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Events 33, 34 and 35
lpblog, June 21
Event 33 - $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship
Some of the best (or best known) poker pros were in the field of this event, which is obviously one of the most important of the series. Ivey, Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Negreanu, all of them tried to add one more bracelet to their collection. The winner of the event was none of these guys though. It was former hockey player Greg "FBT" Mueller. Mueller actually has quite some history in the World Series. He has been runner-up twice before, and this was his second final table this year and seventh overall!
Mueller had to beat a tough final table to win this one, with veteran poker pro Chad Brown, Daniel Alaei who already won a bracelet this year, and Matt Glantz, who finished in 4th place in last year's $50k HORSE event. And Mueller wasn't really the big force during a large part of the final table. He was like "just there", without involving himself in huge battles. He pretty much chipped up and down until the action became 4-handed (and he had the smallest stack).
Then things kinda changed for him when he won a big pot from Pat Pezzin, which put him on a considerably more comfortable situation in the tournament. Shortly after that he eliminated Daniel Alaei in fourth place, crushing his dreams of joining Ivey and Brock Parker as the only guys to win 2 bracelets this year.
Mueller's next victim would be Chad Brown. It was A9 vs QT and Mueller rivered a straight (board: 587K6). After that hand Mueller entered the heads-up holding a 2:1 chip advantage over Pat Pezzin. The heads-up wasn't really a nail bitter. It took Mueller about 10 hands to expand the advantage to 5:1 and then to finish things off. He got a $460,836 first place prize and his first gold bracelet!
Payouts 1. Greg “FBT” Mueller - $460,841
2. Pat Pezzin - $285,195
3. Chad Brown - $188,855
4. Daniel Alaei - $134,772
5. Matthew Hawrilenko - $100,688
6. Matt Glantz - $80,341
7. Michiel Brummelhuis - $67,647
8. Soheil Shamseddin - $59,995
9. Kenny Hsiung - $55,995
Event 34 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
I think it's really impressive how many times we see great players reachign the final stages of these gigantic tournaments. They are huge and draw massive fields, but the big guys keep reaching the final tables. Sick! I wont talk a whole lot about this tournament, but it's important to mention that Elky and Mig made it really deep and had pretty good chances of winning the title.
They were eliminated in those situations where everyone says "ouch, unlucky man, but gj". Mig's elimination hand was as bad as it gets. He went all-in preflop with QQ and was in really good shape against Eric Baldwin (eventual winner!) who held JJ. The board really played against Mig, as it gave Baldwin a straight.
Elky's case was a bit different. He had built a huge stack earlier during that day, and he was running like a god. Then he lost a impotant hand with A8 vs KJ (guy hit a K), and then the worst happened. He ran into a wall. Elky called a all-in push with KK, but unfortunately for him his opponent had pocket Aces. No help from the board and he was crippled. 40 minutes later he was eliminated by Eric Baldwin with JT vs A8. Baldwin eventually won the tournament and collected his first WSOP bracelet. He earned $521,991.
Final table results
1. Eric Baldwin - $521,932
2. Jonas Klausen - $322,371
3. James Taylor - $213,046
4. Benjamin Scholl - $150,133
*5. Roland de Wolfe - $112,957
6. Andrew Youngblood - $89,222
7. Steven Bradbury - $74,352
8. Martin Jacobson - $65,487
9. Eric DeFontes - $60,335
* Just a few days after becoming only the 2nd man to win EPT, WPT and WSOP tournaments, De Wolfe final tables another event! Sicko!
Event 35 - $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha
The final table of this event was just great. Awesome players + surprising ending = exciting final table. The winner, Richard Austin, had never even cashed in the WSOP before. Among his final table opponents were Sorel "imperium" Mizzi, Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy and Peter Jetten, runner-up in the $10,000 PLO event at last year's WSOP. Other notables who were in the money, but lost before the final table are Jesper Hougaard, Devilfish and Isaac Baron, who bubbled the final table.
The highlight of the final table (duh) was the last hand. Yeah, because it didn't happen during the heads-up. It happened when the action was 3-handed! Here is a quote from the WSOP live-update:
| Richard Austin called from the button, Sorel Mizzi completed from the small blind and Cliff Josephy raised to 150,000 from the big blind. Austin called and Mizzi unexpectedly reraised pot to 750,000. Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy moved all in for 195,000 more. Austin then goes into the tank for a minute before flat calling. After confirming that he could not reraise, Mizzi also called the all in. The board came and Mizzi moved all in for 680,000. Austin called. Mizzi: (an overpair with aces) Josephy: (flopped top set with a backdoor diamond draw) Austin: (baby flush draw and a gutshot) The turn is a blank with the River: The river gave Austin a flush and the pot to eliminate both Cliff Josephy (3rd) and Sorel Mizzi (2nd). With the double elimination, Richard Austin takes down the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha title. |
With that hand, Richard Austin killed two ducks with one shot and became the champion of the $5,000 PLO event! He also wins the first WSOP bracelet of his career.
