Early news from WSOP 16, unfortunately Stu Rutter couldn't get another double up early on Day 2, falling short of the money. In better news, the next elimination was Howard Lederer.... Posted by FCHD
Howard is - well, was - sitting next to young Adam Owen, who is up to around 100,000 @ 1,500-3,000 now.
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 2 of 4, 7190 entries With at least a million dollars guaranteed to the winner, and this year the second placed player also, we have just 124 players still in contention
Mohsin Charania is the chip leader, one of three players with over a million chips ahead of Frank Rusnak and Argentinian Jorge Eghi.
Several Brits in contention too - Louis Salter and Ben Heath sit inside the top 15 with Matthew Moss, Max Silver, Andrew Teng, Luke Brereton and Simon Deadman still there too.
Not too many big names fighting on, but there are two notable female players left - Sofia Lovgren and Loni Harwood.
The fact they they are creating 2 millionaires has made the prizepool look, well, weird. It looks OK up to 3rd - e.g. 5th $276K, 4th $366K, 3rd $500K but then it jumps to a million for 2nd and only $65K more than that for first. OK you also get the prestige and the bracelet, but that pay jump from 3rd to 2nd will be massive.
WSOP15 - $1500 Eight Game Mix 6-Max, Day 3 of 3, 491 entrants Day 2 chip leader Paul Volpe held on throughout Day 3 and took his second bracelet. Jason Stockfish and Ron Ware rounded out the top 3 spots
WSOP16 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 2 of 3, 100 entries A halt was called to play with 9 left and we have a very familiar name at the top - Jason Mercier who is looking for his 4th bracelet (I thought he already had more), and we still have two British players among those remaining - Benny Glaser & Stephen Chidwick.
All those who survive have locked up nearly $20K, but all eyes will be on the gold bracelet and the $273K that comes with it.
As mentioned earlier, Stu Rutter went out early on Day 2 with Adam Owen & Usman Siddique following him out before the bubble.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2242 entrants A little over 10% of the field have made it through to Day 2 (with the WSOP paying 15% this year of course they are all in the money)
We have a female player at the top of the Day 1 chip totals, Stacey Nutini, a local Las Vegas resident, leads Franklin Yao & Koray Aldemir.
Two British bracelet holders, Roberto Romanello and Craig McCorkell are still there, as are Steven Watts, Jamie Burland, Gary Blackwood, David Stons, Richard Sheils and James Poulter.
Former ME winner Carlos Mortensen is safely through, as is former November Niners Steve Gee & Martin Staszko, Adam Bilzerian, Anthony Spinella and Event 12 winner Ryan Laplante (that's his 6th cash from 7 events)
Hand-for-hand play went on for over an hour before the bubble burst after Rob Winsler bust pocket aces with 6-5 suited.
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 400 entrants After 10 levels, play has come to an end and with only 60 players to be paid, the 144 players remaining still have a lot of work to do to lock up at least a min-cash.
George Trigeorgis is the big stack overnight with a significant lead over fellow-Americans Nicholas Kiley and Brett Reichert.
Quite a lot of Union Jacks in the chip listings, with Stu Rutter amongst them (having a decent enough stack this time). Gerald Ringe and Adam Owen are still there, along with a couple of non-Brits but who live here, Mel Judah & Chris Bjorin.
Recent bracelet winners Justin Bonomo & Robert Mizrachi are still there, as are Phil Hellmuth, Taylor Paur, Bruno Fittoussi and with micro-stacks both Maria Ho and Jonathan Duhamel.
To start today WSOP19 - $1K PLO, 3 Day Event WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event
Still reading this thread daily and I do appreciate the work you put in, cheers.
Not 'WSOP' news as such, but a Vegas good news story I hope you don't mind me sharing here for all.
Adam (who plays on Sky as ADS2UK) has just done some business on a FT of a event over at the Golden Nugget. Not sure of the buy in, but he took $16.2K in the deal, which is a very nice cash. He also does a bit of rapping in his spare time and it sounds like he (w)rapped this one up well in the end.
glad you are still there great read now that i have caught up. Cant wait till i get there and see it all. thanks very much for doing this great read with breakfast
Event 16 has reached the final table, with Jason Mercier still leading the final 7, both Benny Glaser and Stephen Chidwick are doing OK and sit 3rd and 4th. Alex Luneau is now nursing the short stack. This one is currently on the live stream.
Event 18 - 3K HORSE started a little later but has lost about 10 players so far including the $1500 version winner Georgios Sotiropolous, Dutch Boyd and Maria Ho. Gerald Ringe has chipped up a little and Adam Owen is still seemingly sitting in the middle of the pack.
