Nick Schulman has taken a serious hit after checking the river of a board to find himself facing a 276,000 bet from Chouity - by our reckoning, around two thirds of the pot. Schulman stood up and asked the dealer to spread the pot, then stared at it for a while before eventually folding. He was left with 500,000 at the end of the hand.
"Allez Chouity!" shouted someone at the rail, "Big man!"
Matt Perrins' great wall of chips was shrinking after he found himself on the wrong end of a few flips, but he's moving back in the upward direction after the last card of the latest all-in confrontation. Perrins opened to 41,000 under the gun, and action folded around to Christopher McCormack in the small blind. McCormack moved all in, and since he only had a total of 182,000, Perrins had to make the call. Perrins showed to McCormack's , meaning he wasn't as big a dog as could have been. At least until the flop came . After the on the turn, McCormack only had to dodge four outs to avoid elimination. And right on cue, the appeared to complete Perrins' straight and bust McCormack.
After losing around 700,000 in assorted flips against short stacks, Matt Perrins has finally managed to win one. Matthew Szymaszek was his victim, Perrins set his opponent in from the small blind with and Szymaszek called with but a on the flop sent another player off to the rail.
Nick Schulman raised to 52,000 in the cutoff, and Sami Kelopuro made it 156,000 from the button. The blinds both folded and it was back on Schulman, who very quickly and very quietly announced all in. Kelopuro took only a few seconds to fold, and Schulman picked up the pot.
It's all over for Ms. Coren. Herve Costa checked a tailor-made flop of , and Vicky Coren bet 45,000 with about 250,000 behind. Costa then check-raised, not counting out a bet so much as throwing in enough chips to commit Coren or make her fold. She went with it, moving all in, and Costa called. He had for top and bottom pair. Coren tabled for a flush draw and gutshot straight draw. She seemed confident that she'd hit, but the turn was the unhelpful and the river was another brick, the . Coren nodded and made a quick exit in 27th place.
The players are now two eliminations away from Day 4.