April 11 2011, Donnie Peters
Day 3 of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun came to a close on Monday as the field was cut down to its final 24 players. Leading the pack into Day 4 is defending champion Vanessa Selbst with 1.406 million in chips.
When play began for the day, 74 players returned to the felt, but only 56 of them got paid. That meant a handful of players would have to hit the rail empty handed. Some of those players who were eliminated short of the money included Kevin Eyster, Ronnie Bardah, Team PokerStars Online’s Andrew Brokos, Todd Terry and Dan O’Brien. The official bubble boy title went to Nick Binger, who ended his tournament in 57th place.
Binger had a rough day filled with a lot of bad luck. First, he had Adam Junglen on the ropes holding 
to Junglen’s 
. The poker gods shined on Junglen though as the board ran out 
to give him a flush and send the rockets of Binger crashing to the ground.
Junglen was then the player who finished off Binger, having to come from behind again to do so. This time, Junglen cracked a pair of queens for Binger. Binger was all in preflop with 
and Junglen held just one overcard with the 
. The board ran out 
to give Junglen an ace on the river and the winning hand.
Binger took it extremely well and left with a smile on his face. “I just keep telling people that bubbling builds character,” he said as he made his way to the rail. In fact, Binger hopped right back on his horse and was seen playing a satellite to the $10,000 Bounty Shootout later in the evening.
Once the money bubble broke, the players started dropping fairly quickly, as expected. The first to go was last year’s runner-up Mike Beasley. He was followed by a group of players that included Jerry Wong, Team PokerStars Pro Greg DeBora, Jeff Papola and Lee Markholt.
Selbst was able to build her stack pretty steadily throughout the day, but it wasn’t until right at the end of the night that she took over the chip lead from Vincent Rubianes.
From under the gun, Olivier Busquet raised to 21,000. Rubianes reraised to 51,000 from the cutoff and then action fell on Selbst on the button. She four-bet to 109,000 and play folded back to Busquet. He folded and then Rubianes made the call. The flop came down 
and Rubianes checked. Selbst bet 129,000 and Rubianes made the call, making this pot awfully big between two of the largest stacks in the room.
The turn card added the 
to the board and completed a possible flush draw. Both players checked to see the 
put a fourth club on board on the river. Rubianes checked and Selbst bet 294,000. After tanking for a bit, Rubianes made the call, but only to muck his hand when Selbst tabled the 
for a king-high club flush.
Day 4 Table and Seat Draw
| 1 | 1 | Nenad Medic | 350,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Eric Froehlich | 420,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Vincent Rubianes | 1,023,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 289,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Aaron Overton | 907,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Olivier Busquet | 356,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Vanessa Selbst | 1,406,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Jean-Philippe Matte | 331,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Corey Hochman | 355,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Thomas Hoglund Jr. | 629,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Joe Tehan | 490,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Sukh Sandhu | 267,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Philippe Plouffe | 293,000 |
| 2 | 6 | David Stefanski | 162,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Adam Geyer | 803,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Ara Melikian | 233,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Dan Shak | 488,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Chris Tryba | 361,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Joseph Gibbons | 179,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Jacobo Fernandez | 813,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Tyler Kenney | 478,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Kyle Loman | 340,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Steve O’Dwyer | 507,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Jonathan Schroer | 231,000 |
Play resumes on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m EDT (1600 GMT) where the final 24 players will return to action and play down to just one final table of eight is left standing. There’s plenty of firepower still left in the field, but it’s Selbst’s tournament now and it doesn’t look like she’s ready to give up her title anytime soon. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the live coverage from the event as only our world class Live Reporting Team can bring it to you!
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Mon, 03/07/2011 – 20:28 – PokerPages Staff
Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst and Barry Greenstein featured on the latest episode of the High Stakes Poker game show which aired on GSN on Saturday.
Selbst began in the red by $228,000 after being stacked during the first episode while David Peat headed the elite group with winnings of $210,000.
Phil Ruffin and Robert Croak were involved in the first notable hand after Ruffin fired a huge overbet on a 7-8-2-A-J board.
Croak had spiked a flush on the river but managed to get away from his hand despite dominating Ruffin’s straight. He later revealed that the size of the bet had swayed his decision from calling.
Bill Klein then saw his pocket kings cracked after Peat flopped trips. Klein check-raised on the flop and led out on the turn and river before mucking his hand.
Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson entered the action on a J-3-7-Q board for top two pair. Antonio Esfandiari had flopped a set and value bets of $10,100 and $30,100 saw him rake in a $96,000 pot.
Greenstein had been largely inactive up to this point but he sprang to life in the biggest pot of the evening.
Esfandiari fired a $6,200 bullet with 8-7 on a 10-6-4 board for flush and straight draws.
Peat (7-6) called before Greenstein made it $30,000 to go with a flopped set of fours. Esfandiari came back over the top for $106,000 only for Greenstein to jam all-in.
Both players agreed to run the river just once and Esfandiari spiked the Queen of hearts to complete his flush and take down the huge $593,000 pot.
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