Main Event Day 3 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Bucharest

08-05-2017 12:03 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Fahredin Mustafov	900,000 295,000	295,000
Samuel Viorel Goje	730,000 270,000	270,000
Ionel Tanase	490,000 59,000	59,000
Oshri Lahmani	345,000 -366,000	-366,000
Konstantinos Sideris	235,000 -270,000	-270,000
Iulian Iacob	220,000 -354,000	-354,000
Yaniv Peretz	140,000 -50,000	-50,000

Break

Will Shillibier

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

After a frantic first two levels in which we saw 24 players eliminated, the 34 who remain are taking a 15 minute break.

Level: 21

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

08-05-2017 12:31 UTC

Full Chip Counts at the Break (full)

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nandor Csaba Solyom	1,780,000 40,000	40,000

Razvan Lucian Cetanas	1,600,000 -200,000	-200,000
Daniel Nietrzebka	1,450,000 -320,000	-320,000
Traian Bostan	1,400,000 300,000	300,000
Mircea Alexandru Flutur	1,200,000 340,000	340,000
Johann Eclapier	1,080,000 100,000	100,000
Fahredin Mustafov	966,000 66,000	66,000
Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu	840,000 200,000	200,000
Patrick Bueno	830,000 280,000	280,000
Paul Ciaca	780,000 116,000	116,000
Samuel Goje	730,000 730,000	730,000
Cristian Neicu	710,000 130,000	130,000
Ioannis Taramas	670,000 30,000	30,000
Alpar Gyorgy Soos	585,000 360,000	360,000
Anil Olgun Ozdemir	560,000 -150,000	-150,000

Ionel Tanase	530,000 40,000	40,000
Sayed Mohammad Mehdi Safavi	500,000 110,000	110,000
Sam Grafton	466,000 91,000	91,000

Silviu Togui	430,000 -20,000	-20,000
Amadeus Lacwik	380,000 -110,000	-110,000
Marius Alexandru Gicovanu	371,000 231,000	231,000
Linas Pugzlys	355,000 -295,000	-295,000
Solomon Stan	345,000 -80,000	-80,000
Liran Machluf	345,000 -275,000	-275,000
Oshri Lahmani	340,000 -5,000	-5,000

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08-05-2017 12:36 UTC

Final Four Tables

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

The final 32 players are currently situated around four tables, with Nandor Solyom, Traian Bostan, Paul Ciaca and Johann Eclapier, all of whom have stacks of over one million chips, are all sat at the same table.

There could be some fireworks were two or maybe even three of them to tangle in a big pot!

08-05-2017 12:38 UTC

Former Frontrunners Fall in Fast and Furious Fashion

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Day 1b chipleader Stefan Fabian fell early on

Day 3 of this Main Event is looking pretty fast and furious so far, with just 34 of the 58 players still standing. It's not just the shortest of short stacks who have fallen either; two former chip leaders have vanquished, while the start-of-day chip leader has dipped into third place.

Read what the PokerStars Blog had to say about the frantic start to Day 3.

08-05-2017 12:46 UTC

Pictures from Day 3

Will Shillibier

08-05-2017 12:57 UTC

Tanase Doubles Through Goje

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

On a turn of Ionel Tanase moved all in for his last 334,000 or about twenty big blinds. His opponent, Samuel Goje, called.

Tanase slammed triumphantly down on the felt and Goje winced showing .

The river was the and the two players switched places roughly in the standings.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ionel Tanase	850,000 320,000	320,000
Samuel Goje	315,000 -415,000	-415,000

08-05-2017 13:03 UTC

Big Stacks Collide in 2.5m Chip Pot!

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

We said earlier that it was possible for some of the big stacks seated at Table 4 to collide, and it seems that the poker Gods have conjured up something special here in the third level of the day.

Linas Pugzlys opened to 35,000 from early position. It folded to the start-of-day chipleader Nandor Solyom in the small blind who three-bet to 126,000. Traian Bostan was in the big blind and he cold four-bet all-in for 1,321,000.

Pugzlys folded and Solyom, after some consideration, slammed chips down into the middle to indicate a call.

Solyom:
Bostan:

It was a cooler of monumental portions, and if either player won they would sore into the chiplead, but it was Bostan at risk.

The board ran out and Bostan doubled to 2.7 million in chips, with Solyom back to just over twenty big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Traian Bostan	2,700,000 1,300,000	1,300,000
Nandor Csaba Solyom	380,000 -1,400,000	-1,400,000

Tags: Traian Bostan Nandor Solyom Linas Pugzlys

08-05-2017 13:19 UTC

Avinoam Doubles Through Pugzlys

Will Shillibier

Level 21 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Linas Pugzlys limped in early position and Yaniv Avinoam three-bet all in for 332,000 from the small blind. After some consideration Pugzlys called.

Avinoam showed and Pugzlys allowed a little fist-pump at a correct call and showed

However unfortunately for him the flop came and there was no king on a turn or an river and Avinoam doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yaniv Avinoam	670,000 500,000	500,000
Linas Pugzlys	240,000 -115,000	-115,000

Tags: Linas Pugzlys Yaniv Avinoam