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Level 4
: 75/150, 0 ante
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2012 World Series of Poker
Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Adam Geyer & Terrence Chan Are Out
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Earlier we brought you news of a Adam Geyer double up and now we bring you news that he is out. He got it in on a 
(two heart) flop holding 
and Mike Lehner was his vanquisher holding 
. The turn and river bricked for Geyer and he was out. Lehner moved up to 11,900 chips.
Another casualty in the Bronze Room is Terrence Chan. Chan found himself with 1,075 chips when he shoved in first position holding 
. Richard Acorino woke up with and Chan was out five community cards later. Acorino has 9,500 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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8,000 | 5,000 |
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8,000 | 5,300 |
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6,600 | 3,600 |
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6,000 | -600 |
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5,000 | 2,000 |
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4,500 | -2,175 |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Fiorentini Beats Ace-King
Level 4
: 75/150, 0 ante
This title makes it sound like Steven Fiorentini just won a normal pot, in which his hand beat ace-king. That's of course something we see on a daily basis, but Fiorentini happened to beat three players, all of which held ace-king.
Excitedly Fiorentini got up from his seat to tell us the story about how he took out three players. The 2008 Borgata Open $2,500 winner, who took home $238,525 and beat the likes of Matt Glantz and Eric Froehlich at the final table, had a great start of this event and is already close to the 10,000 chip mark.
Twitter Updates
SpaceyFCB Kenny Hallaert And it's gone #wsop44
June 24 2012
tchanpoker Terrence Chan Busted the 1k. Was highly unmotivated to play, and it showed. #finaltablebubbleproblems
June 24 2012
svzff Steven van Zadelhoff Running hootttt #wsop44 tripple with 66 on AK6 vs AQ and AK woohooo and win 55 from AJo up to 15k let's do this!
June 24 2012
PBJaxx Jason Senti Bustod todays 1k. Couldn't get anything going. 2.5k NL tomorrow
June 24 2012
tRaMSt0p Tim Duckworth up to 6,675 in #WSOP44 going into 75/150 #WSOPgrind
June 24 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | 12,000 |
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6,675 | 3,675 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Amazon Room Updates
The tables in the Amazon Room are quickly being broken up and moved since there needs to be space for the upcoming $50,000 Players Championship that starts at 5:00 PM.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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10,000 | |
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8,000 | |
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8,000 | |
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7,800 | |
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7,600 | |
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7,000 | |
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7,000 | |
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6,600 | |
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6,500 | |
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6,400 | 3,400 |
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5,800 | |
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5,300 | |
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5,300 | |
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5,000 | 2,000 |
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4,100 | |
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4,000 | 1,000 |
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3,200 | 200 |
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2,600 | |
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2,300 | |
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2,200 | |
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1,600 | |
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1,400 | |
|
1,400 | |
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Busted |
'Lucky' Dovzhenko, Ainsworth Climbs & Shulman is Out
A quick jaunt around the Silver Section reveals a few stories to sell and here they are.
Jude Ainsworth is flying high with around 12,800 chips. Our enquiries reveal that he managed to stack someone very early, after his pocket aces had a fatal scrap against the pocket jacks of his opponent on a 9-high board.
Tony Cousineau has cashed fifty-one times in World Series of Poker (WSOP) events - including one in this years tournament - but he will not be making it number fifty-two during Event #44. Rumor has it that Cousineau's demise came in a three-bet pot with the board was reading 
. Cousineau found himself all-in holding 
and his opponent was holding 
for the baby flush.
Two more players who are out in the early stages of Event #44 are Barry Shulman and Kevin Mathers. Shulman was eliminated at the hands of Enrique Garza. Garza told us that he was holding , Shulman was holding and when the flop came down containing an ace - that was the end of that. Kevin Mathers has also gone. We asked countless people on the table how he met his maker, but it appears the Mathers exit was not a memorable one. Back to work Kevmath, the poker world needs you in your rightful place!
New faces in the Silver Section belong to Erik Seidel, Melanie Weisner & the 'lucky' Alex Dovzhenko. Dovzhenko had a fantastic World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), in the Autumn, when he secured a 4th place finish in a €1,500 event and an 11th place finish in the Main Event. We just caught Dovzhenko raking in a pot against an eliminated player, who said Dovzhenko was, "so lucky dude." When we last left Dovzhenko he was laughing his head off, and muttering the words lucky under his breath. Lucky or not the Ukrainian grinder has 12,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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12,800 | 9,800 |
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12,000 | |
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7,600 | 4,925 |
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6,500 | |
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6,000 | 3,000 |
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5,400 | |
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3,300 | 300 |
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2,800 | -200 |
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2,125 | |
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1,625 | -1,375 |
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1,550 | -750 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Level: 4
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Good Start for Cops
Belgium player Bram Cops found himself an early double up, which we found out about through his Twitter page.
Piupiu24 Bram Cops 3bet all in with ak no action fot german inet guys ...then Won a Flip against Same guy ... Up to 6k ! #wsopb #wsop
June 24 2012
A count by our own Lee Davy even has Cops up to 6,500, and he's looking good early on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
6,500 | 3,500 |
Another Quick Exit for Metaal
One of the Dutch fan favorites, Govert Metaal, has just been eliminated from this event, and we caught up with him in the hallway.
"Yesterday I played the $1,500 and lasted two hands and now I'm out again," Metaal laughed after which he explained that he re-shoved 16 big blinds with 
and got called by . This is when his good friend Ton Kleijnen joined the conversation.
"So yesterday, when he busted after two hands, he managed to get the same cab the brought him to the Rio!" Kleijnen laughed as both players were joking around while headed for the exit.
Kleijnen cashed in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em tournament today in which he finished in 223rd for $2,992.
Metaal is a well known high roller, and cashed the PCA High Roller in back to back years. In 2011 he finished fifth for $240,470, and this year he added another $181,300 to his list of cashes when he finished sixth. Metaal's biggest victory came in the European Poker Tour Campione €10,000 side event when he beat Steve O'Dwyer heads up to pocket €110,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Double Up For Boyd
Double World Series of Poker bracelet winner Dutch Boyd has just giving himself another chance at succes in this event.
We caught the action on a 
flop when Boyd was all in for his final 1,725 chips. His opponent called with 
, and Boyd needed to dodge just a few cards in order to double up.
The turn was the 
, and the river the giving him a full double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,900 | 2,300 |