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I had planned to maintain some sort of order for my Aussie memories postings. I'd like to skip ahead and talk about an individual I got to know a bit while in the land of Oz. I had what I consider the pleasure of meeting a young, up and coming poker player while in Australia named Jimmy Fricke. Jimmy had first been pointed out to me by Ryan Fisler, while we were in the Auckland, NZ airport. He mentioned something about Jimmy, PCA, Dave Williams and some sick hand. Later, at the Crown, Jerry had mentioned the same. Given the buzz surrounding this kid, I had to meet him.

Before I write any more, however, a few disclaimers...

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First, anything I write here is my thoughts... and my thoughts alone. They don't reflect the thoughts or ideas, to the best of my knowledge, of anyone else. Second, unless I specifically quote someone, consider that I am paraphrasing from my memory. Do not, in any way, shape or form consider this particular work to be an interview, a gossip column, nor something that I've quoted. This is simply my thoughts being spoken here at my Poker Pub Poker Blog.

One may wonder why I feel the urge to fly disclaimers like this on my own blog...

A friend pointed me in the direction of a two plus two thread that forced me to change things up just a bit, with respect to the ordering of my posts. Now, historically speaking, I've read two plus two from time to time, but I've steered clear of posting there. While I hold no ill will or feelings towards any individual or group there, I'm just not comfortable with the community there and do not find myself a good fit at that particular venue.

Anyway... to paraphrase the issue at hand, 2 incidents took place during or shortly after the Aussie Millions:

1. "Gobboboy" or Jimmy ended up in a big hand with "Shaniac" (whom I also met while in Oz). Shane got his money in while best and Jimmy improved, sealing the deal on the suckout with all the money in the center. Shane went to the rail, and Jimmy had made a comment, something along the lines of "ship it."

2. Jimmy was informally interviewed by a friend on his friend's blog, where he was openly critical of specific opponent's play.

Above issues aside, which for the record, that 2+2 thread has seemingly resolved itself. It was asserted that Jimmy came off sounding like a douchebag, and very disrespectful and maybe even as if he was "better than everyone else."

From what I saw of Jimmy, his ego is very much in check. He presented himself as a courtious, polite, and fun loving guy. He was definitely not "full of himself." In fact, for the effect he had on the majority of the players he encoutered and the onlooking "railbirds," I'd say he was quite humble - truth be told.

Hell, I spoke to him after his big day 1 - specifically in regards to the table where he sat next to "the croc" and had busted Wille Tan and Jack Lee in one hand. We discussed the reaction of both the players and the rail. It really seemed as if not one person at that table liked his playing style, his ruthless and seemingly blind aggression. To me, it seemed as if he had tilted the entire tournament and even people looking on were wanting to hop the rail, buy in and bust him.

It was truly an amazing reaction, especially considering that one of the players, right before the break had belittled Jimmy for making what he considered a "bad call" and was talking mad shit on him. When he knocked Willie and Jack out at once, you could sense the frustration on everyone's face. Suddenly, he has chips; not that he hasn't been raising havoc on the table before, but now... Now the monster is awake and well fed. Not one person was happy, be it player or rail bird.

I ask Jimmy what he thought about that, after day 1 is behind, and he laughs it off, claiming that's not at all how it was. "Really, you think so?" he asked.

I told him there was not a doubt in my mind. I applauded his composure, noting that as a 19 year old kid, let alone any man, he held himself very very well during the whole time I observed his play. "Wow", "Holy shit", and "Absolutely amazing" were pretty much the only three phrases that came to mind that would do any justice to what I witnessed.

I asked him how long after he takes this tourney down is it going to take for him to write his book. He laughed me off, citing that he's "really not that good" and that he can name off several others there that are far more qualified than he is to write a book.

We joked about a quote that had been rumoured around the poker room to one of the pokernews people, where he had been quoted as saying he was going to win the tournament, from what he's has seen of the level of competition down here. We laughed together and made a few joking comments, and then he brought it home and said something along the lines of "no, seriously, there's a lot of good players left and still a long way to go." He also cited, "but I have been practicing for Australia. I like the outback, which is Australian" implying he feels comfortable in his "native environment."

Again, all the while; a fun loving, joking, yet humble tone.

I continued to follow Jimmy throughout the tournament. His second place finish was surely something special in my opinion. He seemed to really enjoy what he was doing, but not at the expense of others (from what I observed).

Jimmy and Scott (jester3) from the Aussie Millions

I strongly suspect I was not the only one who felt this way. It seemed that a few of the people on the rail who were at first jeering the kid were now 100% behind him, supporting him all the way. To some people, Scott and Lenora in particular, he came off very polite, well mannered, and as a great all-around guy!

After his second place finish, I bumped into one of Jimmy's friends at the after party. I was hoping Jimmy would be making an appearance. I had previously been willing to bet he'd show, even if for only ten to fifteen minutes. He in fact did. We went and found him, I shook his hand, gave him mad props and made sure he knew he had so much to be proud of. Then I asked for a picture with him. When I first went to Oz, I had said the only picture I wanted of me and any of the pros was with the Fossilman. Now Gobboboy joined those ranks.

I have the utmost respect for Jimmy Fricke as a player and a person. The sky's the limit, my friend. Keep on smilin, and keep on raising!

Mike

--- Said photo will be posted as soon as my data cable returns from Australia.

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Sick event yesterday... The Aussie Millions 18 person 100K buyin. At one point, Lindgren, Ivey, Negreanu, Hansen, and Seidel were all at the same table. I do not officially start work until Sunday (tomorrow), but I managed to grab a few photos.

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The balance of these pics are a pot between Eric Lindgren and Phil Ivey, where they collectively built a huge pot and Eric pushed all-in on the river. Gavin Smith was standing next to me sweating his boy Eric and talking smack to Tony G. Ivey spent a great deal of time pondering his action. He made what had to be a huge laydown, as he became the short stack, along with Tony G. Both of which busted out after the break, sending Lindgren, Seidel, and the unknown into the money.

Pics of the Aussie Millions $100K buy-in.

Tomorrow I actually start work. Today, we have a Poker.com dinner and freeroll, getting to hang out with Liam, Shane, and "oh my god, she's more beautiful in person, which I didn't think was even possible" Tina. I'll dump photos from the festivities next post.

Mike

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9.15am... Once again, we're starting early... tailgating. But no worries, we don't have a drinking problem here at the Poker Pub Poker Blog --- after all, it is fifteen minutes into happy hour in Moscow right now and I'm all kinds of wound up about hosting this event seven of the Blogger Poker Tour - Poker Pub's Last Call.

Admittedly, I was extremely pumped about being the first host of a newly added game, Omaha Hi/Lo. The upgrade did not roll out in time, unfortuantely. Now the game is deep stack no limit texas hold'em. 5000 chips to start on our normal blind schedule. This style of game benefits the technician, as it allows for one to be far more creative in their strategy.

Additionally, did I mention the launch bonus on me? I'm putting up my host bonus. Launch me, satisfy the additional criteria I've set up to collect the launch bonus, and you have a better than ~~xscrewballx's~~ snowball's chance in hell of making the grand final.

Here are the important places to go before Last Call Starts...

1. Grab the Poker Pub's Last Call password

2. Make sure you're in compliance for collecting the launch bonus.

3. Head over the the official BPT Forum and find the Poker Pub thread. Talk smack!

4. Get drinking!

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20 bloggers will make it to the Grand Final. $30K in prizes will be awarded. One skillful blogger will run the poker tables to represent Poker.com! and the Blogger Poker Tour at the Aussie Millions!

I'll be back throughout the day with more tailgating coverage of the Blogger Poker Tour's - Poker Pub's Last Call Event.

9.45... I've certainly been known to really mess up my simple math, but assuming that we have roughly the same number of entries we had last week, and taking into consideration launch bonuses, the top ten on the current leaderboard have secured a spot in the grand final. I believe the top 13 have, but as I said... I'm not a math major. I'm certain on the top ten though, assuming that we remain around the same number of entries as last event. Sitting at 98 entries currently, it appears as if that assumption may be correct, if not a bit optimistic.

10.15... Interesting leaderboard matchups and notes... If the tour ended right now, referrals would be the difference maker in who is in and who is not... Caroon leaped three spots into the last grand final spot with three referrals, giving him 60 referral points.

Additionally, did you see the log-jam at the bottom of the bubble?

19. Egonolsen, our season 1 grand final winner who represented the BPT and poker.com in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, has 1 referral (20 pts) and 450 leaderboard points overall.

20. caroon - 1 referral (20 pts) and 445 leaderboard points.

21. Hacksaw2000 - 0 referrals and 445 leaderboard points.

22. kdollar00 - 1 referral worth 20 pts and 444 leaderboard points.

23. MTLDon - 1 referral and 436 pts

24. Rahaboss - 433 leaderboard points.

To me, this is as exciting as watching the drop zone play out in the Premiership. Speaking of the drop zone, my boyz have West Ham United, who is in the drop zone, facing religation, tomorrow. Why is it that I'd not be surprised to see us barely squeak through this with a draw? I'll also be pulling for Everton to knock Chelsea down.

Frustrating sidenote, blogger is currently having issues with their comments feature. I use haloscan - does a phenominal job of filtering spamming commentary, so I am not affected, however, it sucks as I am going around reading and commenting on other's blogs.

11.00am... Visiting blogs, saying hi, wishing GL and mentioning the code to some who it applies to.

11.30... 101 peeps now entered. I see some notable names missing. Hopefully, they'll be registering.

