€4,350 EPT Budapest Main Event Day 3 | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Budapest

10-31-2008 13:17 UTC+3

PokerStars.com EPT Day 3 Budapest Begins

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Welcome back to the Las Vegas Casino, Budapest, where the penultimate day of the inaugural Hungarian EPT is about to get underway.

42 players remain of the 532 who started, with young Albert Iversen of Denmark leading the field by a good wide margin. Other notables who will be attempting to steal the title of chip leader from him include young Norwegian Johnny Lodden, Israeli Ofir Abramovivi and bracelet winner Ivo "Chess Master" Donev. Stay tuned to Pokernews from 1pm local time to find out who advances to tomorrow's final table.

Albert Iversen 442,500
Martin Jacobson 365,000
Ciprian Hrisca 280,000
Casey Kastle 264,500
William Fry 257,000
Lukas Benkovic 224,000
Pasquale Braco 208,500
Marino Serenelli 195,500
Zoltan Toth 175,000
Ofir Abramovivi 163,000
Janek Schleicher 161,500
Christoph Haller 142,000
Micha Hoedemaker 142,000
Robin Keston 137,000
Nicolo Calia 132,000
Johnny Lodden 131,500
Tommi Etelapera 130,500
Mauro Corsetti 116,000
Alexander Kravchenko 114,500
Denis Volkov 106,500
Dave Hardy 101,500
Szabolcs Attila Saskoy 98,500
Jari Pekka Juhola 92,500
Gino Alacqua 89,500
Dwayne Stacey 86,500
Christophe Wemelbeke 80,000
Menno Antonius Bussinik 79,000
Rikard Englund 75,500
Milan Andrejkovics 75,500
Ivo Donev 67,500
Robert Firestone 67,500
Simeon Tsonev 64,000
[Removed:133] 63,000
Pantelis Pavlis 59,000
Sebastian Saffari 53,000
Tibor Tolnai 50,000
Nicholas Maieritsch 49,000
Korotkov Oleg 45,000
Ofer Golko 39,500
Jecek Ladny 33,000
Severin Walser 33,000
George McKeever 23,500

10-31-2008 14:59 UTC+3

Day 3 Seating Assignments

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Table 1:
1 Albert Iversen
3 Dave Hardy
4 Pantelis Pavlis
5 Dwayne Stacey
6 Menno Antonius Bussinik
7 [Removed:133]
8 George McKeever

Table 2:
1 Casey Kastle
2 William Fry
3 Ciprian Hrisca
4 Lukas Benkovic
5 Rikard Englund
6 Christophe Wemelbeke
8 Robin Keston

Table 3:
1 Gino Alacqua
2 Ivo Donev
3 Severin Walser
4 Martin Jacobson
5 Jari Pekka Juhola
6 Janek Schleicher
7 Simeon Tsonev

Table 4:
1 Denis Volkov
2 Ofer Golko
3 Tibor Tolnai
4 Nicholas Maieritsch
5 Ofir Abramovivi
6 Tommi Etelapera
7 Christoph Haller

Table 5:
1 Zoltan Toth
2 Alexander Kravchenko
3 Korotkov Oleg
4 Micha Hoedemaker
5 Milan Andrejkovics
6 Jecek Ladny
8 Szabolcs Attila Saskoy

Table 6:
1 Mauro Corsetti
2 Pasquale Braco
3 Marino Serenelli
4 Robert Firestone
5 Nicolo Calia
7 Sebastian Saffari
8 Johnny Lodden

Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

10-31-2008 15:03 UTC+3

Cards in the Air

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And we're off...

10-31-2008 15:13 UTC+3

Four Hungarians Remaining

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There are four local players who are still left. They are Zoltan Toth, Szabolcs Attila Saskoy, Milan Andrejkovics, and Tibor Tolnai. Zoltan Toth is the Hungarian chipleader with 175,000, while Tibor is the short stack with 50,000. How many Hungarians will make the final table? Stay tuned to find out.

Tags: Zoltan Toth

10-31-2008 15:24 UTC+3

Early Action

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As might be expected, our smaller stacks have been wasting no time in getting involved -- there's still some good sightseeing time left for those who bust out early, after all.

One extremely early double up was that of Simeon Tsonev who got his chips in with {10-Hearts}

on the very first hand against the {K-Hearts}

of Janek Schleicher, and it held up on the {A-Spades}

board to double him up to around 130,000.

Tags: Janek Schleicher Simeon Tsonev

10-31-2008 15:25 UTC+3

George McKeever Eliminated in 42nd Place (€6,834)

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First elimination of the day.

Tags: George McKeever

10-31-2008 15:27 UTC+3

Szabolcs Attila Saskoy Eliminated in 41st Place (€6,834)

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Our second exit was a touch more controversial than our first. Szabolcs Attila Saskoy moved all in for the second time in three hands, and this time he was called by Alexander Kravchenko.

Saskoy: {A-Clubs}

Kravchenko: {A-Spades}

Board:

The stacks were counted (Kravchenko had 105,000 and Saskoy looked to have around the same) and it was decided that Saskoy had 5,000 more than Kravchenko. The game continued and Sasko moved all in for his one big blind the very next hand -- but at this point Kravchenko piped up that he was missing some chips. Various tournament directors were called over, the maths was recalculated and it was decided that Kravchenko had indeed been short-changed, Saskoy didn't have any chips behind after all, and his hand was mucked and he walked away taking 41st place money with him.

Tags: Alexander Kravchenko Szabolcs Attila Saskoy

10-31-2008 15:34 UTC+3

Severin Walser Eliminated in 40th Place (€7,448)

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We didn't catch the hand, however, Severin Walser from Switzerland is out in 40th place. He collects €6,834 for three days of work.

10-31-2008 15:40 UTC+3

Milan Andrejkovics Eliminated in 39th Place (€7,448)

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Milan Andrejkovics was taken out by fellow Hungarian player Zoltan Toth. Toth opened for 12,000. Alex Kravchenko called. Andrejkovics moved all in for 67,000. Toth called and Kravchenko folded.

Milan: {K-Clubs}

Toth:

The board ran out {A-Diamonds}

. Toth won the pot and Milan was eliminated.