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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

Event 5 - $1000 rebuy NLHE - 776 entrants
1 $ 636,736 Michael Banducci
2 $ 406,330 Jeff Williams
3 $ 245,997 Peter Gould

Event 6 - $1500 LO8 - 833 entrants
1 $ 243,356 Thang Luu
2 $ 156,343 Spencer Lawrence
3 $ 93,806 George Guzman

Event 7 $2000 NLHE - 1592 Entrants
1 $ 550,601 Matt Keikoan
2 $ 349,141 Shannon Shorr
3 $ 228,897 Carter Gill

Event 8 $10,000 Mixed Event - 192 Entrants
1 $ 483,688 Anthony Rivera
2 $ 297,792 James Mackey
3 $ 184,992 Matt Glantz

Event 9 $1500 NLHE Six-handed - 1236 entrants
1 $ 372,929 Rep Porter
2 $ 231,981 Nathan Templeton
3 $ 151,842 Devin Porter

Event 10 $2500 Omaha/7-Card Stud Hi-Lo - 388 entrants
1 $ 232,911 Farzad Rouhani
2 $ 142,784 Tom Chambers
3 $ 86,117 John Cernuto

Event 11 - $5000 NLHE Shootout - 360 entrants
1 $ 477,990 Phil Tom
2 $ 298,638 Greg Mueller
3 $ 187,812 Leo Wolpert

Event 12 - $1500 Limit Holdem - 880 entrants
1 $ 257,105 Jimmy Shultz
2 $ 165,165 Zac Fellows
3 $ 99,099 Vinny Vinh

Event 2 Result ($1500 NLHE)

1 $ 831,462 Grant Hinkle
2 $ 520,219 James Akenhead
3 $ 388,287 Chris Ferguson

Event 3 Result ($1500 PLHE)

1 $ 214,131 David Singer
2 $ 136,643 Jacobo Fernandez
3 $ 82,725 Gregory Alston

Event 4 Result ($5000 Mixed Holdem)

1 $ 374,505 Erick Lindgren
2 $ 230,159 Justin Bonomo
3 $ 144,337 Andrew Robl

Are WSOP Events Speed Tourneys?

WSOP Tourney

If we take a standard $1500 NLHE Event as a comparison.

Starting Chips = 3000, Blind Levels = 60 mins

1 $0 Ante $25-$50 Blinds
2 $0 Ante $50-$100 Blinds
3 $0 Ante $100-$200 Blinds
4 $25 Ante $100-$200 Blinds
5 $25 Ante $150-$300 Blinds
6 $50 Ante $200-$400 Blinds
7 $75 Ante $300-$600 Blinds
8 $100 Ante $400-$800 Blinds

Standard Online Tourney Structure

3000 Chips, 15 min levels (eg $11 NLHE $20K Guaranteed at 19:00 ET on PokerStars)

1. $0 Ante 10/20 Blinds
2. $0 Ante 15/30 Blinds
3. $0 Ante 25/50 Blinds
4. $0 Ante 50/100 Blinds
5. $0 Ante 75/150 Blinds
6. $0 Ante 100/200 Blinds
7. $25 Ante 125/250 Blinds
8. $25 Ante 150/300 Blinds

A reasonable translation between live and online events is to multiply by 3 to translate online into the equivalent live blind speed (due to standard things like shuffling time, physical chip counting, manual split pots, longer time banks for thinking, etc etc)

So, on this basis, the WSOP is running at equivalent of 20 mins “online blinds”

Both are 3000 starting stack, so we just need to look at the cost of a rotation as the tournament progresses. So if we look at a point 2 “online hours” deep we will be at Level 8 online, and Level 6 in the WSOP. This leads us to:

Online Cost of Rotation = 9×25 + 150 + 300 = 675 chips
Live Cost of Rotation = 9×50 + 200 + 400 = 1050 chips

Which means that the WSOP is a faster structure than a standard online tourney. Welcome to the World Series of (Speed) Poker!

