Event 50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$4,704,700
Entries
1,001
Level
33
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
15,000
Level 20
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Today's stacked field of poker pros and up-and-comers battled it out for ten additional levels in Event #50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em. When all was said and done - 48 survived into Day 3. Sitting at the top of the pack is Kyle Julius with 867,000 in chips. Not too far behind is Andrea Dato with 736,000.
Day 2 began with 303 hopefuls looking to make a deep run. However, as is always true in tournament poker - there can only be one eventual winner. Some early eliminations included Jackie Glazier, Phil Hellmuth, Terrence Chan, Jennifer Harman, Andy Frankenberger Jeff Lisandro and Main Event champions Peter Eastgate, Jonathan Duhamel and Pius Heinz. The remaining field was trimmed down steadily and before dinner break, Alex Gomes would claim the unfortunate title of 'bubble boy' after his 
failed to improved against Thiago Nishijima's pocket kings all in preflop.
However, many notables held on long enough to survive the bubble and cash, including Nam Le (103rd), Allen Kessler (99th), Neil Channing (97th), Matt Matros (79th), Matt Brady (75th), Brock Parker (74th), Will "The Thrill" Failla (67th), Ana Marquez (59th) and JP Kelly (50th).
One of the more impressive highlights toward the end of the night was Brendon Rubie, who ran his stack up to nearly 700,000 during the second-to-last level. However, despite being chipleader toward the end of the night, Rubie took a series of hits to his chipstack. Not long after, Joseph Cheong then doubled through Rubie and knocked him down to under 300,000. By the end of the night, Cheong would bag up 482,000 and Rubie 343,000.
In the end, Julius ended up on top by steadily building his chipstack throughout the day. Julius, who recently came in second place at the PCA Main Event, made his fifth cash of the series today and will be looking to capture his first gold bracelet.
Others who will come back for Day 3 include Tommy Vedes (363,000), Galen Hall (304,000), Alexander Kravchenko (266,000), Ronald Lee (189,00), Randy Lew (143,000) and Dan Smith (477,000), who recently won three European Poker Tour events and the Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in event.
Play is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 1:00 PM PST and continue until a winner is crowned, however, with so many remaining players, a Day 4 appears very likely due to the hard 3:00 AM stop. Either way, be sure to stick with us here at Pokernews as we race our way to a final table and crown an eventual champion!
That's it from us here at Day 2. Until next time - goodnight from Vegas!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
867,000
247,000
|
247,000 |
|
||
|
745,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
|
690,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
|
|
||
|
688,000
128,000
|
128,000 |
|
568,000
168,000
|
168,000 |
|
|
||
|
536,000
96,000
|
96,000 |
|
482,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
||
|
477,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
||
|
461,000
64,000
|
64,000 |
|
456,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
|
451,000
224,000
|
224,000 |
|
448,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
444,000
294,000
|
294,000 |
|
422,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
391,000
151,000
|
151,000 |
|
||
|
363,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
361,000
186,000
|
186,000 |
|
343,000
58,000
|
58,000 |
|
304,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
294,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
292,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
270,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
269,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
|
||
|
266,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
||
|
263,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
||
Level 20
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
The tournament clock has been stopped and there will be just three more hands tonight before the chips are bagged and tagged. Stay tuned for end-of-day chip counts and a wrap up of all the action.
Thomas Conway got his stack of 210,000 all in preflop with 
and was up against the 
of Thomas Conway. With a juicy 415,000 pot on the line, a few players stood from their seats and the media gathered round. It was a tense moment, one that was somewhat anticlimactic as the board ran out a rather dull 
.
Nonetheless, it was the exact result Conway wanted as he doubled his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
415,000
205,000
|
205,000 |
|
345,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
These two players have very recently been seen making their way out of the Amazon Room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
675,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
620,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
400,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
380,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
255,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
||
|
210,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
It was folded around to Randy "Nanonoko" Lew on the button, who min-raised to 16,000. He found one caller in Stanislav Barshak in the big blind for a heads-up pot.
Both players checked down on the 
flop and turn, however, Barshak led out for 26,000 on the 
river. Lew then raised to 66,000, sending Barshak into the tank. He opted to lay his hand down after some thought and Lew scooped the pot.
Lew is hovering right around 230,000 at the moment.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
230,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
TommyVedes TommyVedes Ran it up to 190k wit no show downs and lose the minimum wit KK vs AJ on Ahi board & now finally rewarded wit AA vs TT! 340k! #wsop50
June 30 2012
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
340,000
155,000
|
155,000 |
We're not sure of the preflop action as we arrived when the cards were already tabled, but we do know that Joseph Cheong and Brendon Rubie butted heads and the result was the former being all in for 225,000.
Showdown
Rubie: 
Cheong: 
Rubie was behind and his best chance of eliminating the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event third-place finisher was to catch a king. Lucky for Cheong, the deck favored him and the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
460,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
285,000
235,000
|
235,000 |
