Cards are in the air and we have some action in the first of the 500 (or so it seems) bracelet events at this year's WSOP.
As mentioned previously, it is the Casino Employees' Event which gets us underway, and so far we have 629 players shown as entered, one of whom is Dana Castaneda. Who she? In 2013, she became the first female player other than Vanessa Selbst to win an open bracelet event since a good few years.
Later, event 2 (a $5K No Limit Hold'em tournament) gets under way, and hopefully a few more familiar names will appear on the first full report tomorrow morning UK time.
As my work situation varies from day to day, the standard pattern of updates will be a brief preliminary posting early in the morning giving a few details, and a more detailed post (or maybe editing the original post) lunchtime or shortly after once the day's play has finished and the full details of chip counts etc are available.
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 688 entrants
The first event of the series is one of the restricted events, open only to Casino Employees (not just from Vegas, but worldwide). Jack Effel made the traditional "Shuffle Up And Deal" speech to a field of 688 players, down from last years 876 (when the entrance fee was $500)
Last year's winner Roland Reparejo, the 2013 champ Chad Holloway and fellow 2013 bracelet winner Dana Castaneda were among the hopefuls.
The bubble burst late in level 14 (of 15 played today), and halfway through the last level, about 60 players remained. by the time chips were bagged, that number was down to 51 and as you would expect it is a list of unfamiliar names who make up the final 51. None of the previous bracelet winners made it through, nor did David Tuchman who I also saw mentioned in dispatches.
Blake Robbins had been leading almost all day, but in the last level he was passed by Stephen Gilbert. No Brits left, in fact apart from a couple of Canadians, it's a US-only group playing for the bracelet tomorrow.
WSOP 2 - $5000 NLH, Day 1 of 4, 416 entrants
For many, the WSOP really started four hours later with the first open event. A hefty $5K buyin was stumped up by 422 players. Last years equivalent event was far later in the series (Event 49) where nearly 700 individuals were in play, with the winner being David Miscikowski. He won't be repeating that win as he was bust midway through the day.
Current Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson and former Main Event winners Phil Hellmuth, Greg Merson, Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel, Carlos Mortensen and Ryan Reiss were in action, as were Brits including John Gale (showing from Bushey Heath, Estonia!), Max Silver, Chris Moorman, Stephen Chidwick and Jake Cody among others.
Darryl Ronconi led the 171 qualfiiers for Day 2 (45 will be paid) with German (but regular on the UK circuit) Ludovic Geilich not far behind.
Plenty of other Brit interest too, Seb Saffari lies inside the Top 10, whle still standing were all the UK players listed above with the exception of Silver, plus the likes of Oliver Price, Simon Deadman, Roberto Romanello & Patrick Leonard. International "names" with a decent stack - last years ME winner Martin Jacobsen, former ME winner Greg Merson, ex-November Niner Joseph Cheong, Jonathan Jaffe, inaugural One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari, Martin Finger, Andy Frankenberger & Faraz Jaka.
A little bit further down you have Jacobson's heads up victim Felix Stephensen, other "Niners" Jeremy Ausmus, Dan Sindelar & Jay Farber, and more ME winners in Jonathan Duhamal & Philip Helmuth Jr
To start today WSOP3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better WSOP4 - $3000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout (both scheduled to be 3 day events)
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 688 entrants The first bracelet of the year has gone to Brandon Barnette who beat Greg Seiden heads-up. WSOP have given no information about him whatsoever, so thanks to Bluff who have told us that he is a poker supervisor at the Pachenga Casino in California, and is a World Champion roller hockey player.
WSOP 2 - $5000 NLH, Day 1 of 4, 422 entrants Despite there being plenty of big name British players in overnight, the disappointing news is that none of them were able to cash. 20 players made day 3, Greg Merson amongst them along with Doc Sands and Amir Lehavot among others. The chip leader is Carl Westcott, less than 1 Big Blind ahead of Artur Koren. Those who cashed but have since hit the rail include most of the names in yesterdays update (Frankenberger, Ausmus, Stephensen, Sindelar etc.)
