https://betting.betfair.com/poker/wsop/2012/06/ en Copyright 2026 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:35:00 +0100 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification After five days' worth of playing eight different games against poker's best, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi emerged Thursday as the winner of Event #45, the Poker Players Championship. Mizrachi ran through a tough eight-handed final table in short order, outlasting Chris Klodnicki to take the bracelet, the David "Chip" Reese Memorial Trophy, and the $1,451,527 first prize. The final day of play began auspiciously for Mizrachi as he knocked out both Frenchman Bruno Fitoussi and Pennsylvanian Bill Chen in the same no-limit hold'em hand. Mizrachi cut the field down to six when the Floridian's Ad-Ac held up against Chen's Ah-Kc and Fitoussi's 8c-7c. Mizrachi would take care of the next elimination as well, knocking out the Englishman Stephen Chidwick in sixth in a hand of pot-limit Omaha. Chidwick would commit his last chips on the turn with the board showing 8c-8d-2h-3h and Chidwick holding Ks-Kd-5c-4s for two pair. Mizrachi, meanwhile, had Ad-8h-4d-2c for eights full of twos, and when the river came the 3d they were swiftly down to five. Roland Israelashvili was the next to fall in fifth, having become short-stacked before finding himself all in before the draws versus both Mizrachi and the Californian Andy Bloch in a 2-7 triple draw hand. In the end Bloch's eight-low beat Israelashvili's J-low to send the New Yorker out in fifth. Chris Klodnicki of New Jersey next knocked out Londoner Luke Schwartz in a no-limit hold'em hand in which Schwartz Ac-9d failed to hold versus Klodnicki's Ad-6h when a six fell on the river. Mizrachi led with three left, although Klodnicki would take the chip lead away momentarily as the day wore on. Then Mizrachi claimed a huge pot off of Bloch in a PLO hand that saw Bloch call a big river raise by Mizrachi with the board showing Ks-Qd-2h-2c-10h. Bloch held Qc-Qs-8d-5s for queens full, but Mizrachi had the better full house with Kd-Kc-9s-7h. Soon after that hand, Bloch would be all in preflop versus both opponents in a limit hold'em hand, and by the showdown Klodnicki would be left to knock out Bloch with Ad-Js versus Bloch's Qh-4h after neither improved. Mizrachi enjoyed a 2-to-1 lead over Klodnicki to start heads-up play, soon whittling him down until he was all in during an Omaha/8 hand with As-Jh-9c-2s against Mizrachi's Qd-Jc-9h-8h. The board came 10c-10s-7s-6h-Ah, meaning neither made a low and Mizrachi's ten-high straight was enough to scoop the pot and the title. 2012 WSOP Event #45: Poker Players Championship ($50,000): 1. Michael Mizrachi -- $1,451,527 2. Chris Klodnicki -- $896,935 3. Andy Bloch -- $561,738 4. Luke Schwartz -- $704,736 5. Roland Israelashvili -- $317,882 6. Stephen Chidwick -- $253,497 7. Bill Chen -- $205,856 8. Bruno Fitoussi -- $169,879 This marks Mizrachi's second Poker Players Championship win at the WSOP, his first having come in 2010 when he topped a field of 116 to win $1,559,046. Mizrachi also won a WSOP Europe bracelet last fall in the €10,400 "split format" no-limit hold'em tourney. Join Betfair Poker Now. https://betting.betfair.com/poker/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-event-45-poker-players-championship-2nd-in-three-years-290612-77.html https://betting.betfair.com/poker/news/michael-mizrachi-wins-event-45-poker-players-championship-2nd-in-three-years-290612-77.html News WSOP Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:35:00 +0100 Last night I was helping cover Day 2 of Event #47, the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better event at the 2012 World Series of Poker. PLO/8 is a fast-moving game that sees lots of action. It also has a reputation as being a game in which only few players are truly expert. Thus did some note when the event attracted a whopping 978 players this year that there were likely many playing who weren't so knowledgeable about the game. Indeed, I remember overhearing a conversation between a couple of players late last night -- when they were down to just two tables -- in which one admitted he'd never even played PLO/8 before! Of course, even if a player doesn't have experience with PLO/8 specifically, having