The March to the Final Table Begins on Day 3
Welcome back to the Full Tilt Poker UKIPT Galway Main Event. What started with 860 players is now down to 51, each looking to survive today and earn a coveted spot at the final table. The man best positioned to make it is our chip leader, Tim Michels, a German who qualified for this tournament through PokerStars. His stack of 835,000 is best, though it's barely ahead of Andrew Dwyer (813,000) and Dino Sabatini (755,000).
Those three men are the big stacks with the next closest competitor, Tony Martin, sitting with a more modest 583,000. Others still in contention are Jonathan Slater (578,000), Daniel Wilson (533,000), Barry Donovan (520,000), Jack Salter (520,000), Raul Paez (514,000), Max Silver (435,000), Ido Aboudi (415,000), Padraig Parkinson (397,000), Daniel Tighe (359,000), Simon Brooks (321,000) and Richard Owens (321,000).
Day 3 will kick off at Noon local time, which is less than an hour from now. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be there to bring you all the action, so stay tuned. Until then, check out the following video on an embarrassing controversy that happened midway through Day 2.