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The WSOP 2016 Thread

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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,325
    edited July 2016
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread:
    Regular in my local casino at Luton going well in the WSOP main event. Namely Will Kassouf in 18th place. On 1.8M at this point according to WSOP site. Always has plenty to say and is quite entertaining. Played against him several times at Stoke and Luton. GL Will. Cheers, G
    Posted by StayOrGo
    Quite an understatement, that, Graham......

    ;)
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,187
    edited July 2016
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread:
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Quite an understatement, that, Graham...... ;)
    Posted by Tikay10


    Would you rather I exaggerate with lots of exclamation marks lol!!!!

    Just kidding. Great job out there TK.

    Cheers,

    G
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,325
    edited July 2016
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread:
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Would you rather I exaggerate with lots of exclamation marks lol!!!! Just kidding. Great job out there TK. Cheers, G
    Posted by StayOrGo
    Lol, behave.......

    The new trend seems to be multiple question marks. I expect it has some specific meaning according to the rules of English grammar, but I've no idea what. I often wonder how multiple exclamation marks or question marks are expressed in spoken English.
     
    Personally, I'm a big fan of unemphasised understatement, love a bit of subtlety, me.  
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,187
    edited July 2016
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread:
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Lol, behave....... The new trend seems to be multiple question marks. I expect it has some specific meaning according to the rules of English grammar, but I've no idea what. I often wonder how multiple exclamation marks or question marks are expressed in spoken English.   Personally, I'm a big fan of unemphasised understatement, love a bit of subtlety, me.  
    Posted by Tikay10


    Perhaps a loud shout or scream, followed by a right hook. Although even for this, two would be plenty. :=)

    But yes, good to understate. I agree.


  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,325
    edited July 2016
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread:
    In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread : Perhaps a loud shout or scream, followed by a right hook. Although even for this, two would be plenty. :=) But yes, good to understate. I agree.
    Posted by StayOrGo
    The most used word in the USA right now, perhaps back home too, is "like".

    From my observations in various Starbucks queues & listening to players chatting at the table, it averages being repeated something like 7 times per sentence.
     
    "So I'm like, what you on bro, like, & he like says, like, wtf?, & I'm like, well whatever, like"

    A decade or two ago that would have been "you know", or "y'know", listen to any radio or tv interview by a footballer or pop star, & it was all "you know". 

    I'm not entirely sure what I prefer, or more correctly, dislike most.

    I do find how we use (or abuse) the English language to be utterly fascinating. Like, y'know.....   
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    I know what you mean with "Like", we've got two twenty-somethings where I normally work and I can confirm the frequency which it is used is, like, off the scale like.

    Back to business.

    In the Main, I left it last night with 636 left. Since then, we've lost the following British players

    634 Jamie Whyte $18714
    610 Chris O'Donnell $18714
    597 George McDonald $20499
    552 Thomas Hall $20499
    547 Simon Deadman $20499
    542 Scott Margerson $20499
    541 Ben Vinson $20449 - bit of a bad few minutes for the UK players there
    528 Liv Boeree $22468 - sounds like she enjoyed herself, she even did a little dance after winning one pot
    511 Ben Farrell $22468
    508 Adam Franks $22468
    457 Harry Lodge $25235
    406 Matt Ashton $28356
    345 Robert Cowen $32130
    337 Pratik Ghatge $32130
    333 Adam Reynolds $32130
    301 Fraser MacIntyre $32130
    292 Thomas High $32130
    275 Mauro Suriano $36708

    Currently 260 remain. We've also just lost recent winner Ryan Reiss and Novemnber Niner Eoghan O'Day, and earlier the likes of Steve Bilirakis, Jason Somerville, Ray Dehkarghani, Cord Garcia, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, William Tonking, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Shulman, Andrew Lichtenberger and Gavin Griffin.

    Brian Piccioli is currently the chip leader with French player Pierre Merlin working his magic in second and another American Farhad Jamasi in third. Well known Aussie James Obst is 4th and earlier chip leader Valentin Vornicu 7th, 2014 One Drop million dollar winner Dan Colman 8th and the first British player Tom Middleton 9th.

    Will Kassouf is also sitting with a decent stack, and Andrew Christoforou, Rupom Pal, Max Silver and Alex Goulder must also be above average.

  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,325
    edited July 2016

    Yes, Alex Goulder, no stranger to Sky Poker, currently has 1,999,997.

    A smashing kid, really lovely.
  • Darkangel7Darkangel7 Member Posts: 2,585
    edited July 2016
    FCHD you're doing an awesome job well done. 
  • Darkangel7Darkangel7 Member Posts: 2,585
    edited July 2016
    Like is old news. The Americans are about 15 years behind us on that score. 
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    To pick up from where I left off this morning - 251 players made it through day 4 and will come (actually have come back already) for Day 4

    Bryan Piccioli held on to the chip lead but now has the ominous presence of Dan Colman in 2nd with Thomas Miller making it into third.

