The $16024 payout level carnage wasn't finished yet as we also lost Adam Monaghan and Waikiat Lee at that stage.
Since then we've had the $17K level, Andrew King (showing as Iran, probably more like Ireland) Yiannis Liperis and Chi Zhang were casualties, as was early big stack Natasha Mercier, serial casher Ryan Hughes and Eric Blair (not that one)
Current payout is $18693 and we have 733 left in, with the only name I vaguely recognise among those out in recent times is Alan Cutler who was on the featured table and made quite an impression, not 100% favourable I must add, a couple of days ago.
Went a wander to stretch my legs and bumped into Sofia Lovgren, she has bust the Main Event.
She was going great guns and had around or over 1.5 million chips at one stage. She said that she had 3 big hands in quick succession and unfortunately lost with them all.
Marcel Luske seems to be gathering momentum and has a very healthy looking stack of chips sat in front of a green apple.
Just 4 of the WSOP main event tables are now located in the Amazon room, the rest I think are in the Brasilia room. As tables become free all players should be moved into the Brasilia.
P.S. Play has just concluded for the day in the main.
As mentioned above, Day 4 of the Main Event has come to a close with just under 300 players left. Still awaiting a full chip count but from the last reports, Charlie Carrel, JP Kelly, Richard Gryko, Paul vas Nunes & Max Silver were all still in for the UK, plus Greg Mueller, Marcel Luske, Vitaly Lunkin, Kathy Liebert, Chino Rheem, Jake Balsiger and Antoine Saout going for their 2nd FT and going to try and "do a Newhouse" by making back-to-back FTs, Kenny Hallaert.
As mentioned above, Day 4 of the Main Event has come to a close with just under 300 players left. Still awaiting a full chip count but from the last reports, Charlie Carrel, JP Kelly, Richard Gryko, Paul vas Nunes & Max Silver were all still in for the UK, plus Greg Mueller, Marcel Luske, Vitaly Lunkin, Kathy Liebert, Chino Rheem, Jake Balsiger and Antoine Saout going for their 2nd FT and going to try and "do a Newhouse" by making back-to-back FTs, Kenny Hallaert. Posted by FCHD
Once won a prize on a different site and part of that prize was a days coaching with aforementioned Kathy Liebert. A lovely woman who spoke so clearly about poker...wasted on me obvs.....
Event 73 - the Main Event Taking up from where I left off overnight on the Main
GB exits 580 Sadan Turker $22449 527 Luke Anthony $24867 518 Mark Gardner $24867 504 Kevin Williams $24867 416 George McDonald $27743 314 Liv Boeree $35267
Other notables to fall by the wayside - Allen Cunningham (of course he made his 8th ME cash putting him in very rarified company indeed), Gavin Smith, the powerful Brazilian pair of Thiago Nishijima & Andre Akkari, the last former champion Scotty Nguyen, Perry Friedman, Dieter Good (who wasn't quite good enough), Bernard Lee, Tony Gregg, Chris Vitch, Cate Hall, Matt Glantz, former big stack Rudolph Sawa, Faraz Jaka, Jared Jaffee, Jeff Lisandro (after serving a penalty for an altercation with Jack Effel, Sofia Lovgren, Melanie Wiesner (not a good couple of levels for the female pros) and Ismael Bojang
Enough on who's out, how about those who are left in?
297 in total, so were just a few eliminations away from the $40K payout level, and we have an Argentinian player at the top - Damian Salas, He leads Frenchman Sebastien Comel and Belgian Kenny Halleart in the top 3 (more on Hallaert shortly).
It is a very international top of the leader board, with only 1 American player in the top 13. The really good news is that 3 of those top 13 are British - JP Kelly (shown as John Kelly, from Bucks, Italy!) is 4th, Richard Gryko 5th and Paul Otto 13th.
Behind those, Thissa Desilva and Paul vas Nunes sit inside the top 25, Matthew Moss, Artan Dedusha, Charlie Carrel, Sergi Reixach, Joel Ettedgi & Jack Sinclair making it more than 10% of the top 100 sporting Union Jacks on the report list.
