The board read on the river. The pot was a large one of about 290,000. From the big blind, Nick Howard bet 215,000 over to his opponent who went into the tank. The bet was for about 2/3rds of his stack.
Howard waited for the decision which eventually was a call Howard tabled trips with the and his opponent mucked to move Howard higher up among the chip leaders.
Three ways to the flop, it checked to Fahredin Mustafov and he then bet 17,000. Roman Pumpernick in the small blind was the only caller and the fell on the turn. Pumpernick now bet 15,000 only for Mustafov to raise it up to 75,000, which the Austrian snap-called.
They headed to the on the river and Pumpernick now checked. Mustafov bet 131,000 for nearly half of his remaining stack and Pumpernick eventually called to win the pot with , as Mustafov had bluffed all the way with .
Just before the break, John Perry raised to 10,000 and Oliver Entine three-bet to 26,000.
Jesse Sylvia, the 2012 Main Event runner-up, four-bet jammed for 180,000. Perry re-shoved and Entine joined the action too for a massive preflop all in.
Jesse Sylvia:
Oliver Entine:
John Perry:
The runout was clean for pocket aces and Entine tripled, while Syliva was sent out.
Eric Baldwin is also seated at this table and William Smith still holds a big stack.
Jimmy D'Ambrosio spent the last few hours on one of the featured tables for the PokerGo stream. Unfortunately, his run has just came to an end after getting it in good.
In a hand from the live stream, Josh Meyer shoved from the small blind and D'Ambrosio called from the big for his last 64,000.
Jimmy D'Ambrosio:
Josh Meyer:
The was an interesting one, as D'Ambrosio paired his king, but Meyer also paired up and picked up a flush draw. The turn was an unlucky one for D'Ambrosio as Meyer made trip sixes and left him drawing thin.
The river was not what he needed and he was gracious in defeat as he said some kind words to the table.
"Good game sir," said Nick Schulman on the stream. "Enjoyable sweats, the Jimmy D sweats."
"He will be missed," added Ali Nejad.
D'Ambrosio has five cashes so far in this series, including two top-25 finishes. Although he bows out on Day 3, the poker world has been put on notice by one of the best players and personalities in the game.
After an open on the button, Elliot Smith in the small blind then three- bet to 50,000, but then Gavin Munroe in the big blind decided to raise the price of poker and shipped it all in, covering Smith.
After the rest of the table got out of the way, Smith went deep into the tank.
"Shouldn't have three-bet light," Munroe told him.
"I'm not exactly light," Smith replied and Munroe just shrugged.
After a lengthy session in his head, Smith open- folded and Munroe was nice enough to show him .
On a side feature table, George Holmes was all in and at risk preflop with and was up against an opponent's .
Both players paired their ace on the flop but last year's Main Event runner up was still behind. He was then drawing dead on the turn and the river was just a formality.
The action was picked up on a board with a nice pot containing already around 300,000.
Andriy Lyubovetskiy, in the big blind, shoved to put Leon Strum at risk for a remaining stack worth 484,000. The latter went deep into the tank and the floor was called after a few minutes.
Sturm sent a chip for the call in the last seconds of the clock and Lyubovetskiy quickly tabled . Sturm revealed for top pair and doubled up his stack as the bubble slowly approaches.