Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship
Day 3 completed
Every Day 3 Has a Silver Lining: Max Silver Leads The WSOPE Main Event
Level 19: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante
There was a great atmosphere inside the Hotel Majestic Barriere today. Maybe it was the sunshine? Maybe it was the fact that 64 souls were going to earn some money? Whatever it was it moved around the air flicked in and out of the cards and created some amazing action, fantastic face-offs and superb suck-outs. It was, of course, day three of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €10,400 Main Event Championship.
In Sep 2010, Max Silver got himself noticed on the European poker scene after winning the UKIPT in Dublin and then winning a side event at EPT London. Fast forward 12 months and Silver had not cashed in one single live event, but as he rolled into his favourite month it all began to change. He finished 28th at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, 4th at UKIPT Dublin (again) and then 4th in the WSOPE Event #4 €3,200 Shootout a few days ago. To top off a fantastic few months, he has finished as our day three chip leader with 1,780,000 chips. Silver's magic moment came in a flush-versus-flush encounter with fellow countryman Mathew Frankland. After that moment Silver just went from strength to strength.
Just behind Max Silver is Chris Moorman. Moorman spray-painted his name all over the poker world when he received notoriety for his performances in cyber space. But just recently Moorman has been showing the world that he also knows the way into a live card room, and boy when that lad turns up, can he play! In January Moorman finished in 7th place at the Aussie Millions Main Event before having a crazy summer in Vegas, winning over $1 million at the WSOP. The last time he cashed in a live event on European soil was at the WSOPE in 2010 and he has just done it again, only this time he might just go all of the way. Moorman's vital moment came after a monumental bubble hand against Constant Rijkenberg. Then after being moved to the final table he ran amok eliminating Hoyt Corkins, Freddy Deeb, Carbone Damiano and Melanie Weisner. Moorman finally bagged up 1,769,000 chips to take second place just a hair's breadth from Silver.
Day 3 was also the day that we breached the money bubble, and the unfortunate player was none other than Barry Greenstein. Just before his exit Greenstein told the table that his girlfriend had predicted that he would be the bubble boy. How unfortunate that she should be proved so right – Brian Roberts the recipient of a brand new signed copy of Ace on the River.
23-players will return, at 14.00 (CET) Wednesday, as the WSOPE main event launches into day four. Other notables to make the cut include Shawn Buchanan (1,267,000), Patrik Antonius (696,000), Jake Cody (522,000), John Duthie (314,000), Erik Seidel (242,000) and father and son Tony G (226,000) and John Eames (210,000).
Chip counts
Max Silver 1,780,000
Chris Moorman 1,769,000
Amir Lehavot 1,398,000
Shawn Buchanan 1,267,000
Dermot Blain 1,200,000
Jeremy Kottler 943,000
Brian Roberts 901,000
Elio Fox 889,000
Andrew Moseley 863,000
Giuseppe Sammartino 838,000
Steven Moreau 709,000
Patrik Antonius 696,000
Alexander Dovzhenko 627,000
Moritz Kranich 571,000
Thibaud Guenegou 546,000
Jake Cody 522,000
Ricardo Tavares 462,000
James Schafer 332,000
John Duthie 314,000
Erik Seidel 242,000
Michael Drummond 230,000
Tony G 226,000
John Eames 210,000
Arnaud Mattern 171,000
Philippe Ktorza 133,000
cashers so far
1 1,400,000
2 800,000
3 550,000
4 400,000
5 275,000
6 200,000
7 150,000
8 115,000
9 90,000
10 90,000
11 67,500
12 67,500
13 53,000
14 53,000
15 43,000
16 43,000
17 37,000
18 37,000
19 37,000
20 37,000
21 37,000
22 37,000
23 37,000
24 37,000
25 32,000
26 Pavel Ivan 32,000
27 Maria Ho 32,000
28 Chris McClung 32,000
29 Eduard Kapitonov 32,000
30 Matt Waxman 32,000
31 Casey Kastle 32,000
32 Artem Litvinov 32,000
33 Melanie Weisner 27,500
34 Megrous Kidhir 27,500
35 Rifat Palevic 27,500
36 Liv Boeree 27,500
37 Tom Bedell 27,500
38 Carbone Damiano 27,500
39 Freddy Deeb 27,500
40 Ilan Boujenah 27,500
41 McLean Karr 24,000
42 Hoyt Corkins 24,000
43 Sean Getzwiller 24,000
44 Giacomo Maisto 24,000
45 Rebecca Mordoff 24,000
46 Michael Leah 24,000
47 Anatolii Ozhenilok 24,000
48 Joao Barbosa 24,000
49 Constant Rijkenberg 21,475
50 Mathieu Pourrat 21,475
51 Barny Boatman 21,475
52 Stephen Chidwick 21,475
53 Robert Giordano 21,475
54 Leo Boxell 21,475
55 Kunimaro Kojo 21,475
56 Pierre Yves Ayme 21,475
57 Salman Behbehani 20,000
58 Hans Winzeler 20,000
59 Victor Ramdin 20,000
60 JC Alvarado 20,000
61 Carlo Savinelli 20,000
62 David Zampini 20,000
63 Parham Ahoor 20,000
64 Pierre Neuville 20,000