Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:57 PM Local Time
Marc Friedman limps from the small blind and Ian Johns checks his option with 8,000 chips behind. They both take three on the first draw. Friedman bets the 8,000 to put Johns all in and he calls.
They each take one the second time with Friedman standing pat on the third draw. Johns takes two and sees Friedman flip over . Johns flips over a meaning he is drawing dead and eliminated.
Marc Friedman - 260,000
Ian Johns - Eliminated
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:53 PM Local Time
Steve Billirakis opens the cutoff to 16,000, and Phillip Hui three-bets to 24,000.
Billirakis calls and draws two cards, while Hui draws one and bets 8,000. Billirakis check-raises to 16,000, and Hui calls. For the last two rounds, Billirakis is pat while Hui draws one card each time. Billirakis gets the last two 16,000-chip bets into the pot on his own, and Hui calls him down.
Billirakis shows to win the pot with an eighty-six. He and Hui have essentially traded stacks from their positions one orbit ago.
Steve Billirakis - 275,000
Phillip Hui - 140,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:50 PM Local Time
Marc Friedman raises to 16,000 from the cutoff, and Ian Johns three-bets to 24,000 on the button. Friedman calls.
Johns draws one card and bets, while Friedman draws two and check-calls. They both discard the same on the next round, and now Friedman leads out into the pot for 16,000. Johns tanks for a long while before calling, committing half of his remaining chips in the process. Friedman is pat for the last draw, and he checks. Johns draws one and checks behind.
Friedman tables , and Johns nods in acknowledgment. The latter mucks, leaving just one big bet in his stack.
Marc Friedman - 265,000
Ian Johns - 16,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:46 PM Local Time
Dutch Boyd raises from the cutoff and Sergey Rybachenko three-bets from the small blind. Boyd comes back with one more raise that Rybachenko calls.
They both draw one card and Rybachenko checks to Boyd who bets with Rybachenko calling.
They draw one again and Rybachenko bets into Boyd and gets raised. Rybachenko calls and they stand pat on the last draw. Rybachenko bets and Boyd calls. Boyd flips over which Rybachenko cannot beat.
Dutch Boyd - 265,000
Sergey Rybachenko - 215,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:40 PM Local Time
The two remaining Russians in the field are seated right next to each other, and they clash in this pot that will decide Zhigalov's tournament life.
Rybachenko is the raiser, opening the button to 16,000. Zhigalov three-bets to 24,000 from the small blind, and Rybachenko calls. They both draw two cards, and Rybachenko calls a bet of 8,000. It's one card apiece for the next round, and Zhigalov bets all in for his last 4,000. He's pat for the last draw, while Rybachenko discards one.
Zhigalov shows his made , and Rybachenko shows his four-card . He squeezes his last card for a second, then says, "You're good," as he flashes a paired . Zhigalov doubles up.
Andrey Zhigalov - 80,000
Sergey Rybachenko - 250,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:34 PM Local Time
Dmitry Chop raises to 16,000 and Phillip Hui raises Chop to put him all in for his tournament life and Chop calls.
Hui takes three cards for the first draw, then one, and remains pat for the final draw. Chop draws one, then stands pat twice.
Hui fans beating out the exposed of Chop.
Phillip Hui - 240,000
Dmitry Chop - Eliminated
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:30 PM Local Time
Dmitry Chop and Kyle Miaso tangle up in a heads-up pot which sees both players pat to the last round. Chop had already check-called a big bet of 16,000 on the previous round, and he pays off the last bet from Miaso too. Miaso shows down the wheel with , and Chop says a bad word as he open-mucks his four-card .
That pot reduces Chop to about 90,000, and he loses the next one to Phillip Hui, as well. Chop check-calls bets on three streets after drawing two-one on the last two rounds. Hui's last two draws go one-pat, and he bets both streets. Chop pays off the last bet, and Hui shows him the winning .
Phillip Hui - 220,000
Dmitry Chop - 35,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:26 PM Local Time
Christopher McHugh is crippled down to just 4,000 in a pot against Benny Glasser when the latter makes an .
A couple hands later, McHugh is all in for those 4,000 from the big blind. Andrew Brown raises and isolates, and McHugh is heads-up for his tournament life. He draws four-four-one, while Brown draws two-one-pat. Brown tables the hand to beat with , and McHugh's four-card improves to the winner with a on the river. He triples up to 12,000.
