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Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of Event #5: $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better at the 2013 World Series of Poker. Today marks the third and final day of this event, and it is one that will eventually see a winner crowned. Of the 19 players remaining, Mike Gorodinsky leads the way with 330,500 in chips.
Plenty of firepower still remains in the pack of players who trail Gorodinsky, including Daniel Negreanu, George Danzer, Matthew Ashton and David "Bakes" Baker, and they'll all be vying for the $216,958 top prize that comes along with winning the WSOP gold bracelet.
All eyes will surely be on Negreanu, who aims to capture his sixth piece of WSOP hardware. Negreanu currently leads the 2013 WSOP Player of the Year race thanks to a massive performance at the WSOP Asia-Pacific in April, and he will be looking to further distance himself from the pack in hopes of a repeat performance from 2004 when he won the title.
Action is set to kick off at 2 p.m. local time here in Las Vegas. If you're in the area, come on down and sweat the action, but if you're not, stay glued right here to these pages all day long. We'll see you shortly for the start of the day, so stay tuned!
Picking up the action on fourth street, Kristopher Tong checked before David "Bakes" Baker bet. Tong check-raised, and Baker called. On fifth street, Tong led with a bet, and Baker raised all in. Tong called and revelaed his trip kings. Baker had a pair of sixes at the time, but also three cards to a low.
Tong picked up the on sixth, and Baker added the . Tong finished with the on the river and had just trip kings. Baker had a straight draw and a low draw, but the gave him trip sixes and that wasn't good enough to give him any of the pot. He was eliminated in 19th place and earned $6,551 for his finish.
David Levi was all in on fifth street with a pair of fours and three cards to a low. His opponent, Dustin Leary, had a pair of queens. Leary's board ran out to give him three queens, while Levi could only muster finishing with a pair of fours.
With his elimination, Levi took 17th place for $6,551. The field moved to just 16 players left and we will post the redraw shortly.
Ralph Perry was down to his last 10,000 after the redraw, and those chips went in the middle on the first hand of the final two tables. Mack Lee and Randall Pace both made the call, and from there, Pace led out all the way until seventh street. Lee came along each time, and on seventh, both players.
Pace revealed in the hole for a pair of aces, and Lee wasn't able to beat that, as he mucked his hand. Perry was drawing very live, showing the . He could catch a low and/or a flush on seventh, but he squeezed his card, and showed the . That wouldn't get the job done, and he was eliminated in 16th place.
On the other table, Matusow was able to get a full triple up, when he made a low on sixth street, and a flush on seventh to get back up to 100,000.
After playing a hand of stud-8 against Mike Gorodinsky in which Gorodinsky made an ace-high flush and a seven low to scoop, Kelsall was knocked down to about 5,000 in chips. Shortly thereafter, Kelsall was all in against Owais Ahmed. On fifth street, Kelsall had a pair of aces and three cards to a low. Ahmed held a pair of sevens, three cards to a low, and a flush draw.
Ahmed went on to make his flush on sixth street, and Kelsall bricked off. For his finish in 15th place, Kelsall earned $7,963. Ahmed moved to 290,000 in chips.
Mike Matusow was hoping for his fourth WSOP bracelet today, but he will have to wait another day, as he was just eliminated in a cooler stud-8 hand. We caught the action on fifth street, where we saw Matusow bet out, and get called by George Danzer and Owais Ahmed. On sixth, Danzer bet, and Matusow called. Ahmed put in two bets, and Danzer didn't take long to put a third bet out there. Matusow and Ahmed called, and Dazner bet one more time on seventh street. Matusow called off the last of his 11,000, and Ahmed also tagged along.
Danzer showed in the hole for an eight high straight and low, and Matusow showed for a seven high straight and low. However, Owais announced he had a "seventy five" low, and showed the in the hole. Matusow made his hand on seventh, but amazingly, it wasn't good enough. He bows out just short of the final table.
Daniel Negreanu's run has come to an end in 12th place, following a bad river card that sent him out the door.
Action folded to Negreanu in the small blind, and he raised. Mike Gorodinsky called from the big blind, and the flop came down . Negreanu bet, and Gorodinsky made the call.
The turn was the , and Negreanu bet all in. Gorodinsky made the call with the . Negreanu was ahead with the .
The river was a dirty one, as the dealer spiked the on the end of the board to give Gorodinsky the winning hand. He won the pot to eliminate Negreanu and move to 490,000 in chips.
We have just lost our fourth player in the last ten minutes, getting us to our unofficial final table. The unfortunate player who busted in 10th was Roman Verenko. Action started with George Fotiadis raising it up on the button, and it folded to Verenko, who had nearly half his stack in the middle in the big blind. Verenko looked at his cards one at a time, and shook his head each time for the first three cards. However, when he saw the fourth, he simply gave a shrug and a small grin, and stuck the rest of it in the middle.
Verenko:
Fotiadis:
The board ran down , and Fotiadis had two pair for the high, and barely edged out Verenko for the low. Fotiadis has been on a tear in this level, as he is now up to 395,000. With that elimination, we have reached our final nine players!
PokerNews' own Chad Holloway won the first gold bracelet of the 2013 World Series of Poker, so naturally the crew breaks down the event and the amazing atmosphere in the Mothership. Holloway himself then joins the crew to talk about some key hands before heading to the ceremony to accept his bracelet.
From middle position, Kristopher Tong raised. George Fotiadis made the call from the small blind, and Owais Ahmed called from the big blind. On the flop, Fotiadis fired a bet and Ahmed raised. Tong reraised, and Fotiadis folded. Ahmed called.
The turn was the , and Ahmed bet out. Tong put out 30,000, which was ruled a raise because he put half of a second bet in, but he really only wanted to call. Ahmed called. Then, the two players checked the river card.
Ahmed showed the for a flush, king high. Tong showed just the , then mucked his hand, and Ahmed won the pot. He's now on 600,000 in chips.
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in the hole for a pair of aces, and Lee wasn't able to beat that, as he mucked his hand. Perry was drawing very live, showing the 
for a seven high straight and low. However, Owais announced he had a "seventy five" low, and showed the 
, and Negreanu bet all in. Gorodinsky made the call with the 
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