Viktor Blom Leads World Series Of Poker $50K Buy-In Players ChampionshipHits Miracle One Outer To Stay Alive And Build Big Stack |
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The third day of the $50,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Players Championship wrapped up early Wednesday morning. The man leading the way with 26 left is Sweden’s Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, who’s gunning for his first WSOP bracelet.
On Tuesday, Daniel Negreanu Tweeted: “A week ago Viktor Blom didn’t know how many cards you get in razz, and now he is among the chip leaders in the $50K.”
Blom, a no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha player, is having a poor year in the online cash games, but has done well in tournaments so far in 2012. He has cashed for about $1.75 million, but could add $1,451,527 to that if he wins the eight-game mix.
The 21-year-old accumulated his stack via a miracle versus Joe Cassidy. On a 10-9-5-A rainbow board in pot-limit Omaha, Blom had his tournament life on the line with A-9-9-2. However, his set of nines was no good against Cassidy’s A-Q-10-10. A fourth nine on the river for Blom sent him to the top of the leader board and left Cassidy with just a handful of chips.
On Blom’s heels in the chip counts are David Oppenheim, Daniel Alaei and David “ODB” Baker, who all have more than one million in chips. Michael Mizrachi, who won the event in 2010, is also still in contention. Phil Hellmuth survived the day, but he sits as a long-shot to capture his 13th bracelet thanks to a super short stack of 28,000.
Hellmuth Tweeted after the night was over: “I’m in my car in the Rio parking lot crying. Blessings all around me, but all I can [say] right now is that ‘I deserved better today…’”
Just 16 players out of the starting field of 108 will make the money. The bubble will burst sometime after play restarts at 2 p.m. local time Wednesday.
Here’s a look at the end-of-day-three chip counts:
1. Viktor Blom — 1,262,000
2. David Oppenheim — 1,165,000
3. Daniel Alaei — 1,058,000
4. David “ODB” Baker — 1,025,000
5. John Hennigan — 992,000
6. Bill Chen — 984,000
7. Stephen Chidwick — 874,000
8. Mike Wattel — 870,000
9. Bruno Fitoussi — 861,000
10. Chris Klodnicki — 858,000
11. Andy Bloch — 667,000
12. Lyle Berman — 660,000
13. Ben Yu — 653,000
14. Michael Mizrachi — 632,000
15. John Monnette — 586,000
16. Roland Israelashvili — 570,000
17. Luke Schwartz — 500,000
18. Antony Lellouche — 447,000
19. Phil Ivey — 397,000
20. Brett Richey — 256,000
21. Robert Mizrachi — 252,000
22. Jeff Lisandro — 204,000
23. David Chiu — 160,000
24. Joe Cassidy — 141,000
25. Michael Glick — 71,000
26. Phil Hellmuth — 28,000
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