Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Sanremo
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Sanremo
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,865,450
Entries
797
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
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Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
After two long days of poker the players were treated to a relatively short day on Day 3 of the PokerStars.com EPT Sanremo. There was a whole lot of excitement packed into nearly seven hours of play though. The two headline makers of the day were the end of day chip leader (Inge Forsmo) and the unfortunate player to bubble (Renaud Desferet).
Inge Forsmo started the day as chip leader, lost it for a while, but managed to abuse the bubble and finish strong to end the day with 1,021,000 chips. Not bad for a player who admits to having little patience in live tournaments, highlighted by the fact he was all in with ten-high just 45 minutes into Day 1.
Chasing the likeable Norwegian are Angelo Recchia (851,000), Carmelo Vasta (844,000), Laurent Polito (717,000), David Vamplew (547,000), Alex Roumeliotis (505,000) and Isaac Haxton (488,000). The latter on these was set to be a top-three stack until he lost 375,000 off his stack on the last hand of the night. Also still in contention are the likes of Ludovic Lacay, Shaun Deeb, Matt Salsberg, Justin Bonomo, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Roberto Romanello.
Team PokerStars had a mixed day. The only player to make it through to Day 4 was Luca Moschitta from Team Online, and he will come back with 289,000. The fortunes of the others can be read below.
There were three all ins and calls before the bubble burst, and remarkably all three players at risk had pocket aces. Michele Di Lauro, Maksim Semisoshenko and Samuel Panzica held their breaths, and all managed to survive. When Desferet made his move he was not so strong (
), and he was called by Michael Benvenuti with a lot stronger (
). The board ran out 
to offer him huge hope before the river washed all that hope, and money, away.
Rupert Elder and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree came back to today with dreams of breaking two records on the EPT: to be the first double EPT winner, and the first to claim two EPT Sanremo titles. Elder was one of the first to bust when his pocket eights failed to outdraw an opponent’s pocket tens. Boeree faired a lot better and managed to make the money before busting in 120th when she lost a race to Mike Watson.
Those who finished outside of the money included Jude Ainsworth (a cruel 122nd), Andre Akkari (144th), Rob Yong, Pius Heinz, Sam Trickett, Jose “Nacho” Barbero, Bryan Paris and Kyle Cheong.
Players luckier than these who we will not see tomorrow include Chris Moneymaker (116th), Chris Brammer (115th), Ana Marquez (104th), Marc-Andre Ladouceur (91st), Fabian Quoss (86th), Stephen Chidwick (83rd), Ben Vinson (72nd) and Sam Razavi (70th).
The players will return at 2:00 PM CET tomorrow where they will play down to 24 players remaining. We expect it to be an even shorter day than today and, as ever, the PokerNews reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action at this major event heats up. Talking of major events, the whole team are taking part in the media poker tournament tonight. We hope to represent well and will bring you a full report tomorrow.
From the Italian Riviera it’s goodnight.
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Stay tuned for our full recap of the day's action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,021,000
414,900
|
414,900 |
|
851,000
659,000
|
659,000 |
|
844,000
560,800
|
560,800 |
|
|
810,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
|
763,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
721,000
361,000
|
361,000 |
|
717,000
390,600
|
390,600 |
|
681,000
181,000
|
181,000 |
|
614,000
441,600
|
441,600 |
|
596,000
90,200
|
90,200 |
|
587,000
303,600
|
303,600 |
|
547,000
252,200
|
252,200 |
|
||
|
535,000
147,100
|
147,100 |
|
|
522,000
253,800
|
253,800 |
|
505,000
217,200
|
217,200 |
|
|
491,000
336,000
|
336,000 |
|
489,000
177,000
|
177,000 |
|
|
||
|
488,000
339,200
|
339,200 |
|
442,000
323,600
|
323,600 |
|
431,000
207,200
|
207,200 |
|
429,000
331,400
|
331,400 |
|
417,000
309,700
|
309,700 |
|
402,000
213,200
|
213,200 |
|
||
|
401,000
330,700
|
330,700 |
|
393,000
83,000
|
83,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Eric Nhouyvanisvong and Isaac Haxton just played a big one on the last hand of the night at their table... a really big one.
From the cutoff seat, Haxton raised to an unknown amount before Nhouyvanisvong three-bet to 34,000 from the small blind. Play got back to Haxton, and he reraised to 85,000. Nhouyvanisvong moved all in for 375,000, and Haxton called.
Haxton showed the for two overcards against Nhouyvanisvong's 
in this flip for a 750,000 pot.
The flop was an interesting one with the 
coming down. Nhouyvanisvong landed top set, but Haxton flopped a flush draw, and he could still get there.
The turn was the 
, leaving Haxton needing a diamond on the river that didn't pair the board. The 
came on fifth street, and Nhouyvanisvong had won the huge pot to put an exclamation point on his day. Haxton dropped all the way back to 488,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
764,000
454,000
|
454,000 |
|
|
488,000
-407,000
|
-407,000 |
Level 18
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The tournament staff has announced that the remaining players will play three more hands before bagging and tagging for the night.
Eric Nhouyvanisvong raised to 14,000 from the cutoff seat before the flop and Dimitar Danchev three-bet to 32,000 from the big blind. Nhouyvanisvong called and they went two-handed into the flop.
The dealer opened 
and Danchev bet 18,000. Nhouyvanisvong replied and the two saw the 
come on the turn. Both players checked and the dealer flipped on the river.
Danchev checked and after thinking about it for a while Nhouyvanisvong did the same opening 
for aces full of sixes. Danchev flipped 
and saw Nhouyvanisvong collec the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
310,000
177,900
|
177,900 |
|
103,000
-102,000
|
-102,000 |
|
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We found Matteo Colantoni all in before the flop for his last 135,000. Colantoni was called by Ioannis Kontonatsios and the two were off to the races. Colantoni held and was racing with Kontonatsios' 
.
Colantoni jumped into the lead on the 
flop by pairing his king. The 
came on fourth street and the 
on fifth, allowing Colantoni to double up. Kontonatsios, on the other hand, has fallen to about 80,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
290,000
132,900
|
132,900 |
|
80,000
-63,300
|
-63,300 |
THe Italians may have a new hero in the field as Angelo Recchia just captured a huge pot.
We didn't catch the action until the river on a board reading 
. With 250,000 already in the pot, Angelo Recchia moved all in from the big blind for 301,000 and put the pressure on Ben Vinson. After getting a count, the latter called and Recchia rolled over 
. He didn't seem too confident, but then Vinson mucked his cards. Given it was an all-in-and-call situation, the dealer properly exposed the hand... 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
850,000
658,000
|
658,000 |
|
|
54,000
-551,000
|
-551,000 |