Pokerstars.com EPT London: Day 3 - Interactive

[JungleCat03]

Swede Jonas Molander, who followed up a deep run in the Barcelona EPT with another good run here has busted and we are sorry to report the final lady left in the competition, pretty French actress, Alexia Portal has departed as well...

Chris has more information...

[TazDevil]

eric lui just doubled up a short stack on feature table with Lui raising up in position with  and being reraised all in for little more with  with the magic  on river doubling 1 of the short stacks on river

[NoflopsHomer]

Huseyin Yilmaz is out though not before a double up with against Jonas Molander's

.... (A better card in the deck can't be found surely that isn't a King or Six?) .

It wasn't enough though, and Yilmaz was out soon after.

Jonas Molander followed him shortly, when his A-5 was defeated by Max Pescatori's A-6 on a 7-4-J-3-J board.

Last lady standing, Alexia Portal is also out, moving all-in over the top of Peter Busch's raise with pocket sevens against his A-Q but the board came meaning she left to much applause.

[NoflopsHomer]

eric lui just doubled up a short stack on feature table with Lui raising up in position with  and being reraised all in for little more with  with the magic  on river doubling 1 of the short stacks on river

Swede Michael Tureniec was the player to double up which delighted Pokerstars Swedish blogger Lina.

[JungleCat03]

The whirlwind play continues!

It really has been a firestorm out there in the playing arena with players not giving each other an inch, engaging in combat almost every hand!

The latest exciting showdown was caused when Eric Liu raised it up, only for Swede Michael Tureniec to decide enough was enough, re-raising him all-in, without much fold equity given his shortstack, with K-Q.

Liu was forced to call with A-5, no doubt delighted to be ahead and it looked like another elimination was on the cards.

The flop fell and Tureniec was about to leave when the spiked on the river, causing a broad smile to understandably break out across his face. The Swede up to 160k and the first minor setback for Eric on a day where everything else has pretty much gone his way...

[TazDevil]

eric lui raises with  with Swede Michael Tureniec moving all in over the top for 120k and lui calling 

  board takes the swede to 336,000 in chips

[JungleCat03]

Also out is Brian Green, another victim of the rampaging Pescatori.

The Pirate called Brian's shove with A-6 with pocket Jacks and with no sign of a bullet anywhere on the flop, Max had taken yet another scalp to leave us 18 handed in record time!

I don't know what the players had for breakfast but they're playing faster than a cross between Speedy Gonzalez and Floppy when he sees an unattended hamburger...

Arriba, arriba!

[NoflopsHomer]

November ME finalist Peter Eastgate is out, it looked like Michael Martin had button-raised with queens and Eastgate had repushed with K-6 and was unable to spike the vital king on the board. On the plus side, he gets a bustout interview with Kara Scott, like Jonas Molander here.

[JungleCat03]

eric lui raises with  with Swede Michael Tureniec moving all in over the top for 120k and lui calling 

  board takes the swede to 336,000 in chips

Thanks!

Yes indeed. Liu looked a bit frustrated after this hand, having had the Swede in twice, once ahead and once in a flip he lost them both and now looks like he has less than 500k, although Floppy insists he has over 500k.

His argument, consisting of "look at his stack! He has lots of the yellows!", is far from convincing though...

[NoflopsHomer]

Meanwhile on my last epic trip from the media room to the poker room, I spotted a very lost-looking Barry Greenstein who had been commentating but couldn't seemingly find his way back into the real world. Eventually with much needed guidance we got Barry back to the casino, who knows he might have been stuck there for days otherwise...

[NoflopsHomer]

Double up for Joe 'Big Egypt' Elpayaa getting in with against Canadian Philippe D'Auteuil's

- The lowly deuce enough to double up the former PCA finalist to around 200k.

[JungleCat03]

Just as a quick aside, I feel obliged to fill you in on the apparel my esteemed colleague Chris "NoFlopsHomer" Hall is attired in today...

To cut a long story short, he became involved in a bet with another blogger Owen Laukkanen, as to who could purchase the most garish hoody. So far Chris seems to be well in the lead, and possibly out of sight, with this splendid effort.

Already the hoody, which is covered with a pattern of jewels, has been attracting all kinds of attention. Only a few moments ago Chris could be heard giggling and saying "Stop it" as one of the male French press caressed it delicately.

Here it is. ENJOY!

[JungleCat03]

Michael Tureniec has proved a thorn in the side of Eric Liu today, taking plenty of chips off him and he just took some more...Eric raising it up to 22k, only to find the Swede raising him another 55k.

Liu looked at him with a wry smile, but couldn't find a call so laid it down, enabling Tureniec to continue the pwnage...

[JungleCat03]

Johannes Strassman has been knocked about from pillar to post today.

His fell down the leaderboard has been extreme...coming in as one of the big stacks with 442k, he was moments ago pushing all-in for his last 94k just to pick up the blinds. He managed to persuade Marcin Horecki to fold though and pads his stack to over 100k, even if it is still a shadow of its former self...

[JungleCat03]

What Can Liu Do?

After an amazing start to the day, Eric Liu is in freefall at the moment and the sole architect of this is his nemesis, Michael Tureniec!

Yet another hand of pwnage occurred when Tureniec popped it up to 26k, getting called by Philippe D'Auteuil in middle position. Eric Liu now swung the hammer hard, re-popping it another 57k.

If he thought this would persuade the Swede to lay his hand down though, he couldn't have been more wrong as Tureniec announced "ALL-IN!" and pushed his stack over the line.

Eric instantly mucked, suggesting he had just been pulling off a squeeze move without a hand and once again he was bested by his Swedish foe. He must be getting sick of him by now!