2012 World Series of Poker

Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
$440,238
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Entries
2,795
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

Brad Libson Leads Day 1 of Event #33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
The prize
The prize

BOOM!

That's exactly what these $1k World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments feel like…supersonic!

2,795 players filled the Brasilia room and significant parts of the Pavilion and Amazon rooms. Then before you could say, "6-levels," 30% of the field had vanished into the ether like dew in the face of the rising sun. 5-levels later and only 231 players remained in the pursuance of WSOP gold. There is still plenty of poker to be played before that sliver of gold is slipped into somebody's slinky wrist, but in the meantime the man in pole position on the Day 2 grid will be Brad Libson who wrote the magic number 117,000 on his plastic bag.

Let's take you through the Day 1 journey as we saw it through the eyes of PokerNews…

As usual with large field WSOP events, all of the early noise surrounded who was leaving and not who was chip building. Leo Margets was in no mood to mess about when she got all of her chips into the middle in the first few hands. She won that pot but was not so fortunate a level later when she was eliminated {9-} {9-} v {A-} {A-} and left the tournament. Other notable female players that left us in the pre-dinner arguments were the multi-talented Kara Scott, WSOP bracelet holder Kathy Liebert and PokerNews very own Mrs Kristy Arnett.

Sorel Mizzi, Roberto Romanello, John Eames, Jonathon Kalmar & Chris Moorman were some of the top males heading for an early bath, whilst at the other end WSOP bracelet holders Athanasios Polychronopoulos and Jonathan Duhamel were sharing the same table and the one and two spots on the early leader board. Duhamel eliminating the legendary Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman (or was it Barry?) in a house over house extravaganza of a hand.

8 times WSOP bracelet winner, Erik Seidel, tripled up when he flopped a set of nines when down to a mere 575 chips, Dave Sands, Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein, Joseph Cheong and Jeff Madsen all left, and by the time we had reached dinner a few players started to try and break away from the rest of the pack - notably Eric Price, Jeff Sluzinski, Tim Ryan and Kim Pham.

After the dinner break Dylan Hortin put the brakes on the runaway train that was two-time WSOP bracelet winner Richard Hughes in an all-in pre flop {A-Diamonds} {A-Clubs} v {Q-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} disagreement, WSOP bracelet holder Mark Radoja doubled up when down to fumes and Lauren Kling fired three barrels of second-best cards into the welcoming arms of Chris Dombrowski.

Then as we entered Level 9 the chip stacks started to grow just like beanstalks planted by Jack. Several players started to break away from the rest of the group and they included William Chao who made a hero call to eliminate Jared Jaffe thus moving up to 78,000, Andy Bradshaw (65,000), who told us that he didn't really want to play because the cues were too long, and only did so because is missus would believe he was only over here to go on the lash (get drunk) - but no-one had more than Thomas Fuller who became the first man to hit the 100,000 mark.

The pace quickened and 2,795 players became 298 players in no time. As the clock slowly rolled into the last level of the night the money bubble burst and the news was greeted with it's customary round of applause. As per usual players started to fall like trees in the Amazon rainforest and we were down to the next pay jump with everyone guaranteed $2,012. Amongst the high profile casualties was Jonathan Duhamel, who according to his table mates, had a terrible run of luck that accumulated with him running his last 10,000 - and pocket deuces - into the pocket kings of his opponent.

At the top end of the charts the top spot became a sprint between Brad Libson (117,000), Thomas Fuller (103,000) and Eric Price (115,300) with Libson just pipping Price to the post in a photo finish.

Other notables through to Day 2 include Erik Seidel (30,800), Mark Radoja (28,000), Faraz Jaka, (81,900), Humberto Brenes (27,700) and Andy Frankenberger (35,400).

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Player Chips Progress
Brad Libson us
Brad Libson
117,100 47,100
Joshua Price us
Joshua Price
115,300
Thomas Fuller us
Thomas Fuller
102,900 2,900
Sergey Lebedev ru
Sergey Lebedev
91,900 43,900
Steven Tripp ca
Steven Tripp
89,900
Jordan Cristos us
Jordan Cristos
89,500 -5,500
Ren Ho Zhang ca
Ren Ho Zhang
83,900
Nicholas Mitchell
Nicholas Mitchell
83,500
Justin Zaki us
Justin Zaki
83,400
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
WSOP 1X Winner
81,900 78,900
Ryan Laplante us
Ryan Laplante
WSOP 1X Winner
79,800
Alex Komaromi uy
Alex Komaromi
WSOP 1X Winner
79,600
Tom Middleton gb
Tom Middleton
78,500 35,500
Jared Hamby us
Jared Hamby
WSOP 1X Winner
78,300
David Windisch de
David Windisch
77,500
Justina Takahashi us
Justina Takahashi
77,100
Lisa Hamilton us
Lisa Hamilton
WSOP 1X Winner
75,800
Steven Singer us
Steven Singer
74,900
Sami Banizuraij us
Sami Banizuraij
69,100
Ting Ho us
Ting Ho
68,800
Derek Ichilcik at
Derek Ichilcik
68,700
Jim Downend us
Jim Downend
68,600
Alexander Keating us
Alexander Keating
67,900
Sebastien Lebreton fr
Sebastien Lebreton
67,600
Marc Korner de
Marc Korner
67,600

