2012 World Series of Poker

Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
44
Prize
$654,380
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,739,500
Total Entries
2,770
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 2,770
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Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Completed

Day 2 Ends with 20 Players, Zach Clark Holds Small Lead

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante
Zach Clark will take the chip lead to Day 3.
Zach Clark will take the chip lead to Day 3.

Day 2 of Event 43, $1,500 No Limit Hold’em, of the World Series of Poker has wrapped up after ten action-packed levels. There were 320 runners that returned for the day and only 20 remain. Zach Clark leads the field after bagging up 1.342 million.

Chasing Clark are Balazs Botond (1.32m), Neil Channing (1.319m) and James Mackey (1.074m). John Nelson is the only other player over seven figures with 1.019m. Jesse Yagninuma, Henry Lu, Mark Ketteringham and Randy Lew remain in the field..

Many notable players found the rail today, including; Marvin Rettenmaier, Tommy Vedes, Andrew Lichtenberger, Alex Masek, Angel Guillen, Cherish Andrews, Ryan Tepen, Pius Heinz, Jordan Morgan, Alex Outhred, Jordan Young, Andy Frankenberger, Chino Rheem, Huy Nguyen and Matthew Affleck.

Channing spent time on the leaderboard and was running well, but really hit his stride in a hand against Rodrigo Caprioli. Channing held {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} and was up against {A-Clubs} {K-Spades}. The board ran {10-Spades} {Q-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} {A-Spades} and Channing took the chip lead at the time with 884,000.

Rettenmaier spent most of the afternoon near the top of the leaderboard. He lost a key hand against Carl DiVeglia III where DiVeglia’s {A-Clubs} {10-Spades} outran his pocket tens. He was reduced to about twelve big blinds and then chipped up through Henry Lu. His luck would not last though; he was eliminated after the last break of the evening.

Zach Clark won a giant hand three-way pot where his pocket queens flopped a set. He went from around average to one of the tournament leaders when he walked away from that hand with over 750,000.

Day 3 will have cards in the air at 1:00 p.m. PST and should play down to a winner. It could be a close call with X players remaining. Follow all the WSOP action live on PokerNews.com.

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Nelson KOs Vegas

We had a preflop all in showdown between Karim Vegas and John Nelson.

Nelson: {10-Spades} {10-Diamonds}
Vegas: {A-Spades} {K-Clubs}

The board ran {4-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} and Vegas was eliminated.

Tags: Karim VegasJohn Nelson

Phillips Runs Big Slick into Aces

Zack Clark opened for 29,000, Carter Phillips raised to 78,000 and Clark re-raised to 158,000. Phillips shoved for over 500,000 and Clark called.

Clark: {A-Spades} {A-Hearts}
Phillips: {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}

The board ran {7-Hearts} {9-Hearts} {8-Spades} {2-Clubs} {7-Spades} and Phillips was eliminated in a shocking fashion.

Tags: Carter PhillipsZack Clark

Channing Pulling Away

We missed the preflop action but Julian Herold was all in against Neil Channing.

Channing: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}
Herold: {6-Diamonds} {6-Spades}

The board ran {10-Spades} {3-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} {2-Spades} and Channing retook the chip lead.

Tags: Neil ChanningJulian Herold

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Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Table 439

SeatPlayerChip Count
1Cary Marshall180,000
2Neil Channing980,000
3Karim Vegas200,000
4Carl DiVeglia III285,000
5William Dannels95,000
6Adam Foster330,000
7Julian Herold195,000
8Tom Alner350,000
9John Nelson900,000

Table 441

SeatPlayerChip Count
1Francois Dur325,000
2Zach Clark735,000
3Jesse Yaginuma374,000
4Shankar Pillai310,000
5Michael Benvenuti695,000
6Carter Phillips540,000
7Michael De Gilio82,000
8Mark Ketteringham445,000
9Daniel Zeihen200,000

Table 443

SeatPlayerChip Count
1Randy Lew510,000
2Kevin Song580,000
3Jared Rosenbaum750,000
4James Mackey1,030,000
5Andres Sanchez572,000
6Henry Lu415,000
7Balazs Botond580,000
8Michael Judge370,000
9Hovan Nguyen335,000
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