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

07-08-2012 18:45 UTC-7

Chip Counts from the Brasilia Bronze Section

Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Max Weinberg	105,000 1,000	1,000
Tuan Le	56,000 5,000	5,000
Adam Levy	40,000 7,000	7,000
Paul Magriel	39,000 10,000	10,000
Lauren Kling	35,000 2,000	2,000
Joe Serock	33,000 7,000	7,000

Erik Cajelais	33,000 8,000	8,000
Tony Dunst	24,000 10,000	10,000

Keith Lehr	24,000 12,000	12,000

Mohsin Charania	21,500 13,500	13,500

Jason Koon	18,000 2,000	2,000

Jeanine Deeb	8,000 1,000	1,000
Andrey Pateychuk	8,000 17,000	17,000

07-08-2012 18:46 UTC-7

Dinner Time!

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Level 3 : 150/300, 0 ante

Having reached the end of Level 3, all remaining Day 1b players are now off to take a 90-minute dinner break before returning this evening for two more two-hour levels. Play will resume about 8:15 PM Vegas time.

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

07-08-2012 20:24 UTC-7

Chip Counts from the Brasilia Gold Section

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Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Woodward	88,000 2,000	2,000
Andrew Lichtenberger	62,000

Abe Mosseri	45,000 7,000	7,000
Michael Aron	40,000 18,000	18,000
Christina Lindley	27,000 7,000	7,000
Nikolai Yakovenko	17,000 8,000	8,000
Ali Eslami	16,000 10,000	10,000
Tom Franklin	16,000 18,000	18,000
Rami Boukai	5,000

Erik Seidel	4,500 22,500	22,500

07-08-2012 20:32 UTC-7

Dealers in Flight

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Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

What the dealers get up to when all the players are on dinner break

While players go off on breaks, the dealers must remain behind, sitting at the tables among the silent stacks.

Just before players returned from dinner for Level 4 today, PokerNews photographer Neil Stoddart decided to help make the dealers' wait more fun by snapping a few photos of them, including this one in which they appear as airplanes flying in formation.

You could almost feel the Amazon Room about to break away from the rest of the Rio and take off into the Vegas night as Neil snapped the photo.

07-08-2012 20:34 UTC-7

Double For Eslami

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Dan O'Hair

We caught up with the action just as Ali Eslami was calling off his remaining 15,325 preflop after getting into a raising war with one other opponent.

Eslami: {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds}
Opponent: {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}

The board ran out {9-Clubs} {10-Spades} {6-Hearts} {4-Spades} {10-Diamonds} and Eslami doubled up to just above the starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ali Eslami	30,800 14,800	14,800

Tags: Ali Eslami

07-08-2012 20:36 UTC-7

Farha Thriving

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Action folded to Sam Farha who limped from the cutoff. Ryan Lenaghan followed suit on the button. The small blind completed and Vanessa Selbst checked her option out of the big.

The flop came {7-Hearts} {10-Spades} {6-Spades} and the small blind checked. Selbst took the first stab at the pot with a bet of 800. Farha and Lenaghan both called and the small blind folded.

The {3-Hearts} turned and Selbst slowed down, checking her option to Farha. Farha bet 4,500 and Lenaghan called. This time Selbst opted to muck her cards and we were heads up to fifth street.

The board completed by pairing the board with the {3-Hearts} . Farha bet 7,000 and Lenaghan called. Farha showed the {5-Spades} {4-Diamonds} for a turned straight and Lenaghan mucked his hand.

Farha is now sitting pretty with over 100,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Farha	102,000 72,000	72,000

Vanessa Selbst	65,000

Ryan Lenaghan	49,300 9,700	9,700

Tags: Sam Farha Ryan Lenaghan Vanessa Selbst

07-08-2012 20:36 UTC-7

Chip Counts from the Brasilia Silver Section

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Mickey Doft

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Somerville	110,000 57,000	57,000

Maria Ho	95,000 5,000	5,000
Darvin Moon	71,000 4,000	4,000
Jerry Yang	62,000 12,000	12,000
Jan Heitmann	52,000 15,000	15,000

Lee Childs	52,000 9,000	9,000
Galen Hall	46,000 14,000	14,000
Chau Giang	41,000 3,000	3,000
Huck Seed	40,000 9,000	9,000
Blair Rodman	34,000 1,000	1,000
Chad Brown	32,000 5,000	5,000

Kevin Saul	32,000 12,000	12,000
Danny Suied	23,000 1,000	1,000
Brandon Steven	18,000 3,000	3,000
Vitaly Lunkin	18,000 2,000	2,000
David ODB Baker	16,500 8,500	8,500
Rep Porter	13,000 3,000	3,000
Men Nguyen	12,000 10,500	10,500

James Carroll	3,000 20,000	20,000
Anthony Yeh	Busted

07-08-2012 20:38 UTC-7

Rockets Hold for Greenstein

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Barry Greenstein held steady through the first three levels today, going to dinner break having added a few to the 30,000-chip starting stack. Level 4 then got off to a great start for "The Bear," as he himself succinctly explains:

barrygreenstein Barry Greenstein Pocket Aces held vs AK. AIPF. 58k. #wsop61 July 08 2012

Player	Chips	Progress
Barry Greenstein	58,000

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07-08-2012 20:38 UTC-7

Sun Tanned Updates

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Here is a slew of counts from the Tan Section.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moore	57,000 13,000	13,000
Richard Toth	57,000 15,000	15,000

Gaelle Bauman	49,000 1,000	1,000
Scott Abrams	47,600 600	600
Mike McDonald	47,000 4,000	4,000
Bart Hanson	33,200 8,800	8,800
Jim Collopy	33,000 1,000	1,000

Huy Nguyen	25,700 5,300	5,300
Craig McCorkell	21,000 5,000	5,000
Matt Vengrin	14,000 3,000	3,000