Csome Back on Top Heading into Final Table
Day 3 has ended for the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour São Paulo Main Event. Moving onto the official final table as the chip leader will be Leandro Csome with 2.875 million in chips.
Alex Manzano started the day as chip leader and kept his aggression up all day long, using the big stack just like a big stack should be used: like a club bashing on shorter stacks. He constantly opened pots preflop if the action got to him unopened. If that didn’t happen and someone else raised in front of him, Manzano would often three-bet, especially against smaller stacks where he would effectively raise enough to force them to a decision for their tournament life.
As the final table grew near, the Chilean Manzano started picking off Brazilian players left and right. First, he eliminated Caio Brites in 13th place. Then, he knocked off Walter Oaquim in 12th place. Following that, Manzano clipped Eduardo Costa in 11th place. After all of this, Manzano had well over two million in chips.
Amos Ben Haim was the last player to go before the remaining nine players all settled in around the main feature table. Ben Haim open-shoved his button for 482,000 holding the 
. Unfortunately for him, Marcio Motta was waiting in the small blind with the 
. No help came on the 
board and Ben Haim finished in 10th place.
After some time was spent while the players traded chips at the main feature table, Csome pounced against Manzano in a hand that gave him the chip lead and dropped Manzano to second place on the leader board. Manzano check-raised to nearly half a million in chips, but was forced to fold to Csome's reraise on the flop of 
.
After that, Csome eliminated the short-stacked Colonese in ninth place to end the day and officially set the final table.
Final Table Seating and Chips
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santiago Nadal | 555,000 |
| 2 | Marcio Motta | 1,205,000 |
| 3 | Marcelo Fonseca | 1,245,000 |
| 4 | Joao Bauer | 1,395,000 |
| 5 | Alex Manzano | 1,730,000 |
| 6 | Leandro Csome | 2,875,000 |
| 7 | Bruno Politano | 1,030,000 |
| 8 | Henrique Bernardes | 440,000 |
The players will return tomorrow at 1:00 PM local time to finish out the 2011 LAPT São Paulo Main Event. There's over R$600,000 up for grabs for first place and everyone's salivating over it! We'll see you then.