Pokerstars.com EPT London: Day 3 - At A Glance

[JungleCat03]

We arrive at day 3 of the London EPT with the tournament approaching an exciting conclusion.

32 players remain and some elite poker players are in the mix. Here's the full list with chip counts:

Philippe D'Auteuil   Canada      477,000
Antony Lellouche   France      446,000
Johannes Strassman   Germany   Sponsored   442,000
Erik Sjodin   Sweden      342,500
Eric Liu   USA      326,500
Huseyin Yilmaz   Turkey      325,000
David Benyamine   France      323,500
Joseph Elpayaa   USA   PokerStars qualifier   309,500
Peter Eastgate   Danish   Sponsored   295,500
Peter Busch   USA   PokerStars qualifier   294,000
Max Pescatori   Italy      285,500
Joao Barbosa   Portugal      173,000
Ian Frazer   UK      138,000
Michael Martin   USA      133,500
Sorel Mizzi   Canada   PokerStars qualifier   120,000
Brian Green   Costa Rica   PokerStars player   116,500
Robert Firestone   USA   PokerStars qualifier   113,500
Gunnar Rabe   Sweden   PokerStars qualifier   113,000
Michael Tureniec   Sweden   PokerStars qualifier   112,000
Gualter Salles   Brazil   Sponsored   109,500
Alexia Portal   France      104,500
Ramin Henke   Germany      102,500
Marcin Horecki   Poland   Team PokerStars Pro   102,000
Christopher Wolters   Canada   PokerStars qualifier   97,000
Frode Gjesdal   Norway   PokerStars qualifier   95,500
Beth Shak   USA      90,000
Alan Smurfit   Ireland      89,500
Tyler Reiman   USA   PokerStars player   86,000
Jonas Molander   Sweden      84,500
Justin Truesdell   USA   PokerStars qualifier   82,000
Carter Gill   USA   PokerStars qualifier   38,000
Scotty Nyugen   USA      36,500

[NoflopsHomer]

Live Feeds For The EPT are here:

(High Quality) http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32581.0

(Low Quality) http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32582.0

[NoflopsHomer]

Seating Plan:

Marcin Horecki   102000   1   1
Tyler Reiman   86000   1   2
Joao Barbosa   173000   1   3
Carter Gill   38000   1   4
Alexia Portal   104500   1   5
Max Pescatori   285500   1   6
Justin Truesdell   82000   1   7
Robert Firestone   113500   1   8
Michael Martin   133500   2   1
Huseyin Yilmaz   325000   2   2
Gunnar Rabe   113000   2   3
Sorel Mizzi   120000   2   4
Ian Frazer   138000   2   5
Brian Green   116500   2   6
Ramin Henke   102500   2   7
Christopher Wolters   97000   2   8
Eric Liu   326000   3   1
Joseph Elpayaa   309500   3   2
Michael Tureniec   112500   3   3
Johannes Strassman   442000   3   4
Philippe D'Auteuil   477000   3   5
Peter Eastgate   295500   3   6
Alan Smurfit   89500   3   7
Jonas Molander   84500   3   8
Erik Sjodin   342500   4   1
Antony Lellouche   446000   4   2
Frode Gjesdal   95500   4   3
Peter Busch   294000   4   4
Gualter Salles   109500   4   5
Beth Shak   90000   4   6
Scotty Nyugen   36500   4   7
David Benyamine   323500   4   8

[NoflopsHomer]

And we're off with Carter Gill moving all-in from the button in the first hand and Max Pescatori thinking from the big blind, before electing to call the 37.5k shove.

Gill:
Pescatori:

("Put a six out there for a sweat!" shouts Gill)

Gill doubles up to about 80k, Pescatori knocked down just under 250k.

Scotty Nguyen is out, as you might have guessed if watching the live feed. 7-7 no good vs Q-Q on a T-A-8-9-2 board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Alan Smurfit doubles up with A-K against Johannes Strassman's A-9 when the board comes 8-K-A-6-Q on the feature table.

[JungleCat03]

Beth Shak has fallen in the early stages which we are most upset about, especially as her exit occurred during the 4 mile hike between press room and card room.

Here she is giving her post knockout interview to Kara Scott, looking somewhat blurred due to our inability to use flash in the card room...



