Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 2ab | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-11-2012 00:08 UTC-6

Margets Making Moves

tayke2

We caught up with the action on a board that read {8-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {4-Hearts} {8-Spades} . There was already about 35,000 in the middle, when Margets checked to her lone opponent. He fired out 13,300, and after about a minute in the tank, Margets moved all in for alittle under 40,000 total. Her opponent immediately folded, and Margets showed {a-} {k-} for ace high. She cracked a smile after tabling her hand, and Ali Eslami simply commented "big pot".

After that hand, Margets is up to 88,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Leo Margets	88,000 -7,000	-7,000

Tags: Leo Margets

07-11-2012 00:11 UTC-6

Baker Shoves

donpeters

From under the gun, a player raised to 2,500. David "ODB" Baker reraised to 5,300 from the cutoff seat and the original raiser called to see the {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} {8-Spades} flop. The first player checked and Baker bet 4,200. His opponent check-raised to 10,000 and then Baker moved all in for a little over 40,000. His opponent folded and Baker won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
David ODB Baker	63,000 63,000	63,000

Tags: David Baker

07-11-2012 00:12 UTC-6

How All the WSOP Main Events Have Ended

Chad Holloway

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Final Hand Details of WSOP Main Event

Year	Winner	Winning Hand	Prize	Entries	Runner Up	Losing Hand
1970	Johnny Moss	Unknown	Silver Cup	7	Winner by vote of peers	Unknown
1971	Johnny Moss	Unknown	$30,000	6	Puggy Pearson	Unknown
1972	Amarillo Slim Preston		$80,000	8	Puggy Pearson
1973	Puggy Pearson		$130,000	13	Johnny Moss
1974	Johnny Moss		$160,000	16	Crandall Addington
1975	Sailor Robert		$210,000	21	Bob Hooks
1976	Doyle Brunson		$220,000	22	Jesse Alto
1977	Doyle Brunson		$340,000	34	Gary Berland
1978	Bobby Baldwin		$210,000	42	Crandall Addington
1979	Hal Fowler		$270,000	54	Bobby Huff
1980	Stu Ungar		$385,000	73	Doyle Brunson
1981	Stu Ungar		$375,000	75	Perry Green
1982	Jack Strauss		$520,000	104	Dewey Tomko
1983	Tom McEvoy		$540,000	108	Rod Peate
1984	Jack Keller		$660,000	132	Byron Wolford
1985	Bill Smith		$700,000	140	T.J. Cloutier
1986	Berry Johnston		$570,000	141	Mike Harthcock
1987	Johnny Chan		$625,000	152	Frank Henderson
1988	Johnny Chan		$700,000	167	Erik Seidel
1989	Phil Hellmuth		$755,000	178	Johnny Chan
1990	Mansour Matloubi		$895,000	194	Hans “Tuna” Lund
1991	Brad Daugherty		$1,000,000	215	Don Holt
1992	Hamid Dastmalchi		$1,000,000	201	Tom Jacobs
1993	Jim Bechtel		$1,000,000	220	Glenn Cozen
1994	Russ Hamilton		$1,000,000	268	Hugh Vincent
1995	Dan Harrington		$1,000,000	273	Howard Goldfarb
1996	Huck Seed		$1,000,000	295	Bruce Van Horn
1997	Stu Ungar		$1,000,000	312	John Strzemp
1998	Scotty Nguyen		$1,000,000	350	Kevin McBride
1999	Noel Furlong		$1,000,000	393	Alan Goehring
2000	Chris Ferguson		$1,500,000	512	T.J. Cloutier
2001	Carlos Mortensen		$1,500,000	613	Dewey Tomko
2002	Robert Varkonyi		$2,000,000	631	Julian Gardner
2003	Chris Moneymaker		$2,500,000	839	Sam Farha
2004	Greg Raymer		$5,000,000	2,576	David Williams
2005	Joe Hachem		$7,500,000	5,619	Steve Dannenmann
2006	Jamie Gold		$12,000,000	8,773	Paul Wasicka
2007	Jerry Yang		$8,250,000	6,358	Tuan Lam
2008	Peter Eastgate		$9,152,416	6,844	Ivan Demidov
2009	Joe Cada		$8,547,044	6,494	Darvin Moon
2010	Jonathan Duhamel		$8,944,310	7,319	John Racener
2011	Pius Heinz		$8,715,638	6,865	Martin Stazko

*Courtesy of the WSOP Media Guide.

