A few more days and if you are fortunate to make the November 9, they will earn a minimum of $782,115 with everyone’s desired goal to take down the title and $8.7 million in November.
The days are shorter now, playing 4 levels instead of 5 previously. The current chip leader is New Yorker Patrick Poirier with 1,328,000. Only one other player has crossed the million chip threshold, Daryl Jace, with 1,282,000.
Official Top 10 Chip Counts
1. Patrick Poirier - 1,328,000
2. Daryl Jacev - 1,282,500
3. Chris Kwon - 944,500
4. David Barter - 917,000
5. Scott Smith - 896,500
6. Sebastian Ruthenberg - 889,000
7. Christopher Bonita - 859,000
8. Daniel Retallick - 850,000
9. Brian Park - 820,000
10. Aleksandr Mozhnyakov - 813,000
One strong online cash game player who has plenty of chips is Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene, with 720,000. He already came close to a bracelet earlier this series when he bubbled the final table of the $10,000 Six-Handed NLHE championship.
The online streaming and ESPN2 coverage focused on tables that featured Daniel Negreanu on the central “mothership” stage and Ben Lamb, who came into the day as the chip leader with 540k. Unfortunately he drifted as the day went on and ended the day with 450,000. Lamb’s competition for WSOP Player of the Year, Phil Hellmuth , also had a challenging day. Hellmuth has been playing a shorter stack all tournament and ended the day with less than half the average stack at 77,000. The players will enter Day 4 at level 15 with the blinds at 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante.
With over half the remaining field being eliminated on Day 3, there were many notables who joined the rail; Patrik Antonius, popular tournament director Matt Savage, Ryan D’Angelo, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, Victor Ramdin, Jason Mercier, Leek Markholt, Dan Shak, Galen Hall, Justin Bonomo, Sam Stein, Dan “djk123″ Kelly, Matt Matros, Annette Obrestad, Noah Boeken. Four more former world champions exited today– Joe Cada (2009), Carlos Mortensen (2001), Huck Seed (1996) and Tom McEvoy (1983)– and only one of last year’s November Nine is still alive. While 2010 Main Event runner-up John Racener was eliminated, Joseph Cheong still has a strong stack of 410,500.
Shaun Deeb was also eliminated in brutal fashion. He was at Negreanu’s featured table and called a pre-flop six bet from the 21-year-old Max “HotKarMC” Heinzelmann. When the cards were flipped over, Deeb was in great shape to win the the roughly 400k pot with Aces, but the flop and river gave Heinzelman trip sixes with his A,6. to plunge Deeb down to only 20k chips and elimination soon after.
A couple celebs busted on Day 3, Jason Alexander and Brad Garrett. Simpsons’ creator Sam Simon is still doing well with 509k, with The Sopranos’ Robert Iler and Australian boxer Jeff Fenech still in with smaller stacks.
Some notables with smaller stacks hoping for some Day 4 good fortune are Isabelle Mercier (79,000), Ted Forrest (73,500), Rafe Furst (69,500), Lee Childs (67,000), Humberto Brenes (65,000), Randal “RandALLin” Flowers (43,000). Other notables with larger stacks and hoping for a deeper run include Peter Jetten (657,000), Samie “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro (654,500), Matt Stout (602,000), Amanda Musumeci (528,500), JP Kelly (492,000), and WSOP-Circuit National Championship bracelet winner Sam Barnhart (469,500).
Players are already adapting to the new streaming ESPN3.com and ESPN2 coverage by having the action recorded or analyzed by friends who relay information to the players after the 30 minute delay.
