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WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC EXTENDS BUY-IN PERIOD
REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL 1.30PM ON WEDNESDAY

London – 27th August 2010 – Organisers of the inaugural World Poker Tour® London Poker Classic Main Event, presented by http://www.partypoker.com/, have decided to leave registration open until Wednesday 1st September at 1.30pm, the end of level eight of the tournament and the end of the first level on day two. The £5,000 + £300 televised Main Event runs until the 4th September. The £15,000 televised high rollers tournament runs from 3rd – 5th September.

Tournament Director Jack McClelland said: “ We’ve had a lot of enquiries and to ensure the best possible attendance we have decided to give players every opportunity to enter the event.”

Late buy-ins were allowed at the WPT Bellagio Cup in July. Phil Ivey bought in after the first level on day two and ended up on the final table.

Day 1A of the televised WPT London Poker Classic starts at 12pm on Monday 30th August. Day 1B is on Tuesday 31st August with day two on Wednesday 1st September.

Amongst those players who have confirmed their attendance include Phil Ivey, Tony G, Freddy Deeb, Bruno Fitoussi, James Akenhead, Praz Bansi, Matt Jarvis, Filippo Candio, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, Erik Seidel, Joe Beevers, Nicholas Levi, Dragan Galic, Barry Shulman, Felipe Ramos and many more. Coverage of the event will be presented by Kara Scott, with the influential commentary team of Mike Sexton and Jesse May combined for the very first time. Doug Dalton will be on hand to run the lively cash games expected at Crockfords.

Details on the tournament structure can be found at: http://www.worldpokertour.com/Shared/Tournaments/Seasons/Season_9/WPT_London_Poker_Classic.aspx

WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC, PRESENTED BY PARTYPOKER.COM – LIVE SATELLITE SCHEDULE

£500 + £50 – 28th August – Main Event Satellite, 12pm, Kingsway Hall, 66 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5BX

£1,000 + £80 – 29th August – Super Satellite, 3pm, The May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, London, W1J 8LT

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Chip stacks varied wildly by the time we got to 9. Only two are above average and they hold 3 and 4 to 1 advantages over the rest of the table.

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Photos sorted by event and day in the ‘Sets’ on the right. They are copyrighted (Durrrr.) but I’m happy to work out a deal with you if you need them.

The World Series of Poker is long shut down and those that suffered through an 18 hour play down to the November Nine have partied themselves into well deserved comas. After all the dust settled, we have enough drama and excitement that ESPN can boil down into 40 mins of background and 20 mins of poker to keep the masses happy on the penultimate day.

The final nine? Jason Senti, Joseph Cheong, John Dolan, Jonathan Duhamel, Michael Mizrachi “The Grinder”, Matthew Jarvis, John Racener, Filippo Candio, Cuong Soi Nguyen. All of them collected Ninth Place money (just a hair under $900,000) and will return in almost 4 months to determine who will be the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion. For more details on the players, chipcounts, etc. hop on over to our friends at the WSOP.

Stories that will unfold and stories to watch for leading up to November:

* Matt Affleck — redemption denied. Affleck was a chipleader heading into Day 6 last year but would not make it to the final 27. In 2009 he bluffed off the better part of his chips with a ten high hand and went out 80th. He returned looking for redemption and appeared to be well on that road with a mountain of chips when he met French Canadian Duhamel in a hand that will be burned into the minds of players for years to come. Duhamel, the only player covering Affleck (and his pocket aces) at the table, got it all in on the turn with pocked jacks on a queen high board with an open ended straight draw for a pot worth north of 40 million chips. The Francois-Canuck binked the river and Affleck was crushed. Hiding tears in his hat, flinging water bottles off stage, Matt’s emotion was real and deserved.  He will be the poster boy for the stolen WSOP dream.

