WSOP 2012 News and Information Thread

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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

Total : $309,951


Grafton 31 of 33 in 9 overnight

JP Short in 11 going back tomorrow

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Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry

Today's play saw 33 runners return on their quest for WSOP glory. After a few short levels of play, the final table is officially set! Leading the way is Ryan Olisar who is sitting on a chip stack of 3,715,000.

Even with the large number of entrants in this event, it seemed the the cream still managed to rise to the top. A number of notable names were still alive when play began today. Among those to hit the rail today were Paul Wasicka, Ari Engel, Lee Childs, Scott Seiver, and Daniel Idema.

The final table will commence tomorrow at 1pm local time

Final Table Seating Chart

Seat   Player   Chips

1   Amanda Musumeci   2,040,000
2   Benjamin Reinhart   1,800,000
3   Greg Mueller   820,000
4   Ashkan Razavi   985,000
5   Brian Rast   2,415,000
6   Derrick Huang   760,000
7   Ryan Olisar   3,715,000
8   Duy Ho   1,990,000
9   Dien Le   775,000

Sam Grafton finished 28th, Joe Carr-Hill 34th

 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-9-no-limit-hold-em-re-entry/

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Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud

The 2012 World Series of Poker Event #10 Seven Card Stud started with 145 players three days ago, and now only one remains. Day 3 began with 16 players, including some of the game’s best, but after ten and a half hours of play it was mixed-games specialist John Monnette who emerged victorious to capture the $190,826 first-place prize and his second WSOP gold bracelet.

Pre-Money Eliminations

Place   Player   Prize
9th   Eugene Katchalov   $18,693
10th   Lee Goldman   $18,693
11th   Cyndy Violette   $22,332
12th   Max Pescatori   $15,906
13th   Roger Smith   $13,834
14th   Yuval Bronshtein   $13,834
15th   Mike Sexton   $12,035
16th   Nick Schulman   $12,035

Final Table Results

Place     Player            Prize
1   John Monnette   $190,826
2   Huu Vinh   $117,913
3   Tim Finne   $73,847
4   Perry Friedman   $53,470
5   Jeff Lisandro   $41,789
6   Mark Dickstein   $33,325
7   Bryn Kenney   $27,062
8   Raymond Dehkharghani   $22,332


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-10-seven-card-stud/

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Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha

9 of 970 left

1    Charles Tonne       1,300,000
2    Damien Lhommueau 600,000
3    Alex Dovzhenko    460,000
4    Rodney Brown       450,000
5    Tristan Wade       210,000
6    Vincent Van Der Fluit 200,000
7    David Schnettler    200,000
8    Calvin Anderson 180,000
9    Brian Garbe    170,000

Scott O'Reilly finished 63rd, JP Kelly 80th




http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-11-pot-limit-omaha/

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Event 12: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em

After three exciting rounds of heads-up poker, the first day of the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end. There are 32 players remaining out of the 152-player field, all of whom are in the money. The day started with a short delay as many last-minute registrations were able to get into this event. After the draw was posted, 48 of the 152 players weren't amused as they had to play the first round. The remaining 104 players received a bye securing their seat in the second round.

Among the notable losers in the first round were Matt Marafioti, Sam Trickett, Jason Koon and Vanessa Rousso as Jason Mercier, Chris Moorman, David "Doc" Sands and Matt Perrins moved onto the next round. The real action started as the field got down to 128 and we had a full bracket of players to follow.

Sands, Phil Ivey and Justin Bonomo were among the first players to win their second round match while Andy Frankenberger, Shaun Deeb and Vladimir Shchemelev each busted. Today also marked the World Series of Poker debut of online superstar Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom who proved he could also play live during the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure when he won the $100,000 Super High Roller event banking just over $1.2 million. Blom beat Andy Bloch in the first round, but had to admit defeat in the second when he lost against Tommy Chen. Other notables that lost their second round match were Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Victor Ramdin, Erik Seidel and 2009 Heads-Up Championship winner Leo Wolpert.

With the field down to 64, all players had to win just one more match in order to cash for $10,966. Steven Landfish was the first player to reach the money when he beat Peter Jetten by rivering a straight against a turned set. Scott Baumstein didn't have a lot of trouble with Victor Ilyukhin, who called a big shove from Baumstein preflop with jack-ten. Baumstein watched his ace-deuce hold up and give him a seat in the fourth round. Richard Lyndaker took out the 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela. Lyndaker had flopped a straight when the money went in and Kassela's pair and gutshot couldn't catch up. We also said goodbye to 2010 Heads-Up Champion Ayaz Mahmood and 2011 Champion Jake Cody in the round of 64.

