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

€5,300 Main Event

Day 3 Started

10-26-2016 10:47 UTC+2

Day 3 Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	583,500
Gianfranco Visalli	518,500
Peter Ockenden	469,500
Xixiang Luo	390,000
Dominik Panka	385,000
Guillaume Valle	363,000
Sarah Herzali	362,000
Dmitry Yurasov	358,000
Louis Cartarius	313,500
Elie Saad	302,000
Davidi Kitai	284,500
Eugene Katchalov	284,000
Stefano Terziani	258,000
Sergey Sergeev	257,500
Martin Staszko	244,500
Chi Zhang	239,500
Walter Treccarichi	231,000
Konstantin Kazaev	228,500
Freek Scholten	225,000
Benjamin Pollak	224,000
Tomas Macnamara	219,500
Brian Altman	219,500
Aliaksei Boika	212,000
Bastian Dohler	209,500
Konrad Abela	206,000

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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

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

10-26-2016 12:01 UTC+2

The First Feature Table for Day 3

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

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
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

10-26-2016 12:15 UTC+2

Borkowski Doubles Through Katchalov

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

Dawid Borkowski doubled up in one of the first hands of the day. He got his chips in the middle with and was up against Eugene Katchalov's .

The board ran out and Borkowski scored his double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eugene Katchalov	235,000	-49,000
Dawid Borkowski	100,000	51,000

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10-26-2016 12:17 UTC+2

Eggen Doubles Through Cartarious

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

Louis Cartarius opened to 8,500 and Stale Eggen shoved for 13,500 from one seat over. Cartarius called and the cards were turned over.

Stale Eggen:
Louis Cartarius:

The board ran out and Eggen doubled.

The next hand, Cartarius raised again to 8,500 and then folded to the shove of Eggen, who flashed .

Player	Chips	Progress
Louis Cartarius	295,000	-18,500
Stale Eggen	40,000	17,500

Tags: Louis Cartarius Stale Eggen

10-26-2016 12:18 UTC+2

Franczak and Valle not Here Yet

Christian Zetzsche

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

Two players haven't taken their seats yet, and those are Piotr Franczak and Guillaume Valle. While the Frenchman is one of the bigger stacks, Franczak is in the middle of the pack. An attempt to avoid becoming the bubble boy?

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10-26-2016 12:21 UTC+2

Alexandru Baron Secures Early Double

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

Canada's Alexandru Baron has gotten of to a great start at the third day of the PokerStars.com EPT Malta, after his managed to take down Brian Altmans all in preflop.

Preflop the action was folded around to Baron at the button, who needed a minute to contemplate his decision.

"I don't think he's gonna call", Altman in the big blind told Baron in regards to Viatcheslav Ortynskiy in the small blind, who still hadn't made it onto the tournament floor.

"Did you look yet?", the Canadian asked Altman.

"Not yet", Altman replied.

Baron spend an additional minute in deep thought before announcing all in, and after a quick peek at his cards Altman called with the queens. Luckily for Baron the dealer served an ace already on the flop, and with the board running out , Baron collected the double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandru Baron	85,000	35,000

10-26-2016 12:28 UTC+2

Fluri Folds 4s, Badziakouski Busts Odeen

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

Dmitry Yurasov shoved the button and Alain Fluri tanked for a long time in the small blind, then folded pocket fours.

Soon after, Jerry Odeen raised to 9,000 and Mikita Badziakouski gave it quite some consideration before three-betting to 27,000. The action folded back to Odeen and he shoved, Badziakouski called.

Jerry Odeen:
Mikita Badziakouski: