Pokerstars.com London EPT: Day 3 - Interactive

[Chili]

Thanks Chili and Snoops - Can you find out where in NZ Josh is from.
Intersting feature table line up.

Josh is from Auckland, and won 2 EPT seats on Stars in Double Shootouts for minimal outlay.

[Chili]

Ian Cox in the mix again, small blind Ian makes it 23K and the big blind Peter Peterson moved all in for a total of 56,000.  Ian called and showed  and Petersen showed  the board was a very comprehensive:

 

Peter Petersen out in 20th place

[snoopy1239]

There's been a lot of Cox of late, and we have yet more Cox for you now as the hot-running Brit eliminates local hero Ken Wong. Raising to 20k from the button, Wong made his move from the big blind with , Cox perhaps sensing weakness and happy to make the call. As Cox revealed , Wong tapped the table, his sagging expression perhaps reflective of his current mood and the heightened confidence-lacking aura of 'this-is-my-last-hand' -syndrome.

And his last hand it was, the board coming and leaving a dejected Wong with nothing but the green of the baize. "Yes!" exclaims Cox in that elated, but simultaneously hesitant and respectful manner that is so familiar with victors at this stage. Wong, meanwhile, simply said "Nice hand" respectfully and quietly sneaked away from the table.

[snoopy1239]

There seems to be a trend in EPT Main Events when we get down to three tables, the tension suddenly increasing to knife-cutting levels and the play slowing to a frustratingly sluggish pace. Every hand is given the utmost attention, and not a round goes by without everyone having a go at the tired 'let's pause to save face' routine.

Amid this lack of chitty chatter, fellow blogger Stephen Bartley of PokerStars makes a bizarre observation, suggesting that dealers in England always seem to be really big boned or thin as a rake with nothing in between. I can't say I've ever noticed that, but food for thought... I guess.

[snoopy1239]

There has only been a splattering of action on the feature table of late, Chris Moneymaker's admittance of being "card dead" probably something the rest of the table can sympathise with. Amid this sea of folding, Roland De Wolfe has wound up the motormouth, commentating on every hand as if possessed by the spirit of Jesse May.

[snoopy1239]

As soon as I'd complained (although disguised) about the lack of action, the feature table encountered it's first double up in a while, Florian Langmann finding his chips dancing into the middle with against an ahead, but not dominating of Anthony Lellouche.

The Flop garnered a receptive nod from Langmann, but no visible excitement just yet. The turn then took away two of his outs, leaving him with just the flush draw, which did indeed arrive on the River to save his relieved bacon.

[snoopy1239]

Ian Cox in the mix again, small blind Ian makes it 23K and the big blind Peter Peterson moved all in for a total of 56,000.  Ian called and showed  and Petersen showed  the board was a very comprehensive:

 

Peter Petersen out in 20th place

Crikey, he'd be squeezing that like there's no tomorrow if he'd made it to the televised final. Pop! 

[Pelham Boy]

Chip count for Surinder if possible please.

[snoopy1239]

Your current chip leader is Phidias Georgiou (Not Phileas Fog, as he has been referred to by some... well, me) with 415,000.

Truly bizarre that it is only a few thousand more than what the chip lead was at the start of the day. "Surinder has been surindering a few chips," as Lee Jones observes.

If someone doesn't have anything to say about the dude in the background, I'll be shocked, dazed and confused.

[Colchester Kev]

gooooooo Coxy !!!

[snoopy1239]

We always seem to miss the big news when we're in the loo, having a quick drink or whatnot, but according to Nicky, my generous secondary source, the biggest pot of the night has just gone sailing over to Marcel Baran, the Pokerstars qualifier taking on the aforementioned chip leader in a huge flush draw versus top set encounter that created a minimum half a million pot. This time around, Marcel reigned victorious, his K-6 on a Jack high board hitting a third club on the Turn to propel him into the chip lead.

[Ironside]

Your current chip leader is Phidias Georgiou (Not Phileas Fog, as he has been referred to by some... well, me) with 415,000.

Truly bizarre that it is only a few thousand more than what the chip lead was at the start of the day. "Surinder has been surindering a few chips," as Lee Jones observes.

If someone doesn't have anything to say about the dude in the background, I'll be shocked, dazed and confused.

gooooooo Coxy !!!

nice one kev might even win a prize

[Chili]

Georgiou just took a few chips off Surinder.  Surrinder raised to 25k in the cut off, called by Georgiou. On a 4 J 4 flop, Georgiou checks and Surinder bets 60k, called by Georgiou.

The turn is an A and they both check and await the 9 river, Georgiou bet 50k on the river and Surinder Insta passes.  He should be on about 200k.


Tony Cascarino is the short stack and has gone all in about 4 times recently.  With the blinds at 4k / 8k and 1k ante his 33k wasnt going to last very long but he doubled once and the other times took the blinds and antes.  He just keeps laughing and saying "How the hell am I still in this tournament?"

Josh Egan was on about 90k but got doubled up by Ian Cox.

[coxylady]

Is it possible to see some chip counts please?

[snoopy1239]

Outer tables:

(1) Paul Mendez -- 250k
(2) Marcel Baran -- 580k
(3) Phideas Georgiou -- 185k
(4) Tony Cascarino -- 90k
(5) Lam Trinh -- 210k

(1) David Obrabac -- 240k
(2) Ian Cox -- 115k
(3) Joseph Mouawad -- 240k
(4) Josh Egan -- 370k
(5) Florian Langmann -- 300k
(6) Alan Smurfit -- 55k

Ian Cox was mumbling something about Tens v Kings when questioned about his chip discrepancy.