Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,764,500
Entries
570
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
End of Day 3 Photos
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Wrang Leads Into Day 4
Level 21
: 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante
Day 3 saw the return of 99 players (not red balloons) with 11 of them due to have a relatively short win-less day since only 88 would be picking up the minimum cash payment of €7,500. After nearly seven levels of action it was PokerStars qualifier Jannick Wrang who finished at the top of the tree with 1,742,000. Other big names still in are Fabrice Soulier (1,230,000), Olivier Busquet (973,000) and David Vamplew (747,000). Wrang was one of several players who held the chip lead in the latter part of the day as it was passed around like a hot potato.
The day started with no less than eight former EPT champions including the last two remaining Team PokerStars Pros Liv Boeree and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. Both managed to make the money but neither could reach the end of the day, ElkY running kings into aces before his pocket sixes lost out to Andrey Gulyy's ace-five, the latter rivering a wheel to knock out the Frenchman. Boeree lasted longer but finally came undone when she called all in on the river of a 6-4-6-3-K against Olivier Busquet and got shown K-6 for her troubles.
Six other former EPT champions also made the money: David Vamplew, Rupert Elder, Martin Finger, Ronny Kaiser, Nicolas Chouity and Roberto Romanello but of them only Kaiser and Vamplew have managed to progress to Day 4 with hopes of becoming the EPT's first ever double champion.
It didn't take too long for the tournament to progress to the bubble stage, Benas Molis proving to be the unlucky man. He had bet/three-bet with 
on a 
board against Wrang and when the latter had pushed all in, Molis felt himself committed and called it off against his opponent's 
. The 
on the turn changed nothing and the 
gave Wrang a full house and everyone else bar Molis a guaranteed cash prize.
Busquet briefly took the lead before Wrang also had a go at the top when he held flush against flush, Stefan Czischke the victim. Alexandre Andermatt was next, he won the classic flip with queens against ace-king to knock out former Grand Final winner Nicolas Chouity, the latter managed to hit both his hole cards but Andermatt flopped a set of queens which held.
Andermatt would then lose a million chip pot himself when Fabrice Soulier's 
outflopped the Swiss player's queens and Wrang would regain the chip lead to finish the day on top.
Tomorrow we'll play down to our final table, join us from 2pm (CET).
Day 4 Seat Draw
Level 21
: 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Panagiotis Gavriulidis | 485.000 |
| 1 | 2 | Jean-Philippe Rohr | 664.000 |
| 1 | 3 | Robin Ylitalo | 1.221.000 |
| 1 | 4 | Koen De Visscher | 858.000 |
| 1 | 5 | Balazs Botond | 646.000 |
| 1 | 6 | Pasquale Vinci | 197.000 |
| 1 | 7 | Ramin Hajiyev | 1.000.000 |
| 1 | 8 | Giuseppe Biancoviso | 820.000 |
| 2 | 1 | Stefano Puccilli | 696.000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jose Manuel Nadal | 240.000 |
| 2 | 3 | Primoz Adamie | 344.000 |
| 2 | 4 | David Vamplew | 747.000 |
| 2 | 5 | Ronny Kaiser | 169.000 |
| 2 | 6 | Carlos Mora | 195.000 |
| 2 | 7 | Simeon Naydenov | 1.076.000 |
| 2 | 8 | Stefano Demontis | 544.000 |
| 3 | 1 | Alessandro Minasi | 342.000 |
| 3 | 2 | Jannick Wrang | 1.742.000 |
| 3 | 3 | Fabrice Soulier | 1.230.000 |
| 3 | 4 | Adrian Veghinas | 420.000 |
| 3 | 5 | Olivier Busquet | 973.000 |
| 3 | 6 | Andrea Benelli | 352.000 |
| 3 | 7 | Alexandre Andermatt | 968.000 |
| 3 | 8 | Mario Nagel | 1.125.000 |
End of Day 3 Chip Counts (full)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,742,000 | 392,000 |
|
1,230,000 | 30,000 |
|
1,221,000 | -39,000 |
|
1,125,000 | 435,000 |
|
1,076,000 | 26,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 410,000 |
|
973,000 | 373,000 |
|
968,000 | -82,000 |
|
858,000 | 82,000 |
|
820,000 | 20,000 |
|
747,000 | -183,000 |
|
696,000 | -104,000 |
|
664,000 | 174,000 |
|
646,000 | -304,000 |
|
544,000 | -136,000 |
|
|
485,000 | 255,000 |
|
420,000 | -480,000 |
|
352,000 | -8,000 |
|
|
344,000 | 124,000 |
|
342,000 | -258,000 |
|
|
240,000 | 70,000 |
|
197,000 | -78,000 |
|
195,000 | -255,000 |
|
169,000 | 69,000 |
Juri Pietroboni Busts To End The Day
Level 21
: 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante
The elimination of Juri Pietroboni has brought the super-long Day 3 to an end. He found himself all in with 
against the 
of Olivier Busquet. The board ran out 
and with that we are down to 24 players.
Another Crazy Hand, Another Double
The long day? The late night? Something in the air? What ever it is,some strange and crazy hands are being played out.
Robin Ylitalo opened from the cut-off and called a Jose Manuel Nadal three-bet from the big blind. Nadal bet flop, turn and shoved the river. The final board read 
and by the river Ylitalo had 376,000 left. He took his time and made a great call with 
. Nadal only had 
and looked to the heavens as if to say, "What did I just do?"
He was left with 81,000 and shipped them in from the small blind the next hand. Kaiser called with 
but was dominated by Nadal's . The board ran 
to see Kaiser flop two-pair but immediately fall back behind on the turn.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,260,000 | 460,000 |
|
|
170,000 | -560,000 |
|
|
100,000 | -150,000 |
Busquet Suffers Body Blow
It's another major outdraw for a big pot to keep another player in. The chips went flying in on a 
flop between Stefano Puccilli and Olivier Busquet - the latter holding 
against Puccilli's . The hit the turn and the shock flashed into Busquet's eyes as his jaw nearly dropped, taking a couple of breaths to recover. Puccilli celebrated his double up when the 
hit the river.
That's the third time in a row the short stack has got it in behind and got there, not that we're counting.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
800,000 | 420,000 |
|
|
600,000 | -350,000 |
Linde's Stack Gets Decimated
Level 21
: 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante
Per Linde was one of the favourites to take down the EPT Campione main event based on his experience alone but that is looking extremely unlikely now that he has been left with just 18,000 chips.
He called the all-in of Panagiotis Gavriulidis with and must have been delighted to see his opponent turn over 
, that was until the board ran out 
to boost Gavriulidis to 500,000 and crippled Linde.
Three outers seem the order of the day right now.
Fabrice Soulier Doubles Through Andermatt
Fabrice Soulier had just doubled through Alexandre Andermatt after spiking a three-outer on the flop. A preflop raising war broke out between the two that resulted in Soulier being all-in and at risk holding against the 
of Andermatt.
The 
propelled Soulier into the lead and when the and 
appeared on the turn and river respectively the Frenchman doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,200,000 | 530,000 |
|
|
1,050,000 | -550,000 |