* Candio, master of the art of Italian Luckboxing. It was just one of those hands. Joe Cheong (Subiime online and on Twitter) got the Italian to commit all his chips on a board of 665 holding a mysterious 57ss only to have the rising internet start show him AA. To file in the “live poker is rigged” section, the board made Candio his runner runner straight, vaulted him to a chip lead heading to the day of 27…gifting him a final table ‘float’. The real story is Cheong’s recovery. Knocked down well below average, the scrappy player did NOT give up, but played all the way back to the middle of the pack at the Final Table. If they kept playing, ‘Subiime’ was my pick for WSOP Champion. Screw that, he still is. Way, way, WAY too much talent and patience in one man.

* The Grinder, He’s A Machine. Get ready, the chant is back. The master of the early WPT years is back and looking to pull an unheard of feat out of the 2010 WSOP. Michael Mizrachi, winner of the first open event of the WSOP, made the final table of the last event as well. Not only that, but he holds the $50k Players Championship (8 game mix) title and could now win the Main Event strap in the SAME YEAR. Oddly, it would only tie him for Player of the Year with Frank Kassela, but I doubt anyone would argue that it was the Year of the (Michael) Mizrachi if he wins.  If he wins, he’ll be working up hill as he is firmly near the back of the pack.  Don’t look for The Grinder to sit on his hands though, he has an amazing final table finishing record and will get his chips in if he senses weakness or opportunity.

*Speaking of “Year Of” guesses, most predictions were utter rubbish. The only one that could still come true is the Year of the Mizrachi. Not only did brothers Rob and Michael final table the $50k Player’s Championship together, all FOUR brothers managed to cash. Young Donny was playing in his first WSOP (nice to have well rolled sibling) along with Eric and the two well known bothers Rob and Michael and all four made it deep. Order of the fallen was Donny (youngest), Eric (Grinder’s twin), Rob (the eldest) with Michael still standing. Guess he gets the big piece of chicken at family gatherings this year, huh?

*Ladies First (out) — while we hoped for a lady (or group of them) to go deep this year, we were all sorely disappointed. 4 made it down to day 6 but none would make it to even the final 50. Breeze Zuckerman, an eccentric European gal who’s honest joy of being in the event (mixed with her surprising talent) reminded me of Susan Boyle of British Pop Idol fame, was the last lady standing but a horrible beat sent her home far sooner than expected with nothing but her payout and the Wicked Chops LWS trophy to show for it.

All the buildup, hype and televised action gets underway tonight at 8pm on ESPN with a recap show featuring last year’s champ Joe Cada. Hope you all enjoy it and look for a tubby guy with a goatee snapping pictures in the middle of ESPN’s shots. That’s probably me.

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Apparently I turned the lights off when I left Las Vegas…or someone did because about half the strip went dark early in the morning while the $2.5k Razz and $1.5k shootout tables were playing down and other events were bagging up. After the smoke cleared from Oceans 11 themed jokes and a frantic search to confirm chip counts at Men the Master and his minions’ tables, we got back to people playing “lights out poker.”

All done-ski:

Event #39 – the $1500 shootout – Or $1500 fantasy poker bustout. While Steven Kelly undoubtedly earned his bracelet and $382k for his win, there was a ton of disappointment when top fantasy horses, JC Tran and Annette Obrestad who made day three, busted out before the final table for $8,638 and $13,654 respectivly. Poker is funny sometimes and this proves once again that everyone has a shot in the game of poker. Not to say the final table players lack talent at all, its just that no matter how favored someone is, coming from a flat start it’s anybody’s game! Quick shout out to Derric Haynie of the Hinkle-centered KC poker crew who not only KO’d Obrestad and another player in a three way hand, but took third for $161K.

Event #40 – $2.5k Razz – or the devil’s favorite event wrapped up with a bit of controversy as well as dim lighting. When play went 7 handed, several players asked for a 7 way chop. 5 wanted to play the 10k HORSE Championship that started at 5pm and the final day of play looked to run long. Frank Kassella and Jennifer Harman objected with Jenn heard stating “I don’t buy bracelets, I win them.” While she was the 5th woman to make an open event final table at the series and despite the fact she’s a known expert in lowball stud she would bust in 6th (and late reg the 10k HORSE) to take home $33,890. Vladimir Schemelev struck again coming in 4th for $61,795. Eventually Frank Kassella, the Tennessee high stakes gambler famously ‘outed’ by Daniel Negreanu’s WPT stat analysis as ‘worst ROI,’ would go with the gold in his second final table of the series. Kassella toppled Maxwell Troy from the strap and $214,085.

