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Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day 3 completed
Justin Pechie Wins Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout ($167,060)


After a dominating performance three-handed on, Justin Pechie has taken out Dale Eberle heads-up and won himself a World Series of Poker bracelet.

We started this event with 538 players, and then 60 table winners came back on Day 2 to play 10 six-handed tables. The winners of those tables came back today for our final table of 10. Those players were Ari Engel, Chris Kwon, Dom Denotaristefani, Adam Tyburski, Stephen Bass, Jordan Rich, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov, Mathieu Jacqmin, and second place finisher Dale Eberle. Eberle came back from being down to 50,000 chips to reach heads-up play, but it was Pechie's game once it got down to business. In this following hand, Pechie got up to an eight to one heads-up chip lead and from there his win was secured.

Dale Eberle raised it up on the button, Pechie re-raised from the big blind, and Eberle called.

The flop came down {8-Clubs}{9-Hearts}{5-Spades} Pechie bet, and Eberle called. The turn came {2-Hearts} and again Pechie bet and Eberle called. The river was the {k-Clubs} and again Pechie bet, this time Eberle raised, Pechie re-raised and Eberle made the call confidently throwing down {k-}{7-} for a rivered top pair. It was no good though as Pechie showed {9-Clubs}{9-Spades} for the set and the win.

Pechie waded through an extremely stacked field on all three days to get here, and after three table wins he is our champion. Once he won and soaked it all in, he was on the verge of tears as he finally got a hold of his first bracelet and we can't blame him. Congratulations Justin, you just won $167,060 and a World Series of Poker gold bracelet!!

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Currently down to 6

Two Brits going strong

Top Chip Counts
1    Dario Alioto    2,425,000
2    Ben Lamb    2,250,000
3    John Shipley    1,600,000
4    John Kabbaj    1,515,000
5    Sami Kelopuro    1,470,000
6    Christopher King    1,450,000


1          814,436
2          503,173
3          369,575
4          273,575
5          204,113
6          153,517

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


39 of 2857 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Byron Kaverman    790,000
2    Andrew Youngblood    655,000
3    Marco Liesy    630,000
4    Tripp Kirk    560,000
5    Simon Watt    555,000
6    Scott Sitron    480,000
7    Fatolla Shahen    440,000
8    Sean Rice    440,000
9    Ryan D'Angelo    400,000
10    Scott Baumstein    380,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #44: $2,500 Seven Card Razz


28 of 363 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Tommy Chen    280,000
2    Jay Kwon    270,000
3    Scott Epstein    147,000
4    Scott Bohlman    145,000
5    Mikail Tulchinskiy    140,000
6    Greg Dyer    123,000
7    Victor Ramdin    120,000
8    Matt Smith    104,000
9    John Monnette    97,000
10    George Lewis    95,000


Stephen Chidwick 95.000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #45: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 In the Books, Lane Leading the Way


It certainly was an exciting day here in the Rio. A total of 2,890 players were spread across multiple rooms to start the day but only 304 are moving on to Day 2. Our chip leader at the end of the night was Jon Lane who has amassed a stack of 141,600.

One of the most amusing parts of the day had to be the prop betting antics that went on courtesy of Antonio Esfandiari. (Click here to read all the hilarious details)

Esfandiari is still in the field and ended the day with 70,300. Other notable players still in the hunt include Phil Hellmuth (25,600), Matt Graham (30,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (21,000), and Blair Hinkle (27,400).

Amongst the many players who busted today there were quite a few familiar faces including Chris Moneymaker, Hoyt Corkins, Freddy Deeb, Tom Dwan, Scott Clements, David Singer, and David Chiu.

A total of 297 players will be cashing in this event so we're sure the money bubble will burst early tomorrow which will make for another exciting day of poker!

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Day 3 Ends Without a Champion

Ben Lamb Starts and Finishes Day 3 as the Chip Leader

Day 3 started as just the first event of the 2011 World Series of Poker to not hit the money within two days. Two players played through two grueling days of poker but left today empty-handed. Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes was the first to fall, followed shortly after by Jyri Merivirta who was unlucky enough to land squarely on the money bubble.

