€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

04-21-2009 20:05 UTC+3

Keeping the Bustout at Bej

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Dennis Bejedal has doubled through former big stack Giuseppe Argento, holding {A-Hearts}

on a

board. Whatever Argento had, it wasn't good enough, and Bejedal is up to 350,000.

04-21-2009 19:54 UTC+3

"I don't know what you have," Josh Prager mused aloud to Pierre Neuville. Prager had raised preflop from the small blind and was called by Neuville out of the big blind. Prager check-called 31,000 on the flop and 42,000 on the turn. At the river, with the board showing {2-Hearts}

, Prager had checked again. Neuville responded by waving his hands over his chips and announcing, "All in."

Prager finally talked himself into calling all in for less with {A-Diamonds}

, two board pair with an ace kicker. Neuville turned over {A-Hearts}

. He had made a full house, treys full of deuces.

"I thought he had nothing," Prager said to Bill Reynolds after the hand. "What could he have? He can't have the flush."

"Nuts or air," Reynolds agreed. Unfortunately for Prager, it turned out to be the former.

Tags: Josh Prager Pierre Neuville

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

04-21-2009 19:50 UTC+3

Kang Doubles Again

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Benjamin Kang has had some very good fortune today. He started the day by catching pocket aces on the first hand and doubling through Marwan El Jirari's pocket queens. Kang accomplished a similar feat just a few moments ago, doubling up with pocket queens through an opponent's pocket jacks. Kang's now on roughly 400,000 chips.

Tags: Benjamin Kang

04-21-2009 19:45 UTC+3

Watch EPTlive San Remo Coverage on PokerStars.tv

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Don't forget to catch all the action from the last few days of PokerStars EPT San Remo live on Pokerstars.tv, April 22-23 at 14:00 CET.

04-21-2009 19:45 UTC+3

Dinner Time - Not

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We were due to go on dinner for an hour now, but seeing as we're down to 36 players and they're only playing down to 32, they're just going to keep on playing until they're down.

04-21-2009 19:41 UTC+3

Reynolds Hits the Marcucci

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Curly-haired American Bill Reynolds is up to 645,000, at least in part owing to knocking out another player with pocket queens against the opponent's pocket nines.

04-21-2009 19:39 UTC+3

This Tournament Reeks of Galic

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With the board reading {4-?}

, Dragan Galic bet 100,000. After some thought, Giuseppe Argento called -- and mucked when the unstoppable Galic turned over {5-Diamonds}

for two pair.

Galic up to 1,440,000.

Tags: Dragan Galic

04-21-2009 19:35 UTC+3

Ackermann Gone, Urquhart Not In Either

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Arno Ackermann is out, his {A-Hearts}

absolutely no good against Gianni Giaroni's {K-Hearts}

on the

board.

Also out in circumstances unknown: Fitzgerald Urquhart.

04-21-2009 19:30 UTC+3

Salzano Finito

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Gianluca Salzano is the latest of the short stacks to go belly up. His king-ten was in there against pocket nines and never improved.

The pace of eliminations has been most surprising. The tournament is down to just five tables now, with a plan to play down to either four or three tables remaining. It seems the players will be given a dinner break at the end of this level while the tournament staff try to figure things out. Given the number of chips in play, we believe it will be only five more full levels of play after this one until we reach the final table. That should make for a very, very short day tomorrow.