Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

Day 1 Completed

06-20-2012 00:31 UTC-7

60 Players Advance to Day 2

Paul_Oresteen

Level 8 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Antonio Esfandiari is one of 60 that will play Day 2.

Day 1 of Event 36, $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout, of the World Series of Poker has come to a close. There were 587 entrants across 60 tables in the Brasilia Room, 13 of them nine-handed and 47 ten-handed. The shootout format allows the winners to advance with the chips they collected from their table, so we have 47 players tied for the chip lead.

Kidding aside, there will be some small variation in the counts when the field returns for Day 2. The stacks will range from 81,000 to 90,000 and each returning player will have made the money. Each player is guaranteed at least $9,086 but they’re all gunning for the $368,593 first place prize.

Fresh of his $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship win the night prior, David “Bakes” Baker returned to the felt today. He cashed for the second day in a row by winning his table, although it may not compare to the $451,779 he won last night.

Jean-Robert Bellande also moved on just minutes after we heard him announce, “I’m going to open up my calling range.” The next hand saw him call and lose with {K-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} , but he two hands later his {J-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds} made a flush and won him the table.

Two of Great Britain’s best players, James Akenhead and Liv Boeree, played heads up for the better part of two levels before their match was decided. Akenhead held {A-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} on the final against Boeree’s {A-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} . The board ran {7-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {5-Spades} and Akenhead moved on.

One of the lightest moments occurred at Chris Moneymaker’s table today. We came upon his table and he confirmed the hand he just lost he, “played really bad.” He moved all in the next hand and doubled up and said, “I run so bad at the WSOP.”

“You won the Main Event, shut up.” Eric Baldwin and his tablemates said giving the 2003 champ a needle.

“I meant this year’s WSOP,” Moneymaker had to clarify with a smile.

Steve Billirakis, Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, Chance Kornuth, Christian Harder, Ryan D’Angelo, Jonathan Tamayo, Jason Koon, Melanie Weisner, Joe Tehan and Huy Nguyen are just a handful of those that will be playing on Day 2.

Many came and many fell during Day 1 including: Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Tristan Wade, Moneymaker, Jake Cody, Chris Moorman, Galen Hall, Isaac Haxton, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Kacthalov.

Day 2 will see ten six-handed tables and they will play down to a final table of ten. Cards will hit the air promptly at 1:00 p.m. in Blue Section of the Amazon Room. Follow all the WSOP action live on PokerNews.com.

06-20-2012 00:31 UTC-7

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Matthew Pitt

Player	Chips	Progress
Niall Farrell	90,600

Craig McCorkell	89,900

Kyle Julius	89,900

James Akenhead	89,900

Paul Kemp	89,900

Ryan D'Angelo	89,900

Heather Sue Mercer	89,900

Joe Tehan	89,900

David Inselberg	89,900

Jeremiah Fitzpatrick	89,800

Jonathan Lane	89,800

Nick Grippo	89,800

Robert Georato	89,800

Chance Kornuth	89,800

Matt Jarvis	89,800

David Bakes Baker	89,800

Jonathan Driscoll	89,800

Robert Stevanovski	89,800

Victor Shuchleis	89,800

Evan Teitelbaum	89,700

Steven Kerr	89,700

Steve Billirakis	89,700

Hung Tran	89,700

Nicolas Levi	89,700

Justin Conley	89,700