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WSOPE 2011 Event 4 Day 3, Event 5 Day 2 and Event 6 day 1

WSOPE Event 4, €3,200 No Limit Texas Holdem Shootout

Day 3 of WSOPE Event 4, €3,200 No Limit Texas Holdem Shootout, began at 15:00 CET, when 10 players came back to the final table. It took 90 for the first casualty of the day to emerge.  John Armbrust hit the rail after he got short stacked following failed bluff against Max Silver, than a few hands later his pocket sixes failed to stand against Ad, 7c of Taylor Paur.

It took another 90 minutes of play before the next player headed through the door. This time is was James Dempsey whose pocket rights ran into Bertrand Grospellier’s pocket nines.  30 minutes later it was Emil Patel who was on the way to the cashier for his seventh place cash out, he was soon followed by Steve O’Dwyer.

With five players left at the table Tristan Wade, who took it easy up to this point, stepped up a gear and showed his opponents a lesson of controlled super aggressive play. He was the first player to step over one million chips mark and all the spectators at the rail enjoyed truly fascinating action. Grospellier was the next to go in the fifth place, he was eliminated by Michael Watson. Wastson carried on his assault and busted out Max Silver in the fourth place. In the mean while Wade sent Richard Toth home and the heads-up between the USA and Canada was set.

Although Wade began heads-up slightly lower in chips than Watson, he did not seem to be intimidated and brilliantly managed to pick up weak spots in his opponent’s defense, grinding down Watson’s chip stack at every opportunity. Although Watson managed to double up when his K, T outran Wade’s pocket jacks, just a couple hands later he pushed all in with Ah, 5h to see Wade with another pair of pocket jacks. The board of Qs, Qd, 4h, 19c, 2h did nothing to help Watson and awarded Wade with the bracelet and the top prize.

Final Table Results

WSOPE Event 5, €10,300 Split Format No Limit Texas Holdem

72 players came back for day2 of the WSOPE Event 5, €10,300 Split Format No Limit Texas Holdem. Day 2 was set in the Six Max format. Although Dennis Bejedal started the day in the chip lead but did not manage to carry it on and busted out in the middle of the day. At the end of the action it was Brian Powel who emerged as the new leader with massive stack of 484,000 chips.

Most of the field was made of poker superstars and a few big names were among the early victims. Len Lamb, 2011 WSOP November Niner, started the day with just 8,100 chips and built his stack up to 25,000, however his pocket kings came across Joseph Elpayaa’s pair of pocket aces and Lamb was sent packing. Matt Giannetti, Lamb’s opponent in November, did not go much further and was eliminated when his pocket tens met his opponent’s A, 4.

Phil Hellmuth was another casualty of the day when his Ac, 9c failed to stand against Davidi Kitai’s pocket eights. He was soom followed by Jonathan Duhamel, Carlos Mortenses, Viktor Blom, Tom Dwan, Mike McDonald and Will Failla.

At the end of the day with 17 player in the game hand-for-hand play was announce, which lasted over two hours before the final victim of the day was set when Jon Aguiar pushed all in on a ten high flop. However his over pair ran into pocket aces of Kent Lundmark. The ramaining 16 players are now in the money and will begin the heads-up day of the tourney on Friday at 15:00 CET.

WSOPE Event6, €1,090 Pot Limit Omaha Six Max

339 players registered for WSOPE Event6, €1,090 Pot Limit Omaha Six Max, and by the end of the day the field was cut down to just 35. Eliminations on the Day 1 were happening with lightning speed and the spectators were awarded with fascinating, fast action and plenty of all-in shoves. The total prize pool for this event was set for €498,330.

Chad Brown and Jack Ellwood took the chip lead during the early stages of the game. Ellwood earned a lot of ships after he sent Daniel Negreanu and Sam Trickett to the rail during the early levels. In the middle of the day Roberto Romanello took the lead and managed to maintain it for many levels until he was finally taken over by Nicolas Fierro.

By the end of the day Nicolas Fierro, from Chile, emerged in the chip lead with 131,700 chips. Feirro had a successful year in the WSOP this summer when he came third in the  $5,000 Shoutout with $198,096 payout and 34^th in the Main Event with $242,636 prize.

With action so fast the money bubble was burst on the day and now all remaining players will be leaving with a minimum of €2,616 payout. Well-known players who will be returning for Day 2 include Tommy Vedes, Steve Billirakis, Victor Ramdin, Roberto Romanello and Carlos Mortensen.