€5,300 Main Event Day 3 | 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona

€5,300 Main Event

Day 3 Completed

08-25-2016 20:28 UTC+1

Anthony Chimkovitch Bags Chiplead After Day 3 of the 2016 EPT 13 Barcelona Main Event

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Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Day 3 of the record-breaking 2016 PokerStars.es EPT Season 13 Barcelona €5,300 Main Event started off with 294 players who were already in the money when play resumed. Due to the new payout structure, the bubble broke late on Day 2, guaranteeing the remaining players at least €5,630. With the min cash in the bag, everyone in Casino Barcelona had set their sights on the life-changing first price of €1,122,800.

After five levels of 90 minutes, it was Belgium's Anthony Chimkovitch who bagged the overall chip lead with 1,825,000. On his way to his chip lead, Chimkovitch eliminated Chance Kornuth in spectacular fashion. Kornuth made a move with his pair of queens. Chimkovitch, however, held a pair of kings and knocked out the American high roller in one of the biggest pots of the day.

The day started at a fast pace right away. With no pay jumps in sight, players busted in quick fashion. Marko Neumann, Martin Acre Llobrera, Ilari Sahamies, and longtime Day 2 leader Ognyan Dimov were among the first to fall. Mike McDonald, who received the EPT 12 Platinum Player of the Year award yesterday, saw his run in the Main Event come to an end when his pair of nines wasn't good against Vasili Firsau's pair of aces.

Connor Drinan, Govert Metaal, Leo Margets,Kitty Kuo, Harrison Gimbel, Sam Chartier, Kimmo Kurko, Gleb Tremzin, Darryll Fish, and Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody all failed to make Day 4 as well.

Long time Norwegian professional and former EPT champion Andreas Hoivold saw his Main Event come to an abrupt end in a huge pot versus Marco Caza. Hoivoid's pair and flush draw didn't get there against Caza's top two pair, skyrocketing Caza to the top of the standings. Caza finished the day in second place, bagging 1,520,000.

Besides Chimkovitch and Caza, a total of 98 players made their way to Day 4. Team PokerStars' last standing man is none other than Jason Mercier who sat at the feature table for a long time. Mercier bagged 1,006,000, making him a dangerous contender going forward.

A lot of other notables still have a shot at the seven-figure price, including Nuno Capucho (1,375,000), Adam Owen (857,000), Bryn Kenney (728,000), 2016 November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka (680,000), Sam Grafton (650,000), Byron Kaverman (442,000), Georgios ZIsimopoulos (438,000), Jason Koon (424,000), Mark Roovers (392,000), and Eugene Katchalov (215,000)

Action resumes tomorrow at 12 pm noon local time, when a maximum of five levels of 90 minutes each will be played. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to provide all the action until a winner is crowned on Sunday.

Day 4 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Marc Trijaud	France	1,039,000
1	2	Erik Friberg	Sweden	365,000
1	3	Stephen Malone	Ireland	900,000
1	4	Yannick Autaa	France	408,000
1	5	Jason Koon	USA	424,000
1	6	Jerome Sgorrano	Belgium	489,000
1	7	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	409,000
1	8	Sergei Chantcev	Russia	370,000

2	1	Alin Grasu	Romania	263,000
2	2	Mark Roovers	Netherlands	392,000
2	3	Christian Jeppsson	Sweden	213,000
2	4	Kent Lundmark	Sweden	387,000
2	5	Luiz Orrico	Italy	67,000
2	6	Stefan Vogt	Germany	469,000
2	7	Chebli Chebli	Lebanon	167,000
2	8	Harcharan Dogra Dogra	Spain	1,100,000

3	1	Neculai Macovei	Romania	105,000
3	2	Olli Autiö	Finland	584,000
3	3	Sebastian Malec	Poland	901,000
3	5	Bryn Kenney	USA	728,000
3	6	Michael Eiler	Germany	679,000
3	7	Tomas Macnamara	UK	71,000
3	8	Miroslav Forman	Czech Republic	419,000

4	1	Tobias Revenas	Sweden	208,000
4	2	Byron Kaverman	USA	442,000
4	3	Markus Durnegger	Austria	345,000
4	4	Alexander Greenblatt	USA	336,000
4	5	Thomas De Rooij	Netherlands	1,010,000
4	6	Robert Lipkin	USA	484,000
4	7	Adrian Attenborough	Australia	704,000

