After three bracelets were awarded yesterday, it was a bit of a lull on that front with no Final Tables on Sunday, but plenty of action in 4 Events WSOP16 - $1500 NLH Millionaire Maker, 7725 entries, Day 2 of 5 Movin' and shakin' but no Millionaire Makin', at least not yet. 142 competititors have moved into Day 3 with Justin Pechie having the biggest stack, just shy of a million chips. Kelly Minkin, Bart Hanson & Blair Hinkle are not far behind, Wendy Freedman is up there for the ladies, and as for the Brits, we've got to look down to 38th for Andrew Hills Niall Farrell & John Haigh are still in too, and so is Svjatoslavs Melnikovs, who has a Lativan name and is still shown as London, Estonia. All the other GB players mentioned yesterday have bitten the dust, including Thewy who ended up in 224th for $6973 Posted by FCHD
Great run for Andy Hills-this will be the smuggest he's been since he was asked to produce ID to buy alcohol in Vegas last year-he is in his 30s .
In early skirmishes in the Millionaire Maker, we've lost Haigh & Melnkovs.
The Turbo is about to be re-engaged, so good luck to Stu Rutter in that one
Following an hour later, the Razz with Adam Owen already having locked up his biggest cash ever and was the subject of one of Phil Helmuth's numerous rants yesterday, apparently calling him the worst f****** player ever. All I can say is that puts Mr Owen in some good company remembering the Poker Brat's propsensity to insult anyone who seems to be getting the better of him, however temoparily. `
Table #448 Seat 1: Mark Reinhardt Seat 2: Thomas Fuller Seat 3: Adam Bilzerian Seat 4: Baptiste Line Seat 5: Youcef Zalagh Seat 6: Stuart Rutter Seat 7: Jeffrey Gibralter Seat 8: R Jason Bliven Seat 9: Matthew Vessier Adam Bilzerian finished 47th in the 2009 ME and featured heavily in the TV coverage alongside his brother Dan who also made the Top 200. Adam forfeited his US citizenship and emigrated to St Kitts & Nevis but is now showing as playing out of Tampa. Dan stayed in the US and has had several let's say skirmishes with the law, and has recently announced his attention to run for President of the US in 2016.
Now down to 22, Ireland's Antony Blee among the latest casualties.
Edit - and while I was typing that, it's now down to 19. One more elimination and they've all locked up a five-figure payday. Eliminations quicker than a Sky Bounty Hunter.
16 left, Stu's now on the same table as the other Brit, John Gale
Seat 1: Stuart Rutter Seat 2: R Jason Bliven Seat 3: Nicolas Long Seat 4: Rick Offley Seat 5: vacant Seat 6: John Gale Seat 7: Nitesh Rawtani Seat 8: Youcef Zalagh Seat 9: Gregory Kolo
Turbo - 12 left, Stu now banked a minimum of $17,053
Razz - 9 left, Wasserman out in 10th. Now moving to the main ESPN stage for the unofficial FT (8 man official FT in Razz). This means the commentary for the streams will be on this rather than the Turbo, which will be on the secondary stream (which I believe will have hole cards and graphics but no commentary).
Probably the last update from me tonight is the FT draw for the Turbo
1 - Mark Darner - 1.34 million 2 - John Gale - 1.21 million 3 - Andrew "Bruce" Le - 875,000 4 - Tim Finne - 345,000 5 - Matthew Vessier - 1.09 million 6 - Sean Rice - 580,000 7 - Nitesh Rawtani - 1.79 million 8 - Gary Luther - 1.16 million 9 - Stuart Rutter - 575,000
2 Brits and 7 Americans
Hopefully by the time we wake up, the man from Birmingham will be bringing home some silverware. Failing that, John Gale of Bushey Heath is our "fallback".
I believe blinds are 15K/30K with a 5K ante, but being Turbo I guess 20k/40K isn't far off.
