Ronit Chamani fired 67,000 on the turn against Robert Merulla and Matthew Parry in a pot she had raised preflop that got checked through on the flop. The board now read , and Merulla folded. Parry, who had checked from the big blind, made the call, and a completed the board. Parry came out firing with 100,000, and Chamani called after thinking for a brief moment.
Parry showed for a rivered full house, and Chamani just said "nice hand."
Action folded to John Racener, who shoved all in from the small blind. Unfortunately for him, Matthew Parry woke up with in the big blind, and he eliminated Racener when Racener couldn't catch up.
He kept the heater going in a recent hand with Eracles Panayiotou's.
Merulla opened for 42,000 from middle position and Panayiotou decided to three-bet for about half his stack, making it 115,000 to go and leaving only 126,000 behind. This is when Merulla began to set his trap, sitting for thirty seconds or so and acting as if he had a tough decision to work through. After putting on the disguise of a man disgusted with having to put the chips forward, Merulla moved a stack of hot pink T25000 chips forward.
A pot-committed Panayiotou snap-called with his but was shocked to discover Merulla hid a secret in the hole: .
"You had to think about it that long huh?" asked Panayiotou, not pleased with the deceptive play being used against him even though everybody at the table knew his chips were going in the middle the moment he three-bet.
The flop came down and Panayiotou asked for a jack to come on fourth street, searching for additional outs that never came. When the turn came his tournament was over, and the meaningless completed the board on the river.
Jared Jaffee opened to 44,000 from an early position, and Chris Reslock made the call. Michael Santoro came along for a discount in the big, and they took the flop three-handed.
Santoro checked, Jaffee fired 82,000, and Reslock folded. Santoro jammed for 377,000, and Jaffee called.
Jaffee:
Santoro:
Santoro had flopped top pair but found himself well behind the aces of Jaffee. The and weren't the cards he needed, and Jaffee added to his already-hefty stack.
We're One Step Closer to Etching Another Name in the WPT Champions Cup
Here are the end of day chip counts for our final 36 players, after a grueling day of action on the felt pared the field down from 188 to the current roster you see below.
Farid Jattin built a massive chip lead with his 3.818 million surpassing Jared Jaffee by nearly 1.5 million.
After nearly 15 hours of play here on Day 3 of the $3 Million Guaranteed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship, Farid Jattin leads the final 36 players.
He bagged up 3,818,000 to notch a wide chip lead over second-place Jared Jaffee (2,340,000). Rounding out the top five are Robert Merulla (2,150,000), David Paredes (2,000,000), and Kunal Patel (1,975,000). Notable players bagging up include Matthew Parry (1,373,000), Faraz Jaka (1,348,000), Byron Kaverman (997,000), Chad Brown (896,000), and Ronit Chamani (807,000).
John Racener, Laz Hernandez, Harrison Gimbel, Isaac Baron, Dan Heimiller, Matt Affleck, Dan O'Brien, Amnon Filippi, Aaron Massey, Daniel Sindelar, and Andy Frankenberger were among the well-known players cashing but busting out today.
Play resumes at 12 p.m. tomorrow, and be sure to tune in to PokerNews for all of the live updates as the final table emerges.
, and Merulla folded. Parry, who had checked from the big blind, made the call, and a 
completed the board. Parry came out firing with 100,000, and Chamani called after thinking for a brief moment.
for a rivered full house, and Chamani just said "nice hand."
but was shocked to discover Merulla hid a secret in the hole: 
.
and Panayiotou asked for a jack to come on fourth street, searching for additional outs that never came. When the turn came 
his tournament was over, and the meaningless 
completed the board on the river.
flop three-handed.
weren't the cards he needed, and Jaffee added to his already-hefty stack.
