{"id":27481,"date":"2013-03-21T03:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27481"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:24:57","slug":"phil-hellmuth-eliminated-in-third-place-8-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-eliminated-in-third-place-8-points.html","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hellmuth eliminated in third place (8 points)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phil-elim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phil-elim.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phil-elim-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\nOh boy the elimination of Phil Hellmuth in third place has blown this group wide open, he&#8217;ll collect eight points for finishing third in this heat. He&#8217;ll have 18 going into the last heat, one of Antonio Esfandiari or Scott Seiver will leapfrog him meaning he&#8217;ll go into the final heat in joint fourth spot, teetering on the edge of automatic qualification, but equally close to the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>Three handed play lasted a while but this is the hand that did for him. From the small blind Antonio Esfandiari raised all-in with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ts.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Hellmuth looked down at <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, counted his stack of 172,000, then decided he could wait no longer to try and double up and called all-in.<\/p>\n<p>The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop actually made Hellmuth a 54% favourite, the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn though swung the pendulum Esfandiari&#8217;s way as he was now a 67% favourite and the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/tc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> river sent the chips his way.<\/p>\n<p>Group A is now wide open and the last heat is shaping up to be an all-time cat and mouse classic.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch All The Action and Join The Conversation!<\/h3>\n<p>The PartyPoker.com Premier League VI continues with daily Live Streaming coverage here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/plpstream\">bit.ly\/plpstream<\/a><\/strong> So who do you think is going to win? 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He&#8217;ll have 18 going into the last heat, one of Antonio Esfandiari or Scott Seiver will leapfrog him meaning he&#8217;ll go into the final heat in joint fourth spot,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-eliminated-in-third-place-8-points.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":27482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76534,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions\/76534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}