2012 World Series of Poker

Event 40: $2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
$182,088
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$687,050
Entries
302
Level Info
Level
26
Limits
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Shultz Called Down

Jimmy Shultz, owner of a WSOP bracelet for winning the $1,500 limit hold'em event in 2008, opened with a raise from the cutoff and got one caller in the small blind. The board came {J-Spades}{A-Clubs}{10-Hearts}, then {10-Diamonds}, then {7-Diamonds}, with Shultz's opponent check-calling him on all three streets.

Shultz showed {Q-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} for jacks and tens, but his opponent had {A-Diamonds}{9-Spades} for the better two pair. Shultz is still sitting with an above-average stack of more than 20,000.

Player Chips Progress
Jimmy Shultz us
Jimmy Shultz
WSOP 1X Winner
20,500 -1,500

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Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Ari Engel ca
Ari Engel
WSOP 2X Winner
22,000 16,100
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
19,000 7,000
Terrence Chan ca
Terrence Chan
WSOP 1X Winner
17,000 -2,100
Humberto Brenes cr
Humberto Brenes
16,000 5,000
Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman
16,000 3,000
Joep van den Bijgaart nl
Joep van den Bijgaart
13,500 7,000
Kyle Bowker us
Kyle Bowker
WSOP 1X Winner
13,500
Gabriel Nassif
Gabriel Nassif
13,000
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
12,000 3,800
Ben Yu us
Ben Yu
WSOP 4X Winner
11,000 8,000
Steve Sung us
Steve Sung
WSOP 2X Winner
8,000 1,000
Ali Eslami us
Ali Eslami
WSOP 1X Winner
7,500 500
Bill Chen us
Bill Chen
WSOP 2X Winner
6,000 3,800
Steve Gross us
Steve Gross
WSOP 1X Winner
5,000
Annie Duke us
Annie Duke
WSOP 1X Winner
5,000 -2,200
Greg DeBora ca
Greg DeBora
Busted
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
Busted

Hennigan Flops the World

Level 6 : 300/600, 0 ante

John Hennigan raised from the button and got two callers in the blinds. The flop came {A-Spades}{6-Spades}{6-Clubs}, and it checked to Hennigan. "Johnny World" then plucked three gray (100) chips off his stack and tossed out a bet, and both of his opponents folded.

Hennigan turned over his hand — {A-Hearts}{6-Diamonds} — before scooping the small pot. He sits with about 12,000 at the moment, a little above the average with 198 players left.

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Ivey Out #justbadluck

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante
Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

After an up-and-down day, Phil Ivey's quest for a sixth final table of the 2012 WSOP has ended around 35 tables short.

We missed Ivey's final hand, but Matt Glantz gives us some indication of what happened via Twitter:

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Level: 6

Limits: 300/600

Ante: 0

Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
John Monnette us
John Monnette
WSOP 5X Winner
22,000 13,850
Matt Grapenthein
Matt Grapenthein
19,000 2,500
Dan Kelly us
Dan Kelly
16,000 2,500
Tom Koral us
Tom Koral
WSOP 2X Winner
15,000 4,500
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
13,000 -500
Dutch Boyd us
Dutch Boyd
WSOP 3X Winner
11,500 -1,000
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
WSOP 5X Winner
9,500 2,000
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
8,200 -5,800
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
4,000 -3,500
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
WSOP 3X Winner
3,500 -2,000
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
3,500 -800
Lee Goldman
Lee Goldman
3,000 -5,000
Shaun Deeb us
Shaun Deeb
WSOP 6X Winner
3,000 -4,500
Alexander Kuzmin ru
Alexander Kuzmin
2,000
Eli Elezra il
Eli Elezra
WSOP 5X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Busted

Mortensen Shortensen

Carlos Mortensen
Carlos Mortensen

2001 WSOP Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen has been nursing a short stack for the last hour or so, thus making it difficult for him to build those elaborate chip structures which tend to dazzle the eye.

Just now he found himself all in before the flop against two different opponents following a series of preflop bets, then watched as one bet the other out following a {7-Diamonds}{3-Hearts}{K-Hearts} flop.

Mortensen tabled {K-Spades}{10-Hearts} for top pair and his lone remaining opponent {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}, and following the {9-Clubs} turn and {5-Hearts} he'd survived to try to rebuild anew.

Player Chips Progress
Carlos Mortensen es
Carlos Mortensen
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
3,150 -2,150

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302 Players

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

The numbers are in. With registration closed, a total of 302 players signed up for this one, together creating a prize pool of $687,050. The top 36 finishers will be dividing up the loot, with $182,088 due the winner.

At present it looks like 222 players out of that starting field are still with us.

Choosing a Champion's Soundtrack

Level 5 : 250/500, 0 ante

Michael "The Grinder' Mizrachi is among the late registrants, having taken a seat in the Tan section. Shaun Deeb is now sitting in Tan, too. Annie Duke has arrived as well and is sitting over in the Red section. And Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud winner Andy Bloch is here in search of a second bracelet. Bloch is now sitting at a table over in the Red section with another WSOP bracelet holder, Matt Hawrilenko.

The subject at Bloch's table currently is the WSOP bracelet ceremony, where Bloch is explaining apparently winners can request to have any song played to recognize their achievement — i.e., not just the player's national anthem.

"I thought about doing something different," said Bloch. "But I couldn't think of what would be a good song to choose."

"Something from The Book of Mormon?" said Hawrilenko with a mischievous grin, alluding to the popular musical by the creators of South Park.

"No, no, no... 'Insane in the Membrane'!" said another, raising his flattened palms up in raise-the-roof mode.

"How about the shortest song ever?" asked Bloch. "Or what about a real long Skynyrd song?" suggested a railbird, to which Bloch laughed and nodded.

"Yeah!" Bloch replied. "Freebird!"

Tags: Andy BlochMatt Hawrilenko