Event 54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-02-2012 14:24 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Costello	Busted
Dusty Tillotson	Busted
Cullen Hofmann	Busted
Kasper Frohling	Busted
Jeffery Schneider	Busted
Dao Bac	Busted
Samuel Choae	Busted
John Hertel	Busted
Douglas Moss	Busted
Marko Milivojevic	Busted
Armando Tebano	Busted
Timothy Nelson	Busted
Ernesto Robles	Busted
Steven Flory	Busted
Idan Greenberg	Busted
Frank Piocos	Busted
Andres Rey	Busted
Jerome Moon	Busted
Christopher Fraser	Busted
Robert Nemeskerikiss	Busted
Simon Fredslundgodthaab	Busted
Jason Villard	Busted
Samir Brages	Busted
Joseph Alban	Busted
Ashton Tucker	Busted

John Eames has just managed to create a wonderful little spin up from himself. He found himself down to 5,000 when he won three consecutive all-ins - {7-} {6-} v {A-} {9-} , {A-Hearts} {2-Hearts} v {Q-Hearts} {9-Hearts} & {J-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} then finally {A-} {A-} v {K-} {K-} - and now has 50,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Eames	50,000 16,500	16,500

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07-02-2012 14:31 UTC-7

Tikhonov Takes Hit

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We don't know exactly how the action went, but we do know after a series of raises Sergey Tikhonov put his opponent all in. Tikhonov's opponent made the call and was at risk.

Cards were flipped over and Tikhonov was in bad shape as his {3-Diamonds} {5-Clubs} wasn't exactly on an even level with his opponent's {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} . The board fell {9-Spades} {7-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {q-Hearts} {4-Clubs} and Tikhonov shipped over 10,000 for his opponent's double up.

One of the players jokingly made accusations of collusion, but Tikhonov ignored them completely focused on the game at hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergey Tikhonov	84,000 24,400	24,400

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07-02-2012 14:35 UTC-7

Uri Reichenstein Eliminates Martin Finger

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There are 166 players left and Martin Finger is not one of them. Finger is one of Germany's hottest poker prospects with over $1 million in earnings in a short 2-year career. Finger's greatest achievement to date came when he won a European Poker Tour (EPT) title in the same year his countryman Pius Heinz took down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

Finger has just lost all of his chips to another German, Uri Reichenstein, who has had a great morning thus far. We didn't see the pre flop action but know that Finger was all-in holding {4-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} and Reichenstein was all-in holding {K-Hearts} {K-Clubs} . The board ran out {7-Hearts} {5-Clubs} {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} and Finger was out. Reichenstein takes the moving feast of a chip lead with 166,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Uri Reichenstein	166,000 46,800	46,800
Martin Finger	Busted

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07-02-2012 14:40 UTC-7

Some More Eliminations

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Player	Chips	Progress
Douglas Lang	Busted
Robert Vaghefi	Busted
Vincent Wille	Busted
Robert Ward	Busted
Alexis Bouchiouane	Busted
Jed Friedman	Busted
Claudio Rocca	Busted
Pamela Spooner	Busted
Andreas Heissenberger	Busted
Daniel Blum	Busted
James Bunner	Busted

07-02-2012 14:45 UTC-7

Matt Stout Has Been Eliminated by Jonas Mackoff

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We just saw Matt Stout at the cash desk and he was kind enough to tell us that he was eliminated by Jonas Mackoff. Stout shoving 16BB with {A-} {J-} into, what transpired to be a three way pot, which Mackoff won with {A-} {K-} .

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Stout	Busted

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07-02-2012 14:50 UTC-7

And More Are Out

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Player	Chips	Progress
Rob Lederer	Busted
Daniel Spillers	Busted
Ferdinado Locascio	Busted
Fu Wong	Busted
Dominik Renner	Busted
Lucas Priour	Busted
Robert Pacleb	Busted
Maurice Hawkins	Busted
Benjamin Palmer	Busted
Andrea Coumos	Busted
Edward Antonacci	Busted

Lars Flod	Busted
Van Den Bosc Nicolaas	Busted
Arthur Morris	Busted
Kevin Vandersmissen	Busted
Kevin Boudreau	Busted
Nelson Robinson	Busted
Matthew Livingston	Busted
Shouan Dabiri	Busted
Nicholas Biddle	Busted
Martin Finger	Busted

Liya Gerasimova	Busted

07-02-2012 14:59 UTC-7

Boyd Busted

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A player from under the gun started action off by raising it up to around 3,000. Dutch Boyd then flatted, and Will Jaffe in the big blind three-bet to 9,600. The under the gun player took his time, but eventually made the call. Next it was onto Boyd who moved all in for around 40,000 more. Jaffe made the call and the under the gun player folded.

Boyd: {Q-} {Q-}
Jaffe: {J-Hearts} {j-Clubs}

Boyd held a strong advantage going to the flop, but anything can happen. The flop came {6-Spades} {7-Hearts} {k-Spades} , further pushing the advantage in Boyd's favor. The {j-Diamonds} on the turn sling-shotted Jaffe into the lead, a lead he would not relinquish as the {10-Clubs} fell on the river.

Boyd said "that is so disappointing" and made his exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Jaffe	280,000 186,200	186,200

Dutch Boyd	Busted

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Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

07-02-2012 15:36 UTC-7

Moorman Out

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When we came across Chris Moorman we noticed his chip stack was only a fraction of its former glory. Sitting with about 20,000 Moorman moved all in and was called.

Moorman: {K-Spades} {9-}
Opponent: {K-} {k-}

The board came {3-Spades} {A-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {q-Diamonds} and with that Moorman was sent packing.

Here are a few chip counts from around the room as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Will Jaffe	310,000 30,000	30,000

Benjamin Volpe	280,000 20,000	20,000

Clayton Fletcher	215,000 66,500	66,500
Alex Kravchenko	130,000 1,600	1,600

Joey Weissman	87,000 9,000	9,000

Sofia Lovgren	45,000 3,900	3,900
Sergey Tikhonov	42,000 42,000	42,000
Chris Moorman	Busted