Dan Smith Dominates Day 1 in Event #3 of Poker Masters
Day 1 has come to an end in Event #3 of the Poker Masters at the ARIA Resort and Casino. This is the third of four $50,000 tournaments with Dan Smith leading the way of the final table, bagging an impressive 1,982,000 chips.
Other players that will be moving on to the final table include Doug Polk, Jake Schindler, Sergio Aido, Cary Katz, and Erik Seidel. Also, Bryn Kenney will return for the second day in a row.
Smith was building up a big stack throughout the day and started to run away with the chip lead after he collided with Schindler in a big pot. Smith, Polk, and Schindler are all sitting comfortably over one million chips while the next closest is Bryn Kenney with just over 500,000.
The winner of Event #3 will move into the second spot on the leaderboard for The Poker Masters Purple Jacket. Steffen Sontheimer has first place locked up for now after winning Event #2 earlier in the day. The winner tomorrow will be taking home $960,000 while the remaining seven players are all guaranteed at least $96,000.
Unfortunately, there were many others that were unable to make it through the day unscathed and they include Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Nick Schulman, Fedor Holz, and Brian Rast.
Although he will maintain his first-place standing, Sontheimer was looking to extend his lead as he made a deep run today. Sontheimer made it to the final table bubble but was eliminated in eighth place. He got all of his money in the middle against Kenney and lost a flip, sending him home on the money bubble with nothing.
On Saturday, the Event #3 final table will be livestreamed on PokerGO with a 30-minute delay. The PokerNews coverage will be in sync with the live stream and the action will get underway at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Day 1 of Event #4: $50,000 NLHE will also start up on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on site to bring you all of the live updates from that event as well.
and the two players got all of their chips in the middle with Polk being the player at risk.
and was up against all of the draws with Hyman's 
. The turn was the 
and the river landed the 
. Polk's set of tens held on to earn him a double up and leave Hyman with less than five big blinds.
and Smith checked to Schindler who bet 105,000.
on the turn as the 
landed on the river.
and Negreanu was eliminated in 11th place as Smith climbs to over 1.4 million in chips.
, Schindler bet out 60,000.
on the turn.
, and Schindler checked to Kenney who announced a bet of 257,000. Schindler called, and when Kenney revealed his 
for a straight.
and Chidwick was eliminated in 13th place as Sontheimer climbed to 475,000 in chips.
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river helped Winter and he hit the rail.
