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2012 WSOP – Day 48 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2012-07-15 02:08
With all other distractions out of the way, day 48 of the
2012 WSOP could focus solely on the 720 players returning to the tables of the Main Event for the 4th day of action. With the money bubble just a few spots away, day 4 would separate the winners from the losers quite literally. The proximity of the bubble didn’t slow the action down one bit. As a matter of fact, the bubble was reeled in so fast, hand-for-hand action started almost as soon as the day kicked off.
There were no fewer than 4 bubble-boys. Desmond Portano was one of them. He was bounced by Roberto Riva, after he got his last chips into the middle on a pair of Ks he’d picked up. Riva made the call with pocket 5s, so he was behind but the flop hit him big, giving him another 5 for the set.
No help came for Portano on the turn and the river and he was out.
Steve Rosen was another bubble-boy. He trusted the last of his chips to pocket Ks, which he ran into an opponent’s pocket rockets. Dane Lomas got his chips in on pocket rockets and he ended up falling to an opponent’s A,K. The last of the bubble-boys was David Kelly, whose Q,Q proved to be no match to an opponent’s pocket rockets.
Antonio Esfandiari failed to make it through the day too, though his elimination came after the bubble had burst. Daniel Negreanu started the day on a relatively short stack, but he managed to hang on and advance to day 5.
Paul Volpe was the one who clinched the chip lead at the end of the day. The interesting thing was that Volpe dropped quite a massive pot to Eric Pratt in one of the final hands of the day, on a J,J vs A,K match-up, but he still managed to finish at the top. A total of 282 players were left alive at the end of the day.
