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2012 World Series of Poker Overnight Report – 6/26/12

A Look At Who's Left And What They're Playing For In Each Event


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

Will ReynoldsEvent No. 46 — $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 1,607
Total Prize pool: $3,655,925

Players Remaining: 25
Average Chip Count: 482,100

First Place Prize: $694,609

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Joey Weissman 1,239,000
2 Michael Gagliano 1,108,000
3 Will Reynolds 1,066,000
4 Vanessa Selbst 786,000
5 Jimmy Fradettedufour 778,000
6 Jeremy Quehen 601,000
7 Stephen Reynolds 591,000
8 Josh Hillock 530,000
9 Yordan Jeliazkov 528,000
10 Konstantin Puchkov 510,000

Other Notable Chip Counts:

Frank Rusnak (395,000) and Fabrizio Gonzalez (228,000)

Be sure to stay tuned to Card Player for full updates from this event.

Day 4

Viktor BlomEvent No. 45 — $50,000 Poker Players Championship

Entrants: 108
Total Prize pool: $5,184,000

Players Remaining: 26
Average Chip Count: 623,076

First Place Prize: $1,451,527

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Viktor Blom 1,262,000
2 David Oppenheim 1,165,000
3 Daniel Alaei 1,058,000
4 David Baker 1,025,000
5 John Hennigan 992,000
6 Bill Chen 984,000
7 Stephen Chidwick 874,000
8 Bruno Fitoussi 861,000
9 Chris Klodnicki 859,000
10 Andy Bloch 667,000

Other Notable Chip Counts:

Lyle Berman (660,000), Michael Mizrachi (632,000), John Monnette (586,000), Luke Schwartz (506,000), Phil Ivey (397,000), John Juanda (397,000), Robert Mizrachi (252,000), Jeff Lisandro (204,000), David Chiu (160,000), Joe Cassidy (141,000) and Phil Hellmuth (28,000)

Day 2

James DempseyEvent No. 47 — $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Eight-Or-Better

Entrants: 978
Total Prize pool: $1,320,300

Players Remaining: 141
Average Chip Count: 31,212

First Place Prize: $267,345

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Alexandre Gomes 143,300
2 Roch Cousineau 95,500
3 James Dempsey 77,000
4 Andy Frankenberger 76,000
5 Mark Herm 75,000
6 Joe Tehan 73,600
7 Peter Winsper 72,300
8 Nicholas Verkaik 71,600
9 Nital Jethalal 65,000
10 Tarek Makki 64,200

Other Notable Chip Counts:

Randy Ohel (62,000), Barry Greenstein (59,300), Berry Johnston (41,000), Dario Alioto (40,100), Justin Young (29,300), Dan Heimiller (25,800), Matt Graham (23,900), Lee Watkinson (22,000), David Bach (20,800) , Tony Cousineau (17,500) and Allen Kessler (17,400)

Sam BarnhartEvent No. 48 — $3,000 Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 247
Total Prize pool: $674,310

Players Remaining: 126
Average Chip Count: 17,642

First Place Prize: $165,205

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Sam Barnhart 53,900
2 David Forster 52,200
3 Kenny Hsiung 47,800
4 Michael Parizon 46,800
5 Chad Brown 44,100
6 Micah Raskin 44,000
7 Bruno Portaro 41,200
8 Shawn Keller 40,600
9 Ray Henson 39,400
10 Philip Tom 35,100

Other Notable Chip Counts:

Maria Ho (31,500), David Steicke (30,700), Jimmy Fricke (30,600), Justin Bonomo (28,900), Vinnie Vinh (28,600), Jeff Shulman (27,200), Dutch Boyd (18,400), Humberto Brenes (16,100), Dan Kelly (15,000), John Myung (15,000) and Dwyte Pilgrim (12,800)

For complete coverage of the summer poker festival, check out our WSOP landing page.

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