Christopher Sensoli completed last to act with , and Ryan Himes defended with . It was Himes catching small cards throughout though, and he took the lead on fourth street and bet every street.
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Himes bet the end, and Sensoli looked pained.
"How many times can I have a flush draw and a massive low draw and miss?"
He said he was trying to decide whether to call 30,000 of his remaining 31,000 with ace-high. In the end, he decided to fold.
Moments later, he got his remaining chips in against Ron Ware. Ware's board ran out for nines up, and Sensoli was drawing dead on the end with just ace-high, making a useless pair of kings on his final card.
Alexandre Luneau doubled twice but his rise back to contention was halted right after that. Luneau lost a big pot to Sachin Bhargava when he completed and then called Bhargava's raise. Luneau called on the fourth street and raised on the fifth before betting on the sixth. The seventh street was checked through but Luneau couldn't beat Bhargava's aces up.
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Sachin Bhargava: / /
Luneau was short again and he lost all of his remaining chips in the very next hand when he raised after Chris Vitch had completed.
"Alright, let's get it in again," said Vitch and Luneau obliged.
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Chris Vitch: / /
Vitch received back some of earlier lost chips, raking in Luneau's remaining 47,500. Luneau left the table with the ninth-place prize, earning $10,144 for his efforts.
While one French player left the table, another arrived as Fabrice Soulier came from the other side of the feature table set up at Brasilia Room so the play would carry on with four players on each table.
Georgii Belianin was cut down to 18,000 after losing a big hand against Sachin Bhargava. Belianin moved all in with his remaining shrapnel, and Alex Luneau isolated.
Georgii Belianin:
Alex Luneau:
The board didn't bring any high card whatsoever, leaving Luneau's ace-high ahead. Belianin became today's first casualty, departing in 10th place for a $10,144 payday.
It's time to crown another bracelet winner as Day 3 of Event #21: $1,500 8-Game Mix 6-Handed is set to kick off at 2 p.m. with just 10 players in contention for a piece of gold jewelry and a $145,557 first-place prize.
Although Day 2 saw the late elimination of fan favorite Daniel Negreanu, there are still some very notable players left in this small field. For one, there's French high-stakes online cash player Alex Luneau, who has won nearly $5 million in tracked hands in his online nosebleed career. Luneau has already made a bit of noise here at the 2017 WSOP, showing off his mixed game prowess with a 15th-place finish in the $1,500 Dealer's Choice.
Chris Vitch, another noted mixed game player who took down his first bracelet in 2016 in $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball, is also among the final 10. He already booked a 10th-place finish last week in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship.
Everyone, though, is trying to catch Gregory Jamison, who finished atop the counts with 714,500. Second-place Ron Ware has 511,000, so it's a tightly bunched group overall as limits for limit games head to 12,000/24,000, while blinds will be 3,000/6,000 for big-bet games.
Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout the day to see who is crowned 8-game champ at this year's WSOP.
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