Only 19 of 258 players remain after two days of play at the World Poker Tour Jacksonville bestbet Open Main Event. Jared Jaffee, who won the most recent WPT event at bestbet Jacksonville, is the chip leader heading to Day 3 (begins in approximately 5 hours) with 776,000 in chips!
Can he make it two in row? It's not impossible, but there are still many hours of poker to be played and several big names are still in the competition, including Season VII WPT Player of the Year Faraz Jaka, 2010 WSOP Main Event runner-up John Racener and Poker Triple Crown winner Jason Mercier.
The remaining players are guaranteed at least $8.5k with the chance of laying hands on the first place prize of $206,041! Below is the official chip counts and seating assignments for Day 3.
TABLE 1
Seat 1. Jason Mercier - 298,000 (29 bb)
Seat 2. John Racener - 216,000 (21 bb)
Seat 3. Jordan Cristos - 699,000 (69 bb)
Seat 4.
Seat 5. Dylan Wilkerson - 165,000 (16 bb)
Seat 6.
Seat 7. Jared Jaffee - 776,000 (77 bb)
Seat 8.
Seat 9. Sean Winter - 552,000 (55 bb)
TABLE 2
Seat 1. Kevin Choe - 513,000 (51 bb)
Seat 2.
Seat 3. Luke Graham - 192,000 (19 bb)
Seat 4. Michael Palmer - 368,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5. Faraz Jaka - 494,000 (49 bb)
Seat 6. Ali Alawadhi - 441,000 (44 bb)
Seat 7. Nghia Le - 604,000 (60 bb)
Seat 8. Bryan Irish-Jones - 573,000 (57 bb)
Seat 9.
TABLE 3
Seat 1.
Seat 2. Brian Green - 325,000 (32 bb)
Seat 3. James Calderaro - 510,000 (51 bb)
Seat 4. Millard Hale - 147,000 (14 bb)
Seat 5. Dan Heimiller - 190,000 (19 bb)
Seat 6. Adam Shuman - 154,000 (15 bb)
Seat 7.
Seat 8.
Seat 9. Nabil Hirezi - 520,000 (52 bb)
