WPT World Championship - 23 left, Keven Stammen looking to defend his title

The field dwindled down to 23 players at the WPT World Championship, the chip leader is Asher Conniff and there are several big names still left in the field, including Jake Schindler, Carlos Mortensen, Tony "Bond18" Dunst and last year's champion, Keven Stammen, who is in a great position to defend his title after finishing the day third in chips.

68 players returned for Day 3 of the $15,400 buy-in WPT World Championship Main Event, the chip leader was Michael Rocco, but WPT champion Jonathan Jaffee, Jake Schindler and Keven Stammen were also in the top 10, the plan for the day was to play down to the 27 paying spots.

Corey Hochman, who finished third at the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic in February, eventually became the bubble boy after losing a big pot to 3-time WSOP braclet winner Brock Parker.

Hochman 3bet to 44,000 from the button after Brock Parker opened to 22,000 from the cutoff (Level 18, 5k/10k-1k ante). Parker shoved for 320,000 and Hochman called with J-J. Parker had A-K and improved to top pair on the K-T-T-3-9 board.

After this, Joey Weissman was eliminated in 27th place and was soon followed by Anthony Moses, Kyle Bowker and Jess Yawitz.

The biggest stack at the end of the day was Asher Conniff with 1.275 million chips, Ray Qartomy finished in second with 1.176 million chips and Keven Stammen manage to build a stack of 915.000 which is good for third place.

Brock Parker, Alexander Lakhov, Jake Schindler, Carlos Mortensen, Tony Dunst and Michael Rocco are still in the field, so Day 4 should bring plenty of excitement.

Chipcount:

Asher Conniff - 1.275.000

Ray Qartomy - 1.176.000
Keven Stammen - 915.000
Alexander Lakhov - 884.000
Brock Parker - 865.000
Jake Schindler - 792.000
Michael Lavoie - 789.000
David Tuthill - 625.000
Brian Yoon - 603.000
Matt Berkey - 489.000
Carlos Mortensen - 459.000
Ian O'Hara - 401.000
Zo Karim - 386.000
Simon Lam - 376.000
Abe Aboukhalil - 348.000
Hans Winzeler - 338.000
Tony Dunst - 257.000
Oleg Shnaider - 227.000
Nathan Bjerno - 169.000
Michael Rocco - 161.000
Dean Baranowski - 155.000
Sungwon Lee - 142.000
Sang Kim - 111.000

Payouts:

1. $973.683

2. $573.779
3. $330.358
4. $267.764
5. $208.647
6. $173.873
7. $139.098
8. $104.324
9. $69.549
10-12. $45.207
13-15. $38.252
16-18. $34.775
19-27. $31.297