Make sure to check the previous postings of this event: Day 1A and 1B of Event 2

With FrinkX, Milkman (see picture) and Daut still in we started yesterday with 447 people, fighting for 378 in-the-money-places. With David Bach being the chipleader we began the long grind all the way to the final table (at least, that was the plan).

Daniel Alaei was out within 20 minutes and Kenny Tran loses a large portion of his stack with AKo vs AKo (other guy hit a flush obv). The first 50 are out within like 30 minutes, and hand for hand commences. Still no sign of Daut, FrinkX or Milkman getting into trouble. Bubble-boy of today is Robert McLaughlin, whose pocket 9’s weren’t good enough against the queens of his opponent. This means both FrinkX (Evan McNiff) and Daut44 (Ryan Daut) are in the money! Unfortunately for Ryan, there wasn’t much more in it today, as he finished 362nd, winning about 2 buy-ins, $ 2,949 . Just after that, Michael Binger and David Singer (lost with AK vs AQ) both went out. Todd Brunson joined them shortly after that.

Meanwhile FrinkX is doing very well, while player after player gets eliminated he just keeps adding to his stack. Theo Tran becomes chipleader, and “Jesus” Chris Ferguson is going up-and-down like a yo-yo, he’s still alive and kicking. Milkman unfortunately got into trouble, being busted out at 88th place, good for $6,972 . Unfortunately no news on how he went out. Meanwhile FrinkX’s stack gets to 6th place with 66 remaining. Not much after that he takes a few blows, first flopping top pair with K kicker, calling off about 100k total, than he gets all-in versus Ferguson (who has been shoving all day it seems) with A9 vs AK, which takes off a large portion of his stack.

It’s getting late and people are starting to get tired. At this time the players are already playing over 15 hours! Obviously this has its effect on the players game, and dropout-rates went up. Blinds were rising and Evan McNiff (FrinkX)’s stack was declining, until his final hand. A raise from James Akenhead folded to FrinkX at the cutoff, who goes almost-all-in, leaving a 1k chip behind. Akenhead calls and they see a flop (9-2-2 rainbow), but Akenhead shows his hand before everything is played (he turns over his not thinking about the $1k chip behind). FrinkX being a bit puzzled by the commotion (remember, it’s 4.50 already!) and he puts his last $1k in, turning over . The turn brings a blank, but the river brings a disaster card, his opponent hit a 2-outer with the on the river and FrinkX is eliminated in 25th place, taking home $24,134 .

At this late hour the staff decided to hold a vote, being that everybody had to come back at 1.30PM the other day after we get down to 18, instead of the intended 9. Obviously this was the only decent solution (although it could have been made a little earlier), and everybody agreed on it, so still 6 bust outs to go before bedtime. Amongst those were former chipleader Ryan D'Angelo, and Brandon Blake was the last elimination of the day.

This leaves 2 tables, 18 players total, for tomorrow, where we’ll decide who’s gonna win Event 2 and who will take home the $ 831,462 first price. Yesterday’s chipleader David Bach is one of the short stacks, with Chris Ferguson and Minh Nguyen with about average stack, and Aaron Coulthard being the chipleader, just ahead of Theo Tran.

Full chipcounts and table positions:

Table 14:

Seat 1: Josh Engerdahl (Abbotsford, BC) 930,000
Seat 2: Melvin Jones (Chicago, IL) 660,000
Seat 3: Mike Ngo (New Orleans, LA) 544,000
Seat 4: Grant Hinkle (Kansas City, KA) 281,000
Seat 5: Perry Friedman (Las Vegas, NV) 653,000
Seat 6: Joe Rutledge (Pasadena, TX) 486,000
Seat 7: Chris Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA) 444,000
Seat 8: David Bach (Athens, GA) 168,000
Seat 9: Frank Sinopoli (Hollywood, CA) 165,000

Table 15:

Seat 1: Eric Hicks (San Francisco, CA) 703,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead (London, UK) 1,039,000
Seat 3: Matthew Kearney 1,024,000
Seat 4: Jeff Wiedenhoeft (Whitewater, WI) 482,000
Seat 5: Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA) 600,000
Seat 6: Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV) 1,199,000
Seat 7: Brandon Blake (Palmer, AK) 514,000
Seat 8: Elia Ahmadian (Chantilly, VA) 171,000
Seat 9: Aaron Coulthard (Waterloo, ON) 1,327,000

Final 2 tables will be played later today, until only 1 player remains to collect the bracelet and some prize money.


