One of Pham, Olivera or Messina will spew off and miss the final table tomorrow, it has to happen. Stoked to see Bennie Lamb, Saout, Luske, Ruane and Theczar19 still in.
Pretty good chance of Lamb at the FT. Between Ruane and Saout (both on slightly below average stacks), you'd think maybe one of them can join him. Could be some interesting stories there. Marcel Luske also still alive, but in shove mode with ~10 BBs.
Average stack for the FT will be about 40M, so 30-35M would put someone in good position. That would be a good number to hit tomorrow.
One of Pham, Olivera or Messina will spew off and miss the final table tomorrow, it has to happen. Stoked to see Bennie Lamb, Saout, Luske, Ruane and Theczar19 still in.
What's the biggest meltdown in main event history?
Off the top of my head...
Andy Black - 2005
Scotty Nguyen - 2007
Billy Kopp - 2009
I almost hope for their sake that no one collapses like that tomorrow. The regret has to be brutal.
27) Michael Sklenicka – 2.23m
Slani, CZECHIA
$34k
None
None
TEN AMERICANS
FOUR FRENCH
THREE BRITISH
TWO CANADIANS
TWO ARGENTINIANS
TWO GERMANS
ONE PORTUGESE
ONE RUSSIAN
ONE DUTCH
ONE CZECH
Of the 10 Americans:
Three from:
NEW JERSEY
Two from:
OHIO
One from:
CALIFORNIA
PENSYLVANNIA
NEVADA
NEW YORK
MINNESOTA
Ten Players have live tournament cashes in excess of $1m
Ben Lamb leads with $7.2m
John Hesp has the lowest total tournament cashes - $2k
Thirteen players have cashed in the Main Event before
Marcel Luske cashes for the 5th time
Six players cashed the Main last year
Ruane (4th) and Saout (25th) have not yet finished higher than they did last year
Brian Piccioli is the only player cashing for the 3rd year in a row
Three players have Final Tabled the Main Event before: Saout (’09), Lamb (’11) and Ruane (’16)
Five players have been in the Final 27 before:
Luske (’03 and ’04), Lamb (’09 and ’11), Saout (’09 and ’16), Pollak (’13) and Ruane (’16)
Three players have won WSOP Bracelets: Pham, Lamb and Gryko (WSOPE).
2004 - Matt Dean (Final Table blow-up, 2nd to 7th)
2005 - Everyone talks about Andy Black, but from what was televised, he continued to play aggro and got on the wrong side of some spots. The real blow-up is Scott Lazar calling an all-in for a lot of chips with QT. "YOU WANT A GAMBLE, I'LL GIVE YOU A GAMBLE. I CALL........Oh."
2006 - Not outrageous, but William Thorson had TONS of chips on the final two tables and finished 13th when he didn't realise Jamie Gold ran like God.
2007 - This could be the biggest blow-up, considering the spot this man was in. Chip leader going of the WSOP Main. Ninth. Ninth.
Honourable mention to Scotty Nguyen, who got tilted by Hilm. Hilm learnt from the best!
2008 - Brandon Cantu blew-up a big stack with an amazing misunderstanding of basic pot odds.
Honourable mention to Scott Montgomery, who tried and failed to run the worst bluff ever for a huge blow-up, but got saved by the river.
2009 - Ladies and Gentleman, Mr Billy Kopp. BTW, Darvin Moon's call here is crazy too -
I have to give a mention to Darvin here. The guy tried his best to blow-up, but the deck wouldn't let him. There's a hand against Begleiter which is literally the worst ever played at the Main Event final table, couldn't find it though. Here's his TIMBERRRRRR moment:
2010: "The other door was open" - Norman Chad's funniest line ever, Pascal Le Francois picking the wrong spot against Cheong.
Can't find the hand video but the aftermath is here in this Norman Chad compilation at 12min
2011: John Hewitt on the pre-final final-table to go out in 10th. He made two or three super super marginal calls when he shouldn't have, tried to dismiss it as standard.
2012: This is the best played hand on here; I like Abrams move, but it's a huge amount of chips getting in the pot to finish 12th when he could have folded to the FT.
2013: Anton Morgenstern from chiplead to out in 10 minutes
Morgenstern ended up overshadowing James Alexander, who finished in 19th, but he's well worth watching on the coverage. There's not a single hand that sums it up well, but he was 2nd out of 22 and finished 19th, and unlike Morgenstern (who is a good player), he just seemed to go all Scott Lazar ("YOU WANT A GAMBLE").
James Alexander's blow up in 2013 was orders of magnitude worse than Morgansterns the same year. I was at the table when it happened and the tv coverage didn't do it justice. For some reason he, out of the blue called a ~15bb utg shove iirc, utg+1 with J9o and lost. Then I think he opened A2 and called it off to a shove. Then he proceeded to start just open shipping like 10-15million which was still an above avg stack at the time. At one ooint he gets A-rag in against 99, and spikes an A on the flop and remarks to his brother on the rail 'about time I win of these races', 9 on the river though. He went from a huge stack to out in about 30 minutes.
James Alexander's blow up in 2013 was orders of magnitude worse than Morgansterns the same year. I was at the table when it happened and the tv coverage didn't do it justice. For some reason he, out of the blue called a ~15bb utg shove iirc, utg+1 with J9o and lost. Then I think he opened A2 and called it off to a shove. Then he proceeded to start just open shipping like 10-15million which was still an above avg stack at the time. At one ooint he gets A-rag in against 99, and spikes an A on the flop and remarks to his brother on the rail 'about time I win of these races', 9 on the river though. He went from a huge stack to out in about 30 minutes.
Didn't he get himself all ****ed up on Five Hour Energy? I seem to remember people saying he pounded like a dozen of them.
2004 - Matt Dean (Final Table blow-up, 2nd to 7th)
2005 - Everyone talks about Andy Black, but from what was televised, he continued to play aggro and got on the wrong side of some spots. The real blow-up is Scott Lazar calling an all-in for a lot of chips with QT. "YOU WANT A GAMBLE, I'LL GIVE YOU A GAMBLE. I CALL........Oh."
I have to give a mention to Darvin here. The guy tried his best to blow-up, but the deck wouldn't let him. There's a hand against Begleiter which is literally the worst ever played at the Main Event final table, couldn't find it though. Here's his TIMBERRRRRR moment:
2011: John Hewitt on the pre-final final-table to go out in 10th. He made two or three super super marginal calls when he shouldn't have, tried to dismiss it as standard.
2012: This is the best played hand on here; I like Abrams move, but it's a huge amount of chips getting in the pot to finish 12th when he could have folded to the FT.
Morgenstern ended up overshadowing James Alexander, who finished in 19th, but he's well worth watching on the coverage. There's not a single hand that sums it up well, but he was 2nd out of 22 and finished 19th, and unlike Morgenstern (who is a good player), he just seemed to go all Scott Lazar ("YOU WANT A GAMBLE").
Morgenstern's Blow-Up from 2013 was the craziest I've ever seen. It was like watching him lose his ****in mind. The infamous hand against Mark Newhouse says it all. He was an overwhelming chipleader on Day 7 and probably could've just blinded off and still would've made the final 9. Has to be something he deeply regrets.
