Welcome to Day 3 of Wynn Spring Classic $3,500 Championship
Three grueling days of action — two starting flights and one Day 2 that stretched across more than 12 hours — are in the books, and just 34 competitors remain in the Wynn Spring Classic $3,500 Championship. Today, one of them will win $391,370.
The ones who have best positioned themselves for that very handsome payout are Adam Hendrix, Matthias Auer and Ray Qartomy. All three players had banner Day 2s, and they've accumulated about a quarter of the total chips in play between them. Each player has well north of 100 big blinds.
Still, plenty of tough competition remains, so it doesn't figure to be easy. The likes of Jeremy Ausmus, Mihai Manole, Chino Rheem, Jordan Cristos, Ben Palmer, Sean Winter, and Ankush Mandavia are just some of the decorated players remaining in the daunting field.
Everyone is going to have plenty of time to try to build up a tournament-winning stack as action kicks off at noon local time with 10,000/15,000/15,000, with more one-hour levels in store until someone emerges as champ. That figures to take another 13 hours or so, depending on whether a deal is struck.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to see which player scoops the Wynn trophy and joins the list of winners for this event that includes David "Dragon" Pham, Isaac Baron, Eric Baldwin and Ludovic Geilich.
on the felt, there was a bet and call of 45,000 between Jeremy Ausmus under the gun and Matthias Auer in the hijack, with a third player folding. We didn't see who the aggressor was. On the 
river, Ausmus checked and Auer bet 165,000. Ausmus check-raised nearly all of his chips, leaving 60,000 or so back. Auer got a count of 775,000 then called pretty quickly.
into the middle for a bluff and Auer showed 
for a flush.
flop. Qartomy put the last crumbs in but Mandavia, seeing an all-in develop at the other table, began tanking.
and Stewart began tanking. 
and was a bit behind the 
against 
against the 
of Ankush Mandavia on his left and the 
of big blind Marius Heiene.
, so Liu doubled on the river and Mandavia busted Heiene in the side pot.
to the 
. The 
had Failla calling for a ten to chop but he found a 
river.
. The 
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turn left him needing river help but the 
on an 
flop. The board ran 
was safe enough for Manole but things got scary on the 
against the 