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 3 of 4, 7190 entries Fifteen players left to fight it out for the two million dollar prizes and one gold bracelet. Italian Alessio Dicesare is the big stack overnight, with a decent lead on nearest challenged Jason DeWitt who in turn is clear of Garrett Greer.
One "United Kingdom" listed player, Luke Brereton. Hendon Mob show him with a British flag but living in Naples, Florida and all his cashes after November 2012 are in the States.
Swede Sofia Lovgren is probably the best known of the remaining players (and probably the most searched for on Google Images)
WSOP16 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 3 of 3, 100 entries Popular pro Jason Mercier took his fourth bracelet and his first at the $10K "Championship" event level.
He beat Canadian Mike Watson heads-up with Lamar Wilkinson third. British duo Benny Glaser and Stephen Chidwick took 5th ($62K) and 6th ($46K) respectively.
Somehow it just seems right that a player from Florida wins a bracelet at the moment.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2242 entrants This one is down to three tables and 24 players with Welshman Roberto Romanello doing very well in second place at the end of Day 2.
He trails just Danny Wong and has locked up just over $10K already.
Jamie Burland departed towards the end of the night in 33rd spot ($8312), one pay jump after the loss of David Stones ($6802) while Craig McCorkell, Stevie Watts, James Poulter, Richard Shiels and Gary Blackwood were eliminated earlier on Day 2.
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants Sixteen remain in contention, and again we have a Brit in second place, 2015 bracelet winner Gerald Ringe from London.
Adam Owen had yet another deep run for 20th, and the GB-resident Chris Bjorin 17th. I mistakenly thought Stu Rutter was in until quite late last night but that appears to have been an error in the chip listings as he is nowhere to be seen in the payout table.
The chip leader is Jared Talarico who according to Hendon Mob has only 4 lifetime recorded cashes, all at the WSOP, but his best result was in a HORSE event back in 2014 when he finished 9th for $14845.
Chino Rheem and Eli Elezra are also still involved
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 1 of 3, 1106 entrants 136 players move on to Day 2 and the biggest bag of chips is held by Michael Luong ahead of Troy Burkholder and Bart Dowling.
You have to look all the way down to 90th place to find a Union Jack, David Colin sits in that position (or for all I know it could just as easily by David Colin), Kevin Allen and John Gale (or maybe Allen Kevin and Gale John) are still in too.
Phil Laak who I don't seem to have mentioned much so far is through, as is Ismael Bojang, JC Tran, George Danzer and Jesse Sylvia, as is Colossus winner Benjamin Keeline.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 1 of 3, 100 entrants With the Championship events starting later in the day than other tournaments, a greater proportion of the field make Day 2, in this case 45%
David Benyamine is the chip leader, with a certan Phil Hellmuth (who only bought in right at the end of late reg), the defending Razz Champion chasing bracelet number 15 in second place.
Plenty of other big names close to the top as well, Brian Hastings, Aleksandr Denisov, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Jason Mercier (fresh from his win earler in the day), Mike Gorodinsky & Erik Seidel.
Two Finns (Jyri Merivirta & Jussi Nevanlinna, with names like that they really only could be from Finland) are well-placed in 5th & 6th
Stephen Chidwick (also fresh from the FT of the 2-7 earlier) is the only Brit in the 45, two thirds of the way down the field and with less than 8 Big Bets left, needs to chip up quite quickly.
To start today WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 4, 7190 entries The final table has been reached, and Luke Brereton is on it. Sofia Lovgren isn't unfortunately, but there is a female presence in the shape of Lisa Meredith. Brereton has now made at least $96K, which would be his second biggest ever live cash
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2242 entrants N-N-N-N-Nineteen left, looks like Roberton Romanello has been fairly quiet so far, letting others dance around
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants Not yet re-started, 16 left
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1106 entrants 92 of the 136 players have made it through to the first break on Day 2, but we lost John Gale very early on and Kevin Allen has also gone quite recently, leaving just David Colin fighting on for the UK. Michael Luong retains the chip lead.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 100 entrants Only just re-started, but we've lost a few players already - Howard Lederer, Shawn Buchanan and George Danzer. No recorded action from Stephen Chidwick yet.
