€3,000 Main Event
Day 3 Started
€3,000 Main Event
Day 3 Started
Hello and welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the inaugural International Stadiums Poker Tour at Wembley Stadium where in less than an hour 411 players will return to the home of English football sharing one common goal — to make it into the money places.
As per the payout structure, 380 players will receive prize money and that means 31 players are going to leave this tournament empty handed with only memories and bad beat stories to tell their friends. One man who has is surely guaranteed to reach the money places is our overall chip leader, Alban Juen. The Frenchman starts Day 3 with 367,500 chips and is a solid bet to progress to Monday's Day 4 where the more serious sums of money will be awarded.
The returning field is full of big names and well-known faces including, Rhys Jones (222,600), Ole Schemion (197,600), Antoine Saout (151,500), Mathew Frankland (150,400), Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (145,000), Toby Lewis (144,300) Sam Trickett (136,300), and Roberto Romanello (125,000).
The action starts at 12:00 and will continue until nine 60-minute levels are completed. Once we have confirmed payout figures we will publish them, but until then why not check out this interview with British poker legend "The Devilfish."
Level: 10
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
After barely ten minutes of play a couple of players are already heading for the exit, with only the memories of playing on the pitch at Wembley stadium to comfort them.
Peter Roche was first to fall. His no match for his opponent’s Roche hit a ten on the river but the Jack on the turn had already sealed his fate.
Yvon Aouizerate was next out. Holding on a board he called his opponents shove and discovered he was up against The turn and river were no help and he too was out just short of the money.
Mathew Frankland has slight transport problems on his way to ISPT Wembley Day 3 and arrived slightly late to his seat on Table 27. His late arrival seems to have done him no harm, on fact he just eliminated one player on the very first hand he played today.
Mark Gardener opened in middle position for 3,200 and Frankland called from the next seat over. Dmitry Slaykovski called in the cutoff and Antonio Leotta called on the button. Down to 19,600 and in need of chips, Jose Garcia moved all in from the big blind. Gardener got out of the way, but Frankland moved all in for an effective shove of around 46,000 due to the other players' stacks. Both active players folded and the cards were turned onto their backs.
Garcia:
Frankland:
Garcia fell behind on the but he was not out of it just yet because he still had an overcard and a club flush draw to fall back on. The turn was black but the wrong suit, as was the on the river. Garcia eliminated and Frankland is climbing towards 200,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Mathew Frankland | 183,600 | 33,200 |
Jose Garcia | Busted |
No luck for Surinder Sunar, he's one of the earliest exits after he lost a coin flip with pocket queens to another player's ace-king for around a 90,000 chip pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Surinder Sunar
|
Busted |
The payout schedule has just been announced to the players in the Beckham Room and can be found in the table below.
Finishing Position | Prize (EUR) |
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1st | €1,000,000 |
2nd | €285,000 |
3rd | €201,000 |
4th | €143,500 |
5th | €102,500 |
6th | €73,000 |
7th | €52,000 |
8th | €37,000 |
9th | €26,520 |
10-12th | €19,000 |
13-15th | €14,000 |
16-18th | €10,500 |
19-27th | €7,950 |
28-36th | €6,000 |
37-45th | €4,700 |
46-63rd | €3,750 |
64-81st | €3,000 |
82-99th | €2,400 |
100-117th | €1,950 |
118-135th | €1,575 |
136-162nd | €1,275 |
163-189th | €1,050 |
190-234th | €890 |
235-279th | €755 |
280-333rd | €640 |
334-380th | €540 |
As the tournament director, Simon Trumper, announced Dusk Till Dawn are adding €589,060 to first place the players burst into spontaneous applause for 20-30 seconds. Trumper then joked that he would be having a whip around (a collection of money from everyone) because he will be out of a job on Monday due to the size of the overlay!
The tournament will be played hand-for-hand from 384 players onwards and go back to normal once the bubble bursts.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Alan Brown has just earned a reprieve from the Poker Gods after coming from behind to keep the bubble intact.
Sebastian Bouvron raised, Brown shoved for around 28,000 in the small blind and Bouvron called. Once the action on the other tables was completed the cards were revealed.
Brown:
Bouvron:
One player claimed to have folded a queen making it less likely Brown would pair the one in his hand. He managed to do that though because the flop came down . The turn was the and the river . The bubble is yet to burst here at Wembley Stadium.