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EPT San Remo – Day 3 report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2011-05-01 15:15
Day 3 of the
EPT San Remo Main Event carried special significance because the money bubble was set to burst that day. 164 players returned to action, each and every single one of them hoping that they would not be among the last few to go home with the proverbial wooden spoon. It only took a single level for the field to whittle down to the final 145. The bubble boy’s imminent elimination prompted the organizers to send all the media to the sidelines.
Ruben Visser was the one who got Roberto Spada into a battle for all his chips first. Spada survived the test though, proceeding to clinch the chip lead later in the day and eliminating Visser on his way to the top.
Maurizio Baisi and Kevin Vandersmissen locked horns next, but the much-awaited elimination once again failed to come about.
Eventually, Nicholas Chouity got all his chips into the middle, holding pocket 10s and he got called by Alessandro Fasolis, who had pocket Qs. The board failed to bail Chouity out and the money bubble burst.
The passing of the money bubble sped the game up quite a bit. People started hitting the rail one after another, many of them falling by the side courtesy of one player: Gianluca Benvenuto. Vanessa Selbst, the multiple NAPT champion was one of the first victims of the Italian. Carter Phillips fell at Benvenuto’s hands too. The next player on the Italian’s hit-list was Joe Cada. Cada almost bit the dust too but the river card came to the rescue of his A,J which fought an uphill battle against Benvenuto’s A,K.
Among the victims, “name” players filed to the rail one after the other too. Roberto Romanello was eliminated, followed by Joe Coraci.
Roberto Spada was the one with the biggest stack of chips when the action was called. He managed to amass 1,441,000 chips. Cada, Lykov and Richard Toth also survived.
