Updates Event 41 Eighteen players survived the late action with Loren Klein (who won a bracelet last year) as the big stack ahead of Chun Law and Sergej Barbarez.
TJ Cloutier is 5th and Jeff Lisandro bottom of the list of survivors.
Event 42 Four tables of six will reconvene for Day 3, and it is one of the UK's finest, Charlie Carrel who holds the Day 2 lead.
The other three British players I mentioned above all went late on - Wei in 39th, Trickett in 37th and Grafton 35th, but there is still some Union Flags fluttering on the chip listings alongside Carrell - Chi Zhang is 3rd and Romain Lewis 16th.
Event 44 If the Little One for One Drop gets referred to as the Droplet, I was going to refer to the small HORSE tournament as the Pony, but then I thought better of it.
The field amounted to 399 players, and 156 of them were still involved at close of play. Brazilian Andre Akkari is the chip leader ahead of Chris Sensoli and Nikolay Fai, but a lot of big names are still in - Player of the year candidates James Obst & Daniel Negreanu, both Mr & Mrs Jason Mercier, 14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, former ME winner Greg Raymer etc. etc. etc.
Just two Brits though - Stephen Chidwick & Usman Siddique.
Updates Event 41 Eighteen players survived the late action with Loren Klein (who won a bracelet last year) as the big stack ahead of Chun Law and Sergej Barbarez. TJ Cloutier is 5th and Jeff Lisandro bottom of the list of survivors. Event 42 Four tables of six will reconvene for Day 3, and it is one of the UK's finest, Charlie Carrel who holds the Day 2 lead. The other three British players I mentioned above all went late on - Wei in 39th, Trickett in 37th and Grafton 35th, but there is still some Union Flags fluttering on the chip listings alongside Carrell - Chi Zhang is 3rd and Romain Lewis 16th. Event 44 If the Little One for One Drop gets referred to as the Droplet, I was going to refer to the small HORSE tournament as the Pony, but then I thought better of it. The field amounted to 399 players, and 156 of them were still involved at close of play. Brazilian Andre Akkari is the chip leader ahead of Chris Sensoli and Nikolay Fai, but a lot of big names are still in - Player of the year candidates James Obst & Daniel Negreanu, both Mr & Mrs Jason Mercier, 14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, former ME winner Greg Raymer etc. etc. etc. Just two Brits though - Stephen Chidwick & Usman Siddique. Posted by FCHD
OK, first, I didn't finish off Event 40 yesterday:
Event 40 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo, Day 3 of 3, 595 entrants Ernest Bohn is virtually a 68-year old rookie. Playing only his 4th WSOP tournament ever, he ended up winning it after beating William Kohler (who had also finished second in the equivalent event back in 2009) heads-up after a long and gruelling day 3.
Hal Rotholz had earlier been eliminated in 3rd spot.
Event 41 - $1500 PLO, Day 3 of 3, 870 entrants Loren Klein had been among the leaders throughout the second half of the tournament, and he duly converted his advantage collect his second bracelet in consecutive years, plus the small matter of $231K.
Chun Law and Danny Wong finished second and third with Poker Hall of Fame member TJ Cloutier having to bow out in 10th for just $12K.
Event 42 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 3 of 3, 332 entrants Another event that has concluded with the FT being over in double-quick time (just 58 hands total and 9 hands heads-up)
The bracelet is on the wrist of Dmitry Yurasov, his first and he also gleams a huge first prize of over 3/4 of a million dollars.
Tommy Chen was his defeated heads-up opponent, and Jacob Powers ranked third.
Of the Brits, they both finished in the teens for $30922, Chi Zhang 13th and Charlie Carrel 15th.
Event 43 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1025 entrants With several UK players through to Day 1, there was always a decent change of getting at least one player through to the final day, but unfortunately it wasn't to be.
With the demise of Tom Middleton midway through the day, all the British players were gone.
Eight of the 12 table winners were American, and there is one player each from Australia, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania.
Event 44 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 399 entrants In play during what I think is the last level of the night with 24 survivors, and as with Event 43, no UK representation - Usman Siddique's 44th place as good as it got.
Event 45 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 1 of 3, 505 entrants Fast action has reduced 505 players to just 49 who will move on to Day 2, led by Mexican Diego Sanchez.
Three UK players in the top 10 - Conor Beresford, Max Silver & Chris Brammer plus well known names Frank Kassela, Aditya Agarwal and Yevgeniy Timoshenko, so the turbo pace certainly isn't a lottery.
Two more British names can be found lower down, and very good players they are two, former November Niner James Akenhead and recent bracelet winner Chris Moorman.
Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, tba entrants Still in play, I think in the last level of the night but details are pretty sketchy at this point. No sign of Tikay in any chip listings though.
Event 19 - $365 The Giant NLH, unlimited re-entry, Day 1C Also still play, having just burst the Day 1C bubble.
To start today Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s) Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
I was going to post this mid-afternoon, but I started reading one of Haysie's threads, and well, you know, zzzzzzzzz...
Updates Event 44 The 24 became 18 by the time chips were bagged and tagged, and Tom Koral had a heater of a last two levels to leave himself chip leader.
Some distance behind come Phil ****, Marcus Mizzi (brother of Sorel) and Gabe Paul with Hong Kong's David Steicke fifth.
The biggest name (and biggest ego?) of the last 18 is Mike "The Mouth" Matusow.
Event 46 151 remain, so we're 26 places from the bubble, with Spain's Marcos Fernandez having a large chip lead over Belgian Miguel Use (who I'm sure could the source for numerous puns if he wins) is 2nd and Irishman John O'Shea (presumably not the international footballer) third.
