Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona: Day 3 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

With the increase in field size, EPT's have now gone from being squeezed into four days to a full five-day competition. Today, we play down from the 56 players who have cashed to the final table. The feature table will be getting it's first use of the season.

There's currently around 15 minutes of the 1200/2400/300 level remaining. Play starts at 5pm (4pm UK). Join us then.

Chip counts from Pokerstars and seating order.

Table 1:

Juan   Maceiras   74,300
Martin   Wendt   130,400
Javed   Abrahams   120,100
Jean Paul   Pasqualini   34,600
Henrik   Jensen   25,200
Tutev   Yovor   62,300
Adam   Junglen   227,800
Nikolaus   Jedlicka   67,700


Table 2:

(No first name) Vesty   55,000
Daniel   Dodet   47,400
Giovanni   Spadavecchia   97,000
Mark   Teltscher   300,600
Daniel   Stern   32,500
Katja   Thater   19,200
James   Higgins   56,500
Henrik   Sorensen   45,000

Table 3:

Ole Gabriel   Holgersen   26,200
Ian   Woodley   82,900
Kitai   Davidi Jacob   31,100
Massimiliano   Rosa   31,200
Alessio   Isaia   84,700
Mika   Puro   25,100
Jerome   Ferron   23,100
Kees   Alblas    98,100

Table 4:

Mohamad   Kowssarie   332,200
Michael   Wong   193,800
Alexander   Roumeliotis   56,300
Tronde   Eidsvig   141,200
Pete   Giordano   253,900
Sander   Lylloff   142,500
 Jesus Manuel   Garde   20,400
Daan   Ruiter   92,200

Table 5:

Dag Martin   Mikkelsen   130,600
Ryan   Jones   7,200
Voitto   Rintala   101,300
Ola   Brandborn   112,300
Nickolaos   Panopoulos   110,600
Eric   Hardt   70,500
Mark   Vos   38,300
Philip   Yeh   134,200

Table 6:

Cort   Kibler-Melby   43,000
Thomas   Fjelleheim   125,300
Jean Baptiste   Tomi   147,100
Jan   Sjaavik   106,200
Stefan   Mattsson   35,000
Christopher   Ulsrud   197,000
Michael   Greco   49,700
Fabrice   Soulier   60,000

Table 7:

Aditya   Agarwal   61,400
Bjorn Erik   Glenne   126,700
Borge   Dypvik   45,200
Andrey   Zaichenko   84,800
Mika   Paasonen   213,600
Patrick   Bruel   267,000
Greg   Dyer   95,200
Phil     Starrs   39,900

[Djinn]

The first Feature Table of the EPT Season 4 will be featuring:

Table 7:

Aditya   Agarwal   61,400
Bjorn Erik   Glenne   126,700
Borge   Dypvik   45,200
Andrey   Zaichenko   84,800
Mika   Paasonen   213,600
Patrick   Bruel   267,000
Greg   Dyer   95,200
Phil     Starrs   39,900

So, that's one previous winner (Glenne), one Scottish APAT champ (Starrs), three Pokerstars qualifiers and the superfamous Patrick Bruel, who has probably been the most filmed player at most of the EPTs I have attended.  The guy was stalked by French camera crews in Deauville last year; I swear they were following him to the bathroom and asking him questions in between every hand.  Although he might not be quite so famous outside of Europe, it would be huge news over here if he made the final table. 

[NoflopsHomer]

Dani Stern is our first casualty, the leader of Day 1, was all-in with K-Q against the Eights of Giovanni Spadavecchia. An eight hit the flop and that was enough, a small round of applause from the rail probably no consolation.

[Djinn]

The cards are in the air - the TV table was remarkably efficiently sent on its way, and the final seven tables are busy trying to reduce their number.

A reminder of the payouts, with the first eliminated (which has already happened) guaranteed €10,500:

1    1,170,700
2    673,000
3    388,800
4    301,000
5    250,800
6    196,500
7    154,700
8    104,500
9    64,800
10    64,800
11    46,000
12    46,000
13    33,450
14    33,450
15    25,100
16    25,100
17-24    20,900
25-32    16,700
33-40   14,650
41-48    12,550
49-56    10,500

[Djinn]

Pictured is Mohamad Kowssarie, chip leader starting today.  The stacks have been made slightly less unweildy by the addition of some nondescript brown 5k chips, but his stack is still impressive.  I personally think that as higher denom chips come into play they should become progressively more garish in colour, so the eye is caught by the dayglo orange 5k, and perhaps the neon blue 10k, while 25k chips should have spinning rims.

[NoflopsHomer]

A spate of exits now, very hard to keep up with, and write the details of players we don't know, so we don't have to refer to them as 'Mateyboys'.

JM Garde ends up all-in with against Michael Wong's . Pete Giordano passes his face in the face of the all-ins.

Board:



Pete had a look of disgust until the river, but then exclaimed, "Well, I saved myself fifty thousand."

JM Garde who is a real ringer for Robert Downey Jr, is OUT.

Joining him on the rail, is Mark Vos. His Nines lost out to Dag Martin Mikkelsen's Ace Jack.

APAT Champ Phil Starrs is out too, he held against but the eight spiked.

Jerome Ferron busts with A-Q against Kees Alblas' A-K. The Queen came, but so did a Jack and a Ten.

Fabrice Soulier doubles through Christopher Ulsrud with Ace King against Sixes. Couldn't see the board from the other side of the room, but the Frenchman was pretty chuffed.


