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EPT Malta Main Event - Day 3 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2015-03-26 15:57
A total of 186 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the
EPT's inaugural Malta Main Event. With the money-bubble set for 127th place, the day was set to be an interesting one, and sure enough, by the time the action was called, only 56 players were left standing, the money-bubble a distant memory on everyone's mind. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Spain's Javier Gomez Zapatero, who ended up with 1.69 million chips to his name. Zapatero was followed by Valentin Messina, with 1.36 million chips, and Alexander Ivarsson, with 1.19 million. The only "name" player to make the top 10 was Spain's Sergio Aido, who finished with 833k chips, in 7th place.
Zapatero's chip-lead bid began around level 15, when he took a major pot off Hungary's Nandor Solyom. He used that boost to keep adding to his stack, until the lead was his.
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During the early going on Day 3, those who were sent packing were left without anything to show for their efforts. Jan Bendik was one of the players bounced before the money-bubble. He was joined on the rail by PokerStars' own Jake Cody, and Jack Salter. Bulgaria's Atanas Kavrakov was the official bubble-boy, his Ah, Kh falling to the pocket Js of Bruno Volkmann, in what would turn out to be the Bulgarian's last hand.
With the money-bubble out of the way, the pace of eliminations gathered some much-needed momentum. It was during this stage that players like Connor Drinan, Dan Smith, Olivier Busquet and Griffin Benger bit the dust, together with Sam Trickett and Jonathan Duhamel.
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