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

07-12-2012 00:03 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Dee Friedman	195,000 21,000	21,000
Mihai Manole	190,000
Farzad Bonyadi	180,000 30,000	30,000

Anthony Rivera	168,000
Jonathan Tamayo	165,000
Andrew Moreno	130,000 10,000	10,000
Justin Zaki	92,000 10,000	10,000
Michael Binger	90,000 26,000	26,000
Phil Collins	60,000 10,000	10,000
Kelly Kim	52,000 2,000	2,000
Katie Stone	46,000 14,000	14,000
John Racener	45,000 23,000	23,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Jake Cody	315,000 23,000	23,000

Steve Merrifield	252,000 37,000	37,000
Sam Holden	208,000 5,000	5,000
Freddy Deeb	142,000 3,000	3,000

Nick DiVella	134,000 4,000	4,000
Frederik Jensen	120,000
Brian Nadell	105,000 15,000	15,000
George Caragiorgas	105,000 56,500	56,500
Ryan Young	104,000 84,000	84,000
Ty Reiman	100,000 53,000	53,000
Juan Manuel Pastor	73,000 8,000	8,000

Kurt Jewell	44,000 98,000	98,000

Chips for Chan

Terrence Chan and Nenad Medic were heads up with the board reading {q-Spades} {4-Spades} {2-Clubs} {5-Clubs} . Chan checked, Medic tossed out 10,300, and Chan called.

The river was another queen - the {q-Hearts} - and Chan checked again. Medic knuckled behind. Chan tabled {6-Hearts} {6-Diamonds} for queens and sixes, Medic mucked, and Chan picked up the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Terrence Chan	88,000 21,000	21,000
Nenad Medic	65,000

Tags: Nenad Medic Terrence Chan

07-12-2012 00:14 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts from the Amazon Purple Section

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Another pass through the Purple section in the Amazon room finds Marco Bognanni, Luke Brereton, and Karim Jomeen currently sporting the biggest stacks with about 45 minutes left to play in Day 2c.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marco Bognanni	463,000 25,000	25,000
Luke Brereton	380,000 26,000	26,000
Karim Jomeen	358,000 37,000	37,000
Jeremy Allen	322,000 17,000	17,000
Ravi Raghavan	280,000 92,000	92,000
Antoine Guyetant	244,000 32,000	32,000
Daniel Eichhorn	239,000 11,000	11,000
Joshua Levkov	208,000 40,000	40,000
James Keys	203,000 10,000	10,000
Sumit Kumar	195,000 18,500	18,500
Jonathan Hilton	182,000 87,900	87,900
Paul Volpe	155,000 98,000	98,000

Bryan Paris	155,000 5,000	5,000
Paul McTaggart	140,000 142,000	142,000
Gregory Heimann	123,000 40,000	40,000
Timothy Adams	122,000 31,000	31,000
Daniel Delorenzogalvan	120,000 9,800	9,800
James Sykes	117,000 6,200	6,200
Ronnie Bardah	111,000 15,400	15,400

Christian Harder	105,000 31,000	31,000
Viktor Blom	95,000

Sorel Mizzi	81,000 18,000	18,000
Brent Zimmerman	57,000 38,000	38,000
Josh Arieh	51,000 16,800	16,800

Brandon Adams	48,700 24,900	24,900

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07-12-2012 00:16 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Jesse Sylvia	312,000 10,000	10,000
Xiu Deng	271,000 11,000	11,000
Ari Engel	255,000 115,000	115,000

Tristan Clemencon	250,000 11,000	11,000
Jamie Kerstetter	120,000
Paul Wasicka	120,000 25,000	25,000
Jason Potter	110,000 20,000	20,000
Tom Koral	60,000 26,000	26,000
Chris Oliver	10,000 20,000	20,000

Suicide Blom-er

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We recently reported a hand that saw Viktor Blom lose a good chunk of chips. We caught up with him to find him lose a little bit more.

A player opened to 2,600 from early position and received two calls. Viktor Blom mulled over a decision for a bit before three-betting the action to 10,800. It folded back around to the original raiser and he made it 27,700 to go. Action folded back to Blom and he wasted no time moving his hand into the muck.

After losing this pot Blom was sitting on a stack of 95,000.

A mere few hands later we returned to Blom's table to find him in the middle of the action once again. Blom opened for 2,600 only to have the player in the hijack three-bet to 6,800. The player on the button thought about it for a bit before folding and action folded back around to Blom.

The online prodigy four-bet the actoin to 13,300 and his opponent snap-moved all in. Blom sighed and found that he was in the quintessential race situation.

Blom
Opponent

The board fell {3-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {A-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {2-Diamonds} and Blom's opponent was able to pair his hand and win the race.

Blom is now sitting around 50,000 in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	50,000 45,000	45,000

Tags: Viktor Blom

07-12-2012 00:23 UTC-7

Jewell Doubles

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Justin Ouimette opened to 2,700 from middle position, a player on the button three-bet to 6,800 on the button, and Kurt Jewell moved all in for 42,800. Ouimette folded, and the player on the button called.

Button
Jewell

The {q-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {4-Hearts} flop gave the player on the button a ton of outs, but the turn and river bricked {5-Diamonds} , {2-Clubs} respectively, doubling Jewell to nearly 90,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kurt Jewell	88,300 44,300	44,300

Tags: Kurt Jewell

07-12-2012 00:25 UTC-7

Curious Mizzi

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Onnit player Sorel Mizzi seems especially curious about the status of Viktor Blom, having walked the three table lengths over to check on Blom's dwindling stack repeatedly over the last 15 minutes.

Both Blom and Mizzi are below the average now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sorel Mizzi	91,000 91,000	91,000
Viktor Blom	53,000 57,225	57,225

Tags: Onnit Sorel Mizzi Viktor Blom

07-12-2012 00:27 UTC-7

Shorr Snaps Off Bluff

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Shannon Shorr opened for 2,700 from early position and was called by one player in middle position and the player in the big blind.

The flop came {Q-Spades} {9-Clubs} {10-Clubs} and action was checked to the player in middle position, who bet 6,500. The player in the big folded, but Shorr made the call.

The {3-Clubs} fell on the turn and Shorr checked once more - prompting a 10,000 bet from his opponent. Shorr tossed in another call to see the river, which brought the {10-Spades} .

Shorr checked a final time and his opponent fired a final time for 20,000. Shorr grimaced and slammed the handful of chips he had in his hand on top of his remaining chip stack - clearly distraught about his decision. After tanking for nearly four minutes, Shorr announced, "Call," and his opponent immediately threw his hand into the muck.

Shorr asked if he had to show and was told, "Yes," so he revealed his hand - {K-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} and scooped the pot.

Shorr is up to 90,000 as a result of the tough call.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shannon Shorr	90,000 39,200	39,200

Tags: Shannon Shorr

07-12-2012 00:29 UTC-7

More For Lamb

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Ben Lamb has had a great later half of the night, seeing his stack rise to be one of the largest in the room. We recently caught the action from the {a-Spades} {6-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds} flop, during a hand involving Lamb and Raul Paez. It was Paez first to act here and he checked. Lamb bet 3,200 and Paez made the call.

Before the turn was dealt, Paez checked in the dark and Lamb checked behind. The {10-Diamonds} completed the board on the river and Paez check-called a bet of 14,000. When Lamb tabled {k-Hearts} {10-Clubs} , that was enough to scoop up the pot.