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Level: 23
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's New Orleans
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,675
Prize Pool
$1,143,000
Total Entries
762
Level
36
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 762
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Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
The remaining 36 players are now on a one-hour dinner break. Upon their return they will play five more levels or down to a final table, whatever comes first.
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Tripp Kirk raised under the gun only to have a short-stacked Derrick Cutler move all in for roughly 50,000 more. Kirk, a two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner, shrugged and dropped in a call.
Cutler: 
Kirk: 
Both players shared an jack, but Cutler's kicker had him way out in front. Neither the 
flop nor 
turn helped Kirk, but the 
river did as it paired his kicker and gave him the win. Cutler, gracious in defeat, shook hands with Kirk before exiting in 38th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
621,000
136,000
|
136,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Corrie Wunstel opened to 25,000 from under the gun, Joseph Hebert moved all in for 128,000 on the button, and Nick Jivkov cold-called in the big blind. Wunstel tank-folded.
Hebert: 
Jivkov: 
Hebert won the race when the board rolled out 
, more than doubling to 290,000 chips. Jivkov is still very healthy with 560,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
560,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
||
|
290,000
234,500
|
234,500 |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
After winning a three-bet pot off of Daniel Weinman with 
against Weinman's aces, Rogen Chhabra was heads up with the Harrah's Cherokee runner-up once again.
When we arrived, the board read 
. Weinman had led out for 390,000 into a pot of around 600,000 or so, and Chhabra was standing at the table. He tanked for the better part of two minutes, then finally folded 
face up.
Weinman instantly mucked his hand facedown, and now sits with over 1.3 million chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,300,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
||
|
635,000
292,000
|
292,000 |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
We didn't happen upon the action until the river on a board reading 
. There was already well over 200,000 in the middle, but whether or not any of that had been pulled in on the river we're not quite sure. What we do know is Lowery had 160,000 out in front of him and action was on Benjamin Reason on the button.
The latter player, always deliberate in his thought process, took his time before making the call and tabling the . Much to his dismay, Lowery rolled over the 
for the nuts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
780,000
330,000
|
330,000 |
|
180,000
425,000
|
425,000 |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
New Orleans is known as the “Big Easy,” and things seem to be just that for 22-year-old Eric Fields of Greensboro, North Carolina. The recent University of Alabama graduate came to New Orleans with his friends to celebrate, promptly won $5,000 playing in a pot-limit Omaha cash game (his biggest win ever up to that point) and then entered Event #8 $365 No-Limit Hold’em, just the second WSOP Circuit event and fourth overall tournament he’s played.
The tournament attracted 333 runners and created a prize pool of $99,900, and the final table ended up being a star-studded affair. Fields’ fellow University of Alabama Class of 2013 graduate and travel buddy, Matthew Keeton, ended up finishing in seventh, while Charles “Woody” Moore made his second final table of the stop. Perhaps Fields’ toughest competition was Joseph McKeehen, who won Harrah’s New Orleans Event #1 $365 NLHE last week and the Caesars Atlantic City Main Event back in March. McKeehen was seeking his third gold ring, but Fields managed to pull out the upset to win his first gold ring and $22,980 in prize money.
Despite not getting the win, McKeehen’s runner-up finish gave him the lead in the Harrah’s New Orleans Casino Championship race. Since he already has a spot locked up in the National Championship, a Casino Championship win by McKeehen would open up another at-large seat in the National Leaderboard race.
WSOP Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Ring Event #8 No-Limit Hold’em
| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|
| $300+$65 | 333 | $99,900 |
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Fields | Greensboro NC | $22,980 |
| 2 | Joseph McKeehen | North Wales, PA | $14,205 |
| 3 | Timothy Thomasson | River Ridge, LA | $10,363 |
| 4 | Mark Maletic | Canton, MI | $7,686 |
| 5 | Leroy Spires | Las Cruces, NM | $5,790 |
| 6 | Marc Lowe | Tampa, FL | $4,429 |
| 7 | Matthew Keeton | Hampton Cove, AL | $3,437 |
| 8 | Charles Moore | Las Vegas, NV | $2,705 |
| 9 | Sokchheka Pho | Memphis, TN | $2,160 |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Davis Vo open-jammed for 140,000 from under the gun, and Rogen Chhabara re-raised two spots to his left. All of the other players folded.
Vo: 
Chhabara:
Vo was in bad shape, and did not improve as the board came 
. He hit the rail, while Chhabra now sits with 777,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
777,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level 22
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Daniel Lowery opened for 24,000 from early position only to have Parwez Nawabi, who was next to act, three-bet all in for 138,000. Action folded back to Lowery and he made the call.
Lowery:
Nawabi: 
It was a flip, but Nawabi needed to improve to stay alive. The flop allowed him to do just that, and the harmless turn and 
river gave him the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
450,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
290,000
122,000
|
122,000 |
