Day 3 Up in Ashes
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The day dawned with the push to the bubble, and the thought of €7,500 just a few eliminations away kept everyone in check for a couple hours. When the bubble finally did arrive, it met with another frenzy of action as multiple short stacks were all in hand after hand. A chopped pot here, a one-outer there, and suddenly the bubble had worn out its welcome. A flop of
was just the thing to drive the action, and short stack Cole Robinson jumped at the chance to get his chips in with 
. The only problem was that he ran smack into Michael Piper's 
, and Robinson was drawing dead by the turn and resigned to his fate as the unenviable EPT Bubble Boy.From there on out, the payout desk was not without a line for the remainder of the day. The pace of the knockouts allowed a few players to really charge to the front of the pack. EPT Snowfest champ Allan Bække is once again in the mix of the chip leaders as we push deeper, and his finishing stack of 1.485 million puts him in the top five. Last night's chip leader Dmitry Stelmak is just behind him, but everyone's chasing Swedish youngster Jakob Karlsson. He stuffed his back with 1.803 million chips, putting him comfortably ahead of the pack heading into tomorrow's action.
A number of other notables are still in contention for the title, including Liv Boeree, Dermot Blain, Joe Serock, Matthias de Meulder, and PCA champion Harrison Gimbel.
If the last four days have been any indication, tomorrow figures to be another real barn burner. We'll be right back here for Day 4 at noon on Monday, and we hope you'll join us back here as well.
Thanks for following along; see you tomorrow!