A bit of a catch up with the WSOP latest from Las Legas

WSOP Event 1 Result

1 $ 794,112 Nenad Medic
2 $ 488,048 Andy Bloch
3 $ 306,064 Kathy Liebert

Chip Leaders WSOP Event 2

Aaron Coulthard 1327000
Theo Tran 1199000
James Akenhead 1039000
Matthew Kearney 1024000
Josh Engerdahl 930000
Eric Hicks 703000
Melvin Jones 660000

Chip Leaders WSOP Event 3

Robert Workman 146800
Philip Yeh 143000
David Singer 123600
Bobby Law 85500
Scott Seiver 71200
Jacobo Fernandez 69100
Ryan Fair 67700
Al Barbieri 63500

ChipLeaders WSOP Event 4

Jon Turner 100200
Ariel Schneller 99500
Ron Kevin Haeri 92300
Adam Westell 82800
Justin Bonomo 73900
Jay Rosenkrantz 72500
Jason Dewitt 70100
David Williams 67000
Gavin Griffin 65800

Some of the top young talent there, with Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, Justin Bononmo, and Gavin Griffin all amongst the leaders

The following are a selection of odds offered by Ladbrokes for a player to reach the Final Table of the WSOP 2008 Main Event. (The final table means one of the last 9 players).

Personally I think you would be crazy to bet on any of the guys with odds of shorter than 126 to 1. Phil Ivey is good, but 34 to 1 in a 7000 entrant event is clearly a poor bet.

The 186 to 1 and 251 to 1 players are a lot more attractive. Sure, its a bit of a lottery, but I think I will bet on a few for a bit of fun

