With only 14 players left, Day 3 started on three tables on Level 21 (1,000/5,000/10,000). After the elimination of Harry Bienenfeld and Jonathan Aguiar, the rest of the players moved to two tables. Kyle White and Dan Smith followed, the latter moving all-in with 625,000 in chips and getting called by chipleader Vasile Buboi. Smith held pocket sixes against Buboi’s T 9 and the board gave Buboi the flush.
Dario Sammartino, Allen Bari and Craig Fishman came next, before Andrew Robl bubbled the official final table: he shoved as shortstack on the J 9 6 flop with J 3 and Little called, showing pocket kings. The final streets came neutral and Robl was out in 7th.
The seat draw of the Final Table was as follows:
Seat 1: Lee Markholt – 1,812,000
Seat 2: Jonathan Little – 1,039,000
Seat 3: Erick Lindgren – 2,317,000
Seat 4: Connor Drinan – 748,000
Seat 5: Ryan D'Angelo – 370,000
Seat 6: Vasile Buboi – 1,462,000
The finale started on Level 23 (2,000/8,000/16,000) and the first elimination took place on the next, in the 15th hand: Ryan D'Angelo 3-bet all-in with 434,000 preflop on Connor Drinan’ raise. Drinan called.
Drinan: A K
D'Angelo: K T
Board: A J 8 5 7
Drinan’s pair meant the end of the event for D'Angelo in 6th.
Buboi was out next, his A-K failing to improve on the board over Drinan’s pocket eights. After a long four-handed play, it was Drinan, who busted out in 4th place, putting his remaining 485,000 in chips in with K 8 and getting called by Little, who held A J and got the flush on the river. The heads-up was set when Little shoved with 935,000 on Level 28 (5,000/25,000/50,000) and Erick Lindgren moved all-in, too, as a bigstack, making Lee Markholt on the Button fold.
Little: A 5
Lindgren: J J
Board: 7 5 4 2 K
Lindgren built a massive lead to begin the heads-up in.
Erick Lindgren – 6,150,000
Lee Markholt – 1,600,000
During the duel, Markholt managed to come back to about even but Lindgren maintained his lead and got to decrease his opponent’s stack to around 1,000,000. In the last hand of the long heads-up play, Markholt 3-bet all-in with his remaining 915,000 on the 9 J A flop and Lindgren snap-called.
Lindgren: A A
Markholt: J 9
Turn: 7
River: 5
Lindgren’s set of aces was worth a second WSOP bracelet after 2008.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Erick Lindgren – $606,317
2nd: Lee Markholt – $374,960
3rd: Jonathan Little – $238,833
4th: Connor Drinan – $157,274
5th: Vasile Buboi – $106,830
6th: Ryan D'Angelo – $74,768
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