WSOP Day 3: Sylvain Coeur(de Lion) with 540.000 chips!!!

Amazing day for our french player from Grenoble in the main event of the WSOP in Las Vegas. He started the day with 300.000 and after being down to 135.000 is now behind a stack of 540.000 (the average is 480.000).

3 hands played were very important:

The first one when he called an all in bet from his right neighbor with QQ vs AK.

The traditional "All in and called table 33" announce the arrival of the ESPN crew but the dealer wants to go faster and reveals the 2 first card of the flop: a King and a Jack.

We had to wait for the minutes to see the last one (waiting for ESPN) and the third card is an ace, giving top two pairs for his opponent but drawing a gutshot for Sylvain... The turn is an AMAZING Ten for the nut straight. The river will not pair the board and Joliecoeur doubled up.

The second one:

Sylvain called an all-in from the same player with TT and his opponent held AA.
The flop came: J82 turn 7 and river 9 for another straight!!!

Finally he built his 540.000 chips stack with a pocket Kings vs AQ with a Queen on the flop, his opponent bet flop and turn and get called by Sylvain.

Check/check on the river because of the 2 Three and the 3 diamonds on the board.

GO Sylvain!!!

Sylvain 'Jolicoeur' down to last 474 of 6,800

The intrepid Frenchman in the Everest Poker colours is down to the final 474 players with a chip stack of 300,500. Sylvain qualified for the WSOP Main Event with Everest and it is his first live poker tournament.

His chip stack puts him at 183rd in the rankings - a placing that would have earned him $190,000 in last year's final but there is a long way still to go.

Good luck to Jolicoeur - for a first live tournament you have done so well already and we wish you well for the final push.

WSOP: Main Event, Day 3, In the Money

We have some good news and some bad news.

Let start with the good news:

Krul (Daan Slutter), Icebeer (Kim Wooka) and JoliCoeur (Sylvain Coeur) are in the Money

But now the bad news:

Krul and Kim are out at the 603rd place and 530th place for $23,160 and $25,090.

Jolicoeur is still in the race with 300,000 chips (it's his first tournament). INCREDIBLE!

Daan will go back to Enchede (The Netherlands) with more than $32.000 total in the WSOP month.

First cash in the WSOP for Kim for $25,090, Congratulations

Sylvain will go through the day4 for his first live tournament!!!

Daan and Kim cash in their first WSOP main event

Update 2.14 am Las Vegas:

Kim Wooka took 25,090 Dollars prize money in her first WSOP main event. The Live the Dream winner from Japan finished in 530st place. Congratulations.

Update 1.39 am Las Vegas:

Congratulations Daan, one of our Dutch Live The Dream winners just won $23,160 in his first Main Event at the WSOP. He finished in 603rd place after he pushed Allin with A-J in the small blind after a standart raise from the Button. The player to his left made the call and showed K-K. No help on the board and the WSOP was over for Daan "Krul" Slutter. Congratulations on a truly great performance.

Daan with a big star (Johnny Chan) on his left