[BBP Guru]

Phil Ivey was out yesterday i believe..About how great a player he is..Let me put it this way...When some of the top 10 professional poker players like Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, Howard Lederer were asked who the best poker player they think was...without hesitation they said it was Phil Ivey...Checkout Ivey's Profile at BBP and his notable winnings till date.

[dovla]

Originally Posted by BBP Guru

Phil Ivey was out yesterday i believe..About how great a player he is..Let me put it this way...When some of the top 10 professional poker players like Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, Howard Lederer were asked who the best poker player they think was...without hesitation they said it was Phil Ivey...Checkout Ivey's Profile at BBP and his notable winnings till date.

i saw the links.. really admiring.
i hope i'll kick him out of wsop final table next year

[elon05]

Phil Ivey is defenitely the best player out there. Random question that I have always wondered about. If you finish in the money at the wsop are taxes taken out on your winnings? If they do then if you finish in the money and the government takes like 40% then you still might lose money overall. Like all the people who won $14,000 if the government takes 40% they would be left with like $8,000 which is $2,000 less then what the bought in for. Just curious because I have no idea.

[iceberg]

Day 4 is done. 135 players left out of 8773.
Blinds are 5K/10K, ante 1K
The only pro left that I recognize readily is Annie Duke (26)

PLACE PLAYER AMOUNT
1 Jamie Gold 3,700,000
2 Max Reele 2,358,000
3 James Routos 2,279,000
4 Kyle Bowker 2,272,000
5 Michael Binger 1,889,000
6 Prahlad Friedman 1,558,000
7 Ricki Nielsen 1,388,000
8 Kevin Aaronson 1,354,000
9 WeiKai Chang 1,343,000
10 Noah Siegel 1,283,000
11 Brian Hansen 1,273,000
12 Luke Chung 1,271,000
13 Dmitri Nobles 1,252,000
14 John Ma 1,250,000
15 Jeffrey Lisandro 1,208,000
16 Dustin Holmes 1,176,000
17 Eric Lynch 1,085,000
18 Ricardo Velasco 1,050,000
19 Mark Garner 1,048,000
20 Chris Damick 1,039,000
21 Richard Gryko 994,000
22 Dan Abouaf 992,000
23 Dave Murray 991,000
24 Doug Kim 937,000
25 Lee Kort 936,000
26 Annie Duke 919,000
27 Cuong Do 914,000
28 Rick Mombourquette 911,000
29 Ken Jacobs 896,000
30 Thomas Wahlroos 884,000
31 Cheng Yu 876,000
32 Matt Wilson 860,000
32 Tyler Teague 860,000
34 Andrew Schreibman 835,000
34 Humberto Brenes 835,000
36 Tony Moretina 817,000
37 Brady Shepard 808,000
38 Fred Goldberg 791,000
39 Kevin O'Donnell 789,000
40 Lasse Ubostad 782,000
41 Clint Brotherton 760,000
42 Alan Resh 709,000
43 Chris Kealy 708,000
44 Dan Nassif 702,000
45 Alex Balandin 681,000
46 Mitch Schock 674,000
47 Erik Friberg 650,000
48 Paul Raeburn 646,000
49 Pat Dattilo 638,000
50 John Magill 636,000
51 Anthony Fagan 634,000
52 Jean Houle 629,000
53 Kevin Daly 622,000
54 Hossein Khodabanelou 620,000
55 Justin Diamond 608,000
56 Marcello Del Grosso 607,000
57 Richard Lee 606,000
58 Scott Malone 585,000
59 Rob Roseman 576,000
59 Samir Khoueis 576,000
61 Steven Goodemote 569,000
62 Siddharth Jain 567,000
63 Matthew Morgan 564,000
64 Paul Wasicka 552,000
65 Leif Force 537,000
66 Raphael Doromal 536,000
67 Brian Nadell 523,000
68 Lowell Kim 522,000
69 Dan Schmiech 515,000
70 Allen Cunningham 503,000
71 Scott O'Reilly 501,000
72 Sebastian Zavarsky 497,000
73 Daniel Kreitzman 496,000
74 John Lee 473,000
75 David Einhorn 462,000
76 Brian Kornfeld 459,000
77 Virgil Beddingfield 453,000
78 Vipul Kothari 435,000
78 Tyler Pendleton 435,000
80 Benjamin Logan 430,000
81 Chris Back 416,000
82 Rob Berryman 413,000
83 Mikael Thuritz 411,000
84 Sirious Jamshidi408,000
84 Robert Betts 408,000
84 Hakam Sahl 408,000
87 Sabyl Cohen 398,000
88 Matt Woodward 392,000
89 Aaron Baltzell 386,000
90 Robert Taylor 375,000
91 Debra Lalor 372,000
91 Barry Goren 372,000
93 Sean Johnson 359,000
94 Theodore Park 358,000
95 Michael Bower 353,000
96 Eric Molina 346,000
97 James Petrillo 345,000
98 Reuben Peters 344,000
99 Shyam Ravindran 336,000
100 Alan Schein 333,000
101 Anders Karlsen 329,000
102 Marc Friedmann 327,000
103 David Simon 324,000
104 Paul Greim 317,000
105 Nicolai Vivet 316,000
106 Iago Lopez 315,000
107 Rhett Butler 310,000
108 Mack Lee 287,000
109 Aki Ruuskanen 285,000
110 Per Loeff 284,000
111 Davis Huynh 280,000
112 Bryan Micon 275,000
113 Shannon Westbrook 273,000
114 Walt Shafer 266,000
115 Mark Shanta 245,000
116 Paul Coles 239,000
117 Richard Wyrick 234,000
118 Arturo Morales 222,000
119 Stefan Mattsson 219,000
120 Derek Scallon 209,000
120 Carlos Lopez Jr. 209,000
122 Paramjit Gill 203,000
123 Michael Simonsen 202,000
124 Steinan Karlsen 200,000
125 William Thorsson 168,000
126 Mark Petersen 166,000
127 Kevin Nathan 158,000
128 Cory Butler 150,000
129 Bert Gill 127,000
130 Casey Kastle 117,000
131 Eric Buchman 110,000
132 James Flick 92,000
133 Robby Robertson 75,000
134 John Kim 67,000
135 David Woo 44,000

