141 of these players will go home with nothing more than a bad beat story and the satisfaction (and frustration) of having survived three days in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. The other 648 players are guaranteed at least $21,365. Somewhere in this room are nine future millionaires.
Your overnight chip leader is a man well-known on the international poker circuit. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is the only player to end Day 3 with more than 1 million chips. He starts Day 4 in the pole position, with 1.3 million chips and a 400,000-chip lead on the player in second place, fellow Frenchman Ludovic Lacay.
Cards in the air in just a few minutes!
, Billy Adams was all in for his last 30,400 with 
, and Matthew Lubawski had both covered while holding 
.
, and Lubawski's hand was best. Schultz and Adams hit the rail, and Lubawski is up to 305,000.
. Perner put in a continuation of 16,500 and Ivey called.
, a bet of 27,500 and another call by Ivey. When Perner checked the 
on the river, Ivey bet 50,000 and took the pot.
and got called by Jesse Chinni's 
looked to mean curtains for Bilzerian but the 
river meant a running two pair allowed him to survive.
and Kelly Kim's 
. The board of 
sufficed and Fields is now over 100,000.
for his last chips on a flop of 
. However he'd run into the 
, 
