Stephen Chidwick has bought in to the 50K just before the start of Day 2, along with Chris Klodnicki, Mike Gorodinsky, Fabio Gonzalez, Ofir Mor, Todd Brunson & Joe Cassidy to make a final total of 84.
In the extended play event, Barny Boatman has picked up a few chips so far today, Patrick Leonard has lost a few. Just under a hundred remain
The Super Seniors is "in the money" but unfortunately without Eric Dalby who went bust a few players short of the bubble. His was not a name I immediately recognised, but he made the FT of the PLO at the 2nd WSOPE in 2008 (Sorry for all the initials) and won a $250K prize for winning a event on a Ladbrokes Poker Cruise back in 2004.
WSOP40 - $1000 Seniors NLH, 4193 entrants, Day 4 of 3 King of the Over 50s is Travis Baker from Enid, Oklahoma. He earns $613K for four days work, and finished off the final table in double quick time as he knocked out his last 4 opponents in just over half an hour. It is his first WSOP cash in just his second WSOP event.
Carl Torelli was the last player busted, improving from 14th last year to 2nd this time around, with former chip leader Jim Hopperstead in third.
Former Bracelet winner & November Niner Steve Gee ended up in 8th.
WSOP42 - $1500 Extended Play NLH, 1914 entrants, Day 2 of 4 It's a familiar face to us in the UK who is the chip leader of the Extended Play, former bracelet winner Barny Boatman.
He has 1.15 million chips, with the only other players in 7 figures Brazilian Luis Duarte and Ukrainian Artem Metalidi. In a familiar tale from the last 10 days or so, it's an international line-up as we have players from Canada, France, the US and Germany making it 7 different nationalities inside the Top 7.
There is a second British challenger too, Patrick Leonard in 9th.
Day 2 chip leader Yevgeny Timoshenko hang on but will come back for Day 4 25th of the 26 players, but Antonio Esfandiari busted (losing most of his chips to Barny when the Brit's Kings got there against The Magician's Aces).
Howard Smith exited in 43rd ($9457), Pratik Ghate 61st ($6718), and Martins Adeniya and David Lu almost simultaneously 69th & 70th ($5672 each)
WSOP43 - $1000 Super Seniors NLH, 1533 entrants, Day 2 of 3 25 Good ol' boys, all Americans, have made Day 3 of the Super Seniors with the lead held by Califonian Wayne Knyal from Jon Andlovec & Charles Havens.
The most familiar name left is Perry Green, who was winning bracelets as long ago as 1976 and was runner-up to Stu Ungar in the 1981 Main Event.
The players come from some wonderfully descriptive town names - Mound House, Sun Prairie, Buffalo Grove, Long Beach, Anchorage, Grapevine, Crest Hill, etc.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 2 of 5 The lowest PPC field since it was first held (two years ago when Matthew Ashton won it, the field was 132 players)
47 make it through to Tuesday's Day 2, with Scott Siever managing to hold on to his Day 1 chip lead ahead of Abe Mosseri and one Matthew Ashton, making another bid to with the Chip Reese Trophy.
Other former winners Michael Mizrachi & David Bach are also through, but Stephen Chidwick, Eilor Sion & Talal Shakerchi bowed out
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Brayden Fritzshall, Justin Kindred & Jorden Fox. Who? The chip leaders at the end of Day of Event 45, that's who.
With 171 to cash, the bubble will loom early on Day 2 for the 260 qualifiers, who include GB players Richard Milne, James Dempsey, Ben Heath, Michael Frost, Roberto Romanello, Craig McCorkell, Seb Saffari, Innes Young, Liam Hooks, Niall Farrell, Harry Lodge & Tom Middleton
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 players, Day 1 of 3 Two Russians in the Top 3, Arnseniy Makhaev & Ilya Krupin sandwiching German Bjorn Wiesler in the chip counts.
Paul Jackson gets a first mention lying in 17th, with Martins Adeniya (48th), Ben Philipps (58th), Jack Loraine (62nd), William Chattaway (67th), David Colin (68th) & Peter Charalambous (73rd) also in reasonable shape. Pratik Ghatge is in slightliy worse shape, 147th of 154 overnight.
To start today WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 3 Day Event
Oh, and please Sky DON'T "sticky" this thread, there already too many sticky threads around here.
WSOP42 - $1500 Extended Play NLH, 1914 entrants, Day 4 of 4 The Extended Play has been, um, extended with 5 players remaining at the end of Day 4 to go into a 5th day.
Barny Boatman is still among them, and is second in chips. Adrian Apmann (German resident in Austria) has 7m, Barny nearly 4, and the other three players barely 3m between them.
Current pay level is $107K or so.
Patrick Leonard cashed in 22nd for a little under $14K
WSOP43 - $1000 Super Seniors NLH, 1533 entrants, Day 3 of 3 John Andlovec is more than a quarter of a million dollars richer after winning the inaugural Super Seniors tournament.
The 70 year old, well known in Vegas as "Hippie Jon", made his 4th cash over a 25-year span at the WSOP, but on all four of those cashes he has made the FT (most recently back in 2004). Perry Green, aiming to set a record for the longest winning span of braclets (he won his first in 1976 and last in 1979) finished 8th.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 3 of 5 Nineteen have made it through to Day 4 with Abe Mosseri having the largest stack but close behind is Matthew Ashton, aiming to win this for the second time in three years.
John Racener, John Monnette & Mike Gorodinsky complete a very strong Top 5 with plenty of other names still in too, including recent bracelet winner Jason Mercier.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Only two dozen are still standing, with Jason Ko on the big stack, 40% more chips than Barry Hutter & David Jackson, his nearest challengers.
No Brits remain, although there is an Irish player, Dara O'Kearney sitting two thirds of the way down the field.
