stevie444 Makes Final Three of WSOP $1,500 HORSE Event
There are three players remaining in Event #27 of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP), a $1,500 HORSE tournament. At the end of Friday night, the trio bantered as to whether the action would continue for another level or pause for the night, and the latter option prevailed. The tournament picks back up at 1:00pm PT on Saturday, when PocketFives member Stephen stevie444 Chidwick (pictured) will hold the shortest stack. A top prize of $267,000 is on the line.
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Former World Poker Tour Championship winner David Chiu leads the final three in Event #27 with a stack of 1.92 million. He surged late in the day, with coverage on WSOP.com pointing out, “Don’t look now, but David Chiu has just gone from two big bets to chip leader in the span of three hands, including that last double up.”
Chiu’s comeback included making two pair in Stud High-Low and then, on the next hand, hitting a pair of kings. Both pots came courtesy of Chidwick. Chiu’s WPT Championship win in 2008 was worth $3.3 million. Consequently, he sits in eighth place on the WPT’s all-time money list at $3.6 million and has four WSOP bracelets to boot. He’s now looking for “one for the thumb.”
Also still in the hunt in Event #27 is 2008 WSOP November Niner Ylon Schwartz (pictured), who was all-in during Stud late in the day and initially ahead with a pair of sixes. Chidwick hit a pair of jacks to swipe the lead away, but Schwartz found a third six and then ducked a flush draw to double through. Schwartz has a stack of 1.3 million heading into Saturday’s finale, about 500,000 ahead of Chidwick’s 785,000.
Chidwick just passed $3 million in tracked online poker tournament earnings in his PocketFives profile and has been a member of the site since the first month of 2007. He’s at #91 worldwide in the PocketFives Poker Player Rankingsand was ranked as high as #11 back in 2008. The U.K. resident finished second in the PokerStars $100 Rebuy last month and walked away with $18,000.
Elsewhere at the 2012 WSOP, we’re down to the final two tables in Event #28, $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Four-Max. Australia’s Brendon BrendonRRubie (pictured) has the lead at 1.68 million in chips, about 500,000 more than the second place stack belonging to James Schaaf. The cards will hit the air at 1:00pm PT on Saturday. Here is a look at the chip stacks:
1. Brendon BrendonRRubie – 1,682,000
2. James Schaaf – 1,126,000
3. Greg gregy20723 Merson – 870,000
4. Timothy Adams – 628,000
5. Andrey Pushok1990 Gulyy – 509,000
6. Anthony Gregg – 406,000
7. Toan Trinh – 318,000
8. Torry Reily – 199,000
Jason JAKoon1985 Koon hit the deck in ninth place from the tournament and was the last elimination before play paused on Friday. Koon 3bet all-in before the flop with A-9 and received a taker in Schaaf, who showed A-3 of diamonds. Schaaf hit a pair of threes on the flop, leading to Koon’s elimination on the last scheduled hand of Friday’s play. Koon took to Twitter to succinctly say, “Sigh. Out 9th.”
EPT Copenhagen winner Mickey mementmori Petersen (pictured) busted in tenth place after running A-2 into Merson’s aces. Neither player improved and Merson’s bullets scooped the pot. Petersen cashed for $25,000, the Dane’s second in the money finish of the 2012 WSOP. According to his bio on WSOP.com, “Has a weakness for marshmallows.”
Mohsin chicagocards1 Charania hit the deck in 11th place from Event #28 after his pocket nines could not draw out on the pocket kings of Rubie. The latter hit top set on the flop and no running cards saved the day for Charania, who earned $19,000. He vented on Twitter, “I am frustrated with the way I played that 4-max when it got down to 12 players. No more mistakes, summer is almost over! GL @JasonKoon.”
The eight players remaining are guaranteed a payday of $38,000, while the tournament’s champion will take home $392,000 and a bracelet. When play stopped on Friday, the blinds were at 4,000-8,000 with an ante of 1,000.
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