Really appreciated the Rail, & kind comments, thank you all very much.
If we can have this much fun with one player, imagine the fun we might have with 45 Sky Poker Qualifiers if a few run deep, plus of course Captain Channing.
Special thanks to Barny, his Updates really are top rate, well researched, & with that lovely bit of added humour.
Barny's alias - FCHD - comes from his own Football Stats Website, which is a real treasure trove. You can help repay him by taking a look, & maybe giving him some feedback.
WSOP33 - $1500 Summer Solstice NLH, Day 4 of 4, 1840 entrants It's a top-class heads-up match up for the Summer Solstice event, that even 4 day wasn't enough to complete.
Koray Aldemir has a marginal chip lead over former WSOP-E ME winner Adrian Matéos.
David Tovar was last British player, making the FT but exiting in 9th while Chris Moorman busted 13th.
WSOP35 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 3 of 3, 541 entrants Only two Belgians have ever won WSOP bracelets, and they've now won 3 each as Michael Gathy picked up his third beating Frenchan Adrian Allian in another all-Euro heads-up finale.
This finished very shortly after Event 36 (see below) and another French player coming up just short.
Gathy won $448K, Allain $346K. It is also Allain's third runner-up finish in WSOP events.
Again we had a British player on the FT (Scott Margereson who ended up 5th), plus Christian Christner who was the first player out on Day 3 being ranked 21st.
WSOP36 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 384 entrants Chalk one up for the USA as Hani Awad won his heads-up duel with Frenchman Fabrice Soulier after a couple of hours of play.
65-year old Awad, a high stakes recreational player, was the runner-up in the corresponding event in 2015 but went one better this time around.
4th place Denny Axel first cashed at the WSOP as long ago as 1991, well before some of the players in the event were even born.
Jason Mercier just failed to make yet another final table, busting in 11th.
WSOP37 - $1500 PLO, Day 2 of 3, 776 entrants Tikay's journey has already been covered in detail, but for the record we have 16 players left.
Tommy Le, who was on Tikay's table at the start of the day, is the chip leader ahead of two Nordic players, Jon Ho Christiansen and Henri Koivanto Jeff Duval is the sole British player left, in 13th spot
Keith Johnson finished 27th for $5880, and Toby Lewis 78th for $2600. I guess Toby isn't the number one poker player in Southampton any more.
WSOP38 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 245 entrants Only 8 players remain (or perhaps the word "Remain" is now consigned to history), with a number of big names crashing out very late on - Rep Porter was 9th, Chris Klodnicki 12th and Ian Johns 14th.
Matt Matros is the chip leader with reigning ME winner Joe McKeehan 2nd and a Greek player with a very long name 3rd.
WSOP39 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 1 of 3, 294 entrants As this is one of the more popular formats of the game, the field size for this is quite a lot bigger than the earlier 10K Championship events.
Over half the field went out on Day 1, with 123 still in contention. Gabriel Andrade is the chip leader ahead of Brandon Steven & Daniel Strelitz, with Robert Mizrachi (aiming to be the 4th double winner this Series) and Justin Bonomo inside the Top 10.
Also inside the top 10 is Senh Ung for the UK, and Simon Deadman and Max Silver are in decent shape too. Steffen Sontheimer, Rhys Jones, Patrick Leonard, Stephen Chidwick & Jack Salter are also through, as is Roberto Romanello who was showing with a large stack not long before the end of the day but can now be found down outside the Top 100. 45 will get paid so still a long way to the bubble.
Jason Mercier won't be making another FT here as he went out some time ago.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 236 entrants If you wondered why Stu Rutter & Benny Glaser aren't listed above in the 10K 6-max, it's because they were here playing Event 40.
61 of the 236 are still in the event, headed by Anthony Lazar, with Chris Vitch second and 2011 ME runner-up Martin Staszko third.
