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Thought it would be good to start a thread to post news about the main event which started 7/2.

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Negreanu out...

Sadly, there will be no World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet for legend Daniel Negreanu this year.
But at least the poker pro — known for his tableside chatter — went out with some jokes and chatter.
On Day 1C, he went all-in with pocket Jacks against a pair of 10s and watched as a 10 came out on the flop to send him packing:
 
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[h=1]2018 WSOP Main Event Draws The Second Largest Field In The Tournament's History[/h][h=2]A Total of 7,874 Entries Builds $74,015,600 Prize Pool, With $8.8 Million Going To The Eventual Champion[/h]
by Erik Fast | Published: Jul 04, 2018

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Registration is now closed in the 2018 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main eventand the official numbers have been announced. With 7,874 total entries, the 2018 WSOP main event has attracted the second largest field in the history of this tournament. Only the 2006 main event, which attracted 8,773 players, had a larger turnout.
This year’s Day 1C alone drew 4,571 entries, the largest single daw starting flight ever for the main event. With the 3,303 entries from flights 1A and 1B, the total prize pool this year ballooned to $74,015,600, with a massive $8,800,000 going to this year’s world champion.
Here is a look at the top five WSOP main events in history in terms of field size, and how the 2018 running shapes up in comparison:
YearChampionEntriesTop Prize
2006Jaime Gold8,773$12,000,000
2018TBD7,874$8,800,000
2010Jonathan Duhamel7,319$8,944,310
2017Scott Blumstein7,221$8,150,000
2011Pius Heinz6,865$8,715,638

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Last year’s main event slid to fourth largest as a result of this year’s monster turnout. The event grew roughly 9 percent year-over-year, with each of the three starting flights drawing bigger turnouts than they did in 2017.
“I think with the expanded coverage, the event falling earlier in the schedule, and with this being vacation time for a lot of people with it being a holiday week, I think it being a few days earlier helped bring a few more people,” WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel told Card Player late on day 1C. “What I can tell you is that the energy and buzz, and the fact that we saw so many new people around here the last several days, that all tells me that there’s some excitement happening in the poker world. People are being exposed to poker. The fact that we have more coverage than we’ve ever had before, that tells me that this is a good thing and that poker is in a really good place.”
The top 1,181 finishers are set to make the money this year, with a min-cash being worth $15,000. With the WSOP making the move to pay out the 15 percent of finishers in recent years, that means that this year’s main event will see the largest number of players ever make the money. The top nine finishers this year will all cash for at least seven figures, with the final nine receiving the following payouts:
1st Place: $8,800,000
2nd Place: $5,000,000
3rd Place: $3,750,000
4th Place: $2,825,000
5th Place: $2,150,000
6th Place: $1,800,000
7th Place: $1,500,000
8th Place: $1,250,000
9th Place: $1,000,000

 

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i have allen cunningham in my last longer pool. 10$ entry 7k to first. we should have done something like that here
 
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tDay 2A/B of the WSOP Main Event sees 659 Day 1A and 1,801 Day 1B survivors return to continue their quest to win $8.8 million! Back-to-back Main Event champion Johnny Chan is among the big stacks along with former WSOP Player of the Year George Danzer.
 

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Is there anywhere that has a list of the chip counts for everyone and a list of everyone who has been eliminated?

With a search function where you can type in the name would be preferable.
 
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If you don't see a player you are looking for in the current day's list, you can click the drop down for "view chip counts for day:"
and view the lists for previous days, and find where your player got knocked out.
 

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All remains players listed in alphabetical order :)
 

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127 left in the Main Event, the recent group of notables out:

Antonio Esfandiari
Ivan Demidov
Ben Jackson
Paul Volpe
Jake Toole
Ben Yu
Rocco Palumbo
Richard Gryko
 

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[FONT=&quot]A desert storm and high winds repeatedly knock out power in the Rio Convention Center and force an 83-minute-early halt to Day 5 of the WSOP Main Event. Houston, TX's Michael Dyer leads 109 survivors with 12,180,000 in chips.

