Here’s an overnight report of the events still in progress at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Check back every morning for a full breakdown of prize pools, field sizes and chip leaders.
Final Day
Event No. 17 — $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em
Entrants: 179
Total Prize pool: $1,682,600
Players Remaining: 17
Average Chip Count: 315,882
First Place Prize: $445,899
Top Chip Counts:
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Counts |
| 1 | Manuel Bevand | 961,000 |
| 2 | Steve Landfish | 599,000 |
| 3 | Ryan Julius | 503,000 |
| 4 | Hoyt Corkins | 416,000 |
| 5 | Shaun Deeb | 396,000 |
| 6 | Patrick Cronin | 373,000 |
| 7 | Alex Venovski | 364,000 |
| 8 | Antonio Esfandiari | 303,000 |
| 9 | Jeffery Tims | 233,000 |
| 10 | Ali Eslami | 228,000 |
Other Notable Chip Counts:
Phil Ivey (180,000), Andy Frankenberger (166,000), Matt Marafioti (154,000, Chris Klodnicki (145,000), David Benyamine (117,000) and Cary Katz (65,000)
Be sure to stay tuned to Card Player for full updates from this event.
Final Day

Entrants: 309
Total Prize pool: $702,975
Players Remaining: 18
Average Chip Count: 128,750
First Place Prize: $182,793
Top Chip Counts:
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Counts |
| 1 | Brendan Taylor | 288,500 |
| 2 | Phil Hellmuth | 287,500 |
| 3 | Brandon Cantu | 275,000 |
| 4 | Chris Viox | 189,000 |
| 5 | Michael Chow | 183,000 |
| 6 | Jeffrey Mitseff | 155,000 |
| 7 | David Rosenau | 149,000 |
| 8 | Don Zewin | 115,500 |
| 9 | Jeffrey Mervis | 111,500 |
| 10 | Barry Greenstein | 94,500 |
Other Notable Chip Counts:
Jared Bleznick (91,500), Scott Fischman (57,500), Dan O’Brien (50,500), and Scott Clements (20,000)
Be sure to stay tuned to Card Player for full updates from this event.
Day 2

Entrants: 2,302
Total Prize pool: $3,107,700
Players Remaining: 262
Average Chip Count: 39,538
First Place Prize: $559,514
Top Chip Counts:
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Counts |
| 1 | Jessica Hanna | 149,500 |
| 2 | Joshua Hillock | 128,600 |
| 3 | Sam Grafton | 118,800 |
| 4 | Harry Demetriou | 112,700 |
| 5 | Jason Manger | 112,100 |
| 6 | Harrison Gimbel | 109,300 |
| 7 | Seth Pfaltzgraff | 109,200 |
| 8 | Robert Lipkin | 99,100 |
| 9 | Philip Bartholet | 98,100 |
| 10 | Benjamin Reinhart | 94,200 |
Other Notable Chip Counts:
Jason Lee (91,500), John Dolan (86,100), Tom Braband (77,100), Josh Bergman (69,300), Rob Perelman (39,400), Ravi Raghavan (38,600), Matt Stout (38,500) and Scott Sitron (37,600)
Day 2

Entrants: 166
Total Prize pool: $780,200
Players Remaining: 109
Average Chip Count: 22,844
First Place Prize: $206,760
Top Chip Counts:
| Rank | Player Name | Chip Counts |
| 1 | Nicholas Derke | 74,300 |
| 2 | Warwick Mirzikinian | 71,200 |
| 3 | Kenneth Shei | 47,400 |
| 4 | Mark Burford | 47,100 |
| 5 | Melissa Burr | 46,100 |
| 6 | Shawn Keller | 44,500 |
| 7 | Jerrod Ankenman | 44,400 |
| 8 | Matthew Woodward | 42,400 |
| 9 | Mori Eskandani | 40,600 |
| 10 | Andrew Finkernagel | 40,400 |
Other Notable Chip Counts:
Terrence Chan (39,200), Matt Glantz (39,000), Chris Tryba (38,000), Dario Alioto (37,400), Anh Van Nguyen (32,100), Richard Lyndaker (31,500), Jennifer Harman (30,800), Huck Seed (26,500) and Dan Shak (24,700)
For complete coverage of the summer poker festival, check out our WSOP landing page.