WSOP 3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Day 1 of 3, 918 entrants The first non-Hold'em bracelet event with 358 of the 918 making day 2. Tony Ma is the chip-leader, ahead of someone who I seem to remember Tikay has a lot of time for, Taylor Paur. Top Brit (well sort of) at the end of Day 1 appears to be Chris Bjorin, with Richard Ashby & Adam Owen still standing. Others still in with a shout include Max Pescatori, Maria Ho (twice last woman standing in the Main Event), Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen & John Monnette.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 1 of 3, 308 entrants All of the 40 first round tables have now been completed but there are a couple of stragglers, so again this will be updated when all is done and dusted. With such a small percentage of players making Day 2 compared to most other events, the casualty list is a long one - Josh Arieh, Jonathan Duhamel, Ryan Reiss, Phil Laak, Justin Bonomo, Andy Bloch, David Benefield, Erick Lindgren, Jason Mercier etc. The last player knocked out was defending champion Kory Kilpatrick, whose heads-up match with Cory Lieblein had lasted 6 hours and finished just after 3am.
Those who did win their original tables are Jacob Balsinger, Carlos Mortensen. Joe Cada, Doug Polk, Jason Somerville and actor James Woods. Craig McCorkell and Phliip McAllister are the only two Brits standing. Day 2 will consist of 10 4-handed tables, with the winners re-convening on Saturday to play for the bracelet. To start today WSOP5 - Colossus $565 NLH with re-entries in later flights. If the WSOP can pull this one off without major chaos, I'll doff my hat to them.
So the Colossus has started, both flights today and the first flight tomorrow have sold out, there are still vacancies for the late flight tomorrow and all the "late entry" waves that will happen at two points in each flight. There was apparently an elimination on the first hand, some flopped a set of kings and was busted.
At 40 minute levels live it's going be a very fast paced structure, and expect eliminations to come thick and fast.
Justin Bonomo @JustinBonomo 4h4 hours ago 7 hours into this $25k tourney and a player was just escorted out. He paid for the $125 tourney, got the wrong ticket, and kept quiet.
WSOP 2 - $5000 NLH, Day 1 of 4, 422 entrants We have the 2nd bracelet winner of the 2015 series, Michael Wa ng who beat 2014 bracelet winner Bryn Kenney heads-up. 2012 ME winner Greg Merson came 4th, with another November Niner, Amir Lehavot also on the final table. (Space in winner's surname added to prevent the over-zealous profanity filter rejecting the post).
The hand I briefly alluded to on the previous version of this post - 8 left, blinds 12K/24K. Merson opens to 55K, Long Nguyen raises to 155K from the BB and Merson calls. Merson has pocket Jacks, Nguyen the Aces. The flop comes J-K-A giving them both a set. Nguyen bets 250K, Merson calls. The flop comes the case jack, giving Merson quads and his opponent Top Full House. The money all goes in, the river is a King (improving Nguyen's House) but Merson makes the KO and Nguyen is eliminated in 8th.
WSOP 3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Day 1 of 3, 918 entrants 49 players have made Day 3 with Kelley Vandemheen the chip leader with 466K. He leads a bunch of largely unfamilar names, but Robert Mizrachi and John Monette are among those lurking in the midfield.
No Brits remain (in fact German Tobias Hausen is the only European still in contention). Chris Bjorin did make a min-cash.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 1 of 3, 308 entrants We're down to a final table of 10, unfortunately neither of the GB Macs involved yesterday (McCorkell & McAllister) made it through, but actor James Woods did (his was the last table to finish, after a long heads up battle with Doug Polk) so the rail should be pretty good tomorrow for this one
WSOP5 - $565 Colossus NLH Day 1A & 1B
The biggest live poker tournament has finished play for the day, with flights A & B bagged up. Total entries so far is over 23000 but some of those will be refunded as players entered all 4 flights and if they got through their later buy-ins will be returned.
Plenty of bracelet holders (including WSOP ME champions) took part with the likes of Antonio Esfandiari, Ryan Riess, Leif Force, George Danzer, Phil Hellmuth & Vanessa Selbst among the players knocked out today and will probably try again tomorrow. For some of these, it's probably quite some time since they played a tournament with this low of buy-in, so the Colossus has attracted both the amateurs and the big time pros alike.
