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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sat, 2012-03-10 09:41
The goal for the 3rd day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event was for the remaining field to play down to the final table. Given the fact that only 20 players out of an initial field of 364 starters returned to the tables, that goal was a rather realistic one indeed.
The day began with the pressure on the short-stacks. It did indeed take a few double-ups before the first victim of the day bit the dust. Steven Michelis was the one who busted in 20th place, picking up a $22.4k reward for his efforts.
Shortly after Michelis’ elimination, a massive pot developed between Erik Cajelais and Taylor von Kriegenbergh. By the time the Js, 9s, 4c hit the flop, there were around 220k chips already in the middle. Kriegenbergh checked, prompting Cajelais to put another 100k chips into the middle. Kriegenbergh then made the call to see the 9c fall on the turn. There was another check-call move on the turn, this time prompted by a 160k chip bet by Cajelais. The Jd fell on the river and Cajelais moved in for the kill, putting 250k more into the pot. Kriegenbergh called that too and Cajelais turned over a K,J for a monstrous boat. Apparently, Kriegenbergh had a 9 too for a set, but it was too little too late at that point. His stack in shambles, Kriegenbergh hit the rail shortly afterwards. His elimination turned the trickle into a flow as Adam Geyer, Amir Lehavot and JC Tran all headed to the rail too, followed by Danny Le and Michael Wyrot.
Jonathan Duhamel got his last chips into the middle too, holding A,6o against Ubaid Habib’s A,10o. The board brought no help for the
WSOP Main Event champ and he was bounced in 13th place, picking up $25.6k for his efforts.
Brandon Wong, Mike McClain and Scott Baumstein were bounced too, all before the bubble.
Amir Khaziri became the final table bubble-boy after his A,K fell to Moon Kim’s pocket 9s.
