2012 World Series of Poker › Event 48: $3,000 Limit Hold'em

Day 1 completed

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6

Sam Barnhart Leads After Day 1

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6 • Level 8

Sam Barnhart

Day 1 of Event 48: $3,000 Limit Hold’em began with 247 entrants, and after eight levels of play, Sam Barnhart is your chip leader with 58,900 chips. Following closely behind him are a handful of players, including Michael Parizon (46,800), Micah Raskin (44,000), and Chad Brown (41,100).

Plenty of notable players came and went today, including Mike Sowers, Shawn Buchanan, Isaac Haxton, Scott Seiver, Don Zewin, and Richard Brodie. Phil Ivey registered, despite playing in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, and when he arrived during Level 7, he quickly stacked off as well.

Jonathan Duhamel accumulated a lot of chips towards the end of the night, bagging up 25,700 at the end of the night. The 2010 WSOP Main Event champion busted Tyler Bonkowski – who won this event last year – and won a few pots off of fellow Canadian and Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Both players will return tomorrow, looking to position themselves for a bracelet.

Play resumes tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time, where the plan is to play ten levels. Come back then for up-to-the-minute updates from this and every event at the 2012 WSOP!

Good night from Las Vegas!

Tags: Sam Barnhart.

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Sam Barnhart			53,900	44,900
David Forster			52,200
Kenny Hsiung			47,800
Michael Parizon			46,800
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro		44,100
Micah Raskin			44,000
Bruno Portaro			41,200
Shawn Keller			40,600	6,600
Ray Henson			39,400	12,400
Philip Tom			35,100
Brandon Young			34,300
Mothel Krymchantowski			33,020
John Virtue			32,100
Thomas Blizniak			32,000
David Longood			31,900
Maria Ho			31,500	6,500
David Steicke			30,700	-1,300
Alex Dovzhenko			30,700
Jimmy Fricke			30,600	-2,900
Baothang Nguyen			30,600
Nicholas Muraca			30,000
Mitchell Davis			29,700
Jeffrey Einsidler			29,600
Justin Bonomo			28,900	9,900
Vinnie Vinh			28,600

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Bagging and Tagging

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6 • Level 8

The players are bagging and tagging. We will bring you a few chip counts shortly.

Bardah Doubles

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6 • Level 8

Ronnie Bardah doubles on one of the last hands of the night.

Robert Ferdinand, also known as "Bobby the Bus," raised in early position, and Ronnie Bardah three-bet from the small blind. Ferdinand called. The flop came , and Bardah led out. Ferdinand called.

The turn was the , and Bardah bet all in for just 100. Ferdinand called.

Bardah:
Ferdinand:

The river was the , and Bardah doubled.

Tags: Robert Ferdinand, Ronnie Bardah.

Benyamine Busts

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6

David Benyamine just busted in one of the last hands of the night.

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"A Whole New World"

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6 • Level 8

Maria Ho sings "A Whole New World."

Well, that's a first.

Moments ago, over on Table 365, we heard Ali Eslami singing. When we arrived, we discovered that his eyes were fixed on Maria Ho, who just recently joined the table.

"I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?"

"Make it stop!" Todd Brunson shouted from an adjacent table.

"It's your turn," Eslami told Ho.

There was brief pause, then Ho continued the song. The two went back and forth, and we were very surprised to see that they both knew the lyrics to the Aladdin classic "A Whole New World" - until we saw that they both Googled lyrics on their respective iPads.

"Is this some kind of sick side bet?" someone at the table asked.

The pair completed the song, and received a brief round of applause from the surrounding tables. Ho was smiling from ear to ear.

"You're such a shy little bird," Eslami joked.

Ho could only giggle.

This was definitely a first for us, and if we have to put our Simon Cowell hat on, we'll say that Ho clearly outperformed Eslami.

Tags: Ali Eslami, Maria Ho.

Missing in Action

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6

Counts

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Sam Barnhart			36,000	5,900
Shawn Keller			34,000	18,950
Jimmy Fricke			33,500	22,500
David Steicke			32,000	11,500
Jonathan Duhamel	PokerStars Team Pro		29,000	-6,000
Ray Henson			27,000	14,200
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro		25,500	6,000
Maria Ho			25,000	10,400
Leonid Bilokur			24,000	7,000
Dan Kelly			21,000	5,000
Justin Bonomo			19,000	-300
Humberto Brenes	PokerStars Team Pro		19,000	8,500
David Benyamine			18,000
Chris Grigorian			17,000	9,500
Ronnie Bardah			15,200	7,125
Jeff Shulman			14,800	-3,800
Jesse Martin			13,500	5,900
Shaun Deeb			12,600	-1,600
Todd Brunson			12,400	2,650
Dwyte Pilgrim			12,300	1,300
Al Barbieri			12,000	4,400
Shannon Shorr			11,600	8,300
Aubin Cazals			8,500	1,500
Vladimir Shchmelev			7,600	4,200
Scott Seiver			6,600	-4,200

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Level 8 started

Posted 2012-06-27 GMT-6