WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B Some Monster stacks in the Monster Stack and the biggest Monster of them all is held by British player Nabil Mohamed. Mohamed, who I can't find on Hendon Mob at all, started the day with 11000 chips and ended it with 175 times as many.
Andrew Moreno and Donghai Wu lie second and third, some distance behind Mohamed.
Just 276 remain, among them other British players Usman Siddique, Dan Wilson, Aaron Virchis, both Barny and Ross Boatman, Matt Davenport, Mohammed Ladek, Shaun Stanfield, James Dempsey and Stephen Woodhead
Some well-known names who are still challenging include Hall of Famers Billy Baxter, TJ Cloutier & Erik Seidel.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 3 of 3, 400 entrants British bracelet ahoy! Philip McAllister from Winchester is the Shootout Champion, earning $267K and a gold bracelet.
He'd never done more than a Min-Cash at the WSOP, but did make a good run at the PCA this year allowing him to play a wider WSOP schedule.
He beat Kyle Montgomery heads-up with Chistopher Kruk third.
Maria Ho finished 4th, Faraz Jaka 9th while the other two Brtish players Rhys Jones ended up 8th and Stephen Chidwick was the first FT elimination, in 10th spot.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 136 entrants Hotting up nicely, 12 players left, 10 of whom have 16 bracelet between them. Justin Bonomo has a second and a third already this series, perhaps this time he will go and win it all? George Danzer and Todd Brunson are his nearest challengers
No British players cashed.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2076 entrants Placed right in the schedule to pick those who had busted from the Day 1s in the Monster Stack, the $1K attracted over 2000 players
The bubble was reached near the end of day 1 and there are 225 players still in with a shout of the first prize of $298K.
Several Greek and Austrian players have had deep runs this Series, and we have one of each at the top of the Day 1 listings. Iliodoros Kamatakis and Dejan Boskovic the players in question. I'll leave you to guess which one is the Greek.
Mike Ellis appears to be the top GB player, down in 78th and he is accompanied to Day 2 by Daniel Tang, Matthew Hopkins and Simon Deadman. Timothy Wright, Toby Lewis, Samuel Watson and Chris Brammer finished in the money but busted late in the evening
Phil Laak doesn't seem to have been very noticable in the reports so far, but he is through as is 2015 Colossus winner Cord Garcia.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 1 of 3, 919 entrants Eventually 138 players made Day 2 in an event that brings together the two most popular poker variants. Loren Klein is chip leader with David Callaghan (from Ireland) and Shawn Rice not far behind.
Niall Farrell is set up for another decent run in 7th, Matt Ashton is somewhere in the middle of the field and Benny Glaser has a microstack to come back with.
Martin Finger, John Racener, Taylor Paur and Antonio Esfandiari are among those who come back with decent stacks, all inside the Top 20.
To start today WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 3 Day Event
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 3 of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B Play is ongoing with 26 left. Unfortunately the chip stacks page on the WSOP site only lists 4 of them!
One of them is Aaron Virchis who is listed as being from Southampton (so another deep run clocked up for Hampshire) but I believe has been Vegas-resident for some time.
Another is Irish legend Donnacha O'Dea who of course reached the FT of the Main Event back in 1983.
Edit- the reason the chip counts page was incomplete was because play had ended and the end-of-day updates were in progress.
26 do go through and Virchis is the only Union Jack listed. David Pham is chip leader ahead of Cody Pack & Gina Stagnitto. Others left include TJ Cloutier, Matt Affleck and as noted above Donnacha O'Dea.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 136 entrants It's a fourth bracelet (and a second in this very event) for George Danzer as the Austrian-based German made it a third "so near but yet so far" this summer for Justin Bonomo. Bonomo busted in third, with Randy Ohel being the runner-up
Eight of the last ten were bracelet holders, and the other two were Esther Taylor-Brady (already with 10th & 11th finishes this year) and Roland Israelashvili (8 cashes this year) so th cream certainly rose to the top.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2076 entrants Nineteen players move on to the denoument of Event 44, with Young Sik Eum chip leader after his pocket kings held up against A-Q in a huge put. Michael Shanahan (not the ex-Denver Broncos head coach) second and Niel Mittelman third.
Not a lot of well known names still involved but at least one of the nineteen has a bracelet (Steven Wolansky). All survivors have locked up at least $9463.
No one from Hampshire, in fact no one from the UK at all since Matthew Hopkins busted in 46th.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 2 of 3, 919 entrants Fifteen players are still standing, and Day 2 ended just the same as Day 1 with Loren Klein in the chip lead.
The whole top 6 are US players with second held by Steven Gagliano and third by Dmitriy Savelyev.
David Callaghan is still there for Ireland, but no UK representatives. Niall Farrell was the last to depart in 21st, while both Matt Ashton & Benny Glaser made the money (138 got paid) but not the top 100.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2158 entrants The bubble burst very close to the end of the night, and we have 308 names moving on.
The chip leader is Jonathan Dimming with Tom Kearney 2nd and Joao Vieria 3rd.
Chris Moorman has the biggest stack of the Brits, David Tovar, Chun Law, David Crane, Henry Fewster, Max Silver, Daniel Wilson, Gordon Huntly, Iaron Lightbourne, Ariel Shefer and Rhys Jones join him in Day 2.
