Level: 17
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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Level 17
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The blinds are now 2,000/4,000/500 and this will be the last level the players play today before going on a 60minute dinner break.
We don't know how the action went exactly, but we do know that day one's end of day chip leader, Jessica Bertrand Hanna had her opponent all in holding 
. Her nemesis in the hand held 
. A 
flop allowed for Hanna's opponent to grab onto a pair of jacks, which were still only second best to Hana's pair of kings.
An 
on the turn though took the advantage away from Hana. Now she would need a king or a ten on the river in order to take the pot down. The 
was no good though and Hana was forced to give off a sizable chunk of her stack and forfeit the 130,000 pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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145,000
44,000
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44,000 |
With nine players seated at the table, Tai Lam raised to 9,500 from the cutoff seat. Play folded a couple spots over to Clint Tolbert on the button and he three-bet all in for 48,000. Tolbert's shove worked as the blinds and Lam all folded to give him the pot.
Tolbert has approximately $350,000 in live tournament earnings with his best year coming in 2010. His largest result on record was a 13th-place finish in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $115,000. He had another six-figure score that year in the $2,000 Main Event at The River Guaranteed $3,000,000 Poker Series held at the Winstar Casino. In that event, Tolbert won $100,520.
This is only Tolbert's second World Series of Poker cash and his first since 2010. That year he placed in the money in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event for $2,802. He's already getting over double that and looking to make an even bigger splash.
*Some of Tolbert's results also fall under James Tolbert
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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68,000
16,000
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16,000 |
John Dolan most famously made the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event final table. Here in this event, he just moved to over 400,000 in chips.
With the board reading 
, an opponent fired 14,500 into Dolan and he made the call. The river was the 
and the player fired another 27,000 into Dolan. Again, Dolan called.
"You're good," said his opponent before Dolan then tabled the 
for a heart flush. His opponent mucked.
Dolan is Fort Myers, Florida. Against his family’s advice, Dolan left college at Florida State after two years to pursue poker. Things didn’t go well at first, and Dolan was forced to take on various jobs to make a living. In 2007, he took a position as a poker dealer, which reignited his love of the game. Around the same time, Dolan began to find success online.
In an interview with ESPN.com, Dolan revealed his start in online poker: "It was probably more success than I deserved. At the time I was just playing. I was extremely young, very naive about poker. I feel I have a lifetime of knowledge compared to what I had back then. I ran through a bunch of money, ran it back up a couple times, and I don't think I was learning much more, I was just playing. I was down-swinging, taking shots, uneducated about bankroll management, and ended up, through a friend that I played high school baseball with, meeting with Brian "SNo0oWMAN" Hawkins who was having a sick year and … he ended up backing me. It was blind luck and perfect timing. He started helping me and that's when I started to learn and become a student of the game.”
After going on to have an amazing WSOP in 2010, capped off by finishing sixth in the Main Event for $1,772,959, Dolan has put up some very nice results on the live felt. He cashed twice the following year in WSOP events and then won the 2012 Southern Poker Million Dollar Heater $5,000 Main Event in Biloxi for $336,105 to kick off 2012. In April, Dolan took second in the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown to nearly $460,000. In total, Dolan's career earnings in live events are $2,957,860.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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425,000
253,000
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253,000 |
Clint Tolbert just smashed a big double to 178,500 in chips and is right back in the game. After a player raised from under the gun to 9,000, Tolbert moved all in for 79,500 in middle position. On the button, an opponent reraised all in and everyone else folded, including the original raiser.
Tolbert tabled the 
for a big flip against his opponent's 
. A flop of 
fell to miss Tolbert, but the 
on the turn gave him the lead. The river 
kept him in front and he earned the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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178,500
110,500
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110,500 |
It was battle of the blinds as a player in the small blind raised it to 9,000 preflop. Jason Wheeler in the big blind moved all in effectively putting the small blind all in. A call was made and cards were turned over.
Wheeler: 
Opponent: 
We were off to the races with a 
flop giving Wheeler's opponent the early lead. A on the turn gave Wheeler a handful of outs, as now any queen or ten would give Wheeler the best hand. Alas an on the river insured the double up, and sent the 115,000 pot to Wheeler's opponent.
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365,000
2,500
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2,500 |
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A few minutes ago we heard a loud racket of commotion coming from table #440. Apparently Adria Balaguer had gotten all in and called by a player. Balaguer held 
while his opponent possessed 
, a third player who folded said he mucked 
, which is good for Balaguer because the flop fell 
. After that the pair of sevens never stood a chance and Balaguer doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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280,000
77,000
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77,000 |
