Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 0

06-05-2012 17:23 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Galen Kester	237,000	236,999
Martin Leclerc	233,000	168,200
Christopher Drake	188,000	157,000

Binger Doubles a Shorty

Dan O'Hair

A player in late position raised pot, which was enough to put himself all in. Michael Binger chucked in a call from the big blind and hands were revealed.

Binger: {8-Spades} {9-Spades} {6-Hearts} {4-Spades}
Opponent: {A-Hearts} {10-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} {K-Spades}

The board ran out {10-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {J-Spades} leaving Binger's opponent with a straight and the best hand.

Binger is back down to 40,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Binger	40,000	-10,000

Tags: Michael Binger

06-05-2012 17:10 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Susie Zhao	185,000	-5,000
Vincent Van Der Fluit	65,000	12,000
Michael Binger	50,000	27,000
Isaac Baron	27,000	-5,000
Terrence Chan	25,000	5,000
Nick Jivkov	21,000	12,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Warn	184,000	114,000
Stephen Wolfe	150,000	64,900
Milad Jorshari	150,000	91,000

We caught up with the action on a board reading {A-Spades} {9-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {7-Hearts} . The player in small blind bet 9,000 into Charles Tonnes in the big. Tonnes raised to 25,000 and his opponent called.

Both players checked the {10-Spades} river and Tonnes turned up {9-Spades} {9-Clubs} {7-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} for a set of nine. His opponent mucked and Tonnes was shipped the pot.

Tonnes is sitting on 160,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Charles Tonne	160,000	30,000

Tags: Charles Tonnes

06-05-2012 16:51 UTC-6

Rosen Busts

[user196975]

Joseph Marchal open-limped in the pot action folded around to Jamie Rosen in the cutoff. Rose potted to 9,000 and had just 3,000 behind. The blinds released and Marchal called.

Marchal: {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} {2-Clubs}
Rosen: {9-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {6-Clubs}

The board ran {5-Hearts} {3-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} and Rosen hit the rail.

Rosen joined Tony Cousineau in the payout line, we did not catch the action for Cousineau's elimination.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tony Cousineau	Busted
Jamie Rosen	Busted

Tags: Jamie Rosen Tony Cousineau Joseph Marchal

06-05-2012 16:41 UTC-6

Van Der Fluit Sliding

Dan O'Hair

Once among the chip leaders, Vincent Van Der Fluit has been on a downward spiral as of late.

In a recent hand, Van Der Fluit (with a diminished stack of just 57,000) min-raised from early position to 4,000. Action folded all the way around to the player in the big blind, who re-raised to 10,000. Van Der Fluit opted to wait for a better spot and quickly mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vincent Van Der Fluit	53,000	-2,000

Tags: Vincent Van Der Fluit

06-05-2012 16:40 UTC-6

Howard "Tahoe" Andrew

[user196975]

Howard "Tahoe" Andrew is one of poker's historical living legends. Andrew holds the record most consecutive WSOPs attended. He first started playing at the WSOP in 1974 and won two bracelets in 1976.

Andew still travels the circuit today and has 15 WSOPC cashes and 22 WSOP cashes - make that 23 counting today.