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Friday, July 3, 2015 2:10 PM Local Time
Omaha Hi-Lo
Phil Hui bets 24,000 from the small blind on the turn with the board reading and Scotty Nguyen goes into the tank for a few moments before calling. The river is the and Hui quickly bets again. Nguyen quickly reaches for chips and calls.
Hui shows and Nguyen double checks his hole cards.
"You got ace-deuce over there?" asked Nguyen. "You scoop baby."
Nguyen mucks his hand and Hui collects the pot.
Phil Hui - 280,000
Scotty Nguyen - 160,000
Friday, July 3, 2015 2:06 PM Local Time
"Who stole my blinds?" asks Eli Elezra after arriving a few minutes late.
"I don't know what you're talking about" smirks Andrew Barber as it was he who won the first hand against Jared Bleznick in Omaha Hi-Lo.
"To be fair, I limped!" added Barber.
Friday, July 3, 2015 2:03 PM Local Time
The cards are now in the air here on Day 3!
Friday, July 3, 2015 2:02 PM Local Time
| Level: | 16 | | Limits: | 12,000/24,000 | | Ante: | 3,000 |
Friday, July 3, 2015 12:52 PM Local Time
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) for Day 3 of Event #63: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Championship!
The 204 player field has been reduced to just the final 20 that will all be eyeing the bracelet and $517,766 first prize now that they are guaranteed a $18,619 payday.
Although his stack flurried up and down throughout the day, Andrew Barber made sure his was at its peak once he bagged the chip lead with 574,000. Barber already has 12 WSOP cashes and 17 WSOP Circuit cashes to his name, but this will be the one he craves if he can break through to capture his first WSOP bracelet.
On his heels is 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela who bagged 547,000 to be ahead of Eli Elezra and his 413,000-chip stack. Don Zewin (407,000) and Viacheslav Zhukov (383,000) round up the top five while Australian Joe Hachem (373,000) will be looking at capturing his second WSOP bracelet since winning the Main Event back in 2005.
Brandon Shack-Harris, Barry Greenstein and Scotty Nguyen are still in the mix while Mark Gregorich and Matt Glantz round up the rear of a Day 3 field that is stacked in depth of skill, accomplishments and ambitions.
The WSOP live reporting team will be on hand from 2:00 p.m. (PDT) to provide continuous live updates of all the Event #63 action. So stay tuned right here to WSOP.com as the journey of the next WSOP bracelet winner is mapped out live on your computer screen and from the 2015 WSOP!