804 from Flight A and 710 from Flight B have made Day 2
Players marked as "GB" through (though of course that is no guarantee that they are British!)
Flight A - Albert Leshko, Louis Salter, Andrew Hills, Oluwashola Akindele, Lee Barrett, Iain Paterson & Gary Hurst
Flight B - Kerryjane Craigie (with one of the ten biggest stacks), Niall Farrell, Igor Khvorov, Darren Mapley, Chris Moorman (who took a hit to his stack late on), Suryakant Patel, Charles Chattha & Gary Bertram
To Start Today None, but days 1C & 1D of the Colossus are scheduled.
I believe hhyrfrtrytrtyyrdr was planning to play the Colossus, but as I don't know his real name I've no way of looking for him. No sign of any other Sky players in the results so far, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
I believe hhyrfrtrytrtyyrdr was planning to play the Colossus, but as I don't know his real name I've no way of looking for him. No sign of any other Sky players in the results so far, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Posted by FCHD
Andrew Hills, as well as being an old friend, is a regular Sky player-goes by the name of KickaStink on here
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find players here, the tables are spread around some 9 different areas, including the Poker Kitchen.
I managed to find no less than THREE former WSOP Main Event winners playing Colossus last night.
The sheer weight of numbers means the wifi has virtually collapsed, it's taking 20 minutes to load a page.
All jolly exciting though, & I'm so pleased the WSOP has catered for a lower buy-in, & been rewarded with a monster field. Good for the game? Just a bit.
So far noted in Colossus flight C - Esfandiari (firing second bullet). Former Main Event winners Joe Cada & Greg Rayner, WSOP Europe main event winners Barry Shulman & Annette Obrestad, 2009 November Niner Steve Gee, last years November Niner Dan Sindelar, Jared Jaffe, Allen Cunningham, Gregg Mueller and someone who I mentioned a couple of months ago but who is no longer reporting on the WSOP so not appearing on the daily previews :-( Jess Welman.
The final table of the Shootout will be live-streamed, from about 10:30pm if I've got my timings right and that should be a good one.
I believe hhyrfrtrytrtyyrdr was planning to play the Colossus, but as I don't know his real name I've no way of looking for him. No sign of any other Sky players in the results so far, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Posted by FCHD
This is a terrific thread. His 1st name is Harry, but I don't suppose that helps! Also Ian Senior (MacMonster) is playing the Colossus.
WSOP 3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Day 3 of 3, 918 entrants Play was called off for the night during heads-up play between Robert Mizrachi (brother of...) and Jacob Dahl. They had already played one extra level to try and finish the event on Day 3, but even that was not enough to split them so they will come back on Sunday to finish the job and play for the bracelet and the $251K first prize (second will take $155K). Dahl has a 5.1m to 1.8m chip lead at the overnight point. No British players cashed in this event.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 3 of 3, 308 entrants Nick Petrangelo has won Event 4 after a 199-hand final table where he beat Jason Les heads up Petrangelo may not be one of the best known names on the major circuit, but he was already 40th in the Global Poker Index and had 4 6-figure wins already in 2015.
He adds $201,812 to his previous live total earnings of $1.3m.
Loni Harwood busted first on the final table, losing most of her chips when trying a bluff, but bluffing with air into a Full House is usually not a good idea, and so it proved here.
Actor James Woods finished 7th, well known Norwegian Andreas Hoivold 6th and Derek Bowers, who was about 45 minutes late (!) arriving for the FT went out in 5th.
WSOP5 - $565 Colossus NLH - Day 1C & 1D The final wave of the Colossus has sat down, meaning we should soon be able to get final totals of players. Flight C ended with Steven Giralis from California as the biggest stack, but pleased to say , right behind him in second, is Simon Deadman.
Adam Owen is in 4th, with the Mad Turk, Yucel Eminoglu, in 14th.
Other players marked with "GB" through to Day 2 from this group - Ben Warrington, Steven Wilkie, Peter Gould, Lee Taylor, Ricky Pegley, John Baron, Chris Bjorin & Timothy Priest
Playing 1D, Ryan Spittles is shown as having a decent chip stack on the WSOP updates, but these chip counts are notoriously poor in updating so we'll have to wait to the end of play (or he posts an update on Twitter I suppose) to see if he is still involved).
