2012 World Series of Poker

Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
66
Prize
$567,624
Event Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Prize Pool
$2,522,520
Entries
924
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

Jerry Yang is in the House

Former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Jerry Yang is in the building. He already has one 2012 WSOP cash sewn up after finishing in 153rd place in the $1,500 No-Limit Re-Entry Event. Here is he getting involved in a strange hand with Vojtech Ruzicka.

Ruzicka raised to 450 in the hijack seat, Jerry Yang called in the cutoff and the big blind also called. The flop was {J-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {2-Clubs}, the big blind checked, Ruzicka bet 550 and Yang folded. Ruzicka then threw his hand into the muck and the dealer went to hand him the pot. This was, of course, before the player in the big blind reminded everyone that he was still playing! Own goal by Ruzicka, because as the dealer told him, "I can't retrieve your hand from the muck darling." The pot was given to the big blind by default and Ruzicka was left looking redder than a radish.

Vojtech Ruzicka has already cashed three times in this series and has 17k in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Vojtech Ruzicka cz
Vojtech Ruzicka
17,000
Jerry Yang us
Jerry Yang
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
7,500

Tags: Jerry YangVojtech Ruzicka

Chip Counts Brasilia Room Silver Section

Player Chips Progress
Scott Seiver us
Scott Seiver
WSOP 4X Winner
51,000 42,000
Aaron Jones us
Aaron Jones
29,000
Jake Cody gb
Jake Cody
WSOP 1X Winner
23,000 7,000
Gavin Smith us
Gavin Smith
15,500
Matt Stout us
Matt Stout
15,000 6,000
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
13,000
Manig Loeser de
Manig Loeser
WSOP 2X Winner
12,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
WSOP 1X Winner
12,000
Max Greenwood ca
Max Greenwood
WSOP 1X Winner
11,500
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier fr
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
11,000
Allen Bari us
Allen Bari
WSOP 1X Winner
10,000
Sam Stein us
Sam Stein
10,000
Mickey Petersen dk
Mickey Petersen
10,000 -2,000
Joep van den Bijgaart nl
Joep van den Bijgaart
10,000
Ankush Mandavia us
Ankush Mandavia
WSOP 1X Winner
9,500
Jonathan Aguiar pt
Jonathan Aguiar
WSOP 1X Winner
9,400
Shawn Busse us
Shawn Busse
WSOP 1X Winner
9,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos us
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
WSOP 2X Winner
9,000
Manuel Bevand fr
Manuel Bevand
8,500 -500
Daniel Alaei us
Daniel Alaei
WSOP 5X Winner
8,000
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
8,000 -1,000
David Benyamine fr
David Benyamine
WSOP 1X Winner
7,500 -5,200
Martins Adeniya gb
Martins Adeniya
7,500
Jarred Solomon za
Jarred Solomon
7,000
Mark Radoja ca
Mark Radoja
WSOP 2X Winner
7,000

One For The Future: Ali Eslami

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante

We have just noticed Ali Eslami in the field. Eslami finished 3rd in last night's epic $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event featuring the heads-up clash between Phil Ivey and Andy Frankenberger.

Eslami has just received a congratulatory tweet by none other than Mr Ivey himself.

"Congrats also to @AliEslami who came right behind me last night. Watch out for him in the future! #WSOP --PI"

Eslami has starting stack.

Tags: Ali Eslami

Andre Akkari Flying High

World Series of Poker bracelet winner Andre Akkari is riding high with a stack of 45,000. We wandered over to ask Akkari how he managed to obtain such a big stack so early on and he told us that he is slowly grown it over a lot of pots. He did give us one big hand though.

