Monday, June 21, 2010 2:51 PM Local Time
Stud-8
Heimiller: X-X / / X
Juanda: X-X / / X
Phillips: X-X / / X
Things quickly got out of hand on third street at Dale Phillips' table. Ming Reslock brought it in and was completed by Farzad Bonyadi. Dale Phillips called, only to see Dan Heimiller and John Juanda raise and re-raise behind him. He called both raises before Heimiller raised again. Juanda and Phillips both called.
Juanda had the lead on fourth street and checked it. Phillips also checked, giving Heimiller the opportunity to bet. Juanda raised. Phillips re-raised all in and was called by both players.
Heimiller bet fifth street after Juanda checked, then bet the lead on sixth street after the all-in Phillips made open fours. Juanda called both times. On the river, Heimiller checked, then seemed to know he was beat when Juanda bet. For the size of the pot, perhaps, he couldn't lay it down. Juanda showed three hearts in th hole, , for a heart flush to collect the whole side pot and half of the main pot. Phillips got the other half of the main pot with in the hole, an 8-7 low. Heimiller got nothing.
"Ugly, ugly hand," said Heimiller.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:47 PM Local Time
Stud
After a raise and call on fifth street, David Benyamine and David Singer were off to sixth street. Benyamine had the lead and check-called a bet by Singer.
On seventh street, Benyamine checked once again, only to see Singer bet all in.
Benyamine: - X
Singer: - X
Benyamine promptly folded and Singer increased his chip stack to 140,000.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:46 PM Local Time
Stud-8
At the same time that Mark Johns was all in on Table 309, Zachary Milchman moved all in on Table 311. We couldn't notate both hands at the same time, but the end result was that Milchman busted.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:44 PM Local Time
Stud-8
The chips were all in on third street for a short-stacked Mark Johns. He was drawing live with against Bill Chen's split fours, . Unfortunately for Johns, his board bricked all the way to the river, where Chen drew a third four to make trips. That left Johns drawing dead. He's busto in 23rd place, leaving with $9,604 in prize money.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:39 PM Local Time
Stud
Alexandre Luneau raised on third street and was called by Dan Heimiller.
Luneau had the lead on fourth street and bet again. Heimiller followed along to fifth street where Luneau bet. Heimiller raised and Luneau thought about it for a moment before making the call.
On sixth street, Luneau had the lead again and his bet was called by Heimiller. On seventh street, Luneau bet out, only to be forced with a raise by Heimiller. The call would put Luneau all in and after sitting in the tank for a bit, he made the call for his tournament life.
Luneau: -X- ( )
Heimiller: -X- ( )
Luneau couldn't beat Heimiller's full house and therefore was eliminated.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:37 PM Local Time
Stud-8
After finding an early double up, Mark Johns is now down to under 20,000 after losing a stud-8 pot against Bill Chen.
The players were already at seventh street when we saw Chen fire a bet and Johns consider his options. He finally announced a call.
Chen: ( ) /
Johns: (X-X-X) /
A wheel for Chen was good for the high and the low to scoop the pot and leave Johns hanging on for dear life.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:31 PM Local Time
Stud
David Baker completed and Scott Seiver raised. Brent Wheeler re-raised and both opponents made the call.
On fourth, Seiver checked to Wheeler who fired a bet. Both Baker and Seiver made the call to go to fifth street. Seiver paired up but so did Wheeler to take the lead and he came out betting. Baker had seen enough but Seiver made the call.
On sixth street, Wheeler double-paired his board and he bet out, but Seiver raised to put his last chips into the middle. Wheeler made the call.
Baker: (X-X) /
Seiver: ( ) / / ( )
Wheeler: ( ) / / ( )
Seiver made kings up which was good for the double up as Wheeler showed down three pair. Seiver doubles to 160,000 with Wheeler down to 180,000.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:23 PM Local Time
Stud
We caught the action in this hand on sixth street. Kenneth Aldridge was showing X-X and Phil Ivey was showing X-X .
Aldridge check-raised Ivey's bet sending Ivey in the tank. Eventually Ivey folded and Aldridge flashed for a full house.
Ivey has dropped to 125,000 and Aldridge moved up to 300,000.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:16 PM Local Time
Stud
The second-shortest stack to start the day was Mark Johns. He got it all in on third street against Bill Chen. Chen started with three diamonds, but didn't improve to anything more than a pair of deuces. That was no good against Johns' buried aces, which made trip aces on sixth street.
