Kostas Papastavrou

Its a 4 to 1 chiplead, make that 15-1 after one hand top pair over middle pair and its all-in on the next hand and over.

1st place Kostas Papastavrou; Tampa. Fl $15,885 + $5,100 seat + watch

2nd place Michael Valentine; Columbus, OH $7,943

	Michael Valentine

With a King on the flop all of Kelly Harmon's chips get in with AK but the calls come from Kostas Papastavrou wth KK.

3rd place Kelly Harmon; Boise, ID $3,971

	Kelly Harmon

3000/6000 blinds 6000/12000 Limit Holdem

Kelly Harmon has survived three all-ins, two wins and a chop; he remains very short

Judy Carlson finally moves in with A9 gets the call from QT in Kelly Harmon's hand but there is a T on the flop and nothing more.

4th place Judy Carlson; Blackhawk, CO $2,383

	Judy Carlson

Kelly Harmon has a stack in front of him; Michael Valentine has a stack in front of him; Judy Carlson has two stacks in front of her and Kostas Papastavrou has two towers in front of him.

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Break and color-up is over. 2000/4000 blinds 4000/8000 Limit Hold'em Four players remaining.

Judy Carlson, tired of being blinded off over the last two hours.....moves all-in three straights hands and takes them all down.

Kostas Papastarou slowly but surely has become our chipleader by a wide margin.

Michael Valentine all-in and and and survives.

After several losts, Richard You moves with K5 when a flop hits the board but Kelly Harmon holds KQ and all the chips go in.

5th place Richard You; South San Francisco, CA $1,787

	Richard You

Its Bucky Fong who makes the move with AK but an AJ from Kelly Harmon and a J on the board ends it.

6th place Bucky Fong; Reno-Tahoe, $1,390

	Bucky Fong

Your approximate chip counts and/or estimates. 231,000 chips in play

its just slow folks, the big stack is Kelly Harmon the short stack was Kostas Papastavrou who just doubled through Kelly.

We are playing 1000/2000 blinds 2000/4000 Limit Hold'em, with six players left the average stack is 38,500 and the short stack has nearly 30,000.

Sorry Everyone but these players don't seem to be playing witin the Limit. Its fast and furious.

7th place Avner Levy; Sarasota, FL $993

	Avner Levy

Two hands later its the other short stack Earl Odom going down to a bigger pair.

8th place Earl Odom; Reno, NV $794

	Earl Odom

Second hand with an Ace on the flop Mike Odeh moves with AK and gets call with AJ and a Jack on the turn is fatal.

9th place Mike Odeh, Las Vegas $635

	Mike Odeh

Final table, break, color-up, player introductions etc.

10th place John Jackson $477

11th place Nick Panaritis $477

12th place Sean McCormack $477

There are two more short stacks, which is what it will take for us to reach a final table. Average stack is around 20XBig Blind or 10XOne Big Bet.

13th place Bill Johnson $437

14th place Mark Taylor $437

14 players remaining--dinner break

15th place Mike Cordell $437

16th place John Leddon $397

17th place Charlie Ng $397 (no points for the current All Around Leader but he will be in the 6PM event)

18th place David Hatfield $397

Round three has just finished (3 X 45 minutes) 109 of the 154 starters remain. Its Limit Hold'em today but with fewer entries we might get to a final table a bit earlier.

I played today in yet another attempt to give the internet poker junkies out there a blow by blow from inside a final table. Below are the details of my tournament today.

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