WSOP 2017 main event final table begins tonight - 9 PM ET

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[h=1]WSOP Main Event Final Table: Where To Watch[/h] [h=2]ESPN's family of networks and PokerGO have the world covered[/h] Posted July 19, 2017 by Poker Central Staff

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With ESPN's family of networks and PokerGO broadcasting the Main Event final table, you shouldn't miss any of the action. (Photo: PokerPhotoArchive.com)
This year, the World Series of Poker Main Event was live streamed for the first time in WSOP history, with daily broadcasts on both PokerGO and ESPN. The journey to the final nine was streamed exclusively on PokerGO and while the final table will hit prime time ESPN over the next three days, with action starting Thursday, July 20 at 9 PM ET, PokerGO will bring the action to ESPN's international affiliates.
Where to watch the WSOP Main Event final table:
United States, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Brazil and Pacific Rim: ESPN’s family of networks is your home to the World Series of Poker Main Event final table. The live broadcast will begin on Thursday, July 20 at 9 PM ET on the ESPN and ESPN+. WatchESPN and ESPN Play will broadcast the final table via TV network simulcasts.
Canada: The Sports Network, TSN, will provide live coverage of the WSOP Main Event final table throughout Canada, with the exclusion of Quebec. TSN2 joins the progress of the final table on Thursday, July 20 at 9:30 PM ET, with complete coverage on Friday and Saturday. TSN GO will broadcast the final table via TV network simulcasts.
United Kingdom: BT Sports 1 will provide live coverage of the WSOP Main Event final table throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The live coverage will also stream on BT Sports’ internet and mobile service.
Balkans: Arena Sport HD will provide live coverage of the WSOP Main Event final table throughout Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The live coverage will also stream on Arena Sport HD’s internet and mobile service.
Israel: One Sport HD will broadcast the WSOP Main Event final table for Israeli viewers and the live coverage will also stream on One Sport HD’s internet and mobile services.
Rest of World: PokerGO will provide live coverage of the WSOP Main Event final table throughout the rest of the world. Countries with access to PokerGO’s live stream include Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Czech Republic and Japan.
For additional information on how you can access WSOP Main Event Final Table coverage, you can contact PokerGO customer support by emailing customerservice@pokergo.com or by calling 866-4-POKERGO (1-866-476-5374)

 

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[h=1]A miraculous final-card win turned a 5 percent chance into a World Series of Poker final-table seat[/h]

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By: Charles Curtis | July 18, 2017 12:27 pm

The 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event final table is set, and thanks to one late incredible hand, Bryan Piccioli will be a part of it.
Here’s the hand and the breakdown:

Piccioli had just over 8.7 million chips and pushed all-in with pocket 8s, probably figuring he had to make a move when the chip leader at his table had over 58 million.
Antoine Saout and his 35.4 million called with an Ace-4. Out comes the flop … and it’s not a good one for Piccioli: Ace-Ace-9. Saout now has three aces.
Suddenly, Piccioli’s chances shoot down to 7 percent. Only one of the two remaining 8s in the deck will save him.
Out comes a Queen. Piccioli has a 5 percent chance of winning. If the last card isn’t an 8, he’s packing his bags and falling just short of the final table.
But out comes … an 8. Eventually, he grabbed a seat at the final table.
“When you’re here this long, you need something like that to happen,” Piccioli told the Las Vegas Sun. “I’m lucky to still be here, to still be alive. That’s all you can ask for.”
This is what Piccioli tweeted:

 

[drpugilist]

thanks for sharing this, i'll watch. are there any popular players left? who is the favorite?

 

[HarryCaray]

Things I can bet on with my local:

But no lines for wsop

 

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[h=1]Meet the Players at the 2017 WSOP Main Event Final Table: One of These Guys Is a Future World Champion[/h] <small>July 19th, 2017 by Jon Sofen</small> Players from North America, South America, and Europe at the 2017 WSOP Main Event final table are making it a true “World” Series of Poker. Nine people, including four Americans, have their eyes on poker’s most prestigious prize, this year worth $8.15 million.

