Those who put up the $1065: Allen Kessler, Tom Schneider, Mo Fathipour, Sabyl Landrum, Bigfoot + Michael Woo. Mark Gregorich, Thor Hansen and Brett Jungblut all watched the numbers.Only 24 entered.

The money $11k is going over to the Bike as Mo Fathipour won the Badugi. William Appel was second and Dustin Powell third.

Liv Boeree was one of 146 to pony up the $1500 for the 1pm NLHE.$68k to the winner.

Vegas rounder Yohanes Muruz won a pretty boring FT in the bounty tournie. The likeable African won’t mind that or the $22k that goes with the win.

$335 bounty Event 30: 435 players
1) Yohanes Muruz $22k
2) Joe Vernon $11k
3) Sohail Afra $8k
4) Roland Suen $5k
5) Freddy Legaspi $4k

 

Then I caught Devilfish trying to arrange a menage with two Sapphire girls. The curse of the hallway ruined a good photo op.

I liked John Kabbaj reading the “Daily Mail” as if he was in a $5 sit n go and not a $10k WSOP tournament.

The British players , with the exception of Devilfish, are not too talkative at the tables but I had a little chinwag with Barny Boatman. He felt that the coverage of him on pokernews was misleading. He arrived back from the food tent, which I have not set foot in this year, to find that play had resumed in the shootout. He arrived at his seat asap and the pnews reporter reported he was out of breath and then caused a dispute over where the button was. Barny disputes the “out of breath”  and says the dealers changed during the break and the button was in the wrong place.

Most of us WSOP veterans agree that less is more when it comes to reporting the WSOP. I had a conversation with Pokerati CEO Dan M last week saying the only disadvantage of working from home is if a player falls ill (like Eskimo did) and you are not there to cover it. Today, it happened with Miami John. I was actually in the Rio and Dan rushed by me in the hallway on his way to Brazilia but didn’t share the scoop about John collasping during the Razz. Good thing really as his photos of the fallen player have come in for more criticism than praise. I remember when the food tent collasped in a storm and we went out to photograph that and later the WSOP officials denied it happened but we had the photos thanks to the fact that two of us had cameras and they only had one security guard present.

Kathy Liebert asked me for some poker gossip. I told her about Layne Flack’s poker playing room mate disappearing, Maria Ho’s boyfriend name and that I had an intern who hasn’t submitted anything at all except for a desire to play the media event.She said I passed the test and was worthy of the name!

It is a bad call to make the Seniors play until 3am when playing for a first prize of over $400k. The Bellagio sends them off to the buffet at 8pm which seems past most of the players bedtime. Another day another dollar is the motto here.

Not sweating any players tonight. Sleep well.

 

In the $500 NLHE I didn’t notice Para Gill in the survivors so apologies to old Parakeet. Liv Boeree, David Levi, Fabrice Soulier and Eric Mizrachi all cashed.[[Show as slideshow]]

Fabrice Soulier is the chip leader at todays stud final. The final table includes quite a few specialists such as Barbara Lewis and Adam Roberts.

404 for the rebuy including Scott Montgomery. Gavin Smith slips further down the Canadian rankings.