WSOP 2012 News and Information Thread

[TightEnd]

Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final 
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins: cash

Those in #15 and #16 still in.

Total : $366,700

[TightEnd]

Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day 1 completed


After 11 long levels of play, Day 1 of Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed is history. The massive field kept climbing throughout the first four levels and eventually landed on a total of 1,604 entrants, which generated a handsome $2,165,400 prize pool. Nick Maimone would end the day as chip leader with 175,900. World Series of Poker bracelet-winner Mark Radoja is nipping at his heels, however, with 172,500.

The entrants fell just as fast as they rose – with over a third of the field eliminated by the end of the beginning of the fifth level. In fact, eliminations came so swiftly that we were even able to burst the money bubble on the final level of the day. Only 137 survived to see Day 2 – a mere 8.5% of the original field.

This event was popular with the pros, to be sure. Some who made an appearance, but were unable to survive into Day 2, include Daniel Negreanu, Shannon Shorr, Shaun Deeb, Dwyte Pilgrim, Faraz Jaka, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Vanessa Selbst, Jerry Yang and Phil Ivey.

Another notable elimination was that of online cash-game sensation Viktor Blom, who earned his first WSOP cash for finishing in 151st place ($2,706).

Even so, plenty of big names were able to bag up chips for the night, including Mike “The Mouth” Matusow (15,700), Todd Terry (84,600), Tristan Wade (84,200), Tony Dunst (21,000), Adam Junglen (43,500), Sam Grafton (99,400), Matt Matros (118,700) and Frank Kasella (75,000).

Here are our chip leaders going into Day 2:
Rank   Player   Chip Count   
1   Nick Maimone   175,900   
2   Mark Radoja   172,500   
3   Thijmen Stocker   156,000   
4   Joe Cappuccio   152,000   
5   Matt Matros   118,700   
6   Matty Levine   105,000   
7   Sam Grafton   99,400   
8   Mark Burford   91,200   
9   Andy Seth   86,00   
10   Todd Terry   84,600

When the full list comes up will seem if any more Brits made it through to join Grafton

Sam Razavi finished 150th   
James Akenhead finished 141st


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

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On Thursday, the World Series of Poker announced 12 more entrants for the Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament taking place at the Rio  from July 1 through 3.

Thirty players had confirmed their participation when the WSOP released its updated list in April. The latest additions brings the total to 42, just six shy of the 48-player cap.

Among the latest to throw their hats in the ring are poker pros Jason Mercier, Eugene Katchlov, David "Viffer" Peat, Vivek Rakjumar, Andrew Robl, Nick Schulman, Sam Trickett and Noah Schwartz, as well as Winmark Corporation CEO John Morgan.

Here is a look at the players who have committed to the event thus far:

    Guy Laliberté
    Bobby Baldwin
    Phil Ruffin
    Andy Beal
    Patrik Antonius
    Gus Hansen
    Daniel Negreanu
    Johnny Chan
    Tom Dwan
    Tony Guoga
    Jonathan Duhamel
    Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
    Giovanni Guarascio (Montreal private citizen group)
    Arnaud Mimran
    Cary Katz
    Paul Phua
    Paul Newey
    Richard Yong
    Bob Bright
    Justin Smith
    Erik Seidel
    Dan Shak
    Carlos Nahas (Loto-Québec/Casino Montreal satellite)
    Anonymous (U.S. Venture Capitalist)
    Anonymous (European Hedge Fund Manager)
    Anonymous (U.S. Hedge Fund Manager)
    Frédéric Banjout (French businessman)
    Caesars Entertainment seat
    Caesars Entertainment via June 30 $25,300 satellite at Rio
    MGM Mirage Satellite seat
    Anonymous (U.S. Hedge Fund Manager)
    John Morgan (CEO, Winmark Corporation)
    Eugene Katchalov
    Jens Kyllönen
    Jason Mercier
    David "Viffer" Peat
    Vivek Rakjumar
    Andrew Robl
    Nick Schulman
    Noah Schwartz
    Roger Teska
    Sam Trickett



 http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/42-players-confirmed-for-world-series-of-poker-big-one-for-o-8568.htm

[Woodsey]

Fk me, Sam Trickett has gone a long way from the old gala days 

[The Camel]

No Hellmuth?

That would be a real surprise.

[MereNovice]

Quite something in these times that they have to put a cap on the field for a $1M buy-in event.

[marcro]

lol - when I saw a Yong was entered I thought it was Rob!

[TightEnd]

Congratulations to Brandon Schaefer on Winning Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout.

Twelve players came back today with the relative same size chip stacks. Thirty minutes into the day Zachary Korick and Jarred Solomon were eliminated and all players were transferred from the Amazon room over to the feature table in the Pavilion room.

