Wow. No response from anyone about Jennifer Tilly winning.

Well, how about this one?

Chris Moneymaker, the infamous winner of the 2003 WSOP $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship event, has not been at the 2005 WSOP playing events.

Instead...

He's on an advertising tour for Canadian Club Whiskey, currently in Baton Rouge, LA. He was in the local Winn-Dixie playing heads-up poker against some college kid for free.

Don't believe me? Here's a pic.



Here's the thread where you can read all about it.

Hey Russ, Glad you liked the book -- it's a fun one to read especially with all these events gearing up. I was wondering if that was the Bound Jennifer Tilly and, holy moly, it is.

As far as tourneys, I like the low-stakes sit-n-gos (as Flaneur on UB) for about 45 minutes of play for $1+$.10 and $5+$.50. The thing I've realized, though, is that in a standard cash game you can avoid certain players and pick on the ones whose weaknesses are especially compatible with your strengths -- but in a 10-seat or even 6-seat game, you have to be able to beat all kinds of players. And since it's winner-take-all (top three or two,anyway), there's no breaking even. I've done a few heads-up sng's and like those, again with low stakes, as a way to practice reading a single opponent instead of a table of them, and when there's a beatable player who wants to keep playing, that's nice.

Event 27: $5000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys (134 players w/ 229 rebuys)
Winner: Phil Ivey ($630k) his 5th WSOP bracelet.


Robert Williamson finished second.

First Johnny Chan wins his 10th bracelet, then Phil Ivey kicks ass in the Omaha, and now....

DOYLE BRUNSON WINS HIS 10th WSOP BRACELET!




It's like watching Babe Ruth tie the home run record.

So f'n cool.

Wow, winning with a 10-3 at 3:52 a.m.? Can't wait to see the broadcast of these -- ESPN's still covering all the tourneys this year?

Flaneur wrote:Wow, winning with a 10-3 at 3:52 a.m.? Can't wait to see the broadcast of these -- ESPN's still covering all the tourneys this year?

I know. I know. It's so reminicient of the 10-2, it gives me shivers.

ESPN was going to have the $2000 NLHE event final table on the TV stage, but once they saw who was at the final table of the $5k SH (short-handed) NLHE event (Brunson, Scotty Nguyen, Layne Flack, etc.) they switched 'em.

I tried as hard as I could to stay up and watch the hand reports coming back from CardPlayer.com to see if he would do it, but I couldn't do it.

This is so awesome.

Time to catch up before tomorrow and the start of the $10,000 Main Event.

Event 29: $2000 NLHE
Winner: Laurence Gosney ($483k)

Event 30: $1500 Limit Razz
Winner: O'neil Longson ($125k)

Event 32: $5000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Winner: David Chiu ($347k)

Event 33: $3000 NLHE
Winner: Andrew Boyer ($683k)

Event 34: $1000 Seniors NLHE
Winner: Paul McKinney ($202k)

Event 35: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Winner: Rafi Amit ($500k)

No picture, but there was an interesting event that happened when this tournament was heads-up. Rafi utter the word 'Fuck' and at the WSOP there is a strict "No F-bomb" rule. Others heard him say it, and the penalty is 10 minutes away from the table. Normally, this isn't such a huge deal, but since it was heads-up, his opponent Vinny Vinh was able to rebuild his dwindling chip stack and hold on for another hour before Amit won it all.