    Tom Middleton is still top Brit in 10th overall, with Will Kassouf 16th, Jason McConnon 22nd and David Lhonore 26th, Alex Goulder, Max Silver & Andrew Christoforou, Rupom Pal and Alex Lindop are all inside the Top 100, with Sergi Reixach, Elliot Peterman, Matthew Moss, Thomas MacDonald, Guilio Mascolo, Robert Heidorn, Stafford Hamilton, Ben Middleton, David Nicholson and Iaron Ligtbourne in the 101-250 range.

    That means we lost David Vamplew in very late action in 258th place.

    The legendary Johnny Chan is going for a third WSOP ME, and one more previous winner is still active, Greg Raymer who spent most of the day sitting next to another former winner Ryan Reiss who busted after the dinner break. Chan's progress almost came to a thuddering halt when he went all in with pocket 7s and came up against eights, but rivered a flush to stay alive in dramatic fashion.

  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    And to recap Day 2 of the "Droplet"

    Some excellent performances by Sky Poker players as detailed elsewhere, but we close Day 2 with none of the team among the 104 who move on to Day 3.

    The Top 5 is full of unfamiliar (to me at least) names, Frenchman Guillame Diaz, three Americans Samer Al-Shureiki. Mike Sowers and Thai Tran and Israeli Ilan Boujenah. First of the better known players is Ryan D'Angelo in 9th with Calvin Anderson in 11th.

    I think there are just two Brits left in the field - Daniel Harwood in 44th and Lucas Blanco in 49th but there is also, lurking in 97th Vinod Megalmani from Bangalore, Great Britiain ?

    I can't link them to Sky Aliases but I can do a list of GB cashes so far

    For $3437
    111 Alex Bounsall
    For $2998
    175 Ian Simpson
    190 Jagjit Singh
    For $2640
    249 Paul Ephremesen
    264 Paul vas Nunes
    For $2346
    295 Michael Kane (whose Sky Alias is of course very well known)
    304 James Long
    321 Imraan Ladak
    324 Nabil Mohammed
    For $2105
    362 Jonathon Linton
    365 Andriy Lyubovetskiy
    381 Darren Hill
    387 Matthew Copley
    397 Robert Bickley
    409 Martynas Vitkauskas
    For $1743
    485 Jason Layland
    509 Christopher Cunliffe
    512 Jake Cody
    513 James Dempsey
    For $1609
    562 Daniel Tang
    597 Steve Rosen
    599 Benedict Cullen
    600 Benny Glaser
    For $1501 - a min cash
    608 Akshay Reddy
    615 Peter Charalambous
    631 Marius Lietuvinikas
    636 Martin Hanham
    644 Alexander Spencer
    652 Timothy Rowland

    Well done one and all
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    Right, that's caught us up to date with last night's action, now on to today in the Main Event.

    The early skirmishes have seen the field reduced to 211 (They will play down to about 70 or 80 I guess) and there has been a couple of big name casualties already, 2016 Bracelet winner Shaun Deeb has gone, and Maria Ho won't be the last woman standing for the third time.

    Dan Colman moved in to the chip lead for a while, but that mantle has now been taken by Michael Nivinsky, and he is followed by someone who loves a "Chop Pot" even more than James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton, Dmitry Chop of Ukraine, and "one of ours", the one and only (some people will be grateful for that) Will Kassouf.

    Max Silver has chipped up to become prominent in the chip listings, as is Sky Poker UKPC regular and former November Niner Antoine Saout who is now showing as from Paris, France rather than Londres, UK.



  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    The ME is now down to under 200 players - 191 to be exact, and the British contingent has been reduced by one as Stafford Hamilton went out in 209th place, picking up a payout voucher for $42285.

    The female interest has also been reduced by one as Jennifer Shahade went out 5 spots after Hamilton. There are still at least 3 females left in - Melanie Wiesner, Gaelle Baumann and Louise Franceour plus there may be one or two more where the gender is not immediately obvious from the name alone.

    Plus there are still two of my fantasy team picks among the last 200 - Mukul Puhuka and Mike Gorodinsky. I don't think I have anyone left in the Droplet so I can't catch the leaders but if I could get one of te November Nine I'd be pleased.
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    175 left and unfortunately bustee 180 was 2-time winner Johnny Chan. He tried a button steal with 20 BB and holding 8-5 off which was looked up by pocket tens from the blinds. Chan did find one 5 on the board but that was not enough, and he was down to 5000 chips, barely one ante and he unsurprisingly was eliminated on the very next hand.

