Main Event Day 3 | The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-09-2013 13:36 UTC+2

O'Dwyer Wins EPT London Rematch

Happy_Freaked

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

Steve O'Dwyer finished fifth in EPT London for £146,000 last March while his opponent Christopher Frank busted just before him in sixth place for £112,000. These two players are sitting at the same table right before the money bubble today and O'Dwyer got the best of Frank once more.

We picked up the action when the board read , and Frank check-called a bet worth 23,000. On the river the hit and Frank checked again. O'Dwyer bet 75,000 this time and the just 18-year old German tanked for a solid two minutes before making the call.

O'Dwyer tabled for the flopped nuts and took down this big pot. O'Dwyer is on pace for yet another deep EPT run after final tabling three earlier events.

Player	Chips	Progress
Steve O'Dwyer	527,500 138,300	138,300

Christopher Frank	65,000 -53,900	-53,900

Tags: Christopher Frank Steve O'Dwyer

05-09-2013 13:40 UTC+2

Break

Happy_Freaked

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

Play will resume in 20 minutes.

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

05-09-2013 14:01 UTC+2

Diaz Done For

[user101598]

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Just before the break, we arrived at a table where Adrian Mateos Diaz was standing, all in and at risk with . Belarus' Vasili Firsau had him at risk with , and snatched the lead away from his Spanish opponent when the dealer fanned .

Diaz threw his hands on his head in shock, and they remained there was the turn and river came , respectively.

Firsau now sits with 185,000, while Diaz is eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vasili Firsau	185,000 8,800	8,800
Adrian Mateos Diaz	Busted

Tags: Adrian Mateos Diaz Vasili Firsau

05-09-2013 14:01 UTC+2

Victor Ramdin In The Zone, And Staying There

MarcC

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

The Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin is enjoying a decent 2013, including his main event here in Monaco. As he tells PokerStars Blog, he has developed strategies to keep him "in the zone", as if his livelihood depended on it.

05-09-2013 14:01 UTC+2

Soft Bubble For...

MarcC

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikolaus Teichert	Busted
JC Alvarado	Busted
Dmitry Shchepkin	Busted

05-09-2013 14:02 UTC+2

Counts on Break

[user101598]

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Johnny Lodden	665,000 95,100	95,100

Noah Schwartz	615,000 70,000	70,000
Steve O'Dwyer	589,000 61,500	61,500

Andrew Pantling	480,000 73,000	73,000
Calvin Anderson	466,000 -6,600	-6,600

Oleksii Kovalchuk	450,000 35,800	35,800
Ville Wahlbeck	431,500 283,300	283,300

Goran Mandic	420,000 110,000	110,000
Jason Mercier	359,000 37,100	37,100

Gerard Gardelli	355,000 55,000	55,000
Panagiotis Gavriilidis	341,000 83,400	83,400
Alex Klimashin	331,000 -29,000	-29,000
Alec Torelli	320,000 49,900	49,900

Clyde Tjauw Foe	320,000 80,000	80,000
Jake Cody	310,000 10,000	10,000

Kevin Iacofano	295,000 105,300	105,300
Victor Ramdin	295,000 145,000	145,000

Freddy Deeb	288,000 -62,200	-62,200
Kirill Telezhkin	281,000 22,700	22,700
David Vamplew	276,000

German Dansker	267,000 -22,000	-22,000
Daniel Negreanu	265,000 -4,800	-4,800

Conte Francesco Paolo	262,000 56,700	56,700
Andrew Lichtenberger	227,500 200	200

Per Ummer	220,000 75,000	75,000

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05-09-2013 14:18 UTC+2

Out Of The Darkness And Grudgingly Into The Light

MarcC

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 300 ante

The sun is out and the roof is off. Natalie Hof and Gaëlle Garcia Diaz might love it but for others the return to darkness can’t come soon enough. Click through to the PokerStars Blog.

05-09-2013 14:22 UTC+2

Big Stacks Clash

[user101598]

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Faced with an open, Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody three-bet to 18,500 on the button. Freddy Deeb, who finished 12th in the Season 6 EPT Deauville Main Event, cold four-bet to 68,500 from the big blind, and the action folded back to Cody.

The Brit went into the tank, then eventually moved all in.

"How much?" Deeb asked immediately.

The dealer counted down Cody's stack and told Deeb that it was 258,000 more.

"That big?" Deeb asked, referring to the contents of Cody's hand.

Cody remained silent.

Deeb hummed and hawed for for the better part of a minute, then folded face up. Cody slid his hand into the muck without showing, and raked in the pot.