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

05-01-2009 21:56 UTC+2

No Breaktime For Us

Blinds have gone straight up and play continues. We still have forty runners right now, and we are extremely unlikely to make our target of twenty-four runners by the end of this level. TD Thomas Kremser said something ominous this morning about playing "at least seven levels" today. Guess we'll see how it goes in the next ninety minutes.

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 2,000

05-01-2009 21:54 UTC+2

Annette Going Back Up

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Annette Obrestad is making a bit of a recovery. She saw a {2-Clubs}

flop with Jean Paul Pasqualini, which Pasqualini bet. Obrestad raised, Pasqualini reraised, Obrestad four-bet all in, and after a while Pasqualini folded. He showed something that was very far away across the table and therefore small to a blogger's eye, but it looked like pocket sevens, one of them a club. Obrestad similarly showed something which looked a lot like {K-?}

, the king possibly a club.

05-01-2009 21:46 UTC+2

Naujoks Concedes Another Pot

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The post-dinner play has not gone all that great for Sandra Naujoks. She has had to fold more than her share of pots. She tried again recently by betting 53,000 on a flop of {7-Clubs}

. Her lone opponent, Dag Martin Mikkelsen, responded by raising to 125,000. Naujoks' fold came shortly thereafter.

Tags: Dag Martin Mikkelsen Sandra Naujoks

05-01-2009 21:44 UTC+2

Don't Ebank on It

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It looks as though Joe Ebanks is the latest player to go belly up in the tournament waters, we believe in 42nd place.

05-01-2009 21:43 UTC+2

Sung Misses His Flush and Exits

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We caught the short-stacked Steve Sung moving in, first to act, for 165,000 on a flop of {6-Diamonds}

. Marc Naalden double-fist-pump-snap-called with the nuts, {Q-Diamonds}

. He had to fade Sung's flush draw, {10-Hearts}

. The turn was red, but a diamond -- the {A-Diamonds}

. The river was also red, but another diamond, the {k-Diamonds}

. Naalden took Sung's chips and Sung took off for the payouts table.

Tags: Marc Naalden Steve Sung

05-01-2009 21:40 UTC+2

Sunny Days for Somerville

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Jason Somerville did a rather brave thing and stuck his whole stack in preflop with {2-Clubs}

in a non-traditional coinflip against Jaime Vilela's {A-Hearts}

. The deuces held up, and his stack doubled up to 650,000. Vilela dropped to 300,000 or so.

Board: {J-Clubs}

Tags: Jason Somerville

05-01-2009 21:36 UTC+2

Annette Going Down

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In the danger zone is one Annette Obrestad, formerly one of our big stacks. It seems that there was no massive single incident that did the damage. Rather, as Ludovic Lacay put it, "She just didn't win a pot for three hours." Just now, she open-shoved for her last 174,000. No callers this time, but she's only just above that magical 10-big-blind mark...

Tags: Annette Obrestad

05-01-2009 21:26 UTC+2

De Korver Tickled Pink

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Pieter De Korver is frustrating the heck out of Anthony Venturini. Twice, Venturini has raised to 36,000. Each time he's done so, De Korver has reraised him. The first time De Korver showed pocket aces after Venturini folded; the second time he showed pocket kings. For his part, De Korver is chuckling out of the obvious steam coming from Venturini's ears.

Tags: Anthony Venturini Pieter DeKorver

05-01-2009 21:25 UTC+2