Ely Levy and Griffin Paul were the only two players with over 6 million in chips when Day 3 kicked off on Tuesday. Levy eventually finished in 11th place for $58,500 while Paul continued accumulating chips throughout the day. In total, he had 14,290,000 or almost a third of the chips in play when the final table of six was set and play ended.
His closest opponent, Andre Crooks, has just about 4 million less - which might give you an idea how well Griffin Paul was doing on Day 3. Nothing is written in stone, though. Besides Paul and Crooks, the other four players should also have good chances of becoming the champion (and $1 million richer).
Joe Ebanks, who has $2.4 million in live tournament earnings, is the biggest star on the final. With the third biggest stack (6.5 million) and so much live tournament experience, he will definitely put on a good fight on today's televised final table (begins 4 pm local time today).
There's 10 minutes left in Level 30 (blinds 50,000-100,000, 15,000 ante), the blinds at the next level will be 60k-120k with a 20k ante. May the best player win!
Chip counts:
Seat 1. Griffin Paul - 14,290,000 (119 bb)
Seat 2. Joe Ebanks - 6,585,000 (54 bb)
Seat 3. Ryan Rivers - 4,170,000 (34 bb)
Seat 4. Shawn Nguyen - 3,615,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5. Brian Green - 5,205,000 (43 bb)
Seat 6. Andre Crooks - 10,350,000 (86 bb)
Here's the final table prize pool, followed by the 12 players who were eliminated on Day 3.
1st: $1,000,000*
2nd: $615,000
3rd: $383,000
4th: $323,500
5th: $269,000
6th: $217,500
7th: Sean Syed Shah - $168,550
8th: Dan Heimiller - $123,000
9th: John Thrower - $88,500
10th: David Peters - $58,500
11th: Ely Levy - $58,500
12th: Harvey Vandeven - $58,500
13th: Gilbert Barrett - $39,000
14th: Travis Northrope - $39,000
15th: Mohsin Charania - $39,000
16th: Lenny Duvdivani - $26,500
17th: Cornel Cimpan - $26,500
18th: Vladimir Dobrovolskiy - $26,500