Daniel Negreanu and Jason Mercier bought in late, having been knocked out of other events and Mercier is sitting nicely in 5th with conflicting info about Daniel. The updates say he is in wth 47300 chips but the listings give that position to Daniel Weinman
No confusion about Mr Rutter. He is due a good run and is in a good position to do just that, lying 14th overnight while Glaser and Richard Ashby have zero chips between them.
To start today WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s) WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event Well in to the second half of the Series now.
WSOP33 - $1500 Summer Solstice NLH, Day 5 of 4, 1840 entrants Two years ago, Adrián Mateos (sorry for getting the diacritics wrong over the last couple of days) won the WSOP-E main event while still too young to play in the WSOP itself.
In 2015, he won the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. Now 22, he's announced his presence in Vegas with his second bracelet win, one that earned him over $409K
It's the second Spanish bracelet within a few days after Cesar Garcia won his. Even at such a young age, Mateos is second on the all-time Spanish money list but still trails former ME winner Carlos Mortensen by a large distance.
The defeated heads-up player was Austrian Koray Aldemir who was making his 5th cash of the series.
WSOP37 - $1500 PLO, Day 3 of 3, 776 entrants This one should have been Tikay's but for some unfortunate run of cards, but instead went to an amateur player from the suburbs of Washington DC.
If you picked up A-I-I-J-Q-U-X in a game of Scrabble you'd be thinking that your luck was out, but rearrange them to Jiaqi Xu and we have Event 37 Champion
It's his first bracelet (in his 8th cash, dating back to 2009) and he also collected $212128. Second, and making only his second WSOP cash was Londoner Jeff Duval, who's also a bit of a veteran with worldwide cashes back to the last century.
Third, only the third time a female player has made the top 3 this series (Kerryjane Craigie second in Event 1 and Linda Meredith 3rd in event 16) was Pallas Aidinian. Her $91K was her very first WSOP cash.
WSOP38 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 245 entrants As the WSOP site says, "Rafael Lebron has enjoyed the poker week of a lifetime". A few days ago he had one recorded cash on Hendon Mob, a 400th place finish in last years Monster Stack for $4670.
He warmed up in Event 23 by making the money for a touch over $3K. Then in Event 30 he made the final table, coming second for over $212K. Now he's gone one better by winning Event 38 and added another $169K to his lifetime total.
Once the two big names in the field had departed, limit specialist and 3-time bracelet holder Matt Matros in 5th and 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan in 4th, the field opened up with Brad Lisbon third and the Greek player who I didn't even name properly yesterday, Georgios Zisimpoulos as the runner-up.
WSOP39 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 2 of 3, 294 entrants Day 2 ended with 21 players left, including two British players left - Jack Salter and Steffen Sontheimer. It could have been four though, as Patrick Leonard went out very late on in 27th and Max Silver even later in 25th.
Simon Deadman had also earlier had a trip to the payout cage.
The chip leader is Nick Petrangelo after overtaking long-time chip leader Vanessa Selbst on the very last hand of the night. Justin Bonomo is 3rd and others left include Scott Siever, Chris Ferguson, Frank Kassela and in what I think is his first mention since I picked him in my fantasy team, Davidi Kitai.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 2 of 3, 236 entrants We've reached the unofficial final table with 7 left, unfortunately no GB players.
David Gee holds a sigificant chip lead ahead of Damjan Radanov and Christopher Vitch.
Stuart Rutter was in fact the only GB cash, 30th for $4307, while Jason Mercier went out 4 players later doubtless adding a few more Player of the Year points along the way.
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1 of 4, 4054 entrants on Day 1A Play has concluded for Flight A with two locals at the top - Greg Alexander & Andrew Moreno.
Hall of Famer and holder of 6 bracelets TJ Cloutier is 4th, with the first Brit two places behind him in the shape of Mohammed Ladek.
