When a player is all in during the stud rounds, the cards come flying out in a hurry. Thus we weren't able to capture all of Ken Lennaard's cards after Thomas Hunt was all in on fourth street in razz. We did get Hunt's cards thought -- A-4 / 10-2-5-A / 10. Somehow a 10-5 was good enough to drag the pot against the bunch of bricks that Lennaard collected. Hunt doubled up to stay in the gme.
Dustin Leary raised preflop, and Al Barbieri three-bet him next door.
Heads up, the two men saw a flop of , and Leary check-called a bet from Barbieri. On the turn, Leary led out with a bet of his own, and Barbieri was the caller this time. Both men checked the river.
Leary:
Barbieri:
"Ace-deuce with the queen. I get three quarters, right?" Barbieri astutely asked. Indeed he does, and that three-quartering of Leary moves Barbieri up to about 260,000.
Kerry Stead raised preflop, and Konstantin Puchov made it three bets from the small blind. Stead moved all in for 21,000 total, and the cards were turned up:
Stead:
Puchov:
There was a queen for both players on the flop, but the board of changed nothing and gave no help to the at-risk Stead. After doubling up early, he's been reduced back down to zero, and his day is done in 23rd place.
Johannes Steindl raised from the hijack seat, and Kerry Stead three-bet him from the small blind.
The two men took a flop of , and Steindl called a small bet. He called another full bet on the turn, and Stead checked to him on the river. Steindl quickly bet, sending his opponent into the tank. Stead was getting short on chips by this point, and he spent about two minutes deliberating before sliding the calling chips into the pot.
Steindl tabled for second pair, and it was the best hand. Stead mucked his cards, leaving himself with just 21,000 chips.
Many players like to "double dip" at the WSOP -- register for and play two tournaments simultaneously. They'll let one stack be blinded off while they play the other, then run back and forth. Normally that's not a problem. But today the 5pm tournament is $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em, and heads-up is not a game that you can let yourself be blinded off. The floor here at the H.O.R.S.E. re-start has informed the players that they have until 4:45pm to un-register from the Heads-Up tournament, and that he can un-register them with their seat card and their Total Rewards card. Their buy-in will be held in safekeeping at the cage.
This situation affects at least two of our re-starters today: Robert Mizrachi and Ken Lennaard.
Kerry Stead got all the chips into the pot. We're not sure when they got in, but Steads made two pair against Robert Mizrachi on a board of . Mirachi had to pay off a double-up to Stead as he starts the long climb.
Jon Turner drew the big blind to start the day, and it's apparently a familiar sight for him. "Three days in a row I get the big blind on the first hand?" he asked rhetorically.
Before the dealer had finished pitching the cards, Turner said, "Good luck. I'm all in," adding, "I have seventeen total, FYI."
Ken Lennaard raised preflop and called Turner's shove, and the cards were on their backs:
Turner:
Lennaard:
The board did nothing to help Turner's cause, running out . "Weeee, that was fun. Good draw," Turner said, sliding his chair back under the table and heading out as the first casualty of Day 3.
When we ended the night yesterday, play had just collapsed to three eight-handed tables. This is how the players re-drew for seats:
Table 344
Seat 1: Johannes Steindl
Seat 2: David Brooker
Seat 3: Robert Mizrachi
Seat 4: Kerry Stead
Seat 5: James Van Alstyne
Seat 6: Konstantin Puchkov
Seat 7: Danny Kalpakis
Seat 8: Mark Zuffi
Table 345
Seat 1: Daniel Ospina
Seat 2: Jon Turner
Seat 3: Ming Reslock
Seat 4: Allen Kessler
Seat 5: Ken Lennaard
Seat 6: Thomas Hunt
Seat 7: Dustin Leary
Seat 8: Al Barbieri
Table 350
Seat 1: Andrew Revesz
Seat 2: Regis Burlot
Seat 3: James Darnaby
Seat 4: Hani Awad
Seat 5: Chip Jett
Seat 6: Kyung Han
Seat 7: Cliff Josephy
Seat 8: Blake Cahail