Texas Hold'em (No Limit) -- Standings

End of Day Three

1995 Champion: Dan Harrington

The following report is courtesy of Paul R. Pudaite and Tom Sims, 5/16/96

• The Survivors.
• The Story.

The Final Table
1.   John Bonetti          794,000  Houston, TX 
2.   Huck Seed             632,000  Las Vegas, NV 
3.   An Tran               596,000  Las Vegas, NV 
4.   Dr. Bruce Van Horn    524,000  Ada, OK 
5.   Men "Master" Nguyen   252,000  Bell Gardens, CA 
6.   Andre Boyer           153,000  Las Vegas, NV 
 
Eliminated
7.   J. P. Schmalz          78,000  Houston, TX 
8.   Fernando Fisdel        58,500  Denver, CO 
9.   Steve Beam             44,850  Las Vegas, NV 
10.  David Chiu             31,200  Lakewood, CO 
11.  Paul Ladanyi           31,200  Las Vegas, NV 
12.  John Saer              31,200  Little Rock, AR 
13.  Chau Giang             27,300  Las Vegas, NV 
14.  John "Akron" Franjesh  27,300  Akron, OH 
15.  Steve Melton           27,300  Noble, OK 
16.  Berry Johnston         23,400  Las Vegas, NV 
17.  Dan Harrington         23,400  Las Vegas, NV 
18.  Frank Henderson        23,400  Houston, TX 
19.  John Esposito          19,500  Las Vegas, NV 
20.  Larry Gordon           19,500  Los Angeles, CA 
21.  Peter Vilandos         19,500  Houston, TX 
22.  Tom Hufnagle           19,500  Las Vegas, NV 
23.  Mike Laing             19,500  Franklin, PA 
24.  Hal "Deadman" Kant     19,500  Reno, NV 
25.  Donn O'Dea             19,500  London, England 
26.  Lucy Rokach            19,500  Stoke-on-Trent, England 
27.  Jeff Burdsall          19,500  Las Vegas, NV