David Welch, Ross Boatman, James Dempsey, Marc Foggin, Pablo Campo, David Crane, Shaun Stanfield, David Vamplew, Paul Jenkinson, Matthew Moss, Michael Richardson, Chi Zhang, Ben Dobson, Martynas Vitkauskas, Murray Henderson, Graeme Ladd & Anthony Hamilton also have "GB" against their names in a field of just under 700 survivors.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 1 of 3, 400 entrants Up by nearly 100 players on last year's total, each table of players plays down to a winner who guarantees themselves a min-cash and moves on to Day 2.
40 tables of 10 meant 40 survivors, some very slight differences in the chip counts I presume to players being blinded away early while not at the table but as near as makes no difference hey all have 150K.
Philip McAllister was the first player through for the UK, soon joined by Stephen Chidwick, Sergi Rexach and Daniel Merrilees
Non-Brits through include Faraz Jaka, Natasha Barbour, Tom Marchese, Maria Ho and last year's November Niner Zvi Stern.
To start today WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event plus day 1B of the Monster Stack
WSOP33 - $1500 Summer Solstice NLH, Day 5 of 4, 1840 entrants Two years ago, Adrián Mateos (sorry for getting the diacritics wrong over the last couple of days) won the WSOP-E main event while still too young to play in the WSOP itself.
In 2005, he won the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. Now 22, he's announced his presence in Vegas with his second bracelet win, one that earned him over $409K
It's the second Spanish bracelet within a few days after Cesar Garcia won his. Even at such a young age, Mateos is second on the all-time Spanish money list but still trails former ME winner Carlos Mortensen by a large distance.
The defeated heads-up player was Austrian Koray Aldemir who was making his 5th cash of the series.
Wow, this kid was seriously good even at 11!
PS /> Would like to add my voice to the many who say thanks a lot for these updates.
WSOP39 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 3 of 3, 294 entrants What do you think would be the most dramatic way to finally clinch your first bracelet?
You are three handed, both your opponents have already got bracelets but you have the chip lead.
You look down at your cards and see Pocket Queens. Nice. Very nice. Then the button player moves all-in. Getting nicer...then your other opponent moves all-in as well. If one of them has pocket Kings or Aces, fair enough but without too much thought you cover the all-ins.
When the hands are turned over, the other players have Pocket Nines and Pocket Sixes, so you're a 65% favourite to finish the job, but you could do without the sweat.
No worries, the dealer deals the flop and it comes a seven....and the other two queens.
Flopped quads seals the deal, leaving the other two players drawing dead and there's not even a need for a heads-up match.
That's how Martin Kozlov became the 12th different Aussie to win a WSOP bracelet and Davidi Kitai (2nd) and Justin Bonomo (3rd) busted.
Earlier, Chris Ferguson went out in 4th preventing a very awkward bracelet ceremony, Jack Salter was 6th and Steffen Sontheimer 16th.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 3 of 3, 236 entrants Chris Vitch from Arizona made up for 1 second and 2 third places in previous years by running over the final table, earning himself $136K. He almost didn't even enter this, his run in the Six-Handed Limit event ended just in time for him to get his head together and sign up.
Austrian Siegfried Stockinger was second, and a player who Vitch plays with regularly at home, David Gee came third.
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B Another huge turnout for the second flight of the Monster Stack
When combined we have 2001 remaining on the odyssey for the bracelet and the huge first prize of over $1.1m
The Top 3 are Steven Harper, Peter Braglia and Patrick Muleta but you doesn't need to look too far down the chip listing to find some familiar names - Bart Lybaert is 4th, Matt Gianetti 13th and Gaelle Baumann 21st.
Lots of Brits progress too, in fact too many to mention. Harry Lodge is the most prominent in 10th, ahead of Peter Charalambous, Luke Brereton, Max Silver, Usman Siddique, Daniel Laming, Daniel Wilson, Barny Boatman, Kevin Houghton, David Stonehouse, Andrew Mackenzie et al.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants The 40 survivors from Day 1 were grouped into 10 4-handed tables with all eliminated players getting a min-cash and the 10 table winners progressing to the FT.
Three of the 10 are British, two of them trying to get a 3rd bracelet for Hampshire - Rhys Jones and Phillip McAllister, plus Stephen Chidwick for Kent.
