WPT $25,000 Final: Day 3 - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Liz Lieu is walking around, phone in hand, handbag over her shoulder. Pretty sure she's a gonna.

[Djinn]

After Wahlroos took that dent, he was all in soon thereafter, pushing on the small blind following two limps preflop.  One of them was Praz, who debated calling the 25k more.  "Spread the pot," he requests of the dealer, deciding eventually to give it up along with limper one.  This sets of a triangle of chat - Praz, Sam Farha and Abraham Mosseri.
Mosseri to Praz, "You a mathematician?"
Mosseri to Farha, "Spread the pot...mathematician, we just play the game."
Praz to Mosseri, "You a comedian?"
Mosseri to Praz, "No."
Praz to Mosseri, "You are quite funny though."
Farha to Praz, "You think so?"
Mosseri to whoever, "That's it, angry.."
Farha to Mosseri, "Hey, I'm on your side."

On his side or not, the very next hand saw Sam Farha raise preflop and Abraham Mosseri quickly plonk in a chunk of blue 10k chips, enough of a raise to set Farha all-in for 198k.  He went for it, in a split second the cards were on their backs:
Farha: 
Mosseri:     and although three diamonds on the flop probably weren't what Sam wanted to see, he ended up victorious, and with a 400k stack to boot.

A few counts from Table Lairy:
Praz Bansi     190k
Sam Farha     400k
Thomas Wahlroos  42k
Isabelle Mercier   85k
Abraham Mosseri   115k

[Mauimike]

Great updates!  Any news about Martin "Kniven"(The Knife) de Knijff?

Mike

[simonow]

Marc Goodwin -- 182,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 322,000

Thanks Snoops

[snoopy1239]

Abraham Mosseri -- 93,500
Thomas Wahlroos -- 39,500
David Baker -- 157,500
Isaac Haxton -- 131,500
Paul Testud -- 141,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 445,000
Eric Deregt -- 181,500
Amir Vahedi -- 208,500
Marc Goodwin -- 189,500
Gavin Griffin -- 259,000
Tim Pham -- 192,000

[Micko]

Snoopy im not sure if u posted it but did u find out if Sorel Mizzel was bluffing yesterday against lindgren i think it was?

Yes, but I'm afraid I can't reveal until the end of the tournament.

For those of you that didn't catch it, the hand below was one of the biggest of the tournaments so far and I was dying to know if Sorel was bluffing or not...

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Looks like we have a new chip leader in online superstar Sorel Mizzi who has made his way up to around 450k, most recently locking horns with Scott Fischman in what is perhaps one of the biggest pots of the tournament so far.

With the board reading , I joined the action with Sorel making a bet of 32k.

Fischman called, albeit hesitantly, only for Sorel to ask that sometimes overused question, "How much do you have left?" come the River.

"About 105k," answered the double bracelet winner, to which Sorel replied, "Okay, I'm all-in."

After a brief sigh, Fischman then asked the same question, albeit with slightly less confidence than his younger opponent.

Acting rather nervously (acting, perhaps?), Sorel didn't really answer Fischman, at first merely implying that he had him covered.

"I know you have me covered," continued Fischman, "but I want to know how many you have."

Still not answering fully, Sorel pushed out a pile of blues and said, "Well, that's 100k there."

Fidgeting somewhat, Sorel continued to look uncomfortable, but Fischman didn't seem to be paying too much attention to any potential tells or reverse tells, seemingly more focused on trying to work out the pattern of the hands and the series of events that had preceded the final all-in.

After a while, he either decided that he was definitely behind, or simply didn't fancy sticking in his remaining 100+k without being sure, and so opted for a fold, exhaling, "Okay, it's yours" in the progress.

A quick flick of the cards across the line (only just though), and we had what I believe to be our latest chip leader, but I was left wondering desperately what the prodigal Mizzi held.

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So he was bluffing then lol... Make sure and post after the tourney

[snoopy1239]

As long as they haven't changed this table around, I believe Don Webb has just had his Aces cracked. The enigmatic Raymond Davis was the assassin, shouting "Justice" as his A-Q hit trips.

"That's justice!" he shouted, "He called me all-in earlier with A-3, Ace Three..."

[trustno1]

Great updates!  Any news about Martin "Kniven"(The Knife) de Knijff?

Mike

I think he got knocked out by PokerPages blogger Bryan Devonshire.

[Vinnebin]

Any news on the Dutchies?
Thanks! 

[snoopy1239]

Paul Wasicka has knocked out Seat 1 with A-J vs. Q-Q on a T-3-K-Q-8 board, all-in on the Turn.

"It's a tough game," comments Sensei Grizzle.

[RED-DOG]

These updates are so good, whatsits fail me!

[snoopy1239]

"Did I really see what I just thought I saw," inquires a bewildered Hellmuth, and in this case, he wasn't the only one staring at the board with raised eyebrows, as one veteran player has just been eliminated after re-raising a 50k bet all-in for a total of 200k. The board read T-9-A-6 rainbow and his opponent called instantly. The pusher showed 8-7 for the made straight whilst the caller had a mere Q-J. However, the inevitable King hit the River leaving not only the departing player in a state of shock, but the rest of the table too.

"He insta-called," emphasised. Hellmuth to a neighbour returning to the table.

[snoopy1239]

Bad news for any Hendon Mobbers watching  , as a reliable source has informed me that former London's Burning actor Ross Boatman is now OUT of this year's WPT final, snipered down by Day 1 chip leader and constant natterer Anna Wroblewski, her Q-J cruelly outdrawing Ross' superior A-T all-in pre-flop.

Will confirm this when they return from the break and hopefully ask him what 'Got Tit?' means.

Well, that'll teach me to listen to other bloggers about various exits, as Ross Boatman is STILL IN and is currently seated on the raised stage area (just the one table up there) with 70,000.

"Hey, you told me Ross was out," I said to my neighbouring blogger (not Jen).

"He IS gone."

Pointing to Ross, "No he's not, there he is."

"Oooooooh, THAT'S Ross."

OH FFS, I despair. 

The most ironic thing, however, is that we were speaking to Joe Beevers last night about when CardPlayer said he was out of a WSOP comp when he was still in. My response was that any errors on blonde are normally when we have received the information from a secondary source, as we did in this case.

Choose your sources carefully is the lesson in this case.

[Dry em]

Ivey has gone apparantly...(A9 v 66)

[Djinn]

More counts:

Jan Sjåvik           36k
Patrik Antonius  478k
Alvin Zeidenfeld  258k
Jason Eakes        33k
Kirk Morrison      465k
David Levi         235k
George Marlow   92k
Kevin O'Connell  360k
Vinny Vinh         OUT
Simon Moussa    OUT
Justin Bonomo   350k
Freddy Deeb     190k
Humberto Brenes  128k
Scott Mayfield    OUT
Matt Leftowitz   OUT
Louis Werman     58k
Lyle Berman       80k
Erik Friberg        OUT
Jennifer Harman  110k
Mark Gregorich    145k
Jesse Martin       335k
Robert Wazelle   126k
Rob Hollink          110k
Ben Roberts        OUT  (A-K vs A-4, 4 on flop - thanks for that, Dr. Pauly...)
Phil Ivey             OUT  (A-9 vs 6-6)
Adeeb Harb        445k
Rehne Pedersen   73k
Steve Wong        590k
Franco Brunetti    270k
Quinn Do            125k

Leaders look like Sorel Mizzi and Roland de Wolfe, who both have horrific stacks to count but must be both nearing 700,000...