Aaron Massey Looking for First Bracelet on Day 3 of Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Welcome to Day 3 of Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em being held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. There were a total of 1,330 entries to this event, creating a prize pool of $1,795,500. Going into today just 20 players remain to battle it out for the $319,580 first-place cash prize and a WSOP gold bracelet.
The chip leader going into today is Aaron Massey with a staggering 1,198,000 in chips. The cash prize is lucrative, but Massey will have his eyes more so on capturing his first World Series of Poker bracelet. That would add greatly to an already impressive tournament résumé that includes $3.4 million in live career earnings and two WSOP Circuit rings. He will be someone to watch as the day draws close to an end and a victor is about to be crowned.
There are many other notable faces in the mix and going into tomorrow with healthy stacks, including 2013 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jay Farber (1,093,000), Ian Steinman (1,080,000), Michael Finstein (938,000), Ryan Goindoo (654,000), and two-time bracelet winner JC Tran (480,000).
The tournament will kick off at 12 p.m. local time with the day not finishing until there is a winner. The blind levels will start at 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante, each level being 60 minutes in duration. There will be a 15-minute break after every two levels of play, and a 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be giving you full coverage of this and ever other WSOP event this summer.
Day Three Seating Chart and Full Chip Counts
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 407 | 3 | Ryan Laplante | United States | 176,000 | 18 |
| Amazon | 407 | 4 | Geoffrey Lavinson | United States | 609,000 | 61 |
| Amazon | 407 | 6 | Robert Georato | United States | 250,000 | 25 |
| Amazon | 407 | 7 | [Removed:4] | Germany | 270,000 | 27 |
| Amazon | 407 | 8 | Ryan Goindoo | Trinidad and Tobago | 654,000 | 65 |
| Amazon | 407 | 9 | Jason Guarinello | United States | 511,000 | 51 |
| Amazon | 415 | 1 | Gilsoo Kim | United States | 377,000 | 38 |
| Amazon | 415 | 2 | Aaron Massey | United States | 1,198,000 | 120 |
| Amazon | 415 | 3 | Thomas Kurtz | United States | 120,000 | 12 |
| Amazon | 415 | 4 | Ian Steinman | United States | 1,080,000 | 108 |
| Amazon | 415 | 5 | Gene Harrill | United States | 287,000 | 29 |
| Amazon | 415 | 6 | Stephen Song | United States | 623,000 | 62 |
| Amazon | 415 | 8 | Zachary Humphrey | United States | 199,000 | 20 |
| Amazon | 423 | 1 | Jason Wheeler | United States | 430,000 | 43 |
| Amazon | 423 | 2 | Eric Baldwin | United States | 469,000 | 47 |
| Amazon | 423 | 3 | Mathew Moore | United States | 232,000 | 23 |
| Amazon | 423 | 5 | Kirk Banks | United States | 251,000 | 25 |
| Amazon | 423 | 6 | Jay Farber | United States | 1,093,000 | 109 |
| Amazon | 423 | 7 | Michael Finstein | United States | 938,000 | 94 |
| Amazon | 423 | 9 | JC Tran | United States | 480,000 | 48 |
putting Kurtz in a big hole, but he picked up a few outs on the 
turn. The river was the 
and that completed Kurtz's straight, earning him a double-up on the first hand of play and knocking Song down to about 500,000 chips.
which gave Goindoo a multitude of outs as well as a backdoor flush draw, but Laplante was able to fade everything on the 
turn and the 
river to stay alive and double to over 300,000 chips.
and Ian Steinman bet 25,000 into a pot around 55,000. Gene Harrill then raised to 100,000 and Steinman quickly put his opponent all in. 
for a pair of aces with a flush draw and Steinman showed 
for a flopped set of nines.
and Humphrey was still ahead. The turn came the 
and Song was still ahead. The turn would seal the deal as it came a 
and Song now had his opponent drawing dead to the 
and Jason Wheeler moved his stack all in for around 95,000. Stephen Song put in the calling chips and the players flipped over their hands.
