2012 World Series of Poker

Event 21: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
$440,829
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$2,519,100
Entries
2,779
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000

Smith Snatches Big Pot From Santoni

Level 23 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Dan Smith picked up a large pot.
Dan Smith picked up a large pot.

We caught up with this hand on the turn between Dan Smith and Jean-Louis Santoni. The board showed {7-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {6-Spades} {6-Clubs} and Santoni bet 145,000. Smith called after a bit and the river came {5-Spades}.

It took Santoni quite a bit of time to consider his action on the river. So much in fact John Esposito asked, "Is it someone's turn here?"

Santoni finally checked and Smith bet 263,000. Santoni took just a moment to fold.

Tags: Dan SmithJean-Louis Santoni

Level: 23

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

William Fichman Eliminated in 17th Place ($15,744)

William Fichman - 17th place
William Fichman - 17th place

William Fichman started a recent hand out by opening for 50,000. Action folded around to Jonathan Poche who moved all in for around 400,000. The action then came around to the short stacked Randy Green on the button who called and was all in for 70,000. Finchman also made the call and was at risk.

Poche: {K-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}
Fichman: {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}
Green: {10-Spades}{8-Diamonds}

After a {q-Spades}{j-Clubs}{8-Hearts} flop was unleashed on the felt it was realized that no one was safe, and anyone could come away from this pot a winner. If Poche could hold he would deliver the double knock out, and we would be 15 handed. A {6-Hearts} on the river helped no one, but the {9-Spades} on the river gave Green the straight and he was allowed to tripple up. Poche also managed to get a piece of the pot, and took the remainder of Fichman's stack as his pair of kings were still better than a pair of queens.

Fichman heads to the rail and is our 17th place finisher.

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Poche us
Jonathan Poche
320,000 60,000
Randy Green us
Randy Green
270,000 174,000
William Fichman us
William Fichman
Busted

Tags: Jonathan PocheRandy GreenWIlliam Fichman

Smith Plays Back at Vaillancourt

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Dan Smith opened for 33,000 and Noah Vaillancourt made it 71,000 behind him. Hok-Leung Wong took a long while to fold his big blind but then Smith moved all in. Vaillancourt snap-asked, "How much?"

The dealer counted down Smith's stack and it was 372,000 total. Vaillancourt reached into his backpack, grabbed some gum and then folded his hand.

Tags: Dan SmithNoah Vaillancourt

Final Two Tables Redraw

Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Feature Table

PlacePlayer
1Dan Smith
2Jean-Louis Santoni
3Noah Vaillancourt
4Derek Wolters
5Michael Gathy
6Hok-Leung Wong
7John Esposito
8Mitch Merritt
9Empty

Table 440

PlacePlayer
1Jason Manggunio
2Jon Poche
3Josh Field
4Glenn McCaffrey
5Jamie Armstrong
6Randy Green
7William Fichman
8Eric Davis
9Eric Baldwin

Level: 22

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000