2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond

Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j3
Prize
$393,584
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,349,825
Entries
1,615
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Neff Doubles Through Steury

Aaron Steury opened for 210,000 and was met with an all-in three-bet by Dave Neff, who committed his last 815,000. The rest of the field cleared out and Steury, who had plenty of chips to spare, made the call.

Showdown
Steury: {K-Clubs}{10-Spades}
Neff: {K-Spades}{Q-Hearts}

Neff was in great shape to double, and avoided a bad beat as the board ran out {6-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{5-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}. He doubled to 1.7 million, which is well below the chip average.

Player Chips Progress
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Aaron Steury
7,800,000
-500,000
-500,000
WSOP 1X Winner
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Dave Neff
1,700,000
885,000
885,000

Tags: Dave NeffAaron Steury

A One Million Bet Sounds So Nice

Level 32 : 50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante

Aaron Steury started the action and opened for 210,000, Erik Roussakis called from the button and Bob Chow called from the big blind. The flop came {5-Spades} {2-Clubs} {Q-Spades}, Chow checked, Steury bet 230,000 and Roussakis called. Chow folded and the turn came {6-Diamonds}. Steury pushed out 370,000 and Roussakis made it a cool 1 million straight. Steury tossed his cards away and Roussakis took the pot.

Tags: Aaron SteuryErik RoussakisBob Chow

Level: 32

Blinds: 50,000/100,000

Ante: 10,000

One for Chow

Drazen Ilich raised to 180,000 from early position and was called by Joe Hebda from the small blind. Bob Chow was in the big blind and announced a raise, making it 860,000 to go. Both Ilich and Hebda released their hands and Chow added 400K to his stack without so much as a flop.

This was the most action we've seen since dinner, as raise-and-take its have been the order of the day post-dinner break.

Player Chips Progress
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Bob Chow
6,900,000
400,000
400,000
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Joe Hebda
3,245,000
-205,000
-205,000
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Drazen Ilich
2,100,000
-200,000
-200,000

Tags: Joe HebdaDrazen IlichBob Chow

Dinner Break

Level 31 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Now that we've reached the final table, the remaining nine players are on a dinner break until 7:00 p.m. CST, which is about 45 minutes from right now. In the meantime, we'll be bringing you their current chip counts.

Pre-Final Table Payouts

PositionPlayerPrize
10thAlan Murphy$32,193
11thEdward Pham$32,193
12thJonathan Job$32,193
13thMichael Hallen$26,318
14thBryan Dillon$26,318
15thLuther Lewis$26,318
16thMark “P0ker H0” Kroon$21,759
17thPawell Andrejewski$21,759
18thChris Wallace$21,759
19thEverett Carlton$18,141
20thDominic Fosco$18,141

Alan Murphy Eliminated in 10th Place ($32,193)

Action folded to Eric Crain in the cutoff and he opened for 185,000. After the button folded, Aaron Steury three-bet to 525,000 from the small blind. A short-stacked Alan Murphy was in the big blind and decided this was the time to go, so he pushed in 675,000. Crain made the call as did Steury, with the latter asking if he could reraise (he could not).

When the flop fell {4-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}{4-Spades}, Steury led out for 855,000 and Crain got out of the way.

Showdown
Murphy: {J-Clubs}{10-Hearts}
Steury: {Q-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}

Murphy needed runner-runner to survive, which meant the {5-Clubs} turn left him drawing dead. The meaningless {A-Spades} was run out on the river as Murphy made his exit in 10th place, to a nice round of applause we might add.

Player Chips Progress
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Alan Murphy
Busted

Tags: Aaron SteuryAlan MurphyEric Crain

"Final" Table

Level 31 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Remember, it is not an official final table until we're at nine players. So here is the ten-handed "final table":

"Final" Table

SeatPlayerChips
1Joe Hebda3.15 million
2Bob Chow8.3 million
3Dan Harrington750,000
4Eric Crain4.06 million
5Drazen Ilich2.1 million
6Aaron Steury7.5 million
7Alan Murphy735,000
8Shawn Quinn1.95 million
9Dave Neff870,000
10Erik Roussakis4.9 million