WSOP Update Thread - Wednesday

[GM]

Here are the eliminations from Tuesday night:

The following people all earned $145,875:

59th: Russ Hamilton
60th: Dani Awad
61st: Manelic Minaya
62nd: Casper Christensen
63rd: Sarah Bilney


The following people all earned $124,835:

64th: Patrick Madden
65th: Niklas Flisberg
66th: Jose Rodriquez
67th: Richard Kirsch
68th: Joe Berry
69th: Kevin McCarthy
70th: Tom Pniak
71st: Vadim Shlez
72nd: Bob Larsen


The following people all earned $107,950:

73rd: Jake Minter
74th: Luis Calvo
75th: Ron Ware
76th: Jason Lester
77th: Alex Morales
78th: Kelly Zoudo
79th: Sean Daulat
80th: Terry Myers
81st: Shane Bartolomew


The following people all earned $91,950:

82nd: Jonathan Kalmar
83rd: Marcello Del Grasso
84th: Kevin Wright
85th: Richard Zapwood
86th: Webber Kang
87th: Gabriel Walls
88th: Jonathan Lane
89th: C.K. Hua
90th: Brian Stellwagen


The following people all earned $77,710:

91st: James Olson
92nd: Jack Earnest Ward
93rd: Nick Cassavantes
94th: Samir Shakhtoor
95th: Mike Wattel
96th: Joshua Prager
97th: Robert Turner
98th: Thomas Drotleff
99th: Peter Hedlund
100th: Carmelo Menechello


The following people all earned $65,360:

101st: Christopher Short
102nd: Al Laughing
103rd: Alejandro Pacheco
104th: Rafael Perry
105th: Joseph Chiosie
106th: Mark Cole
107th: Chris Podlewski
108th: George Huber
109th: Matt Fitzpatrick
110th: Gen Watanabe


The following people all earned $54,965:

111th: Joe Simmons
112th: Kevin Kim
113th: Espen Saltnes
114th: Louis Lo
115th: Nani Dollison
116th: Doug Gehring
117th: Justin Cuong Van 'J.C.' Tran
118th: Stephen Deetz
119th: Krystal Nelson
120th: Tom Shaneberger
121st: Paul Vicary
122nd: Alexander Dietric
123rd: Bjorn Lindenberg
124th: Joe Toth
125th: Tony Pirone
126th: Kit Phaphone
127th: Thomas Roupe
128th: Brett Wiesner
129th: Bob Hotchandani
130th: Amit Sander
131st: Chris Drozdowski
132nd: Dmitriy Eidelman
133rd: Howard Lederer
134th: John Pappas
135th: Joe Leibman
136th: Adam Brosius
137th: George Dickson
138th: Scott Numoto
139th: Michael Cribb
140th: Daniel Alaei

 

[taoist]

I noticed that Glyn got knocked out at 169th.... But hey, $46k for a few days on the green felt ain't so bad....

...also noticed that only one woman remains in the field. :scared

...guess I'll be pulling for Lee Watkinson and Jon Juanda now.

 

[taoist]

Remaining Players:

Here are the official chip counts from the end of Day Four:


1. Tim Phan - $3,244,000
2. Mike Matusow - $2,561,000
3. Farzad Bonyadi - $2,402,000
4. Steve Danaman - $2,143,000
5. Phil Ivey - $2,027,000
6. Tex Barch - $2,025,000
7. Tiffany Williamson - $1,992,000
8. Johnny Howard - $1,806,000
9. Scott Lazar - $1,629,000
10. Tuan Vu - $1,571,000
11. Gregory Rice - $1,414,000
12. Raymi Sanchesz Thorn - $1,288,000
13. Lee Watkinson - $1,221,000
14. Tom Sartori - $1,208,000
15. Daniel Bergsdorf - $1,144,000
16. Brad Koundracki - $1,136,000
17. Minh Ly - $1,102,000
18. Terry Burt - $1,080,000
19. Steve Marx - $1,042,000
20. Per Hildebrand - $1,017,000
21. Michael Kessler - $986,000
22. Shahram - $983,000
23. Patrick Hayden - $972,000


