12:50pm: Flips cost Sasek and Teng
They say you have to win flips to win tournaments. Milan Sasek and Andrew Teng tried that but it didn't work out well for them.
Sasek didn't even have a sweat post flop as Michael Kane flopped him dead with [ad][jc]. Sasek had pocket fives and the board ran [ac][Js][Jd][Qs][4s] to make Kane a full house. He moved up to 520,000.
Soon after, Andrew Teng told the Blog that he put his last 110,000 in with king-queen but failed to hit versus an opponent's pocket tens.
Thirty players remain in the Main Event! --MC
12:33pm: Jacobus Visser doubles through Ben Glanton
Jacobus Visser was all-in pre-flop for 106,000 with [Kh][Kc] and up against Ben Glanton's [Ad][Qd]. The [3h][6s][3h][7c][5d] board kept Visser in front and he doubled to 225,000, whilst Glanton is down to 265,000. -- NW
12:27pm: Bad timing sees off Williams and McKay
The last thing you want to see as a player when you shove your short stack from late position is the big blind snap calling.
James Williams shoved with king-ten from the button only for Ronni Borg to wake up with pocket queens in the big blind.
A minute later, Stephen McKay shoved from the cut-off with [as][js] and was called in a flash by Nie Jianhui who looked down at [ah][ac] in the big blind. He called and survived the [2s][3d][Jc][8s][th]. -- MC
12:15pm: Hall and Davies both bust
Two early exits to tell you about...
In the first Tom Hall shoved for roughly 110,000 from the button with [Qs][Jd] and Sindre Haugen looked him up from the big blind with [As][10d]. The Norwegian held on a [4h][3s][8c][5h][8s] board and yet another deep run by the 10th place finisher at this year's PCA came to an end.
On an adjacent table Daniel Charlton raised to 13,000 with [3c][3h] and called when Nathan Davies shoved for 64,000 with [10c][10s]. The shortstack was ahead to the river of a [4c][6h][8s][2c][3d] board when Charlton spiked a set.
Both players collect £2,570. -- NW
12:01pm: Shuffle up and deal!
Cards are in the air for Day 3 of UKIPT Edinburgh.
11:50pm: Lundy leads the way
Welcome back to the Assembly Rooms for Day 3 of UKIPT4 Edinburgh. Yesterday was all about making the money and today is all about making the final table of eight players. The remaining 36 players negotiated the bubble just fine, how far will they make it today?
An odds on favourite to make the final table is runaway chip leader, Jon Lundy. The Geordie won a huge pot at the death last night to bag up a near three-times average, 771,000. He eliminated long-time chip leader Patrick Weifels when he four-flushed the unlucky German, both held ace-king.
The red spade of PokerStars still has two players flying the flag, both are short though. Boeree comes back with 150,000 after a late surge from a micro-stack and Mickey Petersen has slightly less with 99,000. Both had to navigate tricky periods of play yesterday and are optimistic about having an easier time of it at the tables today.
Other notables include Andrew Teng (93,000), Chris Gordon (364,000), Daniel Charlton (267,000), James Williams (109,000), Nicolas Cardyn (95,000), Sam Grafton (163,000), Tom Hall (113,000) and Tim Finne (205,000).
Cards will be in the air very shortly.
PokerStars Blog reporting team at PokerStars UKIPT Edinburgh: Marc Convey and Nick Wright. Photos by Rene Velli.