Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
639
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Day 1 of Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em Almost Underway
Welcome back to the Rio! We are coming to you from the Brasilia Room for Day 1 of Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em. Last year’s winner was Brian Rast, who defeated Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler heads up for the bracelet. Rast outlasted 764 players to take home $227,232, and his first gold bracelet. Of course this win propelled him to a win in the $50,000 Players Championship, where he defeated Phil Hellmuth, giving Hellmuth his third 2nd place finish of the summer.
It is important to note that this is a pot-limit hold’em tournament, rather than no-limit. Obviously this means that you can only bet the size of the pot, rather than your entire stack, so eliminations will likely come slower than in the no limit events. The final table of this event was stacked last year, with Ronald Lee, Ted Lawson, and Ali Eslami, along with the heads up duel of Rast and Kessler.
Play will be getting underway shortly, and they will play 10 levels today before bagging and tagging their chips. The surviving players will return tomorrow, where we will hopefully play down to a final table. Be sure to stay tuned here to Pokernews, as we will be bringing you updates all day long!
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/25
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up And Deal
Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
The players have taken their seats, and we are underway in the first pot-limit hold'em event of the series!
Golden Nuggets
Here's a list of players who are sitting in the Gold Section of the Brasilia room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 |
Table of Eternal Doom
Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
This is a $1,500 buy-in event, so its pretty rare to see two familiar faces rubbing shoulders. Three is a far stretch. Four is nearly unheard of. However, we have that at Table 6 in over here in the Brasilia room. Jonathan Little is sitting next to Shannon Shorr, and the table was already tough enough, as they were joined by last year's runner up Allen Kessler. However, one of the empty seats at the table has been taken by the one, the only, Phil Ivey. There is one poor soul who is sitting between these four, and it's hard to not feel sorry for him.
More Notables
Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
We found a few more big names that are shuffling chips over here at the pot-limit hold'em event. Here's a list of just a few.
Scott Montgomery
JJ Liu
Kathy Liebert
Ted Lawson
Ylon Schwartz
Chris DeMaci
Sam Barnhart
Mark Seif
Frank Kessela
Marco Traniello
Issac Haxton
Vitaly Lunkin
David Pham
Kevin Saul
Phil Collins
PokerStars In the House
In addition to Daniel Negreanu, we found a few more PokerStars Pros in the house today: the always flashy Humberto Brenes, the very tough Chad Brown, and oh yeah, 2010 Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,500 | |
|
4,500 | |
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4,500 |
Duhamel Off To Great Start
A player in middle position made it 75 to go, and Jonathan Duhamel defended his big blind. The two went heads up to a flop of 
, and Duhamel checked to his opponent, who bet out 125. Duhamel check raised to 375, and he was called .The turn paired the board, coming the 
, and this time. Duhamel led out for 450. Again he was called, and the dealer put the 
on the river. Duhamel counted out a bet of 1,325, put it into the middle, and his opponent snap called. Duhamel showed 
for a full house, and his opponent mucked. Duhamel already has almost double his starting stack after that hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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8,100 | 3,600 |
Brenes An Early Casuality
We thought we felt the room get a little less colorful. We made our second round through the silver section, and noticed that Humberto Brenes was no longer in his seat. He has been eliminated from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |