Team Betfair

Day 6 update

2007-07-15T21:00:00.000+01:00

Play has definitely tightened up on day 6. David Tran is the chip leader on 8.8M

The current top ten is posted below;

David Tran 8,800,000
Ray Henson 8,000,000
Hevad "Rain" Khan 7,950,000
Philip Hilm 7,400,000
Kevin Farry 7,400,000
Scott Freeman 7,360,000
Lee Childs 6,520,000
Jerry Yang 5,090,000
Kenny Tran 4,955,000
William Spadea 4,575,000

Remaining 31

Hats off to Deejay

2007-07-14T23:38:00.000+01:00

Deejay over the last five days has played some fantastic poker to finally finish in 84th place.

The hand as it happened;
Deejay and another player were all in pre-flop; Deejay had A 10 Vs his opponents K K. His ace didn’t pair and in his true sportsmanship style he stood up and shook everybody’s hand and said good luck.

Congratulations and hats off to Deejay for a fantastic 84th placed finish in WSOP main event...

A Dave and Goliath story - Day 5 update

2007-07-14T22:17:00.000+01:00

Sorry not to post earlier but it is getting very hard to get in and out of the main room.
Dave "Deejay" Wells the short stack at the table has put in a great mornings play together to now be in the last 89. He has been battling off massive raises by some very smart re-raises and his uncanny ability to never look worried...

Deejay stack 500K
Avg stack 1.4M
Remaining 89

More updates to come shortly

Day 4 comes to a close

2007-07-14T08:20:00.000+01:00

Deejay is in the last 114

Cards havent come free following for Deejay yet he has survived a long days play and has made it to the last 114. Going into day 5 he has a chip stack of 684K.

Avg. chip stack 1M
Remaining 114
Blinds 8K/16K - 2K ante

Congratulations again to Deejay

More updates tomorrow...

Dinner break -Day 4

2007-07-14T03:39:00.000+01:00

Deejay the finely tuned poker machine is already guaranteed a prize win of $58K. Sitting on a 400K chip stack on a table full of big stacks gives him the opportunity to possibly double up quickly.

Avg. stack 886K
Remaining 154

I'll be right behind him as soon as play commences to give you as many updates as possible.

Day 4 update

2007-07-14T02:03:00.000+01:00

Deejay has just won a pretty big pot with a King high flush. His chip count is now 440K with the average being 560K.

More updates coming shortly...

Update - On another break

2007-07-14T00:58:00.001+01:00

Deejay currently has 215K to his name and his eager to get his chips in the middle to keep up with an average stack of around 682K.

193 players remain.

Break time at the WSOP day 4

2007-07-13T23:02:00.000+01:00

Break time at the WSOP day 4

Deejay is on 330K and is waiting to make a move as the blinds have gone up to 5K/10K - 2K ante.

The average chip stack is around 550K and there are about 225 players remaining.

Keep it going Deejay.

Deejay update

2007-07-13T22:44:00.000+01:00

Deejay now has a 250K stack.

245 players now remain and the average chip stack is 515K.

45 minutes until the next break

Quick chip count update

2007-07-13T22:15:00.000+01:00

Deejay now on 375K

Remaining 260
Avg. stack 490K

1 hour 10 minutes to the next break

Day 4 - Chip count update

2007-07-13T21:21:00.000+01:00

It has been extremely hard to get to the players, but all in all good news Deejay is the last flying the flag for Betfair.

His current stack stands at;
Deejay 390K

bladelew busted out early with pocket 10's against AQ, player hit an A on the flop.

Remaining 285
Avg. stack 446K

Players have just gone back in for the second session of the day.
More updates to come shortly

Day 3 over - Chip counts

2007-07-13T08:34:00.000+01:00

A long day of play is over and two Betfair players remain.

Bladelew 277K
Deejay 388K

Remaining 314

On the way to close of play we lost SAMDONK20 to aces. He was feeling a bit under the weather so we don’t have to much to report back. We will report back more on the hand tomorrow.

