After no bracelets were won on Tuesday, Wednesday saw a veritable flurry of them.
Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 4 of 4, 8120 entries Two players came back on Day 4, and played thirty hands of heads-up before Alexandru Papazian beat Killian Kramer to claim his first braclet.
The Romanian held a significant chip lead starting the day, and he never let that slip, the German eventually shoving his last 13BB with 9-6 but unfortunately for him his opponent had him dominated with K-9. A flop of 9-K-2 pushed Kramer to the brink and he was drawing dead after an ace on the turn.
The $888,888 moves Papazian to the top of the all-time Romanian money list.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 4 of 5, 100 entrants The PPC has reached a FT with a very familiar name holding the most chips. Daniel Negreanu, for it is him, has 5.9m with Isaac Haxton his closest challenger on 5.2m.
In third place, and the sole British survivor is Elior Sion with 4.7, and he is joined in the fight for the almost $1.4m prize and the Chip Reese Trophy by Paul Volpe, Ivo Donev and Johannes Becker.
Matt Ashton's bid for a second PPC ended in 8th, losing a large chunk of his stack in two 2-7 Triple Draw hands and being finished off by Haxton in NLH.
Talal Shakerchi had earlier been knocked out in 13th for a min cash of $77K, Ashton collects $164K, everyone left has a minimum of $220K.
Event 63 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1750 entrants Just finished, with Rulah Divine getting the better of Patrick Truong heads-up
The winner, a LV local, collect $262K, Truong $162K for second and Michael Amato who finished third picking up $116K.
No British players made the final day.
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 1058 entrants Sebastian Langrock is the bracelet winner, collecting his second bracelet beating Ryan Laplante heads-up.
Laplante had the chip lead at the start of the day, and he and Langrock swapped that between themselves most of the day but when Langrock eliminated Victor Choupeaux in 3rd, the German (resident in Austria) took control and snuffed Laplante out inside 25 hands.
Esther Taylor had one of the best female results this series finishing 4th for $85K.
Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 1413 entrants And another bracelet was confirmed here as Shai Zurr collected a second Israeli bracelet of the series in the Turbo.
It's Zurr's first, and he collected $223K which will convert into an awful lot of Shekels in a country where poker is still considered a game of chance and is illegal.
The runner-up was Serbian Ognjen Sekularac who led most of the way through the FT but came up one place short of the win. He collects $137K, and third was Alex Foxen for $98K.
I've got a little bit of an apology to make, I missed out Jonathan McCann from yesterday's report, a skim through the reports looking for GB names was obviously not good enough. McCann finished a fine 4th after being short stacked through the FT but laddered himself up to $71K.
Yiannis Liperis eventually ended up in 12th spot for $13K. and Andrew Teng 18th for $8K
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1956 entrants The last of the $1500 NLH's has ended Day 1 with about 300 survivors.
Does anyone here watch "Britain's Got Talent"? I never thought I'd be asking that on a WSOP thread (or anywhere else to be honest). Anyway, in 2015, the act that finished 4th in the final was a group of "Dad dancers" called Old Men Grooving. One of them and their choreographer (according to Wikipedia) was David Welch. Well he's at the WSOP and shortly before the end of play was noted as having 42K chips.
There isn't a full end of day report yet but I hope he's got through (he's been on a table with two 3-time bracelet holders, Frank Kassela and Dutch Boyd)
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, TBA entrants The only event I believe still in progress, on the final break with 2 levels left to play. Max Silver and Sam Trickett are among those who appear to have a decent stack.
The boards ae showing 187 entries so far, already a step up on last year's 184 with late reg sure to add a few more yet.
To start today Event 68 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event Event 69 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
Updates Event 66 308 was the final figure of players through Day 1 with Tommy Tran holding the chip lead from the wonderfully named Akin Tuna in second, and he first of a large number of Brits in third, Luke Marsh from Scunthorpe.
Waikiat Lee, Jack Ellwood, Jack Sambrook, Andrew Fleming, Tom Hall and Philip Rigby are all inside the top 100, with David Welch (as mentioned above) successfully navigating the latter levels to make it through.
Some well known pros through with Daniel Eichhorn (there's that double h again) the best of them in 9th
Event 67 103 players passed through Day of the High Roller PLO with Iraj Parvizi holding the lead for the UK. Max Silver in 7th, James Park in 29th, Sam Trickett in 54th and Richad Gryko in 92nd complete the UK contingent, and picking out a few more names Josh Beckley, James Obst, Brian Rast, Sylvain Loosli, Tom Cannuli & Juha Helppi all bagged chips.
In contrast with yesterday when action in most events finished early, today it's a lot of "still in play" so information on some events is a little sketchy I'm afraid.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 5 of 5, 100 entrants We're down to heads-up in the PPC and a very swingy heads-up match it has proven to be so far.
Paul Volpe's short stack didn't last long, and he was followed out in turn by Daniel Negreanu, Ivo Donev & Isaac Haxton.
That leaves Germany's Johannes Becker, and the UK's Elior Sion with the lead changing hands repeatedly.
There may even be an ex-Sky Poker TV analyst on the rail, as the shout "Welcome to Value Town" has been heard.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1956 entrants With Sam Grafton's recent departure in 29th spot ($10893) it looks like the GB challenge in this one is down to just Ben Fitzgerald. Tom Hall was 45th for $8970, Luke Marsh picked up $7473 in 49th and Colin Lovelock was 67th collecting $5573.
