The March to the Money Begins on Day 3!
Welcome back to the 2014 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo. Today, the Casino Sanremo on the beautiful Italian Riviera will host Day 3 of the Main Event, which originally began with 556 players are created a prize pool of €2,480,872. That will be distributed to the top 79 players, and with just 115 returning to action, it shouldn't take long for the money to be reached.
Of course everyone is hungry for the €476,100 first-place prize, but no one has a better shot at it than Sweden's Lukas Berglund, who went on a tear on Day 2 to finish with 700,600, which is considerably more than the player in second chip position, Brazil's Thiago Crema De Macedo, who bagged up 482,400. Rounding out the top three is Spain's Raul Mestre with 473,300.
While those men begin the day as the biggest stacks, they'll face some stiff competition from others with decent stacks including World Poker Tour Alpha8 commentator Olivier Busquet (392,900); Season 9 PCA champ Dimitar Danchev (299,800), Day 1b chip leader David "MissOracle" Yan (283,100), Canadian Shyam Srinivasan (276,000); and World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche (258,300).
Likewise, Michael Tureniec (230,700), Giacomo Fundaro (204,600), Jorma Nuutinen (150,700), Tom Alner (135,700), Roberto Romanello (135,600), Stephen Chidwick (134,900), Nicolas Chouity (86,400), Aku Joentausta (74,400), Paul Berende (71,100), and 2011 WSOP Main Event champ Pius Heinz (102,700).
Finally, expect some top-notch action from the remaining members of Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden (185,000), Mickey Petersen (164,700), Vicky Coren (162,400), Alex Kravchenko (97,500), and Victor Ramdin (56,600).
Action is set to get underway at Noon local time, which is about an hour from now. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is on hand to capture all the action and eliminations, so stay tuned in throughout the day for all the latest and greatest from the penultimate stop of Season 10 of the European Poker Tour!