Rellie Sigua raised to 890,000 under the gun, leaving only 10,000 behind. Action folded to Charles Honkonen on the button, who raised to 1,600,000. Sigua tossed in his final two red 5,000-denomination chips, and the cards were turned over.
Rellie Sigua: A♠K♥
Charles Honkonen: A♣A♦
Honkonen's cooler held up through the K♦2♠J♥10♠5♠ board, and Sigua went to the payout window after an impressive 20th-place finish.
The final board ranout 4♣2♠J♥9♦8♠ in an all-in hand between Peter Yang and Oshri Lahmani.
Peter Yang: A♦J♠10♠5♠
Oshri Lahmani: A♥A♣Q♥6♥
Yang would flop top pair but still be behind the aces of Lahmani and would stay that way on the 9♦ turn and the 8♠ river, sending Yang to the payout desk.
Israel's Eran Carmi leads the final 28 players heading into Day 3 of the 2023 World Series of Poker Event #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
The 28 finalists are all that remain of a record-smashing field that saw 2,076 players, up from 1,234 players in 2022’s contest. That field created a total prize pool of $2,771,460, with each of the returning players guaranteed a payday of at least $13,936. A winner will be crowned later this evening and will take home $410,659 and the coveted gold bracelet for their efforts.
Day 3 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Eran Carmi
Israel
4,255,000
70
2
Charles Honkonen
United States
4,160,000
69
3
Bart Lybaert
Belgium
4,050,000
67
4
Guofeng Wang
China
3,960,000
66
5
Upeshka De Silva
United States
3,165,000
52
6
Robert Mizrachi
United States
3,100,000
51
7
Eric Pfenning
United States
2,760,000
46
8
Mohammad Siddiqui
United States
2,585,000
43
9
William Nguyen
United States
2,530,000
42
10
Matthew Bretzfield
United States
2,400,000
40
Carmi, a WSOP circuit ring winner, comes into the final day having bagged 4,255,000 in chips, with Charles Honkonen right behind with 4,160,000.
The final player to bag over 4-million and rounding out the top three is Belgium’s Bart Lybaert, who finished the day with 4,050,000. Lybaert has over $3.5 million in career cashes and will be looking to add a WSOP bracelet to his resume.
Bracelet winners Robert Mizrachi (3,100,000) and Upeshka De Silva (3,165,000) also bagged top ten stacks and will be hoping to add to their hardware as well.
Players looking to spin it up today include the ever-polarizing Martin Kabrhel (1,070,000), who had a very swingy day and by far the most clock calls, as well as bracelet winners William Leffingwell (1,075,000) and Shai Zurr (1,275,000).
With the money bubble breaking at the end of Day 1, the bust outs in the first part of Day 2 were fast and furious, seeing the likes of Patrick “Barny Boatman” Leonard, the actual Barny Boatman, Shaun Deeb, and Jared Jaffee all hitting the payout desk.
Patrick Leonard
Players return to the event center Gold section at 1 p.m. local time today and will play down to a winner, so as always, keep it tuned to PokerNews for live coverage of this championship event.
