Current WSOP Main Event Chip Count Notables

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2005 ME champion joe hachem is at the same table as eastgate and phillips, as is WPT superstar JC Tran. pretty sick table this late in the ME. ESPN filming it.
 
end of day 6, 64 left

looks like Ivey sitting #3 now(!), Esfandieri #6, Sebok and Phillips short but still in

defending champ Eastgate out in about 76
 
It's unfair that someone as good as Ivey can have so many chips. He should be forced to always be short-stacked to make it somewhat fair.
 
The only Phil loses is if he gets another real bad beat, like getting rivered or getting the only two cards on the turn and river that would bust him. The guy never makes a bad play for all his chips.
 
alex42083 said:
The guy never makes a bad play for all his chips.
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well, not never lol. even the best reader of opponents and situations in the world will end up being knocked out with the worst hand in a good percentage of the events they enter. nobody's a psychic.
 
crowTrobot said:
well, not never lol. even the best reader of opponents and situations in the world will end up being knocked out with the worst hand in a good percentage of the events they enter. nobody's a psychic.
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Psshh.. you mean everything I see on TV isn't all the hands he plays? ;)
We need an S2 poker tourney, I brought that up awhile ago, but if people are interested I'd be up for it.
 
I'm down.

BTW...nothing made me happier about that list than NOT seeing Tiffany Michelle's name on it. My wife and I were watching some reruns during a commercial, and I couldn't believe what an immature, rude little girl she was. But it was my wife who surprised me with "she's really a bitch, isn't she? Do players let her get away with that?"
 
Separated at birth?

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I'd always heard the Tiger Woods comparisons, not Steph Curry. Curry's a bit more baby-faced...he doesn't scare me sitting across with a stack of chips.
 
He looks like Tiger Woods a bit.

I'd definitely be down for a Poker tournament. Lets make a separate thread for it.
 
he faded badly so far today - #15 with 19 left, and short-stacked to the point where skill doesn't make much difference. at this point he will have to get very lucky to make it to the final table.
 
it's over! as one of the short stacks ivey backed in to 8th without having to do that much. he got sort of lucky that 4 of the biggest stacks stupidly played huge pots against each other eliminating 2. normally that's not something you would dream would ever happen.

still it's HUGE for poker to have its current biggest star make the ME final table out of a field of 6400+
 
BengalDuck said:
How short-stacked are we talking? First one out?
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not desparately short, but getting close. he will need to make some kind of move very early in the final table (blinds will jump to 150/300k soon after it starts).

the big thing though is that the final table isn't played until Nov. 7-10. until then interest in poker in general will get a huge boost from over 3 months of ivey hype that will be coming from ESPN, Harrah's, Full Tilt etc. even if he ends up busting quickly, just having him make the final is great for the future of poker on TV and online.

seating and chip stacks going in:

Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 58,930,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead - 6,800,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 9,765,000
Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000
Seat 5: Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000
Seat 6: Eric Buchman - 34,800,000
Seat 7: Joe Cada - 13,215,000
Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 9,500,000
Seat 9: Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000


although nowhere near ivey's level obviously, shulman is actually a fairly well know player in the poker community. he made the ME final table in 2000 (finished 7th) and has been on TV a few times including the old "poker superstars" show fox sports used to run into the ground.
 
Has Moon been bullying? I don't know the guy. When you were saying Phil was short-stacked, I was envisioning a Kelly Kim situation from last year. But having 4 other stacks within 4M of him means he has a shot to get healthy quickly.
 
Darvin Moon was not a name that immediately tripped off the tongue of the poker cognoscenti. That was until the 45-year-old’s spectacular performance at this year’s World Series.
Moon, who had never even visited Vegas before this year’s Main Event, has built up a stack of almost 60 million chips, over 24 million ahead of his closest rival.


The self-employed logger has been extremely honest in his appraisal of how the tournament has gone so far. "Everyone at this table is way better than I am," Moon said. "Something is helping me … It’s easy to play when you get hands like I was getting. It’s just unbelievable. It’s like a dream. I got pocket aces and flopped trips, and someone was betting into me.”


Moon has said that he will try and get back to something approaching his normal Maryland life in the run up to the final table. "As soon as I go home, I go back into the woods," Moon said. "When it's time to come out — I'll come out."


The other eight players had better watch out.
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http://www.bluffeurope.com/poker-news/en/2009-WSOP-News/Darvin-Moon-heads-the-field_5201.aspx

The bolded part is why Ive decided to never enter this tourney....that and it takes forever
 
Damn.. Phil's a stud, making it all the way to the final table. He'll be playing to win since he doesn't necessarily need the money when everybody else will be eyeing the cash ladder. He wants the bracelet. I hope Ivey gets some chips to battle Moon heads up.
 
ivey making the final table is huge for poker. shulman getting there is good as well.

and ivey really isn't too short stacked. even when the blinds get to 150/300k, he's got more than 30 big blinds so he'll have some time before needing to get desperate and has a little room to work with.
 
BrianFromWA said:
When you were saying Phil was short-stacked, I was envisioning a Kelly Kim situation from last year.
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he was almost there - under 6 mil with 11-12 or so left, came back to where he is mostly by not getting unlucky in one 60/40 (his AT vs KJ) pot against an all-in shorter stack.
 
rocketeer said:
and ivey really isn't too short stacked. even when the blinds get to 150/300k, he's got more than 30 big blinds so he'll have some time before needing to get desperate and has a little room to work with.
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given how crazy everyone else was and likely still will be playing, and that the big stacks will be gunning for him, 30 BB doesn't give him much room to maneuver.
 
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