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Newsblog: E7 FT $2000 NLHE

lpblog, June 07

Here we are with another huge No Limit tournament, the $2000 No Limit Hold'em. 1,593 entrances, $2,899,260 prize pool, 1st place gets $550,601. 2 long days were played until they finally got to the 9 last players that would play for the bracelet:

In this list you can see some great players like Bellagio Cup II winner Shannon Shorr, Alex Bolotin, vice-champion of LAPC 2007 J.C. Tran, and also Theo Tran, who is running sick and just had his 2nd final table in this year's WSOP.

The first to be eliminated wasMike Lisanti, he lost AK vs KK against Matt Keikoan, with no help from the board. The 9th place paid him $50,705! Alex Bolotin followed him when Theo Tran's AJ found an ace in the flop to beat Bolotin's pocket nines. He was sent home in 8th place and earned $72,436. The followeres were, respectively J.C Tran (TT vs KK, no board help), swedish poker legend Chris Bjorin, who was eliminated in a 3 way pot and finished 5th, and Mihai Manole, vs , FLOP , and he couldn't match the set.

Theo Tran was eliminated in 4th place when is red sevens couldn't match Carter Gill's red jacks. Theo Tran was the chipleader during most of the tournament, but we all know that in the end it doesn't matter, and he earned $191,231 for the 4th place. Carter Gill was eliminated in 3rd place. His post flop flush draw didn't hit on neither turn and river, while Keikoan's found a king in the flop.

Heads-up between Shannon Shorr and Matt Keikoan, who is said to be a very good highstakes cash game player, was an all-in fest when players were in the button. In one of those moves, Keikoan called Shorr's shove and showed , while Shorr had . The board was , and Keikoan's fullhouse were more than enough for him to win the whole thing. Matt Keikoan won his 1st bracelet, in his first WSOP final table, and won $550,601 for that. It was Shannon Shorr's second WSOP final table, and he got $349,141 for the runner-up!

Oh, let's not forget that Eric Liu, aka n0rthface/peachy_keen, played this tournament and cashed. He finished 41st and earned $8,692. Congratz Eric!

He are the final results:

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Newsblog: E8 D3 Mi(g)xed Event World Championship

lpblog, June 07

Yesterday was going to be Mig’s second big shot at a bracelet, after winning one last year. Last year he crushed the final table (with Michael Binger and Nick Schulman on it) in under 3 hours, this time it looks to be a lot harder. In the toughest field of all the WSOP-events this year (at least so far, no chip-donating donkeys amongst them, except for Phil Hellmuth of course ), we were delighted to see James Mackey amongst those who made the final table. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and chipleader Matt Glantz seemed to be the ones to beat, although all the players there seemed to be “bracelet-worthy”, if they didn’t have one already.

The match started not the way “durrrr” would have wanted it to see: Eli Elezra doubles up through him twice, and Matt Glantz takes a bite out of his stack as well, within half an hour, Dwan loses most of his stack. Though he recovers pretty quickly, when he doubles up through Michael DeMichele in 2-7 Triple Draw, winning the hand with a pair! (it’s a lowball game, lowest hand wins, as in Razz) Not much after that Dwan wins a pot off Jeff Madsen and he’s up to about 200k, this all within about 70 minutes, durrrr sure likes to play a few pots!

The last hand meant a big blow to Jeff Madsen’s stack, and not much after that he’s busted 8th. Mig still has about the same stack he started with, when Dwan gets crippled by Matt Glantz again. This time it’s a crucial hand, Dwan only has 35k chips after that, and he’s all-in with pocket 2’s not much after. He gets called by 2, and when Anthony Rivera hits a on the flop with his Tom Dwan is busted 7th!

A big pot won by Mig against Sam Farha (Mackey hit a full house, Farha mucked) means 2 things: Mackey now has over a million chips and Farha is crippled, not much after that he’s out 6th when he loses the rest of his stack to Eli Elezra in Razz. The same Eli Elezra that later has to leave the field, when his K’s in the whole aren’t enough against the rolled-up 3’s (meaning trip 3’s as a starting hand) of DeMichele in Stud-8.

