Event 34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-18-2012 14:43 UTC-6

The Gold Section is Filling Up; Leif Force in Action

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There are not many seats left in the Gold Section of the Brasilia Room as the attendance figure increases to 348 players. One man in the midst of the action, when we were walking around the area, was Leif Force. The recent World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner (Event #3: $3,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha) was involved in back-to-back pots with Erik Cajelais and Melki Jack.

We joined the action on the flop of {J-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} {2-Spades} and four players in the hand. Cajelais bet first, making it 2,200 to play, and only Force made the call. The turn card was the {4-Clubs} and both players decided to play for the spare change that they each had in front of them.

Force
Cajelais

The two-pair of Cajelais gave him the lead with one more card to come. The dealer peeled over the {A-Spades} and Cajelais was not happy. "PLO!" Grumbled Cajelais as he was forced to hand 3,075 more to Leif.

After that hand Cajelais had 14,400 and Force was up to 27,500. Then in the very next hand Force got embroiled with a flop all-in against Jack Melki. The flop was {J-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} and here were the state of affairs.

Jack
Force

So a straight for Melki and Force was looking for a higher Broadway straight. The turn {Q-Spades} and river {Q-Clubs} kept the pot moving in the direction of Melki who now had 20,000 whereas Force was down to 19,600.

Player	Chips	Progress
Florian Langmann	28,000

Davidi Kitai	21,600

Leif Force	19,600

Kyle Julius	19,500

David Williams	18,000

Tom Marchese	16,900

Mike McDonald	16,000
Vanessa Selbst	15,500

John Juanda	14,600

Erik Cajelais	14,400

Ryan Schmidt	5,300 -9,700	-9,700

Tags: Erik Cajelais Leif Force Jack Melki

06-18-2012 14:46 UTC-6

Some More Players

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Player	Chips	Progress
Fabrice Soulier	26,000

David Sands	21,700 6,700	6,700
Antony Lellouche	21,600
Eric Froehlich	19,900

Yevgeniy Timoshenko	17,300

06-18-2012 15:01 UTC-6

Not a Great Start For Our Defending Champion

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Our defending champion Jason Mercier is not having a good day. He is down to his last 5,000 and this is how he has described events through his Twitter feed.

"Down to my last bullet in this 5k plo.. Lost 10k pot as 80% fav, then 13k pot as 54% fav. Then 9k pot 3 way all in pre as 50% fav."

Tags: Jason Mercier

06-18-2012 15:03 UTC-6

Break Time

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The players are the first twenty-minute break of the day

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

06-18-2012 16:19 UTC-6

Silver Section: Negreanu Short, Nacho Angry; Lizano & Silver Leave

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The Silver Section is very quiet at the moment, both in terms of action and noise. There are a lot of standout tables in the field but this one looks particularly interesting.

Table #40

Seat 1	Nam Le
Seat 2	Adam Coviensky
Seat 3	Ben Lamb
Seat 4	Tommy Vedes
Seat 5	Manuel Bevand
Seat 6	Roberto Romanello

Here is a hand from that table that went the way of Vedes.

We caught the action on a flop of {10-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} , Vedes checked, Bevand bet 900, Le folded and Vedes called. The turn card was the {3-Spades} and both players checked before we saw the {8-Clubs} on the river. Vedes bet 1,800 and after a long dwell, Bevand folded.

Elsewhere the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event final tablist, Max Silver, has been eliminated at the hands of Ryan Lenaghan. The money went in on a flop of {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} . Silver held {A-Spades} {J-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {4-Diamonds} for two-pair and Lenaghan held {K-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} for the draws. The turn {10-Diamonds} completed a flush for the latter and the {2-Diamonds} river just confirming the exit of Silver.

The Spaniard Jesus Cortes Lizano has just busted as well. Lizano had a pair of kings and lost his stack to Jon West when an ace turned up on the flop. Another player who is slowly edging towards life-support is Daniel Negreanu. 13BB is not a lot when you are playing six-handed Pot-Limit Omaha, and that is what Kid Poker has in front of him right now.

Finally, when we left the Silver Section, Jose 'Nacho' Barbero, hads steam coming out of his ears and here is why. Karen Sarkisyan raised to 350 in the hijack seat, Christian Harder called in the cutoff and Barbero three-bet to 1,500 on the button. Sarkisyan four-bet to 5,350, Harder folded, Barbero moved all-in and Sarkisyan called the extra few thousand.

