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

[snoopy1239]

Splendid news for the Brits, Asa Smith is still there with a health 310,000, as is Craig Hopkins, now on a tasty yum yum 410,000.

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Sean Gardiner is OUT. No further details, except that if it was a bad beat, he's vomiting in the toilets, and if it was a straight forward exit, he's playing online in the lobby.

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Men are interesting beings and differ in many ways to women. Not only are we deemed less sensitive, but we also have a seemingly unrelenting sex drive, perhaps driven by one of the major assets that separate the genders, the male testicles. However, it is these hanging spheres that can often be a major burden to men, and poker players especially so, as they can often be made available for others for a good, firm kicking.

One player who has experienced this form of physical abuse today is Scandinavian player and early pace setter Johan Berquist. After Jaques Zaicik raised it up from the small blind, Johan re-raised from the big. Dwelling momentarily, Jaques announced call and turned his hand over, seemingly ignorant to the fact that Johan still had two stacks of chips in front of him.

With the Tournament Director called over, it was decided that Jaques' hand, which was A-7 suited, incidentally, would be alive, but not be in a position to bet. On this note, play continued and a J-5-2 rainbow Flop was dealt. With Jaques' actions frozen, play moved straight to Johan who pushed all-in for what looked like a fair amount of chips.

Without hesitation and to the surprise of everyone at the table, and any onlooker for that matter, Jaques announced call without hesitation as if he was simply refusing to be pushed around or taken advantage of. However, he was in need of divine Poker God assistance as Johan had Pocket Sixes, and seemed quite happy with his current situation.

Unfortunately, poker is a very cruel game, and those Scandinavian love balls did indeed receive a wallop in the form of a gut-wrenching Seven that hit the Turn. Jaques banged the table and screamed "Yes" as if he'd just won the lottery as Johan shook his head in disbelief. A harmless later and Jaques was left to rake in a chunky pot as the organisers broke the table. Johan, meanwhile, could only slip out of view and weep on the rail.

I think everyone agreed that this was a truly bizarre moment. "He missed his Flop ans still called," observed one startled player. "He's been making mistakes all day," said another. From my perspective, it seemed like a very odd call indeed. I'm no expert by any means, but there are very few hands he's beating there and the chip stacks weren't really such that Johan would be messing around with rags. I don't think anyone thought Johan had a weaker hand than A-7.

[NoflopsHomer]

Thierry Van Den Berg has hit a big double up with against the awesomely named Hunter Frey's after the board came out a topsy-turvy . The Dutchman was extremely honest with his stark assessment of the hand, "I've played pretty well today but this was very very bad."

Asa Smith makes it 25k to play, Robert Lederer raises to 70k, folded back to the Brit who moved all-in, Lederer folded and Smith took a healthy pot.

Laughs between Duy Lee and Emil Timberg, the latter betting the river. Duy Lee made the call for what looked like a third of his stack. Timberg grimaced and flipped for a missed flush draw, then his eyebrows raised even higher when Duy Lee showed .



Duncan Bell is OUT after calling for his tournament life with on a board against Eric Van Den Burg's , a on the turn but the river sealed the Canadian's fate.

[NoflopsHomer]

David 'The Dragon' Pham we think is our chipleader with around 1.2 million after busting a player with A-6 against A-J on an A-9-6-x board. Emil Timberg is in second place, with about 1.1 million and Christopher Klodnicki looks to be part of the million club after just doubling through Diego Perez with Jacks versus Tens in a 1 million chip pot.

[snoopy1239]

William Thorson -- 640,000
Alex Michaels -- 300,000
Peter Jetten -- 770,000
Chris Crawford -- 263,000
Eric Lynch -- 425,000
Marius Olsvik -- 393,000
Jeffrey Neuman -- 98,000
Craig Hopkins -- 365,000
Christian Harder -- 535,000
Paul Holub -- 170,000
Evan Tindell -- 425,000
Justin Phillips -- 242,000
Pierre Neuville -- 715,000
Rhett Butler -- 410,000
Jon Dull -- 190,000
David McNew -- 98,000
Victor Ramdin -- 290,000
Michael Cooper -- 460,000
Richard Furay -- 325,000
Bryan Colin -- 352,000
Richard Fohrenbach -- 245,000
Allisen Connor -- 359,000
Hafiz Khan -- 339,000
Daniel Grolemund -- 114,000
James D'Ambrosio -- 343,000
Glen Chorny -- 301,000
Jonathan Friedberg -- 87,000
Kris Kuykendall -- 322,000
Gregory Byard -- 400,000
Haved Khan -- 205,000
Jose Cuenca -- 848,000
James McCrink -- 185,000
Bertrand Grospellier -- 184,000
Jared Mahoney -- 247,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter Jetten, though the first guy to break a million, has lost a few, and looks to be down to about 600k. He's stuck with William Thorsson two to his right and Eric Lynch two to his left. Stuck between a rock and a hard place...Oh wait a sec, that's not the best analogy!