Matt Glantz is the chipleader at that moment, with close to 2 mln chips, ahead of James 'mig.com' Mackey with about 750k, Rivera has 640k, DeMichele was at 490k.

With the biggest pots being played in 2-7 Triple Draw, it wasn’t much of a surprise to see DeMichele go in that game. After being crippled by Rivera, he shoves his last 40k not much after that. Mackey and Rivera call, boh draw 3 and Rivera bets, Mackey calls. Second draw both draw 1, same stuff: Rivera bets, Mackey calls. At the 3rd draw they both stand pat (meaning not drawing a card) and both check. Rivera shows 8-7-6-4-2 and Mackey mucks. Michael DeMichele shows a 10 and mucks the rest, when he’s out in 4th place.

The next bustout was one by James Mackey. When he bets 125k on a flop Matt Glantz moves all-in. Mackey calls and shows for top pair, with Glantz having for midpair + gutshot straightdraw. No help from the turn and river and Mig is heads-up against Rivera!

On the very first hand of heads-up Mig raises to 87k in No-Limit Hold’em. Rivera reraises to 287k and Mig moves all-in. Rivera couldn’t be more happier, says “What? You're all in? I call!” and does just that, turning over . Unfortunately for Mackey he’s in a bad spot with . No help from the board and Anthony Rivera, who just had Mig covered, wins his first bracelet. James “Mig” Mackey has to settle with $297,792 (taking his lifetime (live) tournament winnings to over 1 million!) and the knowledge that he’ll have to wait for another chance for his second bracelet, but I’m sure we’ll see him back soon!

Congrats on the 2nd place Mig!

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Newsblog E5 FT $1000 NLHE + Rebuy

lpblog, June 06

The event number 5, the $1000 NLHE with Rebuys, started last wednesday with 766 registered players. All those players made a prizepool of $2,894,094, the first place getting $636,736.

Take a look at who was in the final table and their chip counts:

Talking about the players in the final table, not many of them had a huge story in the WSOP, except for Michael Binger, 3rd place at the 2006 Main Event, and Michael Banducci, who had already many cashes at the world series.

Michael Banducci managed to win the event, his first bracelet, and also his first MAJOR cash, after beating Jeff Williams in the heads-up, all of this after 3 hard fought days!

Here is the final hand (Banducci had a 3:1 chiplead):

Jeff Williams raised 130k from the button, and Banducci reraised to 400k. Williams then moved all in. Banducci shows and Jeff Williams cards are . The board flopped , and the turn . With that turn, all that could help Williams was a Queen in the river, meaning they'd split the pot. But she never came, the river was a . This hand sealed the destiny of event 5, giving the victory to Michael Banducci!

Many many great players registered for this event, including our very own [vital]Myth, also known as Corwin Cole. Myth did well and managed to get in the money, as he was eliminated as 39th and earned $10,708 for his run. It's his first cash at the WSOP and we are all sure he will cash big in the future. Nenad Medic, winner of event 1, and Daniel Negreanu were among the great players of this event.

Final results:

I'm sorry for the fast resume and pictureless post, I'm not in my house so that's the best way I could do it guys.

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Newsblog: E8 D2 Mi(g)xed Event World Championship

lpblog, June 06

With a very sick line-up at this event, we were happy to see our own James “Mig.com” Mackey in the field. Along with 88 other of the 192 players starting this event, he started the day with a slightly above average stack. Tom Schneider was the chipleader starting this day. Almost everybody worthy of a name in live tournament poker seemed to be there, like Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Gus Hansen, Erick Seidel, Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, David Sklansky and many others. This $10.000 buy-in Mixed event consisted of a total of 8 variants of the game, amongst those also 2-7 Tripple Draw, Razz, Stud 8 and a few others, including No Limit Hold’em. The game changes after every 8 hands.

