€10,600 Main Event Day 3 | 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-05-2015 13:35 UTC+2

O'Dwyer Doesn't Believe

mnuwwarah

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

Steve O'Dwyer opened to 7,200 in the hijack, and Joao Barbosa made it 23,000 to go in the small blind. O'Dwyer called, and Barbosa checked the that flopped. O'Dwyer bet 15,000, and Barbosa immediately pushed everything in. O'Dwyer asked for a count, and it was 117,400. He tanked for a few minutes.

"I don't really believe you," he said with a smile. Ultimately, he did fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Barbosa	186,300 9,800	9,800

Steve O'Dwyer	120,000 600	600

Tags: Joao Barbosa Steve O'Dwyer

05-05-2015 13:35 UTC+2

Break

Webjoker

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

The first 20-minute of the day has commenced. The 100 chips are raced of, in twenty minutes the 500 chips will be the lowest denomination in play.

05-05-2015 13:37 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts from the Secondary Feature Table

Chad Holloway

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Frederik Pedersen	367,200 75,100	75,100
Josh Prager	297,100 99,100	99,100
Jason Mercier	289,700 -6,700	-6,700

Victor Ilyukhin	256,700 -1,800	-1,800
Jason Wheeler	211,000 300	300
Koichi Nozaki	156,900 64,100	64,100
Eric Sfez	100,200 -128,300	-128,300
Georgios Zisimopoulos	86,000 -74,900	-74,900

05-05-2015 13:38 UTC+2

Updated Chip Counts from the Feature Table

Chad Holloway

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Ole Schemion	516,000 38,300	38,300
Jose Carlos Garcia	434,200 200	200
Ludovic Geilich	188,500 -8,200	-8,200
Roman Korenev	167,600 30,500	30,500
Filippo Gandini	148,900 -70,400	-70,400
Maria Ho	108,300 -4,500	-4,500
Felix Bleiker	94,600 -10,500	-10,500
Evgeny Chulak	69,600 -9,300	-9,300

05-05-2015 13:41 UTC+2

Chip Stacks at the First Level of the Day

Will Shillibier

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Mustapha Kanit	360,000 214,000	214,000

Felix Stephensen	330,000 240,000	240,000
Christopher Frank	300,000 -165,100	-165,100
Stephen Chidwick	252,000 -111,000	-111,000
Vanessa Selbst	245,000 -55,000	-55,000

Steve O'Dwyer	114,000 -6,000	-6,000

Eugene Katchalov	100,000 28,800	28,800

Max Altergott	88,000 -12,000	-12,000

Level: 16

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

05-05-2015 14:04 UTC+2

Schemion Extends his Chip Lead

Will Shillibier

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Up on the feature table, Ludovic Geilich was betting a flop of and got called by chip leader Ole Schemion and Jose Carlos Garcia. On the turn card, Schemion chose to bet out, placing 25,500 into the pot. Geilich folded and Garcia made the call.

On the river card, the , Schemion bet 69000 into a pot of around 118,000 and got called by Garcia. Schemion showed for a turned flush to add more chips to his already huge chipstack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ole Schemion	659,000 143,000	143,000
Jose Carlos Garcia	305,000 -129,200	-129,200

Tags: Jose Carlos Garcia Ole Schemion

05-05-2015 14:04 UTC+2

A Round With The Original Spin-Up Merchant

Chad Holloway

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Team PokerStars Pro’s Johnny Lodden is the original spin-up merchant, but after an uncharacteristically steady day yesterday, would he hit the ground running today? PokerStars Blog found out here.

Tags: PokerStars Blog Johnny Lodden

05-05-2015 14:09 UTC+2

Giuliano Bendinelli Eliminated

Webjoker

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

In one of the first hands after the break, Italian prodigy Giuliano Bendinelli met his Waterloo. Bendinelli, who won the Monaco Cup for €100,000 here two years ago, open shoved his last 16 big blinds to the middle with off suit from the hijack.

The player in the small blind had just three big blinds or so more, and moved in over the top with kings. The board came no higher than a and Bendinelli was headed for the exit.

Giuliano Bendinelli wasn't the only player getting knocked out, the following players have also been eliminated. Just 97 players remain, 18 to the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andreas Eiler	Busted
Bryan Paris	Busted

Roman Szymonowicz	Busted
Alexander Timokhin	Busted
Scott Davies	Busted
Julian Thomas	Busted
Giuliano Bendinelli	Busted

Tags: Giuliano Bendinelli

05-05-2015 14:11 UTC+2

Chulak Busts Short of the Money

Will Shillibier

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Yevgeniy Chulak three-bet and got four-bet by Jose Carlos Garcia. The bet was to 100,000, which covered Chulak's stack of just shy of 70,000.

Chulak:
Garcia:

Chulak had two live cards, and after the flop of , he had 14 outs to double up and stay alive. But he bricked both the turn and the river and busted 13 short of the money here on Day 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jose Carlos Garcia	375,000 70,000	70,000
Evgeny Chulak	Busted

Tags: Jose Carlos Garcia Yevgeniy Chulak