"Britain's Got Talent" performer David Welch made the money and took home $2352 for 245th place.
26 are left as I type this.
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 205 entrants The High Roller PLO is on the last break of Day 2, and we still haven't burst the bubble. 32 remain and 31 will get paid.
Three Brits survive, all near the top of the standings - Max Silver, Iraj Parvizi and James Park.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1349 entrants Very close to the end of Day 1 with 400-odd still standing.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 419 entrants Two levels to play, with 160 or so still active. Nowhere close to the bubble yet of course. Adam Owen looks to have one of the biggest stacks at this point, and Benny Glaser has been mentioned in dispatches too.
To start today Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event plus the last Day 1 of Event 19 (The Giant)
Updates Event 62 Guess what, it's another BritishBraceletAlert. Elior Sion was up and then he was down in the heads-up match against Johannes Becker, but importantly he ended up, and won probably the most prestigious bracelet of the whole series.
The winner of a High Roller event at the August 2014 Sky Poker UKPC, he doesn't play much live at all and by the sounds of it doesn't intend that to change and will invest a proportion of his $1.4m or so in a business venture.
That's five British bracelets this year. Has that ever been achieved before?
Event 66 23 remain, and we have last year's November Niner Kenny Hallaert in the lead, ahead of Schulyer Thornton and Dylan Hortin.
I mentioned a couple of years ago about a player being from Chad, and Tikay re-used it in one of his video blogs, well we alledgedly have another one here - Wa ng Yiefi, but as he's from Shanghai it's the other Ch... country, China that should be showing.
The presence of Ben Fitzgerald in the latter stages has proved to be bogus and there is no British players left.
Event 67 In contrast, we do have 2 British players among the 20 remaining players in the High Roller PLO - Iraj Parvizi in the chip lead and James Park in 4th.
Max Silver's great week ended late in the evening with him busted in 22nd spo for $42393 and Jason Grey was 27th for $37776
Event 68 348 remain after Day 1 with the bubble set at 203 with a min-cash being worth $4496.
Chance Kornuth won't be thinking about a min-cash as he is the overnight chip leader but there is plenty of GB challengers not far behind - Charlie Carrel is 4th, Sergi Reixach 8th and Simon Appleby 9th.
Plenty of other Brits will be playing Day 2, including Seb Saffari who is getting his first mention this time around.
Event 69 Top Razzer so far is Matt Grapenthien, with a player who couldn't come from anywhere than Poland really with the name of Grzegorz Wyraz. Unfortunately the WSOP have placed his home town, Sosnowiec, in Portugal. Football fans will recognise Sosnowiec as the home town of four times Polish Cup winners Zaglebie Sosnowiec. Okay you have to be quite old and quite a football nerd to remember that name, but the fact is true regardless.
Benny Glaser sits inside the top 10 of the 102 remainers with some names very familiar to those who've been reading this thread through, Adam Owen & Jeff Duvall also still in.
Some other names who progressed include Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, James Obst, Mike Matusow and actor James Woods.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1956 entrants Heads up between Chris Klodnicki and Emile Schiff, they've just started a 15 minute break with Schiff holding about a 5:2 chip lead, aiming to get what I think would be the first ever bracelet for Jamaica
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 205 entrants With only 3 players left, this may well finish a day early.
Russian Alexey Rubin has the lead ahead of James Calderaro and Esther Taylor (who seems to have dropped the -Brady bit of her name)
It's Taylor's fourth top ten finish of the Series, but she's yet to win a bracelet (or any another tournament recorded on the Hendon Mob database)
Iraz Parvizi went out in 15th ($48K) while James Park was last Brit standingn in 11th for $70K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1349 entrants Play still in progress with 42 left and despite the recent exits of Seb Seffari and John Conroy in 46th & 47th for $11K each, we still have two UK players in the hunt.
Simon Appleby from Darlington has a very decent stack while Scott Margereson (who has locked up his 5th cash of the WSOP) has a considerably shorter one.
Daniel Negreanu has put himself over the parapet again over the last couple of days, moaning about the Player of the Year points distribution (basically he says they don't award enough points to the events he plays in) but he's got another 62.1 points at least to add to his tally here which will move him up inside the Top 5.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 419 entrants British interest remains in this one too, as with the field down to two tables of 7, Benny Glaser still has chips. He's on the same table as Phil Hellmuth, still chasing that 15th bracelet.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 718 entrants Play has just concluded with the bubble having been burst about half an hour before the end of play.
Several well known names have perished - Annette Obrestad, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Melanie Weisner, Barbara Enright and Liv Boeree amongst them, but it looks like Vanessa Selbst is rolling along quite nicely.
No full results yet but if the reported chip counts can be believed (and it's not always that they can) Sonia Padovani and Katie Swift may well be among the 85 or so players making Day 2.
Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1312 entries 23 left partway through Level 27. I have no idea who any of the screen names are so I will return to this at the end.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event Late reg is still open so not a whole lot to report here just yet, we've just seen Ryan Hughes enter, and he's the man Daniel Negreanu is so eager to catch at the top of the Player of the Year standings, with the man in third-place in that race, John Monnette, already seated with a big stack in front of him.
Event 19 (The Giant), Day 1E The last chance to enter the $365 NLH behemoth, with no less than 6 levels still to play today (but they are only 20 minute levels)
Not too much worth mentioning yet, except that another Player of the Year candidate, Chris Ferguson has just busted as has Will Kassouf.
