Event 45: $50,000 Poker Players Championship Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-25-2012 17:53 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
David Benyamine	305,000 152,300	152,300

Ben Yu	260,000 26,000	26,000

Jared Bleznick	240,000 42,900	42,900

Keith Gipson	236,000 45,500	45,500
Tom Chambers	226,000 35,600	35,600
David Chiu	195,000 33,700	33,700

Antony Lellouche	185,000 61,000	61,000
John Monnette	175,000 23,800	23,800

Mike Wattel	173,000 45,400	45,400

David Bakes Baker	127,000 15,100	15,100

David Steicke	90,000 35,800	35,800
Eric Rodawig	72,000 7,200	7,200

Cary Katz	69,000 51,900	51,900

Roland Israelashvili	67,000 60,000	60,000

Matthew Russell	41,000 118,100	118,100

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Cassidy	344,000 34,000	34,000

Stephen Chidwick	188,400 28,300	28,300

Justin Smith	143,700 30,300	30,300
Michael Mizrachi	133,000 74,000	74,000

Dan Shak	130,000 10,200	10,200
Vladimir Shchmelev	82,000 7,800	7,800
David Bach	81,000 39,000	39,000

John Esposito	47,200 65,300	65,300

Fourth Bustout: Stephen Mack

Remko Rinkema

No Limit Hold'em

We are keeping a close eye on the players that bust out, and Stephen Mack was just the fourth player to lose all his chips.

Stephen Mack got his last 41,000 chips all in pre flop with {A-Clubs} {9-Clubs} against John D'Agostino's {3-Hearts} {3-Spades} . The board ran out {Q-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} {10-Hearts} , and D'Agostino's small pair held up.

We are down to 104 players.

Player	Chips	Progress
John D'Agostino	171,000 52,000	52,000
Stephen Mack	Busted

Tags: Stephen Mack John D'Agostino

06-25-2012 17:41 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	310,000 98,000	98,000

Alexander Kravchenko	262,000 48,300	48,300

Abe Mosseri	248,000 91,000	91,000

Michael Binger	220,000 15,000	15,000
Danny Fuhs	208,000 26,100	26,100
Phil Hellmuth	197,000 6,000	6,000

Michael Glick	197,000 5,000	5,000
David ODB Baker	196,000 61,500	61,500
Ali Eslami	190,000 96,900	96,900

Patrik Antonius	145,400 17,400	17,400

Nikolai Yakovenko	145,000 12,500	12,500
Brett Richey	143,000 19,000	19,000
Jon Turner	136,000 53,900	53,900

Josh Arieh	109,000 53,000	53,000

Barry Greenstein	108,000 10,000	10,000

Owais Ahmed	103,000 2,300	2,300

Shaun Deeb	91,000 27,000	27,000

Todd Brunson	84,000 41,200	41,200

Mike Sexton	77,200 16,800	16,800

David Grey	15,200 34,400	34,400

06-25-2012 17:40 UTC-6

Sexton Drops Down

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Remko Rinkema

Omaha-8

Mike Sexton raised from late-position, and Phil Hellmuth three bet him from the button. Sexton called, and the flop came down {J-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} . Sexton check-called a bet and the turn was the {10-Diamonds} . Both players checked, and the {q-Hearts} on the river was checked as well.

Hellmuth turned over {A-Hearts} {A-Spades} {10-Clubs} {7-Spades} and took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	203,000 5,000	5,000

Mike Sexton	94,000 81,100	81,100

Tags: Phil Hellmuth Mike Sexton

06-25-2012 17:37 UTC-6

Seat Open with Brett Richey

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Level 7

Have you ever wondered how Brett Richey got his start in poker? Or what he was doing before playing high-stakes poker events such as this one? Find out in the first of this two-part Seat Open series.

