Liam got it in with JJ against Polk's AK, flop Jack-Ten-brick, turn a brick, river a Queen filling Polk's gutshot and eliminating Liam
Tuchman had been bigging him up on the stream, not knowing the story and assuming that any British player who came all the way to Vegas to play in the WSOP was a decent player who had a good bankroll to be able to do this, and only got a tweet telling him the details before the exit hand.
Liam got it in with JJ against Polk's AK, flop Jack-Ten-brick, turn a brick, river a Queen filling Polk's gutshot and eliminating Liam Tuchman had been bigging him up on the stream, not knowing the story and assuming that any British player who came all the way to Vegas to play in the WSOP was a decent player who had a good bankroll to be able to do this, and only got a tweet telling him the details before the exit hand. Posted by FCHD
He only had 3 Queens to hit, too, as there were 3 hearts out, & Liam had the J of hearts.
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions : He only had 3 Queens to hit, too, as there were 3 hearts out, & Liam had the J of hearts. Posted by Tikay10
No he didn't, the Jack of hearts was on the flop. Liam had spades and diamonds.
In Response to Re: WSOP 2014 - reports, results and discussions : No he didn't, the Jack of hearts was on the flop. Liam had spades and diamonds. Posted by FCHD
Three Brits made separate final tables, and while none of them were able to win their events, two of them at least will have a fantastic story to tell when they get back home.
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH - 2043 entrants David Burt, a recreational player from Lincolnshire had a superb run in Event 21 which finished with him making the Final Table. He eventually bust in 9th place, but the $24K prize money will dwarf his previous live cashes (a total of less than $200) and had the experience of a lifetime.
German Dominik Nitsche was the eventual winner taking his 3rd bracelet and over a third of a million dollaars with David D'Alesandro second and former November Niner Bob Bounahra from Belize third.
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE - 200 entrants No more horse puns, but it was Christopher Wallace from Minnesota who won Event 22, the bracelet and over $507K. Las Vegas locals Randy Ohel and Richard Sklar came 2nd & 3rd with Britain's very own Richard Ashby in 4th. This was Ashby's second final table of the Series and has pushed his lifetime earnings close to $2 million.
Ben Yu was knocked-out in 20th, Daniel Negreanu on 19th, Elky 18th and current Player of the Year leader Justin Bonomo in 15th.
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH - 1473 entrants You probably know the Liam Alcock story by now. If not, a little recap. Recreational/pub poker player, wins a trip to Vegas, buys in to Event 21, busts and then buys in to Event 23. Without a single live cash to his name on the Hendon Mob database, he goes and makes the final table.
Not only that, he sits still for 20 hands or so and he ladders up four places and only goes out when he gets his chips in good against Doug Polk and loses to a gutshot made on the river. All in all he collects over $54K. As he is rooming with Burt (see above) there must have been some party in that room last night.
Doug Polk put Alcock's chips to good use and won his first WSOP bracelet. One of the highest regarded on-line and live cash game players, Polk took home over a quarter of a million dollars beating Andy Philachack heads-up. It is the third time Philachack has made the last 3 of a bracelet event without winning it.
Last year's One Drop winner Tony Gregg went out in 6th.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants Chris Hunichen, who made the FT of Event 9, leads 129 survivors into Day 2. The field of 541 is a 25 player increase on last years field, and the winner will collect a first prize of nearly $623K.
60 players will cash, so they're nowhere near the bubble yet but notables still in contention include Freddy Deeb, Calvin Anderson, Greg Merson, Tom Marchese, Scott Siever, Michael Mizrachi, Sylvain Loosli, JC Tran, Joe Cada, Josh Arieh & Brandon Cantu.
Two (at least) UK players survive - Zimnan Ziyard (with a small stack) and Sunday's Channel 861 guest Martins Adeniya (with a decent stack). He must have picked up a few tips.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants Another event with numbers up on last year. Cameron Tahmasebi, who I can't find on Hendon Mob at all, is the Day 1 chip leader but 138 other players remain in the hunt
GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads - David Tarbet, John Kabbaj, Iaren Lightbourne and Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail).
Others from places other than these shores include Tom Schneider, Matt Glantz, recent bracelet winner George Danzer, John Racener, Humberto Brenes, Mike Matusow, another recent bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst and Erik Seidel
Also still there, in 6th place, is John D'Agostino. He has nearly $2million in lifetime cashes, including WSOP & WPT final tables, but I picked him out because his hometown is listed as "Egg Harbor" which I just had to look up to see how it got it's name. According to Wiki (so take it with a pinch of salt), when the inlet was discovered by a Dutch explorer in 1614, the surrouding meadows were covered with shorebird and waterfowl eggs.
"....GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads -...... Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail)....."
