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.
It's been a frenetic start to day 3 as people have been busting out all over the shop, one of the few stacks to double was Martin Hansen who pushed with 
against Benny Spindler's 
and managed to get there in the end on a 
board.
Elsewhere, Jason Wheeler cracked Eduardo Santi's with the lowly 
on a 
board to knock him out before also eliminating Noah Boeken with against on a 
board.
Finally Tony Cascarino has knocked out the short-stack Christopher Tighe (who started the day with 92,000 not 920,000) with 
against
Over on the next table from Negreanu, Wojciech Jankiewicz was getting his short stack in with 
against Kamal Choraria's 
. He failed to hit anything on the 
board, and hit the rail with a min-cash instead.
Daniel Negreanu open-shoved for 64,600 and it folded right around to Nicholas Katz in the big blind who gave it some good thought and, despite Negreanu's best attempts to talk him out of it, made the call. A few minutes later the TV cameras arrived and the cards were on their backs.
"Hey good luck in the high rollers," said tablemate Christophe de Meulder, pointing all the way over to the next table where the high roller event is already in progress.
Negreanu:
Katz:
Board: 
(Negreanu: "King! King, king, for me!") 
Negreanu doubled to around 135,000 and the high rollers are going to have to wait as Negreanu is back in the game here in the Main Event.
The unhappy Katz was left with around 80,000.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Jeff Sarwer has just been eliminated after he pushed all-in on the turn of an 
board with against Joshua Tekesky's 
. The 
paired the river and Sarwer was forced to become one of the first players to head to the cashier.
Just a hand or two in and chip leader David Vamplew has already busted the table short stack.
Tommy Westerlund had less than 30,000 chips to his name when he got it in with 
against Vamplew's .
Board:
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the largest tournament this country has ever seen! It's the Season 7 edition of the PokerStars.com EPT London, and it's been a record setting, pro-heavy couple days to get us from the 848 starters down to the last 128. The bubble burst late last night, and those who still had chips left to bag are all guaranteed a payday upon their exits.
Whenever that may be. We've still got three full days of poker to play, and it's going to be a battle to accumulate chips and dodge elimination from here forward.
That chip accumulation thing has gone awfully well for David Vamplew so far. He's got the big stack here near the midway point, and his count of well over a million chips gives him a significant percentage of the chips in play. He's trailed by Steven Levy, and the Skype-emo-smiley-lookalike Benny Spindler is in a familiar spot in the top five as well. This is the second straight year that Spindler finds himself with heaps of chips running deep at EPT London. His run took him all the way to 12th place last year, and he'll be looking to do about 11 spots better than that this time around.
Phil Ivey's still alive with plenty of chips to do some damage, as are a host of other bracelet winners like JP Kelly, Chance Kornuth, Daniel Negreanu, Marty Smtyh, Chris Bjorin, Alex Kravchenko, and former WSOP World Champions Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer, as well as 2008 WSOPE Main Event winner John Juanda. There's also one guy left who has a shot at the 2010 WSOP Main Event bracelet; November Niner John Dolan begins the day with just under 100,000 chips.
It's going to be a good one today, and we're just about 15 minutes from getting rolling. Grab yourself a spot of tea and something to munch on, and we'll be right back when the cards go flying.
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Kessler | 62.600 | 1 | 1 |
| Alex Kravchenko | 527.400 | 1 | 2 |
| Yuriten Bokkel | 116.800 | 1 | 3 |
| Keven Stammen | 139.300 | 1 | 4 |
| Patrick Carron | 169.000 | 1 | 5 |
| Erik Van Dijk | 245.900 | 1 | 6 |
| Jason DeWitt | 335.500 | 1 | 7 |
| Daniel Rudd | 289.500 | 1 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mattias Lannermark | 142.100 | 2 | 1 |
| Eric Qu | 253.100 | 2 | 2 |
| Eric Haik | 313.300 | 2 | 3 |
| Jason Gray | 133.900 | 2 | 4 |
| Marton Czuczor | 148.500 | 2 | 5 |
| Jimmy Ostensson | 144.800 | 2 | 6 |
| Guillaume Rivet | 80.700 | 2 | 7 |
| Vanessa Yiping Peng | 160.900 | 2 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Boeken | 89.600 | 3 | 1 |
| Nicky Lee Evans | 79.800 | 3 | 2 |