Greg Raymer, Erik Seidel and Alex Kravchenkowere out of there pretty quickly, as was Barry Greenstein. While Doyle Brunson was more concerned with watching the Lakers play the Celtics in the NBA (which request was denied, because the tournament clock being shown at the big screen where Doyle preferred the Lakers, so he had to run back and forth to a television at the other end of the room), his son Todd was busted out as well. Meanwhile James “Mig” Mackey was doing pretty well, getting in preflop with Mark Vos. Mig showed aces to Vos’s kings and doubles up.

We were getting closer and closer to the bubble, with Marcel Luske, Mike Sexton and Vanessa Rousso just falling short, with Jeff Madsen and “Downtown” Chad Brown becoming very short in chips. Fortunately for them, they made it, because Minh Ly went out in Stud-8. His a strong starting hand: he didn’t manage to get more than a pair of aces at the end (no low either). Eli Elezra’s trip 5’s did the trick and he won the pot, leaving Minh Ly being the last elimination before the money.

Not much after that, Doyle Brunson went out as 21st, unfortunately for him, the NBA match was already finished when he busted out, losing his chips to William McMahan during pot-limit Omaha. Mig is doing ok, he was amongst the shorter-stacks, but won a few pots getting an average stack, before doubling through Tom Dwan. When durrrr raises to 15k in NLH, Mig reraises to 45k. Dwan moves allin and Mig calls, being well ahead with his agains the of Dwan. With no help for durrrr from the dealer, Mig doubles up to 550k, leaving Dwan just 175k. We’re getting closer to the final table of 8, when Johnny Chan busts out 13th. Chipleader at that moment is Matt Glantz, just ahead of James Mackey, with Tom Schneider as shortstack, not much after that he went out. Also Ali Eslami goes out at 11th, and Gus Hansen get’s allin during limit hold’em with against Sam Farha’s . No help and we’re almost done for today, just one more needs to go.

The last one going out today was David Oppenheim, when he got all-in in stud-8 on 3rd street he showed 2 pair, kings and aces, against Jeff Madsen's aces and fives, and David Oppenheim was out! Eli Elezra noticed that as well and had to fold his hand in Razz, because he'd win a $100.000 bet if he'd make the final table. Sammy Farha knew that, saying, "I know you can't call Eli, but you made it."
That means we'll see Mig tomorrow at the final table, with a decent stack, 2nd at the moment.

The chipcount for the final table tomorrow is:

Tonight/tomorrow we'll see if James "Mig.com" Mackey can win his second bracelet and ship the World Championship Mixed Event and the $483,688 first prize!

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Newsblog: E6 D3 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

lpblog, June 06

The Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8-or-Better, the 6th event of the WSOP with a $1500 buyin, started off with lots of unfamiliar names. Thang Luu was the chipleader, him being a former Las Vegas employee (he finished 3rd in last year’s employee-event). At the start of the final table, the chipcount was as follows:

After a slow start, we finally get some action when 5 players go to the flop. Lawrence, Sabel, Guzman, Wilds and Clements see the flop: . Of those, only Lawrence folds, the others bet until the betting is capped. The gets checked by all 4. With the on the river, all hell broke lose, Sable moves all-in, Wilds calls, Guzman raises and both Clements and Wilds call. Cards are shown:

Guzman:
Sabel:
Clements:
Wilds:

That means Sabel will take the high pot with his 9 high straight, and Sabel, Guzman and Wilds all split 1/3 of the low pot! Clements is the only one not getting a piece of it. Guzman of course isn’t very lucky here, he flopped the nut high, with a draw to the nut low, but ended up with 1/6th of the pot!

