2012 World Series of Poker results

Below are the 2012 World Series of Poker results.

Key *Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame (#/#)This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in the 2012 WSOP. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament. Place What place each player at the final table finished Name The player who made it to the final table Prize (US$) The amount of money awarded for each finish at the event's final table or quarter-finalist and above in heads-up events.

Results Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em

2-Day Event: May 27–28 Number of Entries: 732 Total Prize Pool: $329,400 Number of Payouts: 81 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Chiab Saechao (1/1) $70,859 2nd Patricia Baker $43,754 3rd James Routos $28,206 4th Ray Pulford $20,663 5th Nicolas Vaca-Rondon $15,359 6th Jay Pinkussohn $11,571 7th Steven Phan $8,824 8th Matthew Wilmot $6,808 9th Georgi Ivanov $5,309

Event #2: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: May 28–30 Number of Entries: 2,101 Total Prize Pool: $2,836,350 Number of Payouts: 216 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Brent Hanks (1/1) $517,725 2nd Jacob Bazeley $322,294 3rd Andrew Badecker (0/1) $224,029 4th Vanessa Selbst (0/1) $161,345 5th Ryan Schmidt $117,921 6th Abdyl Konjuhi $87,231 7th Michael Kaufman $65,377 8th J.P. Kelly (0/2) $49,621 9th Richard Park $38,106

Event #3: $3,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha

3-Day Event: May 29–31 Number of Entries: 317 Total Prize Pool: $870,870 Number of Payouts: 64 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Leif Force (1/1) $207,708 2nd Jason Koon $128,660 SF Simeon Naydenov $73,655 SF Julian Powell $73,655 QF Gregg Merkow $28,409 QF Andy Frankenberger (0/1) $28,409 QF David Benefield $28,409 QF Annette Obrestad (0/1) $28,409

Event #4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8 or Better

3-Day Event: May 29–31 Number of Entries: 622 Total Prize Pool: $839,700 Number of Payouts: 64 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Cory Zeidman (1/1) $201,559 2nd Chris Bjorin (0/2) $124,838 3rd Brandon Shack-Harris $84,415 4th Yarron Bendor $58,518 5th Michael Mizrachi (0/2) $41,447 6th Xuan Liu $29,985 7th Todd Brunson (0/1) $22,142 8th Bonnie Rossi $16,684

Event #5: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: May 30-June 1 Number of Entries: 639 Total Prize Pool: $862,650 Number of Payouts: 72 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Nick Jivkov (1/1) $189,818 2nd Bryan Pellegrino $117,199 3rd Jonathan Aguiar $76,189 4th Tommy Vedes $55,960 5th Daniel Negreanu (0/4) $41,683 6th Mike Allis $31,452 7th Brant Hale $24,007 8th John Eames $18,529 9th Keanu Tabali $14,449

Event #6: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Mixed Max

5-Day Event: May 31-June 4 Number of Entries: 409 Total Prize Pool: $1,922,300 Number of Payouts: 44 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Aubin Cazals (1/1) $480,564 2nd Joseph Cheong $296,956 SF Warwick Mirzikinian $162,443 SF Hugo Lemaire $162,443 QF Marvin Rettenmaier $68,151 QF Fabrizio Baldassari $68,151 QF Randy Haddox $68,151 QF Adam Geyer $68,151

Event #7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud

3-Day Event: May 31-June 2 Number of Entries: 367 Total Prize Pool: $495,450 Number of Payouts: 40 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Andy Bloch (1/1) $126,363 2nd Barry Greenstein* (0/3) $78,038 3rd Stephen Su $50,332 4th David Williams (0/1) $36,470 5th Huu Vinh $26,813 6th Lee Goldman $20,001 7th Caroline Hermesh $15,135 8th Scott Abrams $11,618

Event #8: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

3-Day Event: June 1–3 Number of Entries: 967 Total Prize Pool: $1,305,450 Number of Payouts: 117 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Herbert Tapscott (1/1) $264,400 2nd Gavin Griffin (0/1) $163,625 3rd Ashly Butler $102,373 4th Can Kim Hua $74,306 5th Michael Kleist $54,855 6th John Racener $41,121 7th Thayer Rasmussen $31,278 8th Raymond Davis $24,111 9th Bryan Jolly $18,837

