Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-21-2012 22:51 UTC-7

Cameron Loses To Quads... Again

Donnie Peters

Mike Cameron has just lost to quads... again. This time on the {6-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {10-Hearts} {K-Clubs} board, Cameron moved all in against Will "The Thrill" Failla, but was met with a snap-call.

Failla held the {8-Diamonds} {5-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {4-Spades} for quad fives and Cameron was in disbelief, again, that he had run into quads. Cameron only showed two cards, the {10-Spades} {10-Clubs} for a full house on the turn.

Before the last break, Cameron lost to Mohsin Charania in a quads-over-quads battle. Still, Cameron has chips, but things just don't seem to be going his way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Failla	75,000 29,000	29,000
Mike Cameron	27,000 43,000	43,000

Tags: Mike Cameron Will Failla

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 0

06-21-2012 22:22 UTC-7

Break

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Level 8 : 400/800, 0 ante

The players are on their final 20-minute break of the day.

06-21-2012 22:17 UTC-7

"Bad Luck" Busts Staszko

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Tristan Clemencon opened to 800 from early position, and three players called, including Bryn Kenney on the button, and Martin Staszko from the small blind. The flop came down {k-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {7-Diamonds} , and the action checked to Kenney, who tossed 2,000 forw. Staszko potted, making it 9,600, and Clemencon re-potted. The action folded back to Staszko, who called all in.

Staszko
Clemencon

The turn and river came {q-Clubs} , {3-Diamonds} respectively, and Clemencon won the pot.

"Bad luck," Staszko muttered, then left.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tristan Clemencon	47,000 20,900	20,900
Martin Staszko	Busted

Tags: Martin Staszko Tristan Clemencon Bryn Kenney

06-21-2012 22:01 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Rast	190,000 15,000	15,000

Dominykas Karmazinas	174,000 104,000	104,000
Nikolai Yakovenko	157,000 3,000	3,000
Richard Ashby	150,000

Mohsin Charania	144,000 4,000	4,000

Matthew Kirk	126,000 7,000	7,000
Hans Winzeler	107,000 23,000	23,000
Konstantin Buecherl	93,000
Josh Tieman	60,000 31,000	31,000
Joe Beevers	60,000 26,000	26,000
Romik Vartzar	59,000 22,000	22,000
John Racener	57,000 3,000	3,000

Huck Seed	55,500 20,200	20,200

Ryan Schmidt	50,000 18,500	18,500
Chris DeMaci	42,000 13,000	13,000
Cary Katz	29,500 19,500	19,500

David Sands	25,000 16,000	16,000
Naoya Kihara	18,000 16,000	16,000

Gary Benson	Busted

Brent Roberts	Busted

06-21-2012 21:53 UTC-7

8888 > 4444

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When we reached Table 5, Mohsin Charania and Mike Cameron were heads up with the board reading {j-Spades} {4-Hearts} {8-Spades} {4-Diamonds} . Charania check-called a bet of 7,600, and the {8-Diamonds} completed the board. Charania checked, and Cameron fired 16,500.

"Pot," Charania announced after thirty seconds or so.

Cameron quickly re-potted, and Charania got the rest of his chips in the middle. Charania tabled {a-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {7-Clubs} for quad eights, and to the astonishment if everyone, Cameron tabled {k-Spades} {k-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {4-Spades} for quad fours.

"Sorry man," Charania told him.

Charania doubled to around 140,000 chips, while Cameron was cut down to about 70,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohsin Charania	140,000 68,000	68,000

Mike Cameron	70,000

Tags: Mike Cameron Mohsin Charania

06-21-2012 21:37 UTC-7

Kirk is Here to Win

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Over on Table 4 in the Gold Section of the Brasilia Room, Matthew Kirk and Nikolai "Googles" Yakovenko are butting heads. When we reached the table moments ago, Yakovenko was asking a floorperson if Kirk could be penalized for calling the clock too frequently on Yakovenko. Kirk defended himself, saying that Yakovenko was taking a long time on every street, and the floorperson cooled things down for the time being.

A hand later, Yakovenko mucked, and left the table to further explain what was happening to the floorperson. While he was gone, Kirk admitted that he was needling Yakovenko a little too much, and that he was a bit rude during a hand Yakovenko was playing. He was still upset however, and upon Yakovenko's return to the table, the two squabbled a little more. Kirk put an end to the conversation:

"I'm going to three-bet you every time you open. Either I'm going to be out, or you're going to be out."

Yakovenko didn't respond verbally, rather he took to Twitter:

ivan_bezdomny Nikolai Yakovenko Prev table we talk about history & culture. Here it's about who's gonna 3bet jam who. June 21 2012

The very next hand, Kirk opened to 1,500, and David "Doc" Sands three-bet to 4,500. Brian Rast four-bet to 14,900 from the small blind, and Kirk went into the tank. He examined Sand's stack, which was only 24,000 or so, then looked down at his own chips.

"Well, I came here to win," Kirk announced, grinning.

He called, and so did Sands. The flop came , and Rast led out. Kirk and Sands quickly folded, and Rast raked in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Rast	205,000 45,000	45,000

Nikolai Yakovenko	160,000
Matthew Kirk	119,000
David Sands	9,000 61,000	61,000

Tags: Matthew Kirk David Sands Brian Rast Nikolai Yakovenko

06-21-2012 21:35 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Kushner	340,000 15,000	15,000
Jason Mercier	191,000 146,000	146,000

Jens Kyllönen	105,000 42,000	42,000
Ted Lawson	92,000 58,000	58,000

Sammy Farha	82,000 13,500	13,500

Leif Force	79,000 21,000	21,000

David Benyamine	68,000 2,000	2,000

Stephane Albertini	66,000 30,000	30,000
Alexander Kravchenko	62,000 14,000	14,000

Nenad Medic	60,000 13,500	13,500

Dermot Blain	55,000 26,000	26,000
Will Failla	46,000
George Lind III	44,000 24,000	24,000

Brock Parker	42,000 26,000	26,000
Huck Seed	35,300 7,000	7,000

Aubin Cazals	33,000 2,800	2,800

Tony Cousineau	30,500 7,000	7,000
Jeremy Kottler	27,000 3,000	3,000
John Kabbaj	27,000 16,000	16,000

Rami Boukai	26,000 11,400	11,400

Sam Trickett	21,400 15,300	15,300
Joe Cada	21,000 13,000	13,000

David Bakes Baker	17,500 12,500	12,500

Keith Lehr	17,000 32,000	32,000

Roland Israelashvili	17,000 5,500	5,500

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06-21-2012 21:29 UTC-7

Trickett Picks One Up

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Donnie Peters

Aubin Cazals called a bet of 5,200 on the {A-Spades} {9-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} board from Sam Trickett before the {2-Clubs} landed on the river. Cazals checked and Trickett bet the amount of the pot for 17,700. Cazals folded and Trickett won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Trickett	36,700 300	300
Aubin Cazals	30,200 6,200	6,200

Tags: Sam Trickett Aubin Cazals

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 0