Tikay calls me Barney, but the real Barny, Mr Boatman, is in the house, with a decent stack to take into day 2.
Also through from these shores Warren Colman, MIkki Hirvonen and Robert Price (go Cornwall!), plus Calvin Anderson, Ben Yu, Fabrice Soulier, Leif Force, Barry Greenstein and David "ODB" Baker.
Event 19 Flight 1C of the Giant saw 1606 players reduced to 146 at the end of play. A decent number of GB players through, headed by Niall Farrell who usually plays much bigger WSOP events than a $365 tournament.
Sam Welbourne, James Coates & Steven Wilkie are also showing as GB in the reports, all chasing flight 1C leader Todd Louer.
Event 43 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1025 entrants Despite having a large number of pro players getting to Day 2 and 3, it was a complete amateur who gathered the spoils.
Hendon Mob has just one previous recorded cash for Ben Maya, a $657 score back in 2011, but the Israeli real estate agent, in Las Vegas on business, outlasted everyone and claimed the bracelet and over $257K.
With his business trip over he was due to fly home on Sunday, but will now hang around until Monday to appear at the bracelet ceremony.
Thomas Boivin from Belgium finished second ($159K) and Tim West was third for $115K.
Event 44 - $3K HORSE, Day 3 of 3, 399 entrants Playing from 18 down to 1 in the $3K HORSE didn't take too long, and the final table especially was over rather rapidly as Matthew Schreiber dominated to take the bracelet and $256K.
After a shaky start, he accumulated chips partway through the day and then rolled over all his opponents to take his first bracelet.
Phil **** couldn't overcome a 3:1 deficit entering heads-up play and had to settle for second ($158K) with David Steicke 3rd for $107K.
Event 45 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 505 entrants BritishBraceletAlert - I would have thought that Chris Brammer was already on the honour roll of WSOP bracelet holders, but no, he has only 2 FTs both dating back to 2012.
He's put that right now by winning Event 45 and doubtless some of the very vocal rail will get to see some of the $527K top prize.
Jett Schencker (who looks about 14) got it in good in the final hand with AJ against Brammers Q10 suited, but a 10 on the flop was good enough to seal the deal.
Earlier, Yevgeniy Timosheno bust in 3rd with the best of the other British players being Chris Moorman in 18th ($17K) with both Max Silver & James Akenhead getting $12K for busting in 34th and 35th respectively.
Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 830 entrants Twenty one remain for the final day with Millard Hale, Miguel Use and Kevin Saul the top 3 stacks.
Barry Greenstein is the top well-known player in 5th, but we're more interested in the players in 8th (Robert Price - when will the WSOP get to spelling Cornwall correctly?) and 20th (Barny Boatman). Good luck to both for the finale.
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s), TBA entrants A little confusing as the end of day update says there were 2676 entrants but elsewhere it says 4409. I'm assuming the former is correct for now.
Anyway 768 will enjoy Sunday off and wait for the Day 1B qualifiers to join them on Monday headed by Allan Rabinovich with Heidi May second.
Max Silver (Element 47) got a mention above, and of course there was Jamie Gold (element 79) a few years ago, and now we've got element 51 here as Anna Antimony lies third overnight.
You've got to look all they way down to 75th for the top Brit - Nicholas Todd, with Jonathan Barusta, Jeff Kimber, Fahd Bennani Smires, Matt Davenport, Stefan Fabian, Paul Vas Nunes, Peter Robinson, David Crane, Daniel Pickard (ex Sky Poker player) and Karen White all bringing back stacks of descending sizes.
25/06/17 Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, 3 Day Event Lots of big names among the 48 survivors and it's always nice to see a Brit in the lead - Benny Glaser is the man in question after a late night elimination of Brian Rast.
Mack Lee holds second place overnight, with Todd Brunson in third. Two more GB players are included - Richard Ashby & Stephen Chidwick, and also through are multiple bracelet winners Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel and recent bracelet winner James Obst.
Updates Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, 3 Day Event plus Day 1B of the Monster Stack
Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 3 of 3, 830 entrants Unfortunately it is not a Cornish Bracelet Alert as Robert Price was the very first player eliminated on Day 3 (21st, $6245)
Barry Grenstein went out in 14th, and the last Brit standing Barny Boatman followed in 12th ($12034) meaning that the FT didn't contain that many well known names.
Nathan Gamble didn't care, as the aptly-named player from Texas stormed through to take his first bracelet and over $223K. Heads up didn't last long, all of 1 hand as Gamble scoopio-ed Adam Hendrix ($137K) with Ray Henson being eliminated in 3rd for $96K
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s), 6716 entrants A bigger day 1B field than 1A saw 1272 bag up chips, with Matt Downs having the "Monster Stack" when the two day 1 totals are compared.
Two Davids, Olson and Sabbah fill the net two places with 4 Californians in the top 7.
Brits you say? OK then - Luke Boynton, Daniel Barriocanal and Mark Segal sit comfortably inside the Top 100, Jan Collado, Mark McGovern, Andrew Purser, Steven Morris, Ben Jackson, Simon Deadman, Simon Williams, Dan McAulay, Miguel Riera, Kevin O'Leary, Sergio Espina and Gareth Howard all inside the top half.
Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants Just 11 players move forward to Day 3, wih Andrew Kelsall taking the lead late on from Jameson Painter and Christopher Vitch who had swapped the chip lead between then for a couple of houts.
