WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 3 of 3 You know the score by now, 3 Day Event not completed inside 3 days. The heads-up match is being carried forward until Sunday between Seamus Cahill and Justin Liberto. The Irishman (the second to reach heads up this year) has about a 6:4 chip lead, but they're still both very deep so that lead could easily disappear (and equally likely re-appear).
Stephen Chidwick (or as I've been playing around with anagrams, "Checked with spin" busto in 13th for nearly $24K, but he was outlasted by Benjamin Heath who made the FT but finished 6th for over $77K.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 3 of 3 We have our first female bracelet winner of the 2015 WSOP, as Hollywood screenwriter Carol Fuchs took it down. She has very little WSOP experience, but is a regular in California casinos but was a surprise winner in an event that usually favours regular mixed-game players. Her reward is a gold bracelet plus over $127K,
Russian Ilya Krupin collected his 4th cash of the series with a 2nd place finish, ahead of reigning champion Michael Mizrachi and Chris Klodnicki
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 2 of 3 If I had to hazard a guess, they won't need an extra day for the Ladies event with only 10 players progressing from Day 2 so they will open Day 3 with the unofficial FT.
Liya Gerasimova is the chip leader, but with only a small advantage from Parm Mehmi with Amanda Sizemore in 3rd.
Only one British player made the money and as I mentioned yesterday it was a huge career best for Sophie Stynes. The player from Lymm in Cheshire battled almost all day and departed in 22nd spot for a payout of $4829.
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Jason Mercier has already taken one bracelet at the expense of a British player, and he's in the chip lead after Day 2 of the 10K PLO with a couple of GB players looking to return the compliment.
Simon Trumper still appears to be a favourite of the WSOP updaters, and to be fair he is giving them plenty to write about as he lies 7th overnight with a very playable stack. Patrick Leonard is a little bit further down, but he's still got over 20 BB for when they come back for Day 3.
With 21 left, players from Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Brazil & Canada join US & UK names with the likes of Shaun Deeb & Davidi Kitai among the players involved.
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 1123 entrants, Day 1 of 3 The inaugural running of this one, where 50% of the field will get paid, even if for some of them it is less than their buy-in.
It attracted a decent field, and 2nd century AD Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is the chip leader. Well at least his namesake from California is. Stephen Girouard & Brandon Gerson make up the top 3 with Aurelien Guiglini the first GB player listed in 54th of the 211 qualifiers.
Also through - Seb Saffari, Tim Davie & Barkatul Mohammed from the UK, and Matt Affleck, Dominik Nitsche, Natasha Barbour, Dutch Boyd, Martin Staszko, Valentin Vornicu and Allen Kessler.
For the record, earlier GB cashers - Victor Ilyukhin, Gerald Ringe, Pratik Ghatge, Lee Davy, Sidney Hasson, David Vamplew, Lee Taylor & Aaron Fisher.
WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 454 entrants, Day 1 of 2 Exactly 400 players have been sent to the rail, leaving 54 players who will all get some monetary reward after the bubble burst on the very last hand of the day.
Ukrainian player Igor Yaroshevskyy has a decent chip lead over TV veteran David Benyamine & Blair Rodman with two British players left in - Stephen Chidwick (who must have late regged after being knocked out of Event 51 earlier) and Javed Abrahams.
To start today WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 2 Day Event
hi fchd really enjoying your thread. Just one question though the $10k nlh ladies. Am i right in assuming 22nd place paid less than the buy in. Posted by karlluke
I think from reading earlier posts, although it was a $10,000 BI, Ladies got a $9,000 refund and the $10k BI was to deter men from entering, so the payout for 22nd appeared to be less than the buy-in but actually wasn't if you were a lady!
The Big One for One Drop has just started, and the WSOP live updates have identfied one particularly tough table
Seat 1: Max Silver Seat 2: Roger Sippl Seat 3: Brian Rast Seat 4: Ben Tollerene Seat 5: --empty-- Seat 6: Isaac Haxton Seat 7: Taylor Paur Seat 8: Isaac Haxton
I know one of the bracelet winners from earlier on in the series is locked up in an online multi-accouting controversy, but Ike multi-accounting live on the same table?
The Big One for One Drop has just started, and the WSOP live updates have identfied one particularly tough table Seat 1: Max Silver Seat 2: Roger Sippl Seat 3: Brian Rast Seat 4: Ben Tollerene Seat 5: --empty-- Seat 6: Isaac Haxton Seat 7: Taylor Paur Seat 8: Isaac Haxton I know one of the bracelet winners from earlier on in the series is locked up in an online multi-accouting controversy, but Ike multi-accounting live on the same table? Posted by FCHD
I've a 2% interest in this one... My 1st ever WSOP sweat... GL Deadman
Event 54 10K PLO is now down to 2 tables, Simon Trumper has chipped up a little, Patrick Leonard dropped down a little. He is now the short stack of the 16 remaining. Jason Mercier still leads, next man out gets $34K.
Event 51 has now finished, unfortunately it is Ireland's 2nd runner-up position of the series as Justin Liberto got the better of Seamus Cahill.
Javed Abrahams was an early casualty in Event 56
117 have signed up for the Big One so far, and as far as I can tell all are still in. Max Silver's had a good start and lies second to Fedor Holz, who has almost doubled his stack already. Both Jake Cody & Sam Trickett have made minor gains. Simon Deadman has lost a few (sorry Joesman) but still has 275K (starting stack was 300K in this one)
Sky Ambassador, His Excellency Neil Channing has made his 2015 debut in Event 58, and has increased his stack from 5K to almost 6K. 2008 Olympic gold medal winner Fatima Moreira de Melo is also involved in this one.
