2012 World Series of Poker

Event 50: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
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

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

Day 2 Completed

Forty Eight Remain With Julius on Top; Dato Close Behind

Level 20 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Day 2 chipleader Kyle Julius
Day 2 chipleader Kyle Julius

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 {A-}{J-} 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!

Tags: Kyle Julius

End of Day 2 Counts

Player Chips Progress
Kyle Julius us
Kyle Julius
WSOP 1X Winner
867,000 247,000
Andrea Dato it
Andrea Dato
745,000 145,000
Stanislav Barshak us
Stanislav Barshak
WSOP 1X Winner
690,000 400,000
Erik Aude us
Erik Aude
688,000 128,000
David Diaz us
David Diaz
WSOP 1X Winner
568,000 168,000
Derek Gregory us
Derek Gregory
536,000 96,000
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
WSOP 1X Winner
482,000 22,000
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
WSOP 1X Winner
477,000 -108,000
Micah Raskin us
Micah Raskin
461,000 -64,000
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya
456,000 76,000
Andres Garcia us
Andres Garcia
451,000 -224,000
Sam Ngai
Sam Ngai
448,000 48,000
Dominykas Karmazinas lt
Dominykas Karmazinas
444,000 294,000
Thomas Conway us
Thomas Conway
422,000 7,000
Jeremy Ausmus us
Jeremy Ausmus
WSOP 6X Winner
391,000 151,000
Tommy Vedes us
Tommy Vedes
363,000 23,000
Jason Mann ca
Jason Mann
361,000 186,000
Brendon Rubie au
Brendon Rubie
343,000 58,000
Galen Hall us
Galen Hall
WSOP 1X Winner
304,000 4,000
Randall Pfeifer
Randall Pfeifer
294,000 -26,000
Daniel Perper
Daniel Perper
292,000 12,000
Anders Wessman de
Anders Wessman
270,000 -5,000
Thiago Nishijima br
Thiago Nishijima
WSOP 1X Winner
269,000 -31,000
Alexander Kravchenko ru
Alexander Kravchenko
266,000 6,000
Cary Katz us
Cary Katz
263,000 125,000

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Just Three More

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.

Queens vs. Big Slick

Thomas Conway got his stack of 210,000 all in preflop with {Q-Spades}{Q-Hearts} and was up against the {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds} 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 {5-Clubs}{8-Spades}{9-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{3-Clubs}.

Nonetheless, it was the exact result Conway wanted as he doubled his stack.

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Conway us
Thomas Conway
415,000 205,000
Matt Giannetti us
Matt Giannetti
345,000 -215,000

Tags: Matt GiannettiThomas Conway

Barshak Folds to Lew's River Pressure

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 {J-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{10-Clubs} flop and {A-Hearts} turn, however, Barshak led out for 26,000 on the {5-Spades} 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
Randy Lew us
Randy Lew
230,000 -5,000

Tags: Randy LewStanislav Barshak

Cheong Doubles Through Rubie

Brendon Rubie
Brendon Rubie

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: {K-}{10-}
Cheong: {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}

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 {3-Clubs}{6-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Joseph Cheong us
Joseph Cheong
WSOP 1X Winner
460,000 210,000
Brendon Rubie au
Brendon Rubie
285,000 -235,000

Tags: Brendon RubieJoseph Cheong