Craig McCorkell was the last UK player to bust (27th, $12422). Preceding him from walking to the payout cage were Richard Milne ($8579), Gregory Hawes ($4803), Jonathan Grey ($4267), Niall Farrell ($3485), Liam Hooks ($3217) and a group of min-cashers ($2949) - Harry Lodge, James Dempsey, Michael Frost & Seb Saffari
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 players, Day 2 of 3 Just 22 players survive Day 2 and will battle for the bracelet on Day 3. Thomas Campbell has already assured himself of his biggest WSOP cash and he will be looking for more as Day 2 chip leader.
No British players remain, but several interesting characters do - Robert Mizrachi looking to add his 2nd bracelet of the year, Martin Finger & Taylor Paur amongst them.
Of the GB players who did cash, David Colin did best, his 36th place earning him $9346. Paul Jackson & Peter Charalambous each collected a fraction over $5000 for a min cash.
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, Day 1 of 3 Keith Ferrara is the chip leader at the end of Day 1, with 326 others joining him on Day 2.
Stu Rutter is poised for another deep run, as are Stephen Chidwick & Simon Deadman. All three are in the top 50 along with fellow British players Darren Judges, Ben Heath & Ben Warrington
Lower down we also have Rob Harrison, Thomas MacDonald, Thomas Hall, Ben Dobson, Eric Theissen, Sergi Reixach, Sidney Hasson, Rhys Jones, Michael Kane (Style2737), Ben Vinson (a lot of Bens), Nick Hicks, Chris Moorman, Alex Zeligman, Fraser Bellamy, Jake Cody, Martins Adeniya, Aurelien Guiglini, Sam Razavi, Pratik Ghatge and possibly one or two more.
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 1 of 3 With 40 to be paid, the 77 returning players still have work to do to even min-cash, but few of them will be thinking about that and will have their eyes on the $112591 first prize and that bracelet.
Brandon Taylor leads a very US-Heavy leaderboard ahead of Jean Gaspard & Bruce Pacquette, with Eli Elezra having had another good day in 4th.
Deon Bowes is top Brit (even if the WSOP is flagging him from Guatemala) compensated for by Yuriy Rassamakin from Ukraine being shown as British.
Also still in Allen Cunningham, Huck Seed, Barry Greenstein, Todd Brunson, Daniel Negreanu & Perry Friedman
To Start Today WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better (so we should see Tikay in action) 3 Day Event WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship (3 Day Event)
WSOP42 - $1500 Extended Play NLH, 1914 entrants, Day 4 of 4
For what seems line the umpteenth time this month, a British player runs extremely deep but just can't get over the finish line. Barny Boatman finished third (after briefly holding the chip lead) with an European Top 3, German Adrian Apmann takes the bracelet and over $478K, with Frenchman Yehoram Houri the runner-up for $297K. He is making a habit of second placed finishes (the French Simon Deadman?) as he also has second twice in EPT events.
The three-handed action went on for hours and hours, Barny eventually busting 3rd and collecting $204K
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 4 of 5 David "ODB" Baker leads the 6 man FT or the prestigious PPC, ahead of two players who only bought in just before the start of Day 2, Mike Gorodinsky & Chris Klodnicki.
The last British hope, former winner Matthew Ashton, was the first man out inside the cash, 12th place earning him $87K.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 3 of 3 I've almost got "Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day" ready to copy & paste so frequent has it been at this year's series, and here we are again.
They did really try to get it done, but the heads up match will roll over as a match between Upeshka Dasilva from Katy, Texas and Dara O'Kearney from Dublin, Ireland. Unfortunately the Irishman will start Day 4 with almost a 5:1 chip deficit.
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 entrants, Day 3 of 3 "Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day" - see! This one has four players fighting it out - two Americans (Nipun Java, chip leader and Numit Agrawal, shortie) with two Euros (Austria's Andreas Fruend and Belarussian Vasili Firsau) sandwiched in between.
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Some prospect of British progress in this one, with 5 of the 41 making Day 3 sporting the Union Flag on the chip counts page. Of the 5, Simon Deadman (aiming to go one better than his runner-up finish earlier in the series) is best placed, lying 5th overnight.
Stu Rutter is having an excellent time throught the series, and he's more or less in midfield, and near the bottom lie Sergi Reixach, Ben Vinson & Sidney Hasson.
They've all got to catch Israeli player Timur Margolin, with Italian Raghav Bansal with Brazilian bracelet holder Andre Akkari in 3rd. Former ME winner Carlos Mortensen is also still in, along with Phil Hellmuth, Barry Shulman & Andy Black.
Looks like this one is going to be fun to follow, even if it does get overshadowed by the PPC. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't have to start the write-up tomorrow for this one with ""Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day"
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Pretty sure this one won't need extending, with only 8 players left to come back for Day 3. אלי אלעזרא or Eli Elezra to you and me only wins bracelets in Odd years and has a fantastic opportunity to add his 3rd as he is Day 2 chip leader.
Two lesser known players, Kenn Wittock & Gylbert Drolet lie 2nd & 3rd with another multiple bracelet winner Allen Cunningham in 4th.
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 1 of 3 The first thing to note is the field size - down almost 20% on last year's 991. Tikay's advertised presence scared a few away.
Of those who did turn up, 162 made it through the day, unfortunately our hero not among them. Bryce Yockey, who could well be the *$^*£@$£* who knocked Tikay out is the chip leader, after not even starting playing until the dinner break. Tikay had probably been folding for 6 hours by then.
The man with more Y's in his name than should be legal, has 155K chips with Anthony Piazza on 138K & James Horsbrough on 135K his closest challengers.
We have a Brit inside the Top 10, Charles Carrel lies 7th, Richard Ashby is still in as are Jeffrey Duval and Roddy Morrison. Max Pescatori is going for yet another bracelet, and I can also see the Prince of Docness, Chris Bjorin, Galen Hall, Erik Seidel, John Monnette, George Danzer, Eric Baldwin & the surprisingly quiet so far Vanessa Selbst in the overnight chip listings.
