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/ Short-Stacked Shamus / 27 February 2012 / Leave a Comment 
Phil Ivey hadn't played a U.S. tourney since March 2011, but returned to play the WPT LAPC event which he won in 2008 (Photo: World Poker Tour)
Current chip leader Tuan Phan will return to a stack of 1.14 million when play resumes on Monday, with Jason Somerville his nearest competitor with 860,000 and Joe Tehan third with 831,500.
After three days of play at the World Poker Tour Los Angeles Poker Classic, just 54 players remain with Tuan Phan the only one among them with more than 1 million chips. Meanwhile, because of his elimination Sunday night in 55th place, Phil Ivey bubbled the event as the last player to be eliminated before the cash.
Of the 549 who entered the $10,000 buy-in event, 182 had made it through to Day 3, and it would take seven 90-minute levels of poker on Sunday for the field to be trimmed to 54.
Current chip leader Tuan Phan is on a roll, having just won the World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah's Atlantic City Main Event in December for which he claimed a $188,190 first prize. Phan returns to a stack of 1.14 million chips, with Jason Somerville his nearest competitor with 860,000 and Joe Tehan third with 831,500.
Among the late-day bustouts on Sunday were several notables, including J.C. Tran, Phil Collins, Nick Schulman, Matt Stout, and Phil Hellmuth. As action wound down in Level 17 (500/2,500/5,000), Bryan Piccioli was knocked out in 57th and Sam Barnhardt in 56th, meaning they were one away from the cash.
Phil Ivey had around 200,000 chips at that point, but lost two-thirds of his stack to A.J. Jejelowo in an all-in confrontation in which the latter's 6s-6d held versus Ivey's Ad-10s.
Not long after that Ivey open-pushed for about 65,000 with pocket sixes and was called by David Baker who held K-K. The kings held, and Ivey -- playing in his first major tournament in the U.S. since the spring of 2011 -- was out in 55th.
Here's how the top of the counts look heading into Monday's Day 4, with a number of familiar names among them:
1. Tuan Phan -- 1,140,000
2. Jason Somerville -- 860,000
3. Joe Tehan -- 831,500
4. Casey Stewart -- 791,000
5. Lawrence Greenberg -- 707,000
6. Noah Schwartz -- 685,000
7. Larry Lipman -- 571,000
8. Tom Marchese -- 530,000
9. Badih Bouhahra -- 469,500
10. Doc Sands -- 463,500
Also returning to above-average stacks are Dan Idema (11th), Dan Kelly (14th), Nick Binger (16th), David Pham (19th), and David Baker (22nd). Among those in the lower half of the counts are Joe Hachem (38th), Sorel Mizzi (43rd), and Christian Harder (50th).
The first players eliminated on Monday will earn $21,080 -- a little over twice their buy-ins -- although all will be eyeing the whopping $1,370,240 first prize reserved for the winner. Players will play down to 18 on Monday, with those returning to play down to a six-handed final table on Tuesday.
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