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WSOP Day 3 – Event #3 money bubble on the horizon
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-05-31 15:48
Event #2 and 3, the $50k Players’ Championship and the $1,000 NL Holdem event rolled along on Day 3 of the 2010 WSOP. Event #4, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event kicked off as well.
On Day 3 of the $50k Players’ Championship event, Michael Mizrachi rose to the top of the crop, having amassed a stack of 1,483,000 chips. Russia’s Vladimir Schmelev was hot on his trail, with a 1,432,000 chip stack of his own.
Mizrachi’s chip lead was largely due to a huge pot he took off David Oppenheim. He held K,K under the gun and raised to be called by Oppenheim from the button. The flop fell J,10,5 rainbow and Oppenheim checked. Mizrachi fired out a bet yet again and he got the call from Oppenheim again. The 10c fell on the turn and Mizrachi posted yet another bet which was called by Oppenheim. The 3 on the river saw this same sequence of events repeated. As Mizrachi showed his pocket cards, Oppenheim mucked.
The pace of eliminations, which had been closer to a crawl than to anything else during the first two days, gathered some momentum on day 3. Of the 54 players who were present at the beginning of day 3 hostilities, only 21 remained. Among those eliminated was Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson, together with
PokerStars’ Noah Boeken and Barry Greenstein.
Day 1B of the $1,000 NL Holdem event saw a massive starting field of 1,744 players belly up to the tables. At the end of the second day 1 flight, only 205 players were still in contention. The day ended with a notorious elimination: that of Terrence Chan. Chan shoved all-in holding A,10 and he got called by an opponent who had A,Q. The flop landed A,10,Q giving both players a two pair. The turn and the river brought no changes and Chan was done.
Event #4, the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event kicked off on day 3 too. 820 players coughed up the buy-in for this one, generating a prize-pool of $1.14 million. Oleg Shamardin finished the day with the most chips (70,800 to be exact) way ahead of second place man Scott Epstein.
Of the 820 registrants, only 297 will return to do battle on the second day of the
poker tournament. Todd Brunson will be back, unlike Jason Mercier and Daniel Negreanu who were both bounced.
