€4,900 Main Event
Day 3 Started
2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo
€4,900 Main Event
Day: 3
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 |
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).
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Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
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Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
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Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
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Sarda Falls at the First
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Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Jeremie Sarda opened for 6,500 from a stack of 72,900. Valeri Savov with a stack of over 200k thought for a while before three-betting him to 15,000. The blinds folded and Sarda decided to make a stand and all of his chips were in the middle.
Sarda tabled 
and was against the pair 
of Savov. The cards ran out 
and Sarda was amongst the first to fall on day 3.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
296,000 | 73,400 |
|
Busted |
Chidwick on the Rise
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Preflop the stack of Muhamet Perati goes in with the 
and Stephen Chidwick calls with the superior 
. The 
board saw the better hand hold up and Perati has been one of the first eliminations on Day 3.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000 | 55,100 |
|
Busted |
Alt Hits Perfect River
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
We caught up with the action on a 
board and Jan Sjavik checked from the blinds. Dinesh Alt made a 8,500 bet from the hijack and Rytis Praninskas in the cutoff made the call. Sjavik called as well and it was still three-way to the river.
Sjavik checked as soon as the 
hit. Alt now bet 22,000 and Praninskas didn't waste much time calling. Sjavik over called so it was time for a three-way showdown.
Praninskas first tabled his 
for the rivered flush. Alt then showed his 
for a full house. Sjavik open mucked his 
for the lower flush. The on the river was about the best card Alt could hit!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
230,000 | 66,000 |
|
190,000 | -26,500 |
|
175,000 | -49,100 |
Lin All In
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Xia Lin moved all in on a flop of 
and was called by Stefano Garbarino who had him easily covered. Garbarino had hit top pair with his 
but Lin had the .
The turn and river gave Lin his double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000 | -50,900 |
|
94,000 | 47,600 |