Event 41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-22-2012 23:31 UTC-7

Parker Passes

Dan O'Hair

The player on the button raised to 1,500 and found one caller in Brock Parker from the big blind.

The flop came {7-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {7-Spades} and Parker check-called a 1,500 bet from his opponent.

A {K-Diamonds} fell on the turn and Parker checked again, prompting a 6,000 bet from his opponent. Parker mucked the second his opponent's bet crossed the line.

The small hit was almost inconsequential to Parker's stack, as he is still one of (if not) the chip leader with 112,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brock Parker	112,000 3,000	3,000

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Level: 10

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

06-22-2012 23:44 UTC-7

Selbst Feeling Saucy

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Dan O'Hair

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

As we walked past Vanessa Selbst's table, we couldn't help but overhear her talking to one of her tablemates about the iPhone game "Words With Friends."

From what we could gather, Selbst wanted to bet that she could get 150% of her opponent's score for $100 dollars.

"You seem so confident," Selbst's tablemate said.

"I'm just a little buzzed and I want some action," Selbst replied.

It is unclear if the bet came to fruition, but in any case, Selbst is currently sitting on about 17,000.

Tags: Vanessa Selbst

06-23-2012 00:00 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Koon	77,000 8,000	8,000

John Racener	61,000 15,500	15,500

Tim West	58,000
Layne Flack	52,000 4,000	4,000

Justin Barnum	51,000 1,500	1,500
Ronald Lee	49,000 23,000	23,000
Scott Montgomery	42,000 2,000	2,000

Shannon Shorr	37,500 5,500	5,500

Martin Staszko	36,000 7,000	7,000

Andy Frankenberger	33,000 5,000	5,000

Ryan Olisar	30,000 21,000	21,000
Andrew Lichtenberger	28,000 4,500	4,500

Annette Obrestad	21,000 16,000	16,000

Nam Le	10,500 2,200	2,200
Vanessa Selbst	7,000 7,000	7,000

Matt Affleck	Busted

Nam Out

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Dan O'Hair

Nam Le pushed all in for his last 12,000 and was called by a player in middle position. The player in the big blind then pushed all in himself and was called by the middle-position player for a three-way showdown.

Le: {9-Hearts} {9-Diamonds}
Middle position player: {A-Spades} {Q-Hearts}
Big blind player: {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds}

Le's tournament life was in dire straights and the {Q-Clubs} {10-Spades} {5-Spades} {8-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} board was of no help as the player in the big blind scooped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nam Le	Busted

Tags: Nam Le

06-23-2012 00:15 UTC-7

Obrestad Doubles

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Dan O'Hair

A player opened to 1,600 from middle position and Annette Obrestad went all in for her last 19,000 from the hijack. Everyone else got out of the way and Oberestad's opponent reluctantly called.

Obrestad: {K-Spades} {J-Clubs}
Opponent: {8-Spades} {8-Hearts}

The board ran out {7-Spades} {10-Spades} {6-Spades} {A-Clubs} {Q-Clubs} , giving Obrestad a straight on the river and doubling her up to 41,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Annette Obrestad	41,000 20,000	20,000

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06-23-2012 00:26 UTC-7

Four More Hands...

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Dan O'Hair

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

The tournament director has just announced that players will play four more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.

06-23-2012 01:10 UTC-7

End of Day Chip Counts

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Dan O'Hair

Player	Chips	Progress
Jarred Solomon	167,500
Kennii Nguyen	125,000 36,000	36,000
Connor Allisen	120,400
Brock Parker	97,500 14,500	14,500
John Racener	81,400 20,400	20,400

Jason Koon	62,500 14,500	14,500

Ronald Lee	59,900 10,900	10,900
Ryan Olisar	59,900 29,900	29,900
Layne Flack	58,800 6,800	6,800

Tim West	54,500 3,500	3,500
Tristan Wade	46,700 14,200	14,200

Shannon Shorr	46,500 9,000	9,000

Scott Montgomery	42,100 100	100

Annette Obrestad	38,800 2,200	2,200

Adam Junglen	38,500 7,500	7,500
JP Kelly	35,900

Martin Staszko	35,500 500	500

Andy Frankenberger	33,300 300	300

Andrew Lichtenberger	20,900 7,100	7,100

John Dolan	18,300

06-23-2012 01:15 UTC-7

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

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Matthew Pitt

Player	Chips	Progress
Hafiz Khan	189,100
Jarred Solomon	167,500
Darren Elias	134,300

Kennii Nguyen	125,000
Mario Puccini	124,100
Connor Allisen	120,400
Steven Kerr	112,000 6,000	6,000
David Enda	106,900
Emil Patel	100,800
Carlos Sanchez-Vegas	100,100
Morten Mortensen	99,300
Brock Parker	97,500
Elio Fox	97,200

Yngve Steen	96,900
Ilan Boujenah	95,000
Kory Mitchell	95,000
Lars Bonding	94,700
Hiren Patel	91,900
Kyle Frey	90,400
Clement Thumy	89,100
Jackie Glazier	88,700

Dustin Graves	85,000
Flavien Guenan	84,700
Fabrice Soulier	83,500

Alexander Venovski	82,800

06-23-2012 01:16 UTC-7

Khan, Solomon Top Day 1; Allisen and Nguyen Close Behind

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Dan O'Hair

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

After ten levels of play without delay, Day 1 of Event 41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em is history. Today's event drew an impressive 1,394 player field, which generated a $3,805,620 prize pool. Best positioned heading into Day 2 is Hafiz Khan, who managed to bag up a firm chip lead of 189,100. Not *too* far behind are Jarred Solomon with 167,500, Darren Elias with 134,300 and Kennii Nguyen, who bagged up 125,000.

After all the dust settled, 324 players survived and will come back tomorrow to play Day 2. Among them include Shannon Shorr (46,500), Martin Staszko (35,500), Layne Flack (58,000), Annette Obrestad (38,800), Andy Frankenberger (33,300) and Brock Parker, who bagged up a respectable 97,500 after being chip leader through part of the day.

Those who fell short include Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Selbst, Randy Lew, David Williams, Jonathan Duhamel, Dwyte Pilgrim, Bertrand Grospellier and defending Main Event Champion Pius Heinz.

Nguyen is poised to make another deep run, which will complement his recent second-place finish in Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.

Fellow big-stack Parker is also looking to make another deep run. Parker recently earned a 5th-place finish in Event 25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout. Parker has already earned two World Series of Poker bracelets (both in 2009) and has live-tournament winnings that exceed $1.1 million.

Play is set to resume tomorrow at 1:00 PM PST in the Amazon Room, where our remaining 324 combatants will play out ten more levels. Be sure to stick with us here at PokerNews to follow all the action and we race our way to a final table.

Until then, goodnight from Las Vegas!

Tags: Brock Parker Jarred Solomon Kennii Nguyen