Best player remaining in Main Event?

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Who do yall think is the best overall player left in the Main Event? Who will run the deepest? Who will bubble?
 
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Last I looked Maria Ho is up top, and I would love to see her make the final table. Also Jason Somerville and Antonio Esfandiari, I would love to see at the FT!
 
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Jason Somerville is the bets result we can ask for as it will be like another poker boom of sorts as he is huge on twitch!
 
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Jason out now, but still a lot of big names left, including Maria. Love to see a woman take it down like Melanie Weisner who has a huge stack.
 
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Johnny Chan is still alive. not the biggest stack but hes my horse...
 
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IS Chan still alive? im not seeing his stack on updates.. ??

he's still alive. around 800k atm. go chan go!
 
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Yeah Maria is looking strong and if Chan is still in, he might make it hard for em.
 
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Dan Colman, Dan Colman, Dan Colman is on a sick run. Max Silver is a very close second. IMO, this is the toughest top 100 field in Main Event history. I would say that the early events would qualify, but there were less than 100 players in total. With player like Colman, Gregg, Silver, Volpe, Marchese, Obst, Les, Yoon, and Bleznick (life scumbag) still in, it is hard for this to not be the toughest top 100 field.
 
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Dan Colman, Dan Colman, Dan Colman is on a sick run. Max Silver is a very close second. IMO, this is the toughest top 100 field in Main Event history. I would say that the early events would qualify, but there were less than 100 players in total. With player like Colman, Gregg, Silver, Volpe, Marchese, Obst, Les, Yoon, and Bleznick (life scumbag) still in, it is hard for this to not be the toughest top 100 field.

Agreed!

Must be getting pretty exciting for them now!

And don't forget Griffin 'Flush_Entity' Benger, Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy, Brian 'czar19' Piccioli, & Chris Klodnicki.
 
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JohnnyBax (Cliff Josephy) is the chip leader right now with 44 left. He's a very accomplished player and was an online crusher pre-Black Friday days. But there's still a long way to go, and many excellent players with a chance to win the bracelet. I wonder if Sheets (Eric Haber) is on his rail. They ran a very prominent staking stable a long time ago.
 
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And don't forget Griffin 'Flush_Entity' Benger, Cliff 'JohnnyBax' Josephy, Brian 'czar19' Piccioli, & Chris Klodnicki.

This is very true. That is why this has to be the toughest 100 player field in Main Event history. I'm sure that there are other top players still in.
 
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Without a doubt....... william Kassouf. this man is a legend in live poker. He knows exactly when to bluff shove, and before he does that, he already has his entire speech laid out in his mind.

Live poker, watch espn for william kassouf...........

i called it here first, he is gonna be top 3.
 
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I'm not watching up to date, stuff, just basing on the latest news post on here, so my picks might be out.

But I'd have to say Dan Colman would be the most interesting for two reasons:

If he thought the media coverage for One Drop was almost enough to make him quit, just wait for October 9.

Second, if he is still playing his super-aggro tough-spot style, we haven't really seen that at a final table in recent years. I mean when Joe won last year he put people in tough spots but it was almost always when he knew he had a significant advantage.

But i think someone who deserves a shot at TID is Tom Marchese. He is arguably one of the best tournament players there is, and I don't think anyone left is sick enough to WANT to go up against him at a final table. He's has other deep runs cut short before, so anything can happen. But even if he is 9/9 come October, I think he might still be the favorite to win.
 
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As of today being Monday I think Daniel Coleman is the best player still left in the field.
 
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48 hours ago I would've said Dan Coleman but the field is now down to 27. I think James Obst, Tom Marchese and Valentin Vorincu will all be tough, and have played really well. There are some good names left that should create an interesting battle to get to the final table.
 
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48 hours ago I would've said Dan Coleman but the field is now down to 27. I think James Obst, Tom Marchese and Valentin Vorincu will all be tough, and have played really well. There are some good names left that should create an interesting battle to get to the final table.

Is Dan out?
 
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Courtesy of wsop.com

Cliff Josephy – 74,600,000 – Seat 6 – Chip Leader
Cliff Josephy from Syosset, New York is the oldest remaining player in the field at 51, but also the only one with a WSOP gold bracelet on his resume. In fact, Josephy has two, having won a $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event in 2013 and a $1,500 Seven Card Stud event at the 2005 WSOP. All told, Josephy has $810,358 in WSOP earnings entering this Main Event and has won $2,641,420 lifetime in live poker tournaments. He also has some history in this event. Josephy has cashed twice previously in the WSOP Main Event, in 2008 (386th place) and last year, in 956th place. In addition, Josephy has invested wisely in this event previously. He was a financial backer of 2009 WSOP Main Event winner Joe Cada. With his guarantee of $1 million for reaching this final table, Josephy will have his largest career cash.