07-11-2012 00:22 UTC-6

A Few Counts From the Amazon Room

[user162117]

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Meinders	315,000 30,000	30,000

Sean Giesbrecht	250,000 25,000	25,000
Roman Valerstein	215,000 65,000	65,000
Daniel Strelitz	210,000 -25,000	-25,000
Zach Hall	200,000 200,000	200,000
Phillip Willcocks	190,000 15,000	15,000
Kristijonas Andrulis	170,000 10,000	10,000
Jackie Glazier	162,000 12,000	12,000
Isaac Haxton	130,000 25,000	25,000

Karina Jett	125,000 -30,000	-30,000
Cary Katz	105,000 54,000	54,000
Eric Baldwin	105,000 -37,000	-37,000

Faraz Jaka	70,000 -22,000	-22,000

Kevin Pollak	65,000 15,000	15,000
JJ Liu	55,000 -90,000	-90,000
Yueqi Zhu	18,000 -12,000	-12,000

07-11-2012 00:27 UTC-6

Renkers Takes One Off Mosseri

donpeters

From middle position, Patrick Renkers opened with a raise to 2,500. Abe Mosseri called from the big blind and the flop came down {A-Diamonds} {7-Hearts} {4-Spades} . Mosseri checked and Renkers bet 2,200. Mosseri called. The turn card was the {K-Hearts} and Mosseri checked. Renkers bet 5,300 and Mosseri gave it up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Renkers	203,000 43,000	43,000
Abe Mosseri	58,000 -28,000	-28,000

Tags: Abe Mosseri Patrick Renkers

07-11-2012 00:29 UTC-6

Timex Busts "Patient" Opponent

[user101598]

Mike "Timex" McDonald led out for 16,600 on a board of {j-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {3-Hearts} {2-Spades} . His opponent moved all in for 59,400, then gave a little speech. We couldn't hear it clearly, but McDonald responded by saying, "You've been pretty patient."

McDonald screwed up his face, and tanked for the better part of two minutes. He eventually grabbed enough orange T5,000 chips to make the call, and committed them.

"Set of sixes?" McDonald asked, tabling {a-Hearts} {j-Clubs} .

His opponent sighed, then turned over two red eights. The {6-Hearts} completed the board, and the player was eliminated.

"I thought he had sixes," a player at the table announced after the hand.

"I too thought he had sixes," said another.

The entire table burst into laughter, but no one was happier than McDonald, who now has over 200,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike McDonald	215,000 155,000	155,000

Tags: Mike McDonald

07-11-2012 00:30 UTC-6

Levy Sent Packing

tayke2

It wasn't a good day for Australian Poker Pro Grant Levy. He came into today with 67,000 in chips, but he wasn't able to get anything going. We caught his last hand of the day, where he shoved his last 11,200 in preflop with {6-Hearts} {6-Clubs} . Unfortunately, he ran into another player's {a-Diamonds} {a-Spades} . The board ran down {j-Clubs} {k-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {q-Hearts} , and Levy was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grant Levy	Busted

Tags: Grant Levy

07-11-2012 00:31 UTC-6

Marder Folds To Lam

donpeters

On the {10-Spades} {9-Spades} {2-Diamonds} , Onnit last-longer participant Mike Marder checked and Simon Lam bet 8,000. Marder called to see the {9-Diamonds} pair the board on the turn. Both players checked and the river was the {7-Hearts} . Marder checked and Lam bet 30,000. Marder tank-folded and was left with 82,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Simon Lam	180,000 53,000	53,000
Mike Marder	82,000 -20,000	-20,000

Tags: Mike Marder Simon Lam Onnit

07-11-2012 00:39 UTC-6

The Defending Champ Gives It Up

Chad Holloway

We saw the ESPN cameras filming over at Pius Heinz's table and made our way over to discover he was contemplating a decision after betting 7,000 on a {10-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {4-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {J-Clubs} board only to have his opponent raise to 20,000. There was about 20,000 already in the pot from previous action, so it was a fairly big hand.

Heinz thought as the cameras rolled, but ultimately he laid it down, which appeared to be a good choice as his opponent showed {J-Diamonds} {J-Spades} .

Player	Chips	Progress
Pius Heinz	45,000 -15,000	-15,000

Tags: Pius Heinz

07-11-2012 00:40 UTC-6

Yang Chipping Up

tayke2

Action started with 2007 Main Event Champion Jerry Yang in the hijack, and he raised it up to 3,200. Action folded to the button, and he raised it up to 8,100. Yang tagged along, and the flop came down {j-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {3-Clubs} . Yang checked to his opponent, who fired out 8,800. Yang came back with a check raise to 24,000, and his opponent laid his hand down.

After that hand, Yang shot up to 142,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jerry Yang	142,000 17,000	17,000

Tags: Jerry Yang