1.00pm... 106 registered for the 3pm start time. I've visited everyone's blog in the top 50, left messages and wishes on many of the blogs. I think I'm going to pre-make dinner for the kids. With this being a deep stack tourney, I envision it lasting a bit longer than reasonable dinner time. Fortunately, the one and only thing I can make well is spaghetti and I can pre-make it.

Word of caution, the younglings will not be here next weekend for the grand final, though they've been here for each of the seven events less the rescheduled one.

Speaking of the younglings, I will take this opportunity to brag that my six year old twins are perhaps the best behaved children on the planet, bar none. It's amazing as to how well they listen and do not get into anything, even when my back is turned. 1 word - HOMETRAINING (being a single Dad with 50/50 custody, being organized and having disciplined children is of paramount importance)! Here's to daddyz lil angels, Abigail and Zachary!

This is the twins after their kindergarten school play at the end of last school year. More updates after I get dinner made, when we'll get back to talking poker and BPT.

2.00... if i don't make it to your blog to wish you luck... Best of Luck!

2.20... Currently, there's 108 registered. I believe I've visited at least that many blogs today from BPT members. By the numbers, this puts us around the size of the house of poker blues tourney, which means that if my math was correct earlier, the top 13 are secure, and perhaps even the top 15... Both launch me, AND final table, and you're pretty much guaranteed a spot in the Grand Final...

Commercial Break --- Because I'm the host, and I'm blogging on my blog, I'm gonna take this opportunity to throw yet some more shameless self-promotion out there. I own a small poker website, called CheckRayz. We orgnaize and broker freeroll and money-added poker tournaments. Registration for CheckRayz is free. I invite everyone to join and come Play free poker with CheckRayz.

2.30... Here's the link for the up to the minute chip count for BPT event 7. And additionally, here's the BPT Leaderboard. I have mine open to help determine who may or may not be playing desperate...

2.45... 112 registered right now. Good luck, good cards, and good skill to all. Remember, grand final trip is on the line, in addition to the normal $500 in the freeroll!

2.50... I plan to follow those close to the bubble today for my coverage. Hopefully a few of them will be grouped on the same table to make my life easier, as I only follow 2-3 tables... and not very closely, when I am playing in the early rounds.

table assignment - host table... me, playspoker, phreaux, schzol, killashandra, luckylulo, bardiya, ohiomike, redeyed030, abstratto.

Bubble table 1 - skinski, luvthegame, sweblackbird, armbarsalot, kufolem, newfie25, lauradm, prokrind333, mtldon, zowiez

BubbleTable2 - hacksaw20, egonolsen, kanyezee, iamsolitary, rockthefella, blacktyson, mada1970, brunsie, Ossssss

I'll b looking in at some of the other tables as the game progresses... Best of luck to all!

3.00... 5/10... the increased starting chip count seems to have allowed everyone to survive the first hand...

3.08... not that i am holding my breath, but did i actually get enough starting chips so that 10% of the field doesn't bust out in round 1?

3.09... teanter doesn't disappoint and goes out at the buzzer.

3.15... 10/20... Bubble table 2 breaks down... switching to the Cawtbluffin, neobahamut, rahaboss, actyper, riley31, cerberi, brunsie, muratore, xxrockinxxd, tartip table.

3.16... 10/20... tartip tries to make headlines by pushing 4320 chips allin preflop utg. The table correctly folds AA, KK, and 2-7 to tap's ridiculous preflop raise.

3.20... 15/30... is it my imagination or is the donk of a host seeing a lot of flops? 4 players now eliminated by round 3... guess the blinds were pressuring?

3.25... Jaynyc, the hottest player on the tour right now, moves in as the early artificial chip leader...

3.28... 15/30... imjusthere4thebeer pushes allin on the river, but not called.

3.35... 25/50... Rahaboss pushes, brunsie stands down in battle of the bubble 1.

3.36... 25/50... Leader eliminated in a big hand...

SweBlackbird All In for 7,255
ZowieZ Folds
Luvthegame All In for 1,910
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skinski has (Jc, Jh)
Luvthegame has (As, 9h)
SweBlackbird has (Ad, Tc)
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Dealing River (5h)
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SweBlackbird Wins 4,945 from pot 3 with : Pair of Aces
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Luvthegame Wins 4,620 from pot 2 with : Nine High Straight
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Luvthegame Wins 3,710 from pot 1 with : Nine High Straight
skinski OUT --- 103rd place... Enjoy the time with your grandson!

3.38... 25/50... Picture Perfect flop for Lauradm (hint!) ---

SweBlackbird Posted Small Blind 25
Armbarsalot Posted Big Blind 50
Dealing Cards
kufolem Folds
newfie25 Raised to 175
Lauradm Calls 175
Porkrind333 Folds
MTLdon Folds
ZowieZ Folds
Luvthegame Calls 175
SweBlackbird Folds
Armbarsalot Folds
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Dealing Flop (3s,3c,2s)
newfie25 Bets 600
Lauradm Raised to 2,400
Luvthegame Folds
newfie25 Calls 1,800
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Dealing Turn (8c)
newfie25 Checks
Lauradm All In for 2,140
newfie25 Calls 2,140
newfie25 has (Js, As)
Lauradm has (3d, Kd)
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Dealing River (Td)
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Lauradm Wins 9,680 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Threes

3.41... 50/100... another big hand from that table... newfie v Armbarsalot... KQs v JJ... jacks hold, newfie to the rail. btodoughno joins the already deadly, action filled table.

3.42... peacefulpaul currently resides in 98th of 98 places.

3.47... 50/100... action at the table 1 continues... Sweblackbird fails to realize the hammer is not suited, and despite flopping two pair, gets rivered to a higher two pair, thus eliminated in 98th place.

3.50... 75/150... redeye knocked out by ohiomike AQ v 88, when the pocket eights hold up. Mike's up to 13.5K and has been very dangerous with chips in the past.

3.50.30... 75/150... no sooner do I write this than mike's dealt AA. Phreaux flops top pair, gets allin and rivers out to have trip queens. Mike down to 9300.

3.50.45... Table 1 - laura gets allin with KK v ZowieZ's ace. Ace holds and a short stacked zowiez doubles up. Laura down to 8300ish.

End hour 1...

up to the minute chip count

hour 2

1 Luvthegame 17,275
2 Mada1970 13,045
3 JayNYC 13,038
4 lightning36 11,640
5 BobbyOlsen 10,190
6 Lauradm 10,120
7 Evil666 10,025
8 Brunsie 9,980
9 purechaos 9,690
10 Irongirl 9,660
Average Stack : 6086
37 imjusthere4thebeer 5,950

4.05... 100/200 - 92 players remain

4.06.. 100/200 HAMMER TIME!

laysPoker Posted Small Blind 100
phreaux Posted Big Blind 200
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (2s, 7h)
SchZol Folds
Killashandra Folds
luckylulo Folds
Bardiya Folds
OhioMike Folds
abstratto Folds
imjusthere4thebeer Raised to 600
PlaysPoker Calls 500
phreaux Folds
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Dealing Flop (Kc,7c,3h)
PlaysPoker Checks
imjusthere4thebeer Bets 700
PlaysPoker Calls 700
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Dealing Turn (2d)
PlaysPoker Checks
imjusthere4thebeer All In for 4,350
PlaysPoker All In for 2,405
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imjusthere4thebeer has (2s, 7h)
PlaysPoker has (Tc, Ac)
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Dealing River (5h)
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imjusthere4thebeer Wins 1,945 from pot 2 with : Two Pair, Sevens and Twos
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imjusthere4thebeer Wins 7,610 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Sevens and Twos
PlaysPoker OUT

:)

4.08... blacktyson takes playspoker's spot to my left with 4600 chips.

4.10... I'm still laughing about the hammer holding up...

4.20... smoke break...

4.22... 150/300... oops!

Dealing Flop (5s,5c,4c)
SchZol All In for 3,325
yakdyar All In for 3,080
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yakdyar has (Ah, 5d)
SchZol has (As, Jh)
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Turn (Ad) River (9s)
SchZol Wins 245 from pot 2 with : Two Pair, Aces and Fives
yakdyar Wins 8,260 from pot 1 with : Full House, Fives over Aces

4.25... caroon's queens hold up v ajs, just as armbarsalot has aces cracked by a straight to the king by now chipleader luvthegame.

4.27... 200/400... shortstack gone on the table via your's truly. seat now open, as 77 remain.

4.30... 200/400... it happens again...

OhioMike Posted Small Blind 200
yakdyar Posted Big Blind 400
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (Ts, Kh)
abstratto Folds
imjusthere4thebeer Folds
BlackTyson Folds
phreaux All In for 3,020
Killashandra Folds
luckylulo Folds
Bardiya Folds
OhioMike Folds
yakdyar Calls 2,620
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yakdyar has (Ks, 9s)
phreaux has (2h, 7s)
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Dealing Flop (As,Th,8h)
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Dealing Turn (2d)
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Dealing River (8s)
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phreaux Wins 6,240 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Eights and Twos

Phreaux finishes the job with A10 v j10... priceless...!

4.32... while we're throwing hammers around, laura is playing poker...

brodoughno Posted Small Blind 200
Luvthegame Posted Big Blind 400
Dealing Cards
Lauradm Raised to 800
MTLdon All In for 4,020
Lauradm Calls 3,220
MTLdon has (Ah, Jd)
Lauradm has (Kd, Ac)
Dealing (7d,4c,Kh) (4d)(3d)
Lauradm Wins 8,640 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Kings and Fours
MTLdon OUT in 74th place... odds are don will not have enough with that finish to make the grand final...

Table 2 breaks...

New table to follow...

