At about 1:40 p.m. PT, the bubble burst within the WPT World Championship, and none apart from World Poker Tour announcer Tony Dunst was the co-bubble together with Yi “KitKat” Klassen.
With the $10,400 purchase in match in hand-for-hand play and 371 gamers remaining, Dunst was all in with a brief stack holding on a board of . Daniel Sepiol, who turned over for an open-ended straight, was his opponent within the hand.
The river accomplished the straight draw and despatched Vince Van Patten’s co-host to the rails on the stone-cold bubble. He was, nevertheless, saved a bit by Klassen, who busted in opposition to Freddy Deeb at a close-by desk contained in the Wynn Las Vegas conference middle when her pocket aces have been cracked by pocket 10’s.
Attributable to each gamers busting in the identical hand, they are going to chop the $17,400 for 370th place, so neither participant will go house empty-handed. For Dunst, he technically earns his twenty sixth profession World Poker Tour money. Klassen may even obtain credit score for what’s her first ever WPT money. In keeping with Hendon Mob, the Minnesota native now has over $190,000 in reside match earnings.
Who’s In, Who’s Out
Lynn Gilmartin
With the strain of surviving the bubble out of the way in which, the main focus for the remaining gamers is now on transferring up the pay ladder. Six gamers — the ultimate desk — will stroll away with no less than $1 million on Dec. 20, and the champion is about to obtain north of $4.1 million.
Day 3 started at simply after midday PT on Friday with 399 gamers out of the unique 2,960. It took lower than two hours to hit the bubble. Brian Rast and 2022 World Sequence of Poker bracelet winner David Jackson have been among the many 29 who’ve already busted on Day 3 on the time of publishing.
There are nonetheless many huge title professionals left within the discipline together with long-time WPT anchor Lynn Gilmartin, who scored her first World Poker Tour money. Daniel Negreanu, seated on the televised function desk, remains to be within the combine and secured his first WPT money since 2019.
“Child Poker” is a two-time World Poker Tour champion and was among the many tour’s prime performers in the course of the poker growth period. On the time of publishing, the blinds have been at 10,000/15,000 (15,000 huge blind ante) and Sohab Porbandarwala was sitting on the chip lead at 3,200,000.
Among the many many different notables nonetheless within the hunt for a WPT title embrace Brad Owen, Andrew Neeme, NFL Corridor of Famer Richard Seymour, Kyna England, and Kane Kalas.
We’ll have a full recap of the Day 3 motion Friday evening after the session concludes. The remaining gamers will then return on Saturday at midday.
*Photographs courtesy of WPT.
