Wsop Main Event Thread!

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Tonight ill be doing some live updating for the millions of UKGF readers:rolleyes:

My tip to win by the way......WILLIE TANN!!!!
Alex tip to win ...................CLIFF JOSEPHY

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Chip counts at the end of day 2a

Chip CountsPlayer Sponsor Amount Trend
Jon Moonves 570000 69000
Jeff "The Rain" Banghart 551000 1000
Tuan Lam 515000 137000
Kenny Tran 495000 77000
Daniel Elizondo 470000 130000
Atlan Nicolas 460000 83000
Avi Cohen 430500 18500

Mikkel Madsen 425000 181400
Ken Smith 420000
Jeff Weiss 401000 1000
Tony Dunst 400000 5000
Jerry Yang 390000 70000
John Duthie 381500 158500
Amanda Baker 380000 220000
Tom Peterson 380000 360000
Cyrus Farzad 335000 25000
Ryan Elson 328000 110000
Ken Evanowski 315000 5000
Stephen Jacobs 315000 145000
Alex Melnikow 310000 7000
Alex Michaels 310000 20000
Todd Phillips 310000 50000
Rep Porter 306000 28000
Steve Brown 300000 50000
Scott Epstein 297000 177000
Andrew Brokos 290000 10000
Diego Cordovez 290000
Kenny Rundh 290000
Willie Tann 282000 229000
Huck Seed 280000 15000
Kirk Morrison 280000 165000
Hoa Nguyen 265000 30000
Stephen O'Dwyer 265000 3000
Suk "Steve" Sung 265000 115000
Adam Weiss 260000 40000
Daniel Snowden 260000
Jared Hamby 260000 40000
Claude Cohen 250000 150000
Vandy Krouch 250000 3000
Jonathan Lessin 243000
Kia Hamadani 230000 130000
Cliff Josephy 227000 5000
Randy Holland 226000 53000
Chris Viox 225000 85000
Justin King 220000 8000
Matt Shepsky 220000 42000
Jim Routis 213000 35000
Minh Ly 212000 24000
Deb Blair 210000 88000
Kitai David 210000 5000
Louis Pilkington 210000
Jan Sorensen 207000 47000
Mark Ellerbe 205000 25000
Steven Prentky 205000
John Dutchak 200000 30000
Lee Klosky 200000
Tinten Olivier 200000 15000
Sam Khouiss 198000 54000
David Names 195000 40000
Berry Johnston 191000 11000
Chris Overguard 180000 30000
Dapo Fadeyi 180000
Jonathan Tare 180000
Aditya Agarwal 175000
Mickey Seagle 175000 10000
Stuart Spear 175000 32000
Ken Webster 170000 51000
Morten Mertner 170000 3000
Bryan Swanson 160000 35000
David Tran 160000 17000
Ian McDonald 160000
Roy Winston 160000 5000
Robert Mizrachi 159000 83500
Brock Parker 156000 6000
Steve Crockett 155000
Bart Hanson 150000 9000
Mark Cole 150000 112000
Tobey Maguire 150000 6000
Rick Barabino 148000 7000
Scott Seiver 146000 126000
Kevin Chan 145000 19000
Robert McAdam 141000 61000
Nils Ersson 140000 70100
Daniel Quach 138000 96000
Billy Baxter 135000 95000
Jason Lester 130000 53000
Julian Gardner 130000 62000
Lamar Wilkinson 130000
Matt Sterling 130000 35000
Ray Henson 128400 11600
Richard Marshall 127000 81000
Ang Dong Leng 125000
David Wells 125000 65000
Dennis Perry 125000
Neal Channing 125000 98000
Scott Siever 125000
Mark Weitzman 122000 2000
Daniel Germano 120000 35000
Isaac Galazan 120000 14000
Sam Zoudo 120000 52000
Yuan I Hsieh 120000 200000
Anthony Newman 119500 80500
Mike Simhai 116000 129000
John Sacha 115000
Andrius Tapinas 110000
Bruno Fitoussi 110000 10000
Francis Cagney 110000 37000
John Spadevecchia 110000 25000
Matthew Hilger 107000 45000
Cory Carroll 105100
Alan Schein 105000
Vadim Trincher 105000 17000

Jun Takada 100400
Brandon Adams 100000 10000
Chris Overgard 100000 115000
Lars Bonding 100000 20000
Sam Simon 100000 55600
Steve Austin 100000 5000

Richard Redmond 96600

Olli Junnonen 90600
Jimmy Tran 90000 5000
Mark "Poker Ho" Kroon 90000 32000
Dwayne Moyers 89000
Ken Weiner 85000 30000
Jim Feist 79800

Robert Price 79100
Laura Fink 77000 37000
Joe Tehan 74000 44000
Scotty Nguyen 74000 10000

Lasse Aspen Melby 73000 15000
Alex Kravchenko 71000 13500
Lee Markholt 70000 39000

Gary Avery 65400
Alexander Bianchini 60000 72000
John Stolzmann 60000 5400
Ted Leva 60000 25000
Cancer Outlaw 59200
Chad Moore 58000 24000
Nam Le 57100
David Levi 56500 7500
Richard Lee 55200
Timothy Duckworth 54000 12000
Shirley Williams 51000 9500
Patrick Mortensen 50000 5000
Matt Matros 49300
Al Adler 48000 32000

