What a magnificent Thread. It is been so informative and even with my limited knowledge lol it was easy to understand. What an amazing job you have done you must be so proud of yourself.
Once again this thread has delivered a concise summary of the key action over Vegas. The first thread I've been opening here every day since the series started.
Excellent thread, fully deserves some form of reward, perhaps Sky could arrange for an entry into next years WSOP Main Event? Or, failing that, a £33 BH.
Excellent thread, fully deserves some form of reward, perhaps Sky could arrange for an entry into next years WSOP Main Event? Or, failing that, a £33 BH. Posted by Enut
Big +1, especially the recognition bit, providing that is ok with all the moaning minnies who kicked off last time this was suggested.
Thanks for the kind words everyone, and nice to see I'm not the only ones getting my mornings back again after 6 weeks. I did start to flag about 2 weeks ago but carried on to the end (well nearly the end)
With my football watching season starting a week on Saturday (at Crowland United), I'll be glad of a couple of weeks to recharge my batteries.
I was going to research the November Nine, but the info released by the WSOP themselves does the job more than adequately in their press release and hope that cut and pasting large amounts attributed to WSOP.com is OK. If anyone at Sky Poker has a problem with copyright issues, feel free to delete as much as you feel you need.
So without any further ado, in chip order:
1. Cliff Josephy 74.6m chips. With 2 bracelets, the only bracelet holder in the November Nine. He has 17 previous WSOP cashes for $810538 Cliff Josephy is undoubtedly one of the most well-known - and most accomplished - players in the 2016 November Nine. He first made a name for himself in online poker, and he has since become successful in live poker as well. He already has two bracelets, most recently from a shootout victory in 2013.
2. Qui Nguyen 67.9m chips. One solitary previous WSOP cash for $9029 Qui Nguyen has less experience in high-stakes tournament poker than many of his November Nine competitors. He has just over $50,000 in recorded career earnings, and the largest cash of his career - his only previous WSOP cash - is for $9,029. That's not even enough for the buy-in in this event. But now he's one of the big stacks heading into November, and he's guaranteed a payout of at least $1,000,000
3. Gordon Vayo 49.4m chips. 26 previous WSOP cashes for $608136 This is Gordon Vayo's third career WSOP final table. His best performance so far is a runner-up finish in a $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max event two years ago. He now has a chance to improve on that and earn his first bracelet in the biggest tournament of the year.
4. Kenny Hallaert 43.3m chips 22 previous WSOP cashes for $367855 Kenny Hallaert already has over $1.3 million in career earnings. His best WSOP performance to date was a fifth-place finish in the 2015 Colossus. Hallaert is also only the second Belgian to make the November Nine. A year ago, Pierre Neuville became the first. Now Belgians have made the final table in back-to-back years.
5. Michael Ruane 31.6m chips. 3 previous WSOP cashes for $24438 Compared to some of his competitors, Michael Ruane is fairly inexperienced at tournament poker. He has only five recorded tournament cashes – three in WSOP events. His largest recorded score is $17,244. But now he’s guaranteed a payout of at least $1 million for his Main Event performance, and he has the opportunity to win the most prestigious prize in poker.
6. Vojtech Ruzcka 27.3m chips. 17 previous WSOP cashes for $138585 Vojtech Ruzicka has over $1,000,000 in career earnings, mostly on the European tournament circuit. His best WSOP finish to date is a final-table performance in last year's bounty event for $42,228. Ruzicka is the first Czech November Niner since Martin Staszko in 2011.
7. Griffin Benger 26.1m chips. 13 previous WSOP cahes for $231201 Griffin Benger is one of the world's most accomplished poker players. In fact, he's one of the world's most accomplished games players. He was a highly-ranked video game player, at one point winning the Counterstrike World Championships. He was also formerly the #1 ranked online poker player in the world. He's also no stranger to running deep in the Main Event, having finished 90th two years ago.
8. Jerry Wong 10.2m chips. 19 previoys WSOP cashes for $127343 Jerry Wong has quite a bit of tournament experience. He has over $1.3 million in recorded earnings. At the WSOP he has 19 cashes to his name. However, this will be his first WSOP final table. Despite his success, he's already guaranteed the biggest payout of his career.
9. Fernando Pons 6.2m chips. No previous WSOP cashes This is Fernando Pons's first WSOP cash. In fact, it's his first WSOP event, and this is first time time in Vegas. Pons is mostly an online player; he has only two live tournament cashes on record. But his first WSOP experience is a memorable one, and he'll be back in Vegas again in a few months for the final table.
All biographical information courtesy of wsop.com
So that's it for three months. Well done to all those who won bracelets, made final tables, cashed, or just basically enjoyed themselves. A record year for the WSOP, but not really comparing apples to apples when there is different numbers of events, buy in levels and re-entries. Following the Sky qualifiers has been brilliant, even if it was somewhat hamstrung by the Data Protection provisions this year. The reports and videos from Tikay and Neil have been brilliant, may this whole Sky Poker/WSOP experience be repeated next year.
This thread has been stunningly good, all the facts, a dash of humour, plus some added punnage, & all of us who followed it every day are indebted to FCHD for his hard work & dedication.
Barny certainly does not do it for financial reward or gain - if he did, Sky Poker could not afford the cost - but he will be offered a free tournament entry of his choice by way of a token "thank you" on behalf of all of us, & I'll send a note to Barny this morning with the details.
As you know, we don't generally allow spammy stuff, but in this case we can make an exception.
Those of you with an interest in football may not be aware that FCHD in fact stands for "Football Club History Database", which is a site run by our hero.
It's pretty geeky stuff, & well worth a look - the site address is http://fchd.info/
Used to love watching the Johnnybax (Cliff Josephy) videos when I first started. Super intelligent guy and one of the first online MTT beasts. Great to see him having a good run in the WSOP. Posted by Itsover4u
Same, I can just picture him saying "sorry buddy, you've just been baxed" and the opponents stack going up in a cloud of smoke.
Cracking bloke and so many learned so much from his videos. Hope he takes this down.
In case you missed it, what seems the least-hyped Main Event Final Table in history commenced last night, and four players have been eliminated
Qui Nguyen and Cliff Josephy swapped the chip lead amongst themselves early on, and it took an hour for the first bustout. Short stack Fernando Pons went all in for just over 4m chips with A6 and was called by Josephy who had KJ. A King on the flop and another one on the river saw the end of the Spaniard who ends up in 9th place.
That was hand 16. The next big pot was hand 24 when Vojtech Ruzicka took a chunk of Josephy's chips when pocket jacks held up against A8 and an eight on the turn.
Jerry Wong (wearing a Kristaps Porzingis New York Knicks jersey) was by this time the short stack. He shoved once and got no action and then did it again a few hands later pushing his last 10BB or so with A3 coming over the top of a Kenny Hallaert button raise. The Belgian called with K10, the board ran out double-paired so Wong's Ace played and earned him a double up.
Not long later, Wong was at it again raising all-in a flop-bet from Griffin Benger forcing a fold and making Benger the new short stack.
After a period of cagey play, very few flops let alone hands getting to showdown, Benger eventually shoved on Hand 59. All other players folded but the blinds and antes meant he had increased his stack enough to merit a small celebration.
On the very next hand, there was more cause for celebration for Benger and all the other players as Wong's luck ran out. Ruzicka raised from early position, Gordon Vayo 3-bet from the button and it came to Wong in the BB who 4-bet shoved. Ruzicka 5-bet and that left an easy fold for Vayo. Wong turned over pocket Jacks but unfortunately for him Ruzicka had pocket Queens. An all-low flop and turn left Wong with just one card to save his dream but it wasn't a Jack but another Queen and Wong was gone.
Hand 68, Gordon Vayo raises an unopened pot from the button and is met with resistance from Griffin Benger from the BB who shoves his last 7m chips. Vayo quickly calls and turns over pocket 10s, Benger is behind with A9. He makes top pair on the flop but that is still behind his opponent's overpair and that's the way it stayed. Benger out in 7th.
They needed to lose one more player on Day 1. Ruzicka had taken the chip lead at some point, but lost it in a 31m chip pot with Gordon Vayo, giving Ngyuen back the lead. He had over 100BB at this stage with Ruzicka, Josephy and Vayo all over 70BB and neither of the other two (Kenny Hallaert and Michael Ruane) desperately short either.
Just as level 38 started (500K/1m with a 150K ante), the final confrontation of the day came. Hallaert raised to 2.3x from under the gun, Nguyen 3-betting to 5.7m. Hallaert shoved for 35m, and was insta-called by Nguyen. Well you would if you had the aces. Hallert turned over AQ (at least it was suited) and after a typical WSOP drawn-out, building up the suspense run out, Hallaert saw a Queen on the flop, but nothing flushing or straightening and he was knocked out in 6th place.
Play will resume tonight with 5 players playing down to 3 and the winner being decided on Tuesday night.
Cheers for the updates on the 'November 9' FCHD, I was meaning to watch the first day but didn't get round to it so was nice to get a summary. Who is your money on to take it down? Posted by Lambert180
Thanks. I didn't see it either, my normal place to find a live stream was not working last night so I followed the updates for an hour or two and then picked up on the rest of the play this moring.
I guess I will still go for Josephy, he has experience of closing out bracelet events before which may prove invaluable short handed.
