WSOP61 - $1111 Little One For One Drop, 4555 entries, Day 4 of 4 24 year-old part time pro, part time student, German Paul Hofer is the "droplet" winner, outlasting 4554 other players to claim the bracelet and $645K prize money.
After four days of play, the heads-up match lasted exactly one hand, as Hofer bust Argentinian Mario Lopez the hand after he knocked out Senovio Ramirez. John Reading, who had already won one bracelet this summer, was the 4th placed finishe.
The chip leader is Jason Caulk, with Paul Hofer & Chris Hunichen completing the Top 3 places.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 3 of 3 12 hours of Day 3 play were not enough to bring this one to a conclusion, so it joins the seemingly never ending list of events going to an unscheduled 4th day. The two players left are the two players who led going into Day 3, but the order has been reversed as Jack Doung has a massive chip lead over his Czech opponent, Vojtech Ruzicka.
Last Brit standing Andrew Hulme was beaten in 26th place ($9534) while Irishman Peter Murphy made the FT before walking away 9th for $24511
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 3 of 3 Andrew Barber is the $10K Horse Champion, clamining over half a million dollars in the process and of course the gold bracelet.
Russian Viacheslev Zhukov was the runner-up, with Don Zewin in third. Joe Hachem went out in 5th, Frank Kassela 6th, Scotty Nguyen 7th & Eli Elezra 8th.
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 1 of 2 Play will re-start on Saturday.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 2 of 3 Seventeen are still standing, searching for supremacy in stud.
Veteran John Esposito has the lead overnight, ahead of GB player Gerard Ringe.
Adam Owen is also still going having another very deep run, and other names still in the field are Daniel Idema, Vladimir Schmelev & Todd Brunson
Stu Rutter was among the early casualties on Day 2.
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 Play is still going on Flight B, full update to follow when the combined results are avialble.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 109 entrants, Day 1 of 3 The last of the preliminary events, and Day 1 play is still onging.
Matthew Ashton could well be the chip leader at this point, and both Stephen Chidwick & Stu Rutter are shown with a decent amount of chips, although the timeliness of this information is questionable at best.
Anthony Zinno's magic failed to appear in this one, as he has busto.
Hi all, I'm playing the lucky sevens WSOP event in Vegas and being a SkyPoker semi regular I thought I would share a bit of insight into my first WSOP experience. It also gives me something to do in the 20 minute breaks other than snack or get tempted by a beer.
I decided to play the evening flight out of pure laziness (long flight yesterday). If I'm being totally honest I was awestruck when I first went down to register. Seeing the venues, fixtures, marketing and players I used to binge watch through uni is pretty cool. I'm a very shy and quiet person naturally and even worse amongst new people, so come kick off at 7pm I was pretty nervous. For me to even come to Vegas to live this dream is one thing but then to sit dead silent amongst 8/9 loud Americans, going red through embarrassment every time I announce raise, is pretty daunting. Anyway I was registered so didn't have a choice.
The good news is that I have just returned to my hotel at 4.30am as I made it to day two with an average stack. I surprised myself with how well I dealt with my apprehension and even though I was far from joining in with the banter, I did display some poker confidence through my actions.
The truth is, it wasn't that difficult poker wise. I wasn't all in at any point during the tournament and was just playing small pots, picking my spots and using tight quiet English guy image to my advantage.
Halfway through the night I had got up to 20,000 in chips from 5000 starting stack. I got in a tangle with some bloke called all American Dave, he seems to be a big deal here. Anyway the board was KK46 and I called his turn shove with TT. He flipped over 77 and this pot was for 75% of my stack so a big one to win. The tournament is called lucky sevens so somewhat amazingly you can imagine what the river was. In fairness after a screaming celebration he apologised for the outburst. What surprised me is how well I took the beat and if anything, inspired me to challenge myself to remain composed. Long story short I kept doing what I was doing and finished the night at around 40,000. Back tomorrow at 2 with around 200 to the money. I'm feeling good, just pretty tired. I will update again tomorrow as it's quite a fun process for me and hopefully I can represent Sky, my site, with a good result.
