Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo : Day 3 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Antony fires out 45k on a 3-way limped pot from the small blind and Felipe Marcos calls from the big blind. Eric Koskas, who had limped, folds.



Antony fires 100k, Felipe calls.



Antony bets 200k, Felipe calls.

Antony shows Q-8 for top two, Felipe mucks, Daniel Negreanu says he thought Felipe had Q-7, because he saw a mucked.

Antony now has almost 1 million in chips. Felipe has around 100k left.

[NoflopsHomer]

Lellouche raises to 48k, Felipe Ramos moves in for 90k, Antony calls.

Lellouche shows , Felipe has



Felipe Ramos is OUT in 13th place winning €22,400.

We're now on a 1 hour dinner break. When we come back we'll play down to 8 players.

[JungleCat03]

********WE ARE NOW ON A ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK**********

[JungleCat03]

Well, we're back and already there's been some action.

Fresh from the break Isaac Baron raises from the cut off, only to find the short-stacked Jonas Klausen moving in from the BB. With Klausen so short, he's getting a good price to call and does so, even though he only holds .

He's flipping though as Jonas flips over 6-6.

FLOP: - great flop for Baron - he's now the slim favourite with 2 overs and a flush draw...

TURN: ! Flush pops in on the turn, leaving the Dane drawing dead and banished to the rail.

Jonas Klausen is OUT, eliminated in 12th spot, winning € 28,750.

Good game sir.

[JungleCat03]

A little dessertwatch ? it could excite some girls, isn't it Jen & Dana ?

AHHHHH French EPT live works at last !

As soon as Floppy returns with the camera I'll give you a dessert update. Dinner was a little rushed today but I can guarentee you the dessert watch today is pretty spectacular, definitely worth waiting for...

[NoflopsHomer]

Isaac Baron knocks out the short-stacked Jonas Klausen with vs , turning a flush.

Dario raises to 55k from the cut-off, Randal Flowers raises to 200k from the small blind. Dario insta-folds.

Dario raises to 55k, takes the blinds.

Jason raises to 55k, takes the blinds.

Dag raises to 55k, Isaac Baron asks to see how much he has left, and then moves all-in, Dario and Randal fold as Dag is already lifting his ready to call instantly. Isaac shows .

Flop:



Dag, "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee." Isaac sits impassively.



Dag, "YES YES YES!!!!"





"Yes!!! I'm going to win this tournament, two times, two times against full houses."



(At this point, I half expect him to do an Alan Cumming impression from GoldenEye, "I am invincible!!!"). Isaac is crippled.

The next hand is bizarre, Dag is more interested in stacking his chips than anything else. Isaac folds, Dario raises and takes the blinds, but Dag has only put out two 5k chips in the big blind, instead of 4, (definitely not on purpose, no doubt he's wrapped up in elation). No-one else spots this apart from me and one of the guys from Pokernews, but no-one does anything, hope that 10k doesn't make a difference.

[NoflopsHomer]

Arnaud Mattern just popped by, obviously had some knowledge of Dag Palovic from the EPT Prague final table. "I did think when I played against him he was Hollywooding it a lot [in Prague], but he actually has huge visual tells. I bet top pair with a flush draw big on the turn and he took a huge deep breath and looked a little scared, he was openingly showing he wasn't that strong. The other players should be able to rip him apart."

[JungleCat03]

WOWOW, so much action no time even for dessert watch!

Okie-dokie.

Randall Flowers lost a big pot in a J-J v A-K coup versus Dario. Finding himself now much shorter, he took a gamble, getting his chips in preflop with 3-3, only to find Dag Palovic had yet ONE MORE big hand in K-K!

A flop of  K 7 5 left Flowers in big trouble, drawing to runner runner a 4 on the turn opened up a small chance of a gutshot but the 2 on the river sealed Flowers' fate and the young American was banished to the rail by the screaming, shouting and generally rather happy Palovic...

Here we have Flowers just after his elimination.



One rueful look back at the table as he wonders what might have been...



BUT it's all over, meaning...

Mark "Randall" Flowers is OUT, eliminated in 10th spot, winning € 46,300

Great performance from the young American player, who has carried himself well all through the comp and I'm sure we'll see him back soon...

[JungleCat03]

Dario makes a big re-raise versus William Thorson. Thorson has put a lot of chips in but after a long dwell and some banter from Dario he ultimately folds and Dario rushes off to high five the rail. His palms must be getting sore by now!!!!



Eric now raises it up, Jason re-raises to 120k and Eric now makes about a min re-raise to 200k....Jason.... FLAT CALLS!

With 500k in the pot, they see a flop of T- 7- 5.

Jason checks and Eric checks behind also...

TURN:

Jason now moves in for 500k, roughly a pot size bet. Eric studies him for some time but ultimately he doesn't like it and throws his hand away...

BIG POT for Jason, who joins the elite millionaires club with over 1,000,000 chips...

[JungleCat03]

Jason raises it up to 60k and Dario puts in a chunky re-raise against the new millionaire.

Jason doesn't take long to decide he's not interested in tangling with the scarf wearing Italian just yet and throws his hand away...

Dario's big stack appears to be putting the fear of god into the other players...


A quick shot of Dario as he picks up his chips to join the final table...

[JungleCat03]

William Thorson moves allin and is INSTA-CALLED by Anthony Lellouche!

Is this it? Is this the final hand of the day?

Let's see them cards guys!

WILLIAM THORSTON K-J

ANTHONY LELLOUCHE A-Q

So the Frenchman has the edge but it's not a massive advantage and a flop of

completed reverses the balance of power, tilting the scales massively in favour of Thorston and a turn of and river of completes the hand, meaning William doubles up to roughly 400k and back in it once more...

The games continues...

[NoflopsHomer]

Final Table shots:







Marcus Bower re-raises over Dag Palovic's 72k for around 125k more, but that's incidental since he only has 35k behind this. Dag sets him in with , Marcus calls with



Another shorty doubles up and we're still here.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jason raised to 61k, Marcus Bower makes it 200k more. Marcus wins.

Antony raises to 62k, Dario re-raises to 204k, passed back to Antony who folds quickly.

Eric raises to 100k, Jason calls from the small blind.



Check check.



Jason bets 100k, and Eric calls.



Jason bets 220k, Eric calls quickly. Jason shows K-J for the nuts and wins a big pot.

[JungleCat03]

After a quiet period, suddenly a raise from Johannes (who was short and committed) is re-raised by Marcus Bower to 300k who wanted to make sure   Gregory Genovese didn't get involved. BUT Genovese isn't backing away and gets stuck in, calling allin, and Strassman is way too short to fold sooooo we have a three way allin!!!

If Marcus wins, 2 will be eliminated!

Cards:

Johannes Strassmann

Marcus Bower - J-J

Gregory Genovese -

VERY BIG POT!

FLOP:  - great flop for Gregory but terrible flop for Bower who is now drawing very thin...

TURN: Bower drawing dead - Strassman to 2 outs...

RIVER: !

It's all over Genovese wins a monster pot and Bower is hurt, but not yet fatally, down to 350k or so...
 
BUT crucially, after making his 3rd EPT final table this means...

Johannes Strassmann is OUT, eliminated in 9th place, winning € 46,300 for yet another excellent EPT performance.

And it also means we have our final 8 players who will return tomorrow to do battle. We'll post up full chip counts of these guys as soon as the official numbers are in but for now, I'll pass the poker side of things over to Floppy who has some final pictures of today's gripping action..


In the meantime I will bring you the much anticipated dessert watch...

...In just a few moments...

[NoflopsHomer]

End of play...



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