Qui Nguyen – 67,925,000 – Seat 5 – Ranked 2nd in Chips
Qui Nguyen is the only Las Vegas, Nevada resident. He’s a 39-year-old poker pro and gambler with just $9,029 in WSOP earnings – less than the $10,000 it cost to enter this event. He has just one previous WSOP cash and only $52,986 in lifetime tournament poker winnings. This marks Nguyen’s first time to cash in the WSOP Main Event. He entered three WSOP events this summer, his Main Event journey, marking his only cash. Nguyen’s best finish was his 54th place finish in the 2009 WSOP, in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.

Gordon Vayo – 49,375,000 – Seat 8 – Ranked 3rd in Chips
Gordon Vayo is a 27-year-old San Francisco, California resident and poker pro with 26 career WSOP cashes worth $608,136. With the guarantee of at least $1 million for reaching this final table, Vayo will nearly double his career $974,714 in earnings. In 2014, Vayo finished in second place in a WSOP $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed event, winning $314,535, his biggest poker score prior to this accomplishment. This marks Vayo’s first time to cash in the WSOP Main Event, but he’s had a good summer, playing 21 WSOP gold bracelet events and cashing in eight of them.

Kenny Hallaert – 43,325,000 – Seat 9 – Ranked 4th in Chips
For the second consecutive year we have a Belgium-born player at the final table. 34-year-old Kenny Hallaert hails from Hansbeke, Belgium and he’s amassed 22 WSOP cashes and $367,855 in winnings. He’s an accomplished poker tournament director with $1,317,530 in career live tournament winnings, including a sixth place finish at EPT Deauville in 2011 that paid him $210,962, his largest score prior to making this final table. Hallaert is no stranger to going deep in this event or other large WSOP events, as he’s twice cashed previously in the WSOP Main Event (2015: 123rd) and (2011: 323rd). In addition, in the inaugural WSOP Colossus event, the largest live poker tournament in history with 22,374 entries, Hallaert finished in fifth place, earning $182,348 for his $565 investment. He’s now guaranteed to add at least $1 million more to his bankroll and is in good position at the final table.

Michael Ruane – 31,600,000 – Seat 7 – Ranked 5th in Chips
Hailing from Maywood, New Jersey, 28-year-old Michael Ruane is as big as a surprise to be at this final table as anyone. He has just $24,438 in WSOP earnings, all coming from three previous WSOP cashes. His biggest cash previously was for $17,244, so the $1 million he is guaranteed is by far the biggest prize he’s earned in poker. This marks Ruane’s first time to cash in a WSOP event, and he has lifetime live poker tournament winnings of $44,962. He only played two events at this year’s WSOP, and his deep run in the Main Event makes it quite a successful journey for Ruane who makes his living as a poker pro.

Vojtech Ruzicka – 27,300,000 – Seat 3 – Ranked 6th in Chips
Vojtech Ruzicka entered the final day of play with the chip lead and managed to keep himself squarely in control. The 30-year old from Prague, Czech Republic becomes the first Czech to make the final table since Martin Staszko in 2011. Staszko finished in second place, and no player from Czech Republic has ever claimed the WSOP Main Event crown. In fact, Tomas Junek (2012) is the only WSOP gold bracelet winner from the Czech Republic. Ruzicka has 17 previous WSOP cashes totaling $138,585 and has won $1,149,027 lifetime on the live poker circuit. Ruzicka is a poker pro who played 18 WSOP events this summer, cashing in four. This marks his first time to cash in the WSOP Main Event. He has claimed a victory before, winning the 2013 EPT Deauville High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event for $426,907. However, this $1 million he is guaranteed for reaching the WSOP Main Event Final Table will be his largest ever live poker cash.

Griffin Benger – 26,175,000 – Seat 2 – Ranked 7th in Chips
Our only Canadian at this final table is 31-year-old Griffin Benger from Toronto, Ontario, canada. Benger has already won $2,395,406 in live poker tournaments, and even has a previous $1 million victory, claiming first place in the 2014 Shark Tank session in London. Benger has 13 previous WSOP cashes totaling $231,201 and his previous high finish at a WSOP event was twice finishing in 14th place, once in 2012 and again in 2013. Remarkably, this Main Event was the only event Benger entered at the 2016 WSOP, and he’s done well in this event before. He’s cashed twice, once in 2014 in 90th place and prior to that in 2012 in 304th place. Benger also has a successful history with other games, having previously been a world champion in the Counter-Strike computer game, and was ranked as the No. 1 online poker player in 2011. Benger, a poker pro, looks to become only the second Canadian champion in this event and first since Jonathan Duhamel took the crown in 2011.

