The Main Event Day 2A/B finished with American pro Valentin Vornicu on top. He is well known in US MTT fields, having 8 WSOP Circuit rings, but has never won one of the coveted bracelets. Fellow Americans Jamie Shaeval and Alvaro Lopez are his nearest challengers.
Tom "Middy" Middleton is the top GB player, in 13th overall and also through are Guilio Mascolo, Matt Ashton, Matt Davenport, Ben Farrell, Harry Lodge, Ben Middleton (don't know if he is any relation), David Vamplew, Benny Glaser, Jamie Brown, Paul Alterman, Rhys Jones, Robin Fisher, Robert Buky, Daniel Bland, Oystein Kristoffersen, Timothy Dearing, Stephen Chidwick and Anthony Forsyth-Forrest.
Antoine Saout is also showing as "GB" but the fact that that is preceded by "Londres" indicates the true origin of the former November Niner.
Some other well known players to qualify include Vanessa Selbst, three former winners (Johnny Chan, Tom McEvoy & Greg Raymer), Bertrand Grospellier, Matt Glantz and Antonio Esfandiari.
Little One For One Drop (aka the Droplet), Day 1A, 754 entries
With a flurry of re-entries, over $83 has already been generated for the One Drop charity.
Play was deliberatly stopped 15 minutes early as they didn't want to reach the bubble on the first flight and risk it not being reached on other flights, so about 16% remain, 120 players in total
It's an international look to the top of the leader board with 4 different countries represented in the top 4 positions, in order Israel (Yaron Zeev Malki), USA (Barry Hutter), Czech Republic (Jiri Horak) and Argentina (Fabian Ortiz)
Just two Brits through - James Long & Chun Law, and some other names to make it include Kelly Minkin, Max Pescatori and John Racener.
Those who didn't can stump up another $1111 (or multiples thereof) and have another go today and/or tomorrow.
Day 2C is playing the last half level and it's not been a good day for some of the biggest names.
Phil Ivey couldn't get anything going and after nursing a smallish stack for most of the day bowed out in the middle of the day. Same story for Fedor Holz, never really got above average. Daniel Negreanu as busted too, so no repeat of a very deep run for Daniel.
Main event champions have also been bowing out with regularity - Day 2C has seen the demise of Scotty Nguyen, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Joe Cada and Martin Jacobson, although two recent winners Ryan Riess and Joe McKeehan have both been chipping up nicely.
Some British players have also bid farewell to the Main Event, including Simon Trumper, Mark Hammond, Ben Heath, Bhavin Khatri & Jack Salter.
Ben Vinson, Max Silver and Liv Boeree are still there showing with decent stacks, while of course Ambo Channing is also still active with a reasonable stack.
Talking of Mr Silver, you've heard of him and Jamie Gold, well now there's a third member of the periodic table represented - Anna Antimony from New Jersey is among the 3000 or so players still in contention, with a stack of over 200K.
Annoyingly the WSOP haven't given us detailed chip listings of those players exclusively from Day 2C, all I've got is a combined listing with 2A/B. Therefore all I can work off is the brief updates and the chip counts page which I don't trust too much, and all the following should be couched in "I believe this to be true" type sentiments.
Two Brazilian players are in the top 3 of the Day 2C chip counts - Gustavo Lopes and Rafael Mores, sandwiching Italian Rafaelle Castro in 2nd.
Michael Mizrachi is setting himself up for another long grind, lying in 5th position and the top Brit is Ben Vinson in 8th. No one came close to the />800K stack that Valentin Vornicu bagged up at the end of Day 2AB
Other Brits I can see - Fraser MacIntyre & Hector Alvarez are side by side in 24th and 25th, Kuljinder Sidhu, Liv Boeree, Max Silver, Sergi Reixach, Jason McConnon, Luke Brereton, Scot Margerrson and Patrick Ghatge are all inside the top 100.
Jordan Westmorland, Elliot Peterman, Waikiat Lee, David Lhonore, David Nicholson, Daniel O'Callaghan, Adam Franks, Mitchell Johnson, William Chattaway, Oleh Tolstenko, Robert Cowen, Thomas High, Yiannis Liperis all bagged up over 200K chips so have plenty of material to work with on Day 3.
