Kerryjane looks like she has had a treble-up and now sits in 2nd place (depending on how much you believe the WSOP chip counts). There's also been a ladder (cue Tikay with a picture of a ladder) and has ensured herself picking up another $250 or so.
Still all to play for with 23 left, in the middle of the last level of the day.
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 1 of 2, 688 entrants The traditional curtain raiser was changed to a single rebuy, and a faster structure (20 levels on Day 1 rather than 15) And we have some good news, with the first event seeing the first UK cash. Kerryjane Craigie, who is Head of Poker at the Hippodrome Casino in London, is among the last 30 players with 2 levels left to play on Day 1 She has so far locked up $1728, with the top prize of $75K still a possibility. In fact it seems to have been a good event for women, with Tanja Vujanic, Alison Arvey and Amanda Wheeler all still showing with chips. To Start Today WSOP 2 - $565 Colossus II NLH, Day 1 of many Posted by FCHD
Unless I'm mistaken, Barny, 688 is EXACTLY the same number as last year? If so, quite a coincidence.
I may be wrong, of course - I saw that figure quoted in an article about the WSOP penned by some random author on the Sky Sports website recently, HERE
It also shows the length some sorts will go to to spam their articles. Shocking.
Whoops! that was copy & pasted from last year. Should have read 731 entries (not entrants as it was a single re-entry jobby!)
Anyway, KJC is 2nd overnight out of 23, with 3 three other female players I mentioned above all inside the Top 7. $2066 locked up so far, next pay jump at the switch to 2 tables (18 players) and will be for $2517. Chip leader is Spencer Bennett from Sacramento who has a total of 1 career cash recorded on Hendon Mob, 3rd place in a WSOP Circuit event at Tahoe seven months ago which earned him $6636.
Nice article by the way, and safe journey to the land of Neon Lights tomorrow and exepct to read tales of Omaha Hi-Low cashes fairly soon...
Good start, Barny, & I'm pleased for Kerryjane, who I have met many times. You mentioned David Tuchman yesterday, as he was playing the Casino Employees Event, too. David, as you probably know, worked on Sky Poker TV 8 or 9 years ago, during the Team Sky Poker Promotion. These days he is a very polished & competent Sports Commentator, especially for NFL & NBA. He commentates on a Live Stream from "The Bike", in Los Angeles, but during the WSOP, I assume he is employed by the WSOP, as he presents & commentates on most of the WSOP Live Streams & Final tables, or he has for the last few years. I keep in touch with David, & will no doubt see a lot of him during the Series. Good guy, works very hard, but he's a fashion disaster & wears white socks. PS - Was great to see you back amongst us on the PLO8 Tables last night. Posted by Tikay10
Early names to be playing the first flight of Colossus II include Brits David Vamplew & Chris Moorman, former bracelet winner Noah Schwartz and ex-November Niner Joseph Cheong.
First ladder of the day for Kerryjane Craigie, 18 left in Event 1. $2517 locked up. Ladders coming every 3 places now until they hit the final table.
Action thick and fast in Colossus II, four levels down already and a recent departure was former ME winner Carlos Mortensen.
Maria Ho & Phil Laak have had decent starts, but among those out are a number of Brits - Simon Deadman, Shola Akindele, Barny Boatman & Chris Moorman. Most will try again in at least one later flight.
Unless the WSOP mention him, I don't know, sorry. He doesn't mention yeah or nay on his twitter, which is very sweary! At this rate the bubble will soon burst on Flight 2A of the Colossus, expectation is that only about 2 or 3 percent of each flight will make it to Day 2.
In other news, 12 left in the Casino Employees', and yes Craigie is still there. She's taken a little hit to her stack and is now in 5th spot but she still has /> 15 BB and by my reckoning, that's loads! $3942 locked up.
The Colossus seems a little crazy with only 5000 starting stacks and 30 minute blinds on the day 1 flights. Must be some job for the organisers shuffling the bustos out, bringing in new entrants & rebalancing table with so many players.
Surely this one must be the fastest paced out of all the events.
