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

Yang Loses One; Seated with Former Athletes Stocz and Rink

After a player raised from middle position to 1,300, Jerry Yang called from the small blind and Jeremy Saunders called from the big blind to see the flop come down {6-Spades}{5-Spades}{4-Hearts}. Everyone checked.

The turn was the {10-Clubs} and everyone checked again. The river was the {7-Clubs} and Yang checked before Saunders bet 2,950. The middle-position player folded and action fell back on Yang. He tanked for a couple of minutes before finally making the call.

Saunders tabled the {9-Spades}{8-Clubs} for the nut straight and Yang mucked his hand.

Also at Yang's table are Eric Stocz and Paulo Rink, both former professional athletes. Stocz played football in the NFL while Rink was a professional soccer player in both Brazil and Germany. This should make for an interesting table to track today.

Player Chips Progress
Jerry Yang
Jerry Yang
149,000
29,000
29,000
Eric Stocz
Eric Stocz
55,000
3,000
3,000
Paulo Rink br
Paulo Rink
28,500
2,500
2,500

Tags: Jeremy SaundersJerry YangPaulo RinkEric Stocz

O'Shaughnessy Binks an O'Six

A player opened to 1,400 from middle position, David O'Shaughnessy called in the cutoff, and Charalampos Lappas three-bet to 5,200 from the small blind. Only O'Shaughnessy called. The flop was {2-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{4-Spades}, and Lappas led for 8,000. O'Shaughnessy called.

The turn was the {j-Spades}, Lappas moved all in for 16,925, and O'Shaughnessy called.

Lappas{8-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}
O'Shaughnessy{6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}

Incredibly, the {6-Hearts} spiked on the river, ballooning O'Shaughnessy's stack to 162,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
David O'Shaughnessy
David O'Shaughnessy
162,000

Tags: David O'ShaughnessyCharalampos Lappas

Updated Chip Counts from the Brasilia Gold Section

Player Chips Progress
Jason Somerville us
Jason Somerville
278,000
23,000
23,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Shane Sigsbee
Shane Sigsbee
189,000
Brian Hastings us
Brian Hastings
166,000
41,000
41,000
WSOP 6X Winner
Run It Once
Guang Lu
Guang Lu
165,000
-2,000
-2,000
Scott Abrams
Scott Abrams
125,000
25,000
25,000
Richard Toth hu
Richard Toth
94,000
21,000
21,000
Samantha Cohen
Samantha Cohen
86,000
12,500
12,500
Tex Barch us
Tex Barch
64,000
-10,000
-10,000
Lee Childs
Lee Childs
50,000
-4,000
-4,000
Don Fujita
Don Fujita
46,000
9,500
9,500
Micah Raskin
Micah Raskin
42,000
6,000
6,000
Amirouddine Alibay ca
Amirouddine Alibay
Busted

Moon Landing

According to Oscar Kemps, Gabe Kaplan opened to 1,800 from under the gun, and the action folded to Darvin Moon, who three-bet to 4,000 from the big blind. Kaplan made the call, and the flop fell {k-}{q-}{7-}.

Moon open-jammed for his remaining 55,000 chips, and Kaplan called him immediately. Moon's {a-}{k-} was in bad shape against Kaplan's {q-}{q-}, and the turn and river came {j-}, {4-} respectively.

Moon was eliminated, while Kaplan's stack rocketed over 100,000 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Gabe Kaplan
Gabe Kaplan
120,000
35,000
35,000
Darvin Moon us
Darvin Moon
Busted

Tags: Gabe KaplanDarvin Moon

Negreanu Takes A Hit

We saw a few people gathering around Daniel Negreanu's table, so we went over to investigate. When we got there, we saw that Negreanu was calling a short stack's all in preflop of about 12,000. Another player also made the call, and the two players checked down a board of {3-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}. The short stack tabled a monster, {k-Hearts}{k-Clubs}, for a full house, and Negreanu flashed {a-Spades}{q-Clubs} before mucking. After that hand, Negreanu is down to 120,000, which puts him down about 20,000 on the day.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
120,000
-11,300
-11,300

Tags: Daniel Negreanu