That's A Wrap, Grinder Out In Front!
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We started the day with 54 of the world's finest mixed game players and after 12 hours of game time, the field has been reduced to just 21. Some of today's casualties included Barry Greenstein, Noah Boeken, Scotty Nguyen, Jeff Lisandro, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson and the defending champion David Bach.
The early story was the rise through the pack of Alexander Kostritsyn who at one stage had more than double the chips of second place with just 31 players remaining. But like a good cycling peloton, the pack reeled in the runaway leader and by the day's end had surpassed the young Russian.
Michael Mizrachi, Vladimir Schmelev and David Oppenheim all had a very solid day on the felt, with Grinder bagging up the chip lead with 1.483 million in chips. Check out our chip counts page shortly for the official end-of-day counts.
Join us once again from 3pm tomorrow as we do it all again with Day 4 of this $50,000 Poker Player's Championship. We'll have some tense moments as we burst the money bubble and then surge towards our final table lineup. We look forward to your company then!