In Response to Re: The 2015 WSOP thread. : Lol too funny. Tikay, youre a natural, I bet you do after dinner speeches. Posted by mumsie
That's so spooky, I have to reply.
I was approached by a company who organise "After Dinner Speakers" only 3 days ago, they offered me £xxx per evening, & up to 3 evenings per week. I'll be honest, it really made me think, & turned my head a bit.
I doubt I could do it at present, whilst I have my little job here, but if anything happened & I went down the road, so to speak, I think I'd deffo give it a whirl, I can think of worse ways to earn a few bob.
You may remember Johnny Gould, who I worked with at Poker 425 (Wm Hill TV) many years ago, then, latterly, here at Sky Poker. He makes a great living giving After Dinner Speeches.
I have a story or two to tell, too, but many of them will have to remain untold for the time being. It would probably be inappropriate to relate some of them at the moment, too.
It's not "kiss & tell" stuff, no no, just interesting tales.
Money for old rope teeks, its obvious you are never retiring Just glanced at the monster stack, day b, just under 7000 entries with 4700 remaining and look who is sitting 3rd with a very nice stack, the 1 the only - CHRIS MOORMAN And nobody is surprised I hope! Also James Dempsey is going along nicely in top 30 Posted by Janana
Chris is simply amazing, different gravy. Top top bloke, too.
WSOP24 - $1500 HORSE, 772 entrants, Day 4 of 3 After the extra day,Arash Ghaneian won the bracelet and the first prize of $239,750 ahead of Aussie Rob Campbell & Isreali now resident in Vegas, David Levi
Phil Hellmuth clocked up his 104th cash, extending his record in that category, but who has the most cashes without a bracelet? Tony Cousineau, who picked up his 71st cash in this very event, and the second in the list also cashed here, Tom McCormick who's now got half a hundred cashes without a bracelet.
WSOP25 - $5000 NLH 8 Max, 493 entrants, Day 1 of 4 A final table stacked full of successful pros, and the winner turns out to be a High School football coach from Florida, Jeffrey Tomlinson.
On his first ever WSOP FT, he finished off beating Dominik Nitsche (3 bracelets) into 3rd and Pierre Milan (1 bracelet) in the heads-up match.
WSOP26 - $1000 PLO, 1293 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Another fairy tale story as Aaron Wallace, on a business trip, satellited into Event 26 and dominated from the middle of Day 2 to collect $227K (more or less) and the fabled gold bracelet.
Wallace beat Marko Neumann heads up. The German is a PLO specialist, finishing on the final table of the $10K PLO event last year. Noah Merritt was 3rd, and 4th was that rare thing, a player from Luxembourg - Jeroen Choinier.
The only British casher, Seb Saffari, had long since been knocked out in 34th.
WSOP27 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, 91 entrants, Day 3 of 3 This one is done and dusted too, and contrary to the above games, an established name pro was the victor here. Like Event 26, however, it was the Day 2 chip leader who held on and finished the job.
That was Brian Hastings, taking his second bracelet. He beat Scott Clements heads up in what is Clements' 4th time finishing 2nd in a bracelet event. Don't feel too sorry for him though, as he has also racked up 2 first places of his own.
Last lady standing, Oxama Cummings, went out in 5th while Max Pescatori, already a winner this series, bust in 8th.
WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 1 of 4 If 7192 entrants can be described as a disappointing field size, I guess it says more about where we were last year than this. Any way it's down almost 10%.
They haven't put up a Day 1B chip listing by itself, but they do have combined 1A/1B listings and we can see that all 3 of the players with over 200K chips are from 1B - Nick Maimone, Rick Basham & Gary Bolden.
Flicking through the list there are a pleasantly large number of GB players still in, too many to list in fact but I'll just note the names of names of Michael Kane (237th) & James Rann (1076th) from the total of 2060 qualifiers.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Is 77 the smallest normal (i.e. excluding One Drop) bracelet field for years? I can't remember one that low.
Anyway, 14 will cash so close to 20% of the field and leading the way overnight is Nick Schulman, with two men who've already had multiple deep runs, Shaun Deeb & Mike Gorodinsky inside the Top 10.
Adam Owen is the only GB player of the 32 left; Stu Rutter was riding along nicely at one point but then got crippled and eliminated in quick succession. Jorryt van Hoof is still in but he's gone back to be being Dutch.
