WSOP 2012 News and Information Thread

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Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

351 of 2949 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Jake Schindler       70,000
2    Mazin Khoury       68,000
3    Tucker Hummel       63,000
4    James Wall       55,000
5    Todd Keikon       52,000
6    Adam Heger       50,000
7    Amnon Fillipi       47,000
8    Adam Kornuth       47,000
9    Barry Hutter       45,000
10    Phil Collins       42,000

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-44-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event 45: $50,000 Poker Players Championship

103 ponied up for this

One exit so far, David Singer

Spnks, Chidwick and Ashby appear to be the three Brits in the field


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-45-the-poker-players-championship/

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Updated

Gross winnings at the 2012 now exceed $2m for the UK

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, Steve Watts, 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- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 - Craig McCorkell: BRACELET Roberto Romanello final. James Akenhead, Max Silver,Niall Farrell cash
#37-
#38- Sam Razavi, Scott Shelley, Nicky Evans: cash
#39- John Kabbaj, Tim Flanders, Joe Beevers: cash
#40-
#41- Paul Vas Nunes: final JP Kelly, Niall Farrell, Roberto Romanello: cash
#42-
#43- Neil Channing, Tom Alner, Najid Kamand, Ash Mason, Paul Foltyn: cash
#44-
#45

Cashed 149 times
Reached seven official final tables
Won one bracelet
Won $2,383,278

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Congratulations to Greg Ostrander, Winner of the 2012 WSOP Event #41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($742,072)

Yesterday, Day 3 of Event: 41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em came and went as the final 30 players of a 1,394 field was reduced down to just two—Greg Ostrander and Jackie Glazier. Those two returned on Monday for an impromptu Day 4 with Glazier holding a 9,480,000 to 3,070,000 chip lead over Ostrander.

The high blinds ensured the action was fast-paced, and an hour's worth of play ended up being a wild ride. Glazier whittled down Ostrander a bit before the latter doubled, and then the same scenario repeated itself a short time later. After receiving his second double, Ostrander managed to move into the chip lead and never looked back.

In the final hand, Ostrander raised to 200,000 on the button and Glazier called from the big blind. Both players checked the {6-Spades}{9-Spades}{Q-Clubs} flop, and the Glazier check-called a bet of 450,000 on the {8-Spades} turn. When the {A-Hearts} peeled off on the river, Glazier checked, Ostrander slid out 1 million, and Glazier moved all in.

Ostrander hesitated for a moment, and then made the call with {10-Spades}{7-Hearts} for a ten-high straight. Glazier showed {8-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} for two pair and it was all over. Ostrander managed to win his first gold bracelet, not to mention the $742,072 first-place prize, while denying Australia’s Glazier from becoming the first woman to win an open World Series of Poker Event since Vanessa Selbst took down a $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event back in 2008.

Place   Player   Prize
1st   Greg Ostrander   $742,072
2nd   Jackie Glazier   $458,996
3rd   Paul Vas Nunes   $290,407
4th   Morten Mortensen   $210,793
5th   Roger Fontes   $155,498
6th   Darryl Ronconi   $116,452
7th   Joseph Chaplin   $88,481
8th   Kyle Frey   $68,121
9th   Dylan Hortin   $53,126


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-41-no-limit-hold-em/

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Congratulations to Oleksii Kovalchuk, Winner of Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better ($228,014)!

Day 3 of Event 42: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better began with 22 players in search of a WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $228,014. In the end, only one player could be crowned champion, and his name is Oleksii Kovalchuk.

The 22-year old Ukranian native is now a two-time bracelet winner – he won the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed event last year, earning him $689,739. Congratulations to Kovalchuk on winning number two, and thank you for joining us during these last three days of grueling poker. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all of your up-to-the-minute updates from the 2012 WSOP.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-42-omaha-seven-card-stud-hi-low-8-or-better/

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Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

16 of 2949 left overnight

op Chip Counts
1    Thomas Conway       880,000
2    Nelson Robinson       871,000
3    Darren Rabinowitz       760,000
4    Francisco Azares       678,000
5    Patrick Karschamroon       678,000
6    Anke Berner               655,000
7    Keven Stammen               654,000
8    Niel Mittelman               578,000
9    Jaspal Brar               551,000
10    Kevin Elia                       503,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-44-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event 45: $50,000 Poker Players Championship

