€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

10-26-2016 10:50 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 3 of the PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta €5,300 Main Event

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Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Malta Main Event is here and only 90 players are still in the hunt for the title and a first prize of €355,700. In fact, the field will be just a few eliminations from the bubble when play resumes at Casino Portomaso.

The bubble nearly burst on Day 2, but play concluded with 90 players left and plans to pay only 87 of them.

Start-of-the-day chip leader Guillaume Diaz likely won’t fear the bubble, but several others will be desperately trying to book at least the €8,070 min-cash in this penultimate Main Event on the EPT.

Diaz bagged up 583,500 chips yesterday and the Frenchman is leading the field by a decent margin over Gianfranco Visalli (518,000) and Peter Ockenden (469,500). Plus, there are several big names left in the field, including five former EPT champions.

Dominik Panka, who won the PCA in season 10, is the one with the most chips. He’s fifth on the leader board with 385,000. Davidi Kitai (284,500), Frederik Jensen (191,500) and Roberto Romanello (82,000) are also still in with a shot at winning their second EPT crown. Jean Montury (85,000) can even win this exact same event for the second time. He was the EPT Malta champion in season 11.

There are still plenty of other notables in the field as well, including Sarah Herzali (362,000), Eugene Katchalov (284,00), Dan Shak (203,000), James Akenhead (176,000), Stephen Chidwick (100,500), Ole Schemion (86,000) and Maria Ho (40,500).

They’re all set to play five 90-minute levels today. They will start at level 15 with the blinds at 2,000/4,000 with a 500-chip ante.

Play begins at 12 p.m. local time in Malta and the PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the action as it happens. It’s going be a day packed with action so be sure to tune in.

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	69,000
1	2	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	190,000
1	3	Yury Gulyy	Russia	37,000
1	4	Sarah Herzali	France	362,000
1	6	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	358,000
1	7	Alain Fluri	Switzerland	17,500
1	8	Armando Collado Lanuza	Nicaragua	50,000

2	1	Armin Mette	Austria	190,000
2	2	Yung Hwang	USA	182,500
2	4	Benjamin Philipps	UK	27,500
2	5	Tomas Macnamara	UK	219,500
2	6	Maria Ho	USA	40,500
2	7	Miguel Riera Suarez	Spain	95,000
2	8	Jeroen Soons	Netherlands	133,500

3	1	Gianfranco Visalli	Italy	518,500
3	2	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	191,500
3	3	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	244,500
3	4	Xixiang Luo	China	390,000
3	5	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	95,000
3	6	Felix Schlott	Germany	81,500
3	7	Andre DiFelice	Canada	43,000
3	8	Darya Hulyk	Ukraine	91,500

4	1	Tomasz Panek	Poland	79,000
4	2	Thibault Letort	France	114,000
4	3	Guillaume Diaz	France	583,500
4	4	Benjamin Pollak	France	224,000
4	5	Guillaume Valle	France	363,000
4	6	Bastian Dohler	Germany	209,500
4	7	[Removed:215]	Switzerland	119,000
4	8	Rafael Gancedo	Spain	86,500

5	1	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	76,500
5	2	Louis Cartarius	Germany	313,500
5	3	Stale Eggen	Norway	22,500
5	4	Piotr Franczak	Poland	103,500
5	6	Alexander Debus	Germany	73,000
5	7	Konstantin Kazaev	Russia	228,500
5	8	Aleksandar Spadijer	Montenegro	76,000

6	1	Victor Ilyukhin	Russia	151,000
6	2	Martin Nikolov	Bulgaria	199,000
6	3	Chi Zhang	UK	239,500
6	5	Bart Maes	Belgium	145,000
6	6	Daniele Colautti	Italy	165,000
6	7	Roberto Romanello	UK	82,000
6	8	Stefano Terziani	Italy	258,000

7	1	John Gulino	USA	113,500
7	2	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	284,500
7	3	Peter Ockenden	Netherlands	469,500
7	4	Sylvain Loosli	France	88,500
7	5	Mats Karlsson	Sweden	191,000
7	6	Dong Zhao	China	154,500
7	7	Zorlucan Er	Turkey	66,000
7	8	Kees van Brugge	Netherlands	52,500

8	1	Ole Schemion	Germany	86,000
8	2	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	231,000
8	3	Marco Bartolini	Italy	69,000
8	4	Peter Akery	UK	72,500
8	5	Stephen Chidwick	UK	100,500
8	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	212,000
8	7	Alessandro Longobardi	Italy	101,000
8	8	Felipe Costa	Brazil	39,500

