2012 World Series of Poker

Event 50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$952,694
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$4,704,700
Entries
1,001
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
15,000

Double Up For Seed

We caught up just as Seed was scooping a sizable pot. Apparently he had gotten all in preflop with {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs} against a lone opponent's {J-Spades}{J-Hearts}. The board held for Seed and he doubled through his opponent to 20,500.

Player Chips Progress
Huck Seed
Huck Seed
20,500 1,500

Tags: Huck Seed

One Level to Go

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

The players are about to embark on their final level of the night. Sixty more minutes of play and it will be all over her on Day 1 of Event 50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em.

Level: 10

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

Counts Through Silver

Player Chips Progress
Foster Hays us
Foster Hays
WSOP 1X Winner
120,000 105,000
David Williams us
David Williams
83,000 -7,000
Gordon Vayo us
Gordon Vayo
70,000 10,000
Jordan Young us
Jordan Young
67,000 36,500
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger
WSOP 1X Winner
61,000 31,000
Jonathan Duhamel ca
Jonathan Duhamel
55,000 5,000
Brendon Rubie au
Brendon Rubie
50,000 40,000
Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
WSOP 1X Winner
48,000 -6,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
48,000 30,000
Tim West us
Tim West
45,000 -5,000
Will Failla us
Will Failla
43,000 8,000
Gavin Smith us
Gavin Smith
43,000 31,000
David ODB Baker us
David ODB Baker
43,000 1,500
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
WSOP 1X Winner
43,000 -7,000
Jonathan Tamayo
Jonathan Tamayo
41,000 1,000
Chris Tryba us
Chris Tryba
WSOP 1X Winner
40,000
John Hennigan us
John Hennigan
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
38,000 -17,500
Leo Margets es
Leo Margets
WSOP 1X Winner
Winamax
35,000 11,500
David Diaz us
David Diaz
WSOP 1X Winner
35,000 -13,000
Scotty Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen
33,000 18,000
Jennifer Harman us
Jennifer Harman
WSOP 2X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
31,800 -2,200
Neil Channing gb
Neil Channing
30,000 7,900
Matt Stout us
Matt Stout
29,000 16,200
Phil Ivey us
Phil Ivey
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
28,000 -12,000
Alexander Kravchenko ru
Alexander Kravchenko
27,000 4,000

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Ivey Inching Upward

Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

We caught up with the action on a {A-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} flop, where Phil Ivey was in a three-handed pot.

The first player to act in the hijack checked to the player in the cutoff, who fired 4,000. Ivey called from the button and the player in the hijack folded.

Both remaining players checked the {4-Clubs} turn, however, when Ivey's opponent checked the {3-Spades} river, Ivey fired 6,000 into the middle. His opponent didn't take long to call and Ivey tabled {A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} for aces and tens with a queen kicker. Ivey's opponent dejectedly showed {A-}{9-} and mucked.

Ivey is up to 40,000.

Player Chips Progress
Phil Ivey us
Phil Ivey
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
40,000 16,300

Tags: Phil Ivey

Marchese Gets Bluffed

At Tom Marchese's table, there was a board showing {4-Spades}{q-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{a-Hearts} and Marchese had checked to one opponent who bet 5,000. Marchese then went into the tank for quite some time before saying, "okay," and folding his hand.

At this point Marchese's opponent slapped over {7-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} for a whole lot of nothing and Marchese looked a little disgusted.

Player Chips Progress
Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
WSOP 1X Winner
45,000 -9,000

Tags: Tom Marchese

Good Flop for Jarvis

When we arrived at Matt Jarvis' table, he appeared to have been three-bet shoving for 9,575 after a player opened for 3,000 from middle position. The player thought hard, taking almost a minute to decide that he would in fact make the call.

Jarvis: {9-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}
Opponent: {a-Hearts}{j-Clubs}

"That's a good flop," said Jarvis as the dealer spread out {9-Spades}{2-Spades}{2-Diamonds}. The turn and river bricked off and Jarvis raked in the double up.

Player Chips Progress
Matt Jarvis
Matt Jarvis
21,000 11,000

Tags: Matt Jarvis