WPT World Champ
Day 3 Fixin’ to Get Underway

Cards go in the air for the 2008 World Poker Tour World Championship at noon pacific … 188 out of 545 remain … Our boy (when he\’s winning) Tom laid low with about 20k in chips pretty much all day yesterday, only to finish super-strong. (I liked his push with 3-4 suited, which \”got there\” on the turn.)


1. Robert Mizrachi – 523,200
2. Jayde Tran – 406,700
3. Eric Richards – 399,500
4. Bryan Devonshire – 393,400
5. Cory Carroll – 384,700
6. John Celii – 376,800
7. Carlos Mortensen – 371,600
8. Kenny Tran – 367,400
9. Michael Gracz – 364,800
10. Jonathan Kalmar – 333,900
11. Marcel Luske – 325,200
12. Steve Wong – 306,600
13. Saifuddin Ahmad – 306,500
14. Soheil Shamseddin – 297,500
15. Philip Galfond – 295,700
16. John Hoang – 293,700
17. Mikael Thuritz – 291,200
18. Tom Schneider – 288,000
19. Michael Katz – 284,700
20. Richard Fohrenbach – 281,900
21. Rhynie Campbell – 281,100
22. Joe Sebok – 278,100
23. Anna Wroblewski – 277,300
24. Martin de Knijff – 276,100
25. Charles Kelley – 273,600
26. Allen Le – 272,000
27. Gus Hansen – 264,200
28. Josh Arieh – 248,700
29. Tommy Hang – 244,800
30. Jeff Bayles – 242,300
31. John Kincaid – 226,800
32. Karga Holt – 224,300
33. Edwin Ting – 215,000
34. Praz Bansi – 214,200
35. Joe Cassidy – 214,200
36. Greg \”FBT\” Mueller – 212,700
37. James Calderaro – 210,200
38. Eugene Todd – 210,000
39. Vadim Trincher – 209,700
40. Andreas Krause – 207,600
41. Jeff King – 203,000
42. Yan Chen – 203,000
43. Gary Margadonna – 202,100
44. Nikolay Losev – 201,500
45. J.C. Tran – 201,300
46. Abe Mosseri – 197,700
47. Scott Epstein – 194,900
48. Billy Pilossoph – 192,500
49. Nicolas Levi – 192,200
50. Tim Phan – 186,400
51. Dario Minieri – 186,000
52. David Chiu – 184,200
53. Isabelle Mercier – 184,000
54. Eric Kesselman – 180,300
55. Mark Seif – 180,000
56. Billy Baxter – 176,600
57. Matthew Vengrin – 172,000
58. Padraig Parkinson – 170,700
59. Paul Chauderson – 168,000
60. Brian Rast – 163,700
61. John Esposito – 162,000
62. Jonathan Westra – 161,700
63. Barny Boatman – 161,500
64. Steve Billirakis – 156,600
65. Daniel Negreanu – 154,600
66. Benjamin Springer – 152,800
67. T.J. Cloutier – 152,000
68. Francois Safieddine – 151,800
69. Herman Zango – 150,300
70. Gary Gibbs – 149,300
71. Men \”The Master\” Nguyen – 145,800

AVERAGE – 144,947

72. Roy Winston – 144,000
73. Gavin Smith – 142,300
74. Keith Gipson – 142,100
75. David Tran – 141,500
76. Dino French – 141,200
77. Amir Vahedi – 141,100
78. Hyon Kim – 139,400
79. Thomas Wahlroos – 137,400
80. Mike Sexton – 135,100
81. Michael Sohayegh – 133,900
82. Rock Cloutier – 132,600
83. Zvi Shiff – 131,000
84. Matt Giannetti – 130,700
85. John Hillman – 130,000
86. Andrew Shack – 129,400
87. Philippe Rouas – 124,700
88. Kathy Liebert – 123,300
89. Mats Rahmn – 123,000
90. Narendra Banwari – 122,700
91. Matthew Hyman – 122,400
92. Cary Katz – 121,800
93. John Monnette – 121,400
94. Tim Chauser – 120,700
95. Abdo Lattouf – 120,000
96. Noah Schwartz – 117,200
97. Jared Hamby – 116,500
98. Vivek Rajkumar – 115,600
99. Vincent Procopio – 114,500
100. Hevad Khan – 113,400
101. Phil Ivey – 111,700
102. Barry Greenstein – 111,100
103. James Dawick – 110,200
104. David \”Devilfish\” Ulliott – 110,000
105. David Benyamine – 110,000
106. Ray Coburn – 109,900
107. Allie Prescott – 109,200
108. Samuel Hiatt – 107,300
109. John Strzemp – 107,000
110. Vincent Shaw – 106,300
111. Alex Jacob – 105,800
112. Steve Weinstein – 105,300
113. Keith Tilston – 104,600
114. Andrew Robl – 102,400
115. Nicholas Binger – 101,600
116. Jordan Morgan – 100,600
117. Karl Tretter – 98,900
118. Tom \”Durrrr\” Dwan – 98,800
119. Thayer Rasmussen – 98,300
120. Tony Grappo – 96,800
121. Sudhakara Kattamuri – 96,500
122. Jared Okun – 96,400
123. David Kim – 96,000
124. James Van Alstyne – 95,700
125. Robert Wisiak – 95,000
126. Chad Brown – 95,000
127. Bob Stupak – 94,200
128. Champie Douglas – 93,100
129. Jordan Rich – 92,800
130. James Mettler – 92,700
131. Joseph Risi – 92,500
132. Parviz Razavian – 91,600
133. David Redlin – 90,300
134. Chris Lee – 89,600
135. Mickey Appleman – 89,000
136. Kristy Gazes – 88,700
137. Jeff Shulman – 88,300
138. Quinn Do – 88,100
139. Andrew Black – 86,800
140. Mark Newhouse – 86,500
141. Steve Brecher – 85,900
142. Peter Neff – 84,000
143. Tim West – 83,400
144. Raffi King – 82,300
145. Ron Levi – 81,800
146. Erik Seidel – 80,300
147. Mike Wattel – 78,300
148. Alan Smurfit – 77,800
149. Wil Wilkinson – 75,600
150. Art Duncan – 73,700
151. Burt Boutin – 73,400
152. Humberto Brenes – 72,500
153. Dan Harrington – 69,400
154. Ray Henson – 69,100
155. Jonathan Aguiar – 68,200
156. John Juanda – 67,500
157. Thomas McCormick – 64,100
158. Mike Matusow – 62,900
159. Shawn Cunix – 61,900
160. Andrew Pierz – 60,100
161. Herb Montalbano – 57,700
162. Eric \”Rizen\” Lynch – 56,000
163. Dan Shak – 55,600
164. Ross Boatman – 55,000
165. Stan Jablonski – 50,400
166. Jimmy Dowda – 48,500
167. Will Failla – 48,500
168. Doyle Brunson – 48,300
169. Fred Berger – 45,400
170. Lars Bonding – 44,300
171. Matt Brady – 44,200
172. Scott Mayfield – 43,400
173. Michael McKenna – 42,100
174. John Roveto – 38,900
175. Scotty Nguyen – 38,100
176. Dewey Tomko – 36,600
177. Tad Jurgens – 36,500
178. Gary Horn – 36,200
179. Steven O\’Dwyer – 35,100
180. Heather Sue Mercer – 34,400
181. William Klein – 34,100
182. Grant Lang – 32,400
183. Eugene Katchalov – 30,900
184. Chris \”The Armenian Express\” Grigorian – 29,200
185. Nam Le – 29,000
186. Danny Wong – 26,700
187. David Grey – 25,300
188. Cristiano Blanco – 22,800