Joey, cashline, jaynyc, ________, cazwil, hacksaw, lightning36, purechaos, peacefulpaul, and xscrewballx...

4.40... 300/600... paul falls victim to purechaos' button, aggression and trip 8s, v 44...

4.40.30... irony... despite screwball getting game of choice, he falls short of the grand final by running into pocket aces. I can't help but chuckle as he does what he does best... Awesome job John!!!

Screwball continues to whine like a ~~lil biatch~~ baby. Guess he needed more than the scale tipped in his favor. Guess he needed help playing.

4.43... action continues at that table 300/600...

ightning36 Posted Small Blind 300
purechaos Posted Big Blind 600
Dealing Cards
RayBans Folds
astinaguy Folds
DamRiver All In for 4,035
cashline Folds
JayNYC All In for 4,556
Surfersandi All In for 3,365
cazwil Folds
Hacksaw2000 Folds
lightning36 Folds
purechaos Calls 3,956
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purechaos has (8d, Ad)
DamRiver has (Qh, Ac)
JayNYC has (9c, 9h)
Surfersandi has (Kh, Ks)
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Dealing Flop (2h,Td,Qs)
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Dealing Turn (Qd)
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Dealing River (7d)
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purechaos Wins 1,042 from pot 3 with : Flush, Ace High
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purechaos Wins 2,010 from pot 2 with : Flush, Ace High
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purechaos Wins 13,760 from pot 1 with : Flush, Ace High
DamRiver OUT
JayNYC OUT
Surfersandi OUT

WOW!!!

4.45... wvugirl (very short stack) and mufc00 (29K)join the table as mike busts Neo's cowboy party up.

4.47... 400/800... mufc knocks bardiya out.

4.48... sitouts hittin the rail now 41 remain.

4.50... hacksaw joins to my left with 16k, to my 10kish... shortstacked fishymcdonk also joins as a short stack/sitout...

4.55... 500/1000... wade79 transfers in with 16.6k in chips.

4.58... 500/1000... astinaguy relives his prom memories when he catches a 69 on the flop to survive and crack cowboys.

31 remain

5.00... 500/1000... i gots chips...

imjusthere4thebeer Posted Small Blind 500
Hacksaw2000 Posted Big Blind 1,000
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (8s, Ac)
phreaux All In for 12,630
imjusthere4thebeer All In for 9,460
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imjusthere4thebeer has (8s, Ac)
phreaux has (Tc, Kh)
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Dealing Flop (7h,As,4h)
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Dealing Turn (2s)
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Dealing River (7d)
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phreaux Wins 2,670 from pot 2 with : Pair of Sevens

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imjusthere4thebeer Wins 20,920 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Aces and Sevens

at the same time... evil confirms he has a royal, and yet still gets called!

Evil666 Posted Small Blind 500
Irongirl Posted Big Blind 1,000
Dealing Cards
cerberi Folds
Quackpot Calls 1,000
BobbyOlsen Folds
RayBans Folds
mpgabriel Folds
Evil666 Calls 500
Irongirl Checks
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Dealing Flop (Ah,Qh,Jh)
Evil666 Checks
Irongirl Checks
Quackpot Bets 1,500
Evil666 Calls 1,500
Irongirl Folds
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Dealing Turn (Th)
Evil666 Checks
Quackpot Checks
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Dealing River (2s)
Evil666 Bets 2,000
Quackpot Calls 2,000
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Evil666 has (Kh, Js)
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Evil666 Wins 10,000 from pot 1 with : Royal Flush

I transfer tables, now with mphabriel, evil666, irongirl01, cerberi, quackpot, wade79 and raybans.

table 2 --- astinaguy, luvthegame, rahaboss, ndkyjoker, hacksaw2000, lauradm, purechaos, dangermouse420

table 3 --- stevenslb159, mada1970, killashandra, ghabanosim, egonolsen, ohiomike, azozo23, and dawgroyal...

Break...

up to the minute chip count

1 Luvthegame 91,720
2 OhioMike 75,555
3 purechaos 50,263
4 Rahaboss 38,016
5 Evil666 36,075
6 azozo23 33,497
7 Quackpot 32,487
Average Stack : 23333
8 EgonOlsen 22,540
9 imjusthere4thebeer 19,920
10 NOKYJOKER 16,105
Prize Bubble
11 Mada1970 15,750
12 Killashandra 15,110
13 Wade79 14,610
14 Hacksaw2000 14,348
15 Lauradm 12,280
16 Irongirl 11,760
17 cerberi 11,170
18 Stevenslb159 10,980
19 GhabanoSim 10,069
20 DangerMouse420 7,235
21 mpgabriel 7,085
22 RayBans 6,780
23 astinaguy 4,320
24 DawgRoyal 2,325

Hour 3

5.08... 750/1500... dawgroyal runs into 99 and is ousted, just as quackpot flops an ace and ousts raybans, sporting pocket 8s.

5.10... mada dominated by ghabanosim ak v aq... 1 hand later and short stacked, goes out vs killashandra.

21 remain.

5.12... 750/1500... qq from evil takes out 77 of mpgabriel.

I move to the laura table and we're hand for hand.

5.17... bustout

Wade79 Posted Small Blind 750
Stevenslb159 Posted Big Blind 1,500
Dealing Cards
Irongirl Folds
Killashandra Folds
Quackpot Folds
Evil666 Folds
GhabanoSim Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
OhioMike Raised to 3,000
azozo23 Raised to 4,500
Wade79 Folds
Stevenslb159 Folds
OhioMike Calls 1,500
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Dealing Flop (5s,7d,4d)
OhioMike Checks
azozo23 Bets 2,250
OhioMike Raised to 9,000
azozo23 All In for 9,781
OhioMike Calls 3,031
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OhioMike has (6d, 3d)
azozo23 has (Ah, Jd)
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Dealing Turn (Ts)
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Dealing River (6s)
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OhioMike Wins 35,312 from pot 1 with : Seven High Straight
azozo23 OUT

5.19... 1000/2000...
cerberi Posted Small Blind 750
purechaos Posted Big Blind 1,500
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (8s, 4h)
DangerMouse420 Folds
astinaguy Folds
Luvthegame Folds
Rahaboss Folds
NOKYJOKER Raised to 5,000
Hacksaw2000 Folds
imjusthere4thebeer Folds
Lauradm Folds
cerberi Folds
purechaos Calls 3,500
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Dealing Flop (Th,3h,9d)
purechaos Checks
NOKYJOKER All In for 16,355
purechaos Calls 16,355
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purechaos has (Ad, Td)
NOKYJOKER has (Ah, Ks)
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Dealing Turn (Ac)
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Dealing River (Qh)
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 43,460 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Aces and Tens
NOKYJOKER OUT

angerMouse420 Posted Small Blind 1,000
astinaguy Posted Big Blind 2,000
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (7c, Qs)
Luvthegame Folds
Rahaboss Folds
Hacksaw2000 Folds
imjusthere4thebeer Folds
Lauradm Folds
cerberi Folds
purechaos Raised to 7,000
DangerMouse420 Folds
astinaguy All In for 70
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos has (Ah, 6h)
astinaguy has (6d, 9h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (5h,Tc,Td)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (4d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Kc)
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 5,140 from pot 1 with : Pair of Tens
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 4,930 from pot 2 with : Pair of Tens
astinaguy OUT

5.26... 1000/2000... wade dodges a bullet as his dominated ace does not come into play, splits pot with quack.

5.28... 1000/2000...

EgonOlsen Posted Small Blind 1,000
OhioMike Posted Big Blind 2,000
Dealing Cards
Wade79 Folds
Stevenslb159 All In for 11,730
Irongirl Folds
Killashandra Folds
Quackpot Folds
Evil666 Folds
GhabanoSim Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
OhioMike Calls 9,730
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike has (Jd, Ah)
Stevenslb159 has (9s, 9h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (4d,6h,Ad)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (2d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Tc)
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 24,460 from pot 1 with : Pair of Aces
Stevenslb159 OUT

5.30... flushed...

Dealing Flop (9d,9c,2d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (6d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Kd)
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 16,370 from pot 1 with : Flush, Ace High
imjusthere4thebeer OUT = 16th place.

5.31... 1500/3000... oops!

Rahaboss Posted Small Blind 1,500
Hacksaw2000 Posted Big Blind 3,000
Dealing Cards
OhioMike Raised to 9,000
Lauradm Folds
cerberi Folds
purechaos Folds
Luvthegame Calls 9,000
Rahaboss Folds
Hacksaw2000 Folds
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (8d,9d,8h)
OhioMike Bets 9,000
Luvthegame Calls 9,000
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (Tc)
OhioMike All In for 101,316
Luvthegame All In for 75,470
-------------------------------------------------
Luvthegame has (Th, Ah)
OhioMike has (Jc, Qh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Ac)
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 25,846 from pot 2 with : Queen High Straight
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 191,440 from pot 1 with : Queen High Straight
Luvthegame OUT

Purechaos is verified and collects the bounty!

Scenarios

irongirl is already in...

killashandra must win to come close.

quackpot is in 35th on the leaderboard. A final table may put him through.

Evil666 is in the same boat, sittin in 37th place.

Ghabanosim must finish top 3 for a shot.

Wade79 - must final table and change.

Rahaboss now in 24th place is surely through, as is egon.

OhioMike must finish top 3-5 for a chance.

Laura must clear the final table and go a bit.

Purechaos - has pretty much made it through.

5.36... 1500/3000 - ohiomike dumps hacksaw flopping 2 pr vs. brad's 3s...

5.41... 2000/4000... laura chips up through egon as the final table is formed.

