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As the 2012 Main Event finale brings to a close another thrilling World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas, here are some key facts and results from the prestigious $10,000 No-Limit Main Event.
The Main Event first got started in 1971, and now US pro Greg Merson completes 35 wins from 42 Main Events for the USA. However, since 1990 when the first non-US player won the title, USA has won 15 from 22 titles.
The 43rd WSOP awarded Greg Merson the 5th largest Main Event prize of $8,531,853. The biggest prize money ever awarded was $12 million in 2006 for Jamie Gold, followed by the 2008 Winner Peter Eastgate ($9,152,416), 2010 winner Jonathan Duhamel ($8,944,138) and last year’s winner Pius Heinz for $8,715,638.
At around 19.5 hours of play, this year’s Main Event was the longest in WSOP history beating the previous record set in 2009 by Joe Cada of 17 hours and 16 minutes.
Out of the 6,598 starting field those finishing from 666 to 595 received the minimum pay-out of $19,227. However, four players exited simultaneously in 666th place to receive $4,806 apiece.
Some of the notable names cashing high up at this year’s Main Event included 2011 finalist Sam Holden in 55th ($128,384), David ODB Baker in 56th ($128,384), Vanessa Selbst in 73rd ($88,070), Marcel Luske in 102nd ($52,718), 2010 finalist Joseph Cheong in 116th ($52,718), Sorel Mizzi in 151st ($52,718), and Daniel Negreanu in 160th ($52,718).
The 2012 WSOP Main Event proved a break-out year for the ladies, who threatened to reach a final table for the first time since Barbera Enright in 1995. Unfortunately, they fell just short with Norway’s Elisabeth Hille finishing in 11th ($590,442) and France’s Gaelle Baumann in 10th ($590,442).
Finally, here are the final 50 finishing positions at the WSOP 2012 Main Event:
1 Greg Merson 8,531,853
2 Jesse Sylvia 5,295,149
3 Jake Balsiger 3,799,073
4 Russell Thomas 2,851,537
5 Jeremy Ausmus 2,155,313
6 Andras Koroknai 1,640,902
7 Michael Esposito 1,258,040
8 Robert Salaburu 971,360
9 Steve Gee 754,798
10 Gaelle Baumann 590,442
11 Elisabeth Hille 590,442
12 Scott Abrams 590,442
13 Marc Ladouceur 465,159
14 Danny Wong 465,159
15 Wilfried Harig 465,159
16 Percy Mahatan 369,026
17 Robert Buckenmayer 369,026
18 David Balkin 369,026
19 Jamie Robbins 294,601
20 Paul Volpe 294,601
21 Robert Corcione 294,601
22 Cylus Watson 294,601
23 Yuval Bronshtein 294,601
24 Daniel Strelitz 294,601
25 Roland Israelashvili 294,601
26 Jan Heitmann 294,601
27 Nicco Maag 294,601
28 Erik Hellman 236,921
29 Jordan Batt 236,921
30 Niels van Alphen 236,921
31 Shahriar Assareh 236,921
32 Tomas Samol 236,921
33 Taylor Paur 236,921
34 Charles Coultas 236,921
35 Marty Zabib 236,921
36 Jonathan Schoder 236,921
37 Omar Saeed 191,646
38 Kyle Keranen 191,646
39 Amnon Filippi 191,646
40 Lasell King 191,646
41 Webber Kang 191,646
42 Paul Siem 191,646
43 Jordi Martinezalonso 191,646
44 Gwennael Grandmougin 191,646
45 Fabrizio Gonzalez 191,646
46 Tristan Clemencon 156,293
47 Amit Makhija 156,293
48 Jean Malherbe 156,293
49 Amit Zulkowitz 156,293
50 Leo Wolpert Onnit 156,293

49 Amit Zulkowitz 156,293 50 Leo Wolpert Onnit 156,293. World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour are launching online events where isolated players can still play. Its the latest response to. Amit Zulkowitz moved all in preflop for his last 1,130,000 and was called by Jordi Martinezalonso. Zulkowitz: Martinezalonso: Zulkowitz was able to flop a full house when the dealer showed the two. Zulkowitz improved his boat when the fell on the turn. A relative unknown in the live poker world, Amit Zulkowitz most definitely made a name for himself in the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Israel poker player began Day 6 in solid shape, positioned squarely in the middle of the remaining field of 97 players with 1.52 million chips. He was never. Picking up the action after the turn of a board reading, Joe Cada bet 11,000 only to see Amit Zulkowitz quickly move all in for about 30,000. Cada called instantly with and was ahead of Zulkowitz.