Faraz Jaka and Maria Ho are 2 of 4 Americans also through, with single representations from Austria, Brazil and Canada. Perhaps they're playing A-B-C poker.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 136 entrants My favourite game, but of course on a whole different level that I'd ever play at!
Randy Ohel is thechip leader ahead of 2014 Player of the Year George Danzer and Ali Abdul-Jabbar.
Eli Eleza is close behind, as is Todd Brunson, Dzmitry Urbanovich and another former Player of the Year Mike Gorodinsky. Brian Rast, Joe Hachem , Justin Bonomo and Bart Hanson have progressively smaller stacks, while there Brits through in the shape of Elior Sion, Adam Owen & Richard Ashby.
To start today WSOP44 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO 3 Day Event
What an amazing end this was - pretty rare for any WSOP final which is 3 handed to end in one hand.
"....You are three handed, both your opponents have already got bracelets but you have the chip lead.
You look down at your cards and see Pocket Queens. Nice. Very nice. Then the button player moves all-in. Getting nicer...then your other opponent moves all-in as well. If one of them has pocket Kings or Aces, fair enough but without too much thought you cover the all-ins.
When the hands are turned over, the other players have Pocket Nines and Pocket Sixes, so you're a 65% favourite to finish the job, but you could do without the sweat.
No worries, the dealer deals the flop and it comes a seven....and the other two queens.
Flopped quads seals the deal, leaving the other two players drawing dead and there's not even a need for a heads-up match......"
Well done to Mr Mcallister, the union jack is flying proudly.All these battles already won and the sky army yet to arrive.Be very worried Rest Of The World.
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And that's it from me for tonight, work tomorrow means I've got to get a few hours of shuteye.
Hope when I wake up again Tikay is still in and we're still going to members of the EU.
Night all
BUSTO.
I exited in 36th place, for a pleasing $4,910.
Really appreciated the Rail, & kind comments, thank you all very much.
If we can have this much fun with one player, imagine the fun we might have with 45 Sky Poker Qualifiers if a few run deep, plus of course Captain Channing.
Special thanks to Barny, his Updates really are top rate, well researched, & with that lovely bit of added humour.
Barny's alias - FCHD - comes from his own Football Stats Website, which is a real treasure trove. You can help repay him by taking a look, & maybe giving him some feedback.
http://fchd.info/
(FCHD = Football Club History Database)
I see one Daniel Negreanu busted just two spots later, and therefore earned the same for his two days work as you did.
As I write this, 20 are left including Jeffrey Duval so let's hope he can keep on keeping on and make the Final Table.
It's a top-class heads-up match up for the Summer Solstice event, that even 4 day wasn't enough to complete.
Koray Aldemir has a marginal chip lead over former WSOP-E ME winner Adrian Matéos.
David Tovar was last British player, making the FT but exiting in 9th while Chris Moorman busted 13th.
WSOP35 - $5K 6-Max NLH, Day 3 of 3, 541 entrants
Only two Belgians have ever won WSOP bracelets, and they've now won 3 each as Michael Gathy picked up his third beating Frenchan Adrian Allian in another all-Euro heads-up finale.
This finished very shortly after Event 36 (see below) and another French player coming up just short.
Gathy won $448K, Allain $346K. It is also Allain's third runner-up finish in WSOP events.
Again we had a British player on the FT (Scott Margereson who ended up 5th), plus Christian Christner who was the first player out on Day 3 being ranked 21st.
WSOP36 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 384 entrants
Chalk one up for the USA as Hani Awad won his heads-up duel with Frenchman Fabrice Soulier after a couple of hours of play.
65-year old Awad, a high stakes recreational player, was the runner-up in the corresponding event in 2015 but went one better this time around.
4th place Denny Axel first cashed at the WSOP as long ago as 1991, well before some of the players in the event were even born.
Jason Mercier just failed to make yet another final table, busting in 11th.