Highlights

• At about 1330 hours a confrontation between two of the chip leaders developed. Peter Vilandos (AK) lost a pot of about 500,000 to John "Akron" Fraujsch (AT) with a board of (AxxTx). Most of the money went in on the turn. This put PV out of the Tournament in 21st place and made Akron John the chip leader.
• Steve Beam doubled thru twice on consecutive hands against Larry Gordon to eliminate LG in 20th place. 500 ante and the blinds are 1,500/3,000. On the second hand, both were all-in before the flop. SB's AQ outkicked LG's QT (468Q5) to win a pot of about 90,000.
• Men's JJ wins a 250,000 pot from Akron John (AQ) with Men all-in before the flop (J9K7K). Akron John is still the chip leader with over 350,000.
• Frank Henderson (A3) goes all-in before the flop against Chau Giang (55) and wins a 50,000 pot on the river (K962A).
• Dan Harrington (T5s) is all-in before the flop versus Berry Johnston (AKs) and wins a 50,000 pot (J546J).
• Antes go to 1,000 and blinds are 2,000/4,000 and John Saer (99) puts John Esposito (AK) all in before the flop. JE finishes in 19th place when the board shows (9626x).
• David Chiu (88) goes all in before the flop against Andre Boyer (A9h) and wins a 80,000 pot (56K4K).
• Frank Henderson finishes 18th when his all-in before the flop K5c loses to Steve Melton's JJ in a 50,000 pot (AAQ74).
• Fernando Fisdel's all-in before the flop ATs wins a 60,000 pot against JP Schmalz's 78s (T723A).
• Dan Harrington (KK) is all in and wins a 100,000 pot from An Tran (AT). (Q9567) with three spades on the flop, but no more spades to match AT's As, and An Tran is now down to about 20,000. This will prove to be his low point.
• An Tran begins playing very aggressively and moves all-in many, many times. He isn't called too often, and shows several uncalled A-high kicker hands.
• In late position An Tran (J8) goes all-in against Dan Harrington's (J3s) blind hand and doubles thru to 50,000 (47KTT).
• John Bonetti slow plays AA and sends Dan Harrington to the showers in 17th place when DH moves all in on the turn (he was drawing dead at the time) with KT (AT96x). Pot was about 225,000.
• Berry Johnston (??) finishes 16th when his all in hand loses to JP Schmalz's K3s (55KKx).
• John Bonetti (KJ) wins another 200,000 pot and eliminates Steve Melton (QJs) in 15th place. Most of the money went in on the flop (K93A2) when SM's QJs was of the same suit as the K9.
• Bruce Van Horn (two red Aces) eliminates Akron John (two red Jacks) and becomes chip leader with over 500,000 as both are all in before the flop (87477). AJ finishes 14th.
• Chau Giang (A9s) goes all in before the flop in the blind after John Bonetti (A7) attempts a steal from the button. They split a 120,000 pot (AA3JT).
• Steve Beam (AT), who was short stacked all day, survives all-in against Huck Seed (K4) to win a 50,000 pot (A25T7).
• On two simultaneous 100,000 pots, both all-in before the flop players survived: An Tran (TT) against John Bonetti (KJs) with a (7788x) board and Steve Beam (KK) against Fernando Fisdel (TT) with a (2395x) board.
• I believe there were only 4 smokers at the last two tables, and several fans were aimed in their direction. I know that at this point, with 14 players left, the only smokers were Men, An Tran, Chui and Giang.
• An Tran (55) on the button goes all in before the flop and is called by John Bonetti in the small blind (KQs). AT wins a 80,000 pot (56767). Presto!
• An Tran raises 16,000 in mid position, John Bonetti (88) calls and Chau Giang (AK) on the button raises 34,000 all-in. AT folds, JB calls. (8542Q) and Chau Giang is 13th.
• David Chiu (QJ) wins an unraised family pot of 100,000 when he moves all in on a flop that is checked around to him on the button and John Bonetti (AK) calls (QT46Q).
• Steve Beam (QQ) survives again when he goes all-in before the flop against Huck Seed (QJ). Board is (K8723).
• Paul Ladanyi (??) makes it 20,000 to go from early position and John Bonetti (AA) calls on the button. 20,000 is bet and called on the flop, and PL check raises JB on the turn, 20,000 + 60,000. PL checks the river and calls JB's 50,000. Board is (9TJx9) and pot is about 350,000. PL along with An Tran was probably the most aggressive player all day.
• Blinds go to 3,000/6,000 with 1,000 ante and Paul Ladanyi (TT) makes it 20,000 to go from early position. John Saer (AA) makes it 100,000 all-in from the blind and PL calls. A board of (T74K2) gives John Saer 12th place.
• Paul Ladanyi (TT) in the small blind raises 15,000 and is called by Andre Boyer (A9s) in the big blind. AB calls all-in on the flop and wins a 200,000 pot on the river (JJ9KA).
• Fernando Fisdel (AA) goes all-in before the flop against JP Schmalz (22) and makes the nut flush on the turn to survive (xxxxx).
• In a battle of the blinds, David Chiu (65) calls all-in on the flop against Paul Ladanyi (24) and takes a 70,000 pot (753QQ).
• JP Schmalz (AA) under the gun raises all in and is called by Men (JJ). The (T9265) board gives JS a 130,000 pot.
• John Bonetti (KTs) makes it 25,000 to go on the button, Paul Ladanyi (A9s) bumps it 116,000 more and JB calls. Ladanyi finishes 11th (KT4T6).
• John Bonetti makes it 30,000 (86) to go on the button and David Chiu (55) calls in the blind. DC bets about 40,000 all-in on the flop, Bonetti calls and David Chiu is 10th (QQ869).
• John Bonetti is now chip leader with 1,015,000 followed by Van Horn 637,000 and Seed 515,000. An Tran has 90,000.
• Steve Beam (A4s) goes all in on the button and goes home in 9th place after John Bonetti (AK) calls in the blind (T629J). Pot is about 60,000.
• JP Schmalz (AK) goes all-in in middle position and is called by Bruce Van Horn on the button. The river (8877A) saves JS and wins him a 160,000 pot.
• Men calls, An Tran (AK) makes it 30,000 to go and Fernando Fisdel (QQ) raises 70,000 more all-in. Men folds, An Tran calls and FF gets 8th place (K72J7).
• John Bonetti (AQ) makes it 50,000 to go from late position and An Tran (AKs) raises about 150,000). Bonetti calls, no one helps and JB is out kicked (xxxxx).
• An Tran (AA) makes it 30,000 to go and JP Schmalz (A9s) raises about 40,000 more all-in from the blind. JP gets 7th place from a board of (56TT7).

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