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship (3 Day Event) 117 players who've got nothing better to do than spend $10K to play Limit Hold'em for (hopefully) 3 days got involved in Event 50, and 74 are still going entering the second day.
Yegor Tsurikov appears to the biggest of the big stacks, despite the Updates thread giving that honour to Anthony Zinno (sounds more like a character from "Grease" than a poker player).
British players don't tend to do much in Limt Hold'em events, but Jared Abrahams has had a good Day 1 and lies inside the Top 5, and Talal Shakerchi is also present, a couple of thousand chips below halfway.
To start today WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max (3 Day Event) WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice (3 Day Event)
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Of those who did turn up, 162 made it through the day, unfortunately our hero not among them. Bryce Yockey, who could well be the *$^*£@$£* who knocked Tikay out is the chip leader, after not even starting playing until the dinner break. Tikay had probably been folding for 6 hours by then.
I am glad to report that Tikay late reg'd for this (level 3 I think) due to the small matter of him making a day two in a PLO8 tourney down at the Golden Nugget. He even managed a FINAL TABLE and eventually finished a very respectable 5th out of 164 runners. This makes him nearly as good as Richard Orford now, who easily won last night's £55 BH
#47 looking pretty exciting then, gosh how id love to watch a FT stream with Hellmuth and Rutter going at it, hopefully with some other brit involvement as well, Simon is having a better series than Stu, which must be nice!
And I guess the lucky VLV winners are flying out soonish as the little one for one drop starts on Tuesday, now that's going to be a fun one to rail if we get some sky folk running deep.
Hoping Tikay is having a fun time playing his PLO8, saw that photo of him with the CL taking a seat to his immediate left, lol poor teacakes.
Bracelet day with four to be handed out today. Detail will be filled in as and when available.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 5 of 5 Five years ago, Mike Gordoinsky won his first major live event by winning a mixed-game event at the PCA beating Jean-Robert Ballande heads-up.
Now in 2015, he has taken down his second bracelet and the Chip Reese Trophy (together with the small matter of over one and a quarter million dollars) by winning the mixed-game 50K Poker Players Championship by beating Jean-Robert Ballande heads-up.
It is "Gordo"'s second bracelet (he won an Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo split event 2 years ago) and vaults him into the lead in the Player of the Year Standings. Ballande remanins bracelet-less.
David "ODB" Baker was 3rd, Ben Sulsky 4th & Chris Klodnicki 5th.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 4 of 3 This one went to Sri-Lanka born American player Upsehka Da Silva who knocked out 7 of the 8 opponents on the FT to take the bracelet and $424K. Da Silva, who had made the FT of the 2013 Millionaire Maker event, beat Irishman Dara O'Kearney, needing just 9 hands on the extra day to finish the job.
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Alex Bolotin won the first WSOP bracelet for Belarus last year, now Vasili Firsau has added a second. The 38 year old won $437K after winning the heads-up match with Nipun Java
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Play was called off during the FT with 5 remaining. Timur Margolin has been at or near to the top of the chip listings for some time now, and retains that position overnight. Mercurial Irish player Andy Black is third, with three Americans (Matt O'Donnell, Andrew Dean & Brandon Wittmeyer) making up the final 5.
All 5 British playes were knocked out on Day 3. Sidney Hasson went early as part of a double knockout, followed by Ben Vinson. Stuart Rutter was all in on the very first hand of the day with pocket aces, so saw an early double up but went out in 23rd, Sergi Reixach managed a short stack for a long time to end up 18th and finally, Simon Deadman made the unofficial FT bit but was very short and ended up pushing with Q10 and ended up 10th.
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Veteran Eli Elezra, a staple of Poker TV during the "High Stakes Poker" era, has won his third bracelet after seeing off Benjamin Lazer heads-up. The former Israeli Special Forces officer wil take home a six-figure score with Lazer having to be content with $69K or so.
Allen Cunningham ended up 3rd with the best of the rest being Canadian Gylbert Drolet in 4th.
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Thee tables of 7 make it through to the denouement with Galen Hall as the chip leader. Three multiple bracelet winners (Erik Seidel, Vanessa Selbst & George Danzer) are still in the field, as is the player who eliminated Tikay, Bryce Yockey.
Best British run was by Charles Carrel, who finished 45th for $5061, although Chris Bjorin is shown with a Union Flag as British by residence, and he was 37th (for the same financial reward)
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship, Day 2 of 3 Play went on late into the night before they got down to 10 players, with Justin Bonomo having a significant advantage going towards the FT. Russian Aleksandr Denisov lies second with Jesse Martin third.
There are players from Boston, Shrewsbury & Newcastle still in the final 10, but all from the American towns of those names, not the British ones; no British players cashed.
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 1 of 3 285 of the 1043 and it is the serial casher, Ismael Bojang who leads. After setting a record last year for most cashes, he has 4 already (including 2 FTs) this time around.
Earlier bracelet winner John Gale heads the GB contingent, which also includes Sam Razavi (whose day's work included knocking out reigning champion of this event Davidi Kitai), Ben Heath (there's always got to be a Ben), Rhys Jones, Stephen Chidwick, Philip McAlister, Andrew Seden, Ben Vinson (OK, two Bens), Pablo Fernandez, Arkadi Kilman, Toby Lewis, Ben Dobson plus a few more.
Jeff Madsen is still going looking for his second bracelet of the year (and 5th overall), and also bagging up chips are Joseph Cheong, Griffin Benger, Antonio Esfandiari, Gavin Griffin, John Racener, Fabrice Soulier & Joe Hachem, just to mention names in the Top 75.
After seeing the fields for some other tournaments well down, pleasing to not that this one is well up on last year's field size.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Playing until after 3am on a Day 1 surely can't be a great idea, but that's what happened here. We're left with 75 players going forward to Day 2, with the chip leader being Scott Blakeman.