Dion Fotopoulos 45300 24700
John Smith 44000 121000
Richard Tatalovich 43000
Keith Lehr 41500 21400
Donnacha O'Dea 40000 18000
Marc Friedman 39000 18000
John Hennigan 36100

Graham Howson 34000
Alvin Zeidenfeld 33000 13000
Marc Goodwin 32000 4000
Gary Benson 27000 74500

Oliver Maingay 27000 25000
Dennis Waterman 24300

Jostein Pettersen 23400 48600
Bertrand Grospellier 20900
Joe Beever 20000 25000
Daniel Harmetz 18800 33200
Jorge Arias 18000 19000
Bobby Baldwin 16800

Eric Clarke 16100
Morgan Machina 15000 25000
Hilbert Shirey 13000 102000

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pah, johnnybax (josephy) is bust-o.
Tann is still in.

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why dosent quick reply work......

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The WSOP Class of '06: Part II
August 01, 2007
Amy Calistri
In Part I of the WSOP Class of '06, we looked at the tenth- through sixth-place finishers from the 2006 WSOP Championship event. In Part II we'll see how the top five finishers in the biggest poker tournament in history fared in the year that followed.

It would be hard to forget our fifth-place finisher in the 2006 Main Event, along with ESPN's Norm Chad's one too many Gone with the Wind references. Although Rhett Butler had never cashed in a major tournament prior to his final-table appearance, the one-time insurance agent spent a good deal of his early days as a rounder. Butler has spent the last year playing poker and using his '06 windfall to set up the Project Lifesaver Foundation; an organization he and his wife established to support the literally life-saving charity, Project Lifesaver International. Butler has added over $100,000 to his bankroll since "graduation," making a final table in a Bellagio Five Diamond event and winning the Wynn Classic H.O.S event.

Allen Cunningham had a long and envious track record before his 2006 fourth-place finish. Prior to the 2006 Main Event, Cunningham had ninety-nine cashes in major tournaments, including four WSOP bracelets, and was the 2005 ESPN/Toyota Player of the Year. So it should come as no surprise that Cunningham kept on rolling. Cunningham scored nine more cashes in the past year, including four from the 2007 WSOP, and added another WSOP bracelet from the $5K Pot Limit Hold'em Championship event to his collection.

If Cunningham had the longest tournament track record of the class, Michael Binger had the longest educational track record. Two months prior to the 2006 Main Event, Binger received his PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford University. Just a few weeks prior to the Main Event, Binger scored his first WSOP cash, making the final table in a preliminary $1500 NLHE event. While it might not be Nobel Prize worthy, Binger has put in some award-winning performances since trading Witten's M-theory for Harrington's M-ratio. Since his '06 graduation day, Binger has added over half a million to his winnings. In 2007, Binger also tied the record for the most WSOP cashes in a single year; he joined the exclusive club of Humberto Brenes, Phil Hellmuth, and Chris Ferguson. Binger tried hard to break the record, which is why he was seen reading a relevant chapter in Super System II as he played Deuce to Seven Lowball.

Paul "kwickfish" Wasicka was primarily an online cash-game player who decided to try his hand in the B&M tournament world in 2006. It was fortuitous timing for Wasicka, who won a satellite and placed 15th in the WPT Championship at the Bellagio. Wasicka parlayed his bankroll into two deep 2006 WSOP cashes prior to his second-place finish in the Main Event. While 2006 was a great year for Wasicka, 2007 was hardly disappointing. In the first four months of 2007, Wasicka grossed more than a million dollars in tournament play, including 12th in the Aussie Millions, fourth in the WPT LAPC, winner of the NBC Heads-Up Championship and 24th place in the WPT Championship. If you had to grade Wasicka on his post-graduate work, I think you'd have to give him an "A."

WSOP Main Event champions traditionally have escaped a "sophomore slump." Buoyed both financially and emotionally, WSOP champions have generally fared well in the year following their bracelet win. That being said, 2006 WSOP Champion Jamie Gold may be one of the slump's first victims. Gold had only two minor cashes since his 2006 win, grossing just over $14,000. Even the relative unknown and amateur player, Robert Varkonyi, was able to post slightly better returns in his post-2002 WSOP Championship play. In fact Varkonyi made more than that this year with his 177th-place finish in the 2007 Main Event. In his defense, Gold probably had more contributing factors and distractions than many in their post-grad year.

Gold's father, a sufferer of Lou Gehrig's Disease, died just four months after the 2006 WSOP. Gold went through a protracted, and publicly damaging, legal battle over a portion of his championship winnings. And in January 2007, the online site Bodog terminated their business relationship with Gold. But Gold is relatively young and even after his undisclosed settlement with Crispen Leyser, he still has plenty of bankroll to fuel buy-ins for a long time to come.

Class of '06 Report Card

Classmate (2006 ME) Post-Grad Earnings
Gold ($12,000,000) $14,078
Wasicka ($6,102,499) $1,162,586
Binger ($4,123,310) $529,280
Cunningham ($3,628,513) $587,350
Butler ($3,216,182) $101,030
Lee ($2,803,851) $68,727
Kim ($2,391,520) 0
Friberg ($1,979,189) $366,237
Nassif ($1,566,858) 0
Goldberg ($1,154,527) $586,368