5	2	Sam Mao	UK	635,000
5	3	Brian Yoon	USA	328,000
5	4	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	438,000
5	5	Michael Addamo	Australia	180,000
5	6	Ryan Mcgarry	Canada	743,000
5	7	Filipe Oliveira	Portugal	683,000
5	8	Alexandru Baron	Canada	378,000

6	1	Alisan Holozlu	Germany	739,000
6	2	Aku Joentausta	Finland	1,063,000
6	3	Spyridon Koukouris	Greece	300,000
6	4	Ivan Deyra	France	398,000
6	5	Van Hiep Tran	Germany	209,000
6	6	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	632,000
6	7	Damien Luis	France	405,000
6	8	Mikhail Molchanov	Russia	381,000

7	1	Anthony Chimkovitch	Belgium	1,825,000
7	2	Ronny Kaiser	Switzerland	233,000
7	4	Sam Grafton	UK	653,000
7	5	Kevin Andriamahefa	Canada	250,000
7	6	Norbert Berent	Poland	862,000
7	7	Didier Mazairac	Belgium	442,000
7	8	Adam Owen	UK	857,000

8	1	Lucian Draghici	Canada	700,000
8	2	Dorian Rios Pavon	Venezuela	200,000
8	3	Ramon Miguel Munoz	Spain	1,082,000
8	4	Adem Marjanovic	Austria	252,000
8	5	Marco Caza	Canada	1,521,000
8	6	Jeffrey Mulder	Canada	685,000
8	7	Uri Reichenstein	Germany	1,187,000
8	8	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	354,000

9	1	Mikhail Shalamov	Russia	304,000
9	2	Jose Quintas	Portugal	1,091,000
9	3	Peyman Luth	Germany	497,000
9	5	Andreas Freund	Austria	255,000
9	6	Diogo Veiga	Portugal	355,000
9	7	Vasileios Chalkidis	Greece	432,000
9	8	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	314,000

10	1	Pavel Plesuv	Moldova	264,000
10	2	Jasper Meijer van Putten	Netherlands	534,000
10	3	Michael Kane	UK	233,000
10	4	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	332,000
10	5	Alejandro Belluccia	Argentina	1,148,000
10	6	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	215,000
10	7	Taichi Yoneya	Japan	380,000
10	8	Thomas Miller	USA	425,000

11	1	Ping Liu	USA	228,000
11	2	Pavel Veksler	Israel	437,000
11	3	Keith Johnson	UK	443,000
11	4	Morten Mortensen	Denmark	608,000
11	5	Jani Sointula	Finland	249,000
11	6	Jason Mercier	USA	1,006,000
11	7	Padraig O'Neill	Ireland	273,000
11	8	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	680,000

12	2	Chi Daniel Tang	UK	383,000
12	3	Albert Puigsech	Spain	790,000
12	4	Yordan Mihaylov Petrov	Bulgaria	595,000
12	5	Rui Sousa	Portugal	420,000
12	6	Andrea Cortellazzi	Italy	877,000
12	7	Kestutis Gecevicius	Lithuania	246,000
12	8	Jean-Jacques Zeitoun	France	750,000

13	1	Xixiang Luo	China	532,000
13	2	Simon Lofberg	Sweden	1,200,000
13	3	Wael Sarkis	Lebanon	293,000
13	4	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	531,000
13	5	Michael Howard	UK	555,000
13	6	Nuno Capucho	Portugal	1,375,000
13	7	Zorlu Er	Turkey	552,000
13	8	Alexey Romanov	Russia	731,000

Tags: Adam Owen Andreas Hoivold Anthony Chimkovitch Byron Kaverman Chance Kornuth Eugene Katchalov Georgios Zisimopoulos Gleb Tremzin Govert Metaal Harrison Gimbel Ilari Sahamies Jake Cody Jason Koon Jason Mercier Kees van Brugge Jake Cody Kimmo Kurko Kitty Kuo Leo Margets Marco Caza Mark Roovers Marko Neumann Mike McDonald Nuno Capucho Ognyan Dimov Sam Chartier Sam Grafton Vasili Firsau Vojtech Ruzicka

08-25-2016 20:25 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Chimkovitch	1,825,000
Marco Caza	1,521,000
Nuno Capucho	1,375,000
Simon Lofberg	1,200,000 -80,000	-80,000
Uri Reichenstein	1,187,000
Alejandro Belluccia	1,148,000
Harcharan Dogra Dogra	1,100,000 390,000	390,000
Jose Quintas	1,091,000 41,000	41,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	1,082,000
Aku Joentausta	1,063,000
Marc Trijaud	1,039,000
Thomas De Rooij	1,010,000 111,000	111,000
Jason Mercier	1,006,000

