Time! Play Suspended With Four Left
The task was too tall today. A robust 34 players returned to the felt today for Day 3 of Event #50, the $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em fun fest. At the end of the requisite ten levels, we're still four-handed for the bracelet, and it's Adam Geyer with his big stack setting the pace for an added fourth day on Saturday. His count of 3.73 million gives him about 37 big blinds to start Day 4, and this cash has pushed him well over the $1-million mark in career tournament earnings. He's still conspicuously without a bracelet, though, a blemish that he hopes to erase on Saturday afternoon.
Play began with Vanessa Peng atop the chip counts, and she rode her big (and then small... and then big again) stack all the way to the final table. Jeff Williams was the first to take the walk to the payout desk today, and he was followed out by the likes of Mark "dipthrong" Herm, David "Bakes" Baker, Vitaly Lunkin, Jeff Sarwer, Barry Greenstein, and Isaac Baron. Even with all of those big names gone, we still had a few familiar faces left when the field combined at ten to move over to the "Thunder Dome".
Peng was up and down and back up again all evening, but her run finally came to an end in 6th place. Peng took her stand with pocket deuces, but Darryl Ronconi found two tens to make the call with. A third ten on the flop was all she wrote for the last lady standing, and Peng earned six figures for her final-table run.
Fifth-place finisher Narendra Banwari was also the victim of a pair-versus-pair confrontation, his exit coming at the hands of Geyer. Narendra's pocket threes managed to find a set on the flop, but Geyer's pocket fives caught up with their own set as a third five landed on the turn. Banwari was out in fifth, and that's as far as we'd get tonight. When the bags came out, the remaining players stacked up thusly:
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Adam Geyer | 3,730,000 |
| Antonin Teisseire | 3,425,000 |
| Darryl Ronconi | 3,000,000 |
| Eric Froehlich | 2,125,000 |
Our final four are set for a 2:30 P.M. conclusion to this battle, and we'll have a ringside seat once again. Will it be Geyer adding some hardware to his already respectable tournament stat sheet? Can Antonin Teisseire win another bracelet for France this summer? Will Darryl Ronconi's first six-figure cash come along with some gold, too? Or will Eric Froehlich come out on top again to claim bracelet number three? There's only one way to find out.
We'll see you right back here in about 12 hours to crown the 50th bracelet winner of this 2011 WSOP. Until then, all that's left is goodnight.