The 2012 World Series of Poker Bubble Boys, Pepper Spray Incident, Roberto Luongo Cashes

And the 2012 World Series of Poker bubble boys are David Kelley, Dane Lomas, Desmond Portano, Steve Rosen.

Here is how it all went down as explained by PokerNews.com: 

In the first hand of hand-for-hand play, five players found themselves all in with two at-risk players playing from behind, while the other three got it in good. Three eliminations were needed for the bubble to burst, and that's exactly what happened as four players busted, thus splitting the prize for 666th place.

After all the eliminations, Tournament Director Jack Effel took all the bubble boys to the stage and announced they would all be splitting 666th-place money ($19,227) and take home $4,806.75 each.

The World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship started on July 7 introducing changes to the longtime popular tournament structure. It was expected to draw a record breaking field and a colossal prize pool.  With Three starting days (instead of the usual four), no day off and five full levels of play, players would benefit from the modifications but it did not happen or at least not as expected.

Day 1A draw the first batch of player, a total of 1,066 players floated the Amazon & Pavilion Room for the kickoff of the Cadillac of poker.  Day 1B saw 2,144 players joining the action at the Rio for the quest of the Main Event Bracelet.  But Day 1C made history, maybe the only significant record, the largest one-day Main Event field in its 43-year history, 3,418 players made the $10,000 Buy-in on the last starting day of the “Big One”.  Day 1C sky rocketed the final numbers; a total of 6,598 players generated a massive prize pool of $62,021,200. 

With three starting days in the books of History, we saw the first of two Day 2 fields of Event 61 coming back to the tables, at the end of the day 2AB, only 900 players advanced to day 3. The 2,300 remaining players the largest one-day Main Event field came back to play Day 2c on Wednesday, 860 players survived.

The original field of 6,598 was reduced to 1,738 hopefuls and for the first time, all fields were combined to make Day 3.  The last players standing tried to rake in as many chips as possible to end the twelve hour of play in pole position or at least enough ammo to make the top 666 players and a min-cash. After the last hand was played of Day 3, only 720 players moved on to day 4 and we got closer to burst the money bubble.

Then it happened.

Again, David Kelley, Dane Lomas, Desmond Portano, Steve Rosen are busto and now we are in the money.  All players from this point forward will walk away with cash. 

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Roberto Luongo Eliminated

In other news, NHL player Roberto Luongo was finally eliminated, making his first ever WSOP cashout. 

Pepper Spray Incident

A four table radius in the Amazon room was recently caught jumping up from their tables in fits of coughing. Amid the tizzy of players scrambling throughout the Orange section, we found former November Niner Lee Childs who informed us that the incident happened at his table.

"A guy at my table raked in a pot and then all of a sudden jumped up from the table and started coughing like crazy. Then I felt a tickle in my throat and started coughing. Turns out a guy had what he thought was a pen and it sprayed pepper spray in the air," said Childs.

Speaking with WSOP Media Director Nolan Dalla afterwards, we confirmed the story. A player at the table found what he thought was a pen in the parking lot and was playing with it at the table. He clicked it, assuming he would engage the pen, but instead sent pepper spray flying into the air. Play has since resumed in that part of the Orange section but the coughing is still being heard echoing throughout the Amazon room.

Childs would take to Twitter after during the break to inform his followers of the incident:

Lee Childs “Ok. Dude has a pepper spray pen. Grabbed it instead of real pen from bag. Accidentally went off. main victim likely on tv. He's fine now.” July 13 2012

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