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 1 of 3, 125 entrants 38 out of the 125 are through to Day 2 with Abe Mosseri leading the way. Mosseri has Paul Volpe only a smidgen behind and Dan Shak not too far back either.
Stephen Chidwick and Adam Owen are having their usual solid Day 1s (has either of them been eliminated early in any event?) whlile theire is a third member of the 38 shown as UK but that is Tore Lukashaugen, a Norwegian fellow living in London.
To start today WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, 3 Day Event WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, 3 Day Event
WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 4 of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B We have a winner of the Monster Stack, and it is Mitchell Towner. As is often case, someone comes from nowhere to win these huge field relavtively small-buyin (by WSOP standrds) events, well, Towner doesn't even have a Hendon Mob listing.
Venezuelan Dorian Rios by contrast seems to have two - one as Dorian Rios and another as Dorian Alejandro Rios Pavon. Towner takes $1.1m, Rios almost $700K.
Aaron Virchis was the only UK listed player running deep, he bowed out in 11th spot for $78K.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2076 entrants Heads-up play was reached between Steven Wolansky and Wenlong Jin but they were unable to determine a winner on what was supposed to be the final day.
The FT game got down to heads-up within 67 hands, the heads-up duel has already lasted 85. Both players have had a decent chip lead, but at the end of the night there's barely a chip between them. Bradley Myers ended up third, and earlier chp leader Young Sik Eum 4th.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 919 entrants Event 45 has concluded to the advantange of Loren Klein. Klein led after Day 1, and after Day 2, and most importantly Day 3.
It is his 4th cash of the series, but this was the biggest win of his career. Not only is it his biggest monetarily (exceeding the $195K he got when runner up in a $2500 PLO bracelet event in 2010), but as far as I can tell the last time he won a live MTT was in the Oklahoma State Championships as long ago as 2007 when he won $330 events on successive days.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2158 entrants Steve Gee, him of the 2012 ME FT is the chip leader at the end of Day 2.
The field is fairly cosmpotiltan with the top 15 players (of 36) coming from Canada, the USA, France, Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Germany.
Note I didn't include the UK, in fact the last UK player was Henry Fewster who departed in 75th, just a few minutes after Chris Moorman in 77th. They each collected $3151.
Other UK cashes - David Crane (83rd, $2736), Chun Law (130th, $2136), David Tovar (136th, $1921), Rhys Jones (139th, $1921), Max Silver (155th, $1921), Ariel Shefer (212nd, $1610), Gordon Huntly (257th, $1501) and Iaron Lightbourne (304th, $1417)
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants Nine left at the end of Day 2 with Chris Klodnicki top of the pile. He has over $5 Million of WSOP cashes but is still chasing that elusive first bracelet.
Abe Mosseri and JC Tran are already members of the bracelet-holders club (Tran has 2) and they lie second and third.
Dan Shak went out 11th, Daniel Negreanu 12th, Dzmitry Urbanovich 13th and last UK player Stephen Chidwick 14th for $15182.
WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 1 of 3, 523 entrants Fast and furious stuff, the day is over already after 20 levels with 49 players qualifying for Day 2.
The chip leader is Latvian Eduards Kudrjavcevs, but close behind is The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi.
Max Silver is on for another deep run in 4th, Patrick Leonard 19th, Keith Johnson 27th, Jonathan Wong 28th, Yudhishter Jaswal 30th and Ben Dobson 37th so plenty of Briitsh chances still remain.
Others left in include Kyle Julius, Jason Mercier (of course), Mike McDonald, John Racener, Jeremy Ausmus, Phil Hellmuth, Davidi Kitai and Joe Cada.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 331 entrants At the end of the day, Naoya Kihara had managed to hold on to the chip lead as 69 players will be coming back for Day 2.
Kihara's nearest challengers are Yaniv Berman and Brandon Cantu, but the man lurking in 6th is a familiar name by now - Benny Glaser.
Glaser has slipped down to 4th in the Player of the Year standings, overtaken by Randy Ohel (5 top 10 finishes including 3 in the $10K events) and Event 39 winner Martin Kozlov but a good run here would probably move him back to second.
Robert is the Mizrachi in this one and he lies 10th and other names still in include Shaun Deeb, Luis Veldor, Eugene Katchalov and Max Pescatori.
Unfortunately Glaser is the only British player left. 50 of the 69 will pick up at least a min-cash of $2257, with a binary-looking $111101 up top.
To start today WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
If anyone is wondering what Tikay is upto at the moment, if I've got my days right he will be playing Day 2 (yes another Day 2 reached) of a $1100 PLO8 MTT at the Venetian.
He was one of 21 players through from Day 1A (see https://twitter.com/VenetianPoker/status/747893133443096576) and is in the top half of the chip count, don't know about Day 1B. It's a $150K guaranteed job, so even a min-cash will be a decent amount. From the Venetian schedule it starts at 5pm Vegas time (which I think is 1am tomorrow morning here).