AVERAGE STACK SIZE - $968,793


24. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf - $968,000
25. John Juanda - $841,000
26. Joseph Hachem - $814,000
27. Nick Givson - $811,000
28. John McGrane - $780,880
29. Aaron Kanter - $778,000
30. Ayhan Alsancak - $775,000
31. Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer - $766,000
32. Radu Butan - $762,000
33. Bing Wang - $739,000
34. Oskar Silow - $720,000
35. Adam Friedman - $719,000
36. James Butt - $716,000
37. Russell "The Muscle" Salzer - $710,000
38. Bryant King - $702,000
39. Frankling Caldwell - $690,000
40. Yakov Hirsch - $658,000
41. Joe Connor - $641,000
42. Mark Forrester - $628,000
43. Karlo Lopez - $607,000
44. Joe Stillman - $584,000
45. Kevin Kaikko - $571,000
46. Tony Abesamis - $513,000
47. Kenna James - $510,000
48. Hung La - $505,000
49. David Richardson - $501,000
50. Roland Israelashvici - $469,000
51. Francis W O'Brien - $423,000
52. Bernard Lee - $379,000
53. Andrew Black - $371,000
54. Conor Tate - $368,000
55. Derek Dix - $202,000
56. Rod Pardey Jr. - $187,000
57. Larry Prugh - $166,000
58. Jarl Lindholt - $101,000

 

[GM]

(edit)

Oops...ya snooze ya lose. I guess I shouldn't have paused between postings. Removed duplicate info.

(edit #2)

Is Kenna James not female? If so, there are 2 women. Sure sounds female...

 

[taoist]

GM,

I didn't attempt to look over the names and determine which were female.... I took that information from this:

Date / Time: 2005-07-13 00:58:00
Title: Sarah Biley Eliminated
Log: Sarah Biley is eliminated by Ray Sanchez when her A-10 is called by his A-A. Although a 10 hit on the flop, the turn brought an Ace, and Biley is drawing dead. One female remains in the field.

 

[BleedDodgerBlue]

(edit)

Oops...ya snooze ya lose. I guess I shouldn't have paused between postings. Removed duplicate info.

(edit #2)

Is Kenna James not female? If so, there are 2 women. Sure sounds female...

Kenna James is a dude who always wears a cowboy hat, maybe 30 something ish. kinda looks a little like woody harrelson.

 

[Penguinfan]

Please poker gods, don't let Matusow win this thing.

 

[johnnyb.]

wow
fossilman's chip count is way down from tuesday... wonder what happened?

 

[BahamaMama]

Kenna James is a dude who always wears a cowboy hat, maybe 30 something ish. kinda looks a little like woody harrelson.

think we should ask Beanie if a mama should name her baby boy Kenna?

 

[smurphy]

Please poker gods, don't let Matusow win this thing.

:mj07: :mj07:
what, you don't like the idea of an additional $7 million going into the crack and hooker industries over the next year?

 

[GM]

wow
fossilman's chip count is way down from tuesday... wonder what happened?

Same with Rod Pardey Jr. After being the chip leader for good chunks of the past couple days, he's just about history now. I'd love to know what happened to both of them....

 

[GM]

Day 5 by Table Assignments

Table 117 - 18.57% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Jarl Lindholt, Aarhus, Denmark - $101,000
Seat 2 - Frankling Caldwell, Lexington, KY - $690,000
Seat 3 - Joe Connor, Atlanta, GA - $641,000
Seat 5 - Farzad Bonyadi, Los Angeles, CA (3rd in chips) - $2,402,000
Seat 6 - Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf, Los Angeles, CA - $968,000
Seat 7 - Mike Matusow, Las Vegas, NV (2nd in chips) - $2,561,000
Seat 8 - Brad Koundracki, Kingston, PA - $1,136,000
Seat 9 - Tex Barch, McKinney, TX (6th in chips) - $2,025,000

Table 118 - 13.58% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Adam Friedman, Gahanna, OH - $719,000
Seat 2 - Daniel Bergsdorf, Umea - $1,144,000
Seat 3 - Steve Danaman, Severn, MD (4th in chips) - $2,143,000
Seat 4 - Steve Marx, Bellevue, WA - $1,042,000
Seat 5 - Kevin Kaikko, Princeton, NJ - $571,000
Seat 6 - Larry Prugh, Macomb, MI - $166,000
Seat 7 - Minh Ly, Las Vegas, NV - $1,102,000
Seat 8 - Nick Givson, Windsor, UK - $811,000

