Main Event Day 3 | 2011 PokerStars.com EPT Loutraki

11-18-2011 20:52 UTC+3

End of Level 17 Counts (full)

Player	Chips	Progress
Charalampos Kapernopoulos	680,000 398,000	398,000
David Elyashar	590,000 241,000	241,000
Rupert Elder	560,000 10,000	10,000

Frederic Hebette	506,000 304,000	304,000
Mateusz Szyba	495,000 433,000	433,000
Mario Puccini	434,000 129,000	129,000
Pim Van Riet	417,000 197,000	197,000
Zimnan Ziyard	385,000 49,000	49,000

Grudi Grudev	368,000 107,000	107,000
Dimitris Mpinas	340,000 5,000	5,000
Viliyan Petleshkov	266,000 136,000	136,000
Kevin MacPhee	260,000 113,000	113,000

Vitalijs Zavorotnijs	253,000 1,000	1,000
Theofanis Poziopoulos	252,000 100,000	100,000
Bret Williams	251,000 127,000	127,000
Florian Schleps	250,000 80,000	80,000
Vasileios Chantzaras	247,000 8,000	8,000
Koen De Visscher	230,000 30,000	30,000
Toni Judet	230,000 70,000	70,000

Hauke Heseding	215,000 135,000	135,000
Georgios Grigoropoulos	202,000 33,000	33,000
Panagiotis Kouloukakos	200,000 10,000	10,000
David Vamplew	193,000 39,000	39,000

Jude Ainsworth	190,000 97,000	97,000

Pierre Mothes	175,000 28,000	28,000

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Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 500

11-18-2011 20:30 UTC+3

Break Time

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

We are on the last fifteen-minute break of the day.

11-18-2011 20:30 UTC+3

Mpinas Gets Some River Value From Garp

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On a board of {K-Clubs} {6-Spades} {4-Spades} {9-Clubs} {A-Spades} , Tobias Garp bet 26,000 into a pot of 53,000 and Dimitris Mpinas raised to 65,000. Garp asked for a quick count before making the call.

"I have a flush," said Mpinas.

The flush was good {10-Spades} {8-Spades}

Player	Chips	Progress
Tobias Garp	492,000 63,000	63,000
Dimitris Mpinas	345,000 85,000	85,000

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11-18-2011 20:29 UTC+3

Dimitris Mpinas Turns Jacks Into a Bluff

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Georges Yazbeck raised to 10,500 in the cutoff, Dimitris Mpinas three-bet to 30,000 on the button and Yazbeck called from his 100k stack!

Flop: {A-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} {4-Diamonds}

Yazbeck checked and Mpinas moved all-in forcing a quick fold from Yazbeck. Mpinas turned over {J-Spades} {J-Hearts}

Player	Chips	Progress
Dimitris Mpinas	260,000 16,000	16,000
Georges Yazbeck	71,000 45,000	45,000

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11-18-2011 20:29 UTC+3

Georges Yazbeck Doubles Up Through Garp

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Koen de Visscher raised to 10,500 in the hijack seat and Tobias Garp came into the action with a three-bet from the button to the tune of 26,500. Georges Yazbeck was seated in the small blind with the short stack and he moved all-in for 37,500. De Visscher folded and Garp threw in the last few coins and made the call.

Yazbeck
Garp

Board: {A-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {2-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {10-Diamonds}

Player	Chips	Progress
Tobias Garp	555,000 60,000	60,000
Georges Yazbeck	116,000 44,000	44,000

Tags: Georges Yazbeck Tobias Garp

11-18-2011 20:28 UTC+3

Angry Papa

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Ioannis Papathanasioy is a very angry man, he just held {7-Clubs} {6-Clubs} on the river of a {6-Hearts} {9-Spades} {A-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} {K-Spades} board and bet/called the river against David Elyashar only to find the latter with {K-Hearts} {K-Diamonds} for a huge pot worth around 500,000. Papathanasioy dropped to 90,000 as a result.

11-18-2011 20:18 UTC+3

Collapse of the Roman Empire

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

After Jason Wheeler managed to survive with {J-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} against {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades} when the board came {10-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {5-Spades} {10-Spades} , ("the $6,000 ten," Wheeler called it) attention was turned to another table.

Roman Makhlin had moved all in for his last 18,500 from UTG.

He then proceeded to wander off away from the table and tell one of his friends on the other side of the room that he was all in.

"Wait...what?" said big blind Rupert Elder as a crowd swelled around the table.

Finally Makhlin came back to the table and Christopher Lastiwka moved all in behind him and the blinds folded. Makhlin was told if he won the hand he'd be getting a penalty anyway.

Makhlin: {K-Spades} {K-Clubs}
Lastiwka: {A-Spades} {K-Hearts}

Makhlin was ahead but the board ran out {A-Clubs} {3-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} {9-Hearts} {J-Spades} meaning the Russian was out and everyone had made it into the money.

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11-18-2011 19:47 UTC+3

Rupert Elder All-in On The Bubble!

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Rupert Elder not afraid to put his chips in the middle.

It is not often that this happens, but one of the tournaments chip leaders was very nearly the EPT Loutrakis bubble boy. Rupert Elder and Ioannis Papathanasioy have been having a personal duel, all afternoon, with Papathanasioy winning the bigger pots. Then we had one of the most exciting hands of the tournament so far.

Rupert Elder raised to 10,000 from under the gun and Jude Ainsworth called in mid-position. Next to play was Ioannis Papathanasioy from the button and he squeezed out a three-bet to 33,500. Back onto Rupert Elder and he counted out a four-bet of 78,500 and confidently moved them into the pot. Ainsworth folded and Papathanasioy made the call.

Flop: {J-Hearts} {7-Hearts} {6-Spades}

Elder was first to act and he bet 65,000 into a pot of 170,000 and Papathanasioy made the call.

Turn: {3-Clubs}

Checkity-check.

River: {Q-Clubs}

By this time the play had stopped on every table and the crowds around the table were ridiculous.

"I am all-in," said Elder before moving all of his stack into the middle.

Papathanasioy couldn't believe it. A wrong call in this situation and he would be our unlikely bubble boy. A right call in this situation and he would move towards 1 million in chips. Papathanasioy asked for a count and it was 283,000. You could tell that Papathanasioy had a very strong hand but after a lot of hustling and bustling in the crowd and a lot of thinking by Papathanasioy, he eventually folded his hand.

"Show the bluff," commentated Ainsworth.

Elder peeked at his cards and quietly slid them to the dealer.