Georgios Tsoupras in early position and Davin Anderson to his left both moved all-in and were called by Wang Liu in the blind.
Davin Anderson: Q♣10♦10♣9♦ 
Georgios Tsoupras: A♥A♣10♥9♠
Wang Liu: K♣K♠7♥5♥
Tsoupras flopped a boat on 9♣A♦9♥ to win the pot. The Q♦K♦ runout gave lower full houses to Liu and Anderson, but Anderson was sent to the rail.
Tony Cousineau was all in from the big blind, at risk against Bin Weng on the button.
Tony Cousineau: A♣A♥Q♥3♣
Bin Weng K♦J♠9♦3♠
Both players caught a piece of the 5♥Q♠9♣ flop, and the board paired on the 5♦ turn. Cousineau saw his aces hold on the 2♣ river, earning the double through Weng.
The winner of this year's $50,000 WSOP Poker Players Championship will be a first-time champion, unless Brian Rast wins.
That isn't a prediction, it's a fact. Rast, a three-time winner, was a bet away from elimination in the prestigious mixed games event Tuesday on Day 3, which would have left zero former champions still standing. None of the other former champs reached the money.
Day 3, which began at 1 p.m. PT, started with 39 of the original 108 players remaining. Rast, who won this event in 2011, 2016, and 2023, had the smallest stack with 107,000 chips. For comparison, Kristopher Tong entered the session with the chip lead at 2,428,000. So, it certainly wasn't going to be easy for the Poker Hall of Famer to earn a fourth Poker Players Championship bracelet.
Luke Dimaggio checked the Q♣J♠7♣ flop from the big blind, and Nuno Duarte fired a bet of 60,000 in middle position. Steven Forman called in the cutoff, and Dimaggio got out of the way.
Duarte and Forman checked the 8♣ turn, and the 6♠ river completed the board. Duarte checked once more, snapping his cards into the muck as Forman slid out a bet to 130,000 to take the pot.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/25,000
Ante: 25,000
The 84 remaining players are on a 15-minute break.
Moments before the break, Shiva Dudani on the button moved all-in for 135,000 and he was called by Daniel Hachem in the small blind.
Shiva Dudani: A♣K♠10♠7♥
Daniel Hachem: A♥K♥Q♣6♦
The dealer fanned a board of 9♣J♠4♦10♥8♥ and Dudani was eliminated.
There were roughly 350,000 chips in pot on a flop board of J♥10♥2♠A♥.
Andreas Frohli who was in the small blind checked to Bin Weng who was in early position and he fired out a bet of 260,000.
Frohli went into the tank for a short while before he made the fold.
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