Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 1a | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-07-2012 14:58 UTC-6

Chip Counts from the Purple Section

Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Jordan Young	52,000 24,000	24,000
Kevin O'Donnell	44,000 22,000	22,000
Jon Spinks	40,000 -3,000	-3,000
Pierre Neuville	36,000
Taylor Paur	35,000 1,000	1,000
Erica Schoenberg	34,000 3,000	3,000
Lee Markholt	33,000 5,000	5,000
Lika Gerasimova	31,000 -3,000	-3,000
David Randall	30,000
Heinz Kamutzki	29,700 700	700
Justin Schwartz	29,000 -3,000	-3,000
Soi Nguyen	28,000 1,000	1,000
Alex Debus	27,000 -2,000	-2,000
Andy Black	27,000 -3,000	-3,000
Leo Wolpert	26,000
John Riordan	25,000 3,000	3,000
Fabrizio Baldassari	24,000
Tom Braband	23,500 -2,500	-2,500
Raymond Rahme	15,000

07-07-2012 15:01 UTC-6

Early Exit for Flowers

[user198174]

Randal Flowers has just been eliminated. We don't know exactly how the action went, but the board read {3-Spades} {10-} {4-} {X-} {X-} . At some point Flowers managed to get all in and called by two players. Once all the betting was completed by the other two in the hand, one player flipped over {4-} {4-} for a set of fours and both players left in the hand, including Flowers mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Randal Flowers	Busted

Tags: Randal Flowers

07-07-2012 15:03 UTC-6

Wood Picks off Naoya

[user162117]

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:

Wood:

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
Matt Wood	28,000 8,000	8,000
Naoya Kihara	20,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tags: Matt Wood Naoya Kihara

07-07-2012 15:04 UTC-6

Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Chad Holloway

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Current 2012 WSOP Player of the Year Standings

Place	Player	Points
1	Phil Ivey	568.70
2	John Monnette	524.25
3	Phil Hellmuth	500.70
4	Antonio Esfandiari	488.10
5	Michael Mizrachi	486.20
6	Gregory Merson	481.13
7	David “ODB” Baker	433.38
8	Andy Frankenberger	406.66
9	Vanessa Selbst	388.17
10	David “Bakes” Baker	356.94

07-07-2012 15:06 UTC-6

Nines For Pollak

[user162117]

Kevin Pollak has just raked in a nice little pot, holding {9-Spades} {9-Diamonds} on a {6-Hearts} {8-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} {9-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} board. We arrived at the action on the river, with Pollak up against one opponent. There was 4,000 already in the pot at this point and Pollak was busy leading out with a bet of 2,000. His opponent called and then mucked their hand when Pollak tabled his set of nines.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Pollak	38,000 3,000	3,000

Tags: Kevin Pollak

07-07-2012 15:07 UTC-6

More Players in the Orange Section

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Luis Velador	30,000

Jerrod Ankenman	30,000
Hans Winzeler	30,000
Claudio Rinaldi	30,000
Anthony Newman	30,000
Chance Kornuth	30,000

Matt Stout	30,000

07-07-2012 15:07 UTC-6

First Break of the Day

[user162117]

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

The players here in the 2012 World Series of Poker have been sent on their first 20-minute break of the day.

07-07-2012 15:26 UTC-6

Huge Main Event Last-Longer with 3Bet

[user122824]

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World class professionals Brian Rast, Jonathan Little, Scott Clements and John Phan have joined the company as co-owners and wear 3Bet exclusively at the tables when they play. 3Bet was founded by 30-year veterans in the clothing industry and avid poker players themselves with a focus on comfortable and stylish hats, hoodies, tees, poker dry-fits and more.

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Tags: 3Bet Poker Clothing

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

07-07-2012 15:36 UTC-6

Shades Of Purple

tayke2

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Lester	36,000 -1,000	-1,000
Andrew Weisner	34,000 4,000	4,000
Bill Gazes	32,000 -2,000	-2,000
Neil Willerson	31,500
Kristy Arnett	30,000 -2,000	-2,000

Greg Mueller	27,000

Joe Hachem	25,000 -4,000	-4,000

Eric Baldwin	24,000 2,000	2,000

Isaac Haxton	23,000 1,000	1,000