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A total of 170 professional poker players took to the felt yesterday in Atlantic City, New Jersey for the third day of action at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. Will “The Thrill” Failla, the recent winner of WPT Legends of Poker, is currently seeking his second WPT title of 2011 with a field-leading 3.255 million chips.

The last player to face elimination prior to the money was Mark Bramley, who brought A-Q suited to showdown for a Broadway straight. David Williams had him beat with pocket kings for a full house, and the room erupted when all remaining players knew that they’d at least be getting their buy-ins repaid as the tournament continued.

A number of noteworthy pros hit the rail on Day 3, including Jesse Cohen in 28th, David Williams in 31st, John Racener in 35th, Yevgeniy Timoshenko in 47th, John D’Agostino is 59th, Jeff Madsen in 60th and Eric Haber in 67th.

The aforementioned Cohen was the last player to bust for the day. Cohen moved all-in with K-10 offsuit against Chris Martin’s pocket jacks, but failed to improve his hand on a garbage board. Cohen received $16,352 for his relatively deep run.

Although Failla owns the most dominant chip stack currently, a number of dangerous poker pros remain. Jin Hwang is currently sitting in last place with just 346k chips, while Vanessa Selbst, Darren Elias, Matt Glantz and John Cernuto all have between 1.5 and 2.6 million chips.

While the first-place prize of $922,441 is obviously what’s on everyone’s mind heading into Day 4, players can take comfort in knowing that even the earliest bust will receive $18,868. If Failla manages to win, he’ll bring his live tournament earnings for 2011 to just under $2 million.