Those in the 100-200K range are headed by Toby Lewis along with Thomas MacDonald, Robert Heidorn, Iaron Lightbourne, Alex Lindop, Ho Lee, Andoni Larrabe, Chris O'Donnell, Edward Young, Rupom Pal, Juishang Wa ng, Matthew Moss, Robert Tinnion, Kevin Allen, Alex Goulder, Matas Cimbolas, Alfie Adam, Julian Gardner, Tim Hickling, Darren Judges, Christopher Gordon, Roberto Romanello, Christopher Scholes, Andrew Christoforou, Jeff Duvall, George MacDonald, KerryJane Craigie and almost but not quite Neil Channing.
Several other British players inhabit the lower ranges of the counts, just to mention a few Simon Deadman, Will Kassouf, Teddy Sheringham, Paul Newey and Jake Cody.
Overall, two thirds of the field are now busted and 2176 players are shown as still in. Approximately half of those will go home empty handed today (Thursday) with the bubble probably being reached early on Friday.
Pretty sure the WSOP have got Neil's count incorrect - he has 68,100, not 98,100. Looks like they misread the little slip they fill in when they "bag up".
Neil's Day 3 starting table, with a couple of other familiar names there too 1. Gleidibe Goncalves (BRA) 40000 2. McLean Karr (USA) 62300 3. Joshua Pener (USA) 125700 4. Kishor Sharma (USA) 327400 5. Michael Noor (CAN) 20800 6. Craig Fruit (USA) 108900 7. NEIL CHANNING (USA) 98100 8. Stephen Chidwick (GBR) 63100 9. Gleb Tremzin (RUS) 227700 They will start Day 3 with the second hour of Level 11, 1000/2000 with a 300 ante. Posted by FCHD
224 players made it through from Day 1B of the Droplet, headed by local player Jerry Dabaneh ahead of two more Americans James Armstrong and Johnny Ngo.
I know there's one or to of the Sky Qualifiers through, I don't know their names and don't have permission to link aliases to names anyway, but here is the list of GB Players who made it through
Alex Bounsall 100700 Paul Ephremesen 83600 Martynas Vitskauskas 53900 Christopher Cunliffe 48500 Ian Simpson 48000 Alexander Spencer 46000 showing as Doncaster, Gabon! Akshay Reddy 42700 Benedict Cullen 32800 Marius Lietuvinkas 28900 Paul vas Nunas 28000 Kevin Pope 15400
Jason Mercier also made it through today with 30-odd thousand, don't know how many times he bought in today.
Two former ME winners are through after busting out of this year's main - Martin Jacobson and Chris Ferguson, both around about the 40K mark, and another 2016 bracelet winner, Ben Keeline (who won an event right back at the start of the series) bagged about 34K.
The alias thing is very awkward, so thank you for treading with some delicacy, but we can confirm that three of those players are ours. And it's pretty easy to work out who they are.
The DPA is SUCH a clumsily worded & drafted piece of legislation, but it is what it is, & we have to follow the rules.
The Main Event is vitually on the bubble, the live updates page shows 1015 left with 1011 to get paid. It will take a while to knock out those last four places. Belgian player Kenny Hallaert is top of the chip counts at present, ahead of 2016 bracelet winner Shaun Deeb.
We've lost two former ME winners today, Phil Hellmuth and quite recently Joe McKeehan, leaving just Tom McEvoy, Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer and Ryan Riess in the battle for a second (or in Chan's case third) ME title.
Several Brits are showing well in the chip counts - Adam Reynolds, Max Silver, Tom Middleton, Pratik Ghatge and Liv Boeree all have large-ish stacks with Ben Vinson and Simon Deadman not far behind.
I've been waiting for several days to use the phrase "Anna Khait is flying" but never had the right moment and now it appears I never will as she has recently busted. Still there's several names I could work on some puns - Greg Moore, Dietrich Fast, Chip Jett and Anton Wigg to name a few.
Still in - commentator David Tuchman, former Sky Poker guest McLean Karr, and both father & son ME final tablers Donnach & Eoghan O'Dea.
You can just picture Jack Effel on the mic "Ladies and gentlemen, with 1011 players left in the Main Event of the 2016 World Series of Poker, you are all IN THE MONEY" and a round of applause, hooting and hollering"
In fact the bubble didn't even need hand for hand play as the 1012th player to drop out (Adam Furgatch) was busted as the preprations for the start of hand-for-hand was being made. As has become the custom, he was rewarded with a free seat in next year's Main, and everyone else was $15K richer.
