2012 World Series of Poker

Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Cliff Goldkind
Winning Hand
66
Prize
$559,514
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,107,700
Entries
2,302
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000

Three More Hands

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

The tournament clock has been paused with 10 minutes left in the last level of the night and each table will play out three more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.

Shulman Rivers Straight to Crack Aces and Double

David Peters started the action with an open to 24,000 from the hijack seat. In the next seat in the cutoff, Tai Lam reraised to 74,000 and then Barry Shulman reraised all in for 278,000 on the button. Action folded back to Peters and he gave it up. Lam snap-called and showed the {A-Diamonds}{A-Spades}. Shulman held the {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}.

The board ran out {K-Hearts}{10-Hearts}{9-Spades}{7-Hearts}{8-Diamonds} and Shulman nailed a jack-high straight to win the pot.

"Woooooooooo! That's my boy!" yelled out Allyn Jaffrey Shulman as she raised her glass above her head in celebration. Shulman was excited as well and popped out of his chair, knocking it over on accident.

Shulman collected the pot to finish the night on a strong note while Lam was left shaking his head.

Player Chips Progress
Barry Shulman us
Barry Shulman
614,000
264,000
264,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Tai Lam
Tai Lam
165,000
-495,000
-495,000

Tags: Barry ShulmanTai LamDavid Peters

Day 2 in the Books; Wilkinson Leading

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Day 2 of Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has wrapped up after another 10 levels of play. Finishing atop the final 19 was Gregg Wilkinson with 1.227 million in chips. He'll return on Monday with the chip lead for the final day, but it's not going to be easy to win this thing.

Early in the day the money bubble broke. It was Pratik Ghatge who was the tournament bubble boy. His pocket kings went down to an opponent's {A-}{Q-} when an ace hit the river and that sent everyone into the money. Some of the notables to finish the day in the money, but short of Day 3 were Sam Stein, Clint Tolbert, Justin Schwartz, John Dolan, Lauren Kling, Isaac Haxton and Christina Lindley.

Coming in behind Wilkinson and rounding out the top five are Patrick Smith (867,000), Cliff Goldkind (760,000), Eric Wasserson (725,000) and Adria Balaguer (697,000).

Canadian Philippe Boucher is still alive and bagged up 459,000 in chips. Boucher was the winner of Event 6: €1,620 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe. There he won €125,584 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Another notable, David Peters, bagged up 681,000 and is in sixth place overall.

Day 3 will commence on Monday at 1:00 PM where the players will return to play for the whopping $559,514 first-place prize and the most coveted prize in poker, a WSOP gold bracelet. Be sure to join us right here on PokerNews for all of the live updates!

Tags: Gregg Wilkinson

Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Completed