WSOP37 - $1500 PLO, Day 2 of 3, 776 entrants
Tikay's journey has already been covered in detail, but for the record we have 16 players left.
Tommy Le, who was on Tikay's table at the start of the day, is the chip leader ahead of two Nordic players, Jon Ho Christiansen and Henri Koivanto
Jeff Duval is the sole British player left, in 13th spot
Keith Johnson finished 27th for $5880, and Toby Lewis 78th for $2600. I guess Toby isn't the number one poker player in Southampton any more.
WSOP38 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 245 entrants
Only 8 players remain (or perhaps the word "Remain" is now consigned to history), with a number of big names crashing out very late on - Rep Porter was 9th, Chris Klodnicki 12th and Ian Johns 14th.
Matt Matros is the chip leader with reigning ME winner Joe McKeehan 2nd and a Greek player with a very long name 3rd.
WSOP39 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 1 of 3, 294 entrants
As this is one of the more popular formats of the game, the field size for this is quite a lot bigger than the earlier 10K Championship events.
Over half the field went out on Day 1, with 123 still in contention.
Gabriel Andrade is the chip leader ahead of Brandon Steven & Daniel Strelitz, with Robert Mizrachi (aiming to be the 4th double winner this Series) and Justin Bonomo inside the Top 10.
Also inside the top 10 is Senh Ung for the UK, and Simon Deadman and Max Silver are in decent shape too. Steffen Sontheimer, Rhys Jones, Patrick Leonard, Stephen Chidwick & Jack Salter are also through, as is Roberto Romanello who was showing with a large stack not long before the end of the day but can now be found down outside the Top 100.
45 will get paid so still a long way to the bubble.
Jason Mercier won't be making another FT here as he went out some time ago.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 1 of 3, 236 entrants
If you wondered why Stu Rutter & Benny Glaser aren't listed above in the 10K 6-max, it's because they were here playing Event 40.
61 of the 236 are still in the event, headed by Anthony Lazar, with Chris Vitch second and 2011 ME runner-up Martin Staszko third.
Daniel Negreanu and Jason Mercier bought in late, having been knocked out of other events and Mercier is sitting nicely in 5th with conflicting info about Daniel. The updates say he is in wth 47300 chips but the listings give that position to Daniel Weinman
No confusion about Mr Rutter. He is due a good run and is in a good position to do just that, lying 14th overnight while Glaser and Richard Ashby have zero chips between them.
To start today
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NL, 3 Day Event
Well in to the second half of the Series now.
WSOP33 - $1500 Summer Solstice NLH, Day 5 of 4, 1840 entrants
Two years ago, Adrián Mateos (sorry for getting the diacritics wrong over the last couple of days) won the WSOP-E main event while still too young to play in the WSOP itself.
In 2015, he won the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. Now 22, he's announced his presence in Vegas with his second bracelet win, one that earned him over $409K
It's the second Spanish bracelet within a few days after Cesar Garcia won his. Even at such a young age, Mateos is second on the all-time Spanish money list but still trails former ME winner Carlos Mortensen by a large distance.
The defeated heads-up player was Austrian Koray Aldemir who was making his 5th cash of the series.
WSOP37 - $1500 PLO, Day 3 of 3, 776 entrants
This one should have been Tikay's but for some unfortunate run of cards, but instead went to an amateur player from the suburbs of Washington DC.
If you picked up A-I-I-J-Q-U-X in a game of Scrabble you'd be thinking that your luck was out, but rearrange them to Jiaqi Xu and we have Event 37 Champion
It's his first bracelet (in his 8th cash, dating back to 2009) and he also collected $212128.
Second, and making only his second WSOP cash was Londoner Jeff Duval, who's also a bit of a veteran with worldwide cashes back to the last century.
Third, only the third time a female player has made the top 3 this series (Kerryjane Craigie second in Event 1 and Linda Meredith 3rd in event 16) was Pallas Aidinian. Her $91K was her very first WSOP cash.
