PokerPages.com Poker News - 2009 WPT Festa al Lago Day 3

Day 3 began with 98 players, and after five levels of play, 37 remained. The deep structure and small antes didn’t slow the action much, and the many short stacks kept things interesting. The field is now ten eliminations from the money.

Poker icons Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow certainly won’t be earning any of the cash, as they busted early in the day. Todd Brunson, Chino Rheem, Josh Arieh, Barry Greenstein, Kathy Liebert, and Justin Bonomo failed to make Day 4 as well.




	Jonathan Little

Scott Clements won a big pot with a straight flush, but wasn’t able to hold onto his chips and busted during the last level of play. Jonathan Little made a valiant comeback, building his stack from five big blinds to more than 50. Eventually, however, he got unlucky with pocket Tens against Chad Batista’s JT.




	Chip leader Corwin Cole

Corwin Cole was the first to cross the one-million chip mark, and though he slipped a little below a million, Cole is the overnight chip leader. Jonas Entin is only a few chips behind, followed by Jason Lavallee.




	Dee Friedman

Dee Friedman, formerly Dee Luong, occupies the fourth spot. Dee, now the only woman remaining, busted Poorya Nazari when her pocket Aces held up against his AK, moving her close to the top of the leader board. Not long after, she won a race with AK against Adam Geyer’s Queens to eliminate Geyer and bolster her already impressive stack. Dee’s husband, Prahlad Friedman, is one of the shortest stacks going into Day 4.

Mark Seif, Freddy Deeb, and Chris Ferguson finished the day in the top ten and will be looking to make some waves on Saturday.

Action resumes at 12:00 pm PDT as the final 37 hit the money.

Here are the end of day chip counts:

1	CORWIN	COLE	996,000	55	5
2	JONAS	ENTIN	985,500	59	4
3	JASON	LAVALLEE	833,500	60	1
4	DEE	FRIEDMAN	771,500	53	7
5	MARK	SEIF	759,000	59	2
6	JASON	SOMERVILLE	669,000	59	7
7	DUTCH	BOYD	616,500	55	4
8	FREDDY	DEEB	588,000	53	2
9	TOMMY	VEDES	579,000	55	6
10	CHRIS	FERGUSON	535,000	59	5
11	JASON	BURT	516,000	55	3
12	SHAWN	CUNIX	515,500	60	4
13	LAWRENCE	BERG	510,000	59	1
14	MATTHEW	STOUT	498,500	62	2
15	BRANDON	CANTU	414,000	62	6
16	KIDO	PHAM	401,000	55	7
17	DAN	SHAK	398,000	55	2
18	CLIFF	JOSEPHY	385,000	62	3
19	STEPHEN	GIUFRE	382,500	62	4
20	TERENCE	RYAN	371,000	60	5
21	MATTHEW	GLANTZ	361,500	59	6
22	STEVEN	BRECHER	360,000	60	3
23	MICHAEL	CHIAPPETTA	360,000	60	6
24	CRAIG	CRIVELLO	341,500	60	7
25	ROBERT	TEPPER	322,000	62	5
26	RICHARD	SCIUTO	320,500	60	2
27	ANDY	BLOCH	320,500	62	7
28	CHAD	BATISTA	315,000	55	1
29	CHAU	GIANG	293,500	53	5
30	LEE	MARKHOLT	273,500	55	8
31	CHRIS	BJORIN	271,500	53	4
32	VIVEK	RAJKUMAR	253,000	59	3
33	JEFFREY	BLENKARN	225,000	53	1
34	AARON	JONES	214,500	53	6
35	PRAHLAD	FRIEDMAN	188,000	62	1
36	MARKUS	GONSALVES	187,500	53	8
37	NESTOR	MARTINEZ	186,500	53	3

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