Event 36: $3000 Limit HE
Winner: Todd Witteles ($347k)

Event 37: $1000 NLHE w/ Rebuys (Entries 894 + 1584 rebuys)
Winner: Jon Heneghan (not Johnny World) ($611k)

Event 39: $5000 No-Limit Duece to Seven Lowball w/ Rebuys (Entries 65 + 139 rebuys)
Final table:
Place Name Prize
1 Mark Weitzman (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $322,000 Chips
2 Dewey Tomko (Winter Haven, FL, USA) $190,000 Chips
3 Jeffrey Lisandro (Salerno, Italy) $185,000 Chips
4 Russell Salzer (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $132,000 Chips
5 Doug Booth (Bowling Green, KY, USA) $81,000 Chips
6 David Grey (Henderson, NV, USA) $79,000 Chips
7 John Hennigan (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $39,000 Chips

Final Table Prize Money Breakdown

1 $365,135
2 $217,110
3 $138,160
4 $108,555
5 $78,590
6 $49,345
7 $29,605

Here is the CardPlayer.com points breakdown of all the players in all the events. Kind of a Player of the Series type of tally. Surely, the winner of the Main Event will probably top this list in the end.

The Top 30 Players of the 2005 WSOP

Rank Player Location Points Final Tables Winnings
1 Todd Witteles Las Vegas, NV 2,080 2 $463,195
2 Mark Seif Incline Village, NV 1,920 2 $799,950
3 Allen Cunningham Ventura, CA 1,902 4 $1,006,935
4 Todd Brunson El Paso, TX 1,808 3 $401,415
5 Quinn Do Seattle, WA 1,732 2 $300,440
6 Charidimos 'Harry' Demetriou London, United Kingdom 1,520 2 $287,765
7 Andre Boyer Las Vegas, NV 1,440 1 $682,810
7 T.J. Cloutier Richardson, TX 1,440 1 $660,080
7 Jon Heneghan Safety Harbor, FL 1,440 1 $611,015
7 Maciek "Michael" Gracz Raleigh, NC 1,440 1 $602,685
7 Farzad Bonyadi Aliso Viejo, CA 1,440 1 $599,190
7 Isaac Galazan Miami, FL 1,440 1 $315,125
7 Johnny Chan Cerritos, CA 1,440 1 $303,025
14 Cyndy Violette Absecon, NJ 1,376 3 $400,905
15 Layne Flack Las Vegas, NV 1,340 2 $289,115
16 Matthew Glantz Lafayette Hill, PA 1,200 1 $375,005
16 Steven Zoine Merrick, NY 1,200 1 $352,620
16 C.T. Law United Kingdom 1,200 1 $325,530
16 Paul Deng United States 1,200 1 $324,305
16 Lars Bonding Aarhas, Netherlands 1,200 1 $317,625
16 Daryl Mixan Omaha, NE 1,200 1 $179,290
16 Phil Laak San Jose, CA 1,200 1 $163,985
23 Erik Seidel Las Vegas, NV 1,159 3 $692,690
24 Alfredo 'Toto' Leonidas Los Angeles, CA 1,148 2 $220,045
25 Minh Nguyen Lake Elsinore, CA 1,120 3 $378,320
26 Chi Chang Los Angeles, CA 1,110 1 $137,265
27 Mike Wattel Phoenix, AZ 1,090 2 $121,495
28 Doyle Brunson Las Vegas, NV 1,080 1 $367,800
28 Allen Kessler Huntingtdon Valley, PA 1,080 1 $136,395
30 Barry Greenstein Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 1,056 2 $245,000

Hard to make that look good. Anyway, it's a good gauge of who is playing well this year at the WSOP. Check out Allen Cunnningham with 4 final tables.

Tomorrow, the first field of ~2200 players play down to 650.
The next day, the second field of ~2200 play down to 650.
The next day, the third feild of ~2200 play down to 650.
The fourth day, the "day 2" of the event, starts with the combined field and plays down to between 500 and 1000 players.
"Day 3" starts with between 500 - 100 and plays down to 200 - 400.
"Day 4" plays down to 100 - 150.
"Day 5" plays down to 3 tables (27 players)
"Day 6" moves to Binions Horseshoe down to the final table (9 players)
"Day 7" is the final table.

