After only five hours of play on Day 3 of the $1,050 NLH World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event on PokerStars, 79 players have been whittled down to the final table of 9 with the Brazilian player, "BernardoDG", bagging the chip lead with 92,228,446 chips. Croatian high stakes pro Goran "mandza17" Mandic is the next closest stack with 65,070,799 and will be looking to utilise those chips in pursuit of the prestigious WCOOP title.
Many big names were in the field for Day 3 but those that couldn't navigate their stack into Day 4 including Andy "BowieEffect" Wilson, Simon "DaDumon" Grabenschweiger and Nicolas "PKaiser" Fierro.
$1,050 WCOOP Main Event Final Table Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|
| 1 | "BernardoDG" | Brazil | 92,228,446 | 92 |
| 2 | "Goran "mandza17" Mandic | Croatia | 65,070,799 | 65 |
| 3 | "paoronaldo" | Brazil | 56,632,037 | 56 |
| 4 | Ryan "planty07/08" Plant | Ecuador | 54,977,996 | 55 |
| 5 | "rObetOblancO" | Austria | 43,792,336 | 43 |
| 6 | Alexios "J0hnny_Dr@m@" Zervos | United Kingdom | 43,692,856 | 43 |
| 7 | "dibmestre" | Brazil | 43,080,672 | 43 |
| 8 | "Royal Mind" | United Kingdom | 32,881,413 | 32 |
| 9 | "Twicyyy" | United Kingdom | 32,243,445 | 32 |
Day 3 Action
The action was thick and fast at the beginning of the day with many players busting early doors including online grinder Ami "UhhMee" Barer and "$eT4x4" who came back as a top five stack today.
During level 36 (80,000/160,000/20,000) the action heated up with the field reducing from 24 to 12 in this 20 minute level alone. Miguel "CambadaDeMixos" Lopes came into day 3 third in chips but busted in 22nd ($15,742) when his shove got called by the eventual chip leader. Online crusher Simon "C. Darwin2" Mattsson also fell this level, in 20th ($15,742) when three-bet all-in but walked into the monster of "TiberiusA"
"luckyluck653" was the unfortunate final table bubble when his ace-queen couldn't outdraw the aces of "BernardoDG" and he bowed out in 10th for a payday of $31,485.
The final 9 players will be back tomorrow, 9 November, at 17:30 GMT and will play down until a winner is crowned. They currently have $44,527 locked up but all will be looking for the top prize of $712,429. Play will resume at 500,000/1,000,000 with an ante of 125,000.
Be sure to tune in here with the PokerNews live reporting team for updates on the final table as it happens.
and "luckyluck653" was on the wrong side of the cooler busting in 10th place and taking the unfortunate accolade of the final table bubble.
