WPT $25,000 Final: Day 3 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Thomas Wahlroos now has 108,500.

Nice comeback!

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Paul Sneed calls a short-stacked all-in with .

The all-iner has , which fails to improve on the board.

"Did I win?" asks Paul returning to the table. "I just can't watch anymore."

I nodded hesitantly, although I wasn't 100& sure and had to double check the board just in case.

Luckily, he had indeed won, but I doubt he'd been happy with my nod if the other guy had hit on the River.

[snoopy1239]

Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell has taken two hits to drop him down to 240k, one of which involved him re-raising pre-flop with Queens pushing on a 7-8-2 Flop but being outdrawn by Sixes, a cruel River card giving his opponent an undeserved set.

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The fantastically named Marcello Del Gross has just doubled up against Sam Grizzle with vs. on a board, all-in on the flop.

[Djinn]

A few counts before the stacks get unwieldy (but look so damn good on TV)...

Paul Testud   90k  (The lasted-longer of five French entrants)
Mikael Thuritz  560k
Sam Farha      300k
Abraham Mosseri  230k
Jared Hamby    294k
Anna Wroblewski  560k
Johan Storakers   220k
Barny Boatman    250k
Mark Gregorich    300k
Jesse Martin       240k
Robert Wazelle   235k
Sorel Mizzi          700k+
Tim Phan          200k
Praz Bansi          165k  (Whispering to me the two least favourite words of the card player after 'bad beat' - 'card dead')
Humberto Brenes  56k
Roland de Wolfe   730k
Scott Fischman    625k
Steve Wong       710k

[Djinn]

With 105 players left, the relaxed atmosphere belies the fact that we're almost at the bubble...

A reminder of the prizes:

1st   $3,970,415*
2nd  $2,011,135
3rd   $1,082,920
4th    $696,220
5th    $464,110
6th    $309,405
7th    $278,465
8th    $247,525
9th    $216,585
10th   $185,645
11th-15th   $154,705
16th-20th   $123,760
21st-30th    $92,820
31st-40th    $77,350
41st-50th    $61,880
51st-100th  $46,410

[snoopy1239]

Anna Wroblewski -- 485,000
Johan Storakers-- 250,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 135,000
Phil Tom -- 150,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 645,000
Barny Boatman -- 235,000
Scott Fischman -- 670,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 1,040,000
Jared Hamby -- 225,000
Lyle Berman -- 210,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 465,000
Bill Gazes -- 335,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 215,000
Marcello Del Grosso -- 175,000
Humberto Brenes -- 512,000
Raymond Davis -- 590,000
Steve Wong -- 700,000
Tim Pham -- 185,000
David Danshegar -- 185,000
Patrik Antonius -- 605,000
Bryon Devonshire -- 412,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 880,000
Mikael Thuritz -- 680,000
Praz Bansi -- 160,000
Bob Stupak -- 185,000
Gevork Kasabyan -- 65,000
David Levi -- 435,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 975,000
Daniel Aliea -- 285,000
Sam Grizzle -- 149,000
Paul Wasicka -- 595,000
Jeff Littlefield -- 66,000
Shawn Buchannan -- 490,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 244,000
Sammy Farha -- 220,000
David Baker -- 135,000
Marc Goodwin -- 210,000

[Djinn]

Blinds 4k/8k ante 1k     The Bubble approaches (102 players) - Hand For Hand...
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Head count....

And the reason they are doing so is that there was a double all-in last hand!  After an abysmally long time while the clock was ominously not stopped the tension felt by Robert Mizrachi, all in with his must have been unbearable.  He was up against , but all in for what looked to be about 40k.
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:    (You knew it was a spade from the intake of breath from all the other players at the table, and that resigned and heavy look on Mizrachi's face...)

He makes the minimum of fuss, while news of the double knockout spreads with a kind of guilty cheer through the room.  "Yay!" go a lot of the others who are guaranteed their 100th-51st £46,410, but you have to feel for the Double Bubble.

[snoopy1239]

Humberto, who scraped into the money with just 10,000 (4/8k blinds remember), has just doubled up with vs. .

Board =

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Marc Goodwin's claim to fame is that he knocked out Mr 100, Queens v Deuces, and is now up to 300k.