Was going to go bed but just saw stream has started and Stu is still in it though short stacked, its 3am and im tired but im staying up to rail the Rutter AND I LIKE IT!
main wsop site /> live streaming /> event 18 = enjoy
And as I type that a bigger stack has busted so nice ladder for Stu to a gtd $48,807 with just 6 left! still under 10bb tho
I will try to follow in the mighty FCHD's footsteps and do a good summary of this Final Table from here on in
Big hand not long after with Rawtani making a 3 bet pre then shipping it when Vessier had donk led a Kh 8h 4s flop. Vessier tanks for a while but makes the call with KsQd and he only has to fade 4 obvious outs as Rawtani was getting funky with the 5d6s pre and shipping with just a gutshot!
That made Vessier the chip leader and Rawtani with less than a mill, the 2 collided again a few hands later blind on blind setup with Vessier getting the best of 1010 vs 88 and holding up. Rawtani out in 6th and Stu the very short stack has laddered again
5 handed now so gtd $67,248 4th gets $91,991 3rd nets $127,549 2nd settles for $184,481 winner takes the bracelet plus a tidy $298,290
BOOM! Double up for our man Rutter as he raises to 200k from utg with 55 - blinds at 40k/80k, CL Vessier raises enough to set Stu all in he snap calls as he only had 150k behind. And its the best possible outcome VS A5 so just 3 outs to dodge and a big cheer goes up from several railers, didn't hear Tikay tho lol
However he is still the shorty with around 800k which is just 10bb, well this is a turbo after all :P
No sorry scratch that, with a nice raise and c bet with the A3os VS 66 on 910Q flop he gets to 15bb and 3rd place
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Sorry to have to report Stu is out in 5th in cruel fashion, he made the correct and somewhat easy call with A9os in the bb when the sb had shoved with Q7os, but the villain with the super hero villain name of Luther hit his queen on the flop and left Stu crippled with antes, he managed to double up a few times to 3bb but goes out shoving K9 into A3 - going ahead on flop, but behind on turn, then out for a very nice 5th place, well played Stu you were very unlucky.
And to pick up the baton again from my fellow Cornish colleague
We're down to heads up in both bracelet FTs and still have a potential story in both
In the Turbo, John Gale is up against Gary Luther and the man from Hertfordshire (Despite the graphics showing the Canadian Flag against his name) could be about to become a member of the exclusive 2-bracelet British club. Gale's first bracelet came way back in 2006.
Over on the Razz FT, Phil Hellmuth is playing Mike Gorodinsky and has a very small chip lead in the quest for his 14th bracelet.
John Gale eliminated Gary Luther when his pocket 2s (I refuse to call them deuces) held up. He takes his second bracelet and $298K. As Janana said, Stu Rutter finished 5th for $67K
Hellmuth is closing in on the 14th bracelet, he has been coming out on top on most of the close hands and has a 4:1 chip lead.
17 left in the Millionaire Maker, with Niall Farrell still fighting on.
Incredibly I read John Gale is back this year after a three year break from the WSOP during which he suffered various health problems including a brain tumour and open heart surgery!
Delighted to see Hellmuth win another bracelet. Each time he takes another one down those people who maintain their stance that he's awful look even more ridiculous than they did before. It's a bit like trying to convince people that Rory McIlroy plays golf badly, or that Ronnie O'Sullivan plays terrible snooker.
Great updates and coverage, Thank you. I was watching online updates of the Turbo but had to go to work, so was pleased to see a bracelet win for John Gale and good placing by Stu Rutter.
Sorry for the late posting today, got carried away watching the streams this morning and didn't prepare anything when I normally do.
WSOP16 - $1500 NLH Millionaire Maker, 7725 entries, Day 3 of 4 Seventeen players remain in contention for the Million Dollar first prize (in fact a little over 1.27 million)
Randy Preifer (who made the FT of Event 14) is the chip leader, but there are still several renowned names in - Mike Sexton, Andrew Lichtenberger & Olivier Busquet amongst them.
For those of you who don't know, Sexton is/was the lead TV host and commentator of the WPT, and is also a member of the Poker Hall Of Fame.
One UK presence remains, Niall Farrell from Scotland.
Edit - before I get the chance to post this, play has started on Day 4 and Lichtenberger has already bust.
I thought this was showing before as a 5-day event but it must be taking Days 1A & 1B as two separate days as they are intending to play to a winner today.