It’s time to recharge the batteries and get some rest. We look forward to a great days play tomorrow. More updates then.

Final session - Chip update

2007-07-13T07:53:00.000+01:00

Another chip update for the final session of day 3

SAMDONK20 180K
Deejay 450K
Bladelew 235K

Remainng 378
Avg chip. 348K

IAMMULUC bows out

2007-07-13T06:19:00.000+01:00

IAMMULUC puts a 14K raise in early position with AA (blinds 2.5K/5K) Button re-raises all-in, IAMMULUC instantly calls, player turns over 7h 8h.

Flop: 4 6 3
Turn: Qd
River: 5

Player hits the straight and IAMMULUC is knocked out!!

Chip update

2007-07-13T04:11:00.000+01:00

Dinner break

Play to resume in about 45min

Chip counts are as follows;

bladelew 270K
Lloyd 100K
Deejay 330K
SAMDONK20 194K

Remaining 519

In the money!!

2007-07-13T01:58:00.000+01:00

All players are now in the money!!!

Congratulations.

Chip Update

2007-07-13T01:44:00.000+01:00

Chip stack update

Currently on a break

Lloyd 140K
Deejay 270K
bladelew 215K
SAMDONK20 150K

Avg stack 205K

Chip update

2007-07-13T00:58:00.000+01:00

A few of the chip counts are below;

Lewis 235K
Carsten 76K
Lloyd 142K
Deejay 270 - 280K

626 remaining
70 table playing
Avg stack 203,130

More of our players chip counts will be posted shortly

Doobs out

2007-07-12T23:07:00.000+01:00

Doobs sitting on the BB with 6d 2d. Player raises to 6K Doobs calls. Flop comes Kd Td 6s Dobbs checks, player bets 12,000 Doobs raises to 35K, player calls. Turn comes 8d Doobs pushes. Player calls with the nut flush beating the lower flush of Doobs.

BIFTA knocked out

2007-07-12T22:28:00.000+01:00

Bifta holding ACE(d) NINE(d) pre-flop raises to 9K, Julian Gardener calls. Flop comes down TWO(d) THREE and SEVEN(d). Julian Gardener bets 15K BIFTA raises to 50K, Gardener pushes and Bifta already pot committed calls. Gardener turns over SIX SIX. Bifta didnt hit any of his outs on the turn and the river.

Chip Update

2007-07-12T21:11:00.000+01:00

A quick chip update

Deejay 500K (All in first hand of the day)
Bifta 180K
Carsten 110K
Bladelew 30K
Doobs 220K

Average stack 165K

More updates to come shortly

Go Team Betfair !!

Nh Wp Fu busted by AK

2007-07-12T05:19:00.000+01:00

Nh Wp Fu got busted by a big slick .. details follow!

Bifta still somewhere around 100k

Chip Update

2007-07-12T04:50:00.000+01:00

Nh Wp Fu down to 35k still confident :)
Bifta 105k
Paltkoma has switched tables.. still searching for him!

aprox. 4 hours to go..

Key Hand

2007-07-12T00:52:00.000+01:00

NH WP FU was holding QK when a flop of Q33 looked promising. With only one other in the pot in LP, NH WP FU fired in on the flop only to have his oppo push for approx 30k.

NH WP FU called and was delighted to see the aggressor holding 22.....until the 2 on the turn saw the 80k pot being dragged to the other side of the table.

Chip updates

2007-07-11T23:31:00.000+01:00

NH WP FU 160k
Paltkoma 45k
Bifta 95k

Come on Team Betfair ! Go guys !

Slaven's exit hand

2007-07-11T23:21:00.000+01:00

Slaven11 found himself on the BB with one limper in mid position when holding KQo. Being short stacked on 13k he pushed, only for the limper calling and extra 12k from his 40k stack with A7h. The paired board of 8899x offered no help, ending Slaven’s WSOP title dream.

Day 2b update

2007-07-11T23:08:00.000+01:00

Boshmosh is out.

