Bodog Beat

Poker pro Jeremiah Smith is the new chip leader during Day 3 of the 2008 WSOP Main Event. (Bodog Beat Image)

The players have just come back from their dinner break, as have we (Gaylord Indian, mmmmmm), and there's a new chip leader sitting just under our noses, Jeremiah Smith. Smith has been hanging around the top ten all day, but with Brian Schaedlich's decline down the leaderboard and a couple of huge sick pots raked his way he is now set to become the first player to break the million chip mark.

Smith is an overall nice guy and a friend to many of the media, so the crowds around his table are particularly large, especially when he gets involved in a pot. A lot of people are not so secretly rooting for him to go deep in this. He has Bodog regular Jon "PearlJammer" Turner directly to his right, which is good for Smith and bad for Turner.

On the Team Bodog front, there are still several poker players out wearing the black and red as we approach (rapidly) the money bubble. Bodog poker pros Evelyn Ng and Jean Robert Bellande are sitting on very healthy stacks with Team Bodog poker players Magnus Pettersson, Will Saffin and Adam Grovenstein all also looking like they will survive the bubble burst.

Stay tuned for more live updates from the 2008 WSOP Main Event.