We’re now just one day away from crowning the 2011 WSOP Main Event champion since play is down to three people. Pius Heinz (107.8 million chips) has bolted out to the lead, while Ben Lamb (55.4 million) and Martin Staszko (42.7 million) were able to live another day. These three players will resume play this Tuesday (November 8th) at 5:30 ET. You can watch the action with a 15-minute tape delay on ESPN.
As for how we arrived at this trio of players, action really picked up when Heinz won a 41.75 million pot off of Eoghan O’Dea early on in the day. Heinz was then able to take down a few other pots and move ahead of starting chip leader Martin Staszko.
The first player knocked out of the tournament was Sam Holden, who ran into Ben Lamb’s A-K combination. From here, the second shortest stack in Anton Makiievskyi busted out, while amateur player Bob Bounahra was eliminated in seventh place when his A-5 combo received no help against Staszko’s A-7 hand.
Eoghan O’Dea was the next player to be shown the door when he couldn’t get any help from the board, and fell to Staszko’s pocket 8′s. Phil Collins would be the next player gone when his A-7 hand connected with the board against Pius Heinz’s pocket 9′s – only it was his 7 being paired.
It took over 70 hands for the final elimination to occur, but it finally happened when Matt Giannetti tried to get his luck going with A-3; however, Ben Lamb had pocket kings, and hit quad kings later on in the hand. With Giannetti’s elimination, this is how things currently stand:
(Still playing)
1. Pius Heinz – 107,800,000 chips
2. Ben Lamb – 55,400,000 chips
3. Martin Staszko – 42,700,000 chips
(Eliminated)
4. Matt Giannetti- $3,012,700
5. Phil Collins – $2,269,599
6. Eoghan O’Dea – $1,720,831
7. Bob Bounahra – $1,314,097
8. Anton Makiievskyi – $1,010,015
9. Sam Holden – $782,115
