2012 World Series of Poker
Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,655,925
Entries
1,607
Level
32
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Players Left 1 / 1,607
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Over in the red section things are moving along pretty normally. Gavin Smith, Eric Froehlich, Victoria Coren, and Isaac Haxton all have dipped a little below starting stack, but with the blinds still so low there is plenty of time to kick things in to high gear and start collecting chips.
Eric Baldwin is also mixing it up over in red, we recently caught up to him with a 
board exposed. Baldwin faced a bet from a player in middle position for 1,275. Baldwin in late position made the call and the dealer exposed the 
for the river. Both players took their time letting seconds drip off the clock before each on knuckled the felt for a check.
Baldwin flipped over 
for top two pair and his opponent reacted by mucking his hole cards. Baldwin now sits around 9,000.
A couple of tables over we saw Nick Binger call a 250 raise from the button preflop. The flop came 
and Binger's opponent in the under the gun position bet out 275. Binger's response was to raise it to 725.
The 
on the turn slowed the under the gun player down and saw a check. Binger bet out 1,025 and a call was made.
The 
on the river brought with it an all in bet from Binger's opponent, a bet that would put the shorter stacked Binger all in. Binger was visible confused by the bet and took his time deciding his best option. In the end Binger made the call and was saddened to see his opponent flip over 
, a hand Binger couldn't beat. Binger mucked his cards, wished everyone good luck and made his exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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9,000 | |
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6,700 | |
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6,500 | |
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6,300
1,200
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1,200 |
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4,500
3,000
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3,000 |
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2,500 | |
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Busted | |
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The Bronze Section is brimming with quality including our reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Pius Heinz. Heinz has had a very quiet 2012 since winning his whopping $8,715,368 first prize with just one cash in January, but he is performing well thus far with 12,600 chips after raking in a decent sized pot against the Romanian Mihai Manole.
There are also some cracking tables such as Table #62 housing the likes of the young British hotshot, Mathew Frankland, former November Niner Joseph Cheong and one of the most famous faces in poker Liv Boeree. Of the three players it is Frankland who has started the better and he told us about a recent flush over flush hand versus Claudio Cecchi where he was hoping for a little bit more than the 2,950 that he actually got out of his three streets of value. The heart flush hit on the turn with Frankland holding 
in position and Cecchi holding 
in the big blind.
One of our latest WSOP champions, Craig McCorkell, also has a tough table. He is accompanied by the German online and live star Michael Eiler, Aaron 'aejones' Jones and Chris McClung and how about Table #60, which contains the likes of Leo Margets, and WSOP bracelet holders Jason DeWitt and Scott Montgomery.
Last but not least we have a European rap star and a WSOP veteran in the house. Bruno 'Kool Shen' Lopes is seated at Table 49 with 11,700 chips and some recent form. Kool Shen has won nearly $500,000 in the year 2012. Then you have Tom 'The Shamrock Kid' McCormick who has over $500,000 in WSOP earnings and forty WSOP cashes. The Shamrock Kid currently leads the way with 22,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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22,000 | |
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11,600 | |
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11,460 | |
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11,260 | |
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11,000 | |
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10,000 | |
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9,000 | |
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8,500 | |
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8,500 | |
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8,000 | |
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8,000 | |
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8,000
500
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500 |
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7,000 | |
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7,000 | |
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6,500 | |
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6,500 | |
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5,600 | |
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4,700 | |
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4,400 | |
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4,300 | |
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3,700
3,800
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3,800 |
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1,850 | |
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
The players are on a twenty-minute break
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
A quick walk around the Pavilion room saw Dennis Phillips collecting chips putting him around 12,000, Tim West sitting with around 10,000, and Andre Akkari cashing in on a few pots.
The one person that stuck out the most was Jason Somerville who appeared to have no chips in front of him. Somerville seemed to be just sitting at his table watching the action, but he was dealt a hand and we saw him plop his last green chip on top of his cards. We don't know what happened, but Somerville was sitting with one chip worth 25.
Somerville then put his last chip in and another player raised it up to 400. The rest of the table folded and Somerville found himself at risk.
Somerville: 
Opponent: 
The board came 
and Somerville was awarded his double up, and was pushed his 125 chip pot.
A few hands later when we went back to check up with Somerville we saw he was sitting with 350. A player in middle position had raised to 400, the small blind had called and Somerville moved all in from the big blind.
