€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

04-21-2009 15:24 UTC+3

Finn Sinks

[user46392]

Sean Finn pushed under the gun, and it folded around to Davide Pennelli on the big blind, who tanked up for a surprisingly long time, seeing as he had {A-Spades}

and was a real short stack on just 45,000. Finn could only boast {A-Diamonds}

, and a full double up to a little over 90,000 followed for Mr Pennelli.

Board: {2-Hearts}

04-21-2009 15:15 UTC+3

On the very first hand of the day, Giuseppe Argento limped in from middle position before Marwan El Jarari raised the button to 17,000. Benjamin Kang was sitting in the small blind and moved all in for 87,000. Argento wanted none of it, but Marwane quickly called.

Marwan: {Q-Hearts}

Kang:

"Putain!" cursed Marwan. "Putain!" He ran his hands through his hair at being dealt a cooler so early in play. The flop brought even worse news, as Kang made a set, {10-Spades}

. The turn and river came {9-Spades}

and

to give Kang the early double-up to 185,000.

Tags: Benjamin Kang El Jarari Marwane

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 400

04-21-2009 15:01 UTC+3

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

A smaller field has created a bit more punctuality for Day 3 . Cards are in the air -- almost on time!

04-21-2009 14:21 UTC+3

Now It Gets Interesting

[user75032]

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2009 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour San Remo Event. The internet in the media room seems to be restored. We're crossing our fingers it doesn't deteriorate by the time cards are back in the air.

We're getting down to the nitty-gritty now. 124 players are left from a starting field of 1,178. Only twelve eliminations remain until the bursting of the money bubble. 112 players will have something to show for their hard work; twelve will leave with a few choice words muttered under their breath.

The overall Day 1 chip leader was the man who changed his outfits more frequently than a runway model, Croatian Dragan Galic. Galic zoomed ahead of the rest of the field on Day 2 also, taking his 107,000 starting chips and turning them into almost 553,000. Given the number of extremely short stacks in the field, we find it unlikely that Galic will "pull a David Saab" and go from chip leader to bubble boy on the money bubble.

Once again, play is scheduled to start at 2pm local time, in about 45 minutes. However, Italy being Italy, expect things to kick off a little late. They haven't even started letting players in the building yet, never mind into the tournament area. When play does resume, keep your browser pointed to PokerNews.com for all of the action.

04-21-2009 03:42 UTC+3

Starting Day 3 Chip Counts and Seat Assignments

[user38449]

** Players listed in bold are the chip leaders at their respective tables

(Table 1)
Seat 1: Davide Pennelli - 45,800
Seat 2: Sean Finn - 93,500
Seat 3: Francesco Santo Trimboli - 245,800
Seat 4: Constant Rijkenberg - 393,100
Seat 5: Alessandro Giuseppe Pastura - 47,100
Seat 6: Rasmus Olog Akerblom - 95,800
Seat 7: Bill Reynolds - 183,300
Seat 8: Massimiliano Trifoglio - 105,700

(Table 2)
Seat 1: Eric Haik - 148,100
Seat 2: Dragan Galic - 552,900
Seat 4: Paul Alterman - 52,900
Seat 5: Samuel Lindberg - 110,200
Seat 6: Gianluca Bovini - 56,000
Seat 7: Paolo Arcudi - 69,300
Seat 8: Bruno Lopes - 78,100

(Table 3)
Seat 1: Luigi Abiusi - 16,800
Seat 2: Eduardo Burgio - 96,500
Seat 4: Mauro Scagliarini - 30,600
Seat 5: Dominik Palte - 141,300
Seat 6: Gianni Giaroni - 89,800
Seat 7: Fitzgerald Urquhart - 252,700
Seat 8: Reijo Manninen - 24,400

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Lex Veldhuis - 111,500
Seat 2: Dario Tosin - 39,100
Seat 3: Asa Smith - 53,600
Seat 4: Fabrizio Ascari - 29,100
Seat 5: Daniel J O'brien - 68,600
Seat 6: Alexander Kravchenko - 49,200
Seat 7: Ramin Ludwig Henke - 60,600
Seat 8: Sebastien Bidenger - 104,100

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Arnaud Mattern - 103,700
Seat 2: Priit Brikker - 172,200
Seat 3: Jacques Zaicik - 98,200
Seat 4: Steven Silverman - 226,400
Seat 5: Juan Maceiras - 53,700
Seat 6: Robert Flink - 280,000
Seat 7: Sebastian Rejman - 40100
Seat 8: Micheael Tureniec - 165,900

