Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Started
Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|---|
447 | 2 | Alexander Barlow | 792,000 |
3 | Nick Colbrese | 260,000 | |
4 | Tai Nguyen | 359,000 | |
5 | James Epner | 201,000 | |
6 | Douglas Mackinnon | 557,000 | |
7 | Robert Deppe | 371,000 | |
8 | Phillip Hui | 419,000 | |
452 | 2 | Roy Weiss | 189,000 |
3 | Phil Ivey | 285,000 | |
4 | Ryan Austin | 233,000 | |
5 | Adam Sanders | 605,000 | |
6 | Kyle Cartwright | 267,000 | |
7 | Daniel Idema | 400,000 | |
9 | Taylor Paur | 1,318,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Taylor Paur
|
1,318,000 | |
Alexander Barlow | 792,000 | |
Adam Sanders | 605,000 | |
DJ MacKinnon | 557,000 | |
Phillip Hui
|
419,000 | |
Daniel Idema
|
400,000 | |
Robert Deppe | 371,000 | |
Tai Nguyen | 359,000 | |
Phil Ivey
|
285,000 | |
Kyle Cartwright
|
267,000 | |
Nick Colbrese | 260,000 | |
Ryan Austin | 233,000 | |
James Epner | 201,000 | |
Roy Weiss | 189,000 |
Taylor Paur has a commanding chip lead going into Day 3 with 1,318,000 of the 6,213,000 chips in play with just 14 players left in the tournament. Most railbirds will have their focus on a different player though: Phil Ivey. He's still in contention for his first hold'em bracelet, though he's somewhat short on chips. Ivey has 260,000 in chips with blinds at 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante (16 big blinds). Can he do it? Can he win his first bracelet of the summer?
But there are many other questions today. Can Taylor Paur win his first bracelet? Is it Daniel Idema's day to win his second? Can Kyle Cartwright finally win a bracelet to wear with all those WSOP Circuit Rings he already has? Will James Epner make an epic comeback to win it all? We'll be answering all those questions and more from 1 p.m.
For now, Lynn Gilmartin has an update from yesterday's adventures around the Rio:
Level: 22
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
Last night Ivey left a little before the day had ended, leaving the bagging and tagging to one of the floor persons. This morning he wasn't at the table with five minutes to the start. In all other cases the dealer would tear open the bag and dump the chips in his or hers position. Not for Ivey though. For Ivey one of the floor staff neatly opened the bag and stacked his stack in twenty's. In the mean time Ivey has arrived and he was just in time for the first hand to be played.
Taylor Paur is sitting comfortably at the start of Day 3 in Event #18. Paur entered the day with a huge chip lead, holding nearly twice as many chips as his next closest competitor, Alexander Barlow.
Although Paur is a force to be reckoned with on the online felts, he faces a tough final 14 players including nine-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey, WSOP bracelet holder Daniel Idema, and WSOP Circuit legend Kyle Cartwright.
Before the day began we had an opportunity to chat with Paur about going into the final day as the chip leader.
You have nine WSOP cashes and two final tables. What would winning a bracelet mean to you?
It would be awesome just to close one out because I’ve come close but haven’t snagged one yet. It would be great just to get that monkey off my back just to know that yes, I am capable of winning a bracelet.
You sit atop the final 14 with a commanding chip lead. How will your play change today because of that?
As chip leader I will try to use that towards my advantage. I will definitely play more hands than if I was a shorter stack, so open my range a bit.
Who do you think is your toughest competitor?
Of course Phil Ivey is in the field; he’s the best. There are some other good players too but it’s Ivey. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t intimidated. He’s an intimidating character; he has the stare, plays aggressive, and has the name. He’s just a boss!
In one of the first hands of the day, Ryan Austin raised all in under the gun for his stack of 226,000. Action folded to Phil Ivey in the big blind and after cutting out his chips, he made the call. He was not happy to see his was behind to Austin's .
The flop came and Austin's kicker played leaving Ivey on the extreme short stack.
Just two hands later, Ivey doubled through Adam Sanders. Ivey with and Sanders holding saw the giving Ivey the double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ryan Austin | 552,000 | 319,000 |
Phil Ivey
|
92,000 | -193,000 |
Phil Ivey shoved under-the-gun and the action quickly folded to Taylor Paur in the small blind. Paur took a good look at Ivey's stack, and then announced to be all in as well. Roy Weiss took a quick glance at his cards and folded, and thus we had heads-up showdown.
Paur tabled and threw them in the middle of the table. Ivey took a look at his cards and seemed disappointed with his second card; . It had the look of it that Ivey had only looked at his first card initially, and had already decided to shove seeing the ace alone.
The match-up would become even more unfair for Ivey as the flop gave Paur a set: . With the on the turn it was all over and Ivey was already half on his way to another event. Nobody cared about the on the river and we continue the tournament with 13 players.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Phil Ivey
|
Busted |
The pot was heads up between Nick Colbrese and Phillip Hui with on the table. Hui had checked to Colbrese but he wasn't all there it seemed. After some time the dealer asked if Colbrese knew action was on him. Then he flipped open his cards all of the sudden: .
The floor was called over and he ruled that Colbrese's hand was still in action. Hui knew exactly what he was up against and called a bet Colbrese eventually made. The fell on the turn and both players checked. The river was the and Hui checked again. Colbrese checked behind and Hui mucked, leaving the pot to Colbrese.
Colbrese got a one round penalty for revealing his hand before the hand had finished.
While Phil Ivey was going all in (and being busted a couple of seconds later) there was action on the other table as well. On a flop Epner had checked to Barlow who had bet 35,000. Epner shoved all in for 160,000 more and after some thinking, Barlow made the call.
Barlow showed while Epner had . The sealed the deal for Epner and the was an unnecessary card. "Yeah, I'm back in it" Epner said somewhat to himself.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alexander Barlow | 600,000 | -192,000 |
James Epner | 400,000 | 199,000 |