Monday, June 25, 2012 5:41 PM Local Time
Stud
We just lost Naoya Kihara, the first Japanese bracelet winner who took down the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event earlier this Series. Nick Schulman was the one who took Kihara's chips, but he's also in the danger zone with just 52,000 chips.
John Juanda | / - Fold |
Naoya Kihara | / / |
Nick Schulman | / / |
John Juanda completed it on third street, Kihara raised, Schulman three-bet, Juanda folded and Kihara put in the fourth raise. Schulman called giving us heads up action on fourth street.
Kihara only had 1,200 chips left and he moved all in. Schulman called. Schulman's pair of queens held up and Kihara got knocked out.
Nick Schulman | 52,000 | -52,000 |
Naoya Kihara | 0 | -70,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:39 PM Local Time
Stud
Vladimir Shchmelev | / / |
Jason Mercier | / / |
Vladimir Shchmelev completed and Jason Mercier raised. Shchmelev called and then called bets on fourth, fifth and sixth from Mercier. On seventh street, both players checked.
Mercier showed the for a pair of nines and won the pot. Shchmelev mucked.
Jason Mercier | 290,000 | 43,000 |
Vladimir Shchmelev | 63,000 | -19,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:28 PM Local Time
Stud-8
Luke Schwartz is mostly known for his antics and his No Limit Hold'em game. But he also knows how to play the other games as he's doing well on day two of this event.
Luke Schwartz | / / |
David Oppenheim | / / |
Schwartz completed it on third street and Oppenheim was his only caller. On fourth street Oppeneheim bet and Schwartz called. On fifth street Kenney paired up and he bet, Oppenheim called. Sixth street still gave Kenney the betting lead and he fired at it again. Oppenheim called.
On seventh street Schwartz bet again, Oppenheim raised, Schwartz three-bet and Oppenheim folded giving the Englishman the pot without showdown.
Luke Schwartz | 280,000 | 60,000 |
David Oppenheim | 139,000 | 16,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:15 PM Local Time
Limit Hold'em
Anton Allemann was one of the short stacks heading into day two, and he's still looking for a double up.
From the cutoff Ville Wahlbeck raised and Allemann three-bet from the cutoff. Heads up they saw a flop which showed . Wahlbeck check-called.
On the turn, the , both players checked and the river was the . Wahlbeck bet, and Allemann called. Wahlbeck showed and took down the pot.
Ville Wahlbeck | 130,000 | 16,000 |
Anton Allemann | 7,200 | -39,100 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:13 PM Local Time
No-Limit Hold'em
During the last level, Mike Sexton was eliminated by David Grey. Grey had raised and Sexton reraised all in for 16,000. Grey made the call with two jacks and Sexton was at risk with nines. No help came for Sexton and he was eliminated from the tournament.
Mike Sexton | 0 | 0 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:01 PM Local Time
Level: 8
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:43 PM Local Time
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Monday, June 25, 2012 4:41 PM Local Time
Right before the break we lost both Bertrand Grospellier and George Lind. Both players tweeted about their exits. Mike Sexton also got eliminated, and we are down to 98 players.
Mike Sexton | 0 | -77,200 |
Bertrand Grospellier | 0 | -17,000 |
George Lind | 0 | -38,300 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:39 PM Local Time
Razz
Nikolai Yakovenko | / - Fold |
Viktor Blom | / / |
Abe Mosseri | / - Fold |
Shaun Deeb | / / |
The four players above went to fourth street and Shaun Deeb was first. He bet and Nikolai Yakovenko put in a raise. Viktor Blom reraised and Abe Mosseri folded. Deeb reraised and Yakovenko called. Blom also called.
On fifth street, both Deeb and Yakovenko paired up, leaving Blom to act first. He bet and Deeb raised. Yakovenko folded and Blom called.
On sixth street, Blom check-called a bet from Deeb before check-folded on seventh street.
