Welcome to Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Venice

Level 13: 1,000-2,000, 300 ante

Good afternoon world! Welcome to the World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice at the Casino Di Venezia in Ca'noghera. We have reached Day 3 of the WPT and Italian Wanny Piazza is at the helm with 373,500 chips. That name may well be unknown to the world of poker but the same cannot be said for the second and third placed player's Taylor Von Kriegenbergh and Marvin Rettenmaier. Von Kriegenbergh is a WPT Champions Club member after winning $1,22,340 in the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood earlier this year. Marvin Rettenmaier is one of the WPT's favourite stalwarts and to see him make a deep run would also be fantastic.

One other players still lurking in the field is WPT Champions Club member Roberto Romanello. Romanello is on a bit of a hot streak and we are sure to expect big things from him today. Lastly, keep your eyes on Steve O'Dwyer and Alex Dovzhenko. O'Dwyer is sitting comfortably in the pack with 197,900 and was called A Machine by one experienced poker journalist yesterday. Dovzhenko is the latest poker player who just always seems to be at the money of an tournament and he has 244,800 chips.

In a little under one hour's time (13:00 CET) action will start and we will be playing down to the final 16-players or five levels. All of that action will be brought to you from the fingertips of the keyboards housed in wpt.com towers.

Seat Draw

Table One

Seat 1: Manuel Merlante - 32,000
Seat 2: Leonardo Berti - 139,100
Seat 3: Michele Caroli - 279,600
Seat 4: Wanny Piazza - 373,500
Seat 6: Andrea Dato - 282,500
Seat 7: Ronnie Bardah - 102,300
Seat 8: Xia Lin - 126,900
Seat 9: Massimiliano Rosa - 133,900

Table Two

Seat 1: Nicola Potenza - 85,100
Seat 2: Alejandro Sanchez - 217,400
Seat 3: Christopher Creus - 185,500
Seat 4: Umberto Calabro - 242,500
Seat 5: Luigi Sacca - 82,600
Seat 6: Alex Dovzhenko - 244,800
Seat 8: Taylor Von Kriegerbergh - 326,900
Seat 9: Leonard Domi - 142,600

Table Three

Seat 1: Steve O'Dwyer - 197,900
Seat 2: Arnaud Mattern - 175,000
Seat 3: Giuseppe Broccia - 128,800
Seat 4: Giovanni Rizzo - 147,200
Seat 5: Ernesto Damme - 92,800
Seat 6: Antonio Massi - 161,600
Seat 8: Marvin Rettenmaier - 326,000
Seat 9: Heinz Kamutzki - 135,900

Table Four

Seat 1: Dario Rusconi - 150,400
Seat 2: Alfonso Amendola - 98,000
Seat 3: Raffaele Bertolucci - 67,200
Seat 4: Rocco Palumbo - 107,700
Seat 5: Edoardo Alescio - 132,500
Seat 7: Salvatore Castorina - 71,400
Seat 8: Roberto Romanello - 167,100
Seat 9: Andrea Benelli - 180,400

Table Five

Seat 1: Fernando Cimaglia - 266,200
Seat 2: Loncois Byrd - 34,400
Seat 3: Dario Alioto - 127,700
Seat 5: Fabrizio Ortolomo - 84,000
Seat 6: Johan Guilbert - 151,000
Seat 7: Riccardo Marchini - 95,700
Seat 8: Luca Fiorini - 96,000
Seat 9: Nicola Ricciardelli - 215,300