Wsop Event #57: $10,000 No-limit Hold'em Championship

[Lord_anarchy 0]

Here we have it folks, the most delusional man in poker; Phil Hellmuth.

[grocery_mony 8]

In a related story Sam Grizzle arrived at 8am in a 86 Hyundai to start stake begging.

[Lrgetrout 1]

Random numerical musings ...About 5000 entrants so far. 2000 seats already sold for day 1D, capacity of 3800 (see: wsop.com). Let's take a conservative estimate of 3000 players on day 1D, making an 8000 player field.8000x$9400 (after fees etc.)=$75.2 million prize pool.Percentage to first:20%=about $15 million15%=about $10.5 millionSo there will almost certainly be an 8 figure payday to the winner.Taking last year's first prize (roughly $8.5 million), and adjusting for the field size (x1.23, noted below) also comes out at about the $10.5 million number.With capped entry for tomorrow, multiplying by 1.354 (as noted below) gives about $11.5 million to first.---Now, onto the chips:8000xT30000=T240 million in play.Blinds at the break for the final 9 (last year) were level 33, 120k/240k/30k. However, we only had 6494 (call it 6500 for nice round numbers) last year, so multiply by about 1.23 to get expected blinds of around 150k/300k, which is one more level of play (level 34). The time allotted is about right. Day 6 is scheduled to end with level 26, with day 7 going down to 27 players and day 8 down to 9 players. 4 levels each day would be about right. 240M/300K=800 big blinds amongst the final table, which sounds about right, but maybe a little high. Next level has a big blind of 400k, so 240M/400K=600, which sounds more plausible. One more level won't hurt any of the timing.Even with a capped field of 8800, that's only a multiplier of 1.354 which puts estimated blinds at 163k/332k, and level 35 is 200k/400k, so that would be only one more level also.---Just absolute rambling for the math junkies. Ignore it if it makes your eyes water, or feel free to discuss .

[keith crime 8]

lol at the cheap shot from Pokernews at a former employeeOutherd has 99 problems (but Tiffany Michelle ain't one)they called her a bitch in a hand she wasn't even in!ok yeah i made the same joke this afternoon

[nutzbuster 7]

met her in 2007 - she's definitely a completely full of herself

[nutzbuster 7]

beyond embarrassing

[serge 904]

beyond embarrassing

guaranteed he spent more money on that then he did for the entry fee..Its fun though.

[nutzbuster 7]

guaranteed he spent more money on that then he did for the entry fee..Its fun though.

at least the chicks were hawt

[gatortom64 1]

Phil Hellmuth EliminatedPhil Hellmuth will not win another bracelet this year. Hellmuth was seated at the secondary ESPN feature table and tangled in a massive three-way preflop all in between Hellmuth, Daniel Aldridge, and a third player. Hellmuth held J J , Aldridge held Q Q and the third player held A-K.The flop came king high with two diamonds, putting the player with Big Slick in the lead. The turn and river were running diamonds though and Aldridge caught a flush and knocked out the eleven-time bracelet winner and the other player in a one-two punch.“It’s always a plus to knockout Hellmuth,” Aldridge said. “The hand pretty much played itself.”As he was getting up to leave, the tournament staff announced Hellmuth’s elimination over the PA, prompting cheers and applause from throughout the Amazon Room.[/]

[Vtlaxer09 4]

lolol at hellmuth.1d tomorrow.

[Balloon guy 158]

approximately a 0% chance it really happened

Yea, no way either of them washed their hands

[FCP Bob 1,312]

Day 1c a Wrap with Sauriol and Chan in the LeadPosted 5 hours 17 minutes ago by ebhizzleThe day began twelve hours ago with high expectations as more than 2,300 players crowded into the Rio to hear Joe Cada announce, "Shuffle up and deal!" For some, it was all downhill from there while others ended the day atop a chip mountain. Mathiu Sauriol bagged up more chips than any of the other 1,600+ players who made it through the day. He'll return with 168,900, which makes him the third biggest stack in the room to start Day 2a. (Day 1a's chip leader, Corwin Cole, has 228,200.)Former Main Event Champion Johnny Chan ended the night right behind Sauriol with 163,700. Lauren Kling crushed the later levels, finishing with 149,650. Barny Boatman, Michael Reed, and Robert Mizrachi also accumulated field-leading stacks.David Williams jetted to an early lead, crossing the 100,000-chip mark shortly after the first break. He lost a little momentum in the middle levels, but ended the day strong with 112,225. Lex Veldhuis, Todd Terry, Jennifer Leigh, Dan Smith, Billy Kopp, and Hoyt Corkins will also return with large stacks. Joe Cada, Patrik Antonius, and Daniel Negreanu finished in the middle of the pack, and Dennis Phillips and James Van Alstyne have their work cut out for them when the come back among the shortest stacks.Alex Outhred jumped to a the top of the counts in the middle of the day, then crashed and burned just as quickly, not making it to bag-and-tag. Outhred wasn't alone, of course. Nearly 700 of the players who began the day found their Main Event dreams sidelined before the end of the night. Huck Seed, fresh from winning the Tournament of Champions a few days ago, barely stuck around for an hour, and Dario Minieri didn't last much longer. Former Main Event Champions Phil Hellmuth and Jerry Yang won't be repeating, nor will November Niner Steven Begleiter. Ayaz Mahmood, Men Nguyen, and Ryan Welch all picked up WSOP hardware earlier this year, but they won't be capping off successful summers with deep Main Event runs. Tom Dwan, Chad Brown, Bill Gazes, Neil Channing, Chau Giang, and Jeff Madsen won't be back either. Non-poker celebs Scott Ian, Shanna Moakler, and Anthony Rapp also ended their brief start turns in the poker world.For now, the players who survived the day are off to rest for their return to the Rio on Friday. While they take it easy, the Rio is gearing up for the biggest day of the summer. Day 1d's massive field will join the 4,625 who already played to make this the second largest Main Event on record. Tune in tomorrow to follow all of the Main Event insanity as it happens.