Top Brit at the moment appears to be Ilana Belsky, who cashed a couple of times at Sky Poker UKPC events a couple of years ago.
To start today Event 73 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
Event 66 They called it a night with the heads-up match still unfinished. Emile Schiff has about a 2:1 chip lead over Chris Klodnicki.
Event 67 The PLO High Roller is done and dusted within 3 days; James Calderaro took his first bracelet. He has a WPT title and a deep run in the ME to his credit (13th in 2009) but this is his biggest tournament win.
Alexey Rybin from Russia was 2nd and Esther Taylor 3rd. The top three prizes were $1.28m, $796K and $543K.
Event 68 37 eventually managed to made it through, with Chance Kornuth (looking for his second career bracelet) having the chip lead at the end of Day 2
He leads Germany's Konstantinos Nanos and another American James Gilbert in 3rd.
Simon Appleby is leading Brit in 9th, but Scott Margereson had a bit of a late surge and now lies 10th.
Daniel Negreanu's chase for his 7th bracelet and those all-important (to him at least) player of the year points comes back with the 28th biggest stack.
Event 69 Only 10 razzers remain, with David "ODB" Baker leading from Wendy Freedman and Brad Ruben.
In fourth place is the sole remaining British player, Benny Glaser, with 14-time bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth being Sonny Shortstack with less than 5 Big Bets.
Event 70 In my report above I listed two Brits that may have made Day 2, well Katie Swift fell just short but Sonia Padovani did make Day 2, in 28th place of the 85 survivors.
Even better, Deborah Worley-Roberts sits in second place overnight, and a third Brit has made it too - Gina Rossi in 70th spot.
Probably the biggest female name in poker, Vanessa Selbst is in a good position overnight but they're all chasing Parm Mehmi (who FT'ed this two years ago) who holds the chip lead at the end of the opening day.
Event 71 It's been undoubtedly a good year for India at the WSOP and Nipun Java has been at the forefront. He was part of the all-Indian tag team bracelet winners early on in the series, and now he's won the $1000 online bracelet under his alias "Javatinii"
Second went to Canadian Jason James with the best of the home players being Richard Tuhrin in 3rd.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day A of 3, 1956 entrants All over, after about 60 hands of the unscheduled 4th day. Chris Klodnicki is the bracelet winner, a rivered nut flush getting him a full double up to take the lead which he never relinquished.
He takes home over $428K, Emile Schiff will have to be satisfied with $264K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1349 entrants On the first break of Day 3, and we've lost Daniel Negreanu among 6 eliminations leaving 31 players still involved.
Both Simon Appleby and Scott Margereson are still there, but have dropped down the leader board a bit, but Chance Kornuth still holds the lead, with almost double the stack of his nearest challenger.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 3 of 3, 419 entrants Hasn't started yet, but at least the WSOP are now allocating to Wyraz to Poland rather than Portugal.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 718 entrants We've lost a dozen or so players so far today, and the good news is that the Brits all survive here too. There has been a small ladder so the current paypoint is $1845.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 88 entrants Still to resume with just under half of the 29 remaining players making the money. First prize is a mouth-watering $245K
Event 73 - Main Event, see other thread for the time being.
Event 73 - Main Event, see other thread for the time being. Posted by FCHD
Please don't let my little Update interfere with your regular thread Barny, I'm just trying to rev up a bit of interest prior to the Sky Poker qualifiers playing tomorrow. With very limited success, I might add.
Updates Event 68 Still in play at about 1:45am with Ryan van Sanford just having been eliminated in third place, leaving Chance Kornuth & Harrison Gimbel to fight it out heads-up, with the former having a significant chip lead.
Scott Margereson finished 31st for $15806 while Simon Appleby lasted 7 players longer and collected $19287
Event 69 With the first four players being eliminated fairly quickly, a very interesting FT ensured. Phil Hellmuth clocked up yet another FT to add to his collection, but he was knocked out in 6th, with the last British player, Benny Glaser finishing 5th ($27K)
Wendy Freedman had her best ever WSOP run to come fourth, and Brad Ruben followed in third.
This left David "ODB" Baker and Jason Gola, and the heads up match went on and on. For over 6 hours, and at times Gola was down to one Big Bet. Eventually Gola outlasted Baker and won the bracelet and $132K.
Event 70 Deborah Worley-Roberts entered Day 2 lying second in chips, and she has ended the day in exactly the same position. The big difference of course is that there are considerably fewer players left, just the five in fact.
Tasmanian Heidi May has 4 cashes already this series (and cashed last year's Main) and she is in pole position to win here as she is the chip leader with over Worley-Roberts' stack.
The other two British players were eliminated during Day 2, Gina Rossi in 70th for $1845 and Sonia Padovani 55th for $2040. $2040 was also the payout for 3-times bracelet holder Vannesa Selbst.
Event 72 In 2000 (yes 17 years ago), Chris Ferguson won a WSOP braclet in Stud with Perry Friedman 3rd. Fast forward to 2017, and with 7 left Perry Friedman leads the $10K Stud with Chris Ferguson second.
Others till in the mix include Shaun Deeb and player of the year contender John Monnette.
With only 14 players in the cash, no Brits made that stage.
