Main Event Day 2 | 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans

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Day 2 Completed

05-20-2013 02:21 UTC-5

Weinman Leads the Final 11

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Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

On Monday, the 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Main Event continued with Day 2 action. After 11 more levels of play, Daniel Weinman leads the remaining 11 players with 2,560,000 chips. He was the only player to bag more than two million chips, and following him are Joseph Hebert (1,995,000), Corrie Wunstel (1,785,000), and Rogen Chhabra (1,675,000).

Weinman started his ascent of the counts in Level 22, when he and Rogen Chhabra clashed in a million-chip pot. Chhabra folded a set of queens face up on the river of a three-heart board, and Weinman tossed his cards into the muck facedown. The Harrah’s Cherokee runner-up then crossed the two-million chip threshold when he called two streets from Robert Pantich only to lead on the river when the board paired. Pantich unhappily mucked, and again Weinman opted not to show.

The Atlanta native is a very big favorite to make his second Main Event final table of the season, and is looking to best his finish in the First in Flight state.

Day 2 began with 125 players – only 44 players off of the money bubble. A handful of notables exited early, including Joe Kuether, Kevin Saul, Paul Sokoloff, and Joseph McKeehen.

On the bubble, Earl Merritt opted to fold a pair of aces face up to a three-bet. Merritt had opened to four times the big blind from under the gun, and Tripp Kirk moved all in from the blinds. The player open-folded, and Twitter nearly exploded. Kirk parlayed that good fortune into another deep run, and will return on Day 3 with 575,000. Like Weinman, Kirk has already made a final table this season, finishing third at Horseshoe Hammond.

After the money bubble burst, there was a flurry eliminations including Aaron and Ralph Massey, Brian Green, Eli Loewenthal, and Pedro Rios. Rios held flush and straight draws against two overpairs, but was unable to hit either and reported to the rail.

After the dinner break, Rahul Deevara, who started the day as the chip leader, fell at the hands of Wunstel. Deevara got his money in drawing dead as Wunstel turned a full house, and Deevara hit the rail in 27th place, earning $6,961. Wunstel received a huge double up during the last hand of the night.

Daniel Lowery jumped out to a huge lead at the start of Day 2, but ran into pocket aces twice during Level 25. In one hand, Lowery three-bet shoved with ace-nine suited and Brad Johnson, the original raiser, called with aces. They held, and Lowery was left with less than a big blind. He was promptly eliminated by Sandra Wong, who held two aces.

Soon after, Wong exited as well, and so too did Claudia Crawford, Sean Winter, Nick Jivkov, and Abraham Abud.

Once the field was whittled down to 18 players, they redrew to the final two tables. At that point, Parwez Nawabi, Ben Reason, Robert Panitch, Tzu Yen, Brad Johnson, AJ Atiqi, and Shahirira Assareh were eliminated. Pantich moved all in for nearly twice the pot on a king-high board with a wheel draw, only to be called by Joseph Hebert who held a pair of kings. The river was a brick, and Pantich hit the rail in 16th place.

The remaining 11 players will return at 2 p.m. local time on Monday to battle it out for the $228,600 first-place prize, the ring, and a seat into the Southern Comfort 100 Proof World Series of Poker National Championship. Be sure to tune in then for all of your exclusive, live updates straight from the tournament floor.

Tags: Daniel Weinman

05-20-2013 01:56 UTC-5

Official End-of-Day 2 Chip Counts

Chad Holloway

Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Weinman	2,560,000	-140,000
Joseph Hebert	1,995,000	-205,000
Corrie Wunstel	1,785,000	912,000
Rogen Chhabra	1,675,000
Kasra Khodayarkhani	1,350,000	70,000
Dan Schmiech	1,290,000	390,000
Pavan Bhatia	1,105,000	-95,000
Ben Mintz	1,030,000	-860,000
Robert Cheung	945,000	309,000
Luke Graham	935,000	489,000
Tripp Kirk	575,000	280,000

05-20-2013 01:49 UTC-5

Big Double for Wunstel in Last Hand of the Night

Chad Holloway

Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

As the clock expired on Level 27 a big hand was brewing at Table 60.

It began with Ben Mintz opening for 50,000 only to have Corrie Wunstel three-bet to 126,000 from the big blind. Not to be outdone, Mintz four-bet to 250,000, Wunstel five-bet to 377,000 and Mintz six-bet shoved. Wunstel called off for 873,000 total and the cards were turned up.

Wunstel:
Mintz:

Wunstel got it in great and was primed to double, but the flop gave him pause as Mintz picked up a flush draw. The railbirds leaned in close to catch a glimpse of the last two cards of the night, which came the and respectively. Wunstel dodged clubs and was able to double headed into Day 3.

We'll have full chips counts for you in just a moment.

Tags: Corrie Wunstel Ben Mintz

05-20-2013 01:36 UTC-5

Shahiriar Assareh Eliminated in 12th Place ($17,351)

Chad Holloway

Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Daniel Weinman, who cashed in this event last year when he finished 70th for $2,797, opened for 48,000 from the hijack and Shahiriar Assareh called from the button. Joe Hebert then called from the big blind and it was three-way action to the flop, which all three players checked.

When the turned, Hebert checked, Weinman bet 65,000 and only Shahiriar Assareh called. The completed the board on the river and Weinman promptly dropped in 325,000. Assareh called off his remaining 300,000 but mucked when Weinman revealed the . Since it was an all-in hand, the floor instructed the dealer to show the mucked hand, which ended up being the .

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Weinman	2,700,000	250,000
Shahiriar Assareh	Busted

Tags: Daniel Weinman Shahiriar Assareh

05-20-2013 01:32 UTC-5

Shots!