Robert is indeed from Cornwall, & what a character he is. I see him almost every day here, as he just plays PLO8 & PLO, so we play all the same Tourneys. Except he plays better poker (VERY aggro), & so plays bigger events which I tend to swerve. Look him up, his Database is almost solely results from the 4 card variants.
He is an Online Pro, & has been for years. He generally gets freebie trips to Vegas comped by a particular site.
He'll almost certainly be wearing his England football shirt today.
Next time I see him, I'll ask him exactly where in Cornwall he resides.
Thanks for the Reports, love them, & I hope you don't mind me adding bits & bobs.
Mind? Of course not. You know a lot more about most of these players than I do. The more information the better!
Not so sure about a Cornwall person wearing an England shirt though. We're a recognised minority at the same level as the Welsh, Scottish & Irish now you know!
Another of the quieter days in the Series, no final tables and only three tournaments in play
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants Seventeen players have made Day 3 of the $5K 6-max, with 2010 November Niner & 2011 bracelet winner Matt Jarvis in the lead. When I saw the Pokernews headline "Jarvis has a massive chip lead" I immediately thought it would be Ross, but alas no.
Jarvis has about 50% more chips than then second placed player and over double the stack of the 3rd man.
The only British connection cash was Sergi Reixach who I believe is Spanish but UK resident, who also cashed at the recent EPT Grand Final. He finished 50th for $9509.
Other players still in include two more Canadians (besides Jarvis), serial WSOP casher Griffin Benger plus short stack Jay Dragland; Kory Kilpatrick (winner of Event 20 a few days ago) and 2012 ME winner Greg Merson
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants 139 players returned for Day 2 and 18 survived the ten levels of play with veteran Erik Seidel who holds the chip lead. Mike Leah is in second but just behind in third is John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire. He is the only GB player left in, with David Tarbet the other player from these islands to cash,
Still in - Tom Schneider, Robert Mizrachi (brother of...), Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (the Shulmans haven't been as omnipresent as they were last year) and Konstantin Puchkov.
Mike Matusow was the last player out on Day 2 after throwing a typical wobbly after being given a penalty for excessive celebrating when knocking out Day 1 leader Cameron Tahmasebi
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants Day 1 has been completed with 178 players bagging up chips at the end of the night. Mark Dube had the honour of needing the biggest bag, his 160K chips 20K clear of his nearest challenger, Christopher Symesko who is from a town called Red Deer, Alberta.
Plenty of Brits in good shape with 4 in the Top 50 overnight - Tom Alner (getting a first mention I think) is 13th, Max Silver (who had a decent cash a couple of days ago) 18th, Adam Wilkinson 32nd & Mike Ellis (who won a similar event in 2010) 42nd. Lower down we also have Karim Jomeen, Matthew Davenport & Steven Watts.
Other well-known competitors still looking to win this event include Martin Finger, Soi Nguyen, Brandon Cantu, Nick Schulman, Jude Ainsworth. Oh, and one Phil Hellmuth Jr.
171 will make money so 7 players will return on Day 2 but depart empty handed
To start today Jun 12th WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
Brief early morning update relating to the two events currently on a final table only
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants Four players remain, with fairly even stacks - Kevin Eyster, Bryn Kenney, Andrew Lichtenberger & Belgian Pierre Neuville.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants This is the one where it gets really interesting. We're down to 3 players, and the big chip leader is... John Kabbaj He has 2.3million chips, with Thomas Keller 2nd with 760K and Chris McHugh bringing up the rear with 425K.
John has one bracelet already to his name from 2009 and lost a heads-up for a bracelet as long ago as 2004 (when Ram Vaswani was 3rd in the same event). He doesn't seem to play as many tournaments as used to (he has loads of cashes from places like the Aviation Club in Paris) but did play the UKPC in February coming 15th in the Main Event.
Updates may be a little out of sync today as I've got to go for a physio session on my shoulder at 10:00 but I'll type things up and post as soon as I can.
Really nice to see another stalwart of British poker bag a bracelet as well, not as popular as the Barney Boatman success last year I'd guess, but very well deserved for someone that has certainly put the hours in over the years to warrant these sort of rewards.
Making no apologies for taking events out of order today!
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants The first British bracelet of the series as John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire won his second bracelet and over $267K. Tikay suggested he was a good tip to win from the 17 players who came back for Day 3 in his phone call to the live show last night, and for once he was right!
Several bracelet winners departed the scene in the first few levels of the day (Konstantin Puchkov, Owais Ahmed, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman & Robert Mizrachi). The final table quickly got down to three handed (Erik Seidel falling in 6th), but then slowed down with Kabbaj, Chris McHugh & Thomas Keller going back and forth.
