Dany Parlafes and Vadim Shlez had already tangled prior to the last break and it would take a massive pot to boost the Romanian into the chip lead. Caught in the crossfire was Jerome Zerbib who got it in with pocket fours. The raising action continued between Parlafes and Shlez with the American beeing at risk for more than 500,000 with pocket queens. Parlafes had pocket aces and scooped the humongous pot.
Shortly after, Parlafes raised from the small blind and Tobias Peters defended his big blind. On the flop, Peters got his remaining stack in with for the open-ended straight draw and Parlafes called with . Neither the turn nor the river were what the Dutchman was looking for and Parlafes scored yet another knockout.
Within the first 45 minutes of play in the penultimate level of Day 3, a total of 26 players were eliminated and headed to the payout desk. A list of everyone in order will be up shortly, so stay tuned.
Sebastien Lebaron opened to 15,000 with just 62,000 behind from early position. Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki shoved all in two positions down for 98,000 total. Action folded to David van den Berg in the big blind. The Dutchman hadn't seen that Horecki had pushed, and wanted to raise Lebaron all in. The floor got involved but there wasn't really an issue as Van den Berg made clear he was fine with raising anyway.
Lebaron folded and Horecki and Van den Berg showed their hands. Van den Berg was the proud owner of , claiming he had them many times before already today. Horecki had so it was a race going in.
The favored the man from Holland, and his Polish foe hit the exit.
A short-stacked Jean Wang moved all in from the small blind. An even shorter-stacked Rasmus Vogt called for his own tournament life of about 35,000 from the big blind.
Wang showed and was in a dominating position over Vogt's . A run out of ensured victory for Wang. Wang's stack now sits at around 72,000.
Sometimes you report on the action, sometimes you serve as psychiatrist. When Boutros Naim busted in 90th place, emerging shell-shocked from the tournament room, both skills were put to use, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
On a flop of it was Milan Tomasz Rabsz betting 15,000 from the under the gun position. Jouny Hanna shoved all in for 90,000 even and after some thinking Rabsz made the call. It was for Rabsz, for Hanna. The on the turn and on the river failed to improve Hanna enough, and the Swede headed for the exit.
Action opened when the player in the hijack made it 12,000 to go. Olivier Piechaczyk was in the cutoff and he opted to three-bet the action to 42,000. It then fell on Milan Tomasz Rabsz on the button and he announced a four-bet to 90,000. The blinds and original raiser folded, putting action back on Piechaczyk.
Piechaczyk thought for about 30 seconds before five-betting all in. Rabsz opted not to call for his own tournament life and instead folded his cards. Piechaczyk took down the pot and now has about 1.15 million in chips.
Bastien Panciarola was the first player to move all in and was followed by Stavros Kalfas. Guillaume Darcourt mulled it over before calling to put them both at risk.
Panciarola
Kalfas
Guillaume Darcourt
The board ran out and the set for Darcourt busted two more players.
Gilbert Diaz shoved all in under the gun and Sergio Aido made the call from the big blind. Aido held while Diaz was the owner of . The blanked out and Aido added some small denomination chips to his stack.