Official Final Table
The Final Table
Seat | Player | Chips |
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1 | Yarron Bendor | 383,000 |
2 | Chris Bjorin | 285,000 |
3 | Todd Brunson | 100,000 |
4 | Xuan Liu | 201,000 |
5 | Brandon Shack-Harris | 431,000 |
6 | Michael Mizrachi | 433,000 |
7 | Bonnie Rossi | 203,000 |
8 | Cory Zeidman | 745,000 |
Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|
1 | Yarron Bendor | 383,000 |
2 | Chris Bjorin | 285,000 |
3 | Todd Brunson | 100,000 |
4 | Xuan Liu | 201,000 |
5 | Brandon Shack-Harris | 431,000 |
6 | Michael Mizrachi | 433,000 |
7 | Bonnie Rossi | 203,000 |
8 | Cory Zeidman | 745,000 |
The players have successfully relocated to the stage here in the Pavilion Room and the cards are back in the air.
Xuan Liu completed with the showing, and Brandon Shack-Harris raised with the . Bonnie Rossi called with her , Cory Zeidman called with the , and Liu called the extra bet to see fourth street.
Liu: (x-x) / / (x)
Shack-Harris: (x-x) / muck
Rossi: (x-x) / muck
Zeidman: (x-x) / / (x)
Fourth street checked around, and Zeidman fired the first bet on fifth. Liu was the only caller, and they were heads-up to sixth street. Liu checked her betting lead, and she tank-folded to a big bet from Zeidman.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Cory Zeidman |
775,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Xuan Liu |
158,000
-43,000
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-43,000 |
After Bonnie Rossi brought it in with the , Cory Zeidman called and Yarron Bendor completed. Rossi got out of the way, Zeidman called, and it was off to the turn. Zeidman ended up check-calling a bet before taking the lead on fifth and firing every street.
Zeidman: (x-x) / /
Bendor: / /
Bendor ended up folding to Zeidman's bet on seventh street, but not before showing his opponent that he had cracked rolled-up fives.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Cory Zeidman |
850,000
225,000
|
225,000 |
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Yarron Bendor |
580,000
-120,000
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-120,000 |
The stacks are starting to become a bit more polarized here at the final table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Cory Zeidman |
890,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
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Yarron Bendor |
585,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Michael Mizrachi |
445,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
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Chris Bjorin |
350,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
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Brandon Shack-Harris |
230,000
-201,000
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-201,000 |
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Bonnie Rossi |
225,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Xuan Liu |
85,000
-73,000
|
-73,000 |
Todd Brunson |
65,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
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The players have stepped away for a scheduled break. We'll be back in 10 minutes.
Level: 23
Limits: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
While most of our readers are familiar with the big-bet games in poker like No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, today's Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better will be played in a limit format and one some people may not be acquainted with.
Seven Card Stud is the most popular version of stud poker and generally played anywhere between two and eight players at a time. Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better is a split-pot variant of that game and the one that's featured in today's 5:00 PM event, an event won by Chris Viox in 2011, and an event won by Phil Ivey back in 2002.
If a player stays in until the end of a hand, he or she will receive a total of seven cards. To start, each player is dealt two cards face down followed by a third card face up. Each player would then receive three more cards face up followed by the seventh and final card face down. There is a betting round after each street and often an ante before anyone receives any cards.
To become more familiar with the action, the betting rounds and all things Seven Card Stud, head over to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Seven Card Stud page and check things out. Once you're ready to test your skills on the felt, you can **play poker online by checking out one of our many PokerNews offers.
For some more information on Seven Card Stud, along with other mixed games, check out our Learning Mixed Games with Ville Wahlbeck article. There is also a Strategy with Kristy podcast featuring Chris George where he discusses mixed games with Kristy Arnett that includes some Seven Card Stud talk, so be sure to check that out as well.
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Three-way action here between Michael Mizrachi, Bonnie Rossi, and Cory Zeidman. It resulted in the elimination of Bonnie Rossi.
Mizrachi: (x-x) / / (x)
Rossi: (x-x) / / (x)
Zeidman: (x-x) / / (x)
The lady was doing the betting when we joined the action on fifth street. Call-call. On sixth, Mizrachi bet his pair, and that was called in both places, too. Mizrachi bet dark before seventh street. Rossi called all in for her last 20,000, and Zeidman called too. Neither of them would get any of this pot.
Mizrachi revealed / , and his set of deuces earned him the pot and the knockout.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Bonnie Rossi | Busted |
Xuan Liu brought it in and cleared the field all the way around to Todd Brunson, who completed. Liu made the call and then bet out after Brunson checked the turn. The latter made the call before check-raising all in for just 3,000 more over Liu's fifth-street bet.
Brunson: | /
Liu: | /
Liu was ahead with her pocket pair of nines, and Brunson was looking for some help to keep his tournament hopes alive. Sixth street gave him a low draw, but seventh neither completed it nor gave him a high. Brunson took home $22,142 for his seventh-place finish.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Xuan Liu |
380,000
160,000
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160,000 |
Todd Brunson | Busted | |
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