114 players returned for the third day of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event. After five 90-minute levels of play, the day ended with 34 remaining players and Jose Carlos Garcia, the overall Day 1 chip leader, out in front with 1.71 million in chips.
Garcia was the first player to surpass 1 million in chips on Day 3, and he's the only player closing in on two million at the moment (mainly thanks to him winning a massive pot at the end of Day 3). The fact is that only one other player, Connan Drinan (1,065,000) has over one million in chips.
The plan for Day 4, which begins at noon local time, is to play until the end of Level 24 or until 16 players remain. The remaining players are guaranteed to take home at least €26,500 each and the last man standing will get €1,082,000!
With so many notables left in the tournament (have a look at the chip counts below and you know what we are talking about) we don't even want to speculate in who will stand tall as the winner on Friday.
Jose Carlos Garcia, 1710000
Connor Drinan, 1065000
Anatoly Chen, 987000
Scott Clements, 909000
Hady El Asmar, 890000
Dario Sammartino, 827000
Ole Schemion, 823000
Johnny Lodden, 728000
Andre Akkari, 574000
Anton Astapau, 561000
Joao Simao, 546000
Jason Mercier, 539000
Tom Hall, 536000
Ryan McEathron, 521000
Muhyedine Fares, 439000
Christopher Frank, 435000
Dmitry Ivanov, 393000
Koichi Nozaki, 387000
Stephen Chidwick, 383000
Adrian Mateos, 376000
Quan Zhou, 370000
Markus Ross, 348000
Ludovic Geilich, 346000
Romain Paon, 332000
Philippe Narboni, 320000
Juan Martin Pastor, 305000
Lyndon Basha, 303000
Mustapha Kanit, 213000
Liviu Ignat, 211000
Vladislav Donchev, 159000
Pierre Neuville, 150000
Felix Stephensen, 125000
Isaac Haxton, 112000
Fabrice Soulier, 73000
source: pokerstarsblog
