After a rather short day of poker by traditional standards, we have whittled the field down from the sixty who started the day to the final ten. Antonio Esfandiari is headlining this final table as he searches for his second World Series of Poker bracelet.
Esfandiari won his first and only WSOP bracelet back in 2004 during a $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event. It's been eight long years since Esfandiari was able to taste WSOP glory and now he is only nine eliminations away from grabbing that glory once again.
The Magician is not the only bracelet winner to make tomorrow's final table, however. Athanasios Polychronopoulos won his first bracelet last year in Event #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em when he was able to rise to the top of a 2,713 player field. Polychronopolous will certainly be a contender when heads butt on the felt tomorrow.
Fifty players sat down today only to exit a mere few hours later when they became victims of their six-handed table. Among those to come away from this event with a min-cash by making it to Day 2 are Jean-Robert Bellande, Melanie Weisner, Justin Bonomo, Jason Koon, Christian Harder, Steve Billirakis, David Bakes Baker, Ryan D'Angelo and many more.
Many following this event have inquired about the discrepancies in stack sizes. Players will be entering the final table with slightly different sized stacks because some played at nine-handed tables on Day 1 while others played ten-handed. Others that hadn't shown up had their stacks kept in the well and the blinds were taken from the stacks. This led to winners on Day 1 entering Day 2 with different stack amounts and that carried over into stacks going to Day 3.
The final table will kick off tomorrow at 1:00 PM on the ESPN Main Stage. Join us as we document poker history as the latest World Series of Bracelet winner is crowned. Until tomorrow!
With the board reading , Robert Georato got the rest of his stack all in against Roberto Romanello. Georato had for a turned pair of kings, but was behind Romanello's for the ace-high flush.
Romanello will be taking a stack of 530,000 with him to tomorrow's final table.
Upon winning he asked us to give a message to his family who will be reading this when they wake up in the morning. Romanello wants to tell his family that they may have to pack their bags soon in the event he makes it to the bracelet ceremony that follows this event.
PokerStars Team Online player Mickey Petersen is the shortest stack compared to the other matches. Petersen has about 115,000 and Alessandro Longobardi has 400,000.
It will take all of Petersen's PokerStars experience to fight back and win the match.
Jonathan Lane has defeated Matthew Schwarmann heads up to earn a spot at tomorrow's final table. During the final hand the two players got it all in preflop and Schwarmann's was not able to catch up to Lane's .
Antonio Esfandiari has become the latest player to progress to the final table by defeated Jason Koon heads up.
We missed the action of the final hand and when we asked Esfandiari to tell us about it he replied "Absolutely not," with a big grin on his face. "I got lucky. I had jack-duece he had ace-queen." And that was all of the information we could pry from him.
Regardless of what the action was, Esfandiari was able to conquer the table and will be headlining the final table tomorrow.
Ryan D'Angelo got his stack all in before the flop with and was called by the of Alessandro Longobardi.
D'Angelo was safe on the flop as well as the turn. However, the peeled off on the river and send a wave of frustration through D'Angelo.
"God f***ing damnit!" D'Angelo bellowed as he flung his jacket into the air. "Just like the PCA, jacks into ace-king and a king on the river".
D'Angelo's elimination moves Alessandro Longobardi heads up with a chip lead against Mickey Petersen. Now all remaining tables are heads up except one.
Online poker wizards Jonathan Tamayo and Justin Bonomo are at the same table and just got involved in pot together.
Bonomo opend for 2,600 in early position and Tamayo made it 7,500 to play from the button. Bonomo called and the flop came . Bonomo checked, Tamayo bet 10,500 and Bonomo check-raised to 22,500.
Tamayo held his cards for a moment and then kicked them back to the dealer.
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