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Last year it was the 3rd most popular event of the World Series of Poker with 2998 entrants (after the Main Event and Event 49, which was also a $1.500 No-Limit Hold’em-event), and this year it’s gonna do at least that. With a massive 3929 entrants this year, it was gonna be one helluva grind, for a total of $5,363,085 with 378 players in the money. Day 1 was devided in day 1A (on Saturday) and 1B (on Sunday).

Of course he was in good company getting busted: Michael Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Dario Minieri, Marcel Luske (after flopping a straight with J9, he got beat by another guy flopping the nut straight with AJ), Roland de Wolf, Anna Wroblewski, Scotty Nguyen, John Juanda, Jennifer Tilly, Erick Lindgren, Eli Elezra, Kimberly Lansing, Humberto Brenes, Andy Black, David Pham, Jennifer Harman, Rolf Slotboom, Joe Sebok and Clonie Gowen all went home empty-handed, amongst lots of others of course. 223 of the 1881 starting the day will be back for day 2. Added to the 224 of day 1B that means we still have 447 players remaining, 378 of them will go home with some more money. Chipcounts will be as follows:

David Bach 115,400
Alan Puzantyan 111,400
David Robertson 109,100
Ryan D'Angelo 105,800
Frank Sinopoli 103,900
Pat White 92,300
Shane Schleger 89,000
Henry Tran 80,300
John Carlson 80,200
Grant Hinkle 77,800

Ryan Daut currently has a stack of 34.600, with average chipcount being just over 26.000 (with blinds 500/1000). A full list of chipcounts of those still in is to be found here.

By: Pindarots


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Hey I'm back again!

Ok, we all saw how sick the final table of this event is, but reading through some news sites I found one weird thing: 5 out of the 9 players on the table won more than $1,000,000 in a single tournament: Andy Bloch, Nenad Medic, Leibert, Sexton and Antonius. Ouch!

Going back to yesterday's "funny" story between Chris Bell and Phil Laak. We didn't get to see any action between them. BUT, but... weird story again envolving Jar Jar Laak. He played a bit with the prize's money. I mean got three bundles and started jiggling with them. I don't know, but they say this is as bad as seeing the bride before the wedding, or touching the trophy before the match.

Anyway. In the FIRST hand of the final table, Laak got into a JJ vs KK with Antonius. The board didn't help him and he was left almost crippling. 4 hands after that, another JJ for Laak, who went all-in just to see Nenad Medic's AA. Also no help from the board for him, who finished 9th. Still good as he earned $74,448 for that. But you guys should note this: "do not touch the cash in a final table".

Actually the first three eliminations went quite fast. Some hands after Laak, Mike Sowers was eliminated when his 94o didn't beat Sexton's QQ (...), and he won $99,264. Then, 15 minutes later, Antonius KTs didn't find help on the board to beat up Andy Bloch's A4s. Antonius still looks for his first WSOP bracelet, but at least he got home $124,080

The sixth place went to Chris Bell, who played very very passively in the final table. is A3o lost against Medic's JJ, after hitting an Ace on the turn and being re-sucked with a J on the river. By then, Andy Bloch made use of his huge stack (he had like $3,100,000 while 2nd had $1,400,000) to steal pots here and there.

5th place went to Amit Makhjita, his A3 didn't match Bloch's A7. Ace came on river but obviously didn't help him. He earned $198,525 for his great tourney.

After the 5th elimination, play got a lot slower, it was mainly about stealing pots. Andy Bloch almost blew his position as chipleader, he simply doubled up EVERY ONE left on his table. After having a MASSIVE chipleader of like $4,000,000 vs $1,000,000 from the others, he double up all the others and made things a bit even. What we saw from there on was pretty much domination from both Andy Bloch and Nenad Medic. They were stealing and winning pots everywhere and building up a sizable stack compared to the others.

Ohhh I forgot to mention! Remember how 5 out of 9 in the final table had $1,000,000 cashed in as ingle tournament? Well, 4 of those 5 are the final four, except for Antonius who got out!


Back to the tournament now, Mike Sexton was eliminated as 4th place. He was envolved in a pot with Leibert. His cards were no match for hers, as he had A6 and she had A8. His prize is $248,160.

Now let's go to the HAND OF THE TOURNAMENT (no, it's not the last hand, but it's just as important). This was the hand that eliminated Leibert. Pay attention at the estimated chip count before and after this hand:

before:

Andy Bloch 4,180,000
Nenad Medic 1,610,000
Kathy Liebert 1,300,000

The hand:

Nenad Medic raises $300,000 from the button, Liebert adds more $850,000 and is all in. Andy Bloch makes the pot $2,800,000. Medic goes all in too. Note that Bloch covers both players here.

