Regional Championship
Day 3 Completed
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah's Atlantic City
Regional Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah's Atlantic City
Buy-in
$9,700
Prize Pool
$1,279,624
Entries
136
Level
27
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Klodnicki Paves the Way to the Final Table
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Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Day 3 is all over but the shouting here at the World Series of Poker Circuit Northeast Regional Championship. Main Event champion Matthew Waxman ran his nines into Chris Bell's pocket queens to burst the final table bubble on just the second hand of ten-handed play. But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves again as the day began with a stacked field and a lot of action.
Lee Childs began the day with just over 1 big blind and he was, not surprisingly, the first one to exit. A few minutes later, Sorel Mizzi ran his eights into jacks to bust, then Doc Sands ran sixes into nines at the same table an orbit later. Soon after that, Jonathan Little went broke when his sixes couldn't overcome Seth Fischer's two eights, and Dan Kelly followed him right out the door. Other notables who fell short of the final table today included Christian Harder, Eugene Katchalov, and Brett Richey, the latter two leaving with mini-cashes. Victor Ramdin went out in 12th place when his ace-ten couldn't win a flip, and the last lady standing, Beth Shak hung on to her short stack all the way until her 11th-place elimination. When Waxman busted in 10th, the chip bags came out with the players stacked up thusly:
Seat 1: Chris Bell – 706,000
Seat 2: Micah Raskin – 594,000
Seat 3: Ketan Pandya – 377,000
Seat 4: Nick Mitchell – 332,000
Seat 5: Todd Terry – 307,000
Seat 6: Andy Frankenberger – 230,000
Seat 7: Jason Burt – 579,000
Seat 8: Chris Klodnicki – 759,000
Seat 9: Seth Fischer – 219,000
Meet your nine finalists, a group of players you'll see on television tomorrow and again in May for the National Championship. Everyone's guaranteed at least $32,362 to go with that freeroll seat, but there are bigger bucks to be had. First place tomorrow will be worth $358,295 and a piece of diamond-encrusted jewelry, not to mention the bragging rights of winning the Northeast Regional Championship.
Chris Klodnicki is already the owner of some bragging rights in this building. Last week marked the one year anniversary of a Klodnicki title here, his victory in the $4,900 Main Event earning him more than $200,000 and his first gold ring. He'll be the betting favorite to get one for the other hand tomorrow, but nothing will come easily at this table. The players begin with an average stack of more than 75 big blinds, so we should have plenty of poker throughout the day.
The green and gold Regional Championship stage is under construction in the room next door, and we'll move over there tomorrow to play it out under the bright lights of the television set. You can join us right back here to follow along with the action as it unfolds, and we hope to see you then!
Matthew Waxman Eliminated in 10th Place ($26,232)
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Well, we won't have to worry about that... It took just two hands of play at the featured table to shrink our ten players down to the requisite nine.
The aforementioned Matthew Waxman opened to 14,000 from middle position, and Chris Bell three-bet to 44,000 from the button. Waxman made the call, and it was heads up to the flop.
It rolled out 
, and Waxman checked. Bell bet almost the full pot, 100,000 straight. After a bit of a soak in the tank, Waxman check-raised all in for about 275,000, and Bell made the call to put him at risk. The Main Event winner was in awfully bad shape:
Waxman: 
Bell: 
Waxman was drawing to two outs, but that happens to be the same way he won the Main Event last week. It certainly wouldn't have been a surprise to see it happen again, but it was not to be this time. The turn 
and river 
were not the nines Waxman was looking for, and he has been eliminated.
It's hard to say enough about Waxman's efforts over the past week or so here in Atlantic City. He's picked up a gold championship ring and a seat to the National Championship, not to mention six figures of cash. He'll add another $26,232 to that today, but we won't be seeing him on television tomorrow.
One At a Time, Waxman!
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Our ten remaining players are each just one elimination away from a seat at the final table tomorrow. With it comes another seat, entry into the $1 million freeroll National Championship at Caesars in May. Nine of them are sweating a bit harder than the odd man out right now.
