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

[danafish]

Shortly afterwards Vacek was all-in blind with 9-3 again Thierry Van Der Berg's K-Q and was out soon after.

The small blind actually just called the big blind when Vacek raised himself all in with his remaining 4200 chips (blinds 2000/4000), and Age Spets had to point out to him that there had been a raise, such as it was. Bless. But BB Hans Vimmo Eskilsson (gotta love that name, and he looks like Tom Waits too!) raises 15k and the small blind folded. "Is it good?" asks Vacek, showing his crappy hand." "No," replies Eskilsson, and the board proves it.

[NoflopsHomer]

And with that, we are on a **************1 hour dinner break**********************

[NoflopsHomer]

A couple of double ups on the outer tables.

First Edward Lawson doubles up his short stack to 80k through Hector Fuentes.

Flop:



Lawson's holding against the of the Unibet player after a turn and a river.

Then on the table next door, Denes Tamas Kalo button raises with the big blind Kalil Rahal moves all-in with and Kalo calls.

Board:

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The remaining Hungarian just had his stack severly dented.

BTW, we had steak for dinner. Possibly the greatest steak ever. I'll let Dana wax lyrical about how good it was.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rough outer table chip counts:

Denes Tamas Kalo -- 340k (Dana has the news)
Alan Smurfit -- 60k
Kalil Rahal -- OUT (As above)
Manfred (C) Hammer -- 125k
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 220k
Julian Thew -- 160k
Gunnar Rabe -- 125k

Anton Allemann -- 200k
Hector Fuentes -- 85k
Pascal Perrault -- 78k
Edward Lawson -- 72k
Michael Durrer -- 121k
Alex Kravchenko -- 77k
Thomas Fuller -- 105k

[danafish]

Kalil Rahal is OUT, and it happened thus.

He raises to 13 utg. Small blind Denes Tamas Kalo reraises to 50k, and Kalil calls with relative alacrity.

Flop - and Kalo insta-shoves; Kalil instacalls, and giggles when Kalo reveals to Kalil's own .

Turn -

River -

And Kalo is rather less gentlemanly about the whole thing, banging the table and shouting "YESSSSS" as Kalil makes his dignified exit, but fair enough, I guess, he did wi a big ol' pile of those good chips there...

[danafish]

Julian Thew is continuing to have a good time. He takes the blinds with an utg raise. "Lot of respect," says Smurfit, "Lot of respect." "I'm pleased to hear that," says Julian.

The next hand it folds around to Sebastian Ruthenberg on the small blind. "Ah, a friendly neighbour," says Smurfit. Ruthenberg looks at Julian and says, "You want a walk?" "Of course," is the reply. He gets the walk.

A lot of respect, you see.

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter Gould doubles through Hans Vimmo Eskilsson with Nines against on a board.

Meanwhile over on the outer table, Alan Smurfit moves all-in for his last 55k or so. Julian makes the call from the big blind with against Alan Smurfit's .

But before you can say, "LOL Thewyments" the board comes:



And we are now down to 19 players.

[NoflopsHomer]

Vladmir Poleshchuk has just doubled through Victor Goossen with vs with the board coming , crippling the Dutchman in the process.

Soon after he is all in with against his countryman Thierry Van Der Berg's .

The board comes:



Meaning there is 18 left.

[NoflopsHomer]

The final hand of Alan Smurfit.



Meanwhile, Dana has news of two more exits while we are on a 5 minute break.

[danafish]

The Great Kalo, not to be confused with the Great Kali, but similarly towering over his rivals, continues to dominate his table. Now he knocks out Hector Fuentes - Fuentes shoves on a bluff on the river with Q-K, but Kalo happily calls and turns over T-J for two pair.

Meanwhile, Pascal Perrault has taken out Alex Krevchenko - all in preflop, Krevchenko with the , Perrault holding  . The board absolutely no help to the dominated Krevchenko, coming out .

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts and new table draw:

Anton Allermann -- 186k
Julian Thew -- 311k
Pascal Perrault -- 193.5k
Denes Kalo -- 440k
Edward Lawson -- 130.5k
Michael Durrer -- 76.5k
Gunnar Rabe -- 130k
Thomas Fuller -- 106k

Age Spets -- 65k
Vladmir Poleshchuk -- 200k(?) - TV Crew didn't have a count for him
Hans Eskilsson -- 57k
Thierry Van Der Berg -- 230k
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 212k
David Sonelin -- 202k
Peter Gould -- 105k
Manfred Hammer -- 101k

[NoflopsHomer]

And as we restart Peter Gould goes out, all-in on a 7-2-3 board with A-9 against the Kings of Sebastian Ruthenberg. The German, who constantly takes cigarette breaks when not on the feature table, (perhaps he is addicted?), is now on around 317k.

Thewy took a decent pot as well before the redraw, he raised Ace Queen on the button, and Gunnar Rabe called in the big blind and then checked called Julian's 25k bet on the Q-9-x one club flop, when a second club arrived on the turn, Rabe bet 40k and Julian moved all-in. Rabe folded, saying he had , which Julian was quite happy to take it down there and then.

[danafish]

BREAKING NEWS - JULIAN GETS IT ALL IN WITH THE BEST HAND

Julian Thew in the small blind raises to 16k. Pascal Perrault in the big blind reraises it another 20k. Julian now makes a big chunky re-reraise, and Perrault announces all in; instacall!

Thew - 

Perrault - 

Board -

And the Famous Frenchman is fini.

Shortly before, the Pokerstars lady asked me if I thought Julian had more chips than Kalo, and I said I thought not. I suspect he is now monstrous chip leader. I suspect.

[danafish]

Hans Eskilsson is OUT. He shoved with K-4 from late position and was called by David Sonelin with A-Q. A Four on the flop, but an Ace on the turn, and he's gone.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts:

Anton Allermann -- 143k
Julian Thew -- 536k
Denes Kalo -- 385k
Edward Lawson -- 132.5k
Michael Durrer -- 121k
Gunnar Rabe -- 104k
Thomas Fuller -- 84k

Age Spets -- 30k
Vladmir Poleshchuk -- 247k
Thierry Van Der Berg -- 248k
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 372k
David Sonelin -- 198k
Manfred Hammer -- 155k