Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.it EPT San Remo

04-19-2010 02:50 UTC+2

Day 4 Seating Assignments

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Here's how the field will set up when they return for Day 4:

Table 1
Seat 1: Sylvain Jean Mazza (250000)
Seat 2: Domenico Antonio Tresa (373000)
Seat 3: Atanas Gueorguiev (369000)
Seat 4: Liv Boeree (513000)
Seat 5: Dermot Blain (1032000)
Seat 6: Thomas Meyer Swensen (456000)
Seat 8: Gordon Vayo (284000)

Table 2
Seat 1: Pierpaolo Fabretti (281000)
Seat 2: Harrison Gimbel (471000)
Seat 3: Dmitry Stelmak (1443000)
Seat 5: Alexey Rybin (617000)
Seat 6: Thang Duc Nguyen (870900)
Seat 7: Dario Rusconi (554000)
Seat 8: Paul Valkenburg (788000)

Table 3
Seat 1: Michael Piper (1182000)
Seat 2: Toni Pettersson (861000)
Seat 3: Nick Schulman (609000)
Seat 4: Danilo D'Ettoris (291000)
Seat 5: Matthias De Meulder (259000)
Seat 6: Jakob Karlsson (1803000)
Seat 7: Joe Serock (269000)
Seat 8: Ondrej Vinklarek (335000)

Table 4
Seat 1: Armando Graziano (682000)
Seat 2: Anas Tadini (537000)
Seat 3: Gijs Verheijen (794000)
Seat 4: Mauro Stivoli (332000)
Seat 6: Luigi Pignataro (731000)
Seat 7: Giuseppe Diep (354000)
Seat 8: Alexander Roumeliotis (887000)

Table 5
Seat 1: Mario Puccini (627000)
Seat 2: Alessandro Gabriele (228000)
Seat 3: Emanuele Rugini (172000)
Seat 4: Antonio Pezzi (227000)
Seat 5: Oleg Vladimirovich Tuntsev (213000)
Seat 6: Claudio Rinaldi (127000)
Seat 7: Nicholas Sforos (449000)
Seat 8: Matteo Andrea Grimaldi (458000)

Table 6
Seat 1: Paul Pires-Trigo (726000)
Seat 2: Fabrizio Ascari (463000)
Seat 3: Allan Baekke (1485000)
Seat 4: Claus Uhrskov (131000)
Seat 5: Tobias Huber (565000)
Seat 6: Mark Secher Petersen (153000)
Seat 7: Erik Tamm (840000)
Seat 8: Per Albin Linde (1193000)

Table 7
Seat 1: Ramon Demon Cserei (291000)
Seat 2: Cristian Tardea (240000)
Seat 3: Luigi Alessandro (327000)
Seat 4: Heinz Kamutzki (372000)
Seat 5: Giuseppe Pantaleo (443000)
Seat 7: Yury Kerzhapkin (299000)
Seat 8: Maurizio Baravalle (364000)

Table 8
Seat 1: Vincenzo Pisano (273000)
Seat 3: Alfio Battisti (419000)
Seat 4: Michel Abecassis (696000)
Seat 5: Giacomo Rosa (347000)
Seat 6: Claudio Piceci (411000)
Seat 8: Iulian Iacob (489000)

Table 9
Seat 1: Paul Berende (627000)
Seat 2: Ronny Kaiser (835000)
Seat 3: Andreas Martens (199000)
Seat 4: Kadir Karabulut (1577000)
Seat 5: Mohsen Tayfeh (490000)
Seat 6: Jens Thorson (1300000)
Seat 7: Antonio Buonanno (354000)
Seat 8: Dag Martin Mikkelsen (626000)

Main Event

Day 3 Completed

04-18-2010 20:29 UTC+2

Day 3 Up in Ashes

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Day 3 of the PokerStars.net EPT San Remo has come and gone after a fairly sustained eruption of action. The volcanic cloud wafting down through Europe once again robbed us of a bit of sunshine today, but that's okay when you're trapped in a dingy casino for five intense levels of poker. Just about eight hours after play began, the day is done, and less than 70 players have bagged up their chips for the overnight soak.

