Previous winners Peter Eastgate, Robert Varkonyi and Jamie Gold
Former November Niners Joseph Cheong, Jake Balsinger & Phil Collins
Plus Olivier Busquet, James Obst, David Tuchman, Anthony Zinno, Kevin Mathers, Matt Stout, Bertrand Grospelier, Michael Mizrachi, Mike MacDonald, Matt Matros, Ivan Demidov, Chad Holloway, Calvin Anderson, Jason Somerville...
And from the UK, Shola Akindele, James Dempsey, Sam Trickett, Simon Deadman, Nicola Lategano & Brett Gritton.
So the last of the "split days" is over, and all the remaining players come together on Friday for Day 3 from when it is non stop poker until the November Nine is determined.
David Jackson has the biggest stack, 408800 but that would only have been good enough for 5th place on Day 2AB Fellow Americans Zach Jiganti & Shawn van Asdale lie 2nd & 3rd ahead of best European, German player Jens Lakemeier.
Five former champions made it through - Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Reiss, Jim Bechtel, Joe Hachem & Phil Hellmuth, as did the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Daniel Alaei, JC Tran & Adrian Mateos.
GB Qualfiiers
Louis Salter 344K Jamie Roberts 284K Fraser McIntyre 219K Craig McCorkell 194K Luke Marsh 187K Toby Lewis 164K Oliver Price 158K Luke Brereton 151K Oliver Silvey 134K Tom Alner 130K Andreas Olympios 125K Philip Carey 117K Ian Woodley 116K Borja Gross 109K Chiraag Thanki 107K Philip McAllister 103K Ben Vinson 99K Alex Goulder 96K Roland Pudney 87K Jareth East 73K Andrew Seden 49K Jonathan Semekh 44K Adan Codron 34K David Green 31K Constantine Paparestis 20K Robert Cowen 19K James Scott 19K Andrew Teng 13K
With about 1824 left, and 1000 to be paid, estimates are that the bubble will be reached either just before or just after the dinner break, that is 3 levels in to Day 3. Expect scenes of miraculous double ups, cruel one outers to eliminate players, and micro stacks holding on with a big blind or two to creep into the money and pick up the min cash of $15K. With the next 300-odd all getting the same prize, expect the action to pick up considerably as soon as the bubble bursts.
So as the Sky qualifier dream ends for another 12 months, we are left with about 1420 players still battling on.
Gone though already on Day 3 - former winner Greg Raymer, ex-November niner and player in the last UKPC Antoine Saout, ladies bracelet winner Jacquelyn Scott plus other good female players Cyndy Violette, Melanie Wiesner, Danielle Anderson & Lauren Billings, one of the Mizrachi brothers (Eric), one of the very strong German contingent (Fabian Quoss) and from the UK Luke Brereton, Andrew Teng & Robert Cowen.
661 players make it through to Day 4 with Amar Anand being the chip leader, one of only 3 players to have broken the one million chips barrier, alongside Joseph McKeehan and the controversial double-bracelet-winner Brian Hastings.
Fedor Holz is not far behind and a lot of people are expecting the German to push on from here and have a good run; he is one of the biggest online MTT players out there.
Five former winners are still in with a chance, Jim Bechtel, Joe Hachem, Phil Hellmuth, Ryan Reiss & the very short stacked Jonathan Duhamel.
Top Brit is Samir Tageldin with 685K, with Philp McAlister close behind on 661K. Others still in : Fraser McIntyre 591K Charles Chattha 544K Toby Lewis 502K Jareth East 429K Jake Cody 355K Nicholas Katz 340K Stuart Rutter 327K Daniel Bland 326K Georges Georgiou 276K Ben Vinson 246K Craig McCorkell 230K Luke Marsh 225K Jamie Roberts 225K Peter Akery 217K Alfie Adam 214K Ian Woodley 203K Alex Goulder 150K Louis Salter 143K Chun Law 132K Adam Codron 114K David Lhonore 100K Michael Greco 88K Sebastian Ruthenberg 84K Sebastian Saffari 80K Borja Gross 78K Philip Carey 70K Chris Bjorin 64K
British cashers to carry on the above (still all at the $15000 level)
724 Marc Foggin 718 Chris Bell 696 Christopher Gordon 695 Daniel McAulay 690 Jerome Ogrodzki 674 David Greene
I just saw how the bubble burst, there were 1,002 left, with 1,000 paid, but 1001st always gets a seat into next years main.