WSOP38 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 245 entrants
As the WSOP site says, "Rafael Lebron has enjoyed the poker week of a lifetime". A few days ago he had one recorded cash on Hendon Mob, a 400th place finish in last years Monster Stack for $4670.
He warmed up in Event 23 by making the money for a touch over $3K. Then in Event 30 he made the final table, coming second for over $212K. Now he's gone one better by winning Event 38 and added another $169K to his lifetime total.
Once the two big names in the field had departed, limit specialist and 3-time bracelet holder Matt Matros in 5th and 2015 ME winner Joe McKeehan in 4th, the field opened up with Brad Lisbon third and the Greek player who I didn't even name properly yesterday, Georgios Zisimpoulos as the runner-up.
WSOP39 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 2 of 3, 294 entrants
Day 2 ended with 21 players left, including two British players left - Jack Salter and Steffen Sontheimer. It could have been four though, as Patrick Leonard went out very late on in 27th and Max Silver even later in 25th.
Simon Deadman had also earlier had a trip to the payout cage.
The chip leader is Nick Petrangelo after overtaking long-time chip leader Vanessa Selbst on the very last hand of the night. Justin Bonomo is 3rd and others left include Scott Siever, Chris Ferguson, Frank Kassela and in what I think is his first mention since I picked him in my fantasy team, Davidi Kitai.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 2 of 3, 236 entrants
We've reached the unofficial final table with 7 left, unfortunately no GB players.
David Gee holds a sigificant chip lead ahead of Damjan Radanov and Christopher Vitch.
Stuart Rutter was in fact the only GB cash, 30th for $4307, while Jason Mercier went out 4 players later doubtless adding a few more Player of the Year points along the way.
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1 of 4, 4054 entrants on Day 1A
Play has concluded for Flight A with two locals at the top - Greg Alexander & Andrew Moreno.
Hall of Famer and holder of 6 bracelets TJ Cloutier is 4th, with the first Brit two places behind him in the shape of Mohammed Ladek.
David Welch, Ross Boatman, James Dempsey, Marc Foggin, Pablo Campo, David Crane, Shaun Stanfield, David Vamplew, Paul Jenkinson, Matthew Moss, Michael Richardson, Chi Zhang, Ben Dobson, Martynas Vitkauskas, Murray Henderson, Graeme Ladd & Anthony Hamilton also have "GB" against their names in a field of just under 700 survivors.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 1 of 3, 400 entrants
Up by nearly 100 players on last year's total, each table of players plays down to a winner who guarantees themselves a min-cash and moves on to Day 2.
40 tables of 10 meant 40 survivors, some very slight differences in the chip counts I presume to players being blinded away early while not at the table but as near as makes no difference hey all have 150K.
Philip McAllister was the first player through for the UK, soon joined by Stephen Chidwick, Sergi Rexach and Daniel Merrilees
Non-Brits through include Faraz Jaka, Natasha Barbour, Tom Marchese, Maria Ho and last year's November Niner Zvi Stern.
To start today
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
plus day 1B of the Monster Stack
WSOP33 - $1500 Summer Solstice NLH, Day 5 of 4, 1840 entrants
Two years ago, Adrián Mateos (sorry for getting the diacritics wrong over the last couple of days) won the WSOP-E main event while still too young to play in the WSOP itself.
In 2005, he won the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. Now 22, he's announced his presence in Vegas with his second bracelet win, one that earned him over $409K
It's the second Spanish bracelet within a few days after Cesar Garcia won his. Even at such a young age, Mateos is second on the all-time Spanish money list but still trails former ME winner Carlos Mortensen by a large distance.
The defeated heads-up player was Austrian Koray Aldemir who was making his 5th cash of the series.
Wow, this kid was seriously good even at 11!
PS /> Would like to add my voice to the many who say thanks a lot for these updates.
Corrected in updated post above.
What do you think would be the most dramatic way to finally clinch your first bracelet?
You are three handed, both your opponents have already got bracelets but you have the chip lead.
