Roman Papacek and Byron Kaverman got their chips in the middle before the flop. Papacek was at risk with 
, Kaverman had 
. The board ran out 
and Papacek wished the other players at the table good luck.
Down to 75 players now, 4 to the money.
In the first hand of the day, Canada's Michael Carter moved all in for 14,000 and Vincent Allevato called one spot over. Steven Thompson Vila called from the cutoff and the button and blinds all folded.
The two active players checked both the 
flop as well as the 
turn.
When the 
completed the board on the river, Allevato led out for 20,000 and Vila folded.
Carter showed he had missed with his 
and Allevato took down the pot with his 
two pair.
With about 13,000 in the pot, on a board reading 
, Jason Koon led out for 6,000 from the small blind.
Karim Zerzour was under the gun and called.
The river was the . Koon wasted no time and moved all in for his remaining 12,000. Zerzour called.
Koon tabled for a full house and Zerzour mucked, giving Koon an early double up.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
The remaining 78 players return to the felt at Noon local time and tensions are high with the money bubble looming in the first ever PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event. Play begins at Level 14 with blinds at 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante. The levels will be 90 minutes long today, and 4 of them will be played.
Igor Yaroshevskyy bagged an enormous stack of 745,500 chips to lead the way. Denis Timofeev is behind him with 569,000, with Caufman Talley close behind with 546,000 chips, rounding out the top three stacks.
UFC Hall of Famer, Tito Ortiz, has a top five stack and comes in with 90 big blinds, while the last woman standing in the field, Panama's Jessica Borrego, has a healthy stack of 235,500.
The prize pool swelled to a total of $1,755,100 after seeing the entries hit 366 at the close of registration at the start of Day 2 yesterday. Paying 71 spots, this Main Event will hit the money early in the day today.
Stick with PokerNews for coverage to see who takes this one down!
PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Andres Carrillo | Colombia | 156.000 |
| 1 | 3 | Luis Perez | Venezuela | 65.000 |
| 1 | 4 | Michael Carter | Canada | 14.500 |
| 1 | 5 | Vincent Allevato | Canada | 256.500 |
| 1 | 6 | Dmitry Ponomarev | Russia | 164.500 |
| 1 | 7 | Daniel Ades | Argentina | 40.500 |
| 1 | 8 | Steven Thompson Vila | Costa Rica | 135.500 |
| 2 | 1 | Thomas Lefort | Canada | 23.500 |
| 2 | 2 | Roman Pavliuk | Ukraine | 205.000 |
| 2 | 3 | Samuel Gagnon | Canada | 88.000 |
| 2 | 4 | Edward Mandel | United States | 49.000 |
| 2 | 5 | Tito Ortiz | United States | 270.500 |
| 2 | 6 | Denis Timofeev | Russia | 569.000 |
| 2 | 7 | Mikhail Zamyatin | Russia | 153.000 |
| 2 | 8 | Jiachen Gong | Canada | 34.500 |
| 3 | 1 | Aleks Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 231.500 |
| 3 | 2 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | 111.500 |
| 3 | 3 | Jessica Perez Borrego | Panama | 235.500 |
| 3 | 4 | Anthony Diotte | Canada | 50.000 |
| 3 | 5 | Serge Pouliot | Canada | 218.500 |
| 3 | 6 | Kamal Abdel Bittar | Paraguay | 107.500 |
| 3 | 7 | Jason Wheeler | Mexico | 213.000 |
| 3 | 8 | Alexandre Viard | France | 70.000 |
| 4 | 1 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 20.000 |
| 4 | 2 | Pedro Romanzo Pollino | Venezuela | 244.000 |
| 4 | 3 | Jose Gonzales | Argentina | 166.000 |
| 4 | 4 | Ari Engel | United States | 58.000 |
| 4 | 5 | Taran Parmar | Canada | 179.000 |
| 4 | 6 | Jeiko Palma Kuzmicic | Panama | 175.000 |
| 4 | 7 | Luis Alejandro Mata | Venezuela | 127.000 |
| 4 | 8 | Sebastian Medina Echavarria | Colombia | 49.000 |
| 5 | 1 | Harpreet Gill | Canada | 161.000 |
| 5 | 2 | Byron Kaverman | United States | 78.000 |
| 5 | 3 | Martin Kus | Canada | 125.000 |
| 5 | 4 | Arturo Morales | Costa Rica | 126.800 |
| 5 | 6 | Roman Papacek | Czech Republic | 47.000 |
| 5 | 7 | Aaron Been | United States | 52.500 |
| 5 | 8 | Jose Rosenkrantz | Costa Rica | 98.500 |
| 6 | 1 | Yobrahin Larez Sanchez | Venezuela | 129.000 |
| 6 | 2 | Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 86.000 |
| 6 | 3 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 67.500 |
| 6 | 4 | Jose Moran Guzman | Mexico | 102.500 |
| 6 | 5 | Robin Luca Wozniczek | Germany | 182.500 |
| 6 | 6 | Mark Radoja | Canada | 177.000 |
| 6 | 7 | Erik Cajelais | Canada | 129.500 |
| 6 | 8 | Jonathan Abdellatif | Belgium | 62.500 |
| 7 | 1 | Kenneth Smaron | United States | 234.500 |
| 7 | 2 | Marcelo Filartiga Villalba | Paraguay | 33.500 |
| 7 | 3 | Jason Koon | United States | 24.500 |
| 7 | 4 | Jordan Saccucci | Canada | 56.500 |
| 7 | 5 | Karim Zerzour | Sweden | 57.000 |
| 7 | 6 | Felix Bleiker | Switzerland | 125.000 |
| 7 | 7 | Manuel Martinez Solsona | Spain | 81.500 |
| 7 | 8 | Allberto Meran Matias | Dominican Republic | 135.500 |
| 8 | 1 | Adrien Allain | France | 118.000 |
| 8 | 2 | Eduards Kudrjavcevs | Latvia | 237.000 |
| 8 | 3 | Jairo Escobar | Colombia | 75.000 |
| 8 | 4 | Lokesh Garg | United States | 219.000 |
| 8 | 5 | Vasyl Vertianov | Ukraine | 196.500 |
| 8 | 6 | Pablo Gordillo | Spain | 254.500 |
| 8 | 7 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 184.000 |
| 8 | 8 | Michael Lech | United States | 139.500 |
| 9 | 1 | Luiz Duarte | United States | 189.500 |
| 9 | 2 | Martin Finger | Germany | 92.000 |
| 9 | 3 | Fabrice De Benedictis | Switzerland | 87.500 |
| 9 | 4 | James Salmon | United States | 189.000 |
| 9 | 5 | Alberto Fonseca Masis | Costa Rica | 82.500 |
| 9 | 6 | Caufman Talley | United States | 546.000 |
| 9 | 7 | Lucas Blanco | Spain | 132.000 |
| 9 | 8 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | 745.500 |
| 10 | 1 | JC Alvarado | Mexico | 103.000 |
| 10 | 2 | Arunas Sapitavicius | Lithuania | 223.500 |
| 10 | 3 | Eric Semel | United States | 61.000 |
| 10 | 4 | Hector Perez Salgado | Colombia | 29.500 |
| 10 | 5 | Kliment Roussev Tarmakov | Canada | 100.500 |
| 10 | 6 | Adrian Gruber | United Kingdom | 90.000 |
| 10 | 7 | Michael Phillips | Costa Rica | 38.500 |
| 10 | 8 | Carlos Garcia Sarmiento | Colombia | 54.500 |
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