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It's good to be the chip leader - and David Vamplew seems to be picking up some hands, too.
Just now he knocked out another one, this time Hans Varsi who chose to get his last in with 
while Vamplew had found 
.
Board: 
It's hard to count Vamplew's vast pyramidal stack now, but we reckon it's somewhere in the region of 1.3 million. If he just maintains that stack, he'll be average when we go into Day 4.
...Or rather, he has been out-flipped, his 
no good against Jason Wheeler's on the 
board.
Noah's ark sailed, and he claimed a min-cash on his way out.
A brief raising war between JP Kelly and David Steicke resulted in Kelly all in, the cards on their backs as they waited for the cameras to arrive.
"I knew that was going to happen," said Kelly, "I knew I was going to run into aces."
Kelly: 
Steicke: 
But wait!
Flop: 
, making Kelly a set of eights
Turn: 
- nothing of interest there
River: making Steicke a bigger set
Kelly headed for the rail, while Steicke is up to 220,000.
Daniel Negreanu was crippled when he lost with queens to aces leaving him with just 45,000. His last few chips went in with 
against Wayne Scott's 
but despite the tease of an extra couple of outs on the turn of the 
the river was the 
making Scott a boat.
On the positive side, Negreanu has finally got his first ever EPT cash.
Alex Kravchenko has taken a hit, doubling up Patrick Carron to 300,000. Al Krav is left with 245,000.
Kravchenko: 
Carron: 
Board: 
Chance Kornuth has brought all his lucky rabbits' feet today as well as crossing the path of a black cat on his way to the tournament floor.
He had opened preflop to 13,000 before Arnaud Mattern made it 42,500 next to him, Kornuth pushed and Mattern called instantly, the former sighing at the quickness of the call. It was easy to see why:
Kornuth: 
Mattern: 
The board came 
but then surprisingly the table stayed deathly silent when Kornuth caught his miracle 
on the turn. The came on the river and only then would Kornuth have an intake of breath.
Christian Harder lost that classic coinflip, against , and has been relegated to the rail with only a min-cash to console him.
Board: 
Juan Maceiras has been eliminated by Thomas Bichon after he couldn't get there with 
against Bichon's 
- the Frenchman turned a boat to eliminate the Spaniard.
Arnaud Mattern, crippled by that Chance encounter, was just eliminated by fellow EPT winner Jake Cody, who flipped to Mattern's but no five this time on the board.
WSOPE finalist Nicky Katz was just knocked out by Christophe de Meulder after being all-in with against the Belgian's but an 
board quickly extinguished his hopes.
