Here's the draw for the semis: Jake Cody v Gus Hansen Eric Froehlich v Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Final will be a best of three contest.
Hansen won the WSOP-E equivalent of this tourney last year, so has to be considered the favourite. That said, Cody is a quality player so going to be a really interesting semi.
I'd back Timoshenko to get past Froehlich, too. His online alias is 'JovialGent' - Google him to check out some of the results he's come up with online and live and you'll see why I reckon he should progress.
Let me get this right He's Young He's Good Looking He's has a good looking Girl Friend ( If memory Serves ) He is amazingly talented He is Rich He drives an Audi R8....... AND YOU WANT ME TO SUPPORT HIM />>>> I **** HATE HIM ;o) Take it Down Jake. Triple crown is definitely happening for you this year Posted by JockBMW
GLGLGL JAKE!! Shame they couldn't show his match with Hansen first but the other match is still good to watch and Robert Williamson III is very funny tbf and a good double act with David Tuchman!!
And Jake Cody advances to the final after beating Gus Hansen with what seemed ease MBN to run good
Cody V Timoshenko in the final first wins over $800k
T.I.D Jake !!
(also was it just me or did others notice Gus looked like he had been doing something he shouldn't before that S/F lots of jaw swinging and shakes lol)
"2011 World Series of Poker Event #2: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Jake Cody Wins
Well, this just in: Jake Cody is a sicko. Less than 15 months removed from his first major tournament victory, Jake Cody has completed his climb to the top of poker's highest mountain. At the tender age of 22, Cody has joined just two other men in achieving poker's Triple Crown. His EPT victory came in Deuville, France in January of last year, and he followed that up with another major title at WPT London just a few months later, Now today, in just his second WSOP event, he's added that elusive (or not so elusive, in Cody's case) bracelet to his trophy case. It's hard to overstate how impressive of an accomplishment it is.
Perhaps it's his soft-spoken tone or his haphazardly spiked hair. Something about Jake Cody indicates he's not much of a threat. But that's not exactly the case. Spurred on by an astoundingly loud cheering section of his countrymen, Cody blasted through his matches today. He used up only one of his three bullets to take all 4.8 million of Yevgeniy Timoshenko's chips, locking up the gold bracelet and sending his throng of supporters into a frenzy. It really was an impressive lesson in heads-up poker from a man who has a strange propensity for being underestimated.
Cody's path to this final was no cakewalk either. He knocked off Brandon Adams in the first round, then bested 2010 Player of the Year Frank Kassela to punch his ticket to to Day 2. Dani Stern was no match for him in their Round 3 contest, and Cody advanced through Jonathan Jaffe in the fourth round to move into the money. He had just one match to play on Day 3, but he admitted in his interviews that Anthony Guetti was his toughest challenge to that point. Cody was dangerously short-stacked for a good while during that match, but he stood his ground and battled back valiantly to take all the chips and earn his spot among today's final four.
Cody's semifinal match was one for the ages. If anyone has so thoroughly beaten Gus Hansen, we can't remember when it happened. Just like the final, Cody needed just one bullet to dispense with Hansen in a lopsided battle that went the opposite way many would have guessed. In the final, Yevgeniy Timoshenko put up a good battle, but Cody was just too much. In what had to be his toughest two tests, he didn't need any of his add-on buttons. Not even one.
So then, the second gold bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker goes to the young Brit, Jake Cody. With it comes the Triple Crown, and a good bit of exposure on national television, and more than $850,000 in U.S. dollars. Out of those, we're guessing the Triple Crown means most to the young Brit, and we at PokerNews send our congrats out to Cody and his countrymen for a truly impressive showing here this week!
Two events in, it's already shaping up to be the Year of the Brits in Las Vegas....."
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James Dempsey 2nd with 80k 5k behind 1st place in the $1500 O8 with 99 left
Wow!
Good luck to both Jake & James.
Go the two J's!