You look down at your cards and see Pocket Queens. Nice. Very nice. Then the button player moves all-in. Getting nicer...then your other opponent moves all-in as well. If one of them has pocket Kings or Aces, fair enough but without too much thought you cover the all-ins.
When the hands are turned over, the other players have Pocket Nines and Pocket Sixes, so you're a 65% favourite to finish the job, but you could do without the sweat.
No worries, the dealer deals the flop and it comes a seven....and the other two queens.
Flopped quads seals the deal, leaving the other two players drawing dead and there's not even a need for a heads-up match.
That's how Martin Kozlov became the 12th different Aussie to win a WSOP bracelet and Davidi Kitai (2nd) and Justin Bonomo (3rd) busted.
Earlier, Chris Ferguson went out in 4th preventing a very awkward bracelet ceremony, Jack Salter was 6th and Steffen Sontheimer 16th.
WSOP40 - $2500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit), Day 3 of 3, 236 entrants
Chris Vitch from Arizona made up for 1 second and 2 third places in previous years by running over the final table, earning himself $136K. He almost didn't even enter this, his run in the Six-Handed Limit event ended just in time for him to get his head together and sign up.
Austrian Siegfried Stockinger was second, and a player who Vitch plays with regularly at home, David Gee came third.
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 1B of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B
Another huge turnout for the second flight of the Monster Stack
When combined we have 2001 remaining on the odyssey for the bracelet and the huge first prize of over $1.1m
The Top 3 are Steven Harper, Peter Braglia and Patrick Muleta but you doesn't need to look too far down the chip listing to find some familiar names - Bart Lybaert is 4th, Matt Gianetti 13th and Gaelle Baumann 21st.
Lots of Brits progress too, in fact too many to mention. Harry Lodge is the most prominent in 10th, ahead of Peter Charalambous, Luke Brereton, Max Silver, Usman Siddique, Daniel Laming, Daniel Wilson, Barny Boatman, Kevin Houghton, David Stonehouse, Andrew Mackenzie et al.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants
The 40 survivors from Day 1 were grouped into 10 4-handed tables with all eliminated players getting a min-cash and the 10 table winners progressing to the FT.
Three of the 10 are British, two of them trying to get a 3rd bracelet for Hampshire - Rhys Jones and Phillip McAllister, plus Stephen Chidwick for Kent.
Faraz Jaka and Maria Ho are 2 of 4 Americans also through, with single representations from Austria, Brazil and Canada. Perhaps they're playing A-B-C poker.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 1 of 3, 136 entrants
My favourite game, but of course on a whole different level that I'd ever play at!
Randy Ohel is thechip leader ahead of 2014 Player of the Year George Danzer and Ali Abdul-Jabbar.
Eli Eleza is close behind, as is Todd Brunson, Dzmitry Urbanovich and another former Player of the Year Mike Gorodinsky. Brian Rast, Joe Hachem , Justin Bonomo and Bart Hanson have progressively smaller stacks, while there Brits through in the shape of Elior Sion, Adam Owen & Richard Ashby.
To start today
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO 3 Day Event
What an amazing end this was - pretty rare for any WSOP final which is 3 handed to end in one hand.
"....You are three handed, both your opponents have already got bracelets but you have the chip lead.
You look down at your cards and see Pocket Queens. Nice. Very nice. Then the button player moves all-in. Getting nicer...then your other opponent moves all-in as well. If one of them has pocket Kings or Aces, fair enough but without too much thought you cover the all-ins.
When the hands are turned over, the other players have Pocket Nines and Pocket Sixes, so you're a 65% favourite to finish the job, but you could do without the sweat.
No worries, the dealer deals the flop and it comes a seven....and the other two queens.
Flopped quads seals the deal, leaving the other two players drawing dead and there's not even a need for a heads-up match......"
It's a third bracelet for the UK (and a third one for Hampshire) as Philip McAllister has taken down Event 42, the $3000 Shootout NLH.