Event #7: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
Day 3 Started
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #7: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
2021 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$409,845
Entries
307
Level
30
Limits
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
0
Players Left
1
After two already incredible days of mixed game action at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Event #7: $1,500 Dealers Choice reaches its crescendo Tuesday as the final 11 players battle for the gold bracelet.
Along with Day 2 Chip leader Ray Henson (1,365,000) striving for his first WSOP bracelet, the field has several great stories developing.
Naoya Kihara (400,000) is on the verge of back-to-back final tables in this event after finishing fourth in this event in 2019. He’ll be looking to better that result, but comes into the day with one of the shorter stacks in the room.
Day 1 chip leader Nathan Gamble’s (480,000) journey into Day 3 was on cruise control until a bumpy last level dropped him down in the chip counts. Can he rebound and claim his third WSOP bracelet?
2018 and 2019 champion in the $10,000 championship version of this event, Adam Friedman (330,000) will be looking to tempt fate, as his offer to bust in 16th for the privilege of eliminating Norman Chad has already been surpassed. Will the poker Gods allow him to run up his short stack and make a charge at another mixed game bracelet?
Play resumes at 3:00 pm local time in the Amazon room, and PokerNews will have all the action leading to a winner claiming the bracelet and the $97,915 first prize.
Level: 26
Limit Flop / Draw: 20000/40000
Stud Games: 10000 ante, 10000 bring-in, 40000 completion
No-Limit & Pot-Limit: 10000/20000/20000-big blind ante/ 30000-ante
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
The final 11 players have begun the action on the outer feature tables of the Amazon room on level 26
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
5 Card Draw
Naoya Kihara eliminated Craig Chait in a Five Card Draw cooler as Chait moved all-in over Kihara's raise and was quickly called.
Craig Chait: 
/
Naoya Kihara:
Each player drew three cards and Kihara added the 
to eliminate Chait.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
630,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
No-Limit Hold'em
Ian O'Hara raised to 40,000 from the hijack only to have Andrew Kelsall three-bet to 140,000 next to act. Action folded back to O'Hara and he called to see a flop of 
.
O'Hara check-called a bet of 105,000 and then checked again on the 
turn.
Kelsall checked it back and the 
paired the board on the river.
O'Hara moved all in to put the pressure on Kelsall, who quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,550,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
525,000
-310,000
|
-310,000 |
|
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Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
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Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
No Limit 2-7 Single Draw
Adam Friedman bet his last 105,000 chips from the button and was called by Naoya Kihara in the big blind.
Friedman drew one card while Kihara patted.
Adam Friedman: 
/
Naoya Kihara: 
Friedman squeezed another and was eliminated in 10th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
655,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
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|
Busted | |
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Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
Badeucy
Andrew Kelsall raised the button to 80,000 and Jaswinder Lally defended from the big blind. Both players drew two and then Lally check-called a bet of 40,000.
On the second draw, both players took one and then Lally check-called 80,000 before drawing one.
"Pat Riley," Kelsall said while tapping the table.
Lally then checked for the final time and folded when Kelsall, the 2020 WSOP Global Casino champ, bet 80,000.
"I made an eight and a three-card five," Kelsall said before tabling the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
-230,000
|
-230,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
640,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
|
||
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 0 ante
Seven Card Stud Eight or Better
Jeremy Heartberg got the last of his chips in on sixth street versus Christopher Lindner. According to his tablemates, the runout came down:
Jeremy Heartberg: 
/
/
Christopher Lindner: 
/
/
Heartberg made a better two pair on seventh street, but Lindner filled up, eliminated his opponent and pushing his stack toward two million chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,900,000
640,000
|
640,000 |
|
Busted |