Main Event
Day 3 Started
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€1,862,400
Entries
384
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2010 PokerStars EPT Vilamoura!
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It's money day in Vilamoura! 69 players left and an unlucky 13 players will be going home with nothing more than a frown and a story of how they nearly cashed in the EPT.
Brandon Cantu, winner of two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title sits at the top of the leader board with 557,400. His aim? To become only the third man after Gavin Griffin and Roland de Wolfe to complete the 'Triple Crown' achivement of a WSOP bracelet, a WPT title and an EPT win. Can he consolidate his lead as we play into the money and down to 24 players today?
Breathing down Cantu's neck is local Portuguese, and Team PokerStars Online player, Andre Coimbra, who is currently in second in chips with 476,400. Sam Trickett and Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly are also still in the hunt as the bubble begins to loom even as the day starts.
We'll begin at 12pm (GMT+1) so see you then!
Day 3 Seat Draw
Table 1
Brandon Cantu 557,400
Oscar Pelayo 33,100
Antonio Tarantino 72,600
Dmitry Gromov 305,200
Kevin O'Donnell 125,900
Pedro Guedes 237,500
Toni Ojala 208,200
Thomas Thang 100,600
Table 2
Teddy Sheringham 204,500
Nuno Capucho 92,400
Nuno Coelho 73,100
Filipa Cerqueira 108,000
Joe Ebanks 50,600
Joaquin Culebras 66,600
Robert Willis 178,600
Stephen Chidwick 126,000
Table 3
Grzegorz Cichocki 339,500
Boyan Bonev 191,100
Marco Leonzio 85,900
Jason Lee 196,000
Gyula Szilagyi 134,900
Luca Pagano 105,000
Michal Karolak 38,400
Frank Calo 253,300
Table 4
Erik Van Den Berg 62,000
Robert Cezarescu 138,700
Patrick Carron 117,200
Henri Kasper 53,400
Tom Johansen 273,000
Danny Neess 61,100
Frederick Jensen 275,000
Johan Berg 384,000
Table 5
Nicolo Calia 114,100
Frank Stumpf 59,100
JP Kelly 314,000
Joel Benzinou 152,700
Andre Andrade 78,400
Wolfgang Wurzer 193,200
Sergio Coutinho 155,400
Rob Hollink 88,200
Table 7
Giacomo Maisto 147,200
Joao De Silva 133,100
Thorsten Schafer 62,100
Henrique Custodio 101,200
David Metelo 90,800
Andras Nemeth 54,000
Tim Finne 64,900
Marton Czuczor 126,200
Table 8
Ayaz Sadrudin Manji 227,500
Konsta Vesterinen 180,000
Eliran Argelazi 221,100
Paul Foltyn 102,600
Sam Trickett 351,900
Vyacheslav Goryachev 182,800
Antonio Buonanno 127,500
Table 9
Vegard Nygaard 86,400
Andre Coimbra 476,400
Carolyn Gray 104,500
Toby Lewis 236,700
Janos Toth 253,800
Guillermo Garcia 238,100
Evgeniy Zaytsev 154,800
Table 14
Lothar Meier 76,900
William Thorson 259,100
Claudio Cecchi 60,000
Fabrizio Ascari 254,700
Max Lykov 109,100
Marcin Horecki 280,500
Martin Jacobson 301,100
Arnaud Mattern 59,900
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Up And Atom!
Thomas Kremser has announced we will be playing down to 24 players today. We're already close to the bubble so like a tango it's going to be quick, quick, slow.
Feeling Keen
As the tournament progresses and the field shrinks - and perhaps as the full effects of the many delightful bars etc of Vilamoura begin to take their toll - there are fewer and fewer folks waiting to get into the casino before they open at noon. Nevertheless, these eager beavers were found clawing at the doors a half hour ago.
Life No Longer Buonanno
Antonio Buonanno opened preflop to 10,200 in late position before Ayaz Sadrudin Manji reraised to 35,000 behind him. Back to Buonanno who thought for a moment before moving all-in.
Manji now looked pained as he got a count on the stack, it was 88,900 more to him. After a minute or so of though, Manji made the call and turned over a surprisingly strong pair of 
as Buonanno flipped 
.
"Uh, slowroll..." giggled Paul Foltyn as he, Sam Trickett and few of the others at the table laughed.
Buonanno wasn't laughing though as the board came 
to eliminate him.
Chidwick Down to a Single Chip, Then None
And it's not a 25k one either. He got busy preflop right from the start but was repopped first by the small blind when he had the button (he passed) and then by Filipa Cerqueira in the small blind who raised his 11k to 24k. Back to Chidwick who thought for a while, before finally pushing in 74k (he had 37k behind). When Cerqueira, after quite a think (and a sip of juice and self-count) moved in, he called her immediately as expected and showed 
to her 
. She stood up as the board ran out 
, allowing herself a single loud clap and a shout of something that sounded like, "BammmBA!" as she doubled up, leaving Chidwick with one black 100 chip.
That went in next hand and was isolated by Joe Ebanks' shove - Chidwick's 
faced off against 
. A little excitement courtesy of the 
flop but no straight came in and there followed his exit.
This Tournament Is Not For Mattern-ing
Arnaud Mattern couldn't manage back-to-back EPT final tables this time. He lost with against an even shorter stack's 
which left him with just 4,000 remaining and no miraculous recovery occurred.
Pedro Doesn't Guedes Wish
Portuguese model and now circuit regular Pedro Guedes started the day with 237k but has not been faring too well during the first level. Just now Brandon Cantu, who seems to be acting superfast like he's already run out of Timebank took a chunk off him, calling when Guedes raised to 50k (from 18,100) on a board of 
. Cantu called immediately, following it with a check, as in, said, "Callcheckdark."
The river was the 
and Cantu had already made his wishes clear; Guedes bet 25k and Cantu said, "Calltwopair." Guedes could only show 
to Cantu's 
and the chip leader gets richer.