A couple of former ME winners are still involved - Jonathan Duhamel and a certain Mr Phil Hellmuth going for his 15th bracelet.
We still have UK representation too - Benny Glaser sits mid pack, 6th of 11.
Stephen Chidwick bust before the cash, but Richard Ashby made 15th and collected $16800
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 1 of 3, 630 entrants A field of 50 more than last year entered this event, meaning 95 of the remaining 127 will cash.
Four players who have won bracelets in the last few days are among them, Nadar Kakhmazov, Dmitry Yurasov, James Obst and Loren Klein, as are Jeff Madson, David Williams and Mike Sexton.
All of them however are chasing Brazilian Guilherme Rodrigues who stacked over 250K chips with Chino Rheem and Gionni Demers the only others over 200K.
Roberto Romanello is the highest placed UK name in 13th, with Jeffrey Duvall in 63rd and Stephen Chidwick, playing his second event of the day near the bottom in 121st.
To start today Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
Five events in play during Monday, and each and every one of them is still in play as I type this, so I'm afraid this is a pretty sketchy update
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 4, 6716 entrants 242 left as I type with among them Maurice Hawkins, TJ Cloutier, Yevgeniy Timoshenko & Oli Schemion
About 40 minutes left on the day
Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants This is heads up and we still have British interest. Benny Glaser, aiming for his third bracelet, is battling Chris Vitch for the silverware
Phil Hellmuth's quest for his 15th ended in 9th spot while Jonathan Duhamel busted in 5th.
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 1 of 3, 630 entrants Two levels left on Day 2, and we have 27 players still in, and we still have British interest in this one too - Roberto Romanello still has chips, though he recently lost a big hand to Gionni DeMers.
DeMers currently has one of the bigger stacks, alongside Chino Rheem and Rudolph Sawa.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1927 entrants This one is in the final level of Day 1 with the field already having been reduced to about 400.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event, tba entrants And a fifth event still in progress, as per usual the $10K events start later and late reg is therefore open later so we don't have a confirmed field size yet.
To start today Event 52 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, 3 Day Event
Every year, just about this time in the series, I start to hit a lull. That hasn't happened yet, but what has happened i that time has become a little scarcer but I'll not neglect the thread.
Updates Event 47 Eliminations slowed down a little in the last level, and 233 players eventually bagged chips to move on to Day 3.
Scott Baumstein from New York is the leader, ahead of a trio of Euros - Adrien Allain (France), Claas Segebrecht (Hungary) and Alessaandro Esposito (Italy).
Simon Deadman is top Brit in 21st and he has for company Daniel Laming, Ben Jackson, Daniel Barriocanal, Nicholas Todd, Luke Boynton, Samuel Welbourne, Stevie Watts, and John Bonadies, so a decent sprinkling of UK names.
The eventual winner will pick up just over a million players.
Event 48 It's not a British Bracelet Alert as Benny Glaser lost the heads-up match to Chris Vitch, who duly won his second bracelet in consecutive years. Vitch started the heads-up with a lead, Glaser managed to take the lead but couldn't hold on to it.
Vitch wins $320K, Glaser $197K.
Event 49 Nineteen players have made the final day and despite not having a bracelet, Chino Rheem has over $8m in live cashes (and was a member of the very first November Nine in 2008).
He is the chip leader, with Louis Calvo second and Daniel Reijmer third.
We do have a British presence in the Nineteen, Swansea's Roberto Romanello, albeit with a comparitively short stack, as has 4-time bracelet winner and 2006 Player of the Year Jeff Madsen.
Event 50 Will Berry (no relation to Mary I presume) is the Day 1 chip leader of the $1500 Bounty event. He has Brandon Cantu on his tail, and Fred Berger is not far behind either.
264 players go through, and there's several UK names amongst them. Martynas Vitkauskas has the biggest stack, lying just inside the Top 50. Yudhishter Jaswal, Pablo Fernandez, Marc Foggin, Chun Yam, Ronnie Ballantyne, Matas Cimbolas, Sam Grafton, Thomas Hall, Mian Wei, Alex Goulder and Scott Margereson complete the British challenge.
Event 51 207 started, 116 remain.
Let's start with the GB names for a change. Steve Jelinek lies in 36th and leads his compatriots Robert Cowen, Joel Ettedgi, Timothy Flanders and Richard Ashby.
Up to though, it's an Italian in pole position - Dario Sammartino. Ryan Miller and Sean Remz are second and third, with Josh Arieh, Tommy Chen and David "ODB" Baker all inside the top 10 and John Monnette and Fabrice Soulier not far outside it.
Player of the Year leader Ray Henson is also among the qualifiers, and brings a decent stack back for Day 2.
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 3 of 4, 6716 entrants What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? Yes, it is the monster stack held by Stoyan Obreshkov containing over 11 million chips.
He is the only man in 8 figure with huge-field specialist Stanley Lee second with 8.9m. Lee has finished in the top 40 of this once and the Millionaire Maker twice before.
No British players among the 20 left, John Bonadies went out in 25th ($37K) and Steven Morris 41st for $24K.
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 3 of 3, 630 entrants Who wouldn't want to live in a place called Sunny Isles Beach? Sounds idyllic. That's where bracelet winner Luis Calvo is from and he will be taking a bracelet and $362K back to Florida with him.
Rudoplh Sawa from the less-idyllic sounding Commerce Township, Indiana was second and Mark Reilly from Ireland third.