When we get down to the final 2 players remaining, Thang Luu, who started as chipleader, and Spencer Lawrence, we only get to see a few hands before play is concluded. Both players were very active, Luu actually said “I played every hand” in the interview after the event. The heads-up was short and aggressive, with Luu getting an early lead, expanding this lead, but than Lawrence gets back to about even. Luu switched gears again and forced Lawrence to fold in a big pot, while after that Luu hit the nut-flush and Lawrence’s stack shrinks even further. The final hand was a classic Omaha-hand. With a flop of Lawrence checks, Luu bets and Lawrence repops. Both get all-in on the flop and it’s showdown-time:
Luu:
Lawrence:
With the turn being a and the river a Thang Luu makes his full house and ships the bracelet and $243,356

Final results:

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Newsblog: E4 D3 Mixed Hold'em $5000

lpblog, June 05

The final table of this event, featuring a mix of Limit and No-Limit Hold’em, started with an interesting line-up. With Pat Pezzin and Andrew “Good2cu” Robl as underdogs (both have about $140.000 life time tournament winnings) they were up against a tough bunch of pokerpro’s. David Rheem started the day as chipleader, with the following chipcounts:

Isaac Haxton was the first to go out, on a classic coinflip in the second hand of the evening. AKo vs QQ, no help and he’s out in 9th. Also in No-Limit, Pet Pezzin gets all-in, with Andrew Robl going all-in as well. Pezin’s AQ isn’t good enough against the AK of Andrew Robl, and he’s out in 8th. Meanwhile we’re switching back to limit hold’em, the crowd recognizes it and some people evacuate the room, limit isn’t that interesting to them as no-limit. I think this comment in the crowd says it all: “I'm going to bring a Chia pet next time we have a limit event so I can watch it grow.”

In a more silent environment, David Williams wins the prize for first Limit-bustout of the evening, though he wouldn’t have thought so when he saw his A3s all-in against David Rheem’s KTo. The flop immediately brought a T and David Williams knows he won’t win his 2nd bracelet tonight, finishing 7th.

Also in limit, Howard Lederer gets into trouble after raising from the cutoff. Justin Bonomo (not to be confused with bonobo, the fucking-monkey ) 3bets, Lederer calls. Bonomo says he’ll bet in the dark before the flop, with Lederer responding he’d raise in the dark as well, going all-in. With a -flop, Lederer was up ahead with his pocket 4's, against Bonomo’s AQo, but the turn and river brought a and , thus counterfeiting Lederer’s pair and busting him out in 6th place.

With that hand, Bonomo took the chiplead, with 1.3 million chips, just ahead of Erick Lindgren. Both Andrew Robl, Roland de Wolfe and David Rheem were the shortstacks, with stacks ranging from 385k to 220k. David Rheem had the shortest of the shortstacks when he got into trouble during no-limit. He raises UTG to 50k, Roland de Wolfe calls from the big blind. The flop: brought no action. The turn, a made De Wolfe check-call Rheem and when the river brought a De Wolfe does the same, check-calling Rheem’s all-in. Roland shows his QJo for a straight, Rheem mucks and is out in 5th.

In the meanwhile Erick Lindgren achieves the chiplead. About one hour after he busted David Rheem, Roland De Wolfe gets all-in during no-limit. He first bets out preflop, Bonomo calls from the SB. With a flop of Bonomo checks and De Wolfe raises $85k. Bonomo moves all-in and De Wolfe calls, with Bonomo having him covered. De Wolfe shows , just having to dodge Bonomo’s outs with . With a on the turn being ok, the meant De Wolfe wont be howling no more, at least not on this table, being out in 4th place.

Now with Bonomo, Lindgren and Robl left, it seems like Lindgren is getting bullied for a while. Of course that’s not the way he likes it, so Lindgren switches gears and within no-time, he’s back on the chiplead. Andrew Robl, being cheered on by his friends, became the shortstack, and not much after that he was all-in, after a raise of Bonomo. His A2o were well ahead of Bonomo’s Q5o, but a Q on the flop meant Robl was out of there, “Good2CU go” was what Erick and Justin must have thought I guess.

