Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo
€4,900 Main Event
Day: 3
The March to the Money Begins on Day 3!
Welcome back to the 2014 PokerStars.it European Poker Tour Sanremo. Today, the Casino Sanremo on the beautiful Italian Riviera will host Day 3 of the Main Event, which originally began with 556 players are created a prize pool of €2,480,872. That will be distributed to the top 79 players, and with just 115 returning to action, it shouldn't take long for the money to be reached.
Of course everyone is hungry for the €476,100 first-place prize, but no one has a better shot at it than Sweden's Lukas Berglund, who went on a tear on Day 2 to finish with 700,600, which is considerably more than the player in second chip position, Brazil's Thiago Crema De Macedo, who bagged up 482,400. Rounding out the top three is Spain's Raul Mestre with 473,300.
While those men begin the day as the biggest stacks, they'll face some stiff competition from others with decent stacks including World Poker Tour Alpha8 commentator Olivier Busquet (392,900); Season 9 PCA champ Dimitar Danchev (299,800), Day 1b chip leader David "MissOracle" Yan (283,100), Canadian Shyam Srinivasan (276,000); and World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche (258,300).
Likewise, Michael Tureniec (230,700), Giacomo Fundaro (204,600), Jorma Nuutinen (150,700), Tom Alner (135,700), Roberto Romanello (135,600), Stephen Chidwick (134,900), Nicolas Chouity (86,400), Aku Joentausta (74,400), Paul Berende (71,100), and 2011 WSOP Main Event champ Pius Heinz (102,700).
Finally, expect some top-notch action from the remaining members of Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden (185,000), Mickey Petersen (164,700), Vicky Coren (162,400), Alex Kravchenko (97,500), and Victor Ramdin (56,600).
Action is set to get underway at Noon local time, which is about an hour from now. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is on hand to capture all the action and eliminations, so stay tuned in throughout the day for all the latest and greatest from the penultimate stop of Season 10 of the European Poker Tour!
Table Draw Day 3 & Chip Counts
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Nikolay Tsanev | Bulgaria |
| 1 | 2 | Eros Nastasi | Italy |
| 1 | 3 | Alessandro Meoni | Italy |
| 1 | 4 | Ivan Gabrieli | Italy |
| 1 | 5 | Emmanuel Pariset | France |
| 1 | 6 | Dimitar Danchev | Bulgaria |
| 1 | 7 | Jean-Philippe Peyratoux | France |
| 1 | 8 | Yordan Dimitrov | Bulgaria |
| 2 | 1 | Federico Petruzzelli | Italy |
| 2 | 2 | Marcel Vonk | Netherlands |
| 2 | 3 | Michael Tureniec | Sweden |
| 2 | 4 | Mickey Petersen | Denmark |
| 2 | 5 | Artem Romanov | Russia |
| 2 | 6 | Igor Nekazakov | Russia |
| 2 | 7 | Mario Sanchez Cano | UK |
| 2 | 8 | Maurizio Saieva | Italy |
| 3 | 1 | Rafael Morales | Brazil |
| 3 | 2 | Stephen Chidwick | UK |
| 3 | 3 | Alex Longobardi | Italy |
| 3 | 4 | Dmitry Ponomarev | Russia |
| 3 | 6 | Muhamet Perati | Italy |
| 3 | 7 | Pierluigi Giglio | Italy |
| 3 | 8 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany |
| 4 | 1 | Shayam Srinivasan | Canada |
| 4 | 2 | Bernardo Dias | Brazil |
| 4 | 4 | Alex Lindop | UK |
| 4 | 5 | Gianluca Petrone | Italy |
