Wrang Leads Into Day 4
Day 3 saw the return of 99 players (not red balloons) with 11 of them due to have a relatively short win-less day since only 88 would be picking up the minimum cash payment of €7,500. After nearly seven levels of action it was PokerStars qualifier Jannick Wrang who finished at the top of the tree with 1,742,000. Other big names still in are Fabrice Soulier (1,230,000), Olivier Busquet (973,000) and David Vamplew (747,000). Wrang was one of several players who held the chip lead in the latter part of the day as it was passed around like a hot potato.
The day started with no less than eight former EPT champions including the last two remaining Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. Both managed to make the money but neither could reach the end of the day, ElkY running kings into aces before his pocket sixes lost out to Andrey Gulyy's ace-five, the latter rivering a wheel to knock out the Frenchman. Boeree lasted longer but finally came undone when she called all in on the river of a 6-4-6-3-K against Olivier Busquet and got shown K-6 for her troubles.
Six other former EPT champions also made the money: David Vamplew, Rupert Elder, Martin Finger, Ronny Kaiser, Nicolas Chouity and Roberto Romanello but of them only Kaiser and Vamplew have managed to progress to Day 4 with hopes of becoming the EPT's first ever double champion.
It didn't take too long for the tournament to progress to the bubble stage, Benas Molis proving to be the unlucky man. He had bet/three-bet with 
on a 
board against Wrang and when the latter had pushed all in, Molis felt himself committed and called it off against his opponent's 
. The 
on the turn changed nothing and the 
gave Wrang a full house and everyone else bar Molis a guaranteed cash prize.
Busquet briefly took the lead before Wrang also had a go at the top when he held flush against flush, Stefan Czischke the victim. Alexandre Andermatt was next, he won the classic flip with queens against ace-king to knock out former Grand Final winner Nicolas Chouity, the latter managed to hit both his hole cards but Andermatt flopped a set of queens which held.
Andermatt would then lose a million chip pot himself when Fabrice Soulier's 
outflopped the Swiss player's queens and Wrang would regain the chip lead to finish the day on top.
Tomorrow we'll play down to our final table, join us from 2pm (CET).