hi tk hoping your having a great time. been watching your updates on you tube ,and noticed when you were interviewing daniel negreanu, jimmy white the snooker player walked past behind you. anyway good luck ,hope you have a successful trip. Posted by epwb
Thanks EP.
Yes, that was pointed out to me by several others - you guys don't miss much.
We actually interviewed Jimmy White yesterday - look out for the Video on our You Tube Channel later today, assuming it gets through edit unscathed.
Wth the bulk of the chat regarding the Sky players in the ME now on other threads, I will keep this one going as a wider overview of the tournament as it progresses.
The 3 Day 1s of the ME are over, and in pleasing news, Day 1C was the largest Day 1 in Main Event history. That pulled the total entries up to 6420, down only 200 or so on last year which is a lot better than it looked like it was going to be after Days 1 A & B. 4371 eventually made it to one or other of the day 2s, and among them of course were former winners, bracelet holders, renowned pros, ex-November Niners plus 4 Sky Qualifiers. Daren Moreton made it through from Monday, but on Tuesday Brett Gritton, Nicolas Lategano & Martin Brinkmann all joined him.
John Gorsuch had the big stack at the end of Day 1C ahead of Zarik Megerdichian & David Peyser. We lost our first four former Champions, last years winner Martin Jacobsen amongst them with Jerry Yang, Joe Cada & Greg Merson joining him on the rail.
Phil Hellmuth turned up fashionably late as usual and was sat on the same table as Phil Ivey for most of the day.
British qualifiers (apologies if I have missed any out, but there are so many errors on the WSOP feed it's easy to overlook one or two)
Ben Vinson leads the GB Contingent with 114700 chips for 48th on the day. Chun Law is listed with 107050 but another Chun Law from London had a similar number on Day 1A so I don't know if there are two of them or this is a mistake. Eric Landau (listed incorrectly from Gabon) Tom Alner Jack O'Neil Max Silver Rhys Jones Louis Salter Andrew Seden Ian Woodley Jamie Roberts Jonathan Somekh Michael Kane (Sky regular) Jack Salter Borja Gross Howard Smith Toby Lewis Benjamin Longstaff Jareth East Victor Ilyukhin Martin Brinkmann (Sky Qualifier, shown as from Germany) Benjamin Rolle Chiraag Thanki Jonathan Kalmar Simon Deadman Alex Goulder Brett Gritton (Sky qualifier, shown as from Gabon) Adam Codron (shown as from Gabon) Andrew Teng Chihao Tsang Luke Brereton Michael Howard (shown as from Estonia) Oliver Price Andrew Seabright (shown as from Gabon) Craig McCorkell Kevin Allen Martin Malone Neil McFayden Stephen Foster Sam Trickett Constantine Paparestis Daniel Rudd Carlos Escobedo Joel Ettedgi Roland Pudney (shown as from Gabon) Hamid Rowshanaei (shown as from Gabon) Andrew Hedley (shown as from Guatemala) Michael Hill Jimmy White Robert Cowen William Chataway Ashley Mason (shown as from Gabon) Andreas Olympios (shown as from Estonia) Paul vas Nunes Iaron Lightbourne David Greene Daniel James (shown as from Gabon) Phillip McAllister Conor Beresford (shown as from Gabon) Paul Senter Philip Carey Pratik Ghatge Lee Walker (shown as from Gabon) Nicola Lagetano (Sky Qualifier, shown as from Estonia) James Scott Graeme Hibbert Mitchell Johnson Nick Hicks Alexander Spencer (shown as from Gabon) Rickie Vedhara Alex Spencer James Dempsey James Rann (Sky regular) Daniel Merrilees Javed Abrahams Kellyann Heffernam (shown as from Gabon) Gordon Huntly Adam Reynolds David Tighe Tim Hickling Dennis Rubba Shola Akindele Oliver Silvey (Shown as from Gabon) Robert Landsell (shown as from Gabon)
On the last level of the Main Event Day 2AB, and the WSOP are showing about 3467 left so we are approaching half the field being knocked out.
I don't trust the WSOP chip counts in-play with this many players still going, except for those shown with zero chips
Those who have definitely left the scene on Day 2AB include
Barry Shulman (knocked out early by Talal Shakerchi), Isaac Haxton, Natasha Barbour, Andy Black, Dutch Boyd, two Sky interviewees Annette Obrestad & Jennifer Tilly, Donnacha O'Dea, Erick Lindgren, Ole Schemion, actor James Woods, recent Aria Super High Roller winner Brian Rast and Jason Mercier.
