Main Event
Day 3 Started
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Day 3 Dawns; Daniel Dominates
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Good morning and welcome back to Vienna's Kursalon where things are about to get very serious indeed.
Last night we made the money when the unfortunate Gianni Giaroni smacked his 
into Riekus Wijermars' pocket aces. Everyone is now guaranteed to get paid a little something, but there is a whole world of difference between an €8,000 min-cash and the €700,000 on offer for first place.
Our big chip leader as we head into the day is Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu was already a big stack after doubling up with aces against kings , when he rivered a set of tens to eliminate two players and lurch into the chip lead. Negreanu only increased his stack as the evening progressed, and at 893,000 is almost 200,000 chips ahead of the next man.
Also still in the running are Team PokerStars Pros Martin Hruby, Nacho Barbero and Angel Guillen, Luke "_FullFlush1_" Schwartz and 2006 EPT Grand Final winner Jeff Williams.
Play is due to get underway at noon, so go get yourself einen grossen kaffee, have a nice stroll around the Stadtpark, and join us back at the Kursalon then.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
And They're Off!
Players are at the tables and cards are in the air.
Go go go!
Seat Draw
Our chip leader, Mr. Daniel Negreanu, seems to have drawn a rather nice table with a bunch of short stacks...
Name Table Seat Chips
Matthias Lechner 1 1 91,500
Manole Mihai 1 2 604,500
Claudio Simaldoni 1 3 340,000
Surinder Sunar 1 4 34,500
Stefan Horwath 1 5 110,000
Bruno Launais 1 6 195,500
Andreas Wiese 1 7 258,000
Georgios Kapalas 1 8 157,000
Tonio Röder 2 1 371,000
Pantazidis Anestis 2 2 56,500
Franz Markus Popetschnig 2 3 111,000
Andrey Gulyy 2 4 89,500
Wolfgang Beyer 2 5 288,000
Luke Schwartz 2 6 232,500
Moshe Vaizman 2 7 138,500
Csaba Solyom 2 8 190,500
Tomer Berda 3 1 74,500
Sergii Baranov 3 2 106,000
Victorino Torres 3 3 203,000
Daniel Biro 3 4 324,500
Maria Maceiras 3 5 39,000
Janar Kiivramees 3 6 145,000
Cengiz Can Ulusu 3 7 251,500
Antonio Buonanno 3 8 704,500
Markus Herbel 4 1 268,000
Konstantinos Nanos 4 2 365,500
Harrison Kaczka 4 3 64,500
Zhou Yongjian 4 4 131,000
Mikhail Olegovich Ryabkov 4 5 100,100
Daniel Negreanu 4 6 893,000
Tim Ulrich 4 7 185,500
Ville Mattila 4 8 221,000
Tommie Janssen 5 1 395,000
Claudiu Secara 5 2 194,500
Balazs Botond 5 3 249,000
Bozo Bagaric 5 4 65,500
Ramin Hajiyev 5 5 130,000
Pierre-Elie De Oliveira 5 6 169,000
Emile Jad Yazbeck 5 7 96,500
Morten Erlandsen 5 8 295,500
Charles Combes 6 1 180,500
Ofir Abramovici 6 2 103,800
Luca Cainelli 6 3 135,000
Jason Wheeler 6 4 259,500
Nima Ahary 6 5 303,500
Michael Eiler 6 6 438,500
Alain Medesan 6 7 57,000
Santiago Terrazas 6 8 213,000
Angel Guillen 7 1 94,000
Marc Jaques Zaicik 7 2 191,500
Michael Schürpf 7 3 57,000
Paolo Della Penna 7 4 152,000
Fabrizio Gonzalez 7 5 373,500
Balazs Csermely 7 6 293,500
Jurgen Reicht 7 7 120,000
Kirill Zapletin 7 8 236,500
Thomas Petterson 8 1 88,500
Nacho Barbero 8 2 137,000
Peter Kamaras 8 3 284,500
Matthias Lotze 8 4 108,500
Jeff Williams 8 5 189,000
Stavros Kalfas 8 6 38,000
Martin Hruby 8 7 228,000
Riekus Hein Wijermars 8 8 530,000
Kirill Ratsov 9 1 125,000
Dominique Papesch 9 2 81,500
Toni Judet 9 3 704,000
Josef Klinger 9 4 255,500
Sergey Rybchenko 9 5 150,500
Jack Ellwood 9 6 306,000
Jens Weigl 9 7 17,000
[Removed:40] 9 8 219,500
Elmar Müller 10 1 257,000
Giacomo Maisto 10 2 135,500
Peter Gavril 10 3 175,000
