WSOP Pool

[larrymcg421]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

If it isn't too much trouble (meaning if it is don't bother) would it be possible to see who still has whom left in it?

Working on that right now.

[kcchief19]

Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Minh Nguyen - 57,000 (He was allowed to come back, I'm not sure about the full story on him)

Just to clarify, you there are two Minh Nguyens, right? There is Men the Master, who I as is my understanding is the one who was knocked out on day 1A, and the other guy, who has like $6,000 in career earnings and is one of the chip leaders on day 1D

We probably should have clarified, but I figured Quik and Timmy were taking Men the Master. Maybe it was an ingenius selection -- two for the price of one!

[SirFozzie]

No, Minh Nguyen is Men Neguyen's cousin.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

Just to clarify, you there are two Minh Nguyens, right? There is Men the Master, who I as is my understanding is the one who was knocked out on day 1A, and the other guy, who has like $6,000 in career earnings and is one of the chip leaders on day 1D

The colorful player named Men "the Master" Nguyen is spelled M-E-N, and is not part of this discussion. Minh Nguyen is another player, a cousin I'm told, who happens to share a similar, but not identical, name.


However... I believe there are indeed two (or more) Minh Nguyens who play poker and are listed in various databases, and it appears to me that the one who is among the chip leaders is *not* the same guy (but has the same name as) the guy who got blinded out on Day 1A.

Just to make this more confusing, I guess. In all candor, I think the 1A bust- out player is the guy that I personally had in mind. I'll gladly defer to the powers that be to determine what's what... and I'm willing to let slide the gigantic cash prizes being offered here in the name of fair play.

[kcchief19]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

The colorful player named Men "the Master" Nguyen is spelled M-E-N, and is not part of this discussion. Minh Nguyen is another player, a cousin I'm told, who happens to share a similar, but not identical, name.

My apologies. I should have known better because I knew Men the Master had a cousin whose name was phoentically pronounced the same but spelled differently. When I looked up the CardPlayer bios and saw two Minh Nguyen's I incorrectly assumed one was The Master and the other was the cousin. Instead, there is Men "The Master" Nguyen, his cousin Minh Nguyen (eliminated 1A) and another guy named Minh Nguyen who may or may not be relation (a chip leader on 1D). Sorry for the confusion.

Originally Posted by QuikSand

I'll gladly defer to the powers that be to determine what's what... and I'm willing to let slide the gigantic cash prizes being offered here in the name of fair play.

You're such a smart ass sometimes. How did Rick, Subby and Mali put up with you that long? Was it your ability to instantly open a tight jar of pickles with your hulk-like meat hooks? (wink)

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

You're such a smart ass sometimes.

If you restrain that to "sometimes" I'll take that as a compliment.

[Jas_lov]

Ted Forrest came back nicely for me. He was down to $6,000 chips early on. Him and Barry Greenstein seem to be my best hopes. Ivey, Ferguson, and Juanda need to double up quick today.

Is Minh Nguyen the guy who finished 2nd to Mark Seif when he won his 2nd bracelt in a row last year? That's the guy I have pictured in my head and I think I remember Men the Master watching the final table but I can't remember for sure.

[timmynausea]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

The colorful player named Men "the Master" Nguyen is spelled M-E-N, and is not part of this discussion. Minh Nguyen is another player, a cousin I'm told, who happens to share a similar, but not identical, name.


However... I believe there are indeed two (or more) Minh Nguyens who play poker and are listed in various databases, and it appears to me that the one who is among the chip leaders is *not* the same guy (but has the same name as) the guy who got blinded out on Day 1A.

Just to make this more confusing, I guess. In all candor, I think the 1A bust- out player is the guy that I personally had in mind. I'll gladly defer to the powers that be to determine what's what... and I'm willing to let slide the gigantic cash prizes being offered here in the name of fair play.

Me also. The guy I meant with my pick was not Men the Master, but the relatively well-known of the Minh Nguyens. He has been on TV some and is a member of the Poker Host team along with Ted Forrest and Amir Vahedi.

No idea if he was the one blinded off or is still alive in the tournament or what, though.

