The third day at the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic came to a close with 60 players and Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari as the chip leader (918,500). Esfandiari won this tournament 2 years ago and finished 6th last year. Now he has about 300k chips more than his closest opponent, Freddy Deeb, and more than 3 times the average stack. In other words, he has a fantastic chance of winning a second title!
Even though many big names failed to make it through Day 3 (Michael Mizrachi, J.C. Tran, Scotty Nguyen, Sorel Mizzi, Barry Greenstein, Andy Frankenberger, Joe Hachem etc) there are still quite a few poker stars left besides Esfandriari and Deeb - Brian Rast, Noah Schwartz, Yevgenly Timoshensko, Andrew Lichtenberger, Chino Rheem and Phil Galfond - just to mention a few.
Day 4 kicks off tonight and the plan is to play down 27 players. The money bubble will burst when 54 players remain (everyone will be guaranteed at least $19,516). The winner of the tournament will take home a whopping $1,268,571!
his biggest win came in "the drop" or whatever that was called, other that that he doesn't seem to be very good at taking top spot, yes he is solid enough player to make it to the money, maybe even the last table, but usually he doesn't win, so i guess it would be a good lay bet to win the tourney
Definitively I will watch final table
