The penultimate day of the 2014 Master Classics of Poker €4,250 Main Event saw 36 players return to the tables in Amsterdam's Holland Casino with Clyde Tjauw Foe within the lead, slightly prior to David Yan. When the dust had settled after a furious day of action, Tjauw Foe was still the holder of the highest position at the leaderboard with 12 players left.
Day 3 Chip Counts
| 1 | Clyde Tjauw Foe | 1,693,000 |
| 2 | Andrew Chen | 1,677,000 |
| 3 | David Boyaciyan | 1,564,000 |
| 4 | Jussi Nevanlinna | 1,048,000 |
| 5 | Ole Schemion | 716,000 |
| 6 | Steven van Zadelhoff | 475,000 |
| 7 | Ruben Visser | 396,000 |
| 8 | Stuart Rutter | 363,000 |
| 9 | Hrazem Aanquich | 320,000 |
| 10 | Noah Boeken | 260,000 |
| 11 | Robbie Hendriks | 231,000 |
| 12 | David Yan, | 186,000 |
Marvin Rettenmaier was some of the short stacks to return, and the German was sent to the rail in 32nd place when his 
were cracked by the 
of Amir Mozaffarian via runner-runner straight.
On the opposite hand, Ruben Visser started out hot. First, he won two big pots against Hossein Ensan after rivering the nut straight against the jack-high straight of the German after which cracking the kings of Ensan with the 
. He then busted Italian Andrea Dato in 26th place when Dato made the second one nut flush at the river with the 
, but Visser held the 
for the nut flush.
Then, after Jack Salter needed to accept 25th place, Visser knocked out Michiel Brosky and Richard Milne in substantial pots to scale back the sector to the last two tables. Visser's run wasn't all positive, though, as within the very beginning of Level 19, things would turn around completely. Andrew Chen doubled up in a major 1.8-million pot with the 
against the 
of Visser, and the Dutchman never recovered from that setback. All told, Visser finished with a stack of 396,000 in chips at day's end.
Former November Niner Michiel Brummelhuis busted in 18th place after he fell short, while fellow Dutchmen Marcel Verheul, Wim Emo, and Albert Hoekendijk followed him out of the door next. Mozaffarian lost his last nine big blinds with the 
against the 
of Hrazem Aanquich, after which Aanquich found a miracle double up previous to the top of the day with the 
against the pocket kings of Jussi Nevanlinna. Niels van Alphen was the last player to sign up for the rail on Day 3.
Tjauw Foe had slipped out of the highest spot, but he regained the lead on the very end by winning a huge pot with the 
against Chen on a board of 
. Furthermore, Yan bluffed away his stack with jack-high against Nevanlinna, and he's going to return on the bottom of the chip counts with 186,000.
Tjauw Foe (1,693,000), Chen (1,677,000), and 2011 champion David Boyaciyan (1,564,000) are the trio on the top, while the 2 other remaining former champions of this event also made it through; 2012 winner Ole Schemion (716,000) and 2013 winner Noah Boeken (260,000). Boeken is in 10th place out of the general 12 players, but as defending champion, his title-defense run is rather impressive and we'll see what he has in store for the overalle on Day 4.
Since the final table was not reached before the chips were bagged and tagged, the last day will resume at 14:00 CET. There'll be 45 minutes left of the blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000, and the entire survivors are guaranteed a minimum of €15,341. All eyes are set at the first-place prize of €306,821, and people eyes are bright and wide.
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