Level: 23
Limits: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 3,000
2019 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$384,750
Entries
285
Level
28
Limits
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Day 3 Completed
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Day 3 of the 285-entry Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud was short and frenetic, with under two levels of play required to lose four out of the remaining ten players vying for the first Stud bracelet to be awarded at the 2019 WSOP. Tomorrow’s winner will take home $93,766, with the next player to hit the rail picking up $14,619.
Chip leader Eli Elezra holds that title by the thinnest of margins: only 2,000 chips separate him from Anthony Zinno (1,219,000 to Elezra’s 1,221,000); the big bet currently standing at 24,000 puts that in stark perspective. Between them, the rest of the table are playing a combined total of 410,000 chips – 14% of the total in play - making this one of the most extraordinarily unevenly-stacked finals ever seen at the World Series of Poker.
Rod Pardey Jr was the first player to be eliminated today, coming back as the short stack with 45,000 chips (15,000 more, it turns out, than current six-handed short stack David Singer). When he left to collect his $6,510 10th place prize money, the final nine reconvened on the feature table, remixed by random draw one final time. At this point the chip lead was held jointly by Zinno and Valentin Vornicu. Vornicu took down a lot of the early pots, while Zinno eliminated Timothy Frazin in 9th place ($6,510).
It was during the period immediately following Frazin’s bust-out that Elezra really picked up the pace. He took most of Joshua Mountain’s chips making back-to-back straights, then eliminated Scott Seiver in 8th ($8,337). Two-time bracelet winner Seiver had not enjoyed the best run at the final table, losing a few early pots to Vornicu and Zinno, and was down to just a few big bets by the time his final hand took place.
Elezra was responsible for the final elimination of Day 3 too, that of Joshua Mountain. By the time Mountain was all-in with a pair of nines on third street (Elezra behind him with tens, which improved to a full house), Elezra had caught up with Zinno and the big-stack/tiny stack dynamic was in full force. The other five players (with the exception of middling-stacked Vornicu) could do little but wait for a hand to get it in with or another one of their number to bust. Mountain happened to be the player who found a hand first; he exited in 7th for $10,920.
Elezra did not look like a contender for the final table, let alone the final six on Day 2, when his stack of 30,000 was all-in and called. However, a phenomenal comeback sees him with a good shot at his fourth bracelet; he was in the thick of the action throughout Day 3, and on the winning side of most of it. Experienced fellow finalist Rep Porter also holds three WSOP bracelets, two of them in Seven Card Razz, David Singer two and Zinno one. Vornicu and Phongthep Thiptinnakon are playing for their first piece of WSOP jewellery.
Final table payouts:
| Seat | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $93,766 | ||
| 2 | $57,951 | ||
| 3 | $39,830 | ||
| 4 | $27,993 | ||
| 5 | $19,996 | ||
| 6 | $14,619 | ||
| 7 | Joshua Mountain | United States | $10,920 |
| 8 | Scott Seiver | United States | $8,337 |
| 9 | Timothy Frazin | United States | $6,510 |
Play resumes tomorrow at noon, with streaming following at 1pm on CBS All Access. Live reporting continues right here along with the action.
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Bets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phonghtep Thiptinnakon | United States | 60,000 | 2 |
| 2 | Valentin Vornicu | United States | 262,000 | 11 |
| 3 | Rep Porter | United States | 61,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 1,219,000 | 51 |
| 5 | Eli Elezra | United States | 1,221,000 | 51 |
| 6 | David Singer | United States | 30,000 | 1 |
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
A recap of Event #20: $1,500 Seven Card Stud will be posted shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,221,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
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1,219,000
-81,000
|
-81,000 |
|
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262,000
-223,000
|
-223,000 |
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61,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
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60,000 | |
|
30,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Such an extraordinary gap exists between the two chip millionaires Eli Elezra and Anthony Zinno and every one else at this final table that the (very) short players have been keeping out of the way of the action, even as their stacks represent just a couple of big bets each.
Joshua Mountain was one of the short stacks, who picked up a pair of nines and could fold no longer. He was all in vs. Eli Elezra showing the 
with Elezra showing the 
. The hands emerged:
Mountain 
/
Elezra: 
/
Elezra's full house took the final pot of a very short Day 3, as players are now finished with play until the live-streamed six-haned final kicks off tomorrow at noon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,200,000
-150,000
|
-150,000 |
|
|
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|
Busted | |
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Anthony Zinno: 
/
/
Valentin Vornicu: 
/
A three-way pot developed with Anthony Zinno, Valentin Vornicu and Phonghtep Thiptinnakon, with Thiptinnakon folding on sixth street to a bet from Zinno. Vornicu called, and the action checked through the river.
Vornicu showed 
, but it was Zinno taking down yet another pot with 
, for the better pair .
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,350,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,300,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
485,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
|
|
68,000
-213,000
|
-213,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
60,000
-140,000
|
-140,000 |
|
|
57,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
|
33,000
-103,000
|
-103,000 |
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Scott Seiver's final hand was against sudden chip monster Eli Elezra. Down to a few big bets, he check-raised Elezra on fifth street to get his stack in and see the last two cards.
Elezra: /
Seiver: /
"I have the ones," said Elezra, flipping up 
. He drew another ace immediately, filling up with the on seventh street, while Seiver's hand ended up 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,050,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
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Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Eli Elezra: /
/
Anthony Zinno: /
/
Eli Elezra bet on fifth street and got called by Anthony Zinno, and Elezra checked sixth street. Zinno bet, and Elezra called.
Elezra check-folded to Zinno on the river, showing a before mucking.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,200,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
750,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
Level 22
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Scott Seiver: /
/
Anthony Zinno: /
/
Scott Seiver is down to his last 45,000 after losing a pot to Anthony Zinno. Zinno put in a seventh-street bet and Seiver folded, putting Zinno over the 1-million mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,050,000
260,000
|
260,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
45,000
-77,000
|
-77,000 |
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