| Nik Persaud | 85.400 | 3 | 3 |
| Antonio Palma | 111.500 | 3 | 4 |
| Jason Wheeler | 148.900 | 3 | 5 |
| Craig Hopkins | 53.300 | 3 | 6 |
| Eduardo Santi | 20.600 | 3 | 7 |
| Jude Ainsworth | 97.100 | 3 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Keston | 84.600 | 4 | 1 |
| Eric Baldwin | 134.400 | 4 | 2 |
| Steffen Lameli | 33.300 | 4 | 3 |
| Joshua Tekesky | 192.600 | 4 | 4 |
| Adolfo Vaeza | 276.400 | 4 | 5 |
| Jeff Sarwer | 116.400 | 4 | 6 |
| John Hall | 513.900 | 4 | 7 |
| Peyman Luth | 338.000 | 4 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomas Macnamara | 535.800 | 5 | 1 |
| Phil Ivey | 303.700 | 5 | 2 |
| Phillippe Ktorza | 42.000 | 5 | 3 |
| Robert Nulli | 226.500 | 5 | 4 |
| Chance Kornuth | 231.000 | 5 | 5 |
| Arnaud Mattern | 366.200 | 5 | 6 |
| Jannick Wrang | 156.900 | 5 | 7 |
| Jake Cody | 234.900 | 5 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rumit Somaiya | 364.400 | 6 | 1 |
| Konstantin Bucherl | 265.800 | 6 | 2 |
| Pusztai Balint | 272.000 | 6 | 3 |
| Gustavo Zito | 326.800 | 6 | 4 |
| Tim Finne | 68.800 | 6 | 5 |
| Barkatul Mohammed | 273.300 | 6 | 6 |
| Kimmo Kurko | 165.100 | 6 | 7 |
| Allen Bari | 281.400 | 6 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Steicke | 170.000 | 7 | 1 |
| JP Kelly | 101.200 | 7 | 2 |
| Thomas Bichon | 373.000 | 7 | 3 |
| Chris Bjorin | 95.000 | 7 | 4 |
| Mikulik Taras | 92.300 | 7 | 5 |
| Masaaki Kagawa | 379.000 | 7 | 6 |
| Juan Maceiras | 124.800 | 7 | 7 |
| Alex Gomes | 210.300 | 7 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Eyster | 397.300 | 8 | 1 |
| Danny Toffel | 116.900 | 8 | 2 |
| Kyle Bowker | 276.100 | 8 | 3 |
| Tony Cascarino | 203.800 | 8 | 4 |
| Christopher Tighe | 91.200 | 8 | 5 |
| George Abdallah | 92.100 | 8 | 6 |
| Joe Hachem | 185.100 | 8 | 7 |
| Bruce Atkinson | 111.000 | 8 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marty Smyth | 124.000 | 9 | 1 |
| Jamie Brown | 457.900 | 9 | 2 |
| David Vamplew | 1.130.400 | 9 | 3 |
| Artur Wasek | 197.800 | 9 | 4 |
| Martin Hansen | 82.700 | 9 | 5 |
| Tommy Westerlund | 29.100 | 9 | 6 |
| Hans Varsi | 99.300 | 9 | 7 |
| Benny Spindler | 621.700 | 9 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Negreanu | 66.200 | 10 | 1 |
| Emanuele Rugini | 88.900 | 10 | 2 |
| Wayne Scott | 190.300 | 10 | 3 |
| Gordon Huntley | 140.700 | 10 | 4 |
| Luca Falaschi | 88.900 | 10 | 5 |
| Christophe De Meulder | 65.300 | 10 | 6 |
| Nicholas Katz | 147.300 | 10 | 7 |
| Fintan Gavin | 172.100 | 10 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yury Esaulov | 102.400 | 11 | 1 |
| Kenneth Hicks | 484.600 | 11 | 2 |
| Kamal Choraria | 137.300 | 11 | 3 |
| Ilya Gorodetskiy | 83.200 | 11 | 4 |
| Dominique Franchi | 220.400 | 11 | 5 |
| Claudio Cecchi | 254.600 | 11 | 6 |
| [Removed:413] | 177.900 | 11 | 7 |
| Wojciech Jankiewicz | 68.600 | 11 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Nordkvist | 100.400 | 12 | 1 |
| Matt Perrins | 210.100 | 12 | 2 |
| Joep van den Bijgaart | 143.200 | 12 | 3 |
| John O'Shea | 273.000 | 12 | 4 |
| Christian Harder | 128.800 | 12 | 5 |
| Kevin Stani | 362.300 | 12 | 6 |
| John Dolan | 93.600 | 12 | 7 |
| Waseem Ahmed | 84.000 | 12 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Femi Fakinle | 188.100 | 13 | 1 |
| Max Steinberg | 198.700 | 13 | 2 |
| John Juanda | 215.000 | 13 | 3 |
| Cherif Zacca | 413.400 | 13 | 4 |
| Fernando Brito | 281.300 | 13 | 5 |
| Steven Levy | 640.300 | 13 | 6 |
| Greg Raymer | 185.700 | 13 | 7 |
| Gabriel Alarie | 163.100 | 13 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alain Roy | 48.300 | 14 | 1 |
| Steve Jelinek | 135.700 | 14 | 2 |
| Salvatore Bonavena | 76.400 | 14 | 3 |
| Teddy Sheringham | 153.400 | 14 | 4 |
| Laurent Carbonnel | 47.100 | 14 | 5 |
| Nichlas Mattsson | 61.700 | 14 | 6 |
| Lukas Baumer | 122.800 | 14 | 7 |
| Kayvan Payman | 396.500 | 14 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christophe Benzimra | 63.200 | 15 | 1 |
| Jamie Burland | 252.000 | 15 | 2 |
| David Rheem | 103.500 | 15 | 3 |
| Michel Abecassis | 210.000 | 15 | 4 |
| Chad Brown | 97.100 | 15 | 5 |
| Scott Palmer | 218.000 | 15 | 6 |
| Per Ummer | 254.800 | 15 | 7 |
| Henrik Tollefsen | 324.600 | 15 | 8 |
| Name | Chips | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narendra Banwari | 238.800 | 16 | 1 |
| Thomas Marchese | 180.000 | 16 | 2 |
| Pim de Goede | 289.500 | 16 | 3 |
| Ramzi Jelassi | 99.800 | 16 | 4 |
| Robert Trevor Akery | 190.700 | 16 | 5 |
| Claire Renaut | 103.700 | 16 | 6 |
| Leo Fernandez | 98.000 | 16 | 7 |
| Benjamin Vinson | 134.300 | 16 | 8 |
