Eight Left in the COLOSSUS with Kapalas in the Chip Lead; Barber and Depaulo Also Through

Shirley Ang

Level 42 : 1,000,000/2,000,000, 2,000,000 ante

Day 3 of Event #61: COLOSSUS - $400 No-Limit Hold��em has come to a quick end after just nine and a half levels of play. The day started with 107 players returning out of a field of 13,109 players and only seven of them are now left to play for that first-place prize of $451,272 and the coveted gold WSOP bracelet. Georgios Kapalas is leading this colossal tournament with 105,700,000 in chips.

Also through to the final day are Andrew Barber (89,300,000) who already has one bracelet and Maksim Kalman (85,500,000), Ryan Depaulo (72,400,000), Juan Lopez (56,500,000), Sejin Park (48,400,000), Norson Saho (47,900,000), and Patrick Miller with 18,500,000 in chips. They will all be trying to win their first ever bracelet in the 50th Annual World Series of Poker.

Seat Assignments for the Final Day

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Georgios Kapalas	Greece	105,700,000	53
2	Andrew Barber	United States	89,300,000	45
3	Maksim Kalman	United States	85,500,000	43
4	Norson Saho	Brazil	47,900,000	24
5	Patrick Miller	United States	18,500,000	9
6	Ryan Depaulo	United States	72,400,000	36
7	Juan Lopez	United States	56,500,000	28
8	Sejin Park	South Korea	48,400,000	24

Today��s Action

The eliminations were coming in in abundance from all corners of the Miranda Room here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Players like Georgios Sotiropoulos, Daniel Dizenzo, Andrew Teng, Tom McEvoy, Aurelie Reard, Kunal Patni, Dong Chen, Jeremy Ausmus, and Chen An Lin were all eliminated before the final three tables were being redrawn.

It then took less than an hour before the final eighteen players were known and redrawn again for the final two tables. Ian Steinman called Barber��s shove for his last nine million with pocket eights. Barber held the ducks and found another one on the turn to eliminate Steinman. Barber also took out Oswin Ziegelbecker in fifteenth place when Barber called the four-bet shove of Ziegelbecker with pocket kings. Ziegelbecker held ace-king and got no help of the board.

Andrew Barber finished second in the chip counts with 89,300,000

If you thought things were going fast already, the slew of eliminations kept going as the final eight players were reached 50 minutes later, even with a 15-minute break in between. Brazil��s Diego Lima fell in ninth place for $41,965 when he shoved with king-jack. Unfortunately for him, Depaulo held pocket kings and held throughout the board to bring only eight players to the final table instead of nine.

The eight remaining players played six hands before it was decided that they would bag up their chips for the final day on Sunday, June 30, to play down to a winner from noon local time with 19 minutes left in Level 42 which features a small blind of 1,000,000, big blind of 2,000,000, and a big blind ante of 2,000,000. They are also all guaranteed to cash for at least $53,925 when they return to the feature table to battle it out.

The final table will be streamed on CBS All Access from 1 p.m. local time with the hole cards exposed. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be providing hand-for-hand coverage until the final cards have been dealt, so make sure to return.

Final Table Payouts