Chip-Leader Coming Into Day 3 Is Out

  • Big Stax XXIV 500 Main Event 4:10 PM
  • Level 27 (30000/60000/10000)
  • Total Entries: 1092
  • Players Left: 12

Vitaly Kovyazin came into Day 3 with the chip-lead and 4.55M in his stack. After two full levels of play he was down to 2.415M and couldn’t recover from there.

Action folded to Ryan Eriquezzo in the small blind (Dan Daconti accidentally exposed 9x5x on his button fold) and he made it 150k into Kovyazin’s big blind. Kovyazin then moved all-in for ~2.4M, 40 big blinds and was immediately called by Eriquezzo who held a premium hand.

Eriquezzo KxKx vs Kovyazin 9x9x Pot: ~4.7M

Board: KxQxAx3x5x

Eriquezzo moves up to ~7.9M after the hand.

Vitaly Kovyazin is eliminated in 13th place for $4,824.