Heads-up started with a small chiplead for Bonomo, 1,983 million to 1,340 million. With blinds being relatively low (both had over 100 big blinds) both players had plenty of time to play their opponent, instead of the blinds. Both players had already had their successes, but neither of them has a WSOP-bracelet yet. It seems like E-dog definitely has the upper hand in the heads-up, attacking Bonomo’s stack aggressively, soon achieving the chiplead. The final hand of the evening was when Lindgren opens to $80k (with 10k/20k blinds and 1k ante). Bonomo calls and both see a flop: . Both check and the turn brings a . ZeeJustin bets out $80.000, Lindgren flat-calls. The river is a and Bonomo bets again. Lindgren raises his opponent all-in and Bonomo calls, showing 2 pair: . Lindgren is more than happy to show his wheel straight: ! That means Erick Lindgren won Event #4 and his first bracelet and $374,505 that came with it.

World Championship Mixed Event (Event 8)
The World Championship Mixed Event started last night. It looks about the same, but it's actually far from it. Instead of featuring a mix of limit and no-limit hold'em, it features all sorts of poker, like razz, stud, omaha, 2-7 tripple draw, etc. It started last night, with a very nice line-up, featuring Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Dewey Tomko and James "Mig.com" Mackey. There are a lot (and I mean A LOT! like 95% of the players attending are quite well known) of well known players there, the line-up is one of the sickest we'll see this year. At the end of day 1 last years Player of the Year, Tom Schneider, is our chipleader with 140.000 chips. Mig is still in with 34.000. Full chipcounts can be found here. Tomorrow you'll find a report about it at this blog, when we see if Mig can make it to the final table and who will accompany him.

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Newsblog: E3 FT $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em

lpblog, June 05

Here we are, with the final table results. First let's remember a bit at how it started in chips:

Joe Tehan - 458,000
Jacobo Fernandez - 428,000
Robert Lipkin - 305,000
Al Barbieri - 271,000
Russell Harriman - 206,000
Gregory Alston - 179,000
Zachary King - 139,000
David Singer - 83,000
Glen Bean - 75,000

The final table started kinda slowly. People were not going beyond the flop, it was all about stealing. Joe Tehan, MBP 2006 winner, also didn't start the day too well. He made a 20,000 raise in the small blind, Al Barbieri was the lonely caller. Flop came . Tehan checks, Barbieri bets 40,000, Tehan reraises to 102,000. Barbieri thinks for a moments an decides to call. on the turn, making 3 diamonds on the board. Tehan insta checks, and Barbieri goes all in with 153,000. Tehan gives up and folds. Barbieri shows , making Tehan's stack down to 260,000 from 480,000.

David Singer, who you might see was second to last, doubled-up twice and turned everything upside down in like 2 hands. First he won vs against Gregory Alston (hit the Q on the flop), and two hands later his Aces held well against Al Barbieri's KQo (he hit the Q on the flop). So he went from 80,000 to 360,000 in a few minutes. Incredible how things have been working out great for him.

The first elimination of the night was Glen Bean's. He was already struggling with a short stack (21,000), he called al-in when Zachary King raised 24,000. He showed and King showed . And he almost sucked out Zachary, because the flop was , turn , and the river... a hope killing . The top pair of aces eliminated him, but he earned $19,464 for his run in this tourney. That was his first World Series final table and 2nd best cash in his live tournaments career. Barbieri followed him a little after, as his K6o couldn't match David Singer's AQo. And singer even hit an Ace on the flop.

After those two first eliminations, Singer and Jacobo Fernandez started to do really well, they were often stealing pots from the others and putting themselves in a good lead compared to the other players. Fernandez for example, was the first to break the million chips mark, as he got trips of nines and won a huge pot from former chipleader Joe Tehan, who dropped to 200k chips. Joe Tehan was actually amongst the 4 players who were eliminated inside an hour, in the following order: Zachary King (lost A8 vs AA), Joe Tehan (JT vs 99o, no help from the board), Russ Harriman (QQ vs AJ, Ace on the flop, ouch), and Robert Lipkin, whose wasn't even close to beating David Singer's .

