Ioakim Papadopoulos went all in for his last 50,000 with , and Niclas Adolfsson, a Swedish PokerStars player made the call from the big blind with . The dealer gave them the five cards . It was looking good until the turn card spiked for Adolfsson and the river was unable to deliver any salvation for Papadopoulos.
Jacob Rasmussen opened with a raise to 8,500 from early position and all around the table hands were kicked into the muck until the action hit Ramsey Khoury in the big blind. Khoury announced a three-bet all in for 79,000 and Rasmussen called. Rasmussen tabled and was racing with Khoury's for his tournament life.
Rasmussen retained his lead after the flop brought but Khoury picked up more outs when the hit the turn. Khoury was then looking to pair up or make a spade flush on the river. He made the latter, as the finished the board and he was able to double to about 170,000. Rasmussen, on the other hand, dropped to about 215,000.
Defending champ Mikalai Pobal is up on the feature table and looking to become the first two-time EPT winner. His chances are slim considering he's grinding a short stack, but the odds got a little better after he just doubled through Kjetil Hansen.
It happened when Hansen opened and then called Pobal's three-bet shove for 49,000 from the big blind. Hansen tabled the , but he was way behind Pobal's . The board ran out and Pobal doubled through Hansen.
Yesterday we told you about the Skrill Last Longer Promotion; as such, we thought we'd give you a quick update here on Day 3. Originally 203 players signed up for the promotion — which will see the last player standing receive their €5,300 buy-in refunded into their Skrill account — but at the start of the day just 44 returned to play, including the chip leader Pablo Tativian and Therese Gronstad from Norway (the last woman remaining in the last longer competition).
Here's a look at the players in the Last Longer at the start of the day: Kenny Hallaert, Ioakim Papadopoulos, Kevin Vandermissen, Alejandro Bellucia, Igor Izmaylov, Manuel Cuberos, Tigran Yazychyan, Maximiliano Gallardo, Andrey Danilyuk, Valentino Konakchiev, Atanas Malinov, Iaroslav Boiko, Thomas Brauner, Maximilian Senft, Abilio Ribeiro, Denis Gindash, Fabien Daniel Ortiz, Jose Gonzalez, Thomas Middleton, Rory Timlin, Philippe Clerc, Martin Bolecek, Kevin MacPhee, Radif Sharifullin, Justas Vaiciulionis, Alain Debackere, Sergey Rybachenko, Kostyantyn Shulga, Pablo Tavitian, Massimo Dicicco, Imed Ben Mahmoud, Slaven Popov, Aleksandar Denishev, Gaetano Dell'Acre, Milan Polke, Alexander Nelkin, Cedric Moerlen, Benoit Albiges, Therese Gronstad, Isidoro Barrena Diaz, Francesco Delfoco, Grudi Grudev, Yann Dion and Fokke Beukers.
Russell Thomas was all in for 26,000 from the cutoff seat with the . Dermot Blain made the call from the big blind with the . The board ran out , and Thomas doubled up.
Rens Feenstra, a PokerStars player from the Netherlands, and Zsolt Vasvenszki, a qualifier from Hungary Saw a flop of . Feenstra bet, Vasvenszki raised and Feenstra moved all in. Vasvenszki called and showed for the flopped straight flush. Feenstra was drawing dead with his . The dealer went through the motions, the last two cards .
Rens Feenstra raised from early position, the button called, and the small blind called. The flop came down , and the small blind checked. Feenstra fired 18,000, and the button folded. The small blind also folded, and Feenstra picked up the pot to move to 640,000 in chips.