After John Kabbaj eliminated Marcos De Siqueira in a massive, set-over-set hand to propel him over 500,000 chips, Vitaly Lunkin eliminated Paul Douglass.
Douglass was all in and at risk with on a flop of , and unfortunately for him Lunkin had flopped a set of his own with . The on the turn gave Douglass chop outs, but the bricked off on the river, and he was eliminated.
The World Series of Poker Main Event is full of players with unique journeys to their seat. Robert "Bobby" Mapp has a great story.
Bobby Mapp is in his 70's and has 10 grandchildren. Each of them chipped in to purchase his Main Event ticket to fulfill one of Bobby's dreams.
It is now Day 3 and Bobby has a well above average stack.
In a recent hand, a player in middle position raised to 4,500, the player in the hijack called, and action folded around to Bobby, who three bet to 25,500. Both players tossed their cards in the muck and Bobby raked in the pot.
“Some spin up from last night.” Dermot Blain said to PokerNews as we counted his ever growing stack. At one point, not too far off the close of play yesterday, he was down to a sub 20,000 stack and now he has 330,000.
His fellow red head Celt, Niall Farrell, isn’t doing too badly either on near 220,000 with the average stack right around 180,000.
Griffin Benger recently tweeted that he eliminated Erik Seidel in a 200,000-chip race, so we went over to the table to score the details.
According to the Canadian, he raised to 5,100, Seidel three-bet to 14,000, and Benger put in a fourth bet to 30,200. Seidel moved all in for around 100,000, and Benger called.
Benger's held up agains Seidel's , and the latter hit the rail. Benger is up to 340,000 chips.
Ronnie Bardah, winner of the 2012 $2,500 Six-Handed Limit Hold'em event, has cashed in the World Series of Poker Main Event four years in a row leading into 2014. In 2010, Bardah finished 24th out of 7,319 players for $317,161. In 2011, he placed 453rd for $27,103 from a field of 6,865. In 2012, Bardah finished in 540th place out of 6,598 for $21,707, and in 2013 he placed 124th out of 6,352 for $50,752.
In the four recent years, Bardah has played in an average Main Event field size of 6,783.5 players with an average finish of 285.25. In total, Bardah's four consecutive cashes have earned him $416,723, and he has a chance to earn his fifth cash in a row if he's able to make the money here in 2014. After beginning the day with 215,800, Bardah's stack has slipped back to 70,000, but he's still alive.
The current record for most consecutive cashes in the WSOP Main Event is four, and it's a record shared by a few people. Bardah is one of those, and he's joined by Robert Turner (1991-1994), Bo Sehlstedt (2004-2007), Theodore Park (2005-2008), Chris Overgard (2007-2010), Chris Bjorin (2008-2011), and Christian Harder (2010-2013).