Table 120 - 12.36% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Karlo Lopez, Puerto Rico - $607,000
Seat 2 - Michael Kessler, Spotsylvania, VA - $986,000
Seat 3 - Tom Sartori, Buffalo, NY - $1,208,000
Seat 4 - James Butt, Buckley, WA - $716,000
Seat 5 - Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer, Stonington, CT - $766,000
Seat 6 - Patrick Hayden - $972,000
Seat 7 - Radu Butan, London, ON - $762,000
Seat 8 - Shahram - $983,000

Table 129 - 16.43% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Conor Tate, Bury M/Cr - $368,000
Seat 2 - Per Hildebrand, Stockholm, Sweden - $1,017,000
Seat 3 - Bryant King, Liberty, UK - $702,000
Seat 4 - John McGrane, London, UK - $780,880
Seat 5 - Tuan Vu, Las Vegas, NV (10th in chips) - $1,571,000
Seat 6 - Scott Lazar Studio City, CA (9th in chips) - $1,629,000
Seat 7 - Tim Phan, Westminster (chip leader) - $3,244,000

Table 131 - 12.64% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Andrew Black, Dublin - $371,000
Seat 2 - Russell "The Muscle" Salzer - $710,000
Seat 3 - Phil Ivey (5th in chips) - $2,027,000
Seat 4 - Roland Israelashvici, New York - $469,000
Seat 5 - David Richardson, Englewood, CO - $501,000
Seat 6 - Oskar Silow, Gotenborg, Sweden - $720,000
Seat 8 - Hung La, MB, CA - $505,000
Seat 9 - Terry Burt, Mesa, AZ - $1,080,000
Seat 10 - Aaron Kanter, Lodi - $778,000

Table 133 - 16.37% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Lee Watkinson - $1,221,000
Seat 2 - Joe Stillman, Staten Island, NY - $584,000
Seat 3 - Tiffany Williamson, London, UK (7th in chips) - $1,992,000
Seat 4 - Derek Dix, Chico, CA - $202,000
Seat 5 - Johnny Howard, Lexington Park, MD (8th in chips) - $1,806,000
Seat 6 - Ayhan Alsancak, Gothenburg - $775,000
Seat 7 - Bing Wang, Jersey City - $739,000
Seat 8 - Joseph Hachem, Melbourne - $814,000
Seat 9 - Tony Abesamis, West Covina, CA - $513,000
Seat 10 - Mark Forrester, Preston, UK - $628,000

Table 142 - 10.06% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Raymi Sanchesz Thorn, Stockholm, Sweden - $1,288,000
Seat 2 - Kenna James, Los Angeles, CA - $510,000
Seat 3 - Rod Pardey Jr., Las Vegas, NV - $187,000
Seat 4 - Bernard Lee, Wayland, MA - $379,000
Seat 5 - Francis W O'Brien, Tunica Resorts, MS - $423,000
Seat 7 - Gregory Rice, Birmingham - $1,414,000
Seat 8 - John Juanda, Marina Del Rey, CA - $841,000
Seat 9 - Yakov Hirsch, Brooklyn, NY - $658,000

(Corrected - Hayden moved from Table 142 to Table 120)

 

[GM]

Date / Time: 2005-07-13 00:41:00

Title: Schedule Reminder

Log: Now that we're getting closer to the end, here's a reminder of the schedule for the remainder of the tournament.

Day 5 - Wednesday, July 13: Play starts at 12:00 noon PDT. Play will continue until it is down to the final three tables, which is 27 players.

Day 6 - Thursday, July 14: This is the first day of action at Binion's Horseshoe downtown. Play will begin at 3:00 pm PDT, and continue until the final ten players are at the same table. They will then continue playing at the TV table until the unfortunate TV bubble is burst, and only nine players are left.

Day 7 - Friday, July 15: The Final Table! By the time the final table starts at 2:00 pm PDT, you should know everything about these nine people, from their first poker game to their most recent tournament victory. They play down to a single winner, who will become the 2005 World Series of Poker champion.

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Date / Time: 2005-07-13 01:15:00

Title: $50,000 Chips Are on the Tables

Log: For the first time at this year's World Series of Poker, $50,000 chips are being introduced to the tables to reduce the size of some of the chip stacks. They are subtle chips, with a tan and brown color scheme that is reminiscent of the camoflauge used during Desert Storm and the Iraq War. In this tournament, those chips definitely represent some heavy artillery.

According to our sources, those are the highest denomination chips that will be used this year. A standard stack of 20 chips will be worth $1,000,000. (That's non-negotiable, so don't try cashing those in at the cashier's cage.) So at the final table, whoever ultimately wins will have a little over 56 stacks of chips. Picture it in your head, and then picture your favorite player sitting behind them.

