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
Entries
322
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 322

Big-Stack Bullies

The big stacks in the room aren't mucking about here with 25 players left, really assuming their roles as captains of their respective tables.

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 {10-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} {4-Clubs}, and the blinds checked the {4-Hearts} 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 {4-Spades} {3-Hearts} {6-Spades} and a check from Lellouche. He would call a bet of 25,000, and he would check-call another 35,000 when the {A-Spades} hit the turn. Both players checked the {J-Spades} river, and Moreira tabled {A-Hearts} {2-Hearts}. Lellouche waited to see it before showing the winning {A-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} to move back up to about 1,000,000 chips.

He and Sarwer are leading the pack towards Day 4.