Bloch:
Medic:
Liebert:

Flop: (can you picture Medic's smile? because I do :D)

Turn: (it's over here, on TV a little check should appear on Medic's name)

1.Nenad Medic $794,112
2.Andrew Bloch $488,048
3.Kathy Liebert $306,064
4.Mike Sexton $248,160
5.Amit Makhija $198,528
6.Chris Bell $157,168
7.Patrik Antonius $124,080
8.Mike Sowers $99,264
9.Phil Laak $74,448

This post was written by Raidern.


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Yesterday we saw how the first final table of this year's WSOP looks like:

Player - Chip Counts

Andy Bloch - 2,115,000
Nenad Medic - 1,200,000
Mike Sexton - 1,130,000
Mike Sowers - 675,000
Amit Makhija - 525,000
Chris Bell - 455,000
Phil Laak - 425,000
Kathy Liebert - 285,000
Patrik Antonius - 230,000


Actually, first of all, did you see how good this final table looks? Antonius, Medic, Bloch, Sexton, Liebert, Bell... damn!

But talking about the day. It seems like Antonius didn't come out to play day 2, he just skip it and appeared at the final table. No i'm jk, it's just that he has the same chip counts as in the end of day 1.

Andy Bloch, finalist of NCB HU chapionship and semi-finalist of the FTP $25k HU Championship, is the current chipleader with over 900k chips ahead of the second place, Nenad Medic.

Nenad Medic is a Full Tilt Pro who has made back to back WPT World Poker Finals final tables, winning one of them. And was in the middle of a curious story of the day 2, that also envolved Chris Bell and Phil Laak, take a look:

Chris Bell was in early position when he decided to raise the blinds to 70,000. Phil Laak insta reraised from cutoff position to 116,00, then Bell called.

A rainbow flop of landed on the table, bell 'nocnoc' and Laak bet 100,000. Bell thought, thought, thought, and thought a bit more. Then he checked his cards, looked at Laak, checked his cards, looked at Laak, well you get it. After a couple minutes he folds his hands.

Medic gets curious and asks Laak what he had, the answer is "I'll show it for $50". Bell put his hands into his pocket and said "I'll pay it" while Laak turned up nines. Bell didn't get happy and kicked his chair out of frustration. John Kabbaj (final table bubble boy) got curious too and saw Bell's cards to find out he held pocket tens, then told the others. Bell pushed 2 bills of 20 and one of 10 to Laak, when Kabbaj said "Now be nice and give him his money back. Show some class". Laak didn't care much and collected his chips, when Kabbaj once again said "C'mon man, have some class, you don't need $50". Laak answered "$50 is a lot of money", and then pushed back a 10$ bill to Bell, giving him a 20% discount.

As you can see in the beginning of the post, both of them are in the final table and with stacks of similar size. Maybe we will get some nice action between them during the final table.

Soon there will be posts over event #2 and the final table of event #1

Phil Laak

Hello guys,

This is Liquidpoker's WSOP news blog. Myself (Raidern), Pindarots and BossMC are going to make daily posts to cover up every single one of the WSOP events. The main objetive of this blog is to keep tracking of every result, and obviously to follow the LPers results in Vegas

So let's start with some post over the inaugural event of this year's WSOP. It's the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em World Championship. There were 352 entrances for this tournament, and of course many of them are big known stars of the poker world: Raymer, Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Jamie Gold, Phil Ivey, Money Maker and many others.

The prizepool for this event is $3,308,800 and 1st place takes home $794,112, so take a look at what the payment looks like:

1st - $794,112
2nd - $488,048
3rd - $306,064
4th - $248,160
5th - $198,528
6th - $157,168
7th - $124,080
8th - $99,264
9th - $74,448
10th-12th - $49,632
13th-15th - $41,360
16th-18th - $33,088
19th-27th - $26,470
28th-36th - $23,162

Besides, obviously, the poker player's much dreamed WSOP Bracelet!

Now back to what really matters. Many of those players mentioned above are already out of the tournament. From the 352 that started only 70 started day two (today), and among them we can spot Antonius, Eliza Elezra (chipleader), Gavin Smith, Michael Martin, and, how curious, NBC heads-up finalists, Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch on the same table! Competition really looks tough when you take in consideration all the achievements of a lot of these players.

Take a look at how the tables and stacks are by the day two:

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Tomorrow I'll post some more information about day two of the $10.000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em, and don't forget. There will be posts about every single event of this year's world series of poker!


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