Event 57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-03-2012 13:58 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Saul	95,575 65,575	65,575
Bjorn Li	68,000 38,000	38,000
Jason Mercier	52,500 22,500	22,500

Owen Crowe	45,000
David Boyaciyan	42,000 12,000	12,000
Galen Hall	34,000 4,000	4,000

Dan Kelly	33,000 3,000	3,000
Isaac Haxton	32,000 2,000	2,000

Amit Makhija	31,000 1,000	1,000
Ludovic Lacay	31,000 1,000	1,000

Vicky Coren	31,000 1,000	1,000

Yevgeniy Timoshenko	29,000 1,000	1,000
Chris Moorman	29,000 1,000	1,000

Fabian Quoss	25,000 5,000	5,000
Keven Stammen	15,500 14,500	14,500

Break

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Remko Rinkema

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

The first break of the day has just started. We will be back in 20 minutes.

Level: 3

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

07-03-2012 14:30 UTC-7

Cards Back in the Air

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Remko Rinkema

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

After both Vanessa Selbst and Yen Dang were honored for their amazing accomplishments the cards are back in the air.

If you didn't catch this video yesterday, Lynn Gilmartin spoke with a speechless Selbst immediately after her win in Event #52:

07-03-2012 14:40 UTC-7

More on the McLean Karr Incident

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Remko Rinkema

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

During the break the floor-staff come over to the PokerNews desk and told us their side of the story after having watched the footage of the hand.

The floor made clear that the video surveillance did not record sound, but this what they saw.

McLean Karr had bet the river and his opponent made the call after thinking for a long time. Karr then picked up his hand, and released them face down. The dealer picked them up, and moved them to the muck. Once again, any verbal actions weren't recorded.

The other player had tabled his cards, ace-five, and the dealer scooped them up and brought them out for everyone to see, in the middle of the table. At this point she started pushing the pot over to the player in seat one, and Karr attempted to reach over the dealer's hand in an attempt to revive his cards.

This failed, and that's when the controversy started. We described the rest in an earlier post.

The floor just wanted to make clear the dealer followed the procedure on this hand.

Tags: McLean Karr

07-03-2012 15:05 UTC-7

Chip Counts Bronze Section

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Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Baumstein	87,000 57,000	57,000

Phil Ivey	67,000 37,000	37,000

Lauren Kling	46,000 16,000	16,000
Joe Hachem	44,500

Jeff Sarwer	42,000 12,000	12,000
Brian Hastings	41,000 11,000	11,000

Jonathan Duhamel	36,000

Layne Flack	36,000

Matt Marafioti	34,000 4,000	4,000
Matt Hawrilenko	34,000 4,000	4,000
Guillaume Darcourt	34,000
Chris Moore	34,000
Bob Bright	33,000 3,000	3,000
Shaun Deeb	33,000

Paul Berende	31,000 1,000	1,000
Martins Adeniya	28,000 2,000	2,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	25,000 5,000	5,000

Steve O'Dwyer	24,000 15,000	15,000
Isaac Baron	22,000 8,000	8,000

07-03-2012 15:17 UTC-7

New Players, Fresh Counts

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Player	Chips	Progress
Cary Katz	48,000

Erik Seidel	46,000

Steve Billirakis	41,000

Jake Cody	40,000

Sorel Mizzi	29,000
Brent Hanks	23,000

Marvin Rettenmaier	18,000
Brandon Steven	17,000
Eddy Sabat	15,000

07-03-2012 15:20 UTC-7

Waxman Takes it Easy With Queens

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Remko Rinkema

Matt Waxman was in the big blind when we saw the player in the cutoff raise to 525. James Calderaro called from the button and the small blind folded. Waxman put in a raise three-bet to 1,700 and the initial raiser quickly folded. Calderaro almost instantly four-bet to 3,725 and the action was back on Waxman.

Waxman looked like a statue as he was thinking about what to do. After about a minute he decided to make the call, while Calderaro was smiling at him.

The flop came down {2-Spades} {5-Clubs} {5-Diamonds} and Waxman checked. Calderaro fired out 6,200 and Waxman went into the tank again. Another minute passed and he opted to call.

The turn was the {9-Hearts} and after some thinking both players checked. The river was the {J-Clubs} and Waxman checked a third time. Calderaro laughed, double-checked his cards and finally knocked on the table.

Waxman turned over {Q-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} , and took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Waxman	47,000

James Calderaro	21,000

Tags: Matt Waxman James Calderaro

07-03-2012 15:21 UTC-7

Chip Counts Silver Section

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Player	Chips	Progress
Nacho Barbero	69,000 39,000	39,000

Annette Obrestad	51,000 21,000	21,000

Joseph Cheong	49,000 19,000	19,000

Shawn Buchanan	44,000 14,000	14,000

Liv Boeree	41,500

Ali Eslami	36,000

David Sands	35,000 5,000	5,000
JP Kelly	34,000

Dwyte Pilgrim	33,000 3,000	3,000
Lex Veldhuis	32,500 2,500	2,500

Bryn Kenney	30,500

Jason Senti	30,500 500	500
Chad Batista	26,000
Peter Trapley	25,700
John Dolan	25,000 5,000	5,000
Steve Gross	23,000

Andrew Lichtenberger	22,000 8,000	8,000

Mickey Petersen	20,000 2,000	2,000

Chad Brown	15,000

Joe Tehan	14,000 16,000	16,000
Jude Ainsworth	13,500 16,500	16,500

Angel Guillen	11,000 19,000	19,000

07-03-2012 15:26 UTC-7

Reynolds Takes One Out

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Remko Rinkema

William Reynolds already has four cashes at this year's World Series of Poker, his best result coming in tenth in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $38,716. Today he's at it again, and in the second level of play he knocked someone out.

Reynolds told us he bet every street as the board ran out {K-} {6-} {7-} {x-} {10-} . The river bet was 3,600, and his opponent moved all in for 8,500. Reynolds called with {9-} {8-} and beat the set of sevens his opponent flashed.