After that play speeded up and a couple of hundred other players were knocked out by close of play and only 798 players will come back for Day 4.
Kenny Hallaert has the chip lead for Belgium with two Americans JAred Bleznick and Duy Ho second and third. Antonio Esfandiari is the first of the big names, he's had a decent stack most of the way and has bagged up almost 1.4m inside the top 10.
Adam Reynolds is top Brit, ahead of another Adam, Adam Franks, Tom Middleton (who was maybe chip leader at one point), Max Silver, Guilio Mascolo, Jason McConnon, Wakiat Lee, Simon Deadman all inside the top 100.
Lower down we have Hector Alvarez, Pratik Ghatge, Fraser McIntyre, David Lhonor, Sergi Reixach, David Nicholson, Thomas Macdonald, Iaron Lightbourne, Andrew Christforou, Matthew Moss, Elliot Peterman, Mauro Suriano, David Vamplew, Ben Vinson, Liv Boeree, Will Kassouf, Edmond Yeung, Ben Middleton, Scott Margeson, Robert Cowen, Harry Lodge, Ben Farrell, Alex Goulder, Rupom Pal, Jamie Brown, Robert Heidorn, Matt Ashton, Tomas High and Stafford Hamilton, and that's only to mention those in the top half.
Four main event winners still survive (see earlier post) and a host of former November Niners are also looking for a repeat performance.
We've lost a few of the short-stacked Brits so far, Paul Newey, Edmund Yeung, Conor Beresford, Matt Davenport, Jamie Brown and Waikiat Lee.
Other departures include David Benefield and Andoni Larrabe, recent bracelet winner Peter Eichhardt, Perry Friedman and Maxx Coleman.
Kenny Hallaert is still the chip leader, and Duy Ho has moved into second. Tom Middleton has shed a few but still has a decent enough stack while Max Silver and Simon Deadman have chipped up.
Tikay has covered a lot of the Droplet stuff, but for the record, it is just about to resume with 786 left and 680 to get paid so the bubble will burst within the first level or 2 of day 2.
About 33 GB players still in, including the 10 Sky players in Tikay's thread plus Mr Ambo, Roberto Romanello, Paul vas Nunes, James Dempsey and Benny Glaser.
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Ummmm - the one that we're not allowed to name yet??? I think it was the only remaining qualifier in the main from Sky? Posted by IrishRose
Ahh, gotcha.
No, he departed several days ago, well before the money bubble.
I was unsure if you meant him or another Sky Poker regular, who is still in the Main, but never qualified via Sky Poker. I don't have permission to link his alias to his real name, but if I see him, & he agrees, I will update his progress.
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Tom "Middy" Middleton is the top GB player, in 13th overall and also through are Guilio Mascolo, Matt Ashton, Matt Davenport, Ben Farrell, Harry Lodge, Ben Middleton (don't know if he is any relation), David Vamplew, Benny Glaser, Jamie Brown, Paul Alterman, Rhys Jones, Robin Fisher, Robert Buky, Daniel Bland, Oystein Kristoffersen, Timothy Dearing, Stephen Chidwick and Anthony Forsyth-Forrest.
Antoine Saout is also showing as "GB" but the fact that that is preceded by "Londres" indicates the true origin of the former November Niner.
Some other well known players to qualify include Vanessa Selbst, three former winners (Johnny Chan, Tom McEvoy & Greg Raymer), Bertrand Grospellier, Matt Glantz and Antonio Esfandiari.
With a flurry of re-entries, over $83 has already been generated for the One Drop charity.
Play was deliberatly stopped 15 minutes early as they didn't want to reach the bubble on the first flight and risk it not being reached on other flights, so about 16% remain, 120 players in total
It's an international look to the top of the leader board with 4 different countries represented in the top 4 positions, in order Israel (Yaron Zeev Malki), USA (Barry Hutter), Czech Republic (Jiri Horak) and Argentina (Fabian Ortiz)
Just two Brits through - James Long & Chun Law, and some other names to make it include Kelly Minkin, Max Pescatori and John Racener.
