2012 World Series of Poker

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

Greenstein Moving Back Up

Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein seems to have been knocked down a little since the last time we saw him. When we caught up with him a few minutes ago we found him battling it out with a big blind player from middle position. We don't know exactly how the action went on the {5-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds} flop, but we know one of the players bet, and the other called.

The {J-Spades} on the turn saw the big blind check, and Greenstein fire out for 3,000. The big blind made the call and was allowed to see the river. After the {6-Diamonds} was fanned for the river the big blind checked again, and Greenstein placed a bet of 7,000.

After some inner debating the big blind made the call. Greenstein exposed {A-}{A-} for a pair of aces and the big blind flashed {K-Spades}{Q-Clubs} for a weaker pair of queens. Greenstein now sits around 50,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Barry Greenstein
48,000
-7,250
-7,250

Childs Chips Up

A player in middle position opened for 1,100 and action folded over to Lee Childs on the button, who clicked it back to 1,800. Everyone else folded back to the original raiser, who flung in a call.

The flop came {3-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} and Lee's opponent checked, prompting a 2,150 bet from him. His opponent quickly folded and Lee scooped the pot.

Childs is sitting on 65,000 at the moment.

Player Chips Progress
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Lee Childs
65,000
12,000
12,000

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Orange Section Breaking

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

They just finished breaking up the Tan section of the Amazon room, and now they have moved onto the Orange section. They just broke Table #367, and they will break in ascending order from here. We are losing players fast and furiously in this last level!

Chip Counts from the Brasilia Bronze Section

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Max Weinberg
Max Weinberg
88,000
15,000
15,000
Profile photo of Erik Cajelais
Erik Cajelais
70,000
22,000
22,000
Profile photo of Tex Barch
Tex Barch
67,000
Profile photo of Tuan Le us
Tuan Le
62,000
5,000
5,000
Profile photo of Neil Channing gb
Neil Channing
60,000
-14,000
-14,000
Profile photo of Adam Levy
Adam Levy
54,000
21,000
21,000
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Sam Barnhart
53,000
-1,000
-1,000
Profile photo of Katie Dozier
Katie Dozier
45,000
5,500
5,500
Profile photo of Lauren Kling
Lauren Kling
45,000
16,000
16,000
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Keith Lehr
37,000
4,000
4,000
WSOP 2X Winner
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Paul Magriel
36,000
-20,000
-20,000
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Matt Vengrin
31,000
17,000
17,000
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Tony Dunst
31,000
9,000
9,000
WSOP 3X Winner
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Jeanine Deeb
Busted
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Andrey Pateychuk
Busted

ElkY Getting Low

We came upon Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier heads up in a pot with an opponent. The flop came down {4-Clubs}{5-Spades}{7-Diamonds} and Grospellier's opponent bet 2,300.

Grospellier called and the turn paired the board with the {4-Hearts}. This time Grospellier was facing a bet of 4,200. Grospellier shook his head and a look of misery wasted across his face.

ElkY has had trouble getting anything going today and his stack is looking meek at about 7,800.

Player Chips Progress
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Bertrand Grospellier
7,800
-9,700
-9,700

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More Chip Counts from the Brasila Red Section

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Shawn Buchanan
Shawn Buchanan
96,000
Profile photo of David Peters
David Peters
64,000
8,000
8,000
Profile photo of Rob Peltecki
Rob Peltecki
55,000
26,000
26,000
Profile photo of Darren Elias
Darren Elias
46,000
34,000
34,000
Profile photo of Bill Chen
Bill Chen
45,000
21,000
21,000
Profile photo of Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien
39,000
9,000
9,000
Profile photo of Vicky Coren
Vicky Coren
38,000
5,000
5,000
Profile photo of Steve Zolotow
Steve Zolotow
27,000
-5,000
-5,000
Profile photo of Rob Perelman
Rob Perelman
22,000
-14,000
-14,000
Profile photo of Jeff Sarwer
Jeff Sarwer
19,000
-17,400
-17,400
Profile photo of Matt Hawrilenko
Matt Hawrilenko
11,000
3,000
3,000
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Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Busted
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Bryan Colin
Busted

Cordero Pays One Off

Alex Cordero is here, just a day removed from his third-place finish in Event 59: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em last night. Cordero was the end-of-day chip leader for the first two days of that event before Dominik Nitsche eventually passed him and everyone else to take the bracelet.

Cordero is doing what he can today to try to build a stack, though finds himself just a bit below the 30,000 with which he started as we move through the last level of the night.

Just now Cordero was involved in a hand with an opponent in which the pair had reached the turn with the board showing {4-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{A-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}. Cordero's opponent, playing out of the blinds, fired a bet of 3,300 (about two-thirds the pot), and Cordero called.

The river was the {K-Spades} and again Cordero's opponent was betting, this time tossing out a single orange (5,000) chip. Cordero plucked a matching chip off of his stack and set it forward to call, then nodded in acknowledgement when his opponent turned over {10-Clubs}{9-Clubs} for a flush.

Player Chips Progress
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Alex Cordero
27,600

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Set For Lee

Action folded around to Bernard Lee's small blind and he raised to 1,125. The big blind opted to three-bet, however, making it 3,300 to go. Lee called and the two saw a flop of {J-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}.

Lee checked to the raiser and his opponent bet 4,400. Lee decided to throw out a check-raise, making it 10,975 to go and his opponent went into the tank. Eventually his opponent decided to call the bet and the {3-Clubs} fell on the turn.

Lee moved all in on the turn which would put his opponent's tournament life at risk for his last 30,000. His opponent folded and Lee showed {7-Hearts}{7-Clubs} for a flopped set of sevens. Lee is currently sitting on 95,400 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Bernard Lee
95,400
25,400
25,400

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Chip Counts from the Brasilia Red Section

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Todd Witteles
Todd Witteles
102,000
37,000
37,000
Profile photo of Brian Hastings us
Brian Hastings
98,000
63,000
63,000
WSOP 6X Winner
Run It Once
Profile photo of Micah Raskin
Micah Raskin
88,000
36,000
36,000
Profile photo of Samantha Cohen
Samantha Cohen
84,000
42,000
42,000
Profile photo of Steve Brecher
Steve Brecher
59,000
10,000
10,000
Profile photo of Tom Schneider us
Tom Schneider
58,000
17,000
17,000
WSOP 4X Winner
Profile photo of Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
52,000
16,000
16,000
Profile photo of Erick Lindgren
Erick Lindgren
46,000
18,000
18,000
Profile photo of Gregory Merson
Gregory Merson
43,000
Profile photo of Gabriel Nassif
Gabriel Nassif
42,000
2,000
2,000
Profile photo of Marc Inizan
Marc Inizan
35,000
-35,000
-35,000
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Adam Geyer
Busted

Lenaghan Scores a Double Through Farha

Action folded around to Sam Farha's button and he raised it up to 1,200. Ryan Lenaghan three-bet to 3,200 from the small blind and the big blind got out of the way.

Farha wasted no time four-betting to 8,200 and Lenaghan quickly five-bet the rest of his stack. Farha wasted no time calling and the hands were tabled to find Lenaghan dominated.

Lenaghan: {A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}
Farha: {Q-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}

The flop came safe for Farha with {2-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{9-Spades} but the {A-Diamonds} on the turn flipped everything around. Farha let out a sigh under his breath at this card and the board was quickly finished with the {8-Hearts}.

Farha was forced to ship a double up to the seat next to him and this hit knocked him down to about 80,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Sam Farha
80,000
-15,000
-15,000
WSOP 3X Winner
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Ryan Lenaghan
55,000
2,500
2,500

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