Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-10-2012 15:20 UTC-6

Lefew and Roach Split 243rd-Place Money

donpeters

Thomas Roach was all in on one table with pocket queens against an opponent's pocket jacks. Unfortunately, his opponent hit a jack and Roach was eliminated.

Fortunately for Roach though, Ben Lefew was all in on another table with the {J-Spades} {J-Hearts} and lost to Bhakta Rizal's {K-Hearts} {K-Clubs} to bust on the same hand. That meant the two would split 243rd-place money and not go home empty handed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Roach	Busted
Ben Lefew	Busted

Tags: Thomas Roach Ben Lefew Bhakta Rizal

06-10-2012 15:23 UTC-6

Pay Out!

[user198174]

You can't walk around the floor here in the Amazon room without hearing "all in", "seat open", and "good luck everybody". Now that all remaining players are in the money, short stacks are moving all in and being eliminated quickly.

Players are dropping like flies, and a couple of players we noticed no longer in their seats are Lauren Kling, Jon Aguiar, Victor Ramdin, and Isaac Haxton.

Player	Chips	Progress
Victor Ramdin	Busted

Jon Aguiar	Busted
Isaac Haxton	Busted

Lauren Kling	Busted

Tags: Isaac Haxton Lauren Kling

06-10-2012 15:42 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Jessica Bertrand Hanna	146,000 -3,500	-3,500
John Dolan	130,000 37,000	37,000
Clint Tolbert	117,000 26,000	26,000
Luke Priour	103,000
Jeff Blenkarn	98,100 100	100
Chris Bolek	86,000 6,000	6,000

Jason Lee	86,000
Rob Perelman	80,000 69,500	69,500

Ravi Raghavan	50,000 24,000	24,000
Christina Lindley	48,000 10,000	10,000
Andrew Spears	42,000
Jason Wheeler	27,000 3,500	3,500

David Peters	20,000 -5,000	-5,000

Sam Stein	18,000 -18,000	-18,000

06-10-2012 15:45 UTC-6

A Few More Busts

[user198174]

Walking around we noticed a new players in Randy Lew's and Derek Lerner's seats. We can only assume they have been eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Randy Lew	Busted

Derek Lerner	Busted

Tags: Derek Lerner Randy Lew

06-10-2012 15:48 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Benjamin Reinhart	140,000 95,000	95,000
Sam Grafton	127,000 27,000	27,000

Matt Stout	97,000 44,000	44,000
Barry Shulman	50,000 18,000	18,000

Eric Wasserson	32,000 4,500	4,500

Cliff Josephy	22,000 -16,000	-16,000

06-10-2012 15:56 UTC-6

Current Chipleader

[user198174]

While scouring the room we came across a massive chip stack sitting in front of one Thomas Roupe. Roupe holds around 240,000 and possess a quite intimidating mountain of chips. Racked in stacks of 50, Roupe's chips take up a giant portion of his seat. Its a wonder he even has room to look at his hole cards.

Play has certainly slowed down now that we getting farther and farther away from the bursting of the bubble. Players are still dropping off, but now at a far less chaotic rate. 178 players now remain, all of which have a lot of poker ahead of them if they want that gold bracelet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Roupe	240,000

Tags: Thomas Roupe

06-10-2012 15:57 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Schwartz	185,000
Micah Raskin	132,000 -8,000	-8,000
Harrison Gimbel	86,000 500	500

Robert Lipkin	55,000 35,000	35,000
Kevin Manley	51,000
Amir Lehavot	35,000 19,400	19,400

06-10-2012 16:10 UTC-6

Brutal Beat for Perelman

[user198174]

Level 13 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

A player in early position opened for 4,000 and Rob Perelman three-bet to 8,600. A {k-} {3-} {4-} flop was exposed after the early-position player made the call. It was here on the flop that Perelman's opponent moved all in for 20,700. After a few moments of contemplation Perelman made the call and was in for a treat.

Perelman: {J-Hearts} {j-Clubs}
Opponent: {Q-Diamonds} {j-Diamonds}

Perelman had his opponent dead to a queen or running straight cards, and looked to be in great shape when the {3-} fell on the turn. A {Q-} on the river, though, shattered any dreams of taking the pot down and Perelman's opponent stole the hand.

Tags: Rob Perelman

06-10-2012 16:12 UTC-6

Dalesandro Picks Off Bolek

donpeters

Picking up the action on the {10-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} flop, Chris Bolek checked to Dave Dalesandro. Dalesandro fired 4,400 and Bolek check-raised to 10,800. Dalesandro made the call.

The turn card was the {5-Hearts} and Bolek fired 13,400. Dalesandro stood tough and made the call to see the {4-Clubs} fall on the river. Bolek bet 23,200 and Dalesandro tanked. After a minute or two, Dalesandro finally called. Bolek let him know it was a good call and Dalesandro tabled the {J-Spades} {10-Spades} . Bolek mucked and Dalesandro won the pot.