Khoa Nguyen raised to 85,000 from middle position and action folded all the way around to Mitchell Cogert in the big blind. He decided to exercise his option with a three-bet to 250,000, Nguyen moved all in, and Cogert called off for 910,000.
Showdown
Cogert:
Nguyen:
Cogert was in great shape to double with his pocket kings, especially after the flop; however, the turn gave Nguyen a pair of aces and the lead. Cogert's went from a big favorite to an extreme underdog. Needing one of the two kings, Cogert's run came to an end when the blanked on the river.
The remaining 70 players are currently on their final break of the day. Each remaining player is guaranteed at least $108,412 in prize money.
Today's third level saw an immediate change in the makeup of the tables, as the yellow, 1,000 denomination chips were colored up and raced off. In the place of yellow are now lavender chips that are worth 100,000 each.
This brought the tournament demise of several players on their quest to be one of the November Nine. Those to hit the rail this level include Frederick Berger, Claudia Crawford, Hoi Lee, PokerStars Qualifier Julian Stuer, and several more.
Ryan Lenaghan has taken over as the current chip leader, sitting with 8,100,000. However, Pius Heinz is nipping at his heels with 8,000,000. Heinz won a fairly substantial pot over at the secondary feature table when his was able to outlast the of shortstack Jared Vengrin and the of Sebastian Ruthenberg that had both players covered. Not far behind the two is Phil Collins with 7,900,000.
When we return we will play the last two hour level of the evening before bagging and tagging.
Normally, we'd be grabbing chip counts from every single player in the field on break as we're able to get in there and count the stacks. This break is a little different in that no media is allowed inside the ropes. We apologize for being unable to provide the counts, but once we get word we can head back inside the ropes, we'll be on the task.
In the final hand at the secondary feature table before the break, Hilton Laborda and Tyler Bonkowski went heads-up to a flop of . Laborda check-called Bonkowski's bet after the flop, then the action repeated on the turn of the before Laborda fired out one million on the river of the .
Bonkowski called, but Laborda stood out of his chair, flourishing his Brazilian flag cape and roared, tabling for the wheel. Laborda's rail almost barn-stormed the table, joyously celebrating their champion as Bonkowski calmly walked away.
From the under the gun position, JP Kelly raised to 125,000 and Brian Yoon called from the UTG +1 position, as did Aleksandr Mozhnyakov from the hijack position before Matthew Salsberg shoved for his last 945,000 from the cutoff.
However, Erika Moutinho re-raised all-in from the big blind for 1.235 million and the others got out of the way before the cards were tabled:
Moutinho:
Salsberg:
Moutinho improved to a set after the flop of and it held after the turn and river ran out , , sending Salsberg to the rail. With that, Moutinho, one of the last two surviving female players in the tournament, is up to more than 2.6 million in chips.
flop; however, the 
turn gave Nguyen a pair of aces and the lead. Cogert's went from a big favorite to an extreme underdog. Needing one of the two kings, Cogert's run came to an end when the 
blanked on the river.
was able to outlast the 
of shortstack Jared Vengrin and the 
of Sebastian Ruthenberg that had both players covered. Not far behind the two is Phil Collins with 7,900,000.
. Laborda check-called Bonkowski's bet after the flop, then the action repeated on the turn of the 
for the wheel. Laborda's rail almost barn-stormed the table, joyously celebrating their champion as Bonkowski calmly walked away.
and it held after the turn and river ran out 
, 
, sending Salsberg to the rail. With that, Moutinho, one of the last two surviving female players in the tournament, is up to more than 2.6 million in chips.