Event 73 The biggest Day 1A field since 2013 (795) players took to the felt all with a dream of still being there in a fortnight's time holding a bracelet and sitting next to a huge pile of cash.
About 3/4 of the players have made Day 2A, but there isn't a full report on the WSOP site yet, so things are still a little provisional but it is Dane Morten Mortensen who vaulted to the top of the listings very late on.
Sam Grafton is one of the top few stacks (over 4 times the starting stack) and Barny Boatman rumbled along nicely after some early chipping up (although the 212K chip stack reported early in level 2 proved to be bogus).
Hopefully we will get a complete report so I can pick out any other British survivors.
Three former champions played Day 1A, reigning champ Qui Nguyen and Martin Jacobson moved on (although the Swede did drop down to 2000 or so chips at one point before recovering to 36800), unfortunately for Jerry Yang he did not.
Almost as soon as I finished that post, the full list of Day 1A chip counts was posted
Sam Grafton 232K Sergi Reixach 160K Barny Boatman 150K Sebastian Saffari 115K Patrick Leonard 103K Raul Martinez 95K Matthew Ashton 93K Simon Appleby 92K Daniel Barriocanal 84K Nabil Mohamed 74K Mitchell Johnson 71K Tim Hickling 59K Philip Long 58K Steven Warburton 56K (he was the man who bust Jerry Yang) Conor Beresford 55K Alistair Hill 37K Jason Gray 37K James Akenhead 37K Oysein Kristoffersen 32K Anthony Forrest-Forsyth 31K James Barron 27K Tobias Hariefeld 25K Jamie Brown 22K Andreas Olympios 15K Klas Lofberg 8K
576 players made Day 2.
Event 68 has also just ended Harrison Gimbel scored a huge heads-up double-up with AQ against Chance Kornuth's AJ to more or less even up the stacks, and four hands later a cooler saw the tournament end in Gimble's favour as his pocket Queens were up against pocket 10s and the face cards held up.
Gimbel collects $645K and a bracelet, Kornuth a smidgen under $400K.
I believe this makes Gimbel a member of the poker Triple Crown club.
Day 1B of the Main Event is dealt with elsewhere, but other tournaments in action
Event 70 - Deborah Worley-Roberts has already climbed one rung on the ladder with the elimination of Katie Ansorge, meaning she has now locked up at least $40K.
Event 72 is about to re-start, with Shaun Deeb coming back with just 1 Big Bet it's likely he will be the first elimination and leave us with six.
Event 19 - The Giant. Looks like i missed Day 2 of this yesterday! Whoops! Anyway it should finish today with just 27 players left. John Hutchinson, Hrair Yapoudjian & Ravi Raghavan are the top three stacks, with the best known players among the 27 are Eric Baldwin and the short stacked Ben Volpe. All this waffling is partly to gloss over the fact there is no British players among the 27, Andrew Christoforou the best of them back in 43rd for $6715.
Event 70 - Deborah W-R is now big chip leader with 3 left.
She has 3.59, Day 2 chip leader Heidi May has under a million and Jana de la Carra just over half a million.
Julie Dang's dismissal in 4th has meant they all have now guaranteed at least a $57K payday, but DW-R must be in with a great chance of taking the bracelet and over $135K.
No British Bracelet Alert i'm afraid. Heidi May got the better of Deborah Worley-Roberts heads-up in the Ladies event.
In Event 72, Bryce Yockey finished 6th for a little over $40K. leaving those two old Stud foes, Chris Ferguson and Perry Friedman as the top two stacks.
While we're waiting for the dust to settle on the Main Day 1B
Event 19 Dieter Dechant is a local and has been dreaming of a bracelet for 25 years. A distant dream you may think, as a few weeks ago his total WSOP cashes totalled less than a grand.
Since then, he finished third in Event 31, the Seniors Event for $281K and has now exceeded that by collecting $291K by winning the Giant, the event that had 5 separate Day 1s on Friday nights throughout the series.
He beat the unpronouncable Canadian Hrair Yapoudjian (who played the FT draped in the Maple Leaf flag) heads-up with over 200 million in chips on the table.
Vera Kuhl from Germany was the third placed finisher.
Event 72 This is still ongoing with a long heads-up match between Chris Ferguson and Mike Wattel in progress, and stacks not far from even.
Ferguson hasn't won a bracelet since 2003 (of course he was absent from the WSOP for a number of years after his involvement in a certain poker site that collapsed), Wattel won his only bracelet back in the last millennium.
While we're waiting for the dust to settle on the Main Day 1B Event 19 Dieter Dechant is a local and has been dreaming of a bracelet for 25 years. A distant dream you may think, as a few weeks ago his total WSOP cashes totalled less than a grand. Since then, he finished third in Event 31, the Seniors Event for $281K and has now exceeded that by collecting $291K by winning the Giant, the event that had 5 separate Day 1s on Friday nights throughout the series. He beat the unpronouncable Canadian Hrair Yapoudjian (who played the FT draped in the Maple Leaf flag) heads-up with over 200 million in chips on the table. Vera Kuhl from Germany was the third placed finisher. Event 72 This is still ongoing with a long heads-up match between Chris Ferguson and Mike Wattel in progress, and stacks not far from even. Ferguson hasn't won a bracelet since 2003 (of course he was absent from the WSOP for a number of years after his involvement in a certain poker site that collapsed), Wattel won his only bracelet back in the last millennium. Posted by FCHD
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We have a result from Event 72
Mike Wattel, who won his only previous bracelet, outlasted 2000 ME winner Chris Ferguson in a mammoth heads-up match.
