Main Event Day 3 Preview: Imran with big lead

African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-08-02

Main Event

Imran Bhojani holds the chip lead stack of 2.62M as 33 players return for Day 3 of the R15K Main Event at Montecasino.

Out of 404 total entries, there are only 33 players remain.

The Top 27 get paid, so the tournament are six eliminations away from the money.

Blinds restart on 10000-20000-20000.

There are 20.2M chips are in play, an average stack of 611,000.

Imran Bhojani enjoys a huge chip lead with 2.62M chips. That’s a comfortable 131 big blinds deep - over four times the average.

It’s also more than double the second biggest stack, which is Harold Brooks on 1.07M.

What The Counts Mean

Six players return with 50 big blinds or more, and they’ll be applying the pressure as we grind towards the money.

The top three hold 23% of the chips in play, so the counts are still tightly packed.

Only 12 of the 33 sit at or above the 611,000 average.

The Tables

Table 1 carries 5,525,000 across 8 seats, an average of 691,000, led by Harold Brooks on 1,070,000.

Table 2 carries 6,950,000 across 9 seats, an average of 772,000, led by Imran Bhojani on 2,625,000.

Table 3 carries 4,233,000 across 8 seats, an average of 529,000, led by Daniel Scott on 890,000.

Table 4 carries 3,470,600 across 8 seats, an average of 434,000, led by Hennie Appel on 1,045,000.

Chip Counts

| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | Table | Seat | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Imran Bhojani | 2,625,000 | 131 | 2 | 3 | | 2 | Harold Brooks | 1,070,000 | 54 | 1 | 3 | | 3 | Hennie Appel | 1,045,000 | 52 | 4 | 6 | | 4 | Jarrod Page | 1,010,000 | 51 | 1 | 5 | | 5 | Jaco Mouton | 1,000,600 | 50 | 4 | 5 | | 6 | Sheldon Grove | 1,000,000 | 50 | 2 | 1 | | 7 | Kyle Krishnan | 910,000 | 46 | 2 | 7 | | 8 | Damon Fine | 905,000 | 45 | 1 | 2 | | 9 | Daniel Scott | 890,000 | 45 | 3 | 3 | | 10 | Keegan Naidoo | 690,000 | 35 | 2 | 4 | | 11 | Nafiz Navazali Habib | 690,000 | 35 | 3 | 8 | | 12 | Jehan Richards | 640,000 | 32 | 1 | 4 | | 13 | Warren Zackey | 580,000 | 29 | 3 | 1 | | 14 | David NG | 560,000 | 28 | 1 | 7 | | 15 | Ryan James | 557,000 | 28 | 3 | 2 | | 16 | Yuan Prins | 556,000 | 28 | 3 | 9 | | 17 | Tutu Russon | 540,000 | 27 | 2 | 9 | | 18 | Darren Kramer | 535,000 | 27 | 2 | 8 | | 19 | Alvin Pillay | 510,000 | 26 | 1 | 9 | | 20 | Nick Rowley | 495,000 | 25 | 3 | 4 | | 21 | Jonathan Kalil | 460,000 | 23 | 1 | 8 | | 22 | Anonymous 3 | 410,000 | 21 | 2 | 5 | | 23 | Trishul Govender | 370,000 | 19 | 1 | 6 | | 24 | Hadar Goren | 365,000 | 18 | 4 | 2 | | 25 | Hans Van Der Hulst | 300,000 | 15 | 3 | 6 | | 26 | Dhinesh Soopramanien | 255,000 | 13 | 4 | 7 | | 27 | Pravir Rama | 250,000 | 13 | 4 | 1 | | 28 | Craig Hartland | 230,000 | 12 | 4 | 3 | | 29 | Dee Moodliyar | 210,000 | 11 | 4 | 4 | | 30 | Arkeev Rohit | 165,000 | 8 | 3 | 5 | | 31 | Nickolas Ioannou | 120,000 | 6 | 2 | 2 | | 32 | Kevin Van Villing | 120,000 | 6 | 2 | 6 | | 33 | Maneesh Singh | 115,000 | 6 | 4 | 9 |