Daniel Ospina: / fold
Brian Hastings: / /
Anthony Zinno: / /
Phil Galfond: / /
Daniel Ospina completed with an eight and Brian Hastings raised with a seven. Anthony Zinno, who also had a seven, made it three bets and Phil Galfond asked Hastings for the stack size before making the call. Ospina folded and Hastings called.
On fourth, Hastings bet with his seven-six and was called two ways before Zinno bet fifth. Galfond made the call and Hastings raised, Zinno then made it three bets and Galfond called, Hastings called all in for 10,000 less.
Zinno bet sixth and seventh to pick up a call from Galfond and tabled for a seven-six, Galfond had for a nine-six and Hastings was eliminated with for an eight-seven.
Scott Clements raised to 80,000 from under the gun and Mike Ross three-bet to 120,000 next to act. Action folded to Clements, and he four-bet and Ross called all in for 140,000.
Clements:
Ross:
The board ran out and Clements made a wheel to eliminate Ross in 11th place for a $26,170 payday.
Within two hands, the short stack of Anthony Zinno has been cut to zero to reduce the field to the final nine.
Anthony Zinno: / /
Phil Galfond: / /
Zinno completed and Phil Galfond called. Zinno bet fourth and received a call before Zinno's bet on fifth resulted in the raise of Galfond and they got the chips in. Galfond showed a pair of eights and spades flush draw while Zinno was in need of help with a pair of treys.
Galfond was the player at risk and he peeled the . Zinno hit the and saw his stack reduced to 40,000, as Galfond doubled for 320,000 total.
Zinno ended up all in the very next hand and he was called by Daniel Ospina.
Anthony Zinno: / /
Daniel Ospina: / /
Ospina was ahead with a pair of sixes until sixth and Zinno peeled the to be left drawing dead, the for Ospina was a formality.
All remaining players will now combine to one table and the action concludes when there are six of them remaining.
Marco Johnson completed and Greg Mueller raised. Johnson called, and after Mueller bet 50,000 on fourth, Johnson raised all in for his last 85,000 and Mueller called.
Johnson: / /
Mueller: / /
With Mueller making trip aces, he eliminated in Johnson in ninth-place for a $32,683 payday.
In one of the first hands after coming back from the break, Phil Galfond moved all in for 115,000 and Craig Chait called out of the big blind.
Phil Galfond:
Craig Chait:
The flop gave Chait a straight draw and he immediately got there on the turn to leave his opponent drawing dead. To pile further misery on Galfond, he even made a set on the River and bowed out in 8th place for $41,625.
The penultimate tournament day of Event #29: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship saw 20 players out of a field of 172 entries return to their seats in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, all in their pursuit to get one step closer at having a shot at the top prize of $425,347 and the coveted gold bracelet at the 50th World Series of Poker.
After yet another marathon session at the tables, it was Dario Sammartino that bagged up a commanding lead for the seven-handed showdown the following day. The Italian has 32 WSOP and WSOPE cashes for more than $3 million to his name, but the elusive bracelet has escaped from him thus far.
Dubbed as the “The Super Dario Show” by Craig Chait, the late stages of Day 3 were a masterclass of aggression and run good that vaulted Sammartino into prime position to scoop his maiden bracelet on his seventh WSOP final table appearance.
Sammartino will return with a stack of 5,030,000, nearly half of the chips in play. Chait follows in second place with 1,630,000 and they will be joined by three players that already have at least one WSOP bracelet to their name: Scott Clements (1,355,000), Greg Mueller (985,000) and Daniel Ospina (985,000).
Mikhail Semin (215,000) and Matthew Gonzales (130,000) will return to fewer than two big bets when the action resumes at blinds of 30,000/60,000 in Hold'em and limits of 60,000/120,000 in the Omaha and Stud games. Semin survived several critical all in situations in which he doubled or tripled up to get as far.
Seat Assignments for the Final Day
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Bets
1
Dario Sammartino
Italy
5,030,000
42
2
Daniel Ospina
Colombia
985,000
8
3
Matthew Gonzales
United States
130,000
1
4
Scott Clements
United States
1,355,000
11.5
5
Greg Mueller
Canada
985,000
8
6
Mikhail Semin
Russia
215,000
2
7
Craig Chait
United States
1,630,000
13.5
Action of Day 3
The cards were barely underway in the Amazon Gold section when Sampo Ryynanen was eliminated by Dario Sammartino in a Razz hand. For Justin Bonomo, the end came soon after when his rolled up queens in a Stud Hi-Lo hand saw Mike Ross go runner-runner for a set of aces to oust the three-time WSOP champion.
David Brookshire started as one of the middle stacks but nothing went his way and he bowed out much earlier than he'd hoped for. Ville Haavisto also came up short of the two table redraw and Jen Harman was eliminated in a three-way pot of former bracelet winners that all had an ace in a Hold'em hand. Harman found no help with ace-queen against the ace-king suited of Brian Hastings and had to settle for 16th place.
Nick Guagenti and Tom Koral headed to the rail within a few minutes from each other and Yehuda Buchalter's roller coaster ride ended in a Razz hand with Galfond.
What followed was an endurance challenge on short-handed tables. With increasing limits, two streets of value could take a massive toll on the stack and send former big stacks into the danger zone. Brian Hastings, who started Day 3 in the lead, was among those to get short and he bowed out in a big three-way Razz hand that sent Anthony Zinno from shorter stack to second in chips on a table dominated by Dario Sammartino.
Mike Ross saw his stack decimated and he came up short of the unofficial final table, as was Zinno after losing several pots in quick succession and doubling up a now short-stacked Galfond. The final nine combined to one table and Sammartino was in a commanding lead already, having won the vast majority of hands he entered throughout the entire day.
It was just a matter of time to see one of the short stacks succumb to the high limits. Marco Johnson lost the remainder of his stack in a Stud hand against Greg Mueller, who made a set of aces to reduce the field to the final eight. Eventually, Galfond bowed out in 8th place when he failed to hold up with pocket tens against the four-trey of Craig Chait. It was the second event of the series that Galfond entered and he reached his second final table.
The final seven will return to the main feature table at 12 p.m. local time on Friday 14th June to play down to a winner with the action streamed live on CBS All Access and PokerGO as of 1 p.m. local time. The PokerNews team will provide all the action of this mixed game highlight until a champion is crowned.