02:46 min., June 25 2012
Congratulations to Greg Ostrander, the winner of the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker Event #41: $3k No-Limit Hold'em.View the original article here
June 25 2012, Donnie Peters
On the original 2012 World Series of Poker schedule, Event 43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em was the only tournament slated to play down to a winner on Monday. However, with the extension of Event #41: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em, there are now two events scheduled to wrap up. Those events will be the focus of this edition of the PokerNews What To Watch For.
Glazier Looks To Be First Woman To Win Open Event Since 2008
In 2008, Vanessa Selbst won her first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Since then, no woman has won a bracelet in an open event.
Jackie Glazier made it all the way to heads-up play in Event No. 41 where she holds a 3-to-1 margin over Greg Ostrander. Glazier has already reached a few milestones in this event, which would only make it fitting that she claim the bracelet as well. Prior to this event, Glazier had never had a score over $100,000 or made a WSOP final table. She can check both of those off her list, and she'll look to add a bracelet on Monday.
Clark Aims for Gold
Zachary Clark has never made a WSOP final table or even finished better than 20th. He holds the chip lead going into Day 3 of Event No. 43 with 20 players left, making it a virtual lock that he bests his previous best mark.
Clark is the nephew of the late David "Chip" Reese, who has three WSOP gold bracelets. Clark would like nothing more than to earn his first and follow in those great footsteps.
Lew Looks for the Biggest Success Live
PokerStars Team Online Randy Lew is known for his amazing skills on the virtual felt. He earned the largest live score of his career in November 2011 when he won the APPT Macau Main Event for nearly $485,000, but a WSOP title would only further prove he's able to do it on the live felt, as well as online.
Lew will enter the final day 12th in chips out of the final 20 and will be looking to lay claim to his first gold bracelet and $654,380.
As always, you can find PokerNews' coverage of the 2012 WSOP on our Live Reporting Pages. We look forward to having you follow along and stay tuned for plenty more from our What To Watch For series.
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February 27 2012, Mickey Doft
Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club Main Event began with 21 players remaining from the starting field of 778. After about four hours, the final table of nine was reached. One of the notables who fell short of the final table was Brian "Stinger 88" Hastings. Having bypassed Day 1 entirely, he opted to buy in on Day 2 with a 20-big-blind stack, and made an excellent run, but came up just short in 11th place. Here's how the final table of nine stacked up:
It was a fast and furious start as pocket aces were aplenty. Chris Parsons was the first to fall when he ran 
into Jamil Wakil's 
. A 
on the flop was not enough to save Parsons, giving him the ninth-place finish.
On the following hand, Sterling Savill got his eight-big-blind stack into the middle with 
. Jim Harnden looked him up, but Matthew O'Brien picked up 
in the small blind and isolated the pot. The board ran out 
and O'Brien's aces held to send Savill away in eighth place.
David Stefenski bid adieu in seventh place, getting his chips into the middle holding 
. Drazen Ilich had him at risk with 
, but was not happy to see the flop come down 
. Stefanski took the lead, but lost it right back when the 
smashed the turn to give Ilich the set. Stefanski still had outs to a flush on the river, and he made it happen when the 
fell. However, that also filled up Ilich's boat to end Stefanki's run.
Six-handed play lasted for about two hours before Drazen Ilich met his end. A preflop raising war between Ilich and O'Brien culminated with Ilich all-in and at-risk holding 
to O'Brien's . The 
flop kept Ilich ahead, but the turn vaulted O'Brien to the lead. Ilich wasn't saved on the river, and he was eliminate in sixth place — making five WSOPC Main Event final tables for him without the elusive first-place finish.
Jamil Wakil was the most aggressive player at the table and his aggression led to him building a sizable chip lead early on. However, two hands in quick succession did Wakil in. First, on an 
board, Wakil put Rob Williamson to the test following a three-bet shove. Williamson, with about 17 big blinds behind, called all-in with 
for a Broadway draw. Wakil was well ahead with 
, but the nailed the turn. A stunned Wakil didn't catch up on the river, and his day was about to get worse.
Wakil was involved in another hand where his hijack raise was called by Jim Harnden in the big blind. Harnden then overbet the 
flop. Wakil called to see the turn, and after Harnden bet two-thirds of the pot, Wakil reraised all-in. He was stunned to see Harnden call and turn over 
, which happened to be well ahead of Wakil's 
. The 
river ended Wakil's event in fifth place.
The final four players departed for a dinner break and when they returned a half hour later, the chips were flying. Roman Valerstein lost a race with to Harnden's 
when a king hit the flop. O'Brien followed him to the payout desk about 15 minutes later after a his river bluff with on a 
board ran smack into Harnden's 
.
Heads-up play began with Harnden holding about a 3.5:1 chip lead and in two hands he had all of the chips. It ended when he three-bet shoved into Rob Williamson's . The board ran out 
, giving Harnden a pair of queens to earn the gold ring, as well as $226,395.
Final Table Payouts
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