Day 3 of The Marathon Ends with Three Big Names at the Top
Faraz Jaka ended Day 3 as the chip leader of Event #23: THE MARATHON - $2,620 No-Limit Hold'em with a stack of 2,838,000. Maurice Hawkins finished second with 2,423,000 and John Phan sits in third with 2,374,000. Fifty-six players are still in the running for the $690,469 top prize and the WSOP gold bracelet.
The day started with 268 players and 264 of those would be in the money. As expected, hand-for-hand play started quite quickly. There was only one all-in during the first hand of hand-for-hand play and Pascal Hartmann did not manage to stay in the tournament.
Maurice Hawkins had a strong start to the day and never really disappeared from the top of the chip counts. But Faraz Jaka really kept building his stack all day long. There are many other notables left in this field, including Ana Marquez (1,035,000), Upeshka De Silva (799,000), Eric Baldwin (617,000) and Kristen Bicknell (401,000).
Play resumes Thursday at 12 p.m. in the Brasilia room and is scheduled to play seven 100-minute levels again. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to catch all the action so do come back to follow it all.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 722 | 1 | Chris Bolek | United States | 175,000 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 2 | Upeshka De Silva | United States | 799,000 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 3 | Jose Latorre | GS | 517,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 4 | Brennan Benglis | United States | 619,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 5 | Jeffrey Turton | United States | 969,000 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 6 | Josh Weiss | United States | 783,000 | 49 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 7 | Maurice Hawkins | United States | 2,423,000 | 151 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 9 | Uriel Remi Levy | United States | 200,000 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 1 | Breixo Gonzalez | Spain | 662,000 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 2 | Maxim Sorokin | Russia | 1,567,000 | 98 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 3 | David Smart | United States | 404,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 5 | Christopher Mcnally | United States | 519,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 6 | Markus Kuhnen | United Kingdom | 899,000 | 56 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 7 | Andrew Dennis | United States | 400,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 8 | Julian Stuer | Germany | 1,085,000 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 9 | Riley Fuller | United States | 508,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 1 | Samuel Phillips | United States | 1,200,000 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 2 | Rafael Gonzalez | United States | 388,000 | 24 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 3 | Matthew Vaughan | United States | 290,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 5 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 218,000 | 14 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 6 | Neel Murthy | United States | 952,000 | 60 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 7 | Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | Venezuela | 1,613,000 | 101 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 8 | Tim Reilly | United States | 632,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 9 | Alex Massman | United States | 1,195,000 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 1 | Thomas Lutz | United States | 723,000 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 2 | Saurabh Patel | United States | 590,000 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 3 | Bartlomiej Machon | Portugal | 619,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 4 | Mark Shaves | United States | 84,000 | 5 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 6 | Jeffrey Tomlinson | United States | 950,000 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 7 | Darryl Ronconi | United States | 1,206,000 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 8 | John Thornton | United States | 572,000 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 9 | Alexander Lynskey | Australia | 493,000 | 31 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 1 | Faraz Jaka | United States | 2,838,000 | 177 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 3 | Michael Hada | United States | 394,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 4 | Ana Marquez | Spain | 1,035,000 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 5 | Fredrick Arni | United States | 250,000 | 16 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 6 | Daniel Erlandsson | Spain | 675,000 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 7 | Eric Baldwin | United States | 617,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 8 | John Phan | United States | 2,374,000 | 148 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 9 | Pratik Ghatge | United Kingdom | 924,000 | 58 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 1 | James Tian | United States | 1,056,000 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 2 | Yu Li | United States | 1,039,000 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 3 | David Eldridge | United States | 637,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 4 | Rubem Mourao | Brazil | 832,000 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 6 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 401,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 7 | Xixiang Luo | China | 1,622,000 | 101 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 8 | Kou Vang | United States | 620,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 9 | Montgomery Cole | United States | 490,000 | 31 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 1 | Joshua Smith | United States | 1,604,000 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 2 | Kong Li | United States | 154,000 | 10 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 3 | Patrick Mahoney | United States | 644,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 4 | Michael Kane | United Kingdom | 720,000 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 5 | Darren Judges | United Kingdom | 351,000 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 6 | Joseph Potts | United States | 1,087,000 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 8 | Andrew Jernigan | United States | 870,000 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 9 | Bill Germanis | Canada | 772,000 | 48 |
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, action was on Faraz Jaka in the big blind and he checked. Maurice Hawkins was in early position and fired out a bet of 133,000. Jaka called. 
and Jaka checked again. Hawkins took a moment and then fired out a bet of 500,000. Jaka thought for a minute and then elected to fold, showing 
for two pair as he mucked his hand.
. Jaka check-called on the flop and the turn was the 
. Jaka check-shoved the river, having Ghatge covered. Ghatge had about 850,000 remaining at the time and had what appeared to be a 300,000 bet in front of him on the river. After tanking for a long time, Ghatge elected to fold. 
giving Jaka a full house. Ghatge then said to the dealer, "show mine." The dealer opened his hand and showed 
and Luba showed 
.
giving Luba a tonne of cards to hit. The turn was the 
and the river an 
keeping Phan's fives ahead and eliminating Luba.
for a pair of sixes and Marquez tabled 
and De Silva got the elimination and approached the one million chip mark.
.
, and Vonk survived after hitting his three-outer on the turn for a pair of tens.
