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WPT Grand Prix de Paris – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sat, 2012-09-15 10:10
63 players got back to the tables of the Aviation Club de France on the 3rd day of the Grand Prix de Paris to battle down as close to the final table as possible. At the end of the day, 24 were still standing as the start of the day chip leader, Phillip Gruissem had successfully defended his position and finished day 3 with the biggest stack too. He was the only one whose stack crossed the 1 million mark by the end of the day. Other players who did well were Matt Salsberg (finished 2nd with 951k chips) and Joe Serock (who made it to 5th place with 411k chips).
At the beginning of the day, Gruissem didn’t really accomplish a lot, but he swung into action about midway through, eliminating Ekrem Sanioglu and taking down a massive pot in the process. In the said hand, the chips went into the middle on a flop of 10,9,8 rainbow. It turned out that Sanioglu had pocket 9s for a set and Gruissem had pocket Js for the open-ended straight draw. A 3 fell on the turn to preserve Sanioglu’s advantage, but the 7h on the river filled Gruissem’s straight, giving him the hand and the pot.
Salsberg took quite a different approach to stack-building. Instead of taking down one massive whooper, he plowed through the opposition, eliminating one player after the other. His list of victims was rather impressive indeed: he was responsible for the eliminations of David Benyamine, Marko Neumann, Tony G and Antonio Subtil.
The money bubble was set to inevitably burst on day 3. When it did, it was quite a notorious player who became the bubble-boy of the
poker tournament: Anthony Lellouche. Lellouche found himself in a perfect hand situation, when his pocket Ks fell to Bryan Colin’s pocket rockets.
Jason Mercier was among those who busted out right after the money-bubble. Shortly after the bubble burst, the day was called.
