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

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Not long after Stuart Nash's exit we lost Fuat Can from the feature table.  He went all in a board of

    

Can held pocket kings but Anthony Lellouche was sitting pretty with  and hit a house too just for good measure.

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We lost Marc Goodwin in 29th the hand was JJ's V KK's all in preflop, the kings stood up

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Roland Dewolfe found himself short on the feature table and reraised Daniel Mangas all in with  .  Daniel made the call though with  and after the flop of

    there was slight hope but the turn

   gave even more hope.  We held our breath for the river and its an amazing

 

to double up Roland to 120,000  and leave Mangas a 58k dent.

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Katja Svendson was getting busy on the feature talbe, making a great squeeze play with  no less but got caught by  incredibly.  She took a hit and after a couple of all ins we see this 3 way pot.

Chris Moneymaker raised from the button, Daniel Mangas goes all and Katja also goes all in.  Chris asks "how much more?" but then says "nevermind, I cant pass this hand. I call!"

So 2 players all in

Katja 
Daniel 
Moneymaker 

The board was

 

Which meant Mangas wins the 120K pot, Moneymaker makes a 13,000 profit and Katja Svendson is sent to the rail.

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After a plucky performance without ever possessing a formidable stack, Welshman Martyn Reeve has been eliminated from the London EPT courtesy of Tony Cascarino. All-in with A-J, Reeve was in big trouble against Cascarino's A-J, the former Irish footballer comfortably surviving an A-7-8-3-T board.

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Next to drop is oranged-topped (although not today) early pace setter Daniel Mangas, the long-haired lover from Spain re-raising all-in on a Flop, but being swiftly called by Frenchman Anthony Lellouche.

On their backs time and if Lellouche had his man dominated on the Flop with versus (suitathon!), he had him donning bondage gear and being beaten back and blue by a leather whip by the Turn, the academic River being er... academic.

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Javed Abraham's never really getting hold of any big stack during this tournament, said he "tired to make a bluff against Surinder, who hit a flush anyway."  The next hand, left with about 55,000 called an all in from Josh Egan.  Josh was also on a similar stack and was moving all regularly, so Javed took his chances with  .  He was correct to do so also when Egan turned over    .

The poker gods do not always reward correct decisions though and a King on the turn, gutted the youngster and left him with a paultry 4,800 with blinds at 2,500/5,000.  He moved all in next hand and doubled to 12,000, the very next hand he pushed again after a raise from Egan.  This time Egan had AA and Javed was in trouble with A6, no help and his EPT comes to end but another EPT cash it very handsome for this rising lad.

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Another exit, this tiime its Christopher Andler in 24th place.

Andler made it 14,000 preflop and was called by both Grundy & Lam Trinh the board came

     then Andler bet 50k for the rest and was called by Trinh

Trinh 
Andler   

Turn 
River 

Christopher Andler OUT

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23 players left and we gone to 3 tables folks.  They have also had a table redraw so we have new faces on the feature table, 8 handed all the way it looks like.

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WE HAVE ACTION!!!



Ever heard the one about the Englishman, the Dutchman and the Malaysian? No, me neither, until now...

A big melting pot of media, casino staff and players from the neighbouring table swarming around the right hand table signified a hand, so, with notepad in hand end in anticipation of something more than just a 'steal of the blinds', I leap over like a panther and brace myself for some good old fashioned pushing and shoving. After I'd utilised my muscular guns to good affect, I managed to squeeze into a slight crevice to see a tonne of chips in the middle with the following hands being revealed:

Nicky Roeg =

Ian Cox =

Vijayan Nagarajan =

Something tells me that shortstacked Nicky Roeg was making a move, but didn't quite get his timing spot on, running into Cox's monster Pocket Cowboys, and as the Flop came a teasing , Nicky was drawing dead with the other foot swiftly following the other out of the door. Meanwhile, Vijayan was in need of divine intervention which failed to materialise on the exceedingly raggy Turn and River.

Roeg out, Cox doubled up, Nagarajan hit.

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Approximate chippy chip counts from one of the outer table (to the nearest 5k):

Paul Mendes -- 95,000
Marcel Baran -- 155,000
Phidias Georgiou -- 255,000
Ben Grundy -- 215,000
Tony Cascarino -- 75,000
Lam Trinh -- 415,000
Surinder Sunar -- 445,000

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Pokerstars qualifier Vijay nNagarajan after being crippled by Ian Cox, he pushed the next hand with A8 and Ian obliged to finish off what he started and called with 88 to knock him out in 22nd place.

Ian on about 260,000

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Huge hand now just developed with another Pokerstars qualifer, Cypriot Phidias Georgiou and Ben Grundy. Phidias raised preflop to 15,600, Grundy reraised to 41,000, they cypriot dwelled but he did make the call.  The flop came

   

Phidias checks & Ben immediately says "all in" and Phidias quick as a flash says "call."  Ben's  might have got through had Phidias's pocket 8's not tripped up.  A K and a 2 to follow didn't help Ben Grundy and he was eliminated in 21st place. 

On estimation, Georgiou must have cira 480,000 and chip lead.

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Just before the break, we had a quick double up from Joseph Mouaward, Peter Peterson trying his luck with but coming unstuck against and a bullet dodging board.

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Whilst players are on a short, we could get the feature table chip counts.

Pascal Perrault 121,000
Jason Hackett  84,500
Roland De Wolfe  109,200
Josh Egan  118,000
Anthony Lelluche  398,600
Chris Moneymaker  176,600
Florian Langmann  164,900

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Feature table chippy chip counts:

Anthony Lellouche -- 393,100
Chris Moneymarker -- 202,100
Florian Langmann -- 159,400
Josh Eagen -- 118,300
Pascal Perrault -- 115,600
Roland de Wolfe -- 115,600
Jason Hackett -- 81,500