EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo: Day 3 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Welcome back to Day 3 of this competition, 88 players return with the blinds being 1500/3000 with a 300 ante. I'm unsure how many levels are being played, but we will tell you as soon as we know. Chip counts will also follow when we get them. If you want anyone followed, please, as usual post their names on the Interactive thread.

[Djinn]

Day Three Chip Standings:

Andy Black (Ireland) -- 513300
Josh Arieh (USA) -- 343100
Antony Lellouche (France) -- 332100
Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 310900
Simon Johansson (Sweden) -- 302100
Christopher Ulsrud (Norway) -- 286800
Philip   Hilm (Denmark)   -- 273200
Oscar Blanco Carrasco (Spain) -- 245900
Steve Jelinek (UK) -- 226400
Biri Balazs (Hungary) -- 219200
Chad Brown (USA) -- 212900
Vladimir Troyanovsky (Russia) -- 202100
Marc Karam (Canada) -- 196700
Elie Marciano (France)   -- 187100
Christian Neirinck (Belgium) -- 181800
Thomas Bihl (Germany) -- 179800
Jonathan Little   (USA) -- 176300
Carlos   Mortensen (Spain) -- 174700
Alexander Kim (USA) -- 173600
Pete Giordano (USA) -- 167800
Dean Sanders (UK) -- 166000
David Sonelin (Sweden) -- 165000
Kristian Kjondal (Norway) -- 164000
Nicolas   Ragot (France) -- 163700
Jan Veit (Germany) -- 159800
Soren Bakfort (Denmark)   -- 157500
Thomas Wahlroos (Finland) -- 154900
Kristof   De Smedt (Belgium) -- 154800
Dario Alioto (Italy) -- 149600
Sergey Altbregin (Russia) -- 144600
Ram Vaswani (UK) -- 141900
Ricki Nielsen (Denmark)   -- 138400
Chris Bjorin (Sweden)   -- 136600
Lars Eidissen (Norway) -- 136200
Halldor Mar Sverrisson   (Iceland) -- 135800
Samir Rahal (France) -- 134300
Richard   Waters (UK) -- 131200
Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen (Holland) -- 120600
Lars Bonding (Denmark) -- 119500
Nicholas Goodall (UK) -- 119400
Roi Elmaliah (Israel) -- 118800
Cristinel Dumitru (Romania) -- 117900
Gavin Griffin (USA) -- 111200
Johannes Strassmann (Germany) -- 105700
Fabio Bianchi (Italy) -- 103600
Shane Reihill (Ireland)   -- 103100
William   Hill (UK) -- 100400
Jesse Steinberg (USA) -- 97400
Richard   Herbert   (Ireland) -- 95000
Rayan Nathan (Australia) -- 85700
Joe Beevers (UK) -- 82800
Eric Van der Berg (Holland) -- 80800
David Sykes (Canada) -- 80400
Jacob Larsson (Sweden)   -- 77000
Fadi Kamar (Lebanon) -- 76800
David Mobbs (UK) -- 76300
Michael   Martin (USA) -- 74600
Ernst Hermans (Holland)   -- 63800
Staale   Egenes (Norway) -- 62200
Josh Prager (USA) -- 60400
David Barraclough (UK) -- 58000
Atanas Gueorguiev (Bulgaria) -- 57500
Ben Callinan (UK) -- 55500
Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark) -- 55500
David Ulliott (UK) -- 54400
Zack Stewart (Israel) -- 54300
David Peters (USA) -- 51900
Sasa Biorac (Germany) -- 51100
Hans Eskilsson (Sweden)   -- 51000
Jason Mellross   (Australia) -- 50700
Hans Vars (Norway) -- 47600
Patric   Martensson (Sweden) -- 47300
Ali Masterman (UK) -- 44300
Herman   Zango (Costa Rica) -- 43900
Hans Erlandsson (Sweden) -- 42800
Ouri Aron Cohen (France) -- 42300
Anthony   Chatelain (Sweden) -- 36800
Age Spets (Norway) -- 33700
Ross Boatman (UK) -- 32900
Fowzi Baroukh (UK) -- 32400
Xuyen Pham (UK) -- 31900
Daryl Jace (USA) -- 30600
Gunnar   Ostebrod (Norway) -- 29200
Maurice   Kenter   (USA) -- 19400
Mickey Wernick   (UK) -- 13700

[Djinn]

Payout Reminder:

1   1,825,010
2   1,061,820
3   610,550
4   471,180
5   391,550
6   305,270
7   238,910
8   159,270
9   99,550
10   99,550
11   66,360
12   66,360
13   49,770
14   49,770
15   39,820
16   39,820
17   33,180
18   33,180
19   33,180
20   33,180
21   33,180
22   33,180
23   33,180
24   33,180
25   26,550
26   26,550
27   26,550
28   26,550
29   26,550
30   26,550
31   26,550
32   26,550
33   23,230
34   23,230
35   23,230
36   23,230
37   23,230
38   23,230
39   23,230
40   23,230
41   19,910
42   19,910
43   19,910
44   19,910
45   19,910
46   19,910
47   19,910
48   19,910
49   16,590
50   16,590
51   16,590
52   16,590
53   16,590
54   16,590
55   16,590
56   16,590
57   13,270
58   13,270
59   13,270
60   13,270
61   13,270
62   13,270
63   13,270
64   13,270

[snoopy1239]

American, Daryl Jace, is the first exit of the day.

