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

11-20-2009 03:38 UTC

Day 3 Seating Assignments

Table 1
Seat 1 - Eduardo Lopez (48,800)
Seat 2 - Aurelien Guiglini (125,600)
Seat 3 - Steven Van Zadelhoff (54,400)
Seat 4 - Ricardo Sousa (112,800)
Seat 5 - Jan Skampa (31,700)
Seat 6 - Luis Rodriguez (321,500)
Seat 8 - Mohamed Razab (134,200)

Table 2
Seat 1 - Alexandre Brail (43,400)
Seat 2 - Garcia Cayetano (99,800)
Seat 3 - Jude Ainsworth (230,600)
Seat 4 - Ross Boatman (166,400)
Seat 5 - Olaf De Zeeuw (172,300)
Seat 6 - Alexander Kravchenko (27,100)
Seat 7 - Joao Ferreira (42,100)
Seat 8 - Ismail Erkenov (117,200)

Table 3
Seat 1 - Santiago Terrazas (151,200)
Seat 2 - Ruben Visser (389,500)
Seat 3 - Antoon Pieter Jozef Kleijnen (50,200)
Seat 4 - Tobias Reinkemeier (229,200)
Seat 5 - Alexey Yuzikov (179,000)
Seat 6 - Pierre Neuville (270,500)
Seat 7 - Rumen Nanev (108,900)
Seat 8 - Claudio Coelho (40,200)

Table 4
Seat 1 - Berney Frankfort (94,300)
Seat 2 - Filipa Lemos (47,900)
Seat 3 - Guillaume Da Silva (115,000)
Seat 4 - Patrick O'Connor (80,900)
Seat 5 - Antonio Matias (144,600)
Seat 6 - Jamel Maistriaux (99,700)
Seat 7 - Ljubomir Josipovic (371,700)
Seat 8 - Matt Johns (188,600)

Table 5
Seat 1 - Manuel Cadilhe (116,000)
Seat 2 - Andy Black (19,400)
Seat 3 - Dominykas Karmazinas (146,900)
Seat 4 - Joao Silva (137,700)
Seat 5 - Salim Ghozali (48,100)
Seat 6 - Johan Van Til (259,500)
Seat 7 - Per Anton Bertilsson (65,700)
Seat 8 - Nicolo Calia (132,600)

Table 6
Seat 1 - Rolf Slotboom (70,400)
Seat 2 - Rogerio Sousa (114,000)
Seat 3 - Jesus Sanchez (177,500)
Seat 4 - Jan Heitmann (173,800)
Seat 5 - Sergey Lebedev (95,700)
Seat 6 - Jeff Sarwer (549,800)
Seat 7 - Marco Paulo Orlandi (164,600)
Seat 8 - Gino Gabriel (264,800)

Table 7
Seat 1 - Amir Pirbazari (100,500)
Seat 2 - Javier Garcia (84,700)
Seat 3 - André Moreira (67,400)
Seat 5 - Ryan Franklin (80,000)
Seat 6 - Goncalo Santos (56,800)
Seat 7 - Daniel Drescher (86,800)
Seat 8 - Hugo Felix (136,500)

Table 8
Seat 2 - Martin Wendt (360,300)
Seat 3 - Johannes Strassmann (120,700)
Seat 4 - Manuel Jimenez Cecilia (156,200)
Seat 5 - Tome Moreira (157,000)
Seat 6 - Luis Miranda Rodrigues (92,500)
Seat 7 - Antony Lellouche (484,700)
Seat 8 - Marco Della Tommasina (61,700)

Table 14
Seat 1 - Joao Barbosa (109,700)
Seat 2 - Robert Willis (111,200)
Seat 3 - Vishal Pundjabi (125,000)
Seat 4 - James Collopy (176,000)
Seat 5 - Stefan Mattsson (99,700)
Seat 6 - Michel Abecassis (104,500)
Seat 7 - Andrei Vlasenko (99,400)
Seat 8 - Nuno Coelho (28,900)

11-20-2009 11:53 UTC

Day 3 Has Arrived

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Day 3 has arrived in Portugal, and it's time for the run to the money at the inaugural PokerStars.com EPT Vilamoura.

From a field of 322 runners, we are left with just 69 at the halfway point of the tournament. The name at the top of the list might not ring a bell, but he may not be anonymous for long. Canadian Jeff Sarwer is the man to beat today. The former child chess prodigy is in a familiar position too. The EPT discovered Sarwer at the last stop in Warsaw earlier this month. With his solid decision-making and dodgy playing style, Sarwer proved tough for the field to handle, and he found himself riding the big stack deep into the final days. Sarwer rode that horse to a tenth-place finish, and he'll be hoping to improve upon that this time around.

