2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's Resort Atlantic City

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Harrah's Resort Atlantic City

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
94
Prize
$194,040
Event Info
Prize Pool
$924,000
Entries
616
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Info - Day 3

Another All-In from Grimes

We just saw another hand involving a Terry Grimes all-in shove on the flop, this time against fellow big stack Sung Kim.

In that hand, Kim opened for 60,000 from under the gun and Grimes called from the cutoff. The flop then came {A-Spades}{2-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}, and Kim continued with a bet of 80,000. Grimes responded by raising all-in, and Kim stepped aside.

Player Chips Progress
Terry Grimes us
Terry Grimes
2,990,000 230,000
Sung Kim us
Sung Kim
2,060,000 -260,000

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Leventhal Forces a Fold

Adam Teasdale raised to 60,000 from the cutoff, and it folded around to Barry Leventhal who called from the big blind. Both players checked the {10-Hearts}{4-Spades}{K-Spades} flop, and Leventhal checked once more when the turn brought the {3-Hearts}.

Teasdale took a moment to think before betting 75,000, and Leventhal responded with an all-in check-raise for 575,000. Teasdale tanked for three full minutes, the rest of the table leaving their seats as he did, before finally letting his hand go.

Player Chips Progress
Adam Teasdale us
Adam Teasdale
1,680,000 -170,000
Barry Leventhal us
Barry Leventhal
820,000 255,000

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Ed Modlin Eliminated in 8th Place ($22,656)

Ed Modlin - 8th place
Ed Modlin - 8th place

Following a Sung Kim open for 60,000 from middle position, Ed Modlin reraised all in from the button for 590,000. Next to act, Terry Grimes reraised all in over the top from the small blind, and both Wade Woelfel (big blind) and Kim stepped aside.

Modlin: {J-Hearts}{J-Spades}
Grimes: {A-Spades}{A-Clubs}

Unfortunate timing for Modlin, and five cards later — {Q-Spades}{A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{K-Diamonds} — Modlin was out in eighth.

With that hand, Grimes passes Kim to reclaim the chip lead.

Player Chips Progress
Terry Grimes us
Terry Grimes
2,760,000 640,000

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Grimes Shoves Flop

We've seen Terry Grimes pushing all in either before the flop or on flops several times over the last few hours on his way to becoming the start-of-final-table chip leader. He just did so again in a hand versus Pete Rios.

In that hand, Rios had opened for 75,000 from middle position and Grimes called from the big blind. The flop came {4-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}, and Grimes led by announcing he was all in for the 2 million or so he had behind. Rios promptly folded.

Player Chips Progress
Terry Grimes us
Terry Grimes
2,120,000 120,000
Pete Rios
Pete Rios
1,850,000 -110,000

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Trevor Deeter Eliminated in 9th Place ($18,000)

Trevor Deeter - 9th place
Trevor Deeter - 9th place

Halfway through the first orbit of the final table, Trevor Deeter open-raised all in for 395,000 from the button and got a caller in Sung Kim playing from the big blind.

Deeter showed {6-Hearts}{5-Hearts} and was hoping to improve versus Kim's {10-Clubs}{10-Hearts}. The flop came {7-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{9-Spades}, then the {J-Hearts} turn provided some flush hopes for Deeter. But the river was the {10-Spades}, and Deeter hits the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Sung Kim us
Sung Kim
2,320,000 460,000

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Early Action

Level 28 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

We've seen some action here in the early going during the first hands of the final table.

On the second hand of the final table, Barry Leventhal reraised all in over an opening raise by Terry Grimes, getting the latter to fold.

Then soon after Ed Modlin was all in and at risk with {A-Spades}{9-Spades} versus Wade Woelfel's {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}, but when the board rolled out {8-Clubs}{5-Clubs}{6-Spades}{5-Hearts}{8-Spades}, Modlin survived with a chopped pot.

Meet the Final Nine

Level 28 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

We have an eclectic group comprising tonight's final table. Here's a little more about each player thanks to our friends on the WSOP staff.

Seat 1: Barry Leventhal (565,000)
Barry Leventhal’s biggest score came in 2008 when he took seventh in the Borgata Summer Open Main event for $69,000. Less than two weeks later, the Ohioan followed up that showing with a 150th place finish in the 2008 WSOP Main Event. Since then, Leventhal has posted a series of cashes up and down the East Coast. He has around $235,000 in career tournament earnings.

Seat 2: Trevor Deeter (460,000)
Trevor Deeter is an accomplished Circuit grinder with six Circuit final tables and a ring to his credit. His ring win came earlier this season in a $365 No Limit event at Horseshoe Southern Indiana. Thanks to all his Circuit success, Deeter earned an at-large bid to the 2011 WSOP National Championship. The Philadelphia resident has over $82,000 in career tournament earnings.

Seat 3: Pete Rios (1,885,000)
Pedro "Pete" Rios final tabled a WSOP Circuit event earlier this season when he finished sixth in the Horseshoe Bossier City Main Event and he is the first player this season to make multiple Circuit Main Event final tables. Back in 2006, the Texan final tabled the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout event, taking ninth. This is Rios’ fifth cash of this Circuit season. His career earnings currently stand at $55,000.

Seat 4: Sung Kim (1,860,000)
Originally from Seoul, Korea, Sung Kim currently lives in New York. Kim has one previous WSOP Circuit cash at an event at Harrah's Atlantic City, having taken 27th in a $345 buy-in event during the 2011-12 season.

Seat 5: Aaron Overton (2,065,000)
Philly poker player Aaron Overton came close to his first Circuit Main Event final table earlier this year at Caesars Atlantic City. Unfortunately for him, it was not to be back in March as he bubbled the final table in 10th place. Overton has a chance for redemption today, not to mention a chance to add to his $150,000 in career tournament earnings.

Seat 6: Adam Teasdale (1,850,000)
Start-of-Day 3 chip leader Adam Teasdale has had a strong few weeks. Less than a month ago, he made a run in the Borgata Fall Poker Open Main Event, taking 40th place. Teasdale resides in Wisconsin and his career earnings currently stand at $11,586

Seat 7: Ed Modlin (640,000)
This marks the first cash of note for Ed Modlin, a native of North Carolina.

Seat 8: Terry Grimes (2,090,000)
This is Terry Grimes’ first WSOP-related cash and his fourth career cash overall. His biggest score came at Borgata this past September. The New Yorker took third in a $1,500 Bounty event there for almost $23,000.

Seat 9: Wade Woelfel (915,000)
A professional poker player from Minnesota, Wade Woelfel has almost $360,000 in live tournament earnings, including an eighth place finish at the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event in 2010 for $35,000, his largest live cash to date. Woelfel also has over $1.8 million in online tournament earnings.

The Final Table Is Underway!

Level 28 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

The final nine players have returned from the dinner break and cards are in the air for tonight's WSOP Circuit Main Event final table at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City.

Dinner Break

Level 28 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

The last nine players have left to take a one-hour dinner break before they begin the final table. We'll have updated counts for everyone shortly, and see you back here in an hour as we continue the journey toward finding the next WSOP Circuit Main Event champion.