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08-28-2010 , 08:30 AM

Kevmath

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The World Poker Tour makes its first visit to London at the Palm Beach Casino, the first of three consecutive tournaments being held at the casino: The English Poker Open - plenty of good seats still available - and the made-for-TV World Poker Open).

The £5,000 + £300 Main Event starts on the 30th, with a listed cap of 200 players for the two day 1's, with the final table scheduled for Sept. 4.

Sept. 3rd is the £15,000 High Rollers' event with their final table Sept. 5.

Matchroom Sport will be filming the tournament to air in Europe, while PartyPoker's blog will be providing the live updates/interviews.

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08-29-2010 , 10:39 AM

Todd Terry

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It's not being aired in the United States?

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08-29-2010 , 11:33 AM

Kevmath

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I'm going off this article from Matchroom Poker.

On a related note, in an interview on CardPlayer (starting at 11:40), WPT President Adam Pliska mentioned additional WPT events in the US that would not be televised.

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08-29-2010 , 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevmath

Download button doesn't work and playing on the CardPlayer site causes it to stop every 3 seconds (as always). Can you give us Cliff's?

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08-29-2010 , 03:40 PM

Kevmath

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Adam Pliska:

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There will be a series of main televised events, but there will also be non-televised events. We've had non-televised events in Europe (ie. Barcelona and D'Amneville) and there will be a number of non-televised events coming in the US and will be announced hopefully shortly.

Episodes begin airing in January on some network not yet announced.

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08-29-2010 , 03:51 PM

Todd Terry

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Non-televised events in the US seems like a horrible idea.

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08-30-2010 , 08:01 AM

Kevmath

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Live updates for now appearing on Party Poker's blog here.

Registration will be open until 1:30pm Wednesday.

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08-30-2010 , 09:00 AM

rje8686

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Any idea how many runners this got?

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08-30-2010 , 09:25 AM

Kevmath

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Good question. The cap is supposed to be 200 for each of the two day 1's.

Edit: It's good to have people to ask these things that are on-site. 62 so far, playing seven 90-minute levels, dinner break after level 4, ~7pm.

Thanks Tatjana!

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08-30-2010 , 04:05 PM

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NP, I am also posting tons on my Twitter: @Tattytats so if anyone has Q or anything, Im here all day.

Total of 72 today, 52 left and there are some big names - Seidel, Luke Schwartz, Akenhead, Frazer, Galic, Seed...were here today. Ivey is just getting rubbed all day and building a huge stack, hes a God.
Anyhow, like Kev said - were blogging it, so drop by.

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08-30-2010 , 11:40 PM

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31 of ~70 players returns Wednesday afternoon. The day 1 chip leader is Erik Seidel with 226,200. Other notables: Phil Ivey - 146,200, Praz Bansi - 108,300, Huck Seed - 93,400, Luke Schwartz - 82,400 and Joe Beevers - 62,700.

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08-31-2010 , 02:33 PM

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Todd Terry

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72k at dinner. Coming back to 200/400/50.

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08-31-2010 , 02:38 PM

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How many runners for 1b?

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08-31-2010 , 02:39 PM

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Todd Terry

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93 atm I think. Reg open til beg of level 9 tom.

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08-31-2010 , 11:36 PM

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94 players registered for day 1d with 54 finishing play at the end of level 7.

That leaves 90 players (plus any late registrants) playing down to 27.

Party Poker's blog has a partial list of chip counts (hopefully table draws will appear ~11am local time). Notable chip counts:

Priyan de Mel - 235,000 (leader)
Richard Ashby - 229,800
Giovanni Safina - 140,000
Joshua Field - 134,400
Todd Terry - 81,800
Allyn Shulman - 78,200
Ross Boatman - 71,000
Freddy Deeb - 70,800
Bruno Fitoussi - 67,200
Tony G - 47,200
Andrew Teng - 31,500
Surinder Sunar - 9,500

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09-01-2010 , 05:57 AM

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Todd Terry

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Didn't realize that the legendary JJProdigy was playing this.

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09-01-2010 , 06:21 AM

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Heading down to gather the table draws, they usually give them to me a bit before the start.
Regular updates - www.partypoker.com/blog

If you have anyone u are rooting or want more updates on, please do ask, we are trying to get as much as possible

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09-01-2010 , 09:21 AM

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I'm out, had the worst possible day.

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09-01-2010 , 12:19 PM

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Out as well. No spots forever till i finally got it in with KK vs. A2o which was obv. not good lol. Will be back in London in a couple week for WSOPE!

