Event #42: $1,500 Extended-Play No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Completed
2015 World Series of Poker
Event #42: $1,500 Extended-Play No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
2015 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,583,900
Entries
1,914
Event #42: $1,500 Extended Play No-Limit Hold'em – a tournament that originally began with 1,914 players who created a prize pool of $2,583,900 – saw 115 players return for Day 3 action, but by the end of the night just 26 remained with WSOP bracelet winner Barny Boatman and his stack of 1,152,000 leading the way.
The only other players to bag up seven-figure stacks are Luis Duarte (1,079,000) and Artem Metalidi (1,056,000). Also still in contention are Patrick Leonard (581,000), Justin Zaki (381,000), Konstantin Puchkov (367,000), and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (226,000).
Among those to fall on Day 3 were Zo Karim (112th - $3,514), Andy Frankenberger (100th - $3,514), Martins Adeniya (69th - $5,762), Anatoly Filatov (46th - $7,932), Antonio Esfandiari (40th - $9,457), and 1997 WSOP Main Event runner-up John Strzemp (27th - $13,953).
In regards to Esfandiari, he took a huge hit just before the dinner. It happened when a player on the button opened for 11,000 and Boatman three-bet to 30,000 from the small blind. Esfandiari four-bet to 64,000 from the big, the original raiser folded, and Boatman five-bets to 174,000. Esfandiari then moved all in and Boatman called off for 467,500.
Boatman: 
Esfandiari: 
Boatman was in trouble, but he was lucky to improve on the 
flop. Neither the turn nor 
river helped Esfandiari, and he sent more than half his chips over to Boatman.
Top 10 Day 3 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barny Boatman | 1,152,000 |
| 2 | Luis Duarte | 1,079,000 |
| 3 | Artem Metalidi | 1,056,000 |
| 4 | Yehoram Houri | 895,000 |
| 5 | Anthony Diotte | 817,000 |
| 6 | Ross Gottlieb | 780,000 |
| 7 | [Removed:4] | 732,000 |
| 8 | Auddie Reynolds | 605,000 |
| 9 | Patrick Leonard | 581,000 |
| 10 | Adrian Apmann | 574,000 |
Day 4 will kick off at 1 p.m. Tuesday with the plan of playing down to a winner, who will take home a $478,102 first-place prize.
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Day 3 of the Event #42: $1,500 Extended Play No-Limit Hold'em will commence at 1 p.m. local time today with 114 players remaining from the 1,914 that started.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko (405,400) has the lead, with Antonio Esfandiari in second at 368,000. Timoshenko has earned nearly $1.5 million in WSOP cashes, while Esfandiari has three bracelets and is most famous for winning the Big One for One Drop in 2012 for more than $18 million. Other notable players advancing to Day 3 included Tony Ruberto (150,700), Jonathan Little (126,000), John Strzemp (96,500), Andrey Pateychuk (96,400), and Barny Boatman (70,600).
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Event #42: $1,500 Extended-Play No-Limit Hold'em
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