Results and payouts1. Richard Austin — $409,484
2. Sorel Mizzi — $253,048
3. Cliff Josephy — $166,711
4. Dan Hindin — $116,748
5. Rifat Palevic — $86,516
6. Felipe Ramos — $67,663
7. Van Marcus — $55,687
8. Peter Jetten — $48,112
9. Samuel Ngai — $43,359
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$10k Heads-up Event, J. C. Tran
lpblog, June 19
Heads-up matches have always been my favorite type of poker. It's a one on one match where the mental aspect of the game gets an even bigger importance. For that reason the $10,000 heads-up event is one of the things I look forward the most in the World Series of Poker. That, and the fact that one LPer, Rekrul, has a story of success in the event makes things very interesting for me.
Well, talking about the tournament now.. Rekrul, Mig, Elky, Ket and Raszi played the event. Unfortunately all of them, except for Raszi, were eliminated in the first round. Raszi didn't go much further than that though. He was eliminated in the 2nd round in a match he had some opportunities to win. You can read more about some of these sad stories in this topic. Some of the top guys who made it to the money are Jovial Gent (Timoshenko), Alec Torelli, Neverwin (Dustin Woolf) and poker legend Johnny Chan (former Main Event winner). Chan was actually aiming to tie Phil Hellmuth's record of 11 WSOP bracelets. Too bad he was prevented from doing so, it would be really great to see that happening.
The finalists of the event were Leo Wolpert and John Duthie. The final actually happened in a previously unscheduled fourth day. It was supposed to happen on day 3, but due to some long matches that day officials decided to make it on a fourth day. Reports say the final was pretty much a marathon. First and third matches were sooo long. The third one actually lasted for aroudn 4h30 (191 hands!), which is sick long for a heads-up match. Altogether, the final lasted for about 7h30. In the final hand, Wolpert had 35ss and flopped two pairs, enough to make him the winner of the 2009 WSOP Heads-Up Championship! He earned $625,682 and a brand new gold bracelet!
J.C. Tran
J. C. Tran captured his second WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event! Things didn't look easy for him at first, as he started the day holding just the fourth stack of the table. But Tran steadily worked his way up and became the dominant force in the table. He was the responsible for crushing the dreams of Theo Jorgenssen, Chad Layne, Ross Boatman and Jean-Philipp Leandri, 8th, 7h, 4th and 3rd places respectively. Tran entered the heads-up holding a 2-to-1 chip advantage over Jeff Kimber, who has 5 WSOP cashes in his tournament record. Being more experienced, and honestly, the better player, Tran didn't have any troubles with Kimber. He just dominated Kimber from the start of the HU and won the tournament with a fullhouse in the last hand. First place prize was $235,685
Tran: just as happy as Ivey
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WSOP recap part II
lpblog, June 15
So, this is the second part of our WSOP recap. Now that things are up-to-date you can expect some normal posts about whats going on in the most important poker tournament series of the world.
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Event #20 ($1,500 Pot-limit Hold’em)
In the second final table of his WSOP history, John-Paul Kelly captured his first gold bracelet. The young British player, known as JP 5-time or MavFish on the internet, did his job on a final table with not many poker stars (Seidel was the only well-known player) and took home a sweet paycheck worth of $194,434.
Event #21 ($3,000 H.O.R.S.E event)
In HORSE events players maximize their strong points and do their best to minimize losses during games in which they are weak. Zac Fellows did this really well, as he took down the $3K HORSE event for a $311,899 prize. It’s the second time Fellows finds himself at a heads-up match during a WSOP. Last year, he was the runner-up at one of the $1,500 Limit Hold’em events.
Event #24 ($1,500 No Limit Hold’em)
The $1,500 events are the ones with the biggest turnout of the whole WSOP, except, maybe, for the Main Event. Event 24 had 2506 entries and a $3.4 million prize pool. The "curious" thing about the winner, Panayote Vilandos, is that he is 69 years old. It's definitely nice to see some of the old ones taking down one of the big events. Besides the bracelet, Vilandos got himself an insane payout: $607,206. It's his second big score in this year's WSOP. He finished in 2nd place at event #4, the $1,000 no limit hold’em.
