First 1.040, then 1.118, and now more than three thousand! The course of this year's WSOP Main Event has the expected upward trend, and the eyes of the world will be on Las Vegas tonight. Will it be possible to break the record from 2006? Or will the bar be raised above the level of 9,000 entries?

WSOP: Another 900 advanced in Main Event, former champions still in the game

The third flight marked 1C, as expected, became the strongest, which was taken care of by more than 3,000 players. Unofficial numbers speak of 3,080 entries that surpassed the sum of flights 1A and 1B, and from this number, 2,326 players were present after five levels to pack their stacks.

While UK representative Christopher Brammer is in the chip lead with a stack of 386,100 (483bb), other former champions continue to play. There is also Joe McKeehen (111,500), Scott Blumstein (71,900), Ryan Riess (68,100) and reigning champion Espen Jorstad (62,000).

Among the many famous names who advanced from yesterday, we can find, for example, Josh Arieh (181,200), Phil Laak (146,100), Mustapha Kanit (142,400), Stephen Chidwick (105,000), Todd Brunson (88,200), Daniel Negreanu (25,900), or the former Manchester player City and one of the Premier League's top footballers, Sergio Aguero (87,000).

On the contrary, yesterday was also fatal for a number of players who will have to wait a whole year for possible success. In this list we can find, for example, Maria Ho, Vanessa Selbst, Erik Seidel, Mikita Badziakousky, or the champion Koray Aldemir, who had an unfortunate encounter with KK in AA in the last three games before packing the stacks.

In recent days, the name of the best WSOP player who won his record 17th bracelet has been mentioned a lot. The one and only Phil Hellmuth has yet to hit the Main Event, but as usual, when he does, everyone will know about it. Well, this tweet from Phil suggests that we have a lot to look forward to tonight:

Unofficial numbers after yesterday speak of a total of 5,217 entries, and of them 3,866 advanced (avg stack 81k). In order to break the record, we currently need about 3,500 entries, which will have to be collected either by today's flight 1D, or subsequently by the first two levels of days 2ABC and 2D. Will it happen?

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