The only British player through to the final day, Roberto Romanello, was the second elimination of the day to end up in 18th spot for $15531.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1927 entrants Twenty nine players are still in contention, with Harrison Gimble having the overnight chip lead, but it is the player in second place that we're more interested in, as it is Marc Foggin from Newcastle. He's got British company inside the top 10 as well, for Thomas Hall sits in 7th place.
All players left have locked up $6854 (plus any bounties they may have accumulated) with a FT being worth a minimum of $21K and the winner receiving a massive $266K.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 207 entrants Play is ongoing with 16 left, but no British players - no UK names even made the cash. Update later.
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1580 entrants Almost burst the bubble on Day 1, 246 through meaning 9 players will turn up for Day 2 but go home empty handed.
The chip leader is from Malta and goes under the name of Kework Besiktasliyan. Definitely another one I had to cut and paste.
He leads Kyle Muelrath and Parker Drew at the end of Day 1 with the top GB player being Pratik Ghatge in 9th.
Rainer Kempe, Jack Sinclair, Matthew Moss, Alexander Elias, Ross McLeod, Jack Allen, Andreas Olympios, Robert Tinnion, Sergi Reixach, Alex Goulder and John Bousfield are the rest of a strong GB contingent.
Others through include Jason Mercier and Barry Greenstein who has 9 cashes at this year's series already. Poker a young man's game?
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 1 of 3, 256 entrants Just finished Day 1 with preliminary result showing 77 through, headed by Juha Helppi. Full update to follow.
To start today Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 3 Day Event
There's also a nice piece on the WSOP site about Howard Smith, who is making a career change from being a derivatives trader to become a maths teacher (or as he WSOP put it, a math teacher) and how, as it is term time, he will be unable to come to the WSOP for the forseeable future. I can't link to it but it' well worth a look.
Another great update FCHD a wee question never having played live how do they keep track of the bounties taken in event 50 Posted by weecheez1
As you know Cheeezy, I'm not a fan of Bounty Hunters personally, but I believe the WSOP system is that every player has a disc or chip, and whoever busts them gets that.
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread : As you know Cheeezy, I'm not a fan of Bounty Hunters personally, but I believe the WSOP system is that every player has a disc or chip, and whoever busts them gets that. Posted by Tikay10
Yes, and it's a flat rate of $500 (for this event at least). Former November Niner Joseph Cheong accumulated $5K for his 10 bounties before being knocked out.
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread : Yes, and it's a flat rate of $500 (for this event at least). Former November Niner Joseph Cheong accumulated $5K for his 10 bounties before being knocked out. Posted by FCHD
Ty that makes sense to used to sky doing adding up for us lol
In Response to Re: The WSOP 2017 Thread : As you know Cheeezy, I'm not a fan of Bounty Hunters personally, but I believe the WSOP system is that every player has a disc or chip, and whoever busts them gets that. Posted by Tikay10
Thanks TK hope your trip is going good and remember keep it tight gl gl
Updates Event 51 After John Monnette bust in late night action, 15 players retained an interest as we enter the final day of Event 51
Josh Arieh (2004 ME 3rd place and 2 bracelets) has almost 1.7m chips with nearest challenger Bruce Yamron having only just over a million.
WSOP Player of the Year leader Ray Henson and Chris Ferguson both bagged medium-sized stacks, while the last female player is Kate Hoang who lost a heads-up battle in a 3K PLO8 event last year.
Event 53 I think I first came across Juha Helppi when he was playing a made-for-TV heads up tournament several years ago when playing Victoria Coren.
He's here now and bagged the chip lead after Day 1 with (a revised figure of) 73 players coming back for Day 2.
Justin Thurlow and Ayaz Mahmood are second and third, with Event 7 winner Jesse Martin in 5th and Event 13 winner Frank Kassela in 6th.
Max Silver is top Brit in 24th, with Benny Glaser (fresh from a second place in event 48) and Stu Rutter also qualifying for Day 2
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 4 of 4, 6716 entrants The biggest monster is Brian Yoon, who won Event 47 by amassing all 100 million or so chips in play to take his first bracelet and over a million dollars.
Yoon busted the last four players including runner-up Ihar Soika, who had earlier been the dominant presence at the FT when busting the first 5 eliminations, with Stanley Lee ending in 3rd.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1927 entrants Still in play with 7 players left headed by Bryan Emory, James Gilbert and Tobias Peters.
Marc Foggin from Tyneside started the day right up there with the big stacks, but couldn't catch a break, lost several big hands in quick succession and bust out in 19th for $8428 while Tom Hall collected the same payout for his 27th spot.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 207 entrants Play ongoing with 5 left. Josh Arieh has the chip lead but the looming presence of Chris Ferguson in third won't be a popular winner.
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1580 entrants Now time for some Union Jacks to be waved, although somewhat tentatively for now. Three of the flutter on the chip listings as play continues with 25 left.
Alexander Elias lies 9th, Jack Allen 10th and Rainer Kempe 13th. Also still involved - Jason Mericer and former November Niner Phil Collins.
They're all chasing Canadian James Florence who has a mighty stack at this point.
Other GB cashes - Pratik Ghatge 31st ($9107), Ross McLeod 47th ($6316), Andreas Olympios 81st ($4018), Alex Goulder 105th ($2884), Matthew Moss 154th ($2477), Robert Tinnion 182nd and Jack Sinclair 184th (both $2346) and min-cashes of $2254 for Sergi Reixach & John Bousfield.
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 256 entrants They've just redrawn to 2 tables, and we have British interest late in this one too as Max Silver is not only in contention, but he is the chip leader.
