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After a pretty bad start, Ram Vaswani's day started looking up when he took the lead against Yevgeniy Timoshenko - and things are now looking great, as Timoshenko is busto and Vaswani is in the money.
Timoshenko was down to under 60,000 when he got the whole lot in preflop with a speculative 
. Vaswani found 
and made the call, and following an unequivocal 
board, Vaswani progressed to Round 4.
Chance Kornuth had been battling with a short stack for a while and after moving in on Daniel Negreanu a few times he was finally called and found he was in good shape. Showdown:
Kornuth: 
Negreanu: 
The flop came 
to see Negreanu take the lead but he couldn't hold onto it through the 
turn and river. Kornuth up to 70,600 as a result.
Andrew Feldman informed Mori Eskandani that he had aces when he made a big raise all-in earlier. This was just after he eliminated Eskandani whilst holding pocket kings.
All the chips went in pre-flop with Eskandani at risk with a shorter 90k stack. Feldman turned over 
to Eskandani's and the board ran 
.
Talal Shakerchi found himself in some trouble after he bet out 25,000 on the river of a board and then called the push from Saar Wilf. Wilf turned over 
for the flopped flush, and Shakerchi was down almost to the felt.
Just a hand or two later and Wilf raised enough from the button to cover him. Shakerchi called all in, and was ahead...
Shakerchi: 
Wilf:
...but the end of Shakerchi's tournament life was indicated by just a vague shrug from Wilf as he hit the board and progressed to Round 4.
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 0
Heads-up tournaments are odd, with effectively each match being its own event and no-one else's progress of any concern to each individual pair (apart from the vague worry that in the next round you might get a match-up you're not keen on). But there are chip leaders at every table, and a few of them are:
Gus Hansen leading by 180k to 60k over Mark Everett
Andrew Feldman leading by 160k to 80k over Mori Eskandani
Amit Makhija leading by 188k to 52k over McLean Karr
Andrew Robl was in charge at his table, but Touko Takala just put a stop to all that with a timely double up, 
against Robl's .
If Takala felt the sweat of the 
flop he didn't show it, calmly sipping at a cup of coffee as the dealer put the cards on the board. His pair of kings held up on the turn and 
river, and he's now got the chip lead - 180,000 to Robl's 60,000.
On the river, the super-hooded (i.e. gathered in around the whole face so that only a shadowy small area where maybe his nose is remains uncovered by grey cotton) Chance Kornuth faced a big bet from Daniel Negreanu. It represented over half his remaining stack (80k) and was made as the river double paired the board: 
. Kornuth counted out the 40k to call and finally did so, at which point Negreanu flipped his 
for the house, collected his payment and built his dominating stack a little higher.
Ludovic Lacay is the second bubble boy today (there will be 16 in total) after losing out to Kevin Eyster. Lacay was down to 32,000 and he three-bet all-in when Eyster made it 3,200 to go from the button. Call.
Lacay: 
Eyster:
The board ran out 
to bust the Frenchman.
We would like to salute the dealer at Martin Kabrhel and Matt Jarvis' table for his really astonishing recall - we managed to miss the action, but he filled us in with amazing detail.
Kabrhel opened on the button, and faced a reraise from Jarvis in the big blind. Kabrhel four-bet, Jarvis pushed, and Kabrhel snap-called.
Kabrhel: 
Jarvis:
Board: 
With that, we are down one November Niner, and king of the EPT side events Kabrhel become the first player in the money.
