2012 World Series of Poker

Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 2
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a542
Prize
$661,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,754,200
Entries
293
Level Info
Level
25
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
0

Day 2 Ends with Brown in the Lead

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 0 ante
Andrew Brown enters the final day of Event 39 with the chip lead.
Andrew Brown enters the final day of Event 39 with the chip lead.

Day 2 of Event 39: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha began with 88 players looking to make the money, and then advance to Day 3. After ten hours of grueling poker, only thirteen players remain, and the chip leader is Andrew Brown with 1,774,000 chips. Brown’s stack began to surge before the dinner break, and after the bubble burst, he rocketed to the top of the counts. During the last few levels, he busted Keith Lehr, Konstantin Bucherl, Alexander Kravchenko, and David Callaghan.

Sammy Farha and Benjamin Sage are the only other players with more than a million chips. Here’s how the entire field looks:

NameChips
Andrew Brown1,774,000
Sammy Farha1,129,000
Benjamin Sage1,013,000
Jan-Peter Jachtmann895,000
Steven Silverman668,000
Joe Kushner571,000
Andy Seth569,000
Adam Kornuth568,000
Nikolai Yakovenko528,000
Jason Mercier408,000
Ville Wahlbeck247,000
Micah Smith215,000
John Kabbaj210,000

There were plenty of notables who returned for Day 2 only to miss the money. The list includes George Lind III, John Racener, Ben Grundy, Noah Schwartz, Joe Cada, Brett Richey, Chris DeMaci, and our eventual bubble boy; Huck Seed. Seed was very short with 37 players remaining, and on the fourteenth hand of hand-for-hand play, he was all in with {a-Spades}{7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{5-Hearts}. Aussie Matthew Kirk had him at risk with {q-Diamonds}{j-Spades}{5-Spades}{5-Diamonds}, and the board ran out {a-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{3-Diamonds}{k-Spades}, eliminating Seed one spot shy of $16,801.

During the last level of play, when we redrew to two tables, Jason Mercier was at the bottom of the counts. And, when he got his money in the middle, he was well behind Josh Tieman and Farha. Mercier received running hearts however, tripling him to over twenty big-blinds. An orbit or two later, he was all in again against Seth holding just top pair. Mercier was able to fade all of Seth’s outs, and doubled to nearly 40 big blinds. He finished the day with 408,000, and is looking to capture his third career WSOP bracelet – all of which have come in Pot-Limit Omaha.

Event 39 will resume tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time. Brown, Wahlbeck, and Kabbaj will be looking for their second career WSOP bracelet, Mercier his third, and Farha his fourth. We look forward to an exciting finish, and we hope you join us for all of your exclusive up-to-the-minute updates!

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