Those who didn't can stump up another $1111 (or multiples thereof) and have another go today and/or tomorrow.
Phil Ivey couldn't get anything going and after nursing a smallish stack for most of the day bowed out in the middle of the day. Same story for Fedor Holz, never really got above average. Daniel Negreanu as busted too, so no repeat of a very deep run for Daniel.
Main event champions have also been bowing out with regularity - Day 2C has seen the demise of Scotty Nguyen, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Joe Cada and Martin Jacobson, although two recent winners Ryan Riess and Joe McKeehan have both been chipping up nicely.
Some British players have also bid farewell to the Main Event, including Simon Trumper, Mark Hammond, Ben Heath, Bhavin Khatri & Jack Salter.
Ben Vinson, Max Silver and Liv Boeree are still there showing with decent stacks, while of course Ambo Channing is also still active with a reasonable stack.
Talking of Mr Silver, you've heard of him and Jamie Gold, well now there's a third member of the periodic table represented - Anna Antimony from New Jersey is among the 3000 or so players still in contention, with a stack of over 200K.
Two Brazilian players are in the top 3 of the Day 2C chip counts - Gustavo Lopes and Rafael Mores, sandwiching Italian Rafaelle Castro in 2nd.
Michael Mizrachi is setting himself up for another long grind, lying in 5th position and the top Brit is Ben Vinson in 8th. No one came close to the />800K stack that Valentin Vornicu bagged up at the end of Day 2AB
Other Brits I can see - Fraser MacIntyre & Hector Alvarez are side by side in 24th and 25th, Kuljinder Sidhu, Liv Boeree, Max Silver, Sergi Reixach, Jason McConnon, Luke Brereton, Scot Margerrson and Patrick Ghatge are all inside the top 100.
Jordan Westmorland, Elliot Peterman, Waikiat Lee, David Lhonore, David Nicholson, Daniel O'Callaghan, Adam Franks, Mitchell Johnson, William Chattaway, Oleh Tolstenko, Robert Cowen, Thomas High, Yiannis Liperis all bagged up over 200K chips so have plenty of material to work with on Day 3.
Those in the 100-200K range are headed by Toby Lewis along with Thomas MacDonald, Robert Heidorn, Iaron Lightbourne, Alex Lindop, Ho Lee, Andoni Larrabe, Chris O'Donnell, Edward Young, Rupom Pal, Juishang Wa ng, Matthew Moss, Robert Tinnion, Kevin Allen, Alex Goulder, Matas Cimbolas, Alfie Adam, Julian Gardner, Tim Hickling, Darren Judges, Christopher Gordon, Roberto Romanello, Christopher Scholes, Andrew Christoforou, Jeff Duvall, George MacDonald, KerryJane Craigie and almost but not quite Neil Channing.
Several other British players inhabit the lower ranges of the counts, just to mention a few Simon Deadman, Will Kassouf, Teddy Sheringham, Paul Newey and Jake Cody.
Overall, two thirds of the field are now busted and 2176 players are shown as still in. Approximately half of those will go home empty handed today (Thursday) with the bubble probably being reached early on Friday.
1. Gleidibe Goncalves (BRA) 40000
2. McLean Karr (USA) 62300
3. Joshua Pener (USA) 125700
4. Kishor Sharma (USA) 327400
5. Michael Noor (CAN) 20800
6. Craig Fruit (USA) 108900
7. NEIL CHANNING (USA) 98100
8. Stephen Chidwick (GBR) 63100
9. Gleb Tremzin (RUS) 227700
They will start Day 3 with the second hour of Level 11, 1000/2000 with a 300 ante.
Morning Barny,
Pretty sure the WSOP have got Neil's count incorrect - he has 68,100, not 98,100. Looks like they misread the little slip they fill in when they "bag up".
224 players made it through from Day 1B of the Droplet, headed by local player Jerry Dabaneh ahead of two more Americans James Armstrong and Johnny Ngo.
I know there's one or to of the Sky Qualifiers through, I don't know their names and don't have permission to link aliases to names anyway, but here is the list of GB Players who made it through
Alex Bounsall 100700
Paul Ephremesen 83600
Martynas Vitskauskas 53900
Christopher Cunliffe 48500
Ian Simpson 48000
Alexander Spencer 46000 showing as Doncaster, Gabon!
