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

[Djinn]

There were mutterings about extending today's play to go down to 32, but at the moment it looks like we are approaching an end-of-day bubble of sorts.  What are the odds it takes 2.5 hrs to get from 41 to 40?

Some counts:

Stephen Kjerstad -- 210k
Freddy Deeb -- 160k
Eric Liu -- 350k
Luca Pagano -- 325k
Michael Martin -- 145k
Alexander Morozov -- 125k
Ben Sprengers -- 125
Antonio Esfandiari -- 650k+ 

[danafish]

DOUBLE UP AND CALL ON TABLE 3!!! is what alerted me to Joe Hachem's all in. Not sure how he lost most of that giganto-stack, but I guess he must have...

Must admit couldn't see a thing of the cards from behind the crowds, but Joe was holding and his opponent, I BELIEVE Mr Jonathan Dwek but POSSIBLY Mr Robin Keston, was holding .

Someone is shouting, "Stick a Seven out there!"

Flop - (note the Seven in there)
Turn - (railer forgot to add, "no jacks") at which Mr Hachem shouts something that sounds awfully like, "YES! YES! STICK THAT WHERE IT HURTS, PEOPLE!!!" -
River -

Mr Joe Hachem doubles up to around 200k.

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Cannot confirm if this was the doubler-upper, but here is a photo of Jonathan Dwek:

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[snoopy1239]

After hovering around the 44 player mark for a while, we lost three in relatively quick succession before, incredibly, two crashed out in just one hand to leave us with 39. I was on the other side of the playing area at the time, and spotted a three row thick crowd swamping the far table. I tied up the laces on my running shoes and sprinted around (notice that's 'around'; we haven't been allowed to go in and out of tables for a long time), but it was too late, the hand was over. Fortunately, the hand was being announced over the microphone, and I had just about enough charm left in me to lure the information out of my fellow press, so that combined, I was able to deduce the following - a three way all-in involving Denes Kalo (button), Michel Carvin (small blind) and Stephan Kjaerstad (big blind). Denes Kalo held Kings and had both men covered. The other two hands were A-Q and A-9, although I don't know who had which. The board came 3-T-J-T-2 and the Kings held up, much to the delight of Denes, myself and the rest of the field.

Update: Michel Carvin had the A-9 and was shortstacked, Stephan Kjaerstad had the A-Q and had around 200k. The opening bet from Denes was around 20k.

[snoopy1239]

Antonio Esfandiari (USA) -- 1,198,000
Robin Keston (UK) -- 916,000
Denes Kalo (Hungary) -- 642,000
Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 623,000
Maxime Villemure (Canada) -- 600,000
Mostafa Belkhayate (Morocco) -- 523,000
Gerasimos Deres (Sweden) -- 494,500
Henrik Gwinner (Denmark) -- 487,000
David Shade Kruger (USA) -- 486,500
Thomas Boekhoff (Germany) -- 465,000
Rami Boukai (USA) -- 425,000
Eric Liu (USA) -- 398,000
Noah Siegel (USA) -- 388,500
Stig Top Rasmussen (Denmark) -- 373,000
Glen Chorny (Canada) -- 344,000
Oyvind Riisem (Norway) -- 340,000
Pablo Ubierna (Spain) -- 316,000
Peter Traply (Hungary) -- 300,500
Valeriy Ilikyan (Russia) -- 295,000
Claudio Pagano (Italy) -- 291,000
Jonathan Dwek (Canada) -- 282,000
Luca Pagano (Italy) -- 279,500
Amit Makhija (USA) -- 269,500
David Miara (France) -- 249,500
Isaac Baron (USA) -- 236,500
Joe Hachem (Australia) -- 214,500
Michael Martin (USA) -- 141,500
Freddy Deeb (USA) -- 140,500
Alexander Morozov (Russia) -- 133,000
Raymond Rahme  (South Africa) -- 133,000
Walid Bou Habib (Lebanon) -- 127,500
Benjamin Sprengers (USA) -- 127,000
Anders Berg (Norway) -- 124,000
Andrew Luetchford (UK) -- 116,000
Vincent Secher (France) -- 92,500
Anthony Chatelain (Sweden) -- 83,500
Tomas Brolin (Sweden) -- 74,000
Andreas Fluri (Switzerland) -- 61,000
Stefan Geim (Germany) -- 58,000