The three players left, Fernandez, Singer, and Alston, held the following number of chips:

Jacobo Fernandez -- 960,00 David Singer -- 935,000 Gregory Alston -- 215,000

Around that time, both leaders were obviously ripping Alston off. They were stealing his pots with no need to see the showdown. THe man soon was crippling with around 100k chips. Alston was eliminated when he made the pot 34k and Fernandez re-potted it, forcing im to go all in. He shows and Fernandez showed pocket eights. We all know luck doesn't like to help shortstackers much deep in the tourneys, and an eight of spades on the turn killed all of Alston's hopes. He is out at 3rd.

When the heads-up started, both players were pretty even at chip counting, (1,150,000 vs 1,000,000, with Singer ahead), and for a long time it was all about stealing pots from each other. They kept going up and down a bit, but never too much. The first important hand that made things better to someone was this hand:

Singer raises to 48,000 from the small blind. Fernandez calls and a drawy flop of is layed on the table. Fernandez check-call a 70,000 bet from Singer, and both players check the turn (). River is , and Fernandez bets 200,000. Singer thinks for some time and decides to call. Jacobo says "good call" but doesn't show his hand. Singer does the job by himself and reveal , giving him a straight. Fernandez didn't show his cards. After this hand, Singer held a 2:1 advantage in chips against his opponent.

His lead didn't last long tho. Fernandez turned agressive mode on and won like some very good pots consecutively without having to go to showdown. He completely turned things around, and now it was him who held the 2:1 advantage over Singer. All of this without having to show his cards! After some more hands with no showdown, this one is decisive to the tournament:

Fernandez raises to 80,000 (that's the minimum raise heh) from the small blind, Singer reraises to 160,000. Fernandez insta says 'I'm all in', and Singer calls. Excitement grows. Singer shows , Fernandez :

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Flop: (Singer - :D, Fernandez - "SHIT! $@#%#!")

Turn: (Singer: No five plz., Fernandez: Five plz.)
River: (Singer: Ship it!, Fernandez: %@#$@!%#!!!)

So right after this thrilling hand for him, Singer turned everything around again, and now holds 1,700,000 against Fernandez 500k.

On the next hand, Singer forces Fernandez to go all in. The board shows: .

I think we can say this final hand is almost as brutal as the one that gave Grant Hinkle his bracelet. Why? Well, look at the player's cards:

Singer:
Fernandez:

All that could turn everything around was a 3 or a 7, but none of them came at the river, a blank . With that hand David Singer proves once again he is a KICKING ASS of a player, deserving all the respect he is getting lately, very well deserved for everything he has been doing for the last couple of years. This is his first bracelet and I have no doubts he is gonna win some more in the near future! Jacobo Fernandez gets $136,643 for his second place, and David Singer earns $214,132 for the 1st prize! Congrats David!

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Newsblog: E3 D2 $1500 Pot Limit Hold'em

lpblog, June 04

Alo. Now continuing the coverage on event #3, $1.500 Pot Limit Hold'em. Yesterday they ended the day with 63 players left, that means all of them were in the money already.

Let's start the post with a side story then. Brandon Schaefer (finished ITM in this year's EPT grand final) was envolved in a raise war with Michael Katz. Before folding, Katz joked and asked if Schaefer would show his hands for $1000, and then proceeded to fold his hand. When he folded, Schaefer asked if he could still have the money if he showed the hand. Katz laughed and said he was joking. Then Brandon Schaefer "what about $200 then" -> "sure, okay", Schaefer then showed his AK and got himself $200 haha.

One of the weird eliminations of the day happened to BPO final tablist Eugene Todd. He held a top set of nines on a rainbow flop. His opponent, Al Barbieri (more about him later), called both his flop and turn bets with nothing. The man just hit a nutflush on the river, after a sick runner-runner, eliminating Eugene Todd with that hand. Other favourite who was out soon is Tom McEvoy. He lost AK vs AJ when a J hit the flop. No changes in the board after that, and McEvoy was out after struggling a lot during day 2. Weird story with him too. Before his REAL elimination, his name just disappeared of the results like if he was eliminated. The live reporters said he was out. Then all out of a sudden he re-appeared with a small stack, just to be eliminated one hour later.

