14 players remained at the start of WSOP Event #33 $1,000 No Limit Hold’em, day 3. Vitaly Meshcheriakov was in the lead with 946,000 chips. The nine-handed final table started at the 23rd blind level (3,000/10,000/20,000).
Chair 1. Vitaly Meshcheriakov – 564,000
Chair 2. Samuel Gerber – 1,028,000
Chair 3. Joseph Marzicola – 1,783,000
Chair 4. Max Steinberg – 1,012,000
Chair 5. Ryan Laplante – 731,000
Chair 6. Dylan Hortin – 1,268,000
Chair 7. Matt Stout – 367,000
Chair 8. Christopher Shaw – 776,000
Chair 9. David Nicholson – 869,000
First to leave was Christopher Shaw. Surprisingly, Meshcheriakov had to go next. He went all-in against Samuel Gerber pre-flop with A 
K, and although an Ace fell on the river, it wasn’t enough against Gerber’s 6 
6, which made a flush with the same card.
K, and although an Ace fell on the river, it wasn’t enough against Gerber’s 6 6, which made a flush with the same card. Ryan Laplante finished 7th, David Nicholson took 6th place, and was followed by Joseph Marzicola and Dylan Hortin in fifth and fourth place.
Max Steinberg – 4,160,000
Samuel Gerber – 2,820,000
Matt Stout – 1,950,000
Gerber fell back considerably by the 29th blind level (10,000/40,000/80,000), but managed to double up three times on Matt Stout, the best-known player at the final table. Gerber won with Q-T vs. Q-7, A-7 vs. J-6 and 8-8 vs. A-K. With this, Stout found himself in serious trouble.
Samuel Gerber
Stout finally went preflop all-in, which got called by Gerber, but Max Steinberg raised him out of the pot.
Stout: J 8
J 8Steinberg: A 
Q
A QBoard: 2 5 
4 T 5
2 5 4 T 5Steinberg won with Ace high.
Samuel Gerber – 4,400,000
Max Steinberg – 4,000,000
Steinberg took the lead at the very beginning of the heads-up, and never gave it away after that. He started the last hand with 6,100,000 in chips. Steinberg limped in (30th level: 10,000/50,000/100,000), Greber checked, and the flop came 4 3K. Gerber checked, Steinberg bet to 100,000, ot which Gerber went all-in with 1,700,000 and got called by Steinberg.
4 3K. Gerber checked, Steinberg bet to 100,000, ot which Gerber went all-in with 1,700,000 and got called by Steinberg. Steinberg: T T
T TGerber: 4 T
4 TTurn: A
ARiver: 9
9 Max Steinberg won his first WSOP bracelet with pocket Tens.
Max Steinberg
Final Results:
1. Max Steinberg – $440,238
2. Samuel Gerber – $273,385
3. Matt Stout – $192,813
4. Dylan Hortin – $139,258
5. Joseph Marzicola – $101,802
6. David Nicholson – $75,314
7. Ryan Laplante – $56,372
8. Vitaly Meshcheriakov – $42,688
9. Christopher Shaw – $32,702