Or to put it another way:

"[EACH PLAYER STARTS WITH 10,000 IN CHIPS.] EACH LEVEL WILL LAST TWO HOURS, WITH A 15-MINUTE BREAK AFTER EVERY LEVEL. THE FIELD WILL BE SPLIT OVER FIRST THREE DAYS AND WILL COMBINE ON DAY FOUR. DAYS FOUR FIVE AND SIX WILL PLAY FIVE LEVELS EACH. DAY SEVEN WILL BE PLAYED DOWN TO 36 (this is a discrepancy) PLAYERS. DAY EIGHT WILL BE PLAYED DOWN TO THE FINAL NINE PLAYERS. PLAY RESUMES AT NOON EACH DAY. 4% of the total entry pool will be withheld for the house. 2% of the total entry pool will be withheld for tournament staff."

The winner is looking at $10 Million. Everyone who makes it to the final table will leave at least a million dollars richer.

It should make for an exciting 9 days.

Time for a quick update on the main event:

# of players @ $10,000 each: 5619
Prize pool: $52,818,610
Final Table Payouts:

1st $7,500,000
2nd $4,250,000
3rd $2,500,000
4th $2,000,000
5th $1,750,000
6th $1,500,000
7th $1,300,000
8th $1,150,000
9th $1,000,000

We're currently at the start of DAY 4. 185 players left. The money started at 560. Player who busted out 561 got a seat in next years event from Harrah's.

Blinds are currently $2,500/$5000 with $500 antes.

Here's the current chip counts:

1 Greg "Fossilman"Raymer $ 1,064,000
2 Rodney Pardey Jr. $ 1,041,000
3 Brad Kondracki $ 962,500
4 Johnny Howard $ 910,500
5 Bob Larsen $ 796,500
6 Tim Phan $ 746,000
7 Phil Ivey $ 722,500
8 Steve Marx $ 679,500
9 S Bartholomew $ 659,000
10 Gabe Wells $ 655,500

11 Bryan Stelbuger $ 648,500
12 Oskar Silow $ 638,000
13 Bob Hotchandani $ 627,500
14 Raymi Sanchez Thorn $ 595,500
15 Manelic Minaya $ 594,500
16 Tex Barch $ 590,000
17 Jon Lane $ 585,000
18 James Ocson $ 583,000
19 David Bergsdorf $ 579,500
20 Tom Sartori $ 574,500

21 James Pollack $ 557,500
22 Karlo Lopez $ 556,500
23 Terry Burt $ 550,500
24 Joe Berry $ 542,500
25 James Butt $ 542,500
26 Minh Ly $ 530,250
27 Casper Christensen $ 525,500
28 Thomas A Roupe $ 525,000
29 Gregory Rice $ 523,000
30 Aaron Kanter $ 503,500

31 Howard Lederer $ 496,500
32 Matt Fitzpatrick $ 490,500
33 Randal Brooks $ 490,000
34 Jon Kalmar $ 469,500
35 Hung La $ 467,000
36 Nick Gibson $ 466,000
37 Nani Awad $ 460,500
38 Hunter Pappas $ 455,500
39 Mike Matusow $ 454,000
40 Sean Daulat $ 452,500

41 John McGrane $ 452,500
42 Nani Dollison $ 448,500
43 Tiffany Williamson $ 441,000
44 Mark Forrester $ 440,000
45 Yomtov Shabot $ 427,000
46 Samir Shakhtoor $ 414,000
47 Russell Salzer $ 412,500
48 Chris Short $ 411,500
49 Can Kim Hua $ 404,000
50 Krystal Nelson $ 395,000

51 Espen Saltnes $ 388,000
52 Marcello Del Grosso $ 386,500
53 Kevin Kim $ 384,500
54 George Kelly Dickson $ 377,000
55 Scott Numoto $ 376,500
56 Larry Prugh $ 372,500
57 Carmen Menechella $ 370,000
58 Russ Hamilton $ 365,000
59 John Juanda $ 354,000
60 Jose M Rodriguez $ 352,500

