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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star – Day 3 report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2010-03-13 16:04
The 3rd day of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event saw 27 survivors return to the tables, with the goal of setting the final table. Phil Hellmuth started the day with the largest stack, and the
UltimateBet pro held on nicely to his advantage throughout day 3 of the poker tournament. He would probably have finished atop the provisional leader board again, had it not been for a late surge by Andy Seth who scored a few big pots and a couple of eliminations over the final stretch.
Seth’s late push started with Brian Rast’s elimination. Seth got his opponent all-in on a A,10o vs A7o match-up. Clearly dominated, Rast failed to catch a lucky break and all his chips ended up in Seth’s possession.
Seth put Rast’s chips to good use, as he continued building his stack at the expense of Shooting Star Scotty Nguyen.
The Prince of Poker shoved all-in (probably to pick up the blinds) holding Jh, 8h. Seth promptly called him holding K,Qo. It was a no-contest really. The board fell Q,4,3,6,A and Nguyen was eliminated from the poker tournament. Spurred on by his success against such a “name” player and no doubt by the $5k bounty he’d picked up as a reward for his dirty deed, Seth turned on the aggression. Through a perfect combination of skill and luck, he managed to pocket the majority of the pots that paved the way to the final table.
When it came to the final table bubble, the rest of the survivors could count on him to help burst it fast. Sure enough, He locked horns with Lon Diamond, and at the end of a preflop give and take, the two got all their chips into the middle. Seth tabled pocket Queens against Diamond’s A,Q and the race was on. The board doused the spirits though as it bricked out to leave Seth with his preflop advantage, and to set the official final table of the
poker tournament.
Phil Hellmuth finished the day with over 1.4 million chips, to clinch second place. The other final table participants will be Hasan Habib, McClean Karr, Dan O’Brien, and Matt Keikoan.
John Cernuto and Chau Giang – two other bounty carrying Shooting Stars – were eliminated in 11th and 14th places respectively.
