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The WSOP Main Event has reached it’s part one conclusion. The Final Table will be played, after a considerable gap, on the 9th November. The nine players who made it are (with chip counts):-

Dennis Phillips 26295000
Ivan Demidov 24400000
Scott Montgomery 19690000
Peter Eastgate 18375000
Ylon Schwartz 12525000
Darus Suharto 12520000
David ‘Chino’ Rheem 10230000
Craig Marquis 10210000
Kelly Kim 2620000

The rest of the top 100 are as follows (all of these players are out):-

10 $ 591,869 Dean Hamrick
11 $ 591,869 Joe Bishop
12 $ 591,869 Chris Klodnicki
13 $ 463,201 Nicholas Sliwinski
14 $ 463,201 Gert Andersen
15 $ 463,201 Owen ‘ocrowe’ Crowe
16 $ 334,534 Anthony Scherer
17 $ 334,534 Tiffany Michelle
18 $ 334,534 Jason Riesenberg
19 $ 257,334 Albert Kim
20 $ 257,334 Brandon Cantu
21 $ 257,334 Paul Snead
22 $ 257,334 Judet Toni Cristian
23 $ 257,334 Tim Loecke
24 $ 257,334 Aaron Gordon
25 $ 257,334 Niklas Flisberg
26 $ 257,334 Phi Nguyen
27 $ 257,334 Michael Carroll
28 $ 193,000 Nikolay Losev
29 $ 193,000 Cristian Dragomir
30 $ 193,000 Mike Matusow
31 $ 193,000 Garrett Beckman
32 $ 193,000 Clint Schaefer
33 $ 193,000 Jamal Kunbuz
34 $ 193,000 Greg Byard
35 $ 193,000 Andrew Brokos
36 $ 193,000 Peter Neff
37 $ 154,400 Andrew Rosskamm
38 $ 154,400 Felix Osterland
39 $ 154,400 Craig Stein
40 $ 154,400 Mauro Lupo
41 $ 154,400 Kido Pham
42 $ 154,400 Jonathan Plens
43 $ 154,400 Jason Glass
44 $ 154,400 Chris Crilly
45 $ 154,400 Phil Hellmuth
46 $ 135,100 David Saab
47 $ 135,100 Nhan Le
48 $ 135,100 Adam ‘Roothlus’ Levy
49 $ 135,100 Aaron Keay
50 $ 135,100 Allen Kennedy
51 $ 135,100 Alfredo Fernandez
52 $ 135,100 Mark Ketteringham
53 $ 135,100 Alan Gould
54 $ 135,100 Alex Outhred
55 $ 115,800 Rafael Caiaffa
56 $ 115,800 Eric Bamer
57 $ 115,800 Jeremy Joseph
58 $ 115,800 Jeremy Gaubert
59 $ 115,800 Justin Sadauskas
60 $ 115,800 Mark Owens
61 $ 115,800 Thomas Keller
62 $ 115,800 Geert Jans
63 $ 115,800 Brian Tatum
64 $ 96,500 Victor Ramdin
65 $ 96,500 Larry Wright
66 $ 96,500 Chris Zapf
67 $ 96,500 Justin Scott
68 $ 96,500 Suresh Prabhu
69 $ 96,500 Sean Davis
70 $ 96,500 Terry Lade
71 $ 96,500 James McManus
72 $ 96,500 Daniel Buzgon
73 $ 77,200 David Benefield
74 $ 77,200 Jamal Sawaqdeh
75 $ 77,200 Keith Hawkins
76 $ 77,200 Lisa Parsons
77 $ 77,200 Mark Wilds
78 $ 77,200 Matt Matros
79 $ 77,200 Bob Whalen
80 $ 77,200 Mark Vos
81 $ 77,200 Davor Lanini
82 $ 64,333 Stephen Kenna
83 $ 64,333 Lonnie Heimowitz
84 $ 64,333 Alexander Kostritsyn
85 $ 64,333 Cedric Kolstad
86 $ 64,333 Reagan Silber
87 $ 64,333 Karle Wilson
88 $ 64,333 Santeri Valikoski
89 $ 64,333 Jose Barbero
90 $ 64,333 Jeffrey Papola
91 $ 51,466 Tim Taylor
92 $ 51,466 Geoffrey Herzog
93 $ 51,466 Markus Feurle
94 $ 51,466 Robert Hwang
95 $ 51,466 Yde van Deutekom
96 $ 51,466 Aditya Agarwal
97 $ 51,466 Dwayne Stacey
98 $ 51,466 Darren Grant
99 $ 51,466 Cort Kibler-Melby
100 $ 41,816 Marc Podell

Out of my 40 main event horses, I have lost 13 to my knowledge. Which is great. Maybe there are a few I’ve missed, but quite a few are looking good, especially Mark Vos and Jon Turner, who are amongst the leaders.