9	1	Marko Popovic	Bulgaria	64,000
9	2	Taran Parmar	Canada	94,500
9	3	Felix Bleiker	Switzerland	31,000
9	5	Oskar Szwed	Poland	173,000
9	6	Ismael Bojang	Austria	192,500
9	7	Marco D'Amico	Italy	45,000
9	8	Jacek Pustula	Poland	45,500

10	1	Konrad Abela	Malta	206,000
10	2	Alexandru Baron	Canada	50,000
10	3	Viatcheslav Ortynskiy	Russia	115,000
10	4	Brian Altman	USA	219,500
10	5	Dan Shak	USA	203,000
10	6	Sergey Sergeev	Russia	257,500
10	7	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	132,500
10	8	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	140,500

11	1	Grzegorz Grochulski	Poland	142,500
11	2	Paul Gresel	Netherlands	52,000
11	3	Dominik Panka	Poland	385,000
11	4	Mark Anthony Vella	Malta	48,500
11	5	Dietrich Fast	Germany	50,500
11	7	Freek Scholten	Netherlands	225,000
11	8	Michael Kane	UK	59,500

12	1	James Akenhead	UK	176,000
12	2	Dawid Borkowski	Poland	49,000
12	3	Elie Saad	Lebanon	302,000
12	4	Dariusz Szoen	Poland	110,000
12	5	Ollie Price	UK	88,500
12	6	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	284,000
12	7	Jean Montury	France	85,000
12	8	Usman Siddique	UK	152,000

Tags: Alain Fluri Aliaksei Boika Armando Collado Lanuza Armin Mette Bart Maes Bastian Dohler Benjamin Pollak Dan Shak Davidi Kitai Dietrich Fast Dominik Panka Eugene Katchalov Frederik Jensen Gianfranco Visalli Guillaume Diaz Guillaume Valle James Akenhead Jean Montury Kees van Brugge Maria Ho Martin Nikolov Mikita Badziakouski Ole Schemion Roberto Romanello Stephen Chidwick

10-26-2016 13:14 UTC+2

Huge River Bluff by Treccarichi

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Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Walter Treccarichi is using the bubble play to his advantage. He just threw in a huge bluff on the river and got it through.

There was around 50,000 in the middle and the board read . From the big blind, Stephen Chidwick checked to Treccarichi. The Italian slid out a bet of 26,500 and after some heavy thinking, Chidwick made the call.

The river was the and Chidwick checked again. Treccarichi pushed out a big pile of blue 5,000-chips, enough to put Chidwick all in.

The Brit thought about it for more than five minutes but eventually folded his hand. Treccarichi tabled for a complete bluff and that gained him a nice pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Walter Treccarichi	310,000 79,000	79,000
Stephen Chidwick	60,000 -40,500	-40,500

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10-26-2016 14:17 UTC+2

Philipps Bubbles EPT Malta Main Event

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Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Benjamin Philipps bubbles EPT 13 Malta 2016 €5,300 Main Event

After his earlier double up, Benjamin Philipps was blinded down to just 5,500 in chips.

He then had to post the big blind and was left with only a single 500-chip behind. From first position, Tomas Macnamara, who doubled him in the previous hand, raised to 10,000. It was folded to Philipps and he started waiting for all the other tables to finish their hand.

There were no other all-in-situations, so Philipps was at risk of becoming the bubble boy when he threw in his final chip. The camera crews rushed to the table and he showed his .

Macnamara was ahead with the .

The board ran out an uneventful .

In the end, it didn't really matter and Philipps was on his way out empty handed while all the others in the room secured a pay-day of at least €8,070.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tomas Macnamara	335,000 -15,000	-15,000
Benjamin Philipps	Busted

Tags: Benjamin Philipps Tomas Macnamara

10-26-2016 14:46 UTC+2

Romanello Busts to Terziani

Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Roberto Romanello open-shoved the small blind for more than 20 big blinds and Stefano Terziani called from one seat over to put the Welshman at risk of elimination.

Roberto Romanello:
Stefano Terziani:

The board came and the kicker played a crucial role to eliminate Romanello.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefano Terziani	310,000 130,000	130,000
Roberto Romanello	Busted

Tags: Roberto Romanello Stefano Terziani

10-26-2016 15:12 UTC+2

Double Knockout in Favor of Shak

Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Dan Shak raised to 12,500 from under the gun and Aleksandar Spadijer three-bet all in for 43,500 from the cutoff. Nicolino Di Carlo four-bet all in for 161,500 from the button and Shak asked for a count. He then called and Di Carlo immediately asked whether the American had pocket tens.

