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WSOP Videos, waffle, news, goss & Tweets, Day 10
Tikay10
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A slightly different approach today. I much appreciate all the comments & advice as to how we can maybe attract more views & so make doing the thread daily worthwhile.
Less of the "boring" results, more vids & Tweets.
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Here's an amazing WSOP river card that changed the course of poker history all the way back in 2003.
That one card is probably the reason so many of us got into poker. The timing was perfect - the internet had moved on from dial-up, online rooms were flourishing - & most off all the name of the winner of the WSOP Chris Moneymaker. The perfect name at exactly the right moment.
He was never a great player, but unwittingly his win changed everything. He's been a decent ambassador for the game too.
You might not even be playing poker were it not for that card. It changed everything, & started the boom of all booms.
Event #15: 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em ($1,500 entry)
8 returned to fight this out & it was Bradley Jansen (USA) who walked away with the $313,000 up top.A terrific effort by Birmingham's Steven Morris in 10th. He's a familiar face on the UK scene.
Event #16: Limit Hold'em Championship ($10,000 entry)
10 returned for the final day, and it was John Monnette from California who took the $245,680 first prize. Not bad considering he began the day 9th of the 10 remaining.
Quite the versatile player is John, who now has 4 WSOP Bracelets - 1 each in 8 Game, 7 Card Stud, No-Limit 2-7 Lowball & now Limit Hold Em. That's quite a diverse range of skills right there.
Event #18: Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) ($2,500 entry)
12 left in this, no faces really, & no Brits.
James Woods, who is an actor bloke I believe, was 12th. He's a very decent player in fact, with scores of WSOP cashes including three Final Tables.
Other cashees of note were David Benyamine (who I assume was staked) & Southampton's Benny Glaser, the only Brit to cash.
Event #19: Seven Card Stud Championship ($10,000 entry)
18 left in this, including Liverpool's Matthew Ashton. Those with long memories may recall we had Matthew on the Sky Poker Cash Game on several occasions. Probably the best player in that series, as his CV includes winning the WSOP Players Championship in 2013 for $1,700,000.
He's a smashing lad & we spent a lot of time chatting in the Sky studios. His initial poker bankroll came from winning $10,000 WSOP main event satellites online. He won, quite literally, hundreds of them.
Shaun Deeb is staying at the Rio & reported some bad news overnight.
If Shaun's Tweet makes no sense - they rarely do - scroll down to the Tweet by "Coherent Shaun Deeb".
My thanks to Matt Bates for passing this to me.
Hold, HOLD. ****
As expected the Kelly Minkin story got messy.
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2021/10/the-muck-kelly-minkin-adam-hendrix-40012.htm
And finally, the best WSOP slowroll ever - by 96 year old Jack Ury. (Now sadly RIP).
You're in trouble.....
I remember watching the WSOP, WPT on television. Sky also had Tournaments back then.
Seeing “ average Joe” home players taking on professional players on TV definitely gave you the thought I’d like to play one day.
I learnt from watching these programmes, rather than playing , as I didn’t know anyone who played poker.
Then Sky Poker TV enabled the learning to continue, actually making it easier by explaining things. The likes of Moneymaker, the Fossil man and “ sugar “ Joe Hachem at the World Series all had their part to play in making the game seem more attainable for people like myself.
Sadly when ESPN went from Sky to BT Sport I lost the ability to watch poker on TV. Pre Covid occasionally C5 had tournaments with commentary from two of your former Sky Poker TV colleagues.
Thanks for continuing the write ups.
It's amazing how much poker has changed compared to back then!
There was no write up last night as I was a little UTW, & I'm up in Leeds today, not home until late, so I'm not sure about tonight either. All being well, I'll resume tomorrow.
@MARK277
Ha, bless him. Great player but he needs to grow up & show a bit of dignity & class.
Absolutely no need for that many F bombs. I would like to see his mum burst through the security and give him a clip round the ear for his childish tantrums.
I do remember being shocked at the attitude of players towards some of the dealers in Vegas, not so much in the World Series , but certainly at other events in other casinos, it left a lot to be desired. I also marvelled at how Americans could use the term “ Sir “ and make it sound derogatory.