The cards are in the air for the final day of the Hollywood Poker Open Championship event. A total of 16 players are still remaining, but tonight there will just be one. Stay tuned to PokerNews.com all throughout the day and the night as we will bring you all the live updates of this event.
Welcome to PokerNews' Day 3 coverage of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event from the M Resort Spa Casino in Les Vegas.
The starting field of 684 entries is down to just 16 players, each with hopes of getting the victory and capturing the first-place prize of $347,052. On top of the chip counts entering Day 3 is Rudy Lucas with 1,759,000, but he'll have his work cut out for him if he is to seal the deal because a talented bunch is hot on his heels.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and World Poker Tour World Championship winner Keven Stammen is second in chips with 1,574,000, having just bought into the tournament at the start of Day 2 with just 12.5 big blinds.
Here are the complete Day 3 table and seating assignments:
Table
Seat
Name
Chip Count
Hometown
4
1
Joe Serock
581,000
Albuquerque, NM
4
2
Rudy Lucas
1,759,000
Mountain City, TN
4
3
--empty--
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4
4
Alex Keating
1,470,000
San Jose, CA
4
5
Esther Taylor-Brady
826,000
Havertown, PA
4
6
Andrew Fisher
788,000
Harrisburg, PA
4
7
Kyle Frey
265,000
Somerville, MA
4
8
Diogo Cardoso
1,051,000
Porto, Portugal
4
9
Garrett Greer
631,000
Hemet, CA
5
1
Keven Stammen
1,574,000
Coldwater, OH
5
2
Tom Dobrilovic
289,000
West Nyack, NY
5
3
Jiachen Gong
859,000
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
5
4
Paul Vas Nunes
540,000
Newbury, United Kingdom
5
5
Michael Laake
1,255,000
Sarasota, FL
5
6
Joe Kuether
130,000
Elm Grove, WI
5
7
--empty--
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5
8
Steve Warburton
1,185,000
Manchester, United Kingdom
5
9
Pedro Oliveira
256,000
Coimbra, Portugal
Play is set to kickoff at noon, just a few minutes from now, so be sure to keep it here at PokerNews throughout the day as we provide live updates on all of the exciting action all the way down to the winning hand!