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PokerStars EPT Vilamoura – Day 3 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-11-22 04:17
The third day of the PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour’s Vilamoura Main Event saw the 69 Day 2 survivors belly up to the tables of the Casino Vilamoura to make a run for the money bubble. These guys certainly meant business.
About two thirds of the field was at the rail by the time the 4th level of play was reached. It only took one and a half levels for the money bubble to burst. After Luis Rodriguez’s demise in 50th place, no fewer than 4 people shoved all in on the very next hand. Pros and amateurs alike fell by the side as the bubble approached.
Team PokerStars members Alexander Kravchenko and Nuno Coelho never made the money. Neither did Andy Black (who started the day as the official short-stack), Rolf Slotboom and Steven Van Zadelhoff.
Shorter stacks were busy flipping the coin for their tournament lives, medium stacks tried to stay out of trouble and the large stacks battled it out for the chip lead. This is the basic sum-up of Day 3 of the
EPT Vilamoura. Jeff Sarver, the chip leader at the beginning of the day, was sure busy adding to his stack, but he still couldn’t prevent Anthony Lellouche from overtaking him.
While Sarver kept moving from one table to another, the Frenchman was busy blasting through the competition, and bouncing players left and right. Lellouche became the first player to reach the 1 million chip mark, and he wouldn’t stop there. The end of the day 3 action found him with 1,134,000 chips, a stack which gave him the lead for the day.
Despite his best efforts, Sarwer could “only” muster 913,500 chips. That stack however will represent a more than reasonable ticket into Day 4, where he may well catch up with Lellouche yet.
Despite having been decimated, Team PokerStars still has several representatives at the top of the list of 24 Day 3 survivors. Jude Ainsworth and Ruben Visser are in the top 10.
Because of the lightning fast pace of the day’s action, most survivors are currently sitting on relatively deep stacks. This fact gives the short-stacks some hope of climbing back among the contenders on day 4.
