Event #71: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 3 Completed
2024 World Series of Poker
Event #71: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
2024 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$1,095,600
Entries
1,245
Level
30
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Entries
36
Players Left
6
Level 27
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
Day 3 of Event #71: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship at the 2024 World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw 32 players return, scheduled to play down to six. When play surprisingly wrapped up less than two minutes after the dinner break, it was Jamie Kerstetter who stood at the top, closely followed by last year’s runner-up Shiina Okamoto.
End of Day 3 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Kerstetter | United States | 9,330,000 | 117 |
| 2 | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | 8,640,000 | 108 |
| 3 | Linda Durden | United States | 3,110,000 | 39 |
| 4 | Mor Kamber | Israel | 1,755,000 | 22 |
| 5 | Cecile Ticherfatine | France | 1,100,000 | 14 |
| 6 | Ceci Liao | United States | 970,000 | 12 |
Kerstetter is known as an all-around poker talent. She is a player with $837,207 in tournament winnings, a witty commentator and a two-time Global Poker Award winner, having been named Best Twitter Personality in 2020 and 2021. She started the day with the sixth biggest stack and was able to run and play well, eliminating multiple players on the way to her chip lead.
Okamoto, who was chip leader coming into Day 3, has also played a great tournament so far and is still in with a good chance to improve her last year’s score and win her first bracelet. Okamoto has $297,721 in live tournament winnings, with the biggest share of it coming from the $118,768 prize she won for her second place in the Ladies event last year. She is second with 8,640,000 chips.
Kerstetter and Okamoto are way ahead of the field, both deep with over 100 big blinds. Third in chips is Linda Durden with around 39 big blinds. Durden has had a rollercoaster of a day, coming in with a medium stack, at one point taking a big pot from Cecile Ticherfatine and then soon after losing an even bigger one to Kerstetter to get down to 12 big blinds. She was then able to double up through Cherish Andrews to pick things up again and ended the day in the middle of the pack.
Also remaining in the battle for the $171,732 first place prize and their first-ever WSOP bracelet is Mor Kamber with 1,755,000 chips. Kamber has $106,800 in career tournament winnings and is already guaranteed to surpass her biggest tournament win so far, which was just shy of $32,000.
Cecile Ticherfatine, who came into the day second in chips, also made it through the day with around 14 big blinds. Ticherfatine has $544,049 in live tournament winnings, including a WSOP International Circuit event win from Dakar in 2023 for $65,372.
Ceci Liao was not among the biggest stacks coming into Day 3, but was able to catch a good run in the middle of the day. After being down to as few as ten big blinds, she was able to chip back up, including by eliminating Nancy Nguyen and, soon after, Ting Ho. However, at the end of the day, she is bringing up the rear as the short stack with 12 big blinds.
Among notable players who made it to Day 3, but did not make the final cut, were known chess and poker player Jen Shahade, vlogger and poker pro Marle Spragg and pros Nadya Magnus and Cherish Andrews.
Play will resume tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas with blinds at 40,000/80,000 and a 80,000 ante. The battle of the final six down to a winner will be streamed on PokerGO with an expected 60 minute delay.
Level 27
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
| Casino | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horseshoe | 1 | 1 | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | 8,640,000 | 108 |
| Horseshoe | 1 | 2 | Mor Kamber | Israel | 1,755,000 | 22 |
| Horseshoe | 1 | 3 | Linda Durden | United States | 3,110,000 | 39 |
| Horseshoe | 1 | 4 | Cecile Ticherfatine | France | 1,100,000 | 14 |
| Horseshoe | 1 | 5 | Jamie Kerstetter | United States | 9,330,000 | 117 |
| Horseshoe | 1 | 6 | Chen Liao | United States | 970,000 | 12 |
Level 27
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
9,330,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
||
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8,640,000 | |
|
||
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3,110,000
470,000
|
470,000 |
|
1,755,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
|
||
|
1,100,000
-240,000
|
-240,000 |
|
970,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Level 27
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
The tournament has concluded for the night and six lovely ladies will return tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time to battle it out. PokerGo will be live streaming this event.
Recap will follow soon.
Level 27
: Blinds 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
The ladies arrived back from dinner break and it folded to Susan Bluer in the small blind and she contemplated for a moment and moved all in for 720,000 and Shiina Okamoto called from the big blind. Bluer played a solid game and patiently waited for the right moments throughout the day and on this one she just got unlucky on the river.
Susan Bluer: 6♠6♥ 
Shiina Okamoto: K♦Q♥
The board looked safe for Bluer until the river when it ran out with 3♥7♣5♦J♥K♣ and Okamoto is heading into Day 4 second in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
8,640,000
840,000
|
840,000 |
|
|
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Busted | |
Level: 27
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
Level 26
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
The $25K Fantasy league rolls on, and as of June 19, Team The Dinkers (Josh Kay) is still on top with 899 points, which is a good bit ahead of both Team Sternheimer (765 points) and Team Baker (673 points). Of the 19 teams, Team Chingas is on the bottom with 213 points. Check out .
PokerNews has been tracking $25K Fantasy players in our live updates and has even made it simple to follow the action by tagging all players with a $25K Fantasy badge. That allows you to utilize our chip count filter option to follow only those players (just tick the $25K Fantasy badge); what’s more, each blog will have a “$25K Fantasy” tab that if you click all you will see are hands played by $25K Fantasy players.
As a result, we can capture some of the biggest, best, and most game-changing hands involving the $25K Fantasy roster. Here are five from the last week of action in the 2024 WSOP.
Level 26
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
The ladies are heading on a 60-minute dinner break and 7 will return. The plan is to play down to 6 players.
Level 26
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Players folded all the way to Haruna Fujita in the small blind, who raised to 130,000. Jamie Kerstetter was the big blind and three-bet to around 950,000. Haruna Fujita raised all in for just a bit more and Kerstetter called.
Haruna Fujita: 3♠3♣
Jamie Kerstetter: A♠6♠
Kerstetter's rungood today continued as she was able to flop a pair of sixes on 2♦6♣Q♣.
The turn was the 10♦. The always cheerful Fujita and her rail called for a three on the river, but it was the 9♣ and her deep run in the tournament was over.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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9,200,000
800,000
|
800,000 |
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Busted | |