Daniel Strelitz Tops Day 3 of WPT LAPC Main Event

The top 68 finishers earned a cash in the World Poker Tour LAPC at the Commerce Casino of the 521 entrants in the $10,000 buy-in field. After three days of action 45 players remain in contention for the TV taping final table on Thursday. Daniel Strelitz leads the field as the only player with a seven-figure count.

Strelitz bagged up 1.051 million while two Champions Club members are on his heels – Mike Sexton with 739,000 then Gavin Grifin with 714,000. Dietrich Fast, James Calderaro, Mohsin Charania and Nam Le are the other remaining former champs.

2016 Super High Roller Bowl standout Matt Berkey returns with just under half a million chips, the Day 1 and Day 2 chip leader Nick Maimone remains, along with Garrett Greer and Joe Serock.

Serock’s table habits were matters of interest to WPT TD Matt Savage.

Lost ID, basket of laundry, and now a whole celery stalk (washed in the Commerce bathroom) and jar of peanut butter. #LifeOfFloes pic.twitter.com/flLZmI3Ne6

— Matt Savage (@SavagePoker) February 27, 2017

The returning players are guaranteed $23,990, a trip to the final table locks up $96,640, any player on the TV final table earns $191,490 with the winner walking away with $1,001,110.

Aaron Massey, Tim Reilly and Maria Ho all cashed in the event but did not survive the day.

Day 4 kicks off with cards in the air at noon local time and the field is scheduled to play five levels of action before bagging up for the night.

Top Ten Chip Counts

1. Daniel Strelitz – 1,051,000
2. Mike Sexton – 739,000
3. Gavin Griffin – 714,000
4. Mike Eskandari – 688,000
5. Allen Le – 606,000
6. Omar Zazay – 594,000
7. Simeon Naydenov – 579,000
8. Samer Aljanedi – 565,000
9. Visnja Luetic – 551,000
10. Danny Fuhs – 485,000