[kingfc22]

Varkonyi and Hachem both survived day 1

[larrymcg421]

Until I hear differently, I'm counting Minh Nguyen as the well known Minh Nguyen (not the Master, who is also still alive) and the person Quiksand and timmy picked. He's got a good tour record, and finished 11th in the main event in 2003. I've seen him quite a bit. I thought maybe there was a mixup in the time for him to play and it got fixed. Of course it's also likely there are two Minh Nguyen's. I'll try to find out for sure.

[larrymcg421]

Ok, sorry but I didn't have alot of time and I'm heading to work (where I cannot access FOFC), so here's a really quick list of who has players left. I'm sure there are mistakes, which I will iron out tonight...

albionmoonlight Chris Ferguson
albionmoonlight Cyndy Violette (female)
albionmoonlight Greg Raymer
albionmoonlight Men Nguyen
albionmoonlight Scotty Nguyen (ME Winner)
albionmoonlight Subby
AnalBumCover David Pham
AnalBumCover Evelyn Ng
AnalBumCover John Juanda
AnalBumCover Men Nguyen
AnalBumCover Nam Le
AnalBumCover Scotty Nguyen
AnalBumCover Tuan Le (ME Winner)
Barkeep49 Allen Cunningham
Barkeep49 Chris Ferguson
Barkeep49 Cyndy Violette (female)
Barkeep49 Daniel Negreanu
Barkeep49 Phil Ivey (Main Event)
Barkeep49 Phil Laak
Barkeep49 Ted Forrest
Chubby Daniel Negreanu (ME winner)
Chubby Greg Raymer
Chubby Phil Ivey
Desmond Chris Ferguson
Desmond Daniel Negreanu (ME Winner)
Desmond John Juanda
Desmond Mark Seif
Desmond Phil Ivey
digamma Barry Greenstein
digamma Cindy Violette (female)
digamma Daniel Negreanu
digamma Michael Gracz
digamma Michael Mizrachi
digamma Phil Ivey
dixieflatline Barry Greenstein
dixieflatline John Juanda
dixieflatline Men Nguyen
dixieflatline Nam Le
dixieflatline Phil Ivey
dixieflatline Scotty Nguyen (main event winner baby)
dixieflatline Victor Ramdin
Honolulu Blue Chris Ferguson
Honolulu Blue Daniel Negreanu
Honolulu Blue Greg Raymer
Honolulu Blue Humberto Brenes
Honolulu Blue John Juanda
Honolulu Blue Kathy Liebert (female - yes she is)
Honolulu Blue Layne Flack (ME winner)
hoopsguy Allen Cunningham
hoopsguy Barry Greenstein
hoopsguy Chris Ferguson
hoopsguy Daniel Negreanu
hoopsguy John D'Agostino
hoopsguy Mark Seif
hoopsguy Phil Ivey
hoopsguy Phil Laak
Jas_lov Barry Greenstein
Jas_lov Chris Ferguson(main event winner)
Jas_lov John D'Agostino
Jas_lov John Juanda
Jas_lov Phil Ivey
Jas_lov Ted Forrest
JonInMiddleGA Chris Ferguson
JonInMiddleGA Michael Mizrachi (non-bracelet)
JonInMiddleGA Phil Ivey
JonInMiddleGA Phil Laak
JonInMiddleGA Scotty Nguyen
kcchief19 Carlos Mortenson
kcchief19 Cyndy Violette (female)
kcchief19 Daniel Negraneau
kcchief19 Phil Ivey
kcchief19 Tuan Le (non-bracelet winner)
larrymcg421 Chris Ferguson
larrymcg421 John Hennigan
larrymcg421 John Juanda
larrymcg421 Phil Ivey
Lathum Chris Ferguson
Lathum Daniel Negranue
Lathum Greg Raymer
Lathum Josh Arieh
Lathum Men the Master
Lathum Phil Ivey-ME
Maple Leafs Cyndy Violette (f)
Maple Leafs Daniel Negreanu (me)
Maple Leafs John Juanda
Maple Leafs Layne Flack
Maple Leafs Michael Mizrachi
Maple Leafs Phil Ivey
Maple Leafs Ted Forrest
QuikSand Allen Cunningham
QuikSand Cyndy Violette (female)
QuikSand Daniel Negreanu
QuikSand John Juanda (mein event winner)
QuikSand Layne Flack
QuikSand Michael Gracz
QuikSand Michael Mizrachi (no bracelet)
QuikSand Minh Nguyen
QuikSand Phil Ivey
QuikSand Ted Forrest
Radii Allen Cunningham
Radii Barry Greenstein
Radii Chris Ferguson (main event winner)
Radii Cindy Violette (female)
Radii Daniel Negreanu
Radii Darrell Dicken
Radii Layne Flack
Radii Michael Mizrachi (non-bracelet)
Radii Phil Ivey
rockboy70 Chris Ferguson
rockboy70 Daniel Negreanu
rockboy70 John Juanda
rockboy70 Kathy Liebert (female)
rockboy70 Michael Mizrachi (non-bracelet)
rockboy70 Phil Ivey (ME winner)
rockboy70 Ted Forrest
sabotai Allen Cunningham
sabotai Chris Fergusan
sabotai Cindy Violette (female)
sabotai Daniel Negreanu
sabotai Greg Raymer
sabotai Layne Flack
sabotai Phil Ivey (ME Winner)
sabotai Scott Fishman
Subby Alan Goehring (winner)
Subby Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Subby Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy
Subby Daniel Negraneau
Subby Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken
Subby David Williams (non-bracelet)
Subby Liz Lieu (woman)
Subby Michael Mizrachi
TazFTW Chris Ferguson (ME winner)
TazFTW Daniel Negreanu
TazFTW Evelyn Ng (woman)
TazFTW Men Nguyen
TazFTW Phil Ivey
timmynausea Chris Ferguson
timmynausea Freddie Deeb
timmynausea Mark Seif
timmynausea Minh Nguyen
TroyF Chris Ferguson
TroyF Daniel Negreanu
TroyF Men Nguyen
TroyF Michael Mizrachi (non bracelet)
TroyF Phil Ivey
Tyrith Chris Ferguson
Tyrith Daniel Negreanu
Tyrith Greg Raymer
Tyrith John Juanda
Tyrith Phil Ivey
Tyrith Ted Forrest (main event winner)
Vegas Vic Carlos Mortenson
Vegas Vic Daniel Negreanu
Vegas Vic John Juanda
Vegas Vic Michael Mizrachi (ME winner prediction)
Vegas Vic Phil Ivey
Vegas Vic Ram Vaswani (no bracelet yet)
Vegas Vic Ted Forrest