Event 11 winner David Bach is among the other 11 players, but Stuart Rutter busted before the cash.
Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 428 entrants Day 1 play has just ended with preliminary indications of 186 or so qualifiers, which I exepct to reduce by a few when the full results are posted.
Some big stacks listed as belonging to Sorin Drajneanu, Andjelko Andrejevic & Brandon Shack-Harris, and someone who has perhaps become better known for a prop-bet game than his actual poker skills, Johnny Lodden.
A late double-up has also put Sam Trickett in a more stable position.
Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 298 entrants For once, the late event wasn't the 10K event. Two levels to play and already 2/3 of the field have walked away from their tables disappointed.
Among those listed as still being inolved is Barbara Enright, who won her first bracelet when Tikay was still a young man and still is the only female player to make the ME FT, back in 1995.
To start today Event 56 - $5K NLH, 4 Day Event Event 57 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 3 Day Event Less than 20 events to go now...
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Event 41
Eighteen players survived the late action with Loren Klein (who won a bracelet last year) as the big stack ahead of Chun Law and Sergej Barbarez.
TJ Cloutier is 5th and Jeff Lisandro bottom of the list of survivors.
Event 42
Four tables of six will reconvene for Day 3, and it is one of the UK's finest, Charlie Carrel who holds the Day 2 lead.
The other three British players I mentioned above all went late on - Wei in 39th, Trickett in 37th and Grafton 35th, but there is still some Union Flags fluttering on the chip listings alongside Carrell - Chi Zhang is 3rd and Romain Lewis 16th.
Event 44
If the Little One for One Drop gets referred to as the Droplet, I was going to refer to the small HORSE tournament as the Pony, but then I thought better of it.
The field amounted to 399 players, and 156 of them were still involved at close of play. Brazilian Andre Akkari is the chip leader ahead of Chris Sensoli and Nikolay Fai, but a lot of big names are still in - Player of the year candidates James Obst & Daniel Negreanu, both Mr & Mrs Jason Mercier, 14-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, former ME winner Greg Raymer etc. etc. etc.
Just two Brits though - Stephen Chidwick & Usman Siddique.
Event 40 - $1500 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo, Day 3 of 3, 595 entrants
Ernest Bohn is virtually a 68-year old rookie. Playing only his 4th WSOP tournament ever, he ended up winning it after beating William Kohler (who had also finished second in the equivalent event back in 2009) heads-up after a long and gruelling day 3.
Hal Rotholz had earlier been eliminated in 3rd spot.
Event 41 - $1500 PLO, Day 3 of 3, 870 entrants
Loren Klein had been among the leaders throughout the second half of the tournament, and he duly converted his advantage collect his second bracelet in consecutive years, plus the small matter of $231K.
Chun Law and Danny Wong finished second and third with Poker Hall of Fame member TJ Cloutier having to bow out in 10th for just $12K.
Event 42 - $10K 6 Max NLH Championship, Day 3 of 3, 332 entrants
Another event that has concluded with the FT being over in double-quick time (just 58 hands total and 9 hands heads-up)
The bracelet is on the wrist of Dmitry Yurasov, his first and he also gleams a huge first prize of over 3/4 of a million dollars.
Tommy Chen was his defeated heads-up opponent, and Jacob Powers ranked third.
Of the Brits, they both finished in the teens for $30922, Chi Zhang 13th and Charlie Carrel 15th.
Event 43 - $1500 Shootout NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1025 entrants
With several UK players through to Day 1, there was always a decent change of getting at least one player through to the final day, but unfortunately it wasn't to be.
With the demise of Tom Middleton midway through the day, all the British players were gone.
Eight of the 12 table winners were American, and there is one player each from Australia, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania.
Event 44 - $3K HORSE, Day 2 of 3, 399 entrants
In play during what I think is the last level of the night with 24 survivors, and as with Event 43, no UK representation - Usman Siddique's 44th place as good as it got.
Event 45 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 1 of 3, 505 entrants
Fast action has reduced 505 players to just 49 who will move on to Day 2, led by Mexican Diego Sanchez.
Three UK players in the top 10 - Conor Beresford, Max Silver & Chris Brammer plus well known names Frank Kassela, Aditya Agarwal and Yevgeniy Timoshenko, so the turbo pace certainly isn't a lottery.
Two more British names can be found lower down, and very good players they are two, former November Niner James Akenhead and recent bracelet winner Chris Moorman.
Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 1 of 3, tba entrants
Still in play, I think in the last level of the night but details are pretty sketchy at this point. No sign of Tikay in any chip listings though.
Event 19 - $365 The Giant NLH, unlimited re-entry, Day 1C
Also still play, having just burst the Day 1C bubble.
To start today
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
Updates
Event 44
The 24 became 18 by the time chips were bagged and tagged, and Tom Koral had a heater of a last two levels to leave himself chip leader.
Some distance behind come Phil ****, Marcus Mizzi (brother of Sorel) and Gabe Paul with Hong Kong's David Steicke fifth.
The biggest name (and biggest ego?) of the last 18 is Mike "The Mouth" Matusow.
Event 46
151 remain, so we're 26 places from the bubble, with Spain's Marcos Fernandez having a large chip lead over Belgian Miguel Use (who I'm sure could the source for numerous puns if he wins) is 2nd and Irishman John O'Shea (presumably not the international footballer) third.
Tikay calls me Barney, but the real Barny, Mr Boatman, is in the house, with a decent stack to take into day 2.
