2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

Main Event
Day: 3
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Event Info

2012 PokerStars.it EPT Campione

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥6♦
Prize
€640,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,764,500
Entries
570
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Main Event

Day 3 Started

Day 3 Seat Draw

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt

Here is how the 99 players will line-up. Please note that not all tables are being played eight-handed, some will start seven handed hence the "missing" seats in some tables.

TableSeatNameChips
Table 11Balazs Botand646,000
 2[Removed:172]102,900
 3Marco Ruggeri147,300
 4Mario Picheler214,000
 5Andrew Dean89,400
 6Anestis Pantazidis292,600
 7Marco Falanga179,400
 8Olivier Busquet351,100
    
Table 21Gianmarco Di Tota107,700
 2Piero Schiavulli180,300
 3Matt Kay231,900
 4Stefano Puccilli113,500
 5Andrey Gulyy175,300
 6Marco Della Monica200,000
 7Friedrich Raz147,600
 8Maurizio Coppola58,800
    
Table 31Tobias Reinkemeier131,000
 2Martin Finger131,000
 3Massimo Mosele174,000
 4Giuseppe Biancoviso160,400
 5Ivo Donev317,500
 6Fabrizio Leonardi273,200
 7Ramin Hajiyev148,000
 8Jose Manuel Nadal Sordo237,400
    
Table 41Andreas Fluri50,900
 2Aurelin Chemli115,600
 3Grigorij Orlov117,100
 4Benas Molis152,800
 5Piero Federici113,800
 6Davide Andreoni177,100
 7Jannick Wrang225,100
 8Antonio Buonanno214,600
    
Table 51Robin Vlitalo286,400
 2Massimiliano Bellon Bellucci364,00
 3Koen De Visscher85,600
 4Nick Yunis99,400
 5Thomas Butzhammer48,200
 6Pasquale Vinci105,200
 7Bryan Piccioli101,500
 8Daniele Mazzia115,900
    
Table 61Carla Solinas112,800
 2Giovanni Manini220,600
 3Ronny Kaiser506,500
 4Michael Ruane160,000
 5Juri Pietroboni177,100
 6Cristiano Viali109,200
 7Stefan Czischke109,300
 8Liv Boeree300,900
    
Table 71Adrian Veghinas236,400
 2Alexander Khizhnyak174,200
 3Tillmann Raschke160,100
 4Carmelo Carlo Graziano62,900
 5Carlos Lauro Mora Alvarez149,200
 6Armin Zoike139,700
 7Ralph Kalman185,700
 8David Vamplew412,900
    
Table 81Jose Severino245,100
 2Luca Antinori140,400
 3Aubin Cazals114,100
 4Fabrice Soulier120,500
 5Raoul Refos27,700
 6Simeon Kuberov Naydenov246,500
 7Yuri Kerzhapkin184,500
 8Candido Goncalves140,100
    
Table 92Teresio Ciancanelli95,100
 3Nicolas Chouity257,000
 4Jean-Philippe Rohr178,000
 5Alessandro Minasi158,900
 6Stefano Demontis382,400
 7Alexander Andermatt436,000
 8Ivan Skobolov211,000
    
Table 101Todd Terry117,500
 2Marco Pistilli107,000
 3Salvatore Pengue78,100
 5Salvatore Tayfeh211,200
 6Roberto Romanello331,000
 7Ruper Elder161,600
 8Salvatore Donato120,900
    
Table 111Giorgio Bernasconi107,400
 2Primoz Adamie307,000
 3Andrey Demidov95,000
 4Marco Fabbrini137,100
 5Panagiotis Gavriulidis180,000
 6Alessandro Speranza132,300
 8Luca Cavechhi54,600
    
Table 121Sergio Castelluccio91,800
 2Mario Nagel146,200
 3Atanas Gueorguiev155,600
 4Valerio Parodo140,400
 5Daniel Erlandsson53,300
 6Mihai Manole101,800
 7Antonio Valenti93,500
    
Table 131Nicola Chiarinelli170,000
 2Andrea Benelli122,400
 3Per Linde199,600
 4Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier113,500
 5Michele Ugolini54,300
 7Walter Blattler48,100
 8Carlo Savinelli59,500

Welcome to Day 3 of EPT Campione!

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Lake Lugano
Lake Lugano

Just 99 players remain going into Day 3 of the first ever EPT Campione with Hungarian Balazs Botand leading the field with 646,000. After the PokerStars party last night (on a boat!) the players are dragging their weary heads back to the casino for today's 2pm (CET) start.

We'll be playing down to the final 24 players (three tables) no matter what, while there's also the bubble to deal with. The last 88 players are getting paid which means that 11 people will be coming and then going with nothing to show for it.

Two PokerStars Pros remain, both former EPT winners, in Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Liv Boeree, while Ronny Kaiser, Martin Finger, David Vamplew, Rupert Elder and Roberto Romanello are also former champions looking for that second title.

Can any of them do it? Tune in here to find out...

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

The Rich Get Richer

MarcC
MarcC

Balazs Botond has been drawn in the same seat as yesterday, and started right where he left off. It might be his lucky seat.

He raised to 6,500 from the cut-off and called when Marco Ruggeri three-bet to 15,500 from the small blind. The flop came down {k-Clubs}{8-Spades}{6-Clubs} and Ruggeri continued for 16,000.

Botond put in a chunky raise to 55,000, effectively committing himself to the pot as it was more than half of what the Italian had behind. Ruggeri shoved with {k-Spades}{q-Clubs} and Botond snap called with {7-Spades}{5-Spades} for the open ended straight draw with back-door flush possibilities.

The Hungarian got instant service on the {9-Spades} turn before the board ended with the {k-Hearts}.

Has a five day EPT ever been won on day three before?

Player Chips Progress
Balazs Botond hu
Balazs Botond 		750,000 104,000
Marco Ruggeri
Marco Ruggeri 		Busted

Tags: Balazs BotondMarco Ruggeri

Solinas' Solid Start

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

We joined the action just as Cristiano Viali had got the preflop betting round underway with a raise to 7,000 from the hijack seat. The cutoff folded but Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree made the call on the button. Next to act was Carla Solinas in the small blind and she stuck in a raise to what looked like 27,000 but we did not have chance to count the amount properly because both of her opponents quickly folded.

Tags: Carlo SolinasLiv BoereeCristiano Viali

Veghinas Wins Battle Of The Blinds

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

From the small blind David Vamplew opened with a raise to 6,000 and Andrea Veghinas called from the big blind. The pair shared a flop reading {10-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{J-Clubs}. Vamplew checked and Veghinas checked behind. Vamplew then checked the arrival of the {9-Diamonds} on the turn but Veghinas did not check behind on this occasion, instead he bet 11,500 and Vamplew instantly folded.

Tags: Adrian VeghinasDavid Vamplew

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