5.44... 2000/4000 - egon out in 10th

GhabanoSim Posted Small Blind 2,000
purechaos Posted Big Blind 4,000
Dealing Cards
Killashandra Folds
Wade79 Folds
Evil666 Folds
Irongirl Folds
EgonOlsen All In for 7,806
Quackpot Folds
OhioMike Calls 7,806
Lauradm Folds
GhabanoSim Folds
purechaos Calls 3,806
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (7c,Kc,6s)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (2d)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Td)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos has (Th, 7d)
EgonOlsen has (Jd, Ad)
OhioMike has (Jc, Js)
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 25,418 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Tens and Sevens
EgonOlsen OUT

5.45... killashandra cdu's through wade, who is now in the SB and the short stack, only for wade to be ousted by evil in the big blind, during an attempted CDU...

5.46... 2000/4000... laura in the bigblind 2180 remaining, chip leader in the small, who raises up. Laura folds. SB has her down to 180 now. Iron girl raises, laura calls with 3-5 to ig's A9 and laura is on the rail in 8th place. Here's to hoping 8 is enough! too close to call right now...

5.52... 3000/6000

GhabanoSim Posted Small Blind 3,000
purechaos Posted Big Blind 6,000
Dealing Cards
Evil666 Folds
Irongirl Folds
Quackpot All In for 24,788
OhioMike Folds
GhabanoSim Folds
purechaos Calls 18,788
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos has (7s, Ks)
Quackpot has (4s, As)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (2d,2h,Kc)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (Kh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (9c)
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos Wins 52,576 from pot 1 with : Full House, Kings over Twos
Quackpot OUT 6th place...

5.53... OhioMike Posted Small Blind 3,000
GhabanoSim Posted Big Blind 6,000
Dealing Cards
purechaos Folds
Evil666 Folds
Irongirl All In for 25,240
OhioMike Calls 22,240
GhabanoSim Folds
-------------------------------------------------
Irongirl has (Ad, 6c)
OhioMike has (Kh, Kd)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (2h,5h,6d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (5c)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Kc)
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 56,480 from pot 1 with : Full House, Kings over Fives
Irongirl OUT

4 handed... ohiomike 295K, ghabanosim 20K, purechaos 178k, evil666 54K...

5.57... 3000/6000... bustout

GhabanoSim Posted Small Blind 3,000
purechaos Posted Big Blind 6,000
Dealing Cards
Evil666 Folds
OhioMike Raised to 18,000
GhabanoSim All In for 19,152
purechaos Calls 16,152
OhioMike Calls 4,152
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (Ad,6d,Td)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (4d)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (8s)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
GhabanoSim has (Ah, 4s)
purechaos has (5c, 6c)
OhioMike has (9h, 7h)
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 66,456 from pot 1 with : Ten High Straight
GhabanoSim OUT

3 handed...

amazing, mike said he had to win to make the grand final... now here he is playing for the win.

6.00... 4000/8000... big hand

Evil666 Posted Small Blind 4,000
OhioMike Posted Big Blind 8,000
Dealing Cards
purechaos Folds
Evil666 Calls 4,000
OhioMike Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (2s,5d,6h)
Evil666 Checks
OhioMike Bets 16,000
Evil666 All In for 51,393
OhioMike Calls 35,393
-------------------------------------------------
Evil666 has (6s, 7d)
OhioMike has (2d, Kh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (6c)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Qh)
-------------------------------------------------
Evil666 Wins 118,786 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Sixes - ironic, isn't it...

mike has 243,473, chaos 193,741, evil now with 110,788...

6.05... relentless preflop and flop action... lots of bet/fold going on... 24 players looking on as the final three battle it out.

6.06... 4000/8000... we're heads up...

purechaos Posted Small Blind 4,000
Evil666 Posted Big Blind 8,000
Dealing Cards
OhioMike Raised to 32,000
purechaos Calls 28,000
Evil666 Folds
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (2h,Js,Qs)
purechaos Checks
OhioMike Bets 24,000
purechaos All In for 147,741
OhioMike Calls 123,741
-------------------------------------------------
purechaos has (Ac, Jd)
OhioMike has (8c, Qd)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (4h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (6s)
-------------------------------------------------
OhioMike Wins 367,482 from pot 1 with : Pair of Queens
purechaos OUT

509-51 in favor of mike...

hand 3 - evil allin preflop, it's over... mike takes it down! Great finish by all...

Let's anxiously await the grand final listing... and the finalists are......

skinski
irongirl01
purechaos
imjusthere4thebeer
viezeman
kufolem
zowiez
astinaguy
iyatoni
freeroll26
natsdad
jaynyc
dawgroyal
brodoughno
evil666
egonolsen
cerberi
pearlsnapman
hacksaw2000
ohiomike ---- by three points!!!!

Congrats and see you all next week!

Mike

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For the Blogger Poker Tour, today is game day... Usually, here at the Poker Pub Poker Blog, we start our live coverage of the Blogger Poker Tour about an hour prior to the 3pm start. We decided today to start tailgating - pregame festivities if you will. And speaking of the game, as of 8am, there's 105 chip slinging bloggers ready to do battle on the virtual felt of poker.com's BPT Tables. Today's event - hosted by ZowieZ over at "It's flopilicious," is a traditional full table NL Texas Hold'em poker tournament. I expect this tournament to break the record, set by skinski last week.

We'll be back throughout the day with coverage and BPT talk.

8.50... it should be noted, blogger is being a pain in the ass... most of the features (link button, bold type, spell check - not that i use it) are not present. Additionally, there's a scheduled outage at 3pm PST. I'll do my best, but no beerguy guarantee today.

10.00... I know I sound like a house dog, being made to sleep outside, but it's really irritating me to be without my link and bold buttons... Though, we're at 112 entries now, which is the largest BPT event on record (until next week, of course).

11.30... up to 120 registered. I'm really beginning to wonder if I bought enough beer...

11.45... John reports in blogger is AFU for him too. First official Beerguy - Poker Pub Drunken prediction has John at the final table. If we take a quick poker pub flashback, we see that my predictions do generally come true here.

12.15... Poker Pub Poker Blog prediction number two... Alex will recover nicely and make it to the final two tables. I only say recover nicely because his football club was beat badly by my football club, though I did not expect a different result.

12.40... 123 entered now... Further predictions include a first time player finishing top three, and a newb being first to be eliminated. Over/under on sitouts not joining before being blinded out is 18. Headwaiter goes broke having his opposition preflopped, but villian outflops him...

1.00... more predictions... Joey recaptures a top 20 spot on the leaderboard... Over-under for 5th st. players in the top 20 for this tourney is 6.

1.30... a host wins, Jay gets caught, i get sick of the link button not working and become lazy in my pregame linking...

2.10... I come up with this brilliant plan to hit the casino tomorrow, because it's the weekend of the 1st of the month, which means anyone who gets pension/government/welfare checks will be up there - my guess is that the tables will be extra juicy...

2.15... 127 bloggers in... Some damn uhaul just pulled up and parked in front... I'm predicting it messes my internet connection up worse than it normally is...

Live, realtime coverage of Blogger Poker Tour Event 6 begins... next

A half hour to go and 130 of the biggest, baddest BPT Poker Bloggers are in. And speaking of "in," who today shall join ReplicantPoker, Alex, kufolem, freeroll26, and iyatoni as season two event winners in this event six of the blogger poker tour's second season? We'll find out shortly.

It should be noted, this is the largest BPT event to date and shall be the richest in terms of Blogger Poker Tour leaderboard points. A strong finish by any of the top 20 with one event left will all but guarantee a spot in the grand final, where we'll be sending a blogger to represent the Blogger Poker Tour and Poker.com in the Aussie Millions.

As always, you can follow along with up to the minute live chip counts for the Blogger Poker Tour here. I'll be providing live play by play commentary. Momentarily, the comments will open to comment in real time on the action. And on that note, we'll be back in 20 for the start of the tourney...

And here's the tables we'll be following to start:

BeerGuy's table
imjusthere4thebeer, sweblackbird, rlbasil, pokhercrazy (best name award winner), dawgroyal, pinyoD8, gohabs1234, porkrind333, ghabanosim

this table, for the record, is no cakewalk...

Host Table
ZowieZ, xscrewballx, dangermouse, headwaiter, mtldon, egonolsen, bettybetm scottishlad, isinm2006

Feature Table

skinski, denijel88, natsdad (alex), muratore, goliath2180, kgabeaz, thepurdle, freeroll26, kiwiwiz, drawdeadcom

this seems to be the toughest table so far...

And we're underway...

3.03... evil666 comes out early as the leader, luckylulo not so lucky bringing up the rear...

3.05... polaris769 dumps z0ot62 who becomes the sixth entrant into the "last longer" competition.

3.07... kdollar00 joins beerguy table, phreaux - winner of a season 1 event, joins host table.

3.09... bighand... DangerMouse420 Posted Small Blind 5
headwaiter Posted Big Blind 10
Dealing Cards
MTLdon Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
bettybet Folds
scottishlad Folds
isinm2006 Calls 10
ZowieZ Folds
xScrewballx Raised to 40
DangerMouse420 Folds
headwaiter Calls 30
isinm2006 Calls 30
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Dealing Flop (2c,7c,6c)
headwaiter Bets 80
isinm2006 Calls 80
xScrewballx Calls 80
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Dealing Turn (3d)
headwaiter Bets 365
isinm2006 Folds
xScrewballx Calls 365
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (2h)
headwaiter All In for 1,605
xScrewballx All In for 1,485
-------------------------------------------------
headwaiter has (6h, Kh)
xScrewballx has (6s, 6d)
-------------------------------------------------
headwaiter Wins 120 from pot 2 with : Two Pair, Sixes and Twos

so much for my prediction...