Panayote Vilandos
Event #25 ($2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud HL/8 or Better)
If there's anyone you wouldn't like to bet against, it must be Phil Ivey. He just won his second bracelet this year, and his 7th bracelet overall. Some tough players such as Carlos Mortensen and Jon "PearlJammer" Turner were at the final table, which just adds to the significance of Ivey's win.
Ivey is happy.
link to full news
Event #26 ($1,500 Limit Hold'em)
Swedish player Tomas Alenius defeated a field of 643 in order to win the event #26 and capture his first gold bracelet. Alenius had to come back from a 1:3 chip disadvantage against Jason Tam. The final hand was as impressive as his recovery, as he beat Tam's K-high flush with a full house of his own. Alenius cashed in $197,488!
Event #27 ($5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better)
Roland De Wolfe wrote his name in poker history this week, as he won his first WSOP bracelet and became only the second man to win the poker triple crown (WPT, EPT and WSOP titles). Wolfe said he had a tough time in this tournament, as he had played only some hours of PLO8 prior to this event. Wolfe earned $246,616 for his win.
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WSOP recap
lpblog, June 14
Hello folks! After some off days we are back with some updates from the World Series of Poker. Some crazy things have been happening in the event, such as Phil Ivey winning his 2nd bracelet (7th in the career) and Daniel Negreanu coming close, again, of winning his first one. Great news is that, just like last year, poker pros are taking down some events, which is always great. Let’s make a small recap of what’s been up in Vegas to get up to date with things!
Event #13 ($2,500 No Limit Hold’em):
An online player took down this one. Keven "stammdog" Stammen outlasted a sweet field of over 1 thousand players to win his first WSOP bracelet. Stammdog got himself a sweet paycheck of $506,786.
Event #14 ($2,500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed)
The winner of this event is Brock "Tsoprano" Parker. Tsoprano is one of the guys who have a Magic: The gathering background, and is one of the great online poker players. The man beat no one else than Daniel Negreanu in the heads-up to win his first WSOP bracelet. Future would still smile to him in the (incredibly near) future though.
Event #15 ($5,000 No Limit Hold’em)
Despite of what his nickname indicates, Brian "Bubbleman" Lemke defeated strong players such as online poker powerhouse Isaac Baron on his way to the title of the event #15! Lemke is a part-time poker pro, and this is his first big result in poker.
Event #16 ($1,500 Seven Card Stud)
Jeff Lisandro solidifies his name as a great Stud player by winning his second WSOP bracelet from the game. Back in 2007 Lisandro won the $2,000 7-Card Stud event. Lisandro pocketed $124,975 for the win.
Event #17 ($1,000 Ladies NLHE World Championship)
… seriously? Lisa Hamilton is the winner.
Event #18 (World Championship Omaha HL/8 or better)
The World Championships are the $10,000 events and they definitely are some of the coolest things of the modern WSOP. Daniel "steamraise" Alaei defeated a really tough final table (Negreanu, Annie Duke, Scott Clements) to become the Omaha HiLo world champion. It’s the second WSOP bracelet of his career. Alaei earned $445,898 for his amazing run.
Event #19 ($2,000 No Limit Hold’em / Six handed)
Brock "Tsoprano" Parker did it again. Apparently one bracelet was not enough for him, because after just a few days the managed to win another WSOP event and added another bracelet to his collection. Now Parker is now on a personal competition against Phil Ivey, as they both own 2 bracelets in this WSOP edition.
Brock "Tsoprando" Parker
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Ok. We don't want this to be a big and boring post, so I'll stop here and post the rest of the recap tomorrow morning. Sweet dreams, mates!
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Ville Wahlbeck wins first Finnish bracelet
lpblog, June 08
The $10,000 buy-in events always bring up a tough field (well, except for the biggest part of the Main Event, but okay), and in the World Championship Mixed Event it was no different. All players knew how to play various games, which makes winning it an awesome performance without a doubt. Winning the first ever Finnish WSOP bracelet, Ville Wahlbeck was delighted.
The final day started with 20 players, amongst which both Doyle and Todd Brunson, Huck Seed, Michael Binger, and others. Not only the line-up was pretty sick, but the difference in games offered as well. They had to know how to play No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Razz, Stud, Stud 8, 2-7 Triple Draw, Limit Hold'em and Omaha 8 (in this order). Knowledge of all these 8 games was required, and one had to adapt quickly to the changing games.