WSOP17 - $10K Razz Championship, 103 entrants, Day 3 of 3 What can you say about Phil Hellmuth? You've got to admire his record, and you've got to disrespect his table behaviour, even finding it necessary to have a go at the dealer when heads up here.
His 14th bracelet comes with $271K of prize money and is his second in Razz.
He beat Mike Gordinsky heads-up for the title, with two British players (in fact two players from less than 20 miles apart in Kent) on the FT - Adam Owen in 3rd ($104K) and Stephen Chidwick in 7th ($38K)
WSOP18 - $1000 Turbo NLH, 1791 entrants, Day 2 of 2 After a few near misses, the British players are finally on the board at this summer's WSOP.
Veteran player John Gale from Hertfordshire collected his second bracelet, 9 years after his first and also picked up $298K. He beat Gary Luther, who had never before cashed at a WSOP event heads up when his pocket 2s held up against Luther's A3.
One of Gale's victims on the FT was Sky favourite Stuart Rutter. Stu finished in 5th place for a nice payday of over $67K
That's last year's tally of GB bracelets equalled, let's hope we can go one or two better.
WSOP19 - $3000 Limit Hold'em 6 Max, 319 entrants, Day 2 of 3 I was somewhat overlooking this event as the play progressed in the above 3 events, (well it is Limit Hold'em so it is easily overlooked), but 22 will come back for Day 3.
Kevin Stammen has built a chip lead, due in part to turning a Straight Flush for a huge pot, with two more Americans in second and third places, Joseph Thomas & Andrew Brussard
Still in also are Brian Hastings, David Chiu & Ronnie Bardah, with last year's November Niner Jorryt van Hoof one of the small stacks.
WSOP20 - $1500 NLH, 1844 entrants, Day 1 of 3 272 of 1844 qualify for Day 2 with Valentin Vornicu top of the pile overnight ahead of Natasha Barbour and Selim Oulmekki.
Brits doing well include Christopher Sly (6th) & Oluwashola Akindele (14th), plus we also have Toby Lewis, Jake Cody, Leon Louis, Paul Ephremesen, Ben Dobson (fresh from his epic perforamce the other day) & The Mad Turk still with chips too
Akindele won a huge pot, in a 4-way all in. She hit a one-outer on the turn (She had Jacks, other players had 8s, Queens & AJ and there was an 8 on the flop)
Last year's ME winner Martin Jacobson continues to be involved, as do Greg Mueller, Eric Baldwin, "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier & Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
198 will get paid so the bubble will burst early in today's play
WSOP21 - $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better Championship, 157 entrants, Day 1 of 3 157 started, 101 finished Day 1 of the $10K Omaha Hi-Low with Scott Tuttle leading ahead of Tom Schneider and Gregory Jamison. Shaun Deeb has won one 10K and been the final table bubble boy of the next one, so it's no surprise to see him in contention for this one too.
Two Brits fresh off final tables earlier in the day, Messrs Chidwick & Rutter are still in, as are 10K regular Philip Long plus Eilor Sion (mentioned for the first time this year I think).
Loads of other big names still in too, too many to mention in fact.
To start today WSOP22 - $1000 NLH (3 Day Event) WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)
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The Turbo is about to be re-engaged, so good luck to Stu Rutter in that one
Following an hour later, the Razz with Adam Owen already having locked up his biggest cash ever and was the subject of one of Phil Helmuth's numerous rants yesterday, apparently calling him the worst f****** player ever. All I can say is that puts Mr Owen in some good company remembering the Poker Brat's propsensity to insult anyone who seems to be getting the better of him, however temoparily.
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Stu's table
Table #448 Seat 1: Mark Reinhardt
Seat 2: Thomas Fuller
Seat 3: Adam Bilzerian
Seat 4: Baptiste Line
Seat 5: Youcef Zalagh
Seat 6: Stuart Rutter
Seat 7: Jeffrey Gibralter
Seat 8: R Jason Bliven
Seat 9: Matthew Vessier Adam Bilzerian finished 47th in the 2009 ME and featured heavily in the TV coverage alongside his brother Dan who also made the Top 200. Adam forfeited his US citizenship and emigrated to St Kitts & Nevis but is now showing as playing out of Tampa. Dan stayed in the US and has had several let's say skirmishes with the law, and has recently announced his attention to run for President of the US in 2016.