Phil Ivey 34.00
Allen Cunningham 51.00
Phil Hellmuth 51.00
Daniel Negreanu 61.00
JC Tran 61.00
Carlos Mortensen 91.00
David “The Dragon” Pham 91.00
Erik Seidel 91.00
Gus Hansen 91.00
Johnny Chan 91.00
Kenny Tran 91.00
Mike Matusow 91.00
Patrik Antonious 91.00
Alan Goehring 126.00
Dan Harrington 126.00
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott 126.00
Doyle Brunson 126.00
Greg Raymer 126.00
Howard Lederer 126.00
Joe Hachem 126.00
John Juanda 126.00
Johnny Lodden 126.00
Juha Helppi 126.00
Julian Gardner 126.00
Kirk Morrison 126.00
Layne Flack 126.00
Marcel Luske 126.00
Max Pescatori 126.00
Michael Mizrachi 126.00
Roland De Wolfe 126.00
Scott Fischmann 126.00
Sorel Mizzi 126.00 (Imper1um)
Tony G 126.00
Antonio Esfandiari 151.00
Brian Townsend 151.00
Bruno Fitoussi 151.00
Chris Ferguson 151.00
David Benyamine 151.00
Dewey Tomko 151.00
Erick Lindgren 151.00
Gavin Griffin 151.00
Gavin Smith 151.00
Huck Seed 151.00
Jennefer Harman 151.00
John Hennigan 151.00
Justin Bonomo 151.00
Lee Nelson 151.00
Mads Anderson 151.00
Phil Laak 151.00
Praz Bansi 151.00
Scotty Nguyen 151.00
Theo Jorgenson 151.00
Tim Phan 151.00
Todd Brunson 151.00
Tom Dwan 151.00 (Durrrr)
William Thorson 151.00
Andy Black 186.00
Andy Bloch 186.00
Anne Wroblewski 186.00
Annie Duke 186.00
Barny Boatman 186.00
Bill Chen 186.00
Bill Edler 186.00
Bo Sehlstedt 186.00
Can Kim Hua 186.00
Carl Olson 186.00
Carmel Petrescu 186.00
Chad Brown 186.00
Chau Giang 186.00
Chip Jett 186.00
Chris Bjorin 186.00
Cindy Violette 186.00
Cliff Josephy 186.00
Dario Minieri 186.00
Darrell Dickin 186.00
Dave Colclough 186.00
David Chiu 186.00
David Levi 186.00
David Oppenheim 186.00
David Singer 186.00
David Williams 186.00
Dutch Boyd 186.00
Eric Haber 186.00 (Sheets)
Eric Froelich 186.00
Eric Lynch 186.00 (Rizen)
Farzad Bonyadi 186.00
Freddy Deeb 186.00
Gabe Thaler 186.00
Hevad Khan 186.00 (RainKhan)
Hoyt Corkins 186.00
Ilarie Sahamies 186.00
Jason Lester 186.00
Jeff Kimber 186.00
Jeff Lisandro 186.00
Jeff Madsen 186.00
Jennifer Leigh 186.00
Jerome Bradpiece 186.00
Joe Awada 186.00
Joe Beevers 186.00
Johan Storakers 186.00
John Kabbaj 186.00
John Phan 186.00
Jon “Skalie” Kalmar 186.00
Jon Turner 186.00
Jorryt Van Hoof 186.00
Julian Thew 186.00
Karl Mahrenholz 186.00
Katherine Hartree 186.00
Keith “The Camel” Hawkins 186.00
Kevin Saul 186.00
Kirill Gerasimov 186.00
Lars Bonding 186.00
Lee Markholt 186.00
Lee Watkinson 186.00
Liz Liu 186.00
Markus Golser 186.00
Martin Green 186.00
Martin Wendt 186.00
Marty Smyth 186.00
Men “The Master” Nguyen 186.00
Mikael Thuritz 186.00
Mike Binger 186.00
Mike Sexton 186.00
Minh Ly 186.00
Neil “Bad Beat” Channing 186.00
Nick Binger 186.00
Nick Gibson 186.00
Nik Persaud 186.00
Noah Boeken 186.00
Padraig Parkinson 186.00
Paul Darden 186.00
Paul Wasicka 186.00
Philip Marmostein 186.00
Ralph Perry 186.00
Richard Toth 186.00
Robert Mizrachi 186.00
Robert Williamson 186.00
Rory Mathews 186.00
Ross Boatman 186.00
Ryan Daut 186.00
Scott Clements 186.00 (BigRiskky)
Shannon Elizabeth 186.00
Stuart Fox 186.00
Surinder Sunar 186.00
TJ Cloutier 186.00
Ted Forest 186.00
Ted Lawson 186.00
Thierry Van Der Berg 186.00
Thomas Bihl 186.00
Thomas Keller 186.00
Thor Hansen 186.00
Tom McEvoy 186.00
Tony Bloom 186.00
Toto Leonides 186.00
Vanessa Rousso 186.00
Vicky Coren 186.00
Josh Arieh 201.00
Aaron Kanter 251.00
Al Krux 251.00
Alan Kessler 251.00
Alan Smurfit 251.00
Alex Jacob 251.00
