When it comes to big names in Pot Limit Omaha folklore then No Limit Hold Em Specialist Jack Ellwood is not a name that strikes fear into his opponents. Ellwood wins online tournaments for fun but has not had a good run in a live tournament for quite some time. Maybe he has been playing the wrong game, because Ellwood had sent Daniel Negreanu and Sam Trickett to the stands in the first two levels, and is our new chip leader with 15,000 chips.
On a flop of 
Joe Ebanks checked-called a 350 Eric Cajelais button bet. The turn was the 
and Ebanks turns from checker to bettor and he makes it 800 to play. Cajelais flexes those big arms of his and makes the call. On the river the dealer gave us the spicy looking 
and Ebanks moved all-in for 1,775 and Cajelais went into thought mode. After several minutes of thought Cajelais folded his hand.
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With the arrival of Anton Makiievskiy we had five November Niners in this tournament. Ben Lamb already busted out but he's still in the tournament area, even though it's not a physical presence.
Makiievskiy has an iPad on his lap and with earbuds in he is currently watching the ESPN broadcasts of the Main Event. The Ukrainian player was studying a hand with Ben Lamb and Matt Giannetti at the feature table and he seemed way more interested in their play than his own in this tournament. Makiievskiy folded another hand and kept staring at the little screen.
Be prepared finalists! Anton Makiievskiy is studying every move!
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He doesn't need any introduction or fancy titles, he's Johnny Chan! Chan started off really well in this tournament and he's up to 9,000 chips. We just saw him bet out 2,000 chips into a 2,675 pot on a 
board. His opponent tanked for quite some time and eventually folded his cards.
Chan is seated at the same table as Jennifer Harman who is still around the start stack.
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The players are on their first 20 minute break of the day.
It is PLO, it is short handed and they only have 4,500 chips so what else do you expect! We got these names of the list the tournament staff provided us with.
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Level: 3
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Chad Brown is sitting at a table with Davidi Kitai and Ana Marquez and since those two still have chips he must have taken them from someone else. Brown has a huge 16,000 stack which is almost four times the starting stack after just two levels.
We asked Chad Brown what the biggest pot was he played and he told us the following. With aces and the nut flush draw he got it in on the flop against a wrap. The pot was over 7,000 chips and even though he didn't need to hit he managed to make a flush.
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