Just 165 Left on WSOPE Main Event Day 3
Yesterday saw registration close and the field whittled down to just 165, and today on Day 3 expect more action as players look to bag big stacks as we head into the final few days worth of action here at the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.
Leading the way is Italian Dario Sammartino who said last night that two or three years ago it was a "dream" to win a bracelet, and he still carries that motivation to this day. He bagged 1,480,000 in chips, ahead of Marco Slacanac (1,128,500) and Jack Salter (1,051,000) who are the only three with seven-figure stacks.
Plenty of bracelet-winners are still in contention, including Niall Farrell who won his at the WSOPE last year, along with 2018 WSOPE bracelet winners Norbert Szecsi who won his earlier this festival in Event #6: No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Mixed Event, and Timur Margolin who won his in Event #5: �1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Monster Stack.
Former WSOP Main Event winners Ryan Riess and Chris Ferguson are still in the field, as well as former WSOPE Main Event winner and Day 1b chip leader Adrian Mateos.
Today there are six levels scheduled starting at 12pm. As usual there will be a 15-minute break after each 90-minute level, and a 60-minute dinner break after the completion of the fourth level of play (~19:00)
Livestreaming of today's Main Event will start after the dinner break on Twitch, and PokerNews will be bringing you live updates until the players bag up at the end of tonight.
2018 WSOPE Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | 1 | Dario Dzido | Croatia | 135,500 | 27 |
| 118 | 2 | Antonio Turrisi | Italy | 375,000 | 75 |
| 118 | 3 | Koray Aldemir | Germany | 172,500 | 35 |
| 118 | 4 | Julien Sitbon | France | 102,500 | 21 |
| 118 | 5 | Jia Tang | China | 462,000 | 92 |
| 118 | 6 | Javier Gomez | Spain | 289,500 | 58 |
| 118 | 7 | Alberto Stegeman | Netherlands | 231,000 | 46 |
| 119 | 1 | Adi Aizin | Israel | 213,000 | 43 |
| 119 | 2 | Stoyan Obreshkov | Bulgaria | 674,000 | 135 |
| 119 | 3 | David Urban | Slovakia | 546,000 | 109 |
| 119 | 4 | Viktor Katzenberger | Hungary | 227,000 | 45 |
| 119 | 5 | Moreno Plozza | Switzerland | 166,000 | 33 |
| 119 | 6 | Gary Hasson | Belgium | 307,500 | 62 |
| 119 | 7 | Tobias Revenas | Sweden | 121,000 | 24 |
| 119 | 8 | Igor Tregoubov | Canada | 360,000 | 72 |
| 120 | 1 | Luiz Duarte | Brazil | 424,000 | 85 |
| 120 | 2 | Thomas Hammerl | Austria | 319,500 | 64 |
| 120 | 3 | Michal Schuh | Czech Republic | 183,000 | 37 |
| 120 | 4 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 112,000 | 22 |
| 120 | 5 | Adi Rajkovic | Austria | 278,000 | 56 |
| 120 | 6 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russian Federation | 502,500 | 101 |
| 120 | 7 | Maria Lampropulos | Greece | 129,500 | 26 |
| 120 | 8 | Marco Slacanac | Germany | 1,128,500 | 226 |
| 121 | 1 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 269,500 | 54 |
| 121 | 2 | Ahmed Abdella | United Kingdom | 62,500 | 13 |
| 121 | 3 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 626,000 | 125 |
| 121 | 4 | Mikolaj Zawadzki | Poland | 191,000 | 38 |
| 121 | 5 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 363,500 | 73 |
| 121 | 6 | James Romero | United States | 127,000 | 25 |
| 121 | 7 | Josip Simunic | Austria | 324,000 | 65 |
| 121 | 8 | Tal Noach | Israel | 490,000 | 98 |
| 122 | 1 | Johannes Becker | Germany | 287,500 | 58 |
| 122 | 2 | Marek Blasko | Slovakia | 469,500 | 94 |
| 122 | 3 | Anson Tsang | Hong Kong | 81,000 | 16 |
| 122 | 4 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 169,500 | 34 |
| 122 | 5 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 638,000 | 128 |
| 122 | 6 | Ben Jackson | United Kingdom | 216,500 | 43 |
