Main Event
Day 3 Started
2010 EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,730,550
Entries
563
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Money Money Money
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Good morning and welcome back to the Hilton where 93 players remain in the Main Event. Only 80 of them are going to get paid, so expect things to get emotional early doors.
Chip leader on 593,000 as we head into the day is Dirk Richter, the same man who topped the chip counts at the start of yesterday. In fact, Richter never once lost the chip lead yesterday - but the margin of that lead has shrunk considerably. Only just behind him now are EPT Copenhagen finalist Roberto Romanello on 566,000 and Antonio Palma on 545,000. EPT Berlin winner Kevin MacPhee is in fourth place with 483,000 and EPT 2005 Grand Final winner Rob Hollink is fifth with 452,000.
Also still in with a shot, albeit in possession of rather more modest stacks, are Tobias Reinkemeier, Toby Lewis, Salvatore Bonavena, Richard Toth, Dominik Nitsche, Fabrice Soulier and Marcin Horecki. Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano is also still in with slightly below average chips, and is looking good to beat his own record for EPT cashes before the day is out.
The plan is to play down to 24 runners today, and we've still got the bubble to go. Play is due to start at noon and we have a feeling they'll be running to schedule today - we understand that PokerStars is throwing a Christmas party tonight. Don't go anywhere.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
And They're Off
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Tournamnent Director Thomas Kremser has just instructed the dealers to shuffle up and deal and Day 3 of EPT Prague is up and running!
First Blood To Norinder
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Our first player has busted out meaning just 12 more places until the money.
Milous Artjoms moved all in from the button with 
and Mikael Norinder made the call from the big blind with 
for a classic coinflip situation. Norinder won the flip as the final board ran out 
and the screens now display "92 Players Remaining."
Toby Lewises
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
No cash today for EPT Vilamoura champ Toby Lewis. He had been anything but conservative at the start of play with his short stack (in fact his table as a whole wins the 'most all ins in 15 minutes' award) and had already picked up one pot from Melanie Weisner with a preflop threebet.
However this time when he shoved over a Ben Carpenter open (to 13k) and a Weisner call, still hovering around the 100k mark, Lewis was called immediately by Weisner (who apologised for thinking Carpenter was already out of the action) and showed 
vs. Lewis' 
.
The board came down 
and he gave a brief table-tap before walking out just eleven off the money.
Nice Way To Start The Day
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Haykel Cherif Vidal has started the day the way he means to go on by doubling up with aces versus kings.
I didn't catch the action but it is safe to assume the money went in preflop, Vidal holding 
against the 
of Kirill Zapletin. The final board read 
and Vidal doubled up to around 168,000 whilst his opponent dropped to 120,000
Nulli Jinckxed
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Olivier Daeninckx may have arrived today with just the barest trace of a stack, but he's climed from just 18,000 to 150,000 in a very short while. Already up to 74,000 when this wince-inducing hand came along, he was all in preflop with 
vs. Roberto Nulli's 
.
Nulli jumped like he'd stuck a finger in a socket when the flop came down 
, and again when the final two cards - 
came down.
Nulli sees his starting 200k drop to under 100k, and is not too happy about it.
Anything Moorman Can Do Raducan Do Better
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Chris Moorman famously slept in and missed the start of his WSOPE heads-up match against Neil Channing and we have something similar here today. Both David Stogel and Constantin Raducan are yet to tak their seats despite the level being halfway complete!
WAKE UP BOYS!
Both Blinds With an Ace
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Giuseppe Festa is another player who will be leaving the EPT without any reward for his 2+ days of tournament effort. It folded to Festa in the small blind (he had under 80k), he saw an Ace, he moved in. Kevin MacPhee in the big blind looked down, he saw and Ace, he called.
MacPhee: 
Festa:
Seeing the flop: probably made the turn much worse - 
; Festa slammed a hand on the table and stood up to leave while MacPhee adds to his towers.