Patrick Wolff started the day middle of the pack just above average and has close to a million chips now. Alexandru Farcasanu has an almost identical stack after running pretty solid with against the of Karel Novak. The dealer produced two fours on the flop ... .
Wolff had raised and called a three-bet with pocket fives to flop a full house against start-of-the-day chip leader Daniel Rose. The latter was not willing to let go and called down the streets with pocket tens to lose a ton of chips.
Ivan Luca opened to 24,000 from the cutoff and Andreas Gann shoved for what looked like 70,000 from the button. Martin Ilavsky then squeezed a four-bet in from the small blind and Luca let go.
Gann:
Ilavsky:
The flop came and now Gann not only had to fear the over cards but also every spade as well. A blank turn changed nothing, but the river provided said flush and that sent Gann to the rail.
Petr Machacek raised and picked up two callers including Dominik Paus. Only the German check-called a bet worth 35,000 on the flop and both players checked through the turn. On the river, Paus jammed for 156,000 and Machacek eventually called.
Paus: for a busted straight draw
Machacek: for a busted flush draw with ace-high
In the last hand of the second level of Day 3, Patrick Wolff limped in from early position and Azmi Korkmaz in the small blind shoved for 67,000. Maria Lampropoulos folded in the big blind, as did Wolff.
Mick Heder raised from the hijack and Tomasz Caba flat-called out of the small blind to see a flop of . The fireworks started and it was easy to see how both players got their stacks in:
Caba:
Heder:
The turn and river gave the Dane a full house and his rail let out a "lekker" to show their support.
Before the start of the day, Dragoslav Timarac mentioned that he hopes to be one of the four to six short stacks to be able to double their stacks and gain momentum. That's exactly what the Serbian did so far and he just knocked out Amir Mozaffarian. The latter open-shoved for 205,000 from early position and Timarac called in the big blind.
Mozaffarian:
Timarac:
The board ran out and the turn gave Timarac the better hand to bust Mozaffarian.
Jonas Lauck raised from early position and then called the three-bet to 90,000 by Maria Lampropoulos in the big blind. They checked down the board and Lampropoulos won the pot with .
Robert Kokoska raised and then called the three-bet shove of Dariusz Beres for 147,000 with the . Beres was behind with but got there on a board of .