Day 3 of $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed Begins at 2 p.m.
Day 3 of Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed begins at 2 p.m. today, with the final 24 players coming back for the restart. Today��s action resumes at Level 21, with the blinds at 8000/16000. The plan is to play down to the final six, with the field playing 60-minute levels. Players will get a 15-minute break after every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 26.
John Richards starts the day as the chip leader by a comfortable margin. Richards ended Day 2 with 1,949,000 chips in the bag, more than 700,000 chips ahead of the next-closest competitor. Abraham Faroni is second in chips with 1,226,000, followed by Michael Kuney at 1,123,000. All three of these players are chasing their first career WSOP bracelet.
The field also contains a few players who already own a bracelet, including Juha Helppi (1,085,000), Joseph Cheong (1,039,000), two-time bracelet winner Brandon Shack-Harris (902,000), Joao Vieria (510,000) and Noah Schwartz (305,000).
This event is down to the final four tables from the original field of 835, with the average stack at 695,833 to start the day. All players remaining will at least take home $15,848, will the first-place prize of $448,392 and the championship bracelet as the ultimate goal.
Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed is the final Omaha-only event on the schedule as the 2019 WSOP winds down to its end.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team as this event reaches the final table today.