Sonu Sharma opened from under the gun with a raise to 40,000 and it folded around to Viatcheslav Ortynskiy on the button. Ortynskiy had survived one small double-up. He'd also folded a few hands, including from the blinds. Now with just 15,000 left, he was pushing all in again.
It folded back to Sharma who was given the tiny side pot of 1,000 as the big blind is 16,000 at present. The pair then tabled their hands — for Ortynskiy, and for Sharma.
The flop was good for Sharma, coming to give him a set of kings. Ortynskiy still had a low draw to which to pin his hopes, but the turn was the and river the , and Ortynskiy is out. We've reached the official final table for Event 47!
Welcome back to the third and final day of Event #47: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better. Just 10 players survived the first two days of potting, repotting, split pots, quarters, and scoops, all that's left from a whopping field of 978.
That huge field created a total prize pool of $1,320,300, the bulk of which is still left to be given out to these final 10. Charalampos Lappas returns to the biggest chip stack today with just under 1 million chips, thanks primarily to his having claimed a big pot versus the Russian Viatcheslav Ortynskiy in the very last hand of Day 2, leaving the Russian with less than two big blinds to start today's play.
Just behind Lappas is Steven Loube of Atlanta, Georgia who also sports a nearly 1 million-chip stack. Loube caught a rush of hands during the last level-and-a-half of Day 2 to position himself with Lappas at the top of the counts.
But this is PLO Hi-Low, which means a lot can change quickly. Just ask David "Doc" Sands who last year in this same event had more than twice the second-place player's stack with 10 players remaining only to fall in 10th and bubble the official final table.
Here's where players will be seated today up on the main stage in the Pavilion Room, along with their starting stacks:
Seat
Name
Chips
1
Roch Cousineau
505,000
2
Kyle Carlston
277,000
3
Paul Taylor
180,000
4
Steven Loube
947,000
5
Timothy Finne
455,000
6
Paul Ewen
234,000
7
Viatcheslav Ortynskiy
27,000
8
Charalampos Lappas
994,000
9
Cameron Mckinley
477,000
10
Sonu Sharma
300,000
The action starts about an hour from now. Come back here to follow it all as we find out who among these 10 will emerge as the next WSOP gold bracelet winner.
for Ortynskiy, and 
for Sharma.
to give him a set of kings. Ortynskiy still had a low draw to which to pin his hopes, but the turn was the 
and river the 
, and Ortynskiy is out. We've reached the official final table for Event 47!