A valiant effort. Boshmosh was on the BB (1200), looked down and found JJ. Five limpers is never healthy, so a fair size raise to 6k saw 4 of them fold preflop. The other reraised to 12k and Boshmosh pushed for a further 38k putting both players all in.

JJ v 99.....and the turn produces a one-outer for his opponent as a 9 was folded preflop.

Slaven11

2007-07-11T22:35:00.000+01:00

Slaven is out, not sure how yet.

2007-07-11T22:05:00.000+01:00

Bifta’s AA was up against 89h….the flop was 7 10 h offering a straight flush draw.Thankfuly aces held

NH WP FU is seated at a very deep stacked table with some aggressive players, a complete contrast to the tables he was playing the other day. A change of tactic is required, or the hope of waking up with a monster when one of these aggressors decides to take him on. This table will be the make or break for him.

Day 2b

2007-07-11T22:00:00.000+01:00

There are four members of Team Betfair playing today, Day 2b.

Boshmosh – 40k

Paltkoma – 55k

Bifta – 55k

Slaven11– 13k

NH WP FU – 110k ish

End of Day 2a

2007-07-11T21:57:00.000+01:00

Chip counts form day 2a

Bladelew 141,300
Deejay 242,100
C jakob 122,000
IAMMULUC 34,000
Doobs 175,700
Samdonk 132,000

2007-07-11T21:54:00.000+01:00

Here is yesterdays updates:

Starting day 2 today are:

Alias Chips
Heffernan 71200
MIC3011 53000
evo2 57500
IAMMULC 17600
350bhp 19300
Loislane 23400
Lanz 56800
SwedeGirl 43800
Doobs 86300
samdonk20 51900
Deejay 71100
c jakob 44200
mag-c 20200
Bladelew 166000

We are just hunting chip updates now but we have lost:
Heffernan, SwedeGirl, mag-c.

Shrubs I think is still in will find out more in a bit.
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doobs 78k
lanz27
mic 62
evo2 32
deejay 132
bladelw 189
samdonk 120
c jakob 80
IAMMULC 30

Cant find the others so assume out

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deejay was just all in with 10s vs AJ

Flop 10, rag Jack, turn and river blank Deejay up to over 200k

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mic3011 - 43k
ev02 -18k
IAMMULC -37k
Doobs-95k
Damdonk - 65k
Deejay -230k
C Jakobsen - 120k
Bladelew - 150k

Latest:

We have lost our lovely mic3011
Evo2 50k
IAMMULUC - 40k
Doobs - 164k
C Jakob 180k
Samdonk -110k
Deejay 250k
Bladelew- 170k

End of Day 2a:

We just lost the talented and handsome evo2

A10 vs 610

Flop 10 6 blank, no help on turn or river.

Booo

2007-07-10T07:10:00.000+01:00

Benno out :(

Boshmosh is low chips but has been hanging in for a while.

NH wp fu is doing well recently took down a 40k pot.

Seany is up to around 30k.

Day1c

2007-07-09T23:42:00.000+01:00

Hello and apologies for the lack of update yesterday. What I can tell you is that Dangero, Bifta and Philly were playing. And Bifta got through to day 2.

Runners for Day 1c
Azimut
Slaven11
nh wp gg
Sean
Boshmosh
Palktoma
scooby

Friends of team Betfair:
JPK
KPNutz
Kingpoker
Benno

Chip Updates to follow...

There are also two day 2s with 1a and 1b playing tomorrow; and 1c and 1d playing the day after.

Estelle:)

2007-07-08T02:13:00.000+01:00

Booooooooo

Have lost Jim "CRACKP0T" Kerrigan, Orla Summerland, Dave Evans, and Thomas "Buzzer" Bihl

2007-07-08T00:36:00.000+01:00

A couple of hey hands:

Dubai pushed for his remaining stack of approximately 4k from under the gun with 22 on a 236 flop, two of which were spades. The other two players in the hand flat called and checked it all the way down. One showed 67 for top pair on the flop, the other declared JJ. Dubai tripled up to 22k.