Reigning champion of this event, Robert Mizrachi is among the 75, as are Brits Jeff Duvall, Richard Ashby, Cai Wa ng, recent bracelet winner Benny Glaser and Matthew Ashton (dressed as a polar bear for some reason). Stu Rutter busted quite late on.
Double 2015 bracelet winner Brian Hastings still has chips, a third in the same series would be something else.
To start today WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event (ladies to receive a $9K discount) WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
Only 10 days or so until the ME starts, I'm grateful for that as I'm flagging a little bit at the moment. Should perk up when the Sky qualifiers start to play though. This forum software is also bugging me more and more each day.
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Play was called off during the FT with 5 remaining. Timur Margolin has been at or near to the top of the chip listings for some time now, and retains that position overnight. Mercurial Irish player Andy Black is third, with three Americans (Matt O'Donnell, Andrew Dean & Brandon Wittmeyer) making up the final 5. All 5 British playes were knocked out on Day 3. Sidney Hasson went early as part of a double knockout, followed by Ben Vinson. Stuart Rutter was all in on the very first hand of the day with pocket aces, so saw an early double up but went out in 23rd, Sergi Reixach managed a short stack for a long time to end up 18th and finally, Simon Deadman made the unofficial FT bit but was very short and ended up pushing with Q10 and ended up 10th. Posted by FCHD
Would be great if The Monk could push on and get himself a bracelet, seems to have been around for ever and is a proper character. Am sure there are plenty of stories that could be added. Remember reading about his WSOP experiences within books about Stu Ungar and his run to the 1997(?) ME title.
Plus he's N Irish isn't he... so can be claimed as a British win should he TID!
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 4 of 3 Matt O'Donnell is the bracelet holder as winner of Event 47 and adds $551K to his bank balance.
He beat Israeli player Timur Margolin in a lengthy heads up battle.
Andy Black earlier went out in 4th place to finish with a payout of $156K
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 3 of 3 52-year old Korean-born resident of Alaska, Young Ji, is the Event 49 winner. He beat Mark Dube heads-up, after hitting runner-runner on the last hand to make a bigger two pair than his opponent. It is Ji's first bracelet and his first WSOP Ft.
Dube earned $142K for second place while Alex Dovzhenko ended up 3rd for $92K. The player who eliminated Tikay, Bryce Yocket, claimed 5th ($50K) while former WSOP Player Of The Year George Danzer was the first man out on the FT.
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship, 117 entrants Day 3 of 3 It was a good day for players with two-letter names as Ben Yu was the winner of the very select 10K Limit Hold'em Event 50. Yu claimed his first bracelet after 8 years of cashes.
Three handed he was a very short stack and a clear underdog against two former bracelet winners, Justin Bonomo & Jesse Martin, but Yu first eliminated Bonomo and after a prolonged heads-up battle, Martin.
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 2 of 3 We're down to 35 and we have a late change of lead in Day 2, Jason Les overtaking Cornel Cimpan in the last few hands of the evening.
A few other players slid in front of Cimpan too, one of them being Stephen Chidwick who heads 3 British players who will come back for day 3, the other two being the two Bens Vinson & Heath, all inside the Top 12 and poised to make a strong challenge to at least make the FT.
Sam Razavi & Philip McAllister busted just inside the top 100 for $5666 each.
Current WSOP ME title holder Martin Jacobson shoved with 5-5, got called and busted in 55th place.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Only eleven players held on to their chips long enough to have some to bag at the end of Day with Matt Szymaszek needing the biggest bag. Close behind though is the reigning champion in this event, Robert Mizrachi.
Looks like none of the GB players made the cash.
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 1 of 3 121 ladies are coming back for Day 2, with the chip leader being Irina Batorevich from Russia, ahead of Canadian Stephanie Ampelokotis and American Kataneh Hamidi.
Virtually all the big name entrants bust comparitively early - Liv Boeree, Jennifer Tilly, Loni Harewood etc. leaving the field wide open, and hopefully one or both of the British players left in can make an impact. Shola Akindele has already had one FT this month, and sits in 30th place overnight, three spots behind Sophie Stynes (another victim of the WSOP putting a British player down as being from Estonia). Sophie's best recorded cash is £400 from 2nd place in a £30 tourney in Blackpool in 2013, making the 81 who cash here would about treble that.
No news of any GB players still in at this point, but I do know that Liv Boeree & Eleanor Gudger have busted.
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 1 of 3 134 of the 387 are back for day two, with a USA-Brazilian-Australian-Danish top 4, our interest lies just a little further down the chip listings.
Simon Trumper doubled up early and kept the pressure on to have the 8th biggest stack at the end of the night, and two other Brits (Patrick Leonard & Peter Charalambous) are also going to be among the bigger stacks at their Day 2 tables.
Dmitri Holdeew who I think is a German resident in Brighton lies 24th, John Gale 47th, John Shipley 65th, Arkadi Kilman (another I think who is from overseas but GB resident) 85th.
To start today WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 2 Day Event Only 12 more events on the schedule after that.
Not a good start to Saturday - Shola Akindele went all in with Queens and got looked up by 2nd chip leader Stephanie Apeliokotis, who has Aces. A further Ace on the river is just gravy for the Canadian player and she must now be the Ladies Event chip leader approaching the money.
Update from Event 51; Stephen Chidwick is the chip leader early in Level 23 after busting the last lady standing, Kendra Wray. Ben Heath is settled in midfield, but Ben Vinson is gone, out in 24th for $19020.
The ladies event is on the bubble, no news on whether Sophie Stynes is still in or not
No real news from the 10K PLO apart from Simon Trumper getting a regular namecheck on the updates page,
The new 50/50 event is in it's very early stages, the only GB name mentioned so far is Joe Beevers and he is just listed on the chip counts page with his starting stack.
