Manion was 95 out of 109 players in chips at the end of day 5.

At 1.16 did Shak flash her boobs or am I imagining things LOL!?

If someone has the time to look back at End of Day Counts for Day 1, it'd interesting to see the Final 9 End of Day 1 stacks, I bet a few of them were below par, maybe even on crumbs.

Easy? LOL

Oh, you also are the guy who thinks Manion should have flatted.

Ask and ye shall receive. According to PokerNews:

Zobian (1B) - 171,000
Labat (1C) - 168,500
Cynn (1C) - 133,000
Metalidi (1B) - 102,700
Dyer (1B) - 74,000
Miles (1C) - 72,800
Lynskey (1C) - 67,500
Cada (1C) - 16,500
Manion (1C) - 11,500

Pretty incredible to see how low Cada and Manion were. Horrendous first days and look at them now.

Mildly interesting that no one from day 1A advanced to the FT.

No I said he SHOULD NOT have because it looks suspicious. That’s still an auto fold there. You can’t call with two all ins before you with kings when those all ins are from the tightest two players at the table. To be honest even if Chino Rheem and Scotty Nguyen go all in there that’s still a fold

Manion - 11,500 (c)
Dyer - 74,600 (b)
Miles - 45,700 (b)
Cynn - 133,000 (c)
Lynskey - 67,100 (c)
Cada - 16,500 (c)
Zoubian - 171,000 (b)
Metalidi - 102,700 (b)
Labat 168,500 (c)


Edit: oh pokernews beat me to it

we almost always have drama during the FT (semi) bubble. the negreanu 11th place on the river, matt affleck's bad beat on the river vs. duhamel, the two ladies getting KO'd on the bubble by the same guy, etc.

Ivey in 2003. Scotty blow up in 2007. Mortensen falling just short a few years back. Seems like the poker gods hate a fun sweat. Not this time though.

My bad thought that was you.

But easy and auto fold? Stahp.

Cool thx guys! Wow, amazing to see Cada and Manion were so short coming into Day 2. You know how much has to go right when you come back that short for you to make it just past Day 2 to Day 3? Crazy!

If Cada wins this, might be the biggest accomplishment ever in poker.

It’s an entirely different ball game to come 1st twice in a 7k+ field. The people who won the main more than once did it with way smaller field sizes, so it’s not even comparable.

Yea, it's definitely amazing to think about it. I guess that's just the nature of NLHE tourneys though. I always say that no matter how stacked/short you are, you're only two hands away from glory or ruin.

I find tournaments to be a series of inflection points where either you get the big rush you need to propel you forward or something terrible happens and you crash out. The amount of bullets these guys have dodged to get this far is just incredible.

Take Cada for example. I'm not saying he's lucky, but if Lynskey picks off that bluff then he's gone. If his A6 loses to AT aipf then he's gone. If Labat has a real hand instead of marginal crap when Cada 4 bet ships 55 on him, he's probably gone.

Same can be applied to the rest of the survivors. Dyer beat Goncalves in that huge flop in a near coin flip. Cynn was dealt KK in a hand where Phan went nuts and 4 bet trash. Manion getting AA vs. KK vs. KK. Lots and lots of rungood is required to get here.

Man, its incredible how scared people play poker, itd be nice to watch people who actually play for the win. That KK fold the other day was atrociious longterm but happened to be "right" that time. Then Gerritts almost folded kk to Phans cold 4bet.I dont for 1 second believe he tanked"out of respect and payjump" to help Souza. Once he jammed dd you see the look on his face and where he put his arm? Scared ****less he wasnt against aces.

Then just tonight we see Zhu make that atrocios shove.... and this guy is supposed to be a good player. 1.5 milll and a call in front of you, both players have you covered and you just jam 42 mill n the pot? Nice job Zhu you are just getting QQ/JJ/1010 to fold, probably AK too, actually most definately against Marion. What ever happened to inducing? Put in 7milly and make it look like you can actually fold to a rejam. MAybe f you pt ni 7milly or something one of the other guys would go nuts and shove AK or JJ where they can convince themselves ur just making a squeeze.
-And then the dude overcalls his KK afterwards? What a trainwreck. He s chopping at best and not commited at all. Just fold

There are so many possible hand combos that could have played out that way imo. The key is that Labat had simply flatted pre. If he had 3-bet and then the two shoves follow it's easier to consider getting away from it. But they way that played out with his flat there could easily have been all kinds of combos of the other two having anywhere 10 10 or better. Labat could have figured Mannion to isolation shove with AK, maybe AQ suited, JJ or better since he's not going to put Labat on any of those because of the fact that he flatted.

It was the smooth call pre flop which effed him imo.

Zhu had 24 million. He might have been trying to make his hand look like AK to pick up calls from JJ-QQ.

Mannion (JJ) raise to 1.5
Labat (KK) call
Zhu (JJ) shoves
Mannion reshoves
Labat folds

Twitter/Interwebs: "OMG that effing chickensh*t moron folded KK there!!!"

Not sure about that (I think if he shoves AK there he wants folds), but while tighter than most at that table, he had shown a willingness to put chips in the pot before the final 10 - he had mainly gone card until then.

He could easily have shoved there with JJ/QQ etc (knowing he's very unlikely to fold to a 4 bet anyways) just wanting to take it down).

And Mannion could have been ISOing with a number of different hands.

With 42 million he might have done just that. But he had 23 mill. Totally different to what you are saying.

Not sure what you think Manion's "number of different hands" range would be that exclude KK/AA/AKs. Maybe QQ but from Labat's perspective he needs to underweight AK/KK/QQ because he holds KK and QQ is a common holding for both Zhu and Manion.

The best possible situation for Labat is Zhu/Manion both hold <= QQ, which would be the absolute minimum of their respective ranges, and should be a precursor to folding. I got it about 80% either Zhu or Manion holds AA.

That plus $150K pay jump, likelihood Zhu is eliminated, and an above average stack going forward all point to Labat fold.

Go Cara de Nada Cada!

This is what someone said on twitter who called it a cash game play. I never thought of it that way but yeah you could argue that even if you think as Labat there that one has KK and the other QQ you are still taking a risk in that one gets lucky with a flush or the QQ hits the set you’re dead. In a cash game you could say call it because you can rebuy if you lose and a chop of the QQ’s stack may be a decent haul. Here though what difference does 11 mill make on a chop if you’re at 61 vs 41 mill? You’re still going to be too 4 stack at the table anyway.

Sabat under-repping his hand makes a huge difference to the dynamic which explains his call. He's never folding to Zhu's shove and he's effectively calling an iso bet.

He pretty much levelled himself.

+1000

I believe Hellmuth is now tied for most bracelets won pre-Moneymaker (9) -and- most bracelets won post-Moneymaker (6). That's pretty incredible.