€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Subtract 797 from 935 and you're left with 138. That's what we've accomplished over the last three days here at the 2009 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final. We've taken a field of 935 runners and reduced them, one by one, to the 138 we're left with today. 88 will reach paydirt; 50 will go home having missed out on the May Day celebrations and feeling like they've wasted the last three days of their lives.

When play concluded last night at roughly midnight local time, it was Dutchman Martin Naalden whose stack was the tallest. His 777,000 chips are more than three-and-a-half times the average of 203,000. Naalden is followed by 2007 WSOP-Europe Main Event winner Annette Obrestad (671,500), who's running so good she made a royal flush at the end of the day.

In what started as a deep field, it should come as no surprise that other well-known poker names are still in the running. Take your pick from: Luca Pagano; George Danzer; Sandra Naujoks; Alexander Kravchenko; Sorel Mizzi; Marcel Luske; Ilari Sahamies; Faryad Bonzadi; Lee Nelson; Andre Akkari; Isabelle Mercier; and some guy named Joe Hachem.

Play resumes in twenty minutes, at noon local time.