Three full days are in the books at EPT Deauville and a record starting field has been reduced to just 24 players, including several previous EPT champs and even a former WSOP Main Event winner.

Day 3 was, by necessity, a day of loss. Daniel Millar suffered the cruelest of them, busting on the bubble at the hands of 2008 world champion Peter Eastgate, who finished the day in third place. Plenty of others cashed but didn’t get as much as the would have liked, including Davidi Kitai (94th place), Patrick Bruel (86th), Luca Pagano (72nd), Dario Minieri (49th), and Shane Schleger (26th).  And proving that nobody can predict the outcome of a tournament based on chip stacks alone, the top two chip leaders from Day 2, Frenchmen Nicolas Levi and Ludovic Lacay, fell short of surviving to the final three tables in 28th and 40th places, respectively.

So far as those still in play, the man whose name appears at the top of the leaderboard overnight, Teodor Caraba of Romania, came out of nowhere toward the end of the day to claim the chip lead after flopping a set of deuces from the big blind in a three-way pot. Mike “Timex” McDonald and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier both lurk behind him in the top ten looking to become the first repeat EPT champion in the tour’s history, while Hugo Lemaire and actress Alexia Portal look to claim a major win on home turf and Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron tries to extend the American tradition of winning big EPT events. Further down the chip counts, but still in the hunt, are Freddy Deeb, Day 1 chip leader Robert Cezarescu, and Bruno Fitoussi.

Play continues in Deauville tomorrow until the final table has been reached.

EPT Deauville Day 3 Top 10 Chip Counts

1. Teodor Caraba (Romania) 3,220,000
2. Hugo Lemaire (France) 2,301,000
3. Mike “Timex” McDonald (Canada) 1,895,000
4. Peter Eastgate (Denmark) 1,682,000
5. George Claudius Secara (Romania) 1,525,000
6. Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron (United States) 1,447,000
7. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (France) 1,220,000
8. Jake Cody (United Kingdom) 1,108,000
9. David Morante (Spain) 883,000
10. Alexia Portal (France) 820,000

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