WSOPE Ivan Demidov

cuterob

has anyone been following this?.. he's the Russian guy who's on the final table of the main event in vegas come november and he's now the chipleader with 8 left in the main event in London.. pretty sick

karlh

i think we should be praying to this guy.

he also claims to have played 3 medium/high live tournaments in Russia since the WSOP, won two of them and came second in a third.

tipp86

Was watching a pot a little while ago juanda set out to bluff him and basically got caught gifted im the chip lead

TripleAce

If he does the double win WSOP ME + WSOPE , given the size of the fields this would be the biggest achievement in poker history....way more than Hellmuth's 11 bracelets (playing about 100,000 events) IMO.

RichieLawlor

is this being shown anywhere

TripleAce

RichieLawlor wrote: »

is this being shown anywhere

I'd like to know this too....

I am currently just following the updates here: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-wsope/main-event/day5/

Mellor

betfair (as the sponsors) have a watch live option,

how many runners did this get, including both days

pokerkingsni

http://www.bwin-wsoplive.com/

There's a radio stream with some crappy leaderboard thing on this ^.

Better than nothing i suppose.

RichieLawlor

[URL="javascript:popup('http://wsope.betfair.com/live-video/live-video.html', '757', '400', 'no');"]here it is[/URL]

Ste05

Link to a Live stream on the betfair site: http://wsope.betfair.com/

thedini

Mellor wrote: »

betfair (as the sponsors) have a watch live option,

how many runners did this get, including both days

362

cuterob

there's a video of matusow and lodden and some other players talking outside the empire casino and lodden was saying that he was a good player with some sick plays or something similar

High-Tower

RichieLawlor wrote: »

is this being shown anywhere

http://wsope.betfair.com/live-video/live-video.html

Here you go Richie

thedini

TripleAce wrote: »

If he does the double win WSOP ME + WSOPE , given the size of the fields this would be the biggest achievement in poker history....way more than Hellmuth's 11 bracelets (playing about 100,000 events) IMO.

theres only 362 runners, they aren't even comparable:rolleyes:

TripleAce

thedini wrote: »

theres only 362 runners, they aren't even comparable:rolleyes:

You misread my post - What I was saying is that doing the double win in the same year would be impressive....I never said that the WSOPE can be compared to the WSOP ME, of course when you have to go through 7,000 players is more difficult....

By the way these 362 are the best of the best, quality-wise this field is much better than the WSOP ME.

Clareman

I was getting a terrible echo through the website, don't know if anyone else noticed the same, this link works better (40 minutes to dinner break btw)

http://bm30342.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/bm30342/43691/500_bm30342-live_london_080929.asx

CHD

Clareman wrote: »

I was getting a terrible echo through the website, don't know if anyone else noticed the same, this link works better (40 minutes to dinner break btw)

http://bm30342.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/bm30342/43691/500_bm30342-live_london_080929.asx

tytyty

Clareman

CHD wrote: »

tytyty

No worries

Dinner break until 9 (GMT)

TripleAce

Damn 3 G connection it keeps buffering :mad:

I so would like to see this - the quality of the video is very good!

Thanks for the link anyway

percy007

This is perfect through Media Player http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=20440&part=sports
Play just about to resume after dinner!

Clareman

percy007 wrote: »

This is perfect through Media Player http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=20440&part=sports
Play just about to resume after dinner!

Those links are just the other links mentioned here

percy007

Clareman wrote: »

Those links are just the other links mentioned here

My Bad El Jefe

TripleAce

From PokerNews;

Ivan has won 27 of the 115 hands played today -- that's an impressive 23%. What's more, he's won 25 of them without a showdown (93%)! People are indeed starting to talk about the 27-year-old, and the ripples resonating from the splash he's made here this week in London will have no trouble reaching America's East Coast by November.

5starpool

Maybe they should look at a map of America and see where Vegas actually is.

The Istanbul

jeesus- that Cristina Davis (Betfair interviewer on live WSOPE feed on Betfair) is one hotttt doll: waiting for one of those tits to slip out while she's at work there:)

con_leche

Anyone having trouble with volume on the stream?

CHD

This is still going. Juanda and Alekhin are heads up for hours.

CHD

Juanda has got a couple of double ups in last half hour and there level again. This final table is nearly 18 hours old!

TripleAce

No f**** way - I wake up, come to work, open pokernews.com and they are still playing, after what? 20 hours??? :eek:

Maybe they should consider adding an extra day next time, I can only imagine how tired these players are at this point!

Clareman

Those players have to be hanging at this stage, even if there is a deal they will not give up the braclet easily, then again it'll be a shame for the second EME (European Main Event) braclet to be won on a mistake

Clareman

nearly over

Hand #479 - Juanda Doubles Up
John Juanda has the button. Juanda raises to 165,000. Stanislav Alekhin calls. The flop is . Stanislav Alekhin fires out 325,000. Juanda peeks at his cards and blinks methodically. He moves all in and Stanislav Alekhin insta-calls.

Juanda:
Alekhin:

Juanda is ahead with top pair against Alekhin's flush draw. The turn is the . The river is the . Juanda wins the pot and doubles up. The smattering of Juanda fans jumped to their feet and gave a hearty golf clap.

Stanislav Alekhin stack was decimated. He was left with about 600,000. Juanda increased his stack to 6.6 million.

CHD

Juanda wins. Deserves it aswell. Im never watching live poker again.

Clareman

CHD wrote: »

Juanda wins. Deserves it aswell. Im never watching live poker again.

Live poker has to be 1 of the most boring things to watch, but it has to be done

lee_arama

I wanted Juanda or Negranu to win this so I'm happy. Reason being that I feel it adds credibility to the concept of the WSOPE. I felt there was always the risk of degenerating into just another high stakes series of events and that the world of poker would still look to Vegas as the one and only...

I think you'll see more pro's coming over to this in the future, maybe even to the extent that they won't even bother with Vegas.

CHD

Clareman wrote: »

Live poker has to be 1 of the most boring things to watch, but it has to be done

I won't be doing it again thats for sure.

CHD

lee_arama wrote: »

maybe even to the extent that they won't even bother with Vegas.

That will never happen.

Clareman

I stayed up till 5 o'clock in the morning watching last years final table, I can't stand Jerry Yang, really can't. At least in Europe the hands are fairly quick, in Vegas there was about 5 minutes between every hand stacking chips and stuff. All this while listening to Phil Gordon

TripleAce

I really can't get why they don't print some higher-denomination chips for these events, it would speed up the game especially when it gets short-handed.

Big stack ---> nice to see, I suppose

Clareman

TripleAce wrote: »

I really can't get why they don't print some higher-denomination chips for these events, it would speed up the game especially when it gets short-handed.

Big stack ---> nice to see, I suppose

Very difficult to do this when there are ante's in play, afaik the smallest denomination not required is removed.

For example, if the blinds were 30k/60k, there might be a 6k ante, which means that all 1k chips would need to be kept in play

CHD

They don't want to speed the event up

TripleAce

Clareman wrote: »

Very difficult to do this when there are ante's in play, afaik the smallest denomination not required is removed.

For example, if the blinds were 30k/60k, there might be a 6k ante, which means that all 1k chips would need to be kept in play

Damn antes, forgot about them

lee_arama

Was it Barry Greenstein who refused to chip up the chips he used as antes? So that at the end of a certain time period he had an idea on how many pots he had won etc?