Soon after doubling up an opponent, Jon Spinks took revenge in a big pot and had Sergey Lebedev all in and at risk for effectively 21,000,000. The raising war saw Lebedev turn over pocket queens and Spinks held the . The board ran out and Spinks binked the turn to eliminate the always dangerous Lebedev.
David Peters doubled up to rise again...but will he make day 4?
David Peters doubled up pre-flop when he got his 6.5m chips into the middle over the top of a Jerry Odeen only for Odeen to fold and Noah Vaillancourt to call.
Noah Vaillancourt:
David Peters:
The board ran out a dry to double-up David Peters and damage Noah Vaillancourt's chances of running to Day 4.
Here are all the counts from another super-tough table.
One of the golden chip last longer contenders has been eliminated. It was Tomas Fara who three-bet shoved for 15 big blinds with pocket eights and Michael Bailey reshoved out of the big blind with ace-jack. The initial raiser folded, and Bailey won the flip to send Fara to the rail.
Another golden chip contender is doing well, Jonas Lauck has almost two times the average.
Big Stack Mateusz Rypulak hadn't even had time to get his chips out of the trays on his new table before he found a hand worthy of a raise. He made it 1,1 million to go from early position, and Jonathan Spinks made the call in the hijack. Antonio Cosentino moved in right after him, and while Rypulak weren't interested, Spinks called the 5,4 million chips shove.
Spinks:
Cosentino:
The board was good to Cosentino as it ran out , and the Italian scored the double.
Jake Cody and Tom Hall are either side of Golden Chip holder Robert Kostesky, who is in need of a double-up with seven chip holders still alive in the tournament.
With the £100,000 on the line, how many of the golden chip holders will be coming back tomorrow? We're less than two levels from knowing, but while Kostesky is short, Mateusz Rypulak also has a golden chip, and a lot chips with the lead at the table.
Here are the full chipcounts at Rypulak and Kostesky's table, with an array of decorated poker players a good example of just how difficult this MILLIONS Main Event will be to win for anyone.
After an open-raise by Katie Swift, Igor Kurganov squeezed to 3,400,000 from one seat over and Swift called. The duo ended up checking the board entirely and Swift showed for a pair of fours to claim the pot.
Swift is among the chip leaders heading into the last two levels of the night.
The remaining Day 3 players are on break, with all 65 of them stepping away from the tables for 20 minutes.
They might want to take in the sounds of the live band currently rocking the partypoker ICED Players' Party, where poker revellers are enjoying free drinks, cool tunes and ice cold outfits courtesy of a sub-zero themed party to end all parties.
, Farrell turned a queen to double and left Bicknell short in chips.
. The board ran out 
and Spinks binked the turn to eliminate the always dangerous Lebedev.
to double-up David Peters and damage Noah Vaillancourt's chances of running to Day 4.
, and the Italian scored the double.
board entirely and Swift showed