One elimination we did witness though involved Tyler Reiman shoving with K-J, only to run into Pescatori's A-Q and a queen high flop sent the young American to the rail while Pescatori banged his fist on the table in jubilation, another victim forced to walk the plank at the hands of the Italian pirate...

[NoflopsHomer]

Big pot for blonde's favourite Michael Martin, Michael Martin. I couldn't exactly see how the betting went preflop but he was all-in on a flop with against Huseyin Yilmaz's and held on the turn and river. Michael Martin is up to over 500k probably the chip leader at this point.

A three way pot between the Frenchies David Benyamine, Anthony Lellouche and Alexia Portal ends in a chop when they all check the board to the river and split it with , and respectively.

Erik Sjodin raises to 14k and Frode Gjesdal makes the call from the big blind.



Gjesdal checks, Sjodin bets 18k and Gjesdal raises to 42k with about 60k back. Sjodin thinks for about a minute before setting his opponent in.

Gjesdal folds and is now very short.

(Not as short as Junglecat though, ho ho ho).

[NoflopsHomer]

Michael Martin is really destroying his table, having knocked out Ramin Henke, he's just busted Sorrel Mizzi also with 7-7 vs Mizzi's K-Q.

[JungleCat03]

Ian "The Raiser" Frazer has perished and his exit extinguishes any hopes of a UK champion at the London EPT.

It was apparently at the hands of Michael Martin, who has run rampant in these early stages. He raised it up on the button, only for Ian to find an ace in the big blind and ship it over the top.

Martin though had Ian's A-3 wrapped up with A-T and when he called, it was all over bar the music, which started playing as the board blanked out to knock Ian out.

Martin's ridiculous run today has seen him move to over 800k. With only 6 million chips in play, that is a mega stack right now...

[NoflopsHomer]

Joao Barbosa has been knocked out with against Max Pescatori's on a board.

Meanwhile, the chip leader today started with around 477k today, Martin has almost double this within 90 minutes having eliminated Gunnar Rabe, Ian Frazer, Sorrel Mizzi, and Raiman Henke. Busy day.



A jealous Eric Liu (c. 500k) comes up as we break to three tables saying, "How do you always have so much man? It's so sick!"



Looks like Justin Truesdell has been knocked out, I think by Jonas Molander.

[JungleCat03]

Here's a shot of the man who has taken this tournament by the scruff of the neck, Michael Martin.



And yes Justin Truesdell is OUT!

Here he is as he grabs his coat ready to go. I missed his exit hand but he told me briefly as he left, "At least I made a good call..." suggesting he was perhaps unlucky to find himself on the rail.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts from the outer tables at the break.

Table 2

Michael Martin -- 858.5k
Huseyin Yilmaz -- 157.5k
Frode Gjesdal -- 162.5k
Max Pescatori -- 310k
(Unknown at the moment, lost his card) -- 130k
Brian Green -- 76k
Christopher Wolters -- 116k

Table 4

Erik Sjodin -- 293k
Antony Lellouche -- 533k
Carter Gill -- 271k
Peter Busch -- 235k
Alexia Portal -- 73k
Gualter Salles -- 93k
Robert Firestone -- 123k
David Benyamine -- 516k

[NoflopsHomer]

Raise from Joseph Elpayaa to 21k, Johannes Strassman reraises to 61k. Alan Smurfit moves all-in for 120k. Strassman is forced to call after Elpayaa passes even though he though he doesn't like it.

Strassman:
Smurfit (and his bracelet):



Smurfit is now over 300k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tell to David Benyamine and to Anthony Lellouche to help Alexia doing chip dumping please 

Is itpossible to have a photo of this 3 people please ?

Benyamine check/raised a board after Lellouche had bet 36k with Peter Busch calling, for an extra 95k. This was just before the break.

[NoflopsHomer]

Carter Gill is out, and not happy.

Lellouche raised and Carter Gill reraised preflop with the Frenchman calling.

K-Q-3

Gill pushes with A-Q and Lellocuhe snap-calls with K-Q, the board bricks and Gill is out.

Carter flips out, "Nice f**king preflop call, you f**king idiot... "You're a f**king asshole." He then departs from the slightly bemused table.