Level 12 is underway, with the big board showing 1,485 players still remaining. That means 268 hit the rail during the first two hours of play today.
By the way, the starting field of 1,753 for today's Day 3 uncannily equaled the number of players who began Day 3 a year ago. In 2012, just 720 players survived from the 1,753 who began Day 3.
Nível: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
We've reached the first break here on Day 3 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event. For the first time in the tournament, the entire field is in the building at the same time. Players were spread into three rooms when play began, and after two levels the Pavilion has been completely cleared out. The tournament board currently reads 1,485 players still in contention for the $8.3 million top prize.
Mark Kroon is still leading the way with about 685,000 in chips, adding almost 150,000 to his stack since the day began. Kroon picked up pocket aces early in the day and eliminated a player who had ace-king.
Chasing Kroon for the pole position are Victor Figueroa, Nick Schwarmann, Dirk Vanluijk, and Tuan Le, who won a huge pot against Johnny Chan less than an hour ago.
Several former world champs are still in the mix, including Greg Merson, Carlos Mortensen, Tom McEvoy and Doyle Brunson, who is seated at the secondary feature table. Mortensen has been climbing early on, and he used a lucky flop to increase his stack to 365,000. McEvoy, meanwhile, had his aces cracked by ace-queen.
Several notables have been sent packing, including Xuan Liu, Robert Mizrachi, John Racener, David Vamplew, and Kevin Pollak, who missed his flush draw to end his run early of the money.
See you in 20 minutes!
When we arrived at the table, the dealer was pulling in a couple of bets after a couple of players had folded preflop. The action we gathered was that one player had opened to 3,200, a few others called, then Jackie Glazier three-bet to 11,800 from the small blind. Two of the original callers from the cutoff seat and the button made the call of Glazier's three-bet, and the flop came down 
. Glazier checked, the cutoff seat fired 25,000, the button folded, and then Glazier raised enough to put the cutoff seat all in. The cutoff seat called it off.
Glazier rolled over top set with the 
. The cutoff seat said, "You're good," and showed the 
for top pair.
The turn brought the 
to give Glazier a full house and leave her opponent drawing draw. The river was the 
and that was that. Glazier scooped the pot and moved to 182,000 in chips.
Yesterday, we talked about how Dar'Ya Hulyk's was building in the Main Event and had a good shot of becoming poker's next big female competitor. As much as we would love to say the same about Glazier, there's one slight problem, she's already a very well known player in the game.
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Glazier has nearly $1 million in live tournament earnings, including a big-time finish in last year's $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em event where she took second place. She also cashed in the Main EVent last year, her second time in the money in the event after first cashing in 2010. Glazier was also recently signed to Ivey Poker. She's often regarded as one of the best tournament players in her region, but has been expanding her success to the WSOP very much so in the past two years. With one cash under her belt this year and over 180,000 in chips, Glazier could very well be setting herself up for another major splash here in Las Vegas.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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182,000
92,000
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92,000 |
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Lauren Kling raised to 3,200 from middle position, and the button three-bet to 8,200. Kling quickly called, and the flop came 
. Kling checked, and the button bet 8,500. Kling called, and then checked again when the 
came on the turn. The button moved all in, and Kling immediately asked for a count. After breaking down the stacks, the dealer informed her the bet was for 46,700. Kling counted out chips for a call, counted how much she'd have left if she called and lost, though for a minute, then put her chips in the middle. The button turned over 
for top pair, but Kling showed 
for bottom set on the flop. The river was the 
, a complete brick. Kling gathered in the chips, and her opponent hit the rail.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
280,000
111,200
|
111,200 |
Christian Harder bet 15,000 on a board of 
after two players checked to him on the button. The first player, who was in the big blind, called, and the other player folded. The river was the 
, and the big blind checked. Harder checked behind him.
"Nine," the big blind announced, turning over 
, the hand sometimes called "Montana Banana." His trips were good, and he took the pot, but Harder continues to rise in the chip counts despite the setback.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
329,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
|
287,000
37,900
|
37,900 |
|
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|
160,000
34,900
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34,900 |
|
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Juan Pena began Day 3 with one of the larger stacks among the 1,753 returners, and he's managed to add to it considerably during the first level of the day.
Just now we saw him winning a small pot in a hand that saw him defend his blind versus an early position raise, then check call a bet of 6,000 following a 
flop. The turn then brought and a bet of 12,000 from Pena, good enough to earn a fold from his opponent.
As the end of Level 11 nears, Pena now is edging close to the 400,000-chip mark.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
392,000
147,500
|
147,500 |
With an early position raise to 3,500 and two calls before him, Greg Merson three-bet to 11,5000 on the button. The early-position raiser folded, the players in middle position and the cutoff called, and the flop came down 
.
Action checked to Merson and he bet 17,000, which both opponents called. The turn fell and action was once again checked to Merson and he bet 28,500 this time. The player in middle position check-raised to 64,000, forcing a fold from the player in the cutoff. Merson went into the tank about about three minutes, but ultimately folded.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
|
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When we approached Vivek Rajkumar's table he had moved all in with a covering stack after a check from James Rubenstein. The board read 
and there was roughly 100,000 chips in the pot.
"Will you show me if I fold?" Rubenstein asked. Rajkumar didn't say anything. Camera crews began to swarm around the table to film the hand. Eventually Rubenstein turned up the 
and he folded his hand. The dealer put it aside to be taped for the broadcast.
Rajkumar made it easy for the camera's though, he proudly turned up his 
for a stone bluff and took down the pot. Rubenstein could only shake his head.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
255,000
32,400
|
32,400 |
Max Steinberg came into today with a realitively short stack of 39,000 after getting caught in a huge bluff last night. Well he came in today on a mission as he tweeted this an hour ago.
Having a really good start so far. Up over 100k again. Not going to get back under that ever again #inittowinitFollow @MaxJSteinberg
Steinberg is making good on that promise as we pegged his stack at a whopping 280,000 last time we walked by the table. Steinberg came oh so close to a bracelet earlier this summer in the $3,000 Mixed Max event, as well as finishing runner-up in the National Championship in May. Momentum is clearly on his side today, and we will keep track of him as the day goes on.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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280,000
241,000
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241,000 |
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