The Third and Not-So-Final Day
Welcome back for the third day of our $5,000 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold'em event. A hefty 817 players showed up to the tables on Wednesday, and after 18 levels, that number has been reduced to 34. That's still an awful lot if we intend to play this thing out today. At the end of the day, there will still be 150 big blinds in play, and that would be an awful lot for one player to collect.
Vanessa Peng is going to try, though. Thanks to the last hand of the night, Peng has herself perched atop the overnight chip counts with 801,000 of them stuffed inside the plastic bag. She's the last lady left standing, and the sharks are circling beneath her. Dylan Wilkerson has a top-five stack, and Adam Geyer has more than a half-million chips to begin Day 3, too. Jeff Sarwer was very close to a million chips in the middle stages of yesterday, but he tapered off as play progressed to bag up 422,000. That's still good for ninth place overall, and Sarwer is in the hunt for his second WSOP final table this summer.
We're just a few minutes away from our scheduled starting time, and the bags are out on the tables. Players are next, then announcements, then the playing of the cards. Don't wander off, we're shuffling up and dealing at 2:30 P.M.!