The good news is that I have just returned to my hotel at 4.30am as I made it to day two with an average stack. I surprised myself with how well I dealt with my apprehension and even though I was far from joining in with the banter, I did display some poker confidence through my actions. The truth is, it wasn't that difficult poker wise. I wasn't all in at any point during the tournament and was just playing small pots, picking my spots and using tight quiet English guy image to my advantage. Halfway through the night I had got up to 20,000 in chips from 5000 starting stack. I got in a tangle with some bloke called all American Dave, he seems to be a big deal here. Anyway the board was KK46 and I called his turn shove with TT. He flipped over 77 and this pot was for 75% of my stack so a big one to win. The tournament is called lucky sevens so somewhat amazingly you can imagine what the river was. In fairness after a screaming celebration he apologised for the outburst. What surprised me is how well I took the beat and if anything, inspired me to challenge myself to remain composed. Long story short I kept doing what I was doing and finished the night at around 40,000. Back tomorrow at 2 with around 200 to the money. I'm feeling good, just pretty tired. I will update again tomorrow as it's quite a fun process for me and hopefully I can represent Sky, my site, with a good result. Posted by GRINTLER[/QUOTE
good luck on day 2 keepus updated dont let the americans win
Wishing you the very best of luck for day 2 Grintler - and hope you've met some of the sky players out there too - they're not a bad bunch or so I've been told!
The good news is that I have just returned to my hotel at 4.30am as I made it to day two with an average stack. I surprised myself with how well I dealt with my apprehension and even though I was far from joining in with the banter, I did display some poker confidence through my actions. The truth is, it wasn't that difficult poker wise. I wasn't all in at any point during the tournament and was just playing small pots, picking my spots and using tight quiet English guy image to my advantage. Halfway through the night I had got up to 20,000 in chips from 5000 starting stack. I got in a tangle with some bloke called all American Dave, he seems to be a big deal here. Anyway the board was KK46 and I called his turn shove with TT. He flipped over 77 and this pot was for 75% of my stack so a big one to win. The tournament is called lucky sevens so somewhat amazingly you can imagine what the river was. In fairness after a screaming celebration he apologised for the outburst. What surprised me is how well I took the beat and if anything, inspired me to challenge myself to remain composed. Long story short I kept doing what I was doing and finished the night at around 40,000. Back tomorrow at 2 with around 200 to the money. I'm feeling good, just pretty tired. I will update again tomorrow as it's quite a fun process for me and hopefully I can represent Sky, my site, with a good result. Posted by GRINTLER
Hi Grintler,
Think I have found you on the chip counts, here is your table for today. Hopefully, some of the regulars here may be able to give you some pointers. Apologies if this is not you.
The only name I recognize is Eli Heath, also a Brit, who, by a remarkable coincidence, is a very big cash game player on Sky Poker. What are the chances of that? I know him quite well, cracking lad, but fearless, & a quality player with some great results on his CV.
Thanks Tikay, that is of massive help. Thanks for support everyone. To spot me easily, I'm the ginger one, probably sunburnt just from the walk from Gold Coast to the Rio. Here goes nothing, I'll try and update a little bit during breaks. Posted by GRINTLER
That's a long walk, James, all of 100 yards.
Good luck today.
I have not researched the table, I just happen to know Eli quite well.
I will try & stop by this afternoon. Tonight is the Sky Poker July 4th party, (3 line whip), so I won't be able to follow you, but if you get a chance in the breaks, post some updates.
Just got back in after a day out in the sun to update on the two events that were still "in play" when I did the daily round up earlier on
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 4422 entries, Day 1 of 43 We're about 150 from the money at the end of Day 1 after two starting flights, with the biggest stack being held by Sean Munjal who heads a trio of Americans in the top three places, with the alliterative duo of Marcus Mack & Bobby Bresner in 2nd & 3rd.
As you know from the above posts, we have two Sky players still involved, James Grimes (Grintler) and Eli Heath (whose alias I do know but am not posting without knowing it's OK to do so, but you will have seen on Top Of The Pots regularly).
Other GB players through, Lee Taylor, Barry Donovan, Peter Akery, Akshay Reddy, Seb Saffari, Kevin Williams, Stephen Rawle, Chihao Tsang, Iain Paterson, Andrew Teng, Fahir Han & Pramesh Bansi plus anyone else they may have listed from Gabon, Guatemala or Estonia.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 108 entrants, Day 1 of 3 Three Brits in the Top 10, former Poker Players Champion Matthew Ashton leading the way with Stephen Chidwick (4th) & Stuart Rutter (10th) among the 61 who have made Day 2.
A fourth Brit, Talal Shakerchi is also still in, but he has the smallest stack of all going forward and be looking for at least one early double up to try and work towards making another cash.
Plenty of bracelet holders still standing, including from this series alone Shaun Deeb, Robert Mizrachi, Mike Gorodinsky, Daniel Alaei, Phil Hellmuth & Max Pescatori, together with Ted Forrest, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Tikay's new love child, "Hold Me Closer" Georgie Danzer.
Early Saturday action, with two bracelets already having been decided.
Jack Duong took 16 hands today to finish off the last few chips that Viteslav Pesta had to take down Event 62
The live FT of the Online bracelet zipped through and was won by Anthony Spinella who got to the FT of a WSOP 6 max back in 2011.