To start today WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
Early Tuesday update WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 4, 7190 entries The final table has been reached, and Luke Brereton is on it. Sofia Lovgren isn't unfortunately, but there is a female presence in the shape of Lisa Meredith. Brereton has now made at least $96K, which would be his second biggest ever live cash WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2242 entrants N-N-N-N-Nineteen left, looks like Roberton Romanello has been fairly quiet so far, letting others dance around WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants Not yet re-started, 16 left WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1106 entrants 92 of the 136 players have made it through to the first break on Day 2, but we lost John Gale very early on and Kevin Allen has also gone quite recently, leaving just David Colin fighting on for the UK. Michael Luong retains the chip lead. WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 100 entrants Only just re-started, but we've lost a few players already - Howard Lederer, Shawn Buchanan and George Danzer. No recorded action from Stephen Chidwick yet. To start today WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event Posted by FCHD
Yeah her bustout hand was tough, no way to avoid it. Shoved KTo in the BB on a SB limper with AA, even if she flatted it was going in on a A-10-10 flop. Spoke to her on FB afterwards and she said she lost a flip shortly before with AQ v 66 for 3million+ too. Just no luck in those key spots, played 2 events and has 2 cashes though.
Still no British bracelet, but two very close calls on Tuesday!
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 4, 7190 entries The Millionaire Maker (or should that be Millionaires Maker) is over and the winner is Jason DeWitt. DeWitt was one of two previous bracelet holders (he won one in 2010) on the final table and he held the chip lead for most of the day.
The second seven figure score went to Garrett Greer, also from California and the third went to part-time kindergarten teacher from Vancouver, Washington, Lisa Meredith. It was Meredith's first ever WSOP tournament and she scooped half a million dollars.
The British presence at the FT was Luke Brereton from Prestbury, Greater Manchester. The official WSOP report calls him Luke Anthony.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2242 entrants We are still continuing heads-up in Event 17 whith Erik Silberman and Chase Bianchi going at it for almost two hours now.
No, scratch that, Chase Bianchi has just won. He chipped away at Silberman and took the $316K top prize.
Roberto Romanello is the highest earning Welsh player ever according to the Hendon Mob database, and he padded that lead by almost $143 with a deep run to third place.
He isn't the highest earning Welshman in WSOP history though, does anyone know who holds that honour?
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 3 of 3, 400 entrants Third again for the UK as Gerald Ringe took that spot. He was eliminated by Marco Johnson during a hand of Omaha Hi/Low, and not long after, Johnson busted Day 2 chip leader Jared Talarico during a hand of Stud to win his second bracelet and $259K
Chino Rheem finished eighth and Eli Elezra 11th.
And phew, managed to get through two HORSE events without any equine references. One more to go, can I keep it up?
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1106 entrants No British final table heroics in this one though as David Colin was the last UK player left, and he was knocked out in 66th for a payday of $2367.
12 players do move on to the final day with Garrett Garvin the chip leader ahead of Bruno Borges (Brazil) and Henri Ojala (Finland).
The best known player of the final dozen is undoubtedly Dan Shak in 6th spot.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 100 entrants A halt was called to the evening's proceedings with 8 players left, and watch out, Jason Mercier's about! The chip leader is no other than Event 16 winner Jason Mercier.
John Racener, Brian Hastings and another of those Finns, Jyri Merivirta are also still showing in chip counts after Robert Mizrachi and Max Pescatori exited very late on.
No British cashers, although I guess I should mention yet another cash for Phil Hellmuth in 15th.
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 1 of 3, 1029 entrants 233 of the 1029 go through headed Yang Wa ng with Russian Andrey Zaichenko and Nick Schwarmann second and third. Why is the chip leader's name censored on this forum?
A couple of well known Canadians are through - Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel, another Russian Vladimir Geshkenbein, Belgian Bart Lybaert and an American or two.
For British interest, Steffen Sontheimer (who had a 6 figure score in a tournament at Aria last week), Ben Heath, Ariel Shefer, Elior Sion, David Vamplew, Craig McCorkell, Adrian Grey, John Gale, and Daniel McAulay are still in.
Places you wouldn't really want to live? How about the home town of 220th placed playe Cliff Josephy - Muttontown, New York.
WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 665 entrants 157 players qualified to Day 2 and we have a British chip leader at the end of Day 1. Max Silver is the man in question. Not a regular player of Limit, Max has nevertheless stormed to the top of the listings being the only player over 100K.
Michael Mizrachi is now on a mission to try and equal his brother's total of 4 bracelets, and he's started nicely here lying 3rd overnight.
Other UK players through include Darren Taylor, Stephen Chidwick, James Dempsey, Barny Boatman, Matthew Ashton & Chris Moorman.