HEFFERNAN held AKo and raised to 350 preflop finding himself one caller. The AK9 rainbow flop was looking promising until HEFFERNAN faced a raise to 2200 following his lead out bet of 650. He cleverly smelt a rat and both checked the Jack on the turn. A King on the river gave HEFFERNAN a full house of AAKKK. His opponent called a 3500 bet, unable to lay down KK999.

2007-07-08T00:11:00.000+01:00

Doobs and deejay sitting pretty with over 40k.

Doobs got an unexpected call with his all in push and tripled up- he is wondering around on happytilt right now before he goes back to his seat.

hangman and HEFFERNAN are around the 30k mark with most of the others sitting slightly above 20k.

Yesterday we had two runners Luke and Grazza who did not make day 2

Early doors yet but a promising start to Team Betfairs hunt for a bracelet

2007-07-07T22:15:00.000+01:00

Buzzer and David Craig have been on the TV table with Hatchem. Most players are still sitting around the 20k starting mark which is what everyone started with.

Doobs is up on 29.5k after level 1

Todays Runners

2007-07-07T22:10:00.000+01:00

Players and Table numbers
- CHIP COUNTS TO FOLLOW

Craig Burgess- Hangman - 32
Lisa Backman- golddigger - 48
John conroy -Swedegirl - 207
Manuel Palenca - Isabelle F - 38
Steve Bibby- Rocc64 - 42
Kevin Dean - evo2 - 21
Dale Hoy- Delboy-123
David Barraclough - Doobs -215
Mikeal Eriksen- MIC3011 - 2
Dave Shallow - Dubai -9
Ben Grundy - 44
Buzzer - 213
David Craig- Betfairno-213
Vik- Lanz - 202
Alexander- Loislane
Jonas Egeberg - mag-c- 226
Morten Frimann-Dahl -OneOfaKind -144
Alexander Gramm PlzBustMe-28
Ludavic Lacay-xxTHETILTxx -203
Lloyd Rees- IAMMULC -30
Hans Vogl- 1
Deejay -225
Carsten Jakobsen (c jakob)
Orla Sommerland -rowan007- 90
Jamie Smith- 350bhp- 61
David Evans-214

Chipe colours and values
Orange 5000
Yellow 1000
Blue 500
Black 100
Green 25

Trying to find:
Alex Worth (swancity)
Steve Bell (ebayson)
Sam Ditson(samdonk20)
Lee Clifford (7 PM)
John Walker (
Andrew Walker
Esat Kaan Erbahar (scooby)
Lewis Pilkington (Bladelew)

Back in Sin City

2007-07-05T17:42:00.000+01:00

I got here a couple of days ago. The jetlag seems to have gone and i play Day 1(b). Hopefully i can make it through to day two. I hope we start with 20000 chips but i'm not sure about that.

Its the Betfair party later today so that should be cool!

HOT HOT HOT....

2007-07-04T23:45:00.000+01:00

Wow... arrived in Vegas to announcements that they are expecting a heatwave in Vegas as if 40c was not hot enough, oh no we are expecting temperatures to reach 47c!! All I can say is thank god for air conditioning.

A few changes to the WSOP this year, they have now announced that they are having 4 starting days and I believe that there are going to be 9 players per table. In addition the tables look more spaced out than previous years but I am ony going by pictures as this is my first vist to Vegas.

Most of our players are starting on day 1b(7th July), so expect plenty of updates on that day.

I can view the forum but cant log in to Betfair from here so please feel free to add comments and I will try to get your answers

Estelle :)

Groundhog Day...

2007-06-29T04:18:00.000+01:00

Yesterday played the $2K Omaha Hi-Lo: Run 4K up to 12.500 Chips, then cant win a pot after that.

Today played the $5K NLH Shorthanded: Run 10K into 25.000 Chips, then have a 43.000 preflop Coinflip vs Scott Clements. 66 lose AKo. Cant catch a break.

=> Live Poker is rigged !!!

