European Poker Tour London -- Main Event Day 3

The 128 players that made the money at the 2010 PokerStars European Poker Tour London £5,250 no-limit hold’em main event returned at noon on Saturday and although each of them was guaranteed £7,500 in prize money they all had their eyes set on the serious money that will be up for grabs later in the tournament, mainly the £900,000 first-place prize.

The plan for the day was to play down to the final 24 players, but the only question was just how long that would take and exactly who would make it to the final three tables in the event. Prospects were strong when day 3 began for a strong professional presence in the final stages of the event.

Team PokerStars pros Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, and Greg Raymer, as well as Phil Ivey, John Juanda, reigning Card Player Player of the Year Eric Baldwin and current POY contender Thomas Marchese were all still alive when the day began.

Things didn’t go smoothly for Negreanu; he busted during the first level of the day but quickly relocated to the £20,000 high roller no-limit hold’em event. On his final hand Negreanu held K-3 in the hole and his opponent held his tournament life in the balance with pocket sevens. They held and Negreanu was out. Ivey met his end when his A-J ran into the pocket kings of Jamie Brown. Raymer and Baldwin fell as well, scoring a cash but left wanting more, which they tried to find by also jumping into the £20,000 high roller event.

Former world champion and Team PokerStars pro Hachem did make it through to day 4 as did Juanda. Marchese also advanced, and he could leap frog POY leader Dwyte Pilgrim with a deep run in this event. Team PokerStars pro members Chad Brown and Thomas Bichon have made it through as well. The chip leader is Chance Kornuth, who holds 2,302,000. Other familiar faces in the chase include Per Ummer, Steven Levy, John O’Shea, Kyle Bowker, Allen Bari, and Masaaki Kagawa.

The field will return on Sunday to play down to the final table of eight at noon local time (4 a.m. PST). Be sure to check back in and follow all of the action in Card Player’s live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from the PokerStars EPT London main event. Read on below to check out all the tournament statistics from day 3:

Day 3 Chip Counts:

Day 3 Cashes:

25th – Chino Rheem, USA, £19,000
26th – Marton Czuczor, Hungary, £19,000
27th – Mattias Lannermark, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, £19,000
28th – Claudio Cecchi, Italy, £19,000
29th – Bruce Atkinson, UK £19,000
30th – Ben Vinson, UK, £19,000
31st – Scott Palmer, USA, £19,000
32nd – Gordon Huntley, UK, £19,000
33rd – Tomas Macnamara, UK, £17,000
34th – Guillaume Rivet, Canada, PokerStars player £17,000
35th – Henrik Tollefsen, Norway, £17,000
36th – Jamie Brown, UK, PokerStars player, £17,000
37th – Fintin Gavin, Ireland, PokerStars player, £17,000
38th – Salvatore Bonavena, Italy, Team PokerStars Pro, £17,000
39th – Joep Van Den Bijgaart, Netherlands, Team PokerStars Pro, £17,000
40th – Jason Gray, Australia, £17,000
41st – Erik Van Dijk, Netherlands, £15,000
42nd – Joel Nordkvist, Sweden, £15,000
43rd – Wayne Scott, UK, £15,000
44th – Chris Bjorin, Sweden, £15,000
45th – Klaus Pautrot, France, £15,000
46th – Kevin Eyster, PokerStars qualifier, £15,000
47th – Cherif Zacca, France, £15,000
48th – Kamal Choraria, UK, £15,000
49th – Kenneth Hicks, USA PokerStars qualifier, £13,000
50th – Peyman Luth, Germany, £13,000
51st – Alex Kravchenko, Russia, Team PokerStars Pro, £13,000
52nd – Gabriel Alarie, Canada £13,000
53rd – Kevin Stani, Norway, £13,000
54th – Pim De Goede, Netherlands, PokerStars qualifier, £13,000
55th – Christophe De Meulder, Belgium, Team PokerStars Pro, £13,000
56th – Eric Baldwin, USA, £13,000
57th – Mohammed Barkatul , UK, £13,000
58th – Patrick Carron, USA, PokerStars qualifier, £13,000
59th – Phil Ivey, USA, £13,000
60th – Dominique Franchi, France, £13,000
61st – Teddy Sheringham, UK, Friend of PokerStars, £13,000
62nd – Jason Wheeler, USA, PokerStars player, £13,000
63rd – Joshua Tekesky, USA, £13,000
64th – Alex Gomes, Brazil, Team PokerStars Pro, £13,000
65th – Yury Esaulov, Russia, £11,000
66th – Rob Akery, UK, £11,000
67th – Eric Qu, France, £11,000
68th – Benny Spindler, Germany, PokerStars player, £11,000
69th – Phillippe Ktorza, France, £11,000
70th – Mikulik Taras, Ukraine, PokerStars player, £11,000
71st – Konstantin Bucherl, Germany, £11,000
72nd – Eric Haik, France, £11,000
73rd – Adolfo Vaeza, Uruguay, £11,000
74th – Daniel Rudd, UK, £11,000
75th – Narendra Banwari, USA, £11,000
76th – Yuriten Bokkel, Netherlands, £11,000
77th – Marty Smyth, Ireland, £11,000
78th – Vanessa Yiping Peng, USA, £11,000
79th – Laurent Carbonnel, France, £11,000
80th – David Steicke, Hong Kong, £11,000
81st – Lukas Baumer, Germany £9,000
82nd – Jimmy Ostensson, Sweden, £9,000
83rd – Luca Falaschi, Italy, £9,000
84th – Emanuele Rugini, Italy, £9,000
85th – Femi Fakinle, Ireland, UKIPT Winner, £9,000
86th – Tony Cascarino, Ireland, £9,000
87th – Jude Ainsworth, Ireland, Team PokerStars Pro, £9,000
88th – Waseem Ahmed, UK, £9,000
89th – Michel Abecassis, France, £9,000
90th – Jason De Witt, USA, PokerStars qualifier, £9,000
91st – Claire Renaut, France, £9,000
92nd – Greg Raymer, USA, Team PokerStars Pro, £9,000
93rd – Leo Fernandez, Argentina, Team PokerStars Pro, £9,000
94th – Tim Finne, USA, £9,000
95th – Antonio Palma, Portugal, £9,000
96th – Steve Jelinek, UK, £9,000
97th – Nicky Evans, UK, £9,000
98th – Max Steinberg, USA, £9,000
99th – Jake Cody, UK, £9,000
100th – Allen Kessler, USA, £9,000
101st – Ilya Gorodetskiy, Russia, £9,000
102nd – Martin Hansen, Norway, £9,000
103rd – Nicholas Katz UK, £9,000
104th – Arnaud Mattern, France, Team PokerStars Pro, £9,000
105th – Kimmo Kurko, Finland, £7,500
106th – George Abdallah, USA, £7,500
107th – John Dolan, USA, £7,500
108th – Nikhil Persaud, UK, £7,500
109th – Danny Toffel, UK, £7,500
110th – Ramzi Jelassi, Sweden £7,500
111th – Christian Harder, USA, £7,500
112th – Robin Keston, UK, £7,500
113th – Juan Maceiras, Spain, Team PokerStars Pro, £7,500
114th – Pusztai Balint, Hungary, £7,500
115th – Daniel Negreanu, Canada, Team PokerStars Pro, £7,500
116th – Craig Hopkins, UK, PokerStars qualifier £7,500
117th – Alain Roy, France, £7,500
118th – Steffen Lameli, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, £7,500
119th – Christophe Benzimra, France, £7,500
120th – JP Kelly, UK, Team PokerStars Pro, £7,500
121st – Noah Boeken, Netherlands, Team PokerStars Pro, £7,500
122nd – Hans Varsi, Norway, £7,500
123rd – Christopher Tighe, UK, PokerStars Player, £7,500
124th – Eduardo Santi, Argentina, £7,500
125th – Nichlas Mattsson, Sweden, £7,500
126th – Wojciech Jankiewicz, Poland, £7,500
127th – Jeff Sarwer, Canada, £7,500
128th – Tommy Westerlund, Sweden, £7,500

High Roller Report:

The PokerStars EPT London high roller event attracted 77 players to create a total prize pool worth £1,524,600 and first-place prize is £556,000. There were 35 players that survived today and the chip leader is Team PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst with 386,900. Here is a look at the chip counts at the end of play tonight:

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