Hastings wins, Ivey and Hellmuth in contention and more from the WSOP

It was another busy at the 2012 World Series of Poker with one of online poker’s greatest players winning his first WSOP bracelet, and two poker legends looking to add to their already impressive resumes of 11 and 8 bracelets respectively. Here is a look at all of the action from Thursday at the 2012 WSOP.

Brian Hastings wins $10k Heads-Up tournament

Online legend Brian Hastings picked up his first major tournament victory yesterday after winning the $10k Heads-Up tournament at the 2012 WSOP. Hastings path to the bracelet included wins over Jim Rumptz, Emil “whitelime” Patel, recent WPT winner Tommy Vedes, Amritraj Singh, Jeffrey Gross, Tommy Chen in the Final Four, and Jason Mo in the finals. Hastings picked up $378,498 for the win, along with the coveted WSOP bracelet.

Arsht gives the senior’s their second WSOP bracelet of 2012

For the second time this week the old-timers are proving that poker isn’t simply a young man’s game. Earlier this week 71 year-old Herbert Tapscott took down the Omaha 8 tournament and yesterday 66 year-old David Arsht picked-up his first WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Limit Holdem tourney.

The tournament also saw yet another woman make a WSOP final table in 2012, bringing the tally up to nine in the first 13 events. Here is a look at the final table payouts from the event:

1. David Arsht – $211,921
2. Stephen Hung – $130,903
3. Al Barbieri – $84,388
4. Donald Auger – $61,820
5. Glenn Engelbert – $45,953
6. Ben Landowski – $34,620
7. Jeff Weiss – $26,401
8. Alexander Queen – $20,370
9. Lori Kirgan – $15,886

Hellmuth and Ivey going strong in the $5k Stud 8 tourney

Phil Hellmuth is in search of his 12^th WSOP and Phil Ivey is looking to add bracelet #9 to his resume. Both men have above average chip-counts entering the final day of the $5k Stud 8 event with just 19 players left in contention. Here is a look at the chip-leaders heading into Day 3:

1. Adam Friedman – 323,500
2. John Monnette – 314,500
3. Brian Twete – 284,500
4. Sven Arntzen – 273,500
5. Nikolai Yakovenko – 256,500
6. Phil Ivey – 234,000
7. Phil Hellmuth – 233,000
8. Bryn Kenney – 162,000
9. Jesse Martin – 150,000
10. Alexander Krapivinsky – 146,000

$1,500 NLHE Shootout down to 12 players

We are down to just 12 players in the $1,500 NLHE Shootout event heading into Friday, and there are still two big names gunning for the bracelet, Jeff Madsen and Layne Flack. Here is a look at the seating assignments and chip-counts heading into the final day of the event:

Table 1

• Seat 1: Justin Schwartz – 423,000
• Seat 2: Dylan Hortin – 422,000
• Seat 3: Jeff Madsen – 431,000
• Seat 4: Brandon Schaefer – 432,000
• Seat 5: Jarred Solomon – 426,500
• Seat 6: Michael Corson – 432,000

Table 2

• Seat 1: Zachary Korik – 418,000
• Seat 2: Layne Flack – 431,000
• Seat 3: David Chase – 417,000
• Seat 4: Jon Cohen – 431,000
• Seat 5: Brandon Steven – 427,000
• Seat 6: Adam Kagin – 423,000

$1,500 6-Max NLHE enters Day 2

A total of 1,604 players entered the 6-Max NLHE tournament on Thursday, and when the dust settled only 137 players remained in the event. Here is a look at the Top 10 chip-counts heading into Day 2 of the tournament:

1. Nick Maimone – 175,900
2. Mark Radoja – 172,500
3. Thijmen Stocker – 156,000
4. Joe Cappuccio – 152,000
5. Keith Ferrera – 136,700
6. Jeffrey Brown – 120,700
7. Mark Darner – 117,800
8. Matt Matros – 116,700
9. Manig Loeser – 113,300
10. Aharon Shabtay – 110,200

All results courtesy of the www.wsop.com website