Forrest Kollar opened to 8,000 from middle position before Luke Vrabel jammed for 138,000 from the big blind. Kollar quickly called.
Luke Vrabel :
Forrest Kollar:
The flop was a safe one for the pocket jacks but the turn gave Kollar an open-ended straight draw. The river paired the board and Vrabel picked up another Day 3 double.
Scotty Nguyen has busted the main event. Details of his final hand were relayed by the table.
Nguyen opened to 9,000 from early position. Ken Le in the big blind tossed in the call.
The flop came out with a flush draw on board. Le checked to Nguyen who continued with a bet. Le went for the check-raise the flop. Nguyen and Le traded raises on the flop until all the chips were in the middle.
Scotty Nguyen:
Ken Le:
The turn and river didn't improve Nguyen who was left with no chips to be found and headed to the rail.
Benjamin Moon opened to 9,000 from early position before Tamon Nakamura made it 27,000 in the big blind. Moon paused for a moment before calling.
Nakamura, with around 80,000 behind, continued for 15,000 on the flop. Moon jammed as the big stack and Nakamura called for his tournament life.
Tamon Nakamura:
Benjamin Moon:
Nakamura looked certain for a double up as his aces remained in front on the turn. However, the hit the river to give Moon a full house. As the card hit the table, the players fell silent. Nakamura did a big exhale before collecting his things and leaving the tournament floor.
Chris Moneymaker was enjoying a table massage and opened the action with a raise, then called a three-bet to 27,000 by Javier Gomez on the button. On a flop of , Moneymaker check-raised from 22,000 to 58,000 and Gomez stuck around rather quickly.
The followed on the turn and Moneymaker bet 80,000 for Gomez to call with around 170,000 behind. Both then checked the on the river when a fourth spade appeared. Moneymaker rolled over the for a pair of deuces, which Gomez had beat holding the .
"I was going to fire again if no spade came," the 2003 WSOP Main Event champion mentioned in the table chat.
There was a big preflop all in going on as two very similar stacks were battling preflop:
Daniel Youngblood:
Eddy Sabat:
Sabat was in good position to bust his slightly covered opponent. But the flop came to suddenly make things look dire. The turn flipped the scales again as the crushed the hopes of Youngblood. The river came the and Youngblood's elimination was confirmed when the dealer counted down the stacks.
Action was picked up on a club heavy board of . It was a blind-on-blind battle as Hieu Le and Roy Kim both checked.
The river was the to further wet the board. From the big blind, Kim plopped in a bet of 45,000 into a pot of about 50,000. Le considered it for a bit before he called.
Kim tabled the and Le mucked as Kim is now well over a million.
On the side feature table Ryan Feldman moved all in for 38,000 from early position and was called by Austin Apicella on the button.
Ryan Feldman:
Austin Apicella:
The flop brought in some chop outs but Apicella remained ahead on the turn. The river completed the board and Feldman was eliminated from the WSOP Main Event.
For the third straight year, Chris Moneymaker has built up a sizable stack on Day 3 of the Main Event. The 2003 world champion is hovering around the 100 big blind level. PokerNews recorded a round of hands for the player many consider responsible for the 2000s poker boom, starting on the button.
Hand #1: An early position player raised to 11,000 and Moneymaker folded.
Hand #2: Action folded to Moneymaker, who also folded.
Hand #3: The under-the-gun player raised to 11,000 and Moneymaker again mucked his cards uneventfully.
Hand #4: Action folded to Moneymaker, and he did as well.
Hand #5: Moneymaker opened to 11,000 and received a call only from Kenny Tran in the small blind. The flop came and both players checked. They again checked the turn and river. Tran showed and Moneymaker mucked his cards face-down.
"I played that hand about as bad as I could," Moneymaker said.
Hand #6: Moneymaker followed the under the gun player by folding.
Hand #7: From under the gun, the Poker Hall of Famer folded his cards instantly.
Hand #8: The player in early position raised to 10,000 and Moneymaker was the only one to call. The flop was and Moneymaker check-folded to a bet of 8,000.
Hand #9: The player in late position raised to 11,000, enough to convince the 2003 world champ to toss his cards into the muck.
Level 11 of the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event was unkind to 888poker ambassador Sam Abernathy, who lost a brutal bad beat to exit poker's world championship event.
During the first level of Day 3, with around 110,000 in chips and the blinds at 1,000/2,500, Abernathy picked up and was poised to earn a valuable double-up, perhaps putting her in position to make a run at the money, and then potentially deeper as the tournament progressed. But her opponent, Mike Gao, also had , so a chop pot seemed inevitable.