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Las Vegas, NV (9 July 2018 ) -- Day 5 action has concluded in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event, and the field has been trimmed to just 109 players. Leading the way into Tuesday's Day 6 is Houston, TX's Michael Dyer, who bagged 12,180,000 in chips to end a weather-shortened night of play.Dyer opened a gap of more than 3.5 million chips over his closest foes, but behind second-place Brian Yoon, a three-time WSOP gold bracelet winner from Torrance, CA, the field is tightly packed. Yoon has 8,395,000, just ahead of the 8,305,000 total posted by four-time Circuit ring winner, Winter Haven, FL's Jeff Trudeau. Israel's Hari Bercovici (7,650,000) is in fourth, with Belgium's Bart Lybaert (7,530,000) rounding out the top five.Dyer used a huge knockout of former Main Event Final Niner Cliff Josephy to move close to the lead, then padded his stack over the final two-plus hours of play to open a gap over the rest of the field, before inclement weather forced suspension of play in the Rio Convention Center. Dyer simply said, "I got lucky," referring to the hand wherein he spiked an ace to send Josephy to the rail.Monday's action in the Main Event was impacted by severe storms moving through Las Vegas, which caused several brief power outages and surges. Tourney staff called a brief 15-minute delay to allow the worst of the storm to pass. However, full lighting in the Amazon Room was unable to be restored, leading to a second decision to bag up chips for the night. As a result, Main Event play will resume on Tuesday with 83 minutes remaining in Level 26, the last of Day 5's originally scheduled levels. How and where Day 6 and Day 7 play schedules will be impacted has yet to be determined.Day 5's casualty list included many more big names, as would be expected when the 310 players beginning the day were slashed by roughly 65 percent. Among those who earned solid cashes on Day 5 but were bounced during the day were Tom Cannuli, Barbara Enright, Bruno Politano, Chris Moorman, Daniel Alaei, Ludovic Geilich, Daniel Ospina, Martin Zamani, Chino Rheem, Michael Schneider, Joe Kuether, Ted Lawson, James Akenhead, Shankar Pillai, Kyle Julius, Roland Israelashvili, Adam "Roothless" Levy, Jonathan Hilton, Richard Gryko, Rocco Palumbo, Ben Yu, Paul Volpe, Ivan Demidov, Antonio Esfandiari, Scott Davies, and Josephy.

Josephy's exit came in unexpected fashion at one of the day's feature tables. He started the hand holding king diamond,king heart,while Dyer found ace club, king club,and Josephy's 3.8 million stack was all in before the flop. That flop came 10 heart,6 spade,3 club keeping Josephy ahead, and the 5 spade turn changed nothing, but the ace spaderiver sent Josephy packing and shipped the nearly eight-million pot Dyer's way.

As Dyer described it, "I beat Johnny Bax with ace-king versus kings. He had a ton of chips, I had a little more, and it didn't really matter if I lost. It isn't fun if I lose [there], but I still would've had about 2.5 [million]. He had too many chips where I could five-bet, and he could four-bet...” meaning that the chips were destined to go in. Dyer's already locked in a vast improvement over his sole prior Main Event experience, when he entered in 2016 but busted out on Day 1.Another player with a great Day 5 was Belgium's Lybaert, who battled Dyer and Denmark's Frederik Jensen for the chip lead before Dyer and a few others pushed ahead late. Lybaert's had a strong WSOP to date with eight previous cashes this summer, including a third-place showing in Event #24, "The Marathon" - $2,620 No-Limit Hold'em. Lybaert said, "I came in here really motivated to Vegas to do the full grind."There might also be a benefit to running deep in a deep-stacked, slow-playing event such as The Marathon as a precursor for the Main Event. As Lybaert said, "From that tournament I learned that you have a lot of time and don't need to rush things. Just take the easy spots -- I don't like to make myself get a headache! When I feel like a tough spot is coming on, I get out early. On to the next hand.

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Denmark's Jensen dipped slightly over the last hour but still finished with 5,635,000, good for 15th. Jensen was another player who caught the fortunate end of an aces-versus-kings collision to build a chunk of his stack. And, like Dyer, Jensen cited the luck aspect first: "I got lucky as well. I had aces against kings for a huge pot, and after that the guy tried to bluff me, and I figured it out. I made the call after 15 minutes; I think the table counted it at 15 minutes. They didn't even call the clock. One guy said, 'There was such a huge pot, we could have waited 35 minutes.'" Jensen, though, chose his spots well. "The folds I made – I made a huge fold that let me keep the largest part of that [stack] in this tournament. I was pretty satisfied with that."Jensen has several huge scores on the international scene but has yet to log that big score in Vegas. It's on his mind, though. "I think this is my 13th summer here playing. I love different poker tournaments. But I didn't do so good over here, so I hope it's time for redemption, and that I make a huge cash here.

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Tomorrow's Day 6 still offers plenty of star power, however. A sampling of those still in the hunt for the $8.8 million winner's payday includes Benjamin Pollak, Barry Hutter, Jensen, Eric Froelich, Ivan Luca, 2009 Main Event winner Joe Cada, Shannon Shorr, Shaun Deeb, Yueqi Zhu, James Obst, and Kelly Minkin.This year's Main Event drew 7,874 entrants and is the second-largest Main Event in WSOP.

The majority of the event's $74,015,600 prize pool remains to be awarded among the remaining 109 players, or less than 1.5% of the starting field. That hefty $8.8 million payday awaits this event's winner when action concludes on Saturday, July 14.
 

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