Here's the last official recap before we reach the November Nine.
On day 7, we went from 57 players down to 22, a loss of 61%. Play on day 8 will begin at blinds of 100,000/200,000, with antes of 30,000. The average chip stack is approximately 9,360,000. Seven players will begin with sub-25 big blind stacks. They are playing down to the November Nine on day 8.
On day 7, we lost, among others, John Esposito (fifth top 32 finish in the main event and an additional 106th place finish), Andrew “Foucault” Brokos (53rd in 2011, 87th in 2010 and 35th in 2008), JP Kelly (26th in 2011 and 111th in 2010), Sebastian Ruthenberg, Steve Brecher, David Bach, Tony Hachem, Erick Lindgren and the power poker couple of David “Doc” Sands and Erika Moutinho, the last woman in the main event field.
The day 8 seat draw (per pokernews.com, with my notes) is as follows:
Feature Table
Seat 1: Gionni Demers (4,655,000) (rbx88, 23 years old)
Seat 2: Christopher Moore (3,040,000) (28 years old, WSOP final tablist)
Seat 3: Khoa Nguyen (16,435,000) (29 years old)
Seat 4: Konstantinos Mamaliadis (8,195,000) (34 years old)
Seat 5: Kenny Shih (4,530,000) (30 years old, 2nd ME cash)
Seat 6: Samuel Holden (4,730,000) (22 years old)
Seat 7: Lars Bonding (4,140,000) (31 years old, 2nd ME cash, 2-time WSOP final tablist)
Seat 8: -empty-
Seat 9: Anton Makiievskyi (21,045,000) (21 years old)
Secondary Table
Seat 1: Matt Giannetti (8,920,000) (26 years old, 2nd ME cash, 2-time WSOP final tablist)
Seat 2: Aleksandr Mozhnyakov (7,075,000) (25 years old, 5th 2011 WSOP cash)
Seat 3: Scott Schwalich (6,920,000) (24 years old)
Seat 4: Pius Heinz (7,510,000) (22 years old, WSOP final tablist)
Seat 5: Phil “USCPhildo” Collins (13,805,000) (26 years old)
Seat 6: -empty-
Seat 7: Bounahra Badih (3,385,000)
Seat 8: -empty-
Seat 9: Sam Barnhart (4,935,000) (50 years old, 2011 WSOP Circuit champion, WSOP Circuit winner)
Table 334
Seat 1: Martin Staszko (6,380,000) (35 years old, 5th 2011 WSOP cash)
Seat 2: John Hewitt (13,265,000) (23 years old)
Seat 3: -empty-
Seat 4: -empty-
Seat 5: Ben Lamb (Benba) (14,690,000) (ranked #89 in the Global Poker Index as of 7/11/11, 2011 WSOP bracelet winner, leader for 2011 WSOP Player of the Year, 3rd ME cash (including 14th in 2009), 4-time WSOP final tablist, 5th 2011 WSOP cash)
Seat 6: Ryan Lenaghan (10,415,000)
Seat 7: Andrey Pateychuk (16,245,000) (21 years old)
Seat 8: Eoghan O’Dea (19,050,000) (26 years old, 4th 2011 WSOP cash)
Seat 9: Bryan Devonshire (MaverickUSC) (6,190,000) (27 years old, WSOP Circuit winner)
List of players by chip count:
21045000 – Anton Makiievskyi
19050000 - Eoghan O’Dea
16435000 – Khoa Nguyen
16245000 – Andrey Pateychuk
14690000 – Ben Lamb (Benba)
13805000 – Phil “USCPhildo” Collins
13265000 – John Hewitt
10415000 – Ryan Lenaghan
8920000 – Matt Giannetti
8195000 – Konstantinos Mamaliadis
7510000 – Pius Heinz
7075000 – Aleksandr Mozhnyakov
6920000 – Scott Schwalich
6380000 – Martin Staszko
6190000 – Bryan Devonshire (MaverickUSC)
4935000 – Sam Barnhart
4740000 – Samuel Holden
4655000 - Gionni Demers (rbx88)
4530000 – Kenny Shih
4140000 – Lars Bonding
3385000 – Bounahra Badih
3040000 – Christopher Moore
Two WSOP/WSOPE bracelet winners remain (number and year of bracelets in parentheses):
14690000 - Ben Lamb (2011)
4935000 - Sam Barnhart (2011 circuit champion)
(Eliminated on day 7 – David Bach (2009), John Esposito – (1999 - 4 prior top 26 finishes in the main event and an additional 106th place finish), JP Kelly (2 – 2009, 2009 WSOPE), Erick Lindgren (2008), Minh Nguyen (2 – 2003, 2004), Sebastian Ruthenberg (2008))
As for the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year, Ben Lamb has taken over the lead from Phil Hellmuth, who has 710.25 points. Ben Lamb had 659.05 points coming into the main event but has already gained 75 more points from finishing in the top 20% of the money group and now has 724.05 points.
No former WSOP ME champions or non-champion final tablists from the last five main events remain in the field.
Here is an unofficial list of twoplustwo players remaining in the field (based on original list prepared by nivelles piret as updated by amfox):
9980000 – Ben Lamb (Benba)
5970000 – Bryan Devonshire (MaverickUSC)
1625000 - Gionni Demers (rbx88)
(Eliminated on day 7 – bob2bob, cardcore, Ddayy, Deuce2High, Foucault, rubenrtv, Steve Brecher)
Nationalities of final 22 players, per WSOP list and public information:
11 – United States (see below)
2 - Russia (Mozhnyakov, Pateychuk)
1 - Canada (K.Nguyen), Costa Rica (Hewitt), Czech Republic (Staszko), Denmark (Bonding), Germany (Heinz), Ireland (O’Dea), South Africa (Mamaliadis), Ukraine (Makievskyi), United Kingdom (Holden)
Of the US players, WSOP-listed addresses by state:
3 – Nevada (Collins, Devonshire, Giannetti)
2 – Ohio (Moore, Schwalich)
1 - Arkansas (Barnhart), California (Shih), Florida (Badih), Louisiana (Lenaghan), New Jersey (Demers), Oklahoma (Lamb)
Today, we go until we reach the November Nine! Good luck, all.
