Juan Maceiras raised 18,000 from the cutoff and Adam Junglen re-raised to 48,000 from the button. Maceiras moved all in for 90,000 total and thought Junglen said "I call." Maceiras flipped over and exposed his hand although Junglen did not call. He asked the dealer for a count on Maceiras's chips. Even though Junglen knew Maceiras's hand, he called with . The flop was and Junglen took the lead. The turn was the and Maceiras picked up a flush draw. All of his railbirds were calling for a diamond in Spanish. The river was the . Junglen made a Jack-hgh flush but that was no good. Maceiras took down the pot with a King-high flush and doubled up. After that hand, Junglen slipped to 190,000.
Kitai Davidi opened the pot from UTG, Vesty Geoghegan moved all in from the big blind and Jacob called. Davidi turned over while Geoghegan showed . The flop was , and Geoghean would need a nine or running cards to make a straight. The turn was the and the river was the . Davidi doubled up while Geoghean was left on the short stack.
Before start time today we got to chat with Dag Martin Mikkelsen, who is most known as the chip leader for a good portion of this year's WSOP Main Event. He talked about waiting for some of the short stacks to bust out earlier today while tightening up in the meantime.
On a flop of , Jean Baptiste Tomi bet 60,000 and Mohamad Kowssarie called. The turn was the and Tomi moved all in for about 150,000. Kowssarie quickly called. Tomi flipped over and Kowssarie tabled for a flopped straight. The river was the and Tomi headed to the rail in 23rd place.
Down to 22 players. We are fourteen more eliminations away from the completion of Day 3.
We apologize for the delay in a chip count update, but the restricted media access is making the counting process quite difficult (we're all still banned from inside the ropes and it looks like it will remain that way for the duration).
Everyone's count has been updated as of the last break. Here's a look at our current top five:
Trond Eidsvig 565,000
Mika Paasonen 477,500
Adam Junglen 355,000
Dag Martin Mikkelsen 348,000
Patrick Bruel 290,000
A short-stacked Jan Sjaavik moved all in with A-2 and Philip Yeh called with K-8. The flop was Q-8-3 and Yeh took the lead. The turn was a 9 and the river was a J. Jan Sjaavik's hand could not improve and he headed to the rail in 24th place.
Henrik Jensen shoved with a short stack and he was called by Nikolaus Jedlicka. Jensen showed while Jedlicka showed . Nikolaus Jedlicka's Cowboys held up after he flopped a set to send Jensen to the rail.