Event 12 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-08-2008 15:04 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal

MarcC

We only managed to get down to 18 players last last night so we'll start with two tables of 9 and will play right down until we have a winner. Vinny Vinh starts as our chip leader today with Arash Beral bringing up the rear. Other players to keep an eye out for are Eric Lindgren sitting in second place and top European player Markus Golser. Cards are in the air.

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 0

06-08-2008 08:53 UTC-7

Day 3 Action Begins at 3pm PDT

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Can Erick Lindgren make it a two-bracelet year?

The final day of action in Event #12, $1,500 Limit Hold'em, promises to be an entertaining one. Not only is it likely to be lengthy -- the field was only able to be trimmed to 18 on Saturday before action was halted for the night -- but the top two spots on the leaderboard offer interesting side stories as well. Can leader Vinny Vinh hold the lead and write a big-time story of redemption to bookend the unusual circumstances of his 2007 WSOP experience? Can second-place Erick Lindgren become the year's first double-bracelet winner? Or will one of the other 16 surviving players surge past Vinh and Lindgren to claim the win?

Here's the complete lineup for today's final, including home towns and starting chip counts:

Table 14:

Seat 1: Teddy Monroe (Washington, DC) 40,000
Seat 2: Arash Beral (Los Angeles, California) 14,000
Seat 3: Brendan Taylor (Pasadena, California) 240,000
Seat 4: Zachary Henderson (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) 98,000
Seat 5: Markus Golser (Austria) 135,000
Seat 6: Steve Foutty (Santa Rosa, California) 21,000
Seat 7: Ali Eslami (Los Angeles, California) 208,000
Seat 8: John O'Brien (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 163,000
Seat 9: Joseph Sanders (Lima, Peru) 173,000

Table 15:

Seat 1: Erick Lindgren (Las Vegas, Nevada) 244,000
Seat 2: Steven Shkolnik (Los Angeles, California) 199,000
Seat 3: Eric Pratt (Kennewick, Washington) 48,000
Seat 4: Duc Nguyen (Las Vegas, Nevada) 115,000
Seat 5: Zac Fellows (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 164,000
Seat 6: Chung Law (Milpitas, California) 110,000
Seat 7: Christoph Niesert (Berlin, Germany) 173,000
Seat 8: Vinny Vinh (Houston, Texas) 335,000
Seat 9: Jimmy Shultz (Lewis Center, Ohio) 161,000

Tags: Erick Lindgren Vinny Vinh