Update from Event 51; Stephen Chidwick is the chip leader early in Level 23 after busting the last lady standing, Kendra Wray. Ben Heath is settled in midfield, but Ben Vinson is gone, out in 24th for $19020. The ladies event is on the bubble, no news on whether Sophie Stynes is still in or not No real news from the 10K PLO apart from Simon Trumper getting a regular namecheck on the updates page, The new 50/50 event is in it's very early stages, the only GB name mentioned so far is Joe Beevers and he is just listed on the chip counts page with his starting stack. Posted by FCHD
I have been following this in the Amazon Room.
Simon Trumper is close to chip leader, he has an interesting seat, with Jason Mercier & J C Tran directly to his left.
Other Brits going along nicely are Patrick Leonard, (pleno), John Gale, Pete Charalambous, & good old John Shipley, who made the WSOP Main Event Final some 12 or 15 years ago. John is said by many to be the best judge of greyhound racing in the UK.
In Response to Re: The 2015 WSOP thread. : I have been following this in the Amazon Room. Simon Trumper is close to chip leader, he has an interesting seat, with Jason Mercier & J C Tran directly to his left. Other Brits going along nicely are Patrick Leonard, (pleno), John Gale, Pete Charalambous, & good old John Shipley, who made the WSOP Main Event Final some 12 or 15 years ago. John is said by many to be the best judge of greyhound racing in the UK. Posted by Tikay10
The 4 seats directly to Simon Trumper's left are now......
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In the extended play event, Barny Boatman has picked up a few chips so far today, Patrick Leonard has lost a few. Just under a hundred remain
The Super Seniors is "in the money" but unfortunately without Eric Dalby who went bust a few players short of the bubble. His was not a name I immediately recognised, but he made the FT of the PLO at the 2nd WSOPE in 2008 (Sorry for all the initials) and won a $250K prize for winning a event on a Ladbrokes Poker Cruise back in 2004.
Wish they had a seniors PLO8 event, Tikay would be all over it!
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King of the Over 50s is Travis Baker from Enid, Oklahoma. He earns $613K for four days work, and finished off the final table in double quick time as he knocked out his last 4 opponents in just over half an hour. It is his first WSOP cash in just his second WSOP event.
Carl Torelli was the last player busted, improving from 14th last year to 2nd this time around, with former chip leader Jim Hopperstead in third.
Former Bracelet winner & November Niner Steve Gee ended up in 8th.
WSOP42 - $1500 Extended Play NLH, 1914 entrants, Day 2 of 4
It's a familiar face to us in the UK who is the chip leader of the Extended Play, former bracelet winner Barny Boatman.
He has 1.15 million chips, with the only other players in 7 figures Brazilian Luis Duarte and Ukrainian Artem Metalidi. In a familiar tale from the last 10 days or so, it's an international line-up as we have players from Canada, France, the US and Germany making it 7 different nationalities inside the Top 7.
There is a second British challenger too, Patrick Leonard in 9th.
Day 2 chip leader Yevgeny Timoshenko hang on but will come back for Day 4 25th of the 26 players, but Antonio Esfandiari busted (losing most of his chips to Barny when the Brit's Kings got there against The Magician's Aces).
Howard Smith exited in 43rd ($9457), Pratik Ghate 61st ($6718), and Martins Adeniya and David Lu almost simultaneously 69th & 70th ($5672 each)
WSOP43 - $1000 Super Seniors NLH, 1533 entrants, Day 2 of 3
25 Good ol' boys, all Americans, have made Day 3 of the Super Seniors with the lead held by Califonian Wayne Knyal from Jon Andlovec & Charles Havens.
The most familiar name left is Perry Green, who was winning bracelets as long ago as 1976 and was runner-up to Stu Ungar in the 1981 Main Event.
The players come from some wonderfully descriptive town names - Mound House, Sun Prairie, Buffalo Grove, Long Beach, Anchorage, Grapevine, Crest Hill, etc.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 2 of 5
The lowest PPC field since it was first held (two years ago when Matthew Ashton won it, the field was 132 players)
47 make it through to Tuesday's Day 2, with Scott Siever managing to hold on to his Day 1 chip lead ahead of Abe Mosseri and one Matthew Ashton, making another bid to with the Chip Reese Trophy.
Other former winners Michael Mizrachi & David Bach are also through, but Stephen Chidwick, Eilor Sion & Talal Shakerchi bowed out
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Brayden Fritzshall, Justin Kindred & Jorden Fox. Who? The chip leaders at the end of Day of Event 45, that's who.
With 171 to cash, the bubble will loom early on Day 2 for the 260 qualifiers, who include GB players Richard Milne, James Dempsey, Ben Heath, Michael Frost, Roberto Romanello, Craig McCorkell, Seb Saffari, Innes Young, Liam Hooks, Niall Farrell, Harry Lodge & Tom Middleton
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 players, Day 1 of 3
Two Russians in the Top 3, Arnseniy Makhaev & Ilya Krupin sandwiching German Bjorn Wiesler in the chip counts.
Paul Jackson gets a first mention lying in 17th, with Martins Adeniya (48th), Ben Philipps (58th), Jack Loraine (62nd), William Chattaway (67th), David Colin (68th) & Peter Charalambous (73rd) also in reasonable shape. Pratik Ghatge is in slightliy worse shape, 147th of 154 overnight.
To start today
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 3 Day Event
Oh, and please Sky DON'T "sticky" this thread, there already too many sticky threads around here.
Barny Boatman still leads the Extended Play, but Patrick Leonard has just busted in 22nd
The Super Seniors is down to 14, with Mark Schwartz top of the tree
Event 45 - Niall Farrell has quadrupled up his shortish stack, former ME winner Carlos Mortensen has also chipped up
The PPC has just re-started, George Danzer busto already and Matthew Ashton has lost a few to fellow former winner Brian Rast.
The Extended Play has been, um, extended with 5 players remaining at the end of Day 4 to go into a 5th day.
Barny Boatman is still among them, and is second in chips. Adrian Apmann (German resident in Austria) has 7m, Barny nearly 4, and the other three players barely 3m between them.