4.25pm: Half the day is done
And that's four of today's eight scheduled levels in the books. You'll find level 15 updates and beyond in a new post shortly.

4.20pm: Overkill
The ace on the river was a bit of overkill as Damien Lhommeau's pocket aces improved to a set, although they didn't need to as they were already ahead of Alexandros Kolonias's pocket jacks. The latter was at risk and has therefore been eliminated.

87 remain, 72 get paid.

4.15pm: Eight is the magic number
All tables are now playing eight handed poker. And tournament director Teresa Nousiainen just took to the microphone to inform players that they'll play eight levels today with no dinner break.

4.05pm: Exits
We're getting ever closer to the money here at Eureka Prague, these players unfortunately have fallen just short: Steve Watts, Dmitry Yurasov, Radoslaw Jacek Morawiec, Drazen Kapusta, Acatincai Andrei, Daniel Guerrero Lujan, Gregor Androjna, Alexandros Gkampranis, Artur Olczyk, Blorn Johansson and Mal Hagan.

3.45pm: Chip leaders
As level 14 gets underway, just 99 players remain, which makes the average stack 99,800. These players all have far more than that though: Matej Kalcic (340,000), Pawel Keller (310,000), Bernd Vogelhuber (250,000), Ioannis Triantafyllakis (250,000), Jacek Ladny (240,000), Daniel Havlik (235,000), Alexandros Kolonias (230,000), Dany Parlafes (230,000) and Marcel Buissink (220,000).

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3.25pm: Dutchman is done
More on how Steven van Zadelhoff exited from his twitter account (@svzff):
'Andddd outtt #eureka Repush 21bb KQhh button vs active opener HJ, behind me isolates AQcc. Flop flushdr no help.'

3.15pm: Poleaxed in Prague
More exits to tell you about: Tomáš Fucík, Igor Pihela, Juraj Berzinec, Kakhaber Japaridze, Kenneth Hicks, Radim Soudsky, Trevor Dinneen, Guy Tomaselli, Predrag Lekovic, Kajetan Masiewicz, Mirko Radovic, Jurijs Binklers, Andriy Mushak, Pawel Walczak, Rasmus Agerskov, Robertas Vaitkevicius, Neu Matthias, Steven Van Zadelhoff, Andrey Martyanov, Anghel Vasile, Amit Zulkowitz and Tiberiu Zanfirache are all out.

3.05pm: More for Marquez
As I wandered towards Team PokerStars Pro Ana Marquez's table I could see that she was stacking chips, a good sign surely? Indeed it was. The Spaniard is up to 130,000 from a start of day 71,200.

2.50pm: One exit, one double up
I caught two hands in quick succession: one exit and one double up.

The exit: Kakhaber Japaridze was all-in pre-flop with pocket tens against Alexandru Fuioaga's pocket nines. A nine on the flop saw the pot go the Romanian's way and with 225,000 he's now one of the chip leaders.

The double up: On a 8♣7♥3♦ flop Dennis Huebner led out for 8,000 from the small blind, Elena Tamarovskaya moved all-in and Huebner called all-in for 39,400 total.

Huebner: 3♥3♠
Tamarovskaya: A♥K♦

The Russian was drawing dead and the meaningless T♥ and 2♣ completed the board, and she was left with just 8,000.

2.45pm: Double Dutch
It's not been the best of starts to the day for Steven van Zadelhoff, the Dutchman took to twitter to say. 'Slow start on day2 of #eureka Prague. Down to last 120, 72 get paid. I have 47k for 23bb let's double up!'

2.35pm: Leader board update
With just the main and side events of Eureka Prague to go the Eureka Poker Tour Season 2 leader board is up for grabs. Of the current top five only one - Alija Filipovic - is still in the main event. Although points are also awarded for side event results, a min-cash in the main event would put Filipovic in first place.

The Eureka Croatia champion is currently in third place - good for a Eureka Season 3 Main Event Entry and a €530 ticket. Should he top the TLB he'll win a EPT Season 9 Main Event Entry, that's a €3,670 swing so he'll be sweating the bubble - should he get there - extra hard. He's currently got around 68,000 for a little below average.