To start today WSOP6 - $1K Hyper Hold'em (2 Day Event) WSOP7 - $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (3 Day Event)
U.K. Pro Ryan Spittles is sharing a house in Vegas for the summer with three other players and he tells us that there has been prop bet madness so far this year. Spittles calls a shove for 3,000 from a short stacked player and asks, "Ace king? I have queen eight. It's been lucky for me." The board runs out 9c 10s 8d 3c 10c and indeed he gets there with his lucky hand. Spittles then reveals that the prop bet for today was a last longer bet and he just survived. One of his housemates, named only as Jason B, must play in a cash game dressed in drag for a minimum of three hours. Spittles is a relieved man and Jason is going shopping tomorrow. Ryan Spittles, 28000
I believe hhyrfrtrytrtyyrdr was planning to play the Colossus, but as I don't know his real name I've no way of looking for him. No sign of any other Sky players in the results so far, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Posted by FCHD
As far as I know Hhy is now playing the Planet Hollywood event. I will leave it to him to post his real name if he so wishes. Pretty sure he will read this ;-)
In Response to Re: The 2015 WSOP thread. : As far as I know Hhy is now playing the Planet Hollywood event. I will leave it to him to post his real name if he so wishes. Pretty sure he will read this ;-) Neil Posted by HENDRIK62
His name can be found on the Outlaws team page, so i'm guessing he's ok with it being known.
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Cards are in the air and we have some action in the first of the 500 (or so it seems) bracelet events at this year's WSOP.
As mentioned previously, it is the Casino Employees' Event which gets us underway, and so far we have 629 players shown as entered, one of whom is Dana Castaneda. Who she? In 2013, she became the first female player other than Vanessa Selbst to win an open bracelet event since a good few years.
Later, event 2 (a $5K No Limit Hold'em tournament) gets under way, and hopefully a few more familiar names will appear on the first full report tomorrow morning UK time.
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 688 entrants
The first event of the series is one of the restricted events, open only to Casino Employees (not just from Vegas, but worldwide). Jack Effel made the traditional "Shuffle Up And Deal" speech to a field of 688 players, down from last years 876 (when the entrance fee was $500)
Last year's winner Roland Reparejo, the 2013 champ Chad Holloway and fellow 2013 bracelet winner Dana Castaneda were among the hopefuls.
The bubble burst late in level 14 (of 15 played today), and halfway through the last level, about 60 players remained. by the time chips were bagged, that number was down to 51 and as you would expect it is a list of unfamiliar names who make up the final 51. None of the previous bracelet winners made it through, nor did David Tuchman who I also saw mentioned in dispatches.
Blake Robbins had been leading almost all day, but in the last level he was passed by Stephen Gilbert. No Brits left, in fact apart from a couple of Canadians, it's a US-only group playing for the bracelet tomorrow.
WSOP 2 - $5000 NLH, Day 1 of 4, 416 entrants
For many, the WSOP really started four hours later with the first open event. A hefty $5K buyin was stumped up by 422 players. Last years equivalent event was far later in the series (Event 49) where nearly 700 individuals were in play, with the winner being David Miscikowski.
He won't be repeating that win as he was bust midway through the day.
Current Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson and former Main Event winners Phil Hellmuth, Greg Merson, Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel, Carlos Mortensen and Ryan Reiss were in action, as were Brits including John Gale (showing from Bushey Heath, Estonia!), Max Silver, Chris Moorman, Stephen Chidwick and Jake Cody among others.
Darryl Ronconi led the 171 qualfiiers for Day 2 (45 will be paid) with German (but regular on the UK circuit) Ludovic Geilich not far behind.
Plenty of other Brit interest too, Seb Saffari lies inside the Top 10, whle still standing were all the UK players listed above with the exception of Silver, plus the likes of Oliver Price, Simon Deadman, Roberto Romanello & Patrick Leonard. International "names" with a decent stack - last years ME winner Martin Jacobsen, former ME winner Greg Merson, ex-November Niner Joseph Cheong, Jonathan Jaffe, inaugural One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari, Martin Finger, Andy Frankenberger & Faraz Jaka.
