2014 World Series of Poker

Event #53: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 3
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a6
Prize
$153,470
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$713,700
Entries
793
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000

Stacey Sullivan Eliminated in 8th Place ($14,752)

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Stacey Sullivan - 8th Place
Stacey Sullivan - 8th Place

Hand #14: Stacey Sullivan pushed her short stack all in from middle position and Persia Bonella called in the big blind.

Sullivan: {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Bonella: {a-Clubs}{k-Clubs}

Sullivan wasn't liking the hand she had to beat, and she wasn't able to get any help when the board ran out {k-Spades}{4-Hearts}{k-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{q-Hearts}. Sullivan was eliminated in eighth place for $14,752.

Tags: Persia BonellaStacey Sullivan

Patricia Cahill Eliminated in 9th Place ($11,504)

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Patricia Cahill - 9th Place
Patricia Cahill - 9th Place

Hand #11: Persia Bonella open-shoved from middle position and picked up the blinds and antes.

Hand #12: Pat Landis opened to 25,000 from the cutoff seat, Haixia Zhang three bet to 70,000 on the button, and Landis folded.

Hand #13: Zhang started the action with a raise of 25,000 from the cutoff seat, Patricia Cahill three bet shoved from the button, and Zhang made the call putting Cahill.

Zhang: {k-Diamonds}{k-Spades}
Cahill: {a-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}

Cahill was in trouble and needed some help to stay alive. The dealer delivered a {4-Spades}{5-Clubs}{6-Spades}{9-Clubs}{j-Hearts} board and Cahill was eliminated.

Tags: Haixia ZhangPat LandisPatricia CahillPersia Bonella

Hands #6-10: Cahill Spikes the River

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Hand #6: Patricia Cahill pushed all in and Mikiyo Aoki raised to get the blinds out of the way. The two players went to the flop with Cahill's tournament life at risk.

Cahill: {a-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}
Aoki: {q-Hearts}{q-Clubs}

The flop came down {q-Diamonds}{3-Spades}{k-Clubs} to give Aoki the set. The turn card came down {j-Clubs} and Cahill needed a ten to stay alive. Her rail started calling for it loudly. The river fell {10-Spades} and she spiked the straight to double up and her supporters screamed in excitement.

Hand #7: Aoki raised to 25,000 from the cutoff and won the blinds and antes.

Hand #8: Elizabeth Montizanti pushed all in from the button and scooped in the pot when the blinds folded.

Hand #9: Persia Bonella raised to 25,000 from middle position and Meikat Siu raised to 60,000 from the cutoff. The play folded back around to Bonella who also gave up her hand, awarding Siu the pot.

Hand #10: Bonella pushed all in and won the pot preflop.

Tags: Elizabeth MontizantiMeikat SiuMikiyo AokiPatricia CahillPersia Bonella

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

Hands #1-5: Play Ball!

Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Hand #1: Meikat Siu opened to 20,000, Pat Landis called from the small blind, and Haixia Zhang moved all in from the big blind. Both opponents folded and Zhang took down the pot.

Hand #2: Elizabeth Montizanti opened to 20,000 from middle position, Landis called on the button, Zhang three bet to 60,000 from the small blind, and both of her opponents folded.

Hand #3: Mikiyo Aoki got a walk.

Hand #4: Stacey Sullivan open-shoved from middle position with her last 59,000, and won the blinds and antes.

Hand #5: Zhang opened to 25,000 from middle position and took down the pot.

Tags: Elizabeth MontizantiHaixia ZhangMeikat SiuMikiyo AokiPat LandisStacey Sullivan

Level: 19

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

Let's Get Started

After introductions of each player from the tournament director, the announcement has been made to shuffle up and deal to get this final table under way.

Aoki Returns with Huge Lead for Final Table

Mikiyo Aoki
Mikiyo Aoki

Nine ladies will return at 1 p.m. to battle it out with cards and chips until one of them is crowned a champion in Event #53: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship. All final-tablists will make at least $11,504, but each of them has their eye on that top prize of $153,470 and the special ladies WSOP bracelet.

Mikiyo Aoki comes into Day 3 as the clear chip leader. Aoki was running over the table on Day 2 and was also the player to knock out the 10th-place finisher, giving her an extra boost to her stack at the end of play. She has a tower of chips numbering 742,000, or just under one third of the total chips in play. The next largest stack at the table has almost 300,000 less — Meikat Siu with 460,000.

Here are the players stacks at the start of play and how they will be seated for the final table:

SeatPlayerChip Count
1Persia Bonella128,000
2Meikat Siu460,000
3Elizabeth Montizanti184,000
4Stacey Sullivan64,000
5Pat Landis219,000
6Haixia Zhang311,000
7Patricia Cahill66,000
8Mikiyo Aoki742,000
9Kendra Wray214,000

Make sure you follow along here on the PokerNews live update blog for our coverage every step of the way. We will have hand-by-hand reporting until one of these ladies is holding a new bracelet.

Tags: Mikiyo Aoki

Event #53: $10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship

Day 3 Started