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After three days of play at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles players are in the money at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker championship event and Paul Smith leads the way with nearly one million chips.
Smith will start Day 4 at 946,000, just over 100,000 ahead of Amit Makhija who has 842,000. A total of 52 players were eliminated from the 79 that started the day. The final three tables will begin play Wednesday at 2 pm PT.
Mark Seif, who started the day in the top 10, busted out in 38th place, just shy of the money which started with the 36th place finisher. Other notable players eliminated before the bubble burst include David Chiu, Erick Lindgren and Tuan Le, Erik Seidel and Barry Greenstein.
The player busting on the bubble was Ali Eslami, who lead the tournament after the completion of both Day 1’s. Following Eslami’s elimination in 37th place nine players busted out in the money before play ended for the night. Van Nguyen, who won the WPT Invitational last February, Max Pescatori and recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner Matt Graham were all sent to the rail before night’s end. Each player earned $14,085.
But Smith and Makhija have some top players just behind them. Layne Flack, who’s recently taken some criticism in the poker community for his behavior at the recently broadcast $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table, sits in third with 807,000 and Lee Markholt is in fourth with 779,000.
1. Paul Smith – 946,000
2. Amit Makhija – 842,000
3. Layne Flack – 807,000
4. Lee Markholt – 779,000
5. Matt Keikoan – 744,000
6. Ron Jenkins – 740,000
7. Kyle Wilson – 619,000
8. Denny Lee – 481,000
9. Takashi Shiono – 461,000
10. Trong Nguyen – 457,000
Play resumes at 2 pm PT and will continue until the final six players remain for the TV final table, which is to be taped Thursday evening.
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