The fourth level of the day is done, which means it's time for the last 20-minute break of the night. Less than 900 players remain, and it's a real possibility that we could get near the money bubble of 666 yet tonight. One thing's for sure, if we don't quite get there, we'll come close.
Here's a look at some of the highlights from Level 14:
During the break the tournament staff will be racing off the T100 chips, which will leave just the purple T500, yellow T1,000, and orange T5,000 chips in play. Join us in about 20 minutes for the last level of Day 3 at the 2012 World Series of Poker.
There was 40,000 in the middle when the flop came down . Michael Ferrell bet out 20,000 from the big blind, and Liv Boeree, who was under the gun, made the call. The turn brought the , and Ferrell checked to Boeree, who fired out 32,000. Ferrell came along, and they both checked when the hit the river.
Ferrell tabled , and Boeree mucked her hand. After that hand, Ferrell jumps up to 625,000, while Boeree falls down to 200,000.
Gregory Milliron opened the action to 8,500 only to have Sebastion Saffari move all in for 64,500 total. Action came all the way back to Milliron who announced a call.
Milliron:
Saffari:
The board ran out and Saffari was sent to the rail. Milliron has now increased his lead as biggest stack in the ESPN mothership.
Over on Shawn Buchanan's table, he was involved in a hand against one opponent on a flop. Buchanan was first to act and opted to lead for 12,500 here. His opponent made the call and then both players checked the turn. Another couple of checks on the river would see us head to showdown.
"Ace," said Buchanan before he tabled . His hand was enough to win the pot and increase to sit above the chip-stack average.
There was 22,000 in the middle when we arrived to the table to see that Jason Mercier was heads up with an opponent. The board had run down , and Mercier checked to his opponent, who fired out 20,000. Mercier tanked for about a minute before chucking his cards away.
After that pot, Mercier is down to 64,000, and we expect that he will be getting those chips into the middle fairly soon.
Just now Rosen was opening with a raise to 8,500 from middle position, then 2011 November Niner Phil Collins reraised to 22,000 from the cutoff. It folded back to Rosen who thought for about a minute before calling.
The flop came , and Rosen didn't wait too long before betting 20,000. Collins considered Rosen's bet for a half-minute, then let his hand go.