Sebastian Malec	901,000

Stephen Malone	900,000
Andrea Cortellazzi	877,000
Norbert Berent	862,000 162,000	162,000
Adam Owen	857,000
Albert Puigsech	790,000 284,000	284,000
Jean-Jacques Zeitoun	750,000 -116,000	-116,000
Ryan Mcgarry	743,000 63,000	63,000
Alisan Holozlu	739,000 -64,000	-64,000
Alexey Romanov	731,000 356,000	356,000
Bryn Kenney	728,000
Adrian Attenborough	704,000 -94,000	-94,000

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08-25-2016 20:14 UTC+1

Day 3 Finished

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The screens show 98 players remaining and all survivors have bagged up their chips. A recap of today's action will be available shortly.

08-25-2016 20:05 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Notables and Big Stacks

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Chimkovitch	1,825,000 -75,000	-75,000
Marco Caza	1,521,000 -29,000	-29,000
Nuno Capucho	1,375,000 -75,000	-75,000
Uri Reichenstein	1,187,000 7,000	7,000
Alejandro Belluccia	1,148,000 248,000	248,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	1,082,000 82,000	82,000
Aku Joentausta	1,063,000 428,000	428,000
Marc Trijaud	1,039,000 239,000	239,000
Jason Mercier	1,006,000 96,000	96,000

Sebastian Malec	901,000 408,000	408,000

Stephen Malone	900,000 374,000	374,000
Andrea Cortellazzi	877,000 2,000	2,000
Adam Owen	857,000 57,000	57,000
Bryn Kenney	728,000 -135,000	-135,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	680,000 10,000	10,000
Sam Grafton	650,000 -10,000	-10,000

Morten Mortensen	608,000 28,000	28,000
Nicolas Chouity	603,000 88,000	88,000

Jerome Sgorrano	489,000 -261,000	-261,000
Byron Kaverman	442,000 -73,000	-73,000
Georgios Zisimopoulos	438,000 18,000	18,000
Jason Koon	424,000 -196,000	-196,000

Kent Lundmark	387,000 119,000	119,000

Brian Yoon	328,000 -2,000	-2,000
Mikhail Shalamov	304,000 122,000	122,000

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08-25-2016 20:03 UTC+1

Michael Kane not Done Yet

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

From under the gun, Kestutis Gecevicius raised and then called the shove of short stack Michael Kane for 47,000. Gecevicius had and Kane flipped over .

Both players paired the king on the flop, and the turn and river changed nothing.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kestutis Gecevicius	200,000 -37,000	-37,000
Michael Kane	130,000 -187,000	-187,000

Tags: Kestutis Gecevicius Michael Kane

08-25-2016 19:56 UTC+1

Three Last Hands Announced

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

The clock has been stopped and just three more hands will be played for tonight.

08-25-2016 19:53 UTC+1

Gilles Huet Busts to Morten Mortensen

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

After doubling up last level, Gilles Huet found no spot to increase his stack and dropped to 10 big blinds as a result. Huet then shoved and Morten Mortensen called out of the big blind.

Huet:
Mortensen:

The board came and the tens of Mortensen scooped the pot and sent Huet to the rail just shy of making Day 4.

Player	Chips	Progress
Morten Mortensen	580,000 118,000	118,000
Gilles Huet	Busted

Tags: Gilles Huet Morten Mortensen

08-25-2016 19:50 UTC+1

Aram Sargsyan Doubles

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

On the heads-up flop of , Ping Liu checked in the big blind and Aram Sargsyan shoved for 233,000 from under the gun. Liu tanked for a long time and eventually called with the . Sargsyan had that beat with and held up thanks to the turn and river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aram Sargsyan	500,000 210,000	210,000
Ping Liu	174,000 -246,000	-246,000

Tags: Aram Sargsyan Ping Liu

08-25-2016 19:45 UTC+1

Big Stacks Near the End of the Day

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : 50,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Chimkovitch	1,900,000 400,000	400,000
Marco Caza	1,550,000 -100,000	-100,000
Nuno Capucho	1,450,000 170,000	170,000
Simon Lofberg	1,280,000 80,000	80,000
Jose Quintas	1,050,000 80,000	80,000
Ramon Miguel Munoz	1,000,000 52,000	52,000
Andrea Cortellazzi	875,000 450,000	450,000
Adam Owen	800,000 -180,000	-180,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	670,000 -181,000	-181,000