2012 World Series of Poker

Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2012 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k5
Prize
$8,531,853
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$62,021,200
Entries
6,598
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
300,000

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Nines For Pollak

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
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Kevin Pollak
38,000
3,000
3,000

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Wood Picks off Naoya

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: {6-Spades}{5-Spades}
Wood: {a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}

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
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Matt Wood
28,000
8,000
8,000
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Naoya Kihara
20,000
-5,000
-5,000
WSOP 1X Winner

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Early Exit for Flowers

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
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Randal Flowers
Busted

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Chip Counts from the Purple Section

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

Jack Four Ray

We arrived at Ray Romano's table with the Hollywood star and comedian involved in a hand with four opponents. At this point, a {j-Hearts}{10-Spades}{4-Diamonds} flop was already out on the felt.

It looked like it was a limped pot, with Romano on the button and four players to act before him. The action was checked around to Romano and he bet 300. Two players folded and one player called as Romano and the player would take to a {7-Spades} turn. Romano's opponent checked here and Romano bet 400. When his opponent folded, Romano triumphantly turned over {j-Spades}{4-Hearts} as he raked in the pot. Romano then continued talking to the player on his left about mixed martial arts. It sounded like a serious conversation, but Romano was still making this person laugh out loud.

Player Chips Progress
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Ray Romano
32,000
3,000
3,000

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Viox Collects

Chris Viox has had an impressive World Series of Poker showing this year so far. An eighth place finish in Event 37: $2,500 Eight-Game Mix, a 15th place finish in Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz, and a 64th place finish in Event 11: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. All of that combined with Viox winning a bracelet last year in Event #25: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better tells us one thing, the man can player poker.

We recently caught up to him making it 225 from the cut-off preflop. The button called, and the small blind followed suit.

The flop came {5-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} prompting checks from both the small blind and Viox. The button however bet out 675. Both the small blind and Viox made the call and we were off to the turn.

After the {q-Diamonds} landed on the turn, the small blind bet out 2,000. Both remaining players made the call.

A {3-Diamonds} on the river brought a check from the small blind and a bet of 5,000 from the sleeping giant Viox. The button then folded, and the small blind took his time, but eventually folded as well.

Player Chips Progress
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Chris Viox
39,000

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