Tomer Daniel raised to 225,000 from the hijack and only Giuseppe Pantaleo defended from the big blind.
Pantaleo knuckled the action over to Pantaleo on the Q♠10♦2♠ flop, and Daniel bet 600,000. Pantaleo thought for almost two minutes before reluctantly folding.
Following a limp from both button Matthew Beck and small blind Jason Stockfish, Qiaonan Liu potted to 500,000. Only Beck called. On a A♥4♦Q♦ flop, Liu potted all in and was snapped off by Beck.
Qiaonan Liu: Q♠J♣10♥8♣
Matthew Beck: 10♣9♦8♦4♣
Liu held on the 5♥4♠ runout to stay alive and get right back in the mix.
Day 3 of Event #54: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha begins at noon local time. Eleven players will make their way to Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas to fight for a share of the $2,076,210 prize pool that is a culmination of 1,564 buy-ins that were made during Day 1.
The first-place prize of $306,791 will certainly be on the minds of many players, especially chip leader Matt Vengrin, who comes into the day with 7,620,000 chips. Completing the top three are Punnat Punsri (5,305,000) in second and Matthew Beck (4,790,000) just behind in third.
Punsri is still on the hunt to leave the “best without a bracelet” club, and after a brutal third-place finish in the $1,500 Shootout, he’ll be hoping to improve on that today and go all the way to the end.
The same can be said for Beck, who has already cashed in three pot-limit Omaha events this summer, and will be taking home a career-high score today no matter the outcome. That being said, he’ll certainly believe he can take the whole thing down, along with the top prize of $425,689
Matthew Beck
Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Matt Vengrin
United States
7,620,000
76
2
Punnat Punsri
Thailand
5,305,000
53
3
Matthew Beck
New Zealand
4,790,000
48
4
Bryce Yockey
United States
4,645,000
47
5
Jason Lang
United States
3,280,000
33
6
Jacob Snider
United States
3,050,000
31
7
Tomer Daniel
Israel
2,900,000
29
8
Giuseppe Pantaleo
Germany
2,460,000
25
9
Jason Stockfish
United States
1,905,000
19
10
Qiaonan Liu
China
1,705,000
17
11
Antti Marttinen
Finland
1,700,000
17
The remaining competitors will take their seats in Horseshoe Silver, as play begins at Level 28, with blinds at 50,000/100,000, with a 100,000 big blind ante. Play is not scheduled to end until there is a sole survivor, so a bracelet will be handed out to one of the players who bagged up last night.
Stay tuned as PokerNews brings you all of the action from the final day of competition, with live updates starting with cards in the air, and ending with a champion.