The 13 bust-outs so far are:

Chris Ferguson
Andy Black
Bo Sehlstedt
Dario Minieri
Kevin Saul
Humberto Brenes
John Gale
Kristy Gazes
Marc Goodwin
Sammy Farha
Steve Paul-Ambrose
Vanessa Selbst
Young Phan

Fingers crossed for the remaining 27 horses

Event 46 - $5000 NLHE Shorthanded - 805 entrants
1 $ 911,855 Joe Commisso
2 $ 570,551 Richard Lyndaker
3 $ 368,891 Edward Ochana

Event 47 - $1500 Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo - 544 entrants
1 $ 183,368 Ryan Hughes
2 $ 113,240 Ron Long
3 $ 68,686 Thomas Hunt

Event 48 - $2000 NL Holdem - 2317 entrants
1 $ 770,540 Alexandre Gomes
2 $ 491,273 Marco Johnson
3 $ 326,812 Ryan D’Angelo

Event 49 - $1500 NL Holdem - 2718 entrants
1 $ 631,170 JC Tran
2 $ 389,557 Rasmus Nielsen
3 $ 278,255 John Conroy

Event 50 - $10,000 PL Omaha - 381 entrants
1 $ 859,549 Marty Smyth
2 $ 528,256 Peter Jetten
3 $ 331,279 Michael Mizrachi

Event 51 - $1500 HORSE - 803 entrants
1 $ 256,412 James Schaaf
2 $ 158,933 Tommy Hang
3 $ 93,168 Phil Hellmuth

Event 52 - $1500 NL Holdem - 2693 entrants
1 $ 625,443 David Daneshgar
2 $ 385,974 Scott Sitron
3 $ 275,695 Dan Heimiller

Event 53 - $1500 Limit Holdem Shootout - 823 entrants
1 $ 278,180 Matt Graham
2 $ 173,564 Jean-Robert Bellande
3 $ 107,845 Joe De Niro

I am not much of a betting guy really, but come the time of the WSOP Main Event it seems criminal not to have a few fun bets on a range of players.

So, welcome to my elite stable of horses ;)  Hopefully some of these make it through to the final table.  I have naturally avoided the biggest names, as getting odds of 22 to 1 on Phil Ivey is ludicrously poor value.  This is poker, not AC Milan vs Accrington Stanley, or Gary Kasparov vs Jim from the meat-packing factory.   In poker we deal in edges, not 99.9% certainties.

All of my stable of players have odds of between 250-1 to 150-1 to make the final table

Chris Ferguson $2 @ 150-1
Andy Black $2 @ 185-1
Bo Sehlstedt $6 @ 185-1
Carl Olsen $2 @ 185-1
Cliff Jospehy $2 @ 185-1
Dario Mineiri $2 @ 185-1
David Singer $2 @ 185-1
Eric “Sheets” Haber $2 @ 185-1
Jeff Madsen $2 @ 185-1
Joe Beevers $4 @ 185-1
Jon Turner $2 @ 185-1
Kevin Saul $2 @ 185-1
Kirill Gerasimov $2 @ 185-1
Liz Liu $2 @185-1
Neil “Bad Beat” Channing $2 @ 185-1
Alex Kravchenko $2 @ 250-1
Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier $2 @ 250-1
Cory Carrol $2 @ 250-1
Eddy Scharf $5 @ 250-1
Greg Mueller $2 @ 250-1
Humberto Brenes $5 @ 250-1
Jason Strasser $2 @ 250-1
John Tabatabai $2 @ 250-1
John Gale $4 @ 250-1
Kristy Gazes $2 @ 250-1
Marc Goodwin $4 @ 250-1
Maria Ho $2 @ 250-1
MarK Vos $4 @ 250-1
Nenad Medic $2 @ 250-1
Nick Goodall $2 @ 250-1
Richard Tatlovich @ $2 250-1
Sam Farha $2 @ 250-1
Steve Bilirakis $2 @ 250-1
Steve Paul-Ambrose $2 @ 250-1
Steve Zolotow $2 @ 250-1
Stig Rasmussen $2 @ 250-1
Thomas Wahlroos $2 @ 250-1
Vanessa Selbst $2 @ 250-1
Victor Ramdin $2 @ 250-1
Young Phan $2 @ 250-1

