The remaining 100 players are beginning to enter the ballroom as Day 3 is almost set to get underway. Cards will be in the air in 10 minutes.

In what should have been a fairly straightforward hand, the preflop situation was drawn out for about 10 minutes as Mimi Luu (pictured) claims she didn’t know what to do.

Right around the time that the tournament staff stopped play and announced that each table would play six more hands, David “Doc” Sands raises UTG+1 to 34,000. Mimi Luu tells him, “I’m gonna do you a favor and raise 125.” She puts in 125,000, and the dealer tells her that is the amount of the raise, so she needs to add 34,000 to it, for a total of 159,000.

Tony Sinishtaj cold four-bets all in from the small blind for 990,000, and Sands folds. Luu gets flustered, and goes into the tank for nearly 10 minutes (though maybe it just seems that long), repeatedly saying things like “I can’t fold this hand,” and “I don’t know what to do.” She has about 355,000 behind if she folds, and spends most of her time in the tank loudly talking to nobody in particular.

Luu asks, “Do you have a strong hand? Do you have aces?” Sinishtaj seems very relaxed, like he could care less whether or not she calls. A little later she says, “If you have ace-king, you wouldn’t do that, right?” Sinishtaj says nothing, but still seems comfortable.

Luu turns to Doc Sands and says, “You would snap-call with this hand.” Sands laughs and says, “I’m inclined to believe you.”

Luu then continues to repeat, “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do!” Another player at the tables says, “She needs a life coach right now.” Then she says, “I can’t fold this. I can’t fold this. I can’t fold this.” Nobody has called the clock, because the clock has already been stopped for the end of the day. Regardless of how long this hand lasts, the table will play six more hands.

Eventually, she grabs some chips and says, “Okay, I’m in!” She drops the chips to indicate a call, and Sinishtaj shows . Luu flips over , and she then begs the dealer for some help, saying, “Help me! You’ve gotta help me!” It seems she’s begging him to avoid a bad beat.

The board comes , and the pocket kings hold up for Mimi Luu to win the pot and double up in chips. When the river card hits, Luu celebrates by shouting, “Yes! Oh yes, baby!”

Luu then tells the table, “Thank you all for your patience. I worked so hard to get this deep.” She then turns to Sands and says, “I told you if you had my hand you’d snap call!” Sands replies, “And I told you you were right!”

Mimi Luu  –  1,150,000  (71 bb)
Tony Sinishtaj  –  465,000  (29 bb)

Actor Danny Masterson has been eliminated from SHR main. Too bad. I really enjoyed him in “That 70’s Show”er.

— matt salsberg (@msalsberg) August 26, 2013

Actor/DJ Danny Masterson has just been eliminated from the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main event in 112th place. Masterson moved all-in with A-J and was called by Matt Glantz holding pocket threes. The board did not improve Masterson and he was eliminated in 112th place.

Congratulations to Danny and thanks again for performing at Passion Nightclub here at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood last night!

Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000

Bryn Kenney raises to 32,000 from UTG+2 and Andy Seth three-bets all in for about 280,000 from the next seat over. Action folds back to Kenney who calls after a few moments.

Kenney:
Seth:

The flop comes down to pair Kenney, but it also gives Seth a flush draw. However, the turn and river are no help to Seth, ending his run.

Bryn Kenney – 1,000,000 (62 bb)
Andy Seth – Eliminated in about 112th place ($14,544)

At the featured table, Danny Masterson found himself all in but facing the firing squad in the form of two bullets from Matt Glantz — pocket aces. Glantz doubles up, and Masterson is down to fewer than five big blinds.

Matt Glantz  –  545,000  (34 bb)
Danny Masterson  –  72,000  (4.5 bb)

With about 25 minutes left in the day, the field is down to 114 players, with an average chip stack around 627,000 (39 big blinds).

On a board reading , Neri Sanchez moves all-in and is called by Joseph Cheong. Cheong turns over for a straight.  However, Sanchez flips up for the nut straight.

The falls on the river and after the chips are counted, Sanchez just barely has Cheong covered.

Neri Sanchez – 1,500,000

Joseph Cheong – Eliminated

Had over a milly an hour ago and now #showers after a huge cooler. Maybe the alpha8 100k tomorrow

— Joseph Cheong (@subiime) August 26, 2013