WSOP 2012 News and Information Thread

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Event 26: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

20 of 589 left

led by

Top Chip Counts
1    Tom Chambers       620,000
2    Oleksii Kovalchuk       580,000
3    Vadzim Kursevich       520,000
4    Thomas Pettersson       346,000
5    Austin Scott               280,000
6    Huykhiem Nguyen       278,000
7    Steve Merrifield               270,000
8    Dutch Boyd               260,000
9    Emil Patel                       260,000
10    Robert Williamson III    245,000

Joe Beevers finished 25th for just under $11,000

Matt Perrins 37th for over $7,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-26-pot-limit-omaha/

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Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Day 1 completed

"Skip" Wilson Leads Day 1 with 165 Remaining; Cunningham, Idema & Elezra Lurking
Allen Cunningham will return on Day 2 with a healthy stack of 55,200.

The 2012 World Series of Poker continued on Wednesday with Event #27 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., which attracted 889 entrants and created a prize pool of $1,200,150. The top 96 players are slated to take home a minimum payday of $2,676, with the eventual winner taking home $267,081. The man best positioned to make a deep run is Karle “Skip” Wilson, who finished Day 1 as chip leader with 165 players remaining.

 Other early eliminations included Shaun Deeb, Maxwell Troy, Owais Ahmed, Erick Lindgren, Greg Raymer, James Woods and PokerNews’ own Rich Ryan.

The middle stages of Day 1 were characterized by eliminations as the blinds caught up with the stacks. An extensive list of pros met their end during this time including Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Matt Glantz, Men “The Master” Nguyen and Jonathan Duhamel.

While hundreds fell, some players managed to survive. Tom Schneider (28,300), Marcel Luske (28,900), Linda Johnson (30,500), Eli Elezra (35,500), Christian Harder (37,100), Rep Porter (41,500) and John Monnette (42,000) all advanced to Day 2.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-27-h-o-r-s-e/

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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- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27-

Total : $712,500

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Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

The Heads Up Will Continue Tomorrow at 2:00 PM

play has been suspended for tonight.

Phil Ivey is Eliminated in 3rd Place ($136,046)

Phil Ivey - 3rd Place
Phil Ivey - 3rd Place

It's all over for Phil Ivey. From the small blind Joe Cassidy raised and Phil Ivey called from the big blind. The flop came down {Q-Hearts}{J-Clubs}{8-Diamonds} and Cassidy bet. Ivey raised all in for 95,000 and his opponent made the call.

Cassidy showed {K-Clubs}{K-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} and Ivey was all in with {K-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{6-Hearts}. The turn was the {5-Clubs} and the river the {J-Diamonds} ending Phil Ivey's tournament run in third place. We are heads up!

Chip Counts
Joe Cassidy       US US    3,000,000    500,000 pos
Scotty Nguyen       US US    845,000    -85,000 neg


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-24-omaha-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

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Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
Day 4 completed
Congratulations to Joe Cassidy on Winning Event 24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better ($294,777)

Joe Cassidy wins his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet after beating Scotty Nguyen in an epic heads up battle. This event started four days ago with 256 players all gunning for that little piece of poker history, and of course a $294,777 first place prize.

Many greats came to play, and possibly the greatest came very close to winning his ninth bracelet. Phil Ivey couldn't close it out yesterday and found Nguyen and Cassidy battle heads up for the title today. And what a battle it was! Read all about Ivey's fight for number nine in yesterday's recap, as we started this fourth day with just two players.

These were the chip counts going into the final day of play.
Joe Cassidy   3,000,000
Scotty Nguyen   845,000

With this win Joe Cassidy collects his first ever gold bracelet and a $294,777 payday

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-24-omaha-hi-low-split-8-or-better/

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Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Brian Meinders, Winner of Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout ($116,118)!

Defeat three tables and win a World Series of Poker bracelet. It sounds like an easy task in theory, but 365 people would disagree with you. That being said, one person was able to accomplish what the others could not and accumulate all of the chips on the table three days in a row. Brian Meinders was able to defeat Darin Thomas heads up to take home $116,118 in prize money and his first gold WSOP bracelet.

Despite being one of the smaller buy-in events at the WSOP, this event drew a rather stacked field. Many professionals swarmed to this event with the hopes of being able to attain WSOP glory. Among those to lose to their first table in this event were Joseph Cheong, Barry Shulman, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Little, Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Maria Ho and many more.

Fifty players were able to earn the title of Day 1 champion and lock up a guaranteed cash of $3,088. Of those fifty, only ten would move on to the final table. Several notable names came close on Day 2, only to fall short of making the prestigious WSOP final table. Greg Mueller, JJ Liu, Scott Seiver, Justin Bonomo, Matt Matros, and Mike Leah were among those to walk away from Event 25 with a min-cash. The ten who did make it on though were guaranteed at least $7,164 and only had to best nine others to attain WSOP immortality.

Final Table Lineup
Seat   Player   Chips
1   Darin Thomas   155,500
2   Preston Derden   157,500
3   Christopher Hartman   162,500
4   Victor Ramdin   165,500
5   Brock Parker   164,500
6   Christopher Vitch   162,000
7   Sean Rice   160,000
8   Brian Meinders   162,400
9   Ian Johns   159,000
10   Matthew Schreiber   154,500

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Brian Meinders   $116,118
2   Darin Thomas   $71,704
3   Christopher Vitch   $51,861
4   Victor Ramdin   $37,897
5   Brock Parker   $27,986
6   Preston Derden   $20,886
7   Matthew Schreiber   $15,747
8   Sean Rice   $11,992
9   Ian Johns   $9,225
10   Christopher Hartman $7,164


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-25-limit-hold-em-shootout/

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Austin Scott Wins Event 26: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha ($361,797)!