There is just one Ricky Hatton, just one....

2007-06-24T14:05:00.000+01:00

Took a couple of days off and went to the boxing fight yesterday with Woody Deck. Amazing atmosphere with tons of Englishmen going wild !!! First class. For some impressions from the fight please click on BUZZER`S BLOG in the blogroll.

Will be back in action in the WSOP today, $1.500 Mixed Hold`e is the name of the game...

Running cold and taking break

2007-06-23T03:06:00.000+01:00

June20: $3K FLH ran 6K starting stack into 10.500 chips first 2 levels which gave me the tournament lead. Continued to be near the top for first 6 levels (had 13K tops), then totally ran out of steam and busted late in day 1.

June21: $5K Omaha Hi-Lo, never get much going and bust late in day 1.

Will take June 22+23 off then play the Mixed Hold`em on June 24.

GL, Buzz

Same Same

2007-06-20T05:04:00.001+01:00

$5K H2H get a first round bye.

Second round grind out a small lead. Late Level 3, find 99 raise, he RR, I move in. He calls with AK, Turn A. Just cant win a key hand. Sad. Totally ss K4 lose KQ, thats it. Poker is fun.

WSOP Update

2007-06-19T01:42:00.000+01:00

Took a couple of days off, then had a couple more flops. $1.500 NLH busted somewhere in midfield. $1.500 Razz made it in decent shape to day2 then got destroyed brutally 3 times. Gotta love poker...

Taking a WSOP break

2007-06-13T23:51:00.000+01:00

NLH Shootout yesterday I played well but was disappointed to finish only 3rd on my 10-handed table losing a coinflip 66 vs JTs river straight.

Today played over-agressively in the $5K NLH and soon busted. No excuses there and I will give myself some days off from the WSOP grind.

GL, Buzzer

$5K Limit Hold`em (Day 2)

2007-06-12T05:20:00.000+01:00

No cards, no luck, no nothing. Just finished unplaced with about 48 players remaining.

$5K Limit Hold``em (Day1)

2007-06-11T12:10:00.001+01:00

Just finished Day1 with 24.400 chips which is slightly above average. Two key hands:

At 300/500 UTG raises, EP 3-bets 1.500, MP calls 1.500, I have 44 on the BU and call for set-value, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls! And that on a tight table. Flop AA4 (2 spades)=> Jackpot baby! All 4 players check to me, I bet 500, all 4 players call! Turn an offsuit 5, all 4 players check to me, I bet 1.000, BB+UTG fold, EP check-raises to 2.000, MP folds, I 3-bet, he 4-bets, I 5-bet which is the cap. River is a blank, he check-calls and I win a monster pot.

Still at 300/500 a tight player raises from EP, SB calls, I call with 44. Flop is Q42 (2 clubs). check, check, raiser conti-bets, SB calls, I check-raise, EP calls, SB calls. Turn the ace of spades. Perfect. SB ch, I bet 1.000, call, call. River an offsuit 5. SB goes to Hollywood then bets, I call, EP folds and the biggest fish ever proudly shows 33. NH WP! If I win that pot I am tournament leader at that stage but hey what can you do.....

Hoping for a good showing tomorrow, re-start is 3pm Vegas time.

$2.500 H.O.R.S.E (Limit)

2007-06-11T12:02:00.000+01:00

A quick word regarding yesterdays HORSE event. Never could get much going. I just analyzed where my chips went and I did ok in what are supposed to be my weaker games Stud Hi (-800) and Stud Hi-Lo (+425). Omaha Hi-LO was ok as well (-300). But I ran ice cold in my stronger games Razz (-1.650) and Hold`em (-2.675) and busted in level 11 (30 minutes each).