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09-01-2010 , 04:23 PM

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Chips/seats for day 3, from the PartyPoker blog:

276,600 1 1 Martin, William

357,900 1 2 Shakerchi, Talal

424,200 1 3 Roeder, Tonio

267,100 1 4 Khosa, Sandiep

285,800 1 5 Bansi, Pramesh

41,200 1 6 Ilyukhin, Victor Victorovich

96,400 1 7 Shulman, Allyn

271,200 1 8 Thorsson, Kristoffer

42,300 2 1 Boich, Wayne

129,100 2 2 Adda, Ariel

72,000 2 3 Schultz, Jorg

124,200 2 4 Pavlou, Mario

92,500 2 5 Schwartz , Luke

162,700 2 6 Seed, Huckleberry

65,800 2 7 Kurgandu, Igor

66,300 2 8 Mattsson Saarisilta, Nichlas

139,100 3 1 Teatum, Gareth

219,700 3 2 Sanderson, Oli

263,700 3 3 Winkler, Sebastian

115,400 3 4 Cody, Jake

84,000 3 5 Mohammed, Barkatul

87,600 3 6 De-Mel, Priyan

34,600 3 7 Sullivan, James

102,600 3 8 Light, David

140,600 4 1 Limbert, Karl

142,900 4 2 Carroll, Adam

105,000 4 3 Chau, Christopher

140,300 4 4 Quoss, Fabian

344,600 4 5 Atkinson, Bruce

132,800 4 6 Dwyer, John

137,600 4 7 Bajarian, Bahman

333,500 5 1 Patrick, Philip

75,600 5 2 Greco, Michael

182,700 5 3 Choraria, Kamal

310,200 5 4 O'Leary, Kevin

508,800 5 5 Safina, Giovanni

295,500 5 6 Field, Joshua

140,000 5 7 Ashby, Richard

Payouts:

1 – £273,783
2 – £176,979
3 – £93,316
4 – £56,311
5 – £42,233
6 – £34,189
7 – £26,144
8 – £18,100
9 – £12,871
10 – 12 – £10,457
13 – 15 – £9,653
16 – 18 – £8,848

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09-02-2010 , 03:22 AM

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I'm out, had the worst possible day.

Yeah, bad luck Todd. I thought you played really well on table 1 but were just coolered on a couple of big hands, esp your busto hand where you ran your AQ into rockets held by an active player.

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09-02-2010 , 05:03 AM

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Yeah, bad luck Todd. I thought you played really well on table 1 but were just coolered on a couple of big hands, esp your busto hand where you ran your AQ into rockets held by an active player.

Was AK on the last hand. Which seat were you? GL if you're still in.

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09-02-2010 , 06:28 AM

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My bad. Yeah was AK, well ahead of his range.

I was seat 2, black suit. Thanks for the gl, will need it! Currently third place, just off to play now.

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09-02-2010 , 08:15 AM

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Day 3 updates on the PartyPoker blog at:

http://www.partypoker.com/blog/wpt-l...tes-day-3.html

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09-02-2010 , 08:34 AM

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loooooooool, anyone know more on this???????

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Schwartz Goes Out Kicking And Screaming

Luke Schwartz had some work to do if he was to make a reasonable run at the title – but his chances just expired and he refused to bow out gracefully.

The hand saw an early position raise and a shove from Mattsson Saarisilta for over 60k – enough to cover Schwartz. It was folded to Schwartz in the big blind, who tanked for a long time considering his options, causing many of the other players to come and watch what was proving such a perplexing decision.

Schwartz usually loves lapping up all the attention but this time, he seemed upset by one of the hotel staff for some unfathomable reason.

“I just want to call so I double up and p*** you off,” said Schwartz to the hotel staff member.

“Why would that upset me sir?”

“You’ve been staring at me for five minutes!” said Schwartz, going on to refer to some sort of incident yesterday, mumbling slightly, although we did catch the words “hands down my pants” intriguingly. What could he have been referring to?

Finally Schwartz made a decision.

“Ok F*** IT!” he said angrily, dramatically putting his hands behind his chips and shoving them all into the middle, a sea of chips cascading across the table.

“I’m going to lose anyway,” said Schwartz who turned up pocket tens but was in reasonable shape as Saarisilta held ace-queen.

A blank flop looked good but a queen on the turn left him clutching at two outs.

Schwartz was in no mood to hang about when his micro-redraw missed on the river.

“**** it yeh I’m banned, yeh, yeh I’m banned, I’ve heard it all before,” he said, storming out of the casino before we could ask him what the strange “hands down my pants” comment could have referred to.

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