2012 World Series of Poker

Event 54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a2
Prize
$500,075
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$2,898,900
Entries
3,221
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Poker in the Pavilion

With players being drained from the Amazon room, and directed to the Brasilia and Pavilion room we continue to find players. Most recently we noticed Jon Turner and Men Nguyen sharing shoulder space. Turner recently made a deep run in Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em, and even possessed the chip lead for a good part of day 2, but a few bad spots caused him to make an early exit. Today he looks primed to chase the bracelet.

Other players in the pavilion with a decent sized stack are David "ODB" Baker, Paul Magriel, and Jonathan Aguiar.

The screens are reading 3,112 entrants, but that is set to rise with over an hour and 20 minutes of registration still open.

Player Chips Progress
David "ODB" Baker us
David "ODB" Baker
WSOP 3X Winner
8,000 5,000
Paul Magriel us
Paul Magriel
7,000 4,000
Maria Mayrinck br
Maria Mayrinck
5,500 2,500
Jonathan Aguiar pt
Jonathan Aguiar
WSOP 1X Winner
5,200
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
WSOP 1X Winner
4,800 1,800
Jason Koon us
Jason Koon
4,500
Mickey Peterson
Mickey Peterson
4,200 1,200
Jon Turner us
Jon Turner
3,800
Adam Levy us
Adam Levy
3,600 100
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
WSOP 4X Winner
3,300
3,200
Men Nguyen us
Men Nguyen
WSOP 7X Winner
2,800
Andy Frankenberger us
Andy Frankenberger
WSOP 2X Winner
2,400 -800
Andrew Black us
Andrew Black
2,100
Scott Montgomery ca
Scott Montgomery
WSOP 1X Winner
2,100 -900
Joe Tehan us
Joe Tehan
1,800
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
WSOP 1X Winner
1,700
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
1,200 -1,800
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
600 -2,400