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

[Djinn]

Battle of the shortstacks - blind on blind. Lars Eidissen pushed for not a lot from the small blind, and Hans Eskilsson had only 22k left after the 6.6 already in, and went for it with his .  Probably not what he wanted to see at his all-in moment... his opponent had the , but the board brought and Ace, two Queens, a King...and a Deuce, so Eskilsson is still in, but both of them fairly close to the bottom of the pack. 

[Djinn]

David Sonelin is OUT -

A button raise saw him pushing from the small blind, a lot of chips (physically) but it couldn't have been more than 50k in total.  Called with , David showed , but could only watch helplessly as the came straight away on the flop, with no glimmer of draw hope.  After three days of playing deep, lots of streets play, it's always depressing to find your cards on their backs and your tournament life in the hands of fate alone, favourite or not.

[snoopy1239]

Down to 46 with average stack of 230k.

One of those men fell at the hand of Antony Lellouche of France, who has now climbed up to a massive 575k with Nines v T-3 suited.

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Also gone is Hans Eskilsson, who was eliminated by Ben Callinan. Ben now on around 160k.

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Gavin Griffin has taken another player out, vs. on a board.

[snoopy1239]

With all this madness, it's hard to get chip counts. You start doing them (it's very hard to get close enough) only for an all-in to be called on another table.

However, amidst all the aforementioned bedlam, I did manage to grab the following counts.

Richard Waters -- 140k
Ram Vaswani -- 325k
Carlo Mortensen -- 360k
Jesse Steinberg -- 125k
Josh Arieh -- 205k
Chad Brown -- 230k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 205k
Antony Lellouche -- 575k
Eric Van De Berg -- 225k
Gunnar Ostebrod -- 80k
Ernst Hermanns -- 70k
Simon Johanssen -- 185k
Steve Jelinek -- 175k
Marc Karam -- 210k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 345k
Nick Goodall -- 115k
Roi Elmaliah -- 120k

[Djinn]

As the level before the dinner break draws to a close, Ram gets involved with cutoff raiser Oscar Blanco, calling a total of 16k preflop.
Flop:    Ram checked, Oscar checked.
Turn:    Ram checked, Oscar bet 15k.  Ram pushed in a 20k stack; the dealer promptly gave change, but there was a brief altercation over whether anyone had heard Ram say, "Raise."  He didn't fight his corner too hard - the floor was called, it was judged as a call, and they saw the river:  .
Ram instantly bet 50k.  Oscar dwelled for a good three minutes - we were all convinced he was passing - but no, he called, and was shown .  Instant muck.

[NoflopsHomer]

Those fabulous cash payouts so far...(in €'s)

46  Sverrisson Halldor Mar 19,910
47 Balazs Biri 19,910
48 Eskilsson Hans Ari 19,910
49 Sonelin David 16,590
50 Ragot Nicolas 16,590
51 Bihl Thomas 16,590
52 Cohen Ouri 16,590
53 Varsi Hans Ari 16,590
54 Martensson Patric 16,590
55 Spets Age 16,590
56 Biorac Sasa 16,590
57 Mateyboy 13,270
58 Sykes David 13,270
59 Rayan Nathan 13,270
60 Lodden Johnny 13,270
61 Pham Xuyen 13,270
62 Little Jonathan 13,270
63 Chatelain Anthony 13,270
64 Marciano Elie 13,270

[snoopy1239]

Gunnar Ostebrod is OUT.

Pushed his shortstack (Around 70k or so I believe) with 9-3o, but was looked up by Pete Giordano's Pocket Sixes. 2-4-A-2-7 board.

Ram Vaswani -- 280k
Ben Callinan -- 160k
Dave Mobbs -- 85k
Dean Saners -- 320k
Sergey Altbregin -- 85k
Roi Elmaliah -- 210k
Nick Goodall -- 95k
Thomas Wahlroos -- 250k
Richard Waters -- 160k
Richard Herbert 00 130k
Marc Karam -- 275k
Soren Kongsgaard -- 320k
Ernst Hermanns -- 65k
Carlos Mortensen -- 330k
Cahd Brown -- 315k
Simon Johanssen -- 295k
Josh Arieh -- 395k
Steve Jelinek -- 175k
Oscar Blanco -- 130k
Shane Reihill -- 220k
Gavin Griffin -- 490k
Christian Neirinck -- 365k
Alex Kim -- couldn't see

[snoopy1239]

David Peters has doubled through with Q-Q vs. A-8. K-T-6-T-4 board. Philip Hilm making quite a reckless play perhaps against someone who has played relatively tight.

[NoflopsHomer]

Three quick exits now to bring us to 37.

First Ernst Hermans A-4 departs to Marc Karam K-8, King on the flop.

Gavin Griffiths takes out Nick Goodall, holding Fives on a 5-7-8-3-J board against A-Q.

Finally Richard Herbert is OUT, pushed with A-2, ran into A-K. Ace on the flop, King on the turn. Sorry for lack of flop details, but the press rail isn't the best viewing spot.

[Djinn]

Oscar Blanco moved in preflop (not sure for how much, but let's say that it was short enough to do this on a move, but large enough that he had a good chance of getting everyone out of the way without a strong calling hand).  He got a swift call from Eric Van der Berg, who showed - just ahead of Oscar's .
The flop must have brought such hope to one party, and such tension to the other: 
Turn: 
River: 

And we're down another.  Looks like the 32-player finish line is within sight in the next two levels.

[Djinn]

Table ex-Blanco:

Johannes Strassman   180k
Jacob Larsson            175k
Ram Vaswani             370k
Dave Mobbs              120k
Eric Van der Berg       285k
Kristof de Smedt        354k
Alex Kim                   320k+

[NoflopsHomer]

Dean Sanders has gone elimination crazy, first knocking out the Russian Vladmir Troyanovsky with against on a - All-in on the flop.

He then knocked out Chad Brown in 33rd place, all in on a flop of , Chad's looking feeble against Dean's and he went out after a and river in 33rd place.

Gavin Griffiths had also previously busted a player, (possibly Thomas Walhroos but we can't confirm it) holding on a against the other player's Q-4, all-in on the turn.

[Djinn]

Freeroll Qualifier Richard Waters is down to the last four tables!  Apparently playing his first ever live tournament, purple-shirted Richard just got involved with Carlos Mortensen, calling his 24k bet preflop and seeing a flop.  Check to Mortensen - swift 30k bet, and a think-pass.  Shortish now, with around 130k, but still there and getting a better night's rest tonight.  Early finish! 

[NoflopsHomer]

And like that... We're done! Play ends for the day, tomorrow we'll go from 32 players to the final 8. Once again starting at 2pm (1pm GMT)

[Djinn]

Andy said on the way through the pressroom as he headed off that he ended the day still probable chip leader, with 720k, but without the ludicrous lead on the rest of the field he may have gotten used to.  His high chip point was somewhere around 860k(!) and he admits that the last session saw his first slide backwards in chips the whole tournament.  Good he's getting a proper rest, then - and so should we.




But we're not.  We're going to check out the dusk til dawn party and maybe share a beer.