Tuesday, June 2, 2015 11:55 AM Local Time
Tuan Le Leads Final Seven and Has Eyes on a Repeat Championship
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) for Day 3 of Event #7: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Championship.
The 109 player field was reduced to 56 on Day 1, and after a long day on the felt for Day 2 that required a full extra level on the bubble, just seven would remain on the unofficial final table.
Tuan Le bested a 120-player field last year to capture his first WSOP bracelet, and now he is on the verge of joining the likes of Layne "Back-to-Back" Flack in becoming a repeat champion if he is able to last the distance today. Le quietly navigated the field during yesterday until he picked up the pace and started accumulating chips at will before crossing the seven-figure chip mark late in the day and eventually settling on a chip stack of 1,100,000.
Calvin Anderson - who captured his first bracelet last year - is sitting next on the leaderboard with 552,000 while Maximilian Casal was one of the leaders throughout the day as he finished with 431,000. Mixed game tournament regulars Ismael Bojang, Phil Galfond and Rep Porter are clumped together in the middle while Australian James Obst will be hoping to rally from the short stack and join the short list of "Down Under" bracelet winners. Here is how the unofficial final table sits:
Seat 1: Rep Porter - 303,000
Seat 2: Phil Galfond - 355,000
Seat 3: Calvin Anderson - 552,000
Seat 4: James Obst - 207,000
Seat 5: Ismael Bojang - 404,000
Seat 6: Tuan Le - 1,100,000
Seat 7: Maximilan Casal - 431,000
Play will resume at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) with the WSOP live reporting team providing continuous updates of all the live action as Event 7 looks to crown the next WSOP bracelet winner. Stay tuned right here to WSOP.com for updates on this event, as well as all the 2015 WSOP tournaments.