61 Players Return for Day 3 of the €1,100 FPS Paris Main Event
Day 3 of the €1,100 France Poker Series Main Event at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Paris inside the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile kicks off today at noon local time with just 61 players remaining of the record-breaking 2,071 that bought in.
Leading the way among those fighting for the lion's share of the €1,988,160 prize pool is Ai Gou Xu, who comes back with 3,745,000 chips. Closest to Xu is Ukraine's Vasyl Zabrodskyy with 2,540,000 chips. Day 1c chipleader Loic Vaux is also among the top 10 stacks at the start of today.
€1,100 FPS Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts Start of Day 3
| NAME | COUNTRY | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | |
| Ai Guo Xu | China | 3,745,000 | 125 | |
| Vasyl Zabrodskyy | Ukraine | 2,540,000 | 85 | |
| Alan Goasdoue | France | 2,540,000 | 85 | |
| Mario Re | Italy | 2,330,000 | 78 | |
| Thibault Reverdito | France | 2,185,000 | 73 | |
| Loic Vaux | France | 1,980,000 | 66 | |
| Didier Mambour | France | 1,830,000 | 61 | |
| Christopher Dowling | Ireland | 1,780,000 | 59 | |
| Oleksii Natoptanyi | Ukraine | 1,740,000 | 58 | |
| Romain Morvan | France | 1,705,000 | 57 |
Also still in contention for the top prize of €287,830 are Julien Sitbon (1,275,000), Kenny Hallaert (910,000), as well as Jean Labryga (720,000), who started Day 2 as chipleader. They, as well as the rest of the field, are all guaranteed to take €4,570 home for their efforts so far.
The remaining players will come back in Level 24: 15,000/30,000 with a big blind ante of 30,000. Levels will be 60 minutes long, and the field will play down to the final table. PokerNews will be on-site to report all the action today in the FPS Main Event, as well as other events of EPT Paris, so be sure to check out the live reporting hub to not miss out on anything.
and Morvan checked back. Bednar then led all in for around 130,000 on the 
turn and Morvan quickly called.
on the river gave Morvan a flush.
and Sitbon checked back. Vieira checked again on the 
river and Sitbon eyed him down before constructing a tower of chips for a big overbet of 435,000. Vieira thought for about a minute and folded.
, and Frezza was eliminated from the tournament. Meanwhile, Santoni is having a great start and has added almost two million chips to his stack in the first level of the day.
and Zabrodskyy bet 40,000. De Jong called. De Jong checked again on the 
turn and Zabrodskyy checked back.
river and Zabrodskyy raised to 300,000. De Jong called. Zabrodskyy showed 
for an ace-high flush and De Jong mucked as he showed the 
for a pair of ten-high straights and the pot was shared. 
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and Decauche called after the floor instructed that he had five seconds to act on his hand. 
to mark his elimination.