Dan Kelly has been watching his stack shorten slowly throughout this day, and he finally took his stand with . The news wasn't so bad when Eugene Katchalov came along with as "djk123" was drawing live for the double up.
The flop changed nothing, and Kelly could not connect with the turn or the river, either. He's been eliminated before the first break, while Katchalov recovers some of his losses to work back to 254,000.
Second to act preflop, Victor Ramdin came in raising to 10,500, and the table folded around to the small blind. Todd Terry had 86,500 chips left, and he slid them all in across the imaginary betting line. Ramdin made the call, and it was a coin flip for Terry's tournament life:
Ramdin:
Terry:
The board ran out low, coming to secure Terry's double up and lift his stack back to 180,500.
Ramdin was kind enough to spend his break recording a podcast with us, but it looks like we've failed to provide him with the run-good. Granting that double knocks him down to about 78,000.
In middle position, Jack Schanbacher made it 9,000 to play, and Ketan Pandya three-bet to 25,000 straight from the big blind. Schanbacher shoved for about 100,000 total, and Pandya called to put him at risk. Schanbacher was in bad shape in yet another pair-verus-pair showdown:
Schanbacher:
Pandya:
The board, if you will:
Schanbacher can't connect with his small pair, and he has been eliminated in 21st place. Pandya adds his chips to his own stack, moving to 360,000 in the process.
Chris Klodnicki raised to 9,000 under the gun, and Jay Nair's pocket pair was good enough to get his last 13,000 into the pot. His pair was , and he was racing against Klodnicki's .
The first four cards were safe on board (), but the river gave the pot and the knockout to Klodnicki. He's increased his chip lead by just a tiny margin, but the situation is much more significant for Nair. He's out in 20th place, and we're one knockout away from a redraw.
Another flip of the coin for a tournament life, this time Nick Mitchell's. The shot stack in the room got all in for just over 70,000 with , and Chris Bell gave him action with pocket nines.
The board came , nice and friendly to Mitchell's overcards. His pair of tens earns him a double up to about 155,000, while Bell falls back to 342,000, slightly less than he started the day with.
If you're a fan of coin flips, Day 3 is making you awfully happy. We just watched another one a moment ago, and this one has culminated in another knockout.
Frank Calo opened the pot with the first raise, and Ketan Pandya raised it back. When the action came to Kenny Hicks, he cold four-bet shoved for about 70,000 total. Calo folded, but Pandya made the call with the covering stack and . Hicks' was racing, but it would not end well for him.
Board:
Aces are good for Pandya to notch the knockout, moving his stack up to 375,000.
With Kenny Hicks' elimination, the field has been redrawn down to the final two tables. Here's how they lay out with nine players separating us from a final table:
Table 52
Seat 1: Brett Richey (82,000)
Seat 2: Frank Calo (330,000)
Seat 3: Matthew Waxman (95,000)
Seat 4: Bobby Wisiak (65,000)
Seat 5: Andy Frankenberger (103,000)
Seat 6: Chris Klodnicki (505,000)
Seat 7: Christian Harder (75,000)
Seat 8: Jason Burt (305,000)
Seat 9: Victor Ramdin (75,000)
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. The news wasn't so bad when Eugene Katchalov came along with 
as "djk123" was drawing live for the double up.
flop changed nothing, and Kelly could not connect with the 
turn or the 
river, either. He's been eliminated before the first break, while Katchalov recovers some of his losses to work back to 254,000.
to secure Terry's double up and lift his stack back to 180,500.
, and he was racing against Klodnicki's 
.
. Hicks' 
