Welcome to PokerNews' Day 3 coverage of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event from the M Resort Spa Casino in Les Vegas.
The starting field of 684 entries is down to just 16 players, each with hopes of getting the victory and capturing the first-place prize of $347,052. On top of the chip counts entering Day 3 is Rudy Lucas with 1,759,000, but he'll have his work cut out for him if he is to seal the deal because a talented bunch is hot on his heels.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour World Championship winner Keven Stammen is second in chips with 1,574,000, having just bought into the tournament at the start of Day 2 with just 12.5 big blinds.
Here are the complete Day 3 table and seating assignments:
Table
Seat
Name
Chip Count
Hometown
4
1
Joe Serock
581,000
Albuquerque, NM
4
2
Rudy Lucas
1,759,000
Mountain City, TN
4
3
--empty--
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4
4
Alex Keating
1,470,000
San Jose, CA
4
5
Esther Taylor-Brady
826,000
Havertown, PA
4
6
Andrew Fisher
788,000
Harrisburg, PA
4
7
Kyle Frey
265,000
Somerville, MA
4
8
Diogo Cardoso
1,051,000
Porto, Portugal
4
9
Garrett Greer
631,000
Hemet, CA
5
1
Keven Stammen
1,574,000
Coldwater, OH
5
2
Tom Dobrilovic
289,000
West Nyack, NY
5
3
Jiachen Gong
859,000
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
5
4
Paul Vas Nunes
540,000
Newbury, United Kingdom
5
5
Michael Laake
1,255,000
Sarasota, FL
5
6
Joe Kuether
130,000
Elm Grove, WI
5
7
--empty--
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5
8
Steve Warburton
1,185,000
Manchester, United Kingdom
5
9
Pedro Oliveira
256,000
Coimbra, Portugal
Play is set to kickoff at noon, just a few minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day as we provide live updates on all of the exciting action all the way down to the winning hand!
From the cutoff Tom Dobrilovic moved all in for 150,000 and again it was Paul Vas Nunes who opted to go to showdown by calling a shove. This time Vas Nunes was seated in the small blind and the big blind folded.
Vas Nunes:
Dobrilovic:
The board ran out and Dobrilovic was the first player to get knocked out on Day 3 of this event.
Pedro Oliveira raised under the gun plus one to 40,000 and Paul Vas Nunes called from the button to create heads-up action. The flop came down and Oliveira checked to Vas Nunes who bet 40,000.
Oliveira check-raised all in for 446,000 and Vas Nunes tanked for quite some time before making the call.
Oliveira:
Vas Nunes:
The turn brought the and the river the sending Oliveira to the rail in 15th place.
Garrett Greer raised under the gun to 60,000 and Rudy Lucas three-bet to 185,000 from his immediate left. The action folded back around to Greer who moved all in for roughly 800,000, and Lucas called.
Greer:
Lucas:
The board ran out and Greer was knocked out in 13th place. We are down to two tables of six players, and the final 10 will combine at the final table.
Joe Kuether moved all in from middle position for 200,000 and both Jiachen Gong and Michael Laake called. The flop came down and Laake moved all in for 205,000, Gong called.
Laake:
Kuether:
Gong:
The board ran out , and while Kuether hit the rail in tenth place, Laake tripled up.
Andrew Fisher moved all in under the gun plus one for 315,000 and Rudy Lucas called from middle position before folding to Diogo Cardoso's shove from the cutoff.
Fisher was all in and at risk with a chance to triple up holding against Cardoso's .
The board ran out and Fisher was knocked out in ninth place.
Michael Laake just raised under the gun to 120,000 and from his direct left it was Joe Serock who three-bet to 270,000. The action folded back around to Laake who four-bet to 570,000 and Serock put him all in.
Laake sighed, and eventually called risking his stack worth 1.7 million.
Laake:
Serock:
The flop brought out and Laake flopped top set while Serock had both a flush and straight draw. On the turn the did not change a thing, but the river was the , which gave Serock a winning flush.
The action folded to Keven Stammen and he moved all in from the small blind to put Rudy Lucas all in. Lucas called all in from the big blind for 175,000.
Stammen:
Lucas:
The board ran out and Stammen knocked Lucas out in seventh place.
On one of the first hands after the break Keven Stammen raised to 185,000 from the cutoff and Jiachen Gong moved all in from the big blind for about a million chips.
Stammen went into the tank for about 20 seconds before making the call.
Gong:
Stammen:
The board ran out and Gong hit the rail in sixth place, as Stammen extended his chip lead.
and Dobrilovic was the first player to get knocked out on Day 3 of this event.
and Oliveira checked to Vas Nunes who bet 40,000.
and the river the 
sending Oliveira to the rail in 15th place.
and Greer was knocked out in 13th place. We are down to two tables of six players, and the final 10 will combine at the final table.
and Warburton busted out in 11th place while Stammen finally managed to win a significant hand again.
and Fisher was knocked out in ninth place.
