Play began today with 120 players at 10 separate tables attempting to make it to Day 3 and the final 12. The field was still stacked with notables at the beginning of the day. That number was reached by the end of the day with several notables making it through and several others looking to make a name for themselves in the poker community by winning their table and advancing to the final 12.
Nacho Barbero made it through the day and onto tomorrow by controlling his table for most of the day. Barbero started early by picking up the chip lead. In one spot he picked up a massive advantage by eliminated Andreas Hoivold and Andrew Teng on the same hand when he rivered a full house with . That propelled him into a massive lead that he did not relinquish until three handed play. Just before three handed play, Barbero eliminated Allen Kessler and held three-fourths of the chips in play. The chip lead was exchanged several times before Barbero won another massive three way all in to regain the chip lead. He ended up defeating Sebastion Saffari in heads up play to move on to tomorrow.
Kevin Vandersmissen was at one of the arguably tougher tables in the field featuring Aaron Jones, Jesse Sylvia, Amanda Musumeci and Maxim Lykov. At one point Vandersmissen was down to less than ten big blinds after shoving into the quad nines of Steve Hohn, but he was able to battle back and make it into heads up play. Vandersmissen was able to extract his revenge in heads-up play against Hohn. At the end of the match Vandersmissen and Hohn got it all in preflop with Vandersmissen holding against Hohn's . Vandersmissen flopped a ten and that was all she wrote for Hohn. After facing a tough table and a short stack, Vandersmissen advanced into day three and has his eye on the bracelet.
One of the last heads up tables playing into the night was Erik Seidel and Simeon Naydenov. Seidel cruised through most of the day with a short stack and was almost able to make it through to Day 3, but at the end of the night Naydenov woke up with when Seidel was sitting with . Naydenov dispatched of Seidel and he will advance to tomorrow to take a shot at making his second shootout final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker.
Others who made it into day three include Tobias Wenker, Andrew Kloc, Noah Bronstein, Sumanth Reddy, Jake Schwartz, Vladimir Kochelaevskiy, Jan Kropacek, Mike Watson, and Salman Behbehani. We'll be back tomorrow with updates from all these players and the final table of Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all the updates.
David Paredes finished an agonizing second at his table.
Andrew Kloc check-raised David Paredes' 14,000 bet to 40,000 on a flop of . Paredes made the call. The turn came , and Kloc immediately shipped all in. Paredes thought for a bit before announcing a call.
Paredes:
Kloc:
Both had top pair, but Kloc had a hammerlock on the hand with a better kicker and a flush draw. The river was a , and Paredes was out in second at his table.
Kevin Vandersmissen instantly called Steve Hohn's all in with . Hohn held and the two were off to the races.
The flop came . That gave Vandersmissen a set and Hohn an inside straight draw. Hohn would need a king to survive. The turn came the and no help to Hohn. The river came the and that did the deed. Hohn was eliminated and Vandermissen bagged his chips equalling 448,000.
We didn't catch the hand but Nacho Barbero eliminated Allen Kessler. Barbero's table is now three handed. The other two players have roughly 100,000 between them while Barbero has the rest.
Amanda Musumeci and Aaron Jones got involved in a preflop raising war that ended up with all the chips in the middle. Jones was holding while Musumeci held . The board ran out giving Musumeci a winning full house. After the chips were counted Aaron Jones was left with just 1,000.
The next hand Jones was all in, in the small blind and he managed to quadruple up. But he couldn't do it twice in a row. On the second hand, he called all in over a Vandersmissen shove with . The dealer accidentally misdealt a . Vandersmissen was holding .
"That was literally the worst card that I could've seen," Jones said, talking about the misdealt four.
The board rolled out and Vandermissen eliminated Jones from the tournament with his ace high.
Kevin Vandersmissen moved all in from under the gun for 18,800. Action folded to big stack Steve Hohn in the small blind. He thought for a bit before calling. The big blind got out of the way.
Hohn:
Vandersmissen:
"I'm gonna flop a straight," Vandersmissen said.
The flop came , and Vandersmissen looked like he couldn't have been more wrong. A arrived on the turn though, and a river completed a backdoor straight draw for Vandersmissen.
We were informed of a big three way all in on Table 443. The players were Nacho Barbero, Andreas Hoivold, and Andrew Teng. Barbero had the other two covered and the cards were flipped.
Barbero:
Hoivold:
Teng:
It was a hand up for grabs. The player to grab it on the flop was Barbero when he hit . He furthered his lead with another king on the turn. The river was give Barbero a full house and eliminated two players in the process.
With the double knockout, Barbero has 200,000 which is nearly half the chips in play and five people still remain.
From under the gun + 1, Aaron Jones opened the pot to 3,300. Steve Hohn called from middle position. Action folded to Kevin Vandersmissen who raised to 10,600 from the small blind. Jones folded but Hohn called.
The flop came down and Vandersmissen led out 12,100. Kohn just called.
The turn came the and Vandersmissen bet out again, this time for 13,500. Kohn called again.
On the river Vandersmissen thought for a bit then eventually shoved all in with a covering stack on Kohn. Kohn snap called and tabled for quads, and Vandersmissen was forced to ship over the chips, leaving himself with a very short stack.
On a board of Kevin Vandersmissen checked to Jesse Sylvia with a decent amount of chips already in the pot.
Sylvia moved all in for 30,000 even which put Vandersmissen into the tank. After about two minutes of thought Vandersmissen eventually decided to call.
Sylvia tabled for a busted straight draw with queen high. Vandersmissen turned over for top pair and that was good enough to send Sylvia to the rail. Sylvia was still able to pick up a min cash today for besting his shootout table yesterday.
. That propelled him into a massive lead that he did not relinquish until three handed play. Just before three handed play, Barbero eliminated Allen Kessler and held three-fourths of the chips in play. The chip lead was exchanged several times before Barbero won another massive three way all in to regain the chip lead. He ended up defeating Sebastion Saffari in heads up play to move on to tomorrow.
. Vandersmissen flopped a ten and that was all she wrote for Hohn. After facing a tough table and a short stack, Vandersmissen advanced into day three and has his eye on the bracelet.
. Paredes made the call. The turn came 
, and Kloc immediately shipped all in. Paredes thought for a bit before announcing a call.
, and Paredes was out in second at his table.
. Hohn held 
and the two were off to the races.
. That gave Vandersmissen a set and Hohn an inside straight draw. Hohn would need a king to survive. The turn came the 
and that did the deed. Hohn was eliminated and Vandermissen bagged his chips equalling 448,000.
.
making Schwartz's ace high the best hand and eliminating Baldwin from the tournament.
while Musumeci held 
giving Musumeci a winning full house. After the chips were counted Aaron Jones was left with just 1,000.
. Vandersmissen was holding 
, and Vandersmissen looked like he couldn't have been more wrong. A 
arrived on the turn though, and a 
. He furthered his lead with another king on the turn. The river was 