| 122 | 7 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 421,000 | 84 |
| 122 | 8 | Viktor Taranenko | Russian Federation | 150,000 | 30 |
| 132 | 1 | Michel Dattani | Portugal | 372,000 | 74 |
| 132 | 2 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 201,000 | 40 |
| 132 | 3 | Wai Leong Chan | Malaysia | 237,500 | 48 |
| 132 | 4 | Ihor Yerofieiev | Ukraine | 104,500 | 21 |
| 132 | 5 | Salvatore Camarda | Italy | 310,000 | 62 |
| 132 | 6 | James Rann | United Kingdom | 125,000 | 25 |
| 132 | 8 | Kristoffer Rasmussen | Denmark | 463,500 | 93 |
| 133 | 1 | Vladimir Geshkenbein | Switzerland | 400,000 | 80 |
| 133 | 2 | David Peters | United States | 295,500 | 59 |
| 133 | 3 | Slobodan Ruzicic | Serbia | 704,000 | 141 |
| 133 | 4 | Armin Rezaei | Austria | 187,500 | 38 |
| 133 | 5 | Tomasz Raniszewski | Poland | 136,500 | 27 |
| 133 | 6 | Alexander Romme | Germany | 286,000 | 57 |
| 133 | 7 | Jan-Eric Schwippert | Germany | 431,500 | 86 |
| 133 | 8 | Guillaume Diaz | France | 81,000 | 16 |
| 135 | 1 | Ludovic Geilich | Scotland | 198,500 | 40 |
| 135 | 2 | Robert Skopalik | Czech Republic | 602,000 | 120 |
| 135 | 3 | Oleksandr Lagoda | Ukraine | 367,500 | 74 |
| 135 | 4 | Gianluca Speranza | Italy | 184,500 | 37 |
| 135 | 5 | Milos Skrbic | Serbia | 326,500 | 65 |
| 135 | 6 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 116,500 | 23 |
| 135 | 7 | Ricardo Chauriye | Chile | 153,000 | 31 |
| 135 | 8 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 248,500 | 50 |
| 136 | 1 | Tobias Anttila | Finland | 649,500 | 130 |
| 136 | 2 | Ivan Gabrieli | Italy | 419,500 | 84 |
| 136 | 3 | Werner Eigner | Germany | 295,000 | 59 |
| 136 | 4 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 258,000 | 52 |
| 136 | 5 | Anton Johansson | Sweden | 214,500 | 43 |
| 136 | 6 | Ioannis Chorianopoulos | Greece | 77,500 | 16 |
| 136 | 7 | Renato Kaneoya | Brazil | 164,500 | 33 |
| 136 | 8 | Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 500,500 | 100 |
| 137 | 1 | Bulcsu Lukacs | Romania | 729,000 | 146 |
| 137 | 2 | Alexandre Viard | France | 440,000 | 88 |
| 137 | 3 | Elias Talvitie | Finland | 349,000 | 70 |
| 137 | 4 | Aleksandar Trajkovski | Macedonia | 58,000 | 12 |
| 137 | 5 | Robert Kovacs | Slovakia | 367,000 | 73 |
| 137 | 6 | Eder Murata | Brazil | 215,500 | 43 |
| 137 | 7 | Philipp Zukernik | Israel | 172,000 | 34 |
| 137 | 8 | Justin Steinbrenner | Germany | 123,000 | 25 |
| 147 | 2 | Tobias Ziegler | Germany | 175,500 | 35 |
| 147 | 3 | Paul Hoefer | Germany | 227,000 | 45 |
| 147 | 4 | Kristaps Vismanis | Latvia | 295,000 | 59 |
| 147 | 5 | Julian Thomas | Germany | 45,000 | 9 |
| 147 | 6 | Roger Teska | United States | 363,000 | 73 |
| 147 | 7 | Luiz Ferreira | Brazil | 476,000 | 95 |
| 147 | 8 | Ronald van de Linde | Netherlands | 165,500 | 33 |
| 148 | 1 | Sanjay Sahijwani | United Kingdom | 265,500 | 53 |
| 148 | 2 | Ernests Patajs | Latvia | 211,500 | 42 |
| 148 | 3 | Serhii Balynskyi | Ukraine | 122,500 | 25 |
| 148 | 4 | Jason Gray | United Kingdom | 153,000 | 31 |
| 148 | 5 | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | 713,500 | 143 |
| 148 | 6 | Yotam Lecker | Romania | 310,000 | 62 |
| 148 | 7 | Piotr Nurzynski | Poland | 496,000 | 99 |
| 148 | 8 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 364,000 | 73 |
| 149 | 1 | Steven Warburton | United Kingdom | 350,000 | 70 |
| 149 | 2 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 159,000 | 32 |
| 149 | 3 | Rifat Gegic | Serbia | 339,500 | 68 |
| 149 | 4 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 1,480,000 | 296 |
| 149 | 5 | Liwei Sun | Italy | 601,000 | 120 |
| 149 | 6 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 210,000 | 42 |
| 149 | 7 | Ming Xi | China | 230,000 | 46 |
| 149 | 8 | James Morgan | Canada | 83,000 | 17 |