Former ME winners Chris Moneymaker, Johnny Chan, Dan Harrington & Carlos Mortensen
Recent bracelet winner Anthony Spinella,
November Niners Steven Begleiter, Jeremy Ausmus, Dan Sindelar, Jorryt van Hoof, Bruno Politano & Jesse Sylvia
And from the UK side, John Eames, Paul Newey and Matthew Ashton
On the plus side, mentioned in live updates in the last 10 minutes or so with decent stacks are both Charles Chatta & Jake Cody.
great updates tyvm so GB becomes Gabon at the WSOP why? Posted by GELDY
Because I think the WSOP have a country code field based on two-character intenret domain codes, probably a drop-down box, so if they try and enter "GB", that doesn't exist and it sticks on the first "G" it comes across ("GA" = Gabon") and the keyboard operator doesn't notice. They should really be entering "UK" and that would then work. Same principle with them trying to enter something starting with "E" for "England", and there not being a code for England separately from the UK, it defaults to "EE" for Estonia.
Day 2AB chip counts just posted (as I am about to start work), Daren Moreton is 601th of the 654 qualifiers with 27200 chips. So far his Day 3 table will have Tyler Witterman, Alex Tran & Timothy Buxbaum on it, with other players to be slotted in from Day 2C.
A little over 650 have made it through to Day 3 from the Day 1 A & B, with Amar Amand the chip leader, ahead of Calvin Lee & Luther Tran. All nice short names to type.
In 4th place is the highest placed UK representative, Charles Chattha. He was on the climb all day and ended it with a very nice stack of over 400K chips. Not far behind is Jake Cody and his 340K and Marc Foggin who has 280K.
Other Brits through : George Georgiou 199K Chris Moorman 191K Robert Sherwood 187K Matt Davenport 163K Nicholas Katz 145K Michael Greco 141K Talal Shakerchi 130K Stuart Rutter 119K (Sky analyst) Phillip Maghall 104K (shown as from Guatemala) Daniel Bland 103K Charles Carrel 97K Chun Law 92K Daniel McAulay 91K Sebastian Ruthenberg 75K David Lhonore 74K Alfie Adam 72K Rob Akery 71K Sebastian Saffari 63K Chris Brammer 57K Keith Johnson 53K Jon Spinks 50K Christopher Gordon 48K Tim Davie 46K (Sky regular) Jerome Ogrodzki 35K Peter Akery 34K (lost a bit of ground to his brother on Day 2) Peter Charalambous 29K Daren Moreton 27K (Sky Qualifier) Stevie Watts is shown with 1 Chip, so either that's a technical issue or there was a problem with his bag & tag or something.
Others through, a strong German challenge (Fedor Holz, Georgie Danzer, Anton Morgenstern, Fabian Quoss & Tobias Renkenmaier among others), Greg Raymer (despite losing a big pot to hockey gold medallist Fatima Moreira de Melo very late on), Shane Warne (with a very nice stack), Mike Matusow, Jonathan Duhamel, last years November Niners Andoni Larrabe & Billy Pappas, Justin Bonomo, Dan Colman, Chris Bjorin, nonagenarian William Wachter, Martin Stazko, Hoyt Corkins and Steve Gee
Do we know if Victoria Coren-Mitchell has travelled to vegas? I guess not because I can't see her name. Also there was a young lad making significant waves, who took home his first major cash on a recent CH4 broadcast, and his trade-mark was holding his hood over his mouth and nose! I'm sure during that event he knocked out or won a major pot vs Phil Helmuth..
Can anyone remember who he is? and whether he is listed among the runners? this I doubt...(bit too out of his league just yet I think!)
Do we know if Victoria Coren-Mitchell has travelled to vegas? I guess not because I can't see her name. Also there was a young lad making significant waves, who took home his first major cash on a recent CH4 broadcast, and his trade-mark was holding his hood over his mouth and nose! I'm sure during that event he knocked out or won a major pot vs Phil Helmuth.. Can anyone remember who he is? and whether he is listed among the runners? this I doubt...(bit too out of his league just yet I think!) Posted by GaryLaud
Vicky doesnt really play anymore, just the odd tournament here and there.
Do we know if Victoria Coren-Mitchell has travelled to vegas? I guess not because I can't see her name. Also there was a young lad making significant waves, who took home his first major cash on a recent CH4 broadcast, and his trade-mark was holding his hood over his mouth and nose! I'm sure during that event he knocked out or won a major pot vs Phil Helmuth.. Can anyone remember who he is? and whether he is listed among the runners? this I doubt...(bit too out of his league just yet I think!) Posted by GaryLaud
As Barny noted, Vicky has just become a Mum, so Vegas was never in her schedule this year. She's not a fan of flying, either.
