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PokerStars EPT Tallinn – Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-08-15 02:45
Day 3 of the EPT’s Tallinn Main Event proved to be a real game-changer. Of the 84 players who returned to action, only 25 would be standing at the end of the day, the money bubble safely behind them. The top of the chip leader board would also be turned upside down.
Jonathan Weekes was the one who started the day with the largest stack of chips. He would hit some bad beats early on though, and he couldn’t really gain any traction, before his stack whittled to half of what he had at the beginning of the day. He did manage to pull himself together though, and eventually finished with more the 800k chips, close to the top of the chip counts again.
The day 1 chip leader, Perica Bukara had a nice comeback though and finished with a stack of 1.3 million chips. Konstantin Bilyaver finished second in chips, followed by none other than
PokerStars’ Arnaud Mattern. The money bubble was a true milestone during day 3. It only took about two blind-levels to arrive. During these two levels, PokerStars’ Katja Thater was bounced. She did pick up an
EPT award for being the mixed games player of the year though, so she didn’t have to leave empty-handed after all.
Tomer Berda, down to about 2 BBs on the money bubble was accused of stalling. Eventually, he did make it into the money, at the expense of Yotam Bar-Yosef, who became the bubble boy of the
poker tournament.
Luca Pagano made the money too, but he failed to survive the day, falling to Steven Van Zadelhoff.
Mattern had an average-size stack before he knocked out a couple of players during the first two levels, to double up. Ivan Demidov made it past the day too.
