WSOP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP |
157 ENTRIES | 1.57M PRIZEPOOL
Final table play in the The World Series of Poker National Championship will take place on Wednesday in what will, in theory, pit some of the upcoming "minor" league poker players against some of the best poker professionals during the past two WSOP and WSOP Europe Series.
The Top 100 WSOP Circuit qualifiers all earned a freeroll entry into this event. The WSOP forked over the 10K buy-in for each player.
In order to qualify through the WSOP Circuit, a player needed to have won a Circuit event during the 2011-12 season or be part of the Top 100 which was based on points accumulated during qualifying WSOP Circuit events - you were automatically added to the Top 100 if you won a Main Event.
The event was then made available to the Top 100 players in the past two WSOP Seasons - based on WSOP Player of the Year points accumulated in 2010 and 2011 WSOP and WSOP Europe events.
In order to enter the event under the Top 100 Player of the Year points format, that player needed to pay the 10K registration, however, no rake would be taken from the amount. 57 of those Top 100 players chose to enter the event.
After two days of play, the field shrunk from 157 to what we have now, the Final 8 players. The final table will be filmed and televised on ESPN as part of their WSOP run of shows this summer/fall.
Here is a look at the final table seat assignments and chip stacks:
Seat 1 David “ODB” Baker 281,000 2010-11 WSOP POY TOP 100
Seat 2 Amanda Musumeci 322,000 2011-12 WSOP CIRCUIT QUALIFIER
Seat 3 Sam Stein 651,000 2010-11 WSOP POY TOP 100
Seat 4 Huy Nguyen 331,000 2011-12 WSOP CIRCUIT QUALIFIER
Seat 5 Yung Hwang 1,224,000 2011-12 WSOP CIRCUIT QUALIFIER
Seat 6 Nikolas Stone 471,000 WSOPC HARRAH'S ST. LOUIS WINNER
Seat 7 Matt Keikoan 957,000 2010-11 WSOP POY TOP 100
Seat 8 Ryan Eriquezzo 474,000 WSOPC CAESARS ATLANTIC CITY WINNER
DAVID BAKER
The "ODB" David Baker (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 7th) has had a great summer at the Series. Baker has cashed six (6) times this Series, has earned (3) Top 5 finishes, including his first bracelet in Event #37 Eight-Game Mix.
With over 580K in winnings already this summer, Baker, who will start the day as the short stack, will certainly hope to ride his winning streak into the final table.
A win for Baker and he will jump to #2 on the 2012 QuadJack Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard - powered by PTPRpoker.
AMANDA MUSUMECI
Amanda Musumeci (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-151th) is fresh off a second-place finish at Event #9 NLH Re-Entry at the WSOP earlier last month.
Musumeci also counts a total of four Top 10 finishes at event on the 2011-12 WSOP Circuit (in prelim events at Palm Beach, Caesars AC, Council Bluffs, Harrah's STL).
SAM STEIN
2011 WSOP Bracelet winner Sam Stein (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1290th) hasn't had the best start to 2012 but Stein did have a very fine 2011 season where he finished 18th overall in the PTPR Poker Player of the Year Race.
Stein does have four (4) cashes at this year's WSOP.
HUY NGUYEN
Huy Nguyen (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1579th) is no stranger to the WSOP Circuit. The man know to many as SavePluto9 won the 2011 Circuit Choctaw Main Event, he also won the Caesars Pokers Classic last season.
OTHERS TO WATCH
Yung Hwang will be coming into final table play as a significant chip leader, Matt Keikoan and WSOP Circuit Atlantic City winner Ryan Eriquezzo should not be overlooked either.
Card will be in the air at 1PM Vegas time on Wednesday!
FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (USD) 1st $416,051 2nd $257,119 3rd $186,265 4th $137,485 5th $103,322 6th $79,002 7th $61,434 8th $48,576 RELATED POSTS > ZHUKOV SURVIVES > MERSON MAKES IT QUICK > BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP FINALE > NOT THAT FAST! JAFFE WINS > SELBST SKYROCKETS TO #2 > HOBSON EARNS THE BRACELET > GRINDHOUSE, PART 2 > KOVALCHUK WINS AGAIN > DAVID BAKERS RULE! > GOOD GUY TRYBA WINS BIG > SHAKE AND BAKES! > CASSIDY-NGUYEN GO TO EXTRAS > HELLMUTH LEGEND GROWS, EARNS #12 > MAKE IT TWO FOR MONNETTE > CAZALS, MAD MARVIN MOVE UP > BLOCH WINS BRACELET | PTPR PREMIER EVENT 2012 World Series of Poker WSOP National Championship July 6-7 and 11, 2012 Rio All-Suite Hotel | Las Vegas Buy-in: $10,000 | Prizepool: $1,570,000 Entries: 157 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 126 2nd place 76 3rd place 46 4th place 36 5th place 31 6-7th place 26 8th place 11 JUSTIN GARDENHIRE 11 DAVID PETERS 11 DRAZEN ILICH 11 MARK BONSACK 9 EUGENE KATCHALOV 9 BRIAN RAST 9 NICK BINGER 9 HAO LAZICKY 6 JONATHAN SORSCHER 6 ALLEN KESSLER 6 |
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