Main Event Day 3 | 2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

03-30-2012 01:11 UTC+2

De Visscher Back in the Game

Koen De Visscher was The Man earlier in the day until he lost pot after pot for a near million chip down swing. His day is finishing off nicely though with a double up.

All the chips went in pre flop between himself and Jose Manuel Nadal.

De Visscher: {j-Spades} {j-Hearts}
Nadal: {a-Spades} {k-Hearts}

The board ran {9-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} . The Belgian has a smile back upon his face now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Koen De Visscher	776,000 376,000	376,000
Jose Manuel Nadal	730,000 220,000	220,000

Tags: Jose Manuel Nadal Koen De Visscher

03-30-2012 01:08 UTC+2

Alvarez's Hand Declared Dead

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Matthew Pitt

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante

Carlos Lauro Mora Alvarez has just had his hand declared dead after taking far too long to act. He was facing a bet of 143,000 from Alexandre Andermatt, a bet that essentially put Alvarez all in as he only had 220,000 behind and calling, losing and being left with just 80,000 would be disastrous.

We'd been stood waiting for something to happen but Alverez just sat there staring at the board, eventually Andrea Benellli, who was not involved in the hand, called the clock on him.

"He had 10 seconds left on my own clock," said Jannick Wrang

Luca Vivaldi came over and started the countdown and he got all the way to zero, which meant Alverez's hand was dead. Andermatt adds even more chips to his stack.

Tags: Carlos Lauro Mora Alvarez Alexandre Andermatt

03-30-2012 01:01 UTC+2

Veghinas Caught Bluffing

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Matthew Pitt

Level 21 : 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante

We joined the action on the {7-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} {2-Hearts} board where Sebastian Veghinas had bet 55,000 into Jean-Philippe Rohr, who was sat under the gun. Rohr quickly called and the dealer got busy putting out the {8-Diamonds} river. Veghinas fired another bet, this one 60,00, Rohr snap-called and Veghinas snap-folded. Snap, snap, snap.

Tags: Sebastian Veghinas Jean-Philippe Rohr

03-30-2012 00:58 UTC+2

Botond Four-Bet Gets Through

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Stefano Puccilli opened to 29,000 preflop before Olivier Busquet made it 65,000 just a couple of seats down but then Balazs Botond four-bet to 125,000 from the button, Puccilli folded but Busquet took a while longer before he too gave up his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Balazs Botond	950,000 270,000	270,000
Olivier Busquet	950,000 10,000	10,000
Stefano Puccilli	380,000 205,000	205,000

Tags: Balazs Botond Olivier Busquet Stefano Puccilli

03-30-2012 00:42 UTC+2

Chip Counts at the Start of Level 21 (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandre Andermatt	1,500,000 180,000	180,000
Jannick Wrang	1,350,000

Simeon Naydenov	1,050,000 420,000	420,000
Olivier Busquet	1,000,000 40,000	40,000
Jose Manuel Nadal	950,000 360,000	360,000
David Vamplew	930,000 30,000	30,000

Adrian Veghinas	900,000 400,000	400,000
Balazs Botond	890,000 210,000	210,000
Robin Ylitalo	800,000 300,000	300,000

Giuseppe Biancoviso	800,000 20,000	20,000
Mario Nagel	690,000 515,000	515,000
Stefano Demontis	680,000 230,000	230,000
Fabrice Soulier	670,000 30,000	30,000
Alessandro Minasi	600,000 360,000	360,000
Ramin Hajiyev	590,000 20,000	20,000
Jean-Philippe Rohr	490,000 250,000	250,000
Stefano Puccilli	450,000 275,000	275,000
Carlos Mora	450,000 160,000	160,000
Koen De Visscher	400,000 400,000	400,000
Andrea Benelli	360,000 120,000	120,000
Juri Pietroboni	340,000 10,000	10,000
Per Linde	290,000 90,000	90,000
Pasquale Vinci	275,000 75,000	75,000
Ronny Kaiser	250,000 100,000	100,000
Panagiotis Gavriulidis	230,000 70,000	70,000

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Level: 21

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

03-30-2012 00:19 UTC+2

Break Time

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Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Players are now on a short break. We only have to lose two more players before play ends for the night.

03-30-2012 00:17 UTC+2

Dropping Like Flies

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Matthew Pitt

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Yet another player has been eliminated, this time Marco Della Monica. He three-bet shoved over a raise from Jean-Philippe Rohr with {K-Diamonds} {Q-Hearts} only to be called by the Frenchman's {Q-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} . By the river the board read {8-Hearts} {3-Hearts} {9-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} and Monica was sent to pick up his prize money.

Tags: Jean-Philippe Rohr Marco Della Monica

03-30-2012 00:17 UTC+2

Kerzhapkin Sent Packing

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Matthew Pitt

Level 20 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Yuri Kerzhapkin has been eliminated from the tournament by Sebastian Veghinas. The former shoved his stack into the middle with {10-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} and was rather unfortunate to see Veghinas wake up with pocket kings.

The board ran out {3-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {6-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {7-Diamonds} and Kerzhapkin was sent to the rail.

Tags: Sebastian Veghinas Yuri Kerzhapkin

03-30-2012 00:17 UTC+2

Federici Runs the Gauntlet

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With two players having to sit out because of penalties and UTG folding, the table was basically three-handed and Piero Federici had four-bet all in with {8-} {3-} against David Vamplew but the latter held {A-} {K-} to knock him out. Just on the break though the Scot lost a sizeable pot to Mario Nagel, he called a 78,000 bet on the turn of a {K-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {7-Hearts} {10-Hearts} board but then folded to a 145,000 bet on the {4-Spades} river.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Vamplew	900,000 160,000	160,000

Piero Federici	Busted

Tags: David Vamplew Piero Federici