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The World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Final is currently in its latter stages at the Foxwoods Casino. The Season X WPT tournament attracted 189 players to pay a buy-in of $10k, generating a prize pool worth nearly $1.8 million. When Day 3 came to a close, Andy Frankenberger was leading the charge towards the $450k first-place prize.

Frankenberger is currently on top of a leaderboard that includes 26 other players, each of whom are guaranteed just under $20k even if they’re eliminated immediately. Frankenberger’s stack is dominant at $658k in comparison to current second-place contender Jack Schanbacher, who holds $483k. Other notable contenders include Cornel Cimpan, Allen Kessler, Christian Harder, Larry Greenberg, Bernard Lee, Matt Glants, Hoyt Corkins and Jonathan Little.

One of the most notable events of Day 3 was the elimination of former WPT champion Alan Sternberg. The knockout came directly from Frankenberger, who actually led in chips throughout the day. On the key hand, the pot was worth 60,000 when the flop and turn came down Js-6h-2s-Jh. Sternberg checked, Frankenberger raised 40k, and Sternberg pushed all in. Frankbenberger showed K-J suited while Sternberg turned over pocket aces. A jack on the river meant quad jacks for Frankenberger and the rail for Sternberg, and the chip leader exited the hand with a total of 327k chips.

A huge list of well known pros also hit the rail on Day 3 of WPT Foxwoods, including 2010 champion Jeff Forest, Jason Mercier, Justin Zaki, David Sands, Dana Kellstrom, Chris Tryba, Erik Seidel and Dwyte Pilgrim.

The money bubble boy was Alistair Melville, who ran out of chips in 28th place. His demise came in the form of a four-handed showdown with Hoyt Corkins, Christian Harder and Dan Colman. Harder ended up drawing to a nut straight, leaving Melville’s J-3 offsuit in the dust.