Event #26 Day 2 has ended. 31 players left.
Tonding has 364k chips. Average is 318.2k
He did not see a flop in the last hour, but picked up more than 100k chips anyway. Biggest pot was when one player opened, got one caller, and Tonding shipped all in, all folded back to him.
Blinds will resume at 6k/12k with 1k Ante in Day 3.
Tomorrow, the live ticker will resume at 2:30PM PST (11:30PM CET)
Hey guys, Event #26 Day 2 is starting soon. Event #24 Day 3 will start a half an hour later.
Here are the seat assignments for Nazgul and FA_Morgoth:
Table 356
Peter Hotaling - 86600
Johannes Steindl - 30600
David Gent - 28700
Erik Cajelais - 163000
Tim Kahlmeyer - 69100
Zachary Wolfe - 46500
Table 369
Joshua Fussner - 73600
Vladimir Geshkenbein - 100000
Bruno Launais - 90900
Brian Lusk - 75600
Florian Langmann - 111500
Daniel Hirleman - 40000
Blinds will start at 600/1,200 with 100 ante. Play starts in 15 minutes
Before we continue for today, here's a quick recap of yesterday's action:
Event #24 - $1,000 No Limit Hold'em
Only 31 players remain in this event and PokerStrategist Tonding is 12th in the chip counts and made his first ever WSOP cash. akia also cashed in this event but went out in 307th place. Play today will go on until the final table, or if play is quick, down to the champion.
The top 5 players right now are:
1. Joseph Green - 857,000
2. Denis Murphy - 781,000
3. Greg Pohler - 698,000
4. James Jeffrey - 656,000
5. Jaymes Rosenthal - 472,000
12. Holger "Tonding" Kanisch - 364,000
Event #25 - $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo World Championship
Michael Chow went into the last day of this event with the chip lead but went out in 6th place. In the end, Sammy Farha defeated James Dempsey heads-up despite Dempsey having a clear advantage in terms of support from the rails (which unfortunately for Dempsey, doesn't count for more chips).
This is how the final table finished:
1. Sammy Farha - $488,241
2. James Dempsey - $301,789
3. Yueqi Zhu - $225,325
4. Sergey Altbregin - $169,368
5. Tony Merksic - $128,097
6. Michael Chow - $97,507
7. Eugene Katchalov - $74,670
8. Abe Mosseri - $57,552
9. Steve Wong - $44,618
Event #26 - $2,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-max
A whole host of PokerStrategists took part in this event, including all four Team PokerStrategy.com members in Las Vegas. FA_Morgoth and Nazgul made it into Day 2 and are among the 156 players left in this event. They are very near the money as 126 players will be paid.
The top 5 now are:
1. William Haydon - 179,300
2. Luigi Caramatti - 171,400
3. Timothy Begley - 167,700
4. Erik Cajelais - 163,000
5. Richard Robinson - 152,100
15. Florian Langmann - 111,500
52. Tim Kahlmeyer - 69,100
Event #27 - $1,500 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo
644 player signed up for this event and just 208 player advanced into Day 2. The top 64 players will be paid out from the $869,400 prize pool and the winner will walk away with $208,682.
Here are the top 5 players:
1. Odette Tremblay - 43,700
2. David Levi - 43,300
3. Daniel Studer - 42,600
4. Jonathan Bascom - 38,000
5. David Warga - 37,000
Nazgul
FA_Morgoth
Vladimir "Beyne" Geshkenbeim, a PokerStrategist that i will start tracking today
Original von zickei
event #24Table 260
Seat 1: Gary Hurst - 232000
Seat 2: Greg Pohler - 698000
Seat 3: Holger Kanisch - 364000
Seat 4: David Cai - 129000
Seat 5: --empty--
Seat 6: Eugene Castro - 308000
Seat 7: Christophe Benzimba - 133000
Seat 8: James Jeffrey - 656000
Seat 9: --empty--
This event has also just restarted.
Tonding
Blinds are now at 6k/12k with 1k ante
Jan1000
akia
Both of them are playing in Event #28 $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha. BongBob is also supposed to be playing but I can't find him. Not sure if he is already out.
Just 27 players left in Event #24 and they just redrew for new seats. Tonding took out a short stack with 75k chips. He is at 465k now. The shortie pushed from MP with J8s and Tonding put enough chips to put everyone behind all in with AQ. All blanks on the K high board.
We are just 1 player away from the money in Event #26. Nazgul put his whole stack on the line on the bubble a few hands ago and made a big suckout on the river to double up. He has 105k now. It was AQ vs AK and the river was a Q
FA_Morgoth and Beyne still have about the same stacks.
