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EPT Prague Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2008-12-14 08:10
32 players started Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s Prague stop as the field would narrow down to 8 by the end of the day, with Italian Salvatore Bonavena holding the chip lead for the final table action. Frenchman Ludovic Lacay was also among the 32 who started Day 3 action.
The trickle of eliminations began with local player Pter Samcenko, the last Czech left in the field. Joris Jaspers didn’t last long either. He busted out 29th, when he went all-in on his A,J to be called by Jonathan Duhamel’s K,K on a board filled with blanks.
Ludovic Lacay had had a great tournament as he had hovered around the top of the leader board through the previous two days of the event, today however, his momentum ran out. First, he lost a huge pot to Francesco Cirianni, having ran his Kd,Jd into his pair of 9s and failing to improve with the board. Forced to shove all-in a few hands later, he pushed his remaining few chips into the pot on a A,8. The BB who called his shove tabled Kh, Qh and hit a flush on the river to send him to the rail.
Juan Maceiras was another “well-to-do” player who lost his deep-stack on Day 3. He finished 13th, taking down a prize of €22,100, after he ran his gutshot straight flush draw into Nasr El Nasr’s set of Qs which later improved to a boat.
As the final table bubble approached, play once again turned into a painstakingly slow affair as nobody really intended to become the bubble-boy. Eventually, someone had to fall, and that someone became Sebastian Ruthenberg, who had been more or less responsible for the previous elimination of Jonathan Duhamel in 10th place.
Ruthenberg pushed all-in on a K,Q only to be called by Francesco Cirianni with A,K. The board landed a bunch of blanks which improved none of the involved hands, sending Ruthenberg home in 9th place with a prize of €42,800.
Salvatore Bonavena finished the day in the chip lead with 1,402,000 followed by Alexiou Konstantinos in second with 1,382,000.
