Matt Hawrilenko, who's also known as HOSS_TBF online, is one of the biggest winners in Limit Hold'em. Unfortunately he just got eliminated in that game, bringing the field down to 62.
Lyle Berman kicked off the action by raising under the gun and Antony Lellouche three-bet from late-position. Hawrilenko was in the big blind, and he four-bet all in. Berman folded his cards and Lellouche made the call.
Hawrilenko tabled , and he was in a coin-flip situation against Lellouche's . The board ran out , giving Lellouche a straight and knocking out Hawrilenko.
Scott Clements raised from under the gun and Viktor Blom reraised from the hijack seat. Play folded back to Clements and he made the call.
The flop was checked by Clements and Blom bet. Clements called to see the land on the turn. Clements checked again and Blom fired a bet. Clements called.
The completed the board on the river. With two pair on board, Clements checked, Blom bet and Clements called.
Blom showed the for a full house and Clements mucked his hand.
Welcome back to Day 3 of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the World Series of Poker. There are 62 players remaining from the starting field of 108 players. Topping the bunch is Andy Bloch with 687,000 in chips, who was his first WSOP gold bracelet this year in Event 7: $1,500 Seven Card Stud.
Rounding out the top five stacks are Abe Mosseri, John Monnette, Michael Cassidy and Joe Cassidy. Mosseri won a massive pot at the end of the night on Day 2 in a very controversial situation. Be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 of that situation in order to get up to speed on everything.
Others remaining include Phil Iveu, Jason Mercier, Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Matt Glantz, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Robert Mizrachi, Brunson Fitoussi and Allen Bari. You can't forget about Brian Rast, either. He's the defending champion of this event and is still very much alive to defend his title.
Play is scheduled to kick off at 2:00 PM and another five levels are on the slate. Stay tuned for all of the action coming straight to you from PokerNews.
This is the official seat draw as received from the World Series of Poker. Viktor Blom and David Grey are in the same seat, and David Oppenheim is missing from this list. We will change this as soon as we receive an updated version.