Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz
Day 3 Started
Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz
Day 3 Started
Brandon Cantu (two WSOP bracelets) and Brendan Taylor (one WSOP bracelet) are atop our chip counts entering Day 3 of Event 18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz, but everyone's eyes are on Phil Hellmuth, who's lurking right behind them.
Two days ago, Hellmuth finished 15th in Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better, and rather than go back to the Aria to drink the finest whisky, he hopped into Event 18 along with 309 other hopefuls. Now, only 17 players separate Hellmuth from his record-breaking twelfth bracelet.
Keep in mind, he's never won a non-hold'em event at the WSOP.
Neither of Cantu's two bracelets came in stud variants either, but the way he's running, anything is possible. Going into Level 17 on Day 2, Cantu had 4,000 chips. At the time, that was one small bet or four antes. An hour and a half later, he had well over 100,000, and two hours later, when the day concluded, he was the chip leader. Let's see of Cantu can keep the run going on Day 3.
Cantu, Hellmuth, and Taylor aren't the only bracelet winners left in the field however. Chris Viox (1), Michael Chow (1), Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein (3), Scott Fischman (2), and Scott Clements (2) all have at least one bracelet.
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Level: 19
Limits: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,500
Scott Clements was our shortest stack entering the day, and after the first hand of play, he's out.
Scott Fischman: /
Scott Clements: /
Clements started with the best hand possible in Razz, but he was dealt the following cards: , and then another face down. After every street was dealt, he said the following, "That's not good."
Fischman was dealt and than an facedown on seventh, which was good enough for the knockout.
Chris Viox completed with a up, Calvin Anderson raised with a up, and the action folded back to Viox who called.
Viox was dealt a on fourth street, Anderson a , and all the money went in.
Viox | / |
Anderson | / |
Viox was dealt a , , and another , while Anderson received a and . On seventh, Anderson squeezed his card, and announced that it had no sides. No sides means that it's an ace, deuce, or tre, because those cards only have symbols in the corner and the center of the card. If it was another tre, Anderson would've been eliminated, but it was a deuce, giving him the best hand and the double up.
"That's the first time I've ever squeezed a card," Anderson said after the hand.
"Now you're addicted," Phil Hellmuth returned, grinning.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chris Viox | 170,000 | -19,000 |
Calvin Anderson
|
50,000 | 22,000 |
Brandon Cantu completed with his only to have Jeff Misteff, who was showing an , put in a raise. Dan O'Brien came along with a while Cantu opted to get out of the way. O'Brien proceeded to check-call a bet on the turn, but then check-folded to a bet on fifth street. At that point Misteff showed for a made 7-6 low.
O'Brien (x-x) /
Misteff: /
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jeff Misteff
|
167,000 | 12,000 |
Dan O'Brien | 34,000 | -16,500 |
Chris "Fox" Wallace: /
Phil Hellmuth: /
When we reached the table, Wallace and Hellmuth were heads up on fifth street, and after a series of bets and raises, Wallace was all in.
Wallace:
Hellmuth:
Both players bricked on sixth - Wallace was dealt a , which didn't improve his hand, and Hellmuth paired his . On seventh street, as a courtesy, Hellmuth flipped his down card face up. Unfortunately for Wallace, it was a , giving Hellmuth an eighty-seven low, and the best hand.
Wallace's down card was a , and he was eliminated from the tournament. Congratulations to Fox, who is the author of a daily blog about the WSOP and other happenings in poker. A 17th-place finish at the WSOP and $5,904 is nothing to scoff at.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Hellmuth
|
325,000 | 37,500 |
Chris Wallace
|
Busted |
Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|
1 | Phil Hellmuth | 355,000 |
2 | Barry Greenstein | 175,000 |
3 | Brendan Taylor | 212,000 |
4 | Calvin Anderson | 45,000 |
5 | Jared Bleznick | 90,000 |
6 | Michael Chow | 75,000 |
7 | Chris Viox | 101,000 |
8 | Gerald Ringe | 69,000 |
Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|
1 | Jeff Mervis | 62,000 |
2 | Scott Abrams | 143,000 |
3 | Jeff Misteff | 136,000 |
4 | Dan O’Brien | 61,000 |
5 | Brandon Cantu | 300,000 |
6 | David Rosenau | 120,000 |
7 | Scott Fischman | 160,000 |
8 | Don Zewin | 213,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Hellmuth
|
355,000 | 30,000 |
Brandon Cantu
|
300,000 | 1,500 |
Don Zewin | 213,000 | 97,500 |
Brendan Taylor
|
212,000 | -76,500 |
Barry Greenstein | 175,000 | 80,500 |
Scott Fischman | 160,000 | 80,000 |
Scott Abrams
|
143,000 | 50,000 |
Jeff Misteff
|
136,000 | -31,000 |
David Rosenau | 120,000 | -29,000 |
Chris Viox | 101,000 | -69,000 |
Jared Bleznick | 90,000 | -1,500 |
Michael Chow
|
75,000 | -108,000 |
Gerald Ringe
|
69,000 | 14,500 |
Jeff Mervis | 62,000 | -49,500 |
Dan O'Brien | 61,000 | 27,000 |
Calvin Anderson
|
45,000 | -5,000 |
After the brought it in, Chris Viox just called with his . Brendan Taylor then completed, the bring-in folded and Viox came along for the ride. Viox proceeded to check-call a bet on the turn before calling Taylor's bet on fifth. The latter continued to bet on sixth and seventh, with Viox calling both streets.
Taylor: (x-x) / / (x) ()
Viox: (x) / / (Ax}
Taylor's 7-6-5-4-2 was good enough to take down the pot and leave Viox with just a stack of 48,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brendan Taylor
|
260,000 | 48,000 |
Chris Viox | 53,000 | -48,000 |