WSOP 1 - $565 Casino Employee's NLH, Day 2 of 2, 730 entries So close and yet so far for the Hippodrome's Kerryane Craigie as she finished runner-up in the first bracelet event of the 2016 WSOP.
Christopher "CJ" Sand held a 3-1 chip lead entering heads-up play and managed to convert that advantage within 20 hands to take his first bracelet and the $75K first prize.
Craigie wins $46420, far and away her biggest ever win (previously $10K at last year's Colossus event) and becomes the first Brit final table-ist of hopefully many.
WSOP 2 - $565 Colossus II NLH, Day 1A/B of 4, total entries TBD The first of 6 starting flights saw 3249 players enter and after 20 levels, 121 have survived so the attrition rate isn't quite as bad as had been thought.
In what we hope can become a trend, there are plenty of "GB" designations among the qualifiers, including at the very top where David Polop is 1st, Hector Rodriguez 2nd and Max Silver 5th. Also still in Gary Cartlidge, Richard Codd, Luke Brereton and Nicholas Brown.
The bubble burst several levels before the end of the day with 367 players cashing out for various sums from $833 up to $1522. Each starting flight will have the day 1 payouts calculated independently and then when the survivors from Day 2 combine, the payouts for then on will be recalculated with the stipulation that no-one knocked out on Day 2 will take less than anyone knocked out on any one of the Day 1s.
Flight B saw fewer entries, "only" 2153 so the 15% payout rule sees 323 players paid with those min-cashing doing a dollar better than those from flight A. This flight is still in progress (they're playing level 12 of 20 and the bubble has just burst) so there will be an update later
To start today None, flights C & D of the Colossus will take up all the table space/dealers etc.
Flight B is now done and dusted and only 69 of the 2153 will need to unbag chips on Sunday. Jason James is top of that particular pile at the moment, but there is a familiar face in second in Tom Middleton. "Middy" won the 2013 EPT Grand Final, and another former EPT winner, Harrison Gimbel also has a meaty stack to take forward to Day 2. Gimbel also has a WPT Title to his name, so he is bidding to become a member of the exclusive "Triple Crown" club (alongside Gavin Griffin, Roland de Wolfe, Jake Cody, Elky & Davidi Kitai)
The only other player listed as British among the 69 is Oksana Mashyna in 29th place, and other names to progress include Kelly Minkin (see Markycash's post), former November Niner Amir Lehavot, Sofia Lovgren & Matt Stout.
I managed to fluke a win in last weeks half time tourney so just managed to scrape in under the wire to join you.
My question to the more experienced huge field players should I be concerned about the fact its a rebuy and do not have the pockets to have multiple stabs at it. My instinct is to try and play tight unless convinced I have the best hand until the rebuy period closes and hope that the average stack is not way above me? All on the big assumption I make it that far.....
My biggest live tourney to date was a £100 freeze out over 2 days that somehow I managed to get 3rd by a 4500 field is pretty daunting and 60 min binds!!!
Any advice will be much appreciated and am really looking forward to meeting you all. Truth is I'm a pretty awful player who loves the game and occasionally manages to play sensibly.
you wont find a great deal of differance from playing say a 1k wsop game and the £100 game you played at your local casino mate, so play your normal game,and enjoy it,you will have just as much chance as most players on your table.
you wont find a great deal of differance from playing say a 1k wsop game and the £100 game you played at your local casino mate, so play your normal game,and enjoy it,you will have just as much chance as most players on your table. Posted by TheMadMonk
Cheers MM
That was what I was counting on, the huge field is daunting but i'm hoping that its the same game whatever the cost. Well that's what I'm telling myself.
Flight B is now done and dusted and only 69 of the 2153 will need to unbag chips on Sunday. Jason James is top of that particular pile at the moment, but there is a familiar face in second in Tom Middleton. "Middy" won the 2013 EPT Grand Final, and another former EPT winner, Harrison Gimbel also has a meaty stack to take forward to Day 2. Gimbel also has a WPT Title to his name, so he is bidding to become a member of the exclusive "Triple Crown" club (alongside Gavin Griffin, Roland de Wolfe, Jake Cody, Elky & Davidi Kitai) The only other player listed as British among the 69 is Oksana Mashyna in 29th place, and other names to progress include Kelly Minkin (see Markycash's post), former November Niner Amir Lehavot, Sofia Lovgren & Matt Stout. Posted by FCHD
Sofia Lovgren could be one to watch this year. She played a good few cash games at the Venetian after last years WSOP and seemed to be sitting with towers of chips most nights and beating the tables up for fun. She also seems to have bucket loads of enthusiasm to go with her very strong game and as one of the 888 sponsored players will probably play a lot of events this year.
