2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
78
Prize
€404,793
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Total Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 322
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Visser Stack Gets Bigger

The last hand of the level bleeding into our break time, we caught it on the river, the board reading {Q-Clubs} {10-Hearts} {3-Spades} {5-Clubs} {6-Spades}. Alexey Yuzikov checked to Ruben Visser, who bet 102,500. After what seemed like an age of good break time, Yuzikov called - but promptly mucked and stalked off when Visser tabled {Q-Hearts} {3-Hearts} for two pair.

Visser is over the 500,000 mark now.

Tags: Ruben Visser

Back in Action

We're back with Level 16. While the players were away, their black T100 chips were stolen and colored up with purples instead. Chip counters everywhere rejoice.

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

Lopez Leaving Us

Hugo Felix raised in early position and Javier Garcia reraised behind. Over to Eduardo Lopez in the big blind, who moved all in. Felix passed, Garcia called, and they were on their backs.

Garcia: {K-Clubs} {K-Spades}
Lopez: {6-Clubs} {6-Hearts}

Flop: {K-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {5-Hearts}

As Garcia flopped a set, Lopez grinned in the way only a man who is delighted to have made the money can.

Turn: {J-Hearts}

"Un cchhhhhhaart!" demanded Lopez, clearly having a lovely time.

River: {9-Spades}

Thus ends the run of the cheerful Spaniard who allegedly spun up the money to buy in to the main event by playing slots.

Visser Cashes!

Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser is smiling rather widely. In his eleventh try at an EPT event, Visser has just scored his first in-the-money finish. Perhaps now PokerStars will see fit to give him another batch of Team Pro patches for the next stop. With his current stack, Visser is looking to run this thing much farther than a mini-cash; he has the chips and the talent to run deep into the weekend.

Van Til and Sousa BFFs, According to Sousa - No Comment from van Til

Ricardo Sousa checked the {6-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} flop from the cutoff, and then called a bet from Johan van Til on the button. They both checked the {3-Clubs} turn and Sousa checked the {9-Spades} river too before insta-calling a 46,000 bet from van Til. Van Til flipped {Q-Hearts} {J-Hearts} for absolutely nothing, and Sousa took it down with {A-Hearts} {K-Clubs} to put him up to 370,000.

"I buy you dinner tonight," he told van Til. "You are now my official best friend."

Van Til seems to have made a bit of a recovery since we last strolled by his table, though - even after losing that, he's on 115,000, more than alst time we checked on him.

Tags: Johan van TilRicardo Sousa

Welcome to the Bubble

Before the flop, André Moreira got his short stack into the middle with {A-?} {K-?}, and Luis Rodriguez looked him up with {A-?} {J-?}.

Moreira was in fine shape to double, but a jack on the flop crushed his dreams. The rest of the board ran out dry, and a disappointed Moreira is out in 50th place, just two spots from the money.

The tournament is now being dealt hand-for-hand. With 49 players left, and 48 spots paying, the money bubble is upon us.

Tags: Andre MoreiraLuis Rodriguez