Woke up to some good news; Simon Trumper is one of four left in the 10K PLO, live-ish stream now running
Looks like 9 Brits entered the High Roller, Talal Shakerchi, Jake Cody, Max Silver, Stephen Chidwick, Simon Deadman & Charles Carrel still in, Jack Salter, Eilor Sion & Sam Trickett have been knocked out.
Apparently there was some conflict between him and Shaun Deeb earlier in the FT.
Commentators just blowing smoke up Jason Mercier's you know what, although Tuck did make some nice comments about Simon and Devilfish when he was eliminated.
WSOP51 - $3k NLH 6-max, 1043 entrants, Day 4 of 3 As reported overnight, Seamus Cahill was unable to bring the bracelet to Ireland, he lost the heads-up match to Justin Liberto
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 3 of 3 The Ladies Event is done and dusted, and the winner is a realtor from Florida, 66-year old Jacquelyn Scott. In her first ever WSOP cash, she dominated the final table and collected the bracelet and $153K
It was her first time playing the Ladies event, although she had tried the Main Event 6 times without success.
Two more Americans finished 2nd & 3rd, Hope Williams and another realtor, Amanda Sizemore
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 3 of 3 The third bracelet of the day has gone to Denmark, with Alexander Petersen picking up the trophy and almost a million dollars.
Simon Trumper had a fantastic run, got to 4-handed play which seemed to go on forever but eventually finished 4th for $267K.
Once "Aces" had gone, the rest of the event played out pretty quickly with Dan Smith finishing 3rd, and Jason Mercier ending up as runner-up in his quest to pick up his 2nd bracelet of the summer.
Patrick Leonard managed some decent laddering up on Day 3, eventually bowing out in 14th place for nearly $42K.
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 1123 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Day 2 has just finished, with 28 players making Day 3. Ping Liu leads from Perati Muhamet & Tanya Kirk.
No British players remain, but others still involved are Dominik Nitsche, Matt Affleck, Brandon Witteemyer, Matt Matros & Mukul Pahuja.
Of the GB players who made Day 2, Seb Saffari finished 41st for $4275, Tim Davie (IH8PALACE) 69th for $2774, Aurelien Giuglini 83rd for $2213 and Barkatul Mohammed 175th to get his buyin back.
WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 454 entrants, Day 2 of 2 The Turbo lived up to its name and was done and dusted inside two days with Kevin MacPhee $490K richer for his two days work.
The 34-year old pro was making his 2nd final table of the series and converted that into his first WSOP bracelet, beating Igor Yaroshevskyy.
Third placed finisher Pascal Theodosiadis will live to regret one hand played 3-handed when he had the chip lead. He opened, and both of his opponents went in all-in, he folded Pocket Queens face up, which would have ended up being the winning hand.
Stephen Chidwick was (again) best Brit, finishing 36th and trousering $12376. The importance of money jumps at the WSOP can be seen as Javed Abrahams went out only one place earlier, yet his payday was $2300 less than Chidwick's.
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 1 of 3 The last $1K NLH event made over 2400 entrants, making it the 2nd biggest single flight opening day of the series after the Seniors Championship.
Of those 2412, 11 levels reduced the field to 278 with 270 being paid, so the bubble will be very early on Monday's play.
Richard Brunig is number one in chips at the moment, ahead of German Jonas Lauck & Melvin Weiner from LA.
Nicholas Green heads the UK Challenge, ahead of Alexander Elias, Stu Rutter, Andrew Hulme, Daniel Merrilees, Paul Vas Nunes, Rob Harrison & Tom Middleton
Neil Channing, however, is not among the Day 2 qualifiers. If I ever used emoticons, this would be the place for a sad-faced one.
WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 135 players, Day 1 of 2 The big one, and after some "will he, won't he" Phil Ivey made his first appearance of the 2015 WSOP.
He's not coming back for Day 3 as only 46 players lasted the day in the chase for the first prize which is just a soupçon under $4 Million.
It's a familiar name at the top, as last year's Big One winner Dan Colman is at it again, ahead of Sorel Mizzi and Andy Frankenberger.
Brits through are lead by Simon Deadman (25th), with Tom McDonald, Talal Shakerchi, Max Silver, Charles Carrel & Craig McCorkell also still involved. 16 players will get paid a minimum of $251K
Over $750000 from the buy-ins will go to the One Drop charity.
To start today WSOP59 - $1500 NLH - 3 Day Event WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 4 Day Event
Quick note to indicate I've just managed to go back to this morning's post and fill in the missing details, and to start an early Monday action update with the High Roller.
Not a good start for GB players, as we've lost 3 already. Charles Carrel went very early, followed by Craig McCorkell who suffered at the hands of former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel, and now Max Silver is gone too.
Tom McDonald also looks very vulnerable with his short stack, but both Simon Deadman and Talal Shakerchi have chipped up. Sorel Mizzi is the chip leader now from Phil Helmuth
Sorry Joesman, your 2% is down the drain as Simon Deadman bows out in 26th,also as predicted above Tom McDonald's short stack went in and didn't come back, so Talal Shakerchi is the only Brit left in the High Roller.
Ambassador Channing has bought into the Event 59, $1500 NLH and is still just showing with his starting stack, John Gale & Barny Boatman have both chipped up from starting. Perhaps Neil is just too young to make money now?