Jose Severino 10 4 637,500
Illia Kainov 10 5 208,500
Anthony Roux 10 6 347,500
Manuel Hoffmann 10 7 65,000
Lubomir Kudlicka 10 8 96,000
A Lot Can Happen in Five Minutes
They've hit the ground running here in the Kursalon, but some have made a beeline for the exit. Michael Schürpf's 
lost an all-in preflop race against 
(which he had to find out after it was done and dusted - he stood with his back to the table while all five cards were dealt including the 
) while we're not sure what happened to Jens Weigl but he was spotted getting up from his seat and walking slowly away.
Better news for Alain Medesan supporters - the chatty Romanian, who yesterday had no fewer than three of his fellow Romanians on his table, has doubled up to over 40k. He moved in on the button when it folded round with 
, and big blind Charles Combes asked how much it was before making the call with 
. The board ran out 
pairing Medesan's Ten and giving him a little breathing room.
"When you instacall you win this," he said. "You can't think about it!"
Medesan's previous EPT best result is 4th at Snowfest - he'll be looking to better his record at this second Austrian venue.
Kalfas Culled
Stavros Kalfas came back today as an extreme short stack with just 38,000 and wasted little time in getting it in with 
. However, Peter Kamaras decided to give him a spin with 
, quickly proceeded to spike a nine on the 
board, and following some very gentlemanly handshaking and the like, Kalfas hit the rail.
Morning Madness
It is all kicking off at the start of Day 3 here in the sunshine of Vienna. As we scour the tables looking for action the Dealers are giving the familiar cry of "All-in and Call". Lets recap some of those.
Firstly, over at table 9 Dominique Papesch found himself all-in against one of the chip leaders Team Pokerstars Pro Toni Judet. Papesch held the 
and Judet held the 
. Papesch doubles up though when the board runs out 
and the Austrian keeps the local flag flying when he spikes his Ace.
Then we see some 5,000 chips being thrown around on table 10. We stride over to the next table in time to see Giacomo Maisto making an under the gun raise to 15,000 and Jose Severino making the three-bet from position. Severino made it 39,000 to play and Maisto called despite being out of position. Who cares about position? The flop was Ace high 
and Maisto led out with a bet of 35,000 and Severino folded a pair of Kings face up. Maisto proudly showed his bluff 
and high fived his friend stood next to him.
"All-in and Call" shouts the Dealer from table 2 and we whizz over to find Andrey Gulyy all-in pre flop against Luke Schwartz. Gulyy has a pair of Deuces and Schwartz a pair of Kings. The flop is the 
and Schwartz shouts "2" and the dealer dealt the 
. Gulyy survives and Schwartz loses 60,000
Vale Maria
Maria Maceiras has bitten the dust after moving her short stack in with in an open spot but finding the dominating 
of Tomer Berda behind her. She was already standing up on the turn, as the had placed her in the 'drawing dead' category, and took her leave with a rueful smile.
Big Sweat for Combes
It was surely exciting for Charles Combes to pick up in the big blind when big-stacked Michael Eiler had raised in the cutoff to 12k - his shove (120k total) looked suspicious enough for Eiler to call with 
and Combes was poised to double up.
The flop, however, was 
. It's hard to imagine a worse one for the Aces in this match-up. Combes had to sweat the turn and river at full fever pitch, and exhaled as the pot came over to him, saying, "My heart was pounding."