Event #9: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry

5-Day Event: June 2–6 Number of Entries: 3,404 Total Prize Pool: $4,595,400 Number of Payouts: 342 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Ashkan Razavi (1/1) $781,398 2nd Amanda Musumeci $481,643 3rd Derrick Huang $347,228 4th Ryan Olisar $252,379 5th Duy Ho $185,378 6th Brian Rast (0/2) $137,632 7th Greg Mueller (0/2) $103,258 8th Benjamin Reinhart $78,259 9th Dien Le $59,969

Event #10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud

3-Day Event: June 3–5 Number of Entries: 145 Total Prize Pool: $681,500 Number of Payouts: 16 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st John Monnette (1/2) $190,826 2nd Huu Vinh $117,913 3rd Timothy Finne $73,847 4th Perry Friedman (0/1) $53,470 5th Jeff Lisandro (0/5) $41,789 6th Mark Dickstein $33,325 7th Bryn Kenney $27,062 8th Raymond Dehkharghani $22,332

Event #11: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha

3-Day Event: June 4–6 Number of Entries: 970 Total Prize Pool: $1,309,500 Number of Payouts: 117 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Vincent van der Fluit (1/1) $265,211 2nd Charles Tonne $164,132 3rd Tristan Wade (0/1) $102,690 4th Damien Lhommeau $74,536 5th Alex Dovzhenko $55,025 6th Rodney Brown $41,249 7th Brian Garbe $31,375 8th Calvin Anderson $24,186 9th David Schnettler $18,896

Event #12: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 5–7 Number of Entries: 152 Total Prize Pool: $1,428,800 Number of Payouts: 32 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Brian Hastings (1/1) $371,498 2nd Jason Mo $229,722 SF Brock Parker (0/2) $130,606 SF Tommy Chen $130,606 QF Chris Moore $56,380 QF Jeffrey Gross $56,380 QF Andrew Robl $56,380 QF Michael Drummond $56,380

Event #13: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 5–7 Number of Entries: 730 Total Prize Pool: $985,500 Number of Payouts: 81 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st David Arsht (1/1) $211,921 2nd Stephen Hung $130,903 3rd Al Barbieri $84,388 4th Donald Auger $61,820 5th Glenn Engelbert $45,953 6th Ben Landowski $34,620 7th Jeff Weiss $26,401 8th Alexander Queen $20,370 9th Lori Kirgan $15,886

Event #14: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

3-Day Event: June 6–8 Number of Entries: 1,138 Total Prize Pool: $1,536,300 Number of Payouts: 120 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Brandon Schaefer (1/1) $311,174 2nd Jonathan Cohen $192,559 3rd Adam Kagin $120,329 4th Layne Flack (0/6) $87,446 5th David Chase $64,555 6th Michael Corson $48,393 7th Jeff Madsen (0/2) $36,809 8th Brandon Steven $28,375 9th Justin Schwartz $22,168

Event #15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

3-Day Event: June 6–8 Number of Entries: 212 Total Prize Pool: $996,400 Number of Payouts: 24 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Adam Friedman (1/1) $269,037 2nd Todd Brunson (0/1) $166,269 3rd John Monnette (1/2) $109,444 4th Nikolai Yakovenko $79,831 5th Sven Arntzen $59,395 6th Zimnan Ziyard $44,967 7th Phil Ivey (0/8) $34,595 8th Bryn Kenney $27,012

Event #16: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed

3-Day Event: June 7–9 Number of Entries: 1,604 Total Prize Pool: $2,165,400 Number of Payouts: 162 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Matt Matros (1/3) $454,835 2nd Mark Radoja (0/1) $281,502 3rd Ramey Shaio $182,521 4th Gordon Vayo $121,262 5th Robert Muzzatti $81,202 6th Mark Darner $56,300

Event #17: $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 8–10 Number of Entries: 179 Total Prize Pool: $1,682,600 Number of Payouts: 18 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Andy Frankenberger (1/2) $445,899 2nd Phil Ivey (0/8) $275,559 3rd Ali Eslami $199,623 4th Alexander Venovski $147,345 5th Manuel Bevand $110,731 6th Shaun Deeb $84,668 7th Matt Marafioti $65,840 8th Daniel Weinman $52,059 9th Hoyt Corkins (0/2) $41,829

