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Re: WSOP 2017 - $10,000 Main event - by The Fox » Mon (Jul 17, 2017)
Play has concluded for Day 6 with 27 players and the final three tables will re-draw.

8 Brits chasing a dream. 5 of those would fall throughout the days play and their exits and payout are listed below

45 United Kingdom Max Silver $176,399 120.7 London - United Kingdom
52 United Kingdom Artan Dedusha $145,733 113.3 London - United Kingdom
55 United Kingdom Paul Vas Nunes $121,188 106.5 Guildford - United Kingdom
66 United Kingdom Thissa Desilva $101,444 100.4 London - United Kingdom
88 United Kingdom Charlie Carrel $72,514 89.8 London - United Kingdom

Pay jumps now get interesting as they increase dramatically for the final 27 with everyone now guaranteed $263,532.

All three Brits have had a strong finish with Jack Sinclair eliminating Joshua Horton in 28th place and finishing the day with over 27 million in chips and sits 3rd in chips.

John Hesp also had a stron final level and now has around 21 million, 6th in chips

Richard gryko is just short of 14 million and is 11th on the chip counts

All three are above average which stands at 13.37 million.

Payout for the Final 27

1st$8,150,000433.2
2nd$4,700,000360.6
3rd$3,500,000326.8
4th$2,600,000296.0
5th$2,000,000271.2
6th$1,675,000255.7
7th$1,425,000242.3
8th$1,200,000228.8
9th$1,000,000215.3
10th$825,001201.
911th$675,000188.9
12th-13th$535,000174.8
14th-15th$450,000165.1
16th-18th$340,000150.3
19th-27th$263,532138.0

Full Report and Details can be found below.

2015 Bracelet Winner Christian Pham Leading Final 27 After Day 6

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $67,877,400
Entries: 7,221
Remaining: 27

If Christian Pham's poker career got turned into a movie, it would probably get panned for being too much of a fairy tale, too hard to believe.

His first incredibly improbable moment came into 2015, when he claims to have accidentally registered for $1,500 2-7 Single Draw at the World Series of Poker when he meant to register for $1,500 Limit Hold'em. All he did was defeat a field of 219 and win a bracelet, overcoming the likes of Mike Leah, Robert Mizrachi and Huck Seed late.

Fast-forward to the 2017 WSOP, and Pham fired in a $575 Main Event qualifier, winning a seat. On Day 5, with his tournament life on the line after bluffing all in on a four-straight board with one pair against a set, Pham needed a six and a six only to chop and survive or it was curtains.

He found the six-ball to avoid joining the payout line. Two days later, he's the leader of the final 27 players left after Day 6, with a career-best $263,532 locked up and 31,440,000 in the big. That will represent more than 100 big blinds when play resumes for Day 7.

A breathless Pham, sans the bucket hat he can be so often seen wearing at tournaments in and around his native Minnesota, could barely contain his excitement.

"It's the hope of every poker player, we go to the final table, or we go the top 27, 18 something like that," he said. "And now, my dream come true. I'm very happy about that."

The key moment for Pham on Day 6 came in a three-bet pot against Superman costume-clad Jonathan Dwek, who accidentally reraised the minimum and wound up running a wheel with ace-eight. Unfortunately for the Canadian, Pham's bottom pair on the flop became a backdoor steel wheel, and Dwek was unable to find the fold button on the river when Pham shoved on him.

"Oh my God straight flush, that's amazing," Pham said as he recalled the hand, adding that he made another straight flush shortly after. "Two straight flush today! That's amazing! Oh my God, that's incredible."

Immediately behind Pham in the counts are Valentin Messina (28,590,000), Jack Sinclair (27,535,000) and Ben Lamb (25,685,000).

Lamb, of course, finished third in the 2011 Main Event, banking $4 million. His tournament results have been relatively scarce since then, with appearances in $25K high roller tournaments here in Las Vegas accounting for the bulk of his action.

True to the feelings of a man who fires away in $25Ks and has been here before, Lamb isn't satisfied by getting to the final 27 and has his sights set much higher.

"I don't care about the final table," he said. "I want to win the whole damn thing. I'm going to go home and watch Game of Thrones and then watch a little tape of today.

"It's the most fun you can have to be deep in this poker tournament. I'm really excited to be here and the past will help me. But some of these guys have been here before too – multiple times."

Ben Lamb
One man in particular has made deep runs in the WSOP Main Event practically a yearly ritual at this point. Antoine Saout's own November Nine appearance predates Lamb's, as he made the final table back in 2009, also finishing third. Last year, Saout narrowly missed another final table with a 25th-place finish.

