Main Event Day 3 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Bucharest

08-05-2017 13:44 UTC

Final Three Table Redraw (full)

Will Shillibier

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Yaniv Peretz	Israel	580000
1	2	Iulian Iacob	Romania	400000
1	3	Johann Eclapier	France	1200000
1	4	Yuriy Kudrynskyy	Ukraine	1150000
1	5	Patrick Bueno	France	620000
1	6	Mircea Alexandru Flutur	Romania	650000
1	7	Massimo Caratelli	Italy	250000
1	8	Ioannis Taramas	Greece	500000

2	1	Anil Olgun Ozdemir	Turkey	875000
2	2	Ionel Tanase	Romania	775000
2	3	Paul Calin Ciaca	Romania	1050000
2	4	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	650000
2	5	Nandor Csaba Solyom	Hungary	800000
2	6	Samuel Viorel Goje	Romania	330000
2	7	Cristian Dimitrie Neicu	Romania	1000000
2	8	Liran Machluf	Israel	340000

3	1	Linas Pugzlys	Lithuania	450000
3	2	Daniel Nietrzebka	Poland	2020000
3	3	Razvan Lucian Cetanas	Romania	2150000
3	4	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	1400000
3	5	Marius Alexandru Gicovanu	Romania	725000
3	6	Traian Bostan	Romania	2800000
3	7	Yaniv Avinoam	Israel	640000
3	8	Ronen Mozeson	Israel	245000

Player	Chips	Progress
Traian Bostan	2,800,000 100,000	100,000
Razvan Lucian Cetanas	2,150,000 120,000	120,000
Daniel Nietrzebka	2,020,000 120,000	120,000
Sam Grafton	1,400,000 200,000	200,000

Johann Eclapier	1,200,000 120,000	120,000
Yuriy Kudrynskyy	1,150,000 100,000	100,000
Paul Calin Ciaca	1,050,000 40,000	40,000
Cristian Neicu	1,000,000 290,000	290,000
Anil Olgun Ozdemir	875,000 315,000	315,000

Nandor Csaba Solyom	800,000 10,000	10,000

Ionel Tanase	775,000 75,000	75,000
Marius Alexandru Gicovanu	725,000 354,000	354,000
Mircea Flutur	650,000 650,000	650,000
Fahredin Mustafov	650,000 316,000	316,000
Yaniv Avinoam	640,000 30,000	30,000
Patrick Bueno	620,000 210,000	210,000

Yaniv Peretz	580,000 419,000	419,000
Ioannis Taramas	500,000 170,000	170,000
Linas Pugzlys	450,000 40,000	40,000
Iulian Iacob	400,000 194,000	194,000
Liran Machluf	340,000 5,000	5,000
Samuel Viorel Goje	330,000 330,000	330,000
Massimo Caratelli	250,000 135,000	135,000
Ronen Mozeson	245,000 85,000	85,000

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08-05-2017 13:28 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Grafton	1,200,000 734,000	734,000

Sayed Mohammad Mehdi Safavi	Busted

Soos Eliminated by Solyom

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Will Shillibier

Level 22 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

Alpar Gyorgy Soos moved all in for around 210,000 in early position. It folded to Solyom who, after being one of the larger stacks since the end of yesterday, found himself with a shoving stack. He moved all in as well and the remaining players all folded.

Soos:
Solyom:

The pair exchanged a fist bump before the flop was dealt. The board came and Soos was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nandor Csaba Solyom	790,000 410,000	410,000

Alpar Gyorgy Soos	Busted

Level: 22

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 3,000

08-05-2017 13:21 UTC

Pugzlys Doubles Up After Scary Flop

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Will Shillibier

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

Linas Pugzlys moved all in from under the gun in the very next hand after he doubled up Yaniv Avinoam. It folded to Alpar Gyorgy Soos who called in the cutoff.

Pugzlys:
Soos:

The flop came giving Soos an open-ended straight draw. The turn was the and the river the , meaning Pugzlys' Aces held for a timely double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Linas Pugzlys	490,000 250,000	250,000
Alpar Gyorgy Soos	210,000 375,000	375,000

08-05-2017 13:19 UTC

Avinoam Doubles Through Pugzlys

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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

08-05-2017 13:03 UTC

Big Stacks Collide in 2.5m Chip Pot!

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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 12:57 UTC

Tanase Doubles Through Goje

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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 12:46 UTC

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08-05-2017 12:38 UTC

Former Frontrunners Fall in Fast and Furious Fashion

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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.