Zohair Karim raised it up to 22,000 in middle position, and it folded around to Giang Hoang in the small blind. He moved all in for his last 90,000, and Jeff Tims committed the rest of his minute stack in the big blind. Karim toss the call in, and said, "I need a suckout!"
Karim:
Hoang:
Tims:
Karim was surprised to see that he was actually ahead, and the flop hit Karim, coming . Hoang was drawing to runner runner, while Tims could still pair one of his cards to win, but the turn was the , and the river the .
The double elimination got us to our final 18,while Karim is our chip leader with 1.3 million.
Joel Seewald had quite the run in this event and it started before the cards were even in the air. Seewald was a winner of free seat to this event from WSOP.com. On his way to his 21st place finish, Seewald knocked out former Main Event Champion, Jonathan Duhamel. All Seewald, a Las Vegas resident, had to do to win his seat was sign up for a free account with the site.
Seewald was short-stacked most of the day yesterday and came into the day with just eight big blinds. He played the short stack well and got it in good against Phillip Vert. The action started when Vert raised to 20,000 from under the gun and was called by Jason Mercier on the button. Seewald moved all in from the small blind and was followed by an all in from Vert. This prompted Mercier to fold and the hands were tabled.
Seewald:
Vert:
Seewald went to the flop ahead and looking for the double up. The flop was good to him as was the river. The river, however, would end Seewald's magical run and send him home $17, 910 richer.
Eight minutes into play and the first elimination of the day occurred when Marco Johnson moved all in from the button for his final 124,000 and was called by Evan Schwartz in the big blind.
Johnson:
Schwartz:
The board ran out and Johnson was eliminated in 22nd place.
Welcome to Day 3 of Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Today is the day a champion will be crowned, earning $592,684 and a gold bracelet for his efforts. Before that happens though, there is still plenty of play left for the 22 remaining players.
Niall Farrell (792,000) will be the chip leader to start the day and is followed closely by Michael Rocco (780,000). Both of them maintained their big stacks and used them to their advantage for most of Day 2. While Farrell and Rocco might have the big stacks, all eyes are on Jason Mercier (566,000) who is sitting on an above average stack and looking for his first final table of the summer.
Play will resume at 1 p.m. local time in the Amazon Room. As always, keep it here on PokerNews for continuing live coverage from the tournament floor including hand-for-hand coverage of the final table.
While you are waiting for the action to begin, get caught up on all the news with Lynn Gilmartin, who has your June 26th update. We will meet you back here in a bit.
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