The thing where players hold their hoody over their mouth & nose could be anyone, almost half the players are doing it this year. It is supposedly to conceal "tells" & facial tics, but it's nonsense really, it's just a "fashion", young people are immensely impressionable & like to follow the trends rather than be individuals, or think about what hey are doing.
Years ago, Marcel Luske started wearing his sunglasses upside down. Soon, all the kids were doing it. None of them could explain what benefit arose, apart from it making them looking a little silly.
Backwards facing baseball caps, hoodies, earphones (which very often don't work), soon followed.
The "hot thing" in the WSOP is All American Dave, a burger bar with a fancy name which claims to sell healthy burgers. (@ $25 each, if you don't mind), but the cattle are reared on hand-cut grass.
Do we know if Victoria Coren-Mitchell has travelled to vegas? I guess not because I can't see her name. Also there was a young lad making significant waves, who took home his first major cash on a recent CH4 broadcast, and his trade-mark was holding his hood over his mouth and nose! I'm sure during that event he knocked out or won a major pot vs Phil Helmuth.. Can anyone remember who he is? and whether he is listed among the runners? this I doubt...(bit too out of his league just yet I think!) Posted by GaryLaud
One level into Day 2C and we've already lost David Benyamine, Barry Greenstein, Greg Mueller, Kathy Liebert, Matt Affleck, Huckleberry Seed, Maria Ho & Phil Ivey.
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Yes, that was pointed out to me by several others - you guys don't miss much.
We actually interviewed Jimmy White yesterday - look out for the Video on our You Tube Channel later today, assuming it gets through edit unscathed.
The 3 Day 1s of the ME are over, and in pleasing news, Day 1C was the largest Day 1 in Main Event history. That pulled the total entries up to 6420, down only 200 or so on last year which is a lot better than it looked like it was going to be after Days 1 A & B.
4371 eventually made it to one or other of the day 2s, and among them of course were former winners, bracelet holders, renowned pros, ex-November Niners plus 4 Sky Qualifiers.
Daren Moreton made it through from Monday, but on Tuesday Brett Gritton, Nicolas Lategano & Martin Brinkmann all joined him.
John Gorsuch had the big stack at the end of Day 1C ahead of Zarik Megerdichian & David Peyser. We lost our first four former Champions, last years winner Martin Jacobsen amongst them with Jerry Yang, Joe Cada & Greg Merson joining him on the rail.
Phil Hellmuth turned up fashionably late as usual and was sat on the same table as Phil Ivey for most of the day.
British qualifiers (apologies if I have missed any out, but there are so many errors on the WSOP feed it's easy to overlook one or two)
Ben Vinson leads the GB Contingent with 114700 chips for 48th on the day.
Chun Law is listed with 107050 but another Chun Law from London had a similar number on Day 1A so I don't know if there are two of them or this is a mistake.
Eric Landau (listed incorrectly from Gabon)
Tom Alner
Jack O'Neil
Max Silver
Rhys Jones
Louis Salter
Andrew Seden
Ian Woodley
Jamie Roberts
Jonathan Somekh
Michael Kane (Sky regular)
Jack Salter
Borja Gross
Howard Smith
Toby Lewis
Benjamin Longstaff
Jareth East
Victor Ilyukhin
Martin Brinkmann (Sky Qualifier, shown as from Germany)
Benjamin Rolle
Chiraag Thanki
Jonathan Kalmar
Simon Deadman
Alex Goulder
Brett Gritton (Sky qualifier, shown as from Gabon)
Adam Codron (shown as from Gabon)
Andrew Teng
Chihao Tsang
Luke Brereton
Michael Howard (shown as from Estonia)
Oliver Price
Andrew Seabright (shown as from Gabon)
Craig McCorkell
Kevin Allen
Martin Malone
Neil McFayden
Stephen Foster
Sam Trickett
Constantine Paparestis
Daniel Rudd
Carlos Escobedo
Joel Ettedgi
Roland Pudney (shown as from Gabon)
Hamid Rowshanaei (shown as from Gabon)
Andrew Hedley (shown as from Guatemala)
Michael Hill
Jimmy White
Robert Cowen
William Chataway
Ashley Mason (shown as from Gabon)
Andreas Olympios (shown as from Estonia)
Paul vas Nunes
Iaron Lightbourne
David Greene
Daniel James (shown as from Gabon)
Phillip McAllister
Conor Beresford (shown as from Gabon)
Paul Senter
Philip Carey
Pratik Ghatge
Lee Walker (shown as from Gabon)
Nicola Lagetano (Sky Qualifier, shown as from Estonia)
James Scott
Graeme Hibbert
Mitchell Johnson
Nick Hicks
Alexander Spencer (shown as from Gabon)
Rickie Vedhara
Alex Spencer
James Dempsey
James Rann (Sky regular)
Daniel Merrilees
Javed Abrahams
Kellyann Heffernam (shown as from Gabon)
Gordon Huntly
Adam Reynolds
David Tighe
Tim Hickling
Dennis Rubba
Shola Akindele
Oliver Silvey (Shown as from Gabon)
Robert Landsell (shown as from Gabon)
Is there anyone one there marked as from Gabon who is actually from Gabon? And is Mr Chad going strong?
