I don’t dislike Norman, but Antonio is an excellent analyst.
Down to 22 players going into the last day before the November 9. Before the WSoP I have never heard of any of the players that are left. the chips stacks are pretty linear. No one is a severe short stack and no one has a humongous big stack.
Name Chips #BB
Anton Makievskyi 21,045,000 132
Eoghan O'Dea 19,500,000 122
Khoa Nguyen 16,435,000 103
Andrey Pateychuk 16,245,000 102
Ben Lamb 14,690,000 92
Phil Collins 13,805,000 86
John Hewitt 13,265,000 83
Ryan Lenaghan 10,415,000 65
Matt Giannetti 8,920,000 56
Konstantinos Mamaliadis 8,195,000 51
Pius Heinz 7,510,000 47
Aleksandr Mozhnyakov 7,075,000 44
Scott Schwalich 6,920,000 43
Martin Staszko 6,380,000 40
Bryan Devonshire 6,190,000 39
Sam Barnhart 4,935,000 31
Samuel Holden 4,740,000 30
Gionni Demers 4,655,000 29
Kenny Shih 4,530,000 28
Lars Bonding 4,140,000 26
Badih Bounahra 3,835,000 24
Chris Moore 3,040,000 19
antes and blinds are 20k/80k/160k so the smallest stack has 19 BB. One double up and the short stack moves up 7-8 positions. He should not be in panic mode.
TV today?
7 pm on espn. then 11 pm on espn2 central time, (and prairie time). Down to 15 players as of 4:30 central time.
they are down to 12 players going into the after dinner session. My program guide says ESPN2 has 5 hours of coverage allotted to poker coverage starting at 11 pm central. Theoretically, they could be done within 30 minutes, or it could take 8 hours. I think they will be down to the November Nine in less than 2 hours. Play has been very aggressive. The shortest stack has about 15 BB and the next two shortest have about 30 BB.
Ewe got to think that Ben Lamb is the casinos favorite right now. He is really on a rampage and his play has been baarilliant. There appears to mutton to it.
I’m loving the live coverage – so much better than the canned stuff that somehow produces awful analysis and worse jokes, and of course tends to focus on a bunch of short stack all-ins. Esfandiari, I think, does a really good job, though really any competent pro who isn’t camera-shy and knows how to express himself could do about as well.
Too bad they didn’t figure this out until now, when the party is over. Without PokerStars et al. buying ad time, there won’t be much incentive for ESPN to broadcast more than the final table in years to come.
I made it until the final 11 last night before I fell asleep, and I astounded that John Hewitt was the bubble boy. finishing 10th. I think, at one point yesterday, that he was the chip leader. I know he was in the top 3 for sure after he caught Heinz with a three barrel bluff. I guess it took about 3-4 hrs to go from 10 to 9 players.
Chip counts:
1 Martin Staszko 40,175,000
2 Eoghan O’Dea 33,925,000
3 Matt Giannetti 24,750,000
4 Phil Collins 23,875,000
5 Ben Lamb 20,875,000
6 Badih Bounahra 19,700,000
7 Pius Heinz 16,425,000
8 Anton Makievskyi 13,825,000
9 Samuel Holden 12,375,000
Hewitt got all in unnecessarily with KQ os against KK and pissed away 10mm chips.
I’ve only watched coverage from day 4, but got a schload of the coverage on my hard drive…long shot question…Is Phil Collins…the Phil Collins?
Nevermind…saw the November 9 video on the WSOP site.
I’m rooting for the Irish kid.
It is.
Just kidding, it isn’t. Just some guy with the same name.
Halloween Bump for “The November Nine”
Tomorrow night, ESPN is broadcasting the last two episodes of the WSoP going into this year Novmeber 9. I believe they will resume play at Noon local time in Vegas on Saturday
Checking the listings, ESPN2 has WSoP next Monday from 9:30 pm to 12:30 am (eastern time). I believe that will be the final 2 on a two hour delay (semi-live).
Tuesday night, we get the edited version of Saturday and Monday’s final table on ESPN.
here are the chips stacks and Ladbrokes odds of the final table:
Martin Staszko (40,175,000 chips) … 4-1 ~80 BB
Eoghan O’Dea (33,925,000 chips) … 4-1 ~68 BB
Ben Lamb (20,875,000 chips) … 11-2 ~42 BB
Matt Giannetti (24,750,000 chips) … 13-2 ~49 BB
Phil Collins (23,875,000 chips) … 7-1 ~48 BB
Pius Heinz (16,425,000 chips) … 9-1 ~ 33BB
Badih Bou-Nahra (19,700,000 chips) … 10-1 ~39BB
Anton Makiievskyi (13,825,000 chips) … 10-1 ~28BB
Sam Holden (12,375,000 chips) … 11-1 ~25BB
is it me, or does there seem to be an inordinate amount of “Vig” in these odds? 10% juice would lead to an average of about 8-1 odds, This looks to be an 7-1 average to me.
Blinds/Antes 50K/250K/500K. each orbit is 1.1 Million.
I was wrong about the final table. It starts tomorrow (Sunday) at Noon Vegas Time.
ESPN2 starts covering the final table on a 30 minutes delay.
I managed to stay up watching until 1AM when the 4 remaining players were still trading blows, and I guess they ran another couple of hours before Gianetti got knocked out. I’m glad to see Lamb still hanging in there…what a year.
I fell asleep about 11:30 pm cst.
ESPN has a telecast tonight at 7:30 cst. Not sure if it will be an edited broadcast of yesterday and or a repeat.
Here…let me just hang in there with these pocket Kings…
<FLOP> :eek:
Here…let me just scoop up these chips with these quad Kings…
Four more hours…
I’m really loving this “almost live” coverage, cause we see almost every hand that doesn’t get cut out for the edited shows…I see alot more playstyle from each player that makes truly interesting to watch.
Starts at 8 pm ct tonight on ESPN and have two hours scheduled.
It could be over in 3 or 4 hands, or it might take 5 or 6 hours.
I also like the unedited shows, but my gawd, how can Pius Heinz take 5+ minutes to make a decision?
I don’t dislike any of these players, but I am hoping Ben Lamb wins, mainly because I like sheep puns.
Ewe got to like sheep puns because they are really baaaaaad.
I hope nobody tuned in 10 minutes after the start. You missed all the fireworks!
Fire up Twitter - Negreanu made a very interesting comment a little while ago.