Rocco Palumbo won his first bracelet, big controversy in the Poker Players Championship, puppy and Pass stock, but eliminated before the final table, Roch Cousieau 2nd evnement #47 and Duhamel still alive in the #48 event, in short, plenty of action this June 26 to WSOP 2012!
Event #44 of No Limit Hold'em $1000 - Rocco Palumbo won his 1st career bracelet
Yesterday, it was more than 16 players left before the start of the day. After a long day, it was the Italian Rocco Palumbo who has won. Finishing 1st, he pockets $ 464,464.
Other positions went as follows:
2 Nelson Robinson $ 288,448
3 Thomas Conway $203,437
4 Niel Mittelman $ 146,931
5 Jason Everett $107,411
For Rocco, it was its 2nd purse in a tournament of WSOP and his first bracelet! It brings the total of his earnings to $ 473,255.
Event #45: The Poker Players Championship! -1 hand causes controversy
Third day's work for the players in this tournament. The day was especially marked by a hand. Everything is happening to the 360 table.
Charles Pacheco is in position UTG and limp. Viktor Blom in MP in turn limp. Followed by Abe Mosseri and Shaun Deeb on BTN. John D'Agostino is SB and limp in turn.
Then comes the turn of Nikolai Yakovenko which is BB and who decides to raise to 12,400. Pacheco and Blom call then the floor returns to Deeb which takes a few seconds to think. He decides to go all-in for 68,800 tokens. D'Agostino fold and Yakovenko said "all in" in turn. Yakovenko has a stack that is larger than the size of the pot (407,300). It is therefore not in all. Pacheco and Blom lie and Mosseri has a decision to make. It has slightly less than 400,000 chips before him and hesitated. He said even his hand out loud: "I have ACEs and a the flush draw". Mosseri takes too long and asked a counter. He thinks 1 minute and call.
3 players are all-in.
Mosseri: AcAsJc5c
DEEB: JhJsTc7s
Yakovenko: KcKs3d3c
The table is distributed: QsJd2dTs8s. Deeb was the best hand with a flush and wins the main pot and triple his chips. The side pot is Mosseri, but there is a problem.
Yakovenko did not in all. He had only raised the size of the pot and Mosseri was calle. Players should not therefore have to show their cards and the action should proceed to the flop with hidden cards.
From there, several solutions were possible.
First option, replay the hand. Second option, the three players are considered all-in. It was this decision which will have been retained and Yakovenko who had only invested 60% of his stack, was obliged to pay the full amount of the stack of Mosseri.
The problem is almost solved when a new issue arrives. The table that should break long (controversy requires) eventually break. Phil Ivey takes the place of Yakovenko. A player suggests therefore to play until the end of the day with Phil Ivey at the table (there are about 4 hands to play) and then ask Ivey to leave so that other players can play additional hands, to make up for the time lost by this controversy. Ivey is not in agreement with this decision since, according to him, the other tables also have been slowed down by this controversy. Person will have finally been entitled to extra time.
The current leader of this tournament is currently Isildur1 with 1.2 M chips!
There are now 26 players for 108 registrants. 16 places only will be paid in this tournament. The winner of the tournament will win the interesting amount of 1.45 million dollars.
Event #46 of No Limit Hold'em $2500 - puppy and Pass stock, but released before the final table
Two players Quebecers were to follow in this tournament. It was Jason "dog baby" Duval and Pascal 'Pass' Lin!
Our 2 Quebecers will have delivered excellent performance, but will malhreusement not managed to cross the day.
Pascal LeFrançois who had managed to rebuild a large stack from a few big blings, eventually finished 42nd $ 14,039.
Jason "dog baby" Duval who was among the leaders for a time, finished his race in 35th position to touch $ 16,781
At this stage, it remains still 25 players and the leaders in chips is Joey Weissman which has 1, 23 M. Note the presence of the Canadian (québécois?) in 5th place Jimmy Fradette-Dufour. At this stage, he has 778K tokens.
When the action resumes today, the blinds will be 5000/10000 with antes in 1000.
The winner of this tournament (Vanessa Selbst is still in the tournament) will win $ 694,609
Event #47 of Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better $ 1500 - Roch Cousineau is 2nd
978 players took seat in the tournament. Among them, 7 Quebecers took part in the tournament: Roch Cousineau, Jonathan Duhamel, Jiacien Gong, Christopher "Poker_John" "D0r1t0s" McClung, Jean-Philippe "JPP" Piquette, Miguel "Mig" Proulx and Guillaume "SixZeros" Rivet.
After 1 day of game only, only 149 players remaining.
In 2nd position, found the Québécois Roch Cousineau with 95,500 chips! He is outranked by Alex Gomes.
When the action resumes today, the blinds will be 500/1000. The winner of this tournament will win $ 267,345
Event #48 Limit Hold'em $3000 - 1 only Quebecer entries
Tournament more or less popular judging by the number of entries: 247. On this list, it could identify only a single Quebecer in batch, i.e. Jonathan "Poker_John" Duhamel. Duhamel is currently the 29th ranked. The leader is currently Sam Barnhart with 58,900 tokens.
The winner will receive $ 165,205 when the action resumes today, the blinds at 500/1000.
To watch today:
-Viktor Blom who is leader in chips in the $ 50,000 tournament. Will be as successful as when its SCOOP this spring?
-Jimmy Fradette-Dufour in No Limit Hold'em Tournament ' $2500 then it is currently 5th in chips! Will there at the final table?
-Roch Cousineau in the #47 event
-Jonathan Duhamel in the #48 event
Discuss these different tournaments on PokerCollectif forums:
Event #44 of No Limit Hold'em to $ 1000
Event #45: The Poker Players Championship!
Event #46 of No Limit Hold'em to $ 2500
Event #47 of Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better at $ 1500
