Rodriguez Gets Sarwer'd
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Rodriguez:
Sarwer:
Board:
Rodriguez is Rodri-gone and Sarwer is back in a happy place, chip-wise.
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Vilamoura Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,561,700
Entries
322
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Rodriguez:
Sarwer:
Board:
Rodriguez is Rodri-gone and Sarwer is back in a happy place, chip-wise.
Visser Gets There
. In a battle of the blinds, Ruben Visser fired a healthy bet of 68,500. Antoino Matias made a clumsy but quick call from the big blind, and the river brought the 
. Visser checked, and Matias checked behind.Visser waited for his opponent to show, and Matias said, "Ace," turning over the
. "Six-high flush," said Visser, tabling 
. Matias held ace-seven with no spades, and the pot goes to Visser. He's up to about 640,000 after that four-flush.
Lellouche Breaks Million Mark
flop, only for Anthony Lellouche to raise to 70,000. After several minutes of completely expressionless dwelling, Garcia folded, leaving himself on 160,000 and Lellouche on exactly 1,033,000.Garcia lost a small pot to Michel Abecassis the next hand as well, and is down to 150,000 or so.
Alexey Yuzikov Eliminated
Showdown
Visser:
Yuzikov:
The flop was no fun for the at-risk player as it came
. The that turned opened the door a little bit, giving Yuzikov four more outs to his gutshot. "No five, please," said Visser under his breath. The dealer heard, peeling off the 
on the river to seal Yuzikov's fate. Visser moves up to about 750,000, taking the rest of Yuzikov's chips and sending his Russian opponent to the rail in 28th place.
Sousa Finds Cowboys
Sousa:
Johns:
Board:
Sousa doubles to a hefty 600,000 or so; Johns meanwhile is down to 200,000.
Low for Heitmann
It's All Over for Olaf
from the button; Jeff Sarwer was holding in the big blind.Board:
We are down a Dutchman.
Big-Stack Bullies
Over on table Sarwer, we watched Jeff play two pots in a row. In the first, Sarwer opened to 15,000 from the button, and both blinds called. They all checked the flop of
, and the blinds checked the on the turn as well. That was Sarwer's cue to bet 26,000, and, despite some hemming and hawing from the big blind, it won him the pot.On the following hand, the player under the gun opened to 15,000, and the player behind him called. In the cutoff, Sarwer three-bet to 56,000, and nobody wanted to play along with him.
Across the room, Antony Lellouche is also battering his table. In the most recent pot, Tome Moreira opened from late position, and Lellouche came along from the blinds. The flop brought
and a check from Lellouche. He would call a bet of 25,000, and he would check-call another 35,000 when the hit the turn. Both players checked the river, and Moreira tabled . Lellouche waited to see it before showing the winning to move back up to about 1,000,000 chips.He and Sarwer are leading the pack towards Day 4.
Della Tommasina Finishes in 25th Place; Everyone Gets an Early Night
Day 3 Done and Dusted
Anthony Lellouche is our big chip leader with 1.134 million going into Day 4, and indeed he is the only player who has broken the million mark at any point so far. Start-of-day chip leader Jeff Sarwer remains strong too, although he's not quite in Lellouche territory yet.
Other players who remain in the running include Ricardo Sousa, Michel Abecassis, Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy and Ruben Visser. It promises to be a pretty exciting Day 4, so be sure to join us back here at noon W.E.T. Until tomorrow, over and out.