Today’s Action: Day 7. We’re playing down to 27 players today. Media access has been restricted to outside the perimeter of the tables, which really has put me in a bad mood. I really have no idea of what the hell is going on now, aside from internet reports from the few people that actually do have access. Whatever. It’s not like I know any of the people still in this damn thing. Johnny Chan? Gone. Scotty Nguyen? Gone. That Canadian guy that’s somehow balding AND has Bama bangs? He’s out, too.

Of the four Mizrachi brothers that made the money, only Michael “The Grinder” remains. My favorite name on the leaderboard was Fokke Beukers of the Netherlands, which sounds like a porn spinoff of a Matthew Broderick movie. Richard Morgan of Columbus is, at this writing, the last Ohioan left in the tournament. Noted Norwegian Johnny Lodden is still in it, along with a bunch of Canadians that I hope don’t win it. No offense, Canada. I simply prefer to see you fail in everything you do.

Poker Quote Of The Day:

There’s no sorry, baby.

–1998 Main Event Champ Scotty Nguyen, after his chip stack taking a hit after doubling up David Liu. Lui’s Ace-King paired against Nguyen’s pocket queens right before a break in Day 5 action. Lui apologized, to which Scotty responded. via PokerNews.

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Today’s Action: Day 3. 2,557 players remaining. It’ll be the first day of the Main Event where the entire field will be in the building at the same time. Players will be scattered around the Rio Convention Center Floor, between the larger Pavilion Room and the smaller, ESPN-infested Amazon Room. Players with short stacks will be forced to make moves early with less-than-idea cards, while bigger stacks will continue to pad their equity in preparation for the cash bubble tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

Phil Ivey surprised the poker world last year when he managed to wade through another largely-amateur field to reach the WSOP Main Event’s final table and a place among the November Nine. That won’t happen again this year; Ivey busted out after an all-in move in the Pavilion Room that saw him mucking his cards face-down and almost running through an employees-only exit. It was a bitter end to a WSOP that saw Ivey cash four times, including a win in the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event.

Today’s Action: Day 2B continues. Players that advance will get tomorrow off and join the survivors of Day 2A on Monday. The field should be narrowed to about a third of the original 7,319 that began play earlier in the week. Read the rest of this entry »