2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final
Day: 3
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
$3,198,500
Event Info
Buy-in
$15,764
Prize Pool
$13,393,124
Entries
842
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000

Denes Kalo Knocks Out Two

Denes Kalo made a button raise to 20,000, the small blind moved all in, and Stephen Kjaerstad moved all in from the big blind behind him, sending Kalo into the tank, where he remained long enough to get a clock called on him. As the seconds ticked down, he finally made the call turning up {K-Clubs}{K-Spades}. The small blind turned up {A-Clubs}{9-Hearts} and the big blind tabled {A-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}. The flop was {J-Spades}{10-Spades}{3-Diamonds}, the turn was the {10-Clubs}, the river was the {2-Diamonds}, and Kalo won the pot, giving him a huge chip infusion on the last hand of the night. Both of his opponents were eliminated and with that, we're down to 39 players and Day 3 is a wrap.

Tags: Denes KaloStephen Kjaerstad

Good Night from Monte Carlo

The Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort at night
The Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort at night
It took exactly 12 hours to weed the field down to 39 from 124, but we finally made it. An eventful Day 3 was filled with double-ups, knockouts, a two-and-a-half-hour bubble and a fisticuffs match that almost was. Antonio Esfandiari is your unofficial Day 3 chip leader; we'll post the official counts as soon as they are made available to us.

Play will resume tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 p.m. local time, when the remaining 39 players will begin the final stretch in their race to the final table. Until then, bonsoir et bonne chance (good night and good luck)!

End of Day 3 Chip Counts

Antonio Esfandiari - 1198000
Robin Keston - 916000
Denes Kalo - 642000
Johnny Lodden - 623000
Maxime Villemure - 600000
Mostafa Belkhayate - 523000
Gerasimos Deres - 494500
Henrik Gwinner - 487000
David Shade Kruger - 486500
Thomas Boekhoff - 465000
Rami Boukai - 425000
Eric Liu - 398000
Noah Siegel - 388500
Stig Top Rasmussen - 373000
Glen Chorny - 344000
Oyvind Riisem - 340000
Pablo Ubierna - 316000
Peter Traply - 300500
Valeriy Ilikyan - 295000
Claudio Pagano - 291000
Jonathan Dwek - 282000
Luca Pagano - 279500
Amit Makhija - 269500
David Miara - 249500
Isaac 'westmenloAA' Baron - 236500
Joe Hachem - 214500
Michael Martin - 141500
Freddy Deeb - 140500
Alexander Morozov - 133000
Raymond Rahme - 133000
Walid Bou Habib - 127500
Benjamin Sprengers - 127000
Anders Hoyer Berg - 124000
Andrew Luetchford - 116000
Vincent Secher - 92500
Anthony Chatelain - 83500
Tomas Brolin - 74000
Andreas Fluri - 61000
Stefan Geim - 58000

PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final

Day 3 Completed