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2012 WSOP – Day 50 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Tue, 2012-07-17 12:19
Day 6 of the
2012 WSOP Main Event was about playing down as close to the final table as possible. 97 players showed up at the tables at the beginning of the day, of whom 27 made it through the hurdle. There were numerous notables in the field at the beginning of the day, but most of them were eliminated by the time the final 27 was reached. Sam Holden was among the victims of Day 6, together with Jason Somerville, Vanessa Selbst, Eric Buchman, Gavin Smith and Erik Cajelais. Mark Ladouceur clinched the chip lead at the end of the day. He was followed by Daniel Strelitz and Robert Salaburu.
Vanessa Selbst had a particularly rough start to her day. She got into a tussle with David Balkin, getting all her chips into the middle on an A,Jo vs pocket fours match-up. The flop gave Balkin a set of 4s and no help came for Selbst on the turn or the river. She did claw her way back into the tournament, but then she got it all-in again holding a Q,7o against Greg Merson’s Ac, 8c. Merson made a straight on the river to knock her out of the Main Event for good.
Jason Somerville had a radically different run: he had his pocket 9s best Eric Buchman’s pocket 10s, but then he got all his chips into the middle on pocket Qs against an opponent’s K,10. Two 10s fell on the flop and no help came for Somerville on the turn or the river.
‘Guilty’ for Sam Holden’s elimination was Andras Koroknai. Holden had pocket 8s against the Hungarian’s pocket 5s, but the flop gave Koroknai a set and Holden’s fate was pretty much sealed. He picked up $128,384 for his 55th place.
Paul Volpe was one of the notables who managed to survive the day. He pulled it off on a pretty decent stack of 2.6 million chips too. Greg Merson finished with 7.4 million chips.
