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Can Hans Winzeler Go One Step Further This Year?
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Today we have a special treat in store for you guys and girls in the poker world. Today is the final day of Event #3 $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six-Handed and it promises to be an absolute cracker.
Eleven gladiators have survived the mass destruction of 419 souls and each one of them has their eyes on a WSOP gold bracelet and $512,029 in prize money. Leading the field are two very different Asian artists. At the helm is the man from Japan, Naoya Kihara, who took the role as the Indiana Jones boulder yesterday, as he crushed everything and everyone in his path. The former Physics student bears a uncanny resemblance to Hiro from the hit TV series Heroes, and maybe the only way to stop him is to transport him to another place in time?
Maybe Tommy Le is the man who can stop Kihara? Le sits in second place and whilst Kihara has that look of classroom respectability about him, Le looks like he has that James Dean naughty boy look about him. Le is a cash game specialist who has spent time with the big boys in the Pot-Limit Omaha games in Macau. The confident youngster is going to cause a stir today - you can feel it.
This competition means a lot of things to a lot of people but none more so than Hans Winzeler. Winzeler competed in this tournament last year and finished runner-up to the eventual winner Jason Mercier. Imaging coming that close, once…but twice! Come on what’s going on here! Winzeler is focused and serious and he is aiming to go one step further in 2012.
We also have the possibility of multiple WSOP bracelet winners in the shape of the Belgian Davidi Kitai and the American Jason DeWitt. Both players have experienced this position before and have made it through to the coveted number one spot so why can't they do it again? Kitai and DeWitt are going to be big favorites to make a push for this title today.
Last but not least let us not forget the short-stacks. The guys who are turning up in the hope for a little spin up. Joseph Cheong has already had one runner-up spot this year when he finished in 2nd place against Aubins Cazals in Event# 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max, not withstanding his November Nine appearance in 2010 where he finished in 3rd place. Then finally you have Kevin MacPhee, the former European Poker Tour (EPT) champion and winner of over $2 million in live tournament earnings.
We told you it was going to be a cracker! Action starts at 1:00 PM live and direct from the Amazon room in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, so be there or be square.
We were watching the action on the other table when Joseph Cheong and Daniel Hindin decided to play for stacks. We turned around and the cards were on their backs while the dealer was laying out the board with the finesse of a brick layer.
Cheong
Hindin
Board:
So Cheong doubled up with two pair on the flop and it was the worse possible start for Hindin.
What an horrific start to the day for Kevin MacPhee. He arrived late after crashing his car in the Rio car park, the last thing you want to do when nursing the short stack. Then he gets to his seat and Joseph Cheong was in no mood to show him any sympathy when he took him out in the first fifteen minutes.
MacPhee min-raised from under the gun, Cheong raised the 'pot' from the cutoff (which put MacPhee all-in) and MacPhee made the call.
Cheong
MacPhee
Board:
MacPhee sinks and Cheong takes his second double up and now has 364,000.
In the very first hand of the day, Daniel Hindin, doubled up Joseph Cheong, and the outcome was a mere 86,000 chips in the stack of Hindin. As we reached the end of the level 20 he is sat with 740,000 chips courtesy of a lot of clever play, hard work and the elimination of Dimitar Danchev.
Hindin had already doubled through Danchev before the pair decided to hold a rematch. We are not sure the flow of the action.
Hindin
Danchev
Board:
So a set of nines for Hindin and Danchev became our 10th place finisher.
He managed to double up once, the next time didn't work out too well for him.
He (big blind) and Davidi Kitai (small blind) got all the chips in when the action was folded to them. Cheong had less than 150,000 chips at that point.
Kitai: .
Cheong: .
The board ran .
Running diamonds did it for Cheong, and he busted.
Scott Bohlman has just found another double up, this time through Hans Winzeler. Winzeler raised to 30,000 on the button and Bohlman moved all-in from the big blind. Winzeler called and we had a showdown.
Bohlman
Winzeler
Board:
So aces-full for Bohlman who moved up to 296,000. Winzeler now has 730,000.
We're at the official final table of six after the elimination of Scott Bohlman. Hans Winzeler came second in this event last year and he confirmed a return to the final table this year after it was he who busted Bohlman.
Bohlman raised to 70,000 from second position and Winzeler was the only caller to the flop.
Winzeler check-bet-pot after Bohlman bet pot himself. That was enough to set Bohlman all in. Call.
Bohlman:
Winzeler: for the flopped straight, and redraw to a flush.
Bohlman was in bad shape and he didn't improve through the turn and river.
It took a monster pot and a man from Japan to oust one of the favorites for this title, Davidi Kitai.
Kitai opened to 60,000 from under the gun and Naoya Kihara three-bet to 210,000. Kitai wasn't to be removed and raised the pot. This took a few minutes and about ten people to figure out it was up to 660,000. Kihara surprised a lot of people by just calling.
The flop came down and Kihara shoved for 750,000. Kitai snap-called off his remaining 645,000.
Kihara: .
Kitai: .
The turn came giving both players the same straight. Kihara was free-rolling to a better straight though. He needed a ten and that's what he got as the river came to give him the winning straight. Kitai looked as if he'd just been stabbed in the heart.
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and after a count down, the dealer worked out that Winzeler had Dewitt covered.
for inside straight draw and flush draw.
to fill De Maci up and he ran off to celebrate with his rail.