Edit - and while I was typing that, it's now down to 19. One more elimination and they've all locked up a five-figure payday. Eliminations quicker than a Sky Bounty Hunter.
Seat 1: Stuart Rutter
Seat 2: R Jason Bliven
Seat 3: Nicolas Long
Seat 4: Rick Offley
Seat 5: vacant
Seat 6: John Gale
Seat 7: Nitesh Rawtani
Seat 8: Youcef Zalagh
Seat 9: Gregory Kolo
Down to 10 in the Razz, Owen & Chidwick still in, Eric Seidel just busto in 11th.
Razz - 9 left, Wasserman out in 10th. Now moving to the main ESPN stage for the unofficial FT (8 man official FT in Razz). This means the commentary for the streams will be on this rather than the Turbo, which will be on the secondary stream (which I believe will have hole cards and graphics but no commentary).
Both will be on 30 minute delay.
Turbo, 10 left including the 2 Brits
Razz, 8 left including the 2 Brits, now on the official Final Table
1 - Mark Darner - 1.34 million
2 - John Gale - 1.21 million
3 - Andrew "Bruce" Le - 875,000
4 - Tim Finne - 345,000
5 - Matthew Vessier - 1.09 million
6 - Sean Rice - 580,000
7 - Nitesh Rawtani - 1.79 million
8 - Gary Luther - 1.16 million
9 - Stuart Rutter - 575,000
2 Brits and 7 Americans
Hopefully by the time we wake up, the man from Birmingham will be bringing home some silverware. Failing that, John Gale of Bushey Heath is our "fallback".
I believe blinds are 15K/30K with a 5K ante, but being Turbo I guess 20k/40K isn't far off.
main wsop site /> live streaming /> event 18 = enjoy
And as I type that a bigger stack has busted so nice ladder for Stu to a gtd $48,807 with just 6 left! still under 10bb tho
Big hand not long after with Rawtani making a 3 bet pre then shipping it when Vessier had donk led a Kh 8h 4s flop. Vessier tanks for a while but makes the call with KsQd and he only has to fade 4 obvious outs as Rawtani was getting funky with the 5d6s pre and shipping with just a gutshot!
That made Vessier the chip leader and Rawtani with less than a mill, the 2 collided again a few hands later blind on blind setup with Vessier getting the best of 1010 vs 88 and holding up. Rawtani out in 6th and Stu the very short stack has laddered again
5 handed now so gtd $67,248
4th gets $91,991
3rd nets $127,549
2nd settles for $184,481
winner takes the bracelet plus a tidy $298,290
However he is still the shorty with around 800k which is just 10bb, well this is a turbo after all :P
No sorry scratch that, with a nice raise and c bet with the A3os VS 66 on 910Q flop he gets to 15bb and 3rd place
: ( : ( : (
Sorry to have to report Stu is out in 5th in cruel fashion, he made the correct and somewhat easy call with A9os in the bb when the sb had shoved with Q7os, but the villain with the super hero villain name of Luther hit his queen on the flop and left Stu crippled with antes, he managed to double up a few times to 3bb but goes out shoving K9 into A3 - going ahead on flop, but behind on turn, then out for a very nice 5th place, well played Stu you were very unlucky.
We're down to heads up in both bracelet FTs and still have a potential story in both
In the Turbo, John Gale is up against Gary Luther and the man from Hertfordshire (Despite the graphics showing the Canadian Flag against his name) could be about to become a member of the exclusive 2-bracelet British club. Gale's first bracelet came way back in 2006.
Over on the Razz FT, Phil Hellmuth is playing Mike Gorodinsky and has a very small chip lead in the quest for his 14th bracelet.
John Gale eliminated Gary Luther when his pocket 2s (I refuse to call them deuces) held up. He takes his second bracelet and $298K. As Janana said, Stu Rutter finished 5th for $67K
Hellmuth is closing in on the 14th bracelet, he has been coming out on top on most of the close hands and has a 4:1 chip lead.
17 left in the Millionaire Maker, with Niall Farrell still fighting on.
