WSOP 2008
Day 3 Complete, Late Eliminations
by Court on 04.23.08, 12:02 am
Gus Hansen ended day three strong, with a good call against Tim Phan on the very last hand of the day and a good turn card a little earlier to eliminate Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby. When all was said and done Gus walked away as the chip leader of the final 55 with 2,246,000 chips.
Jared had called an opening bet of 33k from Gus from the blinds and then Jared checked on the 4-2-2 flop. Gus put out a bet that was enough to put Hamby all in, which was a sizable chunk since Hamby started the hand with 320k. Hamby made the call with pocket eights and was in position for a huge double up against Hansen’s pocket sixes. A six on the turn was the dagger to Hamby’s tournament heart though and a somewhat heated Hamby was eliminated from the tournament.
Jared’s 59th place finish was worth the same $39,570 as all the other players that end up finishing between 51st and 100th.
Other late eliminations included Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (right) and Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach. They bookended Jared, finishing in 58th and 60th respectively though there is no difference in payout between the three.
Select Chip Counts:
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 1.9 million
Tom “durrrr” Dwan - 805k
Peter “#1Pen” Neff - 781k
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis - 432k
Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin - 423k
Joe Sebok - 137k
Full End of Day Counts:
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count | |
| 1 | Gus | Hansen | 2,246,000 |
| 2 | Cory | Carroll | 1,900,000 |
| 3 | David | Chiu | 1,231,000 |
| 4 | Martin | Deknijff | 856,000 |
| 5 | Nicholas | Binger | 829,000 |
| 6 | Tom | Dwan | 805,000 |
| 7 | Peter | Neff | 781,000 |
| 8 | Jeff | Shulman | 771,000 |
| 9 | Mark | Newhouse | 770,000 |
| 10 | Robert | Mizrachi | 701,000 |
| 11 | Vadim | Trincher | 699,000 |
| 12 | Amir | Vehedi | 696,000 |
| 13 | Steve | Wong | 662,000 |
| 14 | Nhan | Le | 605,000 |
| 15 | Michael | Gracz | 551,000 |
| 16 | David | Tran | 550,000 |
| 17 | Eric | Richards | 539,000 |
| 18 | J Onathan | Kalmar | 526,000 |
| 19 | Jared | Okun | 523,000 |
| 20 | John | Celii | 515,000 |
| 21 | Soheil | Shamseddin | 506,000 |
| 22 | Men | Nguyen | 499,000 |
| 23 | John | Hoang | 481,000 |
| 24 | James | Calderaro | 478,000 |
| 25 | Andrew | Black | 476,000 |
| 26 | Bryan | Devonshire | 465,000 |
| 27 | Karga | Holt | 448,000 |
| 28 | Scott | Epstein | 447,000 |
| 29 | Steve | Billirakis | 432,000 |
| 30 | Matthew | Vengrin | 423,000 |
| 31 | Eric | Kesselman | 364,000 |
| 32 | Kenny | Tran | 362,000 |
| 33 | David | Grey | 354,000 |
| 34 | Thomas | McCormick | 341,000 |
| 35 | Matthew | Giannetti | 326,000 |
| 36 | T J | Cloutier | 321,000 |
| 37 | JC | Tran | 303,000 |
| 38 | Gary | Gibbs | 296,000 |
| 39 | Noah | Schwartz | 270,000 |
| 40 | David | Kim | 256,000 |
| 41 | Carlos | Mortensen | 256,000 |
| 42 | Abdo | Lattouf | 246,000 |
| 43 | Keith | Gipson | 230,000 |
| 44 | Jeff | King | 226,000 |
| 45 | Mats | Rahmn | 220,000 |
| 46 | Danny | Wong | 218,000 |
| 47 | John | Kincaid | 214,000 |
| 48 | Isabel | Mercier | 207,000 |
| 49 | John | Roveto | 181,000 |
| 50 | Jayde | Tran | 179,000 |
| 51 | Joe | Sebok | 139,000 |
| 52 | Brian | Rast | 114,000 |
| 53 | Thomas | Schneider | 92,000 |
| 54 | Tim | Phan | 69,000 |
| 55 | Zvi | Shiff | 22,000 |
Money Bubble Approaches
by Court on 04.22.08, 6:21 pm
With the top 100 getting paid the money bubble is going to happen a little earlier than usual here at the WPT Championship. Tables are playing 9 handed today and there are only 14 tables left and the board reads only 126 remaining players.
Recent eliminations include Steve “Thorladen” Weinstein and David “Nutstr84444″ Redlin. Both were eliminated early on day 3 a little short of the money. With the bubble being for almost 40 grand and being reached while there are still 12 tables left it will be interesting to see how the players react.
The next 90 minutes will be played at the 3k / 6k 500 ante blind level and should bring the field close to the final 100 if not cracking that mark. Over the course of the next couple hours 100 players will end up guaranteed to take home $40,000 while another 26 will fall just short and leave with nothing.
Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (right) moved all in earlier for an additional 86k over the top of an opening raise from Tim Phan. Hamby was on the button and Phan was to his immediate left. After the chips were pulled in there was just under 40k in the pot and Phan was left with the decision for the extra 86k. Tim had over 400k behind but decided to relinquish the hand. Jared is up to around 125k after the hand.