Team Everest's Valentin Messina Starts Day 3 of the 3LT Grand Finale as Chipleader

15h30 - Start of Level 17

We are starting Level 17 of the 3LT final with 26 players left in the tournament. Blinds are currently at 3000 - 6000 with a 500 ante. Team Everest player, Valentin Messina has maintained his chip lead with 350,000 chips as we approach the bubble.

Other Chipcounts from the field:

Michaela Lerch - 160K
*Everest Poker Qualifier

Tobias von Siebenthal - 220K
*3LT Baden Winner

Peter Jensen - 95K
*Everest Poker Qualifier

Rolf Slotboom - 49K

Kenny Hallaert - 119K

Start of Day 3

At the end of day 2 there are only 37 players left in the tournament. Our Team Everest player Valentin Valvegas Messina is the chipleader with 377,000. Second is Waldemar Kopyl from Hamburg with 359,500 in chips. Our last woman standing is Everest Poker online qualifier Michaela Lerch aka "aleachim" from Germany, with 155,500 chips.

Yesterday, many well-known players were eliminated such as our Everest Poker players Cristiano Blanco, Tobias Wagner, Leo Truche and Steven van Zadelhoff. Unfortunately, also German soccer star Sergej Barbarez had to go. Shortly before the end of the day we also lost Christian Oswald, the 3LT Warnemuende runner-up.

Day 3 is about to start any minute and today we will play until we have the 9-handed final table for tomorrow's last day. The 3LT Grand Finale Champion will take home EUR 132,680.

Follow tomorrow's Final Table via live stream starting at 14:00 (CET) either here on our blog or on www.3LTour.com

Place	Last Name	First Name	Chipcount	Tbl/Seat
1	Messina	Valentin	377.000	37/6
2	Kopyl	Waldemar	359.500	34/9
3	Joksic	Milan	279.500	34/7
4	Van Wieringen	Pim	270.500	39/2
5	Lüth	Peyman	238.100	37/1
6	Homann	Sebastian	237.500	39/4
7	Hallaert	Kenny	228.500	39/7
8	Kogovsek	Tomaz	225.500	33/2
9	Debus	Alexander	224.500	34/5
10	Fischer	Ludovit	199.000	34/6
11	Csango	Michael	177.500	39/8
12	Sanejstra	Joachim	167.500	38/2
13	Lerch	Michaela	155.500	38/5
14	von Siebenthal	Tobias	140.000	33/8
15	De Boer	Rultger	137.000	39/1
16	Braculj	Marko	131.500	37/2
17	Springael	Joris	126.500	37/7
18	Jokic	Stjepan	124.500	39/6
19	Huber	Michael	113.000	37/9
20	Bielik	Michael	110.000	33/5
21	Meijer	Armijn	103.000	34/1
22	Opria	Cristea	102.000	33/3
23	Jensen	Peter	98.500	38/6
24	Hering	Alexander	98.000	39/3
25	van der Menlan	S.Johannes	92.500	38/4
26	Jankovich	Jozef	89.000	38/7
27	Kamaras	Peter	87.000	39/5
28	Slotboom	Rolf	85.500	33/7
29	Larsson	Greger	76.000	38/1
30	Näslund	David	75.500	34/4
31	Berende	Paul	61.000	33/6
32	Mathis	Rino	54.500	38/3
33	Semlnedt	Bo	48.500	37/3
34	Van Wijk	Jacob	47.000	34/2
35	Cam	Yildiray	43.000	33/1
36	Szikrai	Istvan	33.000	37/4
37	Nestola	Massimiliano	24.000	33/4

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Place	Prize money
1	132.680 €
2	93.670 €
3	64.810 €
4	47.600 €
5	34.940 €
6	25.320 €
7	16.710 €
8	11.650 €
9	9.370 €
10	7.340 €
11 – 13	5.820 €
14 – 16	4.810 €
17 – 20	4.050 €
21 – 24	3.540 €

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