Current pay level is $107K or so.
Patrick Leonard cashed in 22nd for a little under $14K
WSOP43 - $1000 Super Seniors NLH, 1533 entrants, Day 3 of 3
John Andlovec is more than a quarter of a million dollars richer after winning the inaugural Super Seniors tournament.
The 70 year old, well known in Vegas as "Hippie Jon", made his 4th cash over a 25-year span at the WSOP, but on all four of those cashes he has made the FT (most recently back in 2004).
Perry Green, aiming to set a record for the longest winning span of braclets (he won his first in 1976 and last in 1979) finished 8th.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 3 of 5
Nineteen have made it through to Day 4 with Abe Mosseri having the largest stack but close behind is Matthew Ashton, aiming to win this for the second time in three years.
John Racener, John Monnette & Mike Gorodinsky complete a very strong Top 5 with plenty of other names still in too, including recent bracelet winner Jason Mercier.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Only two dozen are still standing, with Jason Ko on the big stack, 40% more chips than Barry Hutter & David Jackson, his nearest challengers.
No Brits remain, although there is an Irish player, Dara O'Kearney sitting two thirds of the way down the field.
Craig McCorkell was the last UK player to bust (27th, $12422). Preceding him from walking to the payout cage were Richard Milne ($8579), Gregory Hawes ($4803), Jonathan Grey ($4267), Niall Farrell ($3485), Liam Hooks ($3217) and a group of min-cashers ($2949) - Harry Lodge, James Dempsey, Michael Frost & Seb Saffari
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 players, Day 2 of 3
Just 22 players survive Day 2 and will battle for the bracelet on Day 3. Thomas Campbell has already assured himself of his biggest WSOP cash and he will be looking for more as Day 2 chip leader.
No British players remain, but several interesting characters do - Robert Mizrachi looking to add his 2nd bracelet of the year, Martin Finger & Taylor Paur amongst them.
Of the GB players who did cash, David Colin did best, his 36th place earning him $9346. Paul Jackson & Peter Charalambous each collected a fraction over $5000 for a min cash.
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, Day 1 of 3
Keith Ferrara is the chip leader at the end of Day 1, with 326 others joining him on Day 2.
Stu Rutter is poised for another deep run, as are Stephen Chidwick & Simon Deadman. All three are in the top 50 along with fellow British players Darren Judges, Ben Heath & Ben Warrington
Lower down we also have Rob Harrison, Thomas MacDonald, Thomas Hall, Ben Dobson, Eric Theissen, Sergi Reixach, Sidney Hasson, Rhys Jones, Michael Kane (Style2737), Ben Vinson (a lot of Bens), Nick Hicks, Chris Moorman, Alex Zeligman, Fraser Bellamy, Jake Cody, Martins Adeniya, Aurelien Guiglini, Sam Razavi, Pratik Ghatge and possibly one or two more.
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 1 of 3
With 40 to be paid, the 77 returning players still have work to do to even min-cash, but few of them will be thinking about that and will have their eyes on the $112591 first prize and that bracelet.
Brandon Taylor leads a very US-Heavy leaderboard ahead of Jean Gaspard & Bruce Pacquette, with Eli Elezra having had another good day in 4th.
Deon Bowes is top Brit (even if the WSOP is flagging him from Guatemala) compensated for by Yuriy Rassamakin from Ukraine being shown as British.
Also still in Allen Cunningham, Huck Seed, Barry Greenstein, Todd Brunson, Daniel Negreanu & Perry Friedman
To Start Today
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better (so we should see Tikay in action) 3 Day Event
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship (3 Day Event)
DJ Buckley just bust by Barny, last American gone and we are down to 4.
$150K now locked up
Then a few hands later Diotte goes all in with 6s, called by Houri's 8s and can't improve
Down to 3 Aptmann 6.7m. Boatman 5.1m Houri 2.5m
All at least will pick up $204K
WSOP42 - $1500 Extended Play NLH, 1914 entrants, Day 4 of 4
For what seems line the umpteenth time this month, a British player runs extremely deep but just can't get over the finish line. Barny Boatman finished third (after briefly holding the chip lead) with an European Top 3, German Adrian Apmann takes the bracelet and over $478K, with Frenchman Yehoram Houri the runner-up for $297K. He is making a habit of second placed finishes (the French Simon Deadman?) as he also has second twice in EPT events.
The three-handed action went on for hours and hours, Barny eventually busting 3rd and collecting $204K
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 4 of 5
David "ODB" Baker leads the 6 man FT or the prestigious PPC, ahead of two players who only bought in just before the start of Day 2, Mike Gorodinsky & Chris Klodnicki.
The last British hope, former winner Matthew Ashton, was the first man out inside the cash, 12th place earning him $87K.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 3 of 3
I've almost got "Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day" ready to copy & paste so frequent has it been at this year's series, and here we are again.
They did really try to get it done, but the heads up match will roll over as a match between Upeshka Dasilva from Katy, Texas and Dara O'Kearney from Dublin, Ireland. Unfortunately the Irishman will start Day 4 with almost a 5:1 chip deficit.
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 entrants, Day 3 of 3
"Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day" - see!
This one has four players fighting it out - two Americans (Nipun Java, chip leader and Numit Agrawal, shortie) with two Euros (Austria's Andreas Fruend and Belarussian Vasili Firsau) sandwiched in between.
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Some prospect of British progress in this one, with 5 of the 41 making Day 3 sporting the Union Flag on the chip counts page. Of the 5, Simon Deadman (aiming to go one better than his runner-up finish earlier in the series) is best placed, lying 5th overnight.
Stu Rutter is having an excellent time throught the series, and he's more or less in midfield, and near the bottom lie Sergi Reixach, Ben Vinson & Sidney Hasson.
They've all got to catch Israeli player Timur Margolin, with Italian Raghav Bansal with Brazilian bracelet holder Andre Akkari in 3rd. Former ME winner Carlos Mortensen is also still in, along with Phil Hellmuth, Barry Shulman & Andy Black.