There is a 25K High Roller PLO to start soon, I guess a lot of the players busted from the High Roller will appear in this one, but there is also a huge cash game being played at the Aria and available to watch on Twitch that has a minimum $250K buy in and currently has Bob Bright, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Anotonio Esfandiari, Jean-Robert Ballande, Jennifer Tilly & Johnny Chan sat in with over $3million on the table
Sorry Joesman, your 2% is down the drain as Simon Deadman bows out in 26th,also as predicted above Tom McDonald's short stack went in and didn't come back, so Talal Shakerchi is the only Brit left in the High Roller. Ambassador Channing has bought into the Event 59, $1500 NLH and is still just showing with his starting stack, John Gale & Barny Boatman have both chipped up from starting. Perhaps Neil is just too young to make money now? There is a 25K High Roller PLO to start soon, I guess a lot of the players busted from the High Roller will appear in this one, but there is also a huge cash game being played at the Aria and available to watch on Twitch that has a minimum $250K buy in and currently has Bob Bright, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Anotonio Esfandiari, Jean-Robert Ballande, Jennifer Tilly & Johnny Chan sat in with over $3million on the table Posted by FCHD
Yep just seen his post..... Sigh..... Better grind and find a golf winner now.... Thanks for your excellent posts again this year... Back to being a keen closet follower.
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 1123 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Less than a week after finishing 3rd in a $2500 event, Brandon Wittmeyer went two better to collect his first WSOP bracelet and $200K in prize money.
Second was Derek Gomez, who normally makes his money as a poker dealer at the Wynn and third was long-term leader Ping Liu
The last GB player departed some time ago, Sebastian Saffari back in 41st.
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 2 of 3 A little over 1% of the original field are back for Day 3, with chip leader Stephen Graner having almost double the chips of his nearest challenger, Guildford's Paul van Nunes.
Rob Harrison, from Hobdens wherever that is, is also still involved but is nearer the other end of the chip listings alongside Irish veteran Jude Ainsworth.
WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 135 players, Day 2 of 2 This event was overshadowed by the death of one of the spectators, sounds like it might have been a heart attack or similar. The fan collapsed just as last year's Big One for One Drop winner Dan Colman was all in. The tournament was paused, and perhaps shouldn't have restrated until today.
But restart it did, and half an hour later the hand was completed and Colman was eliminated. Former WSOP ME winner Jonathan Duhamel eventually won the bracelet and the nearly $4m.
The Runner up was Bill Klein, who promptly donated all his $2.4m to charities including One Drop, and Colman was third.
Phil Hellmuth's quest for bracelet 15 ended in 6th place.
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Play for day 1 was ended with 309 players left, and an Ireland-GB one-two overnight. Kevin Killeen from Dublin leads, with Luke Marsh from Scunthorpe second.
Ten other GB players remain, including Aurelien Guiglini, Tom Middleton, Simon Deadman & Jake Cody.
Former ME winner Jamie Gold got through, but Jerry Yang & Carlos Mortensen didn't.
216 players will get paid.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 151 entrants (so far), Day 1 of 4 Registration is open until the start of Day 2 so the field will probably grow before the final number is declared.
67 remain from the Day 1 entrants, and in even better news than Luke Marsh lying 2nd overnight in Event 59, we have a British leader of Event 60. Step forward James Park. Talal Shakerchi, fresh from a decent run in the High Roller, is also inside the top 5, with Javed Abrahams and David Colin also recorded on the chip list from the end of the Day.
To start today WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4 Day Event - Including Sky Poker qualifiers
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Two players, Takahiro Nakai & Mel Wiener will come back to play heads-up for tbe bracelet after some late drama on Day 3.
British player Paul vas Nunes went out in third place on what would have been five minutes from the end of play after a river King saw Takai's KQ get there against vas Nunes' 9s.
Then as they were heads up they played an extra level. About 15 minutes from the end of that level, Wiener went all in with AA and was called by Nakai with 3s. A 3 on the flop saw Nakai's rail go mad, but they were quietened by an Ace on the turn.
Still we weren't done for the drama, as on the very last hand, with chip stacks very close they were all in again on a two-spade flop of 3-10-J. Nakai had AQ with the Queen of spades, Wiener had A8 both of shovels. Neither the turn or the river helped and after a count, Nakai will go into Day 4 with a 10:1 chip lead.
vas Nunes will pick up $175K, fellow British player Rob Harrison busted in 20th for $11416.
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 2 of 3 37 go forward to Day 3, with an Italian player with a very Italian name, Guiliano Bendinelli holding the chip lead, but a lot of interest is on the player in 2nd, former WSOP ME winner Jamie Gold.
Two Union Flags inside the Top 10, Aurelien Giuglini in 4th and Alex Lindop in 9th
Jonathan Somekh cashed in 62nd for $7389, Barkatul Mohammaed 72nd ($6269), Tom Middleton 80th ($5396) with Daniel Laming, Akshay Reddy, Simon Deadman, Hamid Rowshanaei & Luke Marsh also in the money.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 175 entrants, Day 2 of 4 A few late registering people made the field up to 175, with 24 of those getting paid.
A dozen survive, led by Anthony Zinno from Juha Helppi & Alexander Kostritsyn.
Talal Shakerchi is the British hope for the bracelet, but he is down in 11th of the 12.
Also still invovlved are Shaun Deeb & Ismael Bojang
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 1 of 4 Primarily covered in the other thread, but for the record the top three are American Jason Manger, Jamaican Gautam Lillaney and another American Geoffrey Rasmussen. The WSOP have 4th placed Youze Tian as being from Chad, but I'd bet that would be China. I don't think I've ever seen a genuine player from Chad, not even Norman Chad is from Chad.
To start today WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 3 Day Event
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 4 of 3 Takahiro Nakai only needed 8 hands on the extra day to finish off Mel Wiener and claim what is only the 2nd bracelet ever for a Japanese player.
