Day Three is here with both the Gold Coast and Brisbane fields merging at Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast to play down to the final table.

Duffy joined me down here to see the remaining forty players battle it out on their way to see one of them be crowned ANZPT Queensland Champion.

Tim 'LuckyShades' HoranLee Nelson, Stewart Scott and Tim ‘LuckyShades’ Horan would all find themselves on the rail, and following the unusual simultaneous tenth and ninth place eliminations, we found ourselves at a final table just eight hours into the day.

Seat 1: Paul Gibson – 352,000
Seat 2: Phillip Willcocks – 536,000
Seat 3: Scott ‘Punty’ Smith – 806,000
Seat 4: Scott Kerr – 532,000
Seat 5: Lee Fraser – 483,000
Seat 6: Shoshiro Karita – 239,000
Seat 7: Joel ‘StrongPlay’ Dodds – 1,528,000
Seat 8: Danny Joukhadar – 431,000

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With the early finish for the day we all returned to our room to get ready for the Player’s Party at the lobby bar.

It was pretty much the usual crew of PokerStars.net Pro’s and satellite winners along with the travelling tournament junkie contingent.

After a few beers and lots of snacks we headed back to the room to battle it out playing Chinese poker.

End result – I was losing eight points but high carded to break even!