I’ll keep you updated, and we’ll see how I do

Popular pro Scotty Nguyen picks up his 5th WSOP bracelet

Event 45 - $50K HORSE - 148 entrants
1 $ 1,989,120 Scotty Nguyen
2 $ 1,243,200 Michael DeMichele
3 $ 781,440 Erick Lindgren
4 $ 568,320 Matt Glantz
5 $ 444,000 Lyle Berman
6 $ 355,200 Barry Greenstein
7 $ 284,160 Huck Seed
8 $ 230,880 Patrick Bueno

Event 39 - $1500 NLHE - 2720 entrants
1 $ 631,656 David Woo
2 $ 389,844 Matthew Wood
3 $ 278,460 Eric Beren

Event 40 - $2500 2-7 Triple Draw - 238 entrants
1 $ 151,896 John Phan
2 $ 95,795 Shun Uchida
3 $ 61,583 Gioi Luong

Event 41 - $1500 Mixed Holdem - 731 entrants
1 $ 219,508 Frank Gary
2 $ 140,093 Jonathan Tamayo
3 $ 84,814 Nick Binger

Event 42 - $1000 Senoirs NLHE - 2218 entrants
1 $ 368,832 Dan Lacourse
2 $ 235,141 Dale Eberle
3 $ 156,424 Marc Fluss

Event 43 - $1500 PL Omaha Hi-Lo - 720 entrants
1 $ 216,249 Martin Klaser
2 $ 137,985 Casey Kastle
3 $ 83,538 Michael Fetter

Event 44 - $1000 NLHE w/rebuys - 879 entrants
1 $ 693,444 Max Greenwood
2 $ 445,523 Rene Mouritsen
3 $ 267,314 Albert Iversen

3 tables left in the $50K HORSE event in the WSOP (8 players per table), and some great poker players amongst them. Probably my favorite looking table is Table 3 (below), which includes Erick Lindgren (1 bracelet already this year), Daniel Negreanu (1 bracelet already this year), Doyle Bruson (10 bracelets, and all-round poker god), and The Grinder Michael Mizrachi

Table 3 Players
Seat 1: Matt Glantz — 521,000
Seat 2: Raymond Davis — 438,000
Seat 3: Erick Lindgren — 485,000
Seat 4: Edwin Ting — 261,000
Seat 5: Daniel Negreanu — 1,226,000
Seat 6: David Bach — 801,000
Seat 7: Michael Mizrachi — 701,000
Seat 8: Doyle Brunson — 777,000

Here are the chip leaders, with some more very notable names like Greenstein, Perry, and Scotty Nguyen:-

Michael DeMichele 1351000
Barry Greenstein 1311000
Daniel Negreanu 1226000
Ralph Perry 1043000
Scotty Nguyen 1033000
Lyle Berman 939000
Patrick Bueno 806000
David Bach 801000
Doyle Brunson 777000
Michael Mizrachi 701000

Event 32 - $1500 NLHE - 2304 entrants
1 $ 573,734 Jose Luis Velador
2 $ 366,387 Anthony G Signore
3 $ 243,734 Osmin Dardon

Event 33 $5000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo - 261 entrants
1 $ 328,756 Sebastian Ruthenberg
2 $ 202,406 Chris Ferguson
3 $ 125,737 Bob Lauria

Event 34 - $1500 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys - 320 entrants
1 $ 577,725 Layne Flack
2 $ 355,050 Daniel Makowsky
3 $ 222,659 Jacobo Fernandez

Event 35 - $1500 Seven-Card Stud - 381 entrants
1 $ 135,753 Mike Rocco
2 $ 83,210 Al Barbieri
3 $ 50,186 Levon Torosyan

Event 36 - $1500 NLHE - 2447 entrants
1 $ 610,304 Jesper Hougaard
2 $ 389,128 Cody Slaubaugh
3 $ 258,862 Aaron Kanter

