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WSOP waffle, news, goss & Tweets, Day 6
Tikay10
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Event #4: The Reunion No-Limit Hold'em ($500 entry)
This played to a finish. With 13,000 entries (players could multi re-enter) it exceeded it's $5 million guarantee with ease. Incidentally, it was quite odd seeing a WSOP event with a guarantee. Not sure I can recall that previously.
It was completely dominated by USA players who are complete strangers to us, so I won't list all the cashees - there were 1,820 of them. Here's the final table payouts though - not bad money for a $500 jobbie.
1 Long Ma United States $513,604
2 Giuliano Lentini United States $317,352
3 Max Tavepholjalern United States $241,766
4 Alex Vazquez United States $185,281
5 Michael Eddy United States $142,847
6 Anthony Cass United States $110,794
7 Jugal Daterao United States $86,462
8 Derrick Stoebe United States $67,886
9 Adrian Buckley United States $53,625
Selected others...
USA - 19th Ryan Laplante, $18,117
GB (Leicester) - 113th Ketan Patel, $3,850
USA - 200th, Barry Greenstein, $3,350
GB (Cardiff) - 201st, Javier Fernandez, $3,350
GB (London) - 393rd, Tom Eady $3,100
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Event #7: Dealers Choice 6-Handed ($1,500 entry)
This ended with a rare victory for a Canadian, who busted every player at the FT bar one.
1 Jesse Lally Canada $97,915
2 Andrew “AJ” Kelsall United States $60,514
3 Ray Henson United States $40,062
4 Ian O’Hara United States $27,147
5 Adam Kipnis United States $18,839
6 Christopher Lindner United States $13,396
No Brits cashed.
Norman Chad was 21st & Phil Hellmuth was 18th.
Event #8: No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack ($600 entry)
216 returned for Day 2, & only 5 these 5 remained when stumps were drawn;
1 Zhi Wu Malden, MA, US 46,100,000 Amazon / 1 / 3
2 Chrishan Sivasundaram Markham, ON, CA 31,500,000 Amazon / 1 / 1
3 Ryan Chan San Francisco, CA, US 29,200,000 Amazon / 1 / 4
4 Nicholas Zautra Tempe, AZ, US 15,000,000 Amazon / 1 / 2
5 Ari Mezrich Las Vegas, NV, US 13,900,000 Amazon / 1 / 5
650 have already cashed, but only ONE Brit amongst them, & he resided in the most un-Brit name of Atanas Pavlov from London, but who sounds a little Russian to me.
This photo was taken early in the tourney. What a photo, what a room. Anyone jealous?
Event #9: Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship ($10,000 entry)
18 left in this;
1 Andrew Yeh LAS VEGAS, NV, US 995,000 Amazon / 2 / 7
2 Ari Engel US 650,000 Amazon / 1 / 3
3 Christopher Vitch Phoenix, AZ, US 640,000 Amazon / 2 / 6
4 Ben Landowski HARTLAND, WI, US 630,000 Amazon / 1 / 5
5 Ken Aldridge Pleasant Garden, NC, US 595,000 Amazon / 1 / 8
6 Aditya Prasetyo Cambridge, MA, US 560,000 Amazon / 1 / 9
7 Eddie Blumenthal Stoughton, WI, US 555,000 Amazon / 2 / 4
8 Phil Hellmuth Palo Alto, CA, US 550,000 Amazon / 1 / 6
9 Khamar Xaytavone WENDOVER, NV, US 485,000 Amazon / 1 / 7
10 Paul Volpe WEST CHESTER, PA, US 445,000 Amazon / 2 / 9
11 Michael Noori TARZANA, CA, US 370,000 Amazon / 2 / 2
12 Robert Mizrachi Miami, FL, US 340,000 Amazon / 2 / 8
13 George Wolff PORTLAND, OR, US 325,000 Amazon / 1 / 1
14 Zachary Milchman Delray Beach, FL, US 315,000 Amazon / 1 / 4
15 Alan Sternberg NORTH BELLMORE, NY, US 200,000 Amazon / 2 / 5
16 Brian Rast Las Vegas, NV, US 165,000 Amazon / 2 / 3
17 Jerry Wong Davie, FL, US 145,000 Amazon / 1 / 2
18 Dylan Linde LAS VEGAS, NV, US 80,000 Amazon / 2 / 1
21 get paid, & Ryan Laplante (pictured below) exited 21st for $16,000. He's a superb 4 card player.
Event #10: Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em (freezeout) ($1,000 entry)
This is extraordinary, 1,641 runners & it was all over in a day, though it was a 16 hour day. Guess the clue is in the title.
Rather oddly, WSOP don't seem to have done the traditional winner's photo.
1 Michael Perrone United States $152,173
2 Pierre Calamusa France $94,060
3 Jeremiah Fitzpatrick United States $69,454
4 Scott Podolsky United States $51,787
5 Paul Dhaliwal Canada $38,999
6 John Moss United States $29,657
7 Paul Jain United States $22,783
8 Badr Imejjane United States $17,680
9 Gabriel Ramos United States $13,861
Our GB/Russian friend cashed again, 47th for $2,899.
246 cashed but I don't see any other Brits amongst them.
Event #11: Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship ($25,000 entry)
57 entries & 16 remain.
Amongst those still in the hunt are Jason Koon, Galen Hall, & David Peters.
Jason Koon, incidentally, was announced as a GG Poker Global Ambassador earlier this week.
Events 12 & 13 are under way, but no point wasting time on them yet awhile, so we'll leave those until tomorrow.
Uh-oh. This was just minutes ago.
Just as well poker players are patient, tolerant & understanding of these occasional glitches.
This is the WSOP Introduction music, played just before shuffle up & deal of every event. Sends shivers down my spine just listening to it.
Meanwhile, over at The Orleans......
Players pay thousands to enter the WSOP, & the Dealers get $9 an hour.
That's it for now, if I see anything else I'll post as & when.
Matusow gets worse.....
I'm well jel.
Ryan Reiss was encouraging people to apply as well
They are definitely struggling to get enough Dealers. Think I read that Caesars have closed their poker rooms at Ballys & Planet Hollywood for the duration of the WSOP to free up Dealers.
If they paid a better wage, of course...
Shaun Deeb encouraging players to tip big so they still have dealers by the main event