However, what started as a race to make anything at all quickly became a race to get a nice big stack of chips. Ben Lamb and Sami Kelopuro began to emerge as the big stacks as player after player hit the rail. Notable after notable fell including Justin Scwartz, Mike McDonald, David Kitai and Joao Barbosa. Eventually, even Sam Stein, who had already won a bracelet this year in an Omaha event, fell to the talented field in a massive three-way all in won by Matt Glantz.

Glantz, however, would find his own string of hard luck. While he made it to the ESPN set, he bubbled the official final table when his {k-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{2-Clubs} couldn't hold on against the {a-Clubs}{q-Spades}{9-Spades}{8-Clubs} of Kelopuro. That pot was only the beginning of a very active and very swingy final table for Kelopuro. Up and down most of the night, Kelopuro was able to hang on until the end of the day along with Christopher King, John Shipley and our current chip leader, Ben Lamb.

Lamb has seemingly controlled this event the entire day. Just a week removed from his second place finish to Stein, he has had his opponents on lock-down once again. He entered the day with the chip lead and has been one of the top stacks at virtually every stage of the tournament on Day 3. He even had to battle back from losing to a three-outter at the final table for about an average sized stack at the time. Exiting the day as the chip leader, he will certainly have redemption on his mind when he goes to sleep (if he can).

The tournament is scheduled to pick back up again tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time so make sure you come right back to PokerNews where we will bring you all of the action from the Rio.

Chip Counts
   Ben Lamb       4,335,000    
   John Shipley    2,705,000
   Sami Kelopuro    2,155,000
   Christopher King 1,645,000

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Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
Day 4 completed
Congratulations to Ben Lamb, Winner of Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship ($814,436)!

Boom! Ship it to Ben Lamb, winner of Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, a whopping $814,436 and his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet!

The field size in this championship event was 361 players and coming into Day 3, Ben Lamb was on the top of the pack with 38 players remaining. The money bubble was set at 36, which meant everyone was in for a long Day 3. After ten levels of play on Sunday, the returning field was whittled down to just four players and again it was Lamb on top of the pack. From there, Lamb was able to maneuver himself to victory and take down the title.

First, Lamb was able to eliminate Christopher King in fourth place. Lamb was able to flop a flush on King's aces and hold from there after all of the money went in preflop. King earned $273,575 for his finish while Lamb extended his lead even more.

The aggressive Finn Sami Kelopuro was then able to find a double through John Shipley when three-handed. After doubling through the Brit, Kelopuro then eliminated Shipley shortly thereafter. Shipley took home $369,575 for his finish and the heads-up battle was set between Kelopuro and Lamb.

When heads-up play began, Lamb held the lead with 6.65 million in chips to Kelopuro's 4.18 million. Right away, Lamb was able to extend his lead and move over seven million in chips. From there, Kelopuro battled back to nearly even. He then took the lead from Lamb, but not by much as the two were virtually deadlocked. Lamb rebounded well and stole the lead right back before the final hand came up.

Kelopuro held the {A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} and Lamb the {6-Spades}{5-Hearts}{4-Spades}{2-Diamonds} on the {A-Spades}{9-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{Q-Spades} board when all of the money went in. The river completed the board with the {5-Diamonds} and gave Lamb a straight to win the tournament. Kelopuro was eliminated in second place for $503,173.

Final Table Payouts
Place   Player   Prize
1   Ben Lamb   $814,436
2   Sami Kelopuro   $503,173
3   John Shipley   $369,575
4   Christopher King   $273,575
5   Dario Alioto   $204,113
6   John Kabbaj   $153,517
7   Cory Wood   $116,359
8   Josh Tieman   $88,873
9   Hans Winzeler   $68,410

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em


3 left from 2857!

