Main Event Day 3 | 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Sanremo

10-08-2012 14:09 UTC+2

Moneymaker Needs No Introduction

Chad Holloway

Kyle Cheong opened for 6,000 under the gun and cleared the field all the way to Chris Moneymaker, who defended from the big blind. Both players proceeded to check the flop, and then Moneymaker led out for 11,000 on the turn. Cheong folded and the Team PokerStars Pro won an easy pot.

As soon as the hand was over, Mauro Mancin began asking each player their name. While Mancin didn’t seem know either Shaun Deeb, who won five SCOOPs this past spring, nor Matt Salsberg, who took down the WPT Paris last month, he was familiar with another player at the table. “Chris Moneymaker I know,” Mancin said. It goes to show you, the man who sparked the poker boom is still well known all across the globe.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	70,000	-600

Tags: Chris Moneymaker Mauro Mancin

10-08-2012 14:08 UTC+2

And We're Back!

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10-08-2012 14:07 UTC+2

Internet (or Lack Thereof)

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Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

10-08-2012 13:35 UTC+2

The March to the Money Bubble Begins on Day 3

Chad Holloway

Welcome back to Day 3 of the EPT9 Sanremo here at Casino Sanremo. What started with 797 players has been whittled down to 152, all of whom are looking to make the money at the top 120. That means 32 players will leave today empty handed.

Odds are Inge Forsmo will not be among them as he enters play as the chip leader with a massive 606,100, more then 100K more than his next closest competitor. Some other players that will carry big stacks into Day 3 are Charly Maracchione (505,800), Jason Tompkins (500,000), Lorenzo Sabato (387,900), Matt Salsberg (338,700) and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (336,300).

They will be joined by the likes of David Vamplew (294,800), Shaun Deeb (188,800), Ludovic Lacay (183,100), Isaac Haxton (148,800), Todd Terry (97,500) and Rupert Elder (31,500); as well as, Team PokerStars Pros Ana Marquez (162,000), Jude Ainsworth (138,700), Luca Moschitta (104,400), Liv Boeree (81,400), Chris Moneymaker (70,600), Mickey Petersen (66,500), Jose Barbero (65,100), Andre Akkari (46,300) and Pius Heinz (43,600). Interestingly, Boeree is looking to capture her second EPT Sanremo title in four seasons after taking it down back in Season 6.

Who will be the next to add their name to this prestigious list?

EPT Sanremo at a Glance

Season	Date	Buy-In	# of Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Top Prize
4	April 1-5, 2008	€5,000	701	€3,100,000	Jason Mercier	€869,000
5	April 18-23, 2009	€5,300	1,178	€5,713,300	Constant Rijkenberg	€1,508,000
6	April 15-21, 2010	€5,300	1,240	€6,014,000	Liv Boeree	€1,250,000
7	April 27-May 3, 2011	€5,300	987	€4,786,950	Rupert Elder	€930,000
8	October 21-27, 2011	€4,900	837	€3,734,694	Andrey Pateychuk	€680,000

Day 3 will begin play at 1400 CET (0800 ET), which is about a half an hour from now. Be sure to stay tuned for our updates as we make out way to the money.

Tags: Inge Forsmo

10-08-2012 01:58 UTC+2

Day 3 Seat Draw

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Table	Seat	Name	Chips
1	1	Justin Bonomo	203,400
1	2	Nadir Yusupov	60,200
1	3	Alessandro Longobardi	180,000
1	4	Rupert Elder	31,500
1	5	Michael Watson	116,000
1	6	Alexander Zayonts	121,300
1	7	Marco Di Persio	61,500
1	8	Mirko Di Tunnariello	138,500

2	1	Antoine Junillon	293,000
2	2	Rob Yong	117,700
2	3	David Vamplew	294,800
2	4	Richard Loth	123,500
2	5	Charly Maracchione	505,800
2	6	Sofia Lovgren	223,800
2	7	Ana Marquez	162,800
2	8	Yevgeniy Timoshenko	336,300

3	1	Michele Di Lauro	306,400
3	2	Michele Bianchi	172,400
3	3	Amerigo Santoro	230,000
3	4	Nacho Barbero	65,100
3	5	Frederico Cipollini	89,300
3	6	Sergey Baburin	225,600
3	7	Paul Guichard	95,200
3	8	Anthony Domergue	62,300

4	1	Mathias Weiss	87,000
4	2	Adrian Veghinas	160,400
4	3	Ezio Ottaviani	55,800
4	4	Matteo Colantoni	157,100
4	5	Alex Roumeliotis	287,800
4	6	Christopher Brammer	94,100
4	7	Todd Terry	97,500
4	8	Samuel Panzica	181,500

5	1	Brandon Crawford	93,800
5	2	Giuseppe Cefalu	118,400
5	3	Ludovic Lacay	188,100
5	4	Alexander Kopylkov	99,200
5	5	Alessandro Sarro	80,700
5	6	Peter Dragar	164,200
5	7	Artem Metalidi	335,500
5	8	Szabolcs Mayer	94,100

