Ryutaro Suzuki raised from the hijack and got called by Max Kruse on the button and Phil Ivey in the big blind. All players then drew two cards on the first draw. Ivey checked to Suzuki, who tossed a bet and received two more calls.
On the second draw, Ivey drew one card and Suzuki followed suit. Kruse still exchanged two cards, after which Suzuki placed another bet after Ivey had checked.
Kruse then raised, forcing Ivey to muck his cards. Suzuki matched Kruse's bet and stood pat on the final draw. Confused, Kruse tossed out one card.
Suzuki checked after the draw and Kruse quickly followed suit. Suzuki tabled 8x7x6x5x2x for an eight-low.
"I would have won," claimed Kruse before showing 7x6x3x2x.
When asked if Kruse broke an eight, he responded, "Unfortunately, I did."
Sandy Tayi: XxXx/5♦A♠7♠3♣/Xx
George Alexander: XxXx/4♠4♦10♦5♥/Xx
Richard Bai: XxXx/7♣2♥9♦10♥/Xx
Sandy Tayi bet on fifth street and was called by both Richard Bai and George Alexander.
Tayi bet again on sixth and both opponents called. Tayi then bet on seventh.
Bai folded this time, while Alexander called. Tayi ended up with a pair of sevens and a low, while Alexander showed two queens for two pair to chop the pot.
Ryutaro Suzuki raised from the small blind and Michael Martinelli defended the big blind. Suzuki then drew two cards on the first draw while Martinelli opted to exchange three cards.
A bet from Suzuki followed, which Martinelli called. Suzuki needed one card on the second draw and Martinelli still took three fresh ones.
Suzuki bet once more and Martinelli made the call. Suzuki still drew one, after which Martinelli stood pat. This caused Suzuki to slow down and check, after which he folded to a bet from Martinelli.
The 11 players have taken their seats on the featured tables of the Horseshoe Event Center and the cards are in the air for the final day of the $10,000 Dealer's Choice Championship.
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Crowds were gathered around the poker tables of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas until the late hours of the night on Day 2 of Event #13: $10,000 Dealer's Choice Championship (6-handed) at the 2024 World Series of Poker. The fan-favorite poker icons Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey were battling it out with some of poker's other most accomplished players, eventually being seated next to each other, much to the delight of the rail.
Today, the crowd will be no less as both Negreanu and Ivey made it through to the third and final day of the event. They are among the 11 players returning to the Horseshoe Event Center to crown a new Dealer's Choice champion. However, they have their work cut out for them as they find themselves near the bottom of the leaderboard when play resumes at 2 p.m.
Ivey bagged a below-average stack of 563,000 chips, while Negreanu will start Day 3 with less than half an average stack, 312,000 chips. However, with 14 and eight big bets respectively, they still have plenty of room to maneuver through the amazing structure of the tournament.
Should Ivey capture the title, he will win his first bracelet in ten years and break the infamous four-way ten-bracelet tie for second place on the all-time bracelet rankings. Negreanu, meanwhile, has been on the hunt for his seventh piece of WSOP gold since 2013 and has not won a bracelet in Las Vegas in 16 years.
The competition for the two hall-of-famers will be fierce, however, as none other than Robert Mizrachi secured the chip lead on Day 2. The four-time bracelet winner will return to the tables with 1,511,000 chips, looking to capture his first WSOP win in eight years.
Robert Mizrachi
Start of Day 3 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Bets
1
Robert Mizrachi
United States
1,511,000
38
2
George Alexander
United States
1,090,000
27
3
Ryutaro Suzuki
Japan
1,053,000
26
4
Venkata "Sandy" Tayi
United States
932,000
23
5
David Bach
United States
909,000
23
6
Michael Martinelli
United States
807,000
20
7
Ben Lamb
United States
683,000
17
8
Phil Ivey
United States
563,000
14
9
Richard Bai
United States
336,000
8
10
Daniel Negreanu
Canada
312,000
8
11
Max Kruse
Germany
268,000
7
Also surviving the 141-strong field thus far are 2019 nine-game bracelet winner Ryutaro Suzuki, mixed game specialist David Bach, who is looking to add a fourth piece of WSOP hardware to his collection after last winning a bracelet seven years ago, Omaha expert and two-time bracelet winner Ben Lamb, and German retired soccer star Max Kruse, who captured his first bracelet in 2022.
Meanwhile, Venkata Tayi, George Alexander, Michael Martinelli, and Richard Bai may be lesser known to the general audience, but they each have mixed game final table experiences under their belt and will be looking to prove that they belong among the elite players in the world.
Venkata Tayi
All 11 returning players have secured a minimum payout of $27,041, but their eyes will be locked on the enticing golden bracelet and the $333,045 lion's share of the $1,311,300 prize pool that comes along with it.
Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
1
$333,045
2
$215,848
3
$144,431
4
$99,885
5
$71,476
6
$52,985
7
$40,743
8-9
$32,543
10-11
$27,041
When the action picks back up at 2 p.m. local time, the tournament will restart in Level 18, which knows limits of 20,000/40,000 for the fixed-limit games and blinds of 5,000/10,000 for the big bet games. All levels will be 90 minutes in duration and the plan is to play down to a winner today.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to keep up with how Ivey and Negreanu fare and who of poker's elite will crown himself as the 2024 Dealer's Choice champion, adding another WSOP bracelet, or perhaps a first one, to their trophy collection.
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