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2008 WSOP Day 42: Main Event Day 3 Recap - Bubbles

By Pauly
Las Vegas, NV

An assortment of 1,307 people from all different areas of life... online pros, Vegas pros, amateurs, semi-pros, guys who are muppets who think they are pros, and straight up dream chasers... each walked into the Amazon Room with one thing on their minds... survive Day 3 and advance to Day 4.

The simple goal? Be among the 666 players who cashed in the 2008 WSOP Main Event. Once you sign your slip at the end of Day 2 and bag up your chips, all you can think about is making it to the end of Day 3 to almost guarantee a $21K cash. And for online qualifiers or satellite winners, the rest of the WSOP is a freeroll. Almost all of their earnings are pure profit.

Making Day 4 of the WSOP for pros means that they have a chance to get unstuck for the WSOP and for the year. Plus if they had a good summer already, it's a chance to pad their tournament earnings for the year.

Iggy was among the 666 players who cashed in the 2008 Main Event. That's an impressive feat. It was back in 2006 when two buddies of mine went deep, Ryan and Stormy. Of course Ryan got some TV time when he busted Jesus, albeit for like forty-six seconds. The ESPN cameras were all around Iggy's table over the last two nights. There's a good chance his image might have been captured for the ages. One night many years int he future, Iggy will be sitting at the end of an old man's bar, look up at ESPNClassic and see episodes of the 2008 WSOP. There's Iggy, bullying a lesbian.

The big story on Day 3 were the million dollar stacks that emerged. Jeremiah Smith was the first player to pass the 1 million mark. Jeremiah is a great guy that everyone in the media has been pulling for because essentially, he started out as one of us. He parlayed an internship at Full Tilt into a career in poker. He's traveled the world covering tournaments for Poker Wire and then worked with Full Tilt in other writerly capacities. Working for Full Tilt has its perks, such as getting to pick Howard Lederer and Allen Cunningham's brains on tournament poker.

Whatever Jeremiah has been doing... it's been working. Although he didn't end the day as the chipleader, he still managed to end Day 3 in the lead pack. Jeremy Joseph (uh oh, I was always told that you can't trust a guy with two first names, especially in poker) ended Day 3 as the chipleader while Owen Crowe, Alexander Kostritsyn, and Dag Martin Mikkelsen. Yep the young Ruskie who won Aussie Millions and Dag Martin Scandi are among the chipeaders.

Also advancing to Day 4? Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, and Mike Matusow. Two world champions and The Mouth. I guess the big story on Day 4 will be surrounding which pros makes a run and goes deep. Will Matusow implode? Will Hellmuth blow up? Can Johnny Chan ride the high from his energy drinks all the way to the final table?

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Episode 21: Poker for Africa
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Ah, here's who cashed on Day 3:

475-482 ? Unknown at press time

483 Rolf Slotboom $25,090
484 Edmund Chan $25,090
485 Daniel Barlin $25,090
486 Jeffrey Palarino $25,090
487 Jeffrey Norman $25,090
488 Judith Raney $25,090
489 Edmond Mekertichian $25,090
490 Gary Herstein $25,090
491 Andreas Jorbeck $25,090
492 Ruben Juarez $25,090
493 Beisheng Chen $25,090
494 Albert Riccobono $25,090
495 Daryn Firicano $25,090
496 Gerald Macleod $25,090
497 Sean Fennessey $25,090
498 Howard German $25,090
499 Christophe Gross $25,090
500 James Peera $25,090
501 Lei Cai $25,090
502 Ronald Jenkins $25,090
503 Francesco De Vivo $25,090
504 David Silk $25,090
505 ??????????? $25,090
506 Bryan Bevis $25,090
507 James Grimes $25,090
508 James Maltz $25,090
509 Luke Vrabel $25,090
510 David Stucke $25,090
511 Robert Jarman $25,090
512 Michael Vonada $25,090
513 David Gee $25,090
514 George Wedemeyer $25,090
515 Todd Pierce $25,090
516 James Eccles $25,090
517 Chris Grigorian $25,090
518 Chau Giang $25,090
519 Douglas William Smith $25,090
520 Hamid Jahangard $25,090
521 Serj Markarian $25,090
522 Derel Asher $25,090
523 David Sacks $25,090
524 Michael Perez $25,090
525 Brian Montag $25,090
526 Bob Slezak $25,090
527 Vimy Ha $25,090
528 Wendell Olsen $25,090
529 Vlad Teposu $25,090
530 Wooka Kim $25,090
531 Gjorgji Chuchuk $25,090
532 Jason Kang $25,090
533 Rory Chinn $25,090
534 Dan Glimne $25,090
535 Robert Kovar $25,090
536 Farzad Rouhani $25,090
537 Janne Runtti $25,090
538 John Strzemp $25,090
539 Mark Tenner $25,090
540 Matthew Mezvinsky $25,090

