Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Hungarian Open got off to a flying start with four players busting out in the first twenty minutes of the day. But Severin Walser from Switzerland, Hungarian Szabolcs Attila Saskoy, Irishman George McKeever, and Symeon Pyrakis from Greece were not alone as the playing field decreased rapidly.
Players who finished in 20th to 43rd were:
20th: Offer Golko (Israel) €10,640
21st: Denis Volkov (Russia) €10,640
22nd: Tibor Tolnai (Hungary) €10,640
23rd: Alexander Kravchenko (Russia) €10,640
24th: Nicolo Calia (Italy) €10,640
25th: Pantelis Pavlis (Greece) €8,512
26th: Pasquale Braco (Italy) €8,512
27th: Dwayne Stacey (UK) €8,512
28th: Mauro Corsetti (Italy) €8,512
29th: Tommi Etelapera (Finland) €8,512
30th: Christophe Wemebelke (France) €8,512
31st: Janek Schleicher (Germany) €8,512
32nd: Nicholas Maieritsch (USA) €8,512
33rd: Ofir Abramovivi (Israel) €7,448
34th: Dave Hardy (UK) €7,448
35th: Robert Firestone (USA) €7,448
36th: Jacek Ladny (Poland) €7,448
37th: Anonymous
38th:Rikard Englund (Sweden) €7,448
39th: Milan Andrejkovics (Hungary) €7,448
40th: Severin Walser (Switzerland) €7,448
41st: Szabolcs Attila Saskoy (Hungary) €6,384
42nd: George McKeever (Ireland) €6,384
43rd: Symeon Pyrakis (Greece) €6,384
The countdown to the final eight then went a little something like this:
19th: Micha Hoedemaker €10,640
18th: Jari-Pekka Juhola €10,640
17th: Lukas Benkovic €10,640
16th: Christophe Haller €12,768
15th: Casey Kastle €12,768
14th: Oleg Korotkov €17,024
13th: Simeon Tsonev €17,024
12th: Menno Antonius Bussinik €23,408
11th: Robin Keston €23,408
10th: Sebastian Saffari €32,984
After a rapid first few hours of day 3, the game finally shifted gears back to first, as
things followed a more leisurely pace. Finally, the last hand of the night came when Ivo Donev bet 48,000 preflop and Ciprian Hrisca raised it to 150,000. Donev called and the flop fell 10
7
6. Donev moved all in and Hrisca called. Hrisca revealed A-A and Donev flipped over A
K. The turn came the K and the river the J
,and with that we had the final eight.
The chip counts currently stand at:
Zoltan Toth: 1,059,000
Cyprian Hriska: 1,038,000
Albert Iversen: 1,017,000
William Fry: 572,000
Johnny Lodden: 500,000
Gino Alacqua: 466,000
Marino Serenelli: 357,000
Martin Jacobson: 306,000
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