2010 EPT Snowfest Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

03-24-2010 13:25 UTC+2

Seating Plan

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Table 1
Seat 1: Jeffrey Hakim (305000)
Seat 2: [Removed:197] (280000)
Seat 3: Brent Wheeler (260000)
Seat 4: Sven Mol (227500)
Seat 5: Christophe De Meulder (202000)
Seat 6: Lam Van Trinh (189500)
Seat 7: Vladislav Shuravin (418500)
Seat 8: [Removed:6] (73500)

Table 2
Seat 1: Florian Döhnert (328000)
Seat 2: Allan Baekke (310000)
Seat 3: Casper Toft (300500)
Seat 4: Russell Carson (288000)
Seat 5: Paul Valkenburg (267500)
Seat 6: Julien Brecard (228000)
Seat 7: Aaron Lerner (191500)
Seat 8: Johann Fest (55000)

Table 3
Seat 1: Richard Toth (584500)
Seat 2: Marcel Burger (293500)
Seat 3: Christian Togsverd (211000)
Seat 4: David Wintersberger (176500)
Seat 5: Samuel Miller (163500)
Seat 6: Marcel Koller (151000)
Seat 7: Giovanni Bigoni (138000)
Seat 8: Dan Murariu (161500)

Table 4
Seat 1: Hubertus Verdonschot (135500)
Seat 2: Jean Paul Pasqualini (81000)
Seat 3: Cyril Naim (78300)
Seat 4: Luis Medina (66000)
Seat 5: Nicolo Calia (62300)
Seat 6: Daniel Van Kalkeren (58000)
Seat 7: Carmelo Vasta (148000)

Table 5
Seat 1: Bernhard Perner (402000)
Seat 2: [Removed:39] (267500)
Seat 3: Johannes Steindl (200500)
Seat 4: Josip Corluka (181000)
Seat 5: Michele Colaci (143500)
Seat 6: Nicolo Caramatti (136500)
Seat 7: Robert Haigh (131000)

Table 6
Seat 1: Florian Bussman (122500)
Seat 2: Alain Medesan (320000)
Seat 3: Johannes Holstege (285500)
Seat 4: Vadim Markushevski (235000)
Seat 5: Lukas Baumann (203500)
Seat 6: Zachary Hall (182000)
Seat 7: Alfio Battisti (162500)
Seat 8: Evgeniy Zaytsev (124500)

Table 7
Seat 1: Leo Spielmann (138000)
Seat 2: Alex Kravchenko (131500)
Seat 3: Konstantinos Alexiou (131500)
Seat 4: Ara Melikian (95500)
Seat 5: Simon Ehne (77000)
Seat 6: Jose Besalduch (66500)
Seat 7: Nadzeya Hundoryna (52500)
Seat 8: Lex Veldhuis (111000)

Table 8
Seat 1: Christian Zuber (9000)
Seat 2: Max Lykov (575000)
Seat 3: Mark Bech (370500)
Seat 4: Marco Fantini (257000)
Seat 5: Ivo Donev (168000)
Seat 6: Felipe Montenegro (101000)
Seat 7: Nils Berggren (64000)
Seat 8: Sebastien Bidinger (107500)

Table 9
Seat 1: Angel Machuca (37500)
Seat 2: Alexander Debus (428500)
Seat 3: Lukas Sasky (308000)
Seat 4: Lee Gaines (261500)
Seat 5: Jochum Weenink (95000)
Seat 6: Peter Pallet (64500)
Seat 7: Christian Oppersklaski (60500)
Seat 8: Adrien Alibert (105000)

Table 10
Seat 1: Luca Cainelli (112000)
Seat 2: Marco Adams (425000)
Seat 3: Jesper Hougaard (187500)
Seat 4: Bertrand Husiaux (172000)
Seat 5: Robert Kreutzer (85000)
Seat 6: Maurizio Sepede (67500)
Seat 7: Robert Binelli (59000)
Seat 8: Marcel Buissink (100500)

Table 11
Seat 1: Dennis Waterman (43500)
Seat 2: Jim Collopy (458500)
Seat 3: Fedor Los (374000)
Seat 4: Dmitry Vitkind (160500)
Seat 5: Jonathan Schroer (118000)
Seat 6: Dan Ionut Hila (96000)
Seat 7: Johannes Strassmann (741000)
Seat 8: Bryan Paris (86500)

03-24-2010 14:32 UTC+2

Day 3 Is Upon Us; the Bubble Looms

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Good morning/afternoon and welcome back to the now absurdly sunny town of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, where 86 runners remain in the inaugural EPT Snowfest Main Event. As you may recall, this event only pays 80 places, meaning that certain short-stacked individuals will have had a somewhat uncomfortable night above and beyond the Hinteglemm hotels' tendency to superheat their establishments.

