$5,500 Aruba Poker Classic Championship Day 3 | 2009 Aruba Poker Classic

10-08-2009 03:50 UTC-3

Day 3 Starting Chip Counts and Seat Assignments

[user22113]

Play is scheduled to resume at 12:00 p.m. EST

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Alessandro Nocerino - 45100
Seat 2: Matthew Ross - 222300
Seat 3: David Sands - 82400
Seat 4: Alex Wendell - 119200
Seat 5: Brent Roberts - 111200
Seat 6: William Cruz - 101500
Seat 7: Antonis Poulengrus - 73600
Seat 8: Andy Rich - 113600
Seat 9: Matt Vengrin - 116700

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Mike Collins - 48200
Seat 2: Howard "Tahoe" Andrew - 34400
Seat 3: Hunter Frey - 18500
Seat 4: Joseph Knight - 19400
Seat 5: Ryan Howard - 50300
Seat 6: Marc Levy - 70500
Seat 7: John Clancy - 112500
Seat 8: Tim West - 29400
Seat 9: James Mordue - 207700

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Jon Favaloro - 255300
Seat 2: Anton Talle - 29700
Seat 3: Oscar Esteban - 30300
Seat 4: Elliott Flint-Petersen - 56300
Seat 5: Shawn Rice - 23500
Seat 6: Scott Stewart - 30500
Seat 7: Katherine Cagle - 47000
Seat 8: Tony Callom - 52000
Seat 9: Joe Le - 76000

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Brandon Hall - 129900
Seat 2: Scott Ian - 40300
Seat 3: Sol Bergren - 43400
Seat 4: Barry Hamilton - 84700
Seat 5: Chase Steely - 19900
Seat 6: William Sheridan - 32200
Seat 7: John Strzemp - 107600
Seat 8: Kazu Oshima - 88000
Seat 9: Susan Moncek - 20600

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Elias Haikal - 72200
Seat 3: Jose Roberto Santos - 34500
Seat 5: Kevin Kaikko - 90900
Seat 6: Dorian Rios - 114300
Seat 7: Justin Truesdell - 64400
Seat 8: Frank Hernandez - 32900
Seat 9: Tyson Marks - 80600

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Michael DeGilio - 75400
Seat 2: Joe Rohinsky - 37800
Seat 4: Vincent Moscati - 53100
Seat 5: John Venturini - 115500
Seat 6: Brandon Terry - 38400
Seat 7: Vassil Kararadov - 112100
Seat 8: Phil Hellmuth - 41600
Seat 9: Tristan Wade - 126300

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Casey Kastle - 30400
Seat 2: Zack Clark - 127000
Seat 3: James Czarnecki - 197300
Seat 4: Krystian Pinzon - 117900
Seat 5: Anthony Kastelic - 54500
Seat 6: David Perkins - 191500
Seat 7: John Hayes - 74100
Seat 8: Vanessa Peng - 34400
Seat 9: Larry Sharp - 60300

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Roch Cousineau - 47300
Seat 2: Max Greenwood - 152800
Seat 3: Hans Bennett - 27300
Seat 4: Robert Mizrachi - 353200
Seat 5: Al Riccobono - 42000
Seat 6: Adam Boghosian - 94500
Seat 7: Ty Reiman - 226900
Seat 8: Victor Ng - 92500
Seat 9: Johan Storakers - 50600

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Jeffrey Vanchiro - 53100
Seat 2: Jonathan Lessih - 55600
Seat 3: Gavin Smith - 45700
Seat 4: Scott Brewer - 69400
Seat 5: Matt Brady - 34500
Seat 7: Anthony Angora - 62300
Seat 8: Charlie Hook - 71000
Seat 9: Travis Rice - 128600

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Ryan Caldwell - 146900
Seat 2: James Jewett - 76200
Seat 3: Jamie Armstrong - 111200
Seat 4: Brock Parker - 95600
Seat 5: James Honeybone - 29000
Seat 6: Ryan Schmidt - 50200
Seat 7: Joe Mosca - 8400
Seat 8: Tom Braband - 30100
Seat 9: Eric Baldwin - 166400

10-08-2009 12:54 UTC-3

Day 3 Approaches

[user66118]

Welcome back to the Radisson Resort and Casino for Day 3 of the UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic.

We're just about 10 minutes away from our scheduled starting time, and the players have just begun to take their seats. By noontime, the remaining 86 of them will unbag their chips and get set for the run to the money. We'll need to drop 41 players before we hit the bubble, and we'll play down to 36 before calling it a day.

Robert Mizrachi comes into play with a commanding chip lead, but it won't be an easy field to overcome. At least not if defending champion Matt Brady has anything to say about it. Also still going strong is 2007 champion Travis Rice, along with a host of notable names and a few Team UB Pros as well.