In other WSOP news
the 2016 WSOP Poker Hall of Fame class was announced a few days ago - Todd Brunson and Carlos Mortensen. Mortensen is, incredibly, the first European member of the Hall while the Brunsons will become the first father/son members. All they have to do next year is induct Eli Elezra and that's about all the old Late Night Poker mob in then, and they can cast their net a bit wider.
A guy Tikay mentioned in relation to Punta Cana last week, Humberto Brenes was one of the finalists who missed out, along with Devilfish
And, the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe has been announced, in .... wait for it.... Rozvadov. No great surprise really as the Czech venue is already a WSOP Circuit stop and is alleged to be the biggest card room in Europe. To bring it back to the November 9, The King's Casino is the home venue of one of those players still in Vojtech Ruzicka.
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limited knowledge lol it was easy to understand.
What an amazing job you have done you must be so proud of yourself.
Thank you so very much for all your hard work
Nannypat66
Excellent work, thanks FCHD.
Big +1, especially the recognition bit, providing that is ok with all the moaning minnies who kicked off last time this was suggested.
With my football watching season starting a week on Saturday (at Crowland United), I'll be glad of a couple of weeks to recharge my batteries.
I was going to research the November Nine, but the info released by the WSOP themselves does the job more than adequately in their press release and hope that cut and pasting large amounts attributed to WSOP.com is OK. If anyone at Sky Poker has a problem with copyright issues, feel free to delete as much as you feel you need.
So without any further ado, in chip order:
1. Cliff Josephy 74.6m chips. With 2 bracelets, the only bracelet holder in the November Nine. He has 17 previous WSOP cashes for $810538
Cliff Josephy is undoubtedly one of the most well-known - and most accomplished - players in the 2016 November Nine. He first made a name for himself in online poker, and he has since become successful in live poker as well. He already has two bracelets, most recently from a shootout victory in 2013.
2. Qui Nguyen 67.9m chips. One solitary previous WSOP cash for $9029
Qui Nguyen has less experience in high-stakes tournament poker than many of his November Nine competitors. He has just over $50,000 in recorded career earnings, and the largest cash of his career - his only previous WSOP cash - is for $9,029. That's not even enough for the buy-in in this event. But now he's one of the big stacks heading into November, and he's guaranteed a payout of at least $1,000,000
3. Gordon Vayo 49.4m chips. 26 previous WSOP cashes for $608136
This is Gordon Vayo's third career WSOP final table. His best performance so far is a runner-up finish in a $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max event two years ago. He now has a chance to improve on that and earn his first bracelet in the biggest tournament of the year.
4. Kenny Hallaert 43.3m chips 22 previous WSOP cashes for $367855
Kenny Hallaert already has over $1.3 million in career earnings. His best WSOP performance to date was a fifth-place finish in the 2015 Colossus. Hallaert is also only the second Belgian to make the November Nine. A year ago, Pierre Neuville became the first. Now Belgians have made the final table in back-to-back years.
5. Michael Ruane 31.6m chips. 3 previous WSOP cashes for $24438
Compared to some of his competitors, Michael Ruane is fairly inexperienced at tournament poker. He has only five recorded tournament cashes – three in WSOP events. His largest recorded score is $17,244. But now he’s guaranteed a payout of at least $1 million for his Main Event performance, and he has the opportunity to win the most prestigious prize in poker.
6. Vojtech Ruzcka 27.3m chips. 17 previous WSOP cashes for $138585
Vojtech Ruzicka has over $1,000,000 in career earnings, mostly on the European tournament circuit. His best WSOP finish to date is a final-table performance in last year's bounty event for $42,228. Ruzicka is the first Czech November Niner since Martin Staszko in 2011.
7. Griffin Benger 26.1m chips. 13 previous WSOP cahes for $231201
Griffin Benger is one of the world's most accomplished poker players. In fact, he's one of the world's most accomplished games players. He was a highly-ranked video game player, at one point winning the Counterstrike World Championships. He was also formerly the #1 ranked online poker player in the world. He's also no stranger to running deep in the Main Event, having finished 90th two years ago.
8. Jerry Wong 10.2m chips. 19 previoys WSOP cashes for $127343
Jerry Wong has quite a bit of tournament experience. He has over $1.3 million in recorded earnings. At the WSOP he has 19 cashes to his name. However, this will be his first WSOP final table. Despite his success, he's already guaranteed the biggest payout of his career.
9. Fernando Pons 6.2m chips. No previous WSOP cashes
This is Fernando Pons's first WSOP cash. In fact, it's his first WSOP event, and this is first time time in Vegas. Pons is mostly an online player; he has only two live tournament cashes on record. But his first WSOP experience is a memorable one, and he'll be back in Vegas again in a few months for the final table.