6	1	Kamal Choraria	68,600
6	2	Olivier Roncari	84,900
6	3	Ismael Bojang	268,200
6	4	Adrian Piasecki	272,800
6	5	Rocco Busiello	64,200
6	6	[Removed:163]	69,800
6	7	Ben Vinson	335,200
6	8	Liwei Sun	149,000

7	1	Oleksii Kravchuk	189,200
7	2	Melvin Hendriks	165,100
7	3	Sam Razavi	155,800
7	4	Jude Ainsworth	137,700
7	5	Silvio Crisari	62,700
7	6	Fernando Cimaglia	222,900
7	7	Simon Mattsson	107,300
7	8	Paul Berende	110,500

8	1	Pius Heinz	43,600
8	2	Giuseppe Zarbo	61,700
8	3	Guillaume Rivet	130,800
8	4	Micah Raskin	108,200
8	5	Iulian Ruxandescu	143,400
8	6	Sebastian von Toperczer	68,200
8	7	Torsten Brinkmann	263,000
8	8	Andrea Furlanetto	198,500

9	1	Dimitar Danchev	256,700
9	2	Stephen Chidwick	108,100
9	3	Michele Gaudiano	73,200
9	4	Erion Islamay	211,300
9	5	Bryan Paris	78,700
9	6	Simone Petrini	109,000
9	7	Roberto Romanello	174,400
9	8	Kent Roed	283,500

10	1	Sebastian Gohr	60,700
10	2	Inge Forsmo	606,100
10	3	Fabian Quoss	89,100
10	4	Iurii Dzetsyna	99,300
10	5	Ramsey Ajram	90,000
10	6	Ferdinando Lo Cascio	74,300
10	7	Imed Mahmoud	230,000
10	8	Paolo Calculli	60,100

11	1	Alexander Ni	157,700
11	2	Tiziano Mosca	168,100
11	3	Mauro Mancin	148,800
11	4	Jonas Mackoff	137,400
11	5	Chris Moneymaker	70,600
11	6	Kyle Cheong	63,900
11	7	Shaun Deeb	188,800
11	8	Matt Salsberg	338,700

12	1	Massimo Mosele	52,400
12	2	Giuseppe Ottaviani	205,500
12	3	Ignat Liviu	112,600
12	4	Morten Mortensen	344,300
12	5	Jason Lavallee	37,900
12	6	John Taramas	126,000
12	7	Alessandro Pennisi	168,000
12	8	Stefano Giarrusso	145,500

13	1	Tom Alner	215,400
13	2	Manig Loeser	43,300
13	3	Shahin Baharan	100,800
13	4	Paul van 't Veer	115,800
13	5	Leonardo Parmiggiani	86,600
13	6	Eric Nhouyvanisvong	132,100
13	7	Gabriele Nuzzo	94,400
13	8	Renaud Desferet	264,100

14	1	Francesco Brozzi	79,700
14	2	Isaac Haxton	148,800
14	3	Angelo Recchia	192,000
14	4	Andre Akkari	46,300
14	5	Artem Litvinov	148,700
14	6	Massimo Di Cicco	150,000
14	7	Mikael Andersson	135,700
14	8	Viliyan Petleshkov	185,800

15	1	Thomas Georg	141,000
15	2	Laurent Polito	326,400
15	3	Artur Koren	195,100
15	4	Negjdel Avdylaj	218,800
15	5	Eirik Lund Presterud	97,600
15	6	Sebastian Sturmer	283,400
15	7	Lee Cockroft	40,000
15	8	Edoardo Scimia	46,000

16	1	Carmelo Vasta	283,200
16	2	Atanas Kavrakov	70,300
16	3	Ioannis Kontonatsios	143,300
16	4	Igin Viacheslav	128,000
16	5	Alberto Musini	328,200
16	6	Mickey Petersen	66,300
16	7	Sam Trickett	21,600
16	8	Lorenzo Sabato	387,900

17	1	Mihai Manole	134,900
17	2	Tolik Shkoyan	177,600
17	3	Michael Benvenuti	97,600
17	4	Marco Fantini	234,500
17	5	Erik Olofsson	278,500
17	6	Roland Bachmann	196,900
17	7	Luca Moschitta	104,400
17	8	Rudi Van Mol	91,100

18	1	Maksim Semisoshenko	110,800
18	2	Walid Bou-Habib	177,000
18	3	Liv Boeree	81,400
18	4	Nicolas Lemaitre	84,600
18	5	Michael Ferrell	254,300
18	6	Francesco Lorenzini	71,000
18	7	Mikko Turtiainen	127,100
18	8	Thomas Gabriel	184,600

19	1	Charlie Combes	47,900
19	2	Alexey Zakharov	66,600
19	3	Alexander Kell	161,400
19	4	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	50,800
19	5	Vasili Firsau	167,700
19	6	Jason Tompkins	500,000
19	7	Dermot Blain	150,000
19	8	Mikolaj Zawadzki	288,600

Main Event

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