Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-25-2012 01:59 UTC-6

Silver Section Review: Filippi Dominating

The trio of Amnon Filippi, Melanie Weisner and Pascal LeFrancois have been split up with the only remaining player in his original seat being the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner LeFrancois. Weisner has been eliminated after losing a string of pots culminating in a negative flip - {A-} {K-} v {Q-} {Q-} . Filippo is not out though, instead he has been moved, and he needed a wheelbarrow to help him with his chips - 175,000 at the last count! He must have been running well on his new table because he just showed down pocket queens after forcing to Kevin Elia to lay down a hand prompting a player to shout, "man how can you run so hot?"

A whole host of other notable names have bitten the dust along with Weisner. Padraig Parkinson has been eliminated after running {K-} {K-} into {A-} {7-} of all hands. An ace on the river sending the Irishman out of the Brasilia Room. Mohsin Charania has been eliminated after running {A-} {10-} into {Q-} {Q-} pre flop, and we have also lost David Williams, Florian Langman and Pierre Neuville.

Joining Filippi at the top end of the charts are WSOP bracelet holder Mikhail Lakhitov (105,000), Kevin Elia (77,000), Jude Ainsworth (74,000), Julian Parmann (70,000) & Stanislaw Kretz (63,000).

There are 333 players left with fifteen minutes remaining of Level 10. The average stack is now 26,568.

Player	Chips	Progress
Amnon Fillipi	173,000 126,000	126,000
Mikhail Lakhitov	105,000

Kevin Elia	77,000
Jude Ainsworth	74,000 68,600	68,600

Julian Parmann	70,000
Stanislaw Kretz	63,000
Keven Stammen	51,000 34,000	34,000

James Wall	50,000 5,000	5,000
Joe Cada	35,000 11,000	11,000

Alexander Dovzhenko	27,000 18,000	18,000
Konstantin Puchkov	24,000 15,000	15,000

Martin Finger	22,000 12,000	12,000

Clayton Mozdzen	15,000 11,100	11,100
Matthias Kurtz	15,000
Pascal LeFrancois	12,000 10,000	10,000

Erik Seidel	11,000 4,400	4,400

Joe Tehan	11,000 1,000	1,000
Marcel Luske	8,500 1,500	1,500

David Williams	Busted

Florian Langman	Busted
David Emmons	Busted
Melanie Weisner	Busted
Padraig Parkinson	Busted
Pierre Neuville	Busted
Steven van Zadelhoff	Busted

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Tags: Amnon Filippi

06-25-2012 01:14 UTC-6

Antonius is a Huge Fish; Schindler on Top

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Sometimes the game of poker can be tough. Spare a thought for young Jake Schindler who has had to talk to Maya Antonius all day. Now that honor would have put many a man of his game, but not Schindler, instead he has moved into our chip lead with 70,000 chips.

"I just ran good in the beginning and managed to get a stack big enough so I could play poker," said Schindler.

During one of their conversations Mrs Antonius told Schindler that her husband was playing in the $50k and when he asked her who her husband was she told him it was Patrik Antonius.

"Antonius? He is a huge fish," said Schindler in jest.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jake Schindler	70,000

Tags: Jake Schindler Maya Antonius

Level: 10

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

06-25-2012 00:46 UTC-6

Break Time

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Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

There is a ten-minute break for the color up then we play our final two levels.

06-25-2012 00:33 UTC-6

Gold Section Recap: Racener and Leon Out; Kornuth Looking Good

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Is that the bass player from Duran Duran?

We are halfway through Level 9 and there are four-hundred and seventy players remaining. Here is a quick recap of the shenanigans in the Gold Section.

Peter Walsworth was one of our early chip leaders and now he is one of our post dinner fatalities. The last time we checked on him he was sat on a stack of around 39,000 (double the average). Paul Berende told us that he bluffed most of them to the player seated to his right, before losing the rest in a rather unfair heads-up match with {A-} {2-} versus the {A-} {K-} of Berende.

Christian de Leon has also been eliminated in the cruelest of fashions. Jaspal Brar opened from the button, De Leon moved all-in for around 5,000 and Brar called. De Leon held {J-} {J-} and Brar {9-} {9-} . The flop was {9-} {3-} {3-} and the rest is all water under the bridge.