At least it removes the probability of a bracelet winner being booed at the presentation, although it does improve Ferguson's chances of winning Player of the Year.
Working on the Day 1B of the main event now, will have a full list of all the GB players through soon.
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Event 60 - $888 Crazy Eights 8 Max NLH re-entry, Day 4 of 4, 8120 entries
Two players came back on Day 4, and played thirty hands of heads-up before Alexandru Papazian beat Killian Kramer to claim his first braclet.
The Romanian held a significant chip lead starting the day, and he never let that slip, the German eventually shoving his last 13BB with 9-6 but unfortunately for him his opponent had him dominated with K-9. A flop of 9-K-2 pushed Kramer to the brink and he was drawing dead after an ace on the turn.
The $888,888 moves Papazian to the top of the all-time Romanian money list.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 4 of 5, 100 entrants
The PPC has reached a FT with a very familiar name holding the most chips. Daniel Negreanu, for it is him, has 5.9m with Isaac Haxton his closest challenger on 5.2m.
In third place, and the sole British survivor is Elior Sion with 4.7, and he is joined in the fight for the almost $1.4m prize and the Chip Reese Trophy by Paul Volpe, Ivo Donev and Johannes Becker.
Matt Ashton's bid for a second PPC ended in 8th, losing a large chunk of his stack in two 2-7 Triple Draw hands and being finished off by Haxton in NLH.
Talal Shakerchi had earlier been knocked out in 13th for a min cash of $77K, Ashton collects $164K, everyone left has a minimum of $220K.
Event 63 - $1K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1750 entrants
Just finished, with Rulah Divine getting the better of Patrick Truong heads-up
The winner, a LV local, collect $262K, Truong $162K for second and Michael Amato who finished third picking up $116K.
No British players made the final day.
Event 64 - $1500 Mixed NLH/PLO, Day 3 of 3, 1058 entrants
Sebastian Langrock is the bracelet winner, collecting his second bracelet beating Ryan Laplante heads-up.
Laplante had the chip lead at the start of the day, and he and Langrock swapped that between themselves most of the day but when Langrock eliminated Victor Choupeaux in 3rd, the German (resident in Austria) took control and snuffed Laplante out inside 25 hands.
Esther Taylor had one of the best female results this series finishing 4th for $85K.
Event 65 - $1K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 1413 entrants
And another bracelet was confirmed here as Shai Zurr collected a second Israeli bracelet of the series in the Turbo.
It's Zurr's first, and he collected $223K which will convert into an awful lot of Shekels in a country where poker is still considered a game of chance and is illegal.
The runner-up was Serbian Ognjen Sekularac who led most of the way through the FT but came up one place short of the win. He collects $137K, and third was Alex Foxen for $98K.
I've got a little bit of an apology to make, I missed out Jonathan McCann from yesterday's report, a skim through the reports looking for GB names was obviously not good enough. McCann finished a fine 4th after being short stacked through the FT but laddered himself up to $71K.
Yiannis Liperis eventually ended up in 12th spot for $13K. and Andrew Teng 18th for $8K
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1956 entrants
The last of the $1500 NLH's has ended Day 1 with about 300 survivors.
Does anyone here watch "Britain's Got Talent"? I never thought I'd be asking that on a WSOP thread (or anywhere else to be honest). Anyway, in 2015, the act that finished 4th in the final was a group of "Dad dancers" called Old Men Grooving. One of them and their choreographer (according to Wikipedia) was David Welch. Well he's at the WSOP and shortly before the end of play was noted as having 42K chips.
There isn't a full end of day report yet but I hope he's got through (he's been on a table with two 3-time bracelet holders, Frank Kassela and Dutch Boyd)
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 1 of 4, TBA entrants
The only event I believe still in progress, on the final break with 2 levels left to play. Max Silver and Sam Trickett are among those who appear to have a decent stack.
The boards ae showing 187 entries so far, already a step up on last year's 184 with late reg sure to add a few more yet.
To start today
Event 68 - $3K NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, 3 Day Event
Event 66
308 was the final figure of players through Day 1 with Tommy Tran holding the chip lead from the wonderfully named Akin Tuna in second, and he first of a large number of Brits in third, Luke Marsh from Scunthorpe.
Waikiat Lee, Jack Ellwood, Jack Sambrook, Andrew Fleming, Tom Hall and Philip Rigby are all inside the top 100, with David Welch (as mentioned above) successfully navigating the latter levels to make it through.
Some well known pros through with Daniel Eichhorn (there's that double h again) the best of them in 9th
Event 67
103 players passed through Day of the High Roller PLO with Iraj Parvizi holding the lead for the UK. Max Silver in 7th, James Park in 29th, Sam Trickett in 54th and Richad Gryko in 92nd complete the UK contingent, and picking out a few more names Josh Beckley, James Obst, Brian Rast, Sylvain Loosli, Tom Cannuli & Juha Helppi all bagged chips.
Event 62 - $50K Poker Players Championship 6 Max, Day 5 of 5, 100 entrants
We're down to heads-up in the PPC and a very swingy heads-up match it has proven to be so far.
Paul Volpe's short stack didn't last long, and he was followed out in turn by Daniel Negreanu, Ivo Donev & Isaac Haxton.