$5K PLH

2007-06-09T21:20:00.000+01:00

Lets start yesterdays report with a quote from the Cardplayer-Coverage:
A few rows down sits Table 36, perhaps one of the toughest tables in the entire room, and there was only one person that I didn’t recognize. It sucks to be that guy sitting at the same table with Isaac Haxton, Nam Le, Vanessa Rousso, Scott Fischman, Kirill Gerasimov, Ryan Daut, Antonio Esfandiari, and Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier .
Of course the "poor" and "unknown" guy was me. No idea why I get no love from Cardplayer they just love to ignore me. Even when I was the early chipleader in the WPT Commerce they would rather comment on the colour of the socks of the guy to my right than even mention my stack. Well good that I have no big ego :-) If anything stuff like that will only motivate me even more.

Anyway, I outplayed those "big names" all day despite being pretty card-dead. In level11 there were 52 of the 398 players left. I was slightly below average and busted in the last hand of the day. I had raised, the SB had flat called. He then bet out the pot on an A63 rainbow flop. I have AQ and we get our chips in, he has AK. Well I didnt see that one coming....

Will be back...

Get Rich or Die tryin`...

2007-06-08T03:23:00.000+01:00

Landed safely in Las Vegas and will stay the first month in the Rio hotel before joining Team Betfair in the Wynn for the Main Event.
Checked out the pokerroom and even if you have been here before it still is quite impressive. Having said that the chaos of the first days seems to have settled down and I was able to register without significant problems.
Currently I am watching Game 1 of the NBA finals and will then retire early to be fresh for tomorrows PLH event. Stay tuned...

Viva Las Vegas...

2007-06-06T16:34:00.000+01:00

Good news, I got the green light to fly to Vegas tomorrow. While I have not made a final decision, the first events that I have laid my eyes on are:
June8 $5.000 PLH
June9 $2.500 HORSE
June10 $5.000 FLH
June11 $2.500 NLH
June12 $1.500 NLH-Shootout
While I have also looked at events beyond that date it usually does not make sense to plan too far ahead. I will just see how I feel and how things develop. But this years schedule is enticing to say the least...:-)

Meanwhile see you at the tables, Buzzer

Just two days to go

2007-05-31T16:15:00.000+01:00

I depart for sunny Las vegas in just two days. It's nearly a year since i was last there so really looking forward to it.

I think i will probably play around 15 events over the course of the next five weeks, including the HORSE, a few Omaha events and NL Hold'em of course. In Europe all the big tournaments are NL Hold'em, so it will be good to be able to play some different forms of poker. Hopefully there will be some juicy PL Omaha cash games to get stuck into as well.

My first event is the $5000 PL Omaha with rebuys and add ons. Could be an expensive way to start the trip. I'll post another update after i've played that one.

"Bad Beat" before WSOP starts

2007-05-31T13:16:00.000+01:00

The "Bad Beat" did not happen on the poker-table but rather in my holiday in Thailand and on the flight home. Like in so many countries with extremly hot temperatures the hotels, restaurants and other buildings like cinemas get cooled down to artic temperatures, usually by an air con that blows right into your neck. As I know that I am quite vulnerable to that I tried to be "careful" but somehow the obligatory air con-cold was unavoidable for the last 2 days of my stay there. As if that would not have been bad enough, despite wearing a hooded sweater and wearing the hood on the flight home the thing grew to a inflammation of the right middle ear. :-( And that means I am not allowed to fly for a week and had to cancel my flight that was booked for today. Of course I am pretty disappointed, I really had looked forward to tomorrows $5K Mixed Hold`em Event. But what can you do, health has to be priority number one and I have now rearranged for June7 by which I am hopeful to be ready to go. That would still give me plenty of time and opportunities over in Vegas.

As I otherwise feel fine I will try to make best use of this extra week at home and grind it out on Betfairs SnG tables. I am happy to report the liquidity is getting much better and especially the 200s+300s are filling quite nicely in the evening.

See you at the tables, Buzzer

World Series of Poker 2007

2007-05-30T14:53:00.001+01:00

Qualify now for the World's biggest and most prestigious poker tournament, the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event. Last year, well over 8,000 players competed for an enormous prize pool with the eventual winner walking off with an outrageous $12 million in his pockets… This time round it really could be you!