Wiener was aiming to win his first bracelet for 19 years but ultimately only managed one double up on Day 4 and had to settle for 2nd and $248K, while Takai took $399K
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 3 of 3 Another one to go to a fourth day, and we have a very interesting quartet going forward to fight for the bracelet.
Alex Lindop is there for the UK, and Aurelien Guiglini was previously listed as "UK" as he is a Frenchman living over here, but that has now been switched to the French tricolour.
Then there is Haixia Zhang. She won the Ladies event last year, and according to the WSOP updates, no Ladies Event winner has gone on to win an "open" bracelet afterwards.
The final player is another Frenchman, Yorane Kerignard. Stacks are pretty even, ranging from 4.8m down to 3.5m so there could be plenty of play left.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 175 entrants, Day 3 of 4 And now a real rarity, an event that was done in less than the scheduled number of days.
Day 2 chip leader Anthony Zinno pressed home his advantage and on his fifth FT of the summer (!), all in $5K or up events, finally got the bracelet which also moved him into "Player of the Year" contention.
His winnings came to $1.1m, and denied Pakinai Lisawad the chance to pick up the first ever WSOP title for Thailand.
The last remaining British player, Talal Shakerchi, ended up in 10th place for $89234.
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 2 of 4
See the other thread for all the updates on the "droplet". Whoever came up with that name for it deserves a prize.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 1 of 3 We have the pleasant sight of GB players ranking 1 and 2 overnight at the end of the first day of Event 62. Chris Brammer is the chip leader, and he has almost 50% more chips than the 2nd placed player, Liv Boeree.
Niall Farrell makes it three Brits inside the Top 10, and there are several more inside the Top 50 - Andrew Hulme, Ben Heath, Jonathan Clark, Tom Middleton & Pablo Fernandez, and John Shipley & Baard Dahl not far off.
281 will return for Day 2, and other names still going include Leif Force, Faraz Jaka, Stephen Graner & JC Tran.
In another rarity, Stephen Chidwick bust on a Day 1.
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 1 of 3 Eli Elezra already has 1 Bracelet and 6 cashes, and he's on a mission to improve those numbers in Event 63.
122 are still contention for the $517K top prize, including Ted Forrest, Joe Hachem, Frank Kassela, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed & Scott Clements. Event 60 winner Anthony Zinno used some of his winnings to late reg, and he too has chips at the end of Day 1.
In what is not a rarity, Stephen Chidwick (after busting Event 62) also made Day 2, along with Matthew Ashton (healtily chipped) and Stu Rutter (less so)
To start today WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 2 Day event, the FT players will come to the Rio and play that live. WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 3 Day Event
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 175 entrants, Day 3 of 4 And now a real rarity, an event that was done in less than the scheduled number of days. Day 2 chip leader Anthony Zinno pressed home his advantage and on his fifth FT of the summer (!), all in $5K or up events, finally got the bracelet which also moved him into "Player of the Year" contention. His winnings came to $1.1m, and denied Pakinai Lisawad the chance to pick up the first ever WSOP title for Thailand. The last remaining British player, Talal Shakerchi, ended up in 10th place for $89234. Posted by FCHD
Is it correct that Zinno has only played 5 events so far in the series and FT'd every single one?
Disappointed not to see any Sky players bossing the BH tourni, should be an easy format to find an edge in after playing the MTT schedule here!
Boom! The third British bracelet of the series has been claimed, and like Benny Glaser's victory a couple of weeks ago, it has gone to one of the lesser known pro players on the circuit.
25 year old Alex Lindop from Stoke on Trent claimed his first WSOP bracelet and over $531K by winning the 4-handed Day 4 field. In truth, he dominated his three opponents for the first couple of hours, which saw the departure of last year's ladies event winner Haixia Zhang and then French player Yorane Kerignard.
Another French player (but sometime resident in London) Aurelien Guiglini was a tougher nut to crack, but in the end Lindop turned a full house and that was enough to win the day.
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 3 of 4 Fourteen left. Unfortunately no Sky qualifiers left in, but we do have some British presence as Paul McTaggart has guaranteed himself $32K, lying 8th overnight.
The chip leader is Jason Caulk, with Paul Hofer & Chris Hunichen completing the Top 3 places.
James "Runitsrann" Rann eventually bowed out late on Day 3 in 27th place, conveniently just after a cash jump to just over $20K. David Longmate came 60th for $8700, Craig McCorkell 85th for $5001 (the $1 must be important), Pratik Ghatge 105th for $3607 and the last of the Sky qualifiers (from a series of freerolls remember) Tim Rowlands had a tough Day 3 leaving in 109th also for $3607.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 2 of 3 34 players have made Day 3, with Czech player Vojtech Ruzicka having almost double the stack of the second placed player, American Jack Duong, and more or less triple the third placed stack, that of Irishman Peter Murphy.
One British player remains, Andrew Hulme who is in 26th overnight. Chris Brammer picked up over $6K, Jonathan Clark $3800, Patrik Slusarek $2800, John Shipley & Robert Sherwood $2200 each, Tom Middleton, Liv Boeree & Niall Farrell $1999 each, Shola Akindele & Ben Heath $1666 each. All those prize amounts excludes any bounty payments they may have collected along the way. WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 2 of 3 With a lot of the really big players commiting themselves to the $500K Super High Roller at the Aria, the field remaining for the Horse is still surprisingly strong.