That leaves Germany's Johannes Becker, and the UK's Elior Sion with the lead changing hands repeatedly.
There may even be an ex-Sky Poker TV analyst on the rail, as the shout "Welcome to Value Town" has been heard.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1956 entrants
With Sam Grafton's recent departure in 29th spot ($10893) it looks like the GB challenge in this one is down to just Ben Fitzgerald. Tom Hall was 45th for $8970, Luke Marsh picked up $7473 in 49th and Colin Lovelock was 67th collecting $5573.
"Britain's Got Talent" performer David Welch made the money and took home $2352 for 245th place.
26 are left as I type this.
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 2 of 4, 205 entrants
The High Roller PLO is on the last break of Day 2, and we still haven't burst the bubble. 32 remain and 31 will get paid.
Three Brits survive, all near the top of the standings - Max Silver, Iraj Parvizi and James Park.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1349 entrants
Very close to the end of Day 1 with 400-odd still standing.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 1 of 3, 419 entrants
Two levels to play, with 160 or so still active. Nowhere close to the bubble yet of course. Adam Owen looks to have one of the biggest stacks at this point, and Benny Glaser has been mentioned in dispatches too.
To start today
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, 3 Day Event
Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1 Day Event
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event
plus the last Day 1 of Event 19 (The Giant)
and you know what's next.....
Event 62
Guess what, it's another British Bracelet Alert. Elior Sion was up and then he was down in the heads-up match against Johannes Becker, but importantly he ended up, and won probably the most prestigious bracelet of the whole series.
The winner of a High Roller event at the August 2014 Sky Poker UKPC, he doesn't play much live at all and by the sounds of it doesn't intend that to change and will invest a proportion of his $1.4m or so in a business venture.
That's five British bracelets this year. Has that ever been achieved before?
Event 66
23 remain, and we have last year's November Niner Kenny Hallaert in the lead, ahead of Schulyer Thornton and Dylan Hortin.
I mentioned a couple of years ago about a player being from Chad, and Tikay re-used it in one of his video blogs, well we alledgedly have another one here - Wa ng Yiefi, but as he's from Shanghai it's the other Ch... country, China that should be showing.
The presence of Ben Fitzgerald in the latter stages has proved to be bogus and there is no British players left.
Event 67
In contrast, we do have 2 British players among the 20 remaining players in the High Roller PLO - Iraj Parvizi in the chip lead and James Park in 4th.
Max Silver's great week ended late in the evening with him busted in 22nd spo for $42393 and Jason Grey was 27th for $37776
Event 68
348 remain after Day 1 with the bubble set at 203 with a min-cash being worth $4496.
Chance Kornuth won't be thinking about a min-cash as he is the overnight chip leader but there is plenty of GB challengers not far behind - Charlie Carrel is 4th, Sergi Reixach 8th and Simon Appleby 9th.
Plenty of other Brits will be playing Day 2, including Seb Saffari who is getting his first mention this time around.
Event 69
Top Razzer so far is Matt Grapenthien, with a player who couldn't come from anywhere than Poland really with the name of Grzegorz Wyraz. Unfortunately the WSOP have placed his home town, Sosnowiec, in Portugal. Football fans will recognise Sosnowiec as the home town of four times Polish Cup winners Zaglebie Sosnowiec. Okay you have to be quite old and quite a football nerd to remember that name, but the fact is true regardless.
Benny Glaser sits inside the top 10 of the 102 remainers with some names very familiar to those who've been reading this thread through, Adam Owen & Jeff Duvall also still in.
Some other names who progressed include Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, James Obst, Mike Matusow and actor James Woods.
Heads up between Chris Klodnicki and Emile Schiff, they've just started a 15 minute break with Schiff holding about a 5:2 chip lead, aiming to get what I think would be the first ever bracelet for Jamaica
Event 67 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 205 entrants
With only 3 players left, this may well finish a day early.
Russian Alexey Rubin has the lead ahead of James Calderaro and Esther Taylor (who seems to have dropped the -Brady bit of her name)
It's Taylor's fourth top ten finish of the Series, but she's yet to win a bracelet (or any another tournament recorded on the Hendon Mob database)
Iraz Parvizi went out in 15th ($48K) while James Park was last Brit standingn in 11th for $70K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1349 entrants
Play still in progress with 42 left and despite the recent exits of Seb Seffari and John Conroy in 46th & 47th for $11K each, we still have two UK players in the hunt.
Simon Appleby from Darlington has a very decent stack while Scott Margereson (who has locked up his 5th cash of the WSOP) has a considerably shorter one.
Daniel Negreanu has put himself over the parapet again over the last couple of days, moaning about the Player of the Year points distribution (basically he says they don't award enough points to the events he plays in) but he's got another 62.1 points at least to add to his tally here which will move him up inside the Top 5.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 2 of 3, 419 entrants
British interest remains in this one too, as with the field down to two tables of 7, Benny Glaser still has chips. He's on the same table as Phil Hellmuth, still chasing that 15th bracelet.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 1 of 3, 718 entrants
Play has just concluded with the bubble having been burst about half an hour before the end of play.
Several well known names have perished - Annette Obrestad, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Melanie Weisner, Barbara Enright and Liv Boeree amongst them, but it looks like Vanessa Selbst is rolling along quite nicely.