To start today WSOP30 - $1000 NLH (3 Day Event) WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (3 Day Event)
They do that occasionally, I think they're confused between England/Great Britain/United Kingdom and when they start their input wth a "E" it defaults to "EE" as the first code for Estonia. John Gale was showing as from Estonia for a day or two, so perhaps that's a good omen! GB players also often show up as from Gabon, while a lot of Spanish players this year seem to come from South Georgia (GS rather than ES I think)
Tikay - you're missing out big time here. There is a feature on right now on "Country File" about electricity pylons. Catch it on the Iplayer! Posted by FCHD
You would not believe this Barny, but literally 10 minutes ago, I wrote an article elsewhere about inclined electricity pylons at Hoover Dam.
After 4 bracelets were awarded on Saturday, it was a quieter day on Sunday with no events reaching their ultimate conclusion. WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 2 of 4 Eliminations happened thick and fast on Day 2 to the extent where we are down to 272 players with a Russian player on the top, Milos Skrbic. The player in second place is from the aptly named Battle Ground, Washington (Wayne Keller) with French-Canadian Gylbert Drolet in the third spot.
The British contingent has of course also been thinned out, Andrew Teng is best in 46th, Chun Law & James Rann (yay!) in the top half, Neil Sillick, Simon Deadman & Jonathan McCann in midfield, and Ivan Ermin, Darshan Sami & Ben Rolle needing a double-up fairly quickly.
Sky player Michael Kane dropped out in 318th for just over $5K, one of a dozen or so British cashers. Unfortunately Adam Bromley was unable to join them, busting out not long before the bubble.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Is 77 the smallest normal (i.e. excluding One Drop) bracelet field for years? I can't remember one that low.
Six left - Dan Smith, Nick Schulman, Jon Turner, Eric Seidel, Phil Galfond & Eli Elezra. Schulman may well be the story here, he has won this particular bracelet twice already.
Adam Owen made the final table but busted 7th ($24457)
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 1 of 3 235 have made it though, so we're about 20 spots off the money overnight. Two American players lie atop the chip listings, Chris Hinchcliffe & DJ Mackinnon, with Azeri Ilkin Amarov tucked in behind.
Christoforos Diakoulakis is the best positioned GB name, in 74th, with the far better known (and far easier to spell) Chris Moorman almost smack bang halfway in the field. Some other well known UK players still in too - David Vamplew, the Mad Turk, Simon Hawksworth, Craig McCorkell and Mark Longhurst.
Shaun Deen, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Cantu, Shannon Storr etc. mean there is still a lot of US pros still standing too.
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 480 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Jeff Madsen took the Day 1 honours after a late surge in his stack saw him end with 231K with another season pro, Doug Polk, next best on 208K.
No surprise to see Stuart Rutter making another Day 2, with Joel Eteddgi & Richard Ashby also still having chips (although not many in Ashby's case).
Numerous big names failed to make it through the day though, the biggest of them all being Tony Kendall, who was shown as having precisely zero chips by halfway through the day.
To start today WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH (3 Day Event) WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)
Tony Kendall, who was shown as having precisely zero chips by halfway through the day. Obv a mistake as Tikay doesn't play a hand on Day 1 . U/L Tony if it is true :-( Posted by VespaPX
It is true.......never lasted beyond Level 6. Brutal game sometimes.
A pal of mine, "animalpoker" (well-named, he has animal like aggression) was drawn to my immediate left. animal - real name Robert Price - is from Cornwall. Two to my right was......Stu Rutter.
As it happened, I never tangled with either of them all day. I did tangle with a lot of river cards though, & I think I upset Lady Variance, who was in a foul mood.
Stu's table presence, demeanour & general play was amazing, & he was 100% Table Captain from the get go. It's only a matter of time before he wins a Bracelet. He's UK player of the Series so far, in my book anyway.
Event 28 - Monster Stack is down to 145, in the $8155 payout range. Looks like Simon Deadman has had a good start to the day and has chipped up, James Rann is still showing as with his starting stack so no news really but at least he is still in.
Edit - commentator's curse or something like that, Simon Deadman busto.
Event 29 has resumed the FT, and after about half an hour there has been no eliminations and we still have 6 left.
Event 30 is now IN THE MONEY, we've already lost McCorkell & Vamplew for min-cashes, and it looks like The Mad Turk never even made it that far.
Event 31, another one about half an hour in, nothing significant so far.
Event 32 has just got underway, but recent bracelet winner Brian Hastings has bust already. GB names shown in the chip listings include Liv Boeree & and Messrs Chidwck, Cody & Farrell
Event 33 doesn't start until midnight our time.