If anyone is wondering what Tikay is upto at the moment, if I've got my days right he will be playing Day 2 (yes another Day 2 reached) of a $1100 PLO8 MTT at the Venetian. He was one of 21 players through from Day 1A (see https://twitter.com/VenetianPoker/status/747893133443096576 ) and is in the top half of the chip count, don't know about Day 1B. It's a $150K guaranteed job, so even a min-cash will be a decent amount. From the Venetian schedule it starts at 5pm Vegas time (which I think is 1am tomorrow morning here). Posted by FCHD
If anyone is wondering what Tikay is upto at the moment, if I've got my days right he will be playing Day 2 (yes another Day 2 reached) of a $1100 PLO8 MTT at the Venetian. He was one of 21 players through from Day 1A (see https://twitter.com/VenetianPoker/status/747893133443096576 ) and is in the top half of the chip count, don't know about Day 1B. It's a $150K guaranteed job, so even a min-cash will be a decent amount. From the Venetian schedule it starts at 5pm Vegas time (which I think is 1am tomorrow morning here). Posted by FCHD
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 4 of 3, 2076 entrants For the second time inside a week, it was death by quads on the final hand as Steven Wolansky's pocket eights made a set on the flop and four of a kind on the turn.
That was good enough to beat Wenlong Jin on an unscheduled 4th day of Event 44.
Wolansky had previously won a braclet back in 2014 and now picked up his second along with $298K. Jin collects $184K.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2158 entrants Play was called off for the night with 3 players left, Kristen Bicknell from Canada, Norbert Szecsi from Hungary and American John Myung. If Bicknell goes on to win it, it would be the first female bracelet this year.
Play will resume with Bicknell having the chip lead, but all three are still all very much in contention. Myung was 8th in this very event last year.
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 125 entrants The Lowball Limit champion is John Hennigan. The player nicknamed "World" earned his 4th bracelet and $320K by outlasting Belgian Michael Gathy heads-up.
Hennigan has two seven-figure payouts on his resume, $1.5m for winning the Poker Players Event at the 2014 WSOP and $1.6m for winning a WPT event in 2007.
Gathy was also going for his 4th bracelet (and 2nd of the Series) but came up just short but has the consolation prize of nearly $200K.
Third placed finisher JC Tran is a lightweight by comparison - he only has the two bracelets.
WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 523 entrants I must have read the original schedule wrong as this was done and dusted within two days. Ankhush Mandavia won his first bracelet in his second FT appeareance after dominating the final table. Daniel Strelitz came second and Christian Niles third.
Phil Hellmuth made his first FT of the series, busting in 8th.
The Brits went out before the Final Table, Max Silver lasting longest in 10th, ahead of Yudhishter Jaswal 13th, Patrick Leonard 14th, Keith Johnson 25th, Jonathan Wong 33rd and Ben Dobson 37th.
In between our players crashing out, Jason Mercier departed in 30th.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 331 entrants Eight left to fight it out for Event 49, and it is Eugene Katchalov in the lead. Five years ago, Katchalov overturned a 14:1 chip lead to win this same event and will hope to win it for the second time on Thursday.
Katherine Fleck is still there so another decent chance for the ladies, with Cory Zeidman, Shaun Deeb and Max Pescatori among the other players. Not a bad little line-up for the last eight in a $1500 event.
Benny Glaser was eliminated in 25th spot for a cash of $2717.
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event, 1050 entrants The smaller shootout saw over 1000 players sign up and were split on to 120 tables. Each table winner moves on to Day 2 and those 120 will include Vanessa Selbst, Eli Elezra, Brian Hastings, Sofia Lovgren, Tobias Reinkenmeier and in a rare sighting of a Luxembourgois Flag, Christophe Stammet.
An impressive number of Brits through - Niall Farrell, Henry Fewster, Tom Hall, Andrew Hulme, Jeff Kimber, Dan Laming, Alex Lindop, Daniel McAulay & Roberto Romanello
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event, 351 entrants Steven McCuller is Day 1 chip leader of the 165 who progress to Day 2, ahead of Hok Yiu Lee and Rep Porter (already a bracelet winner this summer)
Jason Mercier is of course in contention, as is Michael Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Daniel Negreanu, Scott Siever and Jeffrey Lisandro.
Three Brits through - Peter Charalambous, Max Silver and Pratik Ghatge.
To start today WSOP52 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8 or Better & Big O, 3 Day Event
FCHD do you know of any good websites that explain the differant kinds of poker there are some games that you are mentioning that I don't know what they are and would like to learn more keep up the great updates
If anyone is wondering what Tikay is upto at the moment, if I've got my days right he will be playing Day 2 (yes another Day 2 reached) of a $1100 PLO8 MTT at the Venetian. He was one of 21 players through from Day 1A (see https://twitter.com/VenetianPoker/status/747893133443096576 ) and is in the top half of the chip count, don't know about Day 1B. It's a $150K guaranteed job, so even a min-cash will be a decent amount. From the Venetian schedule it starts at 5pm Vegas time (which I think is 1am tomorrow morning here). Posted by FCHD
Wow, well spotted Barny.
I returned for Day 2 above average, with 29 Bigs, 50 left, 27 paid. I would say it was almost impossible for me not to cash from that spot, given my style of play. I finished 38th.......
It was just one of those days really, I did all the right things at the right times, which turned out to be the wrong things at the wrong times.
Only minutes after we started, I held nut nut on the turn & was all-in for a full 2XUp, to make me more than double average, but my man rivered the high, so it was chop chop.
It was all downhill after that.
