2012 World Series of Poker

Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k5
Prize
$8,531,853
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$62,021,200
Entries
6,598
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
300,000

Hand #5: Thomas Pushes With Aces

Robert Salaburu started with the button. Russell Thomas raised to 750,000 from under the gun, Jacob Balsiger called from a seat over, and it folded around to Greg Merson who raised to 1.85 million. Then Jesse Sylvia pumped it up to 4.6 million from the cutoff seat. It folded back to Thomas who paused a bit and moved all in for more than 17 million.

That big push was enough to force folds all around, and Thomas showed his {A-Spades}{A-Diamonds}.

Player Chips Progress
Jesse Sylvia us
Jesse Sylvia
43,200,000 -5,250,000
Greg Merson us
Greg Merson
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 2X Winner
31,500,000 195,000
Russell Thomas us
Russell Thomas
25,700,000 7,000,000

Tags: Russell ThomasGreg MersonJesse Sylvia