WSOP Bracelet Winner "Punts Off"

We saw 2012 World Series of Poker Event #5 $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em champ Nick Jivkov standing up and putting on his coat, and nine times out of ten that's a motion indicative of an elimination. We made our way over and we asked Jivkov if it was a bad beat.

"Nope, straight punt off," he replied. "I'll be back tomorrow."

After Jivkov took his leave, Adam Lamphere, who did the deed, was kind enough to fill us in on some details.

According to him, Jivkov raised the cutoff and action folded to Lamphere in the big blind. He looked down at , popped it to 4,000, and Jivkov proceeded to four-bet jam for around 25,000. Lamphere called and Jivkov was behind with suited. Despite drawing to two live cards, Jivkov failed to crack Big Slick and was eliminated from the Day 1a flight.

Meanwhile, Lamphere is the clear chip leader with 100,000, putting him in prime position to make another deep run here at FireKeepers. The big question is, has the man that's finished runner-up in back-to-back MSPT FireKeepers stops been working on his heads-up game?