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Team Pokerstar Pros Martin Hruby and Nacho Barbero just clashed hands with Hruby coming on top and eliminating the Argentine pro in the process.
We caught the action late so don't know the betting patterns but Hruby had pocket kings and Barbero 
. The board was 
giving Hruby the straight.
Matthias Lotze has doubled up courtesy of Dutch shoutbox favourite Reikus Wijermars. His held against the 
of Wijermars (all in preflop) to give him a more playable 200k stack.
At the same minute Zhou Yongjian's final shove was working out in favour of Ville Mattila, who found 
when Yongjian made a preflop stand with 
. No upsets from the 
board and we're down another player.
All eliminated players so far (and up to two tables' worth) receive €8,000 for making it as far as Day Three.
All of us here at PokerNews would like to wish Mr. Anthony Roux of France a very happy day indeed - today is his 27th birthday. And what better way to celebrate than with his second ever EPT cash?
Many happy returns, Mr. Roux.
Sergii Baranov just got a whole lot of luck which keeps his EPT dreams alive - barely. When someone gets lucky inevitably someone gets unlucky and this time it was Pokerstars Qualifier Kirill Zapletin.
Baranov open shoved from the Button and Zapletin called from the Blind. Zapletin had pocket aces and Baranov rolled over a rather meek looking 
. The flop was 
giving Baranov that faintest of hopes. Then the turn 
gave the Ukrainian two pair and the river 
didn't help Zapletin. Zapletin took his war wound like a man and shook the hand of Baranov in a good show of poker sportsmanship.
Pokerstars Qualifier Michael Eiler can do no wrong at the moment. Yesterday he clashed horns with none other than Tom Dwan and came out on top of a few skirmishes. He has started today just like he left off yesterday, in sterling form - albeit with a touch of luck.
We don't know what the pre flop action was but Eiler and Abramovici were all in. Eiler holding 
and Abramovici 
. The board was 
and then Abramovici's EPT dreams were shattered by the 
river.
Eiler ~ 620,000
Mihai Manole continues to hang around with the heavyweights of this tournament after eliminating Stefan Horwath. Manole's pocket threes beating Horwaths 
in a pre flop all-in encounter.
Luke Schwartz approaches the first break of the day with a very similar stack to his Day One low point, thanks to a hand against Anestis Pantazidis. The big decision was put to him on the turn, with the board reading 
. Pantazidis had moved all in (170k) over Schwartz' bet of 31k, and he was thinking hard about it, getting up, sitting down and looking tortured.
At last he shoved his stack in - literally - the towers of chips forming a lake in front of him. He wasn't happy to see the flopped house for Pantazidis who held vs. his . The river was the and there ensued a pause during which two floor staff stacked Schwartz back up. It turned out he had about 25k left.
"I've come back from four big blinds before. I'll do it again," he said (speaking about his return from the brink in this very tournament).
Daniel Negreanu has topped the all-time money list before, but as we speak he has been pipped by one Mr. Phil Ivey. Ivey is around $800,000 ahead right now - $13,642,275 to Negreanu's $12,836,012. However, if Negreanu takes the top spot here this week - and only the top spot - he will once again break Mr. Ivey's record.
The drinks are on him!
The Italian Giacomo Maisto is now up to 480,000 after eliminating Lubomir Kudlicka. We caught the money as it all went in on the turn. The board was 
and all the money was in the middle.
Kudlicka: 
for top pair.
Maisto: 
for the top straight.
The river was no help to either party 
Maisto who cashed in EPT Vilamoura finishing in 53rd place is on course to equal or better that today.
