Cheers

If this is accurate then 2pm PST for 1 hour on Youtube.

Damn you Americans with your different time zones

Ivey entered the $3k HORSE yesterday and still has chips.

Hopefully, he and Isildur1 get heads up for the bracelet.

It was a mistake, what a surprise.

Final table preivew starts in 10 minutes.

We are time zone amateurs compared to Russians.

That's a big part of it
It's also a product of how seriously he's taking the tournament. He's not some young hungry pro he's playing nose bleeds games and got stiffed by casinos for more than main first place money.

I'm sure they'll try and find stuff but there's only so many hours in a day. When they did the November 9 nonsense this was probably a thing.

Final table end of day 1 chip counts:

Adam Walton 60,200 1C
Steven Jones 148,500 1B
Daniel Weinman 80,000 1D
Jan-Peter Jachtmann 132,200 1D
Juan Maceiras 60,000 Start day 2D??
Ruslan Prydryk 44,400 1D
Dean Hutchison 187,300 1D
Daniel Holzner 52,300 1D
Toby Lewis 59,400 1D

Todd Brunson and Barbara Enright among leaders with 18 left in $3K HORSE.

Juanda, Rast, Nick Shulman, Chino Rheem, and David Williams still in $10K short deck.

GO GO GO BARBARA!

Okie dokie, I missed most of the 9-to-3 playdown action yesterday, so I'm catching up with the highlights right now.

As you may recall, Holzner doubled up in a goofy hand with Weinman, getting 76o all-in against Weinman's T8 suited postflop on a flop of AK6. Weinman bet, Holzner check-jammed, and Weinman called off.

These are the same two players who got wrapped up in this Day 8 hand:
https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...ips.588564.htm. As you can see, Weinman had K7 on a flop of AAT and folded when Holzner effectively moved in on the flop.

What strikes me is this:
In the 76 vs T8 hand, Weinman calls off on the flop presumably because he's getting almost 5-to-1 on the call (t2.7 million for a pot worth t12.9 million). He can't possibly like his hand, but goes with it because he priced himself in.

But on the KQ-K7 hand, Weinman did not call despite getting almost 6-to-1 (t1.2 million to win t7 million), holding a hand that could still be good and having backdoor hearts.

Short of some sort of solid physical tell from Holzner, is there something I'm missing that makes one a call and the other a fold? They don't seem all that different to me, but I also admit I'm not exactly an expert on ICM considerations.

Button flats have a lot more weak AX hands and K7 blocks two obvious broadway bluffs (KJ and KQ) villain could have on an AxAxTx board. And we don't beat those bluffs anyway. We are only beating QJ. Easy fold.

OTOH, on AK6 short stack in the blinds should be reshoving most AX and KX hands pre. And why check shove if you got there? So villain's range is very capped to having having caught a 6, imo.

Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship:
Interesting dynamic: All four remaining players are going for their second wsop bracelet.

The old bag is 5/8.

Old bag hanging in there

POY drama into the 11th hour.

Brewer is 4/7 in the $10k short deck and can overtake Matakis with a win, but Matakis has a stack in the $5k NLHE.

There's only one event after today, a $1k super turbo NLHE.

Would be quite funny and perhaps fitting if POY is determined by a turbo flippament.

Does the WSOP Europe count towards the POY this year ?
It usually does ?

I’ve always thought a requirement for POY should be at least 1 bracelet win. What’s the POY photo if you don’t, holding up a bunch of 16th place tickets lol?

My recollection is that WSOPE doesn't count anymore. I feel like that was implemented after the Campbell/Negs/Deeb? year when they had the crazy grind in Czech Republic to try to prevail. I want to say it's only the LV events now, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

For Chris Lucifer Ferguson that’s exactly what it was.

And I love how last year they stuck his banner in a tiny hallway to nowhere.

I think you're right about it only being desert POY now.

I'm in shock at how fast that final table went, especially the final three.