Twenty are still standing, led by Andrew Barber, with former player of the year Frank Kassela 2nd & Eli Elezra (now showing as Eliahu Elezra) in 3rd. Also still involved are Joe Hache, Brandon Shack-Harris, Brock Parker, Scotty Nguyen & Barry Greenstein, but unfortunately no GB players.
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 1 of 2 The 6 players for the FT are known, well their aliases are for now. They are "imgrinding", "casedismissed", "Stonerboner", ""SLOPHOUSE", "GringoLoco72" & "Tuttybear". More will become clear I guess when these players turn up in person for the live FT.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 1 of 3 If I ever got the the WSOP, this would be my event. Anyway, enough fantasising, it a US Top 3 followed by a Russian next 3 overnight.
The Stars & Stripes have Thomas Savitsky, Yuebin Guo & Anthony Bellino at the top of the three, with the Russians Alexander Orlov, Vladimir Shchmelev & Aleksandr Denisov close on their heels.
Adam Owen has been in most events this series, and he's at it again as the Top Brit among the 125 survivors. Also through for the UK are Gerard Ringe & Stuart Rutter.
To start today WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 3 or 4 day event depending on whether you believe the WSOP on their sheet for Flight A or Flight B WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 3 Day Event
And that then just leaves the one tournament after that...
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Meanwhile, in the 50/50 NLH, I just spotted a player winning a pot, his name is.....
Athanaios Polychronopoulos
The WSOP Update said "Alphabet Soup Wins a Pot"
You know the score by now, 3 Day Event not completed inside 3 days.
The heads-up match is being carried forward until Sunday between Seamus Cahill and Justin Liberto. The Irishman (the second to reach heads up this year) has about a 6:4 chip lead, but they're still both very deep so that lead could easily disappear (and equally likely re-appear).
Stephen Chidwick (or as I've been playing around with anagrams, "Checked with spin" busto in 13th for nearly $24K, but he was outlasted by Benjamin Heath who made the FT but finished 6th for over $77K.
WSOP52 - $1500 Dealers Choice, 357 entrants, Day 3 of 3
We have our first female bracelet winner of the 2015 WSOP, as Hollywood screenwriter Carol Fuchs took it down. She has very little WSOP experience, but is a regular in California casinos but was a surprise winner in an event that usually favours regular mixed-game players. Her reward is a gold bracelet plus over $127K,
Russian Ilya Krupin collected his 4th cash of the series with a 2nd place finish, ahead of reigning champion Michael Mizrachi and Chris Klodnicki
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 2 of 3
If I had to hazard a guess, they won't need an extra day for the Ladies event with only 10 players progressing from Day 2 so they will open Day 3 with the unofficial FT.
Liya Gerasimova is the chip leader, but with only a small advantage from Parm Mehmi with Amanda Sizemore in 3rd.
Only one British player made the money and as I mentioned yesterday it was a huge career best for Sophie Stynes. The player from Lymm in Cheshire battled almost all day and departed in 22nd spot for a payout of $4829.
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Jason Mercier has already taken one bracelet at the expense of a British player, and he's in the chip lead after Day 2 of the 10K PLO with a couple of GB players looking to return the compliment.
Simon Trumper still appears to be a favourite of the WSOP updaters, and to be fair he is giving them plenty to write about as he lies 7th overnight with a very playable stack. Patrick Leonard is a little bit further down, but he's still got over 20 BB for when they come back for Day 3.
With 21 left, players from Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Brazil & Canada join US & UK names with the likes of Shaun Deeb & Davidi Kitai among the players involved.
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 1123 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The inaugural running of this one, where 50% of the field will get paid, even if for some of them it is less than their buy-in.
It attracted a decent field, and 2nd century AD Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is the chip leader. Well at least his namesake from California is. Stephen Girouard & Brandon Gerson make up the top 3 with Aurelien Guiglini the first GB player listed in 54th of the 211 qualifiers.
Also through - Seb Saffari, Tim Davie & Barkatul Mohammed from the UK, and Matt Affleck, Dominik Nitsche, Natasha Barbour, Dutch Boyd, Martin Staszko, Valentin Vornicu and Allen Kessler.
For the record, earlier GB cashers - Victor Ilyukhin, Gerald Ringe, Pratik Ghatge, Lee Davy, Sidney Hasson, David Vamplew, Lee Taylor & Aaron Fisher.
WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 454 entrants, Day 1 of 2
Exactly 400 players have been sent to the rail, leaving 54 players who will all get some monetary reward after the bubble burst on the very last hand of the day.
Ukrainian player Igor Yaroshevskyy has a decent chip lead over TV veteran David Benyamine & Blair Rodman with two British players left in - Stephen Chidwick (who must have late regged after being knocked out of Event 51 earlier) and Javed Abrahams.
To start today
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 2 Day Event
Seat 1: Max Silver
Seat 2: Roger Sippl
Seat 3: Brian Rast
Seat 4: Ben Tollerene
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: Isaac Haxton
Seat 7: Taylor Paur
Seat 8: Isaac Haxton
I know one of the bracelet winners from earlier on in the series is locked up in an online multi-accouting controversy, but Ike multi-accounting live on the same table?
Max Silver
Simon Deadman
Jake Cody
Sam Trickett
Talal Shakerchi
..... and in other news, Phil Ivey's in town!
Event 54 10K PLO is now down to 2 tables, Simon Trumper has chipped up a little, Patrick Leonard dropped down a little. He is now the short stack of the 16 remaining. Jason Mercier still leads, next man out gets $34K.
Event 51 has now finished, unfortunately it is Ireland's 2nd runner-up position of the series as Justin Liberto got the better of Seamus Cahill.
