Day 3 Done, Dusted
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After epic Days 1a through 2, finishing before 11pm feels like a very early night indeed. The Day 3 action was nothing short of furious, the field munching through itself to see 80 players paid out in under six levels.
The 24 players who will be returning for Day 4 are a very mixed bunch. After doubling up Domantas Klimciauskas right at the death, it looked as though online qualifier Simon Higgins has lost the chip lead. This means that the man in pole position as far as we can see is Eugene "FishosaurusREX" Yanayt, on roughly 2.3 million. Chip counts will be in in a jiffy for confirmation.
We lost our last two former EPT winners Ben Wilinofsky and Lucien Cohen today, meaning that we will be crowning a brand new champion this week. Four Team PokerStars Pros (Juan Maceiras, Alex Gomes, Dag Palovic and Victor Ramdin) are still in the running, as is PokerStars Sponsored Player Raemon Sluiter. Alex Gomes is of particular interest - he's going for the triple crown here after winning a WSOP bracelet in 2008 and a WPT title in 2009.
Play will resume here at the Casino Gran Madrid at noon tomorrow, and we will be playing right down to a final table. This promises to be an extremely entertaining Day 4 and we strongly urge you to join us then.