Once McHugh was out in third, Kabbaj had a decent chip lead and quickly used his stack to push Keller around and, within a few hands, out
Kabbaj won his second bracelet (previously he had won the $10K Pot Limit Hold'em in 2009) and his winnings move him to 15th in the English all-time money list.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants After 10 levels of play on Day 3, we're still heads-up in Event 24. Kevin Eyster from the US holds a 5.5m to 2.6m lead over Pierre Neuville who is attempting to be the second Belgian to win a bracelet this Series. Eyster wanted to play on but Neuville declined (as was his right) so they'll come back on Friday to finish the job off.
Well known on-line pro Andrew Lichtenberger was knocked out in 3rd, French pair David Borrat & Fabrice Touil 6th & 8th and previous Main Event winner Greg Merson in 13th.
Sergi Reixach (see yesterday's report) finished in 50th for $9509.
15th placed finisher Mark Darner is from a city called "Winter Park" - an alpine or cross country ski resort? a bobsleigh run? even a ski-jump? No, a city of 30,000 people next to Orlando in Florida where their winters still daily temperatures average 22 degrees C even in January.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants Despite having 6 Brits through to Day 2, with most of them in a decent position, none of them remain amongst the 12 players who will enter Day 3.
Ryan Welch (who won a bracelet four years ago) has an impressive chip lead overnight ahdead of Dan Smith in 2nd, with Reed Goodmiller (who sounds like an anagram to me) in third.
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants The mixed-game tournaments are proving popular and over 700 players ponied-up for the entry-level HORSE (sorry, lapsed back into the horsey puns there for a moment).
144 remain, with two local Las Vegans top of the shop. One, chip leader Jason Riesenberg, isn't a big name but the other is. Huck Seed, 1996 Main Event Champion, lies second and in an excellent position to challenge for the bracelet and $230K first prize.
Adam Owen is top Brit in 24th with Richard Ashby in 60th the only other remaining.
Also in are the likes of John Monnette, Dutch Boyd, David ODB Baker and another former ME winner, fossilman Greg Raymer.
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants Last year the biggest Pot Limit Hold'em was a $5K affair that attracted 195 entries, so the 160 @ 10K was a good result in that respect.
Tony Ruberto is the chip leader but as you would expect in a $10K event, most of the field and most of the 60 remaining players are among the big names - Juanda, Esfandiari, Rheem, Matusow, Seidel, Ivey etc.
2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman is the highest placed UK player, with Oliver Price & Senh Ung (winner of the Asian Championship in Macau last November) the only other Union Flags on the result list.
To start today Jun 13th WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
I chatted at length with John last night after his victory, fair to say, I've rarely seen a man so chuffed to bits.
And this time, unlike last time, when they disrespectfully played the *ex Pistols "God Save the Queen", he'll get a proper rendition of the National Anthem.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants The bracelet and $408K first prize has gone to Andrew Rennack, after he got the better of Michael Katz heads-up.
They came back for Day 3 with 12 players and quickly moved down to a final table which eventually lasted nearly 200 hands.
The other 8 players will have uttered a sigh of relief as Dan Smith was first man out of the FT, and after that it was Eric Rappaport & Geremy Eiland out in quick succession.
After a lenghty spell of 6-handed play ended with the departure of Heinz Kamutzki, Reed Goodmiller came 5th, Ryan Welsh 4th & Tony Gargano went out 3rd to leave the heads up match
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants Fifteen mixed-game specialists qualified for Day 3, with unfortunately neither of the British players who made Day 2 amongst them.
Neither are either of the Day 1 chip leaders, Jason Riesenberg or Huck Seed. The Day 2 chip leader is Floridian Kristian Lord in an almost exclusively American field (only Italian Michele Limongi represents the Rest of The World)
Of the 15 players, two relatively well known players remain Dutch Boyd (7th), David ODB Baker (11th)
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants Could we be getting ready to go Barny barmy again? 2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman has made the unofficial FT of the $10K Pot Limit event (albeit with the second shortest stack).
Matthew O'Donnell has followed up his Final Table in Event 4 by running deep here, and goes into Day 3 as the chip leader, with bracelet holders and final table participants all around.
Chino Reem is 2nd, Dan Shak 5th and Todd Brunson lies in 8th.
They were due to play down to a proper 9 handed final table but as they got down to 10 with 20 minutes left to play it was agreed to stop there and come back for Day 3 with 10 players.
A hatful of well-known players bust in the last couple of levels - John Juanda went out 15th, Humberto Brenes 14th, Scott Siever 12th & Erik Seidel 11th.
I think I will be watching this on the stream tonight rather than the England v Italy game.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants 1165 is a big drop from last year's equivalent field of 1736, but statistics can mean what you want them to mean - last year's event was right before the Main Event when a lot more of the ME players were in town.