A little bit further down you have Jacobson's heads up victim Felix Stephensen, other "Niners" Jeremy Ausmus, Dan Sindelar & Jay Farber, and more ME winners in Jonathan Duhamal & Philip Helmuth Jr
To start today
WSOP3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better
WSOP4 - $3000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
(both scheduled to be 3 day events)
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 688 entrants
The first bracelet of the year has gone to Brandon Barnette who beat Greg Seiden heads-up. WSOP have given no information about him whatsoever, so thanks to Bluff who have told us that he is a poker supervisor at the Pachenga Casino in California, and is a World Champion roller hockey player.
WSOP 2 - $5000 NLH, Day 1 of 4, 422 entrants
Despite there being plenty of big name British players in overnight, the disappointing news is that none of them were able to cash. 20 players made day 3, Greg Merson amongst them along with Doc Sands and Amir Lehavot among others. The chip leader is Carl Westcott, less than 1 Big Blind ahead of Artur Koren. Those who cashed but have since hit the rail include most of the names in yesterdays update (Frankenberger, Ausmus, Stephensen, Sindelar etc.)
WSOP 3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Day 1 of 3, 918 entrants
The first non-Hold'em bracelet event with 358 of the 918 making day 2. Tony Ma is the chip-leader, ahead of someone who I seem to remember Tikay has a lot of time for, Taylor Paur. Top Brit (well sort of) at the end of Day 1 appears to be Chris Bjorin, with Richard Ashby & Adam Owen still standing.
Others still in with a shout include Max Pescatori, Maria Ho (twice last woman standing in the Main Event), Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen & John Monnette.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 1 of 3, 308 entrants
All of the 40 first round tables have now been completed but there are a couple of stragglers, so again this will be updated when all is done and dusted. With such a small percentage of players making Day 2 compared to most other events, the casualty list is a long one - Josh Arieh, Jonathan Duhamel, Ryan Reiss, Phil Laak, Justin Bonomo, Andy Bloch, David Benefield, Erick Lindgren, Jason Mercier etc. The last player knocked out was defending champion Kory Kilpatrick, whose heads-up match with Cory Lieblein had lasted 6 hours and finished just after 3am.
Those who did win their original tables are Jacob Balsinger, Carlos Mortensen. Joe Cada, Doug Polk, Jason Somerville and actor James Woods. Craig McCorkell and Phliip McAllister are the only two Brits standing. Day 2 will consist of 10 4-handed tables, with the winners re-convening on Saturday to play for the bracelet.
To start today
WSOP5 - Colossus $565 NLH with re-entries in later flights. If the WSOP can pull this one off without major chaos, I'll doff my hat to them.
At 40 minute levels live it's going be a very fast paced structure, and expect eliminations to come thick and fast.
We have the 2nd bracelet winner of the 2015 series, Michael Wa ng who beat 2014 bracelet winner Bryn Kenney heads-up. 2012 ME winner Greg Merson came 4th, with another November Niner, Amir Lehavot also on the final table. (Space in winner's surname added to prevent the over-zealous profanity filter rejecting the post).
The hand I briefly alluded to on the previous version of this post - 8 left, blinds 12K/24K. Merson opens to 55K, Long Nguyen raises to 155K from the BB and Merson calls. Merson has pocket Jacks, Nguyen the Aces. The flop comes J-K-A giving them both a set. Nguyen bets 250K, Merson calls. The flop comes the case jack, giving Merson quads and his opponent Top Full House. The money all goes in, the river is a King (improving Nguyen's House) but Merson makes the KO and Nguyen is eliminated in 8th.
WSOP 3 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Day 1 of 3, 918 entrants
49 players have made Day 3 with Kelley Vandemheen the chip leader with 466K. He leads a bunch of largely unfamilar names, but Robert Mizrachi and John Monette are among those lurking in the midfield.
