A field of 3,229 entries has been whittled down to 2,185 players and they have been sent into their third scheduled five-minute break of the day. Almost two hours of late registration remain for new faces to appear or those that departed to re-enter.
Pavel "MountaiRo$e" Veksler raised from under the gun and then called the shove of short stack "Askim32" with the . Veksler was trailing versus but spiked trips tens on a to add a bounty prize to his bankroll.
In a battle of Brazilians, "HoffmanGC" opened to 3,200 and called a three-bt to 9,600 by "Thomaz0796" to see a flop of . "HoffmanGC" check-raised all-in and picked up a call by "Thomaz0796" for the last 44,814.
"Thomaz0796":
"HoffmanGC":
Neither the turn nor the river provided any help as "HoffmanGC" further improved to trips queens.
A steady stream of entries and re-entries throughout the last two hours has boosted the field to nearly 3,100 entries and that means the $1,500,000 guarantee has been surpassed. Some 2,272 players currently remain and the late registration is open for another two and a half hours.
Among others, "tinchoarce" was sent to the rail on their first entry in the tournament when they took a flip with against the of "(p/r)okSerj". The board came and the ace on the flop resulted in the seat open.
Many big names were among those to bust, too, as Christopher "lissi stinkt" Frank and Patrice "pAtcAsh83" Brandt for example bowed out on the third entry already.
Nothing much has happened for Ben "Spraggy" Spragg on the second bullet nor Fintan "easywithaces" Hand on the first bullet as they are close to what they had the last 15 minutes.
On Spragg's table, "Cabeca Rush" was rushed out when they ran with into the of "Sc0RPioN95" and found no help on a board.