A kid got it all-in with 5-5 v 7-5, but the board double paired high cards, so the 7-5 man won with his 7 kicker. An awesome way to bubble.
As luck would have it, two players exited on the same hand, & so they had to draw a card (highest wins) to see who got the Seat next year, & 5-5 man won that, so not so bad in the end.
I suppose a 31-year-old is a kid to you (and to me I suppose).
The doubly unlucky player who got knocked out and lost the draw the next year's seat was Jonas Lauck who has over $1m in Hendon Mob recorded cashes, including a FT in Event 57 for over $92K, while Roy Douad has no Hendon Mob page at all but least he's got a 10K seat for next year's ME.
Fifteen minutes to "shuffle up and deal" for Day 4...
First British casualty of Day 4 - Michael Greco out in 649th for $15000. He will be the very last player to min cash, as from 648th the prize becomes over $17K.
Amazingly the oldest player in the field is still in contention going into day 4, that's 94yo World War II veteran William Wachter. Good luck to him. Posted by GaryQQQ
In what I thought was a nice touch, William was the "Shuffle Up & Deal" guy today.
Just a short speech by him - "I did not come here to lose, that's all I have to say"
So, overnight our time we have gone from over 500 players to about 250. Let's start this time with the British casualties
509. Borja Gross ($19500)
485. Jamie Roberts ($19500)
470. Ian Woodley ($21786)
440. Ben Vinson ($21786)
427. Craig McCorkell ($21786)
421. David Lhonore ($21786)
408. Peter Akery ($24622)
374. Fraser McIntyre ($24622)
367. Alex Goulder ($24622)
365. Adam Codron ($24622)
364. Alfie Adam ($24622)
339. Samir Tageldin ($29239)
331. Daniel Bland ($29239)
302. Nicholas Katz ($29329)
293. Jareth East ($29239)
265. Louis Salter ($34157)
We've also lost a couple of former winners, Joe Hachem, Phil Hellmuth & Ryan Riess, some November Niners (Andon Larrabe, last of the 2014 group), Marc-Etienne McLoughlin & JC Tran plus George Danzer, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Andre Akkari, Zach Jiganti, Phil Laak, Mukul Pahuja & Doc Sands.
One a more pleasant note, Chas Chatta is still one of the big stacks and Toby Lewis & George McDonald both still have plenty. Daniel Negreanu has moved up in the last hour or so and what a result it would be if he could go deep. Less so if Brian Hastings does likewise.
Full chipcount type update to follow at the end of play.
Playing the last few hands of the night, we've lost another former November Niner in Scott Montgomery. Scott (from Canada) was a member of the very first November 9, he was busted from the FT when Peter Eastgate one-outered (if that is a word) him. Montgomery won over $3million for 5th place.
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Notable eliminations overnight our time include
Previous winners Peter Eastgate, Robert Varkonyi and Jamie Gold
Former November Niners Joseph Cheong, Jake Balsinger & Phil Collins
Plus Olivier Busquet, James Obst, David Tuchman, Anthony Zinno, Kevin Mathers, Matt Stout, Bertrand Grospelier, Michael Mizrachi, Mike MacDonald, Matt Matros, Ivan Demidov, Chad Holloway, Calvin Anderson, Jason Somerville...
And from the UK, Shola Akindele, James Dempsey, Sam Trickett, Simon Deadman, Nicola Lategano & Brett Gritton.
David Jackson has the biggest stack, 408800 but that would only have been good enough for 5th place on Day 2AB
Fellow Americans Zach Jiganti & Shawn van Asdale lie 2nd & 3rd ahead of best European, German player Jens Lakemeier.
Five former champions made it through - Scotty Nguyen, Ryan Reiss, Jim Bechtel, Joe Hachem & Phil Hellmuth, as did the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Daniel Alaei, JC Tran & Adrian Mateos.
