Level 3
: 50/100, 0 ante
Allen Kessler. We didn't see the details, but he was short stacked for a while, and his seat has been taken by another player.
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
639
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 639
Filter
(1)
We have some new counts for a few players that we are keeping tabs of.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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11,200
2,700
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2,700 |
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11,000
6,500
|
6,500 |
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10,500
500
|
500 |
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5,800
1,300
|
1,300 |
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5,800
1,300
|
1,300 |
|
|
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5,100
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
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|
4,600
100
|
100 |
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4,300
200
|
200 |
|
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3,600
900
|
900 |
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|
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3,100
1,400
|
1,400 |
|
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1,750
2,750
|
2,750 |
|
Busted | |
We found a couple players who came in to late register during the break: PokerStars pro Jason Mercier, Scott Seiver, and the man, the myth, the legend, Mike "the Mouth" Matusow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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Level 3
: 50/100, 0 ante
This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. A couple players had been eliminated from the Table of Eternal doom, so we knew that someone was in for the harsh seat draw. Well the first person to get there was Sean Getzwiller. Getzwiller came on strong at the WSOP last year, winning a $1,000 No-Limit event for $611,000, as well as final tabling the $5,000 shootout, where he finished ninth. He has taken the seat between Little and Shorr.
If that wasn't enough, there was an open seat to the left of Faraz Jaka, and that has been taken by Vitaly Lunkin. Lunkin came out of virtually nowhere to win the $40,000 40th Anniversary event in 2009, pocketing a cool $1.8 million dollars for his efforts. He also final tabled two more events that year. So yeah let's review here. Table 6 looks like this.
Seat 1: Faraz Jaka
Seat 2: Vitaly Lunkin
Seat 4: Jonathan Little
Seat 5: Sean Getzwiller
Seat 6: Shannon Shorr
Seat 7: Gavin Smith
Seat 8: Phil Ivey(still playing at the Stud 8 event at the moment)
Decent lineup there.
Liv Boeree had been knocked down all the way to 1,175 when she got the rest of her chips in preflop against two other players. Those two checked down a board of 
, and Boeree showed 
for two pair. Both players mucked their hands, and Boeree scooped the pot, giving her some much needed breathing room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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3,700
800
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800 |
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Level: 4
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
We caught up with the action on the turn, with the board reading 
. Marco Traniello was heads up with his opponent, and the action was on Traniello, who moved all in for 1,650. His opponent thought for just a few moments before making the call, and Traniello was in a world of hurt.
Traniello: 
Opponent: 
Traniello would need a non diamond eight to win the pot, or he would get a chop if the board paired. However, the river came the 
, which was no good for Jennifer Harman's better half. Trainiello headed to the rail with his day cut short.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
We just spotted PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein in the field, along with a few players who came over from the $3,000 Hold'em/Omaha heads up. David Chiu and Justin Bonomo have both arrived after losing their match today, while PokerStars pro Victor Ramdin has decided to multi table, as he moved on to the round of 32 earlier today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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4,500 | |
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Phil Ivey has been absent from his table since just before the break, and he is currently being blinded out. No matter for him, as he's still got 10,000 and is in no trouble of being out of the tournament anytime soon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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10,000
1,200
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1,200 |
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Level 4
: 75/150, 0 ante
Were it not for the craziness that is Table 6(bracelet winner Keven Stammen has joined the table btw), Table 35 would easily be the toughest table in the field. We mentioned earlier that Joe Kuether, Dan Kelly, and Steve Brecher were residing over there. Well we just went back to the table, and we saw that Shaun Deeb and Brett Richey took the 1 and 2 seats at the table, making for another murderer's row of players.
