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Bodog poker pro Justin Bonomo is on to Day 3 of the WPT World Championships and will be Twittering his way through it. (Bodog Beat Image)

There are now 168 players remaning in the WPT World Championships as the event heads into Day 3, and God only knows how many of those players are on Twitter, updating their followers as they progress through the tournament. One player who is new to the social media messaging service – as of about three days ago – and is also one of those players coming back for Day 3 of play is Bodog poker pro Justin Bonomo (@JustinBonomo).

Bonomo is sitting just below average with 167,900 and is still getting the hang of Twitter. So far his tweets have been pretty bare bones:

136k at 3rd break. Barely played any hands that level.

167,900 at the end of day 2.

So, we'd like to put forth a possible causal relationship between Twitter proficiency and chip count. The more detailed and regular the tweets, the higher the chip count. No? You don't think that would work? Fine, but it would help us keep up with all of the juicy details of playing in a major poker tournament.

Anyway, there are some big names at the top of the leaderboard as Day 3 begins, like Bertrand "elKy" Grospellier, Steve Billirakis, Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke, Steve Sung, Jeff Madsen and Nenad Medic. Other notables still in the field include Phil Collins (yeh!!!! oh, wait….not that Phil Collins? sucks), Johnny Chan, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Liv Boeree, Phil Ivey, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and a whole slew of others.

Play gets underway again at 12pm PT (3pm ET) so make sure to keep track of Bonomo on Twitter and also follow the WPT Live Update crew (@wptliveupdates) for all of the happenings at the Bellagio.