Wilson and Mitchell Lehman are 2nd and 3rd overnight with former November Niner Dennis Phillips lurking inside the top 10.
It looks like there is just one lady left - 17th placed Deborah Phillips, don't know if she is any relation to Dennis
WSOP18 - $10,000 Razz Championship - 112 entrants
Exactly five score (as Tikay may say) have been knocked out of the $10K Razz leaving a round dozen to progress to Day 3.
Former HORSE winner David Bach leads with Daniel Negreanu (who has made an excellent start in his bid to retain the Player of the Year epithet) in third. However, if the player in 2nd overnight wins it everyone else will have a huge wall to climb if they want to be Player of the Year as it is Brandon Shack-Harris, already winner of a bracelet in Event 3.
Dan O'Brien lies 4th with vocal German George Danzer in 6th. Event 13 winner Paul Volpe was the last player eliminated on Day finishing 13th.
First prize for this event will be almost $295K
WSOP19 - $1,500 NLH - 2086 entrants
The seat draw for Day 2 shows 233 players who have battled through 10 levels of fast and furious play on Day 1 meaning we are 17 off the money.
Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!
Players marked as British still in contention - Artem Kobylynskyi, Ian Woodley, Gareth Teatum, Adrian McGreevy, Max Silver, Daniel Tighe, Darren Judges, ex-Sky analys Carlo Citrone and Joe Laming making this one of the best GB showings (in depth at least) so far this Series.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
One of the tables is still in action so an update on this one will have to wait a little while.
To start today
Jun 8th
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE
And yes, I know I've failed. Not a single Stephen Chidwick mention anywhere :-(
thanks for all your efforts again this year, fchd.
ps. let's hope that there are no "interfering neighbours" this year who seek to diminish the worth of your contribution.
WSOP20 - $3,000 NLH Shootout - 389 entrants
Update now that Day 1 is complete:
Forty players have won their day 1 tables and will come back for a short shift on Day 2 as it is comprised of 10 4-handed tables where the winner of each table will make the 10-handed unofficial final table at the start of Day 3.
Two Brits qualified - Jake Cody & Tamer Kamel, along with Ireland's Nicholas Abourisk and a sprinkling of well-known players - Faraz Jaka, Noah Bronstein, Phil Galfond, Jonathan Jaffee, Erik Seidel, Humberton Brenes and last year's Main Event 4th placed finisher Sylvain Loosli. A pair of brothers also are still in contention - well known Canadian pro Sorel Mizzi and his less-well known brother Marcus. Daniel Alaei won the 40th and final table to finish at about half past four in the morning. Each remaining player has locked up $7815, to ladder up they'll have to win their table when they'll the guaranteed over $16K
Loving your style, Cornwall.
"....Justin Filtz is the chip leader ahead of Jameson Painter, with Daniel Eichhorn in 10th. Why mention Eichhorn? Simply because I don't come across many players with a double "H" in their name!....."
"....WSOP17 - $1,000 Seniors NLH Championship - 4425 entrants
32 players have made it through to Day 3, and among them is Peter Costa from Leicester...."
Peter lives in Las Vegas these days, after marrying a local girl a few years back, but originally, as you note, from Leicester.
If you look him up on THM, you'll see that "back in the day", from around 2001 to 2004, he almost owned Live Poker, with a string of very impressive results in Las Vegas, Australia & Europe.
Many of the SPT regulars will have met Maria "Chili" Demetriou, she is Peter's neice.
Peter used to play with Thewy, Maria & myself @ Gala Notts, & he used to do this amazing trick of playing poker "no-look". He would not look at his cards during a hand, but could still outplay most players. He could also name, with great accuracy, his opponents cards, which he did repeatedly.
Here's Peter, in a photo I took yersterday.
Good luck today, Pete.
Couple more photos from yesterday.