[Subby]

Fwiw, the chip counts for yesterday listed on cardplayer ar enot yet official...I know Mike Schneider (listed at ~70k) took a bad beat and is down to 15k for today...

[digamma]

Subby took an awful beat and got knocked out by a guy holding 2-Joker.

[Subby]

Tue Aug 01 12:10:00 PDT 2006
Top Prize Announced
A tournament director just announced that first prize in the Main Event this year will exceed $12 million. The director also announced that there will be 12 instant millionaires at the end of the tournament.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Subby

Tue Aug 01 12:10:00 PDT 2006
Top Prize Announced
A tournament director just announced that first prize in the Main Event this year will exceed $12 million. The director also announced that there will be 12 instant millionaires at the end of the tournament.

Good. Last I had heard, they were angling to do some stunt like an even $10m top prize, and the top 27 were getting a million -- which I think would have demeaned the top prize too much. Glad they backed off, at least a little.

[Subby]

WTF?

Tue Aug 01 14:21:00 PDT 2006
Men "The Master" Nguyen Eliminates Another
Men Nguyen raises preflop and his opponent goes all-in. Nguyen makes the call and shows AK. His opponent shows QJ. The board comes AQ8K5, and Men Nguyen eliminates an opponent, bumping his stack to $30,800.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by Subby

WTF?

