Day 3 of the $3,000 + $300 WPT Main Event here at Playground Poker Club has mercifully come to a close.

After almost fourteen hours of gruelling play, the dust finally settled and we closed out the evening with ten total players still alive and kicking. Each of them will be surely be laser-targeted on the huge half-million-dollar payout going to the winner tomorrow.

In the last few hands, we lost our 11th place finisher, Mr. Louis Salter. He left earlier than he would have liked to, but still comes away with solid $43,000 for his trouble. Well done! As for the finalists, in the end it was Joseph Cheong that took the chip lead away from Adedapo Ajayi, bagging himself 9, 185,000, just under a million more than Adedapo. All of our final ten players and their chip stacks are listed below.

As for now, it’s time to get to bed. All the finalists will need to be rested in order to make the final push, and play will begin in just about ten hours. The group will be getting started at noon and will play down to six, at which point that final group will gather (and play) at the WPT Featured Table.

The Featured Table is equipped with multiple cameras and will be manned by an expert WPT crew. And as it was last year, the final table will be broadcasted on the WPT’s Youtube channel with only a 30-minute delay, so be sure to tune in if you want to watch the action but can’t make it down to Playground to see it in person.

Once again, congratulations to everyone on an excellent day of poker, and good luck tomorrow!