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2012 World Series of Poker Overnight Report - 7/2/12

A Look At Who's Left And What They're Playing For In Each Event

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Here’s an overnight report of the events still in progress at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Check back every morning for a full breakdown of prize pools, field sizes and chip leaders.

Final Day

Neil WillersonEvent No. 53 — $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 3,166
Total Prize pool: $4,274,100

Players Remaining: 2
Average Chip Count: 7,123,500

First Place Prize: $737,248

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Neil Willerson 8,920,000
2 Vladimir Mefodichev 5,335,000

Final Day

David BakerEvent No. 54 — $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 3,221
Total Prize pool: $2,898,900

Players Remaining: 15
Average Chip Count: 644,200

First Place Prize: $500,075

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Will Jaffe 1,947,000
2 Ken Fishman 1,400,000
3 Jason Tompkins 870,000
4 Carl Le 698,000
5 Benjamin Grise 574,000
6 David Baker 542,000
7 Perati Muhamet 531,000
8 Nghi Van Tran 476,000
9 Benjamin Volpe 426,000
10 Joe Kuether 343,000

Final Day

Antonio EsfandiariEvent No. 55 — $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop

Entrants: 48
Total Prize pool: $42,666,672

Players Remaining: 8
Average Chip Count: 18,000,000

First Place Prize: $18,346,673

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Antonio Esfandiari 39,925,000
2 Sam Trickett 37,000,000
3 Guy Laliberte 21,700,000
4 Brian Rast 11,350,000
5 Phil Hellmuth 10,925,000
6 David Einhorn 8,375,000
7 Richard Yong 7,475,000
8 Bobby Baldwin 7,150,000

Day 2

Scott FreemanEvent No. 56 — $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Entrants: 2,798
Total Prize pool: $3,777,300

Players Remaining: 305
Average Chip Count: 41,281

First Place Prize: $661,022

Top Chip Counts:

Rank Player Name Chip Counts
1 Donald Vogel 145,200
2 Daniel Johnson 131,000
3 Carlos Lopez Neira 128,400
4 Michael Graydon 128,000
5 Scott Freeman 120,700
6 Clement Montaron 119,200
7 Mark Maletic 113,700
8 Michael Compolongo 113,100
9 Mohamad Kowssarie 111,200
10 Blake Cahail 109,700

Other Notable Chip Counts:

Shankar Pillai (94,300), Alexander Queen (81,500), Will Failla (78,300), Sam Holden (76,000), Aditya Agarwal (75,500), Chris Dombrowski (69,200), Ashton Griffin (68,100), Matt Brady (65,300), Adam Levy (63,900), Michael Katz (63,900), Donnacha O’Dea (60,300) and Jason DeWitt (59,800)

For complete coverage of the summer poker festival, check out our WSOP landing page.