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Hand #15: Connor Drinan raised to 45,000 on the button and Ryan D'Angelo three-bet all in for 434,000 from the small blind. After Vasile Buboi folded his big blind, Drinan called.
Drinan: 
D'Angelo: 
The board ran out 
, ending D'Angelo's run in sixth place.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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Eliminado | |
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Hand #46: Connor Drinan raised to 54,000 on the button and Vasile Buboi shoved from the small blind for roughly 750,000. Drinan called.
Drinan: 
Buboi 
The board ran out 
, failing to improve Buboi and giving Drinan the pot.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
2,238,000
798,000
|
798,000 |
|
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|
Eliminado | |
Hand #94: Drinan open-shoved from the small blind to put Lee Markholt at risk if he elected to call, and he put his last 635,000 into the middle after a brief pause.
Showdown:
Drinan: 
Markholt: 
The all in Markholt was ahead with his ace high, and the final board ran out 
to give him a straight, and a much needed double.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,625,000
-640,000
|
-640,000 |
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1,290,000
650,000
|
650,000 |
Hand #150: Markholt raised to 100,000 from the button, and Little quickly shoved all in for roughly 935,000. Lindgren immediately moved all in over the top, with his big stack, and Markholt got out of the way for the two to battle it out.
Showdown:
Little:
Lindgren: 
Lindgren woke up with a monster in a three-handed game, and his pair put him way out in front of Little's ace-high hand. With the crowd roaring on both sides of the Mothership stage, each half rooting for their horse, the dealer burned and turned.
Flop: 
Little found a pair on the flop, but he still needed help on the subsequent streets. The 
on the turn gave Little additional outs to the wheel straight, but the was a brick, and he headed for the payout desk in 3rd place.
Hand #220: Lindgren limped in on the button, Markholt checked his option, and the flop came 
. Markholt led out for 110,000, but Lindgren cut out a raise to 275,000.
With his head now unshielded from the hoodie that had been protecting him all tournament, Markholt suddenly announced himself all in for his last 915,000.
Lindgren snap-called and stood to table his 
, while his wife Erica and the rest of the rail exploded in celebration, their man having flopped top set with pocket rockets.
A shell shocked Markholt could only shake his head and turn over the for bottom two pair, and while that hand would be a monster in any other spot, it was absolutely crushed here.
Drawing only to running quad cards, Markholt was already shaking hands with Lindgren when the 
fell on the turn, and the 
on the river simply made things official.
Markholt fell just short of his first WSOP bracelet, but his runner-up finish netted $374,960 for his 15th WSOP cash.
Erick Lindgren was arguably the best poker player in the world in 2008. He had just won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet, cashed five times, made three final tables, and earned more than $1.3 million. Since then, Lindgren cashed only 12 times over the next four years at the WSOP. While his personal troubles have been well documented around the poker world in the last year or so, Lindgren is on the rebound both personally (In addition to getting married in 2011 to fellow poker pro Erica Schoenberg, the couple had a son later that year) and professionally. Entering Event #32, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six-Handed), Lindgren already had four cashes in the 2013 WSOP. After his dominating performance today, Lindgren earned his second gold bracelet.
Day 3 began with 14 players remaining from the starting field of 516. Lindgren began the day seventh in chips and doubled up immediately through Jonathan Little. From there, Lindgren was relentless and when the final table of six was reached, he was on top of the chip counts.
Ryan D'Angelo exited in sixth place and he was followed to the payout desk by Vasile Buboi, who departed in fifth place. Both were eliminated by Connor Drinan, but after he doubled up Lee Markholt for a second time, Drinan was sent to the rail in fourth place.
Jonathan Little was eliminated by Lindgren in third place, setting up a heads-up duel between Lindgren and Markholt. Though he began with almost a 4-to-1 chip lead, Markholt battled back. Over the course of the 70-hand heads-up battle, Lindgren surrendered the chip lead briefly on a few occasions. However, he battled back and sealed the deal with none other than pocket aces on the final hand.
This marks Lindgren's second six-figure score in the last month, having finished second place at the WPT Championship in May for $650,275. If there were any doubts whether Lindgren was back as one of poker's most elite then, there certainly aren't now. Congratulations to Erick Lindgren on his second WSOP gold bracelet win, and thank you for following our hand-for-hand coverage and until next time, good night from Las Vegas!
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Erick Lindgren | $606,317 |
| 2nd | Lee Markholt | $374,960 |
| 3rd | Jonathan Little | $238,833 |
| 4th | Connor Drinan | $157,274 |
| 5th | Vasile Buboi | $106,830 |
| 6th | Ryan D'Angelo | $74,768 |
