There are 115 players remaining in the World Series of Poker’s $1,500 Extended Play No Limit Hold’em event. It began with over 1,900 entrants on Saturday and a bracelet should be awarded on Tuesday. In the meantime, Yevgeniy Jovial Gent Timoshenko (pictured) is out in front with a stack of 405,000. He’s the only person to cross the 400,000-chip mark.

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The Extended Play event is brand new to the WSOP this year and features 90-minute levels instead of the usual 60. As you might expect, and as has been the theme of the WSOP this year, the cream of the crop has risen to the top.

Timoshenko, for example, has almost $5 million in career online tournament cashes and won the 2009 WCOOP Main Event. He also took down that year’s World Poker Tour Championshipfor over $2 million. Timoshenko is #69 on the all-time money list and was ranked #1 on PocketFives in 2007.

Timoshenko also scored big on prop bets on Sunday, winning $2,300 after throwing a water bottle into a trash can 30 feet away. As coverage of the bet on WSOP.com detailed, “It sails through the air, dodges the bottom of the Pius Heinz banner, and hits dead center. A cheer goes up and the loser of the bet goes to his wallet to hand over $2,300.”

He Tweeted when all was said and done, “Ran hot and bagged the chip lead heading into Day 3 of #WSOP42. All credit goes to my lucky #TiasHope card protector!”

Right behind Timoshenko on the leaderboard with a stack of 368,000 is Antonio Esfandiari (pictured). He’s #2 on poker’s all-time money list thanks to a win in the inaugural Big One for One Drop in 2012 for an incredible $18 million. He has three bracelets and two WPT titles.

On Sunday, Esfandiari stacked chips courtesy of Blair blur5f6Hinkle, also a bracelet winner. On a board showing 9-J-A-5, Hinkle checked and Esfandiari pushed out a bet of 17,600. Hinkle check-raised to 55,000, Esfandiari shoved, and Hinkle tossed his hand into the muck.

Fourth place in the Extended Play event belongs to Patrick pleno1 Leonard. He was ranked #1 on PocketFives last year and bagged 354,000 in chips on Sunday night. Leonard is searching for his first career five-figure cash at the WSOP, but has almost $2 million in career online tournament winnings.

The winner of this tournament will get $478,000 and everybody still in is guaranteed $3,500.

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