Dung Nguyen, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Ronnie Bardah Latest WSOP Bracelet Winners
In Event #40, Ronnie Bardah completed an amazing final day comeback in which he began the day 10th of 10 players remaining to win the bracelet. Bardah's heads-up opponent, Marco Johnson, had in fact started the final day ninth of the final 10, with both players beginning play on Saturday with around 5-6 big bets each!
The tourneys keep coming at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino as the 2012 World Series of Poker marches on. The last couple of days have seen three more winners crowned as the WSOP winds its way toward the culminating Main Event that kicking off on July 7th.
On Friday in Event #38, a $1,500 no-limit hold'em event, Dung Nguyen topped a huge field of 2,502 to take the bracelet and $607,200 first prize. Nguyen beat Theo Tran heads up and survived a tough final table that included Blair Hinkle and David Pham.
Others making relatively deep runs in Event #38 though falling shy of the final table included Scott Clements (10th, $34,927), Jason Lester (19th, $17,378), and Layne Flack (23rd, $17,378).
2012 WSOP Event #38: No-Limit Hold'em ($1,500):
1. Dung Nguyen -- $607,200
2. Theo Tran -- $377,565
3. Bahman Jahanguiri -- $267,241
4. Blair Hinkle -- $192,734
5. David Pham -- $140,736
6. Kristijonas Andrulis -- $103,995
7. Zachary Korik -- $77,791
8. Jeffrey Manza -- $58,874
9. Tyler Patterson -- $45,087
Then yesterday saw two more bracelets won. In Event #39, Jan-Peter Jachtmann overcame a stacked field of 293 to take the title and earn a $661,000 score.
Andrew Brown took second, with a number of other notables were among those making the final two tables as well, including Andy Seth (5th), Jason Mercier (8th), Ville Wahlbeck (10th, $43,076), Sammy Farha (11th, $43,076), Adam Kornuth (12th, $43,076), John Kabbaj (13th, $33,794), and Allen Cunningham (17th, $26,495).
2012 WSOP Event #39: Pot-Limit Omaha ($10,000):
1. Jan-Peter Jachtmann -- $661,000
2. Andrew Brown -- $408,393
3. Steven Silverman -- $299,960
4. Micah Smith -- $222,044
5. Andy Seth -- $165,665
6. Benjamin Sage -- $124,600
7. Nikolai Yakovenko -- $94,442
8. Jason Mercier -- $72,132
9. Joe Kusher -- $55,525
Finally, it was a little before midnight last night when Ronnie Bardah completed an amazing final day comeback in which he began the day 10th of 10 players remaining to win Event #40, the $2,500 six-handed limit hold'em event. Bardah's heads-up opponent, Marco Johnson, had in fact started the day ninth of the final 10, with both players beginning play on Saturday with around 5-6 big bets each!
I happened to have been helping with the coverage of this one for PokerNews, and thus got to share in the excitement of Bardah's huge rail cheering him on as he outlasted a tough final table -- including Sorel Mizzi who finished fifth -- as well as Terrence Chan who made his eighth cash of the summer by finishing seventh ($17,107).
Others making deep runs in this one included Rep Porter (8th, $17,107), Chad Brown ($12,682), Joep van den Bijgaart (10th, $12,682), and Maria Ho (11th, $9,362).
2012 WSOP Event #40: Limit Hold'em, Six-Handed ($2,500):
1. Ronnie Bardah -- $182,088
2. Marco Johnson -- $112,525
3. Vincent Gironda -- $73,040
4. Brent Wheeler -- $48,828
5. Sorel Mizzi -- $33,541
6. Hans Minocha -- $23,648
On the agenda today is the start of the five-day Event #45, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship (an 8-game tourney). And all are looking ahead to Event #51, the $1,000,000 buy-in "Big One for One Drop" that begins one week from today on July 1st.
Prices quoted in copy are correct at time of publication but liable to change.
