Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,655,925
Entries
1,607
Level
32
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Day 2 Begins With 62 Away From the Money
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Welcome back to day 2 of Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Yesterday saw 1,607 players come out for their chance at poker glory, only 233 players remain. Play is set to resume at 1:00 PM and the money bubble is expected to burst pretty early on today. With only 171 people making the money 62 people will be leaving here today with nothing.
Among the players returning are Shankar Pillai, Vanessa Selbst, Martin Staszko, Rene Angelil, Pius Heinz, Isaac Baron, Chris Moorman, and Marvin Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier played this event last year and finished that day one with the chip lead. This years chip leader coming into day 2 is Ryan D'Angelo.
Yesterday the field played 11 levels, today though we will only be playing 10 or stop play if we manage to get down to 9 players.
Stay tuned here at PokerNews for all the live updates.
Level: 12
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Gualtieri Going the Distance
Joe Gualtieri opened a recent hand from the hijack and was able to convince the small blind to come along for a flop.
The flop came 
and the small blind bet out 4,200. Gualtieri response was to move all in for about 23,200 more. The small blind went into the tank, pondering his decision. After a handful of moments had passed the small blind threw it away.
As Gualtieri was raking his chips he asked his former opponent what he had, and it turns out he had a flush draw.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
32,000 | 14,000 |
Two Out and Two Up
"All-in…Call!"
Those two words are reverberating around the Amazon room as the short stacks cash in their lottery tickets in the first level of Day 2. We have witnessed two people getting lucky and two not so, here are the showdowns.
David Siegel moved all-in holding 
and was called by Steven Schwan holding 
. The board ran out 
and Siegel was out. Schwan moved up to 141,500.
Leo Wolpert raised to 2,400, Michael Parrott moved all-in as did Joe Gualtieri. Wolpert decided two was company and three was a crowd and folded his hand. Parrott showed 
and Gualtieri 
. The board ran out 
meaning Parrott was out and Gualtieri moved up to 33,000.
Terry Chin moved all-in holding 
and crossed his chest for good luck. It seemed to work as well because his only caller was Luke Vrabel holding 
. The board was 
and Chin doubled up to 6,400; Vrabel was down to 49,000.
Lastly, we saw Thomas Ross double up through Philipp Gruissem. Ross moved all-in holding 
and Gruissem called holding 
. The board ran out 
and Ross doubled through. Ross now has 19,000 and Gruissem has 120,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
141,500 | 7,100 |
|
120,000 | 120,000 |
|
49,000 | -4,000 |
|
|
33,000 | 1,000 |
|
19,000 | 10,600 |
|
|
6,400 | 3,200 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Moorman Making it Happen
A player in early position opened for 3,100. The next player to act made the call and the rest of the table folded over to Chris Moorman in the big blind. Moorman did some eyeballing of his opponent's stack before throwing out a raise of around 12,500. The early position player immeidately moved all in for about 12,000 more. The middle position player folded and Moorman made the call.
Moorman:
Opponent: 
The flop came giving Moorman a flush draw. The 
on the turn further put Moorman on the brink of being crippled, but a 
on the river allowed for Moorman to take down the substantial pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000 | 19,500 |
Selbst Sinks a Little
Gaelle Baumann opened a recent hand demanding 2,600 for anyone who wanted to see a flop. Action folded over to Joey Weissman who had different plans, Weissman three-bet to about 5,100. Next to act was Vanessa Selbst who four-bet to 11,300. Baumann made the fold, and after a few moments Weissman moved all in. Selbst took a second or two before making the call and cards were tabled.
Selbst: 
Weissman: 
The flop came 
sling-shotting Weissman into the lead. Selbst now needed running straight cards or a 10 to steal this hand back in her favor.
The 
on the turn was no good, and neither was the on the river. Selbst was clearly a little upset, and made no attempt at hiding it. Selbst even went as far to ask Baumann how many outs of Weissman's did she have. Apparently she held 
, stressing Selbst only further. In the end though she sat down and went back to playing the game she is so great at.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000 | 75,700 |
|
70,000 | -41,500 |
Frank Rusnak Takes The Lead
With 215 players remaining we have a new chip leader and a three way all-in where nobody was eliminated. Firstly, let's introduce you to the man who has just surpassed Ryan D'Angelo at the top of the counts. His name is Frank Rusnak and he has fifteen World Series of Poker (WSOP) cashes that include a final table, in this very event, back in 2008. Rusnak's biggest cash to date was his first! He won $247,234 when he finished 6th in a World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event held in the Caribbean. That final table included the likes of Ryan Daut (who won it), Isaac Haxton, Robert Mizrachi and Jonathan Little, so Rusnak has mixed it with the big boys before. He currently has 225,000 and he won them in two particular pots. In the first he three-bet jack-six-suited on the button, flopped 
and received a chunk from 
and next he flopped the nuts holding 
and Yordan Jeliazkov chose the wrong time to bluff the lot. Luckily, for Jeliazkov, he had Rusnak covered at the time and escaped that fracas with just 17,700 chips from a starting stack of 126,000.
So that is Frank Rusnak, now let's get to that three way all-in. Bobby Moore raised to 3,600 in mid-position, Steven Kerr moved all-in for approx. 35,000, Alexander Meidinger also moved all-in for 30,200, Griffin Abel moved all-in for 20,300 and Moore folded.
| Abel |  |
| Meidinger |  |
| Kerr | |
"I had an ace..watch the ace come down," said Moore.
Board: 
There was that ace, but nobody cared. Amazingly, nobody was eliminated as Abel received 60,900, Meidinger was left with 9,600 and Kerr around the same with 9,100.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
225,000 | 135,100 |
|
60,900 | 25,900 |
|
17,700 | -108,300 |
|
9,600 | -23,100 |
|
9,100 | -70,000 |
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Balaguer Comes Up Short
We don't know exactly how the action went, but we do know after a series of raises Adria Balaguer had his opponent, Justin Rice all in and at risk.
Rice:
Balaguer: 
Balaguer flirted with the chip lead early on yesterday, but never was able to maintain it. He came in today with 93,000, but he was risking around 20,000 battling it out with the short stacked Rice.
The board came 
and Balaguer was forced to send over some of his chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
74,000 | -19,000 |