3.15... headwaiter gets the cdu from egon... KJ v K4... best hand holds and hw to 320 chips...

3.18... BINGO!

ZowieZ Posted Small Blind 10
xScrewballx Posted Big Blind 20
Dealing Cards
phreaux Folds
DangerMouse420 Folds
headwaiter Raised to 80
MTLdon Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
bettybet Folds
scottishlad Folds
isinm2006 Raised to 280
ZowieZ Folds
xScrewballx Folds
headwaiter All In for 200
-------------------------------------------------
headwaiter has (Qh, As)
isinm2006 has (Th, Ah)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (7h,8h,6h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (3d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (2d)
-------------------------------------------------
isinm2006 Wins 590 from pot 1 with : Flush, Ace High
headwaiter OUT

prediction holds... headwaiter "preflopped" only to be outflopped by isinm2006... gg jerry.

3.24... table change for the BeerGuy... wtf???

myself, elbala, lightning36, marckster1, neobahamut, freebeenz, wade79, royalroynr1, polaris769, pokerchammp72993 (any two card "specialist")

3.38... 110 remain... notable departures have lulo, replicantpoker, davidmalek, bobbyolsen, ohiomike, gohabs, and tomonbass on the rail (out 109)... windbreak245, tomaso2 sit atop the leaderboard.

3.47... 50/100... sick!

ZowieZ Posted Small Blind 50
xScrewballx Posted Big Blind 100
Dealing Cards
phreaux Folds
DangerMouse420 Raised to 200
SweBlackbird Folds
MTLdon Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
bettybet Folds
scottishlad Raised to 300
isinm2006 Folds
ZowieZ Folds
xScrewballx Folds
DangerMouse420 Calls 100
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (Td,6c,Jc)
DangerMouse420 Checks
scottishlad Bets 750
DangerMouse420 All In for 1,055
scottishlad Calls 305
-------------------------------------------------
DangerMouse420 has (Jh, Jd)
scottishlad has (Kc, Kh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (7h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Kd)
-------------------------------------------------
scottishlad Wins 2,860 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Kings
DangerMouse420 OUT

3.48... hacksaw replaces dangermouse...

3.49... 50/100... pokerchammp raises, then calls an allin with 22 v. AQ, eliminates royalroynr1.

3.55... 75/150... polaris knocks out neo with kings v 22...

3.56... is it my imagination or is that host table arguing and carrying on like a bunch of old women at a bridge club gathering?

3.58... 75/150... beerguy politely points out that marckster1's spewing chips has nothing to do with admin's presence. Read: better starting hand selection!

4.00... at the break...

1 XaqNautilus 10,895
2 Flandrius 9,792
3 WindBreak247 9,778
4 bergeroo 9,015
5 TOMASO2 8,220
6 marckster1 7,730
7 Brunsie 6,452
8 Evil666 5,840
9 Rahaboss 5,710
10 JayNYC 5,596

Average Stack : 2901
91 remain...

4.05... BeerGuy table change...

now with sexygirl (to my left), brunsie, pinyod9, windbreak247, miamimackk, purechaos, mada1970, ossssss, rlbasil...

4.13... freeroll26 gets in with aj and a jack on the flop, only to run into deni's Ak and runner runner kings... freeroller out...

4.15... screwball hits quad aces vs. scottishlad's kk

4.20... 150/300... 69 remain at the smoke break... sitouts begin blinding out...

4.21... flandrius, the current chip leader, with 14.3k in chips, joins beerguy table.

4.25... jaynyc joins beerguy table... as does caroon. 60 or so remain... blinds now 200/400...

4.29... yet another table change...

now with bardiya, rahaboss, isinm2006, pokerchammp, kdollarod, xaqnautilus, kufolem

4.30... aj v qq allin... my aj sucks out on raha and i'm up to 5500...

egon, mtldon also join the table...

4.32... chips everywhere... field thinning out to pressuring blinds...

4.35... my busto hand...

Dead Small Blind
Dead Small Blind
EgonOlsen Posted Big Blind 400
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (Qc, Ah)
pokerchammp72993 Raised to 800
kdollar00 Folds
XaqNautilus Folds
kufolem Folds
imjusthere4thebeer All In for 4,970
Bardiya Folds
Rahaboss Folds
EgonOlsen Folds
pokerchammp72993 Calls 4,170
-------------------------------------------------
pokerchammp72993 has (Jd, Ac)
imjusthere4thebeer has (Qc, Ah)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (7s,7c,3d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (Jh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (6s)
-------------------------------------------------
pokerchammp72993 Wins 10,340 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Jacks and Sevens
imjusthere4thebeer OUT

4.43... 300/600... nutflopper fails to live up to his name...

kdollar00 Posted Small Blind 300
astinaguy Posted Big Blind 600
Dealing Cards
NutFlopper Raised to 1,800
cazwil Folds
Brunsie Folds
bergeroo Folds
XaqNautilus Folds
PearlSnapMan Calls 1,800
kdollar00 Folds
astinaguy All In for 654
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (7s,6h,8h)
NutFlopper All In for 1,950
PearlSnapMan Calls 1,950
-------------------------------------------------
PearlSnapMan has (8d, 8s)
astinaguy has (Qc, Jc)
NutFlopper has (Kd, Kc)
(3h)(8c)
PearlSnapMan Wins 4,992 from pot 2 with : Four of a Kind, Eights
PearlSnapMan Wins 4,062 from pot 1 with : Four of a Kind, Eights
astinaguy OUT
NutFlopper OUT

4.47... 3 tables remain...

4.49... tomos02, with outs, runner runners kufolem, sending him out in 29th...

4.50... 400/800... big hand...

Rahaboss Posted Small Blind 400
Evil666 Posted Big Blind 800
Dealing Cards
EgonOlsen Raised to 1,600
drawdeadcom Folds
Lauradm Calls 1,600
Mada1970 Folds
mimi2mik Folds
Bardiya Calls 1,600
BlackTyson All In for 2,940
kgabesz Folds
Rahaboss Folds
Evil666 Folds
EgonOlsen Calls 1,340
Lauradm Calls 1,340
Bardiya Calls 1,340
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (7c,Kd,Qs)
EgonOlsen Checks
Lauradm Checks
Bardiya Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (5h)
EgonOlsen Checks
Lauradm Checks
Bardiya Checks
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (6c)
EgonOlsen Checks
Lauradm Checks
Bardiya Checks
-------------------------------------------------
EgonOlsen has (Td, Ah)
Lauradm has (Ad, Tc)
Bardiya has (As, Jd)
BlackTyson has (Ks, Kc)
-------------------------------------------------
BlackTyson Wins 12,960 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Kings

4.54... abstratto sets on the river, ousts irongirl who had outflopped strat's 44's... irongirl finishes 25th...

4.57... bolcs5 ousts stuarthehomegame with two pair...

4.59... evil666 outflops mada when he sets his sixes. Mada has options with his pocket sevens giving him an open ended draw. Runner runner queens, however, end his day...

5.00... 2 tables remain...

Table 1

Screwballx
kdollar00
abstratto
PearlSnapMan
bolcs5
ViezeMan
lightning36
JayNYC
SexyGirI
cazwil

Table 2

XaqNautilus
Brunsie
Bardiya
BlackTyson
kgabesz
Rahaboss
Evil666
Flandrius
drawdeadcom
Lauradm

busted...

19 drawdeadcom
18 sexygirI

Chip counts at the break...

1 Lauradm 41,000
2 Evil666 30,574
3 Flandrius 28,003
4 XaqNautilus 20,485
5 bolcs5 19,757
6 kdollar00 18,928
7 PearlSnapMan 17,530
Average Stack : 15529
8 BlackTyson 12,960
9 JayNYC 11,112
10 ViezeMan 10,972
Prize Bubble
11 kgabesz 10,663
12 Rahaboss 10,100
13 Brunsie 9,517
14 lightning36 8,080
15 xScrewballx 7,930
16 Bardiya 4,898
17 cazwil 1,491

5.11... Jay's a monster...

JayNYC Posted Small Blind 750
cazwil All In for 1,491
Dealing Cards
xScrewballx Folds
kdollar00 Folds
PearlSnapMan Folds
bolcs5 Folds
ViezeMan Folds
lightning36 Folds
JayNYC Calls 750
-------------------------------------------------
JayNYC has (Ts, 4s)
cazwil has (Qd, Kd)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (Ad,Ah,4c)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (5s)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (9s)
-------------------------------------------------
JayNYC Wins 2,982 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Aces and Fours
-------------------------------------------------
JayNYC Wins 9 from pot 2 with : Two Pair, Aces and Fours
cazwil OUT

Note: next event is PLO8... helpful advice will be provided...

5.13... raha runs into brunsie's aces... nh gg...

5.15... brunsie, in turn runs into Xaq's AK and a flop while running with the hilton sisters... brunsie is eliminated

5.16... screwball's 99 flushed down toilet by Bard's A7 rivered flush... allin preflop and 13 players now remain...

5.19... john reverse dominated when flandrius turns a jack to overtake john's ace king... john is eliminated...

this one hurts...

5.20... 1000/2000...

Evil666 Posted Small Blind 1,000
Flandrius Posted Big Blind 2,000
Dealing Cards
Lauradm Folds
XaqNautilus Raised to 6,000
BlackTyson Folds
kgabesz Calls 6,000
Evil666 Folds
Flandrius Folds
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (8s,3h,6s)
XaqNautilus Bets 8,000
kgabesz All In for 13,826
XaqNautilus Calls 5,826
-------------------------------------------------
kgabesz has (Qh, Qc)
XaqNautilus has (Td, Kh)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (Ks)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (8d)
-------------------------------------------------
XaqNautilus Wins 42,652 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Kings and Eights
kgabesz OUT

5.24... blacktyson calls for a miracle to not bubble, she is the tourney short stack with 3960... next is bardiya in the BB with 8K, then pearlsnapman with 9200...