Looks like this one is going to be fun to follow, even if it does get overshadowed by the PPC. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't have to start the write-up tomorrow for this one with ""Another tournament that needs an extra fourth day"
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Pretty sure this one won't need extending, with only 8 players left to come back for Day 3.
אלי אלעזרא or Eli Elezra to you and me only wins bracelets in Odd years and has a fantastic opportunity to add his 3rd as he is Day 2 chip leader.
Two lesser known players, Kenn Wittock & Gylbert Drolet lie 2nd & 3rd with another multiple bracelet winner Allen Cunningham in 4th.
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The first thing to note is the field size - down almost 20% on last year's 991. Tikay's advertised presence scared a few away.
Of those who did turn up, 162 made it through the day, unfortunately our hero not among them. Bryce Yockey, who could well be the *$^*£@$£* who knocked Tikay out is the chip leader, after not even starting playing until the dinner break. Tikay had probably been folding for 6 hours by then.
The man with more Y's in his name than should be legal, has 155K chips with Anthony Piazza on 138K & James Horsbrough on 135K his closest challengers.
We have a Brit inside the Top 10, Charles Carrel lies 7th, Richard Ashby is still in as are Jeffrey Duval and Roddy Morrison. Max Pescatori is going for yet another bracelet, and I can also see the Prince of Docness, Chris Bjorin, Galen Hall, Erik Seidel, John Monnette, George Danzer, Eric Baldwin & the surprisingly quiet so far Vanessa Selbst in the overnight chip listings.
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship (3 Day Event)
117 players who've got nothing better to do than spend $10K to play Limit Hold'em for (hopefully) 3 days got involved in Event 50, and 74 are still going entering the second day.
Yegor Tsurikov appears to the biggest of the big stacks, despite the Updates thread giving that honour to Anthony Zinno (sounds more like a character from "Grease" than a poker player).
British players don't tend to do much in Limt Hold'em events, but Jared Abrahams has had a good Day 1 and lies inside the Top 5, and Talal Shakerchi is also present, a couple of thousand chips below halfway.
To start today
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max (3 Day Event)
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice (3 Day Event)
And I guess the lucky VLV winners are flying out soonish as the little one for one drop starts on Tuesday, now that's going to be a fun one to rail if we get some sky folk running deep.
Hoping Tikay is having a fun time playing his PLO8, saw that photo of him with the CL taking a seat to his immediate left, lol poor teacakes.
WSOP44 - $50K Poker Players Championship, 84 entrants, Day 5 of 5
Five years ago, Mike Gordoinsky won his first major live event by winning a mixed-game event at the PCA beating Jean-Robert Ballande heads-up.
Now in 2015, he has taken down his second bracelet and the Chip Reese Trophy (together with the small matter of over one and a quarter million dollars) by winning the mixed-game 50K Poker Players Championship by beating Jean-Robert Ballande heads-up.
It is "Gordo"'s second bracelet (he won an Omaha/Stud Hi-Lo split event 2 years ago) and vaults him into the lead in the Player of the Year Standings. Ballande remanins bracelet-less.
David "ODB" Baker was 3rd, Ben Sulsky 4th & Chris Klodnicki 5th.
WSOP45 - $1500 NLH, 1655 entrants, Day 4 of 3
This one went to Sri-Lanka born American player Upsehka Da Silva who knocked out 7 of the 8 opponents on the FT to take the bracelet and $424K. Da Silva, who had made the FT of the 2013 Millionaire Maker event, beat Irishman Dara O'Kearney, needing just 9 hands on the extra day to finish the job.
WSOP46 - $3000 PLO 6 Max, 682 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Alex Bolotin won the first WSOP bracelet for Belarus last year, now Vasili Firsau has added a second. The 38 year old won $437K after winning the heads-up match with Nipun Java
WSOP47 - $2500 NLH, 1244 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Play was called off during the FT with 5 remaining. Timur Margolin has been at or near to the top of the chip listings for some time now, and retains that position overnight. Mercurial Irish player Andy Black is third, with three Americans (Matt O'Donnell, Andrew Dean & Brandon Wittmeyer) making up the final 5.
All 5 British playes were knocked out on Day 3. Sidney Hasson went early as part of a double knockout, followed by Ben Vinson. Stuart Rutter was all in on the very first hand of the day with pocket aces, so saw an early double up but went out in 23rd, Sergi Reixach managed a short stack for a long time to end up 18th and finally, Simon Deadman made the unofficial FT bit but was very short and ended up pushing with Q10 and ended up 10th.
WSOP48 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 327 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Veteran Eli Elezra, a staple of Poker TV during the "High Stakes Poker" era, has won his third bracelet after seeing off Benjamin Lazer heads-up. The former Israeli Special Forces officer wil take home a six-figure score with Lazer having to be content with $69K or so.
Allen Cunningham ended up 3rd with the best of the rest being Canadian Gylbert Drolet in 4th.
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Thee tables of 7 make it through to the denouement with Galen Hall as the chip leader. Three multiple bracelet winners (Erik Seidel, Vanessa Selbst & George Danzer) are still in the field, as is the player who eliminated Tikay, Bryce Yockey.
Best British run was by Charles Carrel, who finished 45th for $5061, although Chris Bjorin is shown with a Union Flag as British by residence, and he was 37th (for the same financial reward)
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship, Day 2 of 3
Play went on late into the night before they got down to 10 players, with Justin Bonomo having a significant advantage going towards the FT. Russian Aleksandr Denisov lies second with Jesse Martin third.
There are players from Boston, Shrewsbury & Newcastle still in the final 10, but all from the American towns of those names, not the British ones; no British players cashed.
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 1 of 3
285 of the 1043 and it is the serial casher, Ismael Bojang who leads. After setting a record last year for most cashes, he has 4 already (including 2 FTs) this time around.
