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2010 WSOP day 12 – Frank Kassela wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-06-09 15:47
Day 12 of the 2010 WSOP saw yet another bracelet awarded, this time to a newcomer to WSOP jewelry-bearing ranks. Army veteran Frank Kassela walked away with the gold in the $10,000 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo Split 8 or Better event, having bested a star-studded starting field of 170 players. Although this was indeed his first ever WSOP bracelet, Kassela was by no means a newcomer to the game. He was on the frontline of action 5 years ago too, when a bad beat he suffered from none other than Main Event Champ Johnny Chan, robbed him of his first bracelet. Kassela’s pocket rockets were cracked by Chan’s pocket Qs as Chan went on to win his 10th WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 PL Holdem event.
This win was quite possibly much sweeter than that one could’ve ever been for Kassela. He overcame players like Steve Zolotow, Jennifer Harman, Vladimir Schmelev, John Juanda and Dario Minieri only to mention a few. He defeated Allen Kessler heads-up for the win.
Event #13, the $1,000 NL Holdem special rolled on in the meantime. Day 12 of the
WSOP saw its final table reached. The final table bubble boy was Daniel Duong, who was knocked out by David Baker when he shoved all-in holding a suited one-gapper: 8h, 10h. Baker was quick to make the call holding A,Qo. The flop fell 10,3,4 giving Duong the lead. The 5 on the turn cemented his favorite status, but the A on the river blew all that up and sent him to the rail as the last victim of the day.
Day 2 of event #16, the $1,500 six handed
NL Holdem one , saw Carter Phillips and Mikhail Lakhitov rise to the top. At the end of the day, only 16 players were left in contention, with Phillips leading the way.
Lakhitov scored a huge pot against Phillips to not only stay alive, but to survive with a handsome stack too.
Online poker players were out in force in event #17, the $5,000 NL Holdem event.
PokerStars’ Nacho Barbero, the winner of the LAPT’s last event was present as well. He failed to survive day 1 though, driven to the rail by Jason Mercier. He was soon followed to the sidelines by Noah Boeken, Bill Chen, Humberto Brenes and Joe Cada.
Online players James Dempsey, Amit Makhija and Jeff Williams will lead the remaining field of 225 players into Day 2 of the poker tournament.
