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Mihai Taizs Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3 WINNER
Maihai Taizs ended Flight C of the Main Event with the most chips in the bag for Day Two, and he then found himself still with the chip lead with six remaining to end the day. Once Day Three commenced, things got wild, but despite those swings, he emerged victorious to capture his first career WSOP Circuit ring, the $188,095 first-place prize, and the $5,000 Pacakge to Paradise.
Taizs may have started the day as the chip leader, but it was Angel Suarez who got the party started early as 2015 WSOP bracelet winner John Reading moved all in from under the gun for about 600,000 before action folded to Suarez in the big blind.
Suarez made a quick speech about not being able to win a race against the bracelet winner on Day Two before tossing in a single calling chip with queen-four of hearts. Reading tabled ace-jack, but a four in the window on the flop gave Suarez a pair, and Reading's day was done in sixth place for $31,660 before it could even begin.
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John Reading Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3
Suarez wasn't done making waves as he would flop a straight against Taizs' flopped set, but the runout wasn't to his liking, preventing all the chips from getting in the middle. However, the chip lead was now his, and he would put those chips to use, but not before the short stacks at the table would collide.
With Jai Vallurupalli on the short stack of about 2,000,000 chips, he put all those betting units to work when he overbet, jammed the river on a 
board. Cero Zuccarello went into the tank and, after about two minutes, flicked in the call with queen-eight for two pair.
Vallurupalli table nine-eight for the flopped straight, and Zuccarello was left with just shy of two million chips, which ended up in the middle a few hands later when he flopped top pair on a six-high board with king-six, only to run into the ace-six of Taizs, who sent him to the rail in fifth place for $43,369.
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Cero Zuccarello Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3
With just four players remaining, three players in Vallurupalli, Taizs, and Event #1 champion Bohdan Slyrinskyi all sat in the 40 to 60 big blind range, but it was Suarez who held the chip lead with over 100 big blinds just before the first break of the day.
However, before that break could commence, Vallurupalli would try to get frisky with a limp shove from the small blind for roughly 3,000,000 only to run square into Slyrinskyi's pocket aces in the big blind. Vallurupalli would turn a pair of fives, but he improved no further, hitting the rail in fourth place for $60,600.
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Jai Vallurupalli Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3
Once the remaining three players returned from the break, Suarez appeared to be running away with the tournament after crossing the 13 million chip mark when he found thin value against Taizs on a paired board, but that would represent the high mark for him as he went cards dead for the next hour and without much action bleed his way down to the short stack, while Taizs and Slyrinskyi would battle back and forth.
Suarez would get a shove through on the last hand before the second break of the day, and when play resumed, the action got wild as he put the pedal to the metal.
On the first hand, back from break, Suarez moved all in for just under 4.5 million with ace-four of hearts, and Slyrinskyi called for the majority of his stack with pocket eights.
An ace in the window gave Suarez new life and left the Event #1 Champion with just under two million chips. Slyrinskyi then put the last of his chips in the middle with queen-nine of hearts, and Taizs snap-called with pocket tens. There would be no Lady Luck this time for Slyrinskyi, and he hit the rail in third place for $86,342.
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Bohdan Slyrinskyi Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3 Final 3
The elimination gave Taizs a nearly two-to-one chip lead to begin the heads-up match against Suarez, with the blinds at 100,000/200,000. With both players sitting on over 50 big blinds, a long draw-out battle seemed inevitable. However, Suarez had other ideas.
After passing blinds over Taiz's way for a few hands, Suarez four-bet jammed the button for 7,350,000 with ten-nine off, and Taizs called with a covering stack, tabling pocket sevens.
The flop and turn were a safe one for Taizs, but a nine on the river sent the rail into a frenzy and handed the chip lead to Suarez, who would promptly pay off a river bet with a blocker to the straight a few hands later to give the chip lead right back to Taizs, who did indeed have the straight.
Suarez would then find another double into the chip lead when his ace-jack out-kicked Taizs' king-jack, but the chips wouldn't stay in his stack long, as on the next hand, he moved all-in for nearly 10,000,000 effective with ace-four of diamonds in the big blind, only for Taizs to find pocket nines on the button.
No ace would materialize on the runout, and the roller coaster ride from chip leader to short stack hit another drop from which Suarez could not recover.
On the final hand of the tournament, Suarez would river two pair, but Taizs had flopped a flush, leaving him shaking his head as the runner-up from the Mini Main event hit the rail in second place for $125,390.
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Angel Suarez Event #10 $1,700 Main Event Day 3 Final 3
Day Three Payouts in Event #10: $1,700 Main Event:
- Mihai Taizs - $188,095
- Angel Suarez - $125,390
- Bohdan Slyrinskyi - $86,342
- Jai Vallurupalli - $60,600
- Cero Zuccarello - $43,369
- John Reading - $31,660