61 Nick Camarts $ 348,500
62 Ron Ware $ 345,000
63 David Plastik $ 342,500
64 Franklin Caldwell $ 339,000
65 Alex Morales $ 337,500
66 Sarah Bilney $ 332,500
67 Bobby Law $ 325,500
68 Jarl Lindholt Joergensen $ 320,500
69 Yakov Hirsch $ 316,500
70 Tuan Vu $ 316,500

71 Chris Drozdowski $ 315,000
72 Tom Shaneberger $ 309,000
73 Michael Kessler $ 297,500
74 Roland Israelashvizi $ 289,000
75 Kenna James $ 287,500
76 Michael Cribb $ 282,500
77 Rafael $ 282,000
78 Daniel Shak $ 280,500
79 Jason Lester $ 280,000
80 Jason Kaplan $ 274,500

81 Bing Wang $ 272,500
82 Gen Watamabe $ 271,000
83 David Richardson $ 269,500
84 Terry Myers $ 269,000
85 Bjorn Lindenberg $ 265,500
86 Tony Pirone $ 265,500
87 Patrick Madden $ 265,000
88 Paul Vicary $ 265,000
89 Scott Lazar $ 264,500
90 Niklas Flisberg $ 260,000

91 Robert Turner $ 260,000
92 Darryl Tennefos $ 259,500
93 JC Tran $ 259,500
94 Andrew Black $ 257,000
95 Bryant King $ 253,500
96 Kevin McCarthy $ 251,000
97 Joe Stillman $ 249,500
98 Joe Simmons $ 245,000
99 Shahram Sheikhan $ 243,000
100 Paul Mannetta $ 240,000

101 Tony Abesamis $ 237,500
102 Francis W O'Brien $ 234,000
103 Patrick Hayden $ 233,000
104 Joseph Hachem $ 231,000
105 Erick Richardson $ 227,000
106 Josh Prager $ 225,000
107 Mark Cole $ 224,500
108 Joe Connor $ 224,000
109 Mitchell Klein $ 219,500
110 Daniel Alaei $ 219,000

111 Alan Singer $ 217,000
112 Jack Ward $ 207,500
113 Webber Kang $ 206,300
114 Kevin Wright $ 202,000
115 Richard Lapwood $ 202,000
116 Richard Kirsch $ 200,500
117 Conor Tate $ 200,000
118 Dennis Savelkoul $ 197,500
119 Anthony Laughing, Jr $ 192,500
120 Kelly Zoudo $ 192,500

121 Dmitriy Eidelman $ 189,500
122 David Steirman $ 181,500
123 Lee Watkinson $ 181,000
124 Joe Toth $ 180,500
125 Stephen Deetz $ 180,000
126 Derek Dix $ 178,500
127 Joseph Chiosie $ 178,000
128 Anthony Hill $ 173,000
129 Joe Beevers $ 173,000
130 Louie Calvo $ 170,500

131 Vadim Shlez $ 170,500
132 Louis Lo $ 169,500
133 Michaey Leahy $ 169,000
134 Adam Friedman $ 166,000
135 Dietrich Alex $ 159,500
136 Cliff Cantor $ 159,000
137 Radu Butan $ 158,500
138 Mark Graves $ 154,000
139 Mike May $ 153,500
140 Kit Phaphon $ 150,500

141 Jake Minter $ 146,500
142 Glyn Banks $ 144,500
143 Bernard Lee $ 143,000
144 Peter Hedlund $ 141,500
145 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh $ 136,500
146 Kevin O'Brien $ 136,500
147 Tom Koral $ 132,000
148 Steven Dannenmann, CPA $ 131,000
149 Per Hildebrand $ 131,000
150 Farzad Bonyadi $ 129,500

151 Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf $ 127,000
152 Tom Pniak $ 126,500
153 Alejandro Pachero $ 126,500
154 Chris Podlewski $ 126,000
155 Babak Rozi $ 123,000
156 Kevin Kaikko $ 122,000
157 Mark Tenner $ 112,000
158 Paul Fisher $ 110,000
159 Ayhan Alsancak $ 109,500
160 Mark Bryan $ 109,000

