Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
Day 2 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$681,500
Entries
145
Level
26
Limits
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
7,000
Star-Studded Field Returns for Day 2
Yesterday, a 145 players forked over $5,000 to take part in Event #10 Seven Card Stud. That created a prize pool of $681,500 that is slated to be distributed to the top 16, with a healthy $190,826 reserved for first.
It seemed as if every table was stacked as the tournament drew some of the best in the game. Thanks to a kind structure, action was slow at first, but things started to pick up by the end of the night. After eight levels, 54 players had hit the rail, which means 91 will be returning to action today.
Among them are last year’s champion, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier; last year’s runner-up, Steve Landfish; 2007 and 2009 winners Chris Reslock and Freddie Ellis, recent 2012 bracelet winners Andy Bloch and Cory Zeidman; and Jason Mercier, who will be doubling it up by playing this event and Event #9 $1,500 NLHE Re-Entry.
Of course those are just a few of the big names left in the field. As you can see below, a multitude of other pros dominate the top ten chip counts:
Top 10 Stack at the Start of Day 2
| Rank | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bryn Kenney | 59,000 |
| 2 | Michael Sigel | 54,900 |
| 3 | Maxwell Troy | 54,200 |
| 4 | Frank Kassela | 53,800 |
| 5 | David Singer | 53,400 |
| 6 | Huck Seed | 47,700 |
| 7 | Paul Volpe | 46,900 |
| 8 | Mike Leah | 45,700 |
| 9 | Marco Liesy | 45,200 |
| 10 | Matt Kelly | 43,600 |
Day 2 is set to kick off at 2 p.m. PST, which is about an hour from now. The plan is to play ten levels, which ought to bring us close to the money. Join us then as we bring you all the action and eliminations from Event #10 Seven Card Stud, live at the Rio.
Level: 9
Limits: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
Cards Are in the Air
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Cards are in the air here on Day 2 of Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud. The plan for the day is to play ten levels, and we expect that'll take us into the money and close to a final table.
For a list of the remaining players based on chip counts, click here.
For a look by seat draw, click here.
Need To Brush Up On Seven Card Stud? PokerNews Has You Covered
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
While most of our readers are familiar with the big-bet games in poker like No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, today's Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud will be played in a limit format and one some people may not be acquainted with.
Seven Card Stud is the most popular version of stud poker and generally played anywhere between two and eight players at a time and the one that's featured in today's 5:00 PM event, an event won by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier last year.
If a player stays in until the end of a hand, he or she will receive a total of seven cards. To start, each player is dealt two cards face down followed by a third card face up. Each player would then receive three more cards face up followed by the seventh and final card face down. There is a betting round after each street and often an ante before anyone receives any cards.
To become more familiar with the action, the betting rounds and all things Seven Card Stud, head over to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Seven Card Stud page and check things out. Once you're ready to test your skills on the felt, you can **play poker online by checking out one of our many PokerNews offers.
For some more information on Seven Card Stud, along with other mixed games, check out our Learning Mixed Games with Ville Wahlbeck article. There is also a Strategy with Kristy podcast featuring Chris George where he discusses mixed games with Kristy Arnett that includes some Seven Card Stud talk, so be sure to check that out as well.
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Richey Dusted
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Brett Richey has just become the first casualty of this Day 2. He was short-stacked when he got his chips in, and he did manage to run out an ace-high flush. It was ace-ten high, though, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier ran out an ace-queen high straight to earn the pot and the knockout.
The table was sympathetic of Richey as he gathered his things and paced away.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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16,000 | 5,700 |
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Busted |
Quick Eliminations
We've had a flurry of eliminations right off the bat here on Day 2. We didn't catch them all, but we do know that both David Chiu and Robert Zipf were eliminated in the same hand over at Table 451. The culprit who did them in? None other than Victor Ramdin.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted |
Mercier and Friends
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
We've just broken a table, and it's created quite a fun Table 458. Frank Kassela, Jason Mercier, Cyndy Violette, and ElkY were already at that table, and they've just been joined by Allen Bari and Shaun Deeb.
Bari and Deeb sat to the direct left of Mercier in that order, and that was not what Jason wanted to see. "Man... if I could pick two players that I didn't..." he trailed off.
Mercier is two-tabling WSOP events right now (and soon to be three), and he took this opportunity to go sprint back across the room to play his stack in Event #9.
"Aces Full"
After Paul Volpe brought it in with the 
, Matt Hawrilenko completed and Freddie Ellis called. Raymond Dehkharghani then put in two-bets, Volpe folded, and Hawrilenko three-bet. Ellis got out of the way and Dehkharghani called. The latter proceeded to call bets from Hawrilenko on every street, only to muck when his opponent announced, "Aces full," on seventh.
Hawrilenko: 
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Dehkharghani: (x-x) / 
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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15,000 | 7,100 |
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8,000 | -8,400 |
Off to a Good Start
PearlJammed Jon Turner Good start in day 2 of Stud $5k... Up to 22.5k now from starting14.8k, just under avg
June 04 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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22,500 | 7,700 |