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

06-21-2012 17:38 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Hans Winzeler	84,000 28,000	28,000
Brian Rast	62,000 32,000	32,000

Josh Arieh	43,500 25,500	25,500

David Chiu	41,000 3,000	3,000

Joe Beevers	34,000
Giuseppe Pantaleo	33,000

Ryan Schmidt	31,500
Harry Kaczka	31,500
David Sands	30,000 6,000	6,000
Josh Tieman	29,000 3,000	3,000
Huck Seed	28,300

Ken Wong	27,200
Gary Benson	22,300

Erick Lindgren	17,500 9,000	9,000

Dominykas Karmazinas	15,500
Brian Roberts	10,800
Sorel Mizzi	7,000 2,000	2,000

Hellmuth Full and in the Field

Phil Hellmuth grabbed some food before sitting down in Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, but is OK with losing some of his chips:

phil_hellmuth phil_hellmuth Signed up for $10K PLOmaha, but I'm at Quiznos + Starbucks now treating myself to a meal I crave! It's Worth every chip I'm anteeing off! June 21 2012

phil_hellmuth phil_hellmuth Just sat in PLOmaha, my craving cost me 1,600 (28,400), but won it back 1st hand! @RWilliamsoniii @BrettRichey @JustinBonomo at my table June 21 2012

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	28,400 1,600	1,600

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06-21-2012 17:30 UTC-7

Missing Chips on Table 9

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Level 5 : 200/400, 0 ante

Evidently, Chance Kornuth dropped a few chips a little while ago, and right after he did, he picked some of them up. Moments ago, there was one more yellow T1,000 chip found under the table, and Kornuth believed that it was his. They called the floor to the table.

A few players, including Jason Mercier, joked that they could use a few "lost chips" as well, and the floor left to rectify the situation. While the floor was gone, Kornuth called a 900-chip raise from Sam Stein, and the two took a flop of {2-Spades} {3-Hearts} {4-Diamonds} . Kornuth check-called 1,200 from Stein, and both players knuckled after the {10-Spades} turned. The {7-Spades} completed the board, and Kornuth led out for 900. Stein raised to 3,700, and Kornuth folded.

"Are they ever going to make a ruling?" Kornuth thought aloud after the hand.

"We should just call them back," Mercier suggested.

"Yeah," Kornuth agreed. "Your sarcastic comment before probably didn't help."

Mercier apologized, and when the floor returned, he was the one who spoke up.

"We're all agreeing that he should get it," Mercier told him.

The floorperson agreed, and then tossed the yellow T1,000 chip back in front of him. Another player from across the table threw in yet another yellow chip, which bewildered the table.

"There's multiple?" the floorperson asked.

Apparently, a second chip had rolled under the table. A player in the one-seat made another joke, and Mercier pretended to give Kornuth his whole stack. Even Kornuth got a kick out of that, and the situation is finally resolved.

Tags: Jason Mercier Sam Stein Chance Kornuth

06-21-2012 17:20 UTC-7

Ermakov Enters Late Due To WSOP Printing Mistake

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Donnie Peters

Level 5 : 200/400, 0 ante

Ilya Ermakov just took his seat right in front of our desk on Table 5 in the Gold section of the Brasilia Room, but he wasn't late registering. Ermakov had bought in, but had a misprinted tournament slip that said the start time for this event would be at 5:00 PM and not noon like it was.

Prior to play, World Series of Poker Tournament Director spoke about the mistake that was made as a few tournament slips were printed this way. Players showing up late would have the option to either play or get a full refund, which was the decision to be made in Ermakov's case.

Ermakov is Russian and doesn't speak or understand English all too well, but a few other Russian players in the tournament helped out with the translations, letting him know he was entitled to a refund if he didn't want to play. Ermakov was told the current blinds and that he would get a full stating stack of 30,000. Ermakov opted to play and is now being dealt into the tournament, albeit five hours late.

Tags: Ilya Ermakov Jack Effel

06-21-2012 17:05 UTC-7

Graham Makes Broadway, Ships Massive Pot

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Michael Binger started the action by raising to 400, and a player on his right three-bet to 1,800. Matt Graham called, and so did a player in the blinds. Binger called as well, and the flop fell {2-Hearts} {j-Hearts} {3-Clubs} . The player in the blinds led out for 4,000, and the action folded to Graham, who raised to 13,000. The player tank-called.

The turn was the {q-Diamonds} , and the player in the blinds checked. Graham tossed out 16,750, and his opponent tanked for a bit before moving all in for just under 40,000. Graham called, creating a monster pot.

Graham
Opponent

The river was the {10-Spades} , giving Graham broadway, and eliminating his opponent from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Graham	110,000 67,000	67,000

Tags: Matt Graham Michael Binger

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

06-21-2012 16:27 UTC-7

Break

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Mickey Doft

Level 4 : 150/300, 0 ante

The players are on a 20-minute break.

06-21-2012 16:23 UTC-7

Bloch Boasts Stack

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Andy Bloch was faced with a raise and two calls, and opted to three-bet to 3,650 preflop. The original raiser and the second caller came along for the ride. The flop fell {10-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {3-Clubs} , and the original raiser led out, pushing his whole stack forward. He was only allowed to bet 12,000 however, the other couple hundred chips would have to stay behind.

"I don't think it's going to matter," Bloch joked.

The third player folded, and Bloch quickly raised enough to put the original raiser all in. He quickly called.

Original Raiser
Bloch

The {a-Spades} on the turn gave Bloch a set of aces, and the lead, and the {5-Spades} bricked on the river, giving Bloch the entire pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andy Bloch	70,000

Tags: Andy Bloch

06-21-2012 16:15 UTC-7

And More Chip Counts

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Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Chartier	58,000 28,000	28,000
Michael Mizrachi	48,000 18,000	18,000

Peter Jetten	47,000 17,000	17,000
Matt Graham	43,000
John Kabbaj	43,000 13,000	13,000

Chance Kornuth	37,000 22,000	22,000

Michael Binger	34,000
Burt Boutin	33,000 3,000	3,000

Martin Staszko	29,500 500	500

Andy Frankenberger	27,500 2,500	2,500

Jeff Lisandro	27,000 3,000	3,000

Antoine Saout	26,000 4,000	4,000
Brandon Cantu	24,000

JC Tran	22,000 8,000	8,000

George Lind III	20,000 10,000	10,000

William Reynolds	15,000
Naoya Kihara	12,500

06-21-2012 16:09 UTC-7

Izzy in the Hizzy

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Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has just entered Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, and he's seated directly next to Jens Kyllönen, who's already committed to playing the $1 million Big One for One Drop.

In the first hand we saw Blom play, he opened to 700 from middle position, and a player on the button called. The dealer fanned {5-Spades} {3-Spades} {5-Clubs} , and Blom eyed his opponent's stack.

"How much do you have?" he asked.

"Two-thousand," his opponent answered.

Blom grabbed two black T100 chips and a single yellow T1,000 chip, then tossed them forward. His opponent mucked, and Blom raked in the pot.