Alan Gould opened to 42,000 and Aaron McCready came for the ride on the button. Both players checked the flop, but after the turned Gould led for 75,000. McCready called.
The river was the and Gould again led - this time for a hefty 175,000. McCready instantly called then mucked when Gould showed him .
Gould's flush increased his stack to 740,000 chips while McCready's slipped to 775,000.
Our reporting crew isn't allowed by the television table, but we have learned that Faraz Jaka was eliminated shortly before the break. From what we gathered, he held for a straight on a flop. His opponent held for two pair and all the money went in on the flop. A on the river gave the unknown player a full house and Jaka was eliminated in 72nd place.
Bolivar Palacios was all in, at risk and dominated preflop with against Nicolas Hahn's .
Hahn was nearly drawing dead after the flop however, and the hand was over after the turned. The on the river was only protocol and Palacios raked in the pot doubling to 265,000 chips.
We have lost Dwyte Pilgrim from the field. He was the preflop raiser, making it 28,000 to play. Right behind him, Timothy Finne three-bet all in with a slightly covering stack. When it came back on Pilgrim, he took just a minute to consider before announcing the call for his last ~320,000 chips.
Showdown
Pilgrim:
Finne:
The flop was a disaster for Dwyte as it came out to put him in a big hole and steal one of his two outs in the process. The turn gave him that out back, actually, but Pilgrim was still drawing slim to the two remaining tens for the double up.
River:
That's not what Pilgrim was looking for, and he has been sent to the rail here deep in Day 3.
Our access to the feature table is limited, but we were able to gather a few details about Eugene Katchalov's elimination.
On a board Katchalov check-raised all in with , but was called by an opponent's . The turn brought the and gave Katchalov a flush draw, but the river did not help Katchalov, out just before the end of Level 20.
Jesse Martin was all in preflop for his last 160,000 and called by the big stack of Galen Hall.
Martin:
Hall:
Martin was racing for his PCA life and survived the flop. He even made it past the turn, but he just couldn't make it through the river, which came the . Martin was eliminated from the tournament while Hall added a few chips to his stack, which brought him up over 2 million.
Charlie Hook, who was short stacked, moved all in from the small blind with and was called by the of Masa Kagawa in the big blind. The cameras quickly surrounded the table and gave the dealer the go ahead to deal the flop, which came down . Kagawa hit an ace and had a hammerlock on the hand. The on the turn left Hook drawing dead and after the was put out on the river, Hook collected the pot and chipped up to 340,000.
From under the gun, Grayson Ramage raised to 26,000. Ilan Rouah reraised from the cutoff seat to 63,000 and Ramage called. The two players saw the flop come down . Ramage checked and Rouah fired 75,000. Ramage called.
Fourth street brought the . Ramage checked and Rouah did the same before the dealer placed the out on the felt. Both players checked again.
Ramage tabled the for two pair, queens and sixes, thanks to the lady on the river. Rouah showed just the and mucked his hand. He dropped back to 1.22 million while Ramage improved to 1.15 million.