Still-a-brewing!

Event #41 – PLO/8 – wrapped up day two with a couple of fantasy poker stud in contention and a couple taking home cash. Barry Greenstein bounced back from a huge hit that took him off the chiplead to finish the day 9th out of the remaining 15 with T204k. Ryan Karp leads the choppy-choppy pack with T564k followed by…HUH!? Phil Hellmuth Jr. in 4th in a NON-Hold Em event with T331,000. While the devil was busy with Razz ‘Jesus’ cashed 75th for $2847 and ‘The Mouth’ yakked his way to 49th for $4448.

Event #42 – yet another $1500 NLH – these are still churning out big fields and 2,521 ponied up to play this one. After day 1 bagged up Jackson Zeng was on top with T151,000. Right behind that was `The Chark’ Humberto Brenes with T146,400. Possible Chark attack again this year? Brenes is at the top of the list for all time cashes so he’s very comfortable swimming in these waters. Also top 10 are Carter Phillips and Frenchman Arnaud Mattern. Still in it above average are Joe Tehan and Misc(l)ikowski. Below sea level we find Jeff Madsen, Nam Le, UFC’s Mike Swick, Foxwood’s Bernard Lee, Gracz and Cernuto.

Event #43 – $10k limit HORSE Championship – or, the former big daddy. Still a crown jewel of the WSOP the 10k HORSEaMENT recovered nicely from last year’s “too dull for TV” numbers and drew 241 runners. Big chip stacks include: Juan Carlos Mortensen in second T125,000, former champ Scotty ‘Corona powered’ Nguyen T110,000, Sebastian Rutenburg T110,000, Matt ‘big game’ Glantz T98,000, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson T97,000, Smilin’ Scott Seiver T95,000, Greg Raymer T91,000 and Todd Brunson with T85,000. Average is about T43k from a starting stack of 30k. 169 remain to fight for this prestigous title that brings almost as much glory as it does cash.

All of this was posted via my Android smartphone while wandering the wilds of rural Missouri, so I hope you will forgive my spelling and/formatting issues on this on.

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Shaking that ‘case of the Mondays’ at the WSOP, The Daily Sweat helps you check in on your fantasy poker standings as well as the results catch up on who-did-what in the wee hours of the morning today.

Now part of poker history:

Event #38 — $10k Pot Limit Hold Em Championship – A lot of expectations going into making this final table and while known players ended up on it, it was the ‘lesser knowns’ (and therefore not our fantasy sweats) that ended up in the big money.  Valdemar Kwaysser locked up the win and $617,214 followed by Matt Marafioti ($381,507), James Calderaro ($284,845) and Konstantin Bucheri ($214,106.)  Now the ‘names’ show up.  Doyle’s Room luminary Dani “Ansky” Stern took 5th for $161,934.  Rookie phenom Thomas Marchese slipped from the lead at one point to 6th ($123,264) while early favourite Peter Jetten binked in 7th ($94,394.)  Old School grinder having a great year, Blair Rodman took 8th ($72,754) while not-so-old grinder Sam Stein bubbled the final table in 11th ($44,010.)  Unfornately, we had a serious sweat equity loss in the “two table play down” when Allen Kessler, holding on from minimal chips at 28 left, only made it to the $34,639 payout level.  Right behind him were Sandra Naujoks (15th $34,639), Amnon Filippi (16th $27,282), Amit Makhija (17th $27,282), Steve Landfish finished the sweat list in 18th with $27,282.