Kelly Minkin has improved a bit since last I noticed, finishing her starting day over 150k.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 1 Flight C, 3770 entrants The 3770 players in Flight C bring the number up to 9172 with 3 flights still to come, and of those 3770, 139 will have a day off to reflect on their chances of collecting the million dollar top prize and come back for Day 2.
Ben Lindemulder leads those 139 with some British names involved - Ben Dobson and Louis Salter sit 5th and 6th respectively, Ketan Patel is just inside the top 20 and Chris DaSilva has just squeaked through in 136th spot with less than 4 Big Blinds.
A dangerous name floating about in 9th place overnight is Marvin Rettenmaier, while 5-time bracelet winner Allen Cunningham and 2008 November Niner Ylon Schwartz also survived Flight 1C.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 1 Flight D, 3009 entrants A little over 3000 in the 4th flight, with 105 making it through.
It is a bracelet holder who leads this group - 2013 $2500 6-max winner Marco Johnson. One of our own British bracelet winners, 2012 $3K shootout winner Craig McCorkell lies inside the Top 10, but he appears to be the only British player through today.
Another qualifier is former ME winner Scotty Nguyen, and the likes of Michael Mizrachi, David "ODB" Baker and Doug Lee will also be fancying their chances.
To Start Today Flights E & F of the Colossus WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship (3 Day Event), the first of the big buyin events.
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Kerryjane looks like she has had a treble-up and now sits in 2nd place (depending on how much you believe the WSOP chip counts). There's also been a ladder (cue Tikay with a picture of a ladder) and has ensured herself picking up another $250 or so.
Still all to play for with 23 left, in the middle of the last level of the day.
I may be wrong, of course - I saw that figure quoted in an article about the WSOP penned by some random author on the Sky Sports website recently, HERE
It also shows the length some sorts will go to to spam their articles. Shocking.
Anyway, KJC is 2nd overnight out of 23, with 3 three other female players I mentioned above all inside the Top 7. $2066 locked up so far, next pay jump at the switch to 2 tables (18 players) and will be for $2517. Chip leader is Spencer Bennett from Sacramento who has a total of 1 career cash recorded on Hendon Mob, 3rd place in a WSOP Circuit event at Tahoe seven months ago which earned him $6636.
Nice article by the way, and safe journey to the land of Neon Lights tomorrow and exepct to read tales of Omaha Hi-Low cashes fairly soon...
Should be the biggest live tourney field ever, will probably be carnage.
Action thick and fast in Colossus II, four levels down already and a recent departure was former ME winner Carlos Mortensen.
Maria Ho & Phil Laak have had decent starts, but among those out are a number of Brits - Simon Deadman, Shola Akindele, Barny Boatman & Chris Moorman. Most will try again in at least one later flight.
In other news, 12 left in the Casino Employees', and yes Craigie is still there. She's taken a little hit to her stack and is now in 5th spot but she still has /> 15 BB and by my reckoning, that's loads! $3942 locked up.
Surely this one must be the fastest paced out of all the events.
So close and yet so far for the Hippodrome's Kerryane Craigie as she finished runner-up in the first bracelet event of the 2016 WSOP.
Christopher "CJ" Sand held a 3-1 chip lead entering heads-up play and managed to convert that advantage within 20 hands to take his first bracelet and the $75K first prize.
Craigie wins $46420, far and away her biggest ever win (previously $10K at last year's Colossus event) and becomes the first Brit final table-ist of hopefully many.
WSOP 2 - $565 Colossus II NLH, Day 1A/B of 4, total entries TBD
The first of 6 starting flights saw 3249 players enter and after 20 levels, 121 have survived so the attrition rate isn't quite as bad as had been thought.
