Martin Kabrhel has been eliminated in 18th place. After a tumultuous day, Kabrhel was eliminated after a series of hands and eventually called for his tournament life with ace-high against Jared Talarico.
Before that, Kabrhel was left short thanks to a hand against Ray Henson.
Henson raised from the small blind and Kabrhel three-bet from the big blind. Henson called.
Kabrhel asked Henson what he planned to do if Kabrhel went all in. Henson said he would evaluate when that happened and then told Kabrhel he had seen his hand.
As the flop came out Kabrhel said it was unfair that Henson knew his hand.
"Quit showing it to me then," Henson said, "I already warned you."
Henson checked.
"Then you know you are behind?" Kabrhel said as he bet.
"Yeah, but I can catch up."
Henson called.
The turn was the and Henson checked again. After what seemed like 30 seconds, Henson called for the clock. The floor staff was already nearby since the general consensus of the remaining players was that Kabrhel was taking too long on a majority of his actions. The floor gave him ten seconds to act so he checked.
The river was the and both players checked. Henson won the hand with flopped pair of aces, holding . Kabrhel mucked.
A few hands later Kabrhel raised and Jared Talarico three-bet.
"I'll show you," said Talarico.
Kabrhel called and joked that he wanted Talarico to show him now. The flop came and Kabrhel checked. Talarico bet and Kabrhel called. The turn was the and Kabrhel checked again.
Talarico bet and said, "nice hand."
Kabrhel called off his remaining stack and showed . He was behind Talarico's pocket aces, . The river was the and that spelled the end of the road for Kabrhel.
The table was more than happy to see Kabrhel bust. Former WSOP Champ Joe McKeehen told Talarico that he was cheering for Talarico to win if he were to bust.
Robert Mizrachi has been eliminated in 17th place. He got all in preflop against Jon Turner and Michael O'Grady, who both capped the betting preflop.
The flop came and Turner bet, O'Grady raised and Turner called. The turn was the and Turner checked. O'Grady bet and Turner folded. O'Grady showed and was ahead of the of Mizrachi.
Michael O'Grady has been eliminated. He had just doubled through JC Tran. He had pocket sevens against ace-jack.
On the next hand, Tran and O'Grady were at it again and the O'Grady put in his final bet on a jack-high flop with . Tran had and held on to win the hand, sending O'Grady home early with about 20 minutes remaining in play for Day 2.
Day 3 of Event #38: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship is set for 2 p.m. Wednesday. JC Tran (1,150,000) leads the final 15 players into the final day and is looking to win his third WSOP bracelet. He will join defending champion Ian Johns (59,000) and the champion once removed, Ben Yu (446,000), both of whom are also seeking their third WSOP bracelets.
Forty-one players returned to start Day 2 and things got contentious pretty quickly. On one of the first hands of the day, Justin Bonomo raised against eventual 18th-place finisher Martin Kabrhel. Kabrhel took about 30 seconds before Bonomo called the clock. This was a carry over from the previous night where Kabrhel was apparently tanking so much that the players today gave him a very short leash.
Throughout the day various players would call the clock and Kabrhel would complain. The cycle repeated itself until Kabrhel was finally eliminated in 18th place. Another theme of the day was Phil Hellmuth losing a hand and complaining out loud to a chorus of laughs from the field. Hellmuth went busto during the final two hours of play and finished in 16th place.
Aside from the two former event champions, the remaining field is stacked. Daniel Negreanu (425,000) is making yet another deep run and looking to close out bracelet number seven. He will have a hard task playing against players who some consider the best in the business. Terrence Chan bagged 831,000 and will be looking to add his first WSOP bracelet to an impressive list of cashes totalling over $700,000 in WSOP winnings.
Former WSOP Main Event Champ Joe McKeehen (84,000) is also in the remaining field and will be looking to add a second WSOP bracelet to his collection.
Here is the seat draw for Day 3:
Table 700
Seat
Player
Table 704
Seat
Player
1
Sorel Mizzi
1
Empty
2
Tom McCormick
2
Ian Johns
3
Shaun Deeb
3
Jon Turner
4
Ray Henson
4
Empty
5
Empty
5
Daniel Negreanu
6
Jared Talarico
6
Terrence Chen
7
Aaron Sacks
7
Ben Yu
8
Empty
8
Robert Campbell
9
Joe McKeehen
9
JC Tran
All the action resumes Wednesday at 2 p.m. and you can track the action on PokerNews throughout the rest of this event and the entire World Series of Poker.