Event 6: Robert Wachtel Out in 3rd Place ($2,295)

$350 Pot Limit Omaha/8 (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 8,000/16,000

Robert Wachtel
3rd-Place Finisher Robert Wachtel

The final table seems like it would never end, because most pots have been chopped, and most of the rest have been quartered. Momentum has been brief for everyone who has had it.

Eventually, Bryce Fox raised from the button to 42,000, Robert Wachtel pot-raised from the small blind to 142,000 (nearly all in), and Fox put him all in. Wachtel turned over AdQs7h2c, and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against Fox’s Ks8c5h2s.

The board came KhKc10s3d3h, and Fox flopped trip kings to Wachtel’s gutshot straight draw. Wachtel never improved further, and he was eliminated in third place.

Robert Wachtel  –  Eliminated in 3rd Place  ($2,295)

Here are the approximate chip counts for heads-up play:

Bryce Fox  –  370,000  (23 bb)
Charles Chan  –  140,000  (9 bb)