We wondered if perhaps the pace could be quick to begin today. After one level the answer's a convincing sí... as in sixteen! That is the choice of players ousted during just the primary hour of play on Day 3, swiftly carving our field from 47 all the way down to 31.
They'd barely sat down when the U.K.'s Scott Margererson was ousted in 47th after an early confrontation with Guillermo Olvera of Mexico.
Soon after that a hand developed that saw Carter Gill of the U.S... opening with a minimum-raise to 16,000 from early position, then the Brazilian Rubens Bontempo reraising to 38,000 from the large blind. Gill called, and following a T♥2♣J♦ flop it was Bontempo pushing the 150,000 or so he had left within the middle and Gill calling without hesitating a beat.
Bontempo had an open-ender with K♣Q♣ while Gill's J♥T♦ gave him top two, then the T♣ fell at the turn to fill Gill up and end all further doubt in regards to the hand's outcome. Moments later Bontempo was on the cashier's table to gather his winnings for finishing 46th.
Rafael Chung (45th), Steve Thompson (44th), Gael Robert Gilbert (43rd), Robert Lipkin (42nd), Jose Manuel Solares (41st), Ricardo Andres Chauriye (40th), and Andres Felipe Alzate Gomez (39th) would all march over to the payout desk over the following several minutes because the bustouts continued unabated.
Over at the feature table Joseph Santana ran 7♠7♣ into Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez's A♥A♦ to fall in 38th, with Tim Marsters (37th) and Pablo Gonzalez (36th) hitting the rail shortly thereafter.
Alas for Fernandez, he wasn't in a position to put Santana's chips to good use as he'd soon be out in 35th.
The fall was hard but perhaps inevitable for the Argentinian after preflop back-and-forthing with Peter Nigh brought them to a T♠K♥T♥ flop, at which point Fernandez's stack would find its way into the center behind the strength of his A♦K♦. But Nigh had a stranglehold at the hand, having flopped quads with T♣T♦, and two cards later Fernandez made his leave.
Michelle Reyes of Ecuador -- the lone woman left within the event -- next went out in 34th after running pocket jacks into an opponent's queens. And Yehia Ali Lama (33rd) and Bakalo Gal (32nd) likewise made their exits before the second one hour had even begun.
Meanwhile leader Derek Ecenarro continues to carry sway over at the feature table, sitting confidently behind a stack of greater than 1.2 million while staying out in front -- the one constant through the dynamic first hour of Day 3.
Photography from LAPT7 Panama by Carlos Monti. Click here for live updates in Spanish, and here for live updates in Portuguese. Also take a look at the start-to-finish live streaming coverage (in both Spanish and Portuguese) at PokerStars.tv.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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