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EPT Campione – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2012-03-30 15:22
The 3rd day of the EPT’s Campione Main Event saw 99 players return to the tables of the Casino di Campione. By the end of the day, the field had successfully played down to the final 24. The third day featured a major milestone: the money bubble. Jannick Wrang finished the day with the largest stack, having collected 1,742,000 chips.
At the beginning of the day, there were no fewer than 8
EPT champions in the field, nurturing hopes that a double Main Event winner might eventually emerge in Campione. The 8 included Bertrand Grospellier and Liv Boeree too, the last surviving
PokerStars pros in the tournament. While they both managed to make the money, none of them made it through the day. The other 6 EPT champs didn’t fare a whole lot better either. 4 of them were eliminated in the money. Two of them, Ronny Kaiser and David Vamplew made it to day 4 though.
The money bubble was reached relatively fast. The ‘honor’ of being the last player to leave the tournament empty-handed befell Benas Molis, who got the last of his chips into the middle on 9c,8c, with a flop of 7c,7d,3c on the board. Wrang made the call with a 7,5 and no club fell on the turn or the river to send Molis packing.
With the bubble out of the way, the pace of eliminations picked up again. Koen De Visscher was the first player to successfully shoot past the 1 million chip mark. De Visscher took down a massive, 3-way pot from Brian Piccioli and Nick Yunis. He then took some chips from Massimiliano Bellon Bellucci too.
Olivier Busquet had the chip lead briefly too, before Wrang took over for good at the end of a perfect hand in which he had a better flush than his opponent, Stefan Czischke. Busquet eventually finished near the top of the pops, together with Fabrice Soulier.
