Duy Ho opened to 28,000 only to find Greg Mueller push out a three-bet to 78,000. A short-stacked Anthony Leshnack immediately moved all in for about 148,000 total. Ho got out of the way and Mueller called.
Mueller:
Leshnack:
Mueller picked up a flush draw on the flop and drilled it when the struck the turn. The completed the board and Leshnack was sent packing.
Desmond Portano opened to 40,000 from under the gun, and the action folded to Derrick Huang, who three-bet to 100,000. Portano quickly moved all in for his remaining 60,000 or so, and Huang tank-called.
Portano
Huang
The flop gave Huang a strangle-hold on the hand, but the on the turn gave Portanto outs to a flush. The spike on the river, giving him said flush, and he doubled on one of the first hands of the day.
One of our prominent players has busted here early on Day 3. Paul Wasicka will be wishing he arrived late like his table-mate Brian Rast did.
Wasicka got his stack all-in preflop holding and was going up against Ashkan Razavi's . The flop was enough to see Wasicka start gathering his belongings. The turn and river bricked out and Wasicka was out the door, while Razavi soars up the chip leader board.
Here we are folks, getting ready to play down to a final table in Event 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry. It's going to be huge day of poker and definitely not something you want to miss. At the end of the day just nine players will remain. Who will they be?
One man who has a great chance of making it to the final nine is Brian Rast. Day 2 was the Rast show and with his giant chip stack, we are sure that will continue into Day 3.
A total of 32 players will be joining Rast at the felt, all vying for the chance at making a run at the title. Of those players it is Ryan Olisar and Scott Seiver who are biting at the heels of Rast. Seiver, who knows what it takes to win a WSOP gold bracelet, will start the day with the third largest chip stack and will be one to watch today.
Below is how the top five chip counts stack up:
Rank
Player
Count
1
Brian Rast
1,498,000
2
Ryan Olisar
1,080,000
3
Scott Seiver
1,031,000
4
Aviraham Lovton
872,000
5
Jonathan Duhamel
840,000
As you can see 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel is right up there in the counts and will be in with a big chance of heading to the final table. Some of the notables who round out the returning players include Paul Wasicka, Amanda Musumeci and Daniel Idema.
It all begins at 1:00 PM local time, so make sure to keep your screens locked to PokerNews as we play down to a World Series of Poker final table.