The Quest for the Final Table Starts at 2 p.m.
It's time for Day 3 of Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship as the field is down to the final 16 players. The tournament started two days ago and a total of 272 hopefuls gave it a shot for one of their last chances at WSOP glory during the 2019 World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. They will all be battling it out for the top prize of $630,747 while they are already guaranteed to take home at least $28,618.
Anuj Agarwal bagged the overnight chip lead as he ended Day 2 as the only player with more than 2 million chips. Agarwal survived the second day with 2,171,00 which is a little more than double the average stack of 1,020,000. His closest pursuers are Markus Gonsalves (1,777,000) and Jeffrey Trudeau (1,651,000).
Eric Kurtzman (1,311,000) is also still competing and he sits in fourth place at the start of Day 3. Kurtzman had a very good start on the first day of the tournament when he won one of the craziest three-way all-in situations ever. Kurtzman won the big pot with a straight flush against the nut flush and a full house. He managed to win about 200,000 in that pot with the blinds still at 200/300.
Bracelet winners Ben Heath (937,000) and Gal Yifrach (319,000) are the only players that are looking for their second piece of WSOP gold. Yifrach will start the day as the short stack but he will start the day with about 16 big blinds.
Blinds start at 10,000/20,000 with a big blind ante of 20,000 and the plan is to play down to the final six but that is subject to change. Make sure to keep tuned in to PokerNews to follow the latest updates.
and Maue's pocket eights held up. Deadman was the first player eliminated on Day 3 and he can collect $28,618 at the cashier.
flop was on the board and there was well over 300,000 in the pot already when big blind Dong Chen led out with a bet of 200,000. Alan Goehring sat in the hijack and he raised all in for about 485,000. Chen wanted a count and he called moments later. 
and the river was the 
and that meant the elimination for Goehring who was sent to the cashier to collect $36,151 for his 12th-place finish.
. Eric Kurtzman woke up with 
on the river didn't change a lot at first sight but it turned out to be a very significant card when the river was the 
