Event 59: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1a | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-04-2012 18:08 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Ivey	20,000 17,000	17,000

Terrence Chan	14,600 1,600	1,600

Leo Margets	12,400 4,400	4,400

Andy Philachack	11,600 8,600	8,600
Eric Stocz	11,500 8,500	8,500
Mike Leah	11,000 8,000	8,000

Annie LePage	9,600 5,600	5,600
Russell Crane	9,200 6,200	6,200
Bryan Micon	7,200 1,100	1,100
Andy Black	6,700 2,900	2,900
Katie Dozier	6,200 3,100	3,100
Ken Aldridge	5,300 1,700	1,700

Brandon Meyers	4,800
Todd Terry	4,500 3,500	3,500
Barry Shulman	4,500 1,500	1,500

Jeff Williams	4,500 4,800	4,800
Doug Carli	4,450 1,450	1,450
Mikhail Shalamov	4,050 1,050	1,050

Roland Israelashvili	4,000 1,000	1,000

Miguel Borrero	3,900
David Bakes Baker	3,500 500	500

James McManus	3,400
Michael Gathy	3,400 400	400

Mclean Karr	3,000
Dan Heimiller	3,000

Following his usual modus operandi, 12-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth has arrived here at the start of Level 5. He's currently occupying seat 10 at a table adjacent to Erik Seidel, where the eight-time bracelet winner is also in seat 10.

Player	Chips	Progress
Erik Seidel	5,800 2,800	2,800

Phil Hellmuth	3,000

Tags: Erik Seidel Phil Hellmuth

07-04-2012 17:45 UTC-6

Cards Back in the Air

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Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Cards are back in the air following the second break of the day.

Level: 5

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

07-04-2012 17:25 UTC-6

Break Time

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Level 4 : 75/150, 0 ante

Another two levels are in the books and the field is going on break.

07-04-2012 17:24 UTC-6

Silver Section Update: Justin Schwartz & Mario Puccini Out

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Justin Schwartz has been eliminated from Table Twenty-One and now residing in his former seat is Cary Katz. As incredulous as it seems, only days ago Katz was paying $1 million to take his seat in Event #55: $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop and today he is paying $1,000. I guess that tells you a lot about the CEO of College Loan Corporation, the man has a lot of money and he loves his poker. Katz is currently sat on 3,400.

Mario Puccini has also been eliminated from the Silver Section and JJ Liu is another player who just put it all on the line in the strangest of pots. Liu raised to 300 in the cutoff (off a stack of 1,800) and the small blind called. The flop was {Q-Clubs} {8-Spades} {3-Diamonds} and the small blind check-raised to 950 once Liu had made a standard c-bet. Liu moved all-in for 1,500 total and her opponent refused to put the additional 550 in the pot and folded his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Terrence Chan	13,000 6,700	6,700

Jeff Williams	9,300 6,300	6,300
Leo Margets	8,000 5,000	5,000

Kenni Nguyen	6,200 2,600	2,600
JJ Liu	3,600
Cary Katz	3,400

Nick Yunis	3,250 350	350
Justin Schwartz	Busted
Mario Puccini	Busted

Tags: Cary Katz Justin Schwartz Mario Puccini

07-04-2012 17:13 UTC-6

Just Brasilia

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Level 4 : 75/150, 0 ante

Every player in the tournament is now seated in the Brasilia Room. A couple of tables have broken at the bottom of the Red Section.

07-04-2012 16:54 UTC-6

Sorel Mizzi Loves Alpha Brain

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Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

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Tags: Onnit

07-04-2012 16:48 UTC-6

Gold Section Review: Lucien Cohen is Out; Micon Loving Life

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We never got to see the big plastic rat of Lucien Cohen because he is out. We believe that he got his last few pennies worth in holding and lost a race versus when his opponent turned a set.

Of the newer faces to prop their behinds into golden chairs we have 2 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winners: one short and one tall. First the smaller of the two, Ken Aldridge, who is seated at Table 8. Aldridge, who is dressed in his customary yellow clothing, has his bracelet slung proudly over his wrist, a bracelet he won in 2009 when he defeated the likes of Praz Bansi and Bryn Kenney to take down a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event - and with it - $428,259 in prize money.

The taller WSOP bracelet holder is none other than Huck Seed. Seed is a WSOP legend with 4 WSOP bracelets (including a main event title) and $2,918,535 in WSOP career earnings. Seed is currently residing in the ten seat at Table Eleven.

Bryan Micon is loving life over at Table 1, Check it:

BryanMicon Bryan Micon Wheeee 5800 in the $1k Megamillionsament current table stats: 4/10 Wsop logos, 1 female, 6 non-beats headphones, 5 sunglasses #ddwsop July 04 2012

Player	Chips	Progress
Todd Terry	8,000 4,800	4,800
Carla Solinas	7,100
Bryan Micon	6,100 3,900	3,900
Dominik Nitsche	4,800

Salman Behbehani	3,700
Ken Aldridge	3,600 600	600

Ruben Visser	3,400 300	300
Huck Seed	2,650 350	350

Lucien Cohen	Busted

Tags: Huck Seed Ken Aldridge Lucien Cohen

07-04-2012 16:42 UTC-6

Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

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Chad Holloway

Level 4 : 75/150, 0 ante

Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Place	Player	Points
1	Phil Ivey	539.70
2	John Monnette	524.25
3	Michael Mizrachi	486.20
4	Andy Frankenberger	406.66
5	Vanessa Selbst	388.17
6	Phil Hellmuth	368.70
7	Andy Bloch	340.50
8	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	325.63
9	Michael Gathy	321.25
10	David “Bakes” Baker	317.94