A total of 62 players returned to the Las Vegas strip for day 3 of the cardboard Player Poker Tour Venetian main event. The players within the $5,000 buy-in event started the day just eight spots from the money, which was reached in only two and a half hours.

Even though there have been six players sitting with 25 big blinds or less, the bubble boy came from some of the average stacks within the room when Kyle Bowker called off his chips with top pair against the ground set of Brendon Rubie.

With Bowker at the rail, the rest 54 players were all within the money and warranted a minimum of $11,237. Notables who cashed within the tournament included Ben Palmer (53rd), Kathy Liebert (52nd), Tom Kearney (49th), Jason Wheeler (48th), Joe Elpayaa (47th), Lily Kiletto (43rd), Jeff Madsen (40th), Joey Weissman (39th), Eddy Sabat (36th), Hiren Patel (34th), Chris Oliver (25th) and Chance Kornuth (22nd).

See the entire list of results to this point by clicking here.

There are 16 players remaining within the event, with Thomas Paul (pictured above) leading the way in which. Other recognizable faces still within the hunt include Jon Turner (pictured right), Jeremy Ausmus, Dan Heimiller, Dan Sindelar, Adrian Mateos Diaz, Tim Reilly and Erick Lindgren.

This tournament has truly lived as much as it’s name. The typical stack with 16 players left is 838,063, that is worth a whopping 52 big blinds going into day 4.

Here is a glance on the overnight chip counts.

Rank	Player	Chip Count
1	Thomas Paul	2,850,000
2	Jon Turner	2,177,000
3	Matt Parry	1,445,000
4	Pavel Veksler	1,087,000
5	Artur Koren	959,000
6	Alessandro Meoni	900,000
7	Erick Lindgren	720,000
8	Jeremy Ausmus	703,000
9	Ilan Boujenah	611,000
10	Artem Metalidi	540,000
11	Tim Reilly	420,000
12	Dan Heimiller	335,000
13	Jack Duong	290,000
14	Dan Sindelar	256,000
15	Davis Aalvik	250,000
16	Adrian Mateos	245,000

For additional info in regards to the CPPT, visit the tour’s homepage.

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