Thorsson just bust a guy holding on against , catching a gutshot Ten on the river. Funnily enough he's about a 3-1 dog in this hand, if the other player was holding top set he'd only be a 2-1 dog!

[NoflopsHomer]

Rory Brennan is OUT, we couldn't spot at the tables, so over to the cash desk where they confirmed he was the 51st place finisher and the money-jump bubble.

Eric Lynch just knocked James McCrink. David Pham (who looks to be sitting on around 1.8 million now, most taken from Emil Timberg and a few from Lynch) had opened from MP, Lynch re-raised from the cut-off and McCrink moved in for just about 10k to 20k more than Lynch's re-raise. Pham passed and Lynch called with , probably a little relieved to see he was racing McCrink's . 3 hearts turned up on the flop, leaving Lynch with just 4 outs but the turned up to send the elder gentleman out.

Ubershort stack Richard Furay is OUT, Q-J into the Kings of Hafiz Khan.

Craig Hopkins -- 670k (just looking more comfortable with each passing moment)
Asa Smith -- 200k (just looking for a spot)
Kelly Jones of Stereophonics -- (I'm just looking, I'm not buying...)

[NoflopsHomer]

Payouts still to come:

Position    Payout
1    $2,000,000
2    $1,094,976
3    $800,000
4    $600,000
5    $450,000
6    $300,000
7    $200,000
8    $150,000
9    $120,000
10    $104,000
11    $96,000
12    $88,000
13    $80,000
14    $72,000
15    $64,000
16    $56,000
17    $48,000
18    $48,000
19    $48,000
20    $48,000
21    $48,000
22    $48,000
23    $48,000
24    $48,000
25    $40,000
26    $40,000
27    $40,000
28    $40,000
29    $40,000
30    $40,000
31    $40,000
32    $40,000
33    $32,000
34    $32,000
35    $32,000
36    $32,000
37    $32,000
38    $32,000
39    $32,000
40    $32,000
41    $24,000
42    $24,000
43    $24,000
44    $24,000
45    $24,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Cash places from 120th to 51st, all receiving $16,000.

51   Rory Brennan
52   Mike Gorodinsky
53   Diego Perez
54   David McNew
55   Alex Michaels
56   Jeffrey Neuman
57   Jameson Painter
58   Per Ravn
59   Mauro Stivoli
60   John Dibella
61   Gerald Lauderman
62   Evan Roberts
63   Adam Green
64   Ted Lawson
65   Duy Le
66   Eugenio Carmoneto
67   Kevin McColgan
68   Johan Bergqvist
69   Louis Cohen
70   Markus Ross
71   James Ferguson
72   Duncan Bell
73   Sean Gardiner
74   Hugo Spangenberg
75   Peter Busch
76   Hunter Frey
77   Cero Zuccarello
78   Marcel Kleczka
79   Chris Pearsall
80   Michael Melin
81   Samuel Chartier
82   Hans-Ari Varsi
83   Dennis Petronack
84   Guy Tomaselli
85   Rosamelia Ferreira
86   
87   Kevin Schaffel
88   Håkon Bentsen
89   
90   Stuart Taylor
91   Brian Lindsay
92   Hans Winzeler
93   Daniel Shiff
94   Ross Romash
95   William Pilossoph
96   Julian Thew
97   Irina Liepina
98   Andre Akkari
99   Jim Pechac
100   John Bird
101   Tyler Dickinson
102   Johan Til
103   Eric Liu
104   Brett Levitzke
105   Davide Sciabbarrasi
106   Joshua Ewing
107   John Buchanan
108   Jeremy Harkin
109   Jacob Petersen
110   Lee Markholt
111   Matt Zoorob
112   Zack Stewart
113   Michael Meredith
114   Anthony Cousineau
115   Gasperino Loiacono
116   Kevin Bryniczka
117   Dmitriy Kirin
118   Jean-Philippe Rohr
119   Steve Gross
120   Eric Koskas

[snoopy1239]

Jesse Chinni -- 652,000
Kristopher Clodniki -- 811,000
Eric Van Den Burg -- 359,000
Dmitriy Kirin -- 286,000
John Zioulas -- 519,000
Thierry Van Den Berg -- 168,000
Lance Gettler -- 574,000
Elton Tsang -- 293,000
David Pham -- 2,000,077
Garrett Adelstein -- 272,000
Eric Lynch -- 625,000
Emil Timberg -- 272,000
Asa Smith -- 147,000
Robert Lederer -- 165,000
Kristoffer Edberg -- 705,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Elky has doubled through twice both times against A-J, the first time he held 9-9, then the second time A-Q knocking out Hevad Khan in process. He's up to 600k.

