Vilamoura Championship Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura

11-20-2009 13:22 UTC

Hold Up

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The clock has been paused for the first 15-minute break of the day.

11-20-2009 13:22 UTC

De Zeeuw Doubles Through, Number Two

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...All we saw was that de Zeeuw was holding {J-Spades}

and there was a jack somewhere on the board. Whatever happened, de Zeeuw looks very relieved and is up to 140,000.

Tags: Olaf de Zeeuw

11-20-2009 13:17 UTC

Drescher Done and Dusted

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Crippled after that earlier three-way monster pot, Daniel Drescher finally succumbed when he found himself all in with {A-?}

against Joao Barbosa's {Q-?}

. A ten on the flop, and Drescher was done.

Tags: Daniel Drescher

11-20-2009 13:16 UTC

Zeeuw Doubles Through

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Olaf de Zeeuw has doubled up with {A-?}

to put him on a still rather shaky 70,000.

11-20-2009 13:10 UTC

Reinkemeier Pwns Terrazas

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Tobias Reinkemeier raised to 7,500 under the gun, only for Santiago Terrazas on the button to make it 12,700. Call.

Flop: {8-Hearts}

Reinkemeier checked and Terrazas bet 19,000. Dwell, and call.

Turn: {6-Diamonds}

Check, check, leading us necessarily to the...

River: {7-Spades}

Reinkemeier now bet out 52,300. After some time squinting at the board, Terrazas passed and is left with 150,000.

"You thought about pushing all in?" asked Reinkemeier. Terrazas responded with a vague "no hablo ingles" sort of shrug.

11-20-2009 13:08 UTC

Slotboom Sent Off

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A player in middle position opened the pot with a small raise to 7,000, and Rolf Slotboom made the call from the cutoff seat. When action came around to the big blind, Jan Heitmann announced a re-raise to 25,000 straight. That was enough to fold the initial raiser, but Slotboom wasn't going anywhere. In his methodical fashion, "Robocop" counted out a re-raise and made it 69,000 total. Heitmann asked how much Slotboom had behind (66,200), and he moved all in over the top.

Slotboom was hating life. He seemed to know that he was beaten, but he had more than half of his chips in the pot already. He reluctantly called as he asked the dealer to give him another jack.

Showdown
Slotboom: {J-Spades}

Heitmann:

The dealer would fail to oblige Slotboom as he ran out a board of {K-Clubs}

. Unable to catch up to the pocket aces, Slotboom shook hands with his table and headed out. Heitmann, on the other hand, is up dangerously close to 300,000.

Tags: Jan Heitmann Rolf Slotboom

11-20-2009 12:53 UTC

Also Doubling Up, With Cries of "Vamos!"

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- Filipa Lemos

11-20-2009 12:51 UTC

Sanchez Caught At It

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Sergey Lebedev shoved from the big blind to a button raise from Jesus Sanchez and Sanchez called.

Lebedev: {2-Clubs}

Sanchez: a rather shameful but still coinflipping {4-Spades}

Board:

Lebedev duly doubled up.

11-20-2009 12:43 UTC

Three Way All In Action

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Happiest Man In The Room right now is very definitely Javier Garcia - he's just tripled up to almost 200,000.

Garcia was holding pocket queens with Ryan Franklin also all in with pocket kings; Daniel Drescher covered them both with pocket nines. A queen on the flop, and Franklin is down to 40,000 while former big stack Drescher has just 13,000 to his name.

11-20-2009 12:41 UTC

How Does He Miss?

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Garcia Cayetano limped into the pot under the gun, and Olaf de Zeeuw followed suit in middle position. Both blinds came along as well, and it was four-handed to the flop.

It brought {3-Clubs}

. After a few bets and raises, Cayetano ended up all in for 65,600 against de Zeeuw. The at-risk player was ahead with {9-Diamonds}

, but he would need to fade the myriad outs of de Zeeuw's {A-Spades}

.

The turn blanked off for him, the {J-Diamonds}

, and the

that hit the river did nothing to improve de Zeeuw either. With his nines holding, Cayetano has picked up a big double to about 145,000. De Zeeuw has slipped down to 51,000.

Tags: Garcia Cayetano Olaf de Zeeuw