541 Stephen Landrum $23,160
542 Rene Refsgaard $23,160
543 Eugene Neto $23,160
544 Soren Jensen $23,160
545 Michael Johnson $23,160
546 Jesse Kremer $23,160
547 Soren Knudson $23,160
548 Michael Offerman $23,160
549 Valdemar Kwaysser $23,160
550 Jason Ashley $23,160
551 Andreas Torbergsen $23,160
552 Stephen Austin $23,160
553 Henning Granstad $23,160
554 Ernesto Margolis $23,160
555 Adam Grovenstein $23,160
556 Zelong Dong $23,160
557 John Kapovich $23,160
558 Alex Smith $23,160
559 Henrik Thuesen $23,160
560 Gary Hamilton $23,160
561 Paul Coles $23,160
562 Si Vo $23,160
563 Jody Garaventa $23,160
564 James Lowe $23,160
565 Michael Grabmugg $23,160
566 Robert Crawford $23,160
567 Yonghui Jiang $23,160
568 Rickey Welch $23,160
569 Karen Mengden $23,160
570 Kermit Mallette $23,160
571 Brian Brubaker $23,160
572 Michael Frandsen $23,160
573 Steven Levy $23,160
574 Va shon Watkins $23,160
575 Jason Nadeau $23,160
576 Jerome Mercado $23,160
577 Martyn Sands $23,160
578 Brett Houghton $23,160
579 David Rosenbloom $23,160
580 Thomas Culberson $23,160
581 Justin Truesdell $23,160
582 Pierre Marceau $23,160
583 Robert Anderson $23,160
584 Jeremy Symington $23,160
585 Jan Heitmann $23,160
586 Nathan Doudney $23,160
587 Izakron Young $23,160
588 Olivier Decamps $23,160
589 Bijan Shahbaz $23,160
590 Jesper Anderberg $23,160
591 Brandon Foster $23,160
592 Brett Richey $23,160
593 Rubens Bicalho $23,160
594 Daniel Marchand $23,160
595 Age Spets $23,160
596 Raymond Yee $23,160
597 Matthew Kennedy $23,160
598 Rasmus Vogt $23,160
599 Wilbur Futhey $23,160
600 Thor Hansen $23,160
601 Benjamin Zamani $23,160
602 Magnus Persson $23,160
603 Johan Slutter $23,160

604 Sharon Levin $21,230
605 Darren Nelson $21,230
606 Ryan Monastyrski $21,230
607 Matthew Bucaric $21,230
608 Weiwan Liang $21,230
609 Emad Tahtouh $21,230
610 Berk Aydin $21,230
611 Jeffrey Hakim $21,230
612 Alioscia Oliva $21,230
613 Jonathan Lane $21,230
614 Cuong Nguyen $21,230
615 Milan Andrejkovics $21,230
616 Bill Gazes $21,230
617 Francis Rusnak $21,230
618 Brandon Adams $21,230
619 John Henck $21,230
620 Allen Bari $21,230
621 Jose Roberto $21,230
622 Senovio Ramirez $21,230
623 Nadav Benjosef $21,230
624 Adam Richardson $21,230
625 Vanessa Rousso $21,230
626 Ryan Jones $21,230
627 Les Jesudason $21,230
628 Wolbert Bartlema $21,230
629 Todd Jatras $21,230
630 Mats Clavell $21,230
631 Julian Meer $21,230
632 Nicholas Goodall $21,230
633 Nathaniel Eaton $21,230
634 David Trinh $21,230
635 Jason Gray $21,230
636 Brian Pinkus $21,230
637 Michel Leibgorin $21,230
638 Shan Jing $21,230
639 Michael Berra $21,230
640 Patri Forwalterfriedman $21,230
641 Douglas Janney $21,230
642 Claudio Rinaldi $21,230
643 Messaoud Bouchaib $21,230
644 Walter Bizarro $21,230
645 Patrick Pezzin $21,230
646 Kenneth McKusick $21,230
647 Rui Cao $21,230
648 Juan Hernandez $21,230
649 Bryan Tiffin $21,230
650 Carl Restifo $21,230
651 Men the Master $21,230
652 Pascal Guerillot $21,230
653 Matthew Clark $21,230
654 Tam Gourlay $21,230
655 Roy Vandersluis $21,230
656 Fernando Gordo $21,230
657 Sasa Stancic $21,230
658 David Gallis $21,230
659 Robert Parkin $21,230
660 Robert Melnyk $21,230
661 Lorenz Roder $21,230
662 Dale Sing $21,230
663 Tommy Brown $21,230
664 Herik Abrahamsson $21,230
665 Justin Phillips $21,230
666 Joe Conti $21,230

Congrats again to Iggy. Well done, sir! Day 4 starts at 1pm on Friday.


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