Jerry Wong – 10,175,000 – Seat 1 – Ranked 8th in Chips
Brooklyn, New York resident Jerry Wong becomes the second New Yorker to be featured at this final table, alongside Josephy. The 34-year old poker pro has career WSOP winnings of $118,156 coming on 19 previous cashes. In total, Wong has won $1,317,539 in live poker tournaments, including a $725,000 prize for coming in third place in the 2013 PCA in the Bahamas. Wong played 16 WSOP events in 2016, cashing five times. His guaranteed $1 million payday is his biggest tournament prize. Prior to that, his biggest WSOP cash came in the 2012 WSOP Main Event where he finished in 309th place for $32,871, the only other time he has cashed in this event.

Fernando Pons – 6,150,000 – Seat 4 – Ranked 9th in Chips
Hailing from Palma, Spain, is 37-year-old Fernando Pons, who is an account executive for a retail chain. He has never cashed previously at the WSOP and has only won a total of $10,589 in live poker tournaments – just a few hundred dollars more than the buy-in for this event. This was the only event he came to play at the 2016 WSOP and prior to the $1 million he’s locked up in this event, Pons’ biggest live tournament cash was for $4,059 for finishing in 56th place in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event in Las Vegas in 2014. He is the first Spaniard to make the WSOP Main Event final table since 2014 when Andoni Larrabe finished in sixth place. He can follow in the footsteps of Spain’s legendary card sharp, Carlos Mortensen, who captured the WSOP Main Event crown 15 years ago, in 2001. Mortensen won $1,500,000 that year and Larrabe won $1,622,471 for his finish, so Pons just needs to finish fifth or higher to have the biggest Spanish score in WSOP Main Event history. Fellow Spaniard Adrian Mateos won the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event title, taking home 1 million euros.

Josh Weiss from La Jolla, California was the tenth place finisher. Play ended at 11:53 pm Pacific Time in Las Vegas on Monday, July 18 when Michael Ruane in the small blind and Gordon Voya in the big blind called Weiss’ 850,000 all-in bet. Weiss’ Ace-Eight was racing against Vayo’s Queen-Seven and Ruane’s Jack-Five. The board ran out Jack-Seven-Three-Five-Four, giving Ruane two pair and eliminating Weiss. Weiss walks away with a nice $650,000 consolation prize.

Prize money for the remaining nine spots is as follows*:

1st place: $8,000,000
2nd place: $4,658,452
3rd place: $3,451,175
4th place: $2,574,808
5th place: $1,934,579
6th place: $1,463,906
7th place: $1,250,000
8th place: $1,100,000
9th place: $1,000,000

Comprehensive WSOP Main Event television coverage will begin airing Sunday, September 11 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2
 
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How in the world did these nutjob dispatch of BOTH Dan Colman AND Tom Machese??

Anything less than a Benger Championship would be a disappointment. Unless, of course, the nobody in 9th finds a way to be the first November (October) 9er to start in 9th and TID.
 
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How in the world did these nutjob dispatch of BOTH Dan Colman AND Tom Machese??

Anything less than a Benger Championship would be a disappointment. Unless, of course, the nobody in 9th finds a way to be the first November (October) 9er to start in 9th and TID.

+1

This might be the first year that I don't watch the Octo9. However, this might be good for the "Next Poker Boom". There are no real "pros" in the field except for one maybe two. Also, I think two of the players won their buy in from a $30 Euro satellite. If a non pro or a satty person wins, then the boom might be alive.
 
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This might be the first year that I don't watch the Octo9. However, this might be good for the "Next Poker Boom". There are no real "pros" in the field except for one maybe two. Also, I think two of the players won their buy in from a $30 Euro satellite. If a non pro or a satty person wins, then the boom might be alive.

Agreed. Partially. Re-read their bios. They are not successful except for Pro Video Game Boy and JohnnyBax. But they've all played a shitton of events, and if they're not employed elsewhere, they are Pros. Not like Billy Pappas, unfortunately.
 
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The legend that is Johnny Bax (Cliff Josephy) ! Him and sheets ran PXF where I learned quite a bit about the game early in my poker days. They will always be legends to the online world :)
 
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The legend that is Johnny Bax (Cliff Josephy) ! Him and sheets ran PXF where I learned quite a bit about the game early in my poker days. They will always be legends to the online world :)

Anybody want bets on Bax TID, hit me up. You get Bax, I get the other 8.
 
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my money is on Jason Somersville..
 
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