| 4 | 6 | Johnny Lodden | Norway |
| 4 | 7 | Jorge Ribeiro | Brazil |
| 4 | 8 | Filippo Bisciglia | Italy |
| 5 | 1 | Davide Magnan | UK |
| 5 | 2 | Alessio Sardone | Italy |
| 5 | 3 | Roberto Romanello | UK |
| 5 | 4 | Dennis Lindmark | Sweden |
| 5 | 5 | Douglas Souza | Brazil |
| 5 | 6 | Luca Cavecchi | Italy |
| 5 | 7 | Tom Alner | UK |
| 5 | 8 | Jordan Westmorland | USA |
| 6 | 1 | Jan Sjavik | Norway |
| 6 | 2 | Victor Zabukas Begara | Brazil |
| 6 | 3 | Ludovic Riehl | France |
| 6 | 4 | Antonio Lafosse Fernandez | Peru |
| 6 | 5 | Andrea Benelli | Italy |
| 6 | 6 | Dinesh Alt | Switzerland |
| 6 | 7 | Rytis Praninskas | Lithuania |
| 6 | 8 | Pawel Brzeski | Poland |
| 7 | 1 | Marco Pistilli | Italy |
| 7 | 2 | Matteo Taddia | Italy |
| 7 | 3 | Vicky Coren | UK |
| 7 | 4 | Alberto Musini | Italy |
| 7 | 5 | Ariel Celestino | Brazil |
| 7 | 6 | Giacomo Fundaro | Italy |
| 7 | 7 | Andrey Lobzhanidze | Russia |
| 7 | 8 | Vincenzo Scarcella | Italy |
| 8 | 1 | Mathew Frankland | UK |
| 8 | 2 | Benjamin Debard | France |
| 8 | 3 | Jeffrey Hakim | Lebanon |
| 8 | 4 | John Haigh | UK |
| 8 | 5 | Darie Vlad | Romania |
| 8 | 7 | Olivier Busquet | USA |
| 8 | 8 | Flavien Guenan | France |
| 9 | 1 | Rocco Palumbo | Italy |
| 9 | 3 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand |
| 9 | 4 | Tobias Hagedorn | Germany |
| 9 | 5 | Jorma Nuutinen | Finland |
| 9 | 6 | Miguel Gurrea Monton | Spain |
| 9 | 7 | Eldar Moldobek Uulu | Kyrgyzstan |
| 9 | 8 | Filippo Marrocolli | Italy |
| 10 | 1 | Oleg Cazac | Moldova |
| 10 | 2 | Zachary Korik | USA |
| 10 | 3 | Victor Ramdin | USA |
| 10 | 4 | Jeremie Sarda | France |
| 10 | 6 | Valeri Savov | Bulgaria |
| 10 | 7 | Mitch Johnson | UK |
| 10 | 8 | Giovanni Salvatore | Italy |
| 11 | 1 | Piotr Shautsou | Belarus |
| 11 | 3 | Stefano Garbarino | Italy |
| 11 | 4 | Marcin Kreft | Poland |
| 11 | 5 | Matas Cimbolas | UK |
| 11 | 6 | Fabio Sperling | Germany |
| 11 | 7 | Xia Lin | Italy |
| 11 | 8 | Cristiano Viali | Italy |
| 12 | 1 | Thiago Crema De Macedo | Brazil |
| 12 | 2 | Pedro Pellicer | Spain |
| 12 | 3 | Alex Bilokur | Russia |
| 12 | 4 | Raul Mestre | Spain |
| 12 | 5 | Dan Murariu | Romania |
| 12 | 6 | Andreas Goeller | Germany |
| 12 | 7 | Jorge Coello | Spain |
| 12 | 8 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland |
| 13 | 1 | Caglar Bayindir | Turkey |
| 13 | 2 | Louis Salter | UK |
| 13 | 3 | Bruno Stefanelli | Italy |
| 13 | 4 | Thomas Miller | Canada |
| 13 | 5 | Marco Parrella | Italy |
| 13 | 7 | Jesper Feddersen | Germany |
| 13 | 8 | Denis Pisarev | Russia |
| 14 | 1 | Pius Heinz | Germany |
| 14 | 2 | Iliodoros Kamatakis | Greece |
| 14 | 3 | Paul Berende | Netherlands |
| 14 | 4 | Lukas Berglund | Sweden |
| 14 | 5 | Alessandro Minasi | Italy |
| 14 | 6 | Martic Andrija | Croatia |
| 14 | 7 | Leo McClean | UK |
| 14 | 8 | Michael Telker | USA |
| 15 | 1 | Vincenzo Scarpitti | Italy |
| 15 | 2 | Peter Danielsson | Sweden |
| 15 | 3 | Ismail Erkenov | Russia |
| 15 | 4 | Alex Kravchenko | Russia |
| 15 | 5 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon |
| 15 | 6 | Mark James | UK |
| 15 | 7 | Aku Joentausta | Finland |
| 15 | 8 | Federico Cipollini | Italy |
€4,900 Main Event
Day 3 Started