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Saturday, July 2, 2011 3:04 PM Local Time
Matt Hawrilenko open-raised from the hijack and Brandon Meyers reraised from the small blind. Hawrilenko called and the flop came . Meyers bet and Hawrilenko called to see the turn fall . Meyers bet again and Hawrilenko called. The river came and both players checked.
Meyers held but Hawrilenko had him beat holding . Hawrilenko is up to 750,000 and Meyers slipped to 900,000.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:55 PM Local Time
Brian Smith open raised from the hijack and action folded to Matt Matros in the big blind, and he called. The flop came and Matros check-called a bet from Smith. The turn came and both players checked. The river fell , Matros checked, Smith bet and Matros called.
Smith tabled for a king high flush and Matros mucked.
Brian Smith | 690,000 | 70,000 |
Matt Matros | 667,000 | -33,000 |
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:50 PM Local Time
The table has switched to Limit Hold'em and from under the gun Brandon Meyers raised and Matt Matros raised from the cutoff. Action folded back to Meyers and he called.
The flop came and Meyers check-raised a bet from Matros. Matros called and the turn came . Meyers bet and Matros called. The river came and both players checked. Matros tabled for aces up and Meyers mucked.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:36 PM Local Time
Brian Smith opened from the hijack for 17,000 and Aalok Arora moved in for 228,000. Action folded around back to Smith and he called. Smith tabled and Arora held .
The board ran and Smith paired his ace off the flop and sent Arora to the cashier's cage to collect eighth place money.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:28 PM Local Time
Adam Sanders raised to 17,000 from middle position and Matt Hawrilenko raised to 45,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back around to Sanders and he moved all in for around 175,000. Hawrilenko called and they were off to the showdown.
Hawrilenko:
Sanders:
The board ran and Hawrilenko's big slick held up sending Sanders home first from the final table.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:21 PM Local Time
Brandon Meyers opened for 17,000 in middle position and Nikolay Losev raised to 45,000 from the hijack. Meyers called and the flop came and he led out with 40,000. Losev called and the turn came . Meyers fired 95,000 and Losev called. The river came and both players checked.
Meyers turned over and Losev took the pot tabling .
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:17 PM Local Time
Current 2011 WSOP Player-of-the-Year Leaderboard
Player | Points | Cashes | Final Tables | Bracelets | Winnings |
Ben Lamb | 572.65 | 3 | 2 | 1 | $1,130,494 |
Chris Moorman | 486.20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | $1,051,466 |
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | 479.25 | 4 | 2 | 1 | $811,639 |
Phil Hellmuth | 458.25 | 4 | 2 | 0 | $527,970 |
Sam Stein | 402.63 | 4 | 2 | 1 | $716,342 |
Mikhail Lakhitov | 401.80 | 5 | 2 | 1 | $851,058 |
Jason Mercier | 385.33 | 5 | 3 | 1 | $696,438 |
Mitch Schock | 364.81 | 5 | 3 | 1 | $406,018 |
Joe Ebanks | 360 | 3 | 1 | 1 | $1,179,031 |
Sean Getzwiller | 343 | 3 | 2 | 1 | $672,627 |
*Through Event #49
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:07 PM Local Time
Introductions have been made and cards are in the air.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:01 PM Local Time
The final nine players have taken their seats and their introductions are being made. Cards will be in the air shortly.
Saturday, July 2, 2011 1:15 PM Local Time
Day 3 of the $2,500 Mixed Hold'em event will begin the official final table already set. This is one of only a couple events that have returned to Day 3 with the final table set. Brandon Meyers returns with a commanding chiplead over the field with 1.2 million. Noah Boeken is a full 600,000 behind Meyers in second place.
With only three hands remaining in Day 2 two players busted resulting in the final nine returning. Matt Hawrilenko, Noah Boeken and Matt Matros all return to fight for the bracelet.
Play gets underway at 3 p.m. PST In the Purple section's Feature Table area and they will play down to a winner or a full ten levels, whichever comes first. Follow all the WSOP Final Table action live on Pokernews.com.
Here is the seating chart and chip counts.
Seat | Player | Chip Count |
1 | Adam Sanders | 179,000 |
2 | Matt Matros | 535,000 |
3 | Matt Hawrilenko | 422,000 |
4 | Noah Boeken | 599,000 |
5 | Brian Smith | 396,000 |
6 | Aalok Arora | 271,000 |
7 | Brandon Meyers | 1,200,000 |
8 | Nikolay Losev | 509,000 |
9 | Jonathan Lane | 246,000 |