John Monnette Wins $5,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship
John Monnette wins his second career bracelet in the Stud Championship. Brian Rast is among the leaders at the $1,500 re-entry. Lots of big names remain in the $10k heads-up, and we have reached a final table in the $1,500 PLO.
WSOP numbers so far:
Events: 13/63
Prize pool: $17,781,320
Participants: 11,555
Event #9: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry Day 3
WSOP 2012 Event #9: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry
End of Day 3 Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st |  Ryan Olisar |
3,715,000 | ||
| 2nd | Brian Rast |
2,415,000 | ||
| 3rd | Amanda Musumeci |
2,040,000 | ||
| 4th | Duy Ho |
1,990,000 | ||
| 5th | Benjamin Reinhart |
1,800,000 | ||
| 6th |  Ashkan Razavi |
985,000 | ||
| 7th | Greg Mueller |
820,000 | ||
| 8th | Dien Le |
775,000 | ||
| 9th | Derrick Huang |
760,000 | ||
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Players Total: 9 (3,404) | Prize Pool: $4,595,400 Average Chips: 1,702,000| Blinds: 15,000/30,000/5,000/ |
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Tobias Block caught up with Brian Rast after making the final table:
John Monnette Wins Event #10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
WSOP 2012 Event #10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud
Final Rankings |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | John Monnette |
$190,826 | ||
| 2nd | Huu Vinh |
$117,913 | ||
| 3rd | Timothy Finne |
$73,847 | ||
| 4th | Perry Friedman |
$53,470 | ||
| 5th |  Jeff Lisandro |
$41,789 | ||
| 6th | Mark Dickstein |
$33,325 | ||
| 7th | Bryn Kenney |
$27,062 | ||
| 8th | Raymond Dehkharghani |
$22,332 | ||
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Players: 1 (145) | Prize Pool: $681,500 |
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| Event #10 Champion John Monnette |
Event #11: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Day 2
WSOP 2012 Event #11: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha
End of Day 2 Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | Charles Tonne |
1,021,000 | ||
| 2nd |  Vincent Van Der Fluit |
951,000 | ||
| 3rd |  Damien Lhommueau |
663,000 | ||
| 4th |  Alex Dovzhenko |
579,000 | ||
| 5th | Rodney Brown |
457,000 | ||
| 6th | Brian Garbe |
158,000 | ||
| 7th | Tristan Wade |
150,000 | ||
| 8th | Calvin Anderson |
149,000 | ||
| 9th | David Schnettler |
139,000 | ||
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Players: 9 (970)| Prize Pool: $1,309,500 Average Chips: 474,000 Blinds: 500/1,000 |
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Event #12: $10,000 Heads-up No Limit Hold'em Day 1
WSOP 2012 Event #12: Heads-up No Limit Hold'em
End of Day 1 Survivors |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| - | Antonio Esfandiari |
240,000 | ||
| - | Erich Froehlich |
240,000 | ||
| - | Brian Hastings |
240,000 | ||
| - | Andrew Lichtenberger |
240,000 | ||
| - | Brock Parker |
240,000 | ||
| - | Andrew Robl |
240,000 | ||
| - | Kevin Saul |
240,000 | ||
| - | Vaness Selbst |
240,000 | ||
| - | Jeffrey Gross |
240,000 | ||
| - | Tommy Chen |
240,000 | ||
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Players: 32 (152) | Prize Pool: $1,428,800 Average Chips: 240,000 | Blinds: 2,000/4,000 |
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Check out our interview with Andrew Robl from this event:
Event #13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Day 1
The official chip counts were unavailable at the time of writing, so here are the unofficial chip counts from this event:
WSOP 2012 Event #13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em
End of Day 1 Chip Counts |
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| Place | Name | Chips | ||
| 1st | Tom Cage | 50,500 | ||
| 2nd | Ashley Butler | 33,000 | ||
| 3rd | Eric Buchman | 32,000 | ||
| 4th | Al Barbieri | 26,500 | ||
| 5th | Roland Israel | 24,500 | ||
| 6th | Jennifer Harman | 24,900 | ||
| 7th | Marco Traniello | 21,800 | ||
| 8th | Michael Mizrachi | 19,900 | ||
| 9th | Fabrice Soulier | 19,500 | ||
| 10th | John Racener | 17,900 | ||
| - | JC Tran | 14,800 | ||
| - | Randy Lew | 14,800 | ||
| - | Isaac Haxton | 13,500 | ||
| - | Phil Hellmuth | 4,500 | ||
| - | Vitaly Lunkin | 4,500 | ||
| - | Barry Greenstein | 3,250 | ||
| - | David Benyamine | 1,410 | ||
| - | Maria Ho | 1,300 | ||
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Players: 222 (730) | Prize Pool: $985,500 Average Chips: 14,797| Blinds: 500/1,000 |
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Upcoming Events
WSOP 2012: Upcoming Events
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| Event |
Buy-in & Game Type |
Date | |
| 14 | $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout | June 6 | |
| 15 | $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo | June 6 | |
| 16 | $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed | June 7 | |
| 17 | $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em | June 8 | |
| 18 | $2,500 Razz | June 8 | |
| 19 | $1,500 No Limit Hold'em | June 9 | |
Medal rankings by country
To encourage some friendly fan competition in our 19 communities, we will compile a list of the nationalities that make "podium finishes" (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) in WSOP events. Can your country knock the USA off their long-time top spot?
| WSOP 2012 - Medal Ranking Table | |||
| Country |  Gold |
 Silver |
 Bronze |
| USA |
8 | 8 | 7 |
| France |
1 | - | 1 |
 UK |
- | 1 | - |
 Australia |
- | 2 | |
 Bulgaria |
- | - | 1 |
 Germany |
- | - | - |
 Denmark |
- | - | - |
 Russia |
- | - | - |
 Sweden |
- | - | - |
| Canada |
- | - | - |
 Ireland |
- | - | - |
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