The first five out, confirmed by Mad and Pokerstars are:

56 - Daniel Stern (USA)
55 - Phil Starrs (UK)
54 - Jesus Manuel Garde (Spain)
53 - Jerome Ferron (France)
52 - Cort Kibler-Melby (Germany)

Pictured:  Mark Vos

[Djinn]

Once-Leader Cort Kibler-Melby, out in 52nd place...



Once-Leader Dag Martin Mikkelsen, still in good shape.

[Djinn]

Mark Teltscher is nigh on unstoppable today; it looks like he's taken the chip lead and broken the 400k mark, taking out his tablemates in an indiscriminate frenzy of elimination... Mr. Higgins fell to him just now - some unlucky against his , and Daniel Dodet added his chips to Teltscher's like a garnish of thyme on a whole roast cow.  Dodet moved in on the button with his and Mark called in the blinds with .
Flop:    Daniel Dodet standing up...
Turn:    It's already Overkill...
River: 

Pictured:  Mark Teltscher next to early eliminatee Dani Stern.

[NoflopsHomer]

Juan Maceiras, the last remaining Spaniard, next to the Wall of Wendt.



Michael Greco looking at his stack, hopefully thinking he's misplaced a few 5k chips or something.



A early shot of table 2, pre Dani Stern, Katja Thater and J Higgins exit. Mark Teltscher remains though



Fabrice Soulier



Overview of the tournament. Still tough to get access though.



Most hands now at all-in pushes, it's very rare to have something played down the streets.

The only one I spotted was a hand between Adam Junglen and Nikolaus Jedlicka

Adam bet 12k on the flop and was called by Nikolaus. The turn was a possible action creating , but Junglen check/folded to the 20k bet from Jedlicka.

Finally Daniel Negreanu has entered the pressroom. He must have had twenty coffees before he came though, I've never heard a man talk so fast.

[NoflopsHomer]

Pete Giordano is now chip leader having won a large pot from Mohamad Kowssarie, the latter is apparently the fabled 'Fast Freddy' incidentally.

[Djinn]

Right - two times table breaks, and the floor (minus the TV-tablers, whom Homer has been keeping an eye on) looks like this:

Juan Maceiras -- 145k
Martin Wendt -- 100k+
Javed Abrahams -- 83k
Fabrice Soulier -- 85k
Henrik Jensen -- ?  Hat totally covering chips, therefore not too many
Philip Yeh -- 120k
Adam Junglen -- 247k
Nikolaus Jedlicka -- 152k

Sylvester 'Vesty' Geoghegan -- 90k
Tronde Eidsvig -- 212k
Giovanni Spadavecchia -- 110k
Mark Teltscher -- 433k
Daan Ruiter -- 70k
Ola Brandborn -- 86k
Mohamad Kowssarie -- 180k
Henrik Sorensen -- 33k

Ole Gabriel Holgersen -- 50k
Ian Woodley -- 81k
Kitai Davidi Jacob -- 37k
Nickolaos Panopoulos -- 88k
Alessio Isaia -- 79k
Michael Wong -- 58k
Ryan Jones -- 27k
Kees Alblas -- 120k

Dag Martin Mikkelsen -- 88k
Thomas Fjelleheim -- 138k
Jean Baptiste Tomi -- 184k
Jan Sjavik -- 119k
Sander Lylloff -- 242k
Christopher Ulsrud -- 237k
Michael Greco -- 31k
Voitto Rintala -- 155k

[NoflopsHomer]

Feature table count, thanks to those lovely TV crew people and Lee Jones.

Aditya Agarwal -- 64.2k
Bjorn Erik Glenne -- 157.3k
Borge Dypuik -- 91.6k
Pete Giordano -- 346.5k
Mika Paasonen -- 483.6k
Patrick Bruel -- 149.3k
Greg Dyer -- 105.5k
Ola Brandborn -- 43.5k


Blinds are now 2k/4k with a 400 ante.

But hark! Action is afoot!

Ola moves all-in, Pete Giordano calls

Ola:



Pete:



Board:



Change Pete's count to almost 400k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Here is the feature table, it's pretty packed at the moment. Tough to see anything.



The lovely Kara Scott on presenting duty.

[Djinn]

Just before the break, the pot which transferred a good chunk of Mohamad Kowssarie's stack to Pete Giordano involved a board like this (which I only caught from the turn): . 
Giordano bet out 35k (in brown 5k chips) and Kowssarie on the button promptly raised it to 120k (in blue 1k chiptowers).  Pete Giordano chatted gently to himself, "Those ares stacks of thirty...countdown... We're at the next blind level..." and then moved in, a further 85,400 exactly for Kowssarie to call.  Instapass.
"You're not gonna lay down a Queen," volunteered Pete the Beat, "You're gonna lay down nothing!"  We may never know.

[Djinn]

Dag Martin Mikkelsen (on the button) got involved with small blind Thomas Fjelleheim, betting 11,500 on a flop of .  Fjelleheim called.
Turn:    Check once more to Mikkelsen, who bet 22,500, but wasn't prepared to match the 76k total offered by Fjelleheim as he promptly check-raised all in.

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Michael Greco, short stacked for over 48 hours now, was last spotted across the room hovering amongst those playing the €300 PLO Rebuy event going on today.  It then became clear that he was actually playing this event at the same time as the EPT Main Event, crossing languidly back and forth while his chip stack gradually dwindles still further without ever actually disappearing altogether.  I am now going to go back to the rail and watch until I see the Dusk Till Dawn sponsored player actually play a hand - I will accept an Omaha one if all else fails.