EPT Prague Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,842,100
Entries
586
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Day 3 Concludes; 24 Players Remain
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The action was speedy right from the get-go as players began to fall immediately. Team PokerStars Pros Sandra Naujoks and Jude Ainsworth failed to escape the first level, and they were joined on the rail by fellow-Pros Arnaud Mattern and Florian Langmann before too long.
Both Pieter de Korver and Marcin Horecki had roller-coaster days, with de Korver holding the chip lead for much of the day. His stack would be decimated by a few unlucky beats though, and the same goes for Horecki; they practically followed each other out the door with four tables left in play.
That leaves Luca Pagano as the last Team PokerStars Pro standing, and he too had to endure a real nail-biter of a day. Up and down and up he went before finding himself well below average with 25 players remained. Pagano was all in at his table when Jakob Carlsson was knocked off in 25th place, and Thomas Kremser called for the end of play as Pagano sweated his fate. He managed to win his final hand to earn a big double up just as play concluded. He'll begin tomorrow in the middle of the pack thanks to that.
Eyal Avitan was the man who knocked off de Korver a couple hours ago, and he rode that win to a monstrous chip lead. At the end of the night, he's bagged up 1,938,000 chips which will put him comfortably ahead of his nearest rival for tomorrow's push to the final table. We'll post the full chip counts just as soon as the bags are counted.
Speaking of tomorrow, play will resume at high noon C.E.T. once again. The remaining 24 will be back to war once again, and the spoils of victory will be one of eight seats at the final table two days from now. Join us right back here tomorrow to find out who'll be there come Sunday.
That's all we have for tonight; we'll see you on Day 4.
Day 3 Done and Dusted
Meaning that we are down to 24 and it's time for dinner.
Swapping Stacks
. Zaytsev checked it over, and Eiler slid out a stack of yellows for a bet of 100,000. His opponent put his hands behind his chip stacks and slid all 362,000 of them forward. Eiler let out a sound of frustration but quickly made the call with the covering stack. Cards on their backs, gents:Zaytsev:
Eiler:
"Oh, I'm drawing dead," said Eiler astutely. Except that he wasn't exactly drawing dead. The turn
made that very clear as it gave him plenty of outs for the come-from-behind win. The river blanked off with the 
though, and that secures the double up for Zaytsev. He's all the way up close to 900,000, while Eiler has fallen all the way back around 400,000.
Skampa Moves Klose
Karl Heinz Klose:
Jan Skampa:
Board:
They shook hands and Klose made his exit.
Hendriks Departs in a Haze
flop; Anthony Roux called.Hendriks:
Roux:
"Not again," said Roux, referring to the last time Hendriks moved in with tens.
Turn:
"Not this time."
River: an irrelevant
Lewis Sent Home
Lewis:
Skampa:
Board:
The two bumped fists, and Lewis is bust.
Crafty Carlsson
The two watched a flop of
roll off the deck, and they each checked in turn. The turn card was the , and Carlsson led out with 19,000 chips. Zerbib quickly called, and the board filled out with the . Another bet came from Carlsson, 37,000 this time. After a bit of a pause, Zerbib stuck in the calling chips.Carlsson tabled
to the surprise of everyone at the table. From the looks of it, the set of queens was plenty good enough to win him the pot, and Carlsson moves his way back up to 230,000 after a recent slide.
When the Saints Go Marcin Out
Ryan Has Power Over Toby
He check-called 63,000 from Laurence Ryan on a
flop, and checked again on the 
urn. This time Ryan bet 124,000 and Lewis disappeared expressionlessly into the tank - before folding, leaving himself on less than 200,000.