€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Barcelona

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	402,000
1	2	Jaime Rueda Sampedro	Spain	236,000
1	3	Jonas Christensen	Denmark	496,000
1	4	Alexander Ivarsson	Sweden	217,000
1	5	Saar Wilf	Israel	463,000
1	6	Christian Campan	Romania	274,000
1	7	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	1,219,000
1	8	Pakinai Lisawad	Thailand	467,000

2	1	Lauri Varonen	Finland	130,000
2	2	Roman Korenev	Russia	280,000
2	3	Rafael Wantanabe Do Prado	Brazil	510,000
2	4	Mario Lopez	Argentina	141,000
2	5	Nir Levy	Israel	377,000
2	6	Stuart Mcdonald	Australia	891,000
2	7	Oleksii Khoroshenin	Ukraine	1,708,000
2	8	Diego Casco Del Riego	Uruguay	1,091,000

3	1	Rainer Kempe	Germany	781,000
3	2	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	1,110,000
3	3	Adrien Tantaro	France	244,000
3	4	Joep van den Bijgaart	Netherlands	768,000
3	5	Mario Sanchez Cano	UK	558,000
3	6	Shyam Srinivasan	Canada	975,000
3	7	David Novak	Czech Republic	109,000
3	8	Aleksei Ponomarev	Russia	129,000

4	1	Steven Watts	UK	491,000
4	2	Vebjorn Monstad	Norway	627,000
4	3	Andreas Samuelsson	Sweden	425,000
4	4	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	310,000
4	5	Mikhail Petrov	Russia	133,000
4	6	David Gonzalez Delgado	Spain	770,000
4	7	Scott Margereson	UK	880,000
4	8	Goran Mandic	Croatia	497,000

5	1	Kirill Shugai	Russia	320,000
5	2	Steven Warburton	UK	910,000
5	3	Nikolay Fal	Russia	359,000
5	4	Neil Van Der Merwe	UK	156,000
5	5	Yin Zhang	Italy	288,000
5	6	Rui Miguel Nogueira Da Silva E Sousa	Portugal	399,000
5	7	Ryan Riess	USA	132,000
5	8	Patrik Antonius	Finland	199,000

6	2	Elliot Smith	Canada	263,000
6	3	Jasper Wetemans	Netherlands	438,000
6	4	Mateusz Zbikowski	UK	534,000
6	5	Michael Eiler	Germany	191,000
6	6	Patrick Caveriviere	France	101,000
6	7	Alessandro Furneri	Italy	131,000
6	8	Benjmin Richardson	Australia	181,000

7	1	Tom Hall	UK	471,000
7	2	Victor Bogdanov	Latvia	266,000
7	3	Abd El Mannan Qasem	Israel	315,000
7	4	Andre Akkari	Brazil	982,000
7	5	Boghean Andrei Lucian	Romania	370,000
7	6	Dominykas Karmazinas	Lithuania	907,000
7	7	Bernd Gleissner	Germany	459,000
7	8	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	207,000

8	1	Ran Niv	Israel	565,000
8	2	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	380,000
8	3	John Juanda	Indonesia	914,000
8	4	Miguel Cieri Di Pentima	Venezuela	108,000
8	5	Jason Mo	USA	267,000
8	6	Jeremy Ausmus	USA	197,000
8	7	Concepcion Tacoronte	Spain	224,000
8	8	Bernd Vogelhuber	Germany	251,000

9	1	Joao Brito	Portugal	568,000
9	2	Alexey Bilyuchenko	Russia	364,000
9	3	Imad Derwiche	France	123,000
9	4	Michel Leibgorin	France	623,000
9	5	Aki Virtanen	Finland	339,000
9	6	Heinz Traut	Germany	606,000
9	7	Alen Bilic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	689,000
9	8	Jens Kyllonen	Finland	227,000

10	1	Roman Voronin	Russia	1,017,000
10	2	Cristinel Sandu	Romania	207,000
10	3	Liviu Ignat	Romania	214,000
10	4	Mike McDonald	Canada	549,000
10	5	Noah Novick	USA	96,000
10	6	Maksim Semisoshenko	Russia	328,000
10	7	Matthew Volosevich	Costa Rica	1,067,000
10	8	Bruno Soutavong	France	114,000

11	1	Amir Touma	Lebanon	330,000
11	2	Nick Petrangelo	USA	400,000
11	3	Sebastian Tejada	USA	428,000
11	4	Dong Kim	USA	365,000
11	6	Anthony Zinno	USA	948,000
11	7	Eric Jean Lescot	Belgium	401,000
11	8	Chris Walker	UK	273,000

12	1	Sergio Alonso Camunas	Spain	285,000
12	2	Florian-Dimitrie Duta	Romania	337,000
12	3	Kitty Kuo	China	288,000
12	4	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	1,042,000
12	5	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	644,000
12	6	Jude Ainsworth	Ireland	564,000
12	7	Jamel Hassani	France	210,000
12	8	Markus Cerny	Austria	1,037,000

