The flop showed on a raised pot and the two payers involved checked.
Things heated on the turn after the first player checked. Cunningham bet 600,000 and his opponent announced all-in for 3,200,000.
Cunningham snap-called and tabled for the full house. His opponent, holding , was in terrible shape for a double up and got eliminated after a fell on the river, improving Cunningham's hand into quad queens.
A player opened in middle position and Yaser Al-Keliddar chose to move all in from the button for a stack worth 2,500,000. His opponent quickly made the call to create the following showdown:
Yaser Al-Keliddar:
His opponent:
Al-Keliddar had the dominating hand but the dealer brought a board , eliminating the 2018 $ 3,000 Limit Hold'em - 6 Handed winner from the tournament.
The player under the gun opened to 700,000. A player in middle position three-bet all in for 4,300,000. The small blind was the table chip leader and re-raised before Jason Wheeler moved all in for 3,600,000.
The initial raiser moved all in for 2,000,000 total and the cards were turned over.
Under the Gun:
Middle Position:
Small Blind:
Jason Wheeler:
Wheeler was in a commanding position, and the flop gave him top set and a near unassailiable lead. The turn and river changed nothing and he sent two players to the rail, and almost quadrupled his stack.
According to the table, Diogo Veiga opened to 425,000 and it folded to Justin Liberto who defended his big blind.
The flop came and Liberto check-called Veiga's continuation bet. The on the turn went check-check.
Things heated on the river. Liberto bet and faced an all-in raised from Veiga, putting his tournament at risk. Liberto eventually called with but only to see in Veiga's hand for the nut flush.
The winner of the 2018 $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em has now reached a stack over 19,000,000.
Jerald Williamson was spotted in his brightly covered overalls heading to the exit. Daniel Ghobrial was raking in the chips having sent the start-of-day chip leader to the rail.
"I was up to 20 million," said Ghobrial. "And then I lost kings against tens. Then a player opened and I three-bet aces. [Williamson] four bet from the big blind and just I called.
"He shoved for the rest on the flop with and I called."
The Queen-Jack couldn't catch up and Williamson was eliminated.
Twelve more levels are in the books at the end of Day 3 of the massive BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em. Just two more days remain before the 2019 World Series of Poker crowns the first Big 50 champion, and 127 players are still in contention.
Amer Torbay, coming from Venezuela and cashing here in only his second ever WSOP event, is the clear chip leader at the end of the night, finishing with a whopping 32,500,00 chips, good for 65 big blinds coming back to blinds at 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 ante.
The second spot on the leader board belongs to David Rasmussen (1,339,000), with 2018 bracelet-winner Diogo Veiga rounding out the top three stacks with 1,196,000 chips and looking for the second gold bracelet of his career.
Some of the notables who are still in the running for the coveted WSOP gold bracelet and first-place prize of $1,147,449 include Jason Wheeler (20,750,000), former WSOPE final tablist Andrei Konopelko (30,200,000) and Daniel Gamer (17,500,000).
David Rasmussen
"It feels like the Main Event!"
Cunningham, the owner of five WSOP bracelets, started the day with 500,000 and managed to climb and stay amongst the biggest stacks during the day. On one of the last hands on Day 3 he check-raised the flop and jammed the turn, getting a fold from his opponent to move above 20 million in chips.
"Today I've gone from 500,000 to 20 million!" said Cunningham. "Which is kind of bad as I wanted 40!"
"I didn't really expect anything out of this tournament, obviously with 28,000 people. But I just played one day at a time, hand after hand and suddenly sometimes you have like a zillion times what you started with."
Cunningham says he's been enjoying the atmosphere at the tables.
"It feels like the Main Event! You start with so many chips and it plays so long, I feel like I'm in some kind of big one! I look up and see $7,000 and I was expecting $700,000 by now."
The remaining players are guaranteed $7,169 when they start Day 4 on June 6th at 11am.
The Big 50 is down to 127 players
End of Day Recap
The day began with 1,597 players from a total of 28,371 entries between the four starting days, making this the biggest event in WSOP's history. It surpasses the 2015 Colossus (22,374 entries) as biggest-ever live tournament.
Tony Miles, who finished second to John Cynn in last year's World Series of Poker Main Event, winning $5,000,000 in the process, busted early today and cashed here in his first event at this 2019 WSOP. Another early elimination was 2017 WSOP Player of the Year Chris Ferguson.
With such a massive field, it's no surprise that some familiar faces made it in the money today, including Justin Liberto ($6,054) , Robert Brown ($7,169), Larry Wright ($6,054), Yaser Al-Keliddar ($6,054), reigning WSOP APAC champion Scott Davies ($4,397), Daniel Zack ($3,782), Ari Engel ($3,782), Upeshka De Silva ($3,782), Todd Witteles ($3,273) and Jeff Madsen ($1,744).
Jerald Williamson, chip leader at the beginning of the day and one of the fan favourites in the BIG 50 after stories of the Vietnam veteran's battle with cancer and poker history, busted on the last level against Daniel Ghobrial.
Day 4 begins at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, and players will battle it out to be down to six players with a 20-minute break every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 8.
on a raised pot and the two payers involved checked. 
turn after the first player checked. Cunningham bet 600,000 and his opponent announced all-in for 3,200,000. 
for the full house. His opponent, holding 
, was in terrible shape for a double up and got eliminated after a 
fell on the river, improving Cunningham's hand into quad queens.
, eliminating the 2018 $ 3,000 Limit Hold'em - 6 Handed winner from the tournament.
flop gave him top set and a near unassailiable lead. The turn 
changed nothing and he sent two players to the rail, and almost quadrupled his stack.
and Liberto check-called Veiga's continuation bet. The 
on the turn went check-check. 
. Liberto bet and faced an all-in raised from Veiga, putting his tournament at risk. Liberto eventually called with 
in Veiga's hand for the nut flush. 
and I called."