[snoopy1239]

Okay, looking back through the start of day table list, here are a few names that slipped under the radar:

Isabelle Mercier
Martin De Kjniff
Eric Friberg
Freddie Deeb
Amir Vahedi
Chip Reese

All out.

[snoopy1239]

LOL, we need an Humberto smilie because the enigmatic Costa Rican is now on a quite remarkable 200k after doubling through with vs. , the board coming a harmless .

[snoopy1239]

Someone known merely as 'Inside Sweaterman' to all the players and bloggers has just exited at the hands of James Worth with vs. , 9-9-A-A-Q rainbow board.

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Good news for Pimp fans, Marc Goodwin is up to 500k after catching Sixes vs. James Worth's Fours on a 6-5-4 Flop.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a double up, because after James flat called a 36k bet from Marc on the Flop, the Turn brought a Three, which slowed them both down, although James did later say that he was looking for a check raise.

On the River, however, came an action packed Five. James bet 20k, Marc made it 90k and James called.

"I would have called an all-in," said James, whilst Marc added, "I would have bet more but I thought he had the straight and wanted a call."

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Johan Storakers is OUT.

[snoopy1239]

We're down to 85. The first five went as follows:

100th = Bradley Helm
99th = Steven Mandelbaum
98th = Todd Keikoan
97th = Mark Stubbs
96th = Kevin Keller
95th = Robert Nehorayan

[Djinn]

Humberto had 10k like 20 mins ago and now he has 200k??? Incredible!! Must have got the shark out

Near unbelievably, Humberto has a new message for you, "Now you can post Humberto has 300!"  Yes he has taken Climber of the Day to a different level - 10k to 300k in less than half an hour.

His most recent 100k or so came about like this:  He saw a flop heads up, out of position, with Raymond Davis - .  Humberto bet out 40k.  Davis calmly doubled the bet.  80k might not be that much to one of the chip forerunners, but it put Humberto on a tough decision.  He took his time, about five minutes passing before he shoved all-in, about 70k on top of Davis' raise.  He must have liked the split-second fold of his opponent, even to that size of raise, must have been pure nothing in the button-possessor's hand.

"Not Humberto no good!" Shouted Humberto, whatever that means.

[Djinn]

As they break yet another table (I take back all those gloomy predictions of a 15-hour Day Four) Patrik Antonius is moved to Thomas Wahlroos' table.  "The two remaining Finns at the same table..." Thomas muses, before getting involved in this hand:

Thomas raises on the button quickly when it passes to him (I am sure this is not a rare occurrence) to 14k total.  Small blind Tim Phan gets out of the way, but big blind Lyle Berman pushes all in over the top.  Thomas calls instantly, and you get the feeling that was not the idea - Lyle's is against Finn #1's .
Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

And as the split card comes down on the river giving them both the wheel, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Thomas had lost that hand, and that Lyle might have kicked him in the shins and slashed the tyres on his car:  "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"
"It's not sick, it's justice..." replies Lyle.
"Will this never end?!" He shakes his metaphorical fist at the cruel gods of fate, then turns and starts chatting to Patrik Antonius in what must be Finnish.  He probably said something like, "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"

[snoopy1239]

Phil Tom -- 765,000
Anna Wroblewski -- 585,000
Patrik Antonius -- 355,000
Richard Anthony -- 565,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 310,000

[Djinn]

Kevin O'Connell is still in, and cheerfully re-raising Phil Hellmuth's preflop raise as I walked past.  Phil passed, showing and saying, "I give it up to you.  That's the last one, you've had your allowance...I had a bad feeling about that hand.  That's the worst I raise with."  Etc. ad infinitum.  Lose the small raise quietly...
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Actually, Kevin's just this second come over here, and is OUT about five minutes after this Phil push-off...  He apparently lost the biggest chunk of a medium stack raising with , and finding a small stack pushing in.  Call - he was up against .  The Queen-high all-in was walking away from the table, but spiked a Queen and a Ten to drop him down to 30k.  That went in pretty sharpish with , but he ran smack into Kings.  "I didn't know it was possible to win fifty grand and be so annoyed."