Hand #1: Norson Saho pushed from the button and received no caller.
Hand #2: Ryan Depaulo limped the small blind and Juan Lopez checked in the big blind. The flop brought and Depaulo bet 2,500,000, which Lopez called. On the turn, a second barrel for 4,500,000 by Depaulo followed and Lopez came along to see the river go check, check.
Depaulo turned over and Lopez had that beat with the .
Hand #3: A walk for Sejin Park.
Hand #4: Andrew Barber min-raised to 4,000,000 first to act and Georgios Kapalas called in the big blind. On the flop, Kapalas checked and folded to a bet of 3,500,000 by Barber.
Hand #5: Depaulo raised to 4,000,000 from the hijack and scooped the blinds and big blind ante.
Hand #6: Action folded around to Barber in the small blind, he completed and Maksim Kalman raised to 5,000,000. They both checked through the flop of to see the on the turn, on which Barber check-folded to Kalman's bet of 4,000,000.
After six hands, tournament staff informed the players that they will bag and tag for today, as the final table resumes tomorrow at noon local time with 19 minutes left in the level. The chip counts can be found below, a recap of today's action is to follow.
Day 3 of Event #61: COLOSSUS - $400 No-Limit Hold’em has come to a quick end after just nine and a half levels of play. The day started with 107 players returning out of a field of 13,109 players and only seven of them are now left to play for that first-place prize of $451,272 and the coveted gold WSOP bracelet. Georgios Kapalas is leading this colossal tournament with 105,700,000 in chips.
Also through to the final day are Andrew Barber (89,300,000) who already has one bracelet and Maksim Kalman (85,500,000), Ryan Depaulo (72,400,000), Juan Lopez (56,500,000), Sejin Park (48,400,000), Norson Saho (47,900,000), and Patrick Miller with 18,500,000 in chips. They will all be trying to win their first ever bracelet in the 50th Annual World Series of Poker.
Seat Assignments for the Final Day
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Georgios Kapalas
Greece
105,700,000
53
2
Andrew Barber
United States
89,300,000
45
3
Maksim Kalman
United States
85,500,000
43
4
Norson Saho
Brazil
47,900,000
24
5
Patrick Miller
United States
18,500,000
9
6
Ryan Depaulo
United States
72,400,000
36
7
Juan Lopez
United States
56,500,000
28
8
Sejin Park
South Korea
48,400,000
24
Today’s Action
The eliminations were coming in in abundance from all corners of the Miranda Room here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Players like Georgios Sotiropoulos, Daniel Dizenzo, Andrew Teng, Tom McEvoy, Aurelie Reard, Kunal Patni, Dong Chen, Jeremy Ausmus, and Chen An Lin were all eliminated before the final three tables were being redrawn.
It then took less than an hour before the final eighteen players were known and redrawn again for the final two tables. Ian Steinman called Barber’s shove for his last nine million with pocket eights. Barber held the ducks and found another one on the turn to eliminate Steinman. Barber also took out Oswin Ziegelbecker in fifteenth place when Barber called the four-bet shove of Ziegelbecker with pocket kings. Ziegelbecker held ace-king and got no help of the board.
Andrew Barber finished second in the chip counts with 89,300,000
If you thought things were going fast already, the slew of eliminations kept going as the final eight players were reached 50 minutes later, even with a 15-minute break in between. Brazil’s Diego Lima fell in ninth place for $41,965 when he shoved with king-jack. Unfortunately for him, Depaulo held pocket kings and held throughout the board to bring only eight players to the final table instead of nine.
The eight remaining players played six hands before it was decided that they would bag up their chips for the final day on Sunday, June 30, to play down to a winner from noon local time with 19 minutes left in Level 42 which features a small blind of 1,000,000, big blind of 2,000,000, and a big blind ante of 2,000,000. They are also all guaranteed to cash for at least $53,925 when they return to the feature table to battle it out.
The final table will be streamed on CBS All Access from 1 p.m. local time with the hole cards exposed. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be providing hand-for-hand coverage until the final cards have been dealt, so make sure to return.
and Depaulo bet 2,500,000, which Lopez called. On the 
turn, a second barrel for 4,500,000 by Depaulo followed and Lopez came along to see the 
river go check, check.
and Lopez had that beat with the 
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flop, Kapalas checked and folded to a bet of 3,500,000 by Barber.
to see the 
on the turn, on which Barber check-folded to Kalman's bet of 4,000,000.