209 players have made it through 10 levels of minefields, and another Floridian, Barry Hutter leads the way.
He leads from Grayson Ramage and Justin Oliver with Welshmen Ben Warrington and Roberto Romanello inside the Top 25. Daniel Laming (though being shown as from Switzerland), Sunny Chattha & Ian Woodley are also still in with a shout for the bracelet and $536K first prize, as are Event 21 final tabler Thayer Rasmussen, Will Failla, Josh Arieh, Matt Affleck, former November Niner David Benefield, Scotty Nguyen etc.
And a question for you - who/what is Phil Campbell? A member of Motörhead, a noted PhD in physics, an American author? Well, yes all of those but also a small town in Alabama (population just over 1000 that is the home town of 11th placed player Jonathan Taylor)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants The 588 players have contributed to make a total prize pool of just under $800K, with the winner taking home just over $190K.
109 of the 588 will come back to the Rio for Day 2, and just under half (64 to be exact) will get paid.
Jimmy Fricke seems to have been around the WSOP for years, and he will go into Day 2 with a lead from Calvin Anderson & David Brooker.
Not one of the best events for British players - only Sebastian Saffari has made Day 2, and he will return a stack only about a third of the average.
It's been carnage for recent bracelet winners - 2014 WSOP champs Vanessa Selbst, Brandon Shack-Harris, George Danzer & Dan Heimiller were all knokced out on Day 1 with a host of other big names (Ivey, Hellmuth, Negreanu etc.) but still in are Andreas Hoivold, Ylon Schwartz, Matt Glantz, Hoyt Corkins & Ted Forrest
To start today Jun 14th WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants Unfortunately it wasn't to be Deja Vu for Barny Boatman as he was unable to follow up last year's bracelet with another one in this event.
He made the official final table but after tangling with Chino Rheem he ended up with a short stack coming in to the 9-handed play and exited the tournament in 9th place.
Russian pro Alex Bilokur was the eventual winner, earning his first bracelet and nearly $400K to add to his already large career earnings. Bilokur entered the heads-up play with a huge chip deficit, but chipped away at Matt O'Donnell's lead by limping into him on his buttons and forcing the American to make mistakes.
Of the well-known players who made Day 3, Dan Shak went out in 10th, Todd Brunson in 6th and Chino Rheem in 4th
Ultimately disappointing for Barny, but still better watching the live stream than watching the football.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants A round twenty players progress from Day 2 to Day 3, with California's Jamie Armstrong now leading with previous chip leader Barry Hutton still there or there abouts in second.
Danny Laming (still being shown as from Switzerland) is the only British player in, with former November Niner David Benefield and 2010 PCA winner William Reynolds still in contention too.
Other GB cashers - Ben Warrington (28th, $13K), William Chattaway (showing as from Gabon in the listings which is how I missed him yesterday, 29th $13K) * Roberto Romanello (57th, $8K)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants We're down to a dozen in the Stud-8, and it's a complete lockout from the American players. Eric Kurtsman in the chip leader from Calvin Anderson who has been up there among the chip leaders from the start.
Melissa Burr represents the ladies in 5th, with Day 1 leader Jimmy Fricke 6th and recent bracelet winner Ted Forrest one place further back
No British cashers to report (in fact only 2 from the entire continent of Europe) in what must be one of Europe's weakest showings so far.
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH - 1631 entrants Updates have been slow coming through on this event, but we have 187 players coming back on Sunday for Day 2.
Australian players have been relatively quiet so far, but we have one in pole position here - Jason Pritchard. Quite a wide international showing, with players in the top 13 from France, Norway, Germany & the Czech Republic as well as the UK - Peter Gould lies 8th overnight.
Najib Kamand (from "Surrey London" apparently) is in 37th, Benjamin Dobson (from Poole, Dorset which isn't in Canada even if the WSOP thinks it is) 101st, Adam Owen 103rd, Iqbal Ahmed 120th, Jonas Lauck 135th
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed - 264 entrants Just under a hundred players will return for the 6-Max "Championship" and we have two Brits still amongst the chips.
Max Silver lies 27th with an above average stack and Chris Moorman (recently arrived in Vegas) is below average in 57th.
Russian Leonid Markin is top of the pile after calling a huge bluff from Jonathan Jaffe with pocket aces ahead of Ashton Griffin & Scott Clements.
Former WSOP ME winner Joe Cada is safely ensconced within the Top 10 and lying ominously in 12th place is German High-Roller specialist Philipp Gruissem.
Galen Hall, Josh Arieh, John Racener, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, George Danzer, Brandon Cantu, Brock Parker, JC Tran, Greg Merson & Doug Polk are amongst the other big names in a stacked field.
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Can't get an uglier exit than that.
Watch & weep.
