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It’s been really tough to keep up with the action in the first level of play today. Table 3 has been an absolute widowmaker. The table started as the lone 7-handed table in the field, and already four players have busted off that table. Fernando Ferreira (31st), Daniel Ades (30th), Fellipi Campi (29th) and Rodrigo MacLean (27th) joined Jonathan Arturo (28th) in making that long, lonely walk out of the Tivoli Hotel ballroom to the payouts desk. All except for MacLean were in the bottom 10 stacks to start the day – there are no surprises in those eliminations.

The big surprise came at the feature table where Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari has taken the chip lead away from Team PokerStars Pro Jose “Nacho” Barbero. Barbero was active in the early going, looking to punish the players on hs left when they were in the blinds. One early hand saw Barbero open the button to 33,000. Fabio Colonese, in the big blind, three-bet to 66,000. Barbero asked Colonese how many chips he had left, then four-bet to 130,000. Colonese responded by five-bet shoving, drawing an instant fold from Barbero.

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Colonese

Those chips would soon wind up in Akkari’s stack. Sitting in the hijack position, Akkari opened a pot to 33,000. Colonese, the next player to act, again three-bet a Team Pro, this time to 75,000. Akkari responded just as Barbero did, by four-betting to 173,000. Only, when Colonese five-bet shoved again, Akkari snap-called all in for 642,000 with A♣ K♣ . Colonese showed Q♥ Qâ™  , creating a 1.3 million-chip flip. Akkari got the best of this flip by filling up on a board of Kâ™  J♣ A♦ 9♦ A♥ . The beat left Colonese with just 59,000 in chips.

At that point, 26 players remained and I dutifully returned to the blogging desk to begin writing up a post and doing some research on Barbero. Twenty minutes later, six more players had busted out of the tournament, including Colonese:

26th: Marcio Andre (R$3,750)
25th: Federico Herrera (R$3,750)
24th: Oded Minond (R$4,000)
23rd: Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen (R$4,000)
22nd: Fabio Colonese (R$4,250)
21st: Andre Eskinazi (R$4,250)

The blinds are just now rolling up to 10,000 and 20,000 with a 3,000 ante. The 11 players eliminated in the first hour of the day pushes Day 3 halfway home towards its target of an eight-handed final table. Akkari is far and away the chip leader now. After crippling Colonese, he took out Marcio Andre and began pushing around the feature table. From 208th out of 211 at the start of Day 2, with just 18,800 in chips at the 800-1600 level, Akkari has climbed all the way to 2 million in chips.

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Man on a mission

Barbero, meanwhile, is biding his time with about 1,050,000. If the eliminations keep up at this pace, he won’t have much more time to bide.

Dave Behr is a freelance contributor to the PokerStars Blog.

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