2012 World Series of Poker Main Event

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2012 was the main event of the 43rd edition of the Poker World Championship in Las Vegas .

Tournament structure

The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

Registration for the main tournament of the World Series of Poker in the No Limit Hold'em variant was spread over the three days from July 7th to 9th, 2012. Then the game was played until the seventh day of the tournament on July 17th, after which only nine players remained. The final table was played from October 28, 2012. The entire tournament was played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . The total of 6598 participants had a buy-in of 10,000 dollars to pay for them, there were 666 paid places. With Gaëlle Baumann (10th) and Elisabeth Hille(11.) two women narrowly missed the final table. After Barbara Enright in 1995, it would have been only the second time that a woman has sat at the final table of the main event.

transmission

The main event was streamed live from the third day of the tournament on the WSOP website. The US television channel ESPN also broadcast summaries in a total of 22 episodes, commented on by Norman Chad and Lon McEachern and moderated by Kara Scott . The final table was broadcast live and exclusively on ESPN.

German-speaking participants

Marvin Rettenmaier (648.- $ 19,227)

The following German-speaking participants were able to place themselves in the money:

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
015th	Germany	Wilfried Härig	465.159
026th	Germany	Jan Heitmann	294,601
027	Germany	Nicco Maag	294,601
040	Germany	Lasell King	191,646
121	Germany	Raphael Ayani	052,718
127	Germany	Nico Behling
140	Switzerland	Ronny Kaiser
145	Germany	Mathias Maasberg
163	Germany	Hans Joachim Hein	044,655
190	Germany	Christopher Kolla
197	Switzerland	Ronny Schenk
242	Germany	Jan Kasten	038,453
300	Switzerland	Stephan Ibs	038,453
310	Germany	Heinz Kamutzki	032,871
324	Switzerland	Guido Tauriello
351	Germany	Peter Bosen
403	Germany	Adrian Apmann	028,530
413	Germany	David Scherzer
414	Germany	Felix Funk
507	Germany	Ernst Schmejkal	024,808
530	Germany	Erik Scheidt	021,707
531	Germany	Robert Schulz
591	Austria	Markus Hausberger
648	Germany	Marvin Rettenmaier	019,227
655	Germany	Serkan Kurnaz	019,227

Final table

Greg Merson (2015)

The final table started on October 28, 2012. In the final hand, Merson won with K ♦ 5 ♦ against Sylvia with Q ♠ J ♠ .

space	origin	player	Age ^*	Prize money (in $ )
1	United States	Greg Merson	24	8,531,853
2	United States	Jesse Sylvia	26th	5,295,149
3	United States	Jacob Balsiger	21st	3,799,073
4th	United States	Russell Thomas	24	2,851,537
5	United States	Jeremy Ausmus	32	2,155,313
6th	Hungary	András Koroknai	30th	1,640,902
7th	United States	Michael Esposito	43	1,258,040
8th	United States	Robert Salaburu	27	0.971.360
9	United States	Steve Gee	57	0.754.798

^* Age at the beginning of October Nine

Web links

Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2012 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database
World Series of Poker 2012 Main Event on the World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2012 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 7, 2015 (English).
↑ Playlist: WSOP-2012 (Main event) on YouTube , accessed on May 23, 2016.
↑ Who are the October Nines? on pokerolymp.com on July 17, 2012, accessed November 7, 2015.

[hendonmob-1] Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2012 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 7, 2015 (English).

[2] Playlist: WSOP-2012 (Main event) on YouTube , accessed on May 23, 2016.

[3] Who are the October Nines? on pokerolymp.com on July 17, 2012, accessed November 7, 2015.