Main Event
Day 3 Started
2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Palm Beach Kennel Club
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Palm Beach Kennel Club
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,131,990
Entries
778
Level
30
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Racing For the Ring
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Good morning once again, and welcome back to the Palm Beach Kennel Club for the final day of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event.
Two days ago, 778 hopefuls filed into the dog track with an extra $1,600 in their pockets and a dream of capturing WSOPC gold. Now, that number has been reduced to just 21, and one of them is just a few levels away from achieving that goal and taking home the top prize of nearly a quarter-million dollars.
Returning today with the big stack is Roman Valerstein, a mid-stakes grinder from Pennsylvania. He managed to work his stack up to 2.155 million by night's end, and that gives him about 15% of the chips in play and a lead of more than a half-million chips over his nearest challenger. Young Dave Stefanski starts the day in the Top 5 with 1.216 million, and he may well be the favorite if they opened up a betting window for this event. Also still in the hunt are Circuit regulars Drazen Ilich and Bruce Yamron, as well as online stud Brian "Stinger 88" Hastings, who's played one less day than everyone else left. Hastings registered for the event at the beginning of Day 2, and his short stack of 246,000 is the only thing keeping us from laying our money down on him.
Here's how the final 21 players will be set up for the run to the ring:
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 1 | Matthew Smith | 899,000 |
| 41 | 2 | --empty-- | -- |
| 41 | 3 | Rob Williamson | 728,000 |
| 41 | 4 | --empty-- | -- |
| 41 | 5 | Max Itkin | 291,000 |
| 41 | 6 | David Stefanski | 1,216,000 |
| 41 | 7 | Bruce Yamron | 164,000 |
| 41 | 8 | Brian Hastings | 246,000 |
| 41 | 9 | Jerry Payne | 281,000 |
| 66 | 1 | --empty-- | — |
| 66 | 2 | Sterling Savill | 622,000 |
| 66 | 3 | Chris Parsons | 1,400,000 |
| 66 | 4 | Nabih Zaczac | 878,000 |
| 66 | 5 | Chet Farrell | 1,512,999 |
| 66 | 6 | Matthew O'Brien | 866,000 |
| 66 | 7 | Jeremy McLaughlin | 587,000 |
| 66 | 8 | Roman Valerstein | 2,155,000 |
| 66 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
| 67 | 1 | --empty-- | — |
| 67 | 2 | Jeff Silverstein | 520,000 |
| 67 | 3 | Jim Harnden | 989,000 |
| 67 | 4 | Robert LeBeau | 203,000 |
| 67 | 5 | --empty-- | -- |
| 67 | 6 | Jamil Wakil | 816,000 |
| 67 | 7 | Carlos Auralos | 154,000 |
| 67 | 8 | Drazen Ilich | 958,000 |
| 67 | 9 | Walid Maddah | 87,000 |
The cards go flying in just about a half hour, at noon local time, and we'll be here until we're done. Sometime hopefully this evening, one of these players will etch their name into WSOPC lore and have the pleasure of posing for photos with a greyhound and a big stack of cash.
We'll be back with the shuffle-up-and-deal shortly.
Level: 24
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
The Starting Bell
Level 24
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
The man himself, Bill Bruce has just taken the mic to welcome the players back for Day 3. With no further festivities, the cards have gone live, and we're under way here in the Kennel Club.
Farrell Makes Zaczac a Believer
Level 24
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Under the gun, Chet Farrell opened to 33,000, and Nabih Zaczac defended his big blind to go heads-up to the flop. It came out 
, and Zaczac check-called 30,000 more from the raiser. The turn brought the 
and another check from Zaczac, and Farrell quickly stuck out 95,000.
Zaczac double-checked his cards, but they weren't good enough. He tucked and mucked, and Farrell chips his way up to about 1.6 million with that little pot.
Bruce Yamron Eliminated in 21st Place ($9,588)
Jerry Payne came into the pot raising to 34,000 from early position, and the table folded all the way around to the big blind. There, Bruce Yamron looked down at his cards, grabbed all 154,000 of his remaining chips, and stuck dumped them into the pot. "All right young man, I'm all in."
Payne made the quick call with 
, and Yamron's 
had him as a small favorite to double. The dealer had other plans, however.
The 
flop was no good at all for the at-risk player, and Yamron was unable to catch back up. The turn 
and river 
completed the board, and two pair earn Payne the knockout. The table wished Yamron the best as he departed, and he'll stop by the payout desk to pick up a check for $9,588 on his way out the door.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
450,000 | 169,000 |
|
Busted |
Walid Maddah Eliminated in 20th Place ($9,588)
Action folded to Walid Maddah on the button and he moved all in for about 63,000. Jeff Silverstein isolated the pot with a shove from the small blind and tabled 
.
Maddah was in bad shape with and though he found a little help from the 
flop, the 
turn and 
sealed his fate with a 20th-place showing in the Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
550,000 | 30,000 |
|
Busted |
Jerry Payne Eliminated in 19th Place ($9,588)
First in from the cutoff seat at his six-handed table, Jerry Payne opened the pot to 34,000. In the small blind, Rob Williamson looked down at 
and stuck in a three-bet to 80,000 flat, and Payne took pause to consider. After just a few moments, he announced his all-in shove for about 575,000 total, and Williamson quickly called to put him to the test. At showdown, Payne was pained to see that his 
was dominated and in jeopardy of sending him off.
The 
flop opened up the door just a crack for Payne, but that's as close as he'd get. The turn even provided some chop outs, but the river 
was a blank.
That's the end of the line for Payne, and he'll exit in 19th place with $9,588. That reduces our field to 18 players and the final two tables, and their racking up and redrawing as we speak.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,200,000 | 472,000 |
|
|
Busted |
FInal Two Tables Redraw
Level 24
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
| Table | Seat | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Jeff Silverstein |
| 1 | 2 | Brian Hastings |
| 1 | 3 | Carlos Auralos |
| 1 | 4 | Nabih Zaczac |
| 1 | 5 | Sterling Savill |
| 1 | 6 | Jeremy McLaughlin |
| 1 | 7 | Matthew O'Brien |
| 1 | 8 | Rob Williamson |
| 1 | 9 | Jim Harnden |
| 2 | 1 | Matthew Smith |
| 2 | 2 | Jamil Wakil |
| 2 | 3 | Chris Parsons |
| 2 | 4 | David Stefanski |
| 2 | 5 | Drazen Ilich |
| 2 | 6 | Chet Farrell |
| 2 | 7 | Roman Valerstein |
| 2 | 8 | Max Itkin |
| 2 | 9 | Robert LeBeau |
Stefanski Peels Just One
We missed the preflop action, but it appears to have been a three-bet pot between Dave Stefanski (early position) and Jamil Wakil (big blind). When we joined the pot, Wakil was leading the betting with 80,000 into a pot of more than 150,000 on the 
flop. Stefanski spent just a few seconds considering before flicking the call into the pot, and the 
hit fourth street.
Wakil took a long pause now as he stared down at the board and shuffled the top four chips in one of his orange stacks. It must have been three minutes or so before he finally stuck out a bet of ~137,000. Stefanski gave it a long look himself, but he eventually cut his losses and surrendered his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,170,000 | -46,000 |
|
880,000 | 64,000 |