5.25... bt in the sb now with 980... allin with 980 from the button with AK, BB calls has 5-10 and wins... bubble breaks... we have a final table... viezeman and pearlsnapman go out before table is formed...

seats and chips...

kdollar 45k
bardiya 13k
bolcs5 18k
evil666 13k
flandrius 57k
jaynyc 11k lauradm 64k
xaq 42k

5.30... bardia pushes allin with A7 from the button. Evil senses steal, calls with 10-9 and takes the hand down, eliminating bard...

5.31... 1500/3000...

Flandrius Posted Small Blind 1,500
JayNYC Posted Big Blind 3,000
Dealing Cards
Lauradm Folds
XaqNautilus Folds
kdollar00 Raised to 6,000
bolcs5 Folds
Evil666 Folds
Flandrius Folds
JayNYC All In for 8,103
kdollar00 Calls 5,103
-------------------------------------------------
JayNYC has (6c, 5c)
kdollar00 has (8d, 8h)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Flop (Tc,2h,Ah)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing Turn (8s)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (9h)
-------------------------------------------------
kdollar00 Wins 23,706 from pot 1 with : Three of a Kind, Eights
JayNYC OUT

6 handed now...

5.33... bustout...

kdollar00 Posted Small Blind 1,500
bolcs5 Posted Big Blind 3,000
Dealing Cards
Evil666 Folds
Flandrius Folds
Lauradm Folds
XaqNautilus Raised to 14,000
kdollar00 Folds
bolcs5 All In for 10,354
-------------------------------------------------
bolcs5 has (Kd, Qd)
XaqNautilus has (Qs, Ah)
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Dealing Flop (7c,3c,6h)
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Dealing Turn (6s)
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Dealing River (7h)
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XaqNautilus Wins 28,208 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Sevens and Sixes
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XaqNautilus Wins 646 from pot 2 with : Two Pair, Sevens and Sixes
bolcs5 OUT

5.40... 2000/4000... chips just passing around... not much meaningful action... lots of peek-a-boo folding...

5.48... 3000/6000... evil kk, kdollar jj... allin preflop... redundant king hits on the river... evil up to 40k, kdollar at 18.5k...

and evil finishes the job...

kdollar00 Posted Small Blind 3,000
Evil666 Posted Big Blind 6,000
Dealing Cards
Flandrius Folds
Lauradm Folds
XaqNautilus Folds
kdollar00 All In for 9,513
Evil666 Calls 6,513
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Evil666 has (Kh, 7s)
kdollar00 has (5d, 7d)
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Dealing Flop (4h,Qh,Th)
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Dealing Turn (4c)
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Dealing River (Td)
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Evil666 Wins 25,026 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Tens and Fours
kdollar00 OUT

now four handed...

chipcounts (approximate)...

lauradm 50.8k
xaqnautilus 75k
evil666 59k
flandrius 92k

5.58... 3000/6000 --- uhoh...

Lauradm Posted Small Blind 3,000
XaqNautilus Posted Big Blind 6,000
Dealing Cards
Evil666 Folds
Flandrius Raised to 12,000
Lauradm Folds
XaqNautilus Calls 6,000
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Dealing Flop (6d,Ac,Jc)
XaqNautilus Checks
Flandrius Bets 12,000
XaqNautilus All In for 46,532
Flandrius Calls 34,532
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Flandrius has (Qd, Js)
XaqNautilus has (Jd, 3c)
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Dealing Turn (Kc)
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Dealing River (2d)
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Flandrius Wins 120,064 from pot 1 with : Pair of Jacks
XaqNautilus OUT

6.00... 4000/8000...

Evil666 Posted Small Blind 4,000
Flandrius Posted Big Blind 8,000
Dealing Cards
Lauradm Folds
Evil666 All In for 18,993
Flandrius Calls 14,993
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Evil666 has (7h, Qc)
Flandrius has (8h, 8c)
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Dealing Flop (2c,Kd,4c)
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Dealing Turn (9d)
-------------------------------------------------
Dealing River (Js)
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Flandrius Wins 45,986 from pot 1 with : Pair of Eights
Evil666 OUT

heads up...

hand 3... fland folds

hand 4... laura calls, flop q5q two diamonds, 8k bet by fland... turn 6 two clubs... bet call... river 7 clubs, laura pushes allin, fland folds... laura shows trip queens

hand 5... fland folds 33 pre

hand 6... Lauradm Posted Small Blind 4,000
Flandrius Posted Big Blind 8,000
Dealing Cards
Lauradm Calls 4,000
Flandrius Checks
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Dealing Flop (Ac,Ts,6d)
Flandrius Checks
Lauradm Bets 16,000
Flandrius Calls 16,000
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Dealing Turn (9h)
Flandrius Checks
Lauradm Checks
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Dealing River (2d)
Flandrius Bets 16,000
Lauradm Calls 16,000
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Flandrius has (9s, Th)
Lauradm has (6c, 4d)
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Flandrius Wins 80,000 from pot 1 with : Two Pair, Tens and Nines

hand 7... raise by fland called... river bet by fland, fold...

hand 8... limp pre... a8a land bets from button, fland folds...

hand 9...

Flandrius Posted Small Blind 4,000
Lauradm Posted Big Blind 8,000
Dealing Cards
Flandrius Raised to 16,000
Lauradm All In for 110,602
Flandrius Calls 102,602
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Flandrius has (Ah, As)
Lauradm has (Qc, Ts)
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Dealing Flop (4h,9c,6c)
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Dealing Turn (Td)
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Dealing River (Kd)
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Flandrius Wins 237,204 from pot 1 with : Pair of Aces
Flandrius OUT
Lauradm OUT

congrats to Flandrius, event six champ...

Beerguy out...

6.40... wondering if the leaderboard is still "real time?"

6.47... technical issues are preventing the leaderboard real time update...

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Final Table with chip counts

Seat 1 - Richard Lee - $11,820,000
Seat 2 - Erik Friberg - $9,605,000S
eat 3 - Paul Wasicka - $7,970,000
Seat 4 - Dan Nassif - $2,600,000
Seat 5 - Allen Cunningham - $17,770,000
Seat 6 - Michael Binger - $3,140,000
Seat 7 - Doug Kim - $6,770,000
Seat 8 - Jamie Gold - $26,650,000
Seat 9 - Rhett Butler - $4,815,000

Elimination hand - Jamie Gold calls from early position and Dan Nassif raises from the button. Jamie Gold makes the call. The flop comes 532 and Nassif pushes it allin. Gold immediately makes the call and shows 22 for a set. Nassif turns over AK and is behind. The turn is the A and Nassif needs a four for a chopped pot. However, the river is the 10 and Dan Nassif has been eliminated in 9th place.

Elimination hand - Friberg eliminated. Allin preflop with Gold... JJ v. QQ - gold set on the river, flop and turn missed everyone. 8th place for Erik Friberg and worth $1,979,189Elimination - Paul Wasicka raises to from mid position and Doug Kim calls from the button. The flop comes 443 and Wasicka bets out. Kim moves all in and Wasicka calls with a quickness. Kim shows 99 but runs into QQ. Kim is in trouble. The turn is the J and the river is the 7. Doug Kim has been eliminated in 7th place.

Chip Count Update
Jamie Gold $38,000,000
Richard Lee $19,300,000
Paul Wasicka $14,200,000
Allen Cunningham $12,900,000
Rhett Butler $3,100,000
Michael Binger $2,800,000

...break and I now have live feed...

10.15pm EDT - Parade of Champions, Hachem, Fossilman, Jesus, Scotty Nguyen, our first WSOP millionaire Brad Dougherty, Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Tom McEvoy all introduced...

10.20pm EDT - Discussion of Gold claiming he would rather finish second and may throw the game.

10.25 EDT - Players back from break and action is underway. Six handed...
Blinds 120,000-$240,000 with a $40,000 ante

Chip Count
Jamie Gold T37,400,000
Richard Lee T17,030,000
Allen Cunningham T15,230,000
Paul Wasicka T14,870,000
Rhett Butler T 3,365,000
Michael Binger T 2,280,000

Lee steals pot.

Cunningham-Gold battle. Gold raises, 10-9-8 flop. check check. 8 turn, 1.1 million bet from Cunningham. Gold raises into him and raises 4 million into the 3 million pot. Cunningham folds.
10.30pm EDT Next hand, Allen Cunningham moves allin. Call from Michael Binger. 22 v A6. Binger's Tourney life on the line... Flop comes As-6d-4d. Turn 5 of hearts, giving Allen outs with 3's or 2's. River misses and Michael Binger doubles up, sits around 4.5 million.

10.35pm EDT - Binger moves into 5th in chips

Butler moves allin, sitting with an M of a bit under 10. Butler steals on Gold’s blind.
Rough CountGold 40 milLee 17 milCunningham 14 milWasicka 11milBinger 4.5 milButler 3.2 mil
Wasica raises to 800,000 UTG. Cunningham flat calls in position. Flop comes AA9. Paul checks, Cunningham bets 1.1 million bet and takes down the pot just as Hellmuth shows up in the booth.
Wasicka call BB on the Cunningham UTG raise. 2-3-4 flop. Check from Wasica, followed with 1 million chip bet. Wasica does in fact lay it down.

