Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Started
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$500
Prize Pool
$382,500
Entries
850
Level
23
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000
Welcome to PokerNews' Day 3 coverage of Event #1, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em tournament. The starting field of 850 is down to just four hopefuls looking to capture a coveted WSOP gold bracelet. The event had been scheduled to conclude last night. However, 10 levels were not enough to determine a winner so a third day will be needed to award the bracelet.
The chip counts heading into the day are as follows:
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Sean Drake | 1,058,000 |
| Jason Baker | 727,000 |
| Claudio Falcaro | 420,000 |
| Christopher Perez | 347,000 |
Sean Drake holds the lead, but former chip leader Jason Baker is within striking distance. Don't count out Claudio Falcaro or Christopher Perez either, as both have played marvelous short-stack poker to keep their bracelet hopes alive.
Play will resume at 3:00pm local time, about one hour from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews for all of the action!
Level: 21
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
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A winner will be amongst these four.
Level 21
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
On the first hand of Day 3, Christopher Perez opened to 59,000 in the cutoff. Jason Baker popped it to 145,000 on the button and action folded around to Perez.
After a few moments he called to see the flop come down 
. Both checked, landing the 
on the turn. Perez liked that card, immediately shoving for 178,000. Baker snap-called and Perez tabled 
. What looked to be a great turn card for Perez was actually the worst, as Baker tabled 
. Perez was drawing dead, making the 
river card meaningless.
Perez exits in fourth place, while Baker takes the chip lead with 1,098,000.
On a 
flop, both Jason Baker and Sean Drake checked. The 
hit the turn and Baker checked again. Drake bet 150,000, but was unable to shake Baker. Before the 
river fell, Baker checked in the dark. Drake fired 255,000, but once again could not get Baker to fold.
Drake tabled 
for ace high, but it was second best to Baker's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,500,000
402,000
|
402,000 |
|
525,000
-533,000
|
-533,000 |
|
||
Claudio Falcaro shoved on the button and was called by Jason Baker in the small blind.
Baker: 
Falcaro: 
The 
flop was no help to Falcaro, but the hit the turn to give him the lead. The river was the , securing the double for Falcaro.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,300,000
-300,000
|
-300,000 |
|
884,000
660,000
|
660,000 |
Level 21
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
In the small blind, Jason Baker raised to 80,000. Sean Drake re-raised all in from the big blind for an additional 219,000 and Baker called with 
. Drake turned over 
and took it down when the board ran out 
. Baker slipped to about 1,100,000 while Drake is up to 610,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,222,000
122,000
|
122,000 |
|
|
720,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
610,000
-274,000
|
-274,000 |
A few lost pots have made the Cluadio Falcaro the short stack and in the danger zone with about 12 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,162,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
|
1,100,000
380,000
|
380,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
290,000
-320,000
|
-320,000 |