When there were 10 players left in the tournament (1 to go to the final table), it was break time. Everyone wanted to continue playing until the last elimination, except for..... David Singer. People and the director of the tournament wanted to apply a "majority" rule, but Singer said such a rule didn't exist. Anoter authority went to solve the problem: there will be break. I bet the other players didn't like much, buuut... they got a 1 hour break for eating.

When they got back to play, David Singer left his ID at the press table. He says it's bad luck to carry the ID to the "final" table (there was still 10, so no final table yet).

Well, he didn't even need much luck, as he wasn't envolved in the final hand of the day. That was Al Barbieri (who took Eugene Todd out with the runner runner flush) burst Ryan Fair's hopes when his AQ met a QQT flop. Fair held JJ, so he was eliminated at 10th for $12,165.

Now the final table is done. The table has two players who won more than a million in a single tournament: Joe Tehan and David Singer.

Check out the final tablists:

Joe Tehan - 458,000
Jacobo Fernandez - 428,000
Robert Lipkin - 305,000
Al Barbieri - 271,000
Russell Harriman - 206,000
Gregory Alston - 179,000
Zachary King - 139,000
David Singer - 83,000
Glen Bean - 75,000

Final table is gonna be played today at 2pm Vegas time.

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Newsblog: Event #2 Day 3

lpblog, June 04

The final day of event #2 started with 18 players instead of the intended 9. That’s because, as you could have read yesterday, play went on very long at day 2, but getting down from 378 to 9 appeared to be impossible (it was already 5.30am when we got down to 18!). Amongst these 18 contenders Chris Ferguson, who miraculously survived lots of all-in situations yesterday, Jesus always seems to have the answer. Aaron Coulthard was our chipleader at the beginning of the day:

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After a long night of poker, with few hours of sleep, it’s always a question how well the players recovered and get influenced by fatigue. Chris Ferguson started where he left off yesterday, playing aggressively and shoving his chips, doubling up once again. An interesting hand evolved at the other table, when Matthew Kearny raises to 60.000 UTG, Jeff Wiedenhoeft moves all-in for 130.000, Aaron Coulthard moves all-in over the top from the small blind and it gets back to Kearney, who calls all-in. The players show their cards: Kearney: [kd][qh], Wiedenhoeft: [kh][th], Coulthard: . An interesting board made sure the worst hand won: made a full house for Wiedenhoeft. Coulthard picked up the sidepot with his straight and Kearney is out in 15th place.

Minh Nguyen didn’t go any further than 12th place, when his ran into the pocket queens of James Akenhead. Jeff Wiedenhoeft was the last one to go before the final table, his KTo didn’t suck out on Mike Ngo’s ATo. This means the final table contains:

Joe Routledge was the first to go, in a classic coinflip (A9 vs 66) he lost to Chris Ferguson. Former chipleader David Bach is the next one to go, when he moves all-in on the turn with a double gutshot straigthdraw, he gets called by Theo Tran, with Chris Ferguson behind him. Ferguson folds and Tran shows a second pair with his J9s (9 hit the flop). No help on the river and Bach is out. When Melvin Jones open-shoves with QTs, he runs into the pocket aces of Theo Tran and gets knocked out 7th.

It’s getting late, already past midnight after having to play 16 hours yesterday, and they’re getting closer and closer to the decision. With Grant Hinkle being the chipleader, Aaron Coulthard decides to move all-in against the raise of Akenhead. When they show their cards, he knows he’s far behind, with KJo vs AKs. No help and Coulthard is out 6th. Not much after that, it’s Mike Ngo’s time to go. With his AKo against the AJo of Grant Hinkle he’s happy to get his money in, but unfortunately for him, the river brought a and Ngo can go now. When Theo Tran thinks he’s slowplaying Grant Hinkle, he’s actually the one being slowplayed. With Tran’s flopping top pair at a board, he’s just check-calling. When the turn brings another ace, he’s sure he’s got the best hand, and Tran check-calls the all-in from Hinkle, but Hinkle shows his and Theo Tran is back home, probably to get some sleep.

