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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond – Day 3 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-12-10 05:49
The third day of the WPT’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic saw 5 more levels of action go into the books. At the end of it all, Don Nguyen was the one who rose to the top of the chip counts, with a stack of 774.5k chips. Mohsin Charania and Dan O’Brian had decent Day 3 runs too: they both finished with healthy stacks, enough for 3rd and 4th places respectively.
Brian Rast, Joe Serock and David Parades also made the top 10 on decent stacks. 140 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day, looking to first make the top 45, and then obviously to just survive the day and to return to make a deep run on Day 4.
While at the end of the day, the money-bubble was tantalizingly close, it was not reached after all. 59 players remained standing when the action was called. Nguyen first clinched the top spot during the 14th level of action, when he picked up a massive pot from Brian Rast and Kevin Eyster. The flop was Ad, Kd, 10s and the chips went into the middle, at least on Nguyen’s part. In response to that, Rast put in a raise, which prompted Eyster to get out of the way. The match-up turned out to be a perfect hand: Rast had pocket rockets for the set, but Nguyen had him covered with a Q,J for the Broadway straight.
The turn and the river turned out to be irrelevant and Nguyen was the new leader of the
poker tournament. From that point on, Nguyen never relinquished the top spot: he kept adding to his stack right up to the end of the hostilities.
Justin Bonomo, John Dolan and Joseph Cheong were all eliminated on Day 3.
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