Event #70: $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Dia 3 Começado
Event #70: $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Dia 3 Começado
Welcome to the final day of Even #70: #3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed. Eight players will return to the field today to play down to a winner and battle it out for the first place of $154,338 and the stunning WSOP gold bracelet.
Juha Helppi and Yaser Al-Keliddar are both leading the way with an exact same stack of 927,000. Helppi is no stranger at the WSOP as he has has $971,620 in total earnings but it is his first cash of the summer, and it might be a big one.
Three-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein is still in contention as well. Greenstein is having great summer with 13 cashes in the bag already. He will be looking to add a fourth bracelet to his collection.
Play resumes at 2 p.m. in Brasilia and the official final table will start once two more players are eliminated.
Final Day Seat Draw:
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brasilia | 45 | 1 | Andrew Yip | Canada | 8 |
Brasilia | 45 | 2 | Barry Greenstein | United States | 9 |
Brasilia | 45 | 3 | Justin Thurlow | United States | 10 |
Brasilia | 45 | 4 | Open | ||
Brasilia | 45 | 5 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 31 |
Brasilia | 45 | 6 | Open | ||
Brasilia | 60 | 1 | Open | ||
Brasilia | 60 | 2 | Yaser Al-Keliddar | United States | 31 |
Brasilia | 60 | 3 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 5 |
Brasilia | 60 | 4 | Mike Schneider (MN) | United States | 11 |
Brasilia | 60 | 5 | Won Lee | United States | 6 |
Brasilia | 60 | 6 | Open |
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be bringing you all the updates from start to finish.
Nível: 21
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 0
Joao Vieira raised from the small blind. Mike Schneider, in the big blind, called.
A flop reading was dealt. Vieira bet. Schneifer called. The turn brought the . Vieira threw in another bet. Schneider raised. Vieira called with his last 1,000, and the cards were tabled:
Mike Schneider:
Joao Vieira:
The river completed the board and that was it for Vieira eliminated in 8th place for $14,871.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Mike Schneider (MN) | 420,000 | 104,000 |
Joao Vieira
|
Eliminado |
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Counts | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brazilia | 60 | 1 | Andrew Yip | Canada | 305,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 2 | Won Lee | United States | 225,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 3 | Barry Greenstein | United States | 220,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 4 | Mike Schneider (MN) | United States | 315,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 5 | Yaser Al-Keliddar | United States | 950,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 6 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 830,000 | |
Brazilia | 60 | 7 | Justin Thurlow | United States | 310,000 |
Already going into the unofficial final table as chip leader, Yaser Al-Keliddar has put some serious distance between himself and everyone else at the table. He just won a significant hand against second chip leader Juha Helppi with . The pot takes his stack into seven figures and he has approximately a third of the chips in play.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Yaser Al-Keliddar
|
1,070,000 | 143,000 |
Juha Helppi
|
500,000 | -427,000 |
Mike Schneider raised under the gun. Juha Helppi, on the cutoff three-bet. Action folded back to Schneider who made the call.
The dealer spread a flop of . Schneider checked. Helppi bet. Schneider check-called. The turn was the . Schneider checked. Helppi threw in another bet. Schneider called. The river filled up the board and was checked around. Schneider showed to win the pot. His opponent mucked.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Mike Schneider (MN) | 510,000 | 90,000 |
Juha Helppi
|
420,000 | -80,000 |
Barry Greenstein raised from the hijack. Juha Helppi, on the button, three-bet. Greenstein called.
The flop was . Greenstein checked. Helppi bet. Greenstein raised. Helppi called.
The turn came the . Greenstein bet. His opponent raised. Greenstein called putting at risk his last chips.
Barry Greenstein:
Juha Helppi:
The river filled up the board and Greenstein took down the pot.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Juha Helppi
|
360,000 | -60,000 |
Barry Greenstein
|
300,000 | 29,000 |
Nível: 22
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 0
Andrew Yip has just had a profitable couple of hands. In the first, he won versus Juha Helppi. There was plenty of action on an ace-high board and though Helppi had the , he mucked his other card when he saw Yip kickered him with .
The very next hand, Yip raised and Won Lee three-bet on his direct left. The flop came and Yip check-called Lee's min bet. The turn was the and Yip check-called 40,000 this time. Both players checked the river and Yip took it down with top pair .
Yip has moved into second in chips, whilst Lee is in some trouble with 3.5 big blinds.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Andrew Yip | 580,000 | 346,000 |
Juha Helppi
|
230,000 | -130,000 |
Won Lee | 140,000 | -51,000 |