No full results yet but if the reported chip counts can be believed (and it's not always that they can) Sonia Padovani and Katie Swift may well be among the 85 or so players making Day 2.
Event 71 - $1000 WSOP.com Online NLH, re-entry, 1312 entries
23 left partway through Level 27. I have no idea who any of the screen names are so I will return to this at the end.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, 3 Day Event
Late reg is still open so not a whole lot to report here just yet, we've just seen Ryan Hughes enter, and he's the man Daniel Negreanu is so eager to catch at the top of the Player of the Year standings, with the man in third-place in that race, John Monnette, already seated with a big stack in front of him.
Event 19 (The Giant), Day 1E
The last chance to enter the $365 NLH behemoth, with no less than 6 levels still to play today (but they are only 20 minute levels)
Not too much worth mentioning yet, except that another Player of the Year candidate, Chris Ferguson has just busted as has Will Kassouf.
Top Brit at the moment appears to be Ilana Belsky, who cashed a couple of times at Sky Poker UKPC events a couple of years ago.
To start today
Event 73 - $10K Main Event NLH Championship, multi-day event with 3 Day 1s
Event 66
They called it a night with the heads-up match still unfinished. Emile Schiff has about a 2:1 chip lead over Chris Klodnicki.
Event 67
The PLO High Roller is done and dusted within 3 days; James Calderaro took his first bracelet. He has a WPT title and a deep run in the ME to his credit (13th in 2009) but this is his biggest tournament win.
Alexey Rybin from Russia was 2nd and Esther Taylor 3rd. The top three prizes were $1.28m, $796K and $543K.
Event 68
37 eventually managed to made it through, with Chance Kornuth (looking for his second career bracelet) having the chip lead at the end of Day 2
He leads Germany's Konstantinos Nanos and another American James Gilbert in 3rd.
Simon Appleby is leading Brit in 9th, but Scott Margereson had a bit of a late surge and now lies 10th.
Daniel Negreanu's chase for his 7th bracelet and those all-important (to him at least) player of the year points comes back with the 28th biggest stack.
Event 69
Only 10 razzers remain, with David "ODB" Baker leading from Wendy Freedman and Brad Ruben.
In fourth place is the sole remaining British player, Benny Glaser, with 14-time bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth being Sonny Shortstack with less than 5 Big Bets.
Event 70
In my report above I listed two Brits that may have made Day 2, well Katie Swift fell just short but Sonia Padovani did make Day 2, in 28th place of the 85 survivors.
Even better, Deborah Worley-Roberts sits in second place overnight, and a third Brit has made it too - Gina Rossi in 70th spot.
Probably the biggest female name in poker, Vanessa Selbst is in a good position overnight but they're all chasing Parm Mehmi (who FT'ed this two years ago) who holds the chip lead at the end of the opening day.
Event 71
It's been undoubtedly a good year for India at the WSOP and Nipun Java has been at the forefront. He was part of the all-Indian tag team bracelet winners early on in the series, and now he's won the $1000 online bracelet under his alias "Javatinii"
Second went to Canadian Jason James with the best of the home players being Richard Tuhrin in 3rd.
Event 66 - $1500 NLH, Day A of 3, 1956 entrants
All over, after about 60 hands of the unscheduled 4th day. Chris Klodnicki is the bracelet winner, a rivered nut flush getting him a full double up to take the lead which he never relinquished.
He takes home over $428K, Emile Schiff will have to be satisfied with $264K.
Event 68 - $3K NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1349 entrants
On the first break of Day 3, and we've lost Daniel Negreanu among 6 eliminations leaving 31 players still involved.
Both Simon Appleby and Scott Margereson are still there, but have dropped down the leader board a bit, but Chance Kornuth still holds the lead, with almost double the stack of his nearest challenger.
Event 69 - $1500 Razz, Day 3 of 3, 419 entrants
Hasn't started yet, but at least the WSOP are now allocating to Wyraz to Poland rather than Portugal.
Event 70 - $10K Ladies NLH Championship, 90% discount for ladies, Day 2 of 3, 718 entrants
We've lost a dozen or so players so far today, and the good news is that the Brits all survive here too. There has been a small ladder so the current paypoint is $1845.
Event 72 - $10K 7 Card Stud Championship, Day 2 of 3, 88 entrants
Still to resume with just under half of the 29 remaining players making the money. First prize is a mouth-watering $245K
Event 73 - Main Event, see other thread for the time being.
To start today
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Event 68
Still in play at about 1:45am with Ryan van Sanford just having been eliminated in third place, leaving Chance Kornuth & Harrison Gimbel to fight it out heads-up, with the former having a significant chip lead.
Scott Margereson finished 31st for $15806 while Simon Appleby lasted 7 players longer and collected $19287
Event 69
With the first four players being eliminated fairly quickly, a very interesting FT ensured. Phil Hellmuth clocked up yet another FT to add to his collection, but he was knocked out in 6th, with the last British player, Benny Glaser finishing 5th ($27K)
Wendy Freedman had her best ever WSOP run to come fourth, and Brad Ruben followed in third.
This left David "ODB" Baker and Jason Gola, and the heads up match went on and on. For over 6 hours, and at times Gola was down to one Big Bet. Eventually Gola outlasted Baker and won the bracelet and $132K.
Event 70
Deborah Worley-Roberts entered Day 2 lying second in chips, and she has ended the day in exactly the same position. The big difference of course is that there are considerably fewer players left, just the five in fact.