Javed Abrahams was an early casualty in Event 56
117 have signed up for the Big One so far, and as far as I can tell all are still in. Max Silver's had a good start and lies second to Fedor Holz, who has almost doubled his stack already. Both Jake Cody & Sam Trickett have made minor gains. Simon Deadman has lost a few (sorry Joesman) but still has 275K (starting stack was 300K in this one)
Sky Ambassador, His Excellency Neil Channing has made his 2015 debut in Event 58, and has increased his stack from 5K to almost 6K. 2008 Olympic gold medal winner Fatima Moreira de Melo is also involved in this one.
Looks like 9 Brits entered the High Roller, Talal Shakerchi, Jake Cody, Max Silver, Stephen Chidwick, Simon Deadman & Charles Carrel still in, Jack Salter, Eilor Sion & Sam Trickett have been knocked out.
Apparently there was some conflict between him and Shaun Deeb earlier in the FT.
Commentators just blowing smoke up Jason Mercier's you know what, although Tuck did make some nice comments about Simon and Devilfish when he was eliminated.
As reported overnight, Seamus Cahill was unable to bring the bracelet to Ireland, he lost the heads-up match to Justin Liberto
WSOP53 - $10K Ladies Event NLH, 3 Day Event, 795 entrants, Day 3 of 3
The Ladies Event is done and dusted, and the winner is a realtor from Florida, 66-year old Jacquelyn Scott. In her first ever WSOP cash, she dominated the final table and collected the bracelet and $153K
It was her first time playing the Ladies event, although she had tried the Main Event 6 times without success.
Two more Americans finished 2nd & 3rd, Hope Williams and another realtor, Amanda Sizemore
WSOP54 - $10K PLO Championship, 387 entrants, Day 3 of 3
The third bracelet of the day has gone to Denmark, with Alexander Petersen picking up the trophy and almost a million dollars.
Simon Trumper had a fantastic run, got to 4-handed play which seemed to go on forever but eventually finished 4th for $267K.
Once "Aces" had gone, the rest of the event played out pretty quickly with Dan Smith finishing 3rd, and Jason Mercier ending up as runner-up in his quest to pick up his 2nd bracelet of the summer.
Patrick Leonard managed some decent laddering up on Day 3, eventually bowing out in 14th place for nearly $42K.
WSOP55 - $1500 Draftkings 50/50 NLH, 1123 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Day 2 has just finished, with 28 players making Day 3. Ping Liu leads from Perati Muhamet & Tanya Kirk.
No British players remain, but others still involved are Dominik Nitsche, Matt Affleck, Brandon Witteemyer, Matt Matros & Mukul Pahuja.
Of the GB players who made Day 2, Seb Saffari finished 41st for $4275, Tim Davie (IH8PALACE) 69th for $2774, Aurelien Giuglini 83rd for $2213 and Barkatul Mohammed 175th to get his buyin back.
WSOP56 - $5K Turbo NLH, 454 entrants, Day 2 of 2
The Turbo lived up to its name and was done and dusted inside two days with Kevin MacPhee $490K richer for his two days work.
The 34-year old pro was making his 2nd final table of the series and converted that into his first WSOP bracelet, beating Igor Yaroshevskyy.
Third placed finisher Pascal Theodosiadis will live to regret one hand played 3-handed when he had the chip lead. He opened, and both of his opponents went in all-in, he folded Pocket Queens face up, which would have ended up being the winning hand.
Stephen Chidwick was (again) best Brit, finishing 36th and trousering $12376. The importance of money jumps at the WSOP can be seen as Javed Abrahams went out only one place earlier, yet his payday was $2300 less than Chidwick's.
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The last $1K NLH event made over 2400 entrants, making it the 2nd biggest single flight opening day of the series after the Seniors Championship.
Of those 2412, 11 levels reduced the field to 278 with 270 being paid, so the bubble will be very early on Monday's play.
Richard Brunig is number one in chips at the moment, ahead of German Jonas Lauck & Melvin Weiner from LA.
Nicholas Green heads the UK Challenge, ahead of Alexander Elias, Stu Rutter, Andrew Hulme, Daniel Merrilees, Paul Vas Nunes, Rob Harrison & Tom Middleton
Neil Channing, however, is not among the Day 2 qualifiers. If I ever used emoticons, this would be the place for a sad-faced one.
WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 135 players, Day 1 of 2
The big one, and after some "will he, won't he" Phil Ivey made his first appearance of the 2015 WSOP.
He's not coming back for Day 3 as only 46 players lasted the day in the chase for the first prize which is just a soupçon under $4 Million.
It's a familiar name at the top, as last year's Big One winner Dan Colman is at it again, ahead of Sorel Mizzi and Andy Frankenberger.
Brits through are lead by Simon Deadman (25th), with Tom McDonald, Talal Shakerchi, Max Silver, Charles Carrel & Craig McCorkell also still involved.
16 players will get paid a minimum of $251K
Over $750000 from the buy-ins will go to the One Drop charity.
To start today
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH - 3 Day Event
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 4 Day Event
Not a good start for GB players, as we've lost 3 already. Charles Carrel went very early, followed by Craig McCorkell who suffered at the hands of former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel, and now Max Silver is gone too.
Tom McDonald also looks very vulnerable with his short stack, but both Simon Deadman and Talal Shakerchi have chipped up. Sorel Mizzi is the chip leader now from Phil Helmuth
Ambassador Channing has bought into the Event 59, $1500 NLH and is still just showing with his starting stack, John Gale & Barny Boatman have both chipped up from starting. Perhaps Neil is just too young to make money now?
