Day 3 Has Arrived
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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.