Tasmanian Heidi May has 4 cashes already this series (and cashed last year's Main) and she is in pole position to win here as she is the chip leader with over Worley-Roberts' stack.
The other two British players were eliminated during Day 2, Gina Rossi in 70th for $1845 and Sonia Padovani 55th for $2040. $2040 was also the payout for 3-times bracelet holder Vannesa Selbst.
Event 72
In 2000 (yes 17 years ago), Chris Ferguson won a WSOP braclet in Stud with Perry Friedman 3rd. Fast forward to 2017, and with 7 left Perry Friedman leads the $10K Stud with Chris Ferguson second.
Others till in the mix include Shaun Deeb and player of the year contender John Monnette.
With only 14 players in the cash, no Brits made that stage.
Event 73
The biggest Day 1A field since 2013 (795) players took to the felt all with a dream of still being there in a fortnight's time holding a bracelet and sitting next to a huge pile of cash.
About 3/4 of the players have made Day 2A, but there isn't a full report on the WSOP site yet, so things are still a little provisional but it is Dane Morten Mortensen who vaulted to the top of the listings very late on.
Sam Grafton is one of the top few stacks (over 4 times the starting stack) and Barny Boatman rumbled along nicely after some early chipping up (although the 212K chip stack reported early in level 2 proved to be bogus).
Hopefully we will get a complete report so I can pick out any other British survivors.
Three former champions played Day 1A, reigning champ Qui Nguyen and Martin Jacobson moved on (although the Swede did drop down to 2000 or so chips at one point before recovering to 36800), unfortunately for Jerry Yang he did not.
Sam Grafton 232K
Sergi Reixach 160K
Barny Boatman 150K
Sebastian Saffari 115K
Patrick Leonard 103K
Raul Martinez 95K
Matthew Ashton 93K
Simon Appleby 92K
Daniel Barriocanal 84K
Nabil Mohamed 74K
Mitchell Johnson 71K
Tim Hickling 59K
Philip Long 58K
Steven Warburton 56K (he was the man who bust Jerry Yang)
Conor Beresford 55K
Alistair Hill 37K
Jason Gray 37K
James Akenhead 37K
Oysein Kristoffersen 32K
Anthony Forrest-Forsyth 31K
James Barron 27K
Tobias Hariefeld 25K
Jamie Brown 22K
Andreas Olympios 15K
Klas Lofberg 8K
576 players made Day 2.
Event 68 has also just ended
Harrison Gimbel scored a huge heads-up double-up with AQ against Chance Kornuth's AJ to more or less even up the stacks, and four hands later a cooler saw the tournament end in Gimble's favour as his pocket Queens were up against pocket 10s and the face cards held up.
Gimbel collects $645K and a bracelet, Kornuth a smidgen under $400K.
I believe this makes Gimbel a member of the poker Triple Crown club.
If anyone recognized this name from Barny's list;
Anthony Forrest-Forsyth 31K
He was the +1 of, I think, PokerBCity back in about 2008 or 2008.
Got a really lairy game, move moves than Pickfords.
Shocking clothes sense though, turned up in a dayglow pink t shirt, shorts and a bandana. Embarrassing really.
Event 70 - Deborah Worley-Roberts has already climbed one rung on the ladder with the elimination of Katie Ansorge, meaning she has now locked up at least $40K.
Event 72 is about to re-start, with Shaun Deeb coming back with just 1 Big Bet it's likely he will be the first elimination and leave us with six.
Event 19 - The Giant. Looks like i missed Day 2 of this yesterday! Whoops! Anyway it should finish today with just 27 players left. John Hutchinson, Hrair Yapoudjian & Ravi Raghavan are the top three stacks, with the best known players among the 27 are Eric Baldwin and the short stacked Ben Volpe. All this waffling is partly to gloss over the fact there is no British players among the 27, Andrew Christoforou the best of them back in 43rd for $6715.
She has 3.59, Day 2 chip leader Heidi May has under a million and Jana de la Carra just over half a million.
Julie Dang's dismissal in 4th has meant they all have now guaranteed at least a $57K payday, but DW-R must be in with a great chance of taking the bracelet and over $135K.
They're currently on a break.
Event 72 - As I predicted, Shaun Deeb's 1 Big Bet didn't last long so they're down to 6.
In Event 72, Bryce Yockey finished 6th for a little over $40K. leaving those two old Stud foes, Chris Ferguson and Perry Friedman as the top two stacks.
Event 19
Dieter Dechant is a local and has been dreaming of a bracelet for 25 years. A distant dream you may think, as a few weeks ago his total WSOP cashes totalled less than a grand.
Since then, he finished third in Event 31, the Seniors Event for $281K and has now exceeded that by collecting $291K by winning the Giant, the event that had 5 separate Day 1s on Friday nights throughout the series.
He beat the unpronouncable Canadian Hrair Yapoudjian (who played the FT draped in the Maple Leaf flag) heads-up with over 200 million in chips on the table.
Vera Kuhl from Germany was the third placed finisher.
Event 72
This is still ongoing with a long heads-up match between Chris Ferguson and Mike Wattel in progress, and stacks not far from even.
Ferguson hasn't won a bracelet since 2003 (of course he was absent from the WSOP for a number of years after his involvement in a certain poker site that collapsed), Wattel won his only bracelet back in the last millennium.