    Looks like Iaron Lightbourne has just bitten the dust too, but awaiting confirmation

    All down to the Fossilman if we're going to have a previous winner running deep.

    Top 3 are all names that have been there and there abouts all day - Michael Nivinski, Dan Colman and Antoine Saout but we have a new top Brit - David L'Honore (who also seems to have gained an apostrophe.
  • jordz16jordz16 Member Posts: 2,253
    edited July 2016
    Appreciating these updates, i have a decent bit of money on Max Silver final tabling so glad to hear he is going ok!
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    Picking up the Main Event this morning UK time there are 81 left.

    Let's get the eliminations out of the way first

    180 Iaron Lightbourne - as I thought in my last post last night, Iaron went out at the $42285 payout level.
    David Nicholson went out in 172nd but he's been corrected to be an American now after confusing him with the David Nicholson who was the first Sky player in this year's Main
    Sorel Mizzi and Todd Brunson were two biggish name casualties in the 150s
    151 Alex Goulder - former Sky poker guest Alex went out with a $49108 payday
    145. Robert Heidorn and 144. Guilio Mascolo also collected $49108 after busting in quick succession
    Louise Francoeur went out in 141st, Mukul Puhuja 138th and then Melanie Wiesner in 127th. Wiesner's elimination meaning Frenchwoman Gaelle Baumann was the only female player left
    The last former champion still in the event was Greg Raymer, he held on until 122nd position when he departed
    121 Thomas MacDonald was next out
    111. Alex Lindop was another British exit, still at the $49k level
    Belgian multi-bracelet holder finished 107th
    Gaelle Baumann was knocked out in 102nd, the last woman standing for the second time (also in 2012)
    98. Rupom Pal was the only Brit casualty who collected $57494, eliminated by Will Kassouf
    89. Ben Middleton likewise for $67855
    Mike Gorodinsky was the last of my fantasy team to be eliminated in 85th spot when AQ ran into Aces and the case Ace on the flop sealed the deal.


    So, on to those still left.

    Nine tables of nine, and the chip leader is Jerry Wong from Brooklyn who has 11.3m chips, a million and a half more than Aussie Jan Suchanek with Griffin Ben der in third.

    First Brit is 4th, Will Kassouf with David L'Honore also inside the top ten. Max Silver is 16th, Sergi Reixach 25th, Andrew Christoforou 32nd (his home town is shown as Pottrt whatever that means). Elliot Peterman 43rd, Jason McConnon 56th, Matthew Moss 59th and Tom Middleton has dropped to 64th, so still a very decent GB contingent in with a chance of the October/November Nine.

    Other well known players still in - Kenny Hallaert, Tom Marchese, Paul Volpe, Dan Colman, Antoine Saout (who I think is the only former November Niner still around), Chris Klodnicki, and Tony Gregg.


    Stop press - Vladimir Geshkenbein has just gone in 81st place, beaten by one of two Keating's left - Alex. As far as I know Alex and Lance Keating are not related, but I could be wrong.

    About 18 different nationalities are still represented,
  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    In fact that was more or less the end of the day 5 picture. Kenny Hallaert did move up to third but not much else happened in the last couple of hands.

    The end of day report states that two players can still catch Jason Mercier for the Player of the Year - if Max Silver goes on to win the Main, or Paul Volpe finishes in the top 3, they will win the award.

    Meanwhile, almost unnoticed, the Droplet is contunuing and is down to 13 players. Perhaps we shouldn't overlook it as there is a player with the Union Jack beside his name still in, Lucas Blanco although his Hendon Mob profile indicates he is actually Spanish. The last 100% Brit, Daniel Harwood from Cheltenham, went out in 36th place for a little over $14K.

    Calvin Anderson who won a bracelet in 2014 is chip leader ahead of Thai Tran and Ryan D'Angelo ( 7 cashes this Series including winning Event 7)
  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk Member Posts: 6,184
    edited July 2016
    Nice to see Will Kassouf up there still. He was a guest at least once on the old #861 show. IF he makes the NN at least the final table shouldn't be a bore-fest.

  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,187
    edited July 2016
    Here I was sat next to Will Kassouf in the GPS at Stoke in 2012. I join the table 1hr21mins in and immediately get involved with a hand against Will.


    He's immediately to my left with a green T-shirt and sunglasses on.

    Fun guy, always entertaining, talks for England, lets hope he walks the walk too.

    Would be amazing if he could be in the November Nine :=)

    GL GL!

    Cheers,

    G

  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited July 2016
    He got a one-round penalty last night for taunting an opponent. From what I hear, he was lucky to survive being in the tournament after receiving no less than 3 warnings in the hand.
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