Welcome back to the Villa Marina here on the Isle of Man for Day 3 of the UKIPT Main Event. Just 40 players are left in this tournament, all guaranteed a minimum of £1,660. At the moment, it's local celebrity chef Darren Woods who is the chip leader with a frankly astonishing 907,500 - especially given that the average at this point is just 201,000.
Full Tilt Ambassador Martins Adeniya is in second place with 448,000 - less than half of Woods' stack. Also still in the mix are Team PokerStars Online's Adrienne Rowsome (227,000), Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren Mitchell (77,500) and runner-up last year PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo (58,500).
Today the tournament will be playing down to the final table of eight, no matter how long that takes. There will also be a feature table with hole cards face down starting at 12pm - you can follow that particular action over on PokerStars.tv
Play will begin at 12pm with around 15 minutes left of level 15.
Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren Mitchell has been eliminated. She had three-bet on the button with against Frank Longinotti - the latter flat-calling.
On a jack-high flop, Longinotti checked and Coren Mitchell moved all in. Longinotti then called with and hit an ace on the turn to finish her off.
Thomas Ward opened for 16,000 and Thomas van Veelen moved his last six big blinds across the line from the big blind. Ward looked him up with and was up against van Veelen’s .
The cards fell and it was the river, as it so often seems to be, that dealt the final blow to van Veelen and he was out first after the re-draw.
Donatas Didika open shoved from the button for just under 100,000 and Christopher Corkhill in the small bind re-shoed to isolate. The big blind did indeed get out of the way and the cards were on their backs.
Didika tabled the and needed a bit of help from the dealer as he was facing the of Corkhill.
The cards hit the felt and the resulting bricked out for Didika and he was off to the pay-out desk.
Heath Cram reraised all in for around 100,000 over the top of Fintan Gavin's initial 20,000 raise. Gavin weighed up the numbers and then made the call.
Cram:
Gavin:
The board ran out teasing a straight draw for Cram on the turn but it ultimately came to nothing.
On the feature table, Frank Longiotti got his last chips in with against Ciaran Heaney's . The board came to make the Irishman a full house and send the Canadian home in 16th position.
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and hit an ace on the turn to finish her off.
flop and the 
turn but the 
appeared on the river and last year's runner-up was knocked out.
and was up against van Veelen’s 
.
and it was the river, as it so often seems to be, that dealt the final blow to van Veelen and he was out first after the re-draw.
bricked out for Didika and he was off to the pay-out desk.
saw a better two pair for Hart and a rather cruel way to exit, but exit he must in 20th place.
and as so often in these spots he was in a race against the 
of Hill.
teasing a straight draw for Cram on the turn but it ultimately came to nothing.
and was up against the 
. The board came 
to make the Irishman a full house and send the Canadian home in 16th position.