Earlier bracelet winner John Gale heads the GB contingent, which also includes Sam Razavi (whose day's work included knocking out reigning champion of this event Davidi Kitai), Ben Heath (there's always got to be a Ben), Rhys Jones, Stephen Chidwick, Philip McAlister, Andrew Seden, Ben Vinson (OK, two Bens), Pablo Fernandez, Arkadi Kilman, Toby Lewis, Ben Dobson plus a few more.
Jeff Madsen is still going looking for his second bracelet of the year (and 5th overall), and also bagging up chips are Joseph Cheong, Griffin Benger, Antonio Esfandiari, Gavin Griffin, John Racener, Fabrice Soulier & Joe Hachem, just to mention names in the Top 75.
After seeing the fields for some other tournaments well down, pleasing to not that this one is well up on last year's field size.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Playing until after 3am on a Day 1 surely can't be a great idea, but that's what happened here. We're left with 75 players going forward to Day 2, with the chip leader being Scott Blakeman.
Reigning champion of this event, Robert Mizrachi is among the 75, as are Brits Jeff Duvall, Richard Ashby, Cai Wa ng, recent bracelet winner Benny Glaser and Matthew Ashton (dressed as a polar bear for some reason). Stu Rutter busted quite late on.
Double 2015 bracelet winner Brian Hastings still has chips, a third in the same series would be something else.
To start today
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event (ladies to receive a $9K discount)
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
Only 10 days or so until the ME starts, I'm grateful for that as I'm flagging a little bit at the moment. Should perk up when the Sky qualifiers start to play though. This forum software is also bugging me more and more each day.
Plus he's N Irish isn't he... so can be claimed as a British win should he TID!
Matt O'Donnell is the bracelet holder as winner of Event 47 and adds $551K to his bank balance.
He beat Israeli player Timur Margolin in a lengthy heads up battle.
Andy Black earlier went out in 4th place to finish with a payout of $156K
WSOP49 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha8 or better, 815 entrants, Day 3 of 3
52-year old Korean-born resident of Alaska, Young Ji, is the Event 49 winner. He beat Mark Dube heads-up, after hitting runner-runner on the last hand to make a bigger two pair than his opponent. It is Ji's first bracelet and his first WSOP Ft.
Dube earned $142K for second place while Alex Dovzhenko ended up 3rd for $92K. The player who eliminated Tikay, Bryce Yocket, claimed 5th ($50K) while former WSOP Player Of The Year George Danzer was the first man out on the FT.
WSOP50 - $10K Limit Hold'Em Championship, 117 entrants Day 3 of 3
It was a good day for players with two-letter names as Ben Yu was the winner of the very select 10K Limit Hold'em Event 50. Yu claimed his first bracelet after 8 years of cashes.
Three handed he was a very short stack and a clear underdog against two former bracelet winners, Justin Bonomo & Jesse Martin, but Yu first eliminated Bonomo and after a prolonged heads-up battle, Martin.
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 2 of 3
We're down to 35 and we have a late change of lead in Day 2, Jason Les overtaking Cornel Cimpan in the last few hands of the evening.
A few other players slid in front of Cimpan too, one of them being Stephen Chidwick who heads 3 British players who will come back for day 3, the other two being the two Bens Vinson & Heath, all inside the Top 12 and poised to make a strong challenge to at least make the FT.
Sam Razavi & Philip McAllister busted just inside the top 100 for $5666 each.
Current WSOP ME title holder Martin Jacobson shoved with 5-5, got called and busted in 55th place.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Only eleven players held on to their chips long enough to have some to bag at the end of Day with Matt Szymaszek needing the biggest bag. Close behind though is the reigning champion in this event, Robert Mizrachi.
Looks like none of the GB players made the cash.
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 1 of 3
121 ladies are coming back for Day 2, with the chip leader being Irina Batorevich from Russia, ahead of Canadian Stephanie Ampelokotis and American Kataneh Hamidi.
Virtually all the big name entrants bust comparitively early - Liv Boeree, Jennifer Tilly, Loni Harewood etc. leaving the field wide open, and hopefully one or both of the British players left in can make an impact. Shola Akindele has already had one FT this month, and sits in 30th place overnight, three spots behind Sophie Stynes (another victim of the WSOP putting a British player down as being from Estonia). Sophie's best recorded cash is £400 from 2nd place in a £30 tourney in Blackpool in 2013, making the 81 who cash here would about treble that.
No news of any GB players still in at this point, but I do know that Liv Boeree & Eleanor Gudger have busted.
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 1 of 3
134 of the 387 are back for day two, with a USA-Brazilian-Australian-Danish top 4, our interest lies just a little further down the chip listings.
Simon Trumper doubled up early and kept the pressure on to have the 8th biggest stack at the end of the night, and two other Brits (Patrick Leonard & Peter Charalambous) are also going to be among the bigger stacks at their Day 2 tables.
Dmitri Holdeew who I think is a German resident in Brighton lies 24th, John Gale 47th, John Shipley 65th, Arkadi Kilman (another I think who is from overseas but GB resident) 85th.
To start today
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 2 Day Event
Only 12 more events on the schedule after that.
The ladies event is on the bubble, no news on whether Sophie Stynes is still in or not
No real news from the 10K PLO apart from Simon Trumper getting a regular namecheck on the updates page,
The new 50/50 event is in it's very early stages, the only GB name mentioned so far is Joe Beevers and he is just listed on the chip counts page with his starting stack.
Simon Trumper is close to chip leader, he has an interesting seat, with Jason Mercier & J C Tran directly to his left.
Other Brits going along nicely are Patrick Leonard, (pleno), John Gale, Pete Charalambous, & good old John Shipley, who made the WSOP Main Event Final some 12 or 15 years ago. John is said by many to be the best judge of greyhound racing in the UK.
Jason Mercier
J C Tran
Eli Elezra
Ted Forrest