Main Event Day 3 | 2011 PokerStars.com EPT London

10-03-2011 12:59 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Juan Manuel Pastor	320,000 102,700	102,700

Nacho Barbero	190,000 12,400	12,400

Humberto Brenes	170,000 18,500	18,500

Sebastian Ruthenberg	135,000 34,900	34,900

Salvatore Bonavena	100,000 26,500	26,500

Jason Mercier	85,000 3,300	3,300

Ana Marquez	60,000 15,600	15,600

Player	Chips	Progress
Trevor Reardon	Busted
Marco Komen	Busted
Konstantin Bucherl	Busted
Mario Nagel	Busted
Marius Skor	Busted
Charles-Etienne Gagnon	Busted
Peter Dragar	Busted
Elio Fox	Busted
Eric Haik	Busted
Mark Defaria	Busted
Dan Kelly	Busted
Stephen Chidwick	Busted
[Removed:40]	Busted
Kenny Shih	Busted
Carlo Gabriele	Busted

Brunson is the King

Donnie Peters

Doyle Brunson just got a nice boost to his stack after knocking out Salman Behbehani. The flop was {8-Clubs} {5-Hearts} {2-Spades} when the two got the money in. Behbehani held {A-} {8-} to Brunson's two kings. The turn was the {J-Clubs} and the river the {10-Diamonds} to keep Brunson in the lead and win him the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Doyle Brunson	300,000 97,600	97,600

Salman Behbehani	Busted

Tags: Doyle Brunson Salman Behbehani

10-03-2011 13:21 UTC+1

Mizzi Triples

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Donnie Peters

Sorel Mizzi moved all in for the second hand in a row. This time he was all in for 25,500. Hugo Loureiro reraised to 100,000 and then Georges Yazbeck called all in for around 20,000. Everyone else folded.

Mizzi: {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}
Loureiro: {J-Spades} {J-Hearts}
Yazbeck: {10-Diamonds} {10-Hearts}

The board ran out {A-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {4-Hearts} {3-Spades} {8-Spades} and Mizzi tripled up. Yazbeck was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sorel Mizzi	80,000 53,100	53,100
Georges Yazbeck	Busted

Tags: Georges Yazbeck Hugo Loureiro Sorel Mizzi

10-03-2011 13:22 UTC+1

Sevens Former Champs Left

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Donnie Peters

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Earlier we asked you if you could figure out who the seven champions are that are remaining in the field? Jake Cody made eight, but he was eliminated. Joao Barbosa, Jason Mercier, Nicolas Chouity, Anton Wigg, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Roberto Romanello and Salvatore Bonavena are all former EPT champions looking for Main Event title number two.

10-03-2011 13:22 UTC+1

Break

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Donnie Peters

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The players are on their first 15-minute break of the day.

10-03-2011 13:35 UTC+1

Chip Counts at the Break (full)

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Donnie Peters

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Spindler	515,000 45,200	45,200

Basile Yaiche	460,000 56,400	56,400
Jamie Rosen	455,000 50,000	50,000
Martins Adeniya	450,000 55,000	55,000
Paul Vas Nunes	420,000 176,300	176,300

Neil Pearce	420,000 222,600	222,600

Daniel Neilson	410,000 106,900	106,900
Jonathan Layani	405,000 42,000	42,000
Mathieu Clavet	400,000 306,400	306,400
Hugo Loureiro	400,000 73,000	73,000
Juan Manuel Pastor	376,000 56,000	56,000

Pascal Hartmann	353,000 97,800	97,800

Andre Klebanov	337,000 12,900	12,900
Sandor Demjan	335,000 15,500	15,500
Mattias Bergstrom	320,000 111,500	111,500
Dermot Blain	320,000 182,000	182,000

James Mitchell	320,000 5,000	5,000
Justas Semaska	312,000 72,900	72,900
Marvin Rettenmaier	305,000 3,700	3,700
Paul Foltyn	303,000 26,000	26,000
Steven Kelly	302,000 44,200	44,200
Andrew Chen	300,000 48,600	48,600
Kevin Iacofano	295,000 82,500	82,500
Elliott Peterman	295,000 142,600	142,600
Sam MacDonald	281,000 147,600	147,600

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Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

10-03-2011 13:50 UTC+1

Blom Beats Chouity

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Donnie Peters

Nicolas Chouity raised to 6,600 from early position and Sebastian Blom, brother of Viktor Blom, reraised to 15,000 from middle position. Action folded back to Chouity and he four-bet to 29,200. Blom made the call.

The flop came down {Q-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {9-Clubs} and Chouity checked. Blom bet 22,000 and Chouity folded. Blom showed the {8-Clubs} as he raked in the chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sebastian Blom	300,000 41,900	41,900
Nicolas Chouity	118,000 3,000	3,000

Tags: Sebastian Blom Nicolas Chouity

10-03-2011 13:59 UTC+1

Never Ending

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Donnie Peters

Before the last break, Jason Mercier was crushed down to just 18,000 chips after losing a big all-in confrontation with {A-} {Q-} versus pocket eights. Mercier flopped an ace, but couldn't fend off his opponent who rivered an eight.

Don't worry through, Mercier fans, because he just doubled back to about 35,000. Under the gun, Mercier raised all in for 15,600. Action folded to Barny Boatman in the big blind and he made the call with the {A-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} . Mercier held the {K-Clubs} {4-Clubs} .

There was a king in the window as the flop ran out {A-Diamonds} {K-Hearts} {6-Clubs} to keep Boatman in front. The turn was interesting as the {10-Clubs} added a flush draw for Mercier. Will It end here? No.