**WSOP Main Event Spoils**
Posted by
Strongbad (aka Rambler14)
Jul 12 '13, 04:18
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Among the 1,087 eliminations on Day 3 were many of the game's stars. Phil Hellmuth exited quietly before dinner, as did Johnny Chan, Ivey, Daniel Cates, Liv Boeree. Jean-Robert Bellande's elimination just 40 minutes into the day was the most surprising one of all given his 21st-place chip count at the end of Day 2 and his result simply displayed the unpredictability of the game sometimes. Actor Kevin Pollak, Elisabeth Hille, Kenny Tran, Andy Frankenberger, Scott Seiver, Phil Collins, Jason Senti, Sam Holden, Jeremy Ausmus and Eoghan O'Dea also fell short of a main event cash.
Bubble Day is today (Day 4)
Brunson is one of three main event champions remaining after Day 3 and while it's nice that Carlos Mortensen is still in contention, Greg Merson, deservingly, is getting the most attention. Merson sat in front of the cameras all day and his stack fluctuated greatly until the final level of the night when he settled down as the action around him escalated. He finished with 390,500 and if he's able last through the bubble, he'd be the first main event champion to cash in the year after winning since Peter Eastgate in 2009.
Merson is one of four members of last year's final table to make Day 4 (Russell Thomas, Steven Gee and Rob Salaburu are the others), and the trend of former November Niners making deep runs once again is something to watch. In addition to the four from 2012, Ivan Demidov and Michael Mizrachi are representing their final tables. Prior to the November Nine format, Day 3 survivors Paul Wasicka, Russell Rosenbloom and Allen Cunningham made the final table of the big one.
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