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The blinds and betting limits have now increased for the first time in this tournament. Slowly but surely, some players will now build big stacks, while others will hit the rail. Stay tuned.
The blinds and betting limits have now increased for the first time in this tournament. Slowly but surely, some players will now build big stacks, while others will hit the rail. Stay tuned.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Shawn Keller | 29,500 | -7,500 |
David "ODB" Baker
|
27,000 | 6,000 |
Vitaly Lunkin
|
24,000 | 8,000 |
Jeff Lisandro
|
23,000 | 11,000 |
Jerrod Ankenman
|
23,000 | 8,000 |
Dwyte Pilgrim | 22,000 | 2,000 |
Josh Arieh
|
19,500 | 4,500 |
JC Tran | 17,500 | 4,000 |
Maria Ho | 17,500 | 2,500 |
Eugene Katchalov | 17,000 | -1,000 |
Ben Yu
|
16,500 | 500 |
Bill Chen
|
16,300 | 5,300 |
Eric Froehlich
|
15,500 | -4,000 |
Daniel Negreanu | 15,500 | 2,000 |
Humberto Brenes | 14,000 | -1,000 |
Matt Schreiber
|
14,000 | -1,000 |
Chad Brown | 13,500 | -1,500 |
Jeff Shulman | 13,500 | 8,500 |
Matt Hawrilenko | 13,000 | -2,000 |
James Dempsey
|
13,000 | |
Gabriel Nassif | 13,000 | |
Matt Glantz | 12,500 | -2,500 |
Daniel Idema
|
10,000 | 1,000 |
Mike Thorpe | 8,000 | -5,000 |
As we stated earlier, the players are seeming to be quite happy with the structure change to this year's Limit Holdem event. Terrence Chan seems to be happy, as he stated on Twitter just a few minutes ago.
tchanpoker Terrence Chan 18100 after four levels, which were really just one long level. Which is how it should be, for the record. #wsop20
June 09 2012
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Terrence Chan
|
18,100 | 100 |
Jennifer Harman and Annie Duke are sitting next to each other only to be separated by the dealer. We haven't seen any clashes between the two but it's very likely there have already been some blind battles.
Duke is currently third on the all-time money leaderboard with $4.2 in live tournament earnings while Harman is in sixth with $2.6 million. We are dealing with two of the most successful women in poker in this tournament and it was just Harman who managed to take down a nice pot against one of the other players.
Harman called a raise from the player in the hijack when she was on the button and after both blinds folded the flop came down . Harman called a 300 chip bet and the turn was the . Her opponent bet again and Harman opted to raise making it 1,200. The call was made quickly and the river was the . Harman's opponent called another 600 and mucked when she tabled .
Harman is up there with a nice stack while Duke came all the way back up to just a couple of bets below the starting stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jennifer Harman
|
20,000 | 6,000 |
Annie Duke
|
11,800 | 6,300 |
When Dwyte Pilgrim and one opponent took to a flop, Dwyte looked to his opponent asked how much he had left. It was around 2,500 - or just over four big bets.
On the flop, Pilgrim flicked out a bet and his opponent called. As the dealer readied the turn card, Pilgrim said, "I gotta see if you fold on the turn," and he bet again. Another call and the last card would hit the felt.
River:
This time Pilgrim would stop betting and say, "pocket sevens," before he showed his hand. His opponent turned over and Pilgrim flashed his before they went flying into the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dwyte Pilgrim | 16,500 | -5,500 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tyler Bonkowski
|
26,000 | 6,000 |
Tommy Hang | 17,000 | 2,000 |
Todd Witteles
|
17,000 | 3,000 |
Mike Schneider | 17,000 | 2,000 |
Anh Van Nguyen | 16,000 | 1,000 |
Chris Tryba
|
16,000 | |
Dan Shak | 16,000 | 2,000 |
Andrew Prock | 16,000 | 1,000 |
Richard Lyndaker | 16,000 | -1,500 |
Joe Keuther | 15,000 | |
Jesse Martin
|
15,000 | -1,000 |
Brandon Wong
|
14,000 | -1,000 |
Terrence Chan
|
11,000 | -7,100 |
Michele Limongi | 11,000 | -1,000 |
Brock Parker | 10,000 | |
Mike Sowers | 9,000 | -6,000 |
Greg DeBora | 8,000 | 1,000 |
Lee Goldman | 7,000 | -8,000 |
John Monnette
|
4,000 | -3,500 |
Carlos Mortensen
|
2,400 | 1,600 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike Thorpe | Busted | |
David Chiu
|
Busted | |
Diego Cordovez
|
Busted | |
Marco Traniello | Busted |
Tournament director Kevin Ferguson just announced the payouts and prize pool for this event. In total 166 players signed up creating a total prize pool of $780,200. The winner of this event will walk home with $206,760 while the 18th place min-cash will be worth $11,071. At the moment there are 154 players remaining, which means the average stack is 16,169 or 26 big bets.
1 | $206,760 |
2 | $127,773 |
3 | $92,562 |
4 | $68,322 |
5 | $51,344 |
6 | $39,259 |
7 | $30,529 |
8 | $24,139 |
9 | $19,395 |
10-12 | $15,830 |
13-15 | $13,138 |
16-18 | $11,071 |
A bit of a walk around the tournament floor and here are some of the little hands that have recently played out.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eric Froehlich
|
19,000 | 3,500 |
Jeff Shulman | 12,000 | -1,500 |
Maria Ho | 12,000 | -5,500 |
Mike Sowers | 9,500 | 500 |
Well, we might be just a tad sarcastic about that. The table filled with players who late registered is located just outside the tan section of the Amazon Room and it's filled with superstars. We feel very sorry for the unknown player in seat eight who will have to go up against these monsters.
Seat | Name | WSOP Bracelets | Live Tournament Earnings |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Erick Lindgren | 1 | $8,457,544 |
2 | Shawn Buchanan | 0 | $4,678,970 |
3 | Greg Mueller | 2 | $1,989,989 |
4 | Mark Radoja | 1 | $1,197,755 |
5 | John Juanda | 5 | $12,378,559 |
6 | Nick Schulman | 1 | $5,118,771 |
7 | Huck Seed | 4 | $7,260,200 |
8 | Unkown | - | - |
9 | Dan Kelly | 1 | $2,219,790 |
In total these guys have won 15 WSOP gold bracelet and their live tournament earnings add up to well over 43 million dollars! We're pretty sure none of these players is happy with this table, but maybe it's a good time to catch up, since most of them will know each other pretty well.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Greg Mueller
|
17,000 | |
Huck Seed
|
17,000 | |
Erick Lindgren
|
16,000 | |
Mark Radoja
|
16,000 | |
Dan Kelly | 15,500 | |
Shawn Buchanan
|
15,000 | |
Nick Schulman
|
15,000 | |
John Juanda
|
8,000 |