| 150 | 1 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 378,500 | 76 |
| 150 | 2 | Vladyslav Kovalenko | Ukraine | 256,500 | 51 |
| 150 | 3 | Niall Farrell | Scotland | 625,000 | 125 |
| 150 | 4 | Dimitar Yosifov | Bulgaria | 671,500 | 134 |
| 150 | 5 | Diogo Veiga | Portugal | 51,500 | 10 |
| 150 | 6 | Andrei Boghean | Romania | 138,500 | 28 |
| 150 | 7 | Denys Shafikov | Ukraine | 348,000 | 70 |
| 150 | 8 | Igor Kurganov | Germany | 206,000 | 41 |
| 151 | 1 | Allen Kessler | United States | 241,000 | 48 |
| 151 | 2 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 818,000 | 164 |
| 151 | 3 | Dominik Matejka | Czech Republic | 212,500 | 43 |
| 151 | 4 | Victor Choupeaux | France | 106,000 | 21 |
| 151 | 5 | Yang Zhang | China | 150,500 | 30 |
| 151 | 6 | Vincent Robert | France | 595,000 | 119 |
| 151 | 7 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russian Federation | 371,500 | 74 |
| 151 | 8 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 341,500 | 68 |
| 152 | 1 | Stefan Nemetz | Austria | 64,500 | 13 |
| 152 | 2 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 245,000 | 49 |
| 152 | 3 | Claas Segebrecht | Germany | 142,000 | 28 |
| 152 | 4 | Arran Fletcher | United Kingdom | 645,000 | 129 |
| 152 | 5 | Lukasz Grossmann | Poland | 311,500 | 62 |
| 152 | 6 | Andy Black | Ireland | 354,500 | 71 |
| 152 | 7 | Quan Zhou | China | 168,000 | 34 |
| 152 | 8 | Alex Foxen | United States | 516,000 | 103 |
| 162 | 1 | Danilo Velasevic | Serbia | 455,000 | 91 |
| 162 | 2 | Yaki Hevron | Israel | 630,000 | 126 |
| 162 | 3 | Andres Zepeda | Chile | 140,000 | 28 |
| 162 | 4 | Jona Wilmsmann | Germany | 329,000 | 66 |
| 162 | 5 | Nick van der Marel | Netherlands | 401,000 | 80 |
| 162 | 6 | Adem Marjanovic | Austria | 211,500 | 42 |
| 162 | 7 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands | 249,000 | 50 |
| 162 | 8 | Karel Kabrna | Czech Republic | 69,000 | 14 |
| 163 | 1 | Rafael Wacha | Austria | 103,500 | 21 |
| 163 | 2 | Norbert Szecsi | Hungary | 560,500 | 112 |
| 163 | 3 | Aymon Hata | United Kingdom | 401,500 | 80 |
| 163 | 4 | Timo Kamphues | Germany | 248,000 | 50 |
| 163 | 5 | Bahram Chobineh | Dominica | 320,000 | 64 |
| 163 | 6 | Michael Sklenicka | Czech Republic | 722,000 | 144 |
| 163 | 7 | Roman Rychlik | Czech Republic | 169,500 | 34 |
| 163 | 8 | Ondrej Lon | Czech Republic | 137,000 | 27 |
| 164 | 1 | Martin Stoller | Germany | 385,000 | 77 |
| 164 | 2 | Xixiang Luo | China | 215,000 | 43 |
| 164 | 3 | Fabian Bernhauser | Austria | 157,000 | 31 |
| 164 | 4 | Joel Ettedgi | United Kingdom | 747,000 | 149 |
| 164 | 5 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 326,000 | 65 |
| 164 | 6 | Viktor Blom | Sweden | 112,500 | 23 |
| 164 | 7 | Shravan Chhabria | India | 239,000 | 48 |
| 164 | 8 | Ognjen Sekularac | Serbia | 429,500 | 86 |
| 165 | 1 | Nico Prokic | Austria | 302,500 | 61 |
| 165 | 2 | Daniel Bayer | Austria | 166,500 | 33 |
| 165 | 3 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | 475,000 | 95 |
| 165 | 4 | Michael Tabarelli | Italy | 54,000 | 11 |
| 165 | 5 | Ryan Riess | United States | 382,000 | 76 |
| 165 | 6 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 192,000 | 38 |
| 165 | 7 | Jaroslav Peter | Czech Republic | 252,000 | 50 |
| 165 | 8 | Jack Salter | United Kingdom | 1,051,000 | 210 |
| 166 | 1 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 304,500 | 61 |
| 166 | 2 | Sean Mcnulty | Canada | 285,000 | 57 |
| 166 | 3 | Paul Teoh | Malaysia | 95,500 | 19 |
| 166 | 4 | Jun Wah Yap | Malaysia | 399,000 | 80 |
| 166 | 5 | Will Givens | United States | 539,000 | 108 |
| 166 | 6 | Yunsheng Sun | China | 195,000 | 39 |
| 166 | 7 | Pierre Mothes | Germany | 164,500 | 33 |
| 166 | 8 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 629,500 | 126 |