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For a moment there, I thought we'd lost one on Dean Sander's table, but they actually play 7-handed. Dean, meanwhile, has just lost 40k to his neighbour Herman Zango, calling Zango's over the top all-in with J-Q in a battle of the blinds. Zango, who didn't have much more in chips, had A-8, which ultimately stood up.

[Djinn]

Down one American already - Maurice Kenter is OUT - rather spectacularly running into Aces... not that there's anything that unusual about that occurrence, it's more the open shove from under the gun with for 50k which made the spectators' eyes open wide.  Greg Amoils saw the beginning of the hand, and was fairly surprised to find the big blind Antony Lellouche calling so quickly, until he flipped the .
The board came:  (this is the part I saw firsthand) and that was a definitive knockout, and a good start for the Frenchman.

[Djinn]

Age Spets doubled up first hand, getting his 30k or so in as a comfy favourite with against Lars Bonding's preflop.
Board:  and a happy Spets is back in it.
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Richard 'Strummer' Herbert takes a pot of chipped up Chad Brown on the river, fearlessly taking on the table big stack and, it appears, tidy player.

[snoopy1239]

Zack Stewart is OUT, eliminated by Nicolas Ragot. Nines v Kings, no help.

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Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is OUT.

He shoved it in with on an Ah-8h-x Flop, but ran into A-8 and failed to improve.

[snoopy1239]

Mickey Wernick is OUT.

There was a min raise on his table, and Mickey decided to go for it with A-8. Came up against Aces and failed to escape.

[NoflopsHomer]

Micky Wernick doubles up, in predictable Micky style, he pushed his very short stack in and got protection from Josh Arieh next to him, Josh's was no good for Micky's though, especially after the board.

This table featuring Patric Martesson, Steve Jelinek and Joe Beevers has just been broken making this picture annoyingly redundant. Beevers did win this checked down pot against Jelinek with though, hitting a Seven on the river.

Johnny Lodden stacking the chips, having knocked out Hans Erlandsson, a pokerstars qualifier. Erlandsson raised from the small blind and pushed on the with , Lodden made the quick call with . on the turn but river sent him home.

Nicolas Ragot (on the right) with Richard  here, just knocked out Lars Bonding with A-A vs K-K.

[snoopy1239]

Ali Masterman is OUT.

He'd pushed with A-K the hand before and taken the blinds, and the next hand he did the same with K-Q (for around 33k), but this time he ran into Queens and failed to improve.

"I was shortstacked the whole tournament and just never really got going. I called a pre-flop raise with Sixes earlier on today when I should have either jammed or folded. He had K-J and it came a Jack on the Flop, so I think I missed an opening there. Ah well, pretty gutted, wanted to at least get my money back"

[Djinn]

Selected counts, with 73 players remaining:

Ben Callinan       46,800
David Barraclough  71,000
Joe Beevers        95,000
Jonathan Little    162,000
Thomas Bihl        186,000
Richard Waters    160,000
Staale Egenes      36,000
Age Spets           43,500
Nicolas Ragot       255,000
Richard Herbert    102,000

[snoopy1239]

I also caught up with Brit Dave 'doops' Barriclough, who seemed vastly chirpy, and understandably so as he'd just doubled up to 80k, raising to 8.5 pre-flop, finding one caller in the big blind, before calling an all-in push on a T-9-2 Flop. David called with Aces to find himself well ahead against K-J, but with a Jack on the Turn, the Dave Penley lookalike was up against 9 (I think) outs, all of which failed to hit.

"An 9 hit the River so for a moment I thought I'd lost to a straight," said a relieved doops.

[snoopy1239]

Table 4:

Ernst Hermanns -- 75k
Ouri Cohen -- 30k
Christer Bjorin -- 235k
Simon Johanssen -- 320k
Sasa Biorac -- 80k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 175k
Marc Karam -- 110k
Fabio Bianchi -- 20k

In case we haven't reported it, Dutchman Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen was eliminated on the TV table earlier on by Ram Vaswani.

[NoflopsHomer]

Meanwhile on the final table of the €500 1 rebuy side event, I spotted Steve Vladar and Annette_15 are involved there.

[NoflopsHomer]

Blinds are now 2k/4k with a 400 ante meaning it's 9.2k a turn.