Garrett Greer raised under the gun to 60,000 and Rudy Lucas three-bet to 185,000 from his immediate left. The action folded back around to Greer who moved all in for roughly 800,000, and Lucas called.
Greer:
Lucas:
The board ran out and Greer was knocked out in 13th place. We are down to two tables of six players, and the final 10 will combine at the final table.
Pedro Oliveira raised under the gun plus one to 40,000 and Paul Vas Nunes called from the button to create heads-up action. The flop came down and Oliveira checked to Vas Nunes who bet 40,000.
Oliveira check-raised all in for 446,000 and Vas Nunes tanked for quite some time before making the call.
Oliveira:
Vas Nunes:
The turn brought the and the river the sending Oliveira to the rail in 15th place.
From the cutoff Tom Dobrilovic moved all in for 150,000 and again it was Paul Vas Nunes who opted to go to showdown by calling a shove. This time Vas Nunes was seated in the small blind and the big blind folded.
Vas Nunes:
Dobrilovic:
The board ran out and Dobrilovic was the first player to get knocked out on Day 3 of this event.
Welcome to PokerNews' Day 3 coverage of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event from the M Resort Spa Casino in Les Vegas.
The starting field of 684 entries is down to just 16 players, each with hopes of getting the victory and capturing the first-place prize of $347,052. On top of the chip counts entering Day 3 is Rudy Lucas with 1,759,000, but he'll have his work cut out for him if he is to seal the deal because a talented bunch is hot on his heels.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour World Championship winner Keven Stammen is second in chips with 1,574,000, having just bought into the tournament at the start of Day 2 with just 12.5 big blinds.
Here are the complete Day 3 table and seating assignments:
Table
Seat
Name
Chip Count
Hometown
4
1
Joe Serock
581,000
Albuquerque, NM
4
2
Rudy Lucas
1,759,000
Mountain City, TN
4
3
--empty--
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4
4
Alex Keating
1,470,000
San Jose, CA
4
5
Esther Taylor-Brady
826,000
Havertown, PA
4
6
Andrew Fisher
788,000
Harrisburg, PA
4
7
Kyle Frey
265,000
Somerville, MA
4
8
Diogo Cardoso
1,051,000
Porto, Portugal
4
9
Garrett Greer
631,000
Hemet, CA
5
1
Keven Stammen
1,574,000
Coldwater, OH
5
2
Tom Dobrilovic
289,000
West Nyack, NY
5
3
Jiachen Gong
859,000
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
5
4
Paul Vas Nunes
540,000
Newbury, United Kingdom
5
5
Michael Laake
1,255,000
Sarasota, FL
5
6
Joe Kuether
130,000
Elm Grove, WI
5
7
--empty--
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5
8
Steve Warburton
1,185,000
Manchester, United Kingdom
5
9
Pedro Oliveira
256,000
Coimbra, Portugal
Play is set to kickoff at noon, just a few minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day as we provide live updates on all of the exciting action all the way down to the winning hand!