2.20pm: Back in their seats
Play is under way again and level 13 will undoubtedly prove unlucky for some. There are currently 126 players still in contention, 72 of whom will get paid.

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2.05pm: Break time
That's two levels done and dusted, players are now on a 15-minute break.

2pm: More exits
The players continue to bust out in their droves here in Prague. Those to have hit the rail recently include Mate Bajka, Gary Clarke, Aiman El Hafiz De Pablo, Hefler Istvan, David Vedral, Kestutis Gricius, Dimitar Yosifov, Ivan Barczi, Mika Ladislav, Enver Khvitia, David Frejka, Sasa Zorc, Mauro Pomponi, Veronika Pavlikova, Kamil Jamro, Ankush Mandavia, Roberto Romanello, Andrej Nagy and Arturas Antonianas.

1.45pm: Chip leader
By my reckoning Matej Kalcic is the new chip leader, the Slovenian has around 200,000. Overnight chip leader Marc Daubach is holding steady with around 160,000.

1.35pm: In your eye
I'd like to think that if there's an equivalent phrase to 'in your eye' in the Greek language then that's what would've been going through Ioannis Triantafyllakis mind in the following hand.

From under-the-gun he opened to 3,200 from a stack of around 110,000, next to act Dejan Dikovic three-bet to 7,100 and there was then a four-bet to 12,000 from middle position. It folded back to Triantafyllakis and after a few seconds thought he moved all-in. Both opponent's quickly mucked their hands.
1.25pm: Plus two
Yesterday I reported that the total number of runners for Eureka Prague was 650. Well it's actually crept up overnight to 652. The extra two are down to two no shows.

1.15pm: Zorc straightened on
Sasa Zorc was all-in for his last 10 blinds with A♦K♠. He was in good shape against Florian Loehnert's K♦9♠ and it seemed a double up was in the offing. But, a 7♠8♥2♥J♥T♥ board saw Loehnert river a straight to eliminate him.

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1.05pm: Prizepool
As I alluded to earlier (see 12.15pm) the winner of Eureka Prague will pocket €140,000, but now we have the entire payout structure. You can feast your eyes on it here.

12.50pm: Exits
As per usual at the start of Day 2 there's been plenty of exits. All of the following have hit the rail during level 11; Nikolai Kalinkin, Marius-Ovidiu Volovei, David Stogel, Cemil Incegul, Filip Szpak, Andrey Da Silva, Damian Siewert, Adam Hamaoui, Alexey Andreev, Jakub Michalak, Grayson Ramage, Alexander Stepin, Celine Bastian, Vadim Belov, Niels Meibom-Larsen, Florian Calin, Eusebiu-Nicolae Jalba, Tomas Petru, Mikhail Shevchuk, Aleksei Bubnov and Lenar Nurullin.

12.35pm: Flying the flag
Whilst yesterday was a total bust for Team PokerStars Pro, one member did advance from Day 1A. Team PokerStars Pro Ana Marquez made it through with an above average 71,200. In the opening stages of Day 2 she's increased it a touch, moving up to 75,000.

12.20pm: Seat Draw
There are 20 tables in action today and you can see the draw for them all right here.

12.15pm: Show me the money
Whilst I don't have the entire payout structure just yet (I'll post that on the blog when I do) I can tell you that the winner of Eureka Prague will receive €140,000. In total 72 of the 652 players will get paid with a min-cash worth €2,210.

The bubble will definitely burst today, those in the know (the tournament staff) predict Level 15 is the favourite for when it's likely to go pop.

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12pm: We bring the Stars out
Six-hundred and fifty-two! Wow! That was the final number of runners for Eureka Prague. Huge.

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And at times yesterday the player list read more like and EPT than a National tour, EPT winners like Roberto Romanello and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree sat down to play as did other tournament superstars like Dan Smith and Bryn Kenney.

Yet, such is the beauty of poker that for all these superstars it's a recreational player who leads the Day 2 field, Marc Daubach, a Belgian who lives in London, bagged up 165,900 to lead the way.

He and 175 others are all taking their seats right now for the start of Day 2 and the prospect of a first female winner on the Eureka Poker Tour is still very much alive, one of those looking to do just that is Czech player Veronika Pavlikova. She already has one PokerStars title to her name (France Poker Series - Snowfest, Rhone-Alps), she'll be looking to make it two here in Prague.

PokerStars Blog reporting team in Prague: Nick Wright. Photos by Tomas Stacha.