Jake Cody v Gus Hansen
Eric Froehlich v Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Final will be a best of three contest.
Hansen won the WSOP-E equivalent of this tourney last year, so has to be considered the favourite. That said, Cody is a quality player so going to be a really interesting semi.
I'd back Timoshenko to get past Froehlich, too. His online alias is 'JovialGent' - Google him to check out some of the results he's come up with online and live and you'll see why I reckon he should progress.
Good luck Jake!
Cody V Timoshenko in the final first wins over $800k
T.I.D Jake !!
(also was it just me or did others notice Gus looked like he had been doing something he shouldn't before that S/F lots of jaw swinging and shakes lol)
With thanks to Barry Carter @ Poker News......
"2011 World Series of Poker
Event #2: $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Jake Cody Wins
Well, this just in: Jake Cody is a sicko. Less than 15 months removed from his first major tournament victory, Jake Cody has completed his climb to the top of poker's highest mountain. At the tender age of 22, Cody has joined just two other men in achieving poker's Triple Crown. His EPT victory came in Deuville, France in January of last year, and he followed that up with another major title at WPT London just a few months later, Now today, in just his second WSOP event, he's added that elusive (or not so elusive, in Cody's case) bracelet to his trophy case. It's hard to overstate how impressive of an accomplishment it is.
Perhaps it's his soft-spoken tone or his haphazardly spiked hair. Something about Jake Cody indicates he's not much of a threat. But that's not exactly the case. Spurred on by an astoundingly loud cheering section of his countrymen, Cody blasted through his matches today. He used up only one of his three bullets to take all 4.8 million of Yevgeniy Timoshenko's chips, locking up the gold bracelet and sending his throng of supporters into a frenzy. It really was an impressive lesson in heads-up poker from a man who has a strange propensity for being underestimated.
Cody's path to this final was no cakewalk either. He knocked off Brandon Adams in the first round, then bested 2010 Player of the Year Frank Kassela to punch his ticket to to Day 2. Dani Stern was no match for him in their Round 3 contest, and Cody advanced through Jonathan Jaffe in the fourth round to move into the money. He had just one match to play on Day 3, but he admitted in his interviews that Anthony Guetti was his toughest challenge to that point. Cody was dangerously short-stacked for a good while during that match, but he stood his ground and battled back valiantly to take all the chips and earn his spot among today's final four.
Cody's semifinal match was one for the ages. If anyone has so thoroughly beaten Gus Hansen, we can't remember when it happened. Just like the final, Cody needed just one bullet to dispense with Hansen in a lopsided battle that went the opposite way many would have guessed. In the final, Yevgeniy Timoshenko put up a good battle, but Cody was just too much. In what had to be his toughest two tests, he didn't need any of his add-on buttons. Not even one.
So then, the second gold bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker goes to the young Brit, Jake Cody. With it comes the Triple Crown, and a good bit of exposure on national television, and more than $850,000 in U.S. dollars. Out of those, we're guessing the Triple Crown means most to the young Brit, and we at PokerNews send our congrats out to Cody and his countrymen for a truly impressive showing here this week!
Two events in, it's already shaping up to be the Year of the Brits in Las Vegas....."
Another Brit going well, this time as reported by WSOP themselves.....
Event 5 2011 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
13 left
1 122,909
2 75,911
3 48,961
4 35,476
5 26,083
6 19,456
7 14,723
8 11,301
9 8,800
10 8,800
11 6,949
12 6,949
13 5,561
Top Chip Counts
1 Alessio Isaia 175,000
2 Kai Landry 165,000
3 Eric Buchman 160,000
4 Dennis Parker 150,000
5 Jeremy Ausmus 133,000
6 Ylon Schwartz 130,000
7 Eugene Katchalov 116,000
8 Thomas Servais 112,000
9 Jonathan Spinks 100,000 (GB)
10 Arash Ghaneian 98,000