Coming into the final table, Scott 'dorinvandy' Dorin was the chipleader with 1,4 million chips while the shortstack, Allie Prescott had just 276.000. So it was no surprise that Prescott was the first to leave, followed by Todd Brunson (his father finished 16th). It finally came heads-up between David Chiu, who already owned 4 bracelets, and the Finnish Ville Wahlbeck, who was recently thinking of quitting poker! Fortunately for him, he had not made that move. He started heas-up with a huge chiplead (about 7:1) and Chiu never had a chance. The final hand was played in Omaha-8 with a preflop all-in: for Chiu against for Wahlbeck. The board ran out which meant that Wahlbeck made his straight, the bracelet and $492,375 ! To add to that, it meant his second final table and top 3 finish, after he finished 3rd at the $10k 7-card Stud event just 3 days earlier!
Final results: 1. Ville Wahlbeck $492,375
2. David Chiu $304,176
3. Scott Dorin $199,940
4. Mark Gregorich $139,159
5. Huck Seed $102,286
6. James Van Alstyne $79,181
7. Mike Wattel $64,373
8. Todd Brunson $54,854
9. Allie Prescott $42,818
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JonnyCosMo finishes 5th in WSOP $2k NLHE event
lpblog, June 08
This too is just a copy-paste of the frontpage post. Just to keep the blog a bit complete
A long day awaited the 25 remaining players if they wanted to win the $2000 No-Limit Hold'em Event 11 last night. And to our delight, a familiar face was amongst them: Jonathan "JonnyCosMo" McGowan. But what could we expect? He started the day as 2nd to last in chips.
Fortunately, he wasn't the second player to bust out. As the field started to decline, CosMo was still hanging in there, doubling up when needed and collecting a few chips on the way. He wasn't gonna bleed to death, that's for sure, and when he pushed all-in for the second time in a row, it looked like he'd bust out in 12th place. However, his managed to hit a 7 on the flop against the suited ace-king from Dresel-Velasquez and he McGowan was still alive.
He made it to the final 10, still as one of the shortest stacks, but used it to his advantage to accumulate chips without showdown. A big double-up followed with AK vs AQ and his stack was around average again. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. A sick cooler ended his day: Adam Adler raises UTG with JonnyCosMo calling on the button. Anthony Harb on the small blind reraises, and while Adler passes, McGowan moves all-in and gets called: for our hero against Harb's pocket kings. No queen on the board and it's over... $116,833 is the reward of an outstanding performance.
Meanwhile the other players continue, and after 3 hours, Adam Adler gets knocked out with KQs against AQ of Anhony Harb, who manages to take care of the other bustouts as well, in similar fashion. Jim Geary packs his bags when his A8o is dominated by Harb's AK for him and Peter Rho to get heads-up for the title. In the final hand, Peter Rho moves all-in with 98o on the board, and again we see Anthony Harb snap-call. This time he holds the nuts with and at 1 o'clock at night, he receives $569,199 for his performance.
Final results:
1. Anthony Harb $569,254
2. Peter Rho $350,019
3. Jim Geary $230,670
4. Adam Adler $161,768
5. John McGowan $116,833
6. Adrian Dresel-velasquez $92,867
7. Scott Hall $76,390
8. Michael Dyer $65,905
9. Brent Sheirbon $59,315
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Ivey wins 6th WSOP bracelet
lpblog, June 06
Hello guys! The 40th Annual WSOP just started and we are back with the lp newsblog! Just like last year, we will cover all the WSOP events, focusing mainly on LPers results (if possible!). So please let us know in case some of our mates are luckboxing doing good in one of the events of this year's world series!
The first post is a copy-paste of the front page news post:
Phil Ivey wins 6th WSOP bracelet
It's always a good thing when a professional players wins a WSOP event. Phil Ivey, one of the best poker players of the world, just won his 6th WSOP bracelet, first in four years. Ivey won the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Lowball event, which paid him a total of $96,361 .
Ivey started the final table with only the second smallest stack. We all know how good the man is, though, and he steadily chipped his way up into contention, giving himself a shot at the title. Its a known fact that Deuce-to-seven is not the most popular game, so it's not really a surprise that we see a turnout of only 147 players. None the less, some of the best players of the professional poker scene were among these players. Players such as Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke, Erick Lindgren, Gavin Griffin, Doyle Brunson and Daniel Negreanu were some of the guys who were victimized some point at the tournament.