Sarkisyan
Barbero

Board: {4-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {3-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {J-Spades}

Barbero slammed his chips into the table beneath the weight of his fist. He looked at Sarkisyan, then to his friend on the rail, and he was not happy at the outcome one little bit. Sarkisyan looked like he eats raw meat for fun and just gave Barbero a little tentative stare.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon West	41,000
Viktor Blom	34,000 14,000	14,000

Noah Schwartz	25,000 10,000	10,000

Joseph Cheong	20,000 5,000	5,000

Tristan Clemencon	20,000
Sam Stein	20,000 5,000	5,000
Dan Shak	19,600
Manuel Bevand	18,000 3,000	3,000
David Benyamine	18,000 3,000	3,000

Guillaume Darcourt	18,000 3,000	3,000
Tommy Vedes	17,900
Allen Cunningham	17,000 2,000	2,000

Samuel Chartier	16,000
Ben Lamb	15,800 -4,200	-4,200

David Nicholson	15,500 500	500
Galen Hall	14,800

Daniel Alaei	14,000 -1,000	-1,000

Alexander Venovski	13,525 -1,475	-1,475
Nam Le	12,700
Eoghan O'Dea	12,000 -3,000	-3,000
Roberto Romanello	9,000 -6,000	-6,000

Dan Smith	8,000 -7,000	-7,000

Vadzim Markushevski	6,800 -8,200	-8,200
Daniel Negreanu	5,150 -9,850	-9,850

Nacho Barbero	4,300

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Jon West Jose Barbero Karen Sarkisyan Max Silver Tommy Vedes

06-18-2012 16:26 UTC-6

Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

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Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Place	Player	Points
1	Andy Frankenberger	384.66
2	Phil Ivey	383.55
3	John Monnette	319.50
4	Brian Hastings	303.00
5	Ashkan Razavi	274.06
6	Aubin Cazals	251.00
7	Michael Gathy	250.00
8	Clifford Goldkind	240.00
9	Phil Hellmuth	240.00
10	Simon Charette	237.50

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

06-18-2012 17:00 UTC-6

Gold Section: Jack Melki Cleaning House

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Despite never cashing in a live event, outside of his native France, Jack Melki is cleaning house at Table #19. We have not seen the exits but understand that Melki has been responsible for the eliminations of both World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holders Erik Cajelais and Leif Force, and now holds 70,000 chips, which is easiest the biggest stack in the Gold section of the Brasilia room.

Another player who is making good ground is Florian Langmann, but we did just witness him losing a pot.

We joined the action on a flop of {10-Spades} {8-Clubs} {6-Hearts} , Langmann checked, the hijack checked and Chris Demaci bet 1,750 from the button. Langmann check-raised to 2,800, the hijack folded and Demaci made the call. The {3-Hearts} was checked through on the turn and then Demaci bet 5,500 at the sight of the {5-Hearts} on the river. Langmann folded and Demaci picked up the pot and 17,500 in chips. Langmann was reduced to 41,500.

David 'Doc' Sands just had a tough river decision, and unfortunately he got it wrong. We joined the action on the turn with 2,000 in the pot and {K-Hearts} {J-Hearts} {6-Hearts} {5-Clubs} on the board. Sands checked, Steven Brackesy bet 2,000 and Sands made the call. The river card was the {A-Spades} and Brackesey bet 3,800 once checked to. Sands took a good three-minutes of thought before making the call.

"I've got it," said Brackesey before tabling {A-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {6-Spades} {2-Spades} and Sands mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jack Melki	70,000
Davidi Kitai	43,000 21,400	21,400

Florian Langmann	41,500 13,500	13,500

David Williams	34,000 16,000	16,000

Chance Kornuth	23,000 8,000	8,000

Konstantin Puchkov	17,700

Ryan Schmidt	17,000 11,700	11,700
David Sands	15,700 -6,000	-6,000
Rinat Bogdanov	14,000
Mike McDonald	14,000 -2,000	-2,000
Will Failla	11,500
Aaron Jones	10,500 -4,500	-4,500
John Racener	8,675 -6,325	-6,325

George Lind	8,125

Brandon Cantu	8,000

Vanessa Selbst	6,800 -8,700	-8,700

Tom Marchese	6,300 -10,600	-10,600

Erik Cajelais	Busted

Leif Force	Busted

Tags: Florian Langmann Jack Melki

06-18-2012 17:11 UTC-6

Fabrice Soulier & Yevgeniy Timoshenko

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We have just witnessed World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder Fabrice Soulier and Yevgeniy Timoshenko taking down a pot a piece.

We caught the action on a flop of {9-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {6-Spades} and Soulier bet 1,100 from first position, Jonathan Duhamel called in the hijack and the big blind folded. Pot control was the order of the day on the turn as the {9-Spades} was checked through and we saw the {3-Clubs} on fifth street. Soulier bet 1,200, Duhamel made the call and then mucked when Soulier showed him {8-Spades} {8-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} .

On the table directly to the left of that, Yevgeniy Timoshenko had found himself at the river on a board of {5-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {A-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} . There was 3,575 in the pot and Timoshenko - and then Jason Senti - had both checked to the player on the button. The button bet 1,000 and after a moments thought Timoshenko moved all-in for 4,475 in total. Senti folded, and after a brief pause, so did the button.

"I will pay for your next tip if you show me your cards," said the player on the button.

"You will pay me $1 if I show you my cards? I think I'll pass,' said Timoshenko.