The first hand of hand for hand play was uneventful and took about 3 minutes for all the tables to finish up. The next hand put an end to the money bubble and hand for hand play. Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (left) was all in preflop with pocket aces against the pocket eights of Amir Vahedi. Amir made a set to crack Jordan’s aces and cost eliminate him in 101st place and on the money bubble.

Just before the break Jordan “iMsoLucky0″ Morgan and Eric “Rizen” Lynch were also eliminated.

Play is expected to move along pretty quickly now that everyone left is in the money and there are no pay jumps all the way down to 50th place.

Here is a short list of some of the players to make the money:
Peter “#1Pen” Neff, Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin, Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen, Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby, Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll, Joe Sebok, Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis, Daniel Negreanu, and Bryan Devonshire.

• April 22, 2008 -- Around The Room
• April 23, 2008 -- Day 3 Complete, Late Eliminations
• April 22, 2008 -- End Of Day 2
• April 21, 2008 -- Staying Hot

After three levels on play on day 3 there are exactly 101 remaining players. The top 100 make the money meaning all but one of the people still in on the break are going to go home with at least the bottom payout of $39,570.

After the break the 500 chips will be raced off and once that is done play will resume with blinds at 4k / 8k and a 1k ante. Since the tournament is only 1 person off the money each table will play one hand and then wait until all other tables have completed one hand before playing another hand. With 12 tables in play each individual hand could take a while, but since only 1 player has to be eliminated it shouldn’t take more than a few hands to get into the money and end hand for hand play.

• April 22, 2008 -- Not So Rich
• April 23, 2008 -- Day 3 Complete, Late Eliminations
• April 22, 2008 -- Vengrin Going Strong
• April 22, 2008 -- Around The Room