Chamada Prestige Hotel and Casino is once again the venue for the WPT Prime series, where the main attraction is the $1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 Championship tournament.
The entries count here went up to 1,391, bringing the prizepool to $1,349,270. The winner will receive a prize of $190,430 in addition to the trophy, along with a $10,400 ticket to December's WPT World Championship.
The finalists have been announced
After yesterday's Day 2, only the top 9 players are left in the field and we know the final table line-up. The chipleader is Turkish player Atilla Saracoglu with a stack of 13,025,000. However, there is also the well-known Swiss player Fabian Rolli with a stack of 6,550,000. With the smallest stack is Hungarian player Andras Balogh, who has only 5 blinds.
- Andras Balogh - 850,000 (5 bb)
- Edgars Hauks - 3,025,000 (20 bb)
- Ilan Verdnikov - 10,750,000 (71 bb)
- Atilla Saracoglu - 13,025,000 (86 bb)
- Omar Lahdari - 9,150,000 (61 bb)
- Fabian Rolli - 6,550,000 (43 bb)
- Baris Topuz - 4,050,000 (27 bb)
- Spencer Ozturk - 3,825,000 (25 bb)
- Joseph Haddad - 4,300,000 (28 bb)
All players have already pocketed at least $18,800. Play will resume at 13:00 local time on blinds 75k/150k/150k and you can also look forward to a livestream which can be found on our website.
Source - WPT, flickr