I've tried to avoid commenting on players names (so far) this time around, but the player in 29th has such a great moniker I just couldn't resist giving her a mention - Esmerelda Villafuerte.
The top two players from last year's Main Event, winner Joe McKeehan and runner-up Josh Beckley are also still in aiming for a repeat of some action from the November Nine.
To start today 15/06/16 Event 23 - $2K NLH, 3 Day Event 15/06/16 Event 24 - $10K HORSE Championship, 3 Day Event
He isn't the highest earning Welshman in WSOP history though, does anyone know who holds that honour?
I will go for...
1) Gareth Bale (he is the best at everything in his country)
2) Dylan (who used to play on sky and won the 1st ever Jackpot on here)
Ok, i did look it up in the end and saw it was Mansour Matloubi. I have never heard of him TBH, but he is some way above Roberto (who I have heard of many times before)
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2016 Thread: Ok, i did look it up in the end and saw it was Mansour Matloubi. I have never heard of him TBH, but he is some way above Roberto (who I have heard of many times before) Posted by MAXALLY
Mansour Matloubi is one of the great forgotten names of British poker. He is still the only british player to win the Main Event back in 1990 and final tabled again three years later.
After him, John Tabatabai is 2nd in total Welsh cashes at the WSOP with Roberto Romanello third.
Perhaps his reputation was spoilt a bit a few years later in relation to Ultimate Bet.
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 3 of 3, 1106 entrants Sam Soverel is a Florida pro who normally plays high stakes cash and high-roller tournaments, and only entered a $1K event as he had been on such a downswing in bigger events. That rough spell was well and truly broken as he won Event 19 for his first WSOP bracelet and $185K.
None of the final nine players had previously won a bracelet, second and third placers Kirby Lowery & Garrett Garvin had only a few previous cashes between them.
Bruno Borges (yet more alliterative names) made his second FT of the series in 5th and the two Finns Henri Ojala & Jusso Leppanen finished 8th & 9th.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 3 of 3, 100 entrants More often than not, one player wins two bracelets during one WSOP. We'll have to wait a little while longer as Jason Mercier's quest to win back-to-back events was denied at the very last.
Mercier had the lead for a while heads-up, but eventually Ray Dehkharghani won most of the important pots and collected his first bracelet.
Ray (I'm just going to call him Ray) had previously come close to winning a bracelet when losing heads-up to the legend Doyle Brunson in a Razz event way back in 1998.
Yueqi Zhu went out third, Brian Hastings 4th and 2010 ME runner-up John Racener 6th.
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 2 of 3, 1029 entrants At the end of play, 26 players remained with David Vamplew losing his chip lead, but he is still sitting nicely in second place behind Aussie Martin Kozlov.
Daniel Negreanu, looking for his 7th bracelet is in the top 5, with Doug Polk and second Brit Steffen Sontheimer inside the Top 10.
Elior Sion and Ben Heath both cashed for $10358, Ariel Shefer for $4574. WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 665 entrants Just 15 go forward to the final day and it is Danny Le who holds the chip lead.
Two people who already have bracelets in Limit, Tyler Bonkowski & Daniel Idema sit 2nd and 4th.
The promising British contingent at the start of the day was whittled away with Darren Taylor KO-d in 80th ($2442) and Stephen Chidwick 20th ($5155)
The player I picked out yesterday because of her name, Esmerelda Villafuerte, has made Day 3 and guaranteed herself her first WSOP cash and her biggest livetime payday. She is also the last woman standing in Event 22.
WSOP23 - $2k NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1419 entrants The bubble will burst very early on Day 2 with 233 remaining and 213 to cash.
Iman Shahbazy is chip leader, with 2 Canadians in the top 4 - Kyle White & Jake Labonte.
From the UK, Stevie Watts held a place among the upper echelons most of the second half of the day and he bagged the =5th biggest stack.
Next UK player indicated is Kamel Mokhammad, but he is from Zaporizhzhya which is in Ukraine so I think they've got their UK's mixed up.
Ben Vinson is 23rd, Dan Laming 85th, Niall Farrell 94th, Fraser MacIntyre 123rd, and Craig McCorkell, David Tovar and Jamie Burland among the shorter stacks.
WSOP24 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 1 of 3, 171 entrants The usual $10K suspects are involved, and while the British names you would expect - Messrs Owen, Ashton & Ashby played, the only two British players left are Gerald Ringe (having another great series) and Iraj Parvizi, who I knew next to nothing about. Turns out he's listed on Hendon Mob as from the UAE and has had a chequered life seemingly spending plenty of time in the courts, on both sides of the courtroom.
