Day 3 Completed: Kaiser Is The Chief
Day 3 of the EPT Tallinn Main Event has come to an end after the 63 players who started the day with high hopes were whittled down to just 24. When they return to their seats tomorrow at 1200 noon, the man they all have to catch is Ronny Kaiser who was the only player to break through the 1,000,000 chip barrier, ending the day with a very impressive 1,194,000 chips.
The young Swiss pro started the day with 269,600 chips and continually added to this throughout proceedings but it was not until right near the death that he won a monster pot to propel him well into the lead. In the hand he raised to 12,000 from the cutoff (blinds 3,000/6,000/500a) and was called by Jani Sointula. Liutauras Armanavicius then three-bet to 43,000 from the button only to see Kaiser come over the top and four-bet to 112,000. Sointula folded but Armanavicius moved all in for around 300,000 and Kaiser called.
Kaiser:
Armanavicius:
Kaiser was in a whole world of pain and looked set to lose the vast majority of his chips and this scenario looked ever more likely when the flop came down 
. The 
on the turn gave him some extra outs to a straight and one of them appeared on the river, the 
to improve Kaiser to an unlikely straight and the monster pot was his.
Kaiser's nearest rival is Poland's Grzegorz Cichocki who will start Day 4 with 867,000 chips, most of which he won from Nikolas Liakos, the chipleader on Day 2. The Swede had a horrendous day at the felt and busted out way before the money.
Making up the top five in chips is Jani Sointula (640,000), Johan van Til )598,000) and Sami Kelopuro (575,000). Although there are no longer any Team PokerStars Pros in the field or any former European Poker Tour champions, there are still three PokerStars Qualifiers in with a chance of glory. They are Michael Graydon (455,000), Stuart Fox (115,000) and Oleg Epp (111,000). Add to these the likes of Jeff Sarwer and Praz Bansi and we could be in for a real star-studded final table over the weekend.
As mentioned the last 24 players of the Main Event will return to their seats tomorrow at noon and will continue playing until only the final table of eight remain. Until we restart, the PokerNews live reporting team are going to represent the company at the free PokerStars party, well someone has to! Until tomorrow, it is good night from us.