2009 L.A. Poker Classic

$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 3
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Event Info

2009 L.A. Poker Classic

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♣5♣
Prize
$1,686,260
Event Info
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0

Day 3 Ends with 63 Happy Players

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Kofi Farkye, Day 3 chip leader
Kofi Farkye, Day 3 chip leader
That's it for us from Day 3 at the L.A. Poker Classic. It was an exciting bubble to end an exciting day, as we saw the chip leader, Antonio Esfandiari, eliminated just short of the money; a wild style of play from the new chip leader, Kofi Farkye that allowed him to gobble up massive amounts of chips as play tightened up; one of the grizzled old-school pros, Chris Ferguson, double up to almost 400,000 on the bubble by flopping two pair; and two players crippled in big hands that then wound up all in before the deal on the final hand.

We tried to eyeball all of the stacks on the bubble. It appears that Farkye is the overnight chip leader with more than 800,000 chips; he's followed by Mike Sowers and Donald D'Auria, each of whom eclipsed 700,000.

There are a bunch of extremely short stacks in the field. We'll hopefully have all of the counts entered into the chip counts page before play begins tomorrow at noon. The pace of eliminations will be a bit frenetic! See you then.

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