played pot-limit games, split pot games, and tournaments all helps prepare one for PLO/8. Other more general poker skills (reading opponents, understanding the importance of position, knowing pot odds, etc.) go a long way, too. If you find yourself in split pot "8-or-Better" games without having ever really studied how to play them, there are a couple of short cuts regarding starting hand selection that can not only help you get by, but even give you an edge over less skilled players or those whose experience is as slight as your own. The short cuts are easy to remember -- (1) avoid hands containing sevens, eights, or nines; (2) always start with at least an ace and preferably a deuce as well. There was an interesting moment yesterday when they had reached the absolute cash bubble. There were 118 players left, and the tournament paid 117. Hand-for-hand play had begun across all of the tables. Terrence Chan was in the big blind with just 2,000 chips, and he had to pay 800 of that for the BB. A player raised from under the gun, and it folded all of the way around to Chan. He checked his cards, then thought for a long while before folding. By way of explanation to the rest of the table for his fold, he showed a single card, the 9h. (Chan did make the money, by the way, his ninth cash at the WSOP this summer.) Experienced split-pot game players know nines are bad news. I've written about this before here in an article called "Sevens, Eights, and Nines in Omaha/8." There I explain further why these "middle" cards tend to kill most starting hands, mainly because they often help players make less-than-the-best high hands as well as mediocre low hands. Since your main goal in a split-pot game should be to scoop both the high and low halves of the pot, you don't want to be fighting with a hand that hurts your chances in both directions. I also saw players last night demonstrating time and again the power of the ace, almost never raising or risking their stacks with hands that didn't at least contain an ace, and often other low cards and suitedness, too. For example, there was one interesting hand that came up with about 60 players left between James "Flushy" Dempsey and Tony Kendall, a couple of English players who also happen to be friends. Both were below average stacks at the time, and meaning neither had much room for much betting after the flop. In this one, Dempsey raised from late position, then Kendall checked his cards and made a reraise from the blinds. The pair engaged in some humorous table talk while Dempsey decided what to do, and finally he called, making the total pot around 40,000. When Dempsey did, Kendall made a somewhat unusual play to bet the rest of his stack dark, pushing all 34,000 chips ahead before the community cards were even dealt. When they arrived 9h-10c-Jd, Dempsey and the rest of the table had to laugh, because they knew it seemed very likely that whatever hand Kendall had, that particular flop probably missed him by a wide margin. That's because most suspected Kendall would not reraise from out of position without an ace and probably a deuce in his hand. Now it is true that players will sometimes play four high cards in PLO/8 -- in fact, later in the event Kendall would finally bust on a hand in which he actually committed the last of his short stack preflop with Kd-Qd-Jc-10d. So it was possible that flop had hit his hand, but it didn't seem too likely. That 9h-10c-Jd was also probably unlikely to have hit Dempsey, and it must not have as he folded. When he did, Kendall saw me nearby and with a grin asked "Are you taking notes?" I nodded, and he showed two of his hole cards -- the 6s and 2c. While the table pondered aloud what his other two cards might be, Kendall continued to address me. "If you want the rest of the hand I can tell you," he said. "But not in front of the table." That got a laugh, plus a reminder to Kendall that they could always read my update. In fact, Kendall did talk to me sometime afterwards -- well after I'd posted about the hand -- and confided to me what his other two hole cards were. "Two black aces, of course," he said, and I nodded, not too surprised to hear his entire hand had been As-Ac-6s-2c (an especially strong PLO/8 hand). As I say, if you are new to games like PLO/8, Omaha/8, or