Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day 2 Completed
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 36: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$3,000
Prize Pool
$1,602,510
Entries
587
Level
8
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Day 2 Comes to an Early Close; Final Table Set
Level 7
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
After a rather short day of poker by traditional standards, we have whittled the field down from the sixty who started the day to the final ten. Antonio Esfandiari is headlining this final table as he searches for his second World Series of Poker bracelet.
Esfandiari won his first and only WSOP bracelet back in 2004 during a $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event. It's been eight long years since Esfandiari was able to taste WSOP glory and now he is only nine eliminations away from grabbing that glory once again.
The Magician is not the only bracelet winner to make tomorrow's final table, however. Athanasios Polychronopoulos won his first bracelet last year in Event #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em when he was able to rise to the top of a 2,713 player field. Polychronopolous will certainly be a contender when heads butt on the felt tomorrow.
Fifty players sat down today only to exit a mere few hours later when they became victims of their six-handed table. Among those to come away from this event with a min-cash by making it to Day 2 are Jean-Robert Bellande, Melanie Weisner, Justin Bonomo, Jason Koon, Christian Harder, Steve Billirakis, David Bakes Baker, Ryan D'Angelo and many more.
Many following this event have inquired about the discrepancies in stack sizes. Players will be entering the final table with slightly different sized stacks because some played at nine-handed tables on Day 1 while others played ten-handed. Others that hadn't shown up had their stacks kept in the well and the blinds were taken from the stacks. This led to winners on Day 1 entering Day 2 with different stack amounts and that carried over into stacks going to Day 3.
The final table will kick off tomorrow at 1:00 PM on the ESPN Main Stage. Join us as we document poker history as the latest World Series of Bracelet winner is crowned. Until tomorrow!
Final Table Seat Draw
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Esfandiari | 538,000 |
| 2 | Joe Tehan | 529,000 |
| 3 | Jeremiah Fitzpatrick | 539,000 |
| 4 | Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 528,000 |
| 5 | Alessandro Longobardi | 512,000 |
| 6 | Jonathan Lane | 509,000 |
| 7 | Sardor Gaziev | 527,000 |
| 8 | Craig Mccorkell | 539,000 |
| 9 | Roberto Romanello | 530,000 |
| 10 | Thiago Nishijima | 510,000 |
Offical End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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539,000 | |
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539,000 | 539,000 |
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538,000 | 537,999 |
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530,000 | |
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529,000 | 1,000 |
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529,000 | |
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527,000 | |
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512,000 | |
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511,000 | 2,000 |
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510,000 | |
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Longobardi Defeats Petersen
The last match of the evening followed suit with the rest of the recent eliminations with an all in preflop.
| Petersen |   |
| Longobardi |   |
The board ran 
and Petersen was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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512,000 | 222,000 |
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Busted | |
Team Online
Tehan Bests Levi to Advance
Like most of the heads up eliminations Joe Tehan and Nicolas Levi got it all in preflop to decided their fate.
| Tehan |  |
| Levi |   |
The board ran 
and Tehan's two pair earned a chair at the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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529,000 | 336,000 |
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Busted | |
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Polychronopoulos Defeats Conley
Athanasios Polychronopoulos has defeated Justin Conley in their heads up match. They got it all in prelop for a tournament deciding showdown.
| Polychronopoulos |   |
| Conley |  |
The board ran 
and Conley was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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528,000 | 439,300 |
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Busted | |
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Conley Short Stacked
Level 7
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Justin Conley is very short stacked at the moment. He has just 86,000 and Athanasios Polychronopoulos has a giant lead.
Mccorkell Advances to Final Table
Craig Mccorkell has defeated James Akenhead in their heads up match. The last hand saw them get all the money in preflop.
Mccorkell: 
Akenhead: 
The board ran 
and Mccorkell's ace earned him a spot at the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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539,000 | |
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Busted | |
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Roberto Romanello Makes Final Table
With the board reading 
, Robert Georato got the rest of his stack all in against Roberto Romanello. Georato had 
for a turned pair of kings, but was behind Romanello's for the ace-high flush.
Romanello will be taking a stack of 530,000 with him to tomorrow's final table.
Upon winning he asked us to give a message to his family who will be reading this when they wake up in the morning. Romanello wants to tell his family that they may have to pack their bags soon in the event he makes it to the bracelet ceremony that follows this event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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530,000 | 440,700 |
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Busted | |
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Petersen Short Stacked
Level 7
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
PokerStars Team Online player Mickey Petersen is the shortest stack compared to the other matches. Petersen has about 115,000 and Alessandro Longobardi has 400,000.
It will take all of Petersen's PokerStars experience to fight back and win the match.