Barny Boatman Leads Remaining 26 Players in Extended Play
Event #42: $1,500 Extended Play No-Limit Hold'em – a tournament that originally began with 1,914 players who created a prize pool of $2,583,900 – saw 115 players return for Day 3 action, but by the end of the night just 26 remained with WSOP bracelet winner Barny Boatman and his stack of 1,152,000 leading the way.
The only other players to bag up seven-figure stacks are Luis Duarte (1,079,000) and Artem Metalidi (1,056,000). Also still in contention are Patrick Leonard (581,000), Justin Zaki (381,000), Konstantin Puchkov (367,000), and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (226,000).
Among those to fall on Day 3 were Zo Karim (112th - $3,514), Andy Frankenberger (100th - $3,514), Martins Adeniya (69th - $5,762), Anatoly Filatov (46th - $7,932), Antonio Esfandiari (40th - $9,457), and 1997 WSOP Main Event runner-up John Strzemp (27th - $13,953).
In regards to Esfandiari, he took a huge hit just before the dinner. It happened when a player on the button opened for 11,000 and Boatman three-bet to 30,000 from the small blind. Esfandiari four-bet to 64,000 from the big, the original raiser folded, and Boatman five-bets to 174,000. Esfandiari then moved all in and Boatman called off for 467,500.
Boatman: 
Esfandiari: 
Boatman was in trouble, but he was lucky to improve on the 
flop. Neither the turn nor 
river helped Esfandiari, and he sent more than half his chips over to Boatman.
Top 10 Day 3 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barny Boatman | 1,152,000 |
| 2 | Luis Duarte | 1,079,000 |
| 3 | Artem Metalidi | 1,056,000 |
| 4 | Yehoram Houri | 895,000 |
| 5 | Anthony Diotte | 817,000 |
| 6 | Ross Gottlieb | 780,000 |
| 7 | [Removed:4] | 732,000 |
| 8 | Auddie Reynolds | 605,000 |
| 9 | Patrick Leonard | 581,000 |
| 10 | Adrian Apmann | 574,000 |
Day 4 will kick off at 1 p.m. Tuesday with the plan of playing down to a winner, who will take home a $478,102 first-place prize.