Its the main event, its pretty random but Patrick Antonius is probably the best player with a big stack.

Daniel Negreanu is still in it as well

One of my personal favorites, Joseph Cheong is still in it with a very decent sized stack, he'd be a threat as well.

Grettin

42411 Posts

July 14 2011 21:55 GMT

#62

Ben Lamb has been doing pretty well this WSOP. And he has biggest stack atm, according to WSOP. So there's one winner candidate.

Hellmuth is climbing from pretty much elimination to decent size stack, so i wouldn't close him out of the finalists yet..

oh. and seems that WSOP link is updating the chips atleast a little. Kelapuro now with 240k chips and Antonius went down 150k.

Mig

United States4714 Posts

July 14 2011 22:08 GMT

#63

When you are playing a tournament with 7000 people in poker no one is a "real" threat to win the tourney. And anyway it is dumb to try and list people as notable by using just skill. Because the vast majority of people don't know who the real favorites are anyway. The only people who really know are the ones who play consistently with these players.

For example someone like Dwan who is a monster at cash has a ton of major flaws in his tournament game. There are a lot of guys who are just tournament specialists who had a bigger edge than he did in this tournament. Dwan is a better overall poker player than most of them but that doesn't make him the best for this event.

Best players left who have large chip stacks

Mike Sowers
Justin Bonomo
Sorel Mizzi
David Baker
Sam Stein
Patrik Antonius
Jon Van Fleet
Blair Hinkle

There's a bunch of other good players left who are shorter but these guys would probably be the best combination of skill/chips left in the tourney and should be considered the favorites in the tourney right now.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

July 14 2011 22:47 GMT

#64

Say what you will but Cheong is a great player whether its live, online, cash games, or tournaments. I'm not saying he's a favorite but I'm saying he's one of the better players left in the field. Nobody can really be a true favorite in this event obviously.

Cheong just moved up about doubling his chip stack and moving from 50th to 11th in chips.

Suffo

United States936 Posts

July 14 2011 23:44 GMT

#65

disgusting river 6 LOL

Denar

France1633 Posts

July 14 2011 23:49 GMT

#66

Absolutely disgusting indeed :D

I feel pain for that guy, that pot was massive

Mig

United States4714 Posts

July 14 2011 23:49 GMT

#67

Cheong is fine. But before last years main event he was probably barely even a top 100 online mtt player. He gets a big score in 1 tourney and suddenly he gets a ton of hype. He spews way way too much when he is deep stacked. So he can run over bad players but against other good pros they abuse his over aggression.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

July 14 2011 23:52 GMT

#68

On July 15 2011 08:49 Mig wrote:
Cheong is fine. But before last years main event he was probably barely even a top 100 online mtt player. He gets a big score in 1 tourney and suddenly he gets a ton of hype. He spews way way too much when he is deep stacked. So he can run over bad players but against other good pros they abuse his over aggression.

He was a fairly solid player before and after the main event.

And his over aggression is pretty signature of all young players lol