Stud/8 and find yourself having to play a split-pot game -- say, in a rotation of games in which someone calls it -- you could do a lot worse than to follow these two rules for starting hands: (1) avoid hands with sevens, eights, or nines, and (2) stick with hands containing an ace and preferably a deuce, too. Join Betfair Poker Now. https://betting.betfair.com/poker/strategy/starting-hands-in-split-pot-games-1-280612-77.html https://betting.betfair.com/poker/strategy/starting-hands-in-split-pot-games-1-280612-77.html Strategy WSOP Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:14:00 +0100 It was another drama-filled day and night at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino where Event #45, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, played from 26 down to a final table of eight. When players bagged their chips at night's end on Wednesday, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi led the final eight with 3.648 million chips, followed closely by Andy Bloch with 3.598 million. The day began with early eliminations of the short stacks, including Phil Hellmuth, David Chiu, Joe Cassidy, and Michael's brother Robert Mizrachi. Phil Ivey was also among the group making it to Day 4 of the five-day event yet failing to reach the final 16 and the cash. Ivey's final hand came in the seven-card stud round, with Viktor "Isildur1" Blom eliminating him with an ace-high flush versus Ivey's pair of kings. The last two out before the cash were John Monnette (18th) and Ben Yu (17th). It would take the rest of the night eight more players to fall, with Michael Mizrachi using that stretch to accumulate chips and push out into the lead as the field continued to shrink, having crossed the 4 million-chip mark by the time Andy Bloch eliminated David "ODB" Baker in 10th in an Omaha-8 hand. David Oppenheim would be the last elimination of the night after getting gradually ground down during the 2-7 NL triple draw round, then losing the last of his chips to Mizrachi to go out in ninth. Here's a look at the payouts thus far in Event #45: 9th: David Oppenheim ($142,197) 10th: David "ODB" Baker ($142,197) 11th: Daniel Alaei ($120,994) 12th: John Hennigan ($120,994) 13th: Jeff Lisandro ($105,235) 14th: Viktor Blom ($105,235) 15th: Mike Wattel ($91,549) 16th: Brett Richey ($91,549) And here's how the chip counts look heading into tomorrow's final day of play: 1. Michael Mizrachi -- 3,648,000 2. Andy Bloch -- 3,598,000 3. Chris Klodnicki -- 3,276,000 4. Stephen Chidwick -- 2,026,000 5. Luke Schwartz -- 1,494,000 6. Bill Chen -- 1,293,000 7. Roland Israelashvili -- 694,000 8. Bruno Fitoussi -- 188,000 Mizrachi is looking to win his third World Series bracelet, the first of which came in this same event two years ago when he topped a field of 116 to earn the David "Chip" Reese Memorial Trophy and a $1,559,046 first prize. Interestingly, Bloch enters the final table in second position after having finished runner-up in the memorable $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event -- the first of its kind -- won by the late Chip Reese in 2006. 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Blom ended the night bagging 1.262 million chips, but is closely followed by a host of other top pros including David Oppenheim, Daniel Alaei, David "ODB" Baker, John Hennigan, and Bill Chen. A total of 108 players entered the prestigious event, together creating a whopping prize pool of $5,184,000. Only the top 16 finishers will be making the money, with $91,549 guaranteed to those who survive the cash bubble bursting later today and a cool $1,451,521 going to the player who prevails to win the bracelet and the David "Chip" Reese Memorial Trophy. The Poker Players Championship is played as a rotation of eight different games -- limit hold'em, Omaha/8, razz, stud, stud/8, no-limit hold'em, pot-limit Omaha, and 2-7 triple draw -- with games changing every eight hands. Day 1 of the event saw only a single player eliminated -- David Singer -- during the five 100-minute levels. Late registration extended extended through the beginning of Day 2, and among the stories when registration finally closed was the fact that not a single woman entered the event. The 108-player field marks a dip from last year when Brian Rast topped a field of 128 to win the event, although was still larger than the field of 95 who played the event in 2009 (when it was played as H.O.R.S.E. only). Day 2 saw Justin Bonomo, Scott Seiver, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Mike Sexton among the early eliminations, with a host of other familiar names in this star-studded field following them to the rail as the day progressed. Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel were among the last eliminated before play ended on Tuesday. However, most of the focus during that last level of play on Day 2 revolved around a controversial PLO hand primarily involving Shaun Deeb, Nikolai Yakovenko, and Abe Mosseri. The hand began with four players limping, the small blind completing, then the Yakovenko in the big blind raising and the first three limpers calling. That's when Deeb reraised all in from the button, his remaining chips not being enough to reraise the entire pot. It folded to Yakovenko who reraised again from the big blind, chasing the other limpers except Mosseri. Yakovenko's reraise was apparently accompanied by an indication that he was all in, although in truth a pot-sized reraise would've meant he still had chips behind. In any case, after a long time in the tank Mosseri called, and the three players all tabled their hands as if it were an all in situation. Deeb held Jh-Js-10c-7c, Yakovenko Kc-Ks-3d-3c, and Mosseri Ac-As-Jc-5c. All five community cards were then dealt, with the Qs-Jd-2d-10s-8s board meaning Deeb had survived with a flush and Mosseri won the side pot. That's when Yakovenko spoke up to say Mosseri had only said call and that his own reraise was only a pot-sized reraise, not an all in. At issue was the amount Yakovenko owed Mosseri in the side pot. Then came an initial ruling by the floor that since there was still action to be completed post-flop, the turn and river would have to be redealt. Deeb, of course, wasn't too happy about that suggestion, given that he had survived his all-in but now faced having to sweat a new turn and river. Eventually that first ruling was overturned and a new ruling let the hand stand while also forcing Yakovenko to pay off Mosseri as if it had been an all-in situation since the players had all essentially played the hand as if it were (i.e., the "accepted action" of the hand was that Mosseri was indeed all in). Yakovenko soon busted with his short stack, and Day 2 concluded shortly thereafter. When play began on Wednesday it was Andy Bloch, winner of Event #7 ($1,500 seven-card stud), leading the group of 62 who had made it through the first two days of play. Bloch sits just outside the top 10 for the start of Day 4, although many others weren't so lucky and failed to make it through Wednesday, including Dan Kelly, Barry Greenstein, Jason Mercier, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius, Deeb, and Mosseri. Last year's winner Brian Rast also failed to make it through Day 3. Blom secured the chip lead near the end of the night on Day 3 after winning a huge, dramatic PLO hand against Joe Cassidy, winner of this year's Event #24 ($5,000 Omaha/8). That one saw Blom all in on the turn with the board showing 10s-9h-5c-Ad and Blom holding Ah-9d-9s-2h (a set of nines). Meanwhile Cassidy had As-Qd-10c-10d (a set of tens), meaning only a single card -- the 9c -- could save Blom. Sure enough, the 9c fell, and the swingy Swede not only survived but catapulted to the top of the counts. Meanwhile Cassidy was knocked back down under 100,000 on the hand, but managed to survive the night 24th of 26. And returning to just 26,000 in 26th is Phil Hellmuth. Here's how the top 10 look heading into today's action in Event #45: 1. Viktor Blom -- 1,262,000 2. David Oppenheim -- 1,165,000 3. Daniel Alaei -- 1,058,000 4. David "ODB" Baker -- 1,025,000 5. John Hennigan -- 992,000 6. Bill Chen -- 984,000 7. Stephen Chidwick -- 874,000 8. Mike Wattel -- 870,000 9. Bruno Fitoussi -- 861,000 10. 