There's more too, John Hesp is 106th, Tom Middleton 141st, Max Silver 149th, Thomas Ward 152nd, Guy Taylor 175th one spot ahead of Tobias Hariefeld, Robert Cowen 256th, Daniel Rudd 276th and finally Alistair Hill is 284th with 270K chips.
I mentioned Hallaert above, he is one of two of last years November Nine still trying for a repeat performance (well not the November Nine this year, but you get my drift) as Michael Ruane also sits with a nice stack for Day 5. Other former November Niners include 3rd placed finishers Antoine Saout, Jake Balsiger & Ben Lamb, sixth placers Eoghan O'Dea & Tom Cannuli and 7th placed in 2008 Chino Rheem.
Mickey Craft who entered the Day with one of the biggest stacks, was very late taking his seat in the morning, allegedly somewhat the worse for wear, but he still managed to basically double his stack during the day and bagged 2.4m. I don't expect him to make the same mistake again today.
Event 74 The play by play in the Little One for One Drop is dealt with elsewhere, but for the record it's 100 players exactly who come back for Day 3, with Daniel Dizenzo from Japan who bagged the biggest stack. He's from Sussex but not Sussex on our South Coast, but Sussex, New Jersey. xxx Brits (including the Sky Trio) are still involved, Andrew Hedley in 35th, Tin Lee 64th, Jordan Cordy-Nice 65th, Craig McDowell 67th and Seb Saffari 86th so 60% of the GB challenge is "our" players.
Two time bracelet winner Dan Heimiller is the top of the well known names just ahead of recent bracelet winner James Calderaro, Matt Berkey is in midfield (after doing some of the ME commentary for Poker Go) as is Matt Affleck, while Chris Ferguson (who Tikay must have missed) and Upeshka De Silva in the bottom 10 stacks.
One player who I had a small laugh at his/her name (I know I shouldn't, but...) is 85th player Je Oh, which got the "Slumdog Millionaire" song going round and round in my head.
Best of luck to the Sky triumvirate in Day 3 play, one more bustout ladders the field up to almost $4K, and then the rungs come fast and furious with a payout raise every 9 eliminations, with the rises becoming very chunky indeed.
Main down to 244 players, and sorry Maggiesdad, Kathy Liebert is among the first 50-odd casualties. But the good news is that, remarkably, none of those casualties are from GB (Ireland did lose one, Andrew Grimason)
Next ladder isn't until position 225, when they payout jumps to $46K
While most of our focus here understandably is on the Droplet, the Main Event continues relentlessly in the Brasilia room. After no British casualties in the first 80 players out, since then there's been what our friends in financial circles might call a "correction" and we've had a run of UK players dropping out.
216. Daniel Rudd 212. Joel Ettedgi 210. Matthew Moss 204. Robert Cowen 203. Thomas Ward 200. Paul Otto
All at the $46K mark.
Other departures included David "The Dragon" Pham, Davidi Kitai and Henry Tran
195 left, still a long way from the next ladder to $53K-odd.
Event 73 - The Main Event The field for the Main is down to double-figures, only 85 players will come back for Day 6 to play down to 27.
Mark Newhouse's run to the FT in both 2013 and 2014 was incredible, well we can have not just one player repeat that fact as both Kenny Hallaert and Michael Ruane from last year's November Nine are still active. Hallaert is in fact making his third successive deep run, and ESPN ran a stat last night that of the last 17 days he's played in the Main Event, he's only been knocked out twice, both times by the eventual Champion.
Robin Hegele from Germany holds the chip lead with a smidgin under 10 million, and when I say a smidgin, I do mean a smidgin as he has 9990000 in chips.
Joshua Horton is second and in third place we find the first Brit, recent bracelet winner Max Silver.
