Alexandru Ciureanu was all-in and at risk from under the gun for the 5,175,000 he had behind. Philip Ward has called from the hijack with the bigger stack.
Alexandru Ciureanu:
Philip Ward:
The flop came to give Ward a set of jacks.
The on the turn didn't change the situation.
The on the river however though gave Ciureanu the higher set to double up and leave Ward behind with only 600,000.
Tobias Ziegler has been eliminated and Alex Foxen was sporting a stack that was a bit bigger than a few minutes before. Ioannis Angelou-Konstas was kind enough to relate what had happened.
Foxen raised to 600,000 from the cutoff, Ziegler three-bet to 2,500,000. Foxen responded with a four-bet to 5,600,000 and Ziegler reacted by shoving for about 20,000,000. Foxen called. Foxen had the better hand with and Ziegler was behind with .
The board ran out to not provide any help to Ziegler and the German was sent away from the Main Event tables.
After eight levels of play, 63 players remain from the 224 that started the day. Day 3 of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK Main Event was action-packed even though the bubble was an undramatic one. Bagging a huge chip lead is Alex Foxen with 46,525,000 - the equivalent of 133 big blinds.
Foxen collected most of those chips when he eliminated Tobias Ziegler with aces against Ziegler's kings. By winning that pot of around 40 million, Foxen grabbed the chip lead and didn’t let it go. Trailing him by about 30 big blinds is Fadil Isufi (35,800,000) who eliminated Niall Farrell earlier in the day. Closing the podium in third place is John Haigh with 34,275,000 in chips.
Also through to Day 4 is 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Riess (26,650,000). Riess had 36 million at his high point but unfortunately lost a big pot at the end of the day. Ioannis Angelou-Konstas was short at one point and had to shove with jack-six for his last 13 big blinds and managed to hit on the river to double up. After that he managed to ran his stack up to a healthy 92 big blinds (32,250,000).
partypoker is still represented by two pros, Kristen Bicknell (27,725,000) and Patrick Leonard (22,750,000). Bicknell spent quite some time on the feature table and managed to run her stack up to more than six times her starting stack on the day. Leonard started on a tough table but managed to collect quite a few chips to finish with a more than above average stack.
Other players also bagging today include Mohsin Charania (28,400,000), Michael Wang (21,575,000), 2018 WSOP Main Event ninth place finisher Antoine Labat (21,200,000), Max Silver (19,725,000), Sam Grafton (19,250,000), Dietrich Fast (17,275,000), and many more players.
Players who didn’t make Day 4 but did make it into the money include Andy Black, Preben Stokkan, Paul Michaelis, James Ablott, Tom Middleton, James Mitchell, Paul Nunes, Scott Margereson, Joao Vieira, Gianluca Speranza, Manig Loeser, Christopher Andler, Ivan Deyra, Guillaume Diaz, partypoker pro Natalia Breviglieri, Niall Farrell, Michael Tureniec and more unfortunate players.
Players will return at noon to play Level 25 which features a small blind of 175,000, big blind of 350,000 and a button ante of 350,000. Eight levels of play are scheduled again but might be subject to change.
Main Event Schedule
Date
Start
Late Reg
Levels
Clock
Event
Number of Players
Players Left
Sunday, September 30, 2018
21:00
-
24
Online - Day 1
21
12
Monday, October 1, 2018
12:00
Day 2
8
60
Day 1a
38
18
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
12:00
Day 2
8
60
Day 1b
165
88
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
12:00
Day 2
8
60
Day 1c
576
357
Thursday, October 4, 2018
12:00
17:00
8
60
Day 2
690
224
Friday, October 5, 2018
12:00
-
8
60
Day 3
224
63
Saturday, October 6, 2018
12:00
-
8
60
Day 4
63
-
Sunday, October 7, 2018
12:00
-
60
Day 5 (Final Day)
-
-
Make sure to return at noon, tomorrow, October 6, to see who will make it to the final day! The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the start until the final bag has been put away.