Not quite sure when I'm going to be able to post tomorrow, I was intending an early one but with the site down tomorrow morning and only having a 30 minute lunch tomorrow, it's probably not going to be until I get home although if I get time I will post a snippet or two here or there.
120 left in Monster Stack, Runitsrann still in but still no movement on the chip stack page either way. Other Brits still in - Chun Law, Andrew McCann & Daniel Teng. Kevin Frame was busted recently for the current payout level of just over $9000, next pay jump is at 99 players. Double bracelet winner Hoyt Corkins is currently the chip leader
No GB news in the Omaha Hi-Low, assuming Rutter, Ettedgi & Ashby still in but that's all it is, an assumption.
Both Eli Elezra & Jon Turner have gone from the 2-7 final table, leaving 4 with Nick Schulman doing most of the damage.
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Tikay, youre a natural, I bet you do after dinner speeches.
I was approached by a company who organise "After Dinner Speakers" only 3 days ago, they offered me £xxx per evening, & up to 3 evenings per week. I'll be honest, it really made me think, & turned my head a bit.
I doubt I could do it at present, whilst I have my little job here, but if anything happened & I went down the road, so to speak, I think I'd deffo give it a whirl, I can think of worse ways to earn a few bob.
You may remember Johnny Gould, who I worked with at Poker 425 (Wm Hill TV) many years ago, then, latterly, here at Sky Poker. He makes a great living giving After Dinner Speeches.
I have a story or two to tell, too, but many of them will have to remain untold for the time being. It would probably be inappropriate to relate some of them at the moment, too.
It's not "kiss & tell" stuff, no no, just interesting tales.
Just glanced at the monster stack, day b and look who is sitting 3rd with a very nice stack, the 1 and only - CHRIS MOORMAN
And nobody is surprised I hope!
Also James Dempsey is going along nicely in top 30
Me retire? I love working, & I love life.
After the extra day, Arash Ghaneian won the bracelet and the first prize of $239,750 ahead of Aussie Rob Campbell & Isreali now resident in Vegas, David Levi
Phil Hellmuth clocked up his 104th cash, extending his record in that category, but who has the most cashes without a bracelet? Tony Cousineau, who picked up his 71st cash in this very event, and the second in the list also cashed here, Tom McCormick who's now got half a hundred cashes without a bracelet.
WSOP25 - $5000 NLH 8 Max, 493 entrants, Day 1 of 4
A final table stacked full of successful pros, and the winner turns out to be a High School football coach from Florida, Jeffrey Tomlinson.
On his first ever WSOP FT, he finished off beating Dominik Nitsche (3 bracelets) into 3rd and Pierre Milan (1 bracelet) in the heads-up match.
WSOP26 - $1000 PLO, 1293 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Another fairy tale story as Aaron Wallace, on a business trip, satellited into Event 26 and dominated from the middle of Day 2 to collect $227K (more or less) and the fabled gold bracelet.
Wallace beat Marko Neumann heads up. The German is a PLO specialist, finishing on the final table of the $10K PLO event last year. Noah Merritt was 3rd, and 4th was that rare thing, a player from Luxembourg - Jeroen Choinier.
The only British casher, Seb Saffari, had long since been knocked out in 34th.
WSOP27 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship, 91 entrants, Day 3 of 3
This one is done and dusted too, and contrary to the above games, an established name pro was the victor here. Like Event 26, however, it was the Day 2 chip leader who held on and finished the job.
That was Brian Hastings, taking his second bracelet. He beat Scott Clements heads up in what is Clements' 4th time finishing 2nd in a bracelet event. Don't feel too sorry for him though, as he has also racked up 2 first places of his own.
Last lady standing, Oxama Cummings, went out in 5th while Max Pescatori, already a winner this series, bust in 8th.
WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 1 of 4
If 7192 entrants can be described as a disappointing field size, I guess it says more about where we were last year than this. Any way it's down almost 10%.
They haven't put up a Day 1B chip listing by itself, but they do have combined 1A/1B listings and we can see that all 3 of the players with over 200K chips are from 1B - Nick Maimone, Rick Basham & Gary Bolden.
Flicking through the list there are a pleasantly large number of GB players still in, too many to list in fact but I'll just note the names of names of Michael Kane (237th) & James Rann (1076th) from the total of 2060 qualifiers.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Is 77 the smallest normal (i.e. excluding One Drop) bracelet field for years? I can't remember one that low.
Anyway, 14 will cash so close to 20% of the field and leading the way overnight is Nick Schulman, with two men who've already had multiple deep runs, Shaun Deeb & Mike Gorodinsky inside the Top 10.