The day dawned with the push to the bubble, and the thought of €7,500 just a few eliminations away kept everyone in check for a couple hours. When the bubble finally did arrive, it met with another frenzy of action as multiple short stacks were all in hand after hand. A chopped pot here, a one-outer there, and suddenly the bubble had worn out its welcome. A flop of {10-Clubs}

was just the thing to drive the action, and short stack Cole Robinson jumped at the chance to get his chips in with {10-Hearts}

. The only problem was that he ran smack into Michael Piper's {A-Spades}

, and Robinson was drawing dead by the turn and resigned to his fate as the unenviable EPT Bubble Boy.

From there on out, the payout desk was not without a line for the remainder of the day. The pace of the knockouts allowed a few players to really charge to the front of the pack. EPT Snowfest champ Allan Bække is once again in the mix of the chip leaders as we push deeper, and his finishing stack of 1.485 million puts him in the top five. Last night's chip leader Dmitry Stelmak is just behind him, but everyone's chasing Swedish youngster Jakob Karlsson. He stuffed his back with 1.803 million chips, putting him comfortably ahead of the pack heading into tomorrow's action.

A number of other notables are still in contention for the title, including Liv Boeree, Dermot Blain, Joe Serock, Matthias de Meulder, and PCA champion Harrison Gimbel.

If the last four days have been any indication, tomorrow figures to be another real barn burner. We'll be right back here for Day 4 at noon on Monday, and we hope you'll join us back here as well.

Thanks for following along; see you tomorrow!

Tags: Jakob Karlsson

04-18-2010 19:58 UTC+2

Baekke Slow-Cooks Berende

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Allan Bække raised preflop from the hijack and Paul Berende reraised from the cutoff. The Snowfest winner called.

The flop was {7-Diamonds}

and Bække check-called a bet of 85,000, looking very serious. On the {A-Spades}

turn, Bække check-called Berende's bet once more, this time to the tune of 155,000.

The river was the {A-Diamonds}

and Bække this time decided to fire out a bet of 250,000. Berende instantly folded and drops to 560,000 while Bække has 1,250,000 now.

Tags: Allan Baekke

04-18-2010 19:51 UTC+2

Swensen Calls Clock...On Himself.

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Thomas Meyer Swensen was facing a conundrum. He'd called a bet on the {7-Hearts}

flop and was now facing a 175,000 bet on the {4-Hearts}

from the Russian Alexey Rybin.

Swensen, "You own your own casino right?"

"Yes," said Rybin, who apparently owns a nightclub too.

"I really think I'm good here..." said Swensen, "will you show if I fold?...This might be the most idiotic call here..."

Finally, dissatisfied with his own progress, Swensen called the clock on himself before folding {9-Clubs}

face up. Rybin showed one card, the {A-Hearts}

...

Tags: Alexey Rybin

04-18-2010 19:47 UTC+2

Moustache of the Day

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We think the style is called "The Motorhead".

Its possessor is one Michael Piper. But not only does he have some pretty awesome facial hair, he's also got a whole load of chips. The British online qualifier, who admitted earlier that his aim for today was, "Just to make it through to Day 4," has been on a bit of a rush and is up there with the chip leaders on around 1.1 million.

"This is fun, " he said. Indeed.

04-18-2010 19:44 UTC+2

Van Zadelhoff Ascarred for (Tournament) Life

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Steven van Zadelhoff met his unfortunate demise at the hands of Fabrizio Ascari.

Van Zadelhoff: {A-Diamonds}

Ascari:

Board:

04-18-2010 19:34 UTC+2

Gross Doubles Through Boeree

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Liv Boeree raised to 30,000 from the button and Steven Gross reraised to 60,000 with just 20,000 behind.

Liv sighed and put him all-in, Gross obviously called.

"Nice raise" said someone else at the table.

"Occasionally it works," replied Gross who turned over {A-Clubs}

against Boeree's {3-Clubs}