2012 World Series of Poker

Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aqj6j89
Prize
$190,826
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$681,500
Entries
145
Level Info
Level
26
Limits
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
7,000

Lisandro Leads Final 16 as Money Bubble Puts an End to Day 2

Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Jeff Lisandro
Jeff Lisandro

On Sunday, 145 players forked over $5,000 to take part in Event #10 Seven Card Stud and created a prize pool of $681,500. Today, 91 of those players returned with their eyes firmly fixed on making the money at the top 16, and hopefully taking home the $190,826 first-place prize. After more than ten levels of play, the money was made, but just barely as the money bubble burst right at the end of the night.

Leading the pack is 2009 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Lisandro, who bagged up 276,500. Lisandro won three bracelets in Stud variations that year, so to say he is a favorite would be an understatement.

Unfortunately, not every one was as fortunate as Lisandro. One man who was conspicuously absent at the start of the day was last year’s runner-up, Steve Landfish. He was anted off for a bit as he overslept, but eventually returned to action. Unfortunately for him, nothing would go right as he grew extremely short stacked. In what would be his final hand, Landfish was all in after completing with the bring in, which was called Todd Barlow. Brandon Guss then raised on the side and Barlow called, action that would be repeated on the turn, fifth and sixth. Guss slowed down on seventh with a check, which led to him check-folding to Barlow's bet.

Landfish: {J-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} / {2-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}{6-Spades}
Barlow: {Q-Clubs}{J-Clubs}{4-Clubs} / {8-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}
Guss: (x-x) / {A-Spades}{K-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}{J-Spades}

Barlow caught a flush, which easily down Landfish's pair of sixes. Another man who failed to get anything going on Day 2 was the defending champ, Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier, who joined Landfish on the rail.

Other eliminations included Matt Glantz, Matt Hawrilenko, David Williams, Jason Mercier, Chris Reslock, Maxwell Troy, Cory Zeidman, Allen Cunningham, David Oppenheim, Steve Billirakis, Andy Bloch, Frank Kassela, Todd Brunson, Bill Chen and the winner of this event in 2009, Freddie Ellis, who earned the distinction of bubble boy.

Of course where many failed, a few thrived. John Monnette, Cyndy Violette, Mike Sexton, Eugene Katchalov, Perry Friedman, Nick Schulman and Bryn Kenney all managed to navigate the tough field and punch their ticket to Day 3.

End of Day 2 Chip Counts

RankPlayerChips
1Jeff Lisandro276,500
2Eugene Katchalov207,000
3John Monnette188,000
4Huu Vinh179,000
5Max Pescatori170,500
6Bryn Kenney170,000
7Raymond Dehkarghani169,000
8Perry Friedman160,500
9Tim Finne133,000
10Lee Goldman124,500
11Mark Dickstein105,000
12Cyndy Violette88,000
13Yuval Bronshtein72,500
14Mike Sexton62,000
15David Rosenau43,600
16Nick Schulman14,000

Who will be the next to join this prestigious list? We’ll find out tomorrow.

Past Seven Card Stud Championship Results

YearWinnerEntrantsEarnings
2012???145$190,826
2011Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier126$331,639
2010Men “The Master” Nguyen150$394,807
2009Freddie Ellis142$373,751
2008Eric Brooks158$415,856
2007Chris Reslock180$258,453
2006*Benjamin Lin182$256,620
2005*Jan Sorensen192$293,275

*Buy-in was $5,000

The remaining 16 players will return on Tuesday at 2 p.m. to play down to a winner. As always, we’ll be on hand to capture all the action, so join us then as we look to crown the Event #10 Seven Card Stud champion.