Aleksandar Spadijer:
Nicolino Di Carlo:
Dan Shak:

The board ran out and the full house of Shak sent two players to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Shak	435,000 218,000	218,000
Aleksandar Spadijer	Busted
Nicolino Di Carlo	Busted

Tags: Aleksandar Spadijer Dan Shak Nicolino Di Carlo

10-26-2016 15:36 UTC+2

Pocket Eights Cause Trouble

Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Hand 1

Alexander Debus raised to 11,000 from the button and Walter Treccarichi three-bet to 32,500 from the small blind. Alessandro Longobardi four-bet all in for 42,500 from the big blind and Debus as well as Treccarichi called.

On the flop, both players checked. Debus bet the turn for 32,000 and Treccarichi folded.

Alessandro Longobardi:
Alexander Debus:

The on the river was a blank and Longobardi busted.

Hand 2

At the very same table and one hand later, Debus raised to 11,000 and Ole Schemion in the blinds three-bet to 100,000 with little chips behind. Debus shoved and Schemion called all in for 119,000.

Ole Schemion:
Alexander Debus:

The board ran out and again the eights prevailed.

Hand 3

At almost the same time and one table over, Marko Popovic was at risk with the and Davidi Kitai from one seat over had pocket queens. The board came and Popovic rivered a flush to stay in.

Player	Chips	Progress
Davidi Kitai	488,000 -22,000	-22,000

Ole Schemion	245,000 182,000	182,000
Marko Popovic	170,000 128,000	128,000
Alexander Debus	130,000 83,000	83,000
Alessandro Longobardi	Busted

Tags: Alessandro Longobardi Alexander Debus Davidi Kitai Marko Popovic Ole Schemion Walter Treccarichi

10-26-2016 16:33 UTC+2

Sick Call Crushes Visalli's Hopes, Out Shortly After

Yori Epskamp

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

In a massive clash between Gianfranco Visalli and Frederik Jensen, the latter came out as the winner after spending nearly ten minutes in the tank.

Preflop, Visalli opened to 13,000 from under the gun. Behind him, Jensen reraised and made it 42,000. The Italian made the call, and the two of them saw an innocuous flop of appear. Visalli checked, Jensen followed up with a bet of 28,000, Visalli check-raised to 68,000 and Jensen called.

After the dealer burned and turned the , Visalli wasted no time putting Jensen to the test, and put him all in for 156,000 in a pot of close to 200,000. Jensen thought long and hard, and the clock was eventually called on the Dane.

With just seven seconds left, Jensen slammed a tower of chips into the middle and turned over , much to Visalli's disbelief.

"Sick call", muttered Visalli as he turned over , looking for one of the only two remaining sevens on the river.

It wasn't. The dealer put out the , and Frederik Jensen surged to the top of the standings with more than half a million chips.

Just two hands later, Gianfranco Visalli's remaining chips disappeared as well. Visalli got it in holding on a flop of , but needed help against Xixiang Luo's . No help was found, as the board ran out ,

Visalli, who topped the leaderboard for nearly two days, is gone just like that in 47th place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frederik Jensen	560,000 296,500	296,500

Gianfranco Visalli	Busted

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10-26-2016 17:00 UTC+2

No Second EPT Malta Title for Montury

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Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

EPT11 Malta champion Jean Montury just busted from this years Main Event. For most of the day he was riding the short stack but managed to grind his way up from time to time.

That grind came to an end when he busted to the hands of Aliaksei Boika.

It was Guillaume Valle that opened the pot with a raise to 15,000 and Bastian Dohler called. Montury shove all in for 64,000 and it was Boika who made a four-bet to 115,000. Everybody got out of the way and the cards were tabled.

Jean Montury:
Aliaksei Boika:

Montury was in big trouble against Boika's queens and needed an ace or another escape route.

The flop wasn't any help for the former champion and when the hit on the turn he was down to the aces as outs.

The river wasn't an ace, it was the and Montury was sent packing.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aliaksei Boika	710,000 190,000	190,000

Jean Montury	Busted

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10-26-2016 17:22 UTC+2

Ortynskiy Triples Up; Staszko Busted

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Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

It was folded all the way to Martin Staszko on the cutoff. He moved all in for 93,000 in total on the button, Xixiang Luo asked for a count.

He threw in the calling chips and Mats Karlsson folded his small blind. From the big blind, Viatcheslav Ortynskiy called all in for slightly less than Staszko, 89,000 in total.

Martin Staszko:
Xixiang Luo:
Viatcheslav Ortynskiy:

Ortynskiy dominated both of his opponents and was looking to triple up. The board ran out and he was back in the hunt for the title.

Luo took another hit, while Staszko was left with only 4,000 behind.

In the next hand, the former November Niner went all in and on the button, Mats Karlsson raised to 16,000. The blind got out of the way and cards were tabled.

It was for Staszko against Karlsson's . The flop was . Karlsson made a pair of sevens, but Staszko had a straight draw.