Event #51: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Jason Les - Chip Leader

The second day of the $3,000 six max tournament has drawn to a close. There will be 35 players returning tomorrow for Day 3 to continue on their quest to be the newest WSOP bracelet winner.

Leading the pack heading into Day 3 tomorrow is Jason Les who will be carrying forward 854,000. Les has had a spectacular showing so far this Series, with a second place in the $3,000 No Limit Hold'Em Shootout and third place finish in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Championship . Coming in a very close second in chips will be Kiryl Radzivonau (851,000). And rounding out the top three is Alexander Debus (832,000).

A total of 285 players started the day, and the bubble officially burst when only 108 players remained. There were quite a few notables that made it into the money today but finished shy of making Day 3, including Sylvain Loosli (85th), Antonio Esfandiari (84th), Shannon Shorr (56th), and Martin Jacobson (55th).

The 35 remaining players will return on Saturday 1 p.m. local time. You can follow the live updates of the final day all day long here at WSOP.com.

Benjamin Vinson check calls an 18,000 bet from Taylor Paur on a board reading     .

The river comes the  . Vinson checks and Paur bets 32,000. Vinson thinks for about a minute before eventually calling.

Vinson shows    and Paur shows   .

Benjamin Vinson - 585,000
Taylor Paur - 490,000

Marty “Kid Sally” Salowitz raises and is called in one spot before Matthew Wantman three-bets all in for 114,000 with ace-seven. Salowitz is the only caller with ace-ten and the board runs blank.

The next hand, Rep Porter raises to 15,000 off the button and is called by Ben Heath before Salowitz says, “I’m gonna raise that much” and tips in a stack of chips.

“How much is that?” chuckles Porter.

“I don’t know, but a lot” says Salowitz back.

It’s 41,000 and both Porter and Heath call. The flop comes     and both opponents fold to Salowitz’s 50,000 c-bet. He’s back up to 560,000.

Marty Salowitz is Loving His First WSOP

Derek Wolters shoves all-in and is called by Leo Wolpert.

Wolpert is holding    and Wolters is behind with   .  But the tides quickly turn for Wolters when the     flop arrives and he flops broadway. 

The turn is the  , and the river  .  And with that Wolters doubles.

Derek Wolters - 300,000
Leo Wolpert - 140,000

More than 200,000 chips sat in the middle with a board reading     . Cornel Cimpan leads for 50,000 and is called by Rob Tepper on the button but Andrew Lettau, who sits in the big blind, moves out of the way, The river is the   and Cimpan sets Tepper in for his remaining 110,000. He folds and is seen busting shortly after.

Cornel Cimpan – 730,000
Rob Tepper – eliminated
Andrew Lettau – 800,000

Jeff Madsen and Jason Les got it all-in the last hand before break.

Jeff Madsen:   
Jason Les:   

When Madsen seens that he is up against aces he briefly walks away from his seat in disgust.

The board runs out      .

Jeff Madsen - Eliminated
Jason Les - 605,000

Martin Jacobson never had a big stack the entire tournament and he never will as he just busted. The Swedish superstar came by the media desk and told the WSOP.com blog, "I busted with pocket fives, guess which place I came." He then held up the number 55 to show that's where he busted. An opponent called his shove with ace-deuce and got there.

Martin Jacobson - busted

Cornel Cimpan is sat on 820,000 chips to move well clear at the top of the counts. He filled the WSOP.com blog in on the two major hands that got him there.

At the end of the last level, Javier Zarco raised to 8,500 and picked up three callers including Cimpan. The flop came     and Zarco continued for 22,000. Cimpan raised to 62,000 which was enough to force out the other two players, but not Zarco, who moved all in for 200,000 effective. Cimpan called all in with top two pair and survived being outdrawn by Zarco’s jack-ten for a straight draw.

Fast-forward to this level and Zarco moved all in for 50,000 with    and was followed in by Joe Hachem and his pocket eights. Cimpan said he looked down at pocket aces in the small blind and called to knock both players out.

Cornel Cimpan – 820,000
Joe Hachem – eliminated
Javier Zarco - eliminated

Cornel Cimpan - big chip leader

Alex Bolotin raises to 10,000 from under the gun and calls after Bryn Kenney three-bets to 21,000 from the small blind . The flop comes     and Kenney continues for 28,000. Call. On the   turn Kenney fires another 42,000 and Bolotin calls once more. Kenney moved all in for his last 107,000 and Bolotin calls once more.

Kenney opens    and Bolotin mucks to go short. He busts soon after in 78th place.

Alex Bolotin - eliminated
Bryn Kenney - 450,000