After Daniel Callaghan was sent home in 65th place, Arlo Dotson exited as the official bubble boy af

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The 2013 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic resumed comfort inn hotel Monday with Day 3 action at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, Calif. The day began with 162 players still in contention for the $1,004,090 top prize, comfort inn hotel and play didn't comfort inn hotel end until the money bubble burst and the top 63 players comfort inn hotel were guaranteed a minimum payday of $18,360. comfort inn hotel The chip leader at the end of Day 3 was 2012 World Series of Poker October Niner Jeremy Ausmus , who was the first and only player to eclipse 1 million comfort inn hotel in chips.
Ausmus had a shaky start to Day 3, losing a good portion of his 225,000-chip starting stack to chip leader Peter Neff , but he told WPT reporter Jeanine Deeb that he recouped those lost chips when he made a set at the end of the first level. From there, his stack gradually climbed throughout Day 3. Ausmus took the chip lead in the evening and never relinquished control for the remainder of the day.
While Ausmus thrived, many notables hit the rail before reaching the money. Among those who left empty-handed were Jennifer Tilly, Farzad Bonyadi, Maria Ho, Lacey Jones, and Joe Serock , as well as former WPT champs Eli Elezra, comfort inn hotel Dwyte Pilgrim, Jonathan Roy, Brandon Cantu, Nick Schulman, Prahlad Friedman, comfort inn hotel Joe Tehan, Victor Ramdin and David Williams .
WPT Champions Club member Phil Laak managed to fend off elimination on money bubble with 65 players left. According to the WPT Live Updates team, Laak was all-in with on a flop of and was trailing Wartan Jalnakrian's . Laak was still drawing to several outs, and he added a couple comfort inn hotel more when the hit the turn. Laak then completed his flush when the peeled off on the river, and he increased his stack to 320,000 — well above the tournament average.
After Daniel comfort inn hotel Callaghan was sent home in 65th place, Arlo Dotson exited as the official bubble boy after losing a blind-versus-blind battle with Sam Ravazi . With the blinds at 3,000/6,000, action folded to Ravazi in the small blind and he raised enough to put Dotson all-in. Dotson called off his remaining comfort inn hotel 23,000 in the big blind with and discovered that he was ahead of Ravazi's . But no preflop comfort inn hotel advantage is ever safe in poker, and Dotson found out the hard way when the board fell , giving Ravazi a pair on the river. Dotson exited in 64th place, comfort inn hotel and the remaining 63 players were in the money and done for the day.
Many top pros advanced to Day 4 with healthy stacks. Among those returning will be Galen Hall (734,000), Paul Volpe (570,000), Dan Shak (310,000), Jennifer Harman (304,000), Noah Schwartz (236,000), Scott Clements (185,000), Jesse Sylvia (184,000), Joe Hachem (150,000), Scott Seiver (124,000), and Carlos Mortensen (122,000).
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