Bump
The Main event starts in just a couple of days. I wonder if they got the bugs out of the registration process?
And the Poker World is on edge again as Tom Dwan (Durrr) is a big chip leader in the 10K Pot Limit Omaha event.
There are still 33 players left, but Durrr (910k) has more than 50% more than the 2nd place player (563k). Some other big names are still left in this tournament including Hellmuth, Ulliot, Mercier, and Alaei.
I don’t know if I mentioned this, but Daniel Negreanu’s twitter feed is a good read - even doing a little coaching.
Not really. The winnings are based on the number of entry fees, minus the house take, and then put into a % table. It’s not rare for first place to be a strange number like $123,449.37.
No, he was asking how much the first place winner got because he had no idea and didn’t care. The few hundred thousand dollars meant nothing for him, he was just trying to win it for the prop bets.
Well, no big prop bets were paid off last night as **Durrrr ** crashed and burned in the 10K PL Omaha and finished 17th. Hellmuth and Mercier are also out. They decided to carry the tournament into a 4th day for the final table. Ludavic Lucay and Daniel Alaei are players at the final table that I recognize and they are the two chip leaders. Another player I recognize is Alexander Kravchenko and he is one the short stacks. There should be some early action as the short stack have only 8X the Big Blind. (but no antes?)
Actually the WSoP has two big final tables happening today. The 10K PLO and the Tournament of Champions. The ToC features an all-star final table:
1 Mike Matusow 85,500
2 Huck Seed 73,000
3 Johnny Chan 68,600
4 Scotty Nguyen 64,700
5 Joe Hachem 64,300
6 Erik Seidel 58,900
7 Allen Cunningham 58,900
8 Phil Hellmuth 44,100
9 Annie Duke 42,600
10 Daniel Negreanu 39,900
What a lineup!
Well it would have been a great final table if indeed it was the final table. Actually there were 18 players still left and the chip counts listed in the above post was the top 9.
They are now down to the final ten of the TOC. This is the lineup as it started about an hour ago
Seat 1: Annie Duke - 17, 900 (9bb)
Seat 2: Joe Hachem - 136,000 (68bb)
Seat 3: Erik Seidel - 35,600 (18bb)
Seat 4: Johnny Chan - 152,900 (76bb)
Seat 5: Daniel Negreanu - 175,000 (88bb)
Seat 6: Barry Greenstein - 51,500 (26bb)
Seat 7: Huck Seed - 100,300 (50bb)
Seat 8: Jennifer Harman - 53,400 (27bb)
Seat 9: T.J. Cloutier - 54,300 (27bb)
Seat 10: Howard Lederer - 31,000 (16bb)
Still a great lineup
Annie Duke has doubled up once through Hachem.
They are now at 300/1200/2400 antes and blinds.
Does anyone do a live feed (real or animated) of these games? It would be way cool to rail.
Huck Seed wins the ToC event at the WSoP over Howard Lederer. {yawn} I suspect that ESPN wanted two more exciting players in the finals. Johnny Chan was third, Barry Greenstein 4th.
Daniel Alaei wins the 10K PL Omaha event
And so it begins, Day 1A has started for the Main Event. Seidel, Matasow, Esfandiari, and Ray Romano are in todays field.
Greg Raymor, 2004 ME Champion, was one of the first notable players to bust out of the main event. He lasted less than 1.5 hours.
He was the honorary starter of the Main Event. so maybe there is a “Shuffle Up and Deal” curse.
For the main event, definitely better to bust out in less than two hours rather than in two days and still not make any money.
True enough.
However $5,000/hr is hard on the wallet. How many hand were dealt to him? Maybe 30? $333 per hand is lot to take.
PokerStars blog:
“ELIMINATION OF THE HOUR
Greg Raymer. It was coming. And it came. The Fossilman had red pocket eights, half way to the winning hand he had in 2004. This time he was up against pocket aces, however, and couldn’t outdraw. Raymer is gone.”
Maria Ho is amongst the early chip leaders on Day 1A. Amazing Race fans might remember Maria as a contestant with Tiffany Michelle.
Neither played in the Main Event last year as they were doing the race at the time.
Tweet from Daniel Negreanu:
So girls are getting tattoos of Kid Pokers autograph?
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The second Day 1 (Day 1B) is over, and some notables have busted out. Jamie Gold, Erick Lindgren, and Elky Grospellier are gone. 1125 and 1489 players entered Day 1A and Day 1B which is apparently slightly ahead of last year’s pace.
Hopefully Day 1D won’t be a cluster f*** like it was last year when they closed the entries.
Many of the biggest names have not played yet, like Hellmuth, Negreanu, Dolly, Duke, Matasow, Ivey, Durrrr. At least they haven’t been mentioned in the pokernews blog. I have feeling that a lot of big names will be playing today, avoiding the circus that will happen tomorrow.
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