2010 WSOP November Niner Joseph Cheong Leads Into Day 3
Welcome back to Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo Main Event. From the starting field of 837, 482 players returned to play yesterday for Day 2. The day was long and lasted seven levels, but that should make for some short days to come.
Remaining from the field are just 144 players and Joseph Cheong leads them all with 623,000 in chips. Daniel Neilson (584,500), Mustapha Kanit (577,000), William Thorson (508,500) and Sergey Tikhonov (504,500) round out the top five. Those are the only group of players above half a million in chips.
Team PokerStars Pro has a few of players still in the mix, but none of them hold a larger stack than Vanessa Selbst. She holds 497,000 in chips. Lex Veldhuis is the second largest stack out of the Team Pros with 341,000, Johnny Lodden comes in third at 287,500 and John Duthie rounds out the group with 147,500.
Outside of all the aforementioned players, 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion Elio Fox sits 11th overall while former EPT champions Kevin MacPhee and Mike McDonald will enter the day with 283,500 and 265,000, respectively.
The cards are set to be in the 1400 CET (0500 PDT) so be sure to be here for when they hit the players' hands. It's going to be a fast and furious day of action and the money line is set at 128 players.