2011 World Series of Poker

Event #40: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 3
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$808,538
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$3,440,400
Entries
732
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Brendon Rubie Eliminated in 13th Place ($31,315); Russell Carson Eliminated in 14th Place ($13,315)

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Russell Carson - 14th Place
Russell Carson - 14th Place

After a relatively slow sequence lasting the nearly the first half of Level 23, we just had some big action, resulting in not one but two knockouts.

The hand began with Robert Merulla opening for 35,000 from the cutoff. Then Brendon Rubie reraised all in from the button for about 550,000. Russell Carson then called with his short stack -- about 150,000 -- from the small blind, and Wesley Pantling promptly folded from the BB. Merulla tanked for quite a while, then called Rubie's reraise.

Carson {A-Hearts}{Q-Diamonds}
Merulla {J-Diamonds}{J-Clubs}
Rubie {A-Diamonds}{9-Spades}

The board came {4-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}{6-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{5-Diamonds}, which meant Merulla's jacks had held, sending to the rail both Carson (in 14th) and Rubie (in 13th, see photo previous page). Merulla pushes into the chip lead with that one with about 1.8 million.

There will be a brief pause while we have another redraw, this time for the final two six-handed tables.

Tags: Brendon RubieRobert MerullaRussell Carson