In what we hope can become a trend, there are plenty of "GB" designations among the qualifiers, including at the very top where David Polop is 1st, Hector Rodriguez 2nd and Max Silver 5th. Also still in Gary Cartlidge, Richard Codd, Luke Brereton and Nicholas Brown.
The bubble burst several levels before the end of the day with 367 players cashing out for various sums from $833 up to $1522. Each starting flight will have the day 1 payouts calculated independently and then when the survivors from Day 2 combine, the payouts for then on will be recalculated with the stipulation that no-one knocked out on Day 2 will take less than anyone knocked out on any one of the Day 1s.
Flight B saw fewer entries, "only" 2153 so the 15% payout rule sees 323 players paid with those min-cashing doing a dollar better than those from flight A. This flight is still in progress (they're playing level 12 of 20 and the bubble has just burst) so there will be an update later
To start today
None, flights C & D of the Colossus will take up all the table space/dealers etc.
Thought she played very well last year although maybe got a little bit too 'cally' at the end, although she did run into a few bad spots.
Flight B is now done and dusted and only 69 of the 2153 will need to unbag chips on Sunday. Jason James is top of that particular pile at the moment, but there is a familiar face in second in Tom Middleton. "Middy" won the 2013 EPT Grand Final, and another former EPT winner, Harrison Gimbel also has a meaty stack to take forward to Day 2. Gimbel also has a WPT Title to his name, so he is bidding to become a member of the exclusive "Triple Crown" club (alongside Gavin Griffin, Roland de Wolfe, Jake Cody, Elky & Davidi Kitai)
The only other player listed as British among the 69 is Oksana Mashyna in 29th place, and other names to progress include Kelly Minkin (see Markycash's post), former November Niner Amir Lehavot, Sofia Lovgren & Matt Stout.
I managed to fluke a win in last weeks half time tourney so just managed to scrape in under the wire to join you.
My question to the more experienced huge field players should I be concerned about the fact its a rebuy and do not have the pockets to have multiple stabs at it.
My instinct is to try and play tight unless convinced I have the best hand until the rebuy period closes and hope that the average stack is not way above me? All on the big assumption I make it that far.....
My biggest live tourney to date was a £100 freeze out over 2 days that somehow I managed to get 3rd by a 4500 field is pretty daunting and 60 min binds!!!
Any advice will be much appreciated and am really looking forward to meeting you all. Truth is I'm a pretty awful player who loves the game and occasionally manages to play sensibly.
That was what I was counting on, the huge field is daunting but i'm hoping that its the same game whatever the cost. Well that's what I'm telling myself.
Kelly Minkin has improved a bit since last I noticed, finishing her starting day over 150k.
The 3770 players in Flight C bring the number up to 9172 with 3 flights still to come, and of those 3770, 139 will have a day off to reflect on their chances of collecting the million dollar top prize and come back for Day 2.
Ben Lindemulder leads those 139 with some British names involved - Ben Dobson and Louis Salter sit 5th and 6th respectively, Ketan Patel is just inside the top 20 and Chris DaSilva has just squeaked through in 136th spot with less than 4 Big Blinds.
A dangerous name floating about in 9th place overnight is Marvin Rettenmaier, while 5-time bracelet winner Allen Cunningham and 2008 November Niner Ylon Schwartz also survived Flight 1C.
WSOP 2 - Colossus II $565 NLH, Day 1 Flight D, 3009 entrants
A little over 3000 in the 4th flight, with 105 making it through.
It is a bracelet holder who leads this group - 2013 $2500 6-max winner Marco Johnson. One of our own British bracelet winners, 2012 $3K shootout winner Craig McCorkell lies inside the Top 10, but he appears to be the only British player through today.
Another qualifier is former ME winner Scotty Nguyen, and the likes of Michael Mizrachi, David "ODB" Baker and Doug Lee will also be fancying their chances.
To Start Today
Flights E & F of the Colossus
WSOP 3 - $10K Seven Card Stud Championship (3 Day Event), the first of the big buyin events.