Tuchman had been bigging him up on the stream, not knowing the story and assuming that any British player who came all the way to Vegas to play in the WSOP was a decent player who had a good bankroll to be able to do this, and only got a tweet telling him the details before the exit hand.
He only had 3 Queens to hit, too, as there were 3 hearts out, & Liam had the J of hearts.
My bad, need to get my eyes tested.
Richard Ashby only British bracelet hope for today now.
Three Brits made separate final tables, and while none of them were able to win their events, two of them at least will have a fantastic story to tell when they get back home.
WSOP21 - $1,000 NLH - 2043 entrants
David Burt, a recreational player from Lincolnshire had a superb run in Event 21 which finished with him making the Final Table. He eventually bust in 9th place, but the $24K prize money will dwarf his previous live cashes (a total of less than $200) and had the experience of a lifetime.
German Dominik Nitsche was the eventual winner taking his 3rd bracelet and over a third of a million dollaars with David D'Alesandro second and former November Niner Bob Bounahra from Belize third.
WSOP22 - $10,000 HORSE - 200 entrants
No more horse puns, but it was Christopher Wallace from Minnesota who won Event 22, the bracelet and over $507K. Las Vegas locals Randy Ohel and Richard Sklar came 2nd & 3rd with Britain's very own Richard Ashby in 4th. This was Ashby's second final table of the Series and has pushed his lifetime earnings close to $2 million.
Ben Yu was knocked-out in 20th, Daniel Negreanu on 19th, Elky 18th and current Player of the Year leader Justin Bonomo in 15th.
WSOP23 - $1,000 Turbo NLH - 1473 entrants
You probably know the Liam Alcock story by now. If not, a little recap. Recreational/pub poker player, wins a trip to Vegas, buys in to Event 21, busts and then buys in to Event 23. Without a single live cash to his name on the Hendon Mob database, he goes and makes the final table.
Not only that, he sits still for 20 hands or so and he ladders up four places and only goes out when he gets his chips in good against Doug Polk and loses to a gutshot made on the river. All in all he collects over $54K. As he is rooming with Burt (see above) there must have been some party in that room last night.
Doug Polk put Alcock's chips to good use and won his first WSOP bracelet. One of the highest regarded on-line and live cash game players, Polk took home over a quarter of a million dollars beating Andy Philachack heads-up. It is the third time Philachack has made the last 3 of a bracelet event without winning it.
Last year's One Drop winner Tony Gregg went out in 6th.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Chris Hunichen, who made the FT of Event 9, leads 129 survivors into Day 2. The field of 541 is a 25 player increase on last years field, and the winner will collect a first prize of nearly $623K.
60 players will cash, so they're nowhere near the bubble yet but notables still in contention include Freddy Deeb, Calvin Anderson, Greg Merson, Tom Marchese, Scott Siever, Michael Mizrachi, Sylvain Loosli, JC Tran, Joe Cada, Josh Arieh & Brandon Cantu.
Two (at least) UK players survive - Zimnan Ziyard (with a small stack) and Sunday's Channel 861 guest Martins Adeniya (with a decent stack). He must have picked up a few tips.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
Another event with numbers up on last year. Cameron Tahmasebi, who I can't find on Hendon Mob at all, is the Day 1 chip leader but 138 other players remain in the hunt
GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads - David Tarbet, John Kabbaj, Iaren Lightbourne and Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail).
Others from places other than these shores include Tom Schneider, Matt Glantz, recent bracelet winner George Danzer, John Racener, Humberto Brenes, Mike Matusow, another recent bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst and Erik Seidel
Also still there, in 6th place, is John D'Agostino. He has nearly $2million in lifetime cashes, including WSOP & WPT final tables, but I picked him out because his hometown is listed as "Egg Harbor" which I just had to look up to see how it got it's name. According to Wiki (so take it with a pinch of salt), when the inlet was discovered by a Dutch explorer in 1614, the surrouding meadows were covered with shorebird and waterfowl eggs.
To start today
Jun 11th
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH
Morning Cornwall.
Loved the Egg Harbor story!
Also....
"....GB players who appear on the end-of-day chip leads -...... Robert Price (who it says is from Cornwell but if it is supposed to be Cornwall, then I'm on his virtual rail)....."
Robert is indeed from Cornwall, & what a character he is. I see him almost every day here, as he just plays PLO8 & PLO, so we play all the same Tourneys. Except he plays better poker (VERY aggro), & so plays bigger events which I tend to swerve. Look him up, his Database is almost solely results from the 4 card variants.
He is an Online Pro, & has been for years. He generally gets freebie trips to Vegas comped by a particular site.
He'll almost certainly be wearing his England football shirt today.
Next time I see him, I'll ask him exactly where in Cornwall he resides.