The final nine players, from left to right: John Hesp, Scott Blumstein, Antoine Saout, Benjamin Pollak, Jack Sinclair, Damian Salas, Ben Lamb, Bryan Picciole, and Dan Ott. (Image: Joe Giron / PokerPhotoArchives.com)

Everyone who’s made it this far is guaranteed at least $1 million. In a tournament that started almost 12 days ago with 7,221 players, the final nine return to the Rio on Thursday at 6 pm. This will start the first of three final table days, all of which will be broadcast live on ESPN or ESPN 2 until a 2017 world champion is crowned on Saturday.
Here’s a preview of who’s playing for what:
[h=2]Don’t Cry for Argentina[/h] Argentina has more than 43 million citizens, but the South American nation is generally underrepresented at the WSOP. Damian Salas has already made history as the first player from that country to reach the Main Event final table, and he was not alone in that pursuit.
Fellow countryman Richard Dubini lasted to the final two tables, eventually going out Monday in 12[SUP]th[/SUP] place (winning $535,000). But prior to 2017, the farthest an Argentinian had ever gotten at the WSOP main event was Fabian Ortiz’s 17[SUP]th[/SUP] place finish in 2013. Argentina does, however, have a bracelet victory this year, won by Andres Korn in Event #56, $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em, which paid $618,285.
Ivan Luca won the country’s first WSOP bracelet in a 2015, taking down a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event for $353,391. Luca is the country’s all-time leading money winner, according to the Hendon Mob, but Salas could take over that spot with a first or second-place finish.
Salas will enter Thursday’s play in sixth chip position, with 22,175,000. If he’s able to win, it will be Argentina’s third bracelet in WSOP history, and the second one this year.
[h=2]Vive La French[/h] Antoine Saout (21,750,000) and Benjamin Pollak (35,175,000) are the first French-born players to make the final table since Sylvain Loosli in 2013 (4[SUP]th[/SUP] place). Before that, the only Frenchman to finish in the top nine was Antoine Saout, who finished 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] in 2009.
As crazy as it seems for anyone to final table the Main Event twice in less than a decade, Saout also finished 25[SUP]th[/SUP] last year.
Pollak, originally from Paris but now residing in London, England, has $2.9 million in lifetime winnings (plus the guaranteed minimum $1 million he will earn this week), but hasn’t won a major tournament title.
[h=2]British Knights[/h] The ever-colorful John Hesp will start the day in second chip position, with 85,700,000.
His final table mate from the UK, Jack Sinclair, will approach the bracelet from the bottom end of the chip stacks, with just 20,200,000.
Blinds will start at 400k/800k/100k when play resumes, to give you a sense of what each player is working with.

Hesp’s previous tournament resume is right up there with the Phil Ivey’s and Daniel Negreanu’s of the world. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Last month, he took down a $10 tournament in the UK for $1,000, bringing his lifetime live tournament earnings to a whopping $2,207.
Sinclair also lacks live tournament experience, but it hasn’t shown during the Main Event. He was the most aggressive player at the table on Day Seven, but that aggression cost him much of his stack. Unable to slow down and be more patient, he went from more than 60 million chips to barely above 20 million when his opponents began calling his bluffs.