Daniel Alaei (vowels to consonant ratio 7:4) is top dog but with the likes of Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville, Erik Seidel, Frank Kassela & Brandon Shack-Harris still involved, this one has a long way to run.
To start today WSOP25 - $2500 NLH, 3 Day Event WSOP26 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or better, 3 Day Event
I'm sorry, I don't have time for much of an update first thing this morning. I will come back and do a proper job as soon as I can.
All I can do at the moment is update on the two events at the pointy end
Event 21 is on the FT and down to 5 players, in chip order Will Givens, Calvin Lee, Mark Herm (All three USA), Steven Thompson representing Costa Rica and Aussie Martin Kozlov. David Vamplew just missed the official FT in 10th, Steffen Sonthiemer was 14th and Daniel Negreanu 19th.
Event 22 is currently heads-up between Danny Le and Scott Farnsworth, with the former holding what looks like a dominant chip lead.
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...and Adam promptly gets a full 2xUp, & with a few other pots, is now well north of 200,000, with the Average at 167,000.
Closest I'll get to Vegas this year, but I can almost smell it! Thanks
With at least a million dollars guaranteed to the winner, and this year the second placed player also, we have just 124 players still in contention
Mohsin Charania is the chip leader, one of three players with over a million chips ahead of Frank Rusnak and Argentinian Jorge Eghi.
Several Brits in contention too - Louis Salter and Ben Heath sit inside the top 15 with Matthew Moss, Max Silver, Andrew Teng, Luke Brereton and Simon Deadman still there too.
Not too many big names fighting on, but there are two notable female players left - Sofia Lovgren and Loni Harwood.
The fact they they are creating 2 millionaires has made the prizepool look, well, weird. It looks OK up to 3rd - e.g. 5th $276K, 4th $366K, 3rd $500K but then it jumps to a million for 2nd and only $65K more than that for first. OK you also get the prestige and the bracelet, but that pay jump from 3rd to 2nd will be massive.
WSOP15 - $1500 Eight Game Mix 6-Max, Day 3 of 3, 491 entrants
Day 2 chip leader Paul Volpe held on throughout Day 3 and took his second bracelet.
Jason Stockfish and Ron Ware rounded out the top 3 spots
WSOP16 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 2 of 3, 100 entries
A halt was called to play with 9 left and we have a very familiar name at the top - Jason Mercier who is looking for his 4th bracelet (I thought he already had more), and we still have two British players among those remaining - Benny Glaser & Stephen Chidwick.
All those who survive have locked up nearly $20K, but all eyes will be on the gold bracelet and the $273K that comes with it.
As mentioned earlier, Stu Rutter went out early on Day 2 with Adam Owen & Usman Siddique following him out before the bubble.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 2242 entrants
A little over 10% of the field have made it through to Day 2 (with the WSOP paying 15% this year of course they are all in the money)
We have a female player at the top of the Day 1 chip totals, Stacey Nutini, a local Las Vegas resident, leads Franklin Yao & Koray Aldemir.
Two British bracelet holders, Roberto Romanello and Craig McCorkell are still there, as are Steven Watts, Jamie Burland, Gary Blackwood, David Stons, Richard Sheils and James Poulter.
Former ME winner Carlos Mortensen is safely through, as is former November Niners Steve Gee & Martin Staszko, Adam Bilzerian, Anthony Spinella and Event 12 winner Ryan Laplante (that's his 6th cash from 7 events)
Hand-for-hand play went on for over an hour before the bubble burst after Rob Winsler bust pocket aces with 6-5 suited.
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 1 of 3, 400 entrants
After 10 levels, play has come to an end and with only 60 players to be paid, the 144 players remaining still have a lot of work to do to lock up at least a min-cash.
George Trigeorgis is the big stack overnight with a significant lead over fellow-Americans Nicholas Kiley and Brett Reichert.
Quite a lot of Union Jacks in the chip listings, with Stu Rutter amongst them (having a decent enough stack this time). Gerald Ringe and Adam Owen are still there, along with a couple of non-Brits but who live here, Mel Judah & Chris Bjorin.
Recent bracelet winners Justin Bonomo & Robert Mizrachi are still there, as are Phil Hellmuth, Taylor Paur, Bruno Fittoussi and with micro-stacks both Maria Ho and Jonathan Duhamel.