Delighted to see Hellmuth win another bracelet. Each time he takes another one down those people who maintain their stance that he's awful look even more ridiculous than they did before. It's a bit like trying to convince people that Rory McIlroy plays golf badly, or that Ronnie O'Sullivan plays terrible snooker.
WSOP16 - $1500 NLH Millionaire Maker, 7725 entries, Day 3 of 4
Seventeen players remain in contention for the Million Dollar first prize (in fact a little over 1.27 million)
Randy Preifer (who made the FT of Event 14) is the chip leader, but there are still several renowned names in - Mike Sexton, Andrew Lichtenberger & Olivier Busquet amongst them.
For those of you who don't know, Sexton is/was the lead TV host and commentator of the WPT, and is also a member of the Poker Hall Of Fame.
One UK presence remains, Niall Farrell from Scotland.
Edit - before I get the chance to post this, play has started on Day 4 and Lichtenberger has already bust.
I thought this was showing before as a 5-day event but it must be taking Days 1A & 1B as two separate days as they are intending to play to a winner today.
WSOP17 - $10K Razz Championship, 103 entrants, Day 3 of 3
What can you say about Phil Hellmuth? You've got to admire his record, and you've got to disrespect his table behaviour, even finding it necessary to have a go at the dealer when heads up here.
His 14th bracelet comes with $271K of prize money and is his second in Razz.
He beat Mike Gordinsky heads-up for the title, with two British players (in fact two players from less than 20 miles apart in Kent) on the FT - Adam Owen in 3rd ($104K) and Stephen Chidwick in 7th ($38K)
WSOP18 - $1000 Turbo NLH, 1791 entrants, Day 2 of 2
After a few near misses, the British players are finally on the board at this summer's WSOP.
Veteran player John Gale from Hertfordshire collected his second bracelet, 9 years after his first and also picked up $298K. He beat Gary Luther, who had never before cashed at a WSOP event heads up when his pocket 2s held up against Luther's A3.
One of Gale's victims on the FT was Sky favourite Stuart Rutter. Stu finished in 5th place for a nice payday of over $67K
That's last year's tally of GB bracelets equalled, let's hope we can go one or two better.
WSOP19 - $3000 Limit Hold'em 6 Max, 319 entrants, Day 2 of 3
I was somewhat overlooking this event as the play progressed in the above 3 events, (well it is Limit Hold'em so it is easily overlooked), but 22 will come back for Day 3.
Kevin Stammen has built a chip lead, due in part to turning a Straight Flush for a huge pot, with two more Americans in second and third places, Joseph Thomas & Andrew Brussard
Still in also are Brian Hastings, David Chiu & Ronnie Bardah, with last year's November Niner Jorryt van Hoof one of the small stacks.
WSOP20 - $1500 NLH, 1844 entrants, Day 1 of 3
272 of 1844 qualify for Day 2 with Valentin Vornicu top of the pile overnight ahead of Natasha Barbour and Selim Oulmekki.
Brits doing well include Christopher Sly (6th) & Oluwashola Akindele (14th), plus we also have Toby Lewis, Jake Cody, Leon Louis, Paul Ephremesen, Ben Dobson (fresh from his epic perforamce the other day) & The Mad Turk still with chips too
Akindele won a huge pot, in a 4-way all in. She hit a one-outer on the turn (She had Jacks, other players had 8s, Queens & AJ and there was an 8 on the flop)
Last year's ME winner Martin Jacobson continues to be involved, as do Greg Mueller, Eric Baldwin, "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier & Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
198 will get paid so the bubble will burst early in today's play
WSOP21 - $10K Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or better Championship, 157 entrants, Day 1 of 3
157 started, 101 finished Day 1 of the $10K Omaha Hi-Low with Scott Tuttle leading ahead of Tom Schneider and Gregory Jamison. Shaun Deeb has won one 10K and been the final table bubble boy of the next one, so it's no surprise to see him in contention for this one too.
Two Brits fresh off final tables earlier in the day, Messrs Chidwick & Rutter are still in, as are 10K regular Philip Long plus Eilor Sion (mentioned for the first time this year I think).
Loads of other big names still in too, too many to mention in fact.
To start today
WSOP22 - $1000 NLH (3 Day Event)
WSOP23 - $1500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball (3 Day Event)