£5,000 EPT London Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT London

£5,000 EPT London Main Event

Day 3 Completed

10-05-2009 23:48 UTC+2

Day 3 Concludes, 3 Tables Left

[user46392]

It's another relatively early night for our remaining runners -- we've whittled our field from 111 to 24 in under 11 hours.

As we reach that great point in the tournament when the press start to outnumber the players, our chip leader seems to be British amateur Michael Berry, who won his seat in a vast freeroll run by PokerStars in conjunction with the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper, of all places.

However, there's not much in it chip-wise, with a number of other players in roughly the 1.5 million bracket, and don't forget we've still got a clutch of fearsome faces in the field, including Annette Obrestad, Peter Eastgate and Benny Spindler.

Whatever happens tomorrow, it should be very interesting. Join us back here at noon GMT+1 when we'll playing down to a final table.

10-05-2009 23:41 UTC+2

Tamas Lendvai Eliminated In 25th Place (£15,600)

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Hungarian Tamas Lendvai moved all-in from the cut-off for 245,000 and Peter Eastgate reraised all-in from the small blind.

Eastgate: {K-Hearts}

Lendvai:

The board came {3-Hearts}

meaning we were down to 24 players and done for the night.

10-05-2009 23:28 UTC+2

Ladies Let Macphee Down

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Ivo Donev raised, only for Kevin Macphee to reraise. Back to Donev, who must have been delighted to be afforded this shoving opportunity with {A-Diamonds}

, and Macphee called all in with {Q-Spades}

.

No change on the {4-Diamonds}

board, and Macphee is Mac-busted.

Just one more player to lose before bedtime.

Tags: Ivo Donev Kevin Macphee

10-05-2009 23:24 UTC+2

Smyth & Lessen

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Marty Smyth and Vivek Rajkumar made it to the river of the {K-Clubs}

board at which point Smyth checked. Rajkumar bet 200,000, and after a brief dwell Smyth very quickly moved a stack of blue 10,000 chips across the line by way of a call, as though he was afraid he might change his mind if he did it more slowly. But Rajkumar turned over {A-Clubs}

and Smyth couldn't beat it -- he mucked and is down to 640,000, to the horror of the Irish media members watching. Rajkumar meanwhile is up to 1.65 million.

Tags: Marty Smyth Vivek Rajkumar

10-05-2009 23:19 UTC+2

Haik Busto

[user76023]

Eric Haik reraised against Josef Samanek preflop with the Czech player calling.

The flop was {Q-Hearts}

and Haik moved in. Samanek instantly called with {A-Clubs}

, Haik in a bit of trouble with {4-Diamonds}

. The turn gave him a wheel draw with the {A-Hearts}

but the river was the {9-Hearts}

and Haik was crippled. Soon after, he was out while Samanek now has 1.2 million.

10-05-2009 23:08 UTC+2

Slooowwwwiiinggg Dooowwwwnnn

[user46392]

With just three bust-outs left to go before home time, play has slowed down considerably. Everyone wants to make Day 4 and the serious money, and, as Jeffrey Haas said, "There's a lot of chips in play."

10-05-2009 22:53 UTC+2

Continuing In The Black-Smyth

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Mitesh Anjaria is the latest player to fall. He was all-in on a {9-?}

board with {10-?}

but couldn't improve against Marty Smyth's {Q-?}

when the board failed to produce any more Tens or Nines.

Smyth has 1.1 million now.

10-05-2009 22:46 UTC+2

Montury Conquered

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Jean Montury open-shoved for 270,000, and Vivek Rajkumar reshoved to isolate. On their backs.

Montury: {A-Clubs}

Rajkumar:

Board:

Montury is out, and Rajkumar moves up to 1.4 million.

10-05-2009 22:40 UTC+2

Greco Finally Busts

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Michael Greco moved all-in from the button for 114,000. Josef Samanek thought for a second but folded.

Peter Eastgate, who Greco had told earlier that he wouldn't mind being busted by anyone but him, called.

Greco: {J-Hearts}

Eastgate:

"Six!" says Greco.

{7-Hearts}

"Five, five, five."

{A-Hearts}

"Five."

No luck and Greco is eliminated.