Neil Willerson wins the bracelet to the #53 event, the final in the event #54 duel will take place today, Antonio Esfandiari wins 18, 3 m$ in the Big One for One Drop, Rudy Blondeau is shaped to make a final in the event #56 table, Duhamel and Chartier spend the day #2 event #57 and Roch Cousineau and Miguel Proulx spend the day #2 in the #58 event! This is the World Series of Poker 2012!
Event #53 No-Limit hold ' em $1500 - Neil Willerson wins the bracelet!
Yesterday was the final duel in this tournament and the American Neil Willerson was ahead of Russian Vladimir Mefodichev. Neil was able to maintain his lead in chips until the very end and eventually won the $ 737,248 which accompanied the bracelet!
Vladimir Mefodichev Meanwhile finished good 2nd to win $ 456,217
For Willerson, it was his sixth career award in the WSOP and his first bracelet! It now brings the total of his career earnings to $ 805,360.
Event #54 No Limit Hold'em ($1000) - final Duel today!
This tournament will end finally today rather than yesterday. At this stage, there are still 2 players ready to compete today for the bracelet.
It is still in the American Will Jaffe race which has 5.3 M of tokens and Brazilian Luis Campelo which has 4.2 M tokens.
The race should be very tight for the bracelet.
The winner will receive $ 500,075 and a player who finished 2nd will have to settle for $ 309,429.
The action will resume at 4 pm today time Quebec!
Event #55, The Big One for One Drop! -The magician wins the tournament!
The final table of this prestigious tournament was played yesterday! We had already excludes a player, Mike Sexton, who was leaving his home with 1, 1 M$ to keep only 8 players for this last day of play.
The action was intense and some businessmen mingled with the pros!
Richard Yong was eliminated in earlier in the day, to finish eighth and win 1, $2M. Then came the turn to Bobby Baldwin (Bobby's Room of Bellagio, it told you something?) who finished 7th for 1. 4 M$.
Brian Rast who has long been leader chips finished in 6th place for a purse of 1, $6M.
Was then 5 players: Antonio Esfandiari (poker pro), Sam Trickett (poker pro), David Einhorn (businessman from New York), Phil Hellmuth (poker pro) and Guy Laliberté (founder of the Cirque du Soleil).
Here it became really important given bills in scholarships. For example, the 4th position paid 2.6 M whereas the 2nd paid 10. 1 M$. Bills between the awards became huge.
It was Guy Laliberté that came out 5th when that its QQ did not good against the AK of Esfandiari. Phil Hellmuth released 4th extremely disappointed, as you can imagine. He still won't be ashamed before 3 billionaires who need money after this tournament!
David Einhorn was then shortstack and was released shortly after to finish third and win 4. 3 m$.
The final duel did not last very long. In the final hand, Esfandiari has 570 on Jd-5 d-5 c and call the all-in of Trickett who pushed with Qd6d, a draw to the flush. The tournament and the river gave 2 saved cards and Esfandiari became the richest fellow in the history of the WSOP by winning 18, 3 m$.
Meanwhile, we will rarely seen a man too disappointed to have won 10, 1 M$ as Sam Trickett.
The magician also won a bracelet that a friend of Guy Laliberté made. Antonio held fast to give the bracelet to his father. A very moving scene to see!
Another big winner in this tournament is the One Drop fondaction who garnered 5.3 million dollars with this tournament. As you know, each player had to remit $ 111,111 to the One Drop Foundation by participating in this tournament and so only $888,889 went into the final prizepool!
A great success as this tournament!
Event #56 of No Limit Hold'em $1500 - Rudy Blondeau always of the race!
Yesterday, before the tournament resumes, it remained still 3 Quebecers in the race including George Kuzmanovic 92nd ranked with 49,900 chips, Rudy "RuDyBoY X" Blondeau 121st ranked with 41,900 chips and finally Yann "Yadio" Dion 231st ranked with 20,500 chips.
At this stage there are still 22 players remaining in the race and Rudy Blondeau is still in the race, the 20th ranked with 322,000 chips! The current leader is Donald Vogel which has 1.2 M chips!
Yann Dion Meanwhile completed 249th for a purse of $ 3,022 and Bill Kontaratos de Laval completed 186e for a purse of $ 3,324!
After the day today, we know the winner of this event and it is clear that PokerCollectif will follow this event closely! Note the presence of a former world champion, Peter Eastgate 3rd!
We wish the best of luck to Rudy "RuDyBoY X" Blondeau!
For those interested, the action of this tournament will resume at 1 p.m. hour from Vegas or 16:00 time of Quebec!
Event #57 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed ($10,000) - Duhamel and Chartier, pass to the next day!
474 entries, following Quebecers took part in this event: Amirouddine Alibay, Erik Cajelais, Sam Chartier, Jonathan Duhamel and Benoit Galland.
At this stage, there are still 176 players in the race including Jonathan Duhamel at the 119th ranking and Sam Chartier in 6th place with 178,100 tokens!
When the action resumes today, the blinds will be 500/1000 with antes of 100. The winner of this tournament will win 1, 1 M$
We therefore wish the best of luck to Duhamel and Charter in this tournament!
The action will resume at 1 PM Vegas time or 4 PM hour of Quebec!
Event #58 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Low Split-8 or Better! ($3000) - Cousineau and Proulx spent the day #2
It is 526 people who took part in this tournament and two Quebecers are still in the race: 117th ranked found Miguel Proulx with 17,300 chips and 87th ranked we find Roch Cousineau with 23,200 tokens.
The action will resume today at 17 h 00 du Québec with blinds at 300/600.
The current leader of the tournament is Ukrainian Roman Verenko who has 83,100 tokens!
The winner of this tournament will win $ 330,277.
Good luck to our two québécois!
To watch today:
-Rudy Blondeau alias "RuDyBoY X" in the tournament #56 so that it remains more than 22 players.
-Jonathan Duhamel and Sam Chartier in the #57 event.
-Roch Cousineau and Miguel Proulx in the #58 event
You can discuss these different tournaments on our forums:
Event #53 No-Limit hold ' em to $ 1500
Event #54 No Limit Hold'em ($1000)
Event #55, The Big One for One Drop!
Event #56 of No Limit Hold'em to $ 1500
Event #57 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed ($10,000)
Event #58 Pot Limit Omaha Hi Low Split-8 or Better! ($3000)
