There were five players that returned to the felt at 1 p.m., well besides Sean Winter who showed up ten minutes late. Lamb found himself back on the short stack and got his chips in the middle with ace-queen but ran dead into the ace-king of Nakanishi who found a clean runout, something that doesn't occur often in this highly volatile game. There was a large contingent of Japanese supporters on the rail and they burst into cheers on the final hand of the day. I also enjoy no-limit hold'em and sometimes pot-limit Omaha.' 'I've been playing online for three years.
'I play lots of short deck, many times,' Nakanishi said after his victory. It came down to a battle between Nakanishi and Ben Lamb but Nakanishi found a way to come out on top. It was a tall order for the Japanese poker player with four of the best players in the world joining him at the table on Day 3. Nakanishi overcame a record-setting field of 110 entries at this buy-in level for the short-deck variant of no-limit hold'em. There were five players who returned for the final day of Event #60: $10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em and it was the start-of-day chip leader Shota Nakanishi who walked away with his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet along with $277,212.