Several other Brits through as the tension builds too. Paul vas Nunes is 16th, Richard Gryko 21st, Artan Dedusha 37th, John Hesp 40th, Thiassa Desilva 64th, and Jack Sinclair 69th.
That means we lost a number of UK players since my last update:
193. Alistair Hill $46096 175. Guy Taylor $46096 165. Sergi Reixach $46096 164. Tobias Hariefeld $46096
And late in the night, three well known British pros said goodbye to the ME 109. JP Kelly $53247 95. Tom Middleton $61929 88. Charlie Carrel $72514 (lost with Kings against Aces)
Other notable eliminations in the top 200 195. Dominik Nitsche 191. Greg Mueller 172. Eoghan O'Dea 159. Randy Lew - Tikay did an entertaining interview with him on the old Sky Poker TV a few years ago 148. Max Pescatori 146. Mickey Craft - the life and soul of the feature tables over the last couple of days 126. Ankush Mandavia 108. Jessica Ngu 107. Jake Balsiger 105. Yuanyuan Li - the last female player in the ME departing disappointingly early 96. Iverson Snuffer - mainly for having a great name 87. Vitali Lunkin
Apart from those mentioned above, there's not much "star quality" left in the final 85. Antoine Saout is another going for his second ME FT (in 2009 he got beat by Joe Cada's two outer which had it gone the other way would probably have left him heads-up with Darvin Moon for the title). Ben Lamb likewise is a former November Niner and Conor Drinan, Marcel Luske, Dario Sammartino and Martin Finger are well enough known but none will set ESPN's hearts racing if they want casual viewers to tune in for the denoument.
Event 74 - Droplet It's been well reported on the other thread how well our final three Sky Poker Qualifiers did, thanks for the ride guys and thanks to Tikay and all the rest of those present in the Rio for keeping us so well updated
Play has ended for the day with 12 players left and we have a huge chip leader - Matt Berkey who has 12 million chips. His nearest challengers Guiseppe Pantaleo and Martin Lesjo are in the low 5-million range and then no-one else has more than 3 and a half million.
British bustouts on Day 3
93 Tin Lee $3997 81 Sebastian Saffari $5500 47 Craig McDowell $9484 35 Andrew Hedley $14241 32 Raul Martinez Requena $14241 25 Jordan Cordy-Nice $17674
Sorry, Craig I don't know about that but surely ESPN will have filmed more than they have shown so far (e.g. the bubble bursting) so perhaps there will be some highlights shows
Today there is a 4 hour telecast on BT Sport 3 from 7pm to 11pm but the first 30 minutes will have to be talking heads (hopefully not Maria Ho again) as the TV coverage will be on a 30 minute delay.
There's a nice interview with John Hesp on Poker News just now. It's full of commercial advert so I can't post a link here but you shouldn't have too much trouble searching pokernews.com for it. They've also got a very odd interview with Jonathan Dwek, who comes back for Day 6 with a short stack and has been playing dressed up a Superman.
And there's also a picture of Liv Boeree and a cactus. I'll leave it there.
Main down to 244 players, and sorry Maggiesdad, Kathy Liebert is among the first 50-odd casualties. But the good news is that, remarkably, none of those casualties are from GB (Ireland did lose one, Andrew Grimason) Next ladder isn't until position 225, when they payout jumps to $46K Posted by FCHD
First break of the day in the Main and 85 have become 67 and the payouts have already risen from $72K to $101K. The good news is that we've only lost one of the British contingent, Artem Dedusha. Or have we? ESPN showed a player leaving the arena with Dedusha's name on the caption, but WSOP.com don't show him on the list of exited players but do list him with over 3 million chips.
Less confusing is that four British players are in the Top 15 of stacks. Jack Sinclair, Paul vas Nunes, Richard Gryko and Max Silver all have over 7 million, with Silver and vas Nunes displaying their talent on the featured table.
Just moved to a featured table is John Hesp, he of the mix-and-matched (or is that mismatched) shirts and jackets. He seems to be having the time of his life and sits nicely in midfield at this point. Lastly Thissa Desilva hasn't been featured at all yet and sits with a comparitively small stack.
