Miller Leads Final Six in $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship
What was supposed to be the final day of Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) wrapped up early Friday morning will six players still remaining. The players decided to stop play after Level 23 and will return for Day 4 at 2 p.m. local time to play down to a winner.
Leading the way is Pennsylvania's Ryan Miller with a stack of 2,230,000 as he chases a first bracelet, while the controversial Bryn Kenney is second in chips and after a second bracelet.
Not far behind are Day 2 chip leader Maximilian Schindler and Argentina's Andres Korn as he looks for a second bracelet after a runner-up finish in Event #19: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout earlier in the series for $269,438, and rounding out the counts are David "Chino" Rheem and Eddie Blumenthal.
Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship Final Table Chip Counts
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Bets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eddie Blumenthal | United States | 455,000 | 3 | |
| 2 | David "Chino" Rheem | United States | 525,000 | 3 | |
| 3 | Andres Korn | Argentina | 1,300,000 | 8 | |
| 4 | Maximilian Schindler | United States | 1,910,000 | 12 | |
| 5 | Ryan Miller | United States | 2,230,000 | 14 | |
| 6 | Bryn Kenney | United States | 2,035,000 | 13 |
Day 3 Action
There were 17 players who returned on Day 3 and it only took one hand to lose the highest profile among them, Daniel Negreanu. The Poker Hall of Famer entered the day with a single bet and couldn't spin it up as he was chopped up by Dzmitry Urbanovich and Dan Colpoys, who were among the next out as Colpoys finished in 15th place for $20,000 and the Polish pro was next out for the same payout.
Matusow entered the day a short stack but proved to have many lives as he secured several doubles during the final two tables and outlived Mike Thorpe, the other "Crazy Mike" at the table.
Matusow, who was still ranting about Day 2 opponent Chad Eveslage — "Eves-edge, Eves-ledge, whatever his f***ing last name is. To think that guy has three bracelets, two this year. It deserves an investigation" — made it to the nine-handed unofficial final table, marking his second final table in this variant of the series after finishing runner-up earlier this week in Event $55: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better.
"I'm locked in," Matusow said earlier in the day. "When you've been playing this game for seven days, you get locked in."
Unfortunately for "The Mouth," his run came to an end when his pair of nines couldn't hold up against the overcards of Rheem, who built up a final table chip lead that he couldn't hold onto.
Two-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira was next out when he couldn't pull ahead of the two-pair of Korn, who Thorpe and Matusow would contest should have been eliminated on Day 2 if not for a much-discussed play by Eveslage.
After that, China's Yong Wang went out in seventh place as his buried fives were in bad shape against Miller's buried kings that improved to trips on fourth street.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor tomorrow to provide updates before a winner is crowned in Event #63: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship here at the 2023 WSOP.