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2012 World Series of Poker
Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,682,600
Total Entries
179
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 179
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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: 
Josephy: 
Big Blind: 
Board: 
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.
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: 
Landfish bet 7,500 and Guinther made the call.
Turn: 
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 |  |
| Landfish |   |
River: 
So Guinther doubled up to 65,000 and Landfish was cut down to 115,000.
Here's a look at some notables midway through the level six. The players will take their dinner break in about 25 minutes.
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 
(2 x clubs) with Schwartz holding 
and Rettenmaier 
. The turn and river bricked for the German and he was out.
Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger is up to 37,000 after this pot against Allen Cunningham. Four players witnessed a 
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 
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 
, completing the backdoor diamond flush, Benger bet 7,200 and Cunningham made the call. Benger turned over for the full house and Cunningham acknowledged, "nice hand," before mucking.
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.
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 
. 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 
for top pair. Kovalchuk wasn't happy when he flipped over the 
, but the shot the Ukrainian pro out in front with trip tens. The meaningless 
landed on the river and Sands bagged up his things before hitting the rail.
Level: 6
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 0
