Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Skipping into the cardroom I noticed that Sean Bruder and William Martin had bitten the dust, the former exiting the cardroom shapish, the latter hovering around the tables, perhaps refusing to believe that he's been eliminated.

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James Campell is OUT. I didn't catch the full hand, just that he ran 9h-9d into the Qc-Tc of Jonathan Dwek on a 5c-Jd-9c-8c-As board. Looks cooler than a naturist field trip to Iceland.

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It's been a while, but I can proudly say that it's time to report a...



with a stupendous number of...



and two of the biggest...



... in poker.

In fact, this was the biggest pot of the whole tournament.

Antonio Esfandiari = Ac Ad

Gordon Vayo = Ks Kc

Flop = 4d 8s 2c

Turn = 3h

River = 8s

Antonio now up to 680k and your current chip leader.

[Djinn]

I think that this is still Pierre Hall, even though he's now right the other side of the card room.  Such is the nature of table breaks.  He is making a weird face because in an effort to get him to look at the camera I started grinning like I was on drugs and this is the reaction.



If I'd photographed him about 5 minutes later, however, he may have been all (slightly apologetic) smiles.  He'd got his 120-150k all in pre with , called by .
Flop: 
Turn:
River........      ...........         ........

His railers go nuts, some high-fiving happens and he doubles through.  Slightly embarrassing celebration level, considering the circumstances...but he's now comfortably stacked.  And not American, which is what people in the room seem to think,but Canadian

[snoopy1239]

Jenn or Snoopy, Amit Makhija's stack please?

Amit has 90k, well, rather he did before he doubled up Anthony Chatelain in Seat one, the Swedes A-K holding up against Amit's Jacks on a K-Q-A-Q-6 board. I didn't quite catch how much Anthony had at the time, and media were urshered out after the hand whilst they colour up, but I'd hazard a guess that it was a 70k pot.

Also on that table are:

Beniamino Speroni -- 125k
Benjamin Sprengers -- 200k
Denes Kalo -- 290k
Maxime Villemure -- 365k

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Also gone is Sami Ovaskainen, Pagano senior was the assassin.

[Djinn]

A couple of chip counts - they are slowly colouring up a few of the monstrous stacks, but it's probably at its hardest-to-count point so forgive if these aren't totally spot on:

Sorel Mizzi -- 210k
Freddy Deeb -- 190k
Eric Liu -- 196k
Ben Sprengers -- 250k
Maxime Villemure -- 335k
Pierre Hall -- 280k
Luca Pagano -- 230k
Benjamin Kang -- OUT

[danafish]

From the Virtual Pen of Mad Harper at Pokerstars. No capital letters yet, no pie charts. Disappointing.



dear all

results so far - 65th to 80th place -
65    James Campbell    € 21,000
66    Giovanni Nervo    € 21,000
67    Jan Heitmann    € 21,000
68    George Lind    € 21,000
69    Tom Ahlberg    € 21,000
70    Ian Prevost    € 21,000
71    Torbjörn Jonsson    € 21,000
72    Giovanni Bigom    € 21,000
73    Morten Lokken    € 17,000
74    Tommi Hörkkö    € 17,000
75    Benjamin Kang    € 17,000
76    William Martin    € 17,000
77    Sean Bruder    € 17,000
78    Felipe Ramos    € 17,000
79    Ed De Haas    € 17,000
80    Trond-Erik Eidsvig    € 17,000

This email has been sent to you by Mad Harper

[danafish]

Also seen leaving the scene of the crime was Domenico Tinnirello. The press have now been permanently ejected from the playing area, and because that exit occurred the other side of the room, I was unable to obtain any further details.

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Ricardo Sousa is OUT. He made his move with , but ran into the of Oyvind Riise. board.

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A very huge pot - there seems to be around 150 or 200k in it when I get there, a flop that is made of Q-8-8 with two hearts, and 180k in front of Antonio Esfandiari. The young gentleman next to him (below; is that Matt Kurtz? we're really looking for him, I swear) dwells up long enough for the customary 5-deep crowd of press and railers to form, and then passes.

[Djinn]

And people still think it's good when the press are hovering around their tables...  Snoopy= no mercy.