GB Qualfiiers
Louis Salter 344K
Jamie Roberts 284K
Fraser McIntyre 219K
Craig McCorkell 194K
Luke Marsh 187K
Toby Lewis 164K
Oliver Price 158K
Luke Brereton 151K
Oliver Silvey 134K
Tom Alner 130K
Andreas Olympios 125K
Philip Carey 117K
Ian Woodley 116K
Borja Gross 109K
Chiraag Thanki 107K
Philip McAllister 103K
Ben Vinson 99K
Alex Goulder 96K
Roland Pudney 87K
Jareth East 73K
Andrew Seden 49K
Jonathan Semekh 44K
Adan Codron 34K
David Green 31K
Constantine Paparestis 20K
Robert Cowen 19K
James Scott 19K
Andrew Teng 13K
With about 1824 left, and 1000 to be paid, estimates are that the bubble will be reached either just before or just after the dinner break, that is 3 levels in to Day 3. Expect scenes of miraculous double ups, cruel one outers to eliminate players, and micro stacks holding on with a big blind or two to creep into the money and pick up the min cash of $15K. With the next 300-odd all getting the same prize, expect the action to pick up considerably as soon as the bubble bursts.
It's up to you now, Daren....
Gone though already on Day 3 - former winner Greg Raymer, ex-November niner and player in the last UKPC Antoine Saout, ladies bracelet winner Jacquelyn Scott plus other good female players Cyndy Violette, Melanie Wiesner, Danielle Anderson & Lauren Billings, one of the Mizrachi brothers (Eric), one of the very strong German contingent (Fabian Quoss) and from the UK Luke Brereton, Andrew Teng & Robert Cowen.
8.55pm Vegas - 1,013 players remain, & the $15,000 bubble looms.
The bubble burst just before 10pm Vegas time.
All 1,000 survivors, as well as $15,000, were given a FREE HAT.
940 Charles Carrel
863 Christopher Brammer
843 Constantine Paparestis
830 Talal Shakerchi
776 players remain
Fedor Holz is not far behind and a lot of people are expecting the German to push on from here and have a good run; he is one of the biggest online MTT players out there.
Five former winners are still in with a chance, Jim Bechtel, Joe Hachem, Phil Hellmuth, Ryan Reiss & the very short stacked Jonathan Duhamel.
Top Brit is Samir Tageldin with 685K, with Philp McAlister close behind on 661K. Others still in :
Fraser McIntyre 591K
Charles Chattha 544K
Toby Lewis 502K
Jareth East 429K
Jake Cody 355K
Nicholas Katz 340K
Stuart Rutter 327K
Daniel Bland 326K
Georges Georgiou 276K
Ben Vinson 246K
Craig McCorkell 230K
Luke Marsh 225K
Jamie Roberts 225K
Peter Akery 217K
Alfie Adam 214K
Ian Woodley 203K
Alex Goulder 150K
Louis Salter 143K
Chun Law 132K
Adam Codron 114K
David Lhonore 100K
Michael Greco 88K
Sebastian Ruthenberg 84K
Sebastian Saffari 80K
Borja Gross 78K
Philip Carey 70K
Chris Bjorin 64K
British cashers to carry on the above (still all at the $15000 level)
724 Marc Foggin
718 Chris Bell
696 Christopher Gordon
695 Daniel McAulay
690 Jerome Ogrodzki
674 David Greene
I just saw how the bubble burst, there were 1,002 left, with 1,000 paid, but 1001st always gets a seat into next years main.
A kid got it all-in with 5-5 v 7-5, but the board double paired high cards, so the 7-5 man won with his 7 kicker. An awesome way to bubble.
As luck would have it, two players exited on the same hand, & so they had to draw a card (highest wins) to see who got the Seat next year, & 5-5 man won that, so not so bad in the end.
The doubly unlucky player who got knocked out and lost the draw the next year's seat was Jonas Lauck who has over $1m in Hendon Mob recorded cashes, including a FT in Event 57 for over $92K, while Roy Douad has no Hendon Mob page at all but least he's got a 10K seat for next year's ME.
Fifteen minutes to "shuffle up and deal" for Day 4...
Just a short speech by him - "I did not come here to lose, that's all I have to say"
604 Seb Saffari
602 Luke Marsh
598 Philip Carey
plus resident Brit Chris Bjorin in 605th. All pick up $17282.
That has seen the exit of Former winner Jonathan Duhamel (565th), Australian cricket legend Shane Warne (597th) plus two more GB names
544 Stuart Rutter
531 Sebastian Ruthenburg
both pick up $19500.