Welcome to PokerNews' Day 3 coverage of Event #18: $10,000 Seven-Card Razz Championship,
A total of 112 players participated in the largest buy-in for a Razz tournament in poker history and after two days and 15 levels, only 12 remain. First place is set at $294,792 and leading the way into Day 3 is David Bach with 565,000.
After a fourth-place finish in the $1,500 buy-in Razz event last week and a runner-up showing in last year's $2,500 Razz affair, Bach is looking to finally capture that elusive Razz victory and his second World Series of Poker bracelet. Second in chips is Event 3 winner Brandon Shack-Harris with 369,000 and he is followed by none other than Daniel Negreanu with 340,000. Negreanu is looking for redemption after his runner-up showing in Event 13 just days ago. The remaining field is also flush with poker skill, making this anyone's game.
Here is the Day 3 seating:
Table
Seat
Name
Chip Count
450
1
--empty--
--
450
2
Todd Barlow
261,000
450
3
Brian Hastings
194,000
450
4
Dan O'Brien
337,000
450
5
Thomas Butzhammer
171,000
450
6
Naoya Kihara
179,000
450
7
--empty--
--
450
8
David Bach
565,000
446
1
Todd Dakake
317,000
446
2
--empty--
--
446
3
Yuval Bronshtein
221,000
446
4
Daniel Negreanu
340,000
446
5
George Danzer
286,000
446
6
--empty--
--
446
7
Brandon Shack-Harris
369,000
446
8
Roland Israelashvili
121,000
Play is scheduled to resume at 2 p.m. and will most likely play down to a winner, so be sure to keep it here to see who captures the gold bracelet!
Thomas Butzhammer completed and Naoya Kihara raised. David Bach called, as did Butzhammer before Kihara led fourth. Bach called, Butzhammer raised and both Kihara and Bach called.
Kihara bet fifth, all three players called, and on sixth Bach bet out 24,000 only to have Butzhammer raise all in for 27,000. Kihara re-raised to 48,000 before Bach put him all in for his last 62,000.
Butzhammer: /
Kihara: /
Bach: /
With Kihara in the lead, he drew the as Bach found the and Butzhammer found the to be eliminated in 12th place for a $24,572 payday.
Roland Israelashvili completed and Yuval Bronshtein raised. Israelashvili called and then found himself all in for his last 12,000 on fourth street as both player's board ran out as follows:
Israelashvili: / /
Bronshtein: / /
With Israelashvili's jack-ten low no good against Bronshtein's nine-eight, Israelashvili headed to the rail in 11th place for a $24,572 payday.
Brandon Shack-Harris had the bring-in and Daniel Negreanu completed with Shack-Harris calling. Shack-Harris bet fourth with Negreanu calling before he called all-in for his last 11,000 on sixth street.
Shack-Harris: /
Negreanu: /
With Shack-Harris having a made king-ten, he improved with the as Negreanu improved with the . On seventh, Shack-Harris found just the , and with Negreanu needing any nine, seven, six, three or ace, he could only pair up with the to be eliminated in 10th place.
Dan O'Brien completed to 20,000 and Yuval Bronshtein called before Todd Dakake raised and O'Brien called all-in for his last 40,000. Bronshtein called also before folding on fourth as both player's board ran out as following:
O'Brien: /
Bronshtein: (X-X) / (folded on fourth)
Dakake: /
With O'Brien drawing to a king-low, he found the on the river, but it would be Dakake's on the river that would give him a nine-eight low to send O'Brien to the rail.
Todd Dakake completed and David Bach called before he check-called fourth and fifth street. On sixth, Dakake bet and Bach called before Dakake bet the river dark.
Dakake: (X-X) / / (X)
Bach: (X-X) / / (X)
Bach made the call, but when Dakake tabled his / , he scooped the pot to move to nearly 600,000 in chips.
David Bach completed and Brandon Shack-Harris raised. Bach committed his final few chips and Shack-Harris made the call as both player's board ran out as follows:
Bach: / /
Shack-Harris: / /
With Bach's nine-six unable to best Shack-Harris' seven-five, Bach's quest for a Razz title from three consecutive final tables has come to an end as he heads to the rail in 8th place for a $34,500 payday.
Brandon Shack-Harris completed and both George Danzer and Naoya Kihara called. Three bets were exchanged on fourth before Kihara bet fifth and only Shack-Harris called. Sixth street saw Kihara commit his final 45,000 with Shack-Harris calling.
Shack-Harris: /
Danzer: (X-X) / (folded on fifth)
Kihara: /
On seventh Shack-Harris received the to improve to a seven-six-four as Kihara and his seven-six-five saw him hit the rail in 7th place for $41,806.
Todd Dakake completed and George Danzer called before Brian Hastings raised. Dakake responded by re-raising as Danzer called and Hasting capped it at 120,000 and both players called. On fourth street, Danzer bet 30,000 and Hastings called before Dakake moved all in for 40,000. Both players called before a bet on sixth from Danzer forced Hastings cards into the muck.
Dakake: /
Danzer: /
Hastings: (X-X) / (folded on fifth)
Dakake then caught the as Danzer improved with the to leave Dakake drawing dead. Danzer found the on seventh and Dakake mucked his final card as he headed to the payout booth to collect his $51,481 in prizemoney for his 6th place finish.
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as Bach found the 
and Butzhammer found the 
to be eliminated in 12th place for a $24,572 payday.
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to be eliminated in 10th place.
on the river, but it would be Dakake's 
on the river that would give him a nine-eight low to send O'Brien to the rail.
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as Danzer improved with the 