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Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Table 58 just did Patron shots courtesy of Diamond Card holder Robert Cheung. After downing his shot, Daniel Weinman joked, "Is it my straddle yet?"

We'll see if the tequila will give any of the players any liquid courage as the clock winds down here on Day 2.

Tags: Shots

05-20-2013 01:17 UTC-5

Who'll Choose to Buy Into the National Championship?

Chad Holloway

Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

We know it's a long list, but here's a look at the 100 players who're eligible to play this year's National Championship provided they're willing to fork over a $10,000 buy-in. We have it on good authority that a handful of these players will be making their way to the "Big Easy" (provided they're not already here) to take their shot at a WSOP bracelet.

WSOP POY Players Eligible to Buy-In

Place	Player	Points
1	Phil Hellmuth	1,644.58
2	Greg Merson	1,007.38
3	Michael Mizrachi	978.70
4	Ben Lamb	909.05
5	John Monnette	884.13
6	Jason Mercier	818.64
7	Brian Rast	775.30
8	Chris Moorman	753.10
9	Antonio Esfandiari	753.10
10	Shawn Buchanan	739.37
11	Andrew Frankenberger	721.86
12	David “ODB” Baker	692.71
13	Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier	683.77
14	Joseph Cheong	609.13
15	Oleksii Kovalchuk	597.63
16	Viacheslav Zhukov	570.50
17	Pius Heinz	570.00
18	Phil Ivey	568.70
19	John Juanda	565.60
20	Tristan Wade	563.21
21	David “Bakes” Baker	546.80
22	Matt Matros	544.25
23	Timothy Adams	532.78
24	Nick Schulman	531.23
25	Vanessa Selbst	523.67
26	Andrew Lichtenberger	501.19
27	Roger Hairabedian	499.75
28	Simon Charette	497
29	Mikhail Lakhitov	487.50
30	Amir Lehavot	487.50
31	Mark Radoja	481.88
32	Barry Greenstein	478.13
33	Daniel Idema	473.13
34	Ali Eslami	469.15
35	Jeremy Ausmus	467.94
36	Stephen Chidwick	462.29
37	Martin Staszko	446.00
38	Jake Cody	445.23
39	Konstantin Puchkov	441.18
40	Eddie Blumenthal	435.55
41	Brent Hanks	434.25
42	Foster Hays	429.25
43	Brandon Cantu	426.00
44	Daniel O’Brien	420.56
45	Andy Bloch	420.30
46	Mark Schmid	419.50
47	Roland Israelashvili	418.05
48	Marvin Rettemaier	417.98
49	Sam Stein	416.13
50	Maria Ho	416.00
51	Jonathan Aguiar	414.25
52	Joe Ebanks	410.25
53	Jason Somerville	408.25
54	Owais Ahmed	408.03
55	Brock Parker	407.49
56	Steve Billirakis	406.89
57	Chris Bjorin	401.88
58	Hans Winzeler	396.73
59	Chris Klodnicki	396.51
60	Athanasios Polychronopoulos	396.13
61	Erik Cajelais	395.55
62	Chris DeMaci	386.53
63	Kyle Julius	383.32
64	Elio Fox	382.50
65	Jarred Solomon	376.75
66	Andrew Badecker	376.75
67	John Racener	372.27
68	Sean Getzwiller	370.88
69	Neil Willerson	370.13
70	Taylor Paur	369.18
71	Brian Hastings	367.80
72	Mitch Schock	364.81
73	Jeff Gross	364.19
74	Joey Weissman	363.00
75	Jason Koon	362.07
76	Jesse Sylvia	361.50
77	Antonin Teisseire	359.05
78	Eric Froehlich	357.55
79	David Bach	354.75
80	Dominik Nitsche	351.13
81	Layne Flack	350.78
82	Sam Trickett	350.30
83	Matt Glantz	349.20
84	Max Steinberg	348.44
85	Eugene Katchalov	348.06
86	Vladimir Mefodichev	347.25
87	Nelson Robinson	343.00
88	Joe Tehan	341.29
89	Dan Smith	340.38
90	George Lind	339.30
91	Dung Nguyen	337.50
92	Matt Stout	336.00
93	Joe Kuether	335.13
94	Rep Porter	335.08
95	Randolph Lanosga	334.70
96	Allen Bari	373.26
97	Dror Michaelo	335.50
98	Fabrice Soulier	369.38
99	Jon Lane	354.24
100	Steve Landfish	363.27

05-20-2013 01:04 UTC-5

AJ Atiqi Eliminated in 13th Place ($14,116)

Chad Holloway

Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

AJ Atiqi shoved all in for 234,000 under the gun and cleared the field all the way to Shahiriar Assareh, who called off for 224,000 in the big blind.

Assareh:
Atiqi:

"That's not how I want to go out," Atiqi said. The good news is it's not how he'd go out as he had 10,000 more in chips. The bad news is that's all he was left with after the board ran out .

Atiqi was all in from the big blind the very next hand and managed to quadruple up, but he was eliminated a short time later by Robert Cheung.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shahiriar Assareh	480,000	256,000
AJ Atiqi	Busted

Tags: AJ Atiqi Shahiriar Assareh

05-20-2013 00:55 UTC-5

Schmiech Flush With Newfound Chips

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Level 27 : 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante

Dan Schmiech and Ben Mintz were heads up on a flop of . Schmiech led out for 100,000, and Mintz made the call.

The turn was the , both players checked, and the completed the board. Schmiech tossed out another 250,000, prompting Mintz to shoot him a confused look. The New Orleans native made the call, then quickly mucked when Schmiech showed for the nut flush.