Viktor Blom | 352,000 | 42,000 |
Shaun Deeb | 160,000 | 69,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:39 PM Local Time
2-7 Triple Draw
Scott Seiver has just been eliminated by the hands of Bill Chen. Chen raised pre draw and Seiver three-bet, after which Chen called.
Both players took two cards, Seiver bet, Chen raised and Seiver moved all in for 5,000. Chen called and took two cards on the second draw while Seiver stood pat.
On the final draw Chen stood pat, and Seiver decided to take one. Chen showed while Seiver turned over . He hit another and was eliminated from this event.
Bill Chen | 220,000 | 77,000 |
Scott Seiver | 0 | -50,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:29 PM Local Time
2-7 Triple Draw
Shawn Buchanan has just been eliminated from the tournament. After chopping two pots in Stud-8 he was all in on the second hand of 2-7 Triple Draw.
Buchanan was under the gun when he raised it up to 4,800, and the action was folded to Lyle Berman, who was on the button. He three-bet, and it got back to Buchanan who called all in for just 5,600 total chips.
On the first draw Buchanan drew two cards, Berman needed one. Buchanan needed two more cards on the second draw, while Berman stood pat. On the final draw Buchanan sighed as he needed two cards once again.
Berman turned over and Buchanan was unable to beat that. He's the fifth player to hit the rail as we are down to 103 players in this event.
Shawn Buchanan | 0 | -23,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:20 PM Local Time
Pot-Limit Omaha
Eric Rodawig raised to 3,200 from middle position and Keith Gipson called from the hijack seat. David Benyamine called in the cutoff seat and Ben Yu called from the button. In the big blind, David "Bakes" Baker raised all in for 11,700. Rodawig folded, but the three other player made the call.
The flop came down and Gipson checked. Benyamine bet 25,000 and Yu folded. Gipson also folded, leaving Baker heads up with Benyamine to stay alive.
Benyamine:
Baker:
Baker was on the ropes with nothing on the flop against Benyamine's two pair and flush draw. The turn was the and river the . With the black lady on the river, Baker won the pot to quadruple up.
David Benyamine | 302,000 | -3,000 |
Ben Yu | 260,000 | 0 |
Keith Gipson | 215,000 | -22,000 |
Eric Rodawig | 59,000 | -13,000 |
David Bakes Baker | 41,000 | 31,200 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:19 PM Local Time
Pot-Limit Omaha
On the next hand after he doubled up through Keith Gipson, David "Bakes" Baker limped in from under the gun. Eric Rodawig raised to 4,500 from middle position and then action folded to Ben Yu in the small blind. He reraised the pot and the dealer told him he could make it 16,900. Everyone folded and Yu won the pot.
David Bakes Baker | 9,800 | -1,200 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:10 PM Local Time
Pot-Limit Omaha
From under the gun plus one, David "Bakes" Baker raised to 4,000 with 600 behind. Action folded to Keith Gipson in the cutoff seat and he reraised to 11,000. Everyone folded back to Baker and he stuck his last 600 in.
Baker:
Gipson:
The flop, turn and river ran out and Baker finished with aces full of fives to beat Gipson's flush and double up. He moved up to 11,000 in chips.
Keith Gipson | 237,000 | 1,000 |
David Bakes Baker | 11,000 | 6,400 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 4:07 PM Local Time
Pot-Limit Omaha
On the flop, Eric Rodawig checked and Antony Lellouche fired 9,500. Next to act was David "Bakes" Baker and he made the call. After that, Cary Katz folded and then Rodawig also gave it up, leaving two players to see fourth street.
The landed on the turn and Lellouche bet 25,000. Baker took some time to think, then called.
On the river, the completed the board. Lellouche checked and Baker moved all of his chips into the middle. He actually had a little bit more than the pot, so he could only make it 84,200 with 4,600 behind. Lellouche then tanked. After two minutes or so, he just called.
"Set," announced Baker.
Lellouche responded by turning over the for a Broadway straight. Baker mucked and Lellouche won the pot. Luckily for Baker, though, Lellouche didn't put him all in, so he still had 4,600 in chips left to try and mount a comeback with.