63 of 108 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Andy Bloch       687,000
2    Abe Mosseri       633,100
3    John Monnette       572,200
4    Michael Mizrachi       563,100
5    Joe Cassidy       542,300
6    Robert Mizrachi       500,200
7    Daniel Alaei       488,700
8    Dan Shak               461,400
9    Jeff Lisandro       437,900
10    Bruno Fitoussi       411,700

Jon Spinks is reporting on twitter that he has 400,000 which is a top 15 stack

Richard Ashby and Stpehen Chidwick have 140,000 each


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-45-the-poker-players-championship/

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Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

279 of 1607 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Ryan D'Angelo       130,000
2    Peter Gilmore       124,000
3    Daniel Chamberlain    106,000
4    Shankar Pillai       100,000
5    Fabrizio Gonzalez    100,000
6    Jordan Young       95,000
7    Shankar Pillai       95,000
8    René Angélil       95,000
9    Marc Inizan       92,000
10    Nicholas Schwarmann 90,000

Moorman, JP, Greco, Akenhead all reported still in for the UK

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-46-no-limit-hold-em/

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Updated

Gross winnings at the 2012 now approach $3m for the UK

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, Steve Watts, 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- Richard Haile: cash
#30- Stuart Rutter - cash
#31- Najib Kamand: final James Akenhead, Niall Farrell, Priyan De Mel, Kevin Allen and Jamie Dale: cash
#32-
#33-CT Law, Sunny Chattha, David Vamplew, Jon Spinks,Andrew Teng,Craig McCorkell,Zimnan Ziyard,Andy Bradshaw,Martins Adeniya cash
#34-
#35- James Dempsey: cash
#36 - Craig McCorkell: BRACELET Roberto Romanello final. James Akenhead, Max Silver,Niall Farrell cash
#37-
#38- Sam Razavi, Scott Shelley, Nicky Evans: cash
#39- John Kabbaj, Tim Flanders, Joe Beevers: cash
#40-
#41- Paul Vas Nunes: final JP Kelly, Niall Farrell, Roberto Romanello: cash
#42-
#43- Neil Channing, Tom Alner : final Najid Kamand, Ash Mason, Paul Foltyn: cash
#44- Craig Sweden: cash
#45-
#46-
Cashed 152 times
Reached eleven official final tables
Won one bracelet
Won $2,861,456

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Congratulations to Henry Lu, Winner of Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($654,380)

After another huge day of poker action, Henry Lu has been crowned the champion of Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. A great effort from Lu saw him pocket a cool $654,380, along with taking home his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet. That's not to mention the fact that earlier in the day he was down to less than two big blinds, but we will get to that.

The day started with 20 players all hoping to make it where Lu stands right now. Of course, there can only be one winner and so 19 players fell by the wayside throughout the day. The first of those players was Michael De Gilio, followed by Andres Sanchez (20th), Adam Foster (19th), Carl DiVeglia III (18th), Daniel Zeihen (17th) and Michael Morgousky (16th).

At this point the eliminations started flying fast as Mark Ketteringham (14th) and Michael Judge (13th) joined the above players on the rail. Randy Lew started the day with one of the larger stacks, but was never able to get anything going on Day 3. The eventual last hand of Lew’s tournament saw him all-in holding {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} against the {a-Clubs}{j-Clubs} of Henry Lu. A {9-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{q-Clubs}{4-Clubs}{q-Hearts} board gave Lu enough to eliminate Lew in 12th place and we were one player away from the “unofficial” final table.

The story of the day was definitely the fact that Lu had seen his chip stack increase from just 40,000 earlier in the day, all the way to 1,400,000 by the time he had eliminated Lew. That amount was only good for a little more than one big blind. Lu then continued to see his stack increase as he amazingly eliminated Jess Yaginuma in 11th place to see us head to the “unofficial” final table.

With ten players still in contention, it was Zach Clark who couldn’t survive to see an official final table appearance added to his poker resume this summer. Clark’s final hand was an unlucky one and something which saw Lu continue his run good. Clark’s {k-Hearts}{k-Diamonds} was outflopped by Lu’s {q-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}, with Lu’s set enough to send Clark to the rail.

With that, Lu had eliminated the last three players before the final table and would go into the final nine with 10,000 chips less than Neil Channing, who was the chip leader.

The first player to be eliminated at the final table was Jared Rosenbaum. It was Channing who dealt the fatal blow to Rosenbaum, with his {q-Hearts}{q-Spades} too strong for Rosenbaum’s {a-Clubs}{4-Diamonds} as he increased his chip lead even further. The eighth place spot would go to Francois Dur and it would again be the {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds} of Channing that would prevail. This time Channing was up against {10-Hearts}{10-Clubs} and with no help for Dur, he was out the door with $63,459.

