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« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2008, 10:38:57 PM »

Manfred Bass is one of the remaining players holding a meaty stack of 140k or so.

He has made the most of a large slice of fortune earlier in the tournament.

He had got the bulk of his chips in against an opponent, holding on a Two Clubs board, his opponent making a good call with .

With his opponent holding the Jack high flush draw to go with his pair of jacks, Manfred had to hit a 6 outer on the river to realistically survive, which he duly did when the arrived on the river...

Here is Manfred shortly after that crucial hand...

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« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2008, 10:47:33 PM »

A little better late than never - here are the top spots, a little out of date but still pretty accurate, as they move into the post-bubble mash-up...

Mike McDonald -- 315,000
Diego Perez Marco -- 215,000
Marco Liesy -- 208,300
Claudio Rinaldi -- 200,000
Jan Heitmann -- 196,000
Michael McDonald -- 187,000
Christian Harder -- 185,500
Marcel Luske -- 172,000
Daniel Ryan -- 160,000
Johannes Strassmann -- 154,200
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« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2008, 11:00:31 PM »

41 players left....40 paid.

You know what that means folks!

It's -time...



So we're hand-for-hand, with Thomas Kremser announcing each hand in turn as he walks from table to table.



Suddenly a big pot is played out, and the crowds gather round the table in question.

On a Q-T-3 flop, Stefan Wrenger gets all his chips in versus Brandon Schafer after raising UTG, then shoving the flop for 2x the pot, Schafer quickly calling. When you see the hands, you'll see why...

I'll pass over to the excellent commentary of Thomas Kremser.

"Stefan Wrenger is allin with T-T, a set of tens, and Brandon holds Q-T for two pair.

The turn is a ...Queen [oh my god!] and the river is an Ace, meaning Wrenger is our unlucky bubbler..."

Poor Wrenger, especially when it was revealed by one of the players (after the hand) that they had folded a queen, effectively meaning he got a one out, slap in the face, bad beat on the bubble of one of the biggest tournaments in europe. Poker can be so harsh...

Wrenger grabbed his coat angrily and stormed out of the poker arena looking sick as a dog who has come home hungry from a hard day's work, only to be told the following by his housemate...

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« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2008, 11:16:46 PM »

Double-Double Elimination!

You heard me right, folks - triple all-ins on two tables simultaneously saw Diego Perez Marco's take on and ... in pretty excellent shape to make a big stack even bigger...which is exactly what happened.

Right then Thomas Kremser announced what he called another 'interesting hand' on the table behind - threeway all in: vs. (Johannes Strassmann) vs. (Ramzi Jelassi).

A appeared on the flop, but people weren't finished intaking breath before a followed on from it.  Strassmann had both of his opponents covered, so another close-but-not-quite finish for Jelassi as a 200k pot heading the other way becomes his last.

It looks like play might stop when we reach 32 players - or in the unlikely event that doesn't happen, at the end of the current level.
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« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2008, 11:33:34 PM »

The final elimination of the day was Thor Hansen, whose A-10 shove was called by a King-spiking K-Q.  That brings BA's picks making Day Three to 0.  To be fair, they were pretty unlucky...

That means that the remaining 32 players will be back at 3pm tomorrow to play down to the Final Table.

They will be watched, and commentated thereupon, by myself and the good Cat.

So, until then
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« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2008, 11:45:26 PM »

An incredible day's play has come to a final conclusion.

Wowzer! many big names came and went today, but it was a less well known, but clearly highly capable Canadian Mike McDonald who led the way at the end of the day. Renowned Dutchman Marcel Luske also survived the cull of the big names, including Negreanu, Obrestad and Iremark, to make it through to the latter stages.

We will reconvene tomorrow at 15:00 our time, (14:00 for you in the UK) to see how this amazing EPT ultimately plays out.



Before we go, a final report, as usual, from the trenches.

Once again, there was the sad sight of a once full tray of gummis, now sadly reduced to just a few powerful soldiers, who beat the odds to make it through the day...




...BUT WAIT!

The Gummis showed a crafty tactical streak, that had not been in evidence previously...No longer will they just sit there as cannon fodder for the hungry fingers of the press, but took the war to the enemy in exciting fashion today. From their daring raid on the press computers...



...to their clever camoflage attempts...



the Gummi bears are clearly prepared to fight fire with fire, with a renewed vigour and intelligence that may yet see this war won!



Join us tomorrow for the thrilling developments! For now though...

 


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