(Table 6)
Seat 1: Maurilio Mergiotti - 284,100
Seat 2: Thiago Nishijima - 39,000
Seat 3: Joakim Hall - 103,400
Seat 4: Mario Catricala - 92,900
Seat 5: Sami Kelopuro - 130,600
Seat 6: Jose Valero - 72,200
Seat 7: Tom Mcevoy - 51,500
Seat 8: Fabio Zappietro - 153,000

(Table 7)
Seat 1: Josh Prager - 84,000
Seat 2: Andrew Feldman - 64,200
Seat 3: Magnus Vatland - 26,100
Seat 4: Chialva Delfo - 47,200
Seat 5: Danilo D'Ettoris - 131,400
Seat 6: Mario Gennaro - 50,500
Seat 7: Matteo Peccorella - 82,100
Seat 8: Helfriend [Removed:349] - 40,200

(Table 8)
Seat 1: Tsanev Nikolay - 41,700
Seat 2: Kalle Niemi - 89,800
Seat 3: Giuseppe Argento - 365,500
Seat 4: Jari Mähönen - 93,800
Seat 5: Dave Hardy - 102,900
Seat 6: Marwin El Jirari - 109,800
Seat 7: Benjamin Kang - 87,400
Seat 8: Alexander Amundsen - 31,300

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Larsgreger Larsson - 107,400
Seat 2: Tristan Clemencon - 167,000
Seat 3: Thomas Bo Markussen - 18,000
Seat 4: Pietro Capriotti - 41,000
Seat 5: Doron Tourgman - 151,700
Seat 6: Stefano Fiore - 60,800
Seat 7: Stefano Brega - 44,800
Seat 8: Alberto Andres Font Rytzner - 111,000

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Vladyslav Zhaba - 106,400
Seat 2: Ramzi Jelassi - 117,700
Seat 3: Giorgio Antonio Giovetti - 24,500
Seat 4: Martin Schleich - 57,000
Seat 5: Gianluca Marcucci - 79,000
Seat 6: Dennis Bejedal - 72,400
Seat 7: Canio Pietrapertosa - 95,400
Seat 8: Bill Chen - 44,800

(Table 11)
Seat 1: Biagio Morciano - 46,000
Seat 2: Alexander Dovzhenko - 71,000
Seat 3: Pietro Marras - 199,100
Seat 4: Dan Murariu - 71,100
Seat 5: Konrad Molitor - 63,400
Seat 6: Marcin Horecki - 64,500
Seat 7: Matias Knaapinen - 131,300
Seat 8: Joao Barbosa - 31,400

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Fabio Mazzarello - 216,000
Seat 2: Johannes Per Jonatan Soderstrom - 119,900
Seat 3: Alexia Portal - 58,400
Seat 4: Christoph Dierkes - 61,400
Seat 5: Katalin Eszter Jerney - 144,400
Seat 6: Mauro Corsetti - 25,300
Seat 7: Ovidiu Mihai Balaj - 115,100
Seat 8: Annio Demuro - 22,400

(Table 13)
Seat 1: Daniele Vesco - 57,700
Seat 2: Calamia Mauro - 47,300
Seat 3: Stefan Raffay - 46,600
Seat 4: Nielsen Toke - 60,400
Seat 5: Antonio Lemos - 64,000
Seat 6: Bulent Karsli - 96,800
Seat 7: Giuseppe Luca - 43,600
Seat 8: Arno Luc Ackermann - 157,600

(Table 14)
Seat 1: Natale Barile - 49,700
Seat 2: Pietro Sibione - 25,300
Seat 4: Mathijs Geesing - 120,500
Seat 5: Gustav Sundell - 47,300
Seat 6: Dimitry Stelmak - 84,700
Seat 7: Vedat Akdemir - 43,600
Seat 8: Malte Strothmann - 172,300

(Table 15)
Seat 1: David Eldar - 90,600
Seat 2: Marco Vailati - 35,800
Seat 3: Orlando Camardese - 98,100
Seat 4: Daniel S Smith - 52,100
Seat 5: Alexander Fitzgerald - 52,600
Seat 6: Journot Thierry - 84,800
Seat 7: Pierre Neuville - 26,700
Seat 8: Julien Legros - 36,300

(Table 16)
Seat 1: Luca Ascani - 46,900
Seat 2: Bruno Stefanelli - 44,100
Seat 3: Andrea Marcialis - 75,400
Seat 4: Jonas Morch Sorensen - 62,700
Seat 5: Gianluca Salzano - 73,000
Seat 6: Erik Karlsson - 136,200
Seat 7: Stefano Ruggieri - 101,100