Lol what's Michael Phelps gonna do?

So will they just blind hos stack off now? With that big a stack, the stack will probably make the money.

Stack was removed. Buy in stays in the prize pool.

No, they removed it from play.

Could at least give the 25k chip back to Waco from that stack.




Source: https://twitter.com/TWKftw

This is in Michael Phelps hands now. Let us pray.

Re: Pokernews.com


I guess my question is, and forgive my ignorance if the answer is pretty obvious, but would any player that busted out of the tournament by a player that shouldn't have been allowed to in the first place be awarded some sort of compensation or are they SOL? Just curious what WSOP and the Rio's stance would be in this situation?

Ya man they are going to let everyone he busted back in. Solid thinking.

Seems the coloring up process was done behind closed doors. Lots of players not happy about it. For obvious reasons this should be done with players present.

Sucks that he was banned for counting cards and i don't agree with that, but he knew he was taking a big risk, if you google "Joe Stiers wsop" it brings up multiple articles from previous years where he talks about being banned from caesar's/wsop. He got booted from another tournament in baltimore in the past and was fortunate to get his money back that time, don't think he will this time. He was well aware of the risk he was taking

I'm sure that's what he meant when he said "compensation"

Based on the updates this big stack "Dedusha" seems a bit like his namesake would indicate

I haven't been keeping up, what big names are left? I have some bets with some friends of mine on a few players...

Crazy Mike K with the chiplead!!!!! A great guy from PA with Ohio roots.

Many are gone.

Ones still remaining: Liv Boeree, Max Silver, Niall Farrell, Rainer Kempe, Melanie Weisner, Tom Cannuli, Michael Ruane, Tony Gregg, Doug Polk, Scott Seiver, Davidi Kitai, Mike Gorodinsky, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Isaac Haxton, Dario Sammartino, Marcel Luske, Jeff Lisandro, Faraz Jaka, Ankush Mandavia, Eric Seidel, Allen Cunningham

+1

Pumped for Day 4.

Some others still in as far as I can tell:

Andrew Lichtenberger
Nick Schulman
Phil Galfond
Scott Clements
Greg Mueller
Paul Wasicka
Randy Lew
David Peters
Jonathan Little

Last I heard Benyamine is still in too

Little busted.

I assume Natasha Mercier is still in. But I haven't seen her name in the chip count updates in a while

Nick Abou Risk is a great poker name.

490k according to Pokernews but who knows when that was updated.

I had bets on Dnegs, Polk, Little, Galfond.

Allen Cunningham seems to be really good at making semi-deep runs in huge field NLHE events. Assuming that he cashes in this event, it will give him 8 lifetime cashes in the main event, which is right near the top of the all-time leaderboard.

Also, look at his results from just this WSOP:

01-Jul-2017 $ 888 No Limit Hold'em - Crazy Eights (Event #60) - 501st - $2,204
17-Jun-2017 $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em (Event #33) - 141st - $ 2,766
10-Jun-2017 $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Millionaire Maker (Event #20) - 1137th - $2,249
09-Jun-2017 $ 365 No Limit Hold'em - The Giant (Event #19) - 322nd - $1,550
02-Jun-2017 $ 565 No Limit Hold'em - The Colossus III (Event #5) - 1803rd - $994

Those aren't exactly huge scores, but it seems like his style works pretty well at getting into the money in these large field events. Maybe he can push a bit further in this one and make a really deep run like 2006. Still so early though. Nothing really matters yet with 1k+ players left.

Seiver AA < Saout's KK for 1.2 MM

Damn that's rough. From double average stack down to 27 BB. Would've been a top 5 stack had the Aces held