Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-28-2010 21:12 UTC+2

Breakaments

[user76023]

Three players to go, will the next level be the last?

04-28-2010 21:07 UTC+2

Perrins Finally Wins A Showdown

[user76023]

After losing around 700,000 in assorted flips against short stacks, Matt Perrins has finally managed to win one. Matthew Szymaszek was his victim, Perrins set his opponent in from the small blind with {Q-?}

and Szymaszek called with {7-?}

but a

on the flop sent another player off to the rail.

Tags: Matt Perrins

04-28-2010 21:06 UTC+2

Perrins Gets There on the River

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Matt Perrins' great wall of chips was shrinking after he found himself on the wrong end of a few flips, but he's moving back in the upward direction after the last card of the latest all-in confrontation. Perrins opened to 41,000 under the gun, and action folded around to Christopher McCormack in the small blind. McCormack moved all in, and since he only had a total of 182,000, Perrins had to make the call. Perrins showed {J-Diamonds}

to McCormack's {A-Diamonds}

, meaning he wasn't as big a dog as could have been. At least until the flop came {A-Hearts}

. After the {2-Spades}

on the turn, McCormack only had to dodge four outs to avoid elimination. And right on cue, the {Q-Diamonds}

appeared to complete Perrins' straight and bust McCormack.

Tags: Christopher McCormack Matt Perrins

04-28-2010 20:57 UTC+2

Chouity Takes a Chunk Out of Schulman

[user46392]

Nick Schulman has taken a serious hit after checking the river of a {4-Diamonds}

board to find himself facing a 276,000 bet from Chouity - by our reckoning, around two thirds of the pot. Schulman stood up and asked the dealer to spread the pot, then stared at it for a while before eventually folding. He was left with 500,000 at the end of the hand.

"Allez Chouity!" shouted someone at the rail, "Big man!"

Chouity is up to almost 2 million.

Tags: Nick Schulman Nicolas Chouity

04-28-2010 20:57 UTC+2

Sudden Energy for Guerfi

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Josef Klinger opened for 50,000 only for Lauri Meidla to re-pop for 151,000 from the button, leaving himself 230,000 behind. However, [Removed:146] shoved for 321,000 from the big blind, and following a swift fold from Klinger, Meidla folded {A-?}

up in disgust.

Guerfi wasted no time in getting his chips in again - the very next hand he shoved from the small blind to a raise from Claudiu Saizu. Saizu insta-called, but both players turned over pocket queens and after a rainbow flop they chopped the pot up.

04-28-2010 20:55 UTC+2

Payout News Continued

[user140525]

We've received official information for two more money jumps, so naturally, we'll pass it along to you. These players tripled their buy-ins, picking up €30,000 on their ways out.

41 - David Paredes, USA
42 - Bruno Lopes, France
43 - Sergey Lebedev, Russia
44 - James Bowey, UK
45 - David Peters, USA
46 - Oscar Blanco, Spain
47 - Rony Halimi, France
48 - Gianni Giaroni, Italy
49 - Christoph Pereira, France
50 - Moritz Kranich, Germany
51 - Nicolas Levi, France
52 - Thiago Nishijima, Brazil
53 - Fernando Brito, Portugal
54 - Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain
55 - Carsten Joh, Germany
56 - Mel Judah, Australia

The following earned €25,000 for their troubles.
57 - Ronald Grauer, Switzerland
58 - Jonathan Pautrot, France
59 - James Mitchell, UK
60 - Aleksander Val, Russia
61 - Nikita Nikolaev, Russia
62 - Alexander Debus, Germany
63 - Paul Testud, France
64 - Anthony Guetti, USA
65 - Olivier Daeninckx, France
66 - Davidi Kitai, France
67 - Stephane Benadiba, France
68 - Eric Fournious, France
69 - Chris Moneymaker, USA
70 - Bryan Piccioli, USA
71 - Melanie Weisner, USA
72 - Jerome Zerbib, France
73 - Dimitry Vitkind, Russia
74 - Neil Channing, UK
75 - Antonio Palma, Portugal
76 - Imre Leibold, Estonia
77 - Mikhail Shalamov, Russia
78 - Andrei Vlasenko, Russia
79 - Hicham Berdai, Morocco
80 - Jonathan Tare, USA

04-28-2010 20:53 UTC+2

Sesso Sick

[user46392]

We found chip leader Kevin Eyster betting out 85,000 on the river of a {5-Hearts}

board only for David Sesso to raise to 220,000. The action moved back on Eyster, who quietly thought about it before re-popping to 410,000.

Sesso riffled chips for a while, probably staring Eyster down from behind his sunglasses, and eventually folded. Eyster, who seems to be having a lot of fun with his enorm-stack, triumphantly showed him {A-Spades}

. Sesso giggled, and confessed that Eyster had been ahead.

Eyster is now up around the 2.6 million mark.

Tags: David Sesso Kevin Eyster

04-28-2010 20:37 UTC+2

Lex-it As Veldhuis Is Clubbed To Death

[user76023]

Lex Veldhuis reraised all-in preflop over the top a middle position raise for around 260,000 but he got a pretty swift call from Laurent Olive, the said raiser.

Olive: {A-Clubs}

Veldhuis:

Board:

The disappointed Dutchman goes out just shy of making the final three tables.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

04-28-2010 20:24 UTC+2

Guerfi Perks Up

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Josef Klinger opened for 50,000 only for Lauri Meidla to re-pop for 151,000 from the button, leaving himself 230,000 behind. However, [Removed:146] shoved for 321,000 from the big blind, and following a swift fold from Klinger, Meidla folded {A-?}

up in disgust.

Guerfi wasted no time in getting his chips in again - the very next hand he shoved from the small blind to a raise from Claudiu Saizu. Saizu insta-called, but both players turned over pocket queens and after a rainbow flop they chopped the pot up.

04-28-2010 20:16 UTC+2

Szymaszek Has a Coren-ary

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Matthew Szymaszek - wonder how many points that name would get in Scrabble - opened for 41,000 and Vicky Coren pushed for exactly 222,000 from the small blind. It didn't take Szymaszek long to fold, and Coren bumped her stack up a little, though she remains one of our shorties.

Tags: Vicky Coren