Day 3 - WSOP Main Event - Mid-Day Report

At 4pm PDT there are 907 players left - or 32 still will end up out of the money - cash bubble is 873.

PokerStars.com qualifier, Dmitri Nobles is still chip leader with $555K; Jason Strasser si 2nd with $451K.

Disappointing eliminations of the day so far include: Layne Flack, Carlos Mortensen, Phil Ivey, David Grey and Josh Ariel.

Top 50 chip leaders include: John Gale - $309K, Daniel Negreanu - $295K, Humberto Brenes - $256K (who gave Spanish lessons earlier today), Allen Cunningham - $247K.

Josephe Hachem is 54th with $157K; Cyndy Violette is 78th with $91K; Hoyt Corkins is 82nd with $87K; Annie Duke is still in the hunt at 84th with $81K ; Tom McEvoy is 92nd with $70K; Kathy Liebert has $57K;David Pham has $53,500 and Susie Isaacs has $46,500.

Short Stacked are : Freddy Deeb - $10K, Mark Vos - $36K, Chris Ferguson - $39K.

There aren't too many pros left to bring it home...

Play will continue until there are 600 players remaining.

We're off to a birthday party for my Brother-in-Law, Mike, who staked me in the PokerStars 150 guaranteed seats to the WSOP Main Event. Thanks and Happy Birthday!!