Prize Money on the Line
1st $8,150,000
2nd $4,700,000
3rd $3,500,000
4th $2,600,000
5th $2,000,000
6th $1,675,000
7th $1,425,000
8th $1,200,000
9th $1,000,000
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[h=2]US Homeland Security[/h] More than 77 percent of the 120,995 total entries in this summer’s 74 bracelet events came from Americans. That shouldn’t come as a surprise given the Series is hosted in the United States, and poker in its modern form is considered as American an invention as jazz music or the hot dog cart.
Scott Blumstein (97,250,000) from New Jersey will take the chip lead into the final table. His resume includes a win in a $500 Borgata Summer Poker Open event in 2016 for $199,854, but other than that only a bunch of small scores.
Bryan Piccioli (33,800,000) from New York is a big winner on the tournament circuit. He got to the final table thanks to winning a crucial race late in Day Seven against his friend and 2016 November Niner Michael Ruane. Piccioli needs to finish in 8[SUP]th[/SUP] place or better to surpass the $3 million lifetime mark. His previous biggest win was a $493,350 score for finishing 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] place in the 2016 WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star.
Piccioli is one of two past bracelet winners at the final table, having won a 2013 WSOP Asia Pacific event.
Dan Ott (26,475,000), from Altoona, Pennsylvania, is playing in his first World Series, and is one of three players at the final table with less than $15,000 in live tournament winnings.
[h=2]Lamb Chops?[/h] We’ve saved arguably the best for last: Ben Lamb. The Las Vegas resident is making his second trip to the Main Event final table since 2011 (3[SUP]rd[/SUP] place) to go along with a 14[SUP]th[/SUP] place finish in 2009.
Lamb and Saout are the only two players of the 21st century to finish in the top 25 in the main event three times over a less than 10-year period.
Lamb, a 2011 bracelet winner and WSOP Player of the Year, has quite a reputation in the high-stakes community. Pros such as Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth aren’t bashful in their praise of Lamb’s poker-playing ability.
Hellmuth predicted on ESPN2 when there were still nearly 200 players left that Lamb would win the 2017 Main Event .
Lamb has more than $7 million in tournament winnings but you’ll rarely see him in a poker tournament. He prefers cash games, but other high-stakes pros prefer not having him at the table, and not because he doesn’t shower.
He enters Thursday’s play as the shortest stack. Despite the uphill climb in front of him, to some extent he’s already a winner.
Going into the WSOP, Lamb made a well-publicized prop bet with Daniel Negreanu, who bet Lamb that he would win three bracelets during the 2017 WSOP. Negreanu won zero.

 

[HarryCaray]

thanks for sharing this, i'll watch. are there any popular players left? who is the favorite?

Lamb is the best player left by far, but short on chips. Blumstein favored at 9/5, followed closely by Hesp.

 

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2017 WSOP main event -- final table chip counts
1. Scott Blumstein (Morristown, N.J.): 97.25 million
2. John Hesp (Bridlington, England): 85.7 million
3. Benjamin Pollak (Paris): 35.175 million
4. Bryan Piccioli (Allegany, N.Y.): 33.8 million
5. Dan Ott (Altoona, Pa.): 26.475 million
6. Damian Salas (Buenos Aires, Argentina): 22.175 million
7. Antoine Saout (Paris): 21.75 million
8. Jack Sinclair (London): 20.2 million
9. Ben Lamb (Las Vegas): 18.05 million

 

[drpugilist]

Things I can bet on with my local:

But no lines for wsop

big3 is hype dawg!!!

 

[drpugilist]

Lamb is the best player left by far, but short on chips.

never heard of any of them...

 

[HarryCaray]

big3 is hype dawg!!!

Hahaha I had to google it and see what that shit even was.

 

[drpugilist]

Hahaha I had to google it and see what that shit even was.

ha cmon man

 

[Knightrofins]

Stupid question but i guess they wont be doing the "November 9" this year?

 

[HarryCaray]

ha cmon man

I'm serious. I watch a lot of sports and I've never even heard of it. I'd watch it maybe.

Something new to lose on. Yay

 

[drpugilist]

I'm serious. I watch a lot of sports and I've never even heard of it. I'd watch it maybe.

Something new to lose on. Yay

i think i watched the first night it was on. pretty boring, im not a fan

 

[festeringZit]

Stupid question but i guess they wont be doing the "November 9" this year?

Nope... I'm not sure why they changed the schedule.

 

[HarryCaray]

Nope... I'm not sure why they changed the schedule.

Prolly cause November 9 was the dumbest idea for a poker tournament ever conceived. Not fair to allow people 5 months to go review tapes, find tells, get coaching on how to beat you, etc. A tournament needs to be played start to finish within a reasonable time frame.

Not to mention what if someone dies? And waiting to find out what you were gonna take home would KILL me. Imagine having trouble sleeping for like 5 months. Fuck that.

 

[Greenbacks]

On the 4th hand of the WSOP Main event final table, Ben Lamb is eliminated in 9th place for $1,000,000. Jack Sinclair's AQ bests Lamb's A9.

 

[Greenbacks]

Let me tell you something.

 

[Greenbacks]

Give me a couple of hours.....That is fine!

 

[slapshot]

To bad our reporter has not showed back up fake news is popular now c'mon back