Trevor Pope made a raise to 26,000 from UTG, and it folded back to the blinds, both of whom called -- Patrick Hanoteau in the small, and Matthew Reed in the big.
The flop came . It checked to Pope who bet 42,000, Hanoteau called, and Reed stepped aside. Both remaining players checked the turn. The river then brought the . Hanoteau checked, and Pope hesitated before checking as well.
Hanoteau showed and Pope mucked. Hanoteau now has 930,000 -- taking over the lead for the moment -- while Pope has 192,000.
Stephane Tayar opened by raising pot from under the gun, then Miguel Proulx reraised pot from the button. The blinds folded, and Tayar called with his remaining chips.
Proulx
Tayar
No flushes on this one, as the board went . Tayar survives but remains short with 111,000. Proulx leads everyone with 888,000.
We're starting in the back of the Blue section in the Amazon Room this afternoon with a couple of six-handed tables. Once we lose two players, there will be a brief break while we move the remaining 10 players over to one of the feature tables at the opposite corner.
Patrick Hanoteau has arrived and taken his seat. Here's how our final 12 are seated for the first hands of Day 3:
Table 262
Seat 1 -- Miguel Proulx (877,000)
Seat 2 -- Joerg Engels (405,000)
Seat 3 -- Tommy Le (213,000)
Seat 4 -- Dilyan Kovachev (339,000)
Seat 5 -- Stephane Tayar (102,000)
Seat 6 -- Joe Serock (185,000)
Table 267
Seat 1 -- Trevor Pope (261,000)
Seat 2 -- Karl Gal (458,000)
Seat 3 -- Michael Greco (100,000)
Seat 4 -- L.J. Klein (470,000)
Seat 5 -- Patrick Hanoteau (824,000)
Seat 6 -- Matthew Reed (253,000)
First there were 596. Then 102. And now just 12. Two days of action-fueled poker has brought us to the third and final day of Event No. 28, the $2,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event, by the end of which we'll see our next WSOP bracelet winner.
Miguel Proulx of Canada will enjoy a slight lead over France's Patrick Hanoteau when play recommences today. With stacks over 800,000, those two have created some distance between themselves and the remaining ten. However, as we saw yesterday -- when chip leaders became eliminations within just a hand or two -- much can change quickly in pot-limit Omaha, or, as Bob Ciaffone once dubbed it, "the action game."
No matter who survives the first three eliminations today to make the final nine, our final table appears destined to have an international feel, as six countries are represented by our final dozen players. In addition to Canada and France, we'll see players from Germany, England, Bulgaria, and the U.S. coming back today to fight for the Event No. 28 bracelet. Kind of a World Cup of PLO, one could say.
Join us at 3 p.m. local time when the action begins again.
. It checked to Pope who bet 42,000, Hanoteau called, and Reed stepped aside. Both remaining players checked the 
turn. The river then brought the 
. Hanoteau checked, and Pope hesitated before checking as well.
and Pope mucked. Hanoteau now has 930,000 -- taking over the lead for the moment -- while Pope has 192,000.
