The penultimate day of the $1,050 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker Medium Main Event is set to begin at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Only 79 players have made their way to Day 3, out of the 4,206 entries that have been made in total. The field is battling over a prize pool of $4,206,000, and all are eyeing the first-place prize of $600,639.75. However, all 79 remaining players have already locked up a sum of $5,103.13 to add to their bankroll.
Leading those who return is "2ndOnly2God", playing from the United Kingdom. They will play a stack of 19,267,210 chips when play resumes, good for 138 big blinds. Morocco's "soulmekki" (16,629,839) and "blebelea" from Romania (15,962,872) were the only other two players to bag over 100 big blinds, completing the top three chip counts. Meanwhile Vicente "vicenfish" Delgado also finds himself in the top ten, sitting on a stack of 11,135,501 chips.
Top 10 Chip Counts at the Start of Day 3
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | 2ndOnly2God | United Kingdom | 19,267,210 | 138 |
| 2 | soulmekki | Morocco | 16,629,839 | 119 |
| 3 | blebelea | Romania | 15,972,872 | 114 |
| 4 | bombon73 | Ukraine | 13,006,776 | 93 |
| 5 | rmiguel2007 | Peru | 11,520,412 | 82 |
| 6 | Vicente "vicenfish" Delgado | Andorra | 11,135,501 | 80 |
| 7 | MakuFz | Estonia | 10,550,237 | 75 |
| 8 | moffo13 | Croatia | 10,302,908 | 74 |
| 9 | pAYtAXiSnICE | Sweden | 10,027,994 | 72 |
| 10 | Alex Shepel | Mexico | 9,630,579 | 69 |
However, PokerStars Ambassador Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas is sure to attract the most attention today. The first-ever PSPC Champion will bring an above-average stack of 7,390,053 chips into Day 3 as he is looking for another big six-figure score to add to his impressive resume.
Other notables looking to make the final table include Laszlo "omaha4rollz" Bujtas (8,050,982), Anatoly "NL_Profit" Filatov (4,489,462), Niklas "Lena900" Astedt (2,394,980), and Julian "HealTheWorld" Thomas (1,756,742)
Play will resume at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Day 3 will see itself play down to the final table of nine players, at which point all players will have guaranteed themselves a payday of at least $37,540.23. The blinds will start at 70,000/140,000 with a 17,500 ante, and all levels will last for 25 minutes.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as the live report will cover play from start to finish. Also, make sure to check out the live reports of the $109 Low Main Event and the $10,300 High Main Event as part of our SCOOP coverage.
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