Our final, notable, casualty in the Gold section is former November Niner John Racener. Mathew Frankland was kind enough to talk us through the Racener exit. Frankland opened, David Stephen called before Racener three-bet, Frankland folded and Stephen called. The action checked through on a board of {Q-} {x-} {x-} {K-} {10-} , Stephen bet 2,500, Racener raised, Stephen moved all-in and Racener called. Stephen turned over {A-} {J-} for the nuts and Racener mucked what Frankland believes was pocket tens.

The players moving at the right end of the counts include Adam Heger, Tucker Hummel, Mazin Khoury, Robert Jin and Adam Kornuth.

Post Note: Mathew Frankland has just come and taken his phone out of the charge with a face like a slapped fish, courtesy of losing a 30k flip.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mazin Khoury	68,000
Tucker Hummel	63,000
Todd Keikon	52,000
Adam Heger	50,000
Adam Kornuth	47,000
Ivan Demidov	40,000 5,000	5,000

Blair Hinkle	40,000 22,000	22,000

Paul Berende	40,000 17,000	17,000
Kevin Iacofano	35,000 15,000	15,000
David Stephen	32,000
Timothy Miles	27,000 15,000	15,000
Byron Kaverman	26,800 6,800	6,800

Heinz Kamutzki	20,000 11,000	11,000
Scott O'Reilly	19,000 2,000	2,000
Martin Jacobson	12,000 5,000	5,000

Victor Ramdin	11,000 6,000	6,000

Maya Antonius	10,600
Alessio Isaia	6,800
John Racener	Busted

Peter Walsworth	Busted
Christian de León	Busted

Mathew Frankland	Busted

Tags: Adam Kornuth Christian de Leon John Racener Peter Walsworth

Level: 9

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

06-24-2012 23:25 UTC-6

Break Time

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Level 8 : 200/400, 50 ante

The players are on a twenty-minute break

06-24-2012 23:21 UTC-6

Bronze Section Review: A Gift For Hinkle

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With five-hundred and sixty players remaining Blair Hinkle has just been handed a gift to take him to the top of the chip counts. The ink is not yet dry on the paycheck that Blair Hinkle received for his 4th place finish in Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, and he is at it again. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder won $192,734 for that finish, and although there is a long way to go, he is sitting pretty at the top once more.

The player in the hijack seat raised to 800, Hinkle three-bet to 2,200 out of the big blind, the hijack four-bet to 6,200 and Hinkle moved all-in. The player in the hijack removed his ear plugs and if he wasn't thinking seriously about this hand before, he was now. A few minutes passed without any movement from Hinkle and any sign of a decision from his opponent. Eventually the clock was called and the hijack decided it was time to play.

"OK…I call," said the hijack.

Hinkle, who was wearing a white fisherman's hat, turned over {K-Clubs} {K-Hearts} and the hijack sheepishly turned over {A-Clubs} {2-Hearts} . The jaw of Ryan Julius (who was watching the hand) just dropped in a, "why doesn't that ever happen to me?" type of look.

The board ran out {J-Hearts} {10-Spades} {5-Clubs} {4-Spades} {8-Diamonds} , the hijack left and the rest of the table started laughing.

"It must be the hat," said Julius.

In the very next hand the action folded around to Hinkle who raised in the small blind and the big blind folded.

"Did you see that? He had kings again," said Julius.

Player	Chips	Progress
Blair Hinkle	62,000

Ivan Demidov	45,000 39,000	39,000

Barry Hutter	45,000

Phil Collins	42,000 34,000	34,000
Gionni DeMurs	37,000
Scott O'Reilly	21,000
Mickey Petersen	18,600 12,000	12,000

Keven Stammen	17,000 9,000	9,000

Sogia Lovgren	14,000
Ryan Julius	8,400
Marcel Luske	7,000

Tim Duckworth	Busted
Bodo Sbrzesny	Busted

Tags: Blair Hinkle

06-24-2012 22:42 UTC-6

Amanda Musumeci Is Out

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To be fair, Amanda Musumeci looks more of a Porsche kind of girl than a Renault, and she will be liking Renault's even less, after being eliminated at the hands of one. It was a pre flop confrontation with Musumeci holding pocket eights and Thomas Renault holding pocket jacks. The flop was eightless, straightless, flushless and anything else-less and Musumeci was out.

Player	Chips	Progress
Amanda Musumeci	Busted

Tags: Amanda Musumeci

Level: 8

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50