Level: 14
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
2007 WSOP Circuit Event - Lake Tahoe
WSOP Lake Tahoe Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2007 WSOP Circuit Event - Lake Tahoe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$677,700
Entries
142
Level
15
Blinds
6,000 / 12,000
Ante
2,000
Players Left 1 / 142
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Chris Ferguson: 668,000
Dustin Fox: 200,000
Gabriel Testa: 98,000
Sylvester Geoghegan: 145,000
Mark Bonsack: 313,000
, Mark Bonsack opened the pot with a 12,000 bet from the big blind. Dustin Fox then raised, making it 36,000 total to call. Bonsack tanked for quite some time, at one point asking how much Dustin had left behind before eventually folding his hand.
Action folded around to Ferguson in the cutoff and he opened for a 17,000 raise. Banducci made the call from the button and the two were heads-up going into the flop.
The first three cards off the deck came
and Ferguson checked to Banducci, who took a stab at the pot with a 24,000 bet; Ferguson made the call.The turn brought the
and this time it was Ferguson who started the betting, firing a 55,000 bullet into the middle. Banducci then opted to move all in over the top of Chris' bet, prompting the man they call 'Jesus' to plop into the tank.Chris leaned back in his chair, staring intently at the board while considering his decision. He then cut the additional 83,500 chips it would cost him to call from his mammoth-sized stack and sat up in his chair, elbows propped up on the table. With a subtle shrug of his shoulders, Chris slid the chips into the middle and tabled the
; Banducci showed the 
for top pair.Chris would need to hit an ace, a queen or a diamond on the river to take down the pot, and when the
fell on the river, that was all she wrote for Banducci.The win further increased Ferguson's chip stack over the field and he now has somewhere in the ballpark of 650,000 in chips. Banducci would take home $33,223 in prize money for his 6th place finish.
Fox is an investment banker by trade, though he has found modest success on the felt, having won multiple tournaments ranging in buy-in from $100 - $1,000.
Clearly the local fan favorite, Fox is hoping to cash in on what would be his biggest tournament victory to date.
While their lips haven't moved much, their chips are certainly getting some exercise as the frequency of pre-flop raises has increased two-fold since the start of play, due to the short-handed nature of the table.
The flop came down
and Fox checked to Bonsack, who made a continuation bet of 35,000. Ferguson got out of the way and when the action got around to Fox, he moved all in over the top of Bonsack's bet for a total of 120,000. Bonsack tanked for quite some time before ultimately laying down his hand.Fox stacked up just under 200,000 in chips after the hand.
The third player eliminated from the tournament today was George Saca, whose pocket jacks couldn't hold off the A-K of Sylvester 'Vesty' Geoghegan in a classic pre-flop coinflip situation. Vesty spiked a king on the flop, which was all he'd need to win the hand and eliminate Saca from the tournament.
Saca's seventh-place finish is quite impressive when you take into consideration the fact that he entered Day 2 as the field's third smallest chip stack. Saca earned $26,443 for his efforts - not bad for three days work.
