Level 7
: 75/150, 25 ante
Players have now retaken their seats with full stomachs and will play five more levels of poker tonight.
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 53: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$4,274,100
Entries
3,166
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 3166
Filter
Level: 7
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
Level 6
: 100/200, 25 ante
The field is currently on a 90-minute dinner break. We still have a little over a thousand players left to return from dinner.
See you in an hour and a half!
An early position raiser made it 525 and Dutch Boyd called from the small blind. The big blind opted to tag along as well and the three players saw a flop of 
.
Boyd led at the pot for 1,100 and the big blind folded his hand. The original raiser called and we were heads up to fourth street.
The 
was produced on fourth and both players checked their option to see the 
river. Boyd checked this street and his opponent bet 1,575. Boyd called and his opponent showed 
for two pair. Boyd mucked his hand and is currently sitting at about 6,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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6,000
1,100
|
1,100 |
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
21,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
17,500
5,500
|
5,500 |
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15,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
11,000
1,800
|
1,800 |
|
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|
9,500
1,100
|
1,100 |
|
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|
7,000
500
|
500 |
|
4,800
2,600
|
2,600 |
|
4,100
700
|
700 |
A player opened in middle position to 400 and Phil Collins three-bet the action to 1,150 from the cutoff. The button four-bet to 3,075 and action was up to Jordan Young in the small blind.
Young peered down at his cards and then stacked all of his chips up. He moved this stack into the middle and five-bet all in. Hands shot into the buck back to the player on the button who had a shorter stack than Young. Young's opponent called for his tournament life.
Young: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and Young was able to knock one out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
12,500
6,600
|
6,600 |
Level 6
: 100/200, 25 ante
With registration officially closed for this event, the final tally is 3,166 players. This count makes it the largest $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournament so far this series. Each player ponied up $1,500 which allows for a total prize pool of $4,274,100. When the payout information becomes available to those playing in the tournament we will have it posted for you to view at home as well.
We missed the exact details of the final hand but can officially report that three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Matt Matros has been eliminated from today's event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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We've recently come across Cherish Andrews seated in the Brasilia room and sitting on a stack of 13,500. Andrews has had a killer World Series of Poker thus far with three cashes and one final table.
In Event 31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Andrews was making the poker world sweat as she came into the final table of that event as the chip leader. If Andrews were to win that event she would have been the first woman to win an open event at the WSOP since Vanessa Selbst in 2008. Andrews eventually finished fourth in that event and pocketed a cool $210,083.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
13,500 |
We've found Lex Veldhuis moved to the Brasilia room and he is sitting on a rather sizable stack of 23,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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23,000 | |
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