We'll be back in just a few minutes with the shuffle up and deal.

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

10-08-2009 13:06 UTC-3

Man Down!

donpeters

We just witnessed our first elimination of the day. Joe Le opened the action with a raise to 4,000 before Anton Talle moved all in for 29,500 total. Elliot Flint-Petersen then moved all in over the top before everyone, including Le, ducked out of the way.

Talle held {7-Hearts}

and Flint-Petersen held {A-Diamonds}

. The board ran out {A-Hearts}

and that was it for Talle's tournament.

Tags: Anton Talle Elliot Flint-Petersen Joe Le

10-08-2009 13:12 UTC-3

Roberts Takes Care of Nocerino

[user66118]

Alessandro Nocerino opened the pot with a raise to 10,000 from the late position, and Brent Roberts three-bet it to 30,000 from the big. Nocerino called the extra amount to leave himself with just about 15,000 behind.

As the dealer burned, Roberts announced he was putting Nocerino all in, and the first three community cards came {8-Diamonds}

. Nocerino tried to check, not realizing that wasn't an option. Eventually, he made the call all in for his tournament life, tabling {10-Hearts}

while Roberts had pulled ahead in the race with his {A-Spades}

. Nocerino was in disbelief.

The turn and river blanked off with the {Q-Hearts}

and the

respectively, failing to answer Nocerino's pleads of, "Diez! Diez!" That's the end of his day, while Roberts moves up the board to about 160,000.

Tags: Alessandro Nocerino Brent Roberts

10-08-2009 13:20 UTC-3

Hayes Right Under Clark

donpeters

Zachary "CrazyZachary" Clark opened from early position before John Hayes reraised 5,400 more. Clark made the call after some deliberation.

The flop came down {K-Clubs}

and Clark check-called a bet of 6,500 from Hayes.

The turn brought the {K-Hearts}

. First, Clark checked. Then, Hayes checked.

The river was the {3-Clubs}

and Clark didn't move a muscle. After about half of a minute, he bet out 7,800. Hayes made the call. Clark shrugged and tabled {Q-Spades}

. "Right under you." said Hayes, mucking his hand.

Tags: "CrazyZachary"John Hayes Zachary Clark Zack Clark

10-08-2009 13:24 UTC-3

Moncek Drinking Double

[user66118]

Susie "SusieQue" Moncek opened the pot with an all-in move for her last 25,000 chips or so. Chase Steely made the call from the button as the rest of the table folded out of the way. With SusieQue's tournament in danger, the cards were turned up.

Showdown
Moncek: {A-Diamonds}

Steely:

It was no fun for Moncek, and she asked the dealer for diamonds. The flop was a big dry desert, though, coming down {9-Hearts}

. The turn was a {6-?}

, except it wasn't. The dealer appeared to flip two cards, and he retracted it and held his hand up in apology. The {6-?}

was apparently the next burn card, and his second crack at dealing fourth street brought a miraculous {7-Spades}

to pull Moncek into the lead. A safe {3-Spades}

filled out the board, and SusieQue has picked up an early double to work with. She's now up over 50,000 for the first time in three days.

Tags: Chase Steely Susie Moncek

10-08-2009 13:26 UTC-3

Stealing the Limelight from Phil

donpeters

"Hurry, Phil wants the cameras! He's all in!" yelled Tristan Wade from Table 6 to summon the camera crew in the room to Phil Hellmuth's table. Hellmuth had checked the turn on a board of {Q-Clubs}

and Wade moved all in.

When the cameras arrived to film the action Hellmuth said, "Wow, you move all in on me and then you call the cameras? Really?" Eventually, Hellmuth folded.

"Gavin, did you see that?!?!" Hellmuth rang. "The kid moved all in on me and then called the cameras, he's a camera hound!" The table laughed at Phil's comment before he went on to say, "We all know I'm a camera hound, but now we know you're one, too!"

Tags: Phil Hellmuth Tristan Wade

10-08-2009 13:28 UTC-3

Hayes Shoves Over Perkins

donpeters

On a board of {Q-Hearts}

, David Perkins fired 8,000 before John Hayes moved all in for 41,000 total. Perkins tanked and tanked, but eventually folded his hand. Hayes didn't show and raked in the pot to move back up to about 68,000 chips.

Tags: David Perkins John Hayes

10-08-2009 13:30 UTC-3

Mayday for Tmay

donpeters

Action folded around to Tim "Tmay420" West in the small blind and he moved all in. James Mordue was in the big blind and found a hand to call with, {A-Spades}

. West held {Q-Hearts}