Sometimes you report on the action, sometimes you serve as psychiatrist. When Boutros Naim busted in 90th place, emerging shell-shocked from the tournament room, both skills were put to use, as the PokerStars Blog reports.
A short-stacked Jean Wang moved all in from the small blind. An even shorter-stacked Rasmus Vogt called for his own tournament life of about 35,000 from the big blind.
Wang showed 
and was in a dominating position over Vogt's 
. A run out of 
ensured victory for Wang. Wang's stack now sits at around 72,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000 | 45,300 |
|
Busted |
Sebastien Lebaron opened to 15,000 with just 62,000 behind from early position. Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki shoved all in two positions down for 98,000 total. Action folded to David van den Berg in the big blind. The Dutchman hadn't seen that Horecki had pushed, and wanted to raise Lebaron all in. The floor got involved but there wasn't really an issue as Van den Berg made clear he was fine with raising anyway.
Lebaron folded and Horecki and Van den Berg showed their hands. Van den Berg was the proud owner of 
, claiming he had them many times before already today. Horecki had 
so it was a race going in.
The 
favored the man from Holland, and his Polish foe hit the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
283,000 | 198,000 |
|
Busted |
Within the first 45 minutes of play in the penultimate level of Day 3, a total of 26 players were eliminated and headed to the payout desk. A list of everyone in order will be up shortly, so stay tuned.
Dany Parlafes and Vadim Shlez had already tangled prior to the last break and it would take a massive pot to boost the Romanian into the chip lead. Caught in the crossfire was Jerome Zerbib who got it in with pocket fours. The raising action continued between Parlafes and Shlez with the American beeing at risk for more than 500,000 with pocket queens. Parlafes had pocket aces and scooped the humongous pot.
Shortly after, Parlafes raised from the small blind and Tobias Peters defended his big blind. On the 
flop, Peters got his remaining stack in with 
for the open-ended straight draw and Parlafes called with . Neither the turn nor the 
river were what the Dutchman was looking for and Parlafes scored yet another knockout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,400,000 | 900,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
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Tomasz Cybulski shipped his remaining chips in with 
and got looked up by big stack Olivier Piechaczyk with 
.
The final board was 
and Cybulski was off to join the line at the pay-out desk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,090,000 | 340,000 |
|
Busted |
Marcin Horecki checked to see what the situation was with the pay jumps as there was an all in on the other table. Satisified that he had made it he was all in for 40,000 with 
and Andrius Bielskis with the big stack duly looked him up with 
.
The dealer put out 
with the river giving Horecki just what he needed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
440,000 | |
|
|
84,000 |
It took until the early hours of the morning, but Vladimir Troyanovskiy dominated the FPS HR final table to secure the title and take home a 1st prize of €141,000. The PokerStars Blog reports.
Joseph Carlino was all in and at risk before the flop for 103,000 against Ivan Gabrieli. The hands were turned over to find the two flipping for Carlino's tournament life.
Carlino:
Gabrieli: 
The board came down 
, keeping the tens in the lead and allowing Carlino to live to fight another day. Gabrieli was not as fortunate, however, as he was left crippled with just 25,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
220,000 | 22,200 |
|
25,000 | -122,100 |
Jean Pierre Besancon shoved his last 91,000 all in under the gun. Action folded to Aliaksei Boika in the big blind and the man from Belarus made the call.
Aliaksei Boika: 
Jean Pierre Besancon:
The spelled doom for Besancon, and the 
on the turn and on the river failed to improve him. Jean Pierre Besancon headed to the exit, Boika up to just about 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000 | 123,000 |
|
|
Busted |