To start today
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, 3 Day Event
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 16 has reached the final table, with Jason Mercier still leading the final 7, both Benny Glaser and Stephen Chidwick are doing OK and sit 3rd and 4th. Alex Luneau is now nursing the short stack. This one is currently on the live stream.
Event 18 - 3K HORSE started a little later but has lost about 10 players so far including the $1500 version winner Georgios Sotiropolous, Dutch Boyd and Maria Ho. Gerald Ringe has chipped up a little and Adam Owen is still seemingly sitting in the middle of the pack.
Fifteen players left to fight it out for the two million dollar prizes and one gold bracelet.
Italian Alessio Dicesare is the big stack overnight, with a decent lead on nearest challenged Jason DeWitt who in turn is clear of Garrett Greer.
One "United Kingdom" listed player, Luke Brereton. Hendon Mob show him with a British flag but living in Naples, Florida and all his cashes after November 2012 are in the States.
Swede Sofia Lovgren is probably the best known of the remaining players (and probably the most searched for on Google Images)
WSOP16 - $10K 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship No Limit, Day 3 of 3, 100 entries
Popular pro Jason Mercier took his fourth bracelet and his first at the $10K "Championship" event level.
He beat Canadian Mike Watson heads-up with Lamar Wilkinson third. British duo Benny Glaser and Stephen Chidwick took 5th ($62K) and 6th ($46K) respectively.
Somehow it just seems right that a player from Florida wins a bracelet at the moment.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 2242 entrants
This one is down to three tables and 24 players with Welshman Roberto Romanello doing very well in second place at the end of Day 2.
He trails just Danny Wong and has locked up just over $10K already.
Jamie Burland departed towards the end of the night in 33rd spot ($8312), one pay jump after the loss of David Stones ($6802) while Craig McCorkell, Stevie Watts, James Poulter, Richard Shiels and Gary Blackwood were eliminated earlier on Day 2.
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants
Sixteen remain in contention, and again we have a Brit in second place, 2015 bracelet winner Gerald Ringe from London.
Adam Owen had yet another deep run for 20th, and the GB-resident Chris Bjorin 17th. I mistakenly thought Stu Rutter was in until quite late last night but that appears to have been an error in the chip listings as he is nowhere to be seen in the payout table.
The chip leader is Jared Talarico who according to Hendon Mob has only 4 lifetime recorded cashes, all at the WSOP, but his best result was in a HORSE event back in 2014 when he finished 9th for $14845.
Chino Rheem and Eli Elezra are also still involved
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 1 of 3, 1106 entrants
136 players move on to Day 2 and the biggest bag of chips is held by Michael Luong ahead of Troy Burkholder and Bart Dowling.
You have to look all the way down to 90th place to find a Union Jack, David Colin sits in that position (or for all I know it could just as easily by David Colin), Kevin Allen and John Gale (or maybe Allen Kevin and Gale John) are still in too.
Phil Laak who I don't seem to have mentioned much so far is through, as is Ismael Bojang, JC Tran, George Danzer and Jesse Sylvia, as is Colossus winner Benjamin Keeline.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 1 of 3, 100 entrants
With the Championship events starting later in the day than other tournaments, a greater proportion of the field make Day 2, in this case 45%
David Benyamine is the chip leader, with a certan Phil Hellmuth (who only bought in right at the end of late reg), the defending Razz Champion chasing bracelet number 15 in second place.
Plenty of other big names close to the top as well, Brian Hastings, Aleksandr Denisov, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Jason Mercier (fresh from his win earler in the day), Mike Gorodinsky & Erik Seidel.
Two Finns (Jyri Merivirta & Jussi Nevanlinna, with names like that they really only could be from Finland) are well-placed in 5th & 6th
Stephen Chidwick (also fresh from the FT of the 2-7 earlier) is the only Brit in the 45, two thirds of the way down the field and with less than 8 Big Bets left, needs to chip up quite quickly.
To start today
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event
WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 4, 7190 entries
The final table has been reached, and Luke Brereton is on it. Sofia Lovgren isn't unfortunately, but there is a female presence in the shape of Lisa Meredith.
Brereton has now made at least $96K, which would be his second biggest ever live cash
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2242 entrants
N-N-N-N-Nineteen left, looks like Roberton Romanello has been fairly quiet so far, letting others dance around
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 400 entrants
Not yet re-started, 16 left
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1106 entrants
92 of the 136 players have made it through to the first break on Day 2, but we lost John Gale very early on and Kevin Allen has also gone quite recently, leaving just David Colin fighting on for the UK. Michael Luong retains the chip lead.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 100 entrants
Only just re-started, but we've lost a few players already - Howard Lederer, Shawn Buchanan and George Danzer. No recorded action from Stephen Chidwick yet.