Freddy Deeb -- 330k
Stephen Kjaerstad -- 190k
Pablo Ubierna -- 136k
Eric Liu -- 197k

Got to be honest, we're not really able to see more than one side of each table due to the Special Press Rail Area only flanking one side of the tournament, and a lot of spectators flanking the rest of it.  I'm only small.  They are only scheduled to play down to 40 players tonight, and then hopefully a well-thought out, comfortable viewing system can be devised for us press and everyone else, making the most efficient use of space and keeping everyone totally happy.








 

[Djinn]

It's preflop re-raisetastic at this late stage of the day, with first of all Joe Hachem getting a nice flop-free pot, then Antonio Esfandiari on the neighbouring table taking it up a notch with a 130k three-bet pre which basically put the full Tournament Life Pressure on Stig Top Rasmussen.  He thought for a very long time, Esfandiari remaining so quiet and still you'd have thought he was hunting something.  But no, he's just playing poker, in a quiet, still way.  Eventually he took that one down, Stig shaking his head in exasperation.

Woody Deck is OUT - and despite being basically a microstack at the end (he was called all in in two spots) he did have the against, er, 6-8 which only flopped a boat. 

[snoopy1239]

Access is limited at the moment, so I was only able to accrue the following counts:

Valeriy Ilikyan -- 170k
Simon Faure -- 80k
Gerasimos Deres -- 190k
Rami Boukai -- 460k
Tomas Brolin -- 75k
Benjamin Sprengers -- 170k
Anthony Chatelain -- 70k
Maxime Villemure -- 365k
David Shade Kruger -- 400k
Robin Keston -- 420k
Stig Rasmussen -- 275k
Glen Chorny -- 205k
Henrik Gwinner -- 310k
Amit Makhija -- 100k
Isaac Baron -- 170k
Walid Bou Habib -- 150k
Andreas Fluri -- 155k
Andrew Luetchford -- 160k

[danafish]

Mr Andreas Fluri (I hope ), on 160k. You have no idea what I went through in there to get this photo.

[danafish]

Mr Beniamino Sperino is OUT. Not sure how the betting went, but it was all-in pre, him against the unnamed young guy who folded that big hand to Esfandiari a page or two back.

Sperino -
Some Young Guy - [EDIT - other way round, sorry. Hard to see from rail, apologies]


Board -

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[Djinn]

Borge Dypvik finishes in 47th place - but the hand which finally busted him - vs. - wasn't the big one, I am sure.  A miss all round and the young Norwegian calmly shook the collective hand of the table and made an exit so unassuming you would hardly believe he'd missed out on €2 mil but taken down €33,700 for his three days' work.

[snoopy1239]

As one might expect at such a crucial time, many hands are slow affairs with players deliberating over almost every decision. In all fairness to the rest of the players, they are remaining patient if someone spends a long time in the think tank, there's no huffing and puffing, no unsubtle sighs and little evidence of impatient clock calling. This was certainly the case for Eric Liu. With Stephan Kjaerstad pushing in pre-flop for 120,500 (there was about that in the pot), Eric found himself in the unenviable position of having to make a decision for what would be for the majority of his stack. Twitching in his seat with the discomfort of a fish out of water, Eric seem tortured by his decision, looking back at his cards, counting out his chips, separating stacks and even sinking his head into his hands in despair. Finally, he opted for the fold, and allowed his Norwegian opponent to fight another day.

[snoopy1239]

Michel Carvin is down to 150k. He had Pablo Ubierna dominated with A-K vs. A-Q but a Queen on the Flop of a 7-Q-4-5-2 rainbow board left Pablo high-fiving his fellow countrymen on the rail and Michel with a face that would make Mike Tyson quiver in his boots.

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Sorry Canada, Pierre's OUT. He called all-in with A-K against Robin Keston's 7-7. Pierre hit an Ace on the Turn, shame about the 7 on the Flop.

[Djinn]

In 43rd place falls Haward Speer - short to the point where it folded to him on the small blind and it seemed a perfectly good plan to move in with .  Unfortunately, the big blind had .  A on the flop raised slim hope, but the rags which followed crushed it again.