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Hot girl-on-girl domination action down in the Poker Room as Barbara Martinez got her last in with 
but found herself up against Almira Skripchenko's 
. The board ran out a completely unhelpful 
and Martinez was no more.
Early decision for Huck Seed, it appears, as he raised in early position and picked up Thomas Bichon. He bet out 12k on the 
flop, and Bichon called promptly. On the 
, turn, however, Seed checked and Bichon bet 24k. Now into the tank with him, as he counted out his 120k-ish stack, taking the red 5k chips and cutting them in stacks of four, three, two, sometimes taking 25k and giving the impression of calling, sometimes taking hold of his face-down hand in the way people about to fold often do. His table waited patiently as he deliberated, before finally folding at which point his table was promptly moved.
Over on the other side of the room, and Patrik Selin, out of position vs. Andrew Pantling, was facing bets on all three streets, and calling them as if he had a chess clock ticking down. He check-called 8,200 on the 
flop, 17,300 on the 
flop and 23,200 on the 
turn in quick succession, only to shake his head and muck seeing Pantling's 
.
Nick Schulman had the worst seat in the house today, sitting to Phil Ivey's immediate right. The two men have been chatting like old pals for two days now, as they were seated together for the bulk of Day 2 as well. But the table talk is over now.
Nick Schulman got his ~160,000 chips in preflop with , and Ivey looked him up with the . You can probably figure out the rest of the story from the not-so-clever foreshadowing. The flop came 
to leave Ivey freerolling to the win with two cards to come. And he only needed one. The 
peeled off right on the turn, and just like that, Schulman was drawing dead and out the door before his coffee had even cooled to sipping temperature.
That knockout moves Ivey up to about 430,000, but he's involved in another big pot that's brewing at his table right now...
Look out, Table 21...
The hand after sending Nick Schulman home early, Phil Ivey opened the next pot to 6,000. Across the table, Matt Stout got his last ~80,000 into the middle on a three-bet shove, and Ivey instantly called when it came back around to him. He didn't have a copy hand this time, but he was racing against Stout for the back-to-back knockouts:
Ivey: 
Stout: 
Stout made a quick comment about Ivey finding hands to get it in with, and the two men chuckled as the dealer pulled the cards in.
"This is the first one I feel like I'm gonna win," Ivey said. You know that utterance can not be good news for Stout. The flop came 
to vault Ivey into a huge lead in the hand. The 
on the turn was a tiny sweat for Stout, giving him four lonely outs to stay in this thing.
The river sealed his fate, though, and Stout wished Ivey and the rest of his table luck as he made his way to the door.
Phil Ivey. Chip leader once again. 510,000 chips towering in front of him. Yikes!
Paul Byrne moved all in for 51,600 and action moved over to Alex Keating. He asked for a count and then took a minute to fold. Simon Persson then called all in for 37,500 and everyone else folded. Persson held the and Byrne the 
.
The board ran out 
and Persson won the pot to double to about 80,000. Byrne was left with about 14,000.
Keating claimed that he folded pocket jacks. He had about 175,000 in his stack while making this claim.
Table 21 was playing five-handed after those back-to-back eliminations, and we were anxiously waiting to see who would fill those vacant seats. We'd like to think Ivey was anxiously awaiting that information too, but he didn't barely gave them a gaze as the new players joined up. A rack packed with more than 200,000 chips arrived in Schulman's old seat, carried by Dan Shak.
Welcome to the worst seat in the field, Dan. Good luck.
Marc Inizan has had an excellent start to the day, doubling through his 70k to give him some real play and denting Daniel Steinberg in the process. It was actually a fairly swift, simple process - he picked up and found Steinberg pushing forward a stack of 5k chips more than equal to his stack. He called immediately and found the favourable looking back at him. The King paired to secure the hold on the turn: 
. Although Steinberg called for the Ten, the river was the harmless and he had to count off and give over a quarter of his stack.
If anybody knows Bryn Kenney, they should probably get on the phone and start calling him. He still hasn't shown up here for Day 3 and we're about halfway through the first level of play. His stack is down to about 110,000.
Anthony Newman and Freddy Deeb got into a preflop collision (building between them a pot of around 40k) but it all went into slow-motion as the board cards elicited no further betting.
Check-check on the 
flop.
Check-check on the turn.
Check from Deeb on the river, but then a count-out and bet of 30k from Newman. Deeb rechecked his hand and threw in the call, tabling a rivered set of tens with 
and taking the pot.
Phil Ivey has been in pretty much every single pot today, and it apparently didn't take Dan Shak too long to figure that out.
A couple hands into his residency at his new table, Shak opened the pot to 6,500, and Ivey quickly tossed out four redbirds for a reraise to 20,000 straight. The table folded back to Shak, and he spent a minute gazing around before four-betting to what looked like 100,000 total. The look he got from Ivey -- we can only hope the cameraman filming it got a good shot. Ivey shot a long stare to his right as if Shak had just misbehaved badly. There was quick, good-natured exchange of a few comments, though we couldn't hear what was said.
Ivey looked away; it was as if he couldn't believe Shak had the moxie to four-bet him. After about a minute, though, Ivey let him have it, and Shak was visibly a bit shaky as he pulled the pot back into his stack.