Eventually I found a lovely balanced hand, A-K-3-5, clubs & diamonds, & potted it, committing myself. I wanted either a re-raiser to isolate, or folds all round. I picked up two callers, nightmare city.
The flop came 2 clubs (I had 2nd nut club draw) & I got the rest in. I needed a club (or so I thought), or a Jack to scoop, &/or running low cards to scoop or chop. A chap looked me up, & I nearly fainted when I saw his hand, he had me completely dominated at both ends - nut clubs v my 2nd nut clubs, A-2 v my A-3, & he has 2 Jacks in his hand, leaving me just one Jack for my Broadway out. (Jack of clubs no good). I could not possibly have been in worse shape.
I would not play a single hand any differently if I could wind the clock back. Very disappointing, but it's tournament poker, & these things happen.
If I min-cash that, I'm guaranteed to be in profit for the trip, even though I have several more events still to play.
The fickle poker Gods then made up for it last night, when I made a seriously "creative call" in a Big O cash game for $690 in a 4 way coup, & scooped the lot for a $2,300 pot, my biggest cash pot of the trip. Nobody said "well played" as they all, one after the other, stared at my hand & cards started cascading into the muck from all directions.
"How could you call?" seemed to be the theme.......
oioi
Loving the Updates, great work, I tip my hat to you.
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Wow, well spotted Barny. I returned for Day 2 above average, with 29 Bigs, 50 left, 27 paid. I would say it was almost impossible for me not to cash from that spot, given my style of play. I finished 38th....... It was just one of those days really, I did all the right things at the right times, which turned out to be the wrong things at the wrong times. Only minutes after we started, I held nut nut on the turn & was all-in for a full 2XUp, to make me more than double average, but my man rivered the high, so it was chop chop. It was all downhill after that. Eventually I found a lovely balanced hand, A-K-3-5, clubs & diamonds, & potted it, committing myself. I wanted either a re-raiser to isolate, or folds all round. I picked up two callers, nightmare city. The flop came 2 clubs (I had 2nd nut club draw) & I got the rest in. I needed a club (or so I thought), or a Jack to scoop, &/or running low cards to scoop or chop. A chap looked me up, & I nearly fainted when I saw his hand, he had me completely dominated at both ends - nut clubs v my 2nd nut clubs, A-2 v my A-3, & he has 2 Jacks in his hand, leaving me just one Jack for my Broadway out. (Jack of clubs no good). I could not possibly have been in worse shape. I would not play a single hand any differently if I could wind the clock back. Very disappointing, but it's tournament poker, & these things happen. If I min-cash that, I'm guaranteed to be in profit for the trip, even though I have several more events still to play. The fickle poker Gods then made up for it last night, when I made a seriously "creative call" in a Big O cash game for $690 in a 4 way coup, & scooped the lot for a $2,300 pot, my biggest cash pot of the trip. Nobody said "well played" as they all, one after the other, stared at my hand & cards started cascading into the muck from all directions. "How could you call?" seemed to be the theme....... oioi Loving the Updates, great work, I tip my hat to you. Posted by Tikay10
FCHD do you know of any good websites that explain the differant kinds of poker there are some games that you are mentioning that I don't know what they are and would like to learn more keep up the great updates Posted by weecheez1
The best place unfortuately would be the website of another onlne poker site, so I'm not going to point you there.
Failing that, see the Wikipedia articles "Draw poker" "Stud poker" and "Community card poker"
Well played tikay! You seem to get your chips in "good"more often than enough, so have earned some run good karma at a cash game!(even though it sounds a big one!)
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 4 of 3, 2158 entrants We have the first female bracelet winner of the 2016 Series. Kristen Bicknell from Canada added her first "open" bracelet to the 2013 Ladies Event title.
On the eve of Canada Day, she beat Norbert Szesci heads-up after previous seeing the departure of John Myung in third.
The "Bounty" concept saw players bust fast early, but that meant stacks were consolidated and play slowed down to the extent that a fourth day was necessary.
Unlike on Sky Poker, the bounties were not progressive but a set $500 per player eliminated; this meant Bicknell's 18 bounties earned her an extra $9000 on top of her $290K first prize.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 331 entrants Shaun Deeb positively rattled through the final table after winning hand after hand.
He won his second bracelet in a stacked final table - bracelet winners 2nd (Adam Friedman), 3rd (Max Pescatori), 5th (Eugene Katchalov), 7th (John Monnette) and 8th (Cory Ziedman)
In amongst them all, in 4th, was Katharine Flack who by contrast was making her first ever WSOP cash.
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1050 entrants The number of British players through to Day 2 meant we had a good chance of getting representatives through to Day 3 and so it has proved.
Three UK players made it - Niall Farrell, Daniel McAulay and Daniel Tang. The twelve survivors will play from 2 6-handed players down to a winner on Day 3.
One other name among the 12 stands out, one Vanessa Selbst.
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants Just 28 players have made Day 3 from the 159 who started, and they are lead by PLO specalist Tommy Le (7 of his 9 WSOP cashes are in PLO events)
Brandon Shack-Harris and James Obst were chip leaders most of the day, but ended it in second and third.
Max Silver and Pratik Ghatge are through, and with recent bracelet winner Loren Klein, Scott Siever and Peter Eichhardt but we lost Jason Mercier late on.