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Jonathan Duhamel Has Been Eliminated

We just saw Jonathan Duhamel taking the lonely walk out of the Brasilia room. His table tell us that has played superbly all day but had the most rotten luck. His eventual demise came when he moved his last 10,000 into the mixer, from the small blind, holding pocket deuces and ran into the pocket kings of his opponent.

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
Busted

Tags: Jonathan Duhamel

Spinks Disappointed, Bradshaw Hammered & Duhamel Dented

Jon Spinks raised to 1,600 in mid-position and there was a call from the cutoff. The flop was {Q-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {3-Spades} and Spinks made a standard 1,800 c-bet. Moments later and his opponent had raised to 5,000.

"Make it 96," said a cool and collective Spinks.

The player in the cutoff made the fold and Spinks was visibly disappointed.

A few tables over and Andy Bradshaw's 60k+ stack is now more like 18,000. Bradshaw told us that he lost a 40,000 pot {A-} {A-} v {K-} {K-} when his opponent hit a King on the flop. Bradshaw said he was so enraged that he moved all-in, with trash, several times and went from 5,000 to 18,000. Calm down...calm down.

Last but not least our former WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel has also had his stack hacked into pieces. He was all-in pre flop {J-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} v {K-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} and now has 12,800 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Brad Libson us
Brad Libson
106,000 36,000
Thomas Fuller us
Thomas Fuller
101,000 12,200
Mohsen Tayfeh de
Mohsen Tayfeh
71,000 32,000
Justin Cohen au
Justin Cohen
65,000
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
54,000 26,000
Phillippe Ktorza fr
Phillippe Ktorza
52,000 12,000
Jon Spinks gb
Jon Spinks
49,000 29,900
Mark Radoja ca
Mark Radoja
WSOP 2X Winner
48,000 1,000
Martins Adeniya gb
Martins Adeniya
46,000 -4,000
Vojtech Ruzicka cz
Vojtech Ruzicka
44,000
William Chao us
William Chao
43,000 -35,000
Chris Dombrowski us
Chris Dombrowski
WSOP 1X Winner
30,000 11,000
Andrew Teng gb
Andrew Teng
28,000 -13,000
Andy Frankenberger us
Andy Frankenberger
WSOP 2X Winner
26,000 -12,000
Nesrine Kourdourli fr
Nesrine Kourdourli
26,000 1,000
Craig McCorkell gb
Craig McCorkell
WSOP 1X Winner
16,000 1,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
12,800 -43,200
George Lind us
George Lind
4,200 -9,300
Andy Bradshaw
Andy Bradshaw
1,800 -58,200
Matt Affleck us
Matt Affleck
Busted
John Juanda id
John Juanda
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Busted

Tags: Andy BradshawJonathan DuhamelJonathon Spinks

We Are In The Money

Pat yourselves on the back Day 1 entrants. Somehow you have managed to carve the field down from 2,795 to 297 with still one level remaining on the first day. We did not catch the bubble boy but we did catch Mandy Baker put into a spot nobody wants to be in.

With 298 players on the clock and only 297 players getting paid Mandy Baker was involved in a hand. The action had reached the river on a board of {6-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {A-Clubs}, her opponent had bet 5,500 and Baker had raised to 12,000 on the button. Her opponent was in the tank when we arrived, and when he surfaced he decided that it was an opportunity to apply maximum pressure. He moved all-in and Baker was left looking she would have egg on her face. After several minutes thought Baker, through an almost inaudible croak, announced call and turned over {A-Hearts} {9-Hearts} for two-pair. Her opponent turned over {Q-Hearts} {10-Clubs} and Baker, who was shivering like a naked Penguin, was up to 80,000.

Player Chips Progress
Amanda Baker us
Amanda Baker
80,000

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Silver Section Round-Up: O'Dea Eliminates Ellwood; Jaka Germinates

With forty-minutes of the penultimate level remaining let's give you an update of what is going on in the Silver Section of the Brasilia Room. There are 337 players left and the name of Jack Ellwood is not among them. Ellwood reached superstar status in Europe when he won several major online tournaments in one weekend. He has followed up that technological success with some hard work in the brick and mortar world where he has earned over $200,000 including 5 World Series of Poker (WSOP) cashes. Ellwood found himself short and made his move with {A-Diamonds} {4-Spades} in the cutoff. Former November Niner Eoghan O'Dea made the call from the big blind holding {10-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} (shows you how short Ellwood got) and the board ran out {10-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {6-Diamonds} to eliminate Ellwood just short of the money.

