Bertrand Grospellier started off 2008 with a win at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and with only 12 players left in the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago he’s in position to grab his second title of the year.

Grospellier has 2,039,000 to lead Osmin Dardon by only 80,000. Should Grospellier come through with a victory it would have a major impact on the BLUFF Magazine Player-of-the-Year rankings. A win would earn the Frenchman 375 POY points and vault him from 12^th to 2^nd behind current leader John Phan. With a little more than two months remaining Grospellier would be only 164 POY points behind Phan.

The final 12 players who will return to the Bellagio Fontana Lounge at Noon PT include some players who made a name for themselves at the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Michael DeMichele, who finished as the runner-up to Scotty Nguyen at the controversial $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, sits in fourth with 1,717,000. Nenad Medic, who won his first bracelet in the opening days of the Series, sits in seventh place with 1,435,000. Andrew “good2cu” Robl, who finished third behind Justin Bonomo and Erick Lindgren in the $5,000 Mixed Hold’em event, has 1,087,000 chips, good enough for ninth.

Joe Sebok, who despite six finishes in the top 35 in WPT events has never made a final table, sits in sixth place with 1,470,000. Twice in his career Sebok has been the TV table bubble boy.

For the third day in a row the chipleader from the previous day failed to survive. Ryan Fair busted out in 13^th place just before play ended for the night. The 12 players will play down to the final six that will appear on the televised final table, which will tape on Sunday afternoon.

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