Another reason not to fold KK preflop. At least not yet. They keep reporting these KK laydowns to AA, but I wonder how many times people are laying down KK to QQ, JJ, AK, and even worse hands.

[kcchief19]

Looking at the sketchy chip leader lists, why do I get the feeling the final table will be eight people I've never heard and Allen Cunningham?

[Subby]

I was actually saying WTF because I thought the Master had been blinded off earlier in the week.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by Subby

I was actually saying WTF because I thought the Master had been blinded off earlier in the week.

Apparently they had his scheduled for 1B but his ticket really did say 1C -- it was their mistake, not his. So they let him play 1D as a fair compromise.

[timmynausea]

That was Minh, though, not Men, right? This is about to turn into an Abbot and Costello routine.

[kcchief19]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Apparently they had his scheduled for 1B but his ticket really did say 1C -- it was their mistake, not his. So they let him play 1D as a fair compromise.

This is making my head hurt. Based on current information, here's the possible story:

Men "The Master" Nguyen played 1B, did well, and is raking it today during 2A.

Minh Nguyen, his cousin, was supposed to play 1A but was blinded off. This is who Quik and Timmy picked.

Minh Nguyen, of unknown familial status, played 1D, was among that day's chip leaders and will play during 2B.

There is the possibility that the CardPlayer database is wrong -- imagine the thought -- and the 1D Minh Nguyen is not the obscure Minh Nguyen with $6,000 in career winnings but is actually the more well known Minh Nguyen who was blinded off day 1A but was allowed to play again when apparently it was discovered that his ticket said another day. It's not entirely clear. There is also a random possibility that it is Henry Nguyen, who made a final table earlier this year series, because he's listed in the CardPlayer updates near the end with a big stack but not listed in the chip count.

So, it's possible that the Minh Nguyen on 1D is the same Minh Nguyen who was blinded off Day 1A.

Somebody should get a bracelet for figuring this shit out.

[Subby]

Men the Master just got knocked out, so it doesn't really matter

[timmynausea]

I'm pretty sure Scotty Nguyen is on third base.

[Subby]

Lately, FOFL has been nothing but Nguyen, Jews or Bra...

[Subby]

I got nuttin'

[larrymcg421]

Looks like Annie Duke is still in. For some reason, I thought she got busted. I guess I got so used to that after her performance at all the other events. And apparently Hennigan busted or didn't even play, because I see nothing about him anywhere.

I'll have a full update for everyone in the morning.

[digamma]

Originally Posted by digamma

I didn't put him on my team, but my man Pat Poels, who I've played with a couple of times (first time documented here), is the chip leader with four to play in the Stud Eight or Better event. The Madsen kid is also at the final table--his fourth this summer.

Poels busted from the ME late last night, calling an all in bet with Jacks on the turn on a trash board. Unfortunately, his opponent had Aces.

[larrymcg421]

Ok, I'm getting so many conflicting reports about so many different players. I think I'll just have to wait until after Day 2B is played. There will be a day off in between and I can get a clear picture of who is still in it and how many chips they officially have.

[Subby]

Daniel Negreanu $ 331000 11 9
Allen Cunningham $ 172900 135 6
David Chiu $ 154700 137 5
Humberto Brenes $ 148300 142 1
John Gale $ 146500 42 5
Ted Forrest $ 130900 54 9
Joe Hachem $ 114100 7 5
David Pham $ 112300 154 2
Hieu "Tony" Ma $ 98500 136 8
Nam Le $ 91000 6 1
Josh Arieh $ 85600 4 5
Mark Vos $ 81100 126 8
Cyndy Violette $ 79000 12 10
Juan Carlos Mortensen $ 77600 140 4
Darrell Dicken $ 69300 75 6
Hoyt Corkins $ 67900 47 3
Annie Duke $ 67000 126 10
Cecilia Mortensen $ 66600 55 5
Freddy Deeb $ 64500 21 10
Chris Ferguson $ 55200 37 7
Kathy Liebert $ 48500 68 7
David Grey $ 46200 133 10
Phil Ivey $ 23400 138 1
Tex Barch $ 19800 19 2
Layne Flack $ 19500 137 10