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1125 entrants 287 through and a couple of interesting names near the top - Sky's own Michael Kane is in 5th spot, serial angle-shooter (and EPT winner) Ivan Freitez is 9th and ME runner-up Jay Farber is 15th.
Kane is not the only Brit through - Robert Tinnion also has a large stack, Paul Vas Nunes, Craig McCorkell, Stephen Chidwick, Alex Ward, James Akenhead, Christian Christner and Chun Law are all inside the top 100, with Liv Boeree, Simon Deadman, Mohammed Ladek, Alex Goulder, David Vamplew, Daniel Rudd, Luke Bindon, Talal Shakerchi and another Sky player, James Rann also still with some chips.
Erhan Iscan, a virtual WSOP rookie, is the chip leader ahead of Oliver Bosch and Keith Lehr and while 8 ME winners took part, only Joe Cada & Greg Merson move on to Day 2
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 1 of 3, 668 entrants
Two hundred and seven players worked out the combination of the three Omaha Hi/Lo variants to move forward to Day 2.
John Monnette has the lead after having an excellent last level, ahead of Yuval Bronstein and David Bach.
Jason Mercier's attempts to play 2 tournaments simultaneously worked out badly - he bust in both, but some names through are Michael Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu and yesterday's bracelet winner Steven Wolansky.
Five players from this country are through - Warren Colman, Paul Johnson, Jonathan Wong, Usman Siddique and Simon Trumper.
To start today WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants Play is ongoing with 40-odd players left, after the money buble burst at 60. Max Silver appears to be the only UK player standing, others left include Jason Mercier (of course), Mike Matusow, Brandon Shack-Harris and Scott Siever. Day 1 Steven McCuller is still there too, safely in the middle of the pack at this stage
Id watch out for Jesper Hougaard in this one, currently sitting in 5th place with 28 left. Have known Jesper for a while and he is an amazing player! Won the Sunday Million twice which is a crazy feat in itself but was also the first player to win bracelets on both sides of the atlantic in the same year.
Happy that Deeb got one in the bag as it gets me off the mark in the fantasy league
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WSOP41 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 4, 6927 entries on Day 1B
Some Monster stacks in the Monster Stack and the biggest Monster of them all is held by British player Nabil Mohamed. Mohamed, who I can't find on Hendon Mob at all, started the day with 11000 chips and ended it with 175 times as many.
Andrew Moreno and Donghai Wu lie second and third, some distance behind Mohamed.
Just 276 remain, among them other British players Usman Siddique, Dan Wilson, Aaron Virchis, both Barny and Ross Boatman, Matt Davenport, Mohammed Ladek, Shaun Stanfield, James Dempsey and Stephen Woodhead
Some well-known names who are still challenging include Hall of Famers Billy Baxter, TJ Cloutier & Erik Seidel.
WSOP42 - $3K Shootout NLH, Day 3 of 3, 400 entrants
British bracelet ahoy! Philip McAllister from Winchester is the Shootout Champion, earning $267K and a gold bracelet.
He'd never done more than a Min-Cash at the WSOP, but did make a good run at the PCA this
year allowing him to play a wider WSOP schedule.
He beat Kyle Montgomery heads-up with Chistopher Kruk third.
Maria Ho finished 4th, Faraz Jaka 9th while the other two Brtish players Rhys Jones ended up 8th and Stephen Chidwick was the first FT elimination, in 10th spot.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 136 entrants
Hotting up nicely, 12 players left, 10 of whom have 16 bracelet between them. Justin Bonomo has a second and a third already this series, perhaps this time he will go and win it all? George Danzer and Todd Brunson are his nearest challengers
No British players cashed.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2076 entrants
Placed right in the schedule to pick those who had busted from the Day 1s in the Monster Stack, the $1K attracted over 2000 players
The bubble was reached near the end of day 1 and there are 225 players still in with a shout of the first prize of $298K.
Several Greek and Austrian players have had deep runs this Series, and we have one of each at the top of the Day 1 listings. Iliodoros Kamatakis and Dejan Boskovic the players in question. I'll leave you to guess which one is the Greek.
Mike Ellis appears to be the top GB player, down in 78th and he is accompanied to Day 2 by Daniel Tang, Matthew Hopkins and Simon Deadman. Timothy Wright, Toby Lewis, Samuel Watson and Chris Brammer finished in the money but busted late in the evening
Phil Laak doesn't seem to have been very noticable in the reports so far, but he is through as is 2015 Colossus winner Cord Garcia.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 1 of 3, 919 entrants
Eventually 138 players made Day 2 in an event that brings together the two most popular poker variants. Loren Klein is chip leader with David Callaghan (from Ireland) and Shawn Rice not far behind.
Niall Farrell is set up for another decent run in 7th, Matt Ashton is somewhere in the middle of the field and Benny Glaser has a microstack to come back with.
Martin Finger, John Racener, Taylor Paur and Antonio Esfandiari are among those who come back with decent stacks, all inside the Top 20.
To start today
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 3 Day Event
Play is ongoing with 26 left. Unfortunately the chip stacks page on the WSOP site only lists 4 of them!
One of them is Aaron Virchis who is listed as being from Southampton (so another deep run clocked up for Hampshire) but I believe has been Vegas-resident for some time.
Another is Irish legend Donnacha O'Dea who of course reached the FT of the Main Event back in 1983.
