2012 World Series of Poker

Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$445,899
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,682,600
Entries
179
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 179
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Missed Opportunity for the Magician

Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

A massive pot just took place over at Table 7. And it could have been much, much bigger.

Cliff Josephy, Cary Katz and another player ended up all in after a series of preflop raises. The action was then on Antonio Esfandiari, who immediately tossed his pocket jacks into the muck face-up. Cards on their backs:

Katz: {K-Clubs}{K-Hearts}
Josephy: {A-Diamonds}{K-Spades}
Big Blind: {Q-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}

Board: {J-Spades}{9-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{9-Spades}{3-Spades}

Katz won with his pair of kings and raked in a pot worth around 85,000. Esfandiari, also hovering around 85,000, lowered his face into his palms as he envisioned what could have been.

Player Chips Progress
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Antonio Esfandiari
85,000
20,000
20,000
WSOP 3X Winner
StakeKings
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Cary Katz
85,000
58,000
58,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Cliff Josephy
Busted
WSOP 2X Winner

Tags: Antonio EsfandiariCary KatzCliff Josephy

Guinther Doubles Courtesy of Landfish

2011 was a great World Series of Poker (WSOP) for Steve Landfish as he accrued over $300,000 with two final table appearances in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship and the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship. He was our chip leader until he ran into a brick wall called James Guinther. But despite the loss Landfish is still in a great position.

James Guinther raised to 1,200 in first position and the action folded around to Steve Landfish in the small blind who three-bet to 4,100. The big blind folded, Guinther made the call and we were at the flop in no time.

Flop: {K-Hearts} {9-Diamonds} {7-Hearts}

Landfish bet 7,500 and Guinther made the call.

Turn: {5-Diamonds}

Landfish bet 12,550 and Guinther moved all-in for 27,250. Landfish made a crying call and was way behind when the cards were over-turned.

Guinther{K-Clubs} {9-Clubs}
Landfish{10-Spades} {10-Diamonds}

River: {3-Clubs}

So Guinther doubled up to 65,000 and Landfish was cut down to 115,000.

Player Chips Progress
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Steve Landfish
115,000
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James Guinther
65,000

Tags: James GuintherSteve Landfish

Level 6 Chip Counts

Here's a look at some notables midway through the level six. The players will take their dinner break in about 25 minutes.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Jeff Tims
Jeff Tims
84,000
1,000
1,000
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Olivier Busquet
61,000
4,000
4,000
Profile photo of Elio Fox us
Elio Fox
57,000
15,000
15,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Profile photo of Jonathan Little us
Jonathan Little
46,400
18,400
18,400
WSOP 1X Winner
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Erik Seidel
42,000
8,000
8,000
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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Mike McDonald
41,400
11,700
11,700
Profile photo of Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
39,000
Profile photo of Mickey Petersen dk
Mickey Petersen
38,800
2,200
2,200
pokerstars
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Jason Senti
38,500
7,000
7,000
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Robert Mizrachi
35,700
22,300
22,300
WSOP 5X Winner
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John Juanda
29,800
800
800
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
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Dwyte Pilgrim
27,000
4,000
4,000
Profile photo of Gavin Smith ca
Gavin Smith
27,000
Profile photo of Andrey Pateychuk ru
Andrey Pateychuk
26,600
15,300
15,300
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David Benyamine
26,000
15,500
15,500
WSOP 1X Winner
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Matt Marafioti
24,600
14,400
14,400
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Josh Brikis
23,700
24,300
24,300
Profile photo of Andy Bloch us
Andy Bloch
21,700
15,900
15,900
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
19,600
13,400
13,400
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
19,300
11,400
11,400
WSOP 1X Winner
pokerstars
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Jason Somerville
7,700
700
700
WSOP 1X Winner
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Marco Traniello
3,500
26,500
26,500

Noah Schwartz Eliminates Marvin Rettenmaier

The treys fade the turn and river
The treys fade the turn and river

Noah Schwartz is up to 52,000 after eliminating 'Mad' Marvin Rettenmaier. We didn't see the action but Adrien Allain informed us the the money went into the middle on a flop of {A-} {6-} {2-} (2 x clubs) with Schwartz holding {3-Clubs} {3-} and Rettenmaier {K-Clubs} {10-Clubs}. The turn and river bricked for the German and he was out.

Player Chips Progress
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Noah Schwartz
52,000
11,400
11,400
WSOP 1X Winner
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Marvin Rettenmaier
Busted

Tags: Marvin RettenmaierNoah Schwartz

Benger Boat

Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger is up to 37,000 after this pot against Allen Cunningham. Four players witnessed a {K-} {9-} {7-} flop and Benger took the betting lead making it 1,100 from the big blind. Cunningham was the only player from the quartet to make the call and the {6-Diamonds} arrived on the turn. The board now possessed two diamonds and Benger bet 2,300, Cunningham raised to 5,500 and Benger made the call. On the river we had the {7-Diamonds}, completing the backdoor diamond flush, Benger bet 7,200 and Cunningham made the call. Benger turned over {9-Hearts} {7-Hearts} for the full house and Cunningham acknowledged, "nice hand," before mucking.

Player Chips Progress
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Allen Cunningham
45,000
1,000
1,000
WSOP 5X Winner
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Griffin Benger
37,000
7,000
7,000

Tags: Allen CunninghamGriffin Benger

Chip Leader: Keith Lehr

With eleven World Series of Poker (WSOP) cashes to his name, Keith Lehr likes to play in the world's premier poker series. Amongst those cashes are no fewer than 4 Pot-Limit Hold'em events (including 1 bracelet) proving Lehr knows his way through a hefty field playing this format.

Lehr is sharing a table with the likes of Noah Schwartz and Marvin Rettenmaier and is our current chip leader with 105,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Keith Lehr
105,000
WSOP 2X Winner

Tags: Keith Lehr

Doc Down

David Sands
David Sands

David "Doc" Sands is our latest casualty after losing a blind-versus-blind battle to 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Oleksii Kovalchuk. Sands opened with a raise from the small blind and Kovalchuk called to see a flop of {J-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}. That flop hit both players, and the chips went in quickly. After a four-bet shove from Kovalchuk, Sands called off around 9,000 total with {J-Clubs}{8-Spades} for top pair. Kovalchuk wasn't happy when he flipped over the {10-Clubs}{6-Clubs}, but the {10-Spades} shot the Ukrainian pro out in front with trip tens. The meaningless {5-Hearts} landed on the river and Sands bagged up his things before hitting the rail.

Player Chips Progress
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David Sands
Busted

Tags: David SandsOleksii Kovalchuk

Level: 6

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 0

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