All biographical information courtesy of wsop.com
So that's it for three months. Well done to all those who won bracelets, made final tables, cashed, or just basically enjoyed themselves. A record year for the WSOP, but not really comparing apples to apples when there is different numbers of events, buy in levels and re-entries. Following the Sky qualifiers has been brilliant, even if it was somewhat hamstrung by the Data Protection provisions this year. The reports and videos from Tikay and Neil have been brilliant, may this whole Sky Poker/WSOP experience be repeated next year.
See you at the end of October!
This thread has been stunningly good, all the facts, a dash of humour, plus some added punnage, & all of us who followed it every day are indebted to FCHD for his hard work & dedication.
Barny certainly does not do it for financial reward or gain - if he did, Sky Poker could not afford the cost - but he will be offered a free tournament entry of his choice by way of a token "thank you" on behalf of all of us, & I'll send a note to Barny this morning with the details.
As you know, we don't generally allow spammy stuff, but in this case we can make an exception.
Those of you with an interest in football may not be aware that FCHD in fact stands for "Football Club History Database", which is a site run by our hero.
It's pretty geeky stuff, & well worth a look - the site address is http://fchd.info/
Cracking bloke and so many learned so much from his videos. Hope he takes this down.
Brilliant updates FCHD, thanks.
Great dedication by FCHD on this. It's not easy. Good job sir.
Qui Nguyen and Cliff Josephy swapped the chip lead amongst themselves early on, and it took an hour for the first bustout. Short stack Fernando Pons went all in for just over 4m chips with A6 and was called by Josephy who had KJ. A King on the flop and another one on the river saw the end of the Spaniard who ends up in 9th place.
That was hand 16. The next big pot was hand 24 when Vojtech Ruzicka took a chunk of Josephy's chips when pocket jacks held up against A8 and an eight on the turn.
Jerry Wong (wearing a Kristaps Porzingis New York Knicks jersey) was by this time the short stack. He shoved once and got no action and then did it again a few hands later pushing his last 10BB or so with A3 coming over the top of a Kenny Hallaert button raise. The Belgian called with K10, the board ran out double-paired so Wong's Ace played and earned him a double up.
Not long later, Wong was at it again raising all-in a flop-bet from Griffin Benger forcing a fold and making Benger the new short stack.
After a period of cagey play, very few flops let alone hands getting to showdown, Benger eventually shoved on Hand 59. All other players folded but the blinds and antes meant he had increased his stack enough to merit a small celebration.
On the very next hand, there was more cause for celebration for Benger and all the other players as Wong's luck ran out. Ruzicka raised from early position, Gordon Vayo 3-bet from the button and it came to Wong in the BB who 4-bet shoved. Ruzicka 5-bet and that left an easy fold for Vayo. Wong turned over pocket Jacks but unfortunately for him Ruzicka had pocket Queens. An all-low flop and turn left Wong with just one card to save his dream but it wasn't a Jack but another Queen and Wong was gone.
They needed to lose one more player on Day 1. Ruzicka had taken the chip lead at some point, but lost it in a 31m chip pot with Gordon Vayo, giving Ngyuen back the lead. He had over 100BB at this stage with Ruzicka, Josephy and Vayo all over 70BB and neither of the other two (Kenny Hallaert and Michael Ruane) desperately short either.
Just as level 38 started (500K/1m with a 150K ante), the final confrontation of the day came. Hallaert raised to 2.3x from under the gun, Nguyen 3-betting to 5.7m. Hallaert shoved for 35m, and was insta-called by Nguyen. Well you would if you had the aces. Hallert turned over AQ (at least it was suited) and after a typical WSOP drawn-out, building up the suspense run out, Hallaert saw a Queen on the flop, but nothing flushing or straightening and he was knocked out in 6th place.
Play will resume tonight with 5 players playing down to 3 and the winner being decided on Tuesday night.
1. Qui Nguyen 128.625m
2. Cliff Josephy 63.85m
3. Vojtech Ruzicka 62.25m
4. Gordon Vayo 58.2m
5. Michael Ruane 23.7m
I guess I will still go for Josephy, he has experience of closing out bracelet events before which may prove invaluable short handed.
In other WSOP news
the 2016 WSOP Poker Hall of Fame class was announced a few days ago - Todd Brunson and Carlos Mortensen. Mortensen is, incredibly, the first European member of the Hall while the Brunsons will become the first father/son members. All they have to do next year is induct Eli Elezra and that's about all the old Late Night Poker mob in then, and they can cast their net a bit wider.
A guy Tikay mentioned in relation to Punta Cana last week, Humberto Brenes was one of the finalists who missed out, along with Devilfish
And, the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe has been announced, in .... wait for it.... Rozvadov. No great surprise really as the Czech venue is already a WSOP Circuit stop and is alleged to be the biggest card room in Europe. To bring it back to the November 9, The King's Casino is the home venue of one of those players still in Vojtech Ruzicka.