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Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 0
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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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Phillip Reed raised to 6,500 in the hijack seat, Cary Katz called in the small blind before Hoyt Corkins raised the pot from the big blind for around 45,000. Reed and Katz both folded and Corkins showed two red-jacks. Reed responded by telling the table he folded ace-queen.
Antonio Esfandiari raised to 5,100 in the cutoff, Burt Boutin called on the button, JP Kelly called in the small blind as did Marco Traniello in the big blind.
The flop was 
and all four players checked. The turn saw the 
make an appearance and Kelly bet 12,600, Traniello made the quick call and there were two folds. The river card was the 
and the action checked through with Traniello drawing in the pot with 
.
We didn't see how the money got in, but Paul Pritchard committed himself with 
on a 
flop. He was drawing live for the double as Cary Katz turned over 
, but he wasn't drawing live for long.
The 
arrived promptly on the turn, and Pritchard was excused one card early. The river was the meaningless 
, and Katz stacks up that pot to move close to 200,000.
Level 13
: 1,200/2,400, 0 ante
We've just reduced our field down to 45 players, and they're now spread across the final five tables in play.
We've still got more than seven levels to play today, and we figure we'll end with about a dozen players or so by the time the clock runs out.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is up to an ominous looking 160,000 after eliminated Steve O'Dwyer. The action all occurred pre flop with O'Dwyer holding 
and ElkY holding 
(suited). An ace turned up somewhere on the board and O'Dwyer was out.
Eric Ladny has been eliminated at the hands of Paul Volpe. Ladny entered a pre-flop "potting" war with Volpe; a war that Volpe won when his 
held true against the 
of Ladny.
From the cutoff seat, Shaun Deeb came in raising to 5,500. Leonid Bilokur was on the button and tapping away furiously on his iPad, and he made a reraise to 12,800. Deeb studied for a long while, asked to see Bilokur's stack, then four-bet to 31,700. Bilokur quickly slid out a tower of his high-value chips totaling 83,800, leaving just a few thousand behind. Deeb shoved in, and the cards were on their backs.
Showdown
Deeb: 
Bilokur: 
Deeb seemed perfectly confident in the abilities of the mighty jack-ten. Sure enough, the 
flop gave him a sweat, and the turn 
filled in the flush. Deeb needed to fade another heart to secure the knockout, and the river did just that.
Bilokur tipped over a couple chairs on his way out the door, while Deeb has stacked his way up to about 235,000 chips now.
After the hand, Matt Marafioti needled a bit about the light shove.
"Just pretend I called the three-bet and check-shoved the flop," he said with a smirk.
Erik Seidel hopes of the amazing comeback have been dashed by Patrick Cronin. Seidel was reduced to just a single 100 chip after losing a massive pot to Mike McDonald. In the next hand Seidel folded that one chip deciding to wait for a better spot. That better spot appeared when he found to quintuplet up through Jon Aguiar and Patrick Cronin. That gave him 500 chips and they went into the pot in the next hand. Both blinds called (including Cronin in the BB) and we were three-way to the flop.
Flop: 
A bet on the flop by Cronin removed the small blind from the equation and the cards were turned on their backs.
| Cronin | |
| Seidel |   |
Cronin finds a set and two cards later ( & 
) Seidel was out.