Looking for a shot at history!:

Event #36 – The Donkulous IV $1k NLH – Here we go again!  A massive play down from 3102 runners to a 9 man final table.  Whelp…if you were picking November Niners for your fantasy team, you are still in this!  Lispy Canadian Scott Montgomery is still in at 8th with T604,000.  There is a shot about $481,760 for first with a minimum guarantee of $35,986.  Ryan ‘g0lfa’ D’Angelo ran himself up to the chip lead for a while the day before, but blew out in 11th ($27,862.)  Svetlana Gromenkova popped in 33rd ($11,139), Maciek Gracz disappeared in 40th ($9,101), Thomas Fuller gone in 48th ($7,509) and that is about it.  A bit disappointing but not really unexpected from an event ‘bookended’ by pro-favored select games.

Event #39 — $1,500 NLH Shootout – We are down to a final table!  Despite a really, REALLY flat payout from 15th to 140th at a measly $5,620.  No bonus for finishing deeper on your second table and while I understand that, I would think that getting heads up deserves a bump in pay, as well as POY points which also had a skewed drop off only paying 14th forward on the last two tables even though all other events rewarded any cash with POY points.  Your sweat-horses that took home this small feed-bad are:  Chau Giang, Adam Croffut, Cory Carroll, Michael Binger, Dan Kelly, Ylon Schwartz, McLean Karr, Paul Madriel (remember X22 – quack quack?), Adam Schoenfeld, Isabelle Mercier, Bryan Devonshire, Tony Dunst, two of my favorite ‘real poker names’ Vanstrydonck and Misc(l)ikowski, Terrance Chan, and Robert Mizrachi.  Now wasn’t that a fun list to read?

Actually playing for a bigger payout and POY points are the following double-SNG winners on two 7 player tables are:  JC Tran and Annette Obrestad.  These can finally put a few players in the running with their fantasy picks as it’s the first time these two highly anticipated luminaries have done deep in the series.  12 others are trying to become legends, so maybe we’ll track them next year.

Event #40 — $2,500 Razz – Or as the media call it “Oh gawd please kill me or sacrifice me on an ant hill covered in honey rather than cover this all night!!”  It ended late at night with 15 players remaining.  Those still in are: Chris Bjorin (T163,000), Frank Kassela (T144,000) and fan (and pet) favourite Jennifer Harman (T108,000) made the top 10 out of the final 15 in this 365 person tournament.  Hold the phone – Vladimir Shchemelev still in this with T81,000 and a chance to win gold again and jam up the POY race even further.  Getting some cashy for their Razzy with time off to play todays events are:  Linda Johnson ($7,857), Dario Mineri, David Chiu, Andrew Robl, Joe Hachem, Hasan Habib, Allen ‘best in the world’ Bari took ($6,464) while Yuval Bronshtein, Daniel Negreanu and Tommy Vedes notched (5,423) while Matt Glantz, Shawn Sheikhan, Greg Raymer and Yevgeniy Timoshenko had mincashaments for $4,550.  Raymer and Timoshenko are ‘off the schnide’ with their first cash in this year’s WSOP.  Some horses break late.

Even #41 — $1,500 PLO/8 – 847 played down to 143 and while we are a way from the money today, some great names are at the top of the charts including one ‘war horse’ many of you have been BEGGING to perform through oh….forty one events:  Barry Greenstein.  ‘The Bear’ is in second with T83,000 a good chunk behind the leader Michael Chappus T133,400.  Also holding on to some chippies are:  David Sands T47,700,  Phil Hellmuth T31,600, Brandon Cantu T27,300, Chris Ferguson T19,000, Darryll Fish T17,600 and clinging to chips to make another record setting cash: Tony Cousineau T6600.

Kicking off today:

Event #42 — $1,500 NLH – itsa rolllllling on.

Event #43 — $10k HORSE Championship – Considering the final tables we’ve seen on mixed games so far, I’m going to predict a bigger turnout than last year.  That is all.

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New Week, Same old ‘Sweat.’

As the 2010 WSOP approaches its three week mark, we are seeing the tournament series really come to form on Day 25.

All wrapped up:

While Event #35 was a let-down for a lot of fantasy poker players with no known entity taking down the title, it did give the first bracelet to a Bangladeshi born player in the 41 year history of the WSOP.  I hope that, in my lifetime, we’ll see that country so free and prosperous that one of its native citizens can take a bracelet home.  (See yesterday’s report for payout info.)  All the mental capacity in Bangladesh and India, coupled with the scrappy nature of surviving the cerebral game of poker make the think that the people there are due to catch the poker wave, and do quite well at it.  Way to go, Ayaz Mahmood.  You got there the hard way.

Phil Ivey -- The Silent Legend

Event #37 – The Medium HORSE – This probably turned out to be the most exciting final table outside of the $50k Player’s Championship.  Based on name power alone, it wins.  The only ‘unknowns’   Albert Hahn and Kenneth Aldrige went out 7th and 4th leaving a vicious final three.  After Chad Brown bounced in 8th ($29,406) it was the end of the road again for Dave “the OLD one” Baker going deep yet again but missing gold this time in 6th for $50,871.  Last year’s POY Jeff “why does he want to be called ‘The Iceman’” Lisandro gave up the ghost in 5th ($68,417) but finally put up a score reminiscent of last year’s vengeance/spite fuelled run at the title.  POY leader John Juanda could not outwit the mathematical genius (and social awkwardness) of Bill Chen or the superpowers of The Ivey to rack up yet another huge score for $129,553.  You probably got Juanda solo in open fields, late in draft fields and cheap in auction fields and if you did – man, what a grab!  The head’s up battle was a short but tense one.  Bill Chen, ($203,802) just off participating in a wedding that included a bride patched up with a Poker Star’s logo, could not stave off the onslaught of Phil Ivey.  Phil, after three tabling tournaments the previous day, had turned his full and impressive arsenal of poker knowledge on the Limit Omaha/Hold ‘em guru and the rest of the field and went from starting the final table at the bottom to taking it all.

Ivey’s win of $329,840 is no laughing matter, but it probably pales in comparison to the money won prop betting.  Ivey ties things up with Eric Sidel and the 8 bracelet crew and is now one behind Johnny Moss and right on the heels of Chan, Brunson and the bling-leader, Phil Hellmuth, Jr.  Ivey is widely shared in open leagues and Lisandro was a favourite after last year, so I don’t know how much ‘separation’ you got from competition there, but if you snatched them in a draft or auction league, they  finally paid off.  Good news is these are grinders that go like a Beetle engine and only stand out as endurance becomes a factor.  Bad news is that its more than half way over and they need to score again quick to match their pre-series fantasy value.

Bringing in fantasy dollars in the event were also David Benyamine ($14,406), Dan ‘almost in the POY conversation’ Heimiller, Scott Seiver ($11,675,) David ‘Don’t Hug Me’ Singer, Farzad Bonyadi ($9,604,) Steve Sung(8,008,)  Katja Thater ($6,807,) Matt Savage, Pat Pezzin (tied for most cashes with 7), Chris Klodnicki and Max Pescatori ($5,791.)

Still Grinding:

Event #36, the Donulous IV, burned through almost exactly 90% of the field before day 2 and was in the money before most reporters could even settle into their seats and pop their first Red Bull of the day.  From there, the field burned itself down to 38 players returning for day 3 and they should play down to (or near, this isn’t an exact science yet) the final table tonight.  Ryan D’Angelo is the only (semi) known name in the top 10, but he was on a roller-coaster tour de force and was the hand of (tournament) death for many a hopeful grinder.   Finishing 9th on the chip counts, he has less than half the stack of the chip leader Jonathan Clancy, so ‘g0lfa’ will need to strap on the deep cleats today to grab the title.  The stack sizes are starting to warp though with only 14 of the 38 above average and really top heavy distribution so expect us to get to the final two tables quickly.  Scott Montgomery is the lispy lone ranger at the bottom of the chip counts still worth the fantasy sweat.  Taking home pay that matters (to our action) would be:  Thomas Fuller ($7,509,) Leo Margets and Tim West  ($5,248,) Antoine Saout and Neil Channing ($2,903,) Shawn Buchanan (7th cash, tied for 1st there $2,289), WPT Magazine’s Nicky ‘Numbers’ Brancato ($2,065,) and Lee Childs on the min-cash for $1,870.  As you can see, this is not something the pros are dominating, even thought the young ‘up and comers’ are turning up to every one.  Conversely, the folks you see winning these are probably your starts of tomorrow so you hard core ‘fantasy scouts’ should keep an eye on them as the year goes on.