In other news Jared Hamby now has 90,000, Nicholas Batt has 78,000, Faraz Jaka has 81,000 but leading the Silver Section is Jordan Cristos with 95,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Jordan Cristos us
Jordan Cristos
95,000 55,000
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
WSOP 1X Winner
81,000 -9,000
Daniel Idema ca
Daniel Idema
WSOP 3X Winner
65,000
Jay Hong us
Jay Hong
65,000
Andy Bradshaw
Andy Bradshaw
60,000 -4,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
56,000 24,000
Tom Middleton gb
Tom Middleton
53,000 10,000
Mark Radoja ca
Mark Radoja
WSOP 2X Winner
47,000 37,400
Dave Westfall
Dave Westfall
44,000 3,500
Phillippe Ktorza fr
Phillippe Ktorza
40,000 22,000
Andy Frankenberger us
Andy Frankenberger
WSOP 2X Winner
38,000 500
Eoghan O'Dea ie
Eoghan O'Dea
34,000
Matt Stout us
Matt Stout
32,000 29,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos us
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
WSOP 2X Winner
30,000 22,000
Zimnan Ziyard gb
Zimnan Ziyard
28,000 11,000
Anton Makiievskyi ua
Anton Makiievskyi
26,000
Bryan Micon ag
Bryan Micon
25,000
Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
24,000 6,000
JJ Liu tw
JJ Liu
23,000 -5,000
Humberto Brenes cr
Humberto Brenes
20,000 6,000
Jon Spinks gb
Jon Spinks
19,100 -7,900
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
16,000 1,000
Thiago Nishijima br
Thiago Nishijima
WSOP 1X Winner
12,000 -8,000
John Juanda id
John Juanda
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
5,000 -5,000
Jack Ellwood gb
Jack Ellwood
Busted

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Level: 10

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Break Time

Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

The players are on their final twenty-minute break. Two more levels and then this thing is done.

Gold Section Round-Up: Chao Eliminates Jaffee; Fuller First Over a Century

As we approach the last third of Level 9 the stacks are growing as the players dwindle. 450 players are left and there is nobody seated in the Gold section with more chips than Thomas Fuller. Fuller has over $300,000 in World series of Poker (WSOP) earnings spanning a 7-year period and has become our first player, today, to hit the 100,000 mark.

Moving swiftly from Table #5 to Table #4 and a baffled looking Jared Jaffee has just left the tournament courtesy of a hero call from William Chao. We are using the words hero based on the dazed look on the face of Jaffee. We caught the action on the turn with the board showing {J-Clubs} {6-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds}, Chao had checked from early position and Jaffee had moved all-in. Both players had similar size stacks and so it was a huge decision for Chao. Eventually, after lot's of time pondering, Chao made the call and Jaffee was not a happy-chappy.

Chao{J-Hearts} {10-Hearts}
Jaffee{A-Spades} {Q-Diamonds}

Chao was begging for a deuce and when the {J-Spades} hit the river he let out a whelp of delight.

"Man, I nearly folded that hand," said Chao.

"I can't believe you didn't" said Jaffee as Chao moved up to 78,000 in chips.

Other big stacks that have popped up in the Gold section belong to last years runner-up in this very event, Justin Cohen (65,000), Brad Libson (70,000) and Andy Bradshaw (64,000).

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Fuller us
Thomas Fuller
100,000
William Chao us
William Chao
78,000
Brad Libson us
Brad Libson
70,000
Justin Cohen au
Justin Cohen
65,000
Andy Bradshaw
Andy Bradshaw
64,000
Ryan Austin us
Ryan Austin
52,000
Martins Adeniya gb
Martins Adeniya
50,000 28,300
Sergey Lebedev ru
Sergey Lebedev
48,000
Noah Bronstein us
Noah Bronstein
46,000
Andrew Teng gb
Andrew Teng
41,000 21,400
Mohsen Tayfeh de
Mohsen Tayfeh
39,000 4,000
Todd Terry us
Todd Terry
36,000 27,000
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
28,000 -7,000
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
WSOP 1X Winner
26,000
Mihai Manole ro
Mihai Manole
25,000 10,000
Nesrine Kourdourli fr
Nesrine Kourdourli
25,000 9,000
Chris Dombrowski us
Chris Dombrowski
WSOP 1X Winner
19,000 -19,000
Matt Affleck us
Matt Affleck
19,000 -1,000
Craig McCorkell gb
Craig McCorkell
WSOP 1X Winner
15,000 5,000
George Lind us
George Lind
13,500
Nicolas Yunis cl
Nicolas Yunis
12,000 -2,000
Alessandro Longobardi it
Alessandro Longobardi
12,000 -4,800
Robert Deppe mx
Robert Deppe
Busted
Jared Jaffee us
Jared Jaffee
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Jared JaffeeThomas FullerWilliam Chao