Also through from these shores Warren Colman, MIkki Hirvonen and Robert Price (go Cornwall!), plus Calvin Anderson, Ben Yu, Fabrice Soulier, Leif Force, Barry Greenstein and David "ODB" Baker.
Event 19
Flight 1C of the Giant saw 1606 players reduced to 146 at the end of play. A decent number of GB players through, headed by Niall Farrell who usually plays much bigger WSOP events than a $365 tournament.
Sam Welbourne, James Coates & Steven Wilkie are also showing as GB in the reports, all chasing flight 1C leader Todd Louer.
Despite having a large number of pro players getting to Day 2 and 3, it was a complete amateur who gathered the spoils.
Hendon Mob has just one previous recorded cash for Ben Maya, a $657 score back in 2011, but the Israeli real estate agent, in Las Vegas on business, outlasted everyone and claimed the bracelet and over $257K.
With his business trip over he was due to fly home on Sunday, but will now hang around until Monday to appear at the bracelet ceremony.
Thomas Boivin from Belgium finished second ($159K) and Tim West was third for $115K.
Event 44 - $3K HORSE, Day 3 of 3, 399 entrants
Playing from 18 down to 1 in the $3K HORSE didn't take too long, and the final table especially was over rather rapidly as Matthew Schreiber dominated to take the bracelet and $256K.
After a shaky start, he accumulated chips partway through the day and then rolled over all his opponents to take his first bracelet.
Phil **** couldn't overcome a 3:1 deficit entering heads-up play and had to settle for second ($158K) with David Steicke 3rd for $107K.
Event 45 - $5K NLH 30-minute levels, Day 2 of 2, 505 entrants
British Bracelet Alert - I would have thought that Chris Brammer was already on the honour roll of WSOP bracelet holders, but no, he has only 2 FTs both dating back to 2012.
He's put that right now by winning Event 45 and doubtless some of the very vocal rail will get to see some of the $527K top prize.
Jett Schencker (who looks about 14) got it in good in the final hand with AJ against Brammers Q10 suited, but a 10 on the flop was good enough to seal the deal.
Earlier, Yevgeniy Timosheno bust in 3rd with the best of the other British players being Chris Moorman in 18th ($17K) with both Max Silver & James Akenhead getting $12K for busting in 34th and 35th respectively.
Event 46 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or better, Day 2 of 3, 830 entrants
Twenty one remain for the final day with Millard Hale, Miguel Use and Kevin Saul the top 3 stacks.
Barry Greenstein is the top well-known player in 5th, but we're more interested in the players in 8th (Robert Price - when will the WSOP get to spelling Cornwall correctly?) and 20th (Barny Boatman). Good luck to both for the finale.
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s), TBA entrants
A little confusing as the end of day update says there were 2676 entrants but elsewhere it says 4409. I'm assuming the former is correct for now.
Anyway 768 will enjoy Sunday off and wait for the Day 1B qualifiers to join them on Monday headed by Allan Rabinovich with Heidi May second.
Max Silver (Element 47) got a mention above, and of course there was Jamie Gold (element 79) a few years ago, and now we've got element 51 here as Anna Antimony lies third overnight.
You've got to look all they way down to 75th for the top Brit - Nicholas Todd, with Jonathan Barusta, Jeff Kimber, Fahd Bennani Smires, Matt Davenport, Stefan Fabian, Paul Vas Nunes, Peter Robinson, David Crane, Daniel Pickard (ex Sky Poker player) and Karen White all bringing back stacks of descending sizes.
25/06/17 Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, 3 Day Event
Lots of big names among the 48 survivors and it's always nice to see a Brit in the lead - Benny Glaser is the man in question after a late night elimination of Brian Rast.
Mack Lee holds second place overnight, with Todd Brunson in third. Two more GB players are included - Richard Ashby & Stephen Chidwick, and also through are multiple bracelet winners Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, former ME winner Jonathan Duhamel and recent bracelet winner James Obst.
Updates
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, 3 Day Event
plus Day 1B of the Monster Stack
Unfortunately it is not a Cornish Bracelet Alert as Robert Price was the very first player eliminated on Day 3 (21st, $6245)
Barry Grenstein went out in 14th, and the last Brit standing Barny Boatman followed in 12th ($12034) meaning that the FT didn't contain that many well known names.
Nathan Gamble didn't care, as the aptly-named player from Texas stormed through to take his first bracelet and over $223K. Heads up didn't last long, all of 1 hand as Gamble scoopio-ed Adam Hendrix ($137K) with Ray Henson being eliminated in 3rd for $96K
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 5 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s), 6716 entrants
A bigger day 1B field than 1A saw 1272 bag up chips, with Matt Downs having the "Monster Stack" when the two day 1 totals are compared.
Two Davids, Olson and Sabbah fill the net two places with 4 Californians in the top 7.
Brits you say? OK then - Luke Boynton, Daniel Barriocanal and Mark Segal sit comfortably inside the Top 100, Jan Collado, Mark McGovern, Andrew Purser, Steven Morris, Ben Jackson, Simon Deadman, Simon Williams, Dan McAulay, Miguel Riera, Kevin O'Leary, Sergio Espina and Gareth Howard all inside the top half.
Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants
Just 11 players move forward to Day 3, wih Andrew Kelsall taking the lead late on from Jameson Painter and Christopher Vitch who had swapped the chip lead between then for a couple of houts.
A couple of former ME winners are still involved - Jonathan Duhamel and a certain Mr Phil Hellmuth going for his 15th bracelet.