The Stud Hi-Low is down to 12 with Gerard Ringe & Adam Owen in 5th & 11th in chips respectively.
The Lucky 7s has burst the bubble, no news yet if either or both the Sky players survived to that point. 429 cashed, Iain Paterson clocked up a min cash to add to the ever increasing GB tally.
Finally, in the Dealers Choice we now have exactly half the 108 starting field left in contention, Talal Shakerchi has bit the dust, but Ashton, Chidwick & Rutter all still have top 10 stacks. Only 12 will get paid, so a long way to go yet.
A good first two levels. Played a couple of massive pits but without had the nuts both times. Managed to double my stack and have a bit of confidence.
I win a lot through other sky player, didn't get to showdown but I had it. In fairness I tried not to get in the way because he bossed our table and was a relief for it to be broken.
I am absolutely buzzing about cashing in my first ever wsop event and just gonna take it one hand at a time now and see what happens. Money isn't even the priority it's just pure self
Ran out of time on break for detailed report but basically been a rough few levels. Down to 10bb. Still not risked tournament life in two days. I'm on a table where there are 8 guys who are definitely better than me, they know it and I know it. Newfound respect for poker pros though, this is unbelievably mentally challenging. Have no idea how people do it for 7 straight days. Time to get lucky, happy with whatever happens now Posted by GRINTLER
Relax. It's a game of cards and you're doing great.
Stick it in when it feels right, no regrets and very best of luck!!
I'm back at my hotel which means one thing. I'm busto. I finished 110th out of 4422, which I would have most definitely took before the start. Worth $2750. I did get up to a fair amount playing on that tough table including Faraz Jaka and Josh Pollak, I was finally all in and called in the last level, three times in fact. I won two of them (QQ v 33 and AA v 77) but obviously lost my final one with queens again against kings.
Basically the bloke had been raising every hand, proper stereotypical young fearless aggressor so I 3 bet with queens on the button. I was expecting a 4 bet as my raise looks suspicious, especially on the button, and after putting in a mid size 4 bet I had convinced myself he was just trying to get me off something so I shoved and saw the bad news, kings. I think even in hindsight, with the opponent in mind, I play the hand exactly same way as he is definitely capable of doing that with any two. There are some really good players in the tournament but I was surprised at some of the things I saw. One of my double ups came from someone open shoving with 30bbs with 33??
Hey ho, all done now. I highly recommend anyone to come out and experience the WSOP it is pretty exciting and challenging. The only thing is the tiredness created and endurance needed, played like 16 hours of the last 24 and I am shattered. Lay in tomorrow, going out to red rock canyon and then flight home early Monday morning and back for the £33BH on Monday night��
Thanks for support and hope my little updates were of some interest.
Well done James, a fantastic experience and I'm sure the $2700 will go a long way to paying for the trip. Eli Heath went out 12 places later but there had been a money jump in the interim and he picked up just over $3K.
Stuart Rutter is still in the Dealers Choice, but he is pretty short stacked now as 15th out of 17 with 12 to get paid.
Gerald Ringe is going well at the FT of the Stud Hi-Lo, currently being live streamed but without hole cards and commentary. There are 4 left and he has just taken the chip lead after busting John Esposito.
Good result Grintler, however disappointing it may be to run that deep and then exit. It was a cooler for sure and it sounds like you played it perfectly against that particular opponent but that's.....
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24 year-old part time pro, part time student, German Paul Hofer is the "droplet" winner, outlasting 4554 other players to claim the bracelet and $645K prize money.
After four days of play, the heads-up match lasted exactly one hand, as Hofer bust Argentinian Mario Lopez the hand after he knocked out Senovio Ramirez.
John Reading, who had already won one bracelet this summer, was the 4th placed finishe.
The chip leader is Jason Caulk, with Paul Hofer & Chris Hunichen completing the Top 3 places.
WSOP62 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 2178 entries, Day 3 of 3
12 hours of Day 3 play were not enough to bring this one to a conclusion, so it joins the seemingly never ending list of events going to an unscheduled 4th day.
The two players left are the two players who led going into Day 3, but the order has been reversed as Jack Doung has a massive chip lead over his Czech opponent, Vojtech Ruzicka.
Last Brit standing Andrew Hulme was beaten in 26th place ($9534) while Irishman Peter Murphy made the FT before walking away 9th for $24511
WSOP63 - $10000 HORSE Championship, 204 entries, Day 3 of 3
Andrew Barber is the $10K Horse Champion, clamining over half a million dollars in the process and of course the gold bracelet.