Asa Smith has knocked out Jon Friedberg, against on a board. He's back up to 300k.

Joseph Elpayaa, who has a little following of 'balla' boys just doubled through I think Garrett Adelstein with Aces against Tens on a 9-high flop.

Kris Kuykendall's Tens faired better on the 9-high flop against Jose Cuenca's Ace King knocking the Spaniard out.

Peter Jetten is OUT. He moved all-in on the river of a board. Emil Timberg dwelt for an age before calling with . Peter insta-mucked.

[snoopy1239]

For a long period of time, we remained on 41 players and the bubble gradually expanded until it almost filled the room. However, just moments ago, that bubble stretched to its very limit and finally burst, a huge swarm of onlookers swamping the table to see the unfortunate victim make his untimely exit.

With Glen Chorny limping from early position, the action folds around to Asa Smith who double checks with the dealer that Chorny has in fact limped (I assume this is a rarity) before making up the small blind. Bertrand Grospellier, in the big blind, follows suit with a check.

After the dealer has popped out a dangerous, perhaps action provoking Flop, Smith quickly checks and ElkY bets out 25k, perhaps hoping to take the pot down there and then. Two seats down, the pre-flop limper limps once again and flat-calls, but is soon put to the test when Asa makes a deep reach and, with a slightly trembling hand, shoves out a column of blue chips worth 105k more.

ElkY takes a second glance at his cards, sighs momentarily and folds. Chorny, however, is less reluctant to let his hand go, and after a quick peek back down at his chips, nonchalantly announces all-in for approximately 350k more. Before he has barely reached the end of the all-familiar phrase, Asa is announcing call and virtually beating him into the pot.

The crowd buzzes around the table and the dealer urges the players to reveal their hands. As Chorny confidently flips over his for bottom two pair, Asa swiftly shows his rather nutty, but still vulnerable for the made straight.

Whilst your British blogging team hold their breath in anticipation, the remaining players secretly and selfishly chant for an outdraw so they can boast of a venture in Day 4 of this PokeStars Caribbean Adventure. And, with a on the Turn they get their wish, triggering Chorny into an uncontrollable fit of shouting "Yes!" and Asa into a state of devastation.

Great performance from Asa, getting it in with the best of it and ended his night with a bout of misfortune. His facial expression and dropped shoulders said it all, but as the 41st place finisher from such a big field of players, who should be immensely proud of his performance here in the Bahamas.

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has now ended for the day. We'll restart with the final 40 players playing down to the final table tomorrow from 12pm (5pm uk time). One Brit remaings, Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins, whilst David 'The Dragon' Pham remains chip leader with about 2 million chips, roughly 10% of those in play, and it's hard to look past him as the favourite for this event.

Tomorrow also sees the beginning of EPT live, so we'll probably be more focused on the remaining four tables. Feel free to post/discuss hands from the live feed table on the update thread tomorrow though, as we won't be able to catch many hands from it for much of the time, (also we wouldn't mind knowing what goes on there too!).

Sadly I'm behind Raymer and Negreanu and about 40 other people in the commetary pecking order...Neverends....

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts:

David   Pham   2003000
Kris   Kuykendall   1302000
Glen   Chorny   977000
Emil   Timberg   959000
Marius   Olsvik   910000
Christopher   Klodnicki   901000
William   Thorson   874000
Garrett   Adelstein   733000
Bertrand   ElkY   729000
James   D'Ambrosio   723000
Allisen   Connor   692000
Eric   Lynch   660000
Craig   Hopkins   656000
Bryan   Colin   643000
Christian   Harder   623000
Benjamin   Reed   619000
Joseph   Elpayaa   598000
Jesse   Chinni   564000
Pierre   Neuville   535000
Eric   Van   531000
Kristoffer   Edberg   527000
Jacques   Zaicik   524000
Evan   Tindell   524000
Rhett   Buttler   494000
Lance   Gettler   427000
Michael   Cooper   426000
John   Zioulas   387000
Thierry   Van   371000
Mikko   Pirinen   355000
Gregory   Byard   330000
Jon   Dull   313000
Paul   Holub   277000
Richard   Fohrenbach   239000
Elton   Tsang   231000
Justin   Phillips   229000
Robert   Lederer   229000
Hafiz   Khan   223000
Victor   Ramdin   206000
Magnus   Karlsson   202000
Jared   Mahoney   194000