Welcome to the Final Day of Event #33: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
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The original field of 1,698 players has now been reduced to just 22 in Event #33: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em and they will play down to a winner today in the Brasilia room of the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino as the 2017 World Series of Poker continues.
One of these players will a WSOP gold bracket and a huge payday of $384,833. Ryan Leng from the United States leads the way with 1,370,000, but it really is anyone’s game as there are several players close behind him with many tough competitors to outlast, not the least of which being four-time bracelet winner Max Pescatori.
Other notables to have made it through a stacked field are U.S. players Pratyush Buddiga, Michael Gagliano and Grant Denison, Tom Hall from the U.K., and Germany’s Christopher Frank. Check out the full seat draw to start Day 3 below.
Cards are back in the air at 12 noon today local time and the PokerNews live reporting team will bring your all the drama from the felt including exclusive hand-for-hand coverage from the official final table. Make sure to keep it here so you don’t miss a moment of the action.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 700 | 1 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 802,000 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 4 | Luigi Curcio | United States | 326,000 | 27 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 5 | Christopher Frank | Germany | 1,103,000 | 92 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 6 | Noah Vaillancourt | Canada | 568,000 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 7 | Ronald Massetti | United States | 755,000 | 63 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 8 | Tom Hall | United Kingdom | 658,000 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 700 | 9 | Victor Kim | United States | 125,000 | 10 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 1 | Pratyush Buddiga | United States | 757,000 | 63 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 2 | Ron Rosenberg | United States | 1,162,000 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 3 | Blake Bohn | United States | 364,000 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 4 | Ryan Leng | United States | 1,370,000 | 114 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 5 | Rory Hayes | United States | 147,000 | 12 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 7 | Max Pescatori | Italy | 386,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 8 | James Poper | United States | 312,000 | 26 |
| Brasilia | 701 | 9 | Michael Gagliano | United States | 820,000 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 1 | Christopher Kostoulas | United States | 441,000 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 2 | Arkadiy Tsinis | United States | 619,000 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 3 | Melissa Gillett | Australia | 332,000 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 5 | Chang Luo | United States | 179,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 7 | Grant Denison | United States | 433,000 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 8 | Joseph Kent | United States | 465,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 702 | 9 | Kami Hudson | United States | 515,000 | 43 |
. Hayes was at risk for about 275,000 with 
. No nine appeared as 
rolled off the deck, and Hayes is the first elimination of the day.
, the flop shooting Luo ahead but the final two cards giving Gillett trips to finally finish off Luo.
, giving some help to Kostoulas with a flush draw. Red bricks fell on the turn (
) and river (
) though, and Hudson eliminated Kostoulas.
, giving Gagliano the hand and eliminating Bohn just shy of the final two tables.
, making Kim the next player to fall.