 

[taoist]

Table 131 - 12.64% of chips in play
Seat 1 - Andrew Black, Dublin - $371,000
Seat 2 - Russell "The Muscle" Salzer - $710,000
Seat 3 - Phil Ivey (5th in chips) - $2,027,000
Seat 4 - Roland Israelashvici, New York - $469,000
Seat 5 - David Richardson, Englewood, CO - $501,000
Seat 6 - Oskar Silow, Gotenborg, Sweden - $720,000
Seat 8 - Hung La, MB, CA - $505,000
Seat 9 - Terry Burt, Mesa, AZ - $1,080,000
Seat 10 - Aaron Kanter, Lodi - $778,000



WOW, think that Phil can bully this table?!?!?! :scared

 

[taoist]

Please poker gods, don't let Matusow win this thing.

Amen, brother!

 

[GM]

Date / Time: 2005-07-13 12:32:00

Title: Jarl Lindholt (Table 117) Eliminated in 58th Place ($145,875)

Log: Jarl Lindholt moves all-in preflop and is called by Brad Kondracki. Lindholt holds 2-2 while Kondracki has A-10. The board comes K-10-6-7-10, and Lindholt is eliminated.

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Date / Time: 2005-07-13 12:41:00

Title: Yakov Hirsch (Table 142) Eliminated in 57th Place ($145,875)

Log: Yakov Hirsch goes all-in preflop with A-7 and a short stack. He's called by Kenna James with A-Q. The board comes Q-3-2-7-6, and Hirsch is eliminated.

 

[GM]

Date / Time: 2005-07-13 13:07:00

Title: Larry Prugh (Table 118) Eliminated in 56th Place ($145,875)

Log: Larry Prugh goes all-in preflop and is called by Minh Ly. Prugh shows Qc-10c, while Ly has As-Qh. The board comes 6s-5d-10h-Ad-4h, and Prugh is eliminated.

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Date / Time: 2005-07-13 13:21:00

Title: Matusow vs. Tex

Log: Mike Matusow limps on the button, and Tex Barch follows him in. The flop comes Qh-Jc-2c. Tex checks, and Matusow bets out $36,000 in chips. Tex calls. The turn is the 5h. Tex checks again, and Matusow makes it $100,000 to go. Tex calls again. The river is the Kh. Tex checks again, and Matusow goes into the tank. He comes up firing, making a $250,000 bet. Now it's Tex's turn to go in the tank. Eventually he calls, and Matusow shows 8h-6h for the flush. Tex mucks his hand. Matusow now has $3,130,000. Tex has $1,530,000.

Matusow recounted his thinking for CardPlayer.com saying that he sensed weakness in Tex so he bet at the flop. Tex didn't go away, but Matusow still thought he was a bit weak so he fired another barrel on the turn. When Tex called again he was ready to give up on the bluff, but then his heart hit on the turn, so he actually had a made hand, and that's when he made the big bet.

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Date / Time: 2005-07-13 13:42:00

Title: Mark Forrester (Table 133) Eliminated in 55th Place ($145,875)

Log: After a flop of 8-8-2, Mark Forrester was all in against Tim Phan. Forrester's J-J was in bad shape against Phan's A-8. The turn was a 9, the river a 3, and Mark Forrest was eliminated in 54th place earning $145,875. With the win Phan is now up to about $2,820,000.

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Date / Time: 2005-07-13 13:44:00

Title: James Butt (Table 120) Eliminated in 54th Place ($173,880)

Log: There is a preflop raise, reraise, and call between James Butt and Sean Sheikhan. The flop comes 10h-5s-4c, and both players are quickly all in. Butt shows pocket queens (Qh-Qc), but Sheikhan has pocket aces (Ac-Ad). Butt is the shorter stack, and must catch a queen to stay alive (two outs). The turn card is the Kd, the river card is the 3h, and James Butt is eliminated in 54th place, earning $173,880.


In other featured table news, Joseph Stillman has been moved to the ESPN stage, and he's sitting in seat 9.

 

[smurphy]

THE MOUTH IS IN A ZONE!

 

[bsucards]

87 Gabe Walls $91,950

Nice job for a guy from Indy

he must have run into some tough luck, he was #10 in chip lead after day 5 and then eliminated the next day.

 

[bjfinste]

Matusow just cleared $4 million. Pretty sure he's chip leader right now.