Alo. Now continuing the coverage on event #3, $1.500 Pot Limit Hold'em. Yesterday they ended the day with 63 players left, that means all of them were in the money already.
Let's start the post with a side story then. Brandon Schaefer (finished ITM in this year's EPT grand final) was envolved in a raise war with Michael Katz. Before folding, Katz joked and asked if Schaefer would show his hands for $1000, and then proceeded to fold his hand. When he folded, Schaefer asked if he could still have the money if he showed the hand. Katz laughed and said he was joking. Then Brandon Schaefer "what about $200 then" -> "sure, okay", Schaefer then showed his AK and got himself $200 haha.
One of the weird eliminations of the day happened to BPO final tablist Eugene Todd. He held a top set of nines on a rainbow flop. His opponent, Al Barbieri (more about him later), called both his flop and turn bets with nothing. The man just hit a nutflush on the river, after a sick runner-runner, eliminating Eugene Todd with that hand. Other favourite who was out soon is Tom McEvoy. He lost AK vs AJ when a J hit the flop. No changes in the board after that, and McEvoy was out after struggling a lot during day 2. Weird story with him too. Before his REAL elimination, his name just disappeared of the results like if he was eliminated. The live reporters said he was out. Then all out of a sudden he re-appeared with a small stack, just to be eliminated one hour later.
When there were 10 players left in the tournament (1 to go to the final table), it was break time. Everyone wanted to continue playing until the last elimination, except for..... David Singer. People and the director of the tournament wanted to apply a "majority" rule, but Singer said such a rule didn't exist. Anoter authority went to solve the problem: there will be break. I bet the other players didn't like much, buuut... they got a 1 hour break for eating.
When they got back to play, David Singer left his ID at the press table. He says it's bad luck to carry the ID to the "final" table (there was still 10, so no final table yet).
Well, he didn't even need much luck, as he wasn't envolved in the final hand of the day. That was Al Barbieri (who took Eugene Todd out with the runner runner flush) burst Ryan Fair's hopes when his AQ met a QQT flop. Fair held JJ, so he was eliminated at 10th for $12,165.
Now the final table is done. The table has two players who won more than a million in a single tournament: Joe Tehan and David Singer.
 
Check out the final tablists:
Joe Tehan - 458,000
Jacobo Fernandez - 428,000
Robert Lipkin - 305,000
Al Barbieri - 271,000
Russell Harriman - 206,000
Gregory Alston - 179,000
Zachary King - 139,000
David Singer - 83,000
Glen Bean - 75,000
Final table is gonna be played today at 2pm Vegas time.
By: Raidern
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