161 Amit Sander $ 109,000
162 Michael P Mollay $ 104,500
163 Kjetil Praesttun $ 102,000
164 Tom Clark $ 94,500
165 Dutch Boyd $ 92,000
166 Joe Leibman $ 88,000
167 Sean Blanton $ 87,000
168 Adam Brosius $ 86,500
169 John R $ 85,500
170 Joseph Vannata $ 84,500

171 Matt Fitzgerald $ 81,500
172 Michael Capener $ 80,000
173 George Thomas Huber $ 73,000
174 Doug Gehring $ 73,000
175 Martin Cedercrantz $ 71,500
176 Frank Hernandez $ 67,000
177 Jon Hoellein $ 63,500
178 Mike Wattel $ 62,500
179 Paul L Darden, Jr. $ 60,000
180 Jeffrey Geiger $ 48,000

181 Tom Drotleff $ 41,500
182 Brett Wiesner $ 36,000
183 Ed Pellegrini $ 23,500
184 John McLaughlin $ 16,500
185 Imad Samouna $ 7,400

Oh, and over 20% of the field won their entry into the event at PokerStars.com

While I'm busy making some CD's I thought I'd give another update:

At the end of DAY 4 there were 58 players left. Here's their chip counts:

1. Tim Phan - $3,244,000
2. Mike Matusow - $2,561,000
3. Farzad Bonyadi - $2,402,000
4. Steve Danaman - $2,143,000
5. Phil Ivey - $2,027,000
6. Tex Barch - $2,025,000
7. Tiffany Williamson - $1,992,000
8. Johnny Howard - $1,806,000
9. Scott Lazar - $1,629,000
10. Tuan Vu - $1,571,000
11. Gregory Rice - $1,414,000
12. Raymi Sanchesz Thorn - $1,288,000
13. Lee Watkinson - $1,221,000
14. Tom Sartori - $1,208,000
15. Daniel Bergsdorf - $1,144,000
16. Brad Koundracki - $1,136,000
17. Minh Ly - $1,102,000
18. Terry Burt - $1,080,000
19. Steve Marx - $1,042,000
20. Per Hildebrand - $1,017,000
21. Michael Kessler - $986,000
22. Shahram - $983,000
23. Patrick Hayden - $972,000

AVERAGE STACK SIZE - $968,793

24. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf - $968,000
25. John Juanda - $841,000
26. Joseph Hachem - $814,000
27. Nick Givson - $811,000
28. John McGrane - $780,880
29. Aaron Kanter - $778,000
30. Ayhan Alsancak - $775,000
31. Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer - $766,000
32. Radu Butan - $762,000
33. Bing Wang - $739,000
34. Oskar Silow - $720,000
35. Adam Friedman - $719,000
36. James Butt - $716,000
37. Russell "The Muscle" Salzer - $710,000
38. Bryant King - $702,000
39. Frankling Caldwell - $690,000
40. Yakov Hirsch - $658,000
41. Joe Connor - $641,000
42. Mark Forrester - $628,000
43. Karlo Lopez - $607,000
44. Joe Stillman - $584,000
45. Kevin Kaikko - $571,000
46. Tony Abesamis - $513,000
47. Kenna James - $510,000
48. Hung La - $505,000
49. David Richardson - $501,000
50. Roland Israelashvici - $469,000
51. Francis W O'Brien - $423,000
52. Bernard Lee - $379,000
53. Andrew Black - $371,000
54. Conor Tate - $368,000
55. Derek Dix - $202,000
56. Rod Pardey Jr. - $187,000
57. Larry Prugh - $166,000
58. Jarl Lindholt - $101,000

They play down to 27 today and move to Binions tomorrow to play down to 9. Friday is the final table.


Greg Raymer


Phil Ivey


Tim Phan


Lee Watkinson