The flop came 
and both of Somerville's opponents checked. We had a repeat of action on the 
turn, and again on the river with both players checking.
Somerville announced he had a pair of fours and flipped over 
, the small blind then said "sorry man" and flipped over his 
like he had the best hand. Nine high however was not going to win the hand. The middle position mucked and Somerville collected the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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12,000
9,000
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9,000 |
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10,500
3,000
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3,000 |
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10,000
2,500
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2,500 |
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8,000
500
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500 |
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8,000 | |
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6,000
1,500
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1,500 |
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6,000
1,500
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1,500 |
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5,500
2,000
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2,000 |
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5,500
2,000
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2,000 |
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4,500 | |
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1,400
6,100
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6,100 |
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1,100 | |
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Ryan D'Angelo has cashed in 4 World Series of Poker (WSOP) events this year, but his greatest WSOP achievement to date remains his 3rd place finish in the $2,000 version of this event held in 2008. He took home $326,812 in that event after losing out to Marco Johnson and the eventual winner Alexandre Gomes. D'Angelo has just removed another man with a WSOP history. Jon Kalmar will be remembered as the British punk who finished 5th in the WSOP Main Event the year that Jerry Yang took down the title.
The table told us that there were a trio of limpers into the pot that included D'Angelo. Kalmar raised to 725, D'Angelo then raised to 1,850 to clear out the debris, Kalmar moved all-in and D'Angelo called.
| Kalmar |   |
| D'Angelo |  |
The board produced no miracles for Kalmar and he was out. Meanwhile D'Amgelo moved up to 37,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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37,000 | |
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16,000
8,500
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8,500 |
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12,400
4,900
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4,900 |
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12,000 | |
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10,000
2,500
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2,500 |
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8,600
1,100
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1,100 |
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8,600
1,100
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1,100 |
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8,500 | |
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8,400
900
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900 |
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8,000 | |
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8,000 | |
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8,000 | |
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7,900
400
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400 |
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7,600
100
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100 |
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7,500
1,600
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1,600 |
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6,500 | |
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6,000 | |
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5,300
2,200
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2,200 |
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5,200
2,300
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2,300 |
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4,800
2,700
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2,700 |
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4,375 | |
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3,400
4,100
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4,100 |
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Busted | |
Here are some chip counts from silver quadrant of the Brasilia room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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18,000 | |
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16,000
9,150
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9,150 |
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11,000 | |
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8,500 | |
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7,300 | |
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2,800
4,700
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4,700 |
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A quick skirt around the Bronze Section of the Brasilia Room reveals three notable eliminations. Chris McClung was eliminated in rather unfortunate circumstances. He managed to get it in good on a board of 
holding versus 
, but his opponent spiked an on the river to send the Canadian packing.
Chris De Maci was the recent runner-up to our first ever Japanese World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Naoya Kihara. That event was Event #34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six Handed and De Maci earned $316,308 for that close shave. He was extremely short when we last did a swoop and can confirm that he has been eliminated in the two-card version of things.
A final notable who is no longer spraying chips around is the cheeky-chappie known as Joseph Cheong. He was eliminated by Steven Karr who now has 30,000 chips - more than anyone else in the Bronze section - and it was a barnstormer of a hand.
We believe that Karr opened to 425 from early position and both Liv Boeree and Mathew Frankland called before Joseph Cheong three-bet from the button making it 1,350. The player in the small blind moved all-in for approx. 4,000, Karr also moved all-in and Boeree and Frankland (pocket tens) both folded.
| Karr | |
| Cheong | |
| Small Blind | |
So a cooler for all and after five communities were hung, drawn and quartered Cheong and the small blind were out, whilst Karr moved up to 30,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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28,000 | |
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20,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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20,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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18,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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16,000
6,000
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6,000 |
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13,000
1,400
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1,400 |
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12,400
7,700
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7,700 |
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12,300
5,800
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5,800 |
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11,700
440
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440 |
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11,000 | |
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10,000
6,300
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6,300 |
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10,000 | |
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10,000
1,500
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1,500 |
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9,000
2,000
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2,000 |
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7,400
600
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600 |
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6,800
300
|
300 |
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6,600
4,860
|
4,860 |
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6,200
2,300
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2,300 |
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6,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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6,000
1,600
|
1,600 |
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5,200
1,800
|
1,800 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
