Simon Young reports from the World Series on the latest Team PokerStars Pro to make a final table...

The pay day will come as little compensation to Barry Greenstein. After three days juggling the extreme swings this game brings, he arrived at the final table of the WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha with high hopes of securing his fourth bracelet and, of course, the bumper $679,379 first prize.

To do that you have to win your fair share of monster PLO draws, and while he did that earlier to build his chips to a place of real contention, he missed a big one right at the death.

It took a huge call by the Russian Vitaly Lunkin, who won the $40,000 no limit event earlier in the Series, to dispose of Greenstein, who will count himself considerably unlucky that he came out of the hand with nothing.

The killer blow started innocently enough: with blinds at 20,000-40,000 Lunkin raised to 120,000 and Greenstein and Josh Arieh defended their blinds. They checked to Lunkin on the [9c][6s][2c] flop, and he made a 200,000 continuation bet.

Greenstein then check-raised to 800,000, sending Arieh running for the hills. It was a huge decision for Lunkin, but after a few minutes he announced: "All-inl!". Greenstein called quickly:

Greenstein: [9d][7s][8c][5c]
Lunkin: [ah][ad][8h][7c]

The Russian was ahead with aces and had the open-ender draw, but Greenstein had loads of outs with the same wrap and a flush draw, while any five would give him two pair. But the turn of [qd] and river of [3s] missed the lot of them, and the Team PokerStars Pro was headed for the cash desk while Lunkin headed for the chip lead.

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Team PokerStars Holland Pro Lex Veldhuis was unable to win his second round $5,000 Shootout match, but collected $16,740 for his progress up to then. "I was just leaving the cashier when they said the $2,500 Razz event was starting, so I thought, 'Why not?'", and that's where he's sitting now, trying to make the worst hand possible.