Join us from 2pm tomorrow as we bring you all the action from the floor of the Empire Casino. As stated earlier, Day 2 will be split over 2 days, in order to fit all players in the one venue.
The final standings for Day1b are as follows:
From The Empire:
Adam Junglen 69275
Kenny Tran 67025
Jon Turner 60975
Daniel Negreanu 60900
Julain Bertazzon 60700
Jamie Gold 53400
Aleksander Vathne 51175
Daniel Zink 47625
Nikolag Losev 47550
Johnny Lodden 46125
Henrik Waltersson 45050
Jeff Buffenbarger 43800
Ali Khaitan 41900
Dominic Kay 40775
Justin Bonomo 39000
Jimmy Fricke 36975
Hasan Irfan 36950
Erik Jorgensen 34425
Roland de Wolfe 32250
Stephen Rynne 29650
Peter Jepsen 27000
Lothar Schitz 26500
Joe Beevers 26000
Brendan Walls 24200
Csaba Kuremszki 22175
Jayde Tran 21700
Howard Lederer 20450
Vik Kanwar 20375
David Finney 16875
Steve Billirakis 16375
Jari Kvlmala 15800
Ben Roberts 12950
Joey Lovelady 12425
Martin Johnson 12200
Michel Abecassis 9875
Jon Shoreman 9475
Kristian Kjondal 8025
Dorte Jagger 6675
Gary Concon 6600
From The Fifty:
Patrik Antonius 76,150
Tino Lechich 71,725
David Lionel 65,825
Jesse Jones 64,950
Bob Willis 58,975
Andreas Berggren 58,975
Theo Jorgensen 50,825
Johnny Chan 47,250
Lee Nelson 46,450
Tony G 44,750
Dario Alioto 42,225
Juha Helppi 42,025
Matthew Carter 40,275
Karl Mahrenholz 36,125
David Milby 35,525
Jeff Kimber 35,350
Peter Andreas 35,100
David Laurence 33,125
Michael Greco 31,775
Terje Augdal 29,900
Nicolas Levi 29,250
Julius Colman 28,975
Toboc Christian 28,900
Daniel Petri 26,100
Mats Gavatin 25,250
Michel Alberti 20,225
Jaye Renehan 18,200
Andreas Pouraras 18,050
Mads Andersen 18,050
Luis Miquel Megan Tier 17,250
Ake Karlsson 15,750
Horst Koch 15,250
Andrew Dickens 14,425
Achilleas Kallakis 11,275
Allen Cunningham 10,550
Robert Cooper 9,100
Tero Salonen 8,950
Andreas Hagen 6,900
Thomas Uhlin 5,675
From The Sportsman:
Shaun Deeb 71825
Gerry Kane 66675
Matthew McCullough 57500
Stephen McNamara 55425
Roland Israelashvici 53450
Patrick Jouven 50975
Matt Larsh 46750
Owen Lock 43325
Bruce Stubbs 40875
Marigliano Marcello 40250
Dan Shak 39900
Max Katz 39450
Oyvind Riisem 38725
Barny Boatman 37725
Harry Demetriou 32975
Isabelle Mercier 32400
James Keys 31975
Magnus Persson 31400
Sam Norman 29425
Thomas Wissner 28750
Dino Brivati 27750
John Tabatabai 26650
Martin Vallo 25450
Ian Fraser 24750
Alexander Burton 22550
Erik Friberg 22150
John Smith 20975
Weika Chang 20375
David Wells 19175
Shaun Needham 18350
Marc Goodwin 16900
Willie Tann 16150
Ryan Fronda 14425
Jakob Paulsen 12625
Dademo Alessandro 12450
Neil Channing 10475
Teemu Lahtinen 10400
Tim Flanders 10325
Jan Pruszkowski 9125
Per Hildebrand 7800
Richie O'Sullivan 7775
THE FIFTY-- Day 1B play has come to a close, with the survivors now bagging and tagging their chips. They will return to the tables on Thursday (Day 2B) to continue their quest for a WSOP bracelet.
Tune in tomorrow at 2 p.m. for more chip-slinging action from London. Signing off from the Fifty, and I dare say I'll miss this place (especially the free food!)
THE FIFTY-- Lee Nelson's roughly 20,000 stack found its way to the middle on a board. His opponent turned up , having flopped top set, but Nelson turned the better set with . The river was the and Nelson got a late-night double-up to 42,000 only five minutes before the close of the day's play.
THE FIFTY-- On a board of , Bob Willis bet 4,000, Bengt Sonnert moved all in for 12,700 and Willis called. Willis turned over for two pair and an open-ended straight flush draw, while Sonnert showed the . The river was the , making Sonnert sevens full of nines, but Willis the better full house with nines full of sevens, and Sonnert headed to the rail.
Over at the featured TV table, I caught the hand on the flop of . Jamie Gold fired out 2,000 from the big blind and Peter Jespen moved all in for 9,750 more. Jamie Gold went into the tank for about four minutes and talked to himself the entire time. He waivered back and forth between wanting to call and wanting to fold. He counted out 9,750 in chips as Jespen sat motionless.
"OK, I call," said Gold as he tabled .
Jespen flipped over and was ahead with second pair and a flush draw. The turn was the and the river was the . Gold's hand could not improve and Jespen increased his stack to over 25,000.
Well, the title kind of gives up any element of surprise, so you know what he had when he re-raised all in preflop (over the top of button John Tabatabai). It was about another 8k to call, in any case it was most of Tabatabai's stack, and he did think about it for a while before just throwing in the call and turning over his hand:
The flop:
Turn: Now the other players at the table were leaning in...
River:
A cracked Keston headed stiffly from the table (as you would). Meanwhile, Neil Channing, who hasn't to my knowledge played any hands today, is nevertheless a gold mine of interesting information about other players. Robin Keston once infamously folded Kings preflop in an odd hand in the Poker Million (to do with a read on someone for huge strength due to their enormous last-longer side bet) but has played today in a solid style, going out with the most legitimate of legitimate hands, unluckily.
Meanwhile John Tabatabai rides up the rollercoaster lift before heading for another dive/loop-the-loop combo with his stack.