We still have UK representation too - Benny Glaser sits mid pack, 6th of 11.
Stephen Chidwick bust before the cash, but Richard Ashby made 15th and collected $16800
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 1 of 3, 630 entrants
A field of 50 more than last year entered this event, meaning 95 of the remaining 127 will cash.
Four players who have won bracelets in the last few days are among them, Nadar Kakhmazov, Dmitry Yurasov, James Obst and Loren Klein, as are Jeff Madson, David Williams and Mike Sexton.
All of them however are chasing Brazilian Guilherme Rodrigues who stacked over 250K chips with Chino Rheem and Gionni Demers the only others over 200K.
Roberto Romanello is the highest placed UK name in 13th, with Jeffrey Duvall in 63rd and Stephen Chidwick, playing his second event of the day near the bottom in 121st.
To start today
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 47 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, Day 2 of 4, 6716 entrants
242 left as I type with among them Maurice Hawkins, TJ Cloutier, Yevgeniy Timoshenko & Oli Schemion
About 40 minutes left on the day
Event 48 - $10K 7 Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 125 entrants
This is heads up and we still have British interest. Benny Glaser, aiming for his third bracelet, is battling Chris Vitch for the silverware
Phil Hellmuth's quest for his 15th ended in 9th spot while Jonathan Duhamel busted in 5th.
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 1 of 3, 630 entrants
Two levels left on Day 2, and we have 27 players still in, and we still have British interest in this one too - Roberto Romanello still has chips, though he recently lost a big hand to Gionni DeMers.
DeMers currently has one of the bigger stacks, alongside Chino Rheem and Rudolph Sawa.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1927 entrants
This one is in the final level of Day 1 with the field already having been reduced to about 400.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, 3 Day Event, tba entrants
And a fifth event still in progress, as per usual the $10K events start later and late reg is therefore open later so we don't have a confirmed field size yet.
To start today
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, 3 Day Event
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, 3 Day Event
Updates
Event 47
Eliminations slowed down a little in the last level, and 233 players eventually bagged chips to move on to Day 3.
Scott Baumstein from New York is the leader, ahead of a trio of Euros - Adrien Allain (France), Claas Segebrecht (Hungary) and Alessaandro Esposito (Italy).
Simon Deadman is top Brit in 21st and he has for company Daniel Laming, Ben Jackson, Daniel Barriocanal, Nicholas Todd, Luke Boynton, Samuel Welbourne, Stevie Watts, and John Bonadies, so a decent sprinkling of UK names.
The eventual winner will pick up just over a million players.
Event 48
It's not a British Bracelet Alert as Benny Glaser lost the heads-up match to Chris Vitch, who duly won his second bracelet in consecutive years. Vitch started the heads-up with a lead, Glaser managed to take the lead but couldn't hold on to it.
Vitch wins $320K, Glaser $197K.
Event 49
Nineteen players have made the final day and despite not having a bracelet, Chino Rheem has over $8m in live cashes (and was a member of the very first November Nine in 2008).
He is the chip leader, with Louis Calvo second and Daniel Reijmer third.
We do have a British presence in the Nineteen, Swansea's Roberto Romanello, albeit with a comparitively short stack, as has 4-time bracelet winner and 2006 Player of the Year Jeff Madsen.
Event 50
Will Berry (no relation to Mary I presume) is the Day 1 chip leader of the $1500 Bounty event. He has Brandon Cantu on his tail, and Fred Berger is not far behind either.
264 players go through, and there's several UK names amongst them. Martynas Vitkauskas has the biggest stack, lying just inside the Top 50. Yudhishter Jaswal, Pablo Fernandez, Marc Foggin, Chun Yam, Ronnie Ballantyne, Matas Cimbolas, Sam Grafton, Thomas Hall, Mian Wei, Alex Goulder and Scott Margereson complete the British challenge.
Event 51
207 started, 116 remain.
Let's start with the GB names for a change. Steve Jelinek lies in 36th and leads his compatriots Robert Cowen, Joel Ettedgi, Timothy Flanders and Richard Ashby.
Up to though, it's an Italian in pole position - Dario Sammartino. Ryan Miller and Sean Remz are second and third, with Josh Arieh, Tommy Chen and David "ODB" Baker all inside the top 10 and John Monnette and Fabrice Soulier not far outside it.
Player of the Year leader Ray Henson is also among the qualifiers, and brings a decent stack back for Day 2.
What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? Yes, it is the monster stack held by Stoyan Obreshkov containing over 11 million chips.
He is the only man in 8 figure with huge-field specialist Stanley Lee second with 8.9m. Lee has finished in the top 40 of this once and the Millionaire Maker twice before.
No British players among the 20 left, John Bonadies went out in 25th ($37K) and Steven Morris 41st for $24K.
Event 49 - $3K 6-Max PLO, Day 3 of 3, 630 entrants
Who wouldn't want to live in a place called Sunny Isles Beach? Sounds idyllic. That's where bracelet winner Luis Calvo is from and he will be taking a bracelet and $362K back to Florida with him.
Rudoplh Sawa from the less-idyllic sounding Commerce Township, Indiana was second and Mark Reilly from Ireland third.
The only British player through to the final day, Roberto Romanello, was the second elimination of the day to end up in 18th spot for $15531.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1927 entrants
Twenty nine players are still in contention, with Harrison Gimble having the overnight chip lead, but it is the player in second place that we're more interested in, as it is Marc Foggin from Newcastle. He's got British company inside the top 10 as well, for Thomas Hall sits in 7th place.