Daniel Negreanu beat Faraz Jaka in the second round and got another top opponent in the third matching up with heads-up specialist Jonathan Jaffe. Negreanu lost a big pot halfway through the match when both players had made a full house and the money went in on the river. He didn't recover and lost his last chips with fives against aces.

Other big names to make it to the round of 32 are Brian Hastings, Brock Parker, Eric Froehlich and Vanessa Selbst. The biggest upset came when Phil Ivey lost against the unknown Chae An. Ivey got it in good with ace-king against ace-seven, but a seven on the flop send him out the door.

We will come back tomorrow with the final 32 players and play down to there are just four players remaining.

Place   Prize
1   371,498
2   229,722
3 - 4   130,606
5 - 8   56,380
9 - 16 20,674

Ryan O'Donnell is the only Brit remaining


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-12-heads-up-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event 13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

315 of 730 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Rep Porter       27,000
2    John Racener       21,000
3    J.C. Tran               20,800
4    Michael Mizrachi    20,500
5    Roland Israel       19,000
6    Men Nguyen       16,800
7    Randy Lew       14,800
8    Eric Buchman       13,500
9    Isaac Haxton       13,500
10    Michael Benvenuti    13,500

Stephen Chidwick and Richard Ashby are still in according to the partial chip counts

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-13-limit-hold-em/

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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

Total : $309,951

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Joe Carr Hill, from Brighton, is a teacher

An APAT regular, just a small stakes guy who is over there on holiday

Only last weekend he was in Cardiff playing a £75 APAT jobbie

Finished 34th in the first event off the plane....

Forgive the branding in the pic please, here he is after finishing top 3 in an APAT last year

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Meanwhile Scott O'Reilly from Torquay has cashed three times in the first twelve events, not bad going..

Here's his Online Profile http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/mongy/

Click to see full-size image.

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Ryan O'Donnell meanwhile cashed in #6 and is in the last 32 of the Heads Up Championship

I know very little about him.

Here's a THM database pic




Any ideas, anyone?

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Tighty obviously doesn't read my blog

#Invalid YouTube Link#

guy is an absolute legend

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Tighty obviously doesn't read my blog

#Invalid YouTube Link#

guy is an absolute legend

pop a link up then, Patrick. ty

[pokerfan]

HShusng player, blog here.

http://mocachoca.com/?p=244

(Pleno beat me to it)

[pleno1]

Tighty obviously doesn't read my blog

#Invalid YouTube Link#

guy is an absolute legend

pop a link up then, Patrick. ty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FF4YawxInqY

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Ivey’s 0-fer, and Dwan’s MIA

The return of Phil Ivey has been anticlimactic. Through seven events played, he has as many cashes as Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson combined.

In fact, the only entertaining thing Ivey has done during the first week of the WSOP, is sprint around the halls alongside Jason Mercier. With no Full Tilt Poker, Ivey has no media obligations and has no interest in talking to anybody about anything unless it has something to do with a prop or sports bet. And, if you are making a wager with Ivey, it’s probably going to be for a substantial amount of money, so that whittles the number of people who’ve talked to Ivey to a dozen or so.

At least Ivey is in Las Vegas — Tom “durrrr” Dwan is missing in action. He’s been confirmed in the Big One for One Drop, so he’s going to grace everyone with his presence at some point, but for now it appears as though the cash games in Macau are just too juicy. Maybe Dwan fell off of the face of the Earth — he last tweeted on May 18. Or, perhaps Dwan has been hired as an ambassador to make sure Richard Yong and Paul Phua actually make the trip to Vegas to play in the Big One. The two are currently on the confirmed participants list, as well, but I’m quite certain that if they skipped the flight, it wouldn’t be the first time they lit $50,000 on fire.

What is certain is that one of the game’s biggest stars is absent, and the other is batting .000 through 11 events. That’s not very good. It’s still early, and we anticipate Dwan showing his face at some point, but right now the 2012 WSOP is looking like a huge bust for two of the most popular players in the world


http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/five-thoughts-verbal-drama-breaking-records-bloch-s-bracelet-8554.htm