In Hand #20, Rettenmaier moved all in for 895,000 on the button and was called by Papazyan in the small blind and Tran in the big blind. Swan had ace-jack and flopped a jack, but could not improve further.

Hellmuth raised to 200,000 from the cutoff with pocket queens and called Swan’s shove for 1,280,000 in the small blind. Hellmuth eliminated Swan in sixth place ($91,825) in the eighth hand of the day. Alexander were the fourth and fifth in chips to start the day, and one of them would be the first to go. Phil Hellmuth came in third in chips, looking to fill a gap in his resume by capturing his first WPT title at the casino where he won his first Major tournament in 1988.Īdam Swan and D.J. Marvin Rettenmaier was also going for his third WPT title, coming in as the short stack. A win for Tran would mean tying the record for most WPT titles at three. Tran carried a sizeable chip lead into the day, with Art Papazyan second in chips. local time to battle for the WPT Legends of Poker title and the $668,692 top prize. The final six players returned to The Bicycle Hotel & Casino Thursday at 4 p.m.

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