2011 World Series of Poker

Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Mikhail Lakhitov
Winning Hand
k2
Prize
$749,610
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,944,850
Entries
1,734
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 Completed

End-of-Day Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Miller us
Thomas Miller
1,500,000 150,000
Mikhail Lakhitov ru
Mikhail Lakhitov
WSOP 1X Winner
981,000 676,000
Alexis Bouchiouane fr
Alexis Bouchiouane
846,000 306,000
Eddy Sabat us
Eddy Sabat
613,000 228,000
Yun Fan
Yun Fan
524,000 294,000
Edgar De La Torre
Edgar De La Torre
450,000 245,000
Dylan Hortin us
Dylan Hortin
446,000 116,000
Steven Watts gb
Steven Watts
428,000 53,000
Kevin Eyster us
Kevin Eyster
WSOP 1X Winner
403,000 128,000
Alessio Fratti
Alessio Fratti
402,000 277,000
Hassan Babajane
Hassan Babajane
391,000 171,000
Barry Woods us
Barry Woods
383,000 333,000
Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
WSOP 1X Winner
360,000 130,000
Nicholas Petrangelo us
Nicholas Petrangelo
350,000 -160,000
Dwyte Pilgrim us
Dwyte Pilgrim
301,000 -39,000
Matthew Berkey
Matthew Berkey
300,000 170,000
Conrad Monica
Conrad Monica
288,000 -22,000
Michael Michnik us
Michael Michnik
286,000 131,000
Zachary Hall us
Zachary Hall
281,000 101,000
Randy Dorfman us
Randy Dorfman
260,000 -306,000
Eric Shanks
Eric Shanks
232,000 37,000
James St. Hilaire
James St. Hilaire
224,000 19,000
Patrick Smith us
Patrick Smith
218,000 -132,000
Thomas Middleton gb
Thomas Middleton
211,000 -154,000
Richard Gryko gb
Richard Gryko
WSOP 1X Winner
210,000 65,000

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Day 2 Ends with Thomas Miller Over One Million Chips

Level 20 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Day 2 of the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em event came to a close with 39 players remaining of the 291 that returned for action this morning. Thomas MIller is the resounding chipleader with 1,500,000, holding nearly a 600,000 chip lead over second place. He’s followed by Mikhail Lakhitov and Randy Dorfman in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Advancing to Day 3 are notables Eddy Sabat, Tim Phan, Dwyte Pilgrim, David Pham, Nam Le, Marvin Rettenmaier and Tom Marchese.

The money bubble burst in the third level of play. Two players busted during hand for hand play, Jack Jacovou and Bradley Augsburger, they chopped the prize money for 171st – each earning $103.50 of profit. Eric Baldwin busted in 173rd becoming the bubble boy after the fact.

The day began with the field packed with notables and pros, but they did not fare well, with most finding the rail. Those that busted included Randal Flowers, Gavin Smith, Kunimaro Kojo, Dan O’Brien, David Diaz, Leo Wolpert, Tommy Vedes, Martins Adeniya, Terrence Chan, Jimmy Tran, Bryn Kenney, Stephen O’Dwyer, Chance Kornuth, J.C. Tran, Eric Baldwin, Anthony Yeh, Tomer Berda and Dani Stern.

Day 3 will get underway at 2:30 p.m. PST in the Blue section of the Amazon Room. We hope to play down to a winner but with 39 players returning they might play the allotted ten levels and return for a fourth day to crown a winner. Follow all the WSOP action live on Pokernews.com

It's Miller Time!

Level 20 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

We caught up with the action on the flop as the board showed {2-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {4-Clubs}. Franciscus Dekkers either bet or raised 60,000 stacking out that many chips just as we approached. His opponent was the chip leader Thomas Miller, and Miller shoved all in over the top. It was a big effective raise as Dekker still had about 400,000 chips back. He spent a long while agonizing in the tank before he called it off for his tournament life. He was wrong.

Showdown
Dekkers: {Q-Hearts} {10-Hearts}
Miller: {K-Clubs} {K-Spades}

Miller's overpair had him poised for a monster pot, and the turn {4-Spades} and river {4-Hearts} secured the knockout. With it comes a huge chip boost to at least 1.3 million. We couldn't get a better count than that, because he was still stacking up when he eliminated the short stack at his table on the very next hand.

