Not for the first time today, Van Marcus has doubled up. He's now back in contention with around 140,000 after shoving with from the small blind against Carlos Chang who called in the big blind with .
The board of was kind to Marcus to give him two pair as Chang is now on the short stack with 31,000 chips.
It was two raises to all-in status for Andrew Scott. He opened the pot preflop with a standard raise, then called all in after Andrew Chung put him in. Chung had a huge hand, , but had to fade Scott's ace draw, . He couldn't do it; Scott hit an ace straightaway on the flop, . He improved to two pair, aces and queens, after a turn and river . Hitting that ace netted Scott a pot worth 188,000 chips and caused Chung to sink to 170,000.
We're not sure how Dan Schreiber wound up all in with against Remy Bakke's . With blinds as big as they are, it probably only took two raises. But there they were, all in preflop for 89,500 chips. Bakke was the player at risk of elimination, but he was also the player who doubled up on a board of .
That hand left Schreiber with just 30,000 chips. He was eliminated a few hands later.
Dueling flush draws wound up being a big problem for Stanley Hou. He got all of his chips in the middle against Brandon Demes on a flop of . Each player had a flush draw, with Hou's bigger than Demes' . Neither hit the turn , but Demes made a lowly pair of fours with a on the river to take the pot and send Hou to an inglorious elimination in 41st place.
Stefan Hjorthall has more than doubled up at the expense of Wally Sombero.
Hjorthall opened to 12,500 from middle position before Daniel Hansson made it 27,000 from the button. Sombero made it 60,000 from the big blind and Hjorthall shoved for his last 74,000. Hansson stepped aside as Sombero made the call.
Hjorthall:
Sombero:
The board arrived and Hjorthall's jacks hold up to double through.
Dbinder Singh raised preflop from the cutoff before Hung Chang Lin moved all in for an additional 30,000 or so from the big blind. Singh made the call.
Singh:
Lin:
The board ran out and Singh spikes a queen to eliminate Lin early on day 3 in 42nd place for $6,244 in prize money.
It's Day 3 action here at the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. 42 players are currently taking their seats and hungrily opening their bags in preparation of the day ahead. We're already in the money, with the goal today to reach the final table later this evening.
All eyes are on Kyle Cheong who enters today as our chip leader with 575,500 chips.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for all your live updates with play scheduled to kick off in a few minutes time.