Wasicka v Gold 5-5-7 -9-9 check down to the river. Gold takes it down with an Ace.
Butler raises 900K, which is 1/3 of his stack. Binger seemingly has a hand but he throws it in.
Lee limps, Wasicka raises it to 1 million, Lee calls the raise. Qd-9s-6d. Check check. 7s. Lee bets out 2.5 million, and Wasicka folds.

10.52 - Cunningham enters the pot making it 750K preflop, Butler moves allin from the Big Blind. Allen folds the hand.

Cunningham raises to 750K again. Gold calls from the button. Blinds fold. Flop comes 4c-8c-3s. Allen Cunningham bets 1.1 million. Gold, in position lays the hand down, Cunningham rakes it in.
Gold bluffs and shows with 2-3 in position and takes down a pot.

Gold raises in the cutoff Wasicka reraises in the SB. Gold folds.

5 deep limped pot As-Jd-9d. Gold bets 1 million into the pot. 4 folders... Gold takes down the unraised pot uncontested on the flop.

Gold in the BB. Jd-10c-7c check check. Ac. Binger picks up the pot.

11.05pm EDT - Cunningham raises and takes down another pot.

Gold enters pot on the button. Lee enters from the BB. Flop comes 10s-2c-9c. Lee takes the pot down.

Binger takes it down preflop.

Big hand - Gold raises to 800K, Cunningham puts in 560K from the BB to make the call. 8-8-3. Allen checks. Jamie bets 1 million allen calls. 2 clubs on the turn. Cunningham checks, Gold checks. Q comes on the river. Cunningham checks, Gold bets 2 million. Gold is talking around about his hand, straight up taunting Allen, saying he'll show his bluff. Allen Cunningham calls with A-9 and takes down the pot! Wow...

11.20 - Butler moves allin, takes the pot down.

Cunningham raises to 750K. Gold calls. Flop Q-J-5. Gold checks, Cunningham continues with 1.2 million. Gold folds. Cunningham continues to dominate Gold.

11.25pm EDT Cunningham raises. Binger moves overtop and allin. Roughly 3 million is the allin. Cunningham counts out his chips as he ponders the decision. Makes the call. Cunningham QsJs- Binger AQ.

Flop comes all clubs and misses both. Binger has Qc, Cunningham needs one of two jacks. River delivers a blank. Binger doubles through Cunningham to 7 million.

11.30pm EDT - Cunningham raises preflop takes the pot down uncontested.
Cunningham raises to 750K UTG. Gold took a walk, has been autofolded last two hands. Lee calls from the SB. From the BB, Wasicka reraises to 3 million into the 2 million pot. Cunningham folds. Lee folds.

Lee limps from the button, Wasicka completes, Cunningham checks on BB. Ah-2c-9h. Check, check, 900K. Call from Wasicka, fold from Cunningham. Ks Check, check on the turn. River 2d. Check from Paul, check. Paul Wasicka takes the pot down with two pair, after letting Richard Lee bluff some chips off to him. Wasicka moves into third place.

Gold limps UTG. Paul makes it 900K from the button. Gold Calls. A-K-10. Million chip bet from Paul (less than half pot). Gold folds and 3.4 million to Paul Wasicka.

BB Gold vs. Richard Lee (raise mid position preflop) 2h-7h-5d. Lee bets 1.1 million. Jamie Gold checkraised, making it 3 million total (1.9 million checkraise). Richard Lee folds.

Wasicka makes it 800K. Gold calls from the SB. Flop comes 9h-5h-10h. Check from Gold. Paul checks. 3d. Gold pushes 2 million in and takes the pot down.

11.45pmEDT - Gold raises on the button to 800K. Lee lays down the BB and Gold takes three in a row.

All-in :Gold limps from the cutoff. Lee is raising OOP from the SB to 1.2 million. Wasicka in BB folds. Gold re-raises 4 million additional. Gold seemingly has a monster, based on his posture. Richard Lee moves allin, Gold calls.

Gold has QQ v Richard Lee's JJ. Flop comes: x-K-K. Turn and River are blanks and Richard Lee has been eliminated. We're five handed with Jamie Gold having more than 1/2 the total chips. Wow!

Rough Chip Count
Jamie Gold T54 million
Paul Wasicka T14 million
Allen Cunningham T13 million
Michael Binger T7 million
Rhett Butler T3 million

Dinner Break... See you in 90 minutes.

Commentary: Like him or not, Jamie Gold has a presence about him at this final table. I do not find him to be the best player at the table. He seems to lack focus at times. He has made players (i.e. - Lee) make huge, costly mistakes. Allen Cunningham is by far the better player at this table, which is not really a surprise. He's taken his shots at Gold, picking and choosing his spots. I'm liking the way Cunningham has been playing. He and Wasicka are still alive, despite Gold seemingly running away with the chips. Binger and Butler do have the short stacks, but I'm not feeling the whole chip n chair story from them. I do foresee a Gold meltdown on the horizon.
The players return from dinner and we're nearly underway...

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Blinds 120,000-$240,000 with a $40,000 ante
Rough Chip Count
Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T14 million M of 25
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T13 million M of 23
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T7 million M of 12
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T51 million M of 91
Seat 5 - Rhett Butler - T3 million M of 5 - Red Zone

1.45am EDT - money is on it's way into the room. $12 million allegedly being brought out to the table. Money comes forever.

1.50am EDT play resumes for real this time. 28 minutes left at these blind levels.
First hand after the break Rhett Butler UTG+1 moves allin. Paul Wasicka calls from the button. Blinds fold. Butler A10 v Wasicka 88. And the flop comes... k-q-10, which reall helps Rhett. K on the turn, river is a miss and Rhett Butler doubles through Paul Wasicka.

Binger and Butler are roughly tied for last in chip count now with Binger doubling through.

2am EDT - Gold raises and takes the pot.

Cunningham steals from the cutoff.

Scotty Ngygen joins the commentary.

Gold steals from the button, raises from the cutoff next hand. Cunningham calls from the BB. Cunningham bets out on the turn, call from Gold. Possible straight on the board at the river, check/check. Allen flopped a straight flush draw, takes down the pot.

Gold limp raises after Binger raising initially. Binger lays down the hand, respecting the limp raise move. Gold had done this twice earlier both times with pocket Queens.

Butler raises on Jamie's BB and takes the pot, showing A10 UTG.

Chip Count

Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T10.5 million
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T15 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T7.2 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T50 million
Seat 5 - Rhett Butler - T6.3 million

Cunningham raises to 750K, Binger calls in position Q-10-6. 4d on turn. Cunningham moves at pot with 1.1 million (50% pot) call. J on the river. Check/check. Binger two pairs, Cunningham mucks. Binger takes in roughly 4 million.

Gold raises button Wasicka calls. Ks10s6s. Check check. Gold bets 1 million. Fold from Wasicka.
Gold raises again Qs-8c-3h. Gold bets 1 million again. call this time. 9c on the turn. Gold 2 million. Paul lays down OOP.

Gold is not letting up, staying active and aggressive.

Paul calls on the button. SB completes, BB checks. J-7-5 on the board. Checks through. 5d on the board from the turn. Binger comes out with 600K. Paul calls on the button. 7s on the river. Paul wins the pot with an ace high kicker to Binger's king high.

Big hand alert - Paul raises cutoff to 800K. Gold calls in the BB. KQ2dd. Check from Gold. 1.1 million continuation from Paul. CheckRaise from Jamie Gold of 4 million more. Paul is in all-in or fold mode here and moves. Gold calls with AK vs. K10. Wasicka is in trouble here. 10 comes on the turn, and it's looking good for Paul. AQJ hurts Paul. River is eight of diamonds. Get Paul a towel, as he sucks out on the turn and doubles through Jamie Gold in roughly a 18 million dollar pot.

Jamie Gold is disgusted, saying over and over "I can't play any better than that."

Blinds are up, now at T150K/T300K, ante of 50K as they color up...

2.30am EDT - updated chip counts

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Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T18 million M of 24
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T12.8 million M of 17
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T6.8 million M of 9
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T46 million M of 61
Seat 5 - Rhett Butler - T6.2 million M of 8

Cunningham enters the pot with a million dollar raise. Butler moves allin from the SB. Alan folds.
Gold takes it down preflop.

Wasicka limps on the button. Cunningham moves and Binger and Wasicka fold.

Paul raises a million, Binger reraises to allin. Paul Wasicka looks at his chippage trying to get a count and determine what he's wanting to do. He folds.

Cunningham raises utg. Gold calls in position. Paul Wasicka calls on the BB. 8c-ah-2s. Allen bets out 1 million Jamie calls, Paul folds. Turn delivers 6d. Check/check. River 2h. Gold takes down the pot with a bet on the end. Chips got spilled from Butler, so they're going through to recalculate the pot.

2.45am EDT - Binger raises. Wasicka moves allin from the blinds. Binger lays down.
Gold raises UTG. Binger calls from the bb. KJ3 is the flop. Gold bets out. Binger moves allin on the CheckRayz. Gold calls with top pair. Binger v Gold, each with K-10, chopped pot.
Wasicka limps on Gold's BB. Flop As-9-4s. Gold checks. Wasicka bets and takes her down.
Wasicka makes it 1 million from the cutoff. Cunningham calls as does Butler calls from the BB. 8-6-2 rainbowed greets the players. Rhett checks, Wasicka continues, Cunningham moves all-in and folds everyone up.

Binger raises 1 million on the cutoff, Gold calls on the button. Wasicka moves 4 million more, squeezing. Binger folds. Gold calls. Paul shows AK and takes the pot down.
We're nearly 8 hrs into this tournament today.

