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

06-25-2012 16:41 UTC-7

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

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 16:50 UTC-7

Chip Counts Table 366

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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

06-25-2012 16:53 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

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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

06-25-2012 16:55 UTC-7

Updates Chip Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Lyle Berman	288,000 12,000	12,000

Jon Spinks	281,000 27,000	27,000
John Hanson	237,000 18,700	18,700
Jason Mercier	224,000 23,000	23,000

Chris Lee	184,000 54,500	54,500
Richard Ashby	172,000 23,400	23,400

Greg Mueller	170,000 10,800	10,800

Hoi Cheung	153,000 16,800	16,800
Allen Cunningham	132,000 8,800	8,800

Marco Johnson	131,000 70,900	70,900

Andrew Robl	128,000 22,000	22,000
Eric Cloutier	82,000 24,900	24,900
Eugene Katchalov	57,000 40,500	40,500

Shawn Buchanan	23,000 103,100	103,100

Bertrand Grospellier	17,000 15,000	15,000

06-25-2012 17:07 UTC-7

Bakes Crushed By Lellouche

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Donnie Peters

Pot-Limit Omaha

On the {A-Hearts} {Q-Spades} {10-Hearts} flop, Eric Rodawig checked and Antony Lellouche fired 9,500. Next to act was David "Bakes" Baker and he made the call. After that, Cary Katz folded and then Rodawig also gave it up, leaving two players to see fourth street.

The {8-Spades} landed on the turn and Lellouche bet 25,000. Baker took some time to think, then called.

On the river, the {K-Hearts} completed the board. Lellouche checked and Baker moved all of his chips into the middle. He actually had a little bit more than the pot, so he could only make it 84,200 with 4,600 behind. Lellouche then tanked. After two minutes or so, he just called.

"Set," announced Baker.

Lellouche responded by turning over the {K-Spades} {K-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {10-Spades} for a Broadway straight. Baker mucked and Lellouche won the pot. Luckily for Baker, though, Lellouche didn't put him all in, so he still had 4,600 in chips left to try and mount a comeback with.

"You knew one thing," said Huck Seed who recently joined the table. "He didn't have a royal flush."

Player	Chips	Progress
Antony Lellouche	250,000 65,000	65,000
David Bakes Baker	4,600 122,400	122,400

Tags: Antony Lellouche Cary Katz David Baker Eric Rodawig

06-25-2012 17:10 UTC-7

Bakes Doubles Back

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Donnie Peters

Pot-Limit Omaha

From under the gun plus one, David "Bakes" Baker raised to 4,000 with 600 behind. Action folded to Keith Gipson in the cutoff seat and he reraised to 11,000. Everyone folded back to Baker and he stuck his last 600 in.

Baker: {A-Hearts} {Q-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {5-Spades}
Gipson: {Q-Clubs} {J-Spades} {10-Spades} {9-Clubs}

The flop, turn and river ran out {A-Spades} {5-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {8-Spades} {A-Clubs} and Baker finished with aces full of fives to beat Gipson's flush and double up. He moved up to 11,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Gipson	237,000 1,000	1,000
David Bakes Baker	11,000 6,400	6,400

Tags: David Baker Keith Gipson

06-25-2012 17:19 UTC-7

Short-Stacked Baker Can't See Cheap Flop

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Donnie Peters

Pot-Limit Omaha

On the next hand after he doubled up through Keith Gipson, David "Bakes" Baker limped in from under the gun. Eric Rodawig raised to 4,500 from middle position and then action folded to Ben Yu in the small blind. He reraised the pot and the dealer told him he could make it 16,900. Everyone folded and Yu won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Bakes Baker	9,800 1,200	1,200

Tags: Ben Yu David Baker Eric Rodawig

06-25-2012 17:20 UTC-7

Bakes Quadruples Up

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Donnie Peters

Pot-Limit Omaha

Eric Rodawig raised to 3,200 from middle position and Keith Gipson called from the hijack seat. David Benyamine called in the cutoff seat and Ben Yu called from the button. In the big blind, David "Bakes" Baker raised all in for 11,700. Rodawig folded, but the three other player made the call.

The flop came down {4-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} and Gipson checked. Benyamine bet 25,000 and Yu folded. Gipson also folded, leaving Baker heads up with Benyamine to stay alive.

Benyamine: {A-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {4-Clubs}
Baker: {K-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} {10-Spades} {3-Hearts}

Baker was on the ropes with nothing on the flop against Benyamine's two pair and flush draw. The turn was the {9-Hearts} and river the {Q-Spades} . With the black lady on the river, Baker won the pot to quadruple up.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Benyamine	302,000 3,000	3,000

Ben Yu	260,000

Keith Gipson	215,000 22,000	22,000
Eric Rodawig	59,000 13,000	13,000

David Bakes Baker	41,000 31,200	31,200

Tags: David Baker Ben Yu Keith Gipson Eric Rodawig David Benyamine

06-25-2012 17:29 UTC-7

Not Buchanan's Day

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Remko Rinkema

2-7 Triple Draw

Shawn Buchanan has just been eliminated from the tournament. After chopping two pots in Stud-8 he was all in on the second hand of 2-7 Triple Draw.

Buchanan was under the gun when he raised it up to 4,800, and the action was folded to Lyle Berman, who was on the button. He three-bet, and it got back to Buchanan who called all in for just 5,600 total chips.

On the first draw Buchanan drew two cards, Berman needed one. Buchanan needed two more cards on the second draw, while Berman stood pat. On the final draw Buchanan sighed as he needed two cards once again.

Berman turned over {9-} {6-} {4-} {3-} {2-} and Buchanan was unable to beat that. He's the fifth player to hit the rail as we are down to 103 players in this event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shawn Buchanan	Busted

Tags: Lyle Berman Shawn Buchanan