There is a 25K High Roller PLO to start soon, I guess a lot of the players busted from the High Roller will appear in this one, but there is also a huge cash game being played at the Aria and available to watch on Twitch that has a minimum $250K buy in and currently has Bob Bright, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Anotonio Esfandiari, Jean-Robert Ballande, Jennifer Tilly & Johnny Chan sat in with over $3million on the table
Less than a week after finishing 3rd in a $2500 event, Brandon Wittmeyer went two better to collect his first WSOP bracelet and $200K in prize money.
Second was Derek Gomez, who normally makes his money as a poker dealer at the Wynn and third was long-term leader Ping Liu
The last GB player departed some time ago, Sebastian Saffari back in 41st.
WSOP57 - $1000 NLH, 2412 entrants, Day 2 of 3
A little over 1% of the original field are back for Day 3, with chip leader Stephen Graner having almost double the chips of his nearest challenger, Guildford's Paul van Nunes.
Rob Harrison, from Hobdens wherever that is, is also still involved but is nearer the other end of the chip listings alongside Irish veteran Jude Ainsworth.
WSOP58 - $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, 135 players, Day 2 of 2
This event was overshadowed by the death of one of the spectators, sounds like it might have been a heart attack or similar. The fan collapsed just as last year's Big One for One Drop winner Dan Colman was all in. The tournament was paused, and perhaps shouldn't have restrated until today.
But restart it did, and half an hour later the hand was completed and Colman was eliminated.
Former WSOP ME winner Jonathan Duhamel eventually won the bracelet and the nearly $4m.
The Runner up was Bill Klein, who promptly donated all his $2.4m to charities including One Drop, and Colman was third.
Phil Hellmuth's quest for bracelet 15 ended in 6th place.
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Play for day 1 was ended with 309 players left, and an Ireland-GB one-two overnight. Kevin Killeen from Dublin leads, with Luke Marsh from Scunthorpe second.
Ten other GB players remain, including Aurelien Guiglini, Tom Middleton, Simon Deadman & Jake Cody.
Former ME winner Jamie Gold got through, but Jerry Yang & Carlos Mortensen didn't.
216 players will get paid.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 151 entrants (so far), Day 1 of 4
Registration is open until the start of Day 2 so the field will probably grow before the final number is declared.
67 remain from the Day 1 entrants, and in even better news than Luke Marsh lying 2nd overnight in Event 59, we have a British leader of Event 60. Step forward James Park. Talal Shakerchi, fresh from a decent run in the High Roller, is also inside the top 5, with Javed Abrahams and David Colin also recorded on the chip list from the end of the Day.
To start today
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4 Day Event - Including Sky Poker qualifiers
Two players, Takahiro Nakai & Mel Wiener will come back to play heads-up for tbe bracelet after some late drama on Day 3.
British player Paul vas Nunes went out in third place on what would have been five minutes from the end of play after a river King saw Takai's KQ get there against vas Nunes' 9s.
Then as they were heads up they played an extra level. About 15 minutes from the end of that level, Wiener went all in with AA and was called by Nakai with 3s. A 3 on the flop saw Nakai's rail go mad, but they were quietened by an Ace on the turn.
Still we weren't done for the drama, as on the very last hand, with chip stacks very close they were all in again on a two-spade flop of 3-10-J. Nakai had AQ with the Queen of spades, Wiener had A8 both of shovels. Neither the turn or the river helped and after a count, Nakai will go into Day 4 with a 10:1 chip lead.
vas Nunes will pick up $175K, fellow British player Rob Harrison busted in 20th for $11416.
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 2 of 3
37 go forward to Day 3, with an Italian player with a very Italian name, Guiliano Bendinelli holding the chip lead, but a lot of interest is on the player in 2nd, former WSOP ME winner Jamie Gold.
Two Union Flags inside the Top 10, Aurelien Giuglini in 4th and Alex Lindop in 9th
Jonathan Somekh cashed in 62nd for $7389, Barkatul Mohammaed 72nd ($6269), Tom Middleton 80th ($5396) with Daniel Laming, Akshay Reddy, Simon Deadman, Hamid Rowshanaei & Luke Marsh also in the money.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 175 entrants, Day 2 of 4
A few late registering people made the field up to 175, with 24 of those getting paid.
A dozen survive, led by Anthony Zinno from Juha Helppi & Alexander Kostritsyn.
Talal Shakerchi is the British hope for the bracelet, but he is down in 11th of the 12.
Also still invovlved are Shaun Deeb & Ismael Bojang
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 1 of 4
Primarily covered in the other thread, but for the record the top three are American Jason Manger, Jamaican Gautam Lillaney and another American Geoffrey Rasmussen. The WSOP have 4th placed Youze Tian as being from Chad, but I'd bet that would be China. I don't think I've ever seen a genuine player from Chad, not even Norman Chad is from Chad.
To start today
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 3 Day Event
Takahiro Nakai only needed 8 hands on the extra day to finish off Mel Wiener and claim what is only the 2nd bracelet ever for a Japanese player.
Wiener was aiming to win his first bracelet for 19 years but ultimately only managed one double up on Day 4 and had to settle for 2nd and $248K, while Takai took $399K
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 3 of 3
Another one to go to a fourth day, and we have a very interesting quartet going forward to fight for the bracelet.
Alex Lindop is there for the UK, and Aurelien Guiglini was previously listed as "UK" as he is a Frenchman living over here, but that has now been switched to the French tricolour.
Then there is Haixia Zhang. She won the Ladies event last year, and according to the WSOP updates, no Ladies Event winner has gone on to win an "open" bracelet afterwards.
