Enver Khvitia from Georgia just took some chips from Day 1a chip leader Aku Joentausta's enormous stack.
On the board Khvitia bet 7,500 and Joentausta made the call. Khvitia continued for 13,500 on the turn and Joentausta called again. Both players checked the river and Khvitia opened which was good enough to win the pot.
Jonathan Karamalikis began the day with a healthy stack of 317,600, but he's had a reversal of fortune here on Day 3. In a recent hand, a flop of saw Emanoil Sayin get all in for around 160,000 with and was up against the of Karamalikis.
"Full, yes!" Sayin yelled when the turned to give him a full house and leave his Australian opponent drawing dead. The was put out on the river as a quiet Karamalikis counted out chips to pay off Sayin.
Daniel Negreanu is off to a flier on the TV table. Production superstar informed us that Alexander Syuldin found top two-pair when the Team PokerStars Pro found a set. The rest, as they say, is history.
Jason Wheeler is back to where he started the day after taking a pot off Russian PokerStars qualifier Dmitrii Grinenko.
The action folded to Wheeler on the button and he raised and called when Grinenko three-bet to 16,000 from the big blind. Grinenko went into check-call mode as Wheeler fired 17,500, 30,000, and 46,000 on each street of a board.
Grinenko was in no hurry though and took round three minutes to call each bet. When he called the river bet Wheeler opened and scooped as Grinenko mucked.
Leo Margets got her short stack of 50,700 all in preflop and was racing against Alejandro Perez Torres.
Showdown
Margets
Torres
"That's good for you," one player at the table said when the appeared in the window; however, it was followed by the to keep things interesting. Margets turned her head so as not to see the turn and river, which came the and respectively. Margets survived and doubled to over 100,000 in the process.
Nicholas Joseph Augustino raised from the small blind only to have Antonin Duda three-bet to 29,000 from the big. Augustino pushed back with a four-bet to 46,500, Duda called, and the flop came down .
Augustino was first to act and fired out 28,500, and after a few moments of deliberation, Duda moved all in for 103,300 total. Augustino considered it briefly, but ultimately tossed his hand to the muck.