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06-25-2012 17:32 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Glantz	353,000 42,300	42,300

Daniel Alaei	291,000 44,200	44,200

Jeff Lisandro	235,000 19,600	19,600

Hasan Habib	225,000 9,000	9,000

George Danzer	212,000 62,000	62,000

Scott Clements	198,000 59,900	59,900

Andy Bloch	195,000 70,600	70,600

Doyle Brunson	185,000 35,000	35,000

Allen Kessler	183,000 30,000	30,000
Rami Boukai	180,000 18,800	18,800

Robert Mizrachi	152,000 11,300	11,300
Brian Rast	142,000 22,800	22,800

Gus Hansen	137,000 4,400	4,400

Andrew Brown	135,000 48,100	48,100

Ville Wahlbeck	114,000 54,200	54,200

Jonathan Duhamel	88,000

Cory Zeidman	87,000 1,400	1,400

Charles Pacheco	65,000 61,900	61,900
Daniel Negreanu	61,800 13,400	13,400

Frank Kassela	55,000 47,700	47,700

Scott Seiver	50,000 16,000	16,000

Anton Allemann	46,300 19,100	19,100
Phil Ivey	45,000 23,800	23,800

06-25-2012 17:29 UTC-6

Scooper For Greenstein

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Remko Rinkema

Omaha-8

Barry Greenstein raised from the button and Alexander Kravchenko three-bet from the small blind. Greenstein called, and the flop came down {6-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {4-Clubs} . Kravchenko bet and Greenstein called.

The turn was the {9-Spades} and Kravchenko bet again. This time Greenstein raised it up and Kravchenko called. The river was the {10-Spades} and both players checked.

Greenstein turned over {A-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades} and took down the pot. There was no low possible and Greenstein's pair of queens were enough to win.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexander Kravchenko	213,700 47,000	47,000

Barry Greenstein	98,000 15,300	15,300

Tags: Alexander Kravchenko Barry Greenstein

06-25-2012 17:20 UTC-6

Ship it to Doyle

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Remko Rinkema

If you would ask this field; Who would you most want to see win this event besides yourself, there's a good chance many players will pick Doyle Brunson. The Godfather of Poker is still in this event on day two, and he just took down a pot in No Limit Hold'em.

No Limit Hold'em

Brunson raised to 2,500 from the cutoff and Jeff Lisandro called on the button. Hasan Habib defended his small blind, after which Andrew Brown called from the big.

The flop came down {9-Spades} {5-Spades} {2-Spades} and all four players checked. The turn was the {8-Spades} and Habib lead out for 4,000. Brown quickly folded and Brunson grabbed some chips. He raised it up to 14,000 and Lisandro folded right away. Habib gave it some thought but also folded giving Brunson the pot.

Brunson cashed the first edition of this event back in 2006 when he finished in eight place cashing $274,560. His last World Series of Poker cash dates back to 2009 when he finished seventh in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud hi/lo event for $62,234.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hasan Habib	216,000 74,500	74,500

Doyle Brunson	150,000 16,900	16,900

Tags: Hasan Habib Doyle Brunson

06-25-2012 17:19 UTC-6

Updated Chip Counts

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Chad Brown	257,000 19,000	19,000

Bruno Fitoussi	231,300 41,700	41,700
John Hennigan	230,000 8,000	8,000

Minh Ly	225,000 800	800
Luke Schwartz	220,000 23,900	23,900

Qushqar Morad	176,000 28,000	28,000
Huck Seed	165,000 47,400	47,400

Bill Chen	143,000 52,600	52,600

Matt Hawrilenko	135,000 66,000	66,000
Dan Kelly	130,000 48,600	48,600
Jesse Martin	130,000 9,200	9,200

Brian Hastings	127,000 3,700	3,700

David Oppenheim	123,000

Bryn Kenney	108,000 1,700	1,700

Nick Schulman	104,000 38,700	38,700

Allen Bari	98,200 4,600	4,600

Mike Matusow	82,900 69,600	69,600

John Juanda	74,000 16,800	16,800

Naoya Kihara	70,000 6,000	6,000

Arturo Diaz	65,500 10,500	10,500
Chris Klodnicki	46,600 30,400	30,400

George Lind	38,300 32,600	32,600