2016 WPT Five Diamond Day 3: Ryan Hughes Chip Lead Grows as Bubble Approaches

On Dec. 7, the 2016 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event at the Bellagio concluded its third of six days with seven more levels of play. With 75 players remaining, just about everyone entering Day 4 earn the minimum cash of $22,251 with 72 players getting paid.

However, most players have their eyes on the top prize of $1,938,118 (includes a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions), which was made possible by the tournament generating the most amount of entrants in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic history with 791 entrants including reentries. The tournament’s field size also ties a WPT record for events with a $10,000 buy-in with the 2007 WPT L.A. Poker Classic, an event won by Eric Hershler for $2,429,970.

While the chip counts won’t be official until before the start of Day 4, the Day 2 chip leader, Ryan Hughes, is still dominating at the end of Day 3 by bagging up the biggest stack of 1,212,500 chips (202 big blinds) or almost 50 percent more than Christian Harder in second place with 829,500 chips (138 big blinds), according to WorldPokerTour.com.

WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event Day 3 Top 10 Chip Counts

Hughes, who began the day with 364,400 chips, was consistently ahead of the pack during Day 3 and appeared to never lose a pot regardless of its size. Near the end of the night with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and an ante of 500, Hughes put a dent in the stack of Ty …

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