Adam Owen is the only GB player of the 32 left; Stu Rutter was riding along nicely at one point but then got crippled and eliminated in quick succession. Jorryt van Hoof is still in but he's gone back to be being Dutch.
To start today
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better (3 Day Event)
"Inclined" pylons means this......
WSOP28 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event, 7192 entrants, Day 2 of 4
Eliminations happened thick and fast on Day 2 to the extent where we are down to 272 players with a Russian player on the top, Milos Skrbic. The player in second place is from the aptly named Battle Ground, Washington (Wayne Keller) with French-Canadian Gylbert Drolet in the third spot.
The British contingent has of course also been thinned out, Andrew Teng is best in 46th, Chun Law & James Rann (yay!) in the top half, Neil Sillick, Simon Deadman & Jonathan McCann in midfield, and Ivan Ermin, Darshan Sami & Ben Rolle needing a double-up fairly quickly.
Sky player Michael Kane dropped out in 318th for just over $5K, one of a dozen or so British cashers. Unfortunately Adam Bromley was unable to join them, busting out not long before the bubble.
WSOP29 - $10K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, 77 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Is 77 the smallest normal (i.e. excluding One Drop) bracelet field for years? I can't remember one that low.
Six left - Dan Smith, Nick Schulman, Jon Turner, Eric Seidel, Phil Galfond & Eli Elezra. Schulman may well be the story here, he has won this particular bracelet twice already.
Adam Owen made the final table but busted 7th ($24457)
WSOP30 - $1000 NLH, 2150 entrants, Day 1 of 3
235 have made it though, so we're about 20 spots off the money overnight. Two American players lie atop the chip listings, Chris Hinchcliffe & DJ Mackinnon, with Azeri Ilkin Amarov tucked in behind.
Christoforos Diakoulakis is the best positioned GB name, in 74th, with the far better known (and far easier to spell) Chris Moorman almost smack bang halfway in the field. Some other well known UK players still in too - David Vamplew, the Mad Turk, Simon Hawksworth, Craig McCorkell and Mark Longhurst.
Shaun Deen, Antonio Esfandiari, Brandon Cantu, Shannon Storr etc. mean there is still a lot of US pros still standing too.
WSOP31 - $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 480 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Jeff Madsen took the Day 1 honours after a late surge in his stack saw him end with 231K with another season pro, Doug Polk, next best on 208K.
No surprise to see Stuart Rutter making another Day 2, with Joel Eteddgi & Richard Ashby also still having chips (although not many in Ashby's case).
Numerous big names failed to make it through the day though, the biggest of them all being Tony Kendall, who was shown as having precisely zero chips by halfway through the day.
To start today
WSOP32 - $5K 6-max NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP33 - $1500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)
A pal of mine, "animalpoker" (well-named, he has animal like aggression) was drawn to my immediate left. animal - real name Robert Price - is from Cornwall. Two to my right was......Stu Rutter.
As it happened, I never tangled with either of them all day. I did tangle with a lot of river cards though, & I think I upset Lady Variance, who was in a foul mood.
Stu's table presence, demeanour & general play was amazing, & he was 100% Table Captain from the get go. It's only a matter of time before he wins a Bracelet. He's UK player of the Series so far, in my book anyway.
Event 28 - Monster Stack is down to 145, in the $8155 payout range. Looks like Simon Deadman has had a good start to the day and has chipped up, James Rann is still showing as with his starting stack so no news really but at least he is still in.
Edit - commentator's curse or something like that, Simon Deadman busto.
Event 29 has resumed the FT, and after about half an hour there has been no eliminations and we still have 6 left.
Event 30 is now IN THE MONEY, we've already lost McCorkell & Vamplew for min-cashes, and it looks like The Mad Turk never even made it that far.
Event 31, another one about half an hour in, nothing significant so far.
Event 32 has just got underway, but recent bracelet winner Brian Hastings has bust already. GB names shown in the chip listings include Liv Boeree & and Messrs Chidwck, Cody & Farrell
Event 33 doesn't start until midnight our time.
Not quite sure when I'm going to be able to post tomorrow, I was intending an early one but with the site down tomorrow morning and only having a 30 minute lunch tomorrow, it's probably not going to be until I get home although if I get time I will post a snippet or two here or there.
No GB news in the Omaha Hi-Low, assuming Rutter, Ettedgi & Ashby still in but that's all it is, an assumption.
Both Eli Elezra & Jon Turner have gone from the 2-7 final table, leaving 4 with Nick Schulman doing most of the damage.