At this point Grant Hinkle has over 9 million of the 12 million chips in play, with Chris Ferguson being the shortstack with just 500k. Not much after that he triples up, and doubles up again! Gaining 2.6 million chips he’s back on track, until he moves all-in with , being called by James Akenhead with . This time, there are no more lives left for Jesus and it’s game over for him, finishing 3rd in this massive field!

At this point we’re heads-up, with Akenhead having a stack of 4.5million and Hinkle settling for about 7.5mln. For both players this will be their biggest cash of their carreer for sure. Hinkle doesn’t have any records of cashing in any event before, he’s actually playing his first decent tournament. Akenhead’s biggest cash is $44,290 so far. He’ll at least do 11 times that today!

About 50 hands are being played heads-up and chips are going both ways, with Hinkle still keeping his chiplead throughout the match. In hand #160 of the day we finally reach the end. When Hinkle raises from the button to 350k, Akenhead reraises to 1.2 million. Hinkle moves all-in followed by a snapcall from Akenhead! Hinkle shows , which is obviously behind Akenhead’s ! A poorly timed bluff seems to be one decisive moment, as almost all of the chips are in the middle, but he’s still got outs. Now the flop: ! The extra on the turn doesn’t matter, his full house was good enough, his quads are even better. Brutal beat for Akenhead and he’s drawing dead on the flop, meaning Grant Hinkle (see picture) wins Event nr 2, and $831,462 and a bracelet with it!

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Newsblog: Event #3 - D1

lpblog, June 03

Hi! Seeing how every blogger is naming their posts as "event x day x" I thought about changing our blogs posts titles, so you can know the difference about ours posts (that are not from vegas), and the vegas posts.

Event 3 of the WSOP is the $1.500 Pot Limit Hold'em. Despite having a 6 times smaller buy-in, the turnout was only the double of the registered at the $10,000 Pot Limit event. 713 players registered for the tournament, shorter than last year's 780ish, but that's still a good number. From those 713, 72 are gonna get paid and 63 are still alive, chasing the bracelet.

Before we talk a bit about the tourney, check the prizes:

1st $214,131
2nd $136,643
3rd $82,725
4th $67,640
5th $55,474
6th $43,796
7th $34,063
8th $26,764
9th $19,464
10th-12th $12,165
13th-15th $9,732
16th-18th $7,299
19th-27th $5,547
28th-36th $4,574
37th-45th $3,601
46th-54th $3,309
55th-63rd $3,017
64th-72nd $2,725

As you can see, we've already burst the bubble. All of the 63 players alive have secured at least $2,725, so play will be a little more loose during day 2, as everyone want's to arrive with a nice stack at the final table. Among the top players that entered this tournament are Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Humberto Brenes, David Sklansky and Jimmy "gobboboy"

Some of those who are still alive are FTP $25k HU Champion David Singer, Tom McEvoy, who has more than $2,500,000 in poker winnings, and Lou Esposito, winner of the New Orleans WSOP Circuit Event 2007. Andy Bloch, runner-up at event #1 of this year's WSOP, registered for the tournament but went busto pretty soon.

Since not many "interesting" guys are left alive in the tournament, this post will be merely informative about results, so relax and take a look at the 10 chipleaders of the event.

Robert Workman 146,800
Philip Yeh 143,000
David Singer 123,600
Bobby Law 85,500
Scott Seiver 71,200
Jacobo Fernandez 69,100
Ryan Fair 67,700
Al Barbieri 63,500
Justin Young 63,200
Russell Harriman 61,800

During day two, players are going to play until the final table, so 63 down to 9. The Play resumes at 2pm, Vegas time. We will have a better post on day 2, hopefully

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