£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,000 EPT London Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
Buy-in
£5,000
Prize Pool
£3,540,500
Entries
730
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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As we reach that great point in the tournament when the press start to outnumber the players, our chip leader seems to be British amateur Michael Berry, who won his seat in a vast freeroll run by PokerStars in conjunction with the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper, of all places.
However, there's not much in it chip-wise, with a number of other players in roughly the 1.5 million bracket, and don't forget we've still got a clutch of fearsome faces in the field, including Annette Obrestad, Peter Eastgate and Benny Spindler.
Whatever happens tomorrow, it should be very interesting. Join us back here at noon GMT+1 when we'll playing down to a final table.
Eastgate:
Lendvai:
The board came
meaning we were down to 24 players and done for the night.
, and Macphee called all in with 
.No change on the
board, and Macphee is Mac-busted.Just one more player to lose before bedtime.
board at which point Smyth checked. Rajkumar bet 200,000, and after a brief dwell Smyth very quickly moved a stack of blue 10,000 chips across the line by way of a call, as though he was afraid he might change his mind if he did it more slowly. But Rajkumar turned over 
and Smyth couldn't beat it -- he mucked and is down to 640,000, to the horror of the Irish media members watching. Rajkumar meanwhile is up to 1.65 million.
The flop was
and Haik moved in. Samanek instantly called with , Haik in a bit of trouble with 
. The turn gave him a wheel draw with the but the river was the 
and Haik was crippled. Soon after, he was out while Samanek now has 1.2 million.
board with 
but couldn't improve against Marty Smyth's 
when the board failed to produce any more Tens or Nines.Smyth has 1.1 million now.
Montury:
Rajkumar:
Board:
Montury is out, and Rajkumar moves up to 1.4 million.
Peter Eastgate, who Greco had told earlier that he wouldn't mind being busted by anyone but him, called.
Greco:
Eastgate:
"Six!" says Greco.
"Five, five, five."
"Five."
No luck and Greco is eliminated.