Chris Dombrowski finished the day atop the leaderboard as the only player with over 100,000 in chips. Hot on his tail, however, is fellow big stack Ty Stewart, who will begin the day seated to Dombrowski's right. They stayed out of each other's hair for the most part yesterday, but today, as the field gets smaller, they might find it hard to avoid each other altogether.
We'll also be keeping an eye out on the many big names who made it to Day 2: Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson, Scott Clements, Kathy Liebert, Michael Binger, Allen Kessler, Aaron Kanter, Tim Vance and Robert Cheung. Also noteworthy is the progress of one Travis Erdman, who's made the final table of this event in each of the last two years. He'll be trying for his third straight today, and he's got a great chance to do so, as he'll start the day fifth in chips with 71,300.
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against Nakano's 
and the community cards gave Paul a jack-high straight to secure the double up. 
, Robert Brown moved his short stack all in and recieved a call from Mike Harvey. Brown asked Harvey, "Do you have a pair?" Harvey replied, "Yes. Brown asked "How big?" and Harvey showed his 
. Brown grimaced and flipped up 
. The turn gave Brown the lead with the 
, but it was short lived as the 
landed on the river. Harvey was up to 26,000 after the hand.
board saved Muchnik, giving him jacks full of fours and renewed hope. After the hand, Muchnik improved to approximately 22,000 in chips while Sanders dropped below 30,000.
board with two hearts; Ferguson holding 
and Paul's with 
. The turn and river then came 
, no heart, but gave Ferguson a six-high straight to clinch the hand and send Paul to the rail.
. An 
was the turn, but the doomsday card for Alder proved to be the river as it came 
to the suited K-6 of Masinter. The board kept Masinter ahead as it came 