All players left have locked up $6854 (plus any bounties they may have accumulated) with a FT being worth a minimum of $21K and the winner receiving a massive $266K.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 2 of 3, 207 entrants
Play is ongoing with 16 left, but no British players - no UK names even made the cash. Update later.
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, Day 1 of 3, 1580 entrants
Almost burst the bubble on Day 1, 246 through meaning 9 players will turn up for Day 2 but go home empty handed.
The chip leader is from Malta and goes under the name of Kework Besiktasliyan. Definitely another one I had to cut and paste.
He leads Kyle Muelrath and Parker Drew at the end of Day 1 with the top GB player being Pratik Ghatge in 9th.
Rainer Kempe, Jack Sinclair, Matthew Moss, Alexander Elias, Ross McLeod, Jack Allen, Andreas Olympios, Robert Tinnion, Sergi Reixach, Alex Goulder and John Bousfield are the rest of a strong GB contingent.
Others through include Jason Mercier and Barry Greenstein who has 9 cashes at this year's series already. Poker a young man's game?
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 1 of 3, 256 entrants
Just finished Day 1 with preliminary result showing 77 through, headed by Juha Helppi. Full update to follow.
To start today
Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, 3 Day Event
There's also a nice piece on the WSOP site about Howard Smith, who is making a career change from being a derivatives trader to become a maths teacher (or as he WSOP put it, a math teacher) and how, as it is term time, he will be unable to come to the WSOP for the forseeable future. I can't link to it but it' well worth a look.
Yes, and it's a flat rate of $500 (for this event at least). Former November Niner Joseph Cheong accumulated $5K for his 10 bounties before being knocked out.
Event 51
After John Monnette bust in late night action, 15 players retained an interest as we enter the final day of Event 51
Josh Arieh (2004 ME 3rd place and 2 bracelets) has almost 1.7m chips with nearest challenger Bruce Yamron having only just over a million.
WSOP Player of the Year leader Ray Henson and Chris Ferguson both bagged medium-sized stacks, while the last female player is Kate Hoang who lost a heads-up battle in a 3K PLO8 event last year.
Event 53
I think I first came across Juha Helppi when he was playing a made-for-TV heads up tournament several years ago when playing Victoria Coren.
He's here now and bagged the chip lead after Day 1 with (a revised figure of) 73 players coming back for Day 2.
Justin Thurlow and Ayaz Mahmood are second and third, with Event 7 winner Jesse Martin in 5th and Event 13 winner Frank Kassela in 6th.
Max Silver is top Brit in 24th, with Benny Glaser (fresh from a second place in event 48) and Stu Rutter also qualifying for Day 2
The biggest monster is Brian Yoon, who won Event 47 by amassing all 100 million or so chips in play to take his first bracelet and over a million dollars.
Yoon busted the last four players including runner-up Ihar Soika, who had earlier been the dominant presence at the FT when busting the first 5 eliminations, with Stanley Lee ending in 3rd.
Event 50 - $1500 Bounty NLH, Day 3 of 3, 1927 entrants
Still in play with 7 players left headed by Bryan Emory, James Gilbert and Tobias Peters.
Marc Foggin from Tyneside started the day right up there with the big stacks, but couldn't catch a break, lost several big hands in quick succession and bust out in 19th for $8428 while Tom Hall collected the same payout for his 27th spot.
Event 51 - $10K Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better Championship, Day 3 of 3, 207 entrants
Play ongoing with 5 left. Josh Arieh has the chip lead but the looming presence of Chris Ferguson in third won't be a popular winner.
Event 52 - $1500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1580 entrants
Now time for some Union Jacks to be waved, although somewhat tentatively for now. Three of the flutter on the chip listings as play continues with 25 left.
Alexander Elias lies 9th, Jack Allen 10th and Rainer Kempe 13th. Also still involved - Jason Mericer and former November Niner Phil Collins.
They're all chasing Canadian James Florence who has a mighty stack at this point.
Other GB cashes - Pratik Ghatge 31st ($9107), Ross McLeod 47th ($6316), Andreas Olympios 81st ($4018), Alex Goulder 105th ($2884), Matthew Moss 154th ($2477), Robert Tinnion 182nd and Jack Sinclair 184th (both $2346) and min-cashes of $2254 for Sergi Reixach & John Bousfield.
Event 53 - $3K 6-Max Limit Hold'em, Day 2 of 3, 256 entrants
They've just redrawn to 2 tables, and we have British interest late in this one too as Max Silver is not only in contention, but he is the chip leader.
Event 11 winner David Bach is among the other 11 players, but Stuart Rutter busted before the cash.
Event 54 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, Day 1 of 3, 428 entrants
Day 1 play has just ended with preliminary indications of 186 or so qualifiers, which I exepct to reduce by a few when the full results are posted.
Some big stacks listed as belonging to Sorin Drajneanu, Andjelko Andrejevic & Brandon Shack-Harris, and someone who has perhaps become better known for a prop-bet game than his actual poker skills, Johnny Lodden.
A late double-up has also put Sam Trickett in a more stable position.
Event 55 - $1500 Seven Card Stud, Day 1 of 3, 298 entrants
For once, the late event wasn't the 10K event. Two levels to play and already 2/3 of the field have walked away from their tables disappointed.
Among those listed as still being inolved is Barbara Enright, who won her first bracelet when Tikay was still a young man and still is the only female player to make the ME FT, back in 1995.
To start today
Event 56 - $5K NLH, 4 Day Event
Event 57 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better, 3 Day Event
Less than 20 events to go now...