- Both Farber, the VIP nightlife host with a star studded rail and Reiss, the confident 23-year old rising star will return to the table tonight at 6pm PST to play down to a winner.
The 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table restarted last night with nine hopefuls returning to the table to play for over $8.3m dollars, the bracelet and the title of WSOP Main Event Champion. After over 8 hours of play and 170 hands, only Jay Farber and Ryan Riess remain.
Both Farber, the VIP nightlife host with a star studded rail and Riess, the confident 23-year old rising star will return to the table tonight at 6pm PST to play down to a winner. Farber will hold a slight chip lead (105m) over Riess (85.675m) when play begins, but with the blinds at 500k/1m with a 150k ante, play is deep enough for absolutely anything to happen.
Team Ivey pro Mark Newhouse was the first to fall. Early in the night he doubled through Marc-Etienne McLauglin holding QQ against McLauglin’s KK. But when his pair of nines couldn’t out race Riess’ AK, Newhouse left the arena with no extra cash in his pocket.
David Benefield moved up one spot in the payouts but was taken out by Farber when “Raptor” was forced to shove light and ended up dominated with no help from the board.
Michiel Brummerhuis fell in 7th place as the first Dutchman to make a WSOP Main Event final table received pocket nines twice in three hands, the first time helping him double and the second running them into Riess’ pocket aces.
It would be over 100 hands later that we would lose the next player and it took a classic cooler to make it happen. Canadian Marc-Etienne McLaughlin and his rowdy rail were thunderstruck when McLaughlin entered a raising war with Farber that got the pair of players all-in. McLaughlin’s KK was dominated by Farber’s timely AA and with no help, McLaughlin exited in 6th place.
JC Tran entered the final table with the chip lead, but left in 5th, just moments later, at the hands of the red hot Farber. The action didn’t slow from there as Riess “The Beast” took out the final two players. Frenchman Sylvain Loosli exited in 4th and on the very next hand WSOP bracelet winner Amir Lehavot ran pocket 7’s into Riess’ pocket 10s.
Everything will be on the table Tuesday night—the chips, the money, the bracelet and the title—when Farber and Riess return to wrap up the 2013 WSOP season at 6pm PST on ESPN.
