APPT Grand Final Enters Day 3
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The home team is well-represented on Day 3, with thirty nine of the forty eight combatants claiming Australia as their country of origin. The overnight chip leader, Frank Saffioti, is one of those thirty nine. They are joined by two New Zealanders, two Americans, and one player from each of the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada and the Netherlands.
At this stage of the tournament, the average stack is just shy of 200,000 chips. With the bubble having burst at roughly 2am local time last night, we expect that the severe short stacks will be only too happy to get their chips in the middle and collect a minimum of A$8,400 in prize money.
That should speed up the pace of play in the early going. With the final forty eight players playing down to a final table of nine, today promises to be a much shorter day than yesterday. We'll see if that promise holds true when the players hit the tables in about a half hour's time. See you then!