2012 World Series of Poker › Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

Day 1 completed

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Chris Tryba Leads After Day 1

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6 • Level 8: 500-1,000, 100 ante

Chris Tryba (Event 7) is the Day 1 chip leader

After eight levels of play, Day 1 of Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better is in the books. A total of 212 players ponied up $5,000 to play today, generating a prize pool of $996,400. The top 24 players will receive a minimum of $9,675, each member of the final table is guaranteed $27,012 and the winner will take home a whopping $269,037.

Chris Tryba, who already has two top-seventeen finishes in Stud events at the 2012 World Series of Poker, leads the remaining 137 players with 63,600 chips, but biting at his heels are Phil Ivey, Bryan Devonshire, Abe Mosseri, Allen Bari, Chad Brown, Todd Brunson and his father Doyle Brunson.

There were a few notable players who were unable to make it through the day, including Maria Ho, Matt Glantz, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jon Turner, Shaun Deeb and Jon Aguiar.

For "Texas Dolly", this was his first event played at the 2012 WSOP. The 10-time bracelet winner has been very public on Twitter about why he’s playing so few events and it was great to see him back in action. When he first sat down at the beginning of Level 5, Nolan Dalla announced his presence over the P.A. system, and the Godfather of Poker" received a well-deserved round of applause. Perhaps he can run his stack up on Day 2 tomorrow, and take a shot at Phil Hellmuth’s record of eleven WSOP gold bracelets.

Ivey locked up his first cash of the 2012 WSOP earlier today when he won his table in Event 14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout, and he’s also got a large stack in this event. He won a massive, four-way pot with quad sixes during one of the first levels of play. Ivey started the hand rolled up, and was dealt the fourth sixth on fifth street. Nobody qualified for the low, and Ivey scooped the whole kit-n-kaboodle. Tomorrow, he'll once again be double dipping with two events, which was been common this WSOP.

Day 2 begins at 2:00 PM local time tomorrow. Be sure to check back on PokerNews.com for all of your up-to-the-minute updates from the 2012 WSOP. Good night from Vegas!

Tags: Chris Tryba.

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Chris Tryba			63,600	-9,400
Brian Twete			54,800
David Grey			54,700	9,700
Calvin Anderson			50,500
Andrew Finkernagel			48,900
Jesse Martin			47,300	6,300
Tuan Vo			46,300
Drew Scott			46,200
Mike Gorodinsky		US	45,900	9,900
Todd Brunson			45,800	5,800
Andrey Pateychuk			44,400	5,400
Barry Greenstein	PokerStars Team Pro		43,500	33,500
Bryan Devonshire			43,100	-3,400
Nikolai Yakovenko		US	40,800	26,300
Phil Ivey			40,100	-7,900
Eli Elezra			39,900	20,150
Cyndy Violette			38,900	-600
Stephen Su			36,800	20,800
John Bunch			36,800
Allen Bari			36,700	5,700
Daniel Shak			36,500
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro		36,400	-5,600
Viacheslav Zhukov			35,800
Igor Sharaskin			35,800
Huck Seed			35,000	20,000

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Ivey! Ivey! Ivey!

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Phil Ivey in action on Day 1.

Don't look now, but Phil Ivey is building a stack.

Chip Counts
Phil Ivey			48,000	21,000

Tags: Phil Ivey.

Out

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Tags: Maria Ho, Matt Glantz, Matt Lefkowitz.

On The Up-and-Up

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Chip Counts
Chris Tryba			73,000	5,000
Bryan Devonshire			46,500	6,500
David Grey			45,000	23,500
Chad Brown	PokerStars Team Pro		42,000	24,500
Jesse Martin			41,000	11,000
Todd Brunson			40,000	23,500
Cyndy Violette			39,500	25,500
Andrey Pateychuk			39,000	23,000
Abe Mosseri			39,000	1,000
Mike Gorodinsky		US	36,000	19,000
John Hennigan			35,000	15,000
Ben Yu			33,500	3,900
Allen Kessler			32,000	13,000
Doyle Brunson			27,000	17,900

Aces and a Low for Bari

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Allen Bari just made a pair of aces and a seven-five low against Fabrizio Gonzalez to scoop a decent pot and move to 31,000 in chips. Gonzalez didn't show and mucked his hand. He dropped to 21,000 in chips.

Chip Counts
Allen Bari			31,000	4,000
Fabrizio Gonzalez			21,000

Tags: Fabrizio Gonzalez, Allen Bari.

Turner Gone, Tryba Cruising

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

Per Twitter:

christryba christopher tryba [email protected] joins the table. June 07 2012

PearlJammed Jon Turner Well, that's depressing... Def didn't play perfectly, but don't remember ever running that bad at Stud 8. Next up, $1500 6 Max at noon June 07 2012

Chip Counts
Chris Tryba			68,000	53,000
Jon Turner			Busted

Tags: Chris Tryba, Jon Turner.

"What's Abe Got?"

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

"I'll bet against anybody in any event - except for Ivey."

During the first break of the tournament, there was a collection of players lingering around and talking about side bets. The center of attention was Abe Mosseri, who very confidently stated, "I'll bet against anybody in any event - except for Ivey."

Matt Glantz - who's seated at an adjacent table with a good view of Mosseri's stack - has been seen eying Mosseri's total all night, and Barry Greenstein just asked us, "What's Abe got?"

When we returned and told him that Mosseri has around 38,000 chips, Greenstein muttered unhappily under his breath.

Chip Counts
Abe Mosseri			38,000	24,600

Tags: Abe Mosseri, Matt Glantz, Barry Greenstein.

Daniel Negreanu Update

Posted 2012-06-07 GMT-6

#DNegsGrind2012

RealKidPoker Daniel Negreanu @dnchips #wsop15 end level 7 13k we haven't lost one player at our table. One level left 500-1000 June 07 2012

Chip Counts
Daniel Negreanu	PokerStars Team Pro		13,000	-6,500

Tags: Daniel Negreanu.