Thanks for the Reports, love them, & I hope you don't mind me adding bits & bobs.
Not so sure about a Cornwall person wearing an England shirt though. We're a recognised minority at the same level as the Welsh, Scottish & Irish now you know!
Another of the quieter days in the Series, no final tables and only three tournaments in play
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Seventeen players have made Day 3 of the $5K 6-max, with 2010 November Niner & 2011 bracelet winner Matt Jarvis in the lead. When I saw the Pokernews headline "Jarvis has a massive chip lead" I immediately thought it would be Ross, but alas no.
Jarvis has about 50% more chips than then second placed player and over double the stack of the 3rd man.
The only British connection cash was Sergi Reixach who I believe is Spanish but UK resident, who also cashed at the recent EPT Grand Final. He finished 50th for $9509.
Other players still in include two more Canadians (besides Jarvis), serial WSOP casher Griffin Benger plus short stack Jay Dragland; Kory Kilpatrick (winner of Event 20 a few days ago) and 2012 ME winner Greg Merson
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
139 players returned for Day 2 and 18 survived the ten levels of play with veteran Erik Seidel who holds the chip lead. Mike Leah is in second but just behind in third is John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire. He is the only GB player left in, with David Tarbet the other player from these islands to cash,
Still in - Tom Schneider, Robert Mizrachi (brother of...), Allyn Jaffrey Shulman (the Shulmans haven't been as omnipresent as they were last year) and Konstantin Puchkov.
Mike Matusow was the last player out on Day 2 after throwing a typical wobbly after being given a penalty for excessive celebrating when knocking out Day 1 leader Cameron Tahmasebi
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
Day 1 has been completed with 178 players bagging up chips at the end of the night. Mark Dube had the honour of needing the biggest bag, his 160K chips 20K clear of his nearest challenger, Christopher Symesko who is from a town called Red Deer, Alberta.
Plenty of Brits in good shape with 4 in the Top 50 overnight - Tom Alner (getting a first mention I think) is 13th, Max Silver (who had a decent cash a couple of days ago) 18th, Adam Wilkinson 32nd & Mike Ellis (who won a similar event in 2010) 42nd. Lower down we also have Karim Jomeen, Matthew Davenport & Steven Watts.
Other well-known competitors still looking to win this event include Martin Finger, Soi Nguyen, Brandon Cantu, Nick Schulman, Jude Ainsworth. Oh, and one Phil Hellmuth Jr.
171 will make money so 7 players will return on Day 2 but depart empty handed
To start today
Jun 12th
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
Four players remain, with fairly even stacks - Kevin Eyster, Bryn Kenney, Andrew Lichtenberger & Belgian Pierre Neuville.
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
This is the one where it gets really interesting. We're down to 3 players, and the big chip leader is... John Kabbaj He has 2.3million chips, with Thomas Keller 2nd with 760K and Chris McHugh bringing up the rear with 425K.
John has one bracelet already to his name from 2009 and lost a heads-up for a bracelet as long ago as 2004 (when Ram Vaswani was 3rd in the same event). He doesn't seem to play as many tournaments as used to (he has loads of cashes from places like the Aviation Club in Paris) but did play the UKPC in February coming 15th in the Main Event.
Updates may be a little out of sync today as I've got to go for a physio session on my shoulder at 10:00 but I'll type things up and post as soon as I can.
Edit: Kabbaj & Keller now heads-up.
John Kabbaj takes it down - full report later..
Really nice to see another stalwart of British poker bag a bracelet as well, not as popular as the Barney Boatman success last year I'd guess, but very well deserved for someone that has certainly put the hours in over the years to warrant these sort of rewards.
Making no apologies for taking events out of order today!
WSOP25 - $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 470 entrants
The first British bracelet of the series as John Kabbaj from Bushey in Hertfordshire won his second bracelet and over $267K. Tikay suggested he was a good tip to win from the 17 players who came back for Day 3 in his phone call to the live show last night, and for once he was right!
Several bracelet winners departed the scene in the first few levels of the day (Konstantin Puchkov, Owais Ahmed, Allyn Jaffrey Shulman & Robert Mizrachi). The final table quickly got down to three handed (Erik Seidel falling in 6th), but then slowed down with Kabbaj, Chris McHugh & Thomas Keller going back and forth.
Once McHugh was out in third, Kabbaj had a decent chip lead and quickly used his stack to push Keller around and, within a few hands, out
Kabbaj won his second bracelet (previously he had won the $10K Pot Limit Hold'em in 2009) and his winnings move him to 15th in the English all-time money list.
WSOP24 - $5,000 NLH 6-max - 541 entrants
After 10 levels of play on Day 3, we're still heads-up in Event 24. Kevin Eyster from the US holds a 5.5m to 2.6m lead over Pierre Neuville who is attempting to be the second Belgian to win a bracelet this Series. Eyster wanted to play on but Neuville declined (as was his right) so they'll come back on Friday to finish the job off.