[rrumsey 0]

Phil Hellmuth EliminatedPhil Hellmuth will not win another bracelet this year. Hellmuth was seated at the secondary ESPN feature table and tangled in a massive three-way preflop all in between Hellmuth, Daniel Aldridge, and a third player. Hellmuth held J J , Aldridge held Q Q and the third player held A-K.The flop came king high with two diamonds, putting the player with Big Slick in the lead. The turn and river were running diamonds though and Aldridge caught a flush and knocked out the eleven-time bracelet winner and the other player in a one-two punch.“It’s always a plus to knockout Hellmuth,” Aldridge said. “The hand pretty much played itself.”As he was getting up to leave, the tournament staff announced Hellmuth’s elimination over the PA, prompting cheers and applause from throughout the Amazon Room.[/]

AMAZING< poker pro's feel the same way we do! that is what that arse gets for easily spending more money on that dumb entrance then the buyin! thank god im glad hellmuth got crushed. maybe he will go cry to his life coach!

[wildspoke 2]

Yea, no way either of them washed their hands

Thank you for bringing a little crazy into a sane world.

[Naked_Cowboy 0]

Over 7,200 reg'd last of early this morning.

[delved 0]

Justin Filtz 2009 had 6,494 players in the #WSOP Main Event. I was officially the 6,368th player this yr with a full day left to get in! Gonna be huge!15 hours ago via TwitterShould probably get to 7,500 at least I'd imagine.

[TrueAce13 18]

yeah, a lot of older fcp posters are playing today. gl to everyone

[Roll the Bones 74]

Bizzle and GrinderMJ both made it to day two. markysals and Justin play today.looshle and Tremomey busted yesterday. Weird no love in GenPop for these FCP'ers playing the main event.

[Fluffdog87 2]

Main Event Day! Gl to everybody playing! Excited to play!Weeeeeeeee! Will be posting updates on twitter the entire day.Pavilion White Table 52 Seat 2

[Mercury69 3]

GL, FCPers!

[kobe2odom8 14]

Bizzle and GrinderMJ both made it to day two. markysals and Justin play today.looshle and Tremomey busted yesterday. Weird no love in GenPop for these FCP'ers playing the main event.

looshle did not bust yesterday, has 26k

[Roll the Bones 74]

looshle did not bust yesterday, has 26k

yep, my bad.

[coug2828 8]

Darvin Moon = baller

Allen Kessler RT @Balsbaugh: #WSOP Darvin Moon turned down $10k for a sponsorship at the ESPN feature table today. No takers for his $25k asking price.

[FCP Bob 1,312]

The Numbers Are InPosted 5 minutes ago by donpeters The numbers are in and it's a big one. A total number of 7,319 ponied up the $10,000 buy-in for the year's World Series of Poker Main Event. Not taking anything away from the prizepool, that's a whopping $73,190,000!It breaks down as follows:Day 1a: 1,125Day 1b: 1,489Day 1c: 2,314Day 1d: 2,391Comparing that to last year, Day 1a only had 1,116 players, Day 1b had 873 players, Day 1c had 1,696 players and Day 1d had 2,809 players for a total of 6,494.Looking at this year's numbers compared with last year's, the field increased by 12.7%. Last year's Day 1d trumped this year's, but the other three days were all larger this year. There was also a steady increase from Day 1a to Day 1d this year.Last year's first-place prize was worth $8,546,435 to youngster Joe Cada and this year will be even more. Once we receive all the official payouts and prizepool information, we'll send them your way.

[delved 0]

lolThe only person I obv pay attention to his Fluff; so..He was down to just 5,500 earlier, but has built that back up to 41,500 from his last update to me about 40 minutes ago.