Akshay Reddy 42700
Benedict Cullen 32800
Marius Lietuvinkas 28900
Paul vas Nunas 28000
Kevin Pope 15400
Jason Mercier also made it through today with 30-odd thousand, don't know how many times he bought in today.
Two former ME winners are through after busting out of this year's main - Martin Jacobson and Chris Ferguson, both around about the 40K mark, and another 2016 bracelet winner, Ben Keeline (who won an event right back at the start of the series) bagged about 34K.
Thanks Barny.
The alias thing is very awkward, so thank you for treading with some delicacy, but we can confirm that three of those players are ours. And it's pretty easy to work out who they are.
The DPA is SUCH a clumsily worded & drafted piece of legislation, but it is what it is, & we have to follow the rules.
We've lost two former ME winners today, Phil Hellmuth and quite recently Joe McKeehan, leaving just Tom McEvoy, Johnny Chan, Greg Raymer and Ryan Riess in the battle for a second (or in Chan's case third) ME title.
Several Brits are showing well in the chip counts - Adam Reynolds, Max Silver, Tom Middleton, Pratik Ghatge and Liv Boeree all have large-ish stacks with Ben Vinson and Simon Deadman not far behind.
I've been waiting for several days to use the phrase "Anna Khait is flying" but never had the right moment and now it appears I never will as she has recently busted. Still there's several names I could work on some puns - Greg Moore, Dietrich Fast, Chip Jett and Anton Wigg to name a few.
Still in - commentator David Tuchman, former Sky Poker guest McLean Karr, and both father & son ME final tablers Donnach & Eoghan O'Dea.
The Main is just ending a 15 minute break, before they play 90 minutes of Level 16.
Still 1,015 left, so the bubble will burst well before the end of play. Probably.
In fact the bubble didn't even need hand for hand play as the 1012th player to drop out (Adam Furgatch) was busted as the preprations for the start of hand-for-hand was being made. As has become the custom, he was rewarded with a free seat in next year's Main, and everyone else was $15K richer.
After that play speeded up and a couple of hundred other players were knocked out by close of play and only 798 players will come back for Day 4.
Kenny Hallaert has the chip lead for Belgium with two Americans JAred Bleznick and Duy Ho second and third. Antonio Esfandiari is the first of the big names, he's had a decent stack most of the way and has bagged up almost 1.4m inside the top 10.
Adam Reynolds is top Brit, ahead of another Adam, Adam Franks, Tom Middleton (who was maybe chip leader at one point), Max Silver, Guilio Mascolo, Jason McConnon, Wakiat Lee, Simon Deadman all inside the top 100.
Lower down we have Hector Alvarez, Pratik Ghatge, Fraser McIntyre, David Lhonor, Sergi Reixach, David Nicholson, Thomas Macdonald, Iaron Lightbourne, Andrew Christforou, Matthew Moss, Elliot Peterman, Mauro Suriano, David Vamplew, Ben Vinson, Liv Boeree, Will Kassouf, Edmond Yeung, Ben Middleton, Scott Margeson, Robert Cowen, Harry Lodge, Ben Farrell, Alex Goulder, Rupom Pal, Jamie Brown, Robert Heidorn, Matt Ashton, Tomas High and Stafford Hamilton, and that's only to mention those in the top half.
Four main event winners still survive (see earlier post) and a host of former November Niners are also looking for a repeat performance.
We've lost a few of the short-stacked Brits so far, Paul Newey, Edmund Yeung, Conor Beresford, Matt Davenport, Jamie Brown and Waikiat Lee.
Other departures include David Benefield and Andoni Larrabe, recent bracelet winner Peter Eichhardt, Perry Friedman and Maxx Coleman.
Kenny Hallaert is still the chip leader, and Duy Ho has moved into second. Tom Middleton has shed a few but still has a decent enough stack while Max Silver and Simon Deadman have chipped up.
About 33 GB players still in, including the 10 Sky players in Tikay's thread plus Mr Ambo, Roberto Romanello, Paul vas Nunes, James Dempsey and Benny Glaser.
No, he departed several days ago, well before the money bubble.
I was unsure if you meant him or another Sky Poker regular, who is still in the Main, but never qualified via Sky Poker. I don't have permission to link his alias to his real name, but if I see him, & he agrees, I will update his progress.