2010 NAPT Venetian Main Event Day 3 | 2010 NAPT Venetian

02-22-2010 18:53 UTC-12

Play Resumes

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Cards are back in the air. 36 players remain.

02-22-2010 19:02 UTC-12

Billirakis Bests a Pair Again

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Vanessa Rousso check-called a bet of 40,000 on the flop of {J-Spades}

from Steve Billirakis. The turn brought the {Q-Spades}

and Rousso checked again. Billirakis fired 100,000 and Rousso called again.

The river was the {K-Diamonds}

and Rousso checked. Billirakis checked behind. Rousso showed pocket tens and Billirakis held the {Q-Hearts}

.

Rousso dropped to 739,000 and Billirakis improved to 1.46 million

Tags: Steve Billirakis Vanessa Rousso

02-22-2010 19:08 UTC-12

Steve Billirakis raised and then David Paredes reraised to 74,000. Billirakis made it 220,000 and then Paredes moved all in, having Billirakis covered. Billirakis didn't seem to like the spot, but said that he had to call.

Billirakis held {Q-Hearts}

and Paredes held {J-Diamonds}

.

The board ran out {K-Hearts}

and Billirakis doubled up to over 1.1 million while Paredes dropped to 110,000.

Tags: David Paredes Steve Billirakis

02-22-2010 19:12 UTC-12

De Gilio Doubles through Sindelar

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Daniel Sindelar decided it was time to gamble. He opened from late position to 40,000, then was faced with an all-in re-raise of 280,000 from Michael De Gilio. Sindelar went for broke, calling the all in with {4-Diamonds}

. De Gilio showed {Q-Spades}

and the race was on.

Board: {8-Clubs}

A queen on the flop was enough for De Gilio to take down the pot. He stays alive by doubling up to 580,000, while Sindelar is now quite short with 125,000.

Tags: Daniel Sindelar Michael De Gilio

02-22-2010 19:16 UTC-12

Dewitt Doubles

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Blair Hinkle raised, and Jason Dewitt moved all in for another 207,000. Hinkle made the call.

Showdown
Dewitt: {A-Hearts}

Hinkle:

Board:

Ace-high held for the double.

Tags: Blair Hinkle Jason Dewitt

02-22-2010 19:23 UTC-12

Rousso's Turn to Steam

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Vanessa Rousso's stack is trending dangerously downwards. She called the all in of Tom Sinistaj for 198,000 with pocket queens, {Q-Clubs}

. Sinistaj turned up {A-Spades}

and flopped two pair to the delight of his railbirds, {A-Clubs}

. But Sinistaj told them to calm down; Rousso still could hit a queen or any club to take the lead in the hand.

That didn't happen. The board bricked off {2-Spades}

and

, with Rousso popping out of her chair in disgust and seeking calming words from her own railbirds. After she paid off Sinistaj she was down to 440,000 chips.

Tags: Tom Sinistaj Vanessa Rousso

02-22-2010 19:33 UTC-12

Raghavan Busto

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A short-stacked Ravi Raghavan was just eliminated by Steve Billirakis, taking the tournament down to its final four tables.

The players are re-drawing for seats. The plan is to eliminate eight more players before bagging the chips. We'll have the re-draw in just a few moments.

02-22-2010 19:45 UTC-12

Interview with Lichtenberger

donpeters

One of the chip leaders is Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger and he has been sitting behind a massive stack of chips ever since accumulating them from the huge pot he played between Lars Bonding yesterday. Kristy Arnett caught up with Lichtenberger on a recent break and here's what he had to say.

Tags: "LuckyChewy"Andrew Lichtenberger

02-22-2010 19:52 UTC-12

Table Draw

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Table 53

Seat 1: Joseph Cutler
Seat 2: Jonathan Aguiar
Seat 3: Blake Buffington
Seat 4: Daniel Sindelar
Seat 5: John Franciosi
Seat 6: Mark Ketteringham
Seat 7: David Paredes
Seat 8: Blair Hinkle

Table 54

Seat 1: Tom Marchese
Seat 2: Kyle Zartman
Seat 3: Cody Slaubaugh
Seat 4: Steve Billirakis
Seat 5: Michael De Gilio
Seat 6: Andrew Chen
Seat 7: Vanessa Rousso
Seat 8: Christina Lindley

Table 56

Seat 1: Thomas Fuller
Seat 2: Yunus Jamal
Seat 3: Daniel Clemente
Seat 4: "Miami" John Cernuto
Seat 5: Tom Sinistaj
Seat 6: Michael Binger
Seat 7: Daniel Cossette
Seat 8: Steve Stolzmann

Table 57

Seat 1: Andy Seth
Seat 2: Sam Stein
Seat 3: Jason Dewitt
Seat 4: Daniele Nestola
Seat 5: Andy Lichtenberger
Seat 6: Steve O'Dwyer
Seat 7: David Miscikowski
Seat 8: Eric Blair

02-22-2010 20:09 UTC-12

Franciosi Cracks Cutler's Aces

donpeters

John Franciosi raised to 40,000 and then Joe Cutler made it 82,000. Franciosi went all in for 299,000 and Cutler quickly called.

Franciosi held the {5-Spades}