Russian Viacheslev Zhukov was the runner-up, with Don Zewin in third. Joe Hachem went out in 5th, Frank Kassela 6th, Scotty Nguyen 7th & Eli Elezra 8th.
WSOP64 - $1000 Online NLH, 905 entrants, Day 1 of 2
Play will re-start on Saturday.
WSOP65 - $1500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 547 entrants, Day 2 of 3
Seventeen are still standing, searching for supremacy in stud.
Veteran John Esposito has the lead overnight, ahead of GB player Gerard Ringe.
Adam Owen is also still going having another very deep run, and other names still in the field are Daniel Idema, Vladimir Schmelev & Todd Brunson
Stu Rutter was among the early casualties on Day 2.
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
Play is still going on Flight B, full update to follow when the combined results are avialble.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 109 entrants, Day 1 of 3
The last of the preliminary events, and Day 1 play is still onging.
Matthew Ashton could well be the chip leader at this point, and both Stephen Chidwick & Stu Rutter are shown with a decent amount of chips, although the timeliness of this information is questionable at best.
Anthony Zinno's magic failed to appear in this one, as he has busto.
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Very well done grintler, now do the same again today. Run deep, & you'll avoid all the horrendous July 4th parties.
I'll be patrolling the tables this afternoon, so I might see you.
Think I have found you on the chip counts, here is your table for today. Hopefully, some of the regulars here may be able to give you some pointers. Apologies if this is not you.
The only name I recognize is Eli Heath, also a Brit, who, by a remarkable coincidence, is a very big cash game player on Sky Poker. What are the chances of that? I know him quite well, cracking lad, but fearless, & a quality player with some great results on his CV.
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=137987
Good luck today.
I have not researched the table, I just happen to know Eli quite well.
I will try & stop by this afternoon. Tonight is the Sky Poker July 4th party, (3 line whip), so I won't be able to follow you, but if you get a chance in the breaks, post some updates.
I'll deffo rail you tomorrow, though.
WSOP66 - $777 Lucky Sevens NLH, 4422 entries, Day 1 of 43
We're about 150 from the money at the end of Day 1 after two starting flights, with the biggest stack being held by Sean Munjal who heads a trio of Americans in the top three places, with the alliterative duo of Marcus Mack & Bobby Bresner in 2nd & 3rd.
As you know from the above posts, we have two Sky players still involved, James Grimes (Grintler) and Eli Heath (whose alias I do know but am not posting without knowing it's OK to do so, but you will have seen on Top Of The Pots regularly).
Other GB players through, Lee Taylor, Barry Donovan, Peter Akery, Akshay Reddy, Seb Saffari, Kevin Williams, Stephen Rawle, Chihao Tsang, Iain Paterson, Andrew Teng, Fahir Han & Pramesh Bansi plus anyone else they may have listed from Gabon, Guatemala or Estonia.
WSOP67 - $10K Dealers Choice, 108 entrants, Day 1 of 3
Three Brits in the Top 10, former Poker Players Champion Matthew Ashton leading the way with Stephen Chidwick (4th) & Stuart Rutter (10th) among the 61 who have made Day 2.
A fourth Brit, Talal Shakerchi is also still in, but he has the smallest stack of all going forward and be looking for at least one early double up to try and work towards making another cash.
Plenty of bracelet holders still standing, including from this series alone Shaun Deeb, Robert Mizrachi, Mike Gorodinsky, Daniel Alaei, Phil Hellmuth & Max Pescatori, together with Ted Forrest, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Tikay's new love child, "Hold Me Closer" Georgie Danzer.
Jack Duong took 16 hands today to finish off the last few chips that Viteslav Pesta had to take down Event 62
The live FT of the Online bracelet zipped through and was won by Anthony Spinella who got to the FT of a WSOP 6 max back in 2011.
The Stud Hi-Low is down to 12 with Gerard Ringe & Adam Owen in 5th & 11th in chips respectively.
The Lucky 7s has burst the bubble, no news yet if either or both the Sky players survived to that point. 429 cashed, Iain Paterson clocked up a min cash to add to the ever increasing GB tally.
Finally, in the Dealers Choice we now have exactly half the 108 starting field left in contention, Talal Shakerchi has bit the dust, but Ashton, Chidwick & Rutter all still have top 10 stacks. Only 12 will get paid, so a long way to go yet.
Stick it in when it feels right, no regrets and very best of luck!!
Spin spin spin!!!
Stuart Rutter is still in the Dealers Choice, but he is pretty short stacked now as 15th out of 17 with 12 to get paid.
Gerald Ringe is going well at the FT of the Stud Hi-Lo, currently being live streamed but without hole cards and commentary. There are 4 left and he has just taken the chip lead after busting John Esposito.
Good updates by the way.