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

10-05-2009 14:33 UTC+1

Maridu Gets Lucky

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Maridu Mayrinck has doubled through Jon Heath holding {A-?}

and managing to pair both her hole cards against his {J-?}

in a slice of good fortune. Heath though started the day with over 300,000 but now has dropped to a short stack.

10-05-2009 14:24 UTC+1

Brecard Busts Jacobs

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Jules - Striking a blow for journalists everywhere.

Julien Brecard is up to 440,000 after eliminating Lawrence Jacobs with {A-Diamonds}

against

. The board almost offered excitement but then failed to deliver when it came {J-Hearts}

.

10-05-2009 14:12 UTC+1

Bad Day for Tran

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JC Tran has been having a tough time of it.

He made it to the river of a {K-Spades}

board and was faced with a 62,000 bet from Max Heinzelmann. After a long period of staring at the board, Tran folded while Heinzelmann bumped his already big stack up to 430,000.

Next hand and Tran raised to 16,000 -- but Jonathan Heath pushed for 100,000 and Tran declined to make the call.

Tran's down to 155,000.

Tags: JC Tran

10-05-2009 14:05 UTC+1

Michael In A Berry Tough Spot

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On the turn of a {2-Diamonds}

board, Michael Berry saw his 15,000 bet check-raised by Andrew Lichtenberger to 50,000. Berry made a quick call to see the {4-Spades}

river where Lichtenberger fired out 140,000 which represent about half of Berry's remamining stack.

Berry agonised for several minutes, talking to both himself and Lichtenberger, while shrugging his shoulders, clearly unsure what to do next. Eventually, and with the clock called on him, Berry folded as Lichtenberger silently took in the pot.

10-05-2009 14:00 UTC+1

Reinkemeier Doubles

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Tobias Reinkemeier just doubled up through Paul Kristofferson holding {Q-Diamonds}

on a

board against the Swede's {K-Hearts}

. A blank

on the turn helped neither player but the {J-Clubs}

river housed the German up to put him back into contention.

10-05-2009 13:59 UTC+1

Money Makes People Act Strangely

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We were hoping we'd see some craziness now that we're in the money, and we've not been disappointed.

Antonio Buonanno raised, and the action folded to Ilkka "Ilari" Tahkokallio, who shoved for a massive 173,500 on top of the raise.

While Buonanno was dwelling, we were distracted by action on another table -- and we returned to discover that Buonanno had called with pocket jacks, and Tahkokallio's feeble {Q-?}

shoving hand had failed to outdraw him. A sheepish Tahkokallio claims 95th place money.

10-05-2009 13:54 UTC+1

Clark Finds Cowboys

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Dave Clark moved all in for shrapnel and got looked up by Andrew Lichtenberger, only to discover that Clark was holding the hole card equivalent of a prime rib dinner compared to Lichtenberger's Salisbury steak.

Lichtenberger: {4-Clubs}