2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Caesars Atlantic City

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Caesars Atlantic City

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$191,194
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$932,655
Entries
641
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Pilgrim Set His Sails

Dwyte Pilgrim will be taking his unique headwear to San Diego.
Dwyte Pilgrim will be taking his unique headwear to San Diego.

Dwyte Pilgrim's room-filling laugh will no longer be with us today. We found him standing by the door and he told us he was already on his way to Rincon.

Pilgrim jammed his remaining 17,000 on the button holding pocket fours. The big blind called holding {A-} {3-} and caught his ace in the window.

Player Chips Progress
Dwyte Pilgrim us
Dwyte Pilgrim
Busted
WPT 1X Winner

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Engel Busts Opponent, Flirting with 200K

Ari Engel
Ari Engel

A player opened to 3,000 in early position, and the action folded to Ari Engel who three-bet to 6,700 in the cutoff. The original raiser four-bet shoved for 20,900, and Engel called.

Opponent{q-Diamonds}{q-Spades}
Engel{a-Diamonds}{q-Hearts}

Engel was well behind, but the board ran {2-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{3-Spades}, giving him the wheel and eliminating his opponent. Engel now has 180,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Ari Engel ca
Ari Engel
180,000
115,800
115,800
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 2X Winner

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Black KO's Opponent

Joe "Black" Reddick
Joe "Black" Reddick

Joe "Black" Reddick had an opponent all in and at risk on a flop of {2-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{q-Spades}. Reddick's two kings were ahead of his opponent's {k-}{10-} for an open ended straight draw, and the turn and river bricked {3-Spades}, {8-Spades} respectively.

Reddick is now up above 170,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Joe Reddick
Joe Reddick
175,000
66,100
66,100

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The $5 Million Table

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Tables are breaking pretty fast this afternoon and players have been scattered all over. We just found Anthony Gregg, Christian Harder and Kurt Jewell are all seated together. While it may be too early to call it the "Table of Death" the trio does have over $5 million in career tournament earnings combined.

Tags: Anthony GreggChristian HarderKurt Jewell

Level: 12

Blinds: 700/1,400

Ante: 200

Diamonds in the VIP

The action folded to Phong "VIP" Nguyen, who raised to 4,000 from the small blind. The player in the big blind moved all in - having Nguyen well covered - and Nguyen went into the tank.

"I hope we're flipping," Nguyen said, tossing the rest of his chips forward.

He wasn't.

Showdown

Nguyen{a-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}
Opponent{a-Hearts}{q-Spades}

The dealer burned one card then fanned {j-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}.

"WOW!!!" Nguyen exclaimed.

The {4-Diamonds} on the turn gave Nguyen the nut-flush, ending the hand, and a meaningless deuce fell on the river to complete the board. Nguyen was fortunate, and doubled to 68,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Phong Nguyen us
Phong Nguyen
68,000
39,000
39,000

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Jaffee Preorders Buzgon's Book

Daniel Buzgon - future author?
Daniel Buzgon - future author?

A short-stacked player was all in preflop against Daniel Buzgon, and Buzgon's {a-Clubs}{8-Hearts} had his opponent's {8-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} crushed. The board ran {k-Spades}{q-Hearts}{8-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{2-Hearts}, and Buzgon recorded the knockout.

"How do you get it in there with ace-eight and have him drawing to three outs?" Jared Jaffee joked. "The day your book comes out, I'm going to be the first in line at Barnes & Nobles."

The table laughed.

"I haven't played in a while," Buzgon responded, grinning.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Buzgon us
Daniel Buzgon
150,000
23,500
23,500

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