Final table of 2012 WSOP Main Event resumes today!

The day has come, when we will finally know who will become the (unofficial) Poker World Champion 2012. After three months, the final nine players left in the World Series of Poker 2012 Main Event are back to Rio casino in Las Vegas to finish the tournament! The final table is completely dominated by American players, as we have eight Americans and one player from Hungary.

The chip leader entering the final table is Jesse Sylvia, who holds a massive 43,875,000 stack. That's about 14,000,000 more than the 2nd largest stack, owned by Andras Koroknai from Hungary. Greg Merson is 3rd in chips. He's played a fantastic day 7 and is now considered one of the favourites to take the title as he holds 28,725,000 chips. Merson is looking to win his 2nd WSOP bracelet this year. He took over the WSOP Player of the Year lead from Phil Ivey and has a good chance of winning that award. Now, the players will have 102 days to enjoy success and improve their games, as the tournament will take a three-month break. The final table will be played on October 29-30, at the Rio in Las Vegas.

Each finalist has guaranteed a $754,798 payout. The Main Event winner will collect a $8,527,982 first prize, as well as a special bracelet made of gold and diamond.

How to watch 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table live:
This year it will be impossible to watch the final table on the internet, as ESPN tv station has exclusive rights for the transmission. However, if you have ESPN or other poker channels (like PokerItalia24 in Europe) available, you will still be able to enjoy the final table of 2012 WSOP Main Event!

Full list of players and their stacks:

Seat 1: Russell Thomas (24,800,000 in chips)
Seat 2: Jacob Balsiger (13,115,000 in chips)
Seat 3: Jeremy Ausmus (9,805,000 in chips)
Seat 4: Steven Gee (16,860,000 in chips)
Seat 5: Greg Merson (28,725,000 in chips)
Seat 6: Jesse Sylvia (43,875,000 in chips)
Seat 7: Robert Salaburu (15,155,000 in chips)
Seat 8: Andras Koroknai (29,375,000 in chips)
Seat 9: Michael Esposito (16,260,000 in chips)

so espn will show it live (assuming with delays) ?

will keep an eye out for a stream.
as of now, looks like http://atdhe.eu/ might have a stream running at some point (though i wouldn't bank on it yet)

Any known online players in this mix? I know nothing of this year's wsop lol

greg merson is gregy20723 on stars (known MS grinder, multiple years of SNE etc)

i think frenchdawg FTed aswell? or am i wrong

Oh right gregy, sick!

On October 29 2012 15:08 longple wrote: greg merson is gregy20723 on stars (known MS grinder, multiple years of SNE etc) i think frenchdawg FTed aswell? or am i wrong

wow sick

glgl

so if any of you remember woodbrave, he is one of my best friends. his little brother is russell thomas.

also russell was into2ndwind on PS

and jesse sylvia is one of russell's best friends

link for british espn all i could find under here http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=177672&part=sports

This link also works:

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/149758/1/watch-world-series-of-poker-2012.html

where did woodbrave go? he was hilarious. Plus I remember one fold that everyone called him crazy for and there was this huge long discussion and he was like "its not even close" and turned out being right

greg = 82 million pot

(greg)otb vs sb vs (koroknai)bb pre flop battles

button R, sb 3b, bb 4b, button 5bs, sb folds, bb shoves, button snap calls

AKs vs KQo

board bricks

greg wins monster pot FWAK!!!

On October 29 2012 15:08 longple wrote: greg merson is gregy20723 on stars (known MS grinder, multiple years of SNE etc) i think frenchdawg FTed aswell? or am i wrong

FrenchDawg busted in 13th. His real name is Marc-Andre Ladoceur.

On October 29 2012 17:48 chris wrote: so if any of you remember woodbrave, he is one of my friends. his little brother is russell thomas.

russels a really awesome guy, he whooped my ass at speedchess, and was having matches with marshall alot (from lp)

really good all around grinder person and player, deservinggggggggg

russsells qq v 88 riv callz was pretty fcking sick considering the payjumps, his br being like 100-500kish?

semi clear call with villian + villian image, that being said, i would play A6cc like he did, but its like 8% of his range

great snap russssssssss

On October 30 2012 13:26 NeillyJQ wrote: Show nested quote + On October 29 2012 17:48 chris wrote: so if any of you remember woodbrave, he is one of my friends. his little brother is russell thomas. russels a really awesome guy, he whooped my ass at speedchess, and was having matches with marshall alot (from lp) really good all around grinder person and player, deservinggggggggg

that was his older brother john, lol

On October 29 2012 19:58 Endo wrote: where did woodbrave go? he was hilarious. Plus I remember one fold that everyone called him crazy for and there was this huge long discussion and he was like "its not even close" and turned out being right

he stopped coming to LP. basically any post he made, people thought he was trolling. half the time he was. but he would post something, immediately get banned, make a new account, ask what someones favorite xmen movie was, get banned, etc. i think the mods just liked banning him, although im sure they had their reasons.

GOT 1K ON MY BOY GREGY. LETSSS GO