All four of the previous November Niners still survive, with Michael Ruane, Antoine Saout & Kenny Halleart sitting next to each other on one table and Ben Lamb picking up chips regularly on another.
Robin Hegele started the day as chip leader, well he's dropped down a couple of places and has been replaced at the top by Daniel Ott.
The next hour (the final hour of the ESPN coverage for Day 6, I don't do Poker Go) has seen the event lose another 11 players meaning we are down to 56 and we're almost at another pay jump which would go from $121K to $145K
The big news from this hour was the demise of one of last year's November Nine, Kenny Hallaert at the hands of John Hesp. The hand wasn't featured in full, but the Belgian rivered trip aces, but unfortunately for him, that gave Hesp a Full House. According to ESPN this was Hallaert's 11th WSOP cash in an event of over 6000 entries.
We did lose one more British player in this section of play, and it's no surprise it was Thissa Desilva as he had been nursing a short stack for some time.
The leaderboard isn't quite as Brit heavy as it was an hour ago, Richard Gryko is the only one who has maintained his position as Max Silver, Jack Sinclair and Paul vas Nunes have dropped a bit.
One of those hands where if it came up online, some idiot would be shouting "Rigged" in the chip box saw the elimination of Kevin Song in 59th. Song 4-bet shoved with pocket fives and was looked up by Joseph Michael with pocket nines. The flop of 9-5-9 meant Song, despite having a full house, was drawing dead on the flop.
I'll pick up from here, and round up the droplet in the morning
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Since then we've had the $17K level, Andrew King (showing as Iran, probably more like Ireland) Yiannis Liperis and Chi Zhang were casualties, as was early big stack Natasha Mercier, serial casher Ryan Hughes and Eric Blair (not that one)
Current payout is $18693 and we have 733 left in, with the only name I vaguely recognise among those out in recent times is Alan Cutler who was on the featured table and made quite an impression, not 100% favourable I must add, a couple of days ago.
$18693
724 Peter Akery
702 Niall Farrell
673 Jonathan Prince
$20411
661 Adam Bonham
No real "names" out in the last 80 or so, 651 left in.
She was going great guns and had around or over 1.5 million chips at one stage. She said that she had 3 big hands in quick succession and unfortunately lost with them all.
Just 4 of the WSOP main event tables are now located in the Amazon room, the rest I think are in the Brasilia room. As tables become free all players should be moved into the Brasilia.
P.S. Play has just concluded for the day in the main.
Taking up from where I left off overnight on the Main
GB exits
580 Sadan Turker $22449
527 Luke Anthony $24867
518 Mark Gardner $24867
504 Kevin Williams $24867
416 George McDonald $27743
314 Liv Boeree $35267
Other notables to fall by the wayside - Allen Cunningham (of course he made his 8th ME cash putting him in very rarified company indeed), Gavin Smith, the powerful Brazilian pair of Thiago Nishijima & Andre Akkari, the last former champion Scotty Nguyen, Perry Friedman, Dieter Good (who wasn't quite good enough), Bernard Lee, Tony Gregg, Chris Vitch, Cate Hall, Matt Glantz, former big stack Rudolph Sawa, Faraz Jaka, Jared Jaffee, Jeff Lisandro (after serving a penalty for an altercation with Jack Effel, Sofia Lovgren, Melanie Wiesner (not a good couple of levels for the female pros) and Ismael Bojang
Enough on who's out, how about those who are left in?
297 in total, so were just a few eliminations away from the $40K payout level, and we have an Argentinian player at the top - Damian Salas, He leads Frenchman Sebastien Comel and Belgian Kenny Halleart in the top 3 (more on Hallaert shortly).
It is a very international top of the leader board, with only 1 American player in the top 13. The really good news is that 3 of those top 13 are British - JP Kelly (shown as John Kelly, from Bucks, Italy!) is 4th, Richard Gryko 5th and Paul Otto 13th.