Wasicka limps on the button yet again. AsAdJs. Check Check and Paul takes the pot down.
Wasicka is really pressuring, seemingly active in every pot recently, as he takes another down from the cutoff preflop and yet again from the UTG.

Wasicka in the BB, Gold raises. J-3-4. Gold bets and wins.

Butler raises from the button and wins the pot.

Paul limping button again. 7-3-2, three handed. Cunningham bets out from the SB. Binger raises to allin from the BB. Binger takes down the pot.

Paul moving on the cutoff again. Jamie calls the blind. A-4-7 on the board. Paul continues and wins.

Big hand - Paul raises 1 million UTG Binger moves allin from the button. 5.7 million more to call. Call is made! Paul has KQ vs Binger's KK. Flop comes: Q-7-3. Turn is an ace. River brings the 2 of hearts. Binger has doubled through Paul Wasicka.

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Commentators kinda forgot there was a game going on as they talked over and through everyone.

Updated Chip Count
Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T13.9 million
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T9.6 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T13.5 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T46 million
Seat 5 - Rhett Butler - T4.8 million

3.25am EDT - Paul raises small blind, Allen calls from the BB. Flop comes A-10-8 rainbow. Paul leads out on the flop, which is out of character, given his past OOP play. Allen throws his hand away.

Gold raises UTG 1.2 million, Paul calls on the button. A-3-9. Check check. J turns. Gold bets 1 million. Paul calls quickly. River 2h. Check Check. KJo v QJo. Paul takes the pot down.
Paul raises cutoff, Binger reraises, Paul folds yet again.

Note: I'm no longer going to do hand for hand updates, only big hands...

3.37am EDT - Butler All-in from the button Cunningham folds despite the math nearly working out.

All-in 3.44 - Butler allin after limp limp. Cunningham calls. Gold calls. Flop: Jh-6d-5d check/check. 2c. Gold bets, Cunningham folds. Gold's KJo vs Butler's 44. 3 or 4 keeps Butler alive. River is the ten of clubs. Gold takes down the pot and Rhett Butler is eliminated.
We're four handed...

"The Mouth" doin commentary, really critical of the earlier move by Richard Lee. Huge, huge mistake, though Mike is citing fatigue from the marathon as being a factor.

3.50am EDT - Updated Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T14.2 million
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T10 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T12 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T52 million

3.57 - Gold limps, Binger raises. Gold asks for a chip count and calls. Flop comes A-10-2 rainbowed. 1.5 million into the pot. Gold folds.

Over/under betting going on via ESPN's email on when the WSOP will end. Over/under is 6am. Mattesow is pushing the over.

4am - Binger reraises, knocks Cunningham off a hand.

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All-in - Cunningham v Gold. Ac-Jc-3h. Cunningham small bet. Gold raises. Cunningham allin 4.2 million to go. Gold talks at Cunningham, asking if he's ready to go home. Gold folds up shop, Cunningham takes the pot down.

Gold raises from the button. Paul re-raises 2 million more. Gold folds up.

Chip Count through 184 hands

Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T13.8 million
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T12.15 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T12.85 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T51.9 million

4.20 smoke break...

4.25 - 3 way action Allen raises, Paul and Jamie call. AJ9hhh Ac. Paul sends out a small seemingly suck bet on the turn. Cunningham raises it up 3 million more. Paul all-in. Allen folds. Paul shows Kqd for a huge huge bluff. Allen claims to have folded pocket tens, with the ten hearted. Huge huge huge bluff by Paul on Allen. WOW!

4.30am EDT - Cunningham moves allin from the button on Paul’s raise. Paul lays it down.

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As an aside, it's really nice to be watching each and every hand played, as opposed to the soundbite highlights on ESPN, even if we don't get the pocket cams.

Gold vs. Cunningham. Cunningham bets on the turn. Gold raises. Little commentary back n forth between the two. Scratch that, lot's of talk. Gold can't seem to keep his trap shut. I suspect this is going to give Allen enough info to make the correct read. Fold.

Blinds will be 200K/400K 50K ante after the break.

Chip Count at the Break

Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T18.7 million
Seat 2 - Allen Cunningham - T7.6 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T15 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T49.35 million

Jennifer Harman has joined the commentary booth. She thinks Gold was worried about Cunningham, however, Paul's been surprising Jamie. She thinks Jamie should be playing small pot and in position, so he doesn't risk doubling anyone. Essentually, it's his tourney to lose.
9 hrs 30 minutes of final table poker played at the WSOP thus far.

5.10 am EDT - 3 handed. Paul raises, Mike, and Jamie. Flop comes 3-3-8. Paul bets, Michael Binger raises and takes the pot. This has been occuring regularly, with Michael coming over top of Paul.

Gold continues to limp UTG. Binger raises from the BB. Gold calls. Qd-6-5. Check/check. 10d turns. 1.5 million bet from Binger. Gold calls. Big pot, and the 9 of spades on the board. Binger checks. Gold bets out 4 million. Binger folds to the big bet. Gold shows 6-4.

Commentary on players raising and not continuing vs. the big stack. Gold seemingly stealing pot after pot due to weakness, and no one playing back at Gold.

Elimination - Binger raises, Gold calls, Cunningham allin.Binger fold, however Gold calls KdJd v Cunningham’s 10-10. Flop comes: A-K-8. Cunningham is in trouble. Turn card is a 7. River is the 3 of spades. Allen Cunningham is eliminated in fourth place.

Chip Count at 5.25am EDT

Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka T15.475 million chips M of 20
Seat 3 - Michael Binger T12.35 million chips M of 16
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold T62.325 million chips M of 83

Chris Ferguson joins the commentary.

Wow, Jamie's "Sea" of chips is impressive.

Michael moves allin, folds Jamie up after his 1.2 million raise. Jamie folds.

Chip count

Seat 1 - Paul Wasicka - T15.9 million
Seat 3 - Michael Binger - T12 million
Seat 4 - Jamie Gold - T62 million

Binger moves all-in from the BB on Gold's button limp. Gold talks to him asking for him to help him decide, saying it's 50/50. Jamie Gold folds.

Q-9-4 Binger and Gold, SB - BB. Jamie bets, Michael calls. Ad on turn check check. 8s river. 4.15 million pot. Jamie bets and tells Michael he's probably bluffing. Jamie was in fact bluffing, as advertised. Michael folds and Jamie shows the Jack three unsuited, running a stone cold bluff.
Andy Bloch states that Binger has never “called” a bet on the river during this entire final table.
9-5-5 - Paul raises 1.2 million, Gold calls. Check from Paul, still no continuation from Paul. Ace on the turn. Paul bets the turn, Gold calls quickly. 6 on the end. Check/check. Jamie shows pocket tens and takes the pot down.

update: Gold - 66.125 million, Wasicka 13.225 million, Binger 11.25 million

Gold raises and Binger reraises. Binger seems the most willing to play back at Gold of the two.
5.50am EDT - Binger-Gold SB-BB. 6-2d-3d 1 million called by Gold. Qc check check. Kd on the river. 55 v 6d-8d. Gold takes another pot.

The action is relentless in that there are a shitload of flops seen.

Binger raises, Gold reraises, Binger folds.

2 limpers, Binger raises, takes down the pot.

Paul vs Gold Ad-8c-2c. Paul continues, Gold calls. Turn brings Kh. Check by Gold. Paul checks behind. 4c on river A-3 from Gold, Paul mucks.

Gold is doing well in keeping the pots small.

6am - Paul played stop n go and Jamie paid his two pair off.

Elimination - Binger calls Gold's all-in on the flop Binger A10 v 34... flop was 6-10-5. Turn is the 7 of clubs. River is a queen of spades. Binger is eliminated in third place. We're now heads up. This queen would have given Paul the flush.

Chip count for the heads up.

Gold - 78.125 million, Paul Wasicka 12.025 million.

This is a monsterous lead. Paul needs to double through twice to come back.

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Replay of the Hachem win last year.

SB/Button acts first preflop and last after the flop, in case we're keeping score.

chip count roughly 78 mil to 12 mil, blinds 200k/400k 50k ante - Paul's M is 17.

And we're ready for head's up action. Money is on the table and we're shuffled up n dealin at 6.30am EDT.

6 of the seven final tablers have been eliminated by Gold.

1st pot taken down by Gold on the flop. Wasicka was being weak post flop when there were more players left. Let's see if he plays the same while head's up.

Paul raises preflop, Gold folds.

Gold shows he has standards and folds.

Min raise by paul. Jamie calls. Flop bet by Paul on a js-9s-9h board. Jamie calls cleanly. Turn comes Ks. Jamie fires the turn. Paul calls quickly. River comes 6s, making the board four flushed. 2 million bet by Gold. Paul asks Jamie if he has it. Jamie says he cannot talk anymore and then Jamie tells him either he's got it or he doesn't have a spade. Paul shows A-7s and takes the pot. Wow!

Jamie bets into the river with the board 6-4-3-7-A. Jamie tells him "you go allin, I probably fold." Paul lays the hand down.

Jamie Gold is limping on the button quite often. Paul raises from the BB and auto-calls. Flop comes Qc-8h-5h. 1.5 million by Paul. Jamie moves all-in. Asks if Paul has a Queen, then a pair, then balls and says let's do it. Jamie says he has not a good hand but is gonna win. Call!
10-10 v Q9 of Gold.

Turn: Ad

two outs remaining for Paul, as he must draw a ten
River: is the 4 of clubs.

Jamie Gold is your 2006 world series of poker main event champion, taking down the 12 million dollar first prize and the bracelet.

Mike

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