Alex Kravchenko 251.00
Amir Vahedi 251.00
Ben Grundy 251.00
Ben Roberts 251.00
Berry Johnston 251.00
Beth Shak 251.00
Betrand Grospellier 251.00 (ElKy)
Bill Gazes 251.00
Billy Argyros 251.00
Billy Baxter 251.00
Bjorn-Erik Glenn 251.00
Blair Rodman 251.00
Bobby Baldwin 251.00
Brad Booth 251.00
Brad Daugherty 251.00
Brandon Adams 251.00
Brandon Cantu 251.00
Brent Carter 251.00
Brett Jungblutt 251.00
Brian Haversen 251.00
Bruce Yamron 251.00
Burt Boutin 251.00
Champie Douglas 251.00
Chris Bigler 251.00
Chris Grigorian 251.00
Chris McCormack 251.00
Chris Moneymaker 251.00
Ciaran O’Leary 251.00
Clonie Gowen 251.00
Conor Tate 251.00
Cory Carroll 251.00
Dag Maarten Mikkelsen 251.00
Dan Alspach 251.00
Dan Heimiller 251.00
David Grey 251.00
David Tran 251.00
Davood Mehrmand 251.00
Devin Porter 251.00
Donnacha O’Dea 251.00
Dustin Woolf 251.00
Eddy Scharf 251.00
Eli Elezra 251.00
Elie Marciano 251.00
Eric Hershler 251.00
Eric Mizrachi 251.00
Erica Schoenberg 251.00
Erik Friberg 251.00
Evelyn Ng 251.00
Fabrice Soulier 251.00
Glen Chorny 251.00
Hans “Tuna” Lund 251.00
Haralabous Voulgaris 251.00
Harry Demetriou 251.00
Hasan Habib 251.00
Henning Granstad 251.00
Humberto Brenes 251.00
Ian Woodley 251.00
Isaac Baron 251.00
Isabelle Mercier 251.00
Ivo Donev 251.00
JJ Liu 251.00
JP Kelly 251.00
James Worth 251.00
Jamie Gold 251.00
Jan Heitmann 251.00
Jan Sorenson 251.00
Jani Sontula 251.00
Jason Strasser 251.00
Jay Heimowitz 251.00
Jean “The Prince” Gaspard 251.00
Jean-Robert Bellande 251.00
Jeff Shulman 251.00
Jennefer Tilly 251.00
Jerry Yang 251.00
Jesse Jones 251.00
Jim Bechtel 251.00
Jim McManus 251.00
Jim Meehan 251.00
Joe Sebok 251.00
Joe Tehan 251.00
John Cernuto 251.00
John D’Agastino 251.00
John Duthie 251.00
John Dwyer 251.00
John Gale 251.00
John Tabatabai 251.00
Jonas Klausen 251.00
Jordan Morgan 251.00
Karina Jett 251.00
Kathy Liebert 251.00
Katja Thater 251.00
Keith Sexton 251.00
Kenna James 251.00
Ketul Nathwani 251.00
Kristy Gazes 251.00
Lawrence Gosney 251.00
Louis Asmo 251.00
Luca Pagano 251.00
Marc Goodwin 251.00
Marc Naalden 251.00
Marco Traniello 251.00
Maria Ho 251.00
Mark Gregoritch 251.00
Mark Newhouse 251.00
Mark Seif 251.00
Mark Teltscher 251.00
Mark Vos 251.00
Martin De Knijf 251.00
Mats Rahmn 251.00
Matt Lefkowitz 251.00
Melissa Hayden 251.00
Michael Gracz 251.00
Michael Greco 251.00
Nenad Medic 251.00
Pam Brunson 251.00
Paul Zimbler 251.00
Perry Friedman 251.00
Phil Curtis 251.00
Phil Gordon 251.00
Philip Hilm 251.00
Prahlad Freedman 251.00
Rafe Furst 251.00
Rafit Amit 251.00
Ray Davis 251.00
Raymond Rahmne 251.00
Rene Mouritsen 251.00
Rhett Butler 251.00
Richard “Chufty” Ashby 251.00
Robert Varkonyi 251.00
Roberto Romanello 251.00
Rolf Slotboom 251.00
Russ Hamilton 251.00
Sam Farha 251.00
Shannon Shorr 251.00
Soren Kongsgaard 251.00
Steve Billarikis 251.00
Steve Brecher 251.00
Steve Paul-Ambrose 251.00 (stevejpa)
Steve Wong 251.00
Steve Zolotow 251.00
Steven Dannenmann 251.00
Stig Rasmussen 251.00
Terrence Chan 251.00
Thomas Wahlroos 251.00
Tony Cousineau 251.00
Tony Ma 251.00
Tuan Lam 251.00
Venessa Selbst 251.00
Victor Ramdin 251.00
Young Phan 251.00

Aussie Millions Event 13 - NL Holdem Heads-Up

1 100,000 AUD Jeff Garza (ActionJeff online)
2 60,000 AUD Masaaki Kagawa
3 40,000 AUD Roy Winston
4 40,000 AUD Xuan Nguyen
5 20,000 AUD Lee Nelson
6 20,000 AUD Mike “Timex” McDonald (yet another cash)
7 20,000 AUD David Sonelin
8 20,000 AUD Alexey Popov