Edit- the reason the chip counts page was incomplete was because play had ended and the end-of-day updates were in progress.
26 do go through and Virchis is the only Union Jack listed. David Pham is chip leader ahead of Cody Pack & Gina Stagnitto. Others left include TJ Cloutier, Matt Affleck and as noted above Donnacha O'Dea.
WSOP43 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 136 entrants
It's a fourth bracelet (and a second in this very event) for George Danzer as the Austrian-based German made it a third "so near but yet so far" this summer for Justin Bonomo.
Bonomo busted in third, with Randy Ohel being the runner-up
Eight of the last ten were bracelet holders, and the other two were Esther Taylor-Brady (already with 10th & 11th finishes this year) and Roland Israelashvili (8 cashes this year) so th cream certainly rose to the top.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2076 entrants
Nineteen players move on to the denoument of Event 44, with Young Sik Eum chip leader after his pocket kings held up against A-Q in a huge put. Michael Shanahan (not the ex-Denver Broncos head coach) second and Niel Mittelman third.
Not a lot of well known names still involved but at least one of the nineteen has a bracelet (Steven Wolansky). All survivors have locked up at least $9463.
No one from Hampshire, in fact no one from the UK at all since Matthew Hopkins busted in 46th.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 2 of 3, 919 entrants
Fifteen players are still standing, and Day 2 ended just the same as Day 1 with Loren Klein in the chip lead.
The whole top 6 are US players with second held by Steven Gagliano and third by Dmitriy Savelyev.
David Callaghan is still there for Ireland, but no UK representatives. Niall Farrell was the last to depart in 21st, while both Matt Ashton & Benny Glaser made the money (138 got paid) but not the top 100.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2158 entrants
The bubble burst very close to the end of the night, and we have 308 names moving on.
The chip leader is Jonathan Dimming with Tom Kearney 2nd and Joao Vieria 3rd.
Chris Moorman has the biggest stack of the Brits, David Tovar, Chun Law, David Crane, Henry Fewster, Max Silver, Daniel Wilson, Gordon Huntly, Iaron Lightbourne, Ariel Shefer and Rhys Jones join him in Day 2.
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 1 of 3, 125 entrants
38 out of the 125 are through to Day 2 with Abe Mosseri leading the way. Mosseri has Paul Volpe only a smidgen behind and Dan Shak not too far back either.
Stephen Chidwick and Adam Owen are having their usual solid Day 1s (has either of them been eliminated early in any event?) whlile theire is a third member of the 38 shown as UK but that is Tore Lukashaugen, a Norwegian fellow living in London.
To start today
WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, 3 Day Event
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, 3 Day Event
Thanks Tina, Tuesday's post has now been updated to include the end of play positions.
We have a winner of the Monster Stack, and it is Mitchell Towner. As is often case, someone comes from nowhere to win these huge field relavtively small-buyin (by WSOP standrds) events, well, Towner doesn't even have a Hendon Mob listing.
Venezuelan Dorian Rios by contrast seems to have two - one as Dorian Rios and another as Dorian Alejandro Rios Pavon. Towner takes $1.1m, Rios almost $700K.
Aaron Virchis was the only UK listed player running deep, he bowed out in 11th spot for $78K.
WSOP44 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2076 entrants
Heads-up play was reached between Steven Wolansky and Wenlong Jin but they were unable to determine a winner on what was supposed to be the final day.
The FT game got down to heads-up within 67 hands, the heads-up duel has already lasted 85. Both players have had a decent chip lead, but at the end of the night there's barely a chip between them.
Bradley Myers ended up third, and earlier chp leader Young Sik Eum 4th.
WSOP45 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 919 entrants
Event 45 has concluded to the advantange of Loren Klein. Klein led after Day 1, and after Day 2, and most importantly Day 3.
It is his 4th cash of the series, but this was the biggest win of his career. Not only is it his biggest monetarily (exceeding the $195K he got when runner up in a $2500 PLO bracelet event in 2010), but as far as I can tell the last time he won a live MTT was in the Oklahoma State Championships as long ago as 2007 when he won $330 events on successive days.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2158 entrants
Steve Gee, him of the 2012 ME FT is the chip leader at the end of Day 2.
The field is fairly cosmpotiltan with the top 15 players (of 36) coming from Canada, the USA, France, Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Germany.
Note I didn't include the UK, in fact the last UK player was Henry Fewster who departed in 75th, just a few minutes after Chris Moorman in 77th. They each collected $3151.
Other UK cashes - David Crane (83rd, $2736), Chun Law (130th, $2136), David Tovar (136th, $1921), Rhys Jones (139th, $1921), Max Silver (155th, $1921), Ariel Shefer (212nd, $1610), Gordon Huntly (257th, $1501) and Iaron Lightbourne (304th, $1417)
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants
Nine left at the end of Day 2 with Chris Klodnicki top of the pile. He has over $5 Million of WSOP cashes but is still chasing that elusive first bracelet.
Abe Mosseri and JC Tran are already members of the bracelet-holders club (Tran has 2) and they lie second and third.
Dan Shak went out 11th, Daniel Negreanu 12th, Dzmitry Urbanovich 13th and last UK player Stephen Chidwick 14th for $15182.
WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 1 of 3, 523 entrants
Fast and furious stuff, the day is over already after 20 levels with 49 players qualifying for Day 2.
The chip leader is Latvian Eduards Kudrjavcevs, but close behind is The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi.
Max Silver is on for another deep run in 4th, Patrick Leonard 19th, Keith Johnson 27th, Jonathan Wong 28th, Yudhishter Jaswal 30th and Ben Dobson 37th so plenty of Briitsh chances still remain.
Others left in include Kyle Julius, Jason Mercier (of course), Mike McDonald, John Racener, Jeremy Ausmus, Phil Hellmuth, Davidi Kitai and Joe Cada.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 331 entrants
At the end of the day, Naoya Kihara had managed to hold on to the chip lead as 69 players will be coming back for Day 2.
Kihara's nearest challengers are Yaniv Berman and Brandon Cantu, but the man lurking in 6th is a familiar name by now - Benny Glaser.
Glaser has slipped down to 4th in the Player of the Year standings, overtaken by Randy Ohel (5 top 10 finishes including 3 in the $10K events) and Event 39 winner Martin Kozlov but a good run here would probably move him back to second.
Robert is the Mizrachi in this one and he lies 10th and other names still in include Shaun Deeb, Luis Veldor, Eugene Katchalov and Max Pescatori.
Unfortunately Glaser is the only British player left. 50 of the 69 will pick up at least a min-cash of $2257, with a binary-looking $111101 up top.
To start today
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
He was one of 21 players through from Day 1A (see https://twitter.com/VenetianPoker/status/747893133443096576) and is in the top half of the chip count, don't know about Day 1B. It's a $150K guaranteed job, so even a min-cash will be a decent amount. From the Venetian schedule it starts at 5pm Vegas time (which I think is 1am tomorrow morning here).
For the second time inside a week, it was death by quads on the final hand as Steven Wolansky's pocket eights made a set on the flop and four of a kind on the turn.
That was good enough to beat Wenlong Jin on an unscheduled 4th day of Event 44.
Wolansky had previously won a braclet back in 2014 and now picked up his second along with $298K. Jin collects $184K.
WSOP46 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2158 entrants
Play was called off for the night with 3 players left, Kristen Bicknell from Canada, Norbert Szecsi from Hungary and American John Myung. If Bicknell goes on to win it, it would be the first female bracelet this year.
Play will resume with Bicknell having the chip lead, but all three are still all very much in contention. Myung was 8th in this very event last year.
WSOP47 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, Day 3 of 3, 125 entrants
The Lowball Limit champion is John Hennigan. The player nicknamed "World" earned his 4th bracelet and $320K by outlasting Belgian Michael Gathy heads-up.
Hennigan has two seven-figure payouts on his resume, $1.5m for winning the Poker Players Event at the 2014 WSOP and $1.6m for winning a WPT event in 2007.
Gathy was also going for his 4th bracelet (and 2nd of the Series) but came up just short but
has the consolation prize of nearly $200K.
Third placed finisher JC Tran is a lightweight by comparison - he only has the two bracelets.
WSOP48 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 523 entrants
I must have read the original schedule wrong as this was done and dusted within two days.
Ankhush Mandavia won his first bracelet in his second FT appeareance after dominating the final table. Daniel Strelitz came second and Christian Niles third.
Phil Hellmuth made his first FT of the series, busting in 8th.
The Brits went out before the Final Table, Max Silver lasting longest in 10th, ahead of Yudhishter Jaswal 13th, Patrick Leonard 14th, Keith Johnson 25th, Jonathan Wong 33rd and Ben Dobson 37th.
In between our players crashing out, Jason Mercier departed in 30th.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 331 entrants
Eight left to fight it out for Event 49, and it is Eugene Katchalov in the lead. Five years ago, Katchalov overturned a 14:1 chip lead to win this same event and will hope to win it for the second time on Thursday.
Katherine Fleck is still there so another decent chance for the ladies, with Cory Zeidman, Shaun Deeb and Max Pescatori among the other players. Not a bad little line-up for the last eight in a $1500 event.
Benny Glaser was eliminated in 25th spot for a cash of $2717.
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, 3 Day Event, 1050 entrants
The smaller shootout saw over 1000 players sign up and were split on to 120 tables. Each table winner moves on to Day 2 and those 120 will include Vanessa Selbst, Eli Elezra, Brian Hastings, Sofia Lovgren, Tobias Reinkenmeier and in a rare sighting of a Luxembourgois Flag, Christophe Stammet.
An impressive number of Brits through - Niall Farrell, Henry Fewster, Tom Hall, Andrew Hulme, Jeff Kimber, Dan Laming, Alex Lindop, Daniel McAulay & Roberto Romanello
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event, 351 entrants
Steven McCuller is Day 1 chip leader of the 165 who progress to Day 2, ahead of Hok Yiu Lee and Rep Porter (already a bracelet winner this summer)
Jason Mercier is of course in contention, as is Michael Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Daniel Negreanu, Scott Siever and Jeffrey Lisandro.
Three Brits through - Peter Charalambous, Max Silver and Pratik Ghatge.
To start today
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed PLO 8 or Better & Big O, 3 Day Event
I returned for Day 2 above average, with 29 Bigs, 50 left, 27 paid. I would say it was almost impossible for me not to cash from that spot, given my style of play. I finished 38th.......
