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EPT San Remo Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2009-04-23 11:58
Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s San Remo event saw a sway in the sweeping dominance of Croatian Dragan Galic. The player who had dominated Day 1 and Day 2 from one end to the other, actually lost the chip lead at one point on Day 3, to Constant Rijkenberg.
Galic eventually took the lead back to end the day, but Rijkenberg managed to hang on to one of the top spots and finished the day as a challenger to Galic’s position.
The money bubble was reached on Day 3, as several big name pros ended up at the rail. Arnaud Mattern was one of the first ‘name’ eliminations. He got knocked out when Martin Tureniec called his all-in with A,6 and cracked his pocket Qs on a flop which gave him another A. Dan Smith didn’t make it to the money either. He first took a crippling blow from Marco Vailati when he ran his Q,Q into Vailati’s A,A. He was forced to shove the last if his chips in a few hands later from early position on a Ac, 8c. He got a caller in David Eldar who tabled Qc, 10c. The flop didn’t change much, but the Q on the turn gave Eldar the lead and the river failed to bail Smith out.
Bill Chen was also eliminated before Joakim Hall, who busted on the bubble. Hall shoved all-in on his pocket Ks and got a call from Fabio Zappietro who had A,9. Zappietro hit an A on the river for the heart-break and the money was reached. After the bubble, the action picked up speed and more and more players fell victim to the attrition. Tom McEvoy reached the end of his tournament life here, followed to the rail by Alex Kravchenko.
Constant Rijkenberg had an excellent Day 3. He sent one player after the other to the rail and then to the payout queue. He did so well early on that soon he clinched the chip lead too, which had seemed the exclusive property of Dragan Galic till then. The Croatian rallied later on though, and scored a couple of big hands against Larsgreger Larsson and Giuseppe Argento to take the lead back.
