Day 3 is History
Stefan Huber began the day as the chip leader. He was the only player over a million in chips when the day started and did well throughout the day to maintain one of the top chip stacks among the remaining competitors. Huber may have even more chips if it wasn't for a dealer mistake that caused a chopped pot between him and Nico Behling.
Theo Jorgensen started off the day with 343,000 chips. At the end of the day, he bagged up over seven times that amount at 2.408 million. Jorgensen stayed aggressive all day and ate up the competition at his tables. Some well-timed maneuvers followed by big hands propelled his chip stack up and up and up as the day moved on. He finished towards the top of the list.
The one man everyone will be looking to catch though on Day 4 is American Kevin "ImaLuckSac" Macphee. On one of the last hands of the night, Macphee was able to send Christophe Gross to the rail after he won a flip with big slick versus pocket tens. That pot gave him the chip lead and he bagged up over 2.5 million chips. Macphee has over $250,000 in lifetime tournament earnings and a few EPT cashes to his name. This will be one of his best finishes on the Europeand circuit and he'll be looking to make it one for the ages.
Team PokerStars Pro hasn't completely lost out yet. Their hopes ride with Jude Ainsworth and Johannes Strassmann. Ainsworth has only one EPT cash coming in Vilamoura while Strassmann has several, including two final tables. Not only will these two be doing it for the host site, but Strassmann is also representing his home country of Germany.
Play will resume tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. CET. Out of the 24 players that will return, 16 of them must go before the official final table is set. Once we're down to eight, they will return on Sunday to finish things off. We'll see you tomorrow right here on PokerNews as we bring you all the action from the floor!
For now, turn your attention to our coverage of the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas.