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EPT Barcelona Main Event – Day 3 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2012-08-23 04:15
The third day of the EPT’s Barcelona Main Event saw 207 players return to the tables of the Casino Barcelona to play down as close to the title as possible. The money bubble was set to burst on Day 3 so that was obviously the primary target for everyone. After 5 levels of
NL Holdem action, the money bubble was indeed reached and it burst in short order too, leaving 61 players in contention. The one who built the biggest stack heading into day 4 was Antonin Duda, who finished the day with 1.47 million chips.
Most of those chips came from none other than Guy Bachar, the player who had finished the second Day 1 flight of the event with the largest stack. Bachar had had a great Day 2 and he was looking to book a similarly lucrative Day 3, until he bumped into Duda. The two players got all their chips into the middle preflop in a hand which saw the 5,J,2 rainbow flop fall. Bachar had a measly 8.7o against Duda’s pocket Ks so it’s safe to say he made a really bad move shoving all-in, probably allowing his emotions to make the decision for him. The flop obviously didn’t help him, but then neither did the 9 on the turn and the Q on the river.
Having taken this massive hit, Bachar was all-in again, a few hands later, against Duda again. This time he had an A,Jo against Duda’s 10d, 9d. The board was reading 9,4,9,8 so Bachar was again hoping to bluff his opponent off the hand. A 3 fell on the river and Duda’s trips held up to give him the last of Bachar’s chips.
The field was a star-studded one at the beginning of Day 3 and some of these stars went home before the money bubble. Theo Jorgensen, Barry Greenstein and Sebastian Ruthenberg all left with nothing to show for their efforts. The official bubble-boy was Russia’s Aliaksei Boika.
