Main Event
Day 3 Completed
Main Event
Day 3 Completed
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Raphael Kroll | 829,000 | -51,000 |
Fabian Holling
|
817,000 | 149,000 |
Ahmed Abd El Fatah | 799,000 | 212,000 |
Thomas Finneran
|
688,000 | 24,000 |
Zimnan Ziyard
|
662,000 | 362,000 |
Anthony Hnatow | 610,000 | 92,000 |
Amin Karout
|
610,000 | -18,000 |
Martin Jacobson | 605,000 | 45,000 |
Joe Ebanks | 598,500 | 168,500 |
Rory Rees-Brennan | 597,500 | 147,500 |
Philip Jacobsen
|
580,000 | 140,000 |
Kevin Lambert
|
555,000 | 101,000 |
Kenny Hallaert | 550,000 | 20,000 |
Franck Pepe
|
549,000 | 149,000 |
Alexander Yasnogorodskiy
|
541,000 | -19,000 |
Bruno Launais | 505,500 | 136,500 |
David Sonelin | 504,000 | 164,000 |
Mathew Frankland | 499,000 | 24,000 |
Mesut Akbas
|
457,500 | 37,500 |
Thomas Bichon | 452,000 | 17,000 |
Ruslan Prydryk
|
399,000 | -41,000 |
Kevin Keosomphet
|
398,500 | 138,500 |
Konstantin Streletskiy | 391,000 | 49,000 |
Sergey Kislinskiy
|
387,000 | -78,000 |
Laurent Polito | 386,500 | 116,500 |
Well, technically we're four days down when you factor in the two start days, but there you go. When we return tomorrow there will be 90 players remaining with Raphael Kroll will be in the lead with 829,000, closely trailed by Fabian Holling with 817,000.
We've only played five levels today - including running Level 17 twice - but an awful lot has happened. 206 players came back today with Swedish online qualifier David Sonelin in the lead. We were well outside the money at the start of the day, and among those who failed to pick up a little something were Salvatore Bonavena, Kristoffer Thorsson, Bruno Fitoussi and Day 1 chip leader Guillaume de la Gorce.
The bubble itself took unusually long - hand for hand play lasted over an hour before Bernard Henri Guigon succumbed in the wooden spoon position. Those who made a return on their tournament investment but will not be returning for Day 4 include EPT Barcelona champion Kent Lundmark, Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville and EPT Monte Carlo High Roller runner up Olivier Busquet.
Still in the running as we head into the business end of this tournament are Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (the last remaining former EPT champion in the field), Praz Bansi (the two-time WSOP bracelet winner enjoying his first ever EPT cash despite having played almost every one for the past four years), Team PokerStars Pro Thomas Bichon, Fabrice Soulier and EPT Vilamoura runner up Martin Jacobson.
Everyone is now guaranteed more than a min-cash, but there's a long way to go before one lucky individual takes home the €880,000 on offer for first place. We'll be back at noon to witness the carnage, but before that, we understand that PokerStars is throwing a party. See you there!
The clock was stopped and the last four hands announced some time ago, but certain tables seem to be taking longer than is reasonable. Please stand by.
Team PokerStars Pro and ladies' favourite Thomas Bichon is up to 435,000 after knocking out a short-stacked Filip Verboven. We're not sure what Verboven had, but he presumably couldn't beat Bichon's on a board.
Pierre Neuville has been knocked out after he found himself all-in holding against Mathew Frankland's .
No help on the board and the Belgian was busted.
Fabian Holling qualified for this event playing on Pokerstars.net and now he is in the money has a significant ROI. He has just taken a huge stride towards increasing his prize money after this hand.
We caught up with the action with Holling facing what appeared to be a four-bet shove from Michel Dattani. Holling had Dattani well covered and he had his head bowed as he weighed up his decision. In the end Holling called and tabled . Dattan tabled and they gave each other a good luck handshake.
The flop was and it was advantage Holling who even had the Queen for the potentially higher flush draw. The turn was the and the river the and Dattani was eliminated.
Holling now has ~668,000
This tournament started with a very large field, and although there are several big names left in the running the great majority of the remaining players are relatively unknown on the international circuit. So it is fortunate for us as reporters, and unfortunate for some of the players, that one table has more than its fair share of familiar faces on it right now.
Table 4 currently features Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Praz Bansi, Pierre Neuville and EPT Monte Carlo High Roller runner up Olivier Busquet, as well as young British up-and-comer Mathew Frankland. They may be famous, but they don't really have that many chips between them. Unsurprisingly, we've seen a lot of action at this table.
Pierre Neuville open-shoved for his last 51,000 from the cutoff, but no-one wanted to mess with the Friend Of PokerStars.
A couple hands later and Bansi opened for 15,000 under the gun. He got a call from Henri Layani in the cutoff and ElkY folded his button, but in the small blind Busquet went all in for 59,000 total. Bansi thought about it but folded, and after a while Lavani folded too. This was not the outcome that Busquet had hoped for. He showed .
"How do I get two folds out of that?" he lamented. "That's sick. That never happens in tournaments."
"That never happens online," offered ElkY.
Continued Busquet, "I almost wanted her [the dealer] to call it in so it looked like less. Jeez."
Busquet is at 98,000.
Riccardo Giacalone has just doubled up to 200,000 at the expense of PokerStars qualifier Sergey Kislinskiy. Giacalone's probably looked very pretty but Kislinskiy turned over a dominating pair of the which were looking good on the flop and turn, but the was a set the Russian didn't want to make and his stack was reduced to 320,000 as Giacalone celebrated.
Mikael Oestreicher has just added the chips of Moetaz El Sayed to his stack after coming from behind to win their all-in showdown.
El Sayed:
Oestriecher:
Board:
When the ace of spades hit the felt on the river El Sayed leapt into the air for joy until someone reminded him that the card actually lost him the hand.
Mikael Oestreicher ~ 310,000.