Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 3 | 2012 World Series of Poker

07-12-2012 13:35 UTC-6

The 2008 Main Event Champ is Gone in Monster Hand

Chad Holloway

With around 10,000 in the pot and a flop of {3-Clubs} {2-Hearts} {5-Hearts} , Nghi Van Tran bet 5,100 only to have 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Peter Eastgate raise to 12,500. Tran took a few moments before three-betting to around 21,000, which prompted Eastgate to four bet to 40,000. Tran, who had the bigger stack, thought for well over a minute before moving all in, and Eastgate made a quick call.

Showdown
Eastgate: {A-Hearts} {6-Hearts}
Tran: {10-Clubs} {10-Hearts}

"I know that's what you have," Tran said. "How can you call me?"

Eastgate seemed happy with his straight and flush draws, but he would be left wanting as the {7-Clubs} turn and {8-Clubs} river failed to improve him. "Good game, guys," Eastgate said before collecting his things and exiting the Brasilia Room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nghi Van Tran	500,000	154,800
Peter Eastgate	Busted

Tags: Nghi Van Tran Peter Eastgate

07-12-2012 13:29 UTC-6

"Let's Just Bag Up Now and Go Home"

[user196975]

Jason Somerville got his day off to a fast start. We missed the action but Somerville was nice enough to give us the Cliff's Notes.

The player in the cutoff opened, Somerville flatted on the button, the small blind moved all in, the cutoff moved all in and Somerville called.

Somerville: {J-} {J-}
Cutoff: {A-} {K-}
Small Blind: {A-} {Q-}

The board ran {K-} {K-} {J-} {10-} {2-} and Somerville's flopped full house eliminated two opponents. He quickly soared into the chip lead. While he was stacking his chips the dealer said something to the effect that he could just back home.

"Let's just bag up now and go home," Somerville said.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Somerville	550,000	217,300

Tags: Jason Somerville

07-12-2012 12:11 UTC-6

Baumann Leads as 1,738 Return for Day 3

Chad Holloway

Four days ago, the 2012 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event kicked off at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. After three stating days and subsequent Day 2s, the original field of 6,598 was reduced down to 1,738. For the first time, the entire field will play at the same time here on Day 3, each eager to make the top 666 and lock up a portion of the $62,021,200 prize pool, $8,527,982 of which is reserved for the eventual winner.

On Tuesday, Days 2a and 2b played out with a approximately combined 842 players advancing to Day 3. Among the notables returning to action from that field are overall chip leader Gaelle Baumann, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Somerville, Eugene Katchalov, Gavin Smith, Daniel Negreanu, Eric Baldwin, Brian Hastings, Sammy Farha, Peter Eastgate, Liv Boeree and Kevin Pollak, just to name a few. In addition, former champs Dan Harrington (1995), Robert Varkonyi (2002), Jerry Yang (2007) and Peter Eastgate (2008) will all be returning, as will the defending champ, Pius Heinz albeit on a short stack of 36,300.

Likewise Day 2c saw approximatley 911 players advance to Day 3 including that flights chip leader, Michael Hack, who bagged up 457,000. He was joined by Antonio Esfandiari, Ben Lamb, Johnny Chan, Jake Cody, Joseph Cheong, Ronnie Bardah and Sam Holden.

Here’s a look at the top ten chip counts headed into Day 3:

Start of Day 3 Top 10 Chips Counts

Place	Player	Counts
1st	Gaelle Baumann	505,800
2nd	Mark Demirdjian	499,900
3rd	Michael Hack	457,000
4th	Shaun Deeb	460,900
5th	Marco Bognanni	452,100
6th	Gerardo Lubas	449,500
7th	Jonathan Fountain	435,400
8th	Randy Haddox	407,300
9th	John Leathart	404,900
10th	Erik Hellman	397,900

Action is set to kick of at Noon PST, which is about 45 minutes from now, so join us then as we look to put another five levels in the books here at the 2012 WSOP.

Tags: Gaelle Baumann