2012 World Series of Poker

Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k5
Prize
$8,531,853
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$62,021,200
Entries
6,598
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
300,000
Players Left 1 / 6598

Wood Picks off Naoya

Naoya Kihara has had some big success at this year's World Series of Poker, becoming Japan's first-ever WSOP gold bracelet winner. However, if he wants to capture another title, he will have to do a little better than how he has started today.

We recently caught up with the action on a {3-Clubs}{9-Spades}{a-Clubs} flop, with Kihara involved in a hand against Matt Wood. It was on Wood to act first and he opted to check-call a bet of 725. On the {k-Hearts} turn, Wood again check-called a bet, this time of 1,700. The {4-Spades} turn would see Wood tap the table again and Kihara decided to fire a third bullet. It was 3,000 to Wood and he made the call.

Kihara: {6-Spades}{5-Spades}
Wood: {a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}

Kihara bluffed at the wrong time, with Wood raking in the handy pot. After that, Kihara sits behind a stack of around 20,000.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Matt Wood
Matt Wood
28,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Naoya Kihara jp
Naoya Kihara
20,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 1X Winner

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