Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-28-2010 18:52 UTC+1

Kasper Ghosts Out Of Town

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Martin Hruby has eliminated Henri Kasper with a good old fashion rivering.

Hruby: {9-Spades}

Kasper:

Board:

And with that, we're down to four tables. Break one more and we're done for the day.

Tags: Martin Hruby

04-28-2010 18:52 UTC+1

Sergeying Back Into Contention

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Sergey Lebedev has doubled up through Matt Perrins after with {5-Spades}

against

after a

board.

Lebedev is up to about 320,000.

04-28-2010 18:53 UTC+1

Down to 32

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The clock has been paused while they break a table down on the floor. Just one more table to lose before bedtime.

04-28-2010 19:13 UTC+1

Tut Tut - Nathan Busts

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It folded around to Martin Hruby in the small blind who raised enough to put big blind Nathan Tuthill in. Tuthill called. On their backs.

Tuthill: {A-Clubs}

Hruby:

Board:

Tuthill swore under his breath as he busted. Hruby meanwhile is up to 780,000.

Tags: Martin Hruby Nathan Tuthill

04-28-2010 19:16 UTC+1

Matthew Szymaszek - wonder how many points that name would get in Scrabble - opened for 41,000 and Vicky Coren pushed for exactly 222,000 from the small blind. It didn't take Szymaszek long to fold, and Coren bumped her stack up a little, though she remains one of our shorties.

Tags: Vicky Coren

04-28-2010 19:24 UTC+1

Guerfi Perks Up

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Josef Klinger opened for 50,000 only for Lauri Meidla to re-pop for 151,000 from the button, leaving himself 230,000 behind. However, [Removed:146] shoved for 321,000 from the big blind, and following a swift fold from Klinger, Meidla folded {A-?}

up in disgust.

Guerfi wasted no time in getting his chips in again - the very next hand he shoved from the small blind to a raise from Claudiu Saizu. Saizu insta-called, but both players turned over pocket queens and after a rainbow flop they chopped the pot up.

04-28-2010 19:37 UTC+1

Lex-it As Veldhuis Is Clubbed To Death

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Lex Veldhuis reraised all-in preflop over the top a middle position raise for around 260,000 but he got a pretty swift call from Laurent Olive, the said raiser.

Olive: {A-Clubs}

Veldhuis:

Board:

The disappointed Dutchman goes out just shy of making the final three tables.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

04-28-2010 19:53 UTC+1

Sesso Sick

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We found chip leader Kevin Eyster betting out 85,000 on the river of a {5-Hearts}

board only for David Sesso to raise to 220,000. The action moved back on Eyster, who quietly thought about it before re-popping to 410,000.

Sesso riffled chips for a while, probably staring Eyster down from behind his sunglasses, and eventually folded. Eyster, who seems to be having a lot of fun with his enorm-stack, triumphantly showed him {A-Spades}

. Sesso giggled, and confessed that Eyster had been ahead.

Eyster is now up around the 2.6 million mark.

Tags: David Sesso Kevin Eyster

04-28-2010 19:55 UTC+1

Payout News Continued

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We've received official information for two more money jumps, so naturally, we'll pass it along to you. These players tripled their buy-ins, picking up €30,000 on their ways out.

41 - David Paredes, USA
42 - Bruno Lopes, France
43 - Sergey Lebedev, Russia
44 - James Bowey, UK
45 - David Peters, USA
46 - Oscar Blanco, Spain
47 - Rony Halimi, France
48 - Gianni Giaroni, Italy
49 - Christoph Pereira, France
50 - Moritz Kranich, Germany
51 - Nicolas Levi, France
52 - Thiago Nishijima, Brazil
53 - Fernando Brito, Portugal
54 - Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain
55 - Carsten Joh, Germany
56 - Mel Judah, Australia

The following earned €25,000 for their troubles.
57 - Ronald Grauer, Switzerland
58 - Jonathan Pautrot, France
59 - James Mitchell, UK
60 - Aleksander Val, Russia
61 - Nikita Nikolaev, Russia
62 - Alexander Debus, Germany
63 - Paul Testud, France
64 - Anthony Guetti, USA
65 - Olivier Daeninckx, France
66 - Davidi Kitai, France
67 - Stephane Benadiba, France
68 - Eric Fournious, France
69 - Chris Moneymaker, USA
70 - Bryan Piccioli, USA
71 - Melanie Weisner, USA
72 - Jerome Zerbib, France
73 - Dimitry Vitkind, Russia
74 - Neil Channing, UK
75 - Antonio Palma, Portugal
76 - Imre Leibold, Estonia
77 - Mikhail Shalamov, Russia
78 - Andrei Vlasenko, Russia
79 - Hicham Berdai, Morocco
80 - Jonathan Tare, USA

04-28-2010 19:57 UTC+1

Sudden Energy for Guerfi

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Josef Klinger opened for 50,000 only for Lauri Meidla to re-pop for 151,000 from the button, leaving himself 230,000 behind. However, [Removed:146] shoved for 321,000 from the big blind, and following a swift fold from Klinger, Meidla folded {A-?}

up in disgust.

Guerfi wasted no time in getting his chips in again - the very next hand he shoved from the small blind to a raise from Claudiu Saizu. Saizu insta-called, but both players turned over pocket queens and after a rainbow flop they chopped the pot up.