Well, maybe a few less than 99 but no more than that.  About 5 minutes before play ended on the thrid level of the day the 12th table was broken leaving only 11 tables playing 9 handed each.  The remaining players are on their 2 hour dinner break and will return to play 2 more levels tonight.

Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar finished up the level with around 50k after going on a swing of winning a pot, losing a pot, and repeating the process.  Luckily, or unluckily depending on how you want to look at it the pots ended up all breaking even to leave Aguiar about where he started.  The last pot he called an all in for 9,500 and his 99 only had to outrun Jani Vilmunen’s Q-4 offsuit.  A queen on the flop was the opposite of what Aguiar wanted to see and things didn’t improve as the rest of the board ran out.

A short Tim “Tmay420″ West got lucky to double up when his A-5 overcame pocket tens.  With the double up West has 18k, an improvement over where he was but still leaving him as one of the shorter stacks in the tournament. 

Not so short stacked going into dinner break is Brian “sbrugby” Townsend (left).  After a player opened for 2,400 Brian raised to 7,400.  His opponent put his hands behind his stack like he was about to push in, them seemed to decide it wasn’t the time and said “nice bluff” as he folded his hand.  “Not a bluff” Townsend replied as he stood up to exit on dinner break.  A quick count of his chips for the ESPN crew put him at an exact count of 147,500.

• September 29, 2008 -- Hanging On
• September 29, 2008 -- Finish Strong, Day 2 Complete
• September 29, 2008 -- Heating Up
• September 29, 2008 -- Chippers