2010 World Series of Poker

Event #45: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 3
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
72
Prize
$721,373
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$4,180,950
Entries
3,097
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Event #45: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 3 Started

Day 3

Chips
Chips

Just two days ago, 3,097 players jammed into the Pavilion Room making Event #45 the largest $1,500 field this summer. Now, after two long days of play, we are down to 35 runners.

Sam Trickett is our chip leader with 922,000 chips and he is closely followed by Larry Wilder with 916,000. Trickett finished runner up to Jason DeWitt in Event #17: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em and chipped up steadily throughout Day 2. Wilder won a huge pot during one of the final hands last night, making a flush against Jesse Rockowitz (558,000) to win him a pot worth over a million chips.

Dutch Boyd (619,000) is in search of his second bracelet of the year. Frank Kassela is our only repeat offender thus far, and with a good run today Boyd could surely join him.

Thomas Bichon (265,000) and Josh "brikdog24" Brikis (232,000) are both below average and Tim "tmay420" West (419,000) is sitting right at average to start the day. All three of these players are tough though, and we wouldn't be surprised if one or all of them went very deep.

The action is scheduled to restart at 2:30 p.m. PST and we hope to see you then!

Day 3 Redraw

Table 341:

Seat 1: Jesse Rockowtiz - 558,000
Seat 2: Tim West - 419,000
Seat 4: Paul Magriel - 460,000
Seat 5: Bryan Porter - 332,000
Seat 6: Steven Brown - 237,000
Seat 7: Stephen Chidwick - 783,000
Seat 8: Joshua Brikis - 232,000
Seat 9: Peter Dawson - 322,000

Table 342:

Seat 1: Sean Hodge - 250,000
Seat 2: Dutch Boyd - 619,000
Seat 4: Sam Trickett - 922,000
Seat 5: Johan Jakobsson - 522,000
Seat 6: Douglas Gord - 507,000
Seat 7: Alex Outhred - 444,000
Seat 8: Tanya Gawarecki - 77,000
Seat 9: Aristotle Coronel - 480,000

Table 343:

Seat 1: Thiago Nishijima - 643,000
Seat 2: Kevin Odell - 768,000
Seat 3: Christopher Greene - 113,000
Seat 4: Larry Wilder - 916,000
Seat 5: Shaun Malough - 245,000
Seat 6: Andrew Ferguson - 390,000
Seat 7: Thomas Bichon - 265,000
Seat 8: Zachary Clark - 176,000
Seat 9: Roger Teska - 130,000

Table 344:

Seat 1: Edward Yoo - 233,000
Seat 2: Rafal Michalowski - 211,000
Seat 3: Adam Croffut - 259,000
Seat 4: Nicholas Stowell - 268,000
Seat 5: Justin Conley - 479,000
Seat 6: Raymond Coburn - 560,000
Seat 7: Michael Meerkreebs - 363,000
Seat 8: Michael Goldfarb - 617,000
Seat 9: John Coon - 172,000

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

Teska Out

Roger Teska has been eliminated early on Day 3.

We missed the hand unfortunately, but across the room we spotted Teska collecting his things and heading for the door.

Tags: Roger Teska

Quick Double for Brikis

Action folded to Josh "brikdog24" Brikis who open shoved for 228,000 from the hijack seat. Tim "tmay420" West re-shoved from the small blind, and after Paul Magriel released his big blind the hands were opened:

Showdown
Brikis: {a-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}
West: {7-Spades}{7-Clubs}

The {q-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} flop changed nothing, but the {10-Diamonds} on the turn pushed Brikis ahead of West. The {a-Clubs} on the river gave him two pair for kicks and giggles, doubling him to 460,000 chips.

West slipped to just 185,000.

Tags: Tim WestJosh Brikis

Greene, Greene Goes Home

I joined the action with Christopher Greene (cut-off) all in preflop and with Thiago Nishijima (mid-late position) and Larry Wilder (button) battling it out for the side pot.

The flop came {10-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{10-Hearts}, and after Nishijima checked, Wilder announced all-in for a rather heft amount.

Nishijima mulled over his decision for a few moments before making the call and showing {K-Spades}{10-Diamonds}. Wilder tabled {8-Clubs}{8-Hearts}, whilst Greene faced a similar struggle with {5-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}.

The {A-Clubs} turn teased a backdoor flush, but to no avail as the river came a close-but-no-cigar {6-Hearts}.

"Yes!" yelped Nishijima in delight as a disappointed Greene -"Why couldn't it have been a five?" - departed, and Wilder began to slide over the chips.

A few eyes widened over the time it took for the call to be made, but when he was politely question about it, Nishijima responded: "It was for a lot of chips."

My take: no intent. We are, after all, down to the gritty, and no one wants to make a mistake, especially for a 1,300,000 pot.

Wilder, meanwhile, is right back down to 160,000.

Tags: Christopher GreeneLarry WilderThiago Nishijima