Event #3 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed
2017 Poker Masters
Event #3 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Poker Masters
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$2,400,000
Entries
48
Level
26
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
80,000
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
The Poker Masters Event #3: $50,000 NLHE began with 48 entrants, but on Saturday only seven returned to action. Erik Seidel began the day as the short stack, while Bryn Kenney sat fourth in chips, albeit with less than half the top three stacks. Still, the two persevered and wound up battling it out in a truly epic heads-up match that featured a dozen double ups.
Seidel was the beneficiary of most of them, but eventually Kenney managed to finish off his opponent to capture a $960,000 first-place prize. On Friday, Kenney finished seventh in Event #2 for $125,000, which means his total winnings for the Poker Masters currently stands at $1.085 million.
That is good enough to put him in second place behind the $1.104 million of Steffen Sontheimer, who won Event #2 the day after finishing fourth in Event #1. The winner of the first event, Nick Schulman, currently sits in third with $918,000 in winnings, while Seidel ($576,000) and Matt Hyman ($561,000) round out the top five.
If you recall, the player with the best results (highest total earnings) throughout all five Poker Masters tournaments (four $50,000 buy-in tournaments capped by a $100,000 freeze out finale) will win The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™.
Event #3: $50,000 NLHE Final Results
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Bryn Kenney | USA | $960,000 |
| 2nd | Erik Seidel | USA | $576,000 |
| 3rd | Jake Schindler | USA | $312,000 |
| 4th | Dan Smith | USA | $192,000 |
| 5th | Doug Polk | USA | $144,000 |
| 6th | Cary Katz | USA | $120,000 |
| 7th | Sergio Aido | Spain | $96,000 |
It only took 15 minutes for the first player to fall, and it happened when Spain’s Sergio Aido, who now calls Macau home, three-bet his short stack all in holding pocket sixes and was called by the Jake Schindler, the original raiser with the ace-jack of clubs. Two clubs on the flop and one on the river gave Schindler the flush, and Aido was out in seventh place for $96,000.
It took a long time for the next elimination to occur, but happened when a short-stacked Cary Katz tried a stop-and-go play against Seidel, who had flopped a pair of threes. Katz failed to get there with ace-nine and busted in sixth place for $120,000.
Just a few hands later, Kenney open-jammed the small blind with queen-eight to put the pressure on a short-stacked Doug Polk, who called off with pocket fours. A queen on the flop put the final nail in Polk’s coffin. The Upswing Poker founder earned $144,000 for his fifth-place finish.
Dan Smith was the next to go after running pocket sevens into the jacks of Kenney, and then Schindler bowed out in third when he failed to win a race with Big Slick suited against the pocket threes of Seidel.
Kenney began heads-up play with 3,225,000 to Seidel’s 2,745,000, and it proved to be a rollercoaster affair. Kenney whittled Seidel down to a short stack, but couldn’t seem to finish him off. In fact, Seidel got all in eight different times, winning seven of them and chopping once. On many of those occasions, he was saved by the river.
Seidel eventually took the chip lead, but then it was Kenney’s turn for a double thanks to a fortuitous river card. Another double for Kenney left Seidel with less than a big blind, and despite two more doubles, he finally succumbed. It happened when his deuce-trey failed to get there against the king-jack of Kenney.
The third event of the Poker Masters has come to an end, but already Event #4: $50,000 NLHE is underway. That is the final prelim before the $100,000 freeze out gets underway on Monday. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is providing complete coverage from Event #4 now, which you can follow by clicking here.
Level 26
: 40,000/80,000, 80,000 ante
The two players agreed to go to 15-minute levels and to immediately move on to the next one.
In the first hand, Bryn Kenney raised to 200,000 and then called off when Erik Seidel moved all in.
Seidel: 
Kenney: 
It was a flip for nearly all the chips, and much to his delight, Kenney held after the board ran out 
. Seidel was left with just 40,000 after the hand.
In the very next hand, Seidel tripled up (Kenney paid the ante as the big blind), and in the hand after that doubled yet again.
In what would be the final hand of the tournament, Seidel got his short stack all in with the 
against the 
of Kenney. There would be no miracle this time as the board ran out 
to send Seidel home in second place for $576,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,000,000
2,330,000
|
2,330,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level: 26
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
Level 25
: 35,000/70,000, 70,000 ante
Bryn Kenney raised holding the 
and then called off when Erik Seidel moved all in with the 
.
It was a flip, but Kenney needed to improve to stay alive. He didn't do it on the 
flop nor turn, but this time he was the one that got lucky on the river, which brought the 
to give him back the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,670,000
2,310,000
|
2,310,000 |
|
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2,330,000
-2,310,000
|
-2,310,000 |
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Level 25
: 35,000/70,000, 70,000 ante
In the first hand back from break, Bryn Kenney raised with the 
and Erik Seidel defended with the 
.
When the flop came down , Kenney checked, Seidel bet 215,000, and Kenney moved all in. Seidel called off and was looking to dodge an ace, spade, and deuce.
That's just what he did as the appeared on the turn followed by the 
on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,640,000
2,285,000
|
2,285,000 |
|
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1,360,000
-2,285,000
|
-2,285,000 |
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Level: 25
Blinds: 35,000/70,000
Ante: 70,000
Level 24
: 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
The final two players are now on a scheduled 10-minute break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,645,000
455,000
|
455,000 |
|
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|
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2,355,000
-455,000
|
-455,000 |
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Level 24
: 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Don't look now, but the stacks are nearly even.
In the latest hand, Seidel limped with the and called when Kenney, who held the 
, exercised his option with a raise.
When the flop came down 
, Kenny bet 180,000 with his flush draw and Seidel, who flopped a flush, raised to 380,000. Kenney responded by moving all in and Seidel called off.
Neither the 
turn nor river helped Kenney and he doubled up Seidel yet again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,190,000
-1,350,000
|
-1,350,000 |
|
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|
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2,810,000
1,350,000
|
1,350,000 |
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Level 24
: 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Bryn Kenney moved all in and Erik Seidel called off.
Seidel:
Kenney: 
The 
flop wasn't very exciting, but the 
turn was as Kenney paired up to take the lead. Once again he was one card away from the win, but it was snatched away when the spiked on the river to give Seidel a straight and the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,540,000
-700,000
|
-700,000 |
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1,460,000
700,000
|
700,000 |
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