Well known on-line pro Andrew Lichtenberger was knocked out in 3rd, French pair David Borrat & Fabrice Touil 6th & 8th and previous Main Event winner Greg Merson in 13th.
Sergi Reixach (see yesterday's report) finished in 50th for $9509.
15th placed finisher Mark Darner is from a city called "Winter Park" - an alpine or cross country ski resort? a bobsleigh run? even a ski-jump? No, a city of 30,000 people next to Orlando in Florida where their winters still daily temperatures average 22 degrees C even in January.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
Despite having 6 Brits through to Day 2, with most of them in a decent position, none of them remain amongst the 12 players who will enter Day 3.
Ryan Welch (who won a bracelet four years ago) has an impressive chip lead overnight ahdead of Dan Smith in 2nd, with Reed Goodmiller (who sounds like an anagram to me) in third.
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants
The mixed-game tournaments are proving popular and over 700 players ponied-up for the entry-level HORSE (sorry, lapsed back into the horsey puns there for a moment).
144 remain, with two local Las Vegans top of the shop. One, chip leader Jason Riesenberg, isn't a big name but the other is. Huck Seed, 1996 Main Event Champion, lies second and in an excellent position to challenge for the bracelet and $230K first prize.
Adam Owen is top Brit in 24th with Richard Ashby in 60th the only other remaining.
Also in are the likes of John Monnette, Dutch Boyd, David ODB Baker and another former ME winner, fossilman Greg Raymer.
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Last year the biggest Pot Limit Hold'em was a $5K affair that attracted 195 entries, so the 160 @ 10K was a good result in that respect.
Tony Ruberto is the chip leader but as you would expect in a $10K event, most of the field and most of the 60 remaining players are among the big names - Juanda, Esfandiari, Rheem, Matusow, Seidel, Ivey etc.
2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman is the highest placed UK player, with Oliver Price & Senh Ung (winner of the Asian Championship in Macau last November) the only other Union Flags on the result list.
To start today
Jun 13th
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low
BOOM!
I chatted at length with John last night after his victory, fair to say, I've rarely seen a man so chuffed to bits.
And this time, unlike last time, when they disrespectfully played the *ex Pistols "God Save the Queen", he'll get a proper rendition of the National Anthem.
WSOP26 - $1,500 NLH - 1594 entrants
The bracelet and $408K first prize has gone to Andrew Rennack, after he got the better of Michael Katz heads-up.
They came back for Day 3 with 12 players and quickly moved down to a final table which eventually lasted nearly 200 hands.
The other 8 players will have uttered a sigh of relief as Dan Smith was first man out of the FT, and after that it was Eric Rappaport & Geremy Eiland out in quick succession.
After a lenghty spell of 6-handed play ended with the departure of Heinz Kamutzki, Reed Goodmiller came 5th, Ryan Welsh 4th & Tony Gargano went out 3rd to leave the heads up match
WSOP27 - $1,500 HORSE - 743 entrants
Fifteen mixed-game specialists qualified for Day 3, with unfortunately neither of the British players who made Day 2 amongst them.
Neither are either of the Day 1 chip leaders, Jason Riesenberg or Huck Seed. The Day 2 chip leader is Floridian Kristian Lord in an almost exclusively American field (only Italian Michele Limongi represents the Rest of The World)
Of the 15 players, two relatively well known players remain Dutch Boyd (7th), David ODB Baker (11th)
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Could we be getting ready to go Barny barmy again? 2013 bracelet winner Barny Boatman has made the unofficial FT of the $10K Pot Limit event (albeit with the second shortest stack).
Matthew O'Donnell has followed up his Final Table in Event 4 by running deep here, and goes into Day 3 as the chip leader, with bracelet holders and final table participants all around.
Chino Reem is 2nd, Dan Shak 5th and Todd Brunson lies in 8th.
They were due to play down to a proper 9 handed final table but as they got down to 10 with 20 minutes left to play it was agreed to stop there and come back for Day 3 with 10 players.
A hatful of well-known players bust in the last couple of levels - John Juanda went out 15th, Humberto Brenes 14th, Scott Siever 12th & Erik Seidel 11th.
I think I will be watching this on the stream tonight rather than the England v Italy game.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants
1165 is a big drop from last year's equivalent field of 1736, but statistics can mean what you want them to mean - last year's event was right before the Main Event when a lot more of the ME players were in town.
209 players have made it through 10 levels of minefields, and another Floridian, Barry Hutter leads the way.
