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Alex Livingston of Halifax has guaranteed himself a purse of at least US$4 million by making it to the top three of the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas.

The event began July 3 with 8,569 entries, and the final three players will return to the feature table at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino at 9:30 p.m. ADT time Tuesday. PokerNews will provide hand-for-hand updates and TSN will show the action beginning at 10 p.m. ADT.

Hossein Ensan of Germany leads the chip count with 326,800,000, Livingston is second at 120,400,000 and Dario Sammartino of Italy is third at 67,600,000.

The first-place prize is US$10 million and the runner-up will take home US$6 million.

“Just to make the last day of the Main Event is pretty cool,” Livingston, 32, told WSOP.com.

“When I’m playing the tournament, I’m as confident as ever. I’ve always wanted to compete on the highest stage. I don’t play a lot of no-limit hold’em these days because I don’t like the tanking, I don’t like the headphones and I don’t like all of that stuff.

“But the Main Event’s an exciting event. It’s filled with amateurs and obviously a lot of tough pros. It just brings me back to the old days of playing live cash and just looking at people and making reads. That’s what I like to do.”

Livingston finished in 13th place in the Main Event in 2013.