It's not going to be an easy day at the top though. A number of more familiar names are hot on Sarwer's heels. Antony Lellouche is right up there, as is Day 1a chip leader Ljubomir Josipovic.

Team PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser is right in the mix, his big stack coming courtesy of the final hand of Day 2. After the media was relegated to the far reaches of the room, Visser and Andy Black tangled in a massive pot that left Visser with nearly all of the Irishman's chips. Here's how it went down to catch you up:

With a raise in front of him, Andy Black called before Ruben Visser squeezed in a raise. The original aggressor folded, but Black four-bet all in. Visser quickly made the call for the rest of his chips with ace-king, and Black was caught red-handed with nine-ten off-suit. The board blanked off to cripple Black's once-mighty stack down to a paltry 19,000 and put Visser in the top three heading into the third day.

Black, Visser, and the other 67 players will be back at the tables shortly to try and make a charge for the final table. We're scheduled to begin in less than 10 minutes, but we expect that to bleed over by just a few minutes. We'll be back as soon as the cards go into the air.

11-20-2009 12:04 UTC

Any Second Now

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Players are seated, chips are being debagged, coffees are being enthusiastically ordered and we are mere moments away from kickoff. Please stand by.

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 300

11-20-2009 12:05 UTC

Off We Go

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The button is in seat 4, the money is at 48, the plan is to play down to 24, and we have action!

Shuffle up and deal.

11-20-2009 12:13 UTC

Black Not Yet Eliminated

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The official short stack after accidentally doubling up Ruben Visser on the last hand last night (a massive bluff with {9-?}

which Visser snap-called with {A-?}

), Andy Black wasted absolutely zero time in getting his last 19,000 in the middle.

First hand back, Manuel Cadilhe raised to 7,000 and then called the push from Black. It was not looking good for the beardy Irishman.

Black: {9-Diamonds}

Cadilhe:

But then:

"YESSS!!!" shouted a pro-Black railer who clearly had only a shaky grasp of correct railer etiquette. Black himself got it quietly, and is up to over 40,000.

Tags: Andy Black

11-20-2009 12:16 UTC

No More Nuno

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Team PokerStars Pro Nuno Coelho looked down at {A-Clubs}

under the gun, and he stuck his remaining 28,300 chips into the pot. A few seats over, Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy squeezed {8-Clubs}

and made the call to put the local pro at risk.

With the rest of the table folding out of the way, the dealer ran out a board of {6-Spades}

. That's no fun for Coelho, and he has been sent back to his hotel room very early in the day.

Tags: Jim Collopy Nuno Coelho

11-20-2009 12:19 UTC

Sousa and Slotboom Switch Stacks

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We joined a heads-up pot as the dealer ran out a flop of {2-Spades}

. Rolf Slotboom checked first to act, and Rogerio Sousa stuck out a bet that appeared to be 19,000. After a moment, Slotboom announced an all in for an additional 41,800, sending Sousa into the tank. He would take several minutes to make his decision as he counted down his stack and cut out the calling chips.

With a reluctant, "All right," he plunked the chips into the pot to put Slotboom at risk. But the news was pleasant for "Robocop". He tabled {A-Spades}

, and Sousa shook his head as he turned over {7-Diamonds}

.

The turn {6-Clubs}

changed nothing, and the {3-Clubs}

that filled out the board secured an early double up for Slotboom. He's back up to about 135,000 as he and Sousa essentially trade stacks.

Tags: Rogerio Sousa Rolf Slotboom

11-20-2009 12:24 UTC

Bring in the Noise

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It's remarkably quiet here in the tournament room today, quiet enough to be worth mentioning. There are only 69 players in here, but it sounds like it's 68 librarians plus one Andy Black. The table chatter is virtually non-existent, and the only sounds floating around the room are the chorus of chips being shuffled.

Everyone seems to be relatively wide awake (for poker players), so we'll take this peculiar silence as a sign that the players are intently focused on the task at hand.

11-20-2009 12:29 UTC

More for Moreira

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We caught up with the action on the river of the {6-Hearts}

board, with Amir Pirbazari betting out enough to almost cover André Moreira.

At this point we lost interest in the hand, as Moreira tanked up for a frankly unreasonable amount of time, and indeed only became interested again when some hysterical shouting indicated that he had called, and doubled up.

Moreira: {4-Spades}

Pirbazari: {2-Hearts}

for a total bluff