He leads from Grayson Ramage and Justin Oliver with Welshmen Ben Warrington and Roberto Romanello inside the Top 25. Daniel Laming (though being shown as from Switzerland), Sunny Chattha & Ian Woodley are also still in with a shout for the bracelet and $536K first prize, as are Event 21 final tabler Thayer Rasmussen, Will Failla, Josh Arieh, Matt Affleck, former November Niner David Benefield, Scotty Nguyen etc.
And a question for you - who/what is Phil Campbell? A member of Motörhead, a noted PhD in physics, an American author? Well, yes all of those but also a small town in Alabama (population just over 1000 that is the home town of 11th placed player Jonathan Taylor)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants
The 588 players have contributed to make a total prize pool of just under $800K, with the winner taking home just over $190K.
109 of the 588 will come back to the Rio for Day 2, and just under half (64 to be exact) will get paid.
Jimmy Fricke seems to have been around the WSOP for years, and he will go into Day 2 with a lead from Calvin Anderson & David Brooker.
Not one of the best events for British players - only Sebastian Saffari has made Day 2, and he will return a stack only about a third of the average.
It's been carnage for recent bracelet winners - 2014 WSOP champs Vanessa Selbst, Brandon Shack-Harris, George Danzer & Dan Heimiller were all knokced out on Day 1 with a host of other big names (Ivey, Hellmuth, Negreanu etc.) but still in are Andreas Hoivold, Ylon Schwartz, Matt Glantz, Hoyt Corkins & Ted Forrest
To start today
Jun 14th
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed
WSOP28 - $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em - 160 entrants
Unfortunately it wasn't to be Deja Vu for Barny Boatman as he was unable to follow up last year's bracelet with another one in this event.
He made the official final table but after tangling with Chino Rheem he ended up with a short stack coming in to the 9-handed play and exited the tournament in 9th place.
Russian pro Alex Bilokur was the eventual winner, earning his first bracelet and nearly $400K to add to his already large career earnings. Bilokur entered the heads-up play with a huge chip deficit, but chipped away at Matt O'Donnell's lead by limping into him on his buttons and forcing the American to make mistakes.
Of the well-known players who made Day 3, Dan Shak went out in 10th, Todd Brunson in 6th and Chino Rheem in 4th
Ultimately disappointing for Barny, but still better watching the live stream than watching the football.
WSOP29 - $2,500 NLH - 1165 entrants
A round twenty players progress from Day 2 to Day 3, with California's Jamie Armstrong now leading with previous chip leader Barry Hutton still there or there abouts in second.
Danny Laming (still being shown as from Switzerland) is the only British player in, with former November Niner David Benefield and 2010 PCA winner William Reynolds still in contention too.
Other GB cashers - Ben Warrington (28th, $13K), William Chattaway (showing as from Gabon in the listings which is how I missed him yesterday, 29th $13K) * Roberto Romanello (57th, $8K)
WSOP30 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low - 588 entrants
We're down to a dozen in the Stud-8, and it's a complete lockout from the American players. Eric Kurtsman in the chip leader from Calvin Anderson who has been up there among the chip leaders from the start.
Melissa Burr represents the ladies in 5th, with Day 1 leader Jimmy Fricke 6th and recent bracelet winner Ted Forrest one place further back
No British cashers to report (in fact only 2 from the entire continent of Europe) in what must be one of Europe's weakest showings so far.
WSOP31 - $1,500 NLH - 1631 entrants
Updates have been slow coming through on this event, but we have 187 players coming back on Sunday for Day 2.
Australian players have been relatively quiet so far, but we have one in pole position here - Jason Pritchard. Quite a wide international showing, with players in the top 13 from France, Norway, Germany & the Czech Republic as well as the UK - Peter Gould lies 8th overnight.
Najib Kamand (from "Surrey London" apparently) is in 37th, Benjamin Dobson (from Poole, Dorset which isn't in Canada even if the WSOP thinks it is) 101st, Adam Owen 103rd, Iqbal Ahmed 120th, Jonas Lauck 135th
WSOP32 - $10,000 NLH 6 handed - 264 entrants
Just under a hundred players will return for the 6-Max "Championship" and we have two Brits still amongst the chips.
Max Silver lies 27th with an above average stack and Chris Moorman (recently arrived in Vegas) is below average in 57th.
Russian Leonid Markin is top of the pile after calling a huge bluff from Jonathan Jaffe with pocket aces ahead of Ashton Griffin & Scott Clements.
Former WSOP ME winner Joe Cada is safely ensconced within the Top 10 and lying ominously in 12th place is German High-Roller specialist Philipp Gruissem.
Galen Hall, Josh Arieh, John Racener, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, George Danzer, Brandon Cantu, Brock Parker, JC Tran, Greg Merson & Doug Polk are amongst the other big names in a stacked field.
To start today
WSOP33 - $1,000 NLH
WSOP34 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud