The latest stop on the World Poker Tour has seen some of the biggest names in poker dominating a huge field of 438 players. The top 10 on the leader-board has basically read like a ‘Who’s Who’ of the poker world with names like Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Rousso, Doyle Brunson, Freddy Deeb, Sorel Mizzi, and Phil Ivey all spending quite a bit of time near the top of the chip-counts.
Amazingly, only Ivey was unable to bag his chips at the end of Day 3 from the group listed above. With just 56 players remaining in contention for the $870k first-prize here is a look at the current chip-leaders:
- Antonio Esfandiari — 1,082,500
- Doug Lee — 702,500
- Vanessa Rousso — 694,000
- Freddy Deeb — 654,000
- Nick Phillips –559,000
- Jerry Young — 550,000
- Ray Dehkharghani — 522,000
- Charles Caris — 512,000
- Bryn Kenney — 458,000
- Kia Mohajeri — 452,000
A number of other top pros are still in the hunt as well, including Jonathan Little, Doyle Brunson, Sorel Mizzi, Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger, Eugene Katchalov, Marco Traniello, Thor Hansen, Amit Makhija, Dan Shak, Andrew Robl, Andrew Frankenberger (who is currently atop the WPT POY leaderboard), David Baker, John Racener, David Sklansky, Allen Kessler, and Jeff Shulman.
Depending on how things go on Day 4 of the tournament –where the tournament will end with about 24 players remaining—this could very well end up being one of the toughest final tables in WPT history.
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