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

10-05-2009 20:35 UTC+2

Break Time #1,000,000

[user46392]

Back to milling for 15 minutes before the action resumes.

10-05-2009 20:32 UTC+2

Further woe for Theo Tran, as he raised under the gun to be met with a reraise from Josef Samanek. Once everyone had got out of their way, Tran dwelled mightily before announcing all in -- and was mortified when Samanek insta-called.

Tran: {7-Clubs}

Samanek:

Board:

Tran walked off in frustration and is left with 400,000; Samanek meanwhile is up to 800,000 or so and probably very happy.

Tags: Josef Samanek Theo Tran

10-05-2009 20:20 UTC+2

The Fingernails Of His Fingernails

[user76023]

Michael Greco is still in. Just. He has 30,000 but has been waiting a long time to make his move but seems to be waiting for hands despite having been virtually blinded away.

10-05-2009 20:19 UTC+2

Rui-ing The Call

[user76023]

Rui Milhomens raised preflop to 27,000 and Marty Smyth called from the big blind.

Both players checked the {3-Clubs}

flop before Smyth bet 50,000 on the {8-Clubs}

and a further 110,000 on the {K-Diamonds}

river after he was called. The Portuguese player mucked though when he saw Smyth's {A-Diamonds}

.

Smyth over 600,000. Milhomens down to about 150,000 or so.

10-05-2009 20:16 UTC+2

Lusso Lives to Fight Another Round at Least

[user46392]

Theo Tran is down to 735,000 now and looking dreadfully unhappy.

The source of this latest loss -- Alessandro Lusso shoved preflop and Tran called with two live cards, but Lusso's hand held up to double him to 300,000.

Lusso: {A-Diamonds}

Tran:

Board:

Tags: Alessandro Lusso Theo Tran

10-05-2009 20:10 UTC+2

Rodrigoing Up

[user46392]

Last Brazilian Standing, Rodrigo Caprioli, will be standing for a little while longer -- he's just doubled up to 420,000 through Nikolai Senninger.

Senninger: {A-Clubs}

Rodrigo Caprioli: {A-Hearts}

Board:

No feeling sorry for Senninger though -- he's doing just fine on 1.53 million.

Tags: Nikolai Senninger

10-05-2009 20:06 UTC+2

Lisandro Busto

[user46392]

No more information than that, we're afraid, but the Tony Soprano lookalike and small hat enthusiast, incidentally Player Of The Year, is out.

Tags: Jeff Lisandro

10-05-2009 19:58 UTC+2

Tailspin-dler

[user76023]

Benny Spindler has hit a major downturn. First doubling up Rui Milhomens with {K-Diamonds}

against

after a

board.

Then he called Kenneth Hicks' all-in with {K-Hearts}

but was up against {A-Diamonds}

and couldn't win out on a {A-Clubs}

board.

He's lost around half a million in these two pots.

10-05-2009 19:56 UTC+2

Haik Like

[user46392]

We arrived at the table to see a {3-Spades}

board out, perhaps 400,000 in the pot, and all of Eric Haik's remaining 700,000 in front of him. We deduced that he'd moved all in.

Theo Tran dwelled. He squirmed. He stood up. "Maybe jacks," he hypothesized. All of this took a very long time.

Haik grinned up at him, then pulled his purple hoodie up and hid under it, his hands over his head. Eventually, after some minutes' more dwelling time, Tran folded, accidentally exposing the {J-Hearts}

. To a chorus of "wow"s around the table, Haik showed {8-Spades}

.

Haik - up to 1.15 million
Tran - down to 800,000

Tags: Eric Haik Theo Tran

10-05-2009 19:47 UTC+2

Senninger Assassinates Baldassari

[user46392]

Fabrizio Baldassari, in the big blind position, checked the turn of a {J-Spades}

board, a whole load of chips in the middle already. Nikolai Senninger on the button bet a whopping 230,000, and sent Baldassari into the tank. When he came out again, he moved all in and Senninger called instantly.

"F***," said Baldassari when he saw Senninger's hand.

Baldassari: {K-Clubs}

Senninger: {J-Hearts}

River:

Baldassari is bust, while Senninger is up to 1.66 million.

Tags: Nikolai Senninger