We are in the money in Event #26. Blinds are also up to 800/1,600 with 200 ante.
Chip counts:
Nazgul 95k
FA_Morgoth 118k
Beyne 120k
Nazgul opened a hand from the CO but folded to a raise from SB and a BB (Jerry Yang) call. Flop came K 2 9 and Nazgul folded K 9. SB raised on the flop and Jerry Yang cut out SB's stack from his own, thought for 5 minutes before time was called and he folded.
Annette Obrestad was one of 3 players to bust on the bubble. I think they will share the 2 min cashes among the 3 of them.
In Event #24, Tonding lost a pot and is down to around 400k.
Tonding opened UTG to 28k (blinds 6k/12k with 1k ante), CO called.
Flop 8h Ah 7c, Tonding bets 45k, CO calls.
Turn and river are 6d 8d and it was checked down. Tonding has J J but villain had A 5.
Blinds here are also up to 8k/16k with 2k ante.
Event #28:
Chip counts:
BongBob - busto
akia - 18k
Jan1000 - 11k
They are now playing in level 5. Blinds are 75/150
Tonding is out of Event #24. He finished in 21st place and wins $14,741.
SB completes, Tonding checks the BB. (Blinds 8k/16k with 2k ante)
Flop 7c Kd 4h . SB bets 50k, Tonding calls.
Turn 2h. SB bets 100k, Tonding calls with around 130k behind)
River 3c, SB goes all in and Tonding calls all in.
SB shows 5 6 for a rivered straight. Tonding said he had a K.
FA_Morgoth was up to over 260k in Event #26, but lost a 150k to Beyne and is now down to around 180k. Beyne is up to 200k after winning another pot right after that. Nazgul has around 85k
In the earlier hand, FA_Morgoth 3-bet an open raise by a French pro, villain called.
Flop came 3s 3c Qs, check check.
Turn 2c villain bets, and FA_Morgoth calls.
River 7c villain bets, FA_Morgoth goes all in and villain calls after thinking about it.
FA_Morgoth showed Kc Tc for the flush to take the pot.
In the hand with Beyne, both FA_Morgoth and Beyne had a flush draw and a gutshot. The gutshot hit on the river, Beyne went all in and FA_Morgoth snap called. Beyne had the better straight.
We are on break now. Blinds after the break will be 1k/2k with 300 ante.
In event #28, both akia and Jan1000 have lost some chips.
akia is down to 9k while Jan1000 has 8.5k.
Only around 300 players are left from the 596 entrants. Blinds are now 100/200
Chip counts in Event #26:
Nazgul 40k
FA_Morgoth 45k
Beyne 185k
Can't really say what happened to FA_Morgoth's stack.
Nazgul lost a big pot after he 3-bet a BU raise with 5 5, BB shoved, and he called. BB had JJ.
Blinds will be going up in 10 minutes to 1.2k/2.4k with 300 ante. Just 78 players left in the event.
Event #28 is on dinner break now. Jan1000 was eliminated in the last level but akia is still in. He has 20.5k now.
He doubled up with A K 7 2 double suited, in a limped pot.
Flop came A T 8 giving him two backdoor flush draws.
villain checked, he bet, villain raised and he shipped it in. Villain showed A Q Q 9.
A Q came on the turn but gave akia a backdoor flush draw, and he rivered the flush.
There are around 260 players left in the event. Blinds will go up to 150/300 after dinner.
Nazgul, Beyne and FA_Morgoth have all been eliminated from Event #26 in the last 30 minutes.
FA_Morgoth ran JJ into KK and was left with 2.5bb left. He went all in on the next hand, which saw Beyne lost a huge pot. FA_Morgoh went out in 77th place.
Beyne raised preflop, villain 3-bet and he snap called. Flop came Kd Qs As, Beyne check-raised all in villain called. Beyne flopped the straight with T J but 8h Kc came after that to give villain a full house. About 30 minutes later, he was out, but i did not catch the action in that hand. Beyne was out in 74th place.
Nazgul said he was card dead the whole day. He repushed KQ with 38k left (blinds 1.2k/2.4k with 300 ante) but ran into A A. He exited in 75th place.
They all cashed for $6,156.
This concludes the live ticker for today, and we will return tomorrow with the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event.
Here's a quick update i got from akia about his run in the PLO event.
akia: "busted. had already 32k, then lost preflop allin with aces against aces. i had spades he had clubs"