I don't trust the WSOP chip counts in-play with this many players still going, except for those shown with zero chips
Those who have definitely left the scene on Day 2AB include
Barry Shulman (knocked out early by Talal Shakerchi), Isaac Haxton, Natasha Barbour, Andy Black, Dutch Boyd, two Sky interviewees Annette Obrestad & Jennifer Tilly, Donnacha O'Dea, Erick Lindgren, Ole Schemion, actor James Woods, recent Aria Super High Roller winner Brian Rast and Jason Mercier.
Former ME winners Chris Moneymaker, Johnny Chan, Dan Harrington & Carlos Mortensen
Recent bracelet winner Anthony Spinella,
November Niners Steven Begleiter, Jeremy Ausmus, Dan Sindelar, Jorryt van Hoof, Bruno Politano & Jesse Sylvia
And from the UK side, John Eames, Paul Newey and Matthew Ashton
On the plus side, mentioned in live updates in the last 10 minutes or so with decent stacks are both Charles Chatta & Jake Cody.
Hendon Mob had barely heard of him either, one cash for $4K at Foxwoods last November.
Turns out he is a 94-year old World War II Veteran, and received a standing ovation from the players when this was announced over the PA.
There's hope for you yet Tikay.
Amar Anand has the biggest chip stack, over 600K, with Chas Chatta biggest Brit (about 4th overall) with 423K.
Still awaiting full chip counts.
Fuller update this afternoon.
In 4th place is the highest placed UK representative, Charles Chattha. He was on the climb all day and ended it with a very nice stack of over 400K chips. Not far behind is Jake Cody and his 340K and Marc Foggin who has 280K.
Other Brits through :
George Georgiou 199K
Chris Moorman 191K
Robert Sherwood 187K
Matt Davenport 163K
Nicholas Katz 145K
Michael Greco 141K
Talal Shakerchi 130K
Stuart Rutter 119K (Sky analyst)
Phillip Maghall 104K (shown as from Guatemala)
Daniel Bland 103K
Charles Carrel 97K
Chun Law 92K
Daniel McAulay 91K
Sebastian Ruthenberg 75K
David Lhonore 74K
Alfie Adam 72K
Rob Akery 71K
Sebastian Saffari 63K
Chris Brammer 57K
Keith Johnson 53K
Jon Spinks 50K
Christopher Gordon 48K
Tim Davie 46K (Sky regular)
Jerome Ogrodzki 35K
Peter Akery 34K (lost a bit of ground to his brother on Day 2)
Peter Charalambous 29K
Daren Moreton 27K (Sky Qualifier)
Stevie Watts is shown with 1 Chip, so either that's a technical issue or there was a problem with his bag & tag or something.
Others through, a strong German challenge (Fedor Holz, Georgie Danzer, Anton Morgenstern, Fabian Quoss & Tobias Renkenmaier among others), Greg Raymer (despite losing a big pot to hockey gold medallist Fatima Moreira de Melo very late on), Shane Warne (with a very nice stack), Mike Matusow, Jonathan Duhamel, last years November Niners Andoni Larrabe & Billy Pappas, Justin Bonomo, Dan Colman, Chris Bjorin, nonagenarian William Wachter, Martin Stazko, Hoyt Corkins and Steve Gee
The thing where players hold their hoody over their mouth & nose could be anyone, almost half the players are doing it this year. It is supposedly to conceal "tells" & facial tics, but it's nonsense really, it's just a "fashion", young people are immensely impressionable & like to follow the trends rather than be individuals, or think about what hey are doing.
Years ago, Marcel Luske started wearing his sunglasses upside down. Soon, all the kids were doing it. None of them could explain what benefit arose, apart from it making them looking a little silly.
Backwards facing baseball caps, hoodies, earphones (which very often don't work), soon followed.
The "hot thing" in the WSOP is All American Dave, a burger bar with a fancy name which claims to sell healthy burgers. (@ $25 each, if you don't mind), but the cattle are reared on hand-cut grass.
I kid you not.....
Brutal
The sound of dealers shouting "SEAT OPEN" is becoming ever more frequent.