No Brits remain (in fact German Tobias Hausen is the only European still in contention). Chris Bjorin did make a min-cash.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 1 of 3, 308 entrants
We're down to a final table of 10, unfortunately neither of the GB Macs involved yesterday (McCorkell & McAllister) made it through, but actor James Woods did (his was the last table to finish, after a long heads up battle with Doug Polk) so the rail should be pretty good tomorrow for this one
WSOP5 - $565 Colossus NLH Day 1A & 1B
The biggest live poker tournament has finished play for the day, with flights A & B bagged up. Total entries so far is over 23000 but some of those will be refunded as players entered all 4 flights and if they got through their later buy-ins will be returned.
Plenty of bracelet holders (including WSOP ME champions) took part with the likes of Antonio Esfandiari, Ryan Riess, Leif Force, George Danzer, Phil Hellmuth & Vanessa Selbst among the players knocked out today and will probably try again tomorrow. For some of these, it's probably quite some time since they played a tournament with this low of buy-in, so the Colossus has attracted both the amateurs and the big time pros alike.
804 from Flight A and 710 from Flight B have made Day 2
Players marked as "GB" through (though of course that is no guarantee that they are British!)
Flight A - Albert Leshko, Louis Salter, Andrew Hills, Oluwashola Akindele, Lee Barrett, Iain Paterson & Gary Hurst
Flight B - Kerryjane Craigie (with one of the ten biggest stacks), Niall Farrell, Igor Khvorov, Darren Mapley, Chris Moorman (who took a hit to his stack late on), Suryakant Patel, Charles Chattha & Gary Bertram
To Start Today
None, but days 1C & 1D of the Colossus are scheduled.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find players here, the tables are spread around some 9 different areas, including the Poker Kitchen.
I managed to find no less than THREE former WSOP Main Event winners playing Colossus last night.
The sheer weight of numbers means the wifi has virtually collapsed, it's taking 20 minutes to load a page.
All jolly exciting though, & I'm so pleased the WSOP has catered for a lower buy-in, & been rewarded with a monster field. Good for the game? Just a bit.
The final table of the Shootout will be live-streamed, from about 10:30pm if I've got my timings right and that should be a good one.
Play was called off for the night during heads-up play between Robert Mizrachi (brother of...) and Jacob Dahl. They had already played one extra level to try and finish the event on Day 3, but even that was not enough to split them so they will come back on Sunday to finish the job and play for the bracelet and the $251K first prize (second will take $155K). Dahl has a 5.1m to 1.8m chip lead at the overnight point. No British players cashed in this event.
WSOP 4 - $3000 NLH Shootout, Day 3 of 3, 308 entrants
Nick Petrangelo has won Event 4 after a 199-hand final table where he beat Jason Les heads up
Petrangelo may not be one of the best known names on the major circuit, but he was already 40th in the Global Poker Index and had 4 6-figure wins already in 2015.
He adds $201,812 to his previous live total earnings of $1.3m.
Loni Harwood busted first on the final table, losing most of her chips when trying a bluff, but bluffing with air into a Full House is usually not a good idea, and so it proved here.
Actor James Woods finished 7th, well known Norwegian Andreas Hoivold 6th and Derek Bowers, who was about 45 minutes late (!) arriving for the FT went out in 5th.
WSOP5 - $565 Colossus NLH - Day 1C & 1D
The final wave of the Colossus has sat down, meaning we should soon be able to get final totals of players.
Flight C ended with Steven Giralis from California as the biggest stack, but pleased to say , right behind him in second, is Simon Deadman.
Adam Owen is in 4th, with the Mad Turk, Yucel Eminoglu, in 14th.
Other players marked with "GB" through to Day 2 from this group - Ben Warrington, Steven Wilkie, Peter Gould, Lee Taylor, Ricky Pegley, John Baron, Chris Bjorin & Timothy Priest
Playing 1D, Ryan Spittles is shown as having a decent chip stack on the WSOP updates, but these chip counts are notoriously poor in updating so we'll have to wait to the end of play (or he posts an update on Twitter I suppose) to see if he is still involved).
To start today
WSOP6 - $1K Hyper Hold'em (2 Day Event)
WSOP7 - $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (3 Day Event)
5/31/2015 1:42:52 AM PST (about 26 minutes ago)
Ryan Spittles Wins Prop Bet