"You knew one thing," said Huck Seed who recently joined the table. "He didn't have a royal flush."
Antony Lellouche | 250,000 | 65,000 |
David Bakes Baker | 4,600 | -122,400 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 3:55 PM Local Time
Lyle Berman | 288,000 | -12,000 |
Jon Spinks | 281,000 | 27,000 |
John Hanson | 237,000 | 18,700 |
Jason Mercier | 224,000 | 23,000 |
Chris Lee | 184,000 | 54,500 |
Richard Ashby | 172,000 | -23,400 |
Greg Mueller | 170,000 | 10,800 |
Hoi Cheung | 153,000 | -16,800 |
Allen Cunningham | 132,000 | -8,800 |
Marco Johnson | 131,000 | 70,900 |
Andrew Robl | 128,000 | -22,000 |
Eric Cloutier | 82,000 | -24,900 |
Eugene Katchalov | 57,000 | -40,500 |
Shawn Buchanan | 23,000 | -103,100 |
Bertrand Grospellier | 17,000 | -15,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 3:53 PM Local Time
David Benyamine | 305,000 | 152,300 |
Ben Yu | 260,000 | 26,000 |
Jared Bleznick | 240,000 | 42,900 |
Keith Gipson | 236,000 | -45,500 |
Tom Chambers | 226,000 | 35,600 |
David Chiu | 195,000 | 33,700 |
Antony Lellouche | 185,000 | -61,000 |
John Monnette | 175,000 | 23,800 |
Mike Wattel | 173,000 | 45,400 |
David Bakes Baker | 127,000 | 15,100 |
David Steicke | 90,000 | -35,800 |
Eric Rodawig | 72,000 | -7,200 |
Cary Katz | 69,000 | -51,900 |
Roland Israelashvili | 67,000 | -60,000 |
Matthew Russell | 41,000 | -118,100 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 3:50 PM Local Time
Joe Cassidy | 344,000 | 34,000 |
Stephen Chidwick | 188,400 | 28,300 |
Justin Smith | 143,700 | -30,300 |
Michael Mizrachi | 133,000 | -74,000 |
Dan Shak | 130,000 | -10,200 |
Vladimir Shchmelev | 82,000 | 7,800 |
David Bach | 81,000 | -39,000 |
John Esposito | 47,200 | -65,300 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 3:48 PM Local Time
No Limit Hold'em
We are keeping a close eye on the players that bust out, and Stephen Mack was just the fourth player to lose all his chips.
Stephen Mack got his last 41,000 chips all in pre flop with against John D'Agostino's . The board ran out , and D'Agostino's small pair held up.
We are down to 104 players.
John D'Agostino | 171,000 | 52,000 |
Stephen Mack | 0 | -169,000 |
Monday, June 25, 2012 3:41 PM Local Time
Viktor Blom | 310,000 | 98,000 |
Alexander Kravchenko | 262,000 | 48,300 |
Abe Mosseri | 248,000 | 91,000 |
Michael Binger | 220,000 | 15,000 |
Danny Fuhs | 208,000 | 26,100 |
Phil Hellmuth | 197,000 | -6,000 |
Michael Glick | 197,000 | 5,000 |
David ODB Baker | 196,000 | -61,500 |
Ali Eslami | 190,000 | -96,900 |
Patrik Antonius | 145,400 | 17,400 |
Nikolai Yakovenko | 145,000 | -12,500 |
Brett Richey | 143,000 | -19,000 |
Jon Turner | 136,000 | 53,900 |
Josh Arieh | 109,000 | -53,000 |
Barry Greenstein | 108,000 | 10,000 |
Owais Ahmed | 103,000 | -2,300 |
Shaun Deeb | 91,000 | -27,000 |
Todd Brunson | 84,000 | -41,200 |
Mike Sexton | 77,200 | -16,800 |
David Grey | 15,200 | -34,400 |