2012 World Series of Poker

Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day: 2ab
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

Holy Canali

Galen Hall opened to 1,200 from under the gun, Pierre Canali called in middle position, and Jordan Warkol called near the button. The dealer fanned {a-Spades}{j-Spades}{2-Clubs}, and Hall checked to Canali who fired 2,000. Warkol folded, and Hall called.

The turn was the {j-Hearts}, both players checked, and the {5-Clubs} completed the board. Hall reached for chips, and tossed out 8,175. Canali studied Hall carefully for thirty seconds or so, then folded.

Hall quickly mucked behind him.

Player Chips Progress
Pierre Canali
Pierre Canali
130,000
-4,000
-4,000
Galen Hall us
Galen Hall
58,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 1X Winner

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Paging David Peat

There has been an empty seat over here in the Pavilion room that has been blinding out all day. We took a look at the seating card, and it's none other then David Peat, or "Viffer" as he is often referred to in the poker world. Peat did not report an official count to the WSOP, so we don't know how much he started the day with, but we can say that he has been blinded down to 26,200. We will let you know if he finds his way to his table at any point today.

Player Chips Progress
David Peat us
David Peat
26,200

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TattyTats Doubles

Tatjana Pasalic, all smiles after a double up.
Tatjana Pasalic, all smiles after a double up.

We found Tatjana Pasalic moved all in from under the gun for just over 16,000. Action folded all the way around to Richard Wagner in the big blind. He called and the hands were tabled.

Pasalic: {A-Clubs} {J-Clubs}
Wagner: {8-Clubs} {8-Hearts}

The board ran {A-Spades} {4-Spades} {9-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} and Pasalic doubled with her two pair.

Player Chips Progress
Tatjana Pasalic ba
Tatjana Pasalic
33,300

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Bonomo Finds One

Justin Bonomo
Justin Bonomo

The board read {3-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}{5-Spades}{k-Hearts}{7-Spades} and Justin Bonomo bet out 5,000. We don't know what happened to lead up to this point, but we know there was around 8,000 in the pot already. Bonomo's opponent then raised to 12,400. After about 30 seconds Bonomo announced all in for around 26,000 more. Everyone at the table then played the waiting game to see if Bonomo's opponent would make the call. Around 3 minutes passed before he threw it away, and Bonomo picked up the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
39,000
-6,000
-6,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once

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Sun Sets on Campbell

After the hijack had opened for 1,200 and the button three-bet 2,600, Rhynie Campbell four-bet all in from the small blind for around 7,000. Yin Sun then moved all in over the top from the big for around 30,000, which pushed the other two players out of the pot.

Showdown

Campbell{K-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}
Sun{A-Hearts}{K-Clubs}

Campbell, who you may recall won a televised poker tournament back in 2007 on Turks and Caicos Island, was in bad shape and in need of some help. Unfortunately for him, he would find none as the board ran out {9-Spades}{4-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}{6-Spades}.

Meanwhile, David Stefanski, Mark Lefever and Michael Gagliano have all been eliminated from the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Rhynie Campbell us
Rhynie Campbell
Busted
Michael Gagliano us
Michael Gagliano
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner
Mark Lefever us
Mark Lefever
Busted
David Stefanski us
David Stefanski
Busted

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Demirdjian Dominating

It's been total domination for Mark Demirdjian over on Table 420, recently seeing his stack increase to the dizzying heights of over 400,000. Demirdjian started the day with over 100,000 and was then moved to the Day 1a chip leader, William John's table. Demirdjian then seemingly proceeded to take a huge majority of John's stack and has been winning small pots ever since.

We recently watched Demirdjian take down a hand that started with an early position player opening it up to 1,325. The player on the button made the call, along with the small blind and Demirdjian in the big blind. On the {10-Clubs} turn, the play was checked to the preflop aggressor and only Demirdjian would make the call. Both players then checked the {10-Clubs} turn and it was on to the {6-Diamonds} river. This time Demirdjian would led out for 4,600 and a fold from his opponent would see more chips enter his gargantuan stack.

Player Chips Progress
Mark Demirdjian
Mark Demirdjian
405,000
35,000
35,000

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Israelashvili's Got It

It's been a great level for Roland Israelashvili, who finished 5th in the $50,000 Players Championship last month. We counted him at 48,000 a mere 20 minutes ago, but we just saw him take down a big pot that has upped his stack to 115,000!

We caught the action on the river with the board reading {3-Hearts}{j-Hearts}{10-Spades}{2-Clubs}{q-Clubs}. Israelashvili's opponent had bet out 10,000, and we saw Israelashvili put in a raise to 30,000. His opponent tanked for about 30 seconds before calling, and Israelashvili said "I got it". He showed big slick, {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts}, for the nut straight, and his opponent could only show {k-Spades}{q-Diamonds} for top pair. Israelashvili is making a big move up the chip count chart as we near the second break of the day.

Player Chips Progress
Roland Israelashvili us
Roland Israelashvili
115,000
67,000
67,000

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