Just before the break, Hamid Feiz reached the four-million chip mark, with his hitting a set on the flop of a runout. The stacks are starting to get massive as this event plays in to Level 25.
A flop of amalgamated two shorter stacks with that of Granville Abbott to boost him to 1,550,000 in chips and cause his table to instantly break.
C. Atkins was one of those all-in and covered, Patrick Hendricks the other, with and respectively. Abbott held an overpair: . The turn and river ran out prompting two visits to the cash desk to collect $4,343 and one shout of, "Yeeeah! Now I'm up with you!"
"You" encompasses all above-averagely stacked players with the average now just over 1.1 million.
Anthony Martin checked to Mark Wolpert on the turn, and Wolpert fired a 300,000-chip bet, with the board showing . Martin thought it over for a bit before folding, and the pot brought Wolpert up to the 1.37 million mark. Wolpert showed and it appeared that Martin made the correct fold.
Adam Richardson has knocked out Christopher Ryan, his vs. an overpair to the flop and eventually part of a queen-high straight on the river.
Meanwhile the field is down to 88 players. A money jump has occurred meaning that the next players to be eliminated stand to win $5,946, going up to $7,043 at 81st.
Howard Mash continues to stay atop the chip leaderboard, and he keeps getting just the right cards to do so.
Mash played a three-way pot against Jeffery Bond and Joseph Pizzuto, firing a bet for 250,000 when both players checked to him on the flop. The bet got folds out of both opponents, and Mash showed for top pair.
Thanks to Barry Greenstein for filling in the preflop action: Bill Stabler, nursing 400,000 and moving all in regularly, uncalled, moved all in preflop again. Patrick [Removed:349], in Seat 1, didn't notice, and threw in 100,000, then 400,000 when he was made to call. Over to Alan Ho, who shipped in 910,000 over the top only to see his left hand side neighbour Ivo Donev move all-in himself for more than Ho's bet.
[Removed:349] got out of the way.
Stabler:
Ho:
Donev:
The board: . Stabler busted and Donev had to count out two thirds of his stack and hand it to Ho.
WSOP bracelet winner John Esposito and WPT champion Victor Ramdin are in a dead heat, each with 1.2 million chips. Esposito stood up to report to PokerNews about an earlier hand that saw Esposito take some of Ramdin's stack with a gutshot straight.
Ramdin heard this going on from the next table and was having none of it, telling Esposito to sit back down and pay attention to his hand. This friendly banter fits right in with the overall feel of this event on Day 3, with plenty of good-natured needling going on between players at the remaining tables.