A Champion Will be Crowned in Event #23: $1,500 Eight Game Mix
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, and the 50th Annual World Series of Poker for the final day of the Event #23: $1,500 Eight Game Mix. The original 612 player field has now dwindled down to the final 28 who will be returning today to battle it out for a shot of the $177,294 first place prize and a WSOP gold bracelet.
Starting the day in the chipleader role is Canada's Alex Livingston with a stack of 587,000. Livingston started the second day off strong and never really went back as he continued his heater throughout the latter stages of the night. Underneath Livingston on the leaderboard with 395,000 is a well-known mixed game specialist in Chris Vitch after a rollercoaster of a day that never had him short but did have him swinging from big to average stack on several occasions.
A red-hot Murilo Souza will be starting the day third with 383,000 in chips and all of the momentum in the world. Souza is fresh off of a bracelet victory in Event #14: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E that he won under a week ago and will be in contention for another here today. Just when you thought the competition and storylines couldn't get any better, Philip Long shows up and blows all expectations away. Long will be attempting to go back-to-back in this event and amazingly sits near the top of the counts with 353,000.
Day 3 begins at 2 p.m. local time with the players returning to action filled limits of 10,000/20,000. The levels will remain 60-minutes in length and there will be a 15-minute break after every two levels of play, with a 60-minute dinner break at the end of level 6. Play will not stop until a winner is crowned, collecting the $177,294 and a WSOP bracelet.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all the action throughout the day, so stay tuned!
flop. Rubinstein checked from the small blind and Trumbul fired from the cutoff. Souza raised on his left and Rubinstein made it three bets. Both of his opponents called.
and he received two calls. The 
completed the board and Rubinstein fired one more time. Trumbul took a while and then slid in calling chips and then it was time for Souza to process the situation. He eventually called as well. 
for the second nut straight and scooped the whole pot as both Trumbul and Souza mucked. Souza asked Trumbul what he had held and Trumbul claimed that he had a set of tens.
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, action checked to Klodnicki who fired in a bet that was instantly check-raised by Kessler. Klodnicki just as quickly folded and the remaining two tabled their hands.
, for a higher pair of ladies. The board came down 
on the turn and river, changing nothing, as Kessler's queens held on to eliminate Brink from the tournament.
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and action checked to Pho who threw in 30,000.
river card.
for two pair. Pho slammed his hand into the muck and Long took down the massive pot on the final day.
against 
and the 
flop made him a huge favorite. Trumbul picked up four outs on the 
turn but the 
river wasn't one of them.
and Vitch led out. Evans folded but Klodnicki raised. Vitch three-bet and Klodnicki four-bet for 7,000 more to put Vitch at risk. While Vitch loved the all-diamond flop, he soon found the bad news.