Last year, Austin Scott took eighth place in this event for $40,748. Not only did he better that performance this year, but Scott went on to win it all to grab his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet and $361,797 in prize money.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Austin Scott   $361,797
2   Brett Richey   $223,492
3   Vadzim Kursevich   $158,530
4   Scott Stanko   $114,530
5   Khiem Nguyen   $83,180
6   Tom Chambers   $61,521
7   Romik Vartzar   $46,117
8   Dutch Boyd   $35,038
9   Thomas Pettersson   $26,966


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-26-pot-limit-omaha/

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Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day 2 completed
Schwartz Leads After Day 2

Today was Day 2 of the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, numbered 27 on the WSOP schedule this year. A day prior, 889 people turned up with their entry tickets in hand. By the time the clock ticked down through Level 20 tonight, just 18 remained in contention for the title. Ylon Schwartz will take the big stack of 416,000 into tomorrow's finale, and he'll be the betting favorite to capture the top prize of $267,081 and the gold bracelet. Those prizes will be handed out tomorrow.

When the 165 Day 2 starters returned this afternoon, the field still needed to be reduced by almost half to break the money bubble. Some of the notables to drop out empty handed include Alex Bolotin, Jason Mercier, Frank Kassela, Bryan Devonshire, Christian Harder, Marcel Luske, and David Sklansky.

Bryce Yockey, Cliff Josephy, Stephen Chidwick, Zimnan Ziyard, Daniel Idema, Allen Cunningham, Rep Porter, and Chiu round out the list of notables among the 19 who survived this brisk Day 2.

Chidwick in 9th, Ziyard in 14th both with around average stacks

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-27-h-o-r-s-e/

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Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Four-Handed

Day 1 Ends Six Eliminations Off of the Bubble

Ten levels of play are in the books here in Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Four-Handed, and six of the remaining 86 players will return to Day 2 only to leave empty-handed. Steven Weiss (171,000) and Brian Rast (168,000) most likely won’t bust before the money bubble bursts – they’re our chip leaders.

Event 28 was one of the most anticipated events of the summer, because there has never been a four-max tournament in the history of the World Series of Poker. There were 750 entrants looking to make history as the first four-max bracelet winner ever, and the chips were flying almost immediately. During the first six levels of play, we lost more than two thirds of the field, including Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Marvin Rettenmaier, Daniel Negreanu, David Vamplew, Aaron Jones, and the 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada.

There are plenty of other notables who will return tomorrow, including Sam Stein (154,200), Tony Dunst (162,800), Darryll Fish (125,700), Joe Tehan (96,600), Lex Veldhuis (102,200), Isaac Haxton (49,500), and Jason Koon (139,000).

With 86 players remaining, we are just six eliminations away from bursting a $4,385 money bubble

Jake Cody has a top 20 stack, Martins Adeinya in too


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-28-no-limit-hold-em-four-handed/

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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- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick, Zimnan Ziyard: cash

Total : $727,400

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Event 27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

4 left with a British chip leader

Top Chip Counts
1    Stephen Chidwick    1,500,000
2    Ylon Schwartz       1,160,000
3    Robby Rasmussen    760,000
4    David Chiu       135,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-27-h-o-r-s-e/

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Event 28: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Four-Handed

As of now

Top Chip Counts

1    Brendon Rubie       1,260,000
2    James Schaaf       730,000
3    Timothy Adams       700,000
4    Greg Merson       660,000
5    Anthony Gregg       630,000
6    Andrey Gulyy       580,000
7    Jason Koon       400,000
8    Toan Trinh       330,000
9    Torrey Reily       300,000

Martins Adeniya finished 43rd, Nick Gibson 73rd

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-28-no-limit-hold-em-four-handed/

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Event 29: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

513 of 4128 remain

A high profile top ten currently

Top Chip Counts

1    Fred Roll               81,000
2    Dennis Phillips       56,000
3    Pete Giordano       53,000
4    Marcel Luske       36,000
5    Chris Bjorn       27,000
6    Toto Leonidas       22,000
7    Humberto Brenes    19,000
8    Hal Lubarsky       18,000
9    Marilynn Kroon       18,000
10    Steve Patch       10,000



http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-29-seniors-no-limit-hold-em-championship/

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Event 30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball

140 of 285 remain

Early days, but look who is near the top.....

Top Chip Counts
1    Aaron Jones       28,500
2    Stuart Rutter       21,500
3    Andrew Lichtenberger 21,000
4    Rep Porter       18,000
5    John Phan               18,000
6    Dan Smith               15,200
7    Kevin MacPhee       14,000
8    Brandon Cantu       13,000
9    Galen Hall               12,500
10    Liv Boeree               11,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-30-2-7-draw-lowball/

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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- Ramey Shiao:final James Akenhead, Sam Razavi, Sam Grafton, Martins Adeniya, Matt Perrins, Andrew Wayman: cash
#17 -
#18 Jon Spinks: cash
#19 - Sam Grafton, Rick Trigg: cash
#20 -
#21 - David Kilpatrick, Pete Haslam,David Jones,Stephen Chidwick,Sebastian Saffari,David Vamplew,Zimnan Ziyard, Paul Damany, John Duthie: cash
#22 - Stuart Rutter: cash
#23- Craig McCorkell, Liv Boeree, Ash Mason, Roberto Romanello, Pab Foltyn: cash
#24- Stephen Chidwick: cash
#25- Jon Spinks: cash
#26- Joe Beevers, Matt Perrins: cash
#27- Stephen Chidwick: final Zimnan Ziyard: cash
#28 - Martins Adeniya, Nick Gibson: cash
#29-
#30-

Total : $807,300



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