Cards Flying
Level 10
: 400/800, 100 ante
Players have taken their seats and resumed play for the final two levels of the day.
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 53: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$4,274,100
Entries
3,166
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Green Acres
Level 9
: 300/600, 75 ante
Players are currently on their final 20-minute break of the evening. Tournament staff is coloring up and racing off the green t25 chips during this break.
When the players return they will play two more levels before bagging and tagging for the night.
Boyd Bounced
We don't know all the action, but when we came to the table we saw Dutch Boyd all in holding 
against his opponents 
.
The board was safe for Boyd to double up until the river came the 
to give his opponent the winning hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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More Eliminations Coming
We can also report that Team PokerStars pro Angel Guillen has hit the rail.
Joining Guillen on the rail is Kyle Cartwright, who recently took to Twitter to explain his bust out:
da_kyky Kyle Cartwright And bust.. KQhh<JJ aipf for my last 13bbs. Picked a terrible time of year to run bad.. Still have a few tourneys left tho.
June 30 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Benyamine Busted
We missed the details of the hand, but strolled by David Benyamine's seat to find it vacant and a seat card in his place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Breaking Red
Level 9
: 300/600, 75 ante
The red section of the Brasilia room has been completely broken and the remaining players have now been condensed to the gold, silver, or bronze sections of the room. This means we are down to the final 64 tables.
Last Year's Champion Still Alive
Athanasios Polychronopoulos won this very event last year and has managed to outlast about 2,500 competitors again this year.
We caught up with Polychronopoulous looking down at a board of 
. His opponent checked and Polychronopoulous moved 3,375 into the middle. What he was not expecting was that his opponent would check-raise and it suddenly was 6,900 back to him. Polychronopoulous mucked his hand and the pot was awarded to his opponent.
Polychronopoulous is still healthy, however, sitting on a stack of 46,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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46,000
-4,000
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-4,000 |
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Going Dutch
Dutch Boyd told us that he had 8,600 chips when we came to his table, but when we left, he had a slightly smaller stack.
Action folded to Boyd in the hijack who raised to 1,500. Then, the player in the cutoff moved all-in with a covering stack.
After a short time in the tank, Boyd showed his opponent the 
and folded.
His opponent also showed Boyd a card, which we couldn't see, but he made a disgusted face, so it must not have been good.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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7,100
-900
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-900 |
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Sinking Like Quicksand
We just saw David 'Doc Sands lose a substantial pot at his table. Before the hand, Sands was sitting on about 34,000 chips.
We know that preflop, an under the gun player put in a fourth bet for 8800, and Sands was left with a decision to call for 5150 more. Eventually, Sands put in the chips and the two players were off to the flop.
The dealer rolled out 
on the flop, and the under the gun player bet out 8,400. Sands tanked for a little while before folding, and dropping down to 26,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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26,000
5,000
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5,000 |