Dan Shak is out, AJ < AK (Justin Bonomo)

chipcounts @ dinner break, 9 players left

Justin Bonomo 3,040,000
Daniel Negreanu 2,230,000
Tobias Reinkemeier 2,005,000
Patrik Antonius 1,111,000
Bertrand Grospellier 764,000
Jonathan Duhamel 735,000
Masa Kagawa 681,000
Anatoly Gurtovoy 489,000
Eugene Katchalov 278,00

Probably because most of them have about 4 entries.

they had a break in order to watch Barca - Chelsea

i dont know where Bonomo has the cash to play these high rollers.

Didn't he cheat his way to some big money online before Black Friday?

Yeah like 10.000 years ago (actually it was 2005 but still a long time ago....)

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...k-25k-1192769/

LOL he plays high stakes cash games...and he's smart and sells pieces. He's good enough to play in this field for sure. Just is smart and doesn't ego-buy in. Anyone forget he made FT of WSOP Anniversary tourney a few years back that all the big names FT'd? 40k buy in.

ZJ at one point was a top 5 tourney player in the world (maybe top 1). Then started playing HU cash and killing it. Still a great player and great tournament player.

1 Justin Bonomo 4,393,000
2 Tobias Reinkemeier 1,682,000
3 Daniel Negreanu 1,581,000
4 Bertrand "ElkY" 1,265,000
5 Masa Kagawa 1,076,000
6 Jonathan Duhamel 654,000
7 Patrik Antonius 338,000
8 Eugene Katchalov 262,000

1 1,640,000
2 1,064,000
3 621,000
4 443,000
5 354,500
6 310,000

Bonomo crushing, I'd still put money on Elky tho

End of day chip counts via http://www.pokernews.com/live-report...r-high-roller/

Lots of big names left; of course lots of big names to start.

Do they pay 5 places? Looks like small stacks in there looking for a mincash.

Bonomo didn't steal money as such. He entered the Sunday Million under like 15 different accounts, which is profitable for a top player.

How does Elky do it? His record is ridiculous. Best MTT player in the world?

Definitely up there...should be up there in terms of sngs too? Prolly hangs alright in cash, but tourneys, he is definitely in top X. It's "easy" when you're playing the better structured tourneys in the world. I say that meaning he isn't playing crapshoot poker. He plays with the best, they get awesome structures, he runs well, and he plays exceptional. Pretty awesome when you get to show skillful poker over and over in tourneys. He was on a bit of a downer I think, as his twitter feeds made it sound like he was brickin it all and running bad. LOL life variance.

Think it's 6, so 2 more before money. And yeah, Bonomo did all this crap before it became such a huge deal. Deceitful yes, but not nearly as bad as what people do nowadays and KNOW it's wrong.

Yes, $2.2M in cashes in 2011, two WSOP FTs for $800k combined, a bracelet, a few high roller titles one being the huge 25k during the EPT GF worth €500k is completely brickin it all. YO

He was saying based on what Elky was tweeting it appeared as if he had a bad year, when in fact like you say he was doing pretty good. I noticed Lex needling him on twitter because he noticed this as well.

#whenwillitend

obviously elky and mercier are being sarcastic when they say they are running bad.. the #whenwillitend tag mentioned above is used for this..

I agree, was just saying what he was saying. =/

Elky, Mercier and Katchalov are 3 of the top 5 live tournament players for me nowadays.

trickett and moorman would be my two other picks

I lIke how zeejustin in his selling action thread he based his prices on others and says he's better than timex lol yet he doesn't have the results to back it up

FYP

I looked for the thread.. so for those interested: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...k-25k-1192769/