WPT .... "THE KNIFE" IS TOO SHARP FOR MIZRACHI BUT GUS TRUMPS THEM ALL ...........

Play has ended on Day 3 at the WPT World Championship event taking place at the Bellagio. We are now down to just 55 players, all of whom are guaranteed $40k, but most,will only have eyes on the top prize of $3.4 m.

Biggest mover of the day was Gus Hansen, who increased his chip stack by almost 2m and he leads the way, Cory Carroll in second spot, added around 1.5m chips to his impressive pile and is flying the flag for Canada, who have been dominating recent big events.

Former champion Martin de Knijff performed best of the big names at the top of the day 2 leaderboard and holds a healthy 856k stack, which sees him in 4th position. This is clearly a structure that suits him well.

This is starting to develope into a classic tournament and the cream is rising to the top, other big movers were four time WSOP bracelet winner David Chiu, winner of over 1m chips yesterday and internet star Tom "Durrr" Dwan,who increased his stack eight fold and is up to 6th place.

Yesterday's leader Robert "The Grinder" Mizrachi, trod water for much of the day, but is definitely not out of things with 701k.

However, my vote for performance of the day, goes to David Grey, the New York native, a cash game specialist and two time WSOP bracelet winner, went into the day 187th of 188 players, with just 25k in front of him. That gave him few options, but he hung in there and is now 33rd of the 55 remaining, with a stack of 354k, one double up, would take him past Mizrachi, which proves the old "chip and a chair" adage.

End of Day 3 Chip Counts

	First Name	Last Name	Chip Count	Table	Seat
1	Gus	Hansen	2,246,000	Table 60	Seat 2
2	Cory	Carroll	1,900,000	Table 54	Seat 5
3	David	Chiu	1,231,000	Table 60	Seat 1
4	Martin	Deknijff	856,000	Table 55	Seat 1
5	Nicholas	Binger	829,000	Table 60	Seat 6
6	Tom	Dwan	805,000	Table 62	Seat 6
7	Peter	Neff	781,000	Table 54	Seat 8
8	Jeff	Shulman	771,000	Table 62	Seat 5
9	Mark	Newhouse	770,000	Table 54	Seat 1
10	Robert	Mizrachi	701,000	Table 62	Seat 7
11	Vadim	Trincher	699,000	Table 53	Seat 2
12	Amir	Vehedi	696,000	Table 62	Seat 4
13	Steve	Wong	662,000	Table 52	Seat 3
14	Nhan	Le	605,000	Table 60	Seat 4
15	Michael	Gracz	551,000	Table 53	Seat 8
16	David	Tran	550,000	Table 54	Seat 3
17	Eric	Richards	539,000	Table 61	Seat 3
18	Jonathan	Kalmar	526,000	Table 53	Seat 3
19	Jared	Okun	523,000	Table 61	Seat 4
20	John	Celii	515,000	Table 61	Seat 2
21	Soheil	Shamseddin	506,000	Table 60	Seat 7
22	Men	Nguyen	499,000	Table 52	Seat 7
23	John	Hoang	481,000	Table 60	Seat 5
24	James	Calderaro	478,000	Table 55	Seat 7
25	Andrew	Black	476,000	Table 55	Seat 4
26	Bryan	Devonshire	465,000	Table 53	Seat 1
27	Karga	Holt	448,000	Table 53	Seat 7
28	Scott	Epstein	447,000	Table 61	Seat 5
29	Steve	Billirakis	432,000	Table 52	Seat 6
30	Matthew	Vengrin	423,000	Table 55	Seat 5
31	Eric	Kesselman	364,000	Table 54	Seat 4
32	Kenny	Tran	362,000	Table 62	Seat 8
33	David	Grey	354,000	Table 62	Seat 1
34	Thomas	McCormick	341,000	Table 54	Seat 2
35	Matthew	Giannetti	326,000	Table 53	Seat 4
36	T J	Cloutier	321,000	Table 52	Seat 5
37	JC	Tran	303,000	Table 61	Seat 8
38	Gary	Gibbs	296,000	Table 60	Seat 8
39	Noah	Schwartz	270,000	Table 52	Seat 1
40	David	Kim	256,000	Table 55	Seat 3
41	Carlos	Mortensen	256,000	Table 53	Seat 5
42	Abdo	Lattouf	246,000	Table 55	Seat 8
43	Keith	Gipson	230,000	Table 62	Seat 3
44	Jeff	King	226,000	Table 55	Seat 2
45	Mats	Rahmn	220,000	Table 61	Seat 1
46	Danny	Wong	218,000	Table 55	Seat 6
47	John	Kincaid	214,000	Table 53	Seat 6
48	Isabel	Mercier	207,000	Table 54	Seat 6
49	John	Roveto	181,000	Table 61	Seat 6
50	Jayde	Tran	179,000	Table 52	Seat 4
51	Joe	Sebok	139,000	Table 62	Seat 2
52	Brian	Rast	114,000	Table 60	Seat 3
53	Thomas	Schneider	92,000	Table 54	Seat 7
54	Tim	Phan	69,000	Table 61	Seat 7
55	Zvi	Shiff	22,000	Table 52	Seat 2