WSOP Day 3: "Official" News, Results, and Discussion

[judgesmails]

Blinds 1200/2400, antes 300.

I am in BB in seat 5. Tim opens pot for 9K from seat 8 and it is folded to me. I re-raised to 40K with AKo. Tim and I played a lot of pots already and I really thought this raise would be enough to get him to lay down a hand like AQ or a small pair. He re-raised me most of my stack. I was pretty sure I was ahead and I pushed the rest of my money (not much after the raise) in and he called.

[ohkanada]

pokerwire reporting greg has 850k!

[SossMan]

1 Greg Raymer $ 850,000
2 Rodney Purdey $ 706,000
3 Tim Phan $ 675,000
4 James Pollack $ 572,000
5 Phil Ivey $ 550,000
6 Minh Ly $ 500,000
7 Yakov Hirsch $ 445,000
8 Chris Ethier $ 440,000
9 Michael Mizrachi $ 440,000
10 Hung La $ 430,000
11 Mike Matusow $ 430,000
12 Tiffany Williamson $ 420,000
13 Farzad Bonyadi $ 400,000
14 John Lane $ 395,000
15 Russell Salzer $ 390,000
16 Bob Hutch $ 378,000
17 James Lester $ 300,000
18 CK Hua $ 290,000
19 David Plastik $ 280,000
20 James Butt $ 270,000
21 Layne Flack $ 260,000
22 Marcello Del Grosso $ 255,000
23 J.C. Tran $ 250,000
24 Russ Hamilton $ 250,000
25 Robert Turner $ 250,000
26 Dustin Woolf $ 240,000
27 Kenna James $ 240,000
28 Mark Tenner $ 220,000
29 Daniel Shak $ 210,000
30 Howard Lederer $ 200,000
31 Olga Varkonyi $ 200,000
32 Dutch Boyd $ 200,000
33 Babak Razi $ 200,000
34 Paul Darden $ 180,000
35 Nick Cassavettes $ 180,000
36 John Juanda $ 160,000
37 Joe Beevers $ 140,000
38 Peter Tran $ 133,000
39 Mike Wattel $ 130,000
40 Mark Napolitano $ 130,000
41 Rene Wexler $ 125,000
42 Jim Meehan $ 104,000
43 Mike May $ 80,000
44 Paul McKinney $ 80,000
45 Gary Bush $ 70,000
46 Leo Alvarez $ 70,000
47 Glyn 'Ratchet' Banks $ 65,000
48 Louie Calvo $ 63,000
49 Mike O'Malley $ 46,000
50 Pat Poels $ 42,500
51 Lee Watkinson $ 40,000


Greg captures the lead!!

[Cubswin]

Amazing!!!

Keep it up fossilman!!!

[Clarkmeister]

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Greg captures the lead!!

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That rules.

[SmileyEH]

Fossilman = baller.

-SmileyEH

[SoftcoreRevolt]

Almost as amazing is the comeback Ivey's made. Or maybe not that amazing since he's THAT good that it was almost expected.

[fnurt]

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What's your problem with the play?

That somebody called $35,000 pre-flop? Or that somebody pushed in with AQ on a 9,6,3 flop?

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My first reaction is that calling a raise and reraise with 3-3 is a little crazy, but like you, I suspect that's not where he was going with the post.

Sure, once you hit a set, your opponent sure is dumb for going all-in, haw haw! But if he doesn't flop a set, I wonder if he's willing to call an all-in with that unimproved pair of 3s. And wait, if he's not, that would make the push with AQ a lot better, wouldn't it...

Funny game, this poker.

[PITTM]

pardey just broke a million according to gutshot.

rj

[John Hurst]

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4 players limp in, including Dutch Boyd and Bob Hotchendani, and the flop comes J-5-3. Boyd bets out and gets two callers, including Hotchendani. The turn is a 6. Boyd bets $30,000. Hotchendani is the only caller. The river is also a 6, and Boyd bets out another $50,000. Hotchendani calls, and shows 6-4. Boyd mucks his hand

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I played with Bob Hotchendani on Day 1c. He was on the biggest heater I have ever seen. Arnold Spee and the rest of the table was just laughing and shaking our heads. His M.O. is call a raise before the flop, hit the nuts, call down. I saw him not raise with nearly unbeatable hands several times. I'm not at all surprised he didn't raise on the river with trip 6's.