Matthew Waxman, you may remember, won the $1,650 Main Event here a week ago today, and that too came with a National Championship seat. He's ineligible to win a second entry as the field needs to fill out at 100 players. That number includes 66 automatic qualifiers and 34 at-large bids to be given to the players who rank at the top of the yearly leaderboard. The rules stipulate that should Waxman or any other player win multiple National Championship seats this year, the next highest point earner gets his seat. Should he survive into tomorrow, there will be a very happy 35th-place point earner come May.
But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves...
The Last Table
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Here's how things are laid out after a very important final re-draw. Oddly, the players are grouped together exactly in the same cluster as their previous table draw. Seats 1-5 came from Table 62 and Seats 6-10 came from Table 52.
In any event, here they are:
Seat 1: Chris Bell (380,000)
Seat 2: Micah Raskin (585,000)
Seat 3: Ketan Pandya (385,000)
Seat 4: Nick Mitchell (335,000)
Seat 5: Todd Terry (310,000)
Seat 6: Matthew Waxman (280,000)
Seat 7: Andy Frankenberger (235,000)
Seat 8: Jason Burt (595,000)
Seat 9: Chris Klodnicki (760,000)
Seat 10: Seth Fischer (220,000)
Shuffle up and deal!
Beth Shak Eliminated in 11th Place ($26,232)
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Under the gun, Beth Shak raised to 15,000, and the table folded all the way around to the big blind. There, Todd Terry three-bet all in to put Shak to the ultimate decision, and she called all in for what looked like 95,000 total. She was not in good shape:
Shak: 
Terry: 
The flop came 
to help Shak not that much at all, but the turn 
was a good card to give her another nine outs to the diamond flush. The river was the wrong color, though, and the 
is the last card Shak will see today. She's out in 11th place, good for $26,232.
The final ten men are being recombined around the last table left, the roped-off featured table up in the front of the room.
Waxman Dripping With New Chips
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
In the cutoff, Matthew Waxman raised to 14,000, and Chris Klodnicki three-bet to 40,000 from the small blind. Waxman shoved for 147,000 total, and the chip leader called off a fraction of his stack to put last week's Main Event winner to the test for his tournament life. Surprise, surprise; it was a flip.
Showdown
Waxman: 
Klodnicki: 
The 
flop was a big dry desert for Waxman's double up hopes, but things would soon improve. The 
landed on fourth street to pull him into a big lead with one to come. The river was the safe 
, and Waxman's aces up double him up to 306,000. Klodnicki takes a hit, but he can afford it; he's still got about 750,000 in front of him.
Mitchell and Pandya Buck the Trend
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
From middle position, Ketan Pandya raised to 15,000 to open the pot, and Nick Mitchell three-bet him to 38,000. We've seen this before, and the initial raiser has been folding a lot of late. Pandya had other ideas this time, however, four-betting to 82,000 total. When it came back to Mitchell, he took a bit of a pause to consider before announcing an all in for 272,000 total. Pandya would take a very long while to make his decision, his table giving him time to consider a big decision. Pandya had about 360,000 left behind his four-bet, so the remaining five-bet was for more than half his remaining chips.
"Ace-king?" he finally asked after at least seven or eight minutes. He continued to gaze back and forth between his own chips and the massive pot heaped in the middle of the table. Finally, and very quietly, he said, "Fold," and the dealer uncapped his cards and pulled them into the muck.
Pandya - 360,000
Mitchell - 368,000
A Three-Betting Trend
Level 20
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
A succession of three hands between the two tables.
1) First in from the button, Beth Shak raised to 15,000, and Ketan Pandya three-bet to 38,000 from the button. Shak tanked and surrendered.
2) On the next hand, it was Pandya opening to 15,000 from the button, and this time Micah Raskin three-bet him to 45,000. Pandya folded.
3) Across the aisle, Seth Fischer was opening a pot to 15,000 as well, and Matthew Waxman reraised all in for about 110,000. There was no call from Fischer, and we just can't buy a three-bet flop these days.
Level: 20
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000