David Martirosyan opened to 16,000, Ryan Schoonbaert called from the button and Casey Stewart came along from the big blind.
The flop was and Stewart checked. Martirosyan fired 22,000 and Schoonbaert called. Stewart announced "all in," for 72,000 and Martirosyan also pushed all in. Schoonbaert folded and it was Stewart at risk with the .
Martirosyan tabled the and Stewart said "nice hand," and patted the table before the turn card even came. Sure enough, the fell on the turn and the completed the board.
Martirosyan made his flush and continues to find all the right moves.
Former November Nine member Phil Collins has busted in a cooler of a hand here at the final table of Event #12.
Kuza Oshima raised to 24,000 from late position and two players called. Gregory Kolo called on the button and Dan Goldman called from the small blind. This put the action onto Phil Collins in the big blind and he raised to 120,000. Oshima folded but Kolo repotted, Goldman folded and Collins put in the rest of his stack.
Collins:
Kolo:
Collins looked disappointed and rightly so because his WSOP bracelet dreams look set to be dashed. His tournament life hung by the balance as the flop came into view, making Collins' position even more precarious. The turn left Collins drawing dead, rendering the river meaningless.
Game over for Collins but definitely game on for Kolo, the tournament's new chip leader.
Ten more 60-minute levels were played today in Event #12 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em and during that time the 69 returning players were reduced to only eight. Gregory Kolo leads those eight back into battle on Thursday afternoon.
The money bubble burst early on in the day and actually resulted in two players being paid because Geffrey Klein and Jacob Bazeley both busted on different tables while the tournament was in the hand-for-hand stage and therefore split the 63rd place money of $2,443.
Some of the players who reached the money places but failed to progress to Day 3 included Marvin Rettenmaier, Ryan D'Angelo, Tony Gregg, Joseph Cheong, Keven Stammen, reigning world champion Ryan Riess, David Peters, Darryll Fish, and the legendary Phil Ivey who would have been still in the tournament had Anton Smirnov not caught a lucky turn to send the nine-time bracelet winner to the rail.
Towards the end of the night, the remaining 10 layers sat down at the unofficial final table, which quickly became official when the aforementioned Smirnov crashed out.
The final nine battled it out for the best part of 90 minutes before a relative cooler sent Phil Collins home earlier than he would have wished.
A raise to 24,000 in late position by Kuza Oshima was met with calls from Gregory Kolo (button) and Dan Goldman (small blind) before Collins (big blind) raised to 120,000 from the big blind. Oshima folded, Kolo potted, Goldman folded and Collins called.
Collins turned over and was in a whole world of pain against the of Kolo. His situation got worse when the flop came down followed by the turn and river.
That left the final table with eight players and they return to the Amazon Room of the Rio at 1:00p.m. on Thursday to play for the title of champion, which comes with a $169,225 prize and a coveted gold bracelet.
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