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Poker News | World Series of Poker | WSOP 2012
Joe Cassidy Rolls Over Ivey and Nguyen to win Event 24 $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low
06-17-2012, Linda R. Geenen
You have to love it when people say, "Finally won a bracelet..." like you were just in the back of the pack trying to fail. Did they know there were 256 other players in the $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Eight-or-Better event all trying to win too? Joe...
Simon Charette Finds Gold in $3,000 NLH Six-handed 2012 WSOP Event 23
06-17-2012, Penne Anne Papre
Event 23, $3,000 buy-in No Limit Holdem Six-Handed, brought 974 players to the tables. The prize pool topped out at $2,522,520 and 108 of those players would get paid with the winner taking home $567,624. That winner was Simon Charette. Charette...
Randy Ohel Conquers Event 22 - Limit Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball
06-16-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Somewhere out of the shadows and smoke filled backrooms that housed the poker games of days gone by 288 souls met at the World Series of Poker and ponied up a buy-in of $2,500 to take a seat in a poker game usually played by the old timers of poker...
2012 WSOP Event 21 $1,000 NLH Finds Michael Gathy in the Winner's Spotlight
06-16-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Winning at poker is one of the biggest rushes you will ever experience and the ultimate rush has to be taking it all the way to the finish line in a World Series of Poker event and claiming the cash, the gold bracelet, and all the bragging rights...
2012 WSOP $5,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship - Event 20 - Won by Benjamin Scholl
06-16-2012, Roepk Triwer
The Limit Hold'em World Championship was played over a three-day period and brought 166 players to the tables. The players built a prize pool of $780,200 and 18 of them would be paid. So far that turnout is one of the smallest fields of the year...
Cliff Goldkind claims $1,500 No Limit Holdem Bracelet in 2012 WSOP Event 19
06-15-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Another page in World Series of Poker history was written when 2,302 players all took their seats in Event #19 No Limit Holdem. With the moderate buy-in of $1,500 the seats filled up and so did the prize pool as it reached more than $3,000,000...
Hellmuth Wins Event #18 for Record Setting Bracelet #12 WSOP 2012
06-13-2012, G.L. Hodges
There is nothing that can be said about world famous poker pro Phil Hellmuth that hasn’t been said at least a thousand times before in a hundred different ways. Except maybe for this; Phil has broken his own record - by winning a record-setting...
2012 WSOP Event #17: Andy Frankenberger Beats Ivey to Win Gold in $10,000 Pot-Limit Holdem
06-13-2012, G.L. Hodges
Every year dozens of well-known poker pros converge on the Rio to play in World Series of Poker events, so it is nothing unusual to spot numerous pros in the same event. Even so, Event #17, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Holdem, was a true gathering of the...
2012 WSOP Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Holdem, Gives Matros his 3rd Bracelet
06-12-2012, G.L. Hodges
Most World Series of Poker events last at least three days, and the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event was no different. An impressive number of players showed up to play, and among the 1,604 entrants was Matt Matros, who would emerge the...
Adam Friedman Wins 2012 WSOP Event #15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better
06-12-2012, G.L. Hodges
After slogging through 212 players, three days of intense stud action and a heads-up battle with Todd Brunson that lasted three-hours, Adam Friedman was crowned the newest World Series of Poker Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better Champion...
Brandon Schaefer Soars to Win 2012 WSOP Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
06-11-2012, G.L. Hodges
When 31 year-old Brandon Schaefer won his first gold bracelet along with $311,174 in cash, it was his poker swan song – for awhile at least. A total of 1,138 players started the event, and by Day 2, only 120 remained. Along the way, Brandon had...
Brian Hastings Wins Gold in Event 12 $10,000 Heads-up No Limit Holdem
06-10-2012, Linda R. Geenen
Brian Hastings may not have made anyone's face light up in recognition when you talked to poker players that play live in a casino but to the online poker world he's one of the pros that sits at the top and keep those trying to move up humble...
2012 WSOP Event #13: David “Doc” Arsht Clinches $1,500 Limit Hold’em Title
06-10-2012, G.L. Hodges
If you thought the days of seeing World Series of Poker bracelet winners past the age of forty were over, meet David “Doc” Arsht, the 66 year old physician from Philadelphia who won Event# 13, $1,500 Limit Hold'em. Poker sage’s of old...
2012 WSOP Event #11: Dutchman Vincent Van der Fluit wins the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
06-09-2012, G.L. Hodges
Poker players like Omaha, and to prove it, 970 of them lined up to play Event #11 at the World Series of Poker - the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. After three days of intense play, it was Vincent Van Der Fluit, who was left standing to pose with his...
2012 WSOP Event #10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud; Monnette Mops Up
06-09-2012, G.L. Hodges
There were 145 players who put up $5,000 to play Seven Card Stud in World Series of Poker Event #10. It took three days before the field had dwindled to just 16 players, including these big names who made the money, but fell short of the final...
2012 WSOP Event #9: On Day 5, Ashkan Razavi Wins the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-Entry
06-08-2012, G.L. Hodges
There were 3,404 contestants who entered Event #9 at the World Series of Poker to compete for the $4,595,400 prize pool. But in the end, it was 30 year old Canadian Ashkan Razavi who outran them all to collect his first gold bracelet and $781,398...
Herbert Tapscott Beats Gavin Griffin for Event 8 Omaha High-Low Split Title
06-07-2012, Penne Anne Papre
The road to a World Series of Poker gold bracelet can be long and hard and twisted with cruelty as players dreams shatter along the way. For Herbert Tapscott, a 71-year-young financier from Alabama, who took the first place prize of $264,400 and...
2012 WSOP Event #7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud- Nice Guy Andy Bloch Finally Wins Gold
06-06-2012, G.L. Hodges
Well known poker pro and all around likeable guy Andy Bloch has finally won a gold bracelet. During the last 18 years, Andy has been going to war at the World Series of Poker, trying his best to win a bracelet. Over the years he was close; he...
2012 WSOP Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mixed Max Won by Aubin Cazals
06-05-2012, G.L. Hodges
They say you always remember your first time, and for Aubin Cazals, a 21 year-old online poker pro from Malta, Event #6 at the WSOP was a first time experience he will never forget. Making his first trip to Las Vegas, French-born Cazals not...
2012 WSOP Event 5: $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem Won by Nick Jivkov
06-05-2012, Roepk Triwer
Take 639 poker players and roll them into Event #5 $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em and you end up with a prize pool of $862,650 with 72 of them taking home a piece of it. Of course the pig's share is reserved for the winner - coming in at $189,818. This...
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