To start today
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, 3 Day Event
WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP14 - $1500 Millionaire Maker, NLH, Day 4 of 4, 7190 entries
The Millionaire Maker (or should that be Millionaires Maker) is over and the winner is Jason DeWitt. DeWitt was one of two previous bracelet holders (he won one in 2010) on the final table and he held the chip lead for most of the day.
The second seven figure score went to Garrett Greer, also from California and the third went to part-time kindergarten teacher from Vancouver, Washington, Lisa Meredith. It was Meredith's first ever WSOP tournament and she scooped half a million dollars.
The British presence at the FT was Luke Brereton from Prestbury, Greater Manchester. The official WSOP report calls him Luke Anthony.
WSOP17 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 2242 entrants
We are still continuing heads-up in Event 17 whith Erik Silberman and Chase Bianchi going at it for almost two hours now.
No, scratch that, Chase Bianchi has just won. He chipped away at Silberman and took the $316K top prize.
Roberto Romanello is the highest earning Welsh player ever according to the Hendon Mob database, and he padded that lead by almost $143 with a deep run to third place.
He isn't the highest earning Welshman in WSOP history though, does anyone know who holds that honour?
WSOP18 - $3K HORSE, Day 3 of 3, 400 entrants
Third again for the UK as Gerald Ringe took that spot. He was eliminated by Marco Johnson during a hand of Omaha Hi/Low, and not long after, Johnson busted Day 2 chip leader Jared Talarico during a hand of Stud to win his second bracelet and $259K
Chino Rheem finished eighth and Eli Elezra 11th.
And phew, managed to get through two HORSE events without any equine references. One more to go, can I keep it up?
WSOP19 - $1K PLO, Day 2 of 3, 1106 entrants
No British final table heroics in this one though as David Colin was the last UK player left, and he was knocked out in 66th for a payday of $2367.
12 players do move on to the final day with Garrett Garvin the chip leader ahead of Bruno Borges (Brazil) and Henri Ojala (Finland).
The best known player of the final dozen is undoubtedly Dan Shak in 6th spot.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 2 of 3, 100 entrants
A halt was called to the evening's proceedings with 8 players left, and watch out, Jason Mercier's about! The chip leader is no other than Event 16 winner Jason Mercier.
John Racener, Brian Hastings and another of those Finns, Jyri Merivirta are also still showing in chip counts after Robert Mizrachi and Max Pescatori exited very late on.
No British cashers, although I guess I should mention yet another cash for Phil Hellmuth in 15th.
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 1 of 3, 1029 entrants
233 of the 1029 go through headed Yang Wa ng with Russian Andrey Zaichenko and Nick Schwarmann second and third. Why is the chip leader's name censored on this forum?
A couple of well known Canadians are through - Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel, another Russian Vladimir Geshkenbein, Belgian Bart Lybaert and an American or two.
For British interest, Steffen Sontheimer (who had a 6 figure score in a tournament at Aria last week), Ben Heath, Ariel Shefer, Elior Sion, David Vamplew, Craig McCorkell, Adrian Grey, John Gale, and Daniel McAulay are still in.
Places you wouldn't really want to live? How about the home town of 220th placed playe Cliff Josephy - Muttontown, New York.
WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 665 entrants
157 players qualified to Day 2 and we have a British chip leader at the end of Day 1. Max Silver is the man in question. Not a regular player of Limit, Max has nevertheless stormed to the top of the listings being the only player over 100K.
Michael Mizrachi is now on a mission to try and equal his brother's total of 4 bracelets, and he's started nicely here lying 3rd overnight.
Other UK players through include Darren Taylor, Stephen Chidwick, James Dempsey, Barny Boatman, Matthew Ashton & Chris Moorman.
I've tried to avoid commenting on players names (so far) this time around, but the player in 29th has such a great moniker I just couldn't resist giving her a mention - Esmerelda Villafuerte.
The top two players from last year's Main Event, winner Joe McKeehan and runner-up Josh Beckley are also still in aiming for a repeat of some action from the November Nine.
To start today
15/06/16 Event 23 - $2K NLH, 3 Day Event
15/06/16 Event 24 - $10K HORSE Championship, 3 Day Event
Ok, i did look it up in the end and saw it was Mansour Matloubi. I have never heard of him TBH, but he is some way above Roberto (who I have heard of many times before)
Posted by MAXALLY
Mansour Matloubi is one of the great forgotten names of British poker. He is still the only british player to win the Main Event back in 1990 and final tabled again three years later.
