After losing a pot to Sumanth Reddy when Reddy turned a set, Jake Schwartz is right back around his starting stack after taking one off Nacho Barbero.
From under the gun Barbero opened to 13,000. In the next seat over Schwartz called. Everyone else folded and the two took to a flop of . Barbero led out with a bet of 13,000 and Schwartz called.
On the turn, Barbero led again with a bet of 21,000. Schwartz didn't waste any time calling.
The river was the and Barbero slowed down and just checked. Schwartz fired a bet of 35,000 that Barbero called after some consideration.
Schwartz turned up and it was good enough to take down the pot after Barbero mucked.
We are now an orbit into play on table 452 and Vladimir Kochelaevskiy has still not taken his seat.
Although an orbit is only costing him 15,000 - roughly 1/30th of his stack - an appearance soon may help his chances of making a run at a final table spot.
Although it is a shootout format, today will unfortunately see three players not reach the final table, and consequently here is the breakdown of what players are gunning for:
What one of the final 12 players will be taking home today!
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and the 2013 World Series of Poker for the final day of Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout!
Three days ago 1,194 players sat down knowing that there were just three sit-n-go wins away from a gold bracelet and $326,440 first prize. The first day saw players that defeated their table survive into day two and the guaranteed $5,556 payout while winning their second table would see them arrive here today with at least $18,407 in their pockets and a chance at claiming gold if they could outlast the final 12 players.
Pros, amateurs and online mega-stars came as a mix of players were left with PokerStars Team Pro Nacho Barbero headlining the field along with Kevin "Civel" Vandersmissen and Mike "Sir Watts" Watson as the final 12 will start the day as follows.
Table
Seat
Player
Chip Count
447
1
Jan Kropacek
444,000
447
2
Nacho Barbero
447,000
447
3
Jake Schwartz
448,000
447
4
Tobias Wenker
449,000
447
5
Noah Bronstein
443,000
447
6
Sumanth Reddy
448,000
452
1
Mike Watson
440,000
452
2
Vladimir Kochelaevskiy
447,000
452
3
Simeon Naydenov
444,000
452
4
Kevin Vandersmissen
448,000
452
5
Salman Behbehani
443,000
452
6
Andrew Kloc
448,000
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand from 1:00 p.m. local time for the entire day providing continuous live updates of every double up, three-outer and elimination until we crown the next 2013 World Series of Poker Champion!
. Barbero led out with a bet of 13,000 and Schwartz called.
turn, Barbero led again with a bet of 21,000. Schwartz didn't waste any time calling.
and Barbero slowed down and just checked. Schwartz fired a bet of 35,000 that Barbero called after some consideration.
and it was good enough to take down the pot after Barbero mucked.
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