2548 players remain going into the first universal playing session of the World Series of Poker, Day 3, and that includes my boy, Phill Huxley! 283rd place is a great place to be right now, and he's the chipleader on his table, ready to own!

Players in the top 150 to look out for:

6th - Jesper Hougard
The first player to win a bracelet in the same year on both sides of the Atlantic, and the owner of Jamie Gold on his Day 1 feature table in 2007. A top player that will be going deep.
9th - Cole South
Cash game monster from Townsend's CardRunners stable.
11th - Jim Collopy
MrBigQueso, 21 year old tournament phenom.
15th - Jon Van Fleet
Apestyles online, co-writer of one of my fave strat books, Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time.
16th -Johnny Chan
24th - Vanessa Selbst
Winner of NAPT Mohegan Sun, best female MTT player and very interesting character.
30th - Patrik Antonius
31st - Carter Phillips
EPT Barcelona winner and bracelet winner from this series.
34th - Matthew Hilger
Founder of Internet Texas Hold'em forum (http://www.internettexasholdem.com/poker-forum) and % swapper with Phill!
44th - Archie Karas
Legenday gambler
49th - Evgeniy Tymoshenko
WPT and WCOOP Main Event winner looking for a triple crown
63rd - Sammy Farha
67th - Alex Kostritsyn
PostFlopAction - Another High Stakes monster
72nd - J.J.Liu
77th - Michael Mizrachi
81st - Dan Bilzerian
102nd - Robert Mizrachi
The brother's WSOP odyssey continues.
112th - Robert Varkyoni
116th - Billy Kopp
Chasing redemption.
121st - Praz Bansi
123rd - Phil Galfond
126th - Theo Jorgensen
127th - Aaron Kanter
4th in '05
128th - Steve Jelinek
Trying to bring the Main Event bracelet to Broadway!
131st - John Kabbaj