Well, that's it from Day 3. It's been a delightfully swift romp from 69 players down to just 24 - less than six hours in all, including breaks.
Anthony Lellouche is our big chip leader with 1.134 million going into Day 4, and indeed he is the only player who has broken the million mark at any point so far. Start-of-day chip leader Jeff Sarwer remains strong too, although he's not quite in Lellouche territory yet.
Other players who remain in the running include Ricardo Sousa, Michel Abecassis, Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy and Ruben Visser. It promises to be a pretty exciting Day 4, so be sure to join us back here at noon W.E.T. Until tomorrow, over and out.
While we were typing frantically to get the last few exits up, Marco della Tommasina succumbed in 25th place, meaning that we are down to three tables and are calling it a day.
The big stacks in the room aren't mucking about here with 25 players left, really assuming their roles as captains of their respective tables.
Over on table Sarwer, we watched Jeff play two pots in a row. In the first, Sarwer opened to 15,000 from the button, and both blinds called. They all checked the flop of , and the blinds checked the on the turn as well. That was Sarwer's cue to bet 26,000, and, despite some hemming and hawing from the big blind, it won him the pot.
On the following hand, the player under the gun opened to 15,000, and the player behind him called. In the cutoff, Sarwer three-bet to 56,000, and nobody wanted to play along with him.
Across the room, Antony Lellouche is also battering his table. In the most recent pot, Tome Moreira opened from late position, and Lellouche came along from the blinds. The flop brought and a check from Lellouche. He would call a bet of 25,000, and he would check-call another 35,000 when the hit the turn. Both players checked the river, and Moreira tabled . Lellouche waited to see it before showing the winning to move back up to about 1,000,000 chips.
Ricardo Sousa raised to 14,000 only for Matt Johns to make it 30,000. Back to Sousa, who made it 74,000, and back again to Johns, who raised all in to cover. Call.
Sousa:
Johns:
Board:
Sousa doubles to a hefty 600,000 or so; Johns meanwhile is down to 200,000.
First in from the button, Ruben Visser opened to 14,000. The small blind quickly folded, but Alexey Yuzikov moved all in for about 120,000 from the big blind. Visser instantly called.
Showdown
Visser:
Yuzikov:
The flop was no fun for the at-risk player as it came . The that turned opened the door a little bit, giving Yuzikov four more outs to his gutshot. "No five, please," said Visser under his breath. The dealer heard, peeling off the on the river to seal Yuzikov's fate. Visser moves up to about 750,000, taking the rest of Yuzikov's chips and sending his Russian opponent to the rail in 28th place.
Javier Garcia bet out 25,000 on a flop, only for Anthony Lellouche to raise to 70,000. After several minutes of completely expressionless dwelling, Garcia folded, leaving himself on 160,000 and Lellouche on exactly 1,033,000.
Garcia lost a small pot to Michel Abecassis the next hand as well, and is down to 150,000 or so.
We picked up the action on the turn with a board showing . In a battle of the blinds, Ruben Visser fired a healthy bet of 68,500. Antoino Matias made a clumsy but quick call from the big blind, and the river brought the . Visser checked, and Matias checked behind.
Visser waited for his opponent to show, and Matias said, "Ace," turning over the . "Six-high flush," said Visser, tabling . Matias held ace-seven with no spades, and the pot goes to Visser. He's up to about 640,000 after that four-flush.