Main Event
Day 3 Started
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen
Buy-in
35,000 DKK
Entries
299
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
EPT Copenhagen Day 3: Weisner Leads; Tureniec, Iacofano, Khan & Helppi Still In The Hunt
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Hello poker world and welcome to Day 3 of the European Poker Tour stop in Copenhagen. We have 72 of the original 299 players remaining, and online heads up specialist, Melanie Weisner is sitting pretty at the top of the chip counts with 368,200 of those round plastic things.
We introduced Day 1 by talking about the big three from last year: Michael Tureniec, Per Linde and John Eames. Linde and Eames have done an Elvis Presley, but our reigning champion Tureniec is in a great position to become our first ever double EPT Champion sitting towards the top end of the counts with 214,500. He may no longer have Linde and Eames for company, but he does have Season 7 EPT Copenhagen final tablists Kevin Iacofano (finished in 4th place), Mudassar Khan (finished in 6th place) and Juha Helppi (finished in 8th place). All three of those players have impressive chip stacks and could easily mount an assault on back-to-back EPT Copenhagen final tables.
The action starts at 12.00 (CET) and our plan is to play down to 24 runners so make sure you join us at Pokernews for all the action.
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
And We're Off!
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Day 3 of EPT Copenhagen is now underway!
Four Down Already
Play has got off to a lightning pace as we've lost four players already. Jens Haenel, Henri Tepsa, Andreas Nilsson, and Andrey Gulyy have all departed within the first ten minutes. We're only 20 spots off the money now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Shek Cut Short
Chi hung Shek's not had the best of starts to Day 3 as he has just lost almost all of his stack in a hand against Poland's Gzergorz Cichocki.
We did not see the hand go down but Cichocki was all-in with 
and the dealer was counting Shek's stack out as his 
had lost on a board reading 
after a battle of the blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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142,000 | 65,700 |
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5,200 | -58,400 |
Weisner Eliminates Gulyy
Intrepid reporter MarcC gave you the names of the first four players to bust on Day 3 and here is the detail surrounding Andrey Gulyy's exit.
The action folded around to Gulyy on the button and he moved all-in for 13,300. The small blind folded and Melanie Weisner was still building her stack in the big blind when she looked at both cards and mouthed the words call.
| Weisner |  |
| Gulyy |   |
The board offered no support for Gulyy and he stood up, gave Weisner a good luck kiss and departed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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383,000 | 14,800 |
Sorensen Soaring
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
From the cutoff Henrik Sorensen made it 4,300 to play and Grzegorz Cichocki took a short break from stacking the chips he had just won in the hand with Chi Hung Shek, to make the call from the small blind.
The dealer put out the 
and Cichocki tapped the table and checked then got back to meticulously stacking his chips. Sorensen made a continuation bet of 6,100 and Cichocki instantly called. The turn card was the and Cichocki check-called again, this time a larger 11,200 bet from Sorensen.
The river was dealt just as Cichocki had rebuilt his towers and he checked again. Sorensen looked like a man resigned to losing this hand but that was not the case because when he checked behind and showed 
his opponent mucked his hand.
It's All About the Money, Money, Money.....Not
Martin Staszko won over $5 million by coming second at last year's WSOP and you think that would be enough. Not so for the Czech Team PokerStars Pro. He seems to love the competition and this was shown just now as he gave a little fist pump when he doubled up his micro stack to a short stack.
He was heads up to a 
flop and checked to Maksim Semisoshenko on the button who bet-called Staszko's shove with 
. Staszko opened and stayed ahead through the 
turn and river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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65,000 | 37,100 |
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42,000 | -33,900 |
Ravnsbaek Starts Well
The top two players in the chip counts are both sharing table space on Table 29. We just brought you the news that Melanie Weisner has started well, now we bring you news of a good start for Simon Ravnsbaek as well.
Ravnsbaek raised to 4,200 in early position and Andreas Wiese defended his big blind. The flop was and both players checked. The turn was the and Wiese led for 5,200, a lead that Ravnsbaek called. The final card was the and both players checked.
Ravnsbaek showed down 
for a pair and Wiese showed 
. We didn't catch the final card but the pot was moved in the direction of Ravnsbaek.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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333,000 | |
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144,400 |