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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2013-03-10 15:17
44 players returned to the tables of the Bay 101 for the WPT’s Shooting Star on Day 3 of the
poker tournament. Paul Volpe started the day with the largest stack, and at the end of the day, which saw the 6-handed final table set, he was still in the lead. He finished with more than 5.5 million chips to his name.
Erik Seidel had a pretty good day too: he finished second, with 3.4 million chips. Joe Kuether will start the final table in 3rd place. The official short-stack of the final stretch of the event is Joe Nguyen, who will take 2.17 million chips into battle on the last day.
At the beginning of the day, there were still some Shooting Stars in the running. Jason Somerville was one of the early victims of the day. He got his last chips into the middle on a J,9o. The player who made the call was Erik Seidel, who had an Ah,10h. The first card to hit the board was an A, sealing the deal in Seidel’s favor. The turn and the river didn’t help Somerville and Seidel chipped up nicely, crossing the 1.1 million chip mark.
Some hands later, Seidel sent his chips to work again, this time against Isaac Baron. The chips went into the middle preflop in what turned out to be a classic coin-flip, pitting Seidel’s pocket 9s against Baron’s K.Jo. Baron was crippled by the hand, left with only a BB. He succumbed to the pressure shortly after.
By the time the final table was reached, all the Shooting Stars were sidelined, with Erik Seidel’s exception of course.
Kyle Julius was the shooting star making the deepest run: he finished 27th, sent to the rail by Paul Klann.
