€5,250 Championship Main Event Day 3 | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

12-12-2008 17:39 UTC+2

Rifat Pavelic Eliminated in 15th Place (€16,600)

[user76023]

Rifat Pavelic moves all in over the top of [Removed:197] raise and is quickly called.

Pavelic: {A-Spades}

Nasr:

The board is not helpful as it favours Nasr, coming {6-Hearts}

. We're down to 14 players.

12-12-2008 17:36 UTC+2

Outer Table Counts

[user76023]

Raul Mestre -- 420,000
Massimo Di Cicco -- 360,000
Igor Rejdovjan -- 216,000
Francesco Cirianni -- 460,000
Alexiou Konstantinos -- 655,000
Daniel Drescher -- 180,000
Andrew Alan Chen -- 320,000

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

12-12-2008 17:31 UTC+2

Andrew Alan Chen raises preflop to 20,000 and gets reraised by Konstantinos to 51,000. Chen now a couple of hands later takes it to 120,000 and gets his Greek opponent to fold.

A couple of hands later after Chen has bet 30,000 on the turn (He raised preflop from UTG+1 with Konstantinos calling in the big blind and both checked the flop) of a {3-Hearts}

board. Kostantinos called and they both checked the river, the Greek showing {J-Hearts}

to win.

Next hand and Konstantinos raises to 32,000 on the cut-off and Dan Drescher moves all in from the button pushing Kostantinos off the pot.

Tags: Andrew Alan Chen

12-12-2008 17:17 UTC+2

Nas Raps It Up

[user4144]

Current chip leader Fredrik Nygard raised to 18,000 and [Removed:197] pushed for a total of 143,000. With so many chips in front of him, the Finn decided to take a shot at eliminating another man and made the call.

Nasr = {J-Spades}

Nygard =

Flop =

That was a good flop for Nasr.

Turn = {J-Hearts}

That turn wasn't bad either.

River = {Q-Spades}

The river wasn't good for anyone, but did rub salt into wounds just in case the flop and turn weren't painful enough.

Tags: Fredrik Nygard

12-12-2008 17:02 UTC+2

Dan Pedersen Eliminated in 16th Place (€16,600)

[user76023]

Dan Pedersen, who had a very good start to the day, has been knocked out by Raul Mestre. The money went in on a {7-Clubs}

flop with Pedersen holding {10-Hearts}

for overs and the draw against the Spaniard's {6-Hearts}

for a pair and draw. {3-Diamonds}

on the turn and {8-Hearts}

on the river and the Dane is out.

The way the exits are going, it could well be an all Spanish/Italian final table!

12-12-2008 16:58 UTC+2

Jens Glud Hansen Eliminated in 17th Place (€13,800)

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As the action folded around to Jens Glud Hansen on the button, he made a not too surprising push for his short-stack in the hope that the two blinds held rags. Although Andrew Alan Chen quickly relinquished his small blind, Igor Rejdovjan asked for a count in the big.

After the dealer had counted out a total of 93,000, Rejdovjan paused momentarily before announcing call and sliding the necessary chips across the line. As Hansen dropped his {8-Spades}

onto the felt, he held his breath in the hope of over cards. To his delight, his opponent obliged by tabling {A-Clubs}

.

But this was only the half the battle, and as an ace came down it was looking bleak. "Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssss!!! exclaimed Redjdovjan, punching the air and leaning across the felt towards his opponent. It was at this point that he noticed that he wasn't as far ahead as he first thought as the flop had come {4-Spades}

to give Hansen a pair too.

The {5-Hearts}

changed nothing, but upon seeing the {5-Clubs}

river hit the felt, Redjdovjan once again celebrated raucously, before turning to his opponent, stabbing the air with his finger and shouting, "Thank you, sir!".

As an uncontrollably elated Redjdovjan continued to celebrate, a dejected Hansen simply retrieved his crutches from the table and hobbled away as our 17th place finisher.

"Slooooowrolled," observed Chen as he departed.

Tags: Igor Rejdovjan Jens Glud Hansen

12-12-2008 16:51 UTC+2

Redraw for two tables

[user76023]

Now we are down to 16 players there has been a redraw for two tables.

12-12-2008 16:45 UTC+2

Igor Rejdovjan Doubles Through

[user4144]

With just 70,000 in chips, Igor Rejdovjan made a suspicious limp from UTG and blinds Jens Glud Hansen and Andrew Alan Chen both checked. On the {Q-Spades}

flop the blinds checked once again, only for Rejdovjan to announce all in, although initially out of turn.

After Hansen has stepped away, the action ground to a halt with Chen who really didn't seem too keen on his hand. After shaking his head, he shrugged his shoulders and made the call, only to be shown what he probably feared the most, {A-Spades}