Thirty-two players began day 3 yesterday in the hopes of making it to the final eight.
Sebastian Ruthenberg got off to a flying start, moving in early against Salvatore Bonavena. The outcome was not in his favor but this didn't deter him from ploughing on. The cards did not seem to fall his way whenever all-in but he managed to stay strong until the very end.
Petr Samcenko was the last Czech in the event, but was also the first to go. He took home €11,000 for his efforts.
John Riley was the next casualty, also leaving with €11,000.
Francesco Cirianni took a chunk of chips off Ludovic Lacay and then set his sights on Shander De Vries. De Vries pushed all in with pocket kings and Cirianni called with pocket nines. The board looked safe up until the turn: J
4
2
7 but then the river dropped: 9 and De Vries was absolutely crippled with less than 30,000 chips to his name.
After some more bust outs:
28 - Haward Speer €11,000
29 - Joris Jaspers €11,000
30 - Roy Von Der Locht €11,000
De Vries saw his tournament life come to an end. He was eliminated in 27th place with the prize money amount of €11,000. The young gun showed a lot of potential and most likely would have gone far had Bonavena's pocket nines not sucked out on the river to beat his kings in that detrimental hand.
The numbers flew down in the early to mid levels.
Those knocked out were as follows:
23 - Alexander Andermatt: €13,800
24 - Phulippe Baa Carlier: €13,800
25 - Georgios Gatselos: €11,000
26 - Brian Jensen: €11,000
Then Ludovic Lacay, who finished eighth in the Polish Open and was hoping for another final table, raised an initial bet by the player to his left, but was faced with an all-in from Francesco Cirianni. He called and the two revealed their cards:
Lacay: KJ
Cirianni: 9
9
Board: K109610
Lacay was eliminated in 22nd place (€13,800) but once again has done France proud.
The rest of the bustouts were:
10 - Jonathan Duhamel, Canada, €42,800
11 - Daniel Drescher, Canada, PokerStars player, €30,400
12 - Juan Maceiras, Spain, PokerStars sponsored player, €30,400
13 - Igor Rejdovjan, Slovakia, €22,100
14 - Domenico Iannonne, Italy, €22,100
15 - Rifat Palevic, Sweden, €16,600
16 - Dan Pedersen, Denmark, €16,600
17 - Jens Hansen, Denmark, €13,800
18 - Daniel Biro, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, €13,800
19 - Manuel Bevand, France, €13,800
20 - Jakob Eberg, Sweden, €13,800
Things really slowed down late in the day, especially as we got to the final table bubble. There were a few all-ins but no players busting until:
Sebastian Ruthenberg moved all in and Massimo Di Cicco came over the top.
Di Sicco had AK and Ruthenberg KQ. The board to end day 3 was 843J9 and Ruthenberg was dominated.
He left the tournament in ninth place, but shouldn't feel too bad as he now is the proud owner of €42,800.
The line up and chip counts going into the final table in just moments are:
Salvatore Bonavena: 1,402,000
Alexiou Konstantinos: 1,382,000
Francesco Cirianni: 807,000
Fredrik Nygard: 666,000
Massimo Di Cicco: 429,000
Nasr El Nasr: 376,000
Raul Mestre: 309,000
Andrew Chen: 309,000
It looks like we have three Italians, one Canadian, one German, one Spanish, one Finnish, and one Greek player all seeking the top prize of $774,000. Stay tuned to see how it all pans out.
You can also follow the action at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague by tuning into the live stream of the feature table.
