 The bubble finally burst in the Main Event of this year's WSOP. 1307 players started the day, and only 474 qualified for day 4.
Out of the five LPers that started the day, four are alive - Rainkhan, FrinkX, NMcNasty and Elky. Raszi was eliminated when his pair of twos met a pair of jacks after a preflop push. Khan was by far the one who had the best day. He started Day 3 with 113,000 chips and tripled that number through the course of the tournament. He finished the day with 338,500, and has a comfortable stack to play day 4. Elky's day was what we can call a real roller coaster. He started with 151k, went up to 260k, fell to 120k, peaked at 280k and finished the day with 180,000 chips.
NMcNasty pretty much doubled his stack during the day, while FrinkX added 10k chips to his stack, but wasn't exactly happy with his day. Despite eventual disappointments, all of them have a stack that gives them good chance in the tournament:
Hevad Khan (RainkhaN) - 338500
Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY) - 181500
Evan McNiff (FrinkX) - 109500
Justin St John (NMcNasty) - 99000
663 players were eliminated in the first seven hours of play, which makes an average of one elimination every 44 seconds. After that, when there were 674 players, 8 to burst the bubble, they started the hand-for-hand play. Steve Chung was the bubble buy. He earned a buy-in to next year's Main Event as a consolation prize.
Day 2 chipleader, Brian Schaedlich, who started the day with over 800,000 chips, had one of the worst days a chipleader can have and now has one of the smallest stacks of the field. He stands with only 25,000 chips. Jeremy Joseph on the other hand had a great day and multiplied his starting 275k chips into 1,470,000.
Chipcounts:
1.Jeremy Joseph 1,458,000
2.Jeremiah Smith 1,079,500
3.Mark Ketteringham 950,000
4.Kyle Carlston 932,500
5.Dag Martin Mikkelsen 931,000
6.Alan Jaffray 908,500
7.Owen Crowe 900,000
8.Alexander Kostritsyn 887,000
9.James McManus 875,000
10.Chris Barrile 873,500
For more information on the days played, you can read our newsblog. There's also a WSOP Main Event thread at the forums. Day 4 has just started, live updates can be found here.
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