Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo
Buy-in
€10,000
Entries
848
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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The day began with 116 players, but by 10:00, the field was down to 24. Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren nearly made it to Day 4, finishing just short in 27th place (€40,000). Fellow pros Alex Gomes and Lex Veldhuis were also only a few eliminations away. Chris Moneymaker started with a big stack but was eliminated in 69th place (€25,000). UK football phenom Teddy Sheringham hit the rail as well, as did EPT Berlin champion Kevin MacPhee. Neil Channing, Nicolas Levi, Davidi Kitai, and Mel Judah all also finished in the money.
The last 24 will be back at noon local time on Thursday to play down to the eight-handed final table. Here's how the field will be laid out when they return for the penultimate day:
Table 1
Seat 1: Craig McCorkell (1498000)
Seat 2: Dominykas Karmazinas (866000)
Seat 3: Matt Perrins (2618000)
Seat 4: Herve Costa (1105000)
Seat 5: Josef Klinger (622000)
Seat 6: Kevin Eyster (2768000)
Seat 7: Aleh Plauski (1139000)
Seat 8: Domenico Iannone (713000)
Table 2
Seat 1: Claudiu Saizu (1220000)
Seat 2: [Removed:146] (758000)
Seat 3: Emanuele Rugini (575000)
Seat 4: Ramzi Jelassi (590000)
Seat 5: Jean Francois Talbot (2427000)
Seat 6: Sami Kelopuro (1094000)
Seat 7: Nicolas Chouity (2037000)
Seat 8: Paul Berende (148000)
Table 3
Seat 1: David Sesso (850000)
Seat 2: Nick Schulman (578000)
Seat 3: Laurent Olive (1035000)
Seat 4: Manuel Bevand (490000)
Seat 5: Roger Hairabedian (675000)
Seat 6: Salvatore Bonavena (610000)
Seat 7: Andrew Chen (387000)
Seat 8: Martin Hruby (720000)
25 - Andre Santos, Portugal
26 - Vicky Coren, UK
27 - Gilbert Diaz, France
28 - Christopher McCormack, USA
29 - Matthew Szymaszeck, USA
30 - Lauri Meidla, Estonia
31 - Lex Veldhuis, Netherlands
32 - Nathan Tuthill, USA
The following players cashed for €35,000:
33 - Alex Gomes, Brazil
34 - Henri Kaspar, Estonia
35 - Cristiano Guerra, Italy
36 - Pierre Neuville, Belgium
37 - Kenny Hallaert, Belgium
38 - Vlad Mezheritsky, USA
39 - [Removed:39], Netherlands
40 - Omar Baioumi, Denmark
. Andre Santos was all in and called by Jean Francois Talbot.Santos:
for a flush drawTalbot:
for a setTurn:
River:
"Yes!" said Talbot and banged the table. Santos said nothing as he became the 25th place finisher.
And with that, we are down to our final 24.
David Sesso (button):
Paul Berende (big blind):
Board:
Sesso duly doubled to around a million.
The flop came down
. The two checked and the 
fell on the turn. Diaz moved all-in and Kelopuro snap-called flipping over
. Diaz showed 
.The river was the
and Kelopuro moved up to over 1 million in chips, while Diaz hit the rail. We now have to lose one more player to reach the final 24.
, and Vicky Coren bet 45,000 with about 250,000 behind. Costa then check-raised, not counting out a bet so much as throwing in enough chips to commit Coren or make her fold. She went with it, moving all in, and Costa called. He had 
for top and bottom pair. Coren tabled for a flush draw and gutshot straight draw. She seemed confident that she'd hit, but the turn was the unhelpful and the river was another brick, the . Coren nodded and made a quick exit in 27th place.The players are now two eliminations away from Day 4.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 2,000