Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship | 2011 World Series of Poker

Livello: 19

Bui: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 0

2011-06-05 20:33 UTC

Day 3 Will See 27 Reduce to One . . . Hopefully!

McLean Karr begins the day third in chips.

Last night we were scheduled to play to a final table in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Championship; however, the calculated and patient play of the players made is so we just cracked the money at the final 27. Today, those players will return in an attempt to play down to a winner, who’ll claim the first $10K Championship bracelet of the series and the $573,456 first-place prize.

The player best positioned to do just that is Stephen Chidwick, who emerged as the chip leader at the end of Day 2 with 697,000. Joining him are some stiff competition that includes McLean Karr (593,000), Amir Lehavot (628,000), Jarred Solomon (447,000), and Jason DeWitt (447,000), who all sit atop the leaderboard. In addition, notables Nicolas Levi (392,000), Robert Mizrachi (426,000) and Mike Matusow (85,000) all remain on Day 3.

The plan for the day is to play to a winner, but in all likelihood, we’ll probably play ten levels and hit the hard-stop time before that happens. Our best guess is we’ll make it down to five or six players and then return on Monday to play it out, but we’ll have to wait and see if that prove accurate. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is stationed in the Amazon Room and is ready to bring you all the action and eliminations from the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Championship. Day 3 is set to begin at 3:00 PM PST, so check back then for all the latest.

In the meantime, here is a look at the seating assignments and chip stacks heading into Day 3:

Table 292

Seat	Player	Chip Count
1	Mike “The Mouth” Matusow	89,000
2	Jason Somerville	301,000
3	Thorsten Schafer	252,000
4	Jennifer Tilly	186,000
5	Binh Nguyen	106,000
6	Nicolas Levi	392,000
7	Gary Rabin	116,000
8	Chris Moorman	382,000
9	Robert Mizrachi	426,000

Table 286

Seat	Player	Chip Count
1	Jason DeWitt	447,000
2	Tommy Vinas	385,000
3	Noah Schwartz	154,000
4	Jonathan Jaffe	296,000
5	Marco Traniello	83,000
6	Stephen Chidwick	697,000
7	McLean Karr	593,000
8	Toby Lewis	284,000
9	Darren Kramer	97,000

Table 280

Seat	Player	Chip Count
1	Nenad Medic	73,000
2	Takashi Ogura	93,000
3	Michael Benvenuti	209,000
4	Owen Crowe	143,000
5	Amir Lehavot	628,000
6	Sam Stein	378,000
7	Steve Gross	60,000
8	Jarred Solomon	447,000
9	Eric Cloutier	173,000

Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship

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