Some folks will have had rather better evenings though. It must be nice to go to bed on Day 2 knowing that you're the monster chip leader, and presumably chip daddy Johannes Strassmann, heads and shoulders above the rest on 747,000, will have slept soundly and dreamt of a large payday. Anything can happen though, and among the other folks who'll be vying for the top spot today are Richard Toth, Maxim Lykov and Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy.

Cards should be in the air in around half an hour, so don't go anywyhere...

03-24-2010 15:07 UTC+2

Until We Get This Party Started...

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"Just madness. Just... snowball madness."

Those were the immortal words of our editor-in-chief Matt Parvis. Arnaud Mattern, Mark Vos, Thomas Bichon and the PokerNews team hit the slopes yesterday to fight it out for a very small bottle of very vicious rum. Enjoy.

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

03-24-2010 15:08 UTC+2

And We're Off!

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86 players remain, and only 80 are getting paid.

03-24-2010 15:24 UTC+2

Strassmann Loses Some Ground

Mickey Doft

In early position, Johannes Strassmann raised to 12,500. Fedor Los popped it to 31,500 on the button and action folded back to Strassmann. He spent a good three minutes in the tank, ultimately four-betting to 82,000.

Los was quick to make the call and the flop came down {J-Spades}

. Strassman checked and Los calmly bet 65,500, forcing a quick fold from Strassman.

Strassman: Down to 660,000
Los: Up to 460,000

03-24-2010 15:25 UTC+2

Monsterpotten

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Toft (right) three-betting the flop against Baekke (left)

Early Fireworks on Table 2!

From the button Allan Baekke opened the pot with a raise, and he would flat-call a three-bet from small blind Casper Toft. The two men went heads up to an action flop: {8-Diamonds}

. Toft fired out 40,000 at the pot, but Baekke wanted to play for more. He made the minimum raise to 80,000, only to see Toft come right over the top with another raise to 200,000 straight. Baekke eventually announced an all in, and Toft quickly called to put more than a half-million chips in the middle of the table. Cards on their backs, please:

Baekke: {8-Spades}

Toft:

It was quite the cooler for Toft, unable to get away from top two pair on that flop. He was drawing dead to four outs, and the turn and river blanked off with the {6-Spades}

and

respectively. When the chips were counted down, Toft was left with just about 15,000 in chump change to work with.

It's awfully poor timing as the bubble is drawing imperatively close.

Tags: Allan Baekke Casper Toft

03-24-2010 15:36 UTC+2

Al Krav Speaks

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Nadzeya Hundoryna shoved under the gun for her last 50,500 and it folded right around to Jose Besalduch in the big blind who tanked up for a long time, periodically muttering, "F***," under his breath. Eventually tablemate Lex Veldhuis got bored and called time.

As the clock counted down, Besalduch took a coin out of his pocket and tossed it in the air. Then he folded.

As Hundoryna raked in the pot, tablemate Alex Kravchenko unexpectedly (we don't believe we've ever seen him speak at the tables before) piped up. "I think it is fair that before you flip you tell us what is call and what is fold," he said, to merriment around the table. Added Lex Veldhuis, "Don't pretend to be a gambler." Chuckling ensued all round.

Tags: Alex Kravchenko

03-24-2010 15:39 UTC+2

Toft in Serious Trouble

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Casper Toft, down to his last, er, 10,000 after a bit of an accident earlier in the day, got it in under the gun. It folded to Allan Baekke in the big blind who giggled, "I think I have to call. I have a very strong hand."

Baekke: {2-Spades}

Toft:

Board:

"NO!" shouted the hysterically giggling Toft as he saw the six on the door, and then quickly corrected himself to "YES!" when the two sevens came out behind. He stays in the game - for the moment.

03-24-2010 15:42 UTC+2

Yes for Jesper

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Marco Adams opened for 11,500 and Jesper Hougaard made it 30,000. Adams tanked for a long time before making it 85,000, but Hougaard quietly counted out his chips and then announced all in for 211,500. Adams wasn't happy about it, but he called anyway.

Adams: {A-Hearts}

Hougaard:

Board:

Hougaard is off to a lovely start, doubling to 425,000. Adams meanwhile drops to 200,000 or so.

Tags: Jesper Hougaard Marco Adams