Kevin Rabichow raised in the small blind, George Holmes three-bet out of the big blind and Rabichow called.
The flop came . Holmes bet 16,000 and Rabichow check-jammed for about 81,000. Holmes went into the tank and counted out the call in his stack while considering it.
After about two minutes of seemingly being right on the fence, Holmes folded the face up. Another player at the table asked Rabichow to show also, "It's too early for that" responded Rabichow with a smile as he collected the chips.
Koray Aldemir knows what it takes to take down the Main Event, he did it last year. You may not have shared a table with him, but we spent an orbit with the champ to give you a glimpse of the action.
Hand #1 (small blind): Action folded all the way to Aldemir. He raised it up to 9,500 from the small blind. Aaron Steury folded the big.
Hand #2 (button): Erikas Laugzemys raises to 5,500 from middle position. Roberto Bendeck three-bet to 15,000 from the cutoff, forcing Aldemir and everyone else to fold back to Laugzemys, who made the call.
The flop came . Bendeck bet 12,000 when checked to and Laugzemys made the fold.
Hand #3 (cutoff): Action folded to Roberto Bendeck in the hijack who raised it up to 6,000. Aldemir folded, as did the rest of the table.
Hand #4 (hijack): Aldemir folded, as did the rest of the table until DJ Buckley raised the button to 6,000. Jacob Connelly three-bet to 19,000 from the big blind and Buckley folded.
Hand $5 (middle position): Aldemir folded, as did everyone else until Eric Greenwood raised to 6,000 on the button. For the second hand in a row, Jacob Connely three-bet to 19,000. Greenwood called.
The flop was , Connely continued for 17,000 and Greenwood called.
Both players checked the turn. On the river, though, Connely led for 37,000, eliciting a fold from Greenwood.
Hand #6 (utg+2): Aldemir opened to 5,500. For the third hand in a row, Jacob Connely three-bet, this time to 17,000 from his button. Aldemir let it go preflop.
Hand #7 (utg+1): Roberto Bendeck raised to 6,000 from under the gun and the entire table folded.
Hand #8 (utg): Aldemir opened to 5,500 and only found one caller, Erikas Laugzemys on the button.
The flop came out . Aldemir thought for a bit before continuing for 5,000. Laugzemys wanted nothing to do with it and let his cards go.
Hand #9 (big blind): The entire table folded, giving Aldemir a walk in the big blind.
Bonus hand #10 (sb): Roberto Bendeck opened the button to 6,000. Aldemir three-bet from the small blind to 25,000. Bendeck folded to the champ.
In a battle of the blinds, Martins Adeniya raised to 9,500 and Padraig O'Neill three-bet to 22,000. The action moved back to Adeniya, who tanked for a while. It even took so long that another player called the clock on him but Adeniya jammed for around the starting stack before the thirty seconds ran down with O'Neill calling instantly.
Martins Adeniya:
Padraig O'Neill:
The board delivered no help to Adeniya and he was sent to the rail.
Welcome to Day 3 of Event #70: $10,000 Main Event World Championship at the 2022 World Series of Poker which is set to begin at 11 a.m. local time inside Bally's and Paris, Las Vegas.
Today's action sees the players from Day 2abc and Day 2d come together for the first time to battle it out, as the 2,993 remaining players look to take one step closer to WSOP glory.
Topping the chip counts is Day 2abc chip leader Gavin Munroe (1,061,500), the United States poker player is the only person to pilot over a seven-figure stack to Day 3. Hot on his heels is Muhammad Abdel Rahim (936,500) who bagged best in yesterday's Day 2d while Karim Rebei (932,000) rounds out the top three chip counts.
Some well-knowns who will be in the Day 3 field include Jeremy Wien, Upeshka De Silva, Michael Rocco, Bryn Kenney, Alejandro Lococo and 2012 Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia.
The big story from yesterday was that the late registration period finally came to a close and when the dust settled it was confirmed that there had been 8,663 entries into the Main Event. This year's tally fell slightly short of the record-setting 8,773 entries that came in the 2006 WSOP.
With a bumper field also comes an inflated prize pool. The winner of the Main Event will walk away with $10,000,000 of the $80,782,475 prize pool, as well as the prestigious WSOP Main Event Bracelet.
The plan for today is to play until the end of Level 15. The players will receive a 20-minute break upon the completion of every level and a dinner break is scheduled at the end of Level 13 (approx. 5:40 p.m. PDT) for 75-minutes. Play will resume on Level 11, with the blinds set at 1,000/2,500/2,500a.
2022 WSOP Main Event Day 3 Schedule
Level
Durataion (mins)
Blinds
Big Blind Ante
11
120
1,000/2,500
2,500
20-minute break
12
120
1,500/3,000
3,000
20-minute break
13
120
2,000/4,000
4,000
75-minute dinner break
14
120
3,000/5,000
5,000
20-minute break
15
120
3,000/6,000
6,000
Be sure to keep it tuned into PokerNews, as the live reporting team will be back every step of the way as the Main Event journey continues.