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Three days of play are in the books in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event. Vanessa Selbst, who was in third place entering Day 3, sat atop the leaderboard when play concluded.

Selbst sent Ryan Bambrick out in 33rd place. Selbst pushed all-in over the top of a bet by Bambrick on a board of 8-4-6-3-7. Bambrick called for his tournament life, only to see Selbst turn over the nuts, 9-10 for a straight. Coverage found on PokerNews.com details the rather unfortunate ending to Bambrick’s tournament run: ““I’m sorry,’ said Selbst. ‘I was floating you on the turn.’ She turned up the nuts, a ten-high straight. Bambrick saw the hand, muttered ‘so sick,’ and mucked his cards.” Selbst, appropriately, is a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and she’ll hold a field-pacing stack of 2.3 million when play kicks off today.

Scott Seiver began the day with a quaint stack of 10 big blinds before mounting a furious comeback. Seiver doubled through Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey early on before committing his chips on a board of Q-Q-10-6-4 against Lars Bonding. Seiver’s opponent eventually called and he flipped up pocket fours for a full house on the river. The hand boosted Seiver to nearly 700,000 in chips. Seiver is only about 40,000 chips behind Selbst on the leaderboard entering play on Saturday.

Friday marked the end of the line for Ivey. On a flop of A-9-4 with two hearts, Ivey bet 30,000 and Elio Fox made the call. The turn was the 10 of diamonds and, after a check by Fox, Ivey moved all-in. Fox called and turned over A-8 for top pair, while Ivey showed K-10 of hearts for a pair and a flush draw. The river was a black eight and Ivey was bounced in 19th place for $16,000 from the $5,000 buy-in poker tournament.

Online poker legend Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy remains in the hunt for the $750,000 top prize. He holds the sixth largest chip stack in the room as play kicks off on Saturday at 1.3 million. Josephy check-raised to 50,000 on a board reading 10-7-3-8 with two diamonds. Team PokerStars Pro member Vanessa Rousso called to bring the ace of clubs on the river. Josephy fired another shell, this time worth 100,000, and Rousso called after some deliberation. Josephy turned over J-9 for the nut straight. For all of you Rousso fans out there, don’t fear. The GoDaddy Girl survived Day 3 and owns the 14th largest stack at 720,000.

Also sent packing was two-time bracelet winner Jeff Madsen, who will head to Israel next week as part of a prop bet leading up to the 2010 WSOP. Tab Duchateau and Francis Vizza had Madsen covered, with the former holding A-3 of hearts. Madsen held pocket sixes and Vizza had pocket sevens. The board came down 10-9-2-10-5 and Madsen, the smallest stack of the three, was eliminated in 91st place for $7,500.

The bubble boy in the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event was Nicholas Kamen, who came out on the short end of a race against Ryan “g0lfa” D’Angelo with A-K against pocket eights. The flop of Q-10-2 gave Kamen a straight draw in addition to two overcards, but a running 7-9 preserved his fate. The top 104 players finished in the money out of the 716 who entered.

A total of 24 players remain in the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event. Here’s how the field looks entering Day 4 on Saturday, which will see the group chopped to eight:

1. Vanessa Selbst – 2,285,000
2. Scott Seiver – 2,241,000
3. Dale Jamison – 1,687,000
4. Jordan “iMsoLucky0” Morgan – 1,667,000
5. Brandon “AreTheseUtz” Hall – 1,650,000
6. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy – 1,326,000
7. Derek Raymond – 1,300,000
8. Alan Sternberg – 1,151,000
9. Zachary Fritz – 925,000
10. Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar – 899,000
11. Michael Woods – 890,000
12. Ian Palomo – 798,000
13. Peter Jetten – 785,000
14. Vanessa Rousso – 720,000
15. Taha Maruf – 550,000
16. James Casement – 548,000
17. Andrew Ferguson – 535,000
18. Alistar Melville – 529,000
19. Elio Fox – 523,000
20. Mark Ader – 374,000
21. Bob Lauria – 343,000
22. Travis Klein – 295,000
23. Mike Beasley – 250,000
24. Michael Sedore – 57,000

When play wrapped up for the night on Friday, the blinds were 8,000-16,000 with an ante of 2,000. Stay tuned to Poker News Daily for the latest from the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event.

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