Only three tables left in WPT Legends of Poke

A long list of famous pros have been knocked on day three of the WPT Legends of Poker and we're now down to the final three tables.

When day three started 79 players returned to the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. After ten hours of play a long list of players had been knocked out - Gabe Caplan, Kathy Liebert, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, Erik Siedel, Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu, to name a few. Ali Eslami, who was the chip leader after day 1B finished on the bubble (37th place).  

The chip leader going in to day four with 956,000 in chips is Paul Smith. He won a large part of his stack in a huge pot after his pocket kings cracked Justin Scott's pocket aces. Amit Makhija is in second place after he doubled up right at the end of the day with a straight against a two pair. Layne Flack had a tough day but managed to finish third.

The achievement of the day was made by Trong Nguyen who started the day dead last with 16,250 in chips but managed to build his stack up to 457,000 chips! Here are the standings going in to day four:

1. Paul Smith 946,000
2. Amit Makhija 842,000
3. Layne Flack 807,000
4. Lee Markholt 779,000
5. Matt Keikoan 744,000
6. Ron Jenkins 740,000
7. Kyle Wilson 619,000
8. Denny Lee 481,000
9. Takishi Shiono 461,000
10. Trong Nguyen 457,000
11. Allen Cunningham 420,000
12. Kirk Conrad 416,000
13. Zachary Clark 388,000
14. Jinyun 'Kent' Lin 363,000
15. Marco Johnson 310,000
16. Philip Stark 307,000
17. Tan Le 294,000
18. John Phan 244,000
19. Rodeen Talebi 230,000
20. Samuel Ngai 220,000
21. Gary Najaryan 211,000
22. Jim Hof 201,000
23. Adam Weinraub 181,000
24. Sirous Baghchehsaraie176,000
25. Ben Fineman 159,000
26. Maria Ho 158,000
27. Raymond Voskanian16,000