And Were Off!!!!!!!

mdwexford

definitely be a nice way to start the wsop campaign
about 35% of the chips in play he should take a lot of stopping

NickyOD

Reporter wrote:

Joe Hachem had the best hand when he moved all-in with Q-Q. Steve Dannenmann was all-in as well, holding 8-8. Daniel Negreanu had A-Q and caught an ace on the flop, eliminating the top two finishers of the 2005 WSOP in one single hand.

Reporter wrote:

Strom was low on chips and moved all-in with A-Q against Daniel Negreanu, holding an embarrassingly bad hand – 5-2. When the flop came A-3-4 giving Negreanu a straight...

Reporter wrote:
Mike O’Malley busted-out when his A-Q was crushed by Daniel Negreanu’s 3-2

Stoopid game!! :rolleyes:

Samson

5starpool wrote:

The main event has something like 2% withheld from the 10k for costs and dealers wages I think I read somewhere.

It's actually 6%.
From: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/structures/MainEvent/Event39.html

The following percentages will be withheld from each buy-in for each event:

Buy-in Take-Out
$500 10%
$1,000.00 9%
$1,500.00 9%
$2,000.00 9%
$2,500.00 8%
$3,000.00 8%
$5,000.00 6%
$10,000.00 6%

DeVore

And last year they gave the players a 10 dollar voucher for a 16 dollar buffet.

DeV.

carrigeen

yeah but the 6% was worth it for the quality of the loos

roryc

any updates on this?

Hitman Actual

roryc wrote:

any updates on this?

They've just started back.

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/live_updates/530

From that link:

Cardplayer wrote:

New Chip Stack and Level
Tournament officials have increased everyones chip stacks by ten times and increased the blinds accordingly.

Anyone know the reason for this?

carrigeen

just started no action yet

you can follow on the thread below


http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/live_updates/530

lenny ur too fast

Hitman Actual

carrigeen wrote:

lenny ur too fast

LOL, I'm a boards addict.

Andy just knocked out Gus Hansen, 99 v AK, nines held up. G'wan Mr Black!

delanec8

lenny_leonard wrote:

From that link:
Anyone know the reason for this?

I would imagine just to make it better for TV

mewso

Gotta love it. They increased all of the final ten players' chips. Presumably so the dumb audience would be wowed by 20k bets.
Also my fussy web dev side coming out. Why can't these updates be in order of when they occur. I can jump to latest happenings if I wish but otherwise most would like to read from where they left off to the current situation.

mewso

Andy has 3 times his nearest rival in chips.

delanec8

Andy just knocked out Kido Pham. Its down to 7 and Andy has just over 40% of the chips

Hitman Actual

delanec8 wrote:

I would imagine just to make it better for TV

Ok, kinda obvious I suppose.

Pokerwire are doing updates as well, but it looks to be identical to cardplayer: http://www.pokerwire.com/

There's also some discussion on the full contact forum: http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-forum/index.php?showtopic=65255&st=0

Andy has a bit of respect over there.

Doc Farrell

Negreanau's (can't spell it) video diary will be the coolest thing in the WSOP this year.

I hope he can continue to be such a positive ambassador for such a cruel game.
got gethem Danny!

BigDragon

lenny_leonard wrote:

Ok, kinda obvious I suppose.

Pokerwire are doing updates as well, but it looks to be identical to cardplayer: http://www.pokerwire.com/

There's also some discussion on the full contact forum: http://www.fullcontactoker.com/poker-forum/index.php?showtopic=65255&st=0

Andy has a bit of respect over there.

Lenny - you had me bashing my keyboard (theres a P in poker apparently :rolleyes: )

MadsL

I like the chip count graphs on cardplayer!

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/chip_counts/530

Danny making ground...

Hitman Actual

BigDragon wrote:

Lenny - you had me bashing my keyboard (theres a P in poker apparently :rolleyes: )

I dont know how I managed that, it was a simple copy and paste! Post edited.

cooker3

Oh dear, Andy lost a huge hand with Daniel Negreanu, he had AK but ran into Kings and didn't catch an Ace and is now 5th of 6 players with just 173,000 chips, Negreanu is first with 1,500,000 chips.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

heard that - painful. going to be hard for him to get back in now. still a fine paycheck to start the WSOP.

MadsL

run into KK twice....ouch.

ul,wp,gg Andy.

ocallagh

went out in 5th.

still, he's 100k richer than we are this morning!

jd

ocallagh wrote:

went out in 5th.

still, he's 100k richer than we are this morning!

/me goes off to check bank balance

Hitman Actual

cooker3 wrote:

Oh dear, Andy lost a huge hand with Daniel Negreanu, he had AK but ran into Kings and didn't catch an Ace and is now 5th of 6 players with just 173,000 chips, Negreanu is first with 1,500,000 chips.

Interesting hand, he played it very aggressively, but that's his style anyway. Did he have to get the money in pre-flop with AK? Negreanu is never calling with a hand that Andy is ahead of.

Fifth for 100K is great and all, but you just cant shake the feeling that he could have done much better.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

if he'd read the thread on the main poker page which advised folding AK just off the bubble in the 100k tournament on tribeca, he might be a richer man this morning (only kidding btw)

MadsL

Got to feel for Kid Poker....

For the fourth time since they have been heads-up, Daniel Negreanu has raised preflop with pocket aces. Everytime, Mike Sexton has mucked preflop.

....Andy not playing the $1500 Event?

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/chip_counts/3191?viewall=true

ianmc38

Roundtower2 wrote:

if he'd read the thread on the main poker page which advised folding AK just off the bubble in the 100k tournament on tribeca, he might be a richer man this morning (only kidding btw)

Lol.

nicnicnic

lenny_leonard wrote:

Interesting hand, he played it very aggressively, but that's his style anyway. Did he have to get the money in pre-flop with AK? Negreanu is never calling with a hand that Andy is ahead of.

Fifth for 100K is great and all, but you just cant shake the feeling that he could have done much better.

ditto maybe this plays ok with three players left but with seven and against the only player that can really hurt him it's dodgy

MadsL

....Andy not playing the $1500 Event?

He did, - out in 93rd place.

WSOP Running total up $98,500 for 2 events played. vn.

WH BONNEY

If Andy finished in joint 93rd, which he did, he will cash. The first 262 players are getting paid out of a total entry of 2276. So its 100k + and rising.

For those of you going to the WSOP I note that this event was a sell out.
The entry was capped at 2276, so get in early to avoid disappointment.