Event #34: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship
Day 3 Started
Event #34: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship
Day 3 Started
Day 3 of the Seniors Championship is set to begin in about a half an hour. Only 23 players remain out of the 3,142 who started two days ago. The biggest name remaining in the field is Tom Schneider, who finished as the Day 1 chip leader. There will certainly be a lot of excitement surrounding the 2007 Player of the Year throughout the day as he attempts to capture the $487,994 first-place prize..
Also returning are Jeanne Nelson, the last woman remaining in the field, and Mike Minetti, who is our chip leader with over one million in chips. The plan for today is to play down to a final table and to a winner, which means we could be in store for a long night.
The tournament staff are currently getting the tables in order, so the cards should be in the air around 2:30 pm local time. PokerNews will bring you all of the updates throughout the day as we look to find the next Seniors Champion.
Here are the seating arrangements and chip counts for the start of Day 3:
Table 336
Seat 1: Empty
Seat 2: Mike Minetti - 1,038,000
Seat 3: Bruce Peterson - 465,000
Seat 4: John Woo - 551,000
Seat 5: Jack Ward - 519,000
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: Thomas Scott - 356,000
Seat 8: Bruce Angeski - 253,000
Seat 9: Jay Hong - 352,000
Table 337
Seat 1: Jeanne Nelson - 253,000
Seat 2: Robert Cain - 232,000
Seat 3: Tom Schneider - 284,000
Seat 4: Preston Derden - 875,000
Seat 5: John Wrona - 183,000
Seat 6: Edward Weiss - 169,000
Seat 7: Jon Hair - 169,000
Seat 8: Empty
Seat 9: Ken James - 297,000
Table 338
Seat 1: Carlos Pianelli - 877,000
Seat 2: Empty
Seat 3: Eric Stemp - 562,000
Seat 4: Dave Lambertson - 94,000
Seat 5: Brian Appelbaum - 241,000
Seat 6: Harold Angle - 349,000
Seat 7: Michael Woo - 523,000
Seat 8: Larry Ross - 220,000
Seat 9: Daniel Camillo - 510,000
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
The players have taken their seats and the cards are in the air. Day 3 of the Seniors Championship has officially begun.
Eric Stemp was in the cutoff and raised to 66,000. Dave Lambertson, who was the short stack at the start of the day, then moved all in for around 75,000 total. Stemp only had to call off a few more chips and did so with the .
Lambertson revealed and it was off to the races. The flop came down , giving Stemp a straight draw along with his overs. The on the turn was no help to Stemp and neither was the on the river.
Lambertson doubled to around 160,000 on the hand while Stemp dropped to 487,000.
We didn't catch the hand but Brian Appelbaum has been eliminated from the tournament. He becomes the first player to make his exit on Day 3.
Preston Derden was in middle position and raised to 39,000. Edward Weiss, who was in the cutoff, pushed all in for a total of 145,000. Derden made the call and the two turned over their cards:
Derden:
Weiss:
Although Derden was ahead preflop, that changed on the flop when it came . Weiss was in great shape to double with his pair of aces if he could avoid a nine. The on the turn changed nothing. Derden needed to improve on the river to eliminate Weiss.
The dealer burned and revealed the on the river. Weiss doubled to around 300,000 while Derden dropped to around 730,000.
Dave Lambertson bet 50,000 on a flop of and was called by Carlos Pianelli. When the hit the turn, Lambertson moved all in for around 150,000.
Pianelli called and turned over for the broadway straight. The hand eliminated Lambertson in 22nd place for which he will take home $13,969. Meanwhile, Pianelli is up to 1.42 million.
Edward Weiss was under the gun and raised to 75,000. Ken James then moved all in from the hijack and Weiss put his tournament life at stake by calling for his 289,000 stack.
Weiss:
James:
The board ran out giving Weiss a double to nearly 600,000; meanwhile, James was left with just 12,000 chips.
A few hands later, James was under the gun and called all in for 8,000. Tom Schneider raised from the cutoff to isolate and everyone else folded. James held the and was in big trouble against Schneider's .
The board ran out and James was bounced from the tournament in 21st place ($13,969).