Layne Flack came out pretty strong once the final table commenced, and once he eliminated Dylan Horton in 10th place he secured a massive chip lead on the others at the table. The elimination of Dylan Horton brought us to our official nine handed final table. Flack started the final table by dictating a lot of the action, but he didn’t always come out on top. In fact he is a big reason Brandon Schaefer got to heads up play. Flack slowly got shorter and shorter, and eventually he was forced to go all in and things didn’t go in his way and the six time bracelet winner was eliminated in fourth place.

Layne Flack wasn’t the only bracelet holder to make an early exit on us today. Jeff Madsen also came to play. However Madsen never seemed to really pick up any steam though and was knocked out in 7th place.

Once Adam Kagin was eliminated in third we found ourselves in a highly competitive heads up match between Brandon Schaefer and Jonathan Cohen. Schaefer maintained a steady lead for the entirety of the match, but just because he held a lead does not mean it was an easy undertaking. Cohen continually check-raised pots and put Schaefer in tough spots. Schaefer eventually started to pick up on Cohen’s tendencies and managed to make a great call. In the end though Schaefer came out on top.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-14-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

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Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

3 Currently remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Adam Friedman    1,640,000
2    John Monnette    800,000
3    Todd Brunson       740,000

Zimnan Ziyard from Eastbourne finished 6th for $45,000

Ivey 7th, Hellmuth 15th

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-15-seven-card-stud-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

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Event 16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed

19 of 1604 remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Robert Muzzatti    900,000
2    Mark Darner       815,000
3    Matt Glantz       725,000
4    Remy Shaio       455,000
5    Keith Ferrera       440,000
6    Jonathan Currle    430,000
7    Austen Johnson    365,000
8    Mark Radoja       300,000
9    Asad Goodarzy    300,000
10    Gulyy Yury       240,000

Sam Grafton 62nd

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-16-no-limit-hold-em-six-handed/

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Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em

96 of 179 remain

Top Chip Counts

1    Farzad Bonyadi    165,000
2    Keith Lehr       128,000
3    Olivier Busquet       125,000
4    Steve Landfish       125,000
5    Chris Klodnicki       125,000
6    David Benyamine    120,000
7    Josh Bergman       115,000
8    Andrew Lichtenberger 110,000
9    Patrick Cronin       110,000
10    Pierre Neuville       105,000

JP Kelly, Moorman, Liv, Martins Adeniya, Stephen Chidwick and John Eames look to be the British presence still left in this


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

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Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

248 of 309 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Amir Nematinia       20,250
2    Owais Ahmed       16,400
3    Tommy Vedes       15,000
4    Ted Forrest       14,000
5    Brandon Guss       13,500
6    Mickey Doft       13,000
7    Jason Mercier       10,500
8    George Lind       10,500
9    Greg Raymer       9,000
10    Linda Johnson       9,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-18-seven-card-razz/

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Updated

Table of British Bracelets, Finals, Cashes:

#2  JP Kelly: Final 
       Sadan Turker, Paul Foltyn, Simon Hennessey: cash
#3  David Nicholson, Ben Vinson, Sebastian Saffari: cash
#4  Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#5  John Eames: Final
      Jack Ellwood,Scott O'reilly, Toby Lewis: cash
#6  Toby Lewis, Martins Adeniya, Matt Frankland, Ryan O'Donnell: Cash
#7  -
#8 - Scott O'Reilly, David Nicholson : cash
#9 - Sam Grafton, Joe Carr-Hill, David Jones, Simon Hennessey, Martins Adeniya, James Akenhead, David Vamplew, Liv Boeree, Keith Hawkins, Tom Middleton, Andrew Teng: cash
#10 -
#11 - Scott O'Reilly ,JP Kelly: cash
#12- Ryan O'Donnell: cash
#13-
#14- John Eames, Ben Jenkins, Keith Hawkins, Neil McFadyen, Nick Gibson, Priyan De Mel, Barry Woods: cash
#15- Zimnan Ziyard: final
#16- James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash

Total : $411,200

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69 left overnight in the $10,000 PLHE

18 paid

2 Brits in the overnight top 10

Top Chip Counts
1    Steve Landfish       224,500
2    Farzad Bonyadi    184,600
3    Sean Dempsey    170,200
4    Patrick Cronin       155,000
5    Chris Moorman    147,400
6    David Benyamine    145,000
7    Liv Boeree       140,000
8    Kevin MacPhee       138,000
9    Jeff Tims               127,400
10    Erik Seidel       120,000

JP Kelly through with 111,000
Ben Vinson through with 53,000
Martins Adeniya through with 40,000
Stephen Chidwick through with 25,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-17-pot-limit-hold-em/

[NoflopsHomer]

Absolutely over the moon that Brandon won, sounds cliche but he really is one of the nicest guys around, very friendly during the early days of the blonde updates and I'm sure Tikay and Jen would say the same.