Players are back in their seats and action is underway here at the WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event final table. Approximately 50 minutes remain in Level 29 with the blinds at 20,000/40,000/5,000.
The first hand of the final table saw Stephen Dare take the blinds and antes with a preflop raise. Then the next one featured the two chip leaders — Kevin Saul and Paul Snead — battling for a small pot. Those two were seated together for much of the latter part of Day 2, and thus have gotten to play numerous pots against one another already in this event.
In this one Saul opened for 85,000 from under the gun and only Snead called from the button. The flop came 
and Saul continued for 95,000, with Snead sticking around.
Both players then checked the 
turn and 
river. "King," said Saul without flipping up his cards, and when Snead said "ace" and showed 
, Saul mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,480,000 | -195,000 |
|
2,180,000 | 200,000 |
Action folded to Pete Campo on the button and he opened for 90,000. Bobby Corcione defended from the big blind and it was heads-up action to the flop, which fell 
. Corcione proceeded to check-call a bet of 100,000 and then check-called a bet of 175,000 when the turned.
Both players checked the 
river and Campo tabled the to win the pot. Corcione did not show his cards.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,400,000 | 415,000 |
|
675,000 | -365,000 |
We just had a sequence of raise-and-take hands, with Ben Reason, Kevin Saul, and Lall Bharat all taking turns winning the blinds and antes, and Ethan Foulkes also claiming a small pot in a three-way hand following a flop c-bet.
Then came a hand in which Saul raised to 85,000 from under the gun, then Bobby Corcione reraised to 225,000 from the next seat. It folded back around to Saul who asked Corcione how much he had left — not quite 500,000 — and after a little while longer Saul reraised again to 505,000. Corcione responded with an all-in push, and Saul called quickly.
Saul had 
, but Corcione had . The flop was 
to improve Corcione's hand to a set, and the 
turn meant no river could take the pot away from him.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,750,000 | -730,000 |
|
|
1,420,000 | 745,000 |
Pete Campo raised to 90,000 from early position, and the table folded all of the way back to Lall Bharat in the big blind who checked his cards and made the call.
Both players proceeded somewhat tentatively on all three post-flop streets — both checking the 
flop, Bharat check-calling a bet of 105,000 from Campo after the 
turn, then both checking the 
river.
Bharat then showed his hand — 
— and Campo showed that he'd been dealt . Campo claimed the small pot, and now has more than 1.5 million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,580,000 | 180,000 |
|
|
1,450,000 | -200,000 |
Level: 30
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,350,000 | 170,000 |
|
|
1,800,000 | 50,000 |
|
1,680,000 | 415,000 |
|
|
1,450,000 | |
|
|
1,225,000 | -195,000 |
|
|
1,215,000 | -365,000 |
|
|
1,000,000 | -290,000 |
|
875,000 | -350,000 |
|
825,000 | 65,000 |
Kevin Saul has been battling to reverse the downward trend he's been experiencing chip-wise since the final table began, but circumstances aren't cooperating at the moment.
Just now he opened with a button raise to 115,000, then saw Bobby Corcione push all in over the top from the small blind, forcing Saul to abandon his hand.
On the next one Saul was raising again from the cutoff, this time to 105,000, and only Ethan Foulkes called from the big blind. The flop came 
. Foulkes checked, Saul bet 120,000, and Foulkes called. The turn then brought the 
and a bet of 185,000 from Foulkes, which after a pause caused Saul to fold.
Foulkes then showed his hand — 
(a flush) — and he and Saul engaged in post-hand conversation about his line.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,940,000 | 260,000 |
|
|
1,420,000 | -380,000 |
|
|
1,400,000 | 175,000 |
Kevin Saul opened for 110,000 from middle position and Stephen Dare flatted from the cutoff. Cory Waaland then moved all in from the small blind for roughly 750,000 and Saul insta-mucked. Dare thought for a solid minute before folding 
face up, and Waaland showed the inferior 
and taunted, "Good fold."
The table and spectators got a kick out of it, and then Saul indicated that he had folded the best hand with 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,640,000 | -110,000 |
|
|
1,100,000 | 225,000 |
|
|
890,000 | -110,000 |