The payoff is about to increase from 47K to 51K when the field is narrowed down to 126. Not enough to retire on yet.

[dovla]

Joe Hachem is out ?

i saw he was in 30th place 2 days ago..

[madmax155]

hachem played well and deserved a better fate, phil hellmuth, layne flack and texas dolly kinda disapionted me as they should still be in. another past champion that put up a good showing was robert varkoyni who was in the top 100 every day until he lost out. so we all can cheer for annie duke as the rest of the field, excluding allen cunningham are relative unknowns.

[iceberg]

Check this out, 27 players left and their placings two days ago. Two guys came from the bottom of the pack and are now in the top 10. Must be some good luck and great poker going on. Their paydays will be a minimum of a cool $0.5 Million !!. Ca-ching, Ca-bling.

1 Jamie Gold.............13,000,000.....1st
2 Erik Friberg..............7,735,000....47th
3 David Einhorn..........6,905,000....75th
4 Rhett Butler............6,400,000..107th
5 Dan Nassif...............5,430,000.....44th
6 Richard Lee.............5,275,000.....57th
7 Michael Binger..........5,275,000......5th
8 William Thorsson......3,765,000..125th
9 Jeffrey Lisandro........3,750,000.....15th
10 Kevin Aaronson.......3,670,000......8th
11 Doug Kim...............3,595,000.....24th
12 John Magill.............3,275,000.....50th
13 Allen Cunningham....2,650,000.....70th
14 Leif Force..............2,265,000.....65th
15 Kevin O'Donnell.......2,130,000.....39th
16 Prahlad Friedman.....1,850,000......6th
17 Eric Lynch..............1,785,000.....17th
18 Lee Kort.................1,700,000.....25th
19 Rob Roseman..........1,685,000......59th
20 Fred Goldberg.........1,611,000......38th
21 Dustin Holmes.........1,210,000......16th
22 Sirous Jamshidi.......1,190,000.....84th
23 Luke Chung............1,100,000......12th
24 Paul Wasicka.............700,000......64th
25 Siddharth Jain............675,000......62th
26 Mark Garner...............635,000.....19th
27 Richard Wyrick..........570,000.....117th
28 Lowell Kim.............................0.....68th
29 Mitch Schock.........................0.....46th
30 Cuong Do..............................0.....27th

Blinds are now 25K/50K, with antes of 5k.
The pot are now 75k + 45K = 120K.

[BBP Guru]

Allen Cunningham is one of the more notables ones among the list..I would like to see him win this.

[iceberg]

Who wants to be a Millionaire !!! Here they are, each will get a minimum of $1Million smackers. Blinds are 30K/60K with a 10K ante. Each pot starts with approx. 150K. There are about 88 million in chips in play.
Hey BBP, good call on Mr.C .... Hey.

1) Jamie Gold............31,175,000.......1st
2) Allen Cunningham...14,590,000.....13th
3) Paul Wasicka...........8,700,000.....24th
4) Erik Friberg.............7,000,000.......2nd
5) Fred Goldberg..........6,700,000......20th
6) Rhett Butler............4,500,000........4th
7) Dan Nassif..............4,330,000........5th
8) Doug Kim................4,000,000......11th
9) John Magill..............3,960,000......12th
10) Richard Lee............3,125,000........6th
11) Michael Binger.........2,725,000........7th
12) Leif Force...............1,980,000.......14th

I also showed their placings out of 27 from a day ago.
The top half stayed in the running and only PW and FG making big moves.

[iceberg]

Here it is ......THE WSOP FINAL TABLE for 2006.
Plus the Also-rans who pulled down a mil.

1)..Jamie Gold...............25,650,000
2)..Allen Cunningham......17,770,000
3)..Richard Lee..............11,820,000
4)..Erik Friberg................9,605,000
5)..Paul Wasicka..............7,970,000
6)..Doug Kim...................6,770,000
7)..Rhett Butler...............4,815,000
8)..Michael Binger............3,140,000
9)..Dan Nassif.................2,600,000

10) Fred Goldberg............$1,154,527 busted
11) Leif Force.................$1,154,527 busted
12) John Magill................$1,154,527 busted

Blinds are now 80K/160K with ante of 20K.
The pots will start at 420K.
I am sensing a hollywood movie, starring Tom Cruise as JG perhaps.
Maybe titled "Good as Gold". Stay tuned.