Tags: Thomas MillerFranciscus Dekkers

No Penalty If You Bust

Level 20 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

An middle position player opened for 17,000, MIchael Bennington called from the small blind and Eddy Sabat raised to 102,000 from the big blind. The original raiser folded and Bennington announced call, but tabled his hand. The problem was that Bennington wasn't all in and tabled his hand too early.

Bennington had about 35,000 behind and Sabat sat motionless until the floorman arrived. It was ruled that he had to play the rest of the hand with his cards face up and would earn a one round penalty for exposing his cards.

The flop came {5-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} {2-Clubs} and Bennington then went all in. Sabat called and turned over {A-} {K-}. The board finished {K-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} and Sabat eliminated Bennington on one of the last few hands of the night.

Tags: Eddy SabatMichael Bennington

Miller's Dominance

We don't know exactly what the action was preflop, but we know Andrew Cohen ended up all in with a call by Thomas Miller. All Cohen had was {8-Diamonds}{4-Spades} and his opponent Miller held {A-Spades}{K-Hearts}. A {9-Spades}{8-Clubs}{2-Diamonds} flop fell out of the deck giving Cohen the lead with a pair of eights. It was the {K-Clubs} on the turn that gave the hand back to Miller. A meaningless {q-Diamonds} fell on the river giving the hand to Miller and his giant chip stack.

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Miller us
Thomas Miller
890,000 -110,000
Andrew Cohen us
Andrew Cohen
Busted

Tags: Andrew CohenThomas Miller

Mitchnick Marvels

We don't know the exact action,but we know Ryan Schmidt got all in for around 81,000 preflop against Lynne Mitchnick. Schmidt held {6-Clubs}{6-Hearts} and Mitchnick had {A-Hearts}{Q-Clubs} as her whole cards.

A board of {7-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{10-Clubs} came out giving Mitchnick a full house queens over tens which was enough to knock out Schmidt and gain a few more chips.

Player Chips Progress
Lynne Mitchnick
Lynne Mitchnick
210,000 75,000
Ryan Schmidt
Ryan Schmidt
Busted

Tags: Lynne MitchnickRyan Schmidt

Bad Flop for Pham

Kevin Eyster moved all in from late position for around 135,000 and action folded around to David Pham in the big blind who made the call.

Pham: {9-Clubs}{9-Spades}
Eyster: {10-Hearts}{6-Hearts}

It looked like Eyster had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but then we saw the flop. {6-Spades}{6-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} all fell on the felt for the flop, and it was Eyster now who was in great shape to double up as long as he could avoid a nine. Eyster got his wish as the turn-river both blanked out coming {j-Hearts}{A-Spades} respectively. Pham is now down to around 100,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Kevin Eyster us
Kevin Eyster
WSOP 1X Winner
275,000 194,000
David Pham us
David Pham
WSOP 3X Winner
100,000 -220,000

Tags: David PhamKevin Eyster

We Have a New Chip Leader

We caught up with the action on a {7-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{5-Spades} flop. Kyle Keranen was heads up with another player, Thomas Miller. Keranen put out a bet of 20,000 on the flop and Miller called.

The {5-Hearts} turn brought a check from Miller and a 50,000 bet from Keranen. After a few minutes passed Miller announced raise and made it 150,000. Another few minutes passed and Keranen announced all in. At this point in the hand out of the nine players seated at the table only one player was sitting down. Every one was standing, and there were a handful of players from other tables around the area simply watching to see what would happen in this monstrous pot. Miller called and showed {8-Clubs}{5-Clubs} for a set of fives. A distraught Keranen flipped {J-}{J-} for a pair of jacks.

Keranen wasn't dead yet as there was still a river to be dealt. A meaningless {9-Spades} rang off the deck, and Miller doubled up and has taken a commanding chip lead in this tournament. Keranen has essentially been crippled with less than 50,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Miller us
Thomas Miller
1,000,000 931,400
44,000

Tags: Kyle KeranenThomas Miller

Level: 20

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000