Behind those, Thissa Desilva and Paul vas Nunes sit inside the top 25, Matthew Moss, Artan Dedusha, Charlie Carrel, Sergi Reixach, Joel Ettedgi & Jack Sinclair making it more than 10% of the top 100 sporting Union Jacks on the report list.
There's more too, John Hesp is 106th, Tom Middleton 141st, Max Silver 149th, Thomas Ward 152nd, Guy Taylor 175th one spot ahead of Tobias Hariefeld, Robert Cowen 256th, Daniel Rudd 276th and finally Alistair Hill is 284th with 270K chips.
I mentioned Hallaert above, he is one of two of last years November Nine still trying for a repeat performance (well not the November Nine this year, but you get my drift) as Michael Ruane also sits with a nice stack for Day 5. Other former November Niners include 3rd placed finishers Antoine Saout, Jake Balsiger & Ben Lamb, sixth placers Eoghan O'Dea & Tom Cannuli and 7th placed in 2008 Chino Rheem.
Mickey Craft who entered the Day with one of the biggest stacks, was very late taking his seat in the morning, allegedly somewhat the worse for wear, but he still managed to basically double his stack during the day and bagged 2.4m. I don't expect him to make the same mistake again today.
Event 74
The play by play in the Little One for One Drop is dealt with elsewhere, but for the record it's 100 players exactly who come back for Day 3, with Daniel Dizenzo from Japan who bagged the biggest stack. He's from Sussex but not Sussex on our South Coast, but Sussex, New Jersey. xxx Brits (including the Sky Trio) are still involved, Andrew Hedley in 35th, Tin Lee 64th, Jordan Cordy-Nice 65th, Craig McDowell 67th and Seb Saffari 86th so 60% of the GB challenge is "our" players.
Two time bracelet winner Dan Heimiller is the top of the well known names just ahead of recent bracelet winner James Calderaro, Matt Berkey is in midfield (after doing some of the ME commentary for Poker Go) as is Matt Affleck, while Chris Ferguson (who Tikay must have missed) and Upeshka De Silva in the bottom 10 stacks.
One player who I had a small laugh at his/her name (I know I shouldn't, but...) is 85th player Je Oh, which got the "Slumdog Millionaire" song going round and round in my head.
Best of luck to the Sky triumvirate in Day 3 play, one more bustout ladders the field up to almost $4K, and then the rungs come fast and furious with a payout raise every 9 eliminations, with the rises becoming very chunky indeed.
Next ladder isn't until position 225, when they payout jumps to $46K
216. Daniel Rudd
212. Joel Ettedgi
210. Matthew Moss
204. Robert Cowen
203. Thomas Ward
200. Paul Otto
All at the $46K mark.
Other departures included David "The Dragon" Pham, Davidi Kitai and Henry Tran
195 left, still a long way from the next ladder to $53K-odd.
The field for the Main is down to double-figures, only 85 players will come back for Day 6 to play down to 27.
Mark Newhouse's run to the FT in both 2013 and 2014 was incredible, well we can have not just one player repeat that fact as both Kenny Hallaert and Michael Ruane from last year's November Nine are still active. Hallaert is in fact making his third successive deep run, and ESPN ran a stat last night that of the last 17 days he's played in the Main Event, he's only been knocked out twice, both times by the eventual Champion.
Robin Hegele from Germany holds the chip lead with a smidgin under 10 million, and when I say a smidgin, I do mean a smidgin as he has 9990000 in chips.
Joshua Horton is second and in third place we find the first Brit, recent bracelet winner Max Silver.
Several other Brits through as the tension builds too. Paul vas Nunes is 16th, Richard Gryko 21st, Artan Dedusha 37th, John Hesp 40th, Thiassa Desilva 64th, and Jack Sinclair 69th.
