At 7:05 p.m. CEST, Day 3 of the PokerStars WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] resumes play with 80 players out of 7,105 entries. They will all be battling for a bigger share of the $3,552,500 prize pool as they have all secured $3,177 but will all have their sights set on reaching the final table and the first-place prize of $504,584.
Poland's "Pentakilator" comes back in the top spot today with 28,139,926 in chips which is worth 113 big blinds. They are followed in the top five by "S.N.I.N.1" (22,901,193), "ZAR84" (20,462,671), "shusiu11" (18,830,047), and Chris "ImDaNuts" Oliver with 18,593,495.
Other familiar names in the poker world who have bagged an above average stack include Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes, Daniel "Allanon85" Drescher, Saymon "Saymon9" Nascimento, Mats "Matsull" Ullereng, Marcin "pyszalek" Wydrowski, Evan "PURPLE"K"99" Parkes, Day 1 chip leader Guilherme "Guizãoo_" Carmo, Victor "vituhu3" Macedo, Henrique "Galochina10" Coutinho, and Alexios "J0hnny_Dr@m@" Zervos.
WCOOP-72-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max, Main Event] Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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| 1 | "Pentakilator" | Poland | 28,139,926 | 113 |
| 2 | "S.N.I.N.1" | Moldova | 22,901,193 | 92 |
| 3 | "ZAR84" | Germany | 20,462,671 | 82 |
| 4 | "shusiu11" | Hungary | 18,830,047 | 75 |
| 5 | Chris "ImDaNuts" Oliver | United States | 18,593,495 | 74 |
| 6 | Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes | Brazil | 18,183,738 | 73 |
| 7 | "kirbyi17" | Germany | 18,043,051 | 72 |
| 8 | "ross_654" | Mexico | 17,737,265 | 71 |
| 9 | "cladarth" | Poland | 16,801,506 | 67 |
| 10 | Oscar "owilson25" Ramirez | Honduras | 16,408,470 | 66 |
The returning players come back to play the last 16 minutes of Level 38 which has a small blind of 125,000, a big blind of 250,000 with a running ante of 32,500. After this level is done, the duration will go back up to 25 minutes each and play will continue until the final table has been reached.
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