€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

05-01-2009 12:39 UTC+2

Liu Uses Her Only Weapon

J.J. Liu doesn't have many chips. The only thing she can do is push them all in the middle in one pot. She reraised Jean Paul Pasqualini from 11,000 to 33,000 preflop. On a flop of {10-Hearts}

, Pasqualini checked to Liu, who shoved all in for 110,000. Pasqualini asked for a count but ultimately passed.

Tags: JJ Liu

05-01-2009 12:55 UTC+2

Looks as though William Reynolds is bust -- we know this not because we saw him go out, but because there's now someone else in his seat and he somehow seems to have migrated to the high rollers event. Unless he's engaging in some kind of elaborate multi-tabling operation, he is indeed gone.

05-01-2009 12:57 UTC+2

Clemency for Greco

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Michael Greco is probably feeling much happier after an early double up through Tristan Clemencon. The board read {A-?}

and whatever Clemencon had, it wasn't as good as Greco's pocket aces.

Tags: Michael Greco Tristan Clemencon

05-01-2009 12:59 UTC+2

Friendly Double Up for Kasper

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Roland Lee raised, and after a bit of a dwell he called the shove from Henri Kasper in the small blind.

Lee: {9-Spades}

Kasper:

Board:

Kasper punched the air.

05-01-2009 13:03 UTC+2

Naujoks On Fire

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Sandra Naujoks has had an excellent first half hour.

First, a raising was between Sylvain Taddei on the cutoff and Naujoks on the button resulted in her pushing and him calling all in -- but his {J-Clubs}

were no match for her {Q-Clubs}

, and he is now out of the running.

A few minutes later, Carl Olson shoved with {A-?}

but found himself up against Naujok's pocket aces, and soon he was heading for the door as well.

Naujoks is up to around the 600,000 mark.

Tags: Sandra Naujoks

05-01-2009 13:08 UTC+2

Silverman Golden

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Meanwhile Steven Silverman has enjoyed a full triple up in a three-way monster of a pot between him, Gaetano Mazzitelli and emotional Frenchman Ilan Rouah.

Mazzitelli: {A-Diamonds}

Rouah:

Silverman: {A-Hearts}

Board:

Tags: Steven Silverman

05-01-2009 13:22 UTC+2

Laak Roars Back

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Phil Laak's stack is all over the place this morning. After being crippled down to 50,000, we watched him double up from the big blind by raising all in over the top of button player Vadim Shlez's open-raise to 13,000. Shlez sighed in frustration, asked for a count, then called. Shlez's two-by-four, {4-Diamonds}

, was behind Laak's {k-Diamonds}

. Despite Laak's raised eyebrow (as if to say "Am I really going to be taken out of a EUR 10,000 event by deuce-four?") a board of {Q-Hearts}

gave Laak the double-up. He has since increased his count to 170,000.

05-01-2009 13:29 UTC+2

Wheeler Rolls Out

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Brent Wheeler is busto, getting it in with {8-Spades}

against Mikhail Tulchinskiy's {K-Hearts}

-- not as weird as it sounds because there were two spades on the flop, but no more came on the turn or river and he's gone.

05-01-2009 13:34 UTC+2

Laak of the Devil

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A pretty big pot for Phil Laak. Laak, who was overheard earlier complaining that the common rule that bans the use of mobile phones etc at the tables was, "The most retarded rule ever," seems to be doing ok without constant contact with the outside world. He raised preflop and got called by Vadim Shlez in the big blind. Shlez check-called the increasing bets from Laak on every street of the {4-Spades}