From the hijack seat, NAPT Venetin champion Tom Marchese moved all in for approximately 40,000. Niko Deininger called from the small blind and the hands were revealed.
Marchese: 
Deininger: 
The flop was big for Deininger and terrible for Marchese when it came 
, giving Deininger a pair and a flush draw. Marchese had the same pair, but a worse kicker.
The turn was the 
and the river the 
. Deininger finished with two pair and sent Marchese two to the rail.
Matt Affleck was all in preflop holding the hand that he lost with deep in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, pocket aces. His 
were up against the pocket queens for Robert Reyna. There would be no doom for Affleck this time as the board ran out 
to keep his aces in the lead. He was all in for 302,000 and now has a bit over 600,000 chips. Reyna dropped to 210,000.
Jason Mercier is now sitting behind a respectable stack of 460,000 chips right now, and that's conspicuously just about double what he had a couple hands ago. We inquired.
"I ran it up to about 230k," Mercier said, "then I doubled with aces against fours."
There you have it; aces hold for Mercier, and he's well in contention now with that big stack.
On the board of 
, Mark Ader fired 18,000 into Team PokerStars Pro member Jason Mercier. Mercier made the call and the river completed the board with the 
. Ader checked the river and Mercier bet 44,500. Ader folded and Mercier won the pot.
Fashionably late by about 15 minutes, Phil Laak has just taken his seat. "How many hands did I miss?" he wanted to know.
Laak had missed three hands, but that wasn't the most relevant issue. He sat down behind his stack and threw his chip bag on the floor, and the dealer asked him for his ID. Laak isn't carrying his ID with him today, and the table took the opportunity to needle him and insist that he not be allowed to play his chips without identifying himself. The dealer was forced to ask the floor, and the staff member traded a smirk with Laak as he gave him the okay to play.
It's smiles all around over there as the Unibomber has come to join the conversation.
Welcome to Day 3, Phil!
Chris Klodnicki was in the cutoff and raised to 13,500. Michael Binger was next to act on the button and he reraised to 40,000. Action folded back to Klodnicki who 4-bet to 80,000. Binger wasted little time in announcing that he was all in and Klodnicki quickly mucked. Binger then flashed the much to Klodnicki's dismay.
Binger is up to 540,000 while Klodnicki dropped to 200,000.
Chip leader Jimmie Guinther raised from middle position only to have Bahador Ahmadi move all in for about 95,000 from the small blind. Guinther made the call and the cards were turned over:
Guinther: 
Bahador:
Bahador was in good shape to double up and remained so as the flop fell 
. The 
on the turn left Guinther drawing dead and the was put out on the river for good measure. With that, Bahador doubled to 210,000 while Guinther took a hit down to 794,000.
Shane Schleger got his short stack of less than 100,000 into the middle preflop with 
, and he ran his big ace right into Micah Raskin's .
The board ran out 
, and Schleger was unable to catch up to stave off elimination.
Tim Begley has been working on picking up some chips early on. Here are two hands that saw him climb to about 350,000.
On the first hand, action folded to Begley on the button and he raised to 12,000. Tom Middleton called from the big blind and the flop came down 
. Both players checked to see the fall on the turn. Middleton fired 16,000. Begley raised to 45,000 and Middleton folded.
Two hands later, Begley three-bet to 40,000 from the hijack seat after Tomas Elexhauser opened to 13,000 from under the gun. Everyone folded and Begley took this pot as well.
A few players have hit the rail here in the early goings of Day 3. Alex Fitzgerald was the first player to bust on the day. He was eliminated by Gavin Griffin. Shortly after him, Jared Bleznick and James Van Alstyne both made their way to the payout desk.
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