Main Event Day 3 | The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

04-28-2012 13:52 UTC+1

Ben Vinson With a Sweat

We were just four places off the money when Ben Vinson must have been thinking not again! A few weeks ago Vinson was all-in, on the WPT Vienna money bubble, holding {A-} {K-} and he lost against the inferior ace of Benjamin Wilinofsky.

This time he was all-in against Team PokerStars Pro Max Martinez and once again it was a sweat with ace king.

Vinson
Martinez

The flop was horrid for Vinson - {Q-Spades} {9-Spades} {2-Hearts} - and the turn {7-Hearts} not much better, but just when Vinson thought history would repeat itself the {A-Diamonds} on the river saved his skin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Max Martinez	230,000 110,000	110,000

Ben Vinson	225,000 125,000	125,000

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04-28-2012 13:57 UTC+1

Charania Doubles Up Romero

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Mohsin Charania has just lost a portion of his stack to Ramon Romero. It was all-in pre flop and Charania was not in good shape.

Romero
Charania

Board: {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {7-Diamonds}

The full house on the turn securing the double up for Romero.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohsin Charania	420,000

Ramon Romero	150,000 74,000	74,000

Tags: Mohsin Charania Ramon Romero

04-28-2012 13:57 UTC+1

Nacho Barbero Gets Lucky

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Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

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Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

04-28-2012 14:05 UTC+1

No Break Until the Bubble Bursts

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

Toby Stone has announced that play will continue until the bubble bursts and then the players will be sent on a break.

If we make it though the whole of level 17 without bursting the bubble then the level will no go up again until it does burst.

04-28-2012 14:25 UTC+1

Seidel Dominant, Neuville Keeps On Swinging

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

"Nestled in the foothills of the TV set is the second feature table. It's got a small population, just seven players, and its mayor is Erik Seidel. The tall American has been dominating proceedings most of the last level, opening the most pots and winning the majority of those too...."

Read more by clicking through this link to the PokerStars Blog.

04-28-2012 14:38 UTC+1

Meet Max Martinez

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

04-28-2012 14:45 UTC+1

Bubble Action: Baumann and Gomez All In

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We have had three simultaneous all-in hands on the bubble, and here is the first.

Daniel Gomez raised to 10,000 in the cutoff and Gaelle Baumann moved all-in for around 40,000 in the small blind. Gomez must have absolute trash, because he took an age before deciding to call and when he turned his hand over, that was exactly what he had.

Baumann
Gomez

Board: {10-Clubs} {9-Spades} {4-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} {K-Clubs}

So despite Gomez pairing the board Baumann survives to double up at an anxious time.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Gomez	290,000 45,000	45,000
Gaelle Baumann	90,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Daniel Gomez Gaelle Baumann

04-28-2012 14:48 UTC+1

Adam Levy Bubbles EPT Grand Final

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In the last level at approximately 2:48 PM local time, Adam Levy moved all of his chips into the middle from the hijack seat. He shoved 73,500 at 2,000/4,000/500 for a little over 18 big blinds. Action folded to Vadzim Markushevski in the small blind and he made the call. The big blind folded.

Levy tabled the {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} and Markushevski the {A-Diamonds} {A-Clubs} . Levy immediately saw the bad news and shouted over to Bryan Piccioli that he had run into aces.

The flop, turn and river ran out {9-Spades} {6-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} {8-Spades} {5-Spades} and Levy was eliminated in 98th place. Although Levy wasn't supposed to be the official bubble boy, he was, but we'll have details on that shortly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Levy	Busted

Tags: Adam Levy Bryan PIccioli Vadzim Markushevski

04-28-2012 14:48 UTC+1

Martin Finger and Andrew Badecker Chop 96th Place (€7,500)

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Martin Finger will chop a min-cash with Andrew Badecker after both were eliminated in the same hand, but on separate tables. Tournament rules on the EPT state that if a more than one player bust during the same hand of hand-for-hand play, but all on separate tables, they will chop the money of the first payout.

There were three all-in hands on the same deal. This hand was the second of three all ins to be called out by tournament director Toby Stone.

The hand started with a Finger raise to 10,000 and a Jesse Martin three-bet to 29,500 from the small blind. Finger responded by shoving all in for 189,500 and after some thought Martin called, causing Finger to wince.

Finger: {j-Hearts} {j-Spades}
Martin: {a-Diamonds} {q-Hearts}

The board ran {k-Hearts} {a-Spades} {9-Clubs} {9-Spades} {7-Diamonds} to make Martin two pair.

After that, Stone walked a few feet over to Badecker's table where he was all in. Badecker raised to 10,000 on the button with right about 135,500 behind. Mikhail Petrov reraised all in from the big blind with his stack of around 280,000. Badecker had tanked long and hard before finally making the call.

Badecker: {A-Clubs} {9-Spades}
Petrov: {K-Diamonds} {6-Spades}

The flop gave Petrov the lead with the {K-Hearts} {Q-Hearts} {7-Clubs} falling. The turn {3-Hearts} left Badecker needing just an ace on the river, but he couldn't find it when the {3-Spades} fell on the end.