Ankush Mandavia Leads After Day 3 In 2017 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $5K Main Event

Day 3 of the 2017 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian $5,000 buy-in no-limit main event saw a field of 95 to start play dwindle to 34 by night’s end on Thursday, with some notable poker pros still in contention for the $655,847 top prize.

The money bubble burst on day 3, with the final 72 players earning at least a couple of buy-ins back. A min-cash was worth $10,557. The event drew a massive field of 688 entries, building a $3,199,200 prize pool that blew away the $2,000,000 guarantee.

The chip leader going into the final scheduled day (the event might be extended to Saturday if necessary) is Ankush Mandavia (pictured), a poker pro from Atlanta with $4.2 million in lifetime tournament earnings. Mandavia has 1.245 million.

He won a huge, knockout pot on the money bubble to reach the top of the chip counts. Perhaps due to some history at the table, he was able to pick off a massive bluff by Eyal Al Revah thanks to flopping a set. Unfortunately for Al Revah, this time he only had second worst pair on board and no draw, so he was drawing dead on the river against Mandavia. Mandavia was up to 1.18 million and basically maintained that stack for the rest of the night.

Other big names with stacks include Matt Giannetti (407,000), David Sands (407,000), Martin Jacobson (386,000) and Paul Volpe (150,000).

Some of the players eliminated on day 3 include Jesse Sylvia (35th), Kristen Bicknell (36th), Eric Blair (37th), Eugene Katchalov (38th), James Obst (45th), Jared Hamby (50th), Layne Flack (56th), Shannon Shorr (58th), Cate Hall (70th) and Eric Baldwin (71st).

The final six players will all earn at least a six-figure sum. The event began on July 17 and was scheduled to run until July 21 at the Venetian Poker Room located on the Las Vegas Strip.

Card Player will be providing live updates of the tournament starting at noon local time.

Here’s a look at the chip counts from the remaining 15 players.

They will be playing 5,000-10,000 with a 1,000-chip ante.

RankPlayer NameChip Count
1Ankush Mandavia1,245,000
2Tsang Yan Shing1,154,000
3Samuel Bernabeau1,075,000
4Vladimir Dobrovolskii991,000
5Dan DiZenzo950,000
6Tamer Kamel939,000
7Felix Schulze842,000
8Dimitar Danchev793,000
9Dylan Linde637,000
10Renick Patterson535,000
11DNR518,000
12Ravi Raghavan462,000
13Kurt Fitzgerald455,000
14Chino Rheem451,000
15Sergio Aido443,000

Source: http://www.cardplayer.com/

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