Johns now has 60,000 chips.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:13 PM Local Time
The overnight re-draw lasted all of one hand. The game was randomly drawn as stud. Here's the three-table re-draw:
Table 309
Seat 1: Ryan Hughes
Seat 2: Daniel Makowsky
Seat 3: David Benyamine
Seat 4: Bill Chen
Seat 5: Yuebin Guo
Seat 6: Mitch Schock
Seat 7: Mark Johns
Seat 8: David Singer
Table 311
Seat 1: Dan Heimiller
Seat 2: Jeffrey Lisandro
Seat 3: John Juanda
Seat 4: Ming Reslock
Seat 5: Zachary Milchman
Seat 6: Alexandre Luneau
Seat 7: Farzad Bonyadi
Seat 8: Dale Phillips
Table 316
Seat 1: Kenneth Aldridge
Seat 2: Phil Ivey
Seat 3: Brent Wheeler
Seat 4: Chad Brown
Seat 5: Albert Hahn
Seat 6: Jordan Siegel
Seat 7: David Baker
Seat 8: Scott Seiver
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:07 PM Local Time
Razz
Hughes: 4-3 / A-7-6-J / 10
Trigeorgis: 6-3 / 2-A-6-8 / 8
George Trigeorgis brought back the shortest stack to start the day. On the very first hand, Ryan Hughes completed an ace. Trigeorgis squeezed out 6-3-2 and called all in. Hughes had 4-3-A and the race was on. Hughes made a 7-6 by fifth street, leaving Trigeorgis drawing. He didn't get there and has been eliminated in 25th place.
Monday, June 21, 2010 2:03 PM Local Time
Cards are in the air. The starting game was drawn as razz.
Monday, June 21, 2010 1:36 PM Local Time
Table 309
Seat 1: Scott Seiver (105,000)
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Kenneth Aldridge (257,000)
Seat 4: Jeffrey Lisandro (193,000)
Seat 5: Phil Ivey (205,000)
Seat 6: John Juanda (393,000)
Seat 7: Jordan Siegel (161,000)
Seat 8: Brent Wheeler (256,000)
Table 311
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Zachary Milchman (71,000)
Seat 4: Dan Heimiller (180,000)
Seat 5: Daniel Makowsky (312,000)
Seat 6: Albert Hahn (100,000)
Seat 7: Chad Brown (108,000)
Seat 8: Bill Chen (158,000)
Table 313
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: David Singer (93,000)
Seat 4: Mark Johns (31,000)
Seat 5: Ming Reslock (173,000)
Seat 6: Farzad Bonyadi (98,000)
Seat 7: David Benyamine (137,000)
Seat 8: Dale Phillips (57,000)
Table 316
Seat 1: --empty--
Seat 2: --empty--
Seat 3: Mitch Schock (189,000)
Seat 4: Yuebin Guo (109,000)
Seat 5: Ryan Hughes (354,000)
Seat 6: George Trigeorgis (15.000)
Seat 7: Dave Baker (373,000)
Seat 8: Alexandre Luneau (182,000)
Monday, June 21, 2010 1:27 PM Local Time
Welcome back to the Amazon Room of the Rio Hotel and Casino for Day 3 of Event #37: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. Our field is down to the last 25 competitors and what a stellar lineup we have!
Our chip leader is John Juanda who has displayed remarkable form at this year's WSOP, already with two fourths and one fifth place to his credit, all in mixed game variations. He'll be looking to add a fourth bracelet to his poker resume this evening, but boy, what a challenge it will be.
The name that stands out from all others is none other than the great Phil Ivey. The rail is guaranteed to be three and four deep today thanks to his presence. Can Ivey make it bracelet number eight? It will provide a thrilling conclusion later tonight if he gets close.
There are a plethora of other big name pros with credentials that have the potential to take them all the way, including David Benyamine, Bill Chen, Dan Heimiller, David Singer, Chad Brown, Scott Seiver and of course 2009 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Lisandro.
This is going to be one hell of a final day!
All the action kicks off at 3pm local time, which is about 30 minutes from now. Keep your browser locked into PokerNews.com and frantically hit that refresh button as we will do our best to bring you every bit of excitement, live as it happens from the tournament floor.