Get There........

June 3, 2011, Posted by Pokerfarm

Our boy Jake Cody just dusted another tough opponent off as he advanced to the semi-finals of the $25k Heads Up World Championship.

After defeating 4 hard opponents including high stakes heads up cash game player Dani "Ansky" Stern and Harvard game theory lecturer Brandon Adams Jake had the task of playing unknown but reportedly high stakes cash player Anthony Guetti. Check out Jake's blog on ThePokerFarm.com where he talks about the tournament thus far and how he is in Vegas to play first - party later.

After initially falling behind, Jake showed classy composure to not get flustered or tilted and eventually took down the Frenchman when his pocket tens held against Guetti's pocket sevens.
Also joining Jake in the final four is Eric "E-Fro" Froehlich, Gus Hansen and Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko. All players are gauranteed $283,966 but all eyes will be on the illustrious bracelet and life changing first place prize of $851,192.

We are also ITM in the $1500 PLO8. 26 players remain and everybody is guaranteed $8,191. Notables remaining are Jimmy "Freak and a weird guy" Fricke who sits in 5th position and PokerStars pro's Humberto Brenes and Lex Veldhuis who are also fighting for the first place prize of $262,283.

Important info!
Level: 20Blinds: 4,000 / 8,000Entries: 925Players Left: 25

Francesco Barbaro 459,000

Matthew Waxman 458,000

Vladimir Shchemelev 335,000

Bradley Helm 308,000  

Jimmy Fricke 278,000

Daniel Smith 235,000  

Kostas Kalathakis 209,000  

Michael Deveronica 200,000

Richard Monroe 184,000

Travis Pearson 175,000  

Humberto Brenes 160,000  

Jaime Kaplan 160,000  

Andreas Krause 155,000

Jacobo Fernandez 152,000  

James Lenaghan 110,000  

Cameron Mckinley 106,000  

Scott Clements 84,000  

Mallory Smith 81,000

Fabrizio Gonzalez 62,000  

Brian Swinford 57,000

Lawrence Michael  51,000 

John Mccaffrey 46,000

David Harper 41,000

Guillaume Rivet 37,000  

Lex Veldhuis 27,000

Event #4: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em attracted 865 players, day 1a has now finished and notables such as Tom Dwan and Daniel Negreanu have bit the dust and only 243 players remain. Leading those players is Gavin Cochrane who managed to accumulate a whopping 174,500 stack which puts him just ahead of circuit regulars Victor Ramdin, Brandon Cantu, Jordan Morgan and Erick Lindgren. This event has been described as Neil Channing as one of the tougher events at this years series and we will surely see some high class play in the coming days. PokerFarms James Bord is still alive and we will report any more progress that we get on the guys.

Important info!
Level: 10Blinds: 400 / 800 Ante: 100Entries: 865Players Left: 243

Gavin Cochrane 175,500  

Victor Ramdin 174,700  

Brian Lemke 171,900

Steven Merrifield  155,000

Jordan Morgan 136,400

Greg Dyer 130,000

Brandon Cantu 129,500

Marc Delimal 120,000

Kevin Saul 115,000

David Sands 110,000  

Erick Lindgren 102,200


Event #5: $1,500 Seven Card Stud attracted 357 players and with day 1 coming to an end we have 117 players coming back tomorrow. Although the prize pool is alot smaller than the $25k Heads Up Championship and the $5k NL event, we still have alot of high stakes players looking to bag a bracelet. Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Shaun Deeb and Eli Elezra are all in the top 10 chips and as tomorrow ends we could have a really exciting final table on our hands.

Important info!Level Info: Level 8Limits: 500 / 1,000 Ante: 100Entries: 357Players Left : 112


Ylon Schwartz 46,000

Shaun Deeb 36,000

Andy Bloch 31,500

John D'agostino 28,200  

Chad Brown 24,700

Bryan Devonshire   24,000  

Tom Dwan 23,000  

Eli Elezra 21,000  

Josh Arieh 20,000

Ali Eslami 20,000