After him, John Tabatabai is 2nd in total Welsh cashes at the WSOP with Roberto Romanello third.
Perhaps his reputation was spoilt a bit a few years later in relation to Ultimate Bet.
Sam Soverel is a Florida pro who normally plays high stakes cash and high-roller tournaments, and only entered a $1K event as he had been on such a downswing in bigger events. That rough spell was well and truly broken as he won Event 19 for his first WSOP bracelet and $185K.
None of the final nine players had previously won a bracelet, second and third placers Kirby Lowery & Garrett Garvin had only a few previous cashes between them.
Bruno Borges (yet more alliterative names) made his second FT of the series in 5th and the two Finns Henri Ojala & Jusso Leppanen finished 8th & 9th.
WSOP20 - $10K 7 Card Razz Championship, Day 3 of 3, 100 entrants
More often than not, one player wins two bracelets during one WSOP. We'll have to wait a little while longer as Jason Mercier's quest to win back-to-back events was denied at the very last.
Mercier had the lead for a while heads-up, but eventually Ray Dehkharghani won most of the important pots and collected his first bracelet.
Ray (I'm just going to call him Ray) had previously come close to winning a bracelet when losing heads-up to the legend Doyle Brunson in a Razz event way back in 1998.
Yueqi Zhu went out third, Brian Hastings 4th and 2010 ME runner-up John Racener 6th.
WSOP21 - $3K NLH 6-Max, Day 2 of 3, 1029 entrants
At the end of play, 26 players remained with David Vamplew losing his chip lead, but he is still sitting nicely in second place behind Aussie Martin Kozlov.
Daniel Negreanu, looking for his 7th bracelet is in the top 5, with Doug Polk and second Brit Steffen Sontheimer inside the Top 10.
Elior Sion and Ben Heath both cashed for $10358, Ariel Shefer for $4574.
WSOP22 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 665 entrants
Just 15 go forward to the final day and it is Danny Le who holds the chip lead.
Two people who already have bracelets in Limit, Tyler Bonkowski & Daniel Idema sit 2nd and 4th.
The promising British contingent at the start of the day was whittled away with Darren Taylor KO-d in 80th ($2442) and Stephen Chidwick 20th ($5155)
The player I picked out yesterday because of her name, Esmerelda Villafuerte, has made Day 3 and guaranteed herself her first WSOP cash and her biggest livetime payday. She is also the last woman standing in Event 22.
WSOP23 - $2k NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1419 entrants
The bubble will burst very early on Day 2 with 233 remaining and 213 to cash.
Iman Shahbazy is chip leader, with 2 Canadians in the top 4 - Kyle White & Jake Labonte.
From the UK, Stevie Watts held a place among the upper echelons most of the second half of the day and he bagged the =5th biggest stack.
Next UK player indicated is Kamel Mokhammad, but he is from Zaporizhzhya which is in Ukraine so I think they've got their UK's mixed up.
Ben Vinson is 23rd, Dan Laming 85th, Niall Farrell 94th, Fraser MacIntyre 123rd, and Craig McCorkell, David Tovar and Jamie Burland among the shorter stacks.
WSOP24 - $10K HORSE Championship, Day 1 of 3, 171 entrants
The usual $10K suspects are involved, and while the British names you would expect - Messrs Owen, Ashton & Ashby played, the only two British players left are Gerald Ringe (having another great series) and Iraj Parvizi, who I knew next to nothing about. Turns out he's listed on Hendon Mob as from the UAE and has had a chequered life seemingly spending plenty of time in the courts, on both sides of the courtroom.
Daniel Alaei (vowels to consonant ratio 7:4) is top dog but with the likes of Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville, Erik Seidel, Frank Kassela & Brandon Shack-Harris still involved, this one has a long way to run.
To start today
WSOP25 - $2500 NLH, 3 Day Event
WSOP26 - $1500 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or better, 3 Day Event
All I can do at the moment is update on the two events at the pointy end
Event 21 is on the FT and down to 5 players, in chip order Will Givens, Calvin Lee, Mark Herm (All three USA), Steven Thompson representing Costa Rica and Aussie Martin Kozlov. David Vamplew just missed the official FT in 10th, Steffen Sonthiemer was 14th and Daniel Negreanu 19th.
Event 22 is currently heads-up between Danny Le and Scott Farnsworth, with the former holding what looks like a dominant chip lead.