Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
Welcome back to the snowy mountains here at Black Hawk for the conclusion of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Lodge Casino! Yesterday, we whittled 144 players down to just 11, and after nearly 12 hours of play, Kevin Eyster, also known as “1sickdisease” online, leads the way with 1.23 million. It’s not a huge lead though, as there are four players within 200,000 of him.
It’s a stacked field of 11 players, with multiple ring winners still alive. Ashly Butler comes into today 3rd in chips with 1.156 million, and he won a ring in Biloxi last August. Bryan Campanello is one of the short stacks with 393,000, but he may be the hottest player left in the field, as he won a ring here in Black Hawk just 11 days ago.
We also have a pair of ladies who are still vying for the title. Rosie Paules is another member of the millionaire club, as she comes into today with 1.017 million. There’s also Ting Ho, who just won a 6-max reentry WPT prelim event in Atlantic City in January. She will come into today with 677,000.
The action was big and fast yesterday, and we are expecting more of the same today, as over half the field is just one double up away from the chip lead. We are playing down to a winner today, so don’t go anywhere! We here at Pokernews will be bringing you the action all day. Play will get underway in just over half an hour, so make sure you are comfortable, and enjoy our Day 3 coverage!
Level: 26
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
The cards are now in the air! Once we lose one player, we will redraw for the final ten.
On Friday, March 29 at 11 a.m. ET, the DeepStacks Poker Tour Patriot Poker Classic Main Event at Mohegan Sun kicks off. The $1,500 unlimited re-entry event boasts a $200,000 guarantee, and the live stream will be hosted right here on PokerNews for our global viewing audience.
We expect plenty of big names in attendance along with a stout conglomerate of local players. DeepStacks Pros Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Tristan "Cre8ive" Wade and Mike "The Mouth" Matusow have been confirmed as hosts for the event.
It took about three hands for us to get our first all in of the day. Lawrence Blazer raised it up to 50,000 in the hijack, and when it got to Bryan Campanello on the button, he moved all in for his last 380,000. It got back to Blazer, and he spent about 45 seconds thinking before kicking his hand in.
Campanello jumped up to 445,000 after the hand, while Blazer fell to 360,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Campanello
|
445,000 | 52,000 |
Lawrence Blazer | 360,000 | -60,000 |
Action folded around to Bryan Campanello in the cutoff, and he moved all in for his last 400,000. Kevin Eyster looked him up in the small blind, and we had a race on our hands.
Eyster:
Campanello:
The board ran down , and Eyster collected the bounty, while Campanello will have to settle for 11th place.
The players are currently redrawing for seats at the unofficial final table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kevin Eyster
|
1,600,000 | 370,000 |
Bryan Campanello
|
Busted |
We didn't catch the hand as it was happening, as we were working on getting photos up of the final table members, but we got filled in on what happened that led to Ting Ho busting just before the official final table.
The board read , and Ho and Jonathan Taylor got in a raising war that saw all the money go in. Ho had flopped a monster holding , but she was drawing very thin, as Taylor held .
Ho could only catch two cards in the deck for a straight flush, but it didn't happen, as the hit the river. Taylor took the pot to bump his stack up to 1.7 million, while Ho is the dubious final table bubble girl.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Taylor | 1,700,000 | 698,000 |
Ting Ho | Busted |
*Table | Seat | Player | |
1 | 1 | Jonathan Taylor | |
1 | 2 | Jerry Johnson | |
1 | 3 | Allan Hedin | |
1 | 4 | Ashly Butler | |
1 | 5 | Isaac Kirchner | |
1 | 6 | Lawrence Blazer | |
1 | 7 | Kevin Eyster | |
1 | 8 | Benjamin Kim | |
1 | 9 | Rosie Paules |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Taylor | 1,900,000 | 200,000 |
Kevin Eyster
|
1,620,000 | 20,000 |
Ashly Butler | 1,190,000 | 32,000 |
Allan Hedin | 1,100,000 | -63,000 |
Rosie Paules | 800,000 | -217,000 |
Isaac Kirchner | 490,000 | -62,000 |
Jerry Johnson | 482,000 | 16,000 |
Benjamin Kim | 340,000 | 34,000 |
Lawrence Blazer | 320,000 | -40,000 |