Boyd, Sklansky make 3k Stud 8 final table
 

Chip counts and seat assignments from pokernews.com, the final table starts at 3pm PT:

Seat 1: Dutch Boyd 170,000
Seat 2: George Hardie 182,000
Seat 3: Eli Elezra 303,000
Seat 4: David Sklansky 171,000
Seat 5: Scotty Nguyen 255,000
Seat 6: John Harkness 141,000
Seat 7: Thor Hansen 167,000
Seat 8: Marshall Ragir 28,000

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nice table, elezra, scotty, and hansen too

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And of course no video coverage. Jeez I got reemed on buying that package.

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NVG gets more Sklansky if he wins. Bleh.

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Does this mean that this is going to be an ESPN covered event? I would definitely watch this.

gl David.

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Does this mean that this is going to be an ESPN covered event? I would definitely watch this.

gl David.

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that would be a disapointing no. checked just a bit ago and no espn logo next to it on worldseriesofpoker.com.

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Way to go, ESPN. Stars of poker help sell the game, not one-hour episodes dedicated to all-ins.

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Only sick poker nerds would ever watch stud8.

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Count me among that list. I would love to see this FT event with holecards.

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why would we watch Stud8 when we have 24/7 of NL Holdem..

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awesome

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Any kind of stud game > NL ?

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Is anyone going to post updates on this? Today's play started some 2 hours ago.

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Updates can be seen here

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I'm reporting on this event today, and feel free to critique my coverage (if you feel like it) in this thread.

I'd actually like it if you pointed out any errors, but since you're rarely getting all of the information on the boards, you won't have much to go on. Stud is a very difficult game to cover live, as you'd imagine.

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10 minutes ago
Official Chip Counts
Seat 1 - Dutch Boyd - 135,000 Seat 3 - Eli Elezra - 523,000 Seat 4 - David Sklansky - 249,000 Seat 5 - Scotty Nguyen - 280,000 Seat 6 - John Harkness - 230,000

ETA: Get there one time, Donald Sklunsky.

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Hand 72 had to hurt David.

I just hope he outlasts Boyd.

David's All-in and out of tourny on the next hand.

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FYI, ESPN has two handheld cameras here recording footage. It won't be an episode, but depending on who wins (and the final three are all big names), there will likely be some coverage during one of the other WSOP episodes.

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BJ,

Is the payout page separate from your reporting? It's got Elezra out in third, among other inaccuracies.

All: He's actually heads-up with Scotty, who's rallied to close the chip count to about even. Dutch finished 3rd.

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Thanks for the heads-up, TailSpin. Nobody else noticed, but I've since corrected it. (My assistant had a momentary slip-up between chipcounts and bustouts.)

FYI, I do have an assistant for most of the final tables. Here, on the ESPN stage, she's in charge of chip counts, because she's the only person that ESPN allows on stage. (We also provide chip count data to ESPN.)

When we're reporting from the Bluff tent, my assistant is inside the tent doing the chip counts. She gives them to a Bluff producer, who radios them back to me in the control room.

So all of the chip counts today are courtesy of her. It would seriously affect by hand-for-hand coverage if I had to do them myself (as I often have in the past).

There's a short break right now for coloring-up the chips.

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Hand #160

Hand #160 - Elezra (7-4-8-J) and Nguyen (2-Q-J-3) take it to seventh street, taking turns betting on each street. Elezra puts in the last bet, and Nguyen calls.

Elezra shows two pair, aces and kings. Nguyen shows a pair of queens. Elezra takes the pot, and he has a large chip lead at this point.

I think I've figured out why Elezra is winning......

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Hand #166

Hand #166 - Elezra folds on fifth street, but only after he kills his own hand by flipping over Nguyen's cards. This is like a crazy drunken home game right now.

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awesome, wish I could watch this

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Yeah I'm really upset this isn't being broadcast, sounds like it would be great.

edit: btw, Eli has no chance if Scotty can hang in long enough to get him really hammered. I can't imagine anyone playing better than Scotty when they're both completely wasted.

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Hand #169

Hand #169 - Nguyen takes the pot on third street. They're acting so quickly and rashly that often we can't see the cards.

Eli Elezra stands up and grabs Scotty Nguyen's drink, and then downs it in one gulp to the delight of the crowd. Nguyen just laughs.

Once again, the tournament director calls for "Cocktails!"

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it just sucks there is no video of this.

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If this wasn't on ESPN then why isn't WSOP.com covering it? They're not doing ANY coverage tonight.

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Nice catch, Dunkman. I don't know how that happened. Presumably, the tournament director mis-announced one of the cards. (We can't see the boards directly ourselves.)

He clearly said "Two pair, aces and kings" at the end of the hand, so my assumption is that the jack on sixth street was actually a king.

Like I said, nice catch. I'll correct it now.

I'm not sure that the Bluff Tent is set up to handle Stud events. The pace of the action is very quick, and the graphics probably wouldn't be able to keep up with a live tournament. Edited and broadcast a month later? Easy. Broadcasting a stud tournament with live holecards? Very, very difficult.

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I just want to watch them. Watching it even a week later is fine. But then again it isn't hold em, so it pretty much doesnt exist.

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Elezra wins, and in Matusow fashion, he almost doesn't owe Barry money anymore.

Drunken Israelis > Drunken Vietnamese.

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Nice catch, Dunkman. I don't know how that happened. Presumably, the tournament director mis-announced one of the cards. (We can't see the boards directly ourselves.)

He clearly said "Two pair, aces and kings" at the end of the hand, so my assumption is that the jack on sixth street was actually a king.

Like I said, nice catch. I'll correct it now.

I'm not sure that the Bluff Tent is set up to handle Stud events. The pace of the action is very quick, and the graphics probably wouldn't be able to keep up with a live tournament. Edited and broadcast a month later? Easy. Broadcasting a stud tournament with live holecards? Very, very difficult.

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No worries, I was just joking around. I'm sure it was damn near impossible to figure out exactly what was going on in that drunken circus last night.

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I'm not sure that the Bluff Tent is set up to handle Stud events. The pace of the action is very quick, and the graphics probably wouldn't be able to keep up with a live tournament.

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Quick stud action? Is this an oxymoron?