Walking tall in 2010, Marchese is making a big rookie splash.

Event #38 — $10k Pot Limit Hold Em Championship – No surprise that this field created some tough action, but some surprise that the known folks on the top of the leader board going into Day 3 are quite young.  Peter Jetten went on a late rush to jump into a decisive chip lead with T684,000, rookie of the year contender Tom Marchese is in their with T572,000, Sam ‘NAPT lord of the dance’ Stein in 4th T531,000 and Doyle’s Room pro Dani ‘Ansky’ Stern in 9th T425,000.  With only 26 to go out of the 268 in the field, there are still quite a few more high calibre players with chips still contending for the title including:  Amit Makhija, Steve Landfish, Blair Rodman, Amnon Filippi, Vitaly Lunkin, Noah Boeken, Sandra Naujoks, Dustin Wold and…hanging on until the next cash bubble…Allen Kessler.  Laugh if you like, but another final table gives Kessler a shot at POY.  Sad you skipped drafting the ‘Chainsaw’ now?

Event #39 — $1500 NLH Shootout – is a bit easier for me to report on.  All players still in made the money (minimum $5,632 140th to….YIKES!…15th) and all start even in chips.  After playing through single tables and a field of 1400, the remaining 140 will have to win one more table to see a pay jump in the last 14.  Not sure how to score those final two tables of 7, but I’m guessing they have that figured out.  First prize is $382,725 and bragging rights.  Lots of big names here playing the Sit n’ Go of their lives: Dan Kelly, Ylon Schwartz, Terrance Chan, McLean Karr, Cory Carrol, Victor Ramdin, JC Tran, Tony Dunst, Isabelle Mercier, Bryan Devonshire, Adam Levy, Chau Giang, Rob ‘VeeRob’ Perelman, Annette Obrestad, Michael Binger and Robert Mizrachi.  Cut a min cash notch for any of them but you have a two table sweat to the deep money.  Yes – complaints have been lodged that winning your second, arguably tougher, final table gets you ZERO added payout.

Shorr, fresh off his 5th Cash, leads the $2.5k Razz

Event #40 – the Devil’s Playground, or, $2,500 Razz – Funny story.  When the French were perfecting the standard deck of playing cards we use today, they were also the seat of religious power in Christendom.  Now, many of you know that the suites in a deck stand for the ‘classes’ of people but the ranks were also meant to show the station of a person in those classes.  Now, you may have thought it was funny that the ‘one’ in the deck is typically the high card.  This is because the French church at the time said that the ace represents ‘the ONE true God.’  It also stated that any game using the Ace as a low card was ‘of the devil’ and was banned.  This may lend credence to the saying ‘the only game you get to play in Hell is Razz.’

Story time aside, 136 return to play down through the money bubble of 40 and near the final table.  Razz can take a RIDICULOUSLY long time to play out, so expect another long one.  Sitting atop the chip counts is recent ‘Bama grad but WSOP veteran Shannon Shorr with T90,900, well above the next stack with only T76,500 and the average of T20,100. Above average chip counts include David Chiu, Hasan Habib and Bryan Micon (top 10) and Issac Haxton, Joe Hachem, Shawn Sheikhan, defending champ Katja Thater, Jennifer Harman, Jeff Williams, Matt Hawrilenko, Tommy Vedes, Dario Minieri, David Bach, Tom Schneider, Lacey Jones, Chris Bjorin, Tom McEvoy, Huck Seed, Eli Elezra, Yuval Bronshtein, Alex Kravchenko, and Allen Bari in that order, highest to lowest.  Still lots ov big names in this and as the blinds get bigger so do the swings.  If the devil is in the draw-outs in poker, then this game is a LONG way from over.

Tee’d up for today Tuesday:

Event #41 — $1500 PLO Hi/Lo Split – or ‘Racey Racey Choppy Choppy’

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