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EPT Vilamoura – Day 3 report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Thu, 2010-09-02 13:35
The third day of the
EPT’s Vilamoura Main Event saw 69 survivors return to the tables of the Casino Vilamoura. Of these guys, only 24 were still in action when the day got called. The money bubble burst on Day 3 too and out of the 69 who began the day with high hopes, 13 were forced to depart without anything to show for their efforts. The first guys to bust after the money bubble all pocketed €7,263. At the end of the day, the chip lead went to Martin Jacobson, who’d managed to amass 1.3 million chips.
Most of those chips came from the British contingent. Jacobson first locked horns with Paul Foltyn just before the money-bubble, knocking him out. He then tangled with JP Kelly, getting him all-in preflop on an A,Ko vs A,Qo match-up. Sure enough, he managed to bounce him too.
Ayaz Sadrudin Manji became another of Jacobson’s victims, when he got all his chips into the middle on pocket Js against Jacobson’s pocket rockets.
Brandon Cantu was the player who began the day with the largest stack of chips, and for a while there in the beginning it looked like he was going to hold on to his advantage. Unfortunately for him, after he dropped a couple of large pots, he found himself in the squeezer and he eventually succumbed to Dmitry Gromov whose pocket 9s made short work of his A,K. Cantu did make the money though, as he collected €8,381 for his 36th place.
Arnaud Mattern was among those eliminated as well. The French
PokerStars pro didn’t even make it past the money bubble. Luca Pagano did cash but he left disappointed nonetheless.
Teddy Sheringham, the footballer turned poker player, is still in contention. So is Sam Trickett and Toby Lewis.