Top Chip Counts
1    Nachman Berlin    6,000,000
2    Matthew Carmody    4,100,000
3    Andre Akkari    3,000,000

1          675,117
2          419,173
3          295,625
4    Jacob Naquin       213,520
5    Scott Sitron       156,090
6    Nicolas Chouity       115,477
7    Zachary Hall       86,434
8    Phillip Meulyzer       65,452
9    Ray Foley       50,140

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #44: $2,500 Seven Card Razz


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Top Chip Counts
1    Rep Porter    1,100,000
2    Tommy Chen    850,000
3    Stephen Su    800,000

1          210,615
2          130,075
3          83,895
4    Robert Williamson III       60,788
5    Andreas Krause       44,693
6    Chris Bjorin       33,338
7    Matt Smith       25,228
8    Scott Epstein       19,365
9    Gerard Rechnitzer       15,079

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #45: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

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1    Glenn Mccaffrey    650,000
2    Andrew Teng    540,000
3    Antonio Esfandiari    510,000
4    Jonathan Driscoll    450,000
5    Manuel Labandeira    400,000
6    Kunimaro Kojo    395,000
7    Jeremiah Siegmund    370,000
8    Kenneth Griffin    365,000
9    Jonathan Lane    345,000
10    Nicolo Calia    290,000

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Event #46: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed Championship
Day 1 completed
Day 1 Concludes

Posted 1 hour 18 minutes ago by Shamus • Level 10: 500-1,000, 100 ante

When we arrived for today's Day 1 of Event No. 46, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event, we expected to see a stacked field of top pros, including many of the online phenoms for whom the short-handed game is their bread and butter. On that count our expectations were fulfilled.

Looking back at Event No. 40 (the $5K version of this event) and its turnout of 732, we thought perhaps we'd see a field of half that or even a little less, given the double-sized buy-in. There we found our expectations to be off, as a surprising 474 runners bought in for this one, together creating a huge prize pool of $4,455,600 to be distributed among the top 48 finishers. That also means a $1.15 million-plus payday for the winner, the largest first prize thus far at this year's WSOP.

Just 162 of those 474 made it through to tomorrow's Day 2, which meant we saw many of those notables hitting the rail along the way. Meanwhile, Joe Cada catapulted to the top of the counts by mid-afternoon, soon to be challenged by David "Bakes" Baker, James Akenhead, McLean Karr, and Dmitry Gromov.

By night's end a few players had pushed up past the 200,000-chip mark to land at the top of the leaderboard by the time the end-of-night bagging of chips commenced, among them Mike Sowers, Ben Lamb, and Kevin Saul. But ahead of them all is Alan Sternberg with 260,600 to end the night.


Top Chip Counts
1    Alan Sternberg    260,600
2    Kevin Saul    242,600
3    Ben Lamb    223,000
4    Joe Cada    208,800
5    Mike Sowers    203,900
6    McLean Karr    196,800
7    Jamie Armstrong    190,000
8    Taylor Paur    185,600
9    David Benefield    170,000
10    Isaac Baron    161,700

Akenhead, Moorman, JPK and Trickett still in with 160 of 474 left

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #47: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better


226 of 450 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Bryan Micon    32,000
2    Chris Tryba    23,000
3    Chad Brown    22,000
4    Antony Lellouche    22,000
5    Eric Baldwin    22,000
6    Tom Dwan    22,000
7    Al Barbieri    21,000
8    Max Pescatori    19,000
9    Dan Heimiller    19,000
10    Alexander Kostritsyn    17,000

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #44: $2,500 Seven Card Razz


3of 236 left

Top Chip Counts
1    Rep Porter    1,100,000
2    Tommy Chen    850,000
3    Stephen Su    800,000

1          210,615
2          130,075
3          83,895
4    Robert Williamson III       60,788
5    Andreas Krause       44,693
6    Chris Bjorin       33,338
7    Matt Smith       25,228
8    Scott Epstein       19,365
9    Gerard Rechnitzer       15,079

is Chris considered an englishman now Tighty? Followed this legend for time and would love him to ship a braclet

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Lives in London and has done for many years, close enough to count him

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Lives in London and has done for many years, close enough to count him

yes cool. know he is a reg. funked matt but would not have been devestated to see it go the other way