13	1	Philipp Kober	Austria	551,000
13	2	Thore Nordboe	Norway	56,000
13	3	Robert Fenner	South Africa	438,000
13	4	Samir Moukawem	Lebanon	167,000
13	5	Jerome Kobina Evans	Germany	301,000
13	6	Peter Eichhardt	Sweden	770,000
13	7	Jiachen Gong	Canada	257,000
13	8	Sebastian Barhs Malec	Poland	202,000

14	1	Matthias De Meulder	Belgium	300,000
14	2	Jesper Feddersen	Germany	388,000
14	3	Rodney Ramalho	Canada	1,138,000
14	4	Mohamed Mamouni	France	453,000
14	5	Dietrich Fast	Germany	509,000
14	6	Jason Les	USA	323,000
14	7	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	360,000
14	8	Denis Timofeev	Russia	494,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Oleksii Khoroshenin	1,708,000 268,000	268,000

Dmitry Yurasov	1,219,000 119,000	119,000
Rodney Ramalho	1,138,000 -82,000	-82,000
Denys Shafikov	1,110,000 500,000	500,000
Diego Casco Del Riego	1,091,000 1,025,600	1,025,600
Matthew Volosevich	1,067,000 242,000	242,000
Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	1,042,000 332,000	332,000
Markus Cerny	1,037,000 227,000	227,000
Roman Voronin	1,017,000 900,600	900,600
Andre Akkari	982,000 292,000	292,000

Shyam Srinivasan	975,000 -25,000	-25,000
Anthony Zinno	948,000 -62,000	-62,000
John Juanda	914,000 99,000	99,000

Steve Warburton	910,000 270,000	270,000
Dominykas Karmazinas	907,000 127,000	127,000
Stuart McDonald	891,000 576,700	576,700
Scott Margereson	880,000 110,000	110,000
Rainer Kempe	781,000 -79,000	-79,000
Peter Eichhardt	770,000 85,000	85,000
David Gonzalez Delgado	770,000 -24,000	-24,000
Joep van den Bijgaart	768,000 68,000	68,000
Alen Bilic	689,000
Pascal LeFrancois	644,000 379,000	379,000
Vebjorn Monstad	627,000 -163,000	-163,000
Michel Leibgorin	623,000 416,800	416,800

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Day 3 of the 2015 European Poker Tour Barcelona €5,300 Main Event started out with excitement, as the €8,215,900 prize pool was announced. The remaining 343 players were made aware that the top 247 would reach the money, but it was the mouth-watering €1,420,500 first-place prize that had everyone's juices flowing.

Coming into Day 3, the man best positioned was Nick Petrangelo. At the end of the day, he was still alive, but had slipped back and finished on 400,000. Oleksii Khoroshenin took over as the tournament's overnight chip leader with a massive day and bagged up 1.708 million.

The Ukranian Khoroshenin has now put himself in prime position to win a second EPT title. In 2014, Khoroshenin won the EPT Vienna Main Event for €578,392.

Throughout the day, plenty of notables fell, some before the money and some after.

Those that hit the rail before a cash were Isaac Haxton, Jason Gray, David Vamplew, Lynn Gilmartin, Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier, and Max Greenwood. Then with 250 players left in the field, Jonas Lauck and Diego Ventura were eliminated to set the tournament on the official bubble.

With hand-for-hand play already underway, Anastasios Vrakas found himself all in and at risk with the against the for Dmitry Yurasov. The board ran out , and Vrakas was the tournament's official "bubble boy."

Once the money was reached, it was time for the eliminated players to begin filing in the payout line. Of those to bust with a cash were Fatima Moreira de Melo (240th - €8,800), Mike Watson (233rd - €8,800), Andras Nemeth (208th - €9,450), Tobias Peters (188th - €9,450), Hugo Pingray (182nd - €10,350), Jani Sointula (149th - €10,350), and Natalie Hof (135th - €11,500).

Another player to bust was Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden, who was making his record-tying 20th cash in an EPT main event. The other player with 20 is Luca Pagano. Lodden was eliminated on the final hand of the night by Andre Akkari, who bagged up 982,000.

Two names from the remaining players that jump off the page to us are Anthony Zinno and John Juanda.

Zinno is a three-time World Poker Tour champion that won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet this past summer. To say he's hot would be an understatement, and he continues to showcase his abilities time and time again in major events. He bagged up an impressive 949,000 in chips, thanks in large part to winning a huge flip late in the day against Nacho Barbero that busted the latter.

Juanda also finished strong as the five-time WSOP gold bracelet winner bagged 914,000 in chips. The consummate professional played a very solid game all day, regularly using position on his opponents to his advantage and constantly chipping up.

There's also Jude Ainsworth, Jason Les, Matthias de Meulder, Jens Kyllonen, Patrik Antonius, Jeremy Ausmus, and Ryan Riess amongst the final 110 remaining.

Day 4 will commence at 12 p.m. local time on Friday, when another five 90-minute levels are on the schedule. Be sure to stay tuned right here to PokerNews for continued coverage of the event as the field plays closer to a winner in the largest EPT main event in history.

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