WSOPE 2012 Main: Funk for Bram and Toby

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Congratulations to Antonio Esfandiari, Winner of Event #2: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em (€126,207)

On Tuesday, the second bracelet winner of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe was crowned as Antonio Esfandiari defeated a field of 626 players to capture the Event #2: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em title, the accompanying €126,207 first-place prize and his third gold bracelet.

The day began with 15 runners, but five hit the rail relatively quickly. Casey Kastle was the first to go in 15th place, and he was followed out the door by Amaury Detoc (14th-€7,680), W.J. Vincent (13th-€7,680) and Joe Kuether (12th-€9,423). After the eliminations of Igor Kalinicenko (11th-€9,423) and Anthony Pons (10th-€9,423), the final table was set.

Esfandiari entered the final table with the chip lead and was primed to capture his third bracelet, but he was joined by some stiff competition including five Frenchman looking to become the first ever to win a bracelet at the WSOP Europe.

It was an exciting heads-up match as Esfandiari, who by this point had taken over the WSOP Player of the Year lead, was searching for his third bracelet, while Bollengier hoped to become the first French player to ever win a WSOP Europe bracelet. Esfandiari held a slight lead when the match began, and he never relinquished it on his way to victory.
Event #2: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table Results

Place   Player   Prize
1   Antonio Esfandiari   €126,207
2   Remi Bollengier   €78,059
3   Salvatore Bonavena   €57,079
4   Antonin Teisserie   €42,356
5   Valentin Detoc   €31,869
6   McLean Karr   €24,309
7   Ashly Butler   €18,798
8   Jamel Haddad   €14,736
9   Florian Ciuro   €11,707

Congratulations to Antonio Esfandiari on winning his second WSOP win of 2012 and his third gold bracelet


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-2-1-100-no-limit-hold-em/

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Event #3: €5,300 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 2 completed
Hairabendian Leads Final 9, Mizrachi Gunning For Second Bracelet of 2012

The second day of play started with only 25 players, but it was far from easy for the nine finalists to reach that last table. French pro Roger Hairabedian emerged as the chip leader followed by the dangerous Fin Ville Mattila. Michael Mizrachi however is the story of this final table as he will be trying to win his second bracelet of 2012, and also second bracelet at the WSOPE in back-to-back years. Joe Hachem, the 2005 Main Event champion, also reached the final table. He will be trying to win his second bracelet.

Erich Kollmann started the day as chip leader, but just about everything went wrong for the Austrian. After bluffing off some chips he got himself involved in a huge pot against Mattila. In a limped pot Kollmann fired out 4,000 on a {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} flop, and Mattila was his only caller. On the turn, the {3-Diamonds}, Kollmann check raised the 9,000-chip bet to 25,000 and Mattila called. the river was the {Q-Spades} and Kollmann moved all in for 45,000. Mattila called with a set of kings and that beat Kollmann's set of eights.

French bracelet winner Aubin Cazals took down the $5,000 Mixed Max at the World Series of Poker this summer, but he would not add a second bracelet in his home country. Vanessa Selbst knocked Cazals out who narrowly missed out on the money. Shortly after this hand it was $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha winner Jan-Peter Jachtmann who made his exit. He fell to Jani Sointula.

Ran Azor was one of the main characters on Day 1, but Day 2 was far from kind to him. The jovial Israeli busted to Selbst who seemed have everything under control. After this though she could not get a lot going, and busted right in the money, 12th for €9,696.

Jussi Ryynanen and Michael Mizrachi had many clashes, and both players held the chip lead for quite some time. We expect to see big things from these two players at the final table. Sam Chartier was the eventual bubble boy when his kings could not beat Jason Mercier's aces. Mercier was patient throughout the day and one big double up gave him high hopes for another WSOP bracelet. His final level was far from good and he will be one of the shorter stacks going into the final table.

Bruno Fitoussi made the 2012 $50,000 Players Championship final table, where he was the first to be knocked out. Today he bubbled the final table finishing in 10th place. Fitoussi ran into Mizrachi's aces and he failed to improve.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-3-5-300-pot-limit-omaha/

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Event #4: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 1 completed
Stacked Field Advances To Day 2

Day 1 of Event #4: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout has come to a close, and a long day it was. From the original starting field of 141 players, an extremely stacked field of 20 remain. Due to the shootout format of this event, all of the advancing players will take approximately the same amount of chips into Day 2. The one player that stands out, though, is Phil Hellmuth. The 12-time WSOP gold bracelet winner bagged up 71,775 due to his table having an extra player to start the day.

Numbers were down a lot for this event, but the WSOP staff was quick on its feet with making an alteration to the structure. Instead of a three-day event, this event will now end tomorrow on Day 2. The 20 players that have advanced will play a regular, multi-table tournament format down to a winner. As it stands right now, everyone left is in the money, earning at least €5,428.

Some of the names moving on to join Hellmuth are Matt Stout, Chance Kornuth, Dan O'Brien, Daniel Negreanu, John Monnette, Faraz Jaka, Mohsin Charania, Oleksii Kovalchuk and Dominik Nitsche. That's quite an amazing field that's left, which should set things up for one outstanding final table.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-4-3-250-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

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A total of 97 players put up €5,300 to participate in the first Pot-Limit Omaha event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe. After three full days of play, Roger Hairabedian was able to rise above the field to claim the €142,590 first place prize as well as the gold bracelet that accompanies it. Hairabedian also holds the distinction of being the first ever French winner of a WSOPE bracelet.