It was just one of those days really, I did all the right things at the right times, which turned out to be the wrong things at the wrong times.
Only minutes after we started, I held nut nut on the turn & was all-in for a full 2XUp, to make me more than double average, but my man rivered the high, so it was chop chop.
It was all downhill after that.
Eventually I found a lovely balanced hand, A-K-3-5, clubs & diamonds, & potted it, committing myself. I wanted either a re-raiser to isolate, or folds all round. I picked up two callers, nightmare city.
The flop came 2 clubs (I had 2nd nut club draw) & I got the rest in. I needed a club (or so I thought), or a Jack to scoop, &/or running low cards to scoop or chop. A chap looked me up, & I nearly fainted when I saw his hand, he had me completely dominated at both ends - nut clubs v my 2nd nut clubs, A-2 v my A-3, & he has 2 Jacks in his hand, leaving me just one Jack for my Broadway out. (Jack of clubs no good). I could not possibly have been in worse shape.
I would not play a single hand any differently if I could wind the clock back. Very disappointing, but it's tournament poker, & these things happen.
If I min-cash that, I'm guaranteed to be in profit for the trip, even though I have several more events still to play.
The fickle poker Gods then made up for it last night, when I made a seriously "creative call" in a Big O cash game for $690 in a 4 way coup, & scooped the lot for a $2,300 pot, my biggest cash pot of the trip. Nobody said "well played" as they all, one after the other, stared at my hand & cards started cascading into the muck from all directions.
"How could you call?" seemed to be the theme.......
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Loving the Updates, great work, I tip my hat to you.
When they say "how could you call?" it's always a good sign.
Failing that, see the Wikipedia articles "Draw poker" "Stud poker" and "Community card poker"
We have the first female bracelet winner of the 2016 Series. Kristen Bicknell from Canada added her first "open" bracelet to the 2013 Ladies Event title.
On the eve of Canada Day, she beat Norbert Szesci heads-up after previous seeing the departure of John Myung in third.
The "Bounty" concept saw players bust fast early, but that meant stacks were consolidated and play slowed down to the extent that a fourth day was necessary.
Unlike on Sky Poker, the bounties were not progressive but a set $500 per player eliminated; this meant Bicknell's 18 bounties earned her an extra $9000 on top of her $290K first prize.
WSOP49 - $1500 7 Card Stud, Day 2 of 3, 331 entrants
Shaun Deeb positively rattled through the final table after winning hand after hand.
He won his second bracelet in a stacked final table - bracelet winners 2nd (Adam Friedman), 3rd (Max Pescatori), 5th (Eugene Katchalov), 7th (John Monnette) and 8th (Cory Ziedman)
In amongst them all, in 4th, was Katharine Flack who by contrast was making her first ever WSOP cash.
WSOP50 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1050 entrants
The number of British players through to Day 2 meant we had a good chance of getting representatives through to Day 3 and so it has proved.
Three UK players made it - Niall Farrell, Daniel McAulay and Daniel Tang. The twelve survivors will play from 2 6-handed players down to a winner on Day 3.
One other name among the 12 stands out, one Vanessa Selbst.
WSOP51 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants
Just 28 players have made Day 3 from the 159 who started, and they are lead by PLO specalist Tommy Le (7 of his 9 WSOP cashes are in PLO events)
Brandon Shack-Harris and James Obst were chip leaders most of the day, but ended it in second and third.
Max Silver and Pratik Ghatge are through, and with recent bracelet winner Loren Klein, Scott Siever and Peter Eichhardt but we lost Jason Mercier late on.
WSOP52 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1125 entrants
287 through and a couple of interesting names near the top - Sky's own Michael Kane is in 5th spot, serial angle-shooter (and EPT winner) Ivan Freitez is 9th and ME runner-up Jay Farber is 15th.
Kane is not the only Brit through - Robert Tinnion also has a large stack, Paul Vas Nunes, Craig McCorkell, Stephen Chidwick, Alex Ward, James Akenhead, Christian Christner and Chun Law are all inside the top 100, with Liv Boeree, Simon Deadman, Mohammed Ladek, Alex Goulder, David Vamplew, Daniel Rudd, Luke Bindon, Talal Shakerchi and another Sky player, James Rann also still with some chips.
Erhan Iscan, a virtual WSOP rookie, is the chip leader ahead of Oliver Bosch and Keith Lehr and while 8 ME winners took part, only Joe Cada & Greg Merson move on to Day 2
WSOP53 - $1500 Mixed Omaha 8 or Better (Limit and Pot Limit) & Big O, Day 1 of 3, 668 entrants
Two hundred and seven players worked out the combination of the three Omaha Hi/Lo variants to move forward to Day 2.
John Monnette has the lead after having an excellent last level, ahead of Yuval Bronstein and David Bach.
Jason Mercier's attempts to play 2 tournaments simultaneously worked out badly - he bust in both, but some names through are Michael Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu and yesterday's bracelet winner Steven Wolansky.
Five players from this country are through - Warren Colman, Paul Johnson, Jonathan Wong, Usman Siddique and Simon Trumper.
To start today
WSOP54 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, 4 Day Event including 4 starting flights over 2 Days
Happy that Deeb got one in the bag as it gets me off the mark in the fantasy league
Thanks for the updates!