The final player is another Frenchman, Yorane Kerignard. Stacks are pretty even, ranging from 4.8m down to 3.5m so there could be plenty of play left.
WSOP60 - $25K High Roller PLO - 175 entrants, Day 3 of 4
And now a real rarity, an event that was done in less than the scheduled number of days.
Day 2 chip leader Anthony Zinno pressed home his advantage and on his fifth FT of the summer (!), all in $5K or up events, finally got the bracelet which also moved him into "Player of the Year" contention.
His winnings came to $1.1m, and denied Pakinai Lisawad the chance to pick up the first ever WSOP title for Thailand.
The last remaining British player, Talal Shakerchi, ended up in 10th place for $89234.
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 2 of 4
See the other thread for all the updates on the "droplet". Whoever came up with that name for it deserves a prize.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 1 of 3
We have the pleasant sight of GB players ranking 1 and 2 overnight at the end of the first day of Event 62. Chris Brammer is the chip leader, and he has almost 50% more chips than the 2nd placed player, Liv Boeree.
Niall Farrell makes it three Brits inside the Top 10, and there are several more inside the Top 50 - Andrew Hulme, Ben Heath, Jonathan Clark, Tom Middleton & Pablo Fernandez, and John Shipley & Baard Dahl not far off.
281 will return for Day 2, and other names still going include Leif Force, Faraz Jaka, Stephen Graner & JC Tran.
In another rarity, Stephen Chidwick bust on a Day 1.
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 1 of 3
Eli Elezra already has 1 Bracelet and 6 cashes, and he's on a mission to improve those numbers in Event 63.
122 are still contention for the $517K top prize, including Ted Forrest, Joe Hachem, Frank Kassela, Mike Matusow, Huck Seed & Scott Clements. Event 60 winner Anthony Zinno used some of his winnings to late reg, and he too has chips at the end of Day 1.
In what is not a rarity, Stephen Chidwick (after busting Event 62) also made Day 2, along with Matthew Ashton (healtily chipped) and Stu Rutter (less so)
To start today
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 2 Day event, the FT players will come to the Rio and play that live.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 3 Day Event
Disappointed not to see any Sky players bossing the BH tourni, should be an easy format to find an edge in after playing the MTT schedule here!
WSOP59 - $1500 NLH, 2155 entrants, Day 4 of 3
Boom! The third British bracelet of the series has been claimed, and like Benny Glaser's victory a couple of weeks ago, it has gone to one of the lesser known pro players on the circuit.
25 year old Alex Lindop from Stoke on Trent claimed his first WSOP bracelet and over $531K by winning the 4-handed Day 4 field. In truth, he dominated his three opponents for the first couple of hours, which saw the departure of last year's ladies event winner Haixia Zhang and then French player Yorane Kerignard.
Another French player (but sometime resident in London) Aurelien Guiglini was a tougher nut to crack, but in the end Lindop turned a full house and that was enough to win the day.
WSOP61a/b - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 3 of 4
Fourteen left. Unfortunately no Sky qualifiers left in, but we do have some British presence as Paul McTaggart has guaranteed himself $32K, lying 8th overnight.
The chip leader is Jason Caulk, with Paul Hofer & Chris Hunichen completing the Top 3 places.
James "Runitsrann" Rann eventually bowed out late on Day 3 in 27th place, conveniently just after a cash jump to just over $20K. David Longmate came 60th for $8700, Craig McCorkell 85th for $5001 (the $1 must be important), Pratik Ghatge 105th for $3607 and the last of the Sky qualifiers (from a series of freerolls remember) Tim Rowlands had a tough Day 3 leaving in 109th also for $3607.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 2 of 3
34 players have made Day 3, with Czech player Vojtech Ruzicka having almost double the stack of the second placed player, American Jack Duong, and more or less triple the third placed stack, that of Irishman Peter Murphy.
One British player remains, Andrew Hulme who is in 26th overnight. Chris Brammer picked up over $6K, Jonathan Clark $3800, Patrik Slusarek $2800, John Shipley & Robert Sherwood $2200 each, Tom Middleton, Liv Boeree & Niall Farrell $1999 each, Shola Akindele & Ben Heath $1666 each. All those prize amounts excludes any bounty payments they may have collected along the way.
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 2 of 3
With a lot of the really big players commiting themselves to the $500K Super High Roller at the Aria, the field remaining for the Horse is still surprisingly strong.
Twenty are still standing, led by Andrew Barber, with former player of the year Frank Kassela 2nd & Eli Elezra (now showing as Eliahu Elezra) in 3rd. Also still involved are Joe Hache, Brandon Shack-Harris, Brock Parker, Scotty Nguyen & Barry Greenstein, but unfortunately no GB players.
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 1 of 2
The 6 players for the FT are known, well their aliases are for now. They are "imgrinding", "casedismissed", "Stonerboner", ""SLOPHOUSE", "GringoLoco72" & "Tuttybear". More will become clear I guess when these players turn up in person for the live FT.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 1 of 3
If I ever got the the WSOP, this would be my event. Anyway, enough fantasising, it a US Top 3 followed by a Russian next 3 overnight.
The Stars & Stripes have Thomas Savitsky, Yuebin Guo & Anthony Bellino at the top of the three, with the Russians Alexander Orlov, Vladimir Shchmelev & Aleksandr Denisov close on their heels.
Adam Owen has been in most events this series, and he's at it again as the Top Brit among the 125 survivors. Also through for the UK are Gerard Ringe & Stuart Rutter.
To start today
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 3 or 4 day event depending on whether you believe the WSOP on their sheet for Flight A or Flight B
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 3 Day Event
And that then just leaves the one tournament after that...