McHugh folds his small blind, and he calls all in for 8,000 on the next hand. Andrew Brown again reraises, and the two go heads-up to the draw. Brown draws one the whole way, while McHugh draws two-pat-pat and tables the winning seventy-six. He's up to 24,000.
On the next hand, McHugh has enough chips to raise, and he does so for 16,000 from the cutoff. Benny Glaser three-bets to put his opponent all in for the extra 8,000. McHugh is pat the whole way, and he shows down . Glaser draws two-two-one, and he shows his four-card as he awaits the final card. It's an , and his eighty-six sends McHugh to the rail in 16th place.
Christopher McHugh - Eliminated
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:19 PM Local Time
Marc Friedman limps in from the cutoff and Dutch Boyd calls from the small blind. Noah Bronstein checks his option and the blinds both draw three while Friedman takes two. They check to Friedman who bets. Boyd raises and Bronstein folds back to Friedman who puts in another raise which Boyd calls.
Boyd and Friedman stand pat for the next two draws with Boyd betting and Friedman calling both times. Boyd fans to beat Friedman's .
Two hands later the two square off again with Friedman raising from under the gun and Boyd calling in the cutoff. Friedman takes two and Boyd pats with Friedman check-calling.
Friedman takes one the next time and Boyd pats. Friedman check-calls again. Friedman takes one more with Boyd patting a third time. Friedman bets and Boyd says "This looks like a bluff, Marc." He calls and is shown .
After all the dust settles, Boyd is up to 160,000 and Friedman sits with 150,000.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:11 PM Local Time
Dmitry Chop opens with a raise to 16,000, and Steve Billirakis three-bets to 24,000 from the button. In the small blind, Phillip Hui reraises to 32,000. Chop folds, but Billirakis five-bets to 40,000 total. Hui calls.
Billirakis is pat and bets, and Hui calls after drawing one card. Both players are pat on the second draw, and the action goes check-check. Now things get a little interesting. Both players pat again, and Hui checks. Thinking Billirakis has checked behind, Hui announces his hand, "Eight-seven-five." Billirakis and the dealer note that action is still on Billirakis, though, and he takes his cue to bet the last 16,000. Hui frowns and calls.
Billirakis shows to win the pot with a better eighty-seven.
Steve Billirakis - 205,000
Phillip Hui - 165,000
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:02 PM Local Time
The final 16 are in their seats, the cards are in the air, and Day 3 is off and running.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 2:01 PM Local Time
Level: | 21 | | Blinds: | 4,000/8,000 | |
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 12:33 PM Local Time
Welcome back for Day 3 of Event #33, the $1,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball event.
This event began on Monday afternoon with a field of 388 runners competing for shares of the $523,800 prizepool. The field was reduced to 121 through the first ten levels, and then down to the final 16 at the conclusion of yesterday's Day 2.
Toby Mulloy (above) leads the 16, and it appears that he's working on his first career tournament cash. Benny Glaser's cash in the Millionaire Maker was his first WSOP cash, too, and the two of them are in the top two spots to begin the day. The pack chasing them, though, is an experienced one.
There are six bracelet winners left in the room, and a couple players for whom it seems only a matter of time. Jon Turner (above) is arguably one of the best in the world without a bracelet, and he's working on making back-to-back Draw final tables after finishing in fifth place in Event #29 a few days ago. Sergey Rybachenko (below) falls into the same category as Turner. The Russian pro has won tournaments all over the world, but he's yet to hoist WSOP gold in Las Vegas. He bubbled the final table of the $10,000 Triple Draw event in 2014, he's been among the chip leaders for the duration of this event, and he's certainly someone to keep an eye on today.
There's also have a poker-famous father in the room. Adam Friedman is a fixture at the WSOP and a bracelet winner from 2012, and apparently these card games run in his genes. Marc (below), his dad, is still bracelet hunting for himself, bagging up an average stack of 207,000 chips at the end of Day 2.
Mulloy is the man to beat, but if yesterday's play is any indication, the chip lead will likely change hands several times before it's all said and done. The cards go in the air at 2:00 PM, and the goal is to play down to a winner today. Everyone left is guaranteed at least $5,473, but all eyes are on the gold bracelet and the $136,215 top prize that comes along with it.