Also ESPN is staging a rematch of classic heads-up play of memorable Main Event finales, with initial starting Chip Stacks REVERSED when they started Heads-Up play.
2003: Moneymaker vs Fahra
1989: Hellmuth vs Chan
1988: Chan vs Seidel
Kind of surprised that ESPN is expanding coverage of WSoP (after Black Friday). Maybe they were already contractually obligated to do it.
there is a new $25K Heads-up tournament that basically kicks off the WSoP on Tuesday. Limited to 256 entries, so act quick if you want to play. :p.
Also a $50K :eek: buy-in tournament towards the end of the WSoP.
Opening Heads-up tournament has started with only 128 players rather than 256 capacity.
Card-Player blog have identified some key1st round matchups:
Phil Laak vs. Jonathan Duhamel
David Peters vs. Antonio Esfandiari
Tom Dwan vs. Peter Jetten
Vanessa Selbst vs. Chris Moorman
Bertrand Grospellier vs. Daniel Cates
Daniel Negreanu vs. Alex Kostritsyn
Daniel Alaei vs. Thomas Marchese
Galen Hall vs. Ashton Griffin
Vivek Rajkumar vs. Praz Bansi
Isaac Haxton vs. Robert Mizrachi
Jason Mercier vs. Gus Hansen
Former Main Event Runner-up David Williams (against Raymer) lost quickly, flopping top pair against his opponents (Ayaz Mahmood) bottom two pair.
Worth noting that the Dwan vs Jetten is battle of best friends.
Apparently Phil Ivey won’t play the WSOP. He’s taking an admirable stand, IMO, but it definitely detracts from the luster of the events, since I always like to see Ivey play.
Yes I reported the spammer as well. Looks like he has vanished.
Jake Cody won the Heads-up 25K tournament and $830,000+. Beating Timoshenko in the finals and Gus Hanson in the semis. He is 22 yrs old and from England.
He has won a WSoP event, a WPT event, and EPT event (European Poker Tour). Pretty good feat for a 22 yr old.
I’m not sure it’s as pricipled a stand as it seems. He reportedly has been playing in huge cash games in Macao, taking millions off of Chinese businessmen.
Sure, but he’d be able to do that whether or not he plays the WSOP (he’d just have to take a week or three “off” to do the WSOP). I would think that Ivey wants that main event bracelet pretty badly – it’s the one thing he’s missing from his resumé.
Is Ivey still under contract with FullTilt or have they COMPLETELY closed up shop? I wonder if his contract would require he wear FT gear if he were to play in the WSOP so he’s refusing advertise for them.
10K Pot Limit Hold’em is down to final 27 players. The Bubble Boy was none other than Daniel Negreanu who was last player busted out last night. finished 28th.
Notables still in playing include Jennifer Tilly (avg stack), and Mike Matasow (short stack) and one of the Mizrachi brothers (Robert and in 6th position). Jennifer Harmon’s husband is also one of the short stacks.
For all the people that do not like the Poker Brat, you can thank John Juanda for denying Phil Hellmuth a 12th bracelet in the deuce to seven lo-ball event.
Hellmuth had a 3:1 chip advantage when they got to Heads-up.
Bump. Apparently there was not much interest in the WSoP. But I am bumping to let everyone know that the Main event started yesterday. There was 897 players in Day 1a. three former champs busted on Day 1a, Doyle Brunson, Greg Raymer and Jerry Yang. Matt Afflect, who made deep Main Event runs the last two years also busted out on Day 1A.
Day 1B is happening today, not sure how many played today.
