2012 World Series of Poker

Event 20: $5,000 Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a10
Prize
$206,760
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$780,200
Entries
166
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0

Event 20: $5,000 Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

Derke Leads 109 Players into Day 2

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante
Terrance Chan is still in contention
Terrance Chan is still in contention

Today marked the day for the biggest Limit Hold'em buy-in of this year's World Series of Poker. A total of 166 players showed up all dishing out $5,000 to compete in the most mechanical form of poker. Play started off traditionally slow, with many big bets in play, but there were some very interesting tables to watch. Defending champ Daniel Idema was in the field, as was this year's WSOP Player of the Year leader, John Monnette. The latter will not be adding any points to his already impressive total as he busted out quickly. The title holder is still in the race as he survived the day with 3,500 chips.

In order to have some fun you need to get table talk going and there was plenty in this tournament. Over on Table 356, Daniel Negreanu, Eugene Katchalov and Jameson Painter sat down, and during a small pot some fun chatter started. You can read all about that here in the blog post.

One player always up for table talk, and some needling here and there, is Mike Thorpe. He's better known as "Crazy Mike" and proved once again he deserves that name. From the start he was very loud and active and especially Michael Winnett, who wore a dinosaur suit, was a big target.

Thorpe didn't survive the day just as, among others, David Chiu, Carlos Mortensen, Maria Ho, John Racener and Dan Kelly. Kelly started the day off in a very interesting situation matching up against seven other superstars. His table full of late registered players looked like this and many of them survived the first day of play.

SeatNameWSOP BraceletsLive Tournament Earnings
1Erick Lindgren1$8,457,544
2Shawn Buchanan0$4,678,970
3Greg Mueller2$1,989,989
4Mark Radoja1$1,197,755
5John Juanda5$12,378,559
6Nick Schulman1$5,118,771
7Huck Seed4$7,260,200
8Unkown--
9Dan Kelly1$2,219,790

In total we lost just 57 players on day one and among the ones returning for more tomorrow we see Shawn Keller, Jason Mercier, Dwyte Pilgrim and Terrence Chan. Chip leader is Nicholas Derke followed by Warwick Mirzikinian who finished third in the $5,000 Mixed-Max cashing $162,443.

The tournament will resume at 2:00 PM local time with 109 players as we will make our way towards the money and ultimately the final table. A total of 18 players will cash in this event and the grand prize will be $206,760. See you all tomorrow for more Limit Hold'em action as PokerNews brings you the exclusive live coverage!

Tags: Nicholas DerkeWarwick Mirzikinian

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Player Chips Progress
Nicholas Derke us
Nicholas Derke
74,300
Warwick Mirzikinian au
Warwick Mirzikinian
71,200
Kenneth Shei us
Kenneth Shei
47,400
Mark Burford us
Mark Burford
47,100
Melissa Burr us
Melissa Burr
46,100
Shawn Keller us
Shawn Keller
44,500 2,500
Jerrod Ankenman us
Jerrod Ankenman
WSOP 1X Winner
44,400 13,900
Matthew Woodward us
Matthew Woodward
42,400
Mori Eskandani us
Mori Eskandani
Poker Hall of Famer
40,600 17,600
Andrew Finkernagel us
Andrew Finkernagel
40,400
Terrence Chan ca
Terrence Chan
WSOP 1X Winner
39,200
Matt Glantz us
Matt Glantz
39,000 14,000
Todd Witteles us
Todd Witteles
WSOP 1X Winner
38,900
Chris Tryba us
Chris Tryba
WSOP 1X Winner
38,000 20,000
Douglas Rutherford us
Douglas Rutherford
37,800
Steven Kelly us
Steven Kelly
WSOP 1X Winner
37,400
Dario Alioto it
Dario Alioto
WSOP 1X Winner
37,400 13,400
John Centeno us
John Centeno
37,200
Hung Le us
Hung Le
36,500
Aubin Cazals fr
Aubin Cazals
WSOP 1X Winner
36,400
Charles Indyg us
Charles Indyg
36,300
Brandon Demes us
Brandon Demes
33,400
Anh Van Nguyen ca
Anh Van Nguyen
32,100 23,100
Michael Carter ie
Michael Carter
32,100
Roman Draheim de
Roman Draheim
31,700

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Some End-of-Day Counts

Here's how some of the players ended up finishing the night. We will have a wrap of the day's action and full chip counts up as soon as possible.

Player Chips Progress
Nicholas Derke us
Nicholas Derke
74,300
Warwick Mirzikinian au
Warwick Mirzikinian
71,200
Terrence Chan ca
Terrence Chan
WSOP 1X Winner
39,200 16,200
Todd Witteles us
Todd Witteles
WSOP 1X Winner
38,900 -14,100
Huck Seed us
Huck Seed
WSOP 4X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
26,500 7,500
David "ODB" Baker
David "ODB" Baker
25,100 9,100
Ben Yu us
Ben Yu
WSOP 4X Winner
21,900 300
Greg Mueller ca
Greg Mueller
WSOP 3X Winner
18,700 4,700
Eric Froehlich us
Eric Froehlich
WSOP 2X Winner
12,000 -9,000
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
10,900 3,300
Mark Radoja ca
Mark Radoja
WSOP 2X Winner
8,800 -3,200
Daniel Idema ca
Daniel Idema
WSOP 3X Winner
3,500 -8,000

Just Six More

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Generally in a poker tournament we see the play substantially slow up towards the end of the night. This is true of most tournaments, no matter what the format, however it seems especially true of Limit Holdem. That's what has happened here as not much action has been taking place of late.

In other news, the tournament clock has been stopped and it has been announced that the players will partake in just six more hands.

Negreanu Doubles Late

Daniel Negreanu has just managed to double-up here in the crucial stages of the tournament, and while he may not have a comfortable chip stack, he is surviving.

In the hand in question, Negreanu and the players in the blinds took to a {10-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} flop. All three players committed one bet on the flop and an {8-Spades} hit the turn. The small blind checked and the big blind bet. Negreanu then flicked in his last chip and with the small blind out of the way, the two players turned their hands over.

"I have a pair," Negreanu's opponent said.

"You already got the full house?" asked Negreanu as he turned over {j-Hearts}{q-Clubs} for a flopped straight.

The player tabled his {7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds} and Negreanu said, "I just feel an eight coming."

It never came as the {5-Clubs} completed the board and Negreanu took the double-up.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
7,600 3,600

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

Big Stack Hunting

We just moved around the tournament area looking for the largest stack in the room and we were faced with at least a dozen stacks between thirty and forty thousand. The only player who is nearing 50,000 in chips at the moment is Nicholas Derke. Let's see who comes out with the lead by the end of the night.

Player Chips Progress
Nicholas Derke us
Nicholas Derke
49,000

Tags: Nick Derke

Ivey Comes Back

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

Phil Ivey has just come bounding into the room and taken his seat in the tournament after a couple of hours of blinding down. For those who don't know, Ivey has recently made it to the final two tables of Event 17: $10,000 Pot-Limit Holdem. We are sure he will either try to get it in real soon or leave his stack and head back to the other side of the room.

Tags: Phil Ivey

Last Level

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 0 ante

The last level of the night is just beginning. In around 60-minutes time, it will all be over and some of the best players in the world will be bagging up chips. In the mean time, plenty of those players will also be hitting the rail, so make sure to tune in.