The button raised to 350 and Akkari three-bet to 750 from the blinds and his opponent called. The flop was {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} Akkari bet 1,100, his opponent raised to 3,900, Akkari moved all-in and his opponent called. Akkari turned over {7-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} and his opponent held {A-Diamonds} {J-}. The four-flush stayed away and Akkari now has 45,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Andre Akkari br
Andre Akkari
45,000 36,000

Tags: Andre Akkari

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Chip Counts Brasilia Room Gold Section

Player Chips Progress
David "Doc" Sands us
David "Doc" Sands
32,000
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger
WSOP 1X Winner
23,000 14,000
Jason Senti us
Jason Senti
20,000
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
18,500
Jason Sommerville
Jason Sommerville
14,000
Elliot Smith ca
Elliot Smith
14,000
Dan Kelly us
Dan Kelly
13,500
Cyriel Dohmen nl
Cyriel Dohmen
13,500
Brandon Steven us
Brandon Steven
13,000
Melanie Weisner us
Melanie Weisner
12,000 1,000
Simeon Naydenov bg
Simeon Naydenov
WSOP 1X Winner
11,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
10,000 1,000
Tony Dunst us
Tony Dunst
WSOP 2X Winner
10,000 1,000
Soi Nguyen us
Soi Nguyen
9,500
Kyle Bowker us
Kyle Bowker
WSOP 1X Winner
9,000 500
Cliff Josephy us
Cliff Josephy
WSOP 2X Winner
8,500 -500
Freddy Deeb lb
Freddy Deeb
WSOP 2X Winner
8,000
Chris Klodnicki us
Chris Klodnicki
WSOP 2X Winner
7,300
Sam Greenwood ca
Sam Greenwood
WSOP 1X Winner
6,000
Eddy Sabat us
Eddy Sabat
5,000
Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
WSOP 1X Winner
4,500 -4,500
Laurence Houghton gb
Laurence Houghton
4,000
Taylor Paur us
Taylor Paur
WSOP 2X Winner
3,200
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
2,800

Kevin Iacofano Eliminates Frank Kassela

Kevin Iacofano has had a good start to the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) with two cashes so far and today has started just the same way. He has eliminated the 2010 WSOP Player of Year Frank Kassela and this is how.

Kyle Bowker raised to 325, Iacofano called, Kassela jammed to 3,525, Bowker folded and Iacofano called.

Iacofano{A-} {Q-}
Kassela{A-} {J-}

The board remained jackless and Kassela was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Kevin Iacofano us
Kevin Iacofano
14,000
Frank Kassella
Frank Kassella
Busted

Tags: Frank KasselaKevin Iacofano

Veldhuis Busto

As we were chatting to Lex Veldhuis he sat down to play his big blind. The action got folded to Mickey Petersen who raised to 300 from the button and Veldhuis opted to shove for his last 2,700 chips. Petersen snap-called and we got ourselves an all in showdown.

Lex Veldhuis{4-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}
Mickey Petersen{A-Spades}{K-Spades}

The board showed {K-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{10-Spades}{3-Hearts} giving Petersen the broadway straight. Veldhuis was eliminated and he headed to the cash game area.

Player Chips Progress
Mickey Petersen dk
Mickey Petersen
12,000 3,000
Lex Veldhuis nl
Lex Veldhuis
Busted

Tags: Lex VeldhuisMickey Petersen

Daniel Negreanu is Eliminated by Jay Conley

We were watching Jason Mercier moving all-in, on a separate table, when our attention was averted to the commotion involving Daniel Negreanu and Jay Conley.

Negreanu was leaving but a very happy Conley filled in the white space for us.

It was a three-bet pot with Conley holding {Q-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} and Negreanu holding {K-Clubs} {4-Clubs}. The flop was {Q-Clubs} {9-Spades} {7-Clubs}, Conley checked, Negreanu bet 1,000, Conley check-raised to 2,500, Negreanu moved all-in and Conley called.

It was the club draw versus two pair and the {2-Diamonds} turn and {9-Clubs} gave Conley a boat, a Negreanu bust-out story and 28,500 in chips.

Footnote: Jason Mercier's all-in bet was not called and he has around starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Jay Conley
Jay Conley
28,500
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
Busted

Tags: Daniel NegreanuJay Conley