First out was Leo Whitt, followed by Walter Browne, Charles Cohen, James Jewell and Gregory Alston. In the slow-paced game that rarely featured postflop action, Hess eliminated Joseph Bolnick in 4th and Craig Koch in 3rd place, winning with a kicker on both occasions. The heads-up then was over in a mere 10 minutes.
In the last hand, Richard Harwood limped first, Hess checked and the flop came 6 9 6 . They both shoved:
Hess: 6 T
Harwood: T 9
Turn: Q
River: 3
James Hess
Hess won his first WSOP bracelet with a three of a kind. The end results can be seen below.
Sam ‘KingKobeMVP’ Stein had the chiplead over the field of 26 players in the beginning of Day 3 of WSOP Event #31 $3,000 PLO. The 9-handed final table was played down to with the elimination of Tex Barch at Level 22 (8,000/16,000):
Following shortstack Dilyan Kovachev, Austin Scott, Brock Parker and Zimnan Ziyard got eliminated. Adam Junglen, who played his second final table in this year’s WSOP, was out in 5th place before Christian Harder and Warren Fund were also railed.
Stein started the half an hour long heads-up with 4,245,000 in chips against Ben Lamb’s 1,920,000. In the last hand, they pushed their stacks on the 3 K J T board:
Lamb: Q J 9 4
Stein: A Q J 6
River: 2
Sam Stein
After a PCA Main Event 4th and a WSOP $10,000 PLH Championship 3rd finish so far this year, Stein won the golden bracelet with a straight. The payout was as follows:
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