The Main Event is the biggest poker tournament on the planet, and it's now underway with players throughout the Rio itching to get in on the action. Tiffany Michelle captures some of the excitement in this video report.
After three levels of play it is time for the Day 1A dinner break. The break will be 75-minutes and play will resume at 7:12 p.m.
Here is a look at some of the key hands from Level 3.
On the river, both hands were tabled and Larry Ross had called off his remaining stack of roughly 30,000 on the 
board.
Farber showed 
for a straight on the river and Ross didn't show as he got up from the table.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
106,000
106,000
|
106,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Multi ways to the 
flop, Hung Phan bet 2,000 out of the small blind and Chris Sandrock raised to 6,000 from under the gun. Asi Moshe folded in the cutoff, Amnon Filippi called on the button and Phan came along.
The 
fell on the turn and Phan checked once more. Sandrock now bet 21,000 and was called both ways as the trio headed to the 
river. "Ace-king," Filippi announced even though he was the last player to show and that allowed Phan and Sandrock to muck as they were then shown the 
by Filippi.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
||
|
90,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
80,500
-2,500
|
-2,500 |
|
||
|
69,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
|
|
26,000
-47,600
|
-47,600 |
Billy Baxter raised preflop to 3,000 and found one caller to the 
flop. Baxter led out for 5,000 and was called before the 
turn. Baxter bet again, this time for 10,000 and earned a fold to keep his stack building.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
212,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
||
With 9,000 in the middle on the 
turn, Pierre Calamusa bet 4,000 and Kyriakos Papadopoulos raised to 17,000.
Calamusa made the call and the river was the 
. Papadopoulos checked and Calamusa bet 17,000 to win the pot.
On the neighboring table, Sam Grafton called out to Papadopoulos.
"How rich are you now," asked Grafton? "You used to be a mid-stakes grinder, now you are getting a four-hour massage."
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
146,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
||
|
74,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
On a flop of 
, a player jammed in the rest of his stack, and Justin Lunin-Pack called.
Opponent: 
Justin Lunin-Pack:
Both players got a good piece of the flop, but it was Lunin-Pack ahead with the set against his at-risk opponent's pair and flush draw.
The 
turn hit the felt to put his opponent ahead with a flush, but the 
spiked the river to change the lead once again and give Lunin-Pack quads to knock out his opponent in spectacular fashion. Less than two hours prior, Lunin-Pack rivered quad deuces.
"Just call him Mr. Quads," one player at the table remarked.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
Yuri Dzivielevski raised to 1,000 from under the gun and was called by Chris Wallace and Allan Le out of the blinds. On the 
flop, Wallace and Le checked to the Brazilian, who made it 2,200 to go. Only Wallace called and the on the turn was checked. Wallace then bet the river for 7,000 and Dzivielevski tank-folded.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
87,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
86,000
86,000
|
86,000 |
|
|
||
|
68,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
|
||
|
49,000
-11,800
|
-11,800 |
|
||
|
18,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
||
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
|
||
|
115,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
110,000 | |
|
78,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
|
||
|
71,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
||
|
63,000
9,400
|
9,400 |
|
62,000
-23,000
|
-23,000 |
|
|
||
|
58,000 | |
|
50,000
-7,900
|
-7,900 |
|
45,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
||
|
41,000
-8,200
|
-8,200 |
|
25,000
-31,000
|
-31,000 |
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
165,500
165,500
|
165,500 |
|
|
106,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
|
||
|
96,100
6,600
|
6,600 |
|
86,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
|
|
85,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
78,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
|
|
73,600
22,600
|
22,600 |
|
59,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
57,900
20,900
|
20,900 |
|
56,700
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
55,500
-5,500
|
-5,500 |
|
53,000
-36,300
|
-36,300 |
|
|
49,200
20,200
|
20,200 |
|
41,800
7,800
|
7,800 |
|
33,200
-4,800
|
-4,800 |
|
|
4,400
-34,000
|
-34,000 |
|
|
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