Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Giorno 3 iniziato
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #50: $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em
Giorni 3
Event Info
Risultati finali
Event Info
Informazioni livello
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$5,000
Montepremi
$3,839,000
Entries
817
Livello
32
Bui
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
The Third and Not-So-Final Day
Welcome back for the third day of our $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em event. A hefty 817 players showed up to the tables on Wednesday, and after 18 levels, that number has been reduced to 34. That's still an awful lot if we intend to play this thing out today. At the end of the day, there will still be 150 big blinds in play, and that would be an awful lot for one player to collect.
Vanessa Peng is going to try, though. Thanks to the last hand of the night, Peng has herself perched atop the overnight chip counts with 801,000 of them stuffed inside the plastic bag. She's the last lady left standing, and the sharks are circling beneath her. Dylan Wilkerson has a top-five stack, and Adam Geyer has more than a half-million chips to begin Day 3, too. Jeff Sarwer was very close to a million chips in the middle stages of yesterday, but he tapered off as play progressed to bag up 422,000. That's still good for ninth place overall, and Sarwer is in the hunt for his second WSOP final table this summer.
We're just a few minutes away from our scheduled starting time, and the bags are out on the tables. Players are next, then announcements, then the playing of the cards. Don't wander off, we're shuffling up and dealing at 2:30 P.M.!
Seat Draw!
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 280 | 1 | Kenneth Coppens | 276,000 |
| 280 | 2 | Mikhail Yakovlev | 321,000 |
| 280 | 3 | Isaac Baron | 407,000 |
| 280 | 4 | David Baker | 370,000 |
| 280 | 5 | James Routos | 530,000 |
| 280 | 6 | Vitaly Lunkin | 255,000 |
| 280 | 7 | Yann Enzinger | 423,000 |
| 280 | 8 | Michael Benvenuti | 329,000 |
| 280 | 9 | Antonin Teissire | 281,000 |
| 286 | 1 | Kevin Eyster | 167,000 |
| 286 | 2 | Wesley Pantling | 211,000 |
| 286 | 3 | Christian Kruel | 360,000 |
| 286 | 4 | Arnaud Esquevin | 185,000 |
| 286 | 5 | Michael Fosco | 403,000 |
| 286 | 6 | Felipe Montenegro | 527,000 |
| 286 | 7 | Bruno Lopes | 277,000 |
| 286 | 8 | Andrew Savitz | 700,000 |
| 286 | 9 | Adam Geyer | 522,000 |
| 292 | 1 | Eric Froehlich | 399,000 |
| 292 | 2 | Mark Herm | 265,000 |
| 292 | 3 | Paul Greim | 145,000 |
| 292 | 4 | Jeff Williams | 83,000 |
| 292 | 5 | Dylan Wilkerson | 646,000 |
| 292 | 7 | Joe Patrick | 198,000 |
| 292 | 8 | Ryan Young | 367,000 |
| 292 | 9 | Lauri Varonen | 227,000 |
| 298 | 1 | Narendra Banwari | 699,000 |
| 298 | 2 | Benjamin Volpe | 431,000 |
| 298 | 3 | Garrett Adelstein | 170,000 |
| 298 | 4 | Jeff Sarwer | 442,000 |
| 298 | 5 | Pierre Neuville | 186,000 |
| 298 | 6 | Darryl Ronconi | 563,000 |
| 298 | 8 | Barry Greenstein | 100,000 |
| 298 | 9 | Vanessa Peng | 801,000 |
Livello: 21
Bui: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Play Ball
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Day 3: Go!
Early Action For Eyster
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
While he was still unbagging his chips, Mike Fosco opened to 23,000, and Kevin Eyster three-bet shoved on him for 160,000 total. Fosco grinned at the decision he was facing, and he eventually called to put Eyster at risk.
Showdown
Fosco: 
Eyster: 
Eyster was in good shape, and the board ran out 
to lock up his double. Eyster's rail is already here cheering him on, letting out a loud, "That's one, Kev!"
Williams Gone, Greim Nearly Triples
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Jeff Williams moved all in from under the gun for 81,000. Eric Froehlich was on the button and made the call. The small blind folded and Paul Greim began to tank in the big blind. Eventually he moved all in for 143,000 and Froehlich called.
Williams: 
Froehlich: 
Greim: 
The flop was 
and put Greim out in front. The turn was the which bricked both of Greim's opponents and the 
river was scary but ultimately harmless.
With that hand, Williams hits the rail, Froehlich falls to 250,000 while Greim is off to a great start and chips up to 380,000.
Sarwer Pushing Around Chips
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
We missed the hand as it happened, but it sounds like Garrett Adelstein put a bad-beat double-up on Jeff Sarwer. We can surmise that for two reasons. First, Adelstein is up over 300,000 chips, and Sarwer is below 200,000. And secondly, from the table talk during this pot.
It began with Adelstein opening to 22,000, and Sarwer took a long pause to count down his stack before shoving all in. When it folded back around to Adelstein, he gave a long stare. "What?" Sarwer said, grinning. "You know I'm ahead here." Adelstein prodded, and Sarwer kept going. "Of course I'm ahead. 100%. But you can hit a 3%-er on me again. With that, Adelstein folded.
Sarwer played another pot just a moment later, calling a preflop raise to 21,000 from Ben Volpe. Sarwer called another 38,000 after the 
flop, but Volpe bet another 62,000 on the 
turn that finally coaxed a fold. It leaves Sarwer with about 185,000 chips, less than half what he began the day with.
Greenstein Doubles Back
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Barry Greenstein had been worked down to just 55,000 when he three-bet shoved into Darryl Ronconi. It was only 27,000 more for him to call, and he put in the chips in to put Greenstein at risk.
Showdown
Ronconi:
Greenstein: 
The board ran 
, and Greenstein's three pair earn him the double. He's back to about 125,000 now, slightly up from where he began the day.
Racing For the Lead
Livello 21
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Ben Volpe just dropped more than 100,000 chips in a contest with Pierre Neuville, and we picked up the next hand as he three-bet Vanessa Peng. She'd opened to 22,000 from the cutoff, and Volpe made it 58,000 from the small blind. Peng reraised to 110,000, Volpe shoved for 413,000 total, and Peng made the call with her big stack to put Volpe at risk. It was a coin flip for the chip lead.
Showdown
Peng:
Volpe:
The board ran clean for Volpe, coming 
. Just like that, Volpe shoots up to 844,000 and into the chip lead, and Peng is cut down under 400,000 and back into the middle of the pack.