"I don't play that much Deuce, so I am pretty proud that I won a bracelet in this event," said Ivey after the match."Every time you win a bracelet, especially now, it is a major accomplishment."
There are rumours that Ivey had a lot of money on a bet involving WSOP results. Rumours include some of Ivey's opponents at the World Series, such as Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and Ted Forrest. Daniel Neagreanu actually admitted having a bet with Ivey:
"We have a bet standing," Negreanu said. "Last year I beat him for $200,000 winning a bracelet, and we have $200,000 on every bracelet. So he won that, but I also have bets on him in my fantasy stuff, he's my first pick. So I lost $200,000 but I won pretty close to that back anyway."
Apparently, the first prize was not the most important thing in Phil Ivey's victory.
Final Table Payouts 1. Phil Ivey - $96,361
2. John Monnette - $59,587
3. Yan Chen - $38,892
4. Eric Kesselman - $26,757
5. Rodeen Talebi - $19,346
6. Raphael Zimmerman - $14,663
7. Elia Ahmadian - $11,627
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ME day 4: NMcNasty still fighting
lpblog, July 12
So, the big pressure of not finishing in the money gone, we had a wonderful day to look forward to. 474 players were trying to survive, 189 succeeded. There were still 4 Liquidpoker-players at the beginning of the day, unfortunately for Evan McNiff (FrinkX), Hevad Khan (RainKhan) and Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY), it just didn't happen for them. FrinkX was the first to go out, but I've got no info on how he busted unfortunately. His 373th place earned him $28,950 . Elky got busted just a few minutes after that, on 370th place with KK vs AQo, the on the flop ended his Main Event also earned him $28,950 . I'm not sure how it happened, but RainKhan got knocked out 240th, giving him $35,383 . Unfortunately we won't be seeing them back tomorrow, but still, well done for finishing in the money!
So, 4 LP-players started, that leaves 1, right? Yes it does, Justin St John, aka NMcNasty, is still in with 552.000 chips, which is about 200k below average, but still more than enough to take a shot at the big money (blinds are 5k/10k, so over 50 big blinds left to play with). So, who else is still playing? Just a few of the notable players, listed in order of stacksize, from 1.5mln chips to 300k: Shawn Sheikhan, Mark Vos, Gus Hansen, Victor Ramdin, Allen Cunningham, Jeff Madsen, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Kido Pham and Hoyt Corkins. Phil Hellmuth is the only former Main Event-winner still in.
We still have the same chipleader as yesterday, Jeremy Joseph (see picture above) who expanded is lead from 1.45mln to 2.18 million chips. Out of yesterday's top 5, only Dag Martin Mikkelsen got knocked out.
Chipcounts:
1. Jeremy Joseph 2,187,000
2. Nikolay Losev 2,110,000
3. Cristian Dragomir 2,065,000
4. Brandon Cantu 1,981,000
5. Davor Lanini 1,958,000
6. David Rheem 1,851,000
7. Andrew Rosskamm 1,764,000
8. James McManus 1,761,000
9. Geoffrey Herzog 1,695,000
10. Albert Kim 1,688,000
NMcNasty is on a tough table for day 5. Having the bigstack to your right is quite nice, but not being on the same table as the tournaments chipleader (Jeremy Joseph) and one of the best players still in the tournament (Gus Hansen) and starting with the 2nd shortest stack at the table isn't really what you hoped for. But there's still enough room to play, and we wish John the best of luck.
He'll be playing at Table Green 6:
Jeremy Joseph 2,187,000
Justin St John 552,000
Robert Betts 969,000
Mauro Lupo 821,000
Gus Hansen (see picture) 1,367,000
Craig Stein 523,000
Chris Crilly 896,000
Reggie Lyons 609,000
Suresh Prabhu 871,000
Day 5 will start around noon, after which we'll play the remainder of blindslevel 19 (which is 39 minutes). After that they'll play about 5 levels, which is 10 hours of poker, so they'll start with 5k/10k blinds and end with about 15k/30k blinds. Live updates can be found here. There's also a WSOP Main Event thread at the forums.
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ME: Good day for Rainkhan
lpblog, July 11
The bubble finally burst in the Main Event of this year's WSOP. 1307 players started the day, and only 474 qualified for day 4.