Final Table Results
Place   Player   Prize
1   Roger Hairabedian   €142,590
2   Ville Mattila   €88,130
3   Michael Mizrachi   €62,749
4   Jussi Ryynanen   €45,581
5   Jussi Nevanlinna   €33,765
6   Joe Hachem   €25,490
7   Michel Abecassis   €19,606
8   Michael Schwartz   €15,357
9   Jason Mercier   €12,245


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-3-5-300-pot-limit-omaha/

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Event #4: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 2 completed
O'Brien vs. Rosadoni Resumes Tomorrow at 3PM

Due to the casino having to close its doors at 5:00 AM local time, the tournament was halted a few minutes beforehand and play will resume tomorrow at 3:00 PM.

Heading into tomorrow, Giovanni Rosadoni has the chip lead with 787,000 in chips. Dan O'Brien has 490,000, and the blinds will be at 8,000/16,000/2,000 for another 25 minutes.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-4-3-250-no-limit-hold-em-shootout/

[smashedagain]

Goooooo Big Roger. Friend from way back

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Event #5: €10,450 Mixed Max - No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 completed
Tilly Takes on Star-Studded Field to Soar to the Top


Some times at PokerNews we have to prepare a recap of the day’s play bearing in mind one of a few players could finish on top of the pile. It’s almost like a live reporter’s range. Today we had no such problems as one player smashed, bashed, value-bet and sucked out on all comers to amass a huge stack after eight levels of play. That person was Jennifer Tilly who bagged up 218,000 chips. Asked about how her day went she just said, “I got lucky!” Ashton Griffin quickly piped in and said that she played great as well as getting lucky.

She is far clear of a chasing pack that includes Faraz Jaka (126,000), Brain Park (114,200), Marvin Rettenmaier (109,000), Michael Mizrachi (89,700), Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier (82,500) and Mori Eskandani (89,400). A total of 52 players remain. With all the success Mizrachi has had in the last year, lest us not forget he is the defending champ.

Play will resume at 2pm (CET) tomorrow where the tournament format moves on to the next stage. It’s all about action-packed 6-max, and play will continue until we have 16 players remaining. From there the tournament moves into a heads-up format. If we reach the required number early enough then the round of 16 matches will also play out tomorrow, and will negate the need for a fourth day of play.

Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-5-10-450-mixed-max-no-limit-hold-em/

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Is there much less interest in this because it is in Cannes?

Not many UK players playing?

Numbers seem to be "svelte" overall....

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Lots of tweets saying buy ins too big for the sides, poor wifi and a few other nightmares. There are a few Brits heading over today.

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One more try

Closing in on 200 entries for the WSOPE Main Event on Day 1A and 2 players are out early - http://bit.ly/QnwAol

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Saw my mate Roger is last 4 of mix max too.

[JK]

This has been dying since it left London IMO.

(Either that or I'm just jealous because I had the London gig and not Cannes )

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Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event


Mizrachi Emerges as Day 1a Chip Leader; Ivey, O'Dwyer & Alvarado Punch Ticket to Day 2


The 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Event #7 €10,450 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event kicked off on Saturday as 215 players took to the felt in the first of two starting flights. After six 90-minute levels of play, the field had been reduced to 115 with Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and his stack of 234,850 leading the way.

It didn’t take long for things to heat up at the Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France; in fact, in Level 1 there was a hand that had the whole tournament floor talking. "It's nuts, nuts and a flush draw," Jean-Robert Bellande said from a nearby table. "Two guys have the nuts and one has top pair and a flush draw... with one to come."

The board read {8-Hearts}{4-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{7-Clubs} and three hands were face up on the felt. Henry Tran held the {A-Clubs}{8-Clubs} for top pair with a flush draw; Erik Cajelais held the {6-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} for a turned nut straight; and Brandon Barnes held the {6-Spades}{5-Hearts} for the same turned straight. "Club!" yelled Tran before the put out the{5-Clubs}. Cajelais was not happy at all, and he got up from his chair and quickly stormed out of the room while Barnes left more quietly. Tran had them both covered and has catapulted to over 90,000, which carried him to the end of the night where he bagged up 118,750.

Not everyone was as fortunate as Mizrachi. Among those to hit the rail on Day 1a were Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Nam Le, Tobias Reinkemeier, Fabrice Soulier, Victor Ramdin, Jennifer Tilly, Will Failla, Chris Moorman, Jeff Lisandro, Frank Kassela and Vanessa Selbst.

With that said, quite a few notables managed to punch their ticket to Day 2 including JC Alvarado (180,675), Sergil Baranov (152,000), Martial Blangenwitsch (129,800), Dan Shak (100,875), Philipp Gruissem (90,500), Steve O’Dwyer (89,000), Prosper Masquelier (70,450), Matt Stout (61,650) and Phil Ivey (55,000), just to name a few.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker-europe/event-7-10-450-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/day1a/post.209948.htm


Top Chip Counts
1    Michael Mizrachi    234,850
2    JC Alvarado       180,675
3    Sergii Baranov       152,000
4    Martial Blangenwitsch 129,800
5    Denis Biscaldi       122,625
6    Henry Tran       118,750
7    Oliver Speidel       110,000
8    Tom Bedell       106,000
9    Gael Duchesne       102,000
10    Dan Shak               100,875


Chris Brammer 39,000
Ben Roberts 29,000
Toby Lewis 26,000

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Looks like the WSOPE main event is going to fall significantly short of last year's 593-player field.

Currently at 410.

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Hope Rob has their phone number. Having it a Dtd next year he would guarantee 1000 runners and a $10 million prize pool. That would fit in nicely with his bucket list of £million first prize