Event 37 - $10,000 PLO8 - 235 entrants
1 $ 535,687 David Benyamine
2 $ 331,350 Greg Jamison
3 $ 209,855 Jason Gray

Event 38 - $2000 Pot Limit Holdem - 605 entrants
1 $ 244,546 Davidi Kitai
2 $ 155,806 Chris Bell
3 $ 94,695 Keith Greer

Event 27 - $1500 NLHE -2706 entrants
1 $ 628,417 Vitaly Lunkin
2 $ 387,837 Brett Kimes
3 $ 277,026 Bobby Firestone

Event 28 - $5000 PLO w/rebuys - 152 entrants
1 $ 817,781 Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond
2 $ 493,748 Adam Hourani
3 $ 316,307 David Benyamine

Event 29 - $3000 NLHE - 716 entrants
1 $ 434,789 John Phan
2 $ 277,452 Johnny Neckar
3 $ 167,973 Matt Vengrin

Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Holdem - 218 entrants
1 $ 496,931 Rob Hollink
2 $ 307,380 Jerrod Ankenman
3 $ 194,674 Tommy Hang

Event 31 - $2500 NLHE Six-handed - 1012 entrants
1 $ 528,418 Dario Minieri
2 $ 330,519 Seth Fischer
3 $ 214,139 Justin Filtz

Event 13 - $2500 NLHE - 1390 Entrants
1 $ 666,777 Duncan Bell
2 $ 428,948 Steven Merrifield
3 $ 260,261 Nathan Doudney

Event - 14 $10,000 7-Card Stud - 158 entrants
1 $ 415,856 Eric Brooks
2 $ 259,910 Fu Wong
3 $ 163,372 Alexander Kostritsyn

Event - 15 $1000 Ladies NLHE - 1190 entrants
1 $ 244,702 Svetlana Gromenkova
2 $ 144,567 Anh Le
3 $ 87,715 Patty Till

Event 16 - $2000 Omaha Hi-Lo - 553 entrants
1 $ 226,483 Andrew Brown
2 $ 143,420 Ted Forrest
3 $ 88,065 Jim Pechac

Event 17 - $1500 NLHE Shootout - 1000 entrants
1 $ 335,565 Jason Young
2 $ 209,527 Mike Schwartz
3 $ 129,675 John Strzemp III

Event 18 - $5000 NL 2-7 Trip Draw w/rebuys - 85 entrants
1 $ 537,862 Mike Matusow (Full Tilt Poker pro)
2 $ 347,004 Jeff Lisandro
3 $ 225,552 Barry Greenstein

Event 19 - $1500 PLO - 759 entrants
1 $ 227,965 Vanessa Selbst
2 $ 145,459 Jamie Pickering
3 $ 88,062 Stanley Statkiewicz Jr

Event 20 - $2000 Limit Holdem - 480 entrants
1 $ 204,874 Daniel Negreanu (PokerStars Pro)
2 $ 126,671 Ugur Marangoz
3 $ 78,624 David Baker

Event 21 - $5000 NLHE - 731 entrants
1 $ 755,891 Scott Seiver (PokerStars online player gunning4you)
2 $ 482,372 Dave Seidman
3 $ 292,034 Ben Sprengers

Event 22 - $3000 HORSE - 414 entrants
1 $ 298,253 Jens Veortmann
2 $ 182,822 Doug Ganger
3 $ 110,264 Marcel Luske

Event 23 - $2000 NLHE - 1344 entrants
1 $ 507,563 Blair Hinkle (brother of Event 2 winner Grant Hinkle)
2 $ 326,552 Mark Brockington
3 $ 198,132 Daniel O’Brien

Event 24 - $2500 PL Holdem/Omaha - 457 entrants
1 $ 246,471 Max Pescatori
2 $ 152,410 Kyle Kloeckner
3 $ 94,599 Greg Hurst

Event 25 - $10,000 NLHE Heads-up - 256 entrants
1 $ 539,056 Kenny Tran
2 $ 336,896 Alec Torelli
3 $ 108,288 Vanessa Selbst

Event 26 - $1500 Razz - 453 Entrants
1 $ 157,619 Barry Greenstein (PokerStars Pro)
2 $ 97,389 Chris Klodnicki
3 $ 58,743 Chris Viox