Out of the five LPers that started the day, four are alive - Rainkhan, FrinkX, NMcNasty and Elky. Raszi was eliminated when his pair of twos met a pair of jacks after a preflop push. Khan was by far the one who had the best day. He started Day 3 with 113,000 chips and tripled that number through the course of the tournament. He finished the day with 338,500, and has a comfortable stack to play day 4. Elky's day was what we can call a real roller coaster. He started with 151k, went up to 260k, fell to 120k, peaked at 280k and finished the day with 180,000 chips.
NMcNasty pretty much doubled his stack during the day, while FrinkX added 10k chips to his stack, but wasn't exactly happy with his day. Despite eventual disappointments, all of them have a stack that gives them good chance in the tournament:
Hevad Khan (RainkhaN) - 338500
Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY) - 181500
Evan McNiff (FrinkX) - 109500
Justin St John (NMcNasty) - 99000
663 players were eliminated in the first seven hours of play, what makes an average of one elimination every 44 seconds. After that, when there were 674 players, 8 to burst the bubble, they started the hand-for-hand play. Steve Chung was the bubble buy. He earned a buy-in to next year's Main Event as a consolation prize.
Day 2 chipleader, Brian Schaedlich, who started the day with over 800,000 chips, had one of the worst days a chipleader can have and now has one of the smallest stacks of the field. He stands with only 25,000 chips. Jeremy Joseph on the other hand had a great day and multiplied his starting 275k chips into 1,470,000.
Chipcounts:
1.Jeremy Joseph 1,458,000
2.Jeremiah Smith 1,079,500
3.Mark Ketteringham 950,000
4.Kyle Carlston 932,500
5.Dag Martin Mikkelsen 931,000
6.Alan Jaffray 908,500
7.Owen Crowe 900,000
8.Alexander Kostritsyn 887,000
9.James McManus 875,000
10.Chris Barrile 873,500
For more information on the days played, you can read our newsblog. There's also a WSOP Main Event thread at the forums. Day 4 has just started, live updates can be found here.
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Main Event day 2B
lpblog, July 10
So the last split day of the WSOP was yesterday, with 2379 players in day 2B, which was almost tiwce the attendance of yesterday. To remind you, we would see 8 liquidpoker-members playing today, these were their stacks:
Lex Veldhuis (RasZi) 54800
Hevad Khan (RainKhan 54600
Evan McNiff (FrinkX) 51175
Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY) 49900 (see picture)
Daniel Schreiber (Rekrul) 39100
Sean Nolan (Nolan) 23925
Ryan Daut (Daut44) 23750
Justin St. John (NMcNasty) 22400
After a disastrous day 2A for Liquidpoker (0 out of 4 made day 3), day 2B was much better. Unfortunately for 3 of the guys, their Main Event ended today. Rekrul busted after losing some flips, Nolan's rollercoasterride ended in a crash at the end of the day, when he got shortstacked and didn't improve on A4 vs TT. Daut went out late as well, I don't know how it happened, but he's busted according to the updated chipcounts at wsop.com (he had 38k before the updated counts).
So that leaves 5 out of 8 at day 2B, not bad. It seems that there have been really big swings all around, but in the end it was ElkY who was the LP.net-chipleader:
Bertrand Grospellier 151.800
Hevad Khan 113.200
Evan McNiff 101.400
Lex Veldhuis 80.000
Justin St John 55.200
Next blindslevel: $1000/$2000 with $200 ante
Out of 2379 players, we saw 855 survive for day 3. That combined with the 466 of day 2A should make 1321, but there are still 1308 players left according to WSOP, probably due to the fact that the 1308-figure was based on final chipcounts, the other were not, so there are 1307 people playing today. 666 of them will get paid at least $21.3k. So, who will be fighting for the money and who won't? Well, amongst the players knocked out we see Jerry Yang, Sorel Mizzi, Shannon Elizabeth, Brian Townsend, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Joe Hachem, David Sklansky, Carlos Mortensen and David Singer. High ranked notable pro's include Victor Ramdin, Nenad Medic and Phil Hellmuth. Peter Biebel was the day 2B chipleader with
Chipcounts:
Peter Biebel 531,000
Alex Outhred 486,800
Raja Kattamuri 411,100
Steven Goosen 362,100
Reagan Silber 355,500
Paul Snead 335,500
Rafael Caiaffa 334,500
Cornel Pazai 328,100
Matthew Calhoun 325,800
Terry Lade 315,000
Tonight we'll see who makes the next step towards winning the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Let's hope all 5 liquidpoker-players are still in tomorrow.
By: Pindarots
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