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UKIPT Galway Main Event – Day 3 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2013-08-12 05:26
The 3rd day of the UKIPT’s Galway Main Event saw 51 players return to its tables, with the objective being the final table. Indeed, after about 8 levels of green felt hostilities, that objective was reached as the field had played down to the final 8. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Alan Gold, he who had had the lead at the end of Day 1A as well.
Gold finished Day 3 with more than 4 million chips to his name, which gave him a pretty solid lead indeed over second-place man Daragh Davey, who had 3.43 million bagged.
Gold had an outstanding Day 3 indeed: he was at or near the top of the chip leader board all the time and he used his large stack to bully his opponents around.
The beginning of the day saw all 51 returnees safely in the money, but that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be any pressure on the shorts-stacks. Hungary’s Miklos Soproni started out aggressively, bent on getting something going early. He got away with one all-in, but on his next one he got called and eventually sent packing by Andrew Dwyer. Soproni had earned his Galway Main Event seat online through
Full Tilt Poker.
Soproni was followed to the rail by David Parkinson.
Raul Paez of Spain made it all the way to 11th place, but it was there that his tournament life expired. He got it all-in with pocket Ks and he got called by Paul Feber, who was not only the chip leader at that point, but also the possessor of pocket rockets in that hand. Max Silver finished as the final table bubble-boy: he pushed all-in with pocket 10s against Daragh Davey’s pocket Ks and it was all she wrote for him.
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