That means we lost a number of UK players since my last update:
193. Alistair Hill $46096
175. Guy Taylor $46096
165. Sergi Reixach $46096
164. Tobias Hariefeld $46096
And late in the night, three well known British pros said goodbye to the ME
109. JP Kelly $53247
95. Tom Middleton $61929
88. Charlie Carrel $72514 (lost with Kings against Aces)
Other notable eliminations in the top 200
195. Dominik Nitsche
191. Greg Mueller
172. Eoghan O'Dea
159. Randy Lew - Tikay did an entertaining interview with him on the old Sky Poker TV a few years ago
148. Max Pescatori
146. Mickey Craft - the life and soul of the feature tables over the last couple of days
126. Ankush Mandavia
108. Jessica Ngu
107. Jake Balsiger
105. Yuanyuan Li - the last female player in the ME departing disappointingly early
96. Iverson Snuffer - mainly for having a great name
87. Vitali Lunkin
Apart from those mentioned above, there's not much "star quality" left in the final 85. Antoine Saout is another going for his second ME FT (in 2009 he got beat by Joe Cada's two outer which had it gone the other way would probably have left him heads-up with Darvin Moon for the title). Ben Lamb likewise is a former November Niner and Conor Drinan, Marcel Luske, Dario Sammartino and Martin Finger are well enough known but none will set ESPN's hearts racing if they want casual viewers to tune in for the denoument.
Event 74 - Droplet
It's been well reported on the other thread how well our final three Sky Poker Qualifiers did, thanks for the ride guys and thanks to Tikay and all the rest of those present in the Rio for keeping us so well updated
Play has ended for the day with 12 players left and we have a huge chip leader - Matt Berkey who has 12 million chips. His nearest challengers Guiseppe Pantaleo and Martin Lesjo are in the low 5-million range and then no-one else has more than 3 and a half million.
British bustouts on Day 3
93 Tin Lee $3997
81 Sebastian Saffari $5500
47 Craig McDowell $9484
35 Andrew Hedley $14241
32 Raul Martinez Requena $14241
25 Jordan Cordy-Nice $17674
Today there is a 4 hour telecast on BT Sport 3 from 7pm to 11pm but the first 30 minutes will have to be talking heads (hopefully not Maria Ho again) as the TV coverage will be on a 30 minute delay.
And there's also a picture of Liv Boeree and a cactus. I'll leave it there.
Less confusing is that four British players are in the Top 15 of stacks. Jack Sinclair, Paul vas Nunes, Richard Gryko and Max Silver all have over 7 million, with Silver and vas Nunes displaying their talent on the featured table.
Just moved to a featured table is John Hesp, he of the mix-and-matched (or is that mismatched) shirts and jackets. He seems to be having the time of his life and sits nicely in midfield at this point. Lastly Thissa Desilva hasn't been featured at all yet and sits with a comparitively small stack.
All four of the previous November Niners still survive, with Michael Ruane, Antoine Saout & Kenny Halleart sitting next to each other on one table and Ben Lamb picking up chips regularly on another.
Robin Hegele started the day as chip leader, well he's dropped down a couple of places and has been replaced at the top by Daniel Ott.
The big news from this hour was the demise of one of last year's November Nine, Kenny Hallaert at the hands of John Hesp. The hand wasn't featured in full, but the Belgian rivered trip aces, but unfortunately for him, that gave Hesp a Full House. According to ESPN this was Hallaert's 11th WSOP cash in an event of over 6000 entries.
We did lose one more British player in this section of play, and it's no surprise it was Thissa Desilva as he had been nursing a short stack for some time.
The leaderboard isn't quite as Brit heavy as it was an hour ago, Richard Gryko is the only one who has maintained his position as Max Silver, Jack Sinclair and Paul vas Nunes have dropped a bit.
One of those hands where if it came up online, some idiot would be shouting "Rigged" in the chip box saw the elimination of Kevin Song in 59th. Song 4-bet shoved with pocket fives and was looked up by Joseph Michael with pocket nines. The flop of 9-5-9 meant Song, despite having a full house, was drawing dead on the flop.
I'll pick up from here, and round up the droplet in the morning