Will he ask his table to play the deuce-seven prop bet? If you win with 2-7, everyone at the table owes you $500?
Woops, I meant 20th.
Phil Ivey is second in chip count with over $10M. The median stack looks to be in the $3.5M range. 46 players left.
Hey quick question interjected to the proceedings here:
Last year in the 2008 WSoP, a russian player pushed a full stack out past his chips, but without taking his hands off the chips pulled it back and pushed out half of the stack. After calling 2 floormen, it was ruled that because he didn’t take his hand off the chip-stack, it wasn’t a bet. (somehow getting around the forward motion rule)
Does anyone have any more information on this. Has it had an impact on play this year? I never really saw a resolution to the ruling last year (players were still upset about the ruling), and I’m wondering if people are pushing stacks in and out of the pot just to test the waters.
Thanks in advance…
While I haven’t heard anything on it (or even recall the specific event), I’m going to guess that it was considered an error by the floormen (or whatever the proper term is for tournaments) that presided over the incident. Not something that counted as being an official ruling. Unless a head honcho was called and he made the ruling, then ouch.
Okay guys, we’re down to the final 27. Action will resume at noon PST tomorrow and will be played down to nine.
I am optimistically hopeful that Ivey makes it far beyond just the final nine. Like has been mentioned though, he’s been deeper than this before while being one of the chip leaders and still hasn’t made even the final table. So I’m trying not to get my hopes up for him too much.
That said, Esfandiari is still around, though on the lower end of chip count. Shulman is high up there with Ivey. One time chip leader Ludovic Lacay is pretty much right in the middle of the pack.
Who will we be seeing in November and who will be spending the next few days drowning their sorrows in various mind-altering substances after busting out? Join me tomorrow and find out! 
I LOVE IT when they play that game on High Stakes Poker. It’s so damn fun to watch.
I missed this first time around yet happened to catch it a week or two ago. Michael Carroll was PISSED! I tend to agree. As someone else pointed out, what’s to keep a player from then pushing his entire stack in, checking for a reaction, then pulling it back? Yeah, that was a horrible ruling.
There’s a whole bunch of weird ass rules in the new standardized tournament rules they adopted a few years back. There’s lots of retarded stuff too like automatic penalties for discussing your hand honestly or showing it when heads up. Maybe by their rules that was the correct ruling, I have no idea.
Still terrible. If someone would’ve pulled that shit on me it would’ve been a flying ninja kick over the table.
Yeah, those rules bug me, too.
Darvin Moon 20,160,000
Billy Kopp 15,970,000
Steven Begleiter 11,885,000
Phil Ivey 11,350,000
Kevin Schaffel 11,245,000
Antoine Saout 11,135,000
Jeff Shulman 10,170,000
Eric Buchman 10,005,000
Jamie Robbins 9,795,000
Ben Lamb 9,410,000
James Akenhead 8,615,000
Joseph Cada 6,565,000
James Calderaro 6,475,000
Andrew Lichtenberger 5,625,000
Ludovic Lacay 5,610,000
Warren Zackey 5,485,000
Marco Mattes 5,285,000
Tommy Vedes 5,070,000
Jordan Smith 4,510,000
Antonio Esfandiari 4,470,000
Ian Tavelli 4,385,000
Jonathan Tamayo 3,300,000
Jesse Haabak 2,750,000
George Caragiorgas 1,615,000
Nick Maimone 1,545,000
Leo Margets 1,530,000
Francois Balmigere 1,440,000
Blinds are 50K/100K antes 10K.
4 Short stacks have ~15 Big blinds and 6 orbits (~240K). They will have to make a a move early to stay in the tournament.
Leo Margets is a woman, by the way, which has a lot of people excited since they think a woman making the FT would be great for poker recruitment.
Moon is apparently a gigantic luckbox whose understanding of the game is questionable - we seem to have at least one of those deep in the tournament over the last few years.
Tommy Vedes is apparently the villain as one person on 2+2 with experience with him says he’s a ginourmous douchebag.
Billy Kopp, IIRC, is an online MTT pro who’s the MTT leaderboard leader on one of the smaller networks. James Akenhead is also a very well regarded online MTT player.
Jeff Shulman is the editor of Card Player magazine.
Some thoughts:
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Congratulations to our very own Gadarene for finishing in the money in a WSOP event!! That is most excellent!.
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I’m sick and tired of Ivey being called the Tiger Woods of poker. There is more to the man than his skin color.
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Since I first saw Johnny Chan win I always dreamed of playing in the main event, but now there is no way in hell I’d want to. Thousands of players, 12 hours a day for over a week makes it seem to be not that fun at all.
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I really wish the blogs would tell us the blinds when significant action occurs. Most of my tournament play depends a great deal on where the blinds are in relation to my and the other stacks at the table, and not knowing what the blinds are when some guy calls a 3 player re-raise all in with just JJ doesn’t tell me much.
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It’s a lot less painful to read about the beats happening to someone else now that I’ve played enough to have them happen to me. My pain in losing $100 on a bad beat is much more painful than someone else’s AA getting outdrawn on the river.
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There seems to be a cloning machine of “players who left college to play poker professionally in the last few years and are now playing in the biggest tournament of the year” stories. The world must be littered with the poker corpses of the hundreds of the exact same guys who tried and failed to make it professionally.
Hamlet, I agree with Points 1,2,4, & 6. Especially about mentioning the blinds/antes when discussing a big hand.
But one day, I will play in the main event. I think it would be a blast. But it would be a grind.
One thing that would drive me a up a wall is when they got to the money bubble that they played 13 hands in 90 minutes. 13 hands…ugh.
Sigh, no deuce-seven prop bet game at the final table. Esfandiari has been eliminated. As has Leo Margrets. No ladies at the final table, yet again.
Phil Ivey has taken some hits, down to 5.5 Million about 1/2 hour ago.
Has anyone around here actually met Ivey? And I don’t mean “saw from across the room” or something but has actually said hi to him or some such? Shaken his hand or anything?
If so, can I get you anything? May I touch your hand?
I have some Iv[e]y growing on my house. Is that close enough?
Ivey’s dropped about 5 million chips today, and is currently sitting at 13th, with 16 players left. Not looking too good for Phil.
13/15 now. I imagine that the big stacks will sit on what they’ve got to make the final table. Remember Scotty Nguyen a couple of years ago?
If Ivey could bust the short stack he’d be in the top nine. Does anyone ahead of Ivey want to go all in against him at this point in the tournament?
Let’s wait and see if anyone else responds. If not, then yes that’ll do.
If it’s any help, I also had an I.V. when I was at the hospital.