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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. Join Betfair Poker Now. https://betting.betfair.com/poker/news/dung-nguyen-jan-peter-jachtmann-ronnie-bardah-latest-wsop-bracelet-winners-240612-77.html https://betting.betfair.com/poker/news/dung-nguyen-jan-peter-jachtmann-ronnie-bardah-latest-wsop-bracelet-winners-240612-77.html News WSOP Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:19:00 +0100 The 2012 World Series of Poker crossed the midway point this week, with 36 of the 61 events having now completed. A number of interesting storylines have already emerged, including what is shaping up to be a competitive race for the WSOP Player of the Year. Phil Ivey currently leads the way with 539.70 POY points, followed closely by John Monnette with 524.25. Interestingly enough, Phil Ivey leads the race while being the only player currently in the top 10 not to have secured a WSOP bracelet this summer, having accumulated those points on the strength of five final tables, including second- and third-place finishes at a couple of them. Here's a look at that top 10 as of today: 1. Phil Ivey -- 539.70 points 2. John Monnette -- 524.25 3. Andrew Frankenberger -- 384.66 4. Phil Hellmuth -- 368.70 5. Michael Gathy -- 321.25 6. David "Bakes" Baker -- 317.94 7. Max Steinberg -- 309.44 8. Brian Hastings -- 303.00 9. Ashkan Razavi -- 274.06 10. Aubin Cazals -- 263.00 The formula utilized to determine the WSOP Player of the Year takes into account numerous factors, with the winning of bracelets only one of them. Big buy-in events earn players "multipliers" when it comes to POY points. For example, a $10,000 buy-in event gets one 2.25 the usual points that a $1,500 buy-in event would. Competing in events with larger fields also earns a "multiplier" when it comes to POY points, and a few distinctions are made as well related to the types of tourneys (MTTs, heads-up, shooutouts, etc.). Of course, going deep and/or winning events earns one the most points, with a victory being worth 100 points (prior to any applied multipliers). As mentioned, Ivey has yet to win a WSOP bracelet while all nine of the players in positions #2 through #10 have won one WSOP event each. John Monnette grabbed the bracelet in Event #10, the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud event. He has four other cashes thus far, including a third-place finish in Event #15 ($5K Stud/8) and a runner-up in Event #32 ($10K H.O.R.S.E.). Andy Frankenberger has four cashes himself this summer, including a win in Event #17, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event. He also reached the quarterfinals of the $3,000 Heads-Up NLHE/PLO Event #3, which essentially counts as having made a final table in terms of POY points. After finishing second in last year's WSOP POY race to Ben Lamb, Phil Hellmuth has returned with another strong showing at this year's Series, with a win in Event #18 ($1,500 Razz) and a fourth-place finish in Event #32 ($10K H.O.R.S.E.) among his five cashes thus far. The Belgian Michael Gathy is in fifth in the POY race thanks in large part to his victory in Event #21, a $1,000 NLHE event. He also final tabled Event #35 ($2,500 mixed NLHE/LHE) where he finished fifth. David Baker grabbed the gold in Event #32, the $10,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. event, one of three cashes for "Bakes" thus far this summer. Max Steinberg has three cashes, including a victory in Event #33, another $1,000 NLHE event. And Brian Hastings has a couple of cashes, one of them his win in Event #12, the $10,000 Heads-Up NLHE event. Rounding out the top ten are the only other non-Americans besides Gathy to appear at the top of the WSOP POY leaderboard, Ashkan Razavi and Aubin Cazals. The Canadian Razavi has two cashes this year, including a win in Event #9, the $1,500 NLHE Re-entry event. And the 21-year-old Cazals who was born in France and lives in Malta earned the bracelet in Event #6, the NLHE "Mixed-Max" event, one of three cashes for him this summer. There is still a long way to go, of course, as far as the WSOP POY race is concerned, with 25 more events to be played out in Las Vegas, plus the WSOP National Championship (also a bracelet event) and the WSOP Europe events this fall in Cannes, France which count as well. Also worth noting are the extra points afforded by the Main Event, where a victory earns one a whopping 500 POY points. You can follow the WSOP Player of the Year race by visiting the WSOP site. And to see all of the details of the formula used to calculate POY points, head over to Bluff Magazine. 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