Saout had a fantastic summer in 2016 with three six-figure scores in Las Vegas, but admitted it has been a different story in 2017 as he came into the Main Event down and needed a big run to climb out of the hole he'd dug for himself.

Now, the Frenchman has navigated to the three-table redraw of the Main Event once again in something of a summer saver. He's in the middle of the pack with a stack of 9,945,000, but it's a count he's quite happy with as he struggled to gain much traction on Day 6.

"Today was a tough day," he said. "I fought. I was down to 4.6 million, but I finished at my peak at 10 million, so that's good."

Saout is far from the only Frenchman having a fantastic finish to the WSOP. Second-place Messina also hails from France, as do Benjamin Pollak (8,870,000) and Alexandre Reard (8,580,000). The four posed for pictures after bagging and had groups of fans waving French flags cheering them on throughout the day.

Saout accurately recalled that two of his countrymen also made the final 27 in 2009. Ludovic Lacay would finish 16th and Francois Balmigere 25th.

"It's very exciting," Saout said of the French contingent's surge. "We all have some chips. It's going to be a big day tomorrow. I hope we can make it two, three or even four [at the final table]."

The last 27 drew for their new seats after the eliminations of Joshua Horton in 28th when he made an inferior flush against Jack Sinclair. They'll come back to those seats at noon with 78 minutes left in Level 32 (120,000/240,000/40,000), and PokerNews will be providing hand-for-hand updates as the final three tables play down to the biggest final table in poker.

End-of-Day Chip Counts followed by Day 7 Seat Draw

Christian Pham 31,440,000 -80,000
Valentin Messina 28,590,000 -405,000
Jack Sinclair 27,535,000 -155,000
Ben Lamb 25,685,000 0
Pedro Oliveira 22,540,000 0
John Hesp 20,880,000 0
Randy Pisane 18,370,000 0
Scott Blumstein 18,125,000 3,225,000
Richard Dubini 14,975,000 1,485,000
Bryan Piccioli 14,500,000 0
Richard Gryko 13,760,000 -80,000
Jonas Mackoff 12,050,000 450,000
Michael Krasienko 11,430,000 -1,890,000
Robin Hegele 11,150,000 1,215,000
Antoine Saout 9,945,000 1,345,000
Michael Ruane 9,340,000 -880,000
Benjamin Pollak 8,870,000 240,000
Alexandre Reard 8,580,000 520,000
Karen Sarkisyan 8,105,000 0
Dan Ott 7,815,000 0
Damian Salas 7,800,000 0
David Guay 7,400,000 0
Scott Stewart 6,230,000 -1,675,000
Florian Lohnert 5,360,000 -80,000
Jake Bazeley 3,915,000 0
Marcel Luske 2,990,000 0
Michael Sklenicka 2,230,000 -70,000

Seat Draw Day 7

Table Seat Player Counttry Chip Count Big Blinds

1 1 John Hesp United Kingdom 20,880,000 87
1 2 Robin Hegele Germany 11,150,000 46
1 3 Scott Stewart United States 6,230,000 26
1 4 Damian Salas Argentina 7,800,000 33
1 5 Michael Ruane United States 9,340,000 39
1 6 Jack Sinclair United Kingdom 27,535,000 115
1 7 Bryan Piccioli United States 14,500,000 60
1 8 Jonas Mackoff Canada 12,050,000 50
1 9 Randy Pisane United States 18,370,000 77

2 1 Richard Dubini Argentina 14,975,000 62
2 2 Antoine Saout France 9,945,000 41
2 3 Valentin Messina France 28,590,000 119
2 4 Pedro Oliveira Portugal 22,540,000 94
2 5 Florian Lohnert Germany 5,360,000 22
2 6 Alexandre Reard France 8,580,000 36
2 7 David Guay Canada 7,400,000 31
2 8 Richard Gryko United Kingdom 13,760,000 57
2 9 Scott Blumstein United States 18,125,000 76

3 1 Michael Sklenicka Czech Republic 2,230,000 9
3 2 Jake Bazeley United States 3,915,000 16
3 3 Christian Pham United States 31,440,000 131
3 4 Michael Krasienko United States 11,430,000 48
3 5 Benjamin Pollak France 8,870,000 37
3 6 Daniel Ott United States 7,815,000 33
3 7 Marcel Luske Netherlands 2,990,000 12
3 8 Karen Sarkisyan Russia 8,105,000 34
3 9 Ben Lamb United States 25,685,000 107