Read my review above with the highlights. He spewed in 3-4 spots during day 5, all bolded.

Seat Draw For Day 6
Casino Table Seat Player Country Chips Big Blinds
Bally's 606 1 Antoine Labat France 4,790,000 60
Bally's 606 2 Andrew Yeh United States 5,830,000 73
Bally's 606 3 Jeremy Steel Australia 1,840,000 23
Bally's 606 4 Timur Margolin Israel 1,095,000 14
Bally's 606 5 Elliot Stern United States 2,250,000 28
Bally's 606 6 Koray Aldemir Austria 3,800,000 48
Bally's 606 7 Igor Ioffe United States 1,250,000 16
Bally's 606 8 Jack Allen United Kingdom 900,000 11
Bally's 606 9 Stuart Ruff United States 1,740,000 22

That is Aldemir's table. I'll be keeping a close follow on it. Hopefully it's one of the feature tables

7m chips. 23/123

Seat Draw For Day 6

Bally's 627 1 Jon Gisler United States 5,270,000 66
Bally's 627 2 Michael Lavenburg United States 4,015,000 50
Bally's 627 3 Zilong Zhang United States 6,985,000 87
Bally's 627 4 Evan Krentzman United States 945,000 12
Bally's 627 5 David Levine United States 4,295,000 54
Bally's 627 6 Shijia Liu United States 6,085,000 76
Bally's 627 7 Mikael Guenni France 980,000 12
Bally's 627 8 Jose Jaraiz Spain 2,000,020 25
Bally's 627 9 Cedrric Trevino United States 3,210,000 40

That is Zhang's table. I'll be keeping a close follow on it. Hopefully it's one of the feature tables


Hopefully this table is the feature table.. because everyone wants to know how long Zhang can keep this up

He needs to cool it down abit and stop doubling people up. He could of easily finished today as a clear chip leader, had he minimised spewing chips and doubling people up.

Keating: 5s4s
Ruzicka: AsAd

Board: 9s7h8h6c4c

Keating bets river. Ruzicka touches his stack and Keating says, "Good call. Oh, I thought you said call. It's a good call if you make it."

ty for the details

Aldemir knows how to win the main event. TAG style mixed with the occasional bluff.

I'm rooting for Smith, Aldemir, Zhang and Nunley.

I'm looking forward to watching Lococo and Rebei face Zhang. It will be fireworks, because Lococo wasn't afraid to put 100BB in the middle against Rebei and I bet he wouldn't be afraid to do so against Zhang, and unlike Nunley failed to do, as he had the opportunity to go all in with AK vs Zhang's AJ.

All your talk about Juanda got me curious, so I went to his Hendon Mob page. He's one of those guys who I remember seeing in the boom era, but I couldn't tell you what he accomplished.

Sort his tournament scores by prize (in USD):
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pla...prize&dir=desc His top 14 prizes took place overseas, with that Triton Macau main event win ($2.87 million) leading the list. The biggest prize captured in the States was his third place in the $100K WPT World Championship SHR.

Also interesting that 12 of his top 15 wins in terms of dollars were post-Black Friday. I also think of him from the 2000s, in part because he was contemporaries with Allen Cunningham and Daniel Negreanu.

Finally, as noted in his WSOP bio: he made 16 final tables and won three bracelets during his first five years at the WSOP.

Anyway, I always consider my wheelhouse of following poker to be 2005, when I first started playing it; to 2011, when Black Friday hit. Juanda's largest successes arguably took place before and after, which is why he holds more of a minor presence in my poker memory bank. Plus, much of it happened in Europe or Macau.

But wowzers, what a career.

I don't really care all that much about anyone remaining, so my rooting interests are almost strictly based on potential "2nd poker boom equity".

From that perspective, 1 of the 2 women winning would probably be the only thing that would move the needle.

Papo MC winning could be slightly interesting b/c of his social media presence.

Aldemir would bring attention for being a b2b winner.

Beyond that, maybe Kenny Tran, Zhang, maybe Dan Smith.

I don't really like Aldemir, but him winning 2 in a row would garner a lot more attention for poker than some random dude, so for that, I will root for him to do well.

gotcha. 7M still a great amount of BBs, let's see what he can do today.

My guess is that he steamrolls everyone so effectively that the tournament ends today

I liked the master plumber info. Shulman was too cross on the subject.

I don’t think Dan’s call with A6 vs Zhang was terrible. There are so many bluffs and lesser 2 pair combos in Zhangs range. It’s easy to say it’s a bad call when we can see Zhang has the nuts.

We set for a 3pm EST start, or expected to be delayed?

thoughts and prayers on having your soul snatched by UNC this past season

PokerGo would be committing streaming malfeasance if they didn't have Zhang's table on the main feature from the beginning

last night they mentioned (and the site still shows) a 4pm EST start

Anyone got the HH of the lococo 6bet bluff?

Best two days of poker coming up. I love 100 down to 9, where every decision could be for life-changing money.

The final table always feels a bit anticlimactic to me, since they've all already won $1M minimum. Still good. But the real drama is 100 down to 9 imo.

There's never gonna be another poker boom remotely close to what we had.

With that said the only thing that might bring a mini boom is a woman winning.

Some guy nobody ever heard of going back to back does nothing for poker.

I think the boom would be 2-3x bigger if somehow Kim Kardashian were able to win the Main Event

The last thing we want is more Germans in the game anyway.

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2022/...luff-41625.htm

Erik Seidel cashed event #77!!!

https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=212

The one plus of having a back-to-back champion is how strongly it demonstrates to non-players the skill component. If the game lacked skill then such a feat with fields of these sizes has a probability on the order of 50 million to 1.