As the field narrows and we head towards the business end of the WPT Merit Classic Tournament in Northern Cyprus we can expect a few twithcy calls as the remaining 21 players look to get in the money (only the first 18 are paid). Day 3 leader Layne Flack is in a great position to take advantage of his huge chip stack (he has 915k of the 7.2million chips) not bad when you consider there is still 21 players left. Rep Porter should be fairly happy too with his 812,000 chips.

Alot of the big boys from Fulltilt will not be back at the final table Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson and Roy Winston amoung them.

1 Layne Flack – 915,000
2 Rep Porter – 812,000
3 Steven Fung – 669,000
4 Antony Lellouche – 562,000
5 Huck Seed – 456,000
6 Rony Jazzar – 428,000
7 Jonathan Little – 393,000
8 Nenad Medic – 378,000
9 Joseph El Khoury – 318,000
10 Uri Keidar – 292,000

Play continues at 12pm local time (2pm GMT) More to follow on the WPT Merit Classic day 4 later.
John Monnette thoughts on playing in Northern Cyprus.

Twitterers follow KK_Poker to get Kelly Kim’s personal lowdown on the event.