Event #8: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 3 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$3,160,350
Entries
2,341
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Table 341
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2: Saar Wilf
Seat 3: Darin Utley
Seat 4: Looney Devin
Seat 5: Kurt Disessa
Seat 6: Paul Fehlig
Seat 7: James Andersen
Seat 8: Richard Geyer
Seat 9: Charles Lehr
Table 342
Seat 1: Raymond Geary
Seat 2: Joshua Brikis
Seat 3: Matthew Ezrol
Seat 4: Jose Gatmaitan
Seat 5: Kevin Howe
Seat 6: Daniel Wjuniski
Seat 7: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 8: Vineet Pahuja
Seat 9: Max Steinberg
Table 343
Seat 1: David Frazier
Seat 2: Scott Vener
Seat 3: Jared Michelizzi
Seat 4: --empty--
Seat 5: Ronald Eberhard
Seat 6: Andrew Cohen
Seat 7: Erich Kollmann
Seat 8: David Aue
Seat 9: Pascal LeFrancois
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The temperature is well over 100 degrees outside but inside the Amazon Room, it's nice and cool. Welcome back to the Rio for third day of action in Event #8. 25 players will be back today to play down to a winner for the eighth bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker. There is a chance for history to be made today, Phil Hellmuth is in contention for his 12th bracelet.
Leading the way is Saar Wilf with 1,207,000 chips. He will be the only one in the field to start the day with more than one million in chips. His closest competitor is 2009 Casino Employees event winner Andrew Cohen with a stack of 848,000. Phil Hellmuth is sitting fifth in chips with 556,000.
We're expected to see the cards get in the air here shortly so stay tuned.
The cue has been given. It's time to play some cards!
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
After action folded to Scott Vener on the button, he raised to 32,000 and the small blind folded. Ronald Eberhard, who was in the big blind, reraised to 70,000.
Vener asked how much Eberhard had behind, which turned out to be 180,000, before making the call. The flop came 
and Vener checked. Eberhard went to bet all in but did so in a string bet manner.
"It's alright," Vener said, "I'm all in." Eberhard called and turned over 
but was behind Vener's 
. Eberhard was looking for help but both the turn and river blanked.
Eberhard became the first player to be eliminated on Day 3.
Kurt Disessa was all in for 170,000 on the button holding 
and was called by James Andersen, who held 
, from the big blind.
The board ran out 
and Disessa doubled to 360,000. Meanwhile, Andersen is down to 120,000.
With about 100,000 in the pot preflop, Erich Kollmann pushed all in on a flop of 
. Andrew Cohen made the call and turned up 
, which was ahead of Kollmann's 
.
Cohen remained ahead when the 
hit the turn, but the 
on the river gave Kollmann a flush and the pot. He more than doubled to 312,000 while Cohen dropped to 682,000.
We didn't catch the action, but it was recounted for us by a player at the table. Paul Fehlig got it in with 
against an opponent with 
.
The flop gave Fehlig a flush draw when it came 
with two hearts. But the turn, and river, 
were no help.
Paul Fehlig has been eliminated in 24th place for a $16,275.
We missed the action but Andrew Cohen explained that Erich Kollmann was all in with 
against the pocket nines of Pascal LeFrancois.
Kollmann couldn't improve and lost all of his chips to LeFrancois. Kollmann was eliminated in 23rd place for $16,275.