Event #18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz

3-Day Event: June 8–10 Number of Entries: 309 Total Prize Pool: $702,975 Number of Payouts: 32 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Phil Hellmuth* (1/12) $182,793 2nd Don Zewin $113,024 3rd Brandon Cantu (0/2) $74,269 4th Scott Fischman (0/2) $54,248 5th Brendan Taylor (0/1) $40,167 6th Barry Greenstein* (0/3) $30,150 7th Michael Chow (0/1) $22,945 8th Jeffrey Mitseff $17,693

Event #19: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 9–11 Number of Entries: 2,302 Total Prize Pool: $3,107,700 Number of Payouts: 243 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Clifford Goldkind (1/1) $559,514 2nd Kennii Nguyen $347,036 3rd Adria Balaguer $245,197 4th Patrick Smith $176,299 5th Gregg Wilkinson $128,441 6th Justin McGill $94,815 7th David Peters $70,886 8th Barry Shulman (0/2) $53,669 9th Gary Burks $41,145

Event #20: $5,000 Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 9–11 Number of Entries: 166 Total Prize Pool: $780,200 Number of Payouts: 18 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Benjamin Scholl (1/1) $206,760 2nd Andrew Prock $127,773 3rd Jeff Shulman $92,562 4th Jesse Martin $68,322 5th Raymond Dehkharghani $51,344 6th Matt Glantz $39,259 7th Matthew Woodward $30,529 8th Nicholas Derke $24,139 9th Ayman Qutami $19,395

Event #21: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em

3-Day Event: June 10–12 Number of Entries: 2,799 Total Prize Pool: $2,519,100 Number of Payouts: 297 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Michael Gathy (1/1) $440,829 2nd Jamie Armstrong $273,776 3rd Noah Vaillancourt $193,089 4th John Esposito (0/1) $139,457 5th Eric Baldwin (0/1) $101,948 6th Eric Davis $75,422 7th Jean-Louis Santoni $56,453 8th Jason Manggunio $42,749 9th Joshua Field $32,748

Event #22: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)

3-Day Event: June 10–12 Number of Entries: 228 Total Prize Pool: $518,700 Number of Payouts: 24 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Randy Ohel (1/1) $145,247 2nd Benjamin Lazer $89,714 3rd David "ODB" Baker $59,925 4th Farzad Bonyadi (0/3) $40,987 5th Jason Lavallee $28,585 6th Shawn Buchanan $20,322

Event #23: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed

3-Day Event: June 11–13 Number of Entries: 924 Total Prize Pool: $2,522,520 Number of Payouts: 108 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Simon Charette (1/1) $567,624 2nd Artem Metalidi $350,806 3rd Luis Rodriguez $222,511 4th Eddie Blumenthal $146,053 5th Foster Hays (0/1) $98,756 6th Bertrand Grospellier (0/1) $68,738

Event #24: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

4-Day Event: June 11–14 Number of Entries: 256 Total Prize Pool: $1,203,200 Number of Payouts: 27 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Joe Cassidy (1/1) $294,777 2nd Scotty Nguyen (0/5) $182,213 3rd Phil Ivey (0/8) $136,046 4th Meng La (0/1) $102,260 5th Gregory Jamison $77,342 6th Elie Doft $58,873 7th Bart Hanson $45,084 8th Mike Matusow (0/3) $34,748 9th Ryan Lenaghan $26,940

Event #25: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout

3-Day Event: June 12–14 Number of Entries: 366 Total Prize Pool: $494,100 Number of Payouts: 50 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Brian Meinders (1/1) $116,118 2nd Darin Thomas $71,704 3rd Christopher Vitch $51,861 4th Victor Ramdin $37,897 5th Brock Parker (0/2) $27,986 6th Preston Derden $20,886 7th Matthew Schreiber $15,747 8th Sean Rice $11,992 9th Ian Johns (0/1) $9,225 10th Christopher Hartman $7,164

Event #26: $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha

3-Day Event: June 12–14 Number of Entries: 589 Total Prize Pool: $1,607,970 Number of Payouts: 63 Winning Hand:

+ Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Austin Scott (1/1) $361,797 2nd Brett Richey $223,492 3rd Vadzim Kursevich $158,530 4th Scott Stanko $114,037 5th Huykhiem Nguyen $83,180 6th Tom Chambers $61,521 7th Romik Vartzar $46,117 8th Dutch Boyd (0/2) $35,038 9th Thomas Pettersson $26,966

Event #27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

4-Day Event: June 13–16 Number of Entries: 889 Total Prize Pool: $1,200,150 Number of Payouts: 96 Winning Hand: (Stud Hi/Lo)