WPT Seminole Main Event - Levy leads final 18, Ebanks, Heimiller, Charania and Heimiller still in

92 players started Day 3 of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event, the chip leader was Raj Vohra with 1.675 million chips. The field was filled with huge names including Faraz Jaka, Marvin Rettenmaier, Brian Hastings, Noah Schwarz and WPT commentator Vince Van Patten, just to name a few. By the end of the day there were 18 players left, the chip leader is Ely Levy, but David Peters, Joe Ebanks, Mohsin Charania and Dan Heimiller are still in the hunt for the $1 million first place prize.

The first player to bust was Evan Panesis, he was soon followed by PCA High Roller champion Jake Schindler, Anthony "holdplz" Spinella, Marvin Rettenmaier, Kevin "1$ickDisea$E" Eyster, Noah Schwartz, Brian Hastings, Faraz Jaka, Jared Jaffee, Vince Van Patten and Ravi Raghavan, amongst others.

The final player to bust was Steven McKoy, the American player raised from early position to 110,000 (25k/50k-5k ante blind level), Cornel Cimpan shoved for 330,000 and Vladimir Dobrovolskiy re-shoved from the button and McKoy called all-in for 1.1 million.

McKoy had A-K, Cimpan showed J-J and Dobrovolskiy showed T-T, and the Q-8-2-5-6 meant the elimination of McKoy, while Cimpan tripled up.

18 players will return for Day 4, the chip leader is Ely Levy with 6.285 million chips, the plan for Day 4 is to play down to the 6-handed final table.

Chipcount:

Ely Levy - 6.285.000

Griffin Paul - 6.055.000
Shawn Nguyen - 4.190.000
Ryan Rivers - 3.175.000
David Peters - 3.110.000
Sean Syed Shah - 3.065.000
Joe Ebanks - 2.690.000
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy - 2.650.000
Andre Crooks - 2.105.000
Brian Green - 1.750.000
John Thrower - 1.715.000
Mohsin Charania - 1.435.000
Gilbert Barrett - 1.375.000
Harvey Vandeven - 1.355.000
Cornel Cimpan - 1.100.000
Travis Northrope - 640.000
Dan Heimiller - 500.000
Lenny Duvdivani - 310.000

Payouts:

1. $1.000.000

2. $615.000
3. $383.000
4. $323.500
5. $269.000
6. $217.500
7. $168.550
8. $123.000
9. $88.500
10-12. $58.500
13-15. $39.000
16-18. $26.500
19-27. $22.100
28-36. $18.600
37-45. $15.900
46-54. $13.750
55-63. $12.000
64-72. $10.250
73-81. $9.300
82-90. $8.650
91-100. $8.000
101-110. $7.700
111-120. $7.500
121-130. $7.300
131-140. $7.100
141-150. $6.900