Main Event Day 3 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final - Monte Carlo

04-28-2010 16:20 UTC+1

Nishijima No More

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Thiago Nishijima open-shoved for 115,000 from middle position, and Omar Baioumi made the call in the big blind. Nishijima's {J-Clubs}

needed to hit against Baioumi's {4-Hearts}

. Though Nishijima picked up a few extra outs along the way, the {Q-Clubs}

board wasn't enough to save the Day 1 chip leader.

Tags: Thiago Nishijima

04-28-2010 16:13 UTC+1

Bruno Lopes Ahead

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After doubling right before the break, a simple coinflip went Bruno Lopes' way, and he doubled up again to 370,000.

Lopes: {5-Spades}

Aleh Plauski: {A-Clubs}

Board:

Plauski dropped down to 525,000.

Tags: Aleh Plauski Bruno Lopes

04-28-2010 16:10 UTC+1

Bowey Slices Into Kranich

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Moritz Kranich raised in early position and James Bowey shoved from the button for 105,000. Kranich looked as though he didn't particularly want to call, but called anyway.

Kranich: {A-Clubs}

Bowey:

Board:

A lack of any nastiness from the board meant that Bowey doubled to 235,000.

Tags: James Bowey Moritz Kranich

04-28-2010 16:04 UTC+1

Berende Movin' On Up

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When we walked up to the table, Juan Manuel Pastor had moved all-in and Paul Berende was making a decision for most of his chips. Nick Schulman was still left to act after Berende and the board read {4-Spades}

.

After some thought, Berende made the call, Schulman got out of the way, and the cards were on their backs.

Berende: {7-Hearts}

Pastor:

The turn brought the {5-Diamonds}

and Berende had to dodge clubs on the last street, and that he did, when the {7-Spades}

hit the river.

Juan Manuel Pastor hit the rail and Berende increased his stack to 738,000.

Tags: Paul Berende

04-28-2010 15:59 UTC+1

Brittle Brito

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Laurent Olive limped in for 12,000 which was only bizarre because Fernando Brito had 15,000 left.

They then checked down a {3-?}

board. Olive's {10-?}

managed to win against {2-?}

.

Brito was all-in next hand for 3,000 but managed to pick up {A-?}

and double against the big blind's {10-?}

. He's back up to above 10,000 - so almost 1BB.

04-28-2010 15:52 UTC+1

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

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These players got €5,000 more for making it to the first pay jump, cashing for €20,000:

81 - Greg Dyer, USA
82 - Marc Uzan, France
83 - Mikhail Smirnov, Russia
84 - Kevin MacPhee, USA (winner of EPT Berlin)
85 - Simon Munz, Germany
86 - Randall McCowan, USA
87 - Owen Crowe, Canada
88 - Oleksander Vaserfirer, Ukraine
89 - Felipe Montenegro Sansonetti, Costa Rica
90 - Filip Nechansky, Czech Republic
91 - Dieter Albrecht, Switzerland
92 - Matthew Kay, Canada
93 - El Mostafa Bel Khayate, Morocco
94 - Hicham Berdai, Morocco
95 - unknown
96 - Bjorn Verbakel, Netherlands
97 - Konstantin Puchkov, Russia
98 - Joshua Goldstein, USA
99 - Anton Wigg, Sweden
100 - Sander Lylloff, Denmark
101 - Rui Cao, France
102 - Eric Mutrie, Canada
103 - Teddy Sheringham, UK
104 - Alexander Jung, Germany

04-28-2010 15:45 UTC+1

And We're Back, Again

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54 players remain as we head into the fourth level of the day, meaning that we've lost over half the field already.

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 1,000

04-28-2010 15:37 UTC+1

Min-Cash Madness

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After a spot of confusion, the official payouts are squared away. The following players made the money but not the first pay jump, picking up €15,000:

105 - Guillaume Darcourt, France
106 - Andrey Zaichenko, Russia
107 - Rino Mathis, Switzerland
108 - Mikhail Lakhitov, Russia
109 - Stefano Marzochhi, Italy
110 - Daniel Groth, USA
111 - Ekaterina Kolobekova, Russia
112 - Chris Bjorin, Sweden
113 - Toby Lewis, UK
114 - Alin Gabriel Grasu, Romania
115 - Eric Ladney, USA
116 - Nicolas Deveraux, France

Eliminated yesterday:

117 - Serge Pierre Madec, France
118 - Anatoly Gurtovoy, Russia
119 - Tomer Berda, Israel
120 - Tommaso Briotti, Italy
121 - Jason Collier, Canada
122 - Ramon Cserei, Romania
123 - Imad Derwiche, France
124 - Jason James, Canada
125 - Ali Tekintamgac, Germany
126 - Martin Schmidkunz, Germany
127 - Sebastian Bidinger, France
128 - William Ross, USA

04-28-2010 15:33 UTC+1