Balazs Botond was the next to go in seventh place, with his short-stack being shoved in the middle holding {6-Diamonds}{6-Hearts} and not finding any help against John Nelson’s {9-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}. Neil Channing was still the chip leader at this point and that would grow even stronger as he eliminated Hovan Nguyen in sixth place.

Channing’s chip lead would increase even further as he dealt the fatal blow to John Nelson. Channing held {k-Spades}{q-Hearts} on a {3-Hearts}{q-Spades}{j-Clubs} flop and was up against the all-in Nelson, who hel {a-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}. No help came on the turn or river, and Nelson was eliminated in fifth place. Coming back from a dinner break, Channing held more than half the total chips in play and that continued as he took down the biggest pot of the tournament. Channing then went on to continue his dominance, eliminating Tom Alner in fourth place when Alner open shoved {j-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} and couldn’t compete with Channing’s {a-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}.

Going into three-handed play, Channing held three quarters of all the chips in play. James Mackey managed to win some of those chips by doubling up through Channing, but on the very next hand was eliminated in dramatic fashion. Mackey held {k-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} and was up against Channing’s {5-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}. By the time the {k-Clubs}{3-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{3-Spades} board had run out, it was looking Mackey would double yet again. However, the powers that be had other ideas, slamming down a {5-Spades} on the river. With that, Channing had eliminated five players in the lead up to the heads-up battle and would hold a 5-1 chip lead over Henry Lu. However, Lu would not go down without a fight.

One of the earliest hands of heads-up saw Lu double up, then from there he took down a huge pot to see the chip lead swing his way. From there, it was a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, with Channing holding his huge chip lead on multiple occasions. Lu was all in and at risk twice, doubling both times. From there it was nothing less than epic battle that lasted almost three hours. Eventually the last hand of the night played out, and in classic tournament fashion, it was a flip for his life that Channing couldn’t survive.

Channing look shattered after the loss, but must be commended for his gallant effort that sees him pocket $406,409. That amount sees Channing’s all-time tournament winnings now eclipse $3 million, and we are sure he will continue searching for that WSOP gold bracelet that has eluded him so far.



Channing 2nd, Tom Alner from Bristol 4th. Well done both.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-43-no-limit-hold-em/

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DaBookie deep in #46. Gl sir.

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Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 completed
Congratulations to Rocco Palumbo, Winner of Event #44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($464,464)!

After three hard-fought days of Texas Hold'em, Event #44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em is in the books with Rocco Palumbo standing tall as champion.

Day 1 began with 2,949 entrants, which marked the second-biggest field thus far during this year's World Series of Poker. (The Senior's Event drew a record-setting field of 4,128).

Palumbo claimed his first WSOP gold bracelet and the $464,464 prize that went along with it!

: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-44-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event 45: $50,000 Poker Players Championship

26 of 108 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Viktor Blom       1,210,000
2    David Oppenheim    1,130,000
3    Bruno Fitoussi       1,020,000
4    David ODB Baker    988,000
5    Daniel Alaei       950,000
6    Stephen Chidwick    912,000
7    Mike Wattel       882,000
8    Chris Klodnicki       835,000
9    Bill Chen              785,000

As well as Chidwick, Luke Schwartz is in with 660,000

Jon Spinks busted.

15 paid


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-45-the-poker-players-championship/

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Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

28 of 1607 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Michael Gagliano    1,100,000
2    Joey Weissman       950,000
3    Yordan Jeliazkov    853,000
4    Vanessa Selbst       755,000
5    Jeremy Quehen       669,000
6    William Reynolds    640,000
7    Fernando Brito       630,000
8    Konstantin Puchkov    503,000
9    Larry Duplantis       500,000
10    Frank Rusnak       495,000


Mike "DaBookie" Hill finished 50th for $11,900, James Akenhead 78th for $8,000, Chris Moorman 100th for $5,700, Michael Greco 132nd for $5,200
http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-46-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event 48: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

171 of 247 remain

Top Chip Counts
1    Sam Barnhart       30,100
2    Todd Witteles       20,575
3    David Steicke